Birthday. Tireless Novelist Gertrude Franklin Atherton, 84 (Black Oxen, The Crystal Cup); in San Francisco. "Rejuvenated" by X-ray stimulation of her ovaries in 1922, she spent her birthday pounding out her daily stint of 1,000 words.

Married. Cobina Wright Jr., 19, blue-blood cinemactress; and Corporal Palmer T. Beaudette, 28, wealthy son of a Pontiac, Mich., automobile family; in Manhattan.

Married. Cinedancer Ruby Keeler, 31, ex-wife of Al Jolson; and John Homer Lowe, 29, Pasadena broker; in North Hollywood.

Married. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 45, Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist (The Yearling); and Norton Sanford Baskin, 40, Florida hotelman; she for the second time; in St. Augustine.

Divorced. Oldtime Matinee Idol Maurice Costello, 63, father of ex-Actresses Dolores and Helene; by Ruth Reeves Costello, 32, his second wife; in Los Angeles.

Died. Mina Stinson Crandon, 53, better known as "Margery" the medium whose claims of psychic communication with the dead raised serious controversy from 1924 to 1935; in Boston. Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed in her; Harry Houdini offered $5,000 to charity if she produced any "manifestations" which he could not duplicate. Charity never got the money. Before Houdini died in 1926 he said he would communicate with the living after his death if he could, and Magician Joseph M. Dunninger awaited a "message" on every anniversary of his death. "Margery" died the day after the 15th anniversary.

Died. Simon Guggenheim, 73, head of the Guggenheim mining interests, of pneumonia; in Manhattan. With his wife he established the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation with a $3,000,000 gift in 1925 as a memorial to a dead son, gave it another $1,000,000 in 1936.

Died. James Speyer, 80, senior partner (1899-1939) of Speyer & Co., international bankers; in Manhattan. Member of a German family whose name had been associated with banking since the Middle Ages, he was head of the 102-year-old Speyer house in the U.S. until it closed for good in 1939.

Left. By the late Harold Fowler McCormick, Chicago reaper millionaire: an estate of about $7,500,000. Half goes to his widow (his third wife, Adah Wilson), the other half is shared equally by his son and two daughters. Inheritance taxes take nearly half the entire estate.

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