Married. Erskine Caldwell, 53, novelist of Georgia's poor whites (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre), and Virginia Moffett Fletcher, 37; he for the fourth time (his second: Photographer Margaret Bourke-White), she for the second; in Reno.

Died. Avraamy Pavlovich Zavenyagin, 55, billiard-bald chief (since 1955) of Russia's euphemistically titled Ministry of Medium Machine Building (i.e., atomic-energy commission ), wartime overseer of much of the slave-labor force; of a coronary thrombosis; in Moscow.

Died. Major General Robert Alexis McClure, 59, U.S. Army (ret.), who organized SHAEF's Psychological Warfare Branch in 1944, shelled and bombed Germans with 3.5 billion pamphlets, broadcast front-line surrender appeals from loudspeaker-equipped tanks; of a coronary thrombosis: in Fort Huachuca, Ariz.

Died. Paul Hoy Helms, 67, millionaire Los Angeles baker, would-be athlete (he tried out for all the varsity teams at Syracuse University, finally made the crew as substitute coxswain) and impassioned sports buff, who founded the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1936, built a $350,000 museum in 1948 to enshrine relics of sports heroes (e.g., the shoes worn by Dakota Wesleyan's, Mark Payne in 1915 when he booted his record 63-yd. dropkick); of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Sports Fan Helms acquired his awe of athletes watching his uncle, oldtime major-league Outfielder William E. ("Dummy'') Hoy, make circus catches, spent much of his time handing out medals to successful musclemen, encouragement to unknowns (the young Baseballers Jackie Robinson and Ralph Kiner, Trackman Mel Patton), helped oversubscribe Southern California's Olympic contributions in 1952 and 1956.

Died. Vice Admiral (ret.) Wilson Brown, 74, U.S.N., naval aide to Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman, onetime superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (1938-41), who led a task force in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942, won a Distinguished Service Medal; in Groton, Conn.

Died. Stewart McDonald, 78, founder and president (1907-28) of the old Moon Motor Car Co., Federal Housing Administrator from 1935 to 1940; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Theodor Koerner, 83, President of Austria since 1951 and former mayor of Vienna (1945-51), a tall, white-bearded onetime aristocrat who became a hero early in World War I, was made chief of staff of Austro-Hungarian forces on the Italian front, in 1918 took an oath of loyalty to the first Austrian Republic after the collapse of the empire; of a stroke; in Grinzing, near Vienna.

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