Married. Joseph Nye Welch, 66, Boston lawyer, chief Army counsel in the Army-McCarthy hearings (April-June 1954); and Agnes Rogers Brown, sixtyish, widow of Charles W. Brown Jr., one of Welch's closest friends; both for the second time; in Brookline, Mass.

Died. Sholem Asch, 76, Polish-born Jewish writer of popular Biblical novels (The Nazarene, The Apostle, Mary); in London. An erudite man who always carried a pocket-sized Hebrew version of the Old Testament, Asch was saddened by Jew-Gentile divisions, stressed in his work the common roots of Judaism and Christianity ("For me, it is one culture and one civilization"). He came to the U.S. in 1910, became naturalized in 1920, but left in 1953 "with a broken heart," after some extremist members of the Jewish community attacked an apparent shift in his views toward Christianity ("Intolerance among my own people has been too much of a handicap for me to work"), eventually (1956) settled in Israel, where, he said, he found peace of mind.

Died. Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, the Aga Khan III, 79, leader of some 20 million Moslems of the Ismaili sect; of a heart attack; at his villa in Versoix, Switzerland (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Arthur Brown Jr., 83, topflight architect, longtime official consultant on architectural work in Washington, D.C., who served as chairman of the architectural commission for the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-40), designed San Francisco's City Hall, Opera House and Coit Memorial Tower (atop Telegraph Hill); in Burlingame, Calif.

Died. Sim T. Webb, 83, fireman for Engineer Casey Jones on his fabled (Around the curve and down the dump/ Two locomotives was a bound to jump) last run on the Illinois Central (April 30, 1900), who leaped clear on Casey's orders just before they rammed a stalled freight near Vaughn, Miss.; in Memphis.

Died. Dr. Louis Ernst Schmidt, 88, famed urologist and longtime crusty critic of the American Medical Association; after long illness; in Wausau, Wis. A sharp-tongued crusader, Dr. Schmidt was a dedicated foe of the nice-Nelliness that long hampered treatment of venereal disease, set up the first genitourinary clinic west of the Alleghenies. When he accepted support from an organization that advertised publicly, he was charged by the A.M.A. with unethical conduct and was expelled (1930). He countered bitterly that organized medicine was against low-priced medical care, was backed by half a dozen other medical societies, eventually (1954) was readmitted by A.M.A. He was widely credited with inspiring laws requiring prenatal and premarital tests for syphilis.

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