Married. Edgar Kaiser Jr., 24, eldest grandson of the founder and son of the present head of the family's $2.4 billion industrial complex, a student at Harvard Business School; and Caroline Orr, 26, a Scottish girl who was his mother's private secretary; in Vancouver, B.C.

Died. John T. Cahill, 62, senior partner of one of Manhattan's top corporate-law firms, a sedate Harvard Law grad ('27) who spent the rackety '30s as a public prosecutor, won convictions in 97.8% of his cases the first year, sent up Gangster Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, Communist Earl Browder and assorted dope pushers, counterfeiters and post-Prohibition bootleggers, even boarded the Normandie to confiscate Marlene Dietrich's jewels (as collateral against back income tax claims) before she sailed, and extracted fines from Jack Benny and George Burns for purchasing items that had been smuggled through customs; of cancer; in London.

Died. Ursula Hemingway Jepson, 63, wife of a Hawaiian banker whose father committed suicide (1928) in the face of a debilitating illness, but who always denied that her brother, Novelist Ernest Hemingway, had done the same (1961), contending that his gunshot death was accidental because "suicide was against all his convictions and principles"; apparently of an overdose of drugs after writing a despondent note about a long illness; in Honolulu.

Died. General Dietrich von Choltitz, 71, a stubby, impassive Junker who was known as the "smasher of cities" for leading blitzkriegs against Rotterdam and Sevastopol, became military chief of Paris in 1944, and was commanded by Hitler to repel the enemy or leave the city "a blackened field of ruins," but chose for the first time to disobey an order and secretly invited the Allies to enter Paris in order to save it, while Hitler angrily demanded, "Is Paris burn ing'?"--the words later made famous by the book and the movie, which will open in the U.S. this week; in Baden-Baden, West Germany.

Died. Mississippi John Hurt, 74, Negro blues singer, guitarist and composer who was discovered in 1928 by a recording company, then faded back into obscurity as a $28-a-month hired farm hand in Avalon, Miss., until he was rediscovered in 1963 by the new folkniks, who put him back on records and in concert halls, doted on his shy, sweet way of singing Avalon Blues or such wryly erotic songs as Candy Man and Salty Dog, also found his gnarled hands and walnut face an illustration of his Trouble, I've Had It All My Days; of a heart attack; in Grenada, Miss.

Died. Lester Weatherwax, 79, last survivor of the Weatherwax Brothers Quartet, a pre-World War I Chautau-qua-circuit singing group that so popularized the Little Brown Church in the Vale that the 102-year-old church, with a congregation of only 150, draws 125,000 tourists a year to Nashua, Iowa, has been the scene of 52,000 weddings; of a heart attack; in Wichita, Kans.

Died. General Ben Lear, 87, a carbon-steel and Patton-leather U.S. cavalryman who rose from private, fought in the Spanish-American War in the Philippines, Cuba and against Pancho Villa in Mexico, went on to become Ike's deputy commander in Europe in 1945, but is best remembered as the crusty disciplinarian who on a sweltery (97DEG) day in July 1941 drew-the ire of Congress, mothers and men by ordering 350 officers and troops on a 15-mile punishment march because some of them, passing by in a convoy, had whistled and yelled "Yoo-hoo!" at an eyeful of women golfers as Lear was teeing up at the Memphis Country Club; after a series of heart attacks; in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

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