Died. Major Lonnie Moore, 36, one of the leading jet aces of the Korean war (ten MIG-15 kills, one probable); in the crash of the Air Force's hottest supersonic fighter, McDonnell's F101 Voodoo, which he was testing at the Air Proving Ground Command's Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

Died. Norman Kerry, 60, dashing hero of silent films (The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame); of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. In 1939 Kerry enlisted in the French Foreign Legion under the pseudonym Heinrich van der Kerry of Rotterdam, saw action on the Maginot Line, returned to the U.S. in 1941 after the fall of France.

Died. Clara Savage Littledale, 64, perky editor of Parents' Magazine (circ. 1,643,000, largest in its field) since its founding in 1926, who crusaded for better pay for teachers, school lunches, improved health exams for children and more thorough care and training for mothers; after, long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Sheila Kaye-Smith, 68, British writer of finely tooled novels (Joanna Godden, Susan Spray) set in the Sussex countryside, where she spent most of her life. Sheila Kaye-Smith published her first novel at 20, married onetime Anglican Clergyman Theodore Penrose Fry, was converted to Roman Catholicism with him in 1929, and turned in her writing to religious themes.

Died. Will Winton Alexander, 71, onetime Methodist minister, and an authority on race relations, who as administrator (1937-40) of the U.S. Farm Security Administration supervised the rehabilitation of thousands of Southern tenant farmers; of a heart ailment; in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Died. Hulett Clinton Merritt, 83, financier-industrialist who was a multimillionaire at 21, sold his rail and mining interests to become the largest individual stockholder in U.S. Steel, was president or board chairman of 138 different companies; in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Died. Henry Wickham Steed, 84, scholarly editor (1919-22) of the Times of London, owner and editor of the Review of Reviews (1923-30), author (The Hapsburg Monarchy, Vital Peace) and lecturer; in Wootton-by-Woodstock, England. Famed Pundit Steed joined the Times in 1896, served as foreign correspondent in European capitals, was named editor by eccentric Press Tycoon Lord Northcliffe, in an effort to boost the paper's sagging influence. A respected confidant and adviser of world statesmen. Steed predicted the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was among the first to warn of the menace of Hitler's Germany, acted as chief BBC broadcaster on world affairs during World War II.

Died. Lyonel Feininger, 84, topnotch U.S. modernist painter; in Manhattan. New York-born Feininger went to Germany in 1887 to study music, turned to painting instead, exhibited in 1913 with the Blue Rider group (Klee, Kandinsky, Franz Marc), taught painting and graphic arts at Walter Gropius' Bauhaus from 1919 to 1933. Influenced by cubism, he illumined dark, glowing abstractions of sailboats (a famed one: Glorious Victory of the Sloop Maria), churches and city scenes with the placement of crystal-like shafts of light.

Died. Brigadier General (ret.) James A. Ryan, 88; in St. Petersburg, Fla. One of the Army's last Indian fighters, General Ryan spent three years in Arizona tracking Geronimo, was an intelligence officer in the Mexican border war under General Pershing, in a tour of duty as modern-language instructor at West Point had among his students Dwight Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley.

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