Died. William Eythe. 38, cinemactor (The House on 92nd Street) and Broadway actor-producer (Lend an Ear); of acute hepatitis; in Los Angeles.

Died. G. (for Gilbert) Mason Owlett, 64, jowly, mossbacked lieutenant of Pennsylvania's old Republican boss. Senator Joe Grundy, onetime (1933-41) state senator and Republican National Committeeman, who in 1943 took over his mentor's Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association (which for years ran two insurance companies, a dozen state senators and some 50 representatives, held the balance of political power in the state); of a pulmonary embolism; in Philadelphia.

Died. Mamoru Shigemitsu, 69, durable, one-legged (from a 1932 bomb- throwing) diplomat who signed Japan's 1945 surrender aboard the Missouri, served twice as Foreign Minister (1943-45, 1954-56); of a heart ailment; in Yugawara, Japan. Careerist Shigemitsu was an early advocate of expansion into China, but wanted no part of a war with Britain or the U.S. He had little to say in Japan's World War II government until 1943, when apprehensive Premier Tojo wanted a moderate Foreign Minister, gave him the post. Railroaded into the war crimes trials by the Soviets (who blamed him for 1938-39 Manchurian border skirmishes), Shigemitsu got a seven-year sentence, served 4 1/2 years, bounced back into politics in 1950, last year negotiated a peace treaty with Russia, a few months later took the bows when Japan was made the null 80th member.

Died. Commodore Adolf Ahrens. 78, German shipmaster who sailed his crack liner Bremen out of New York Harbor when he was summoned home (August 1939) just before World War II, painted the ship's superstructure grey, and ghosted the vessel at 32 knots through the British blockade (the British said they let it through); of a stroke; in Bremen.

Died. Ralph Barton Perry, 80, gaunt, horn-rimmed humanist and longtime (1913-46) professor of philosophy at Harvard, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1936 for The Thought and Character of William James; near Boston. A liberal, individualist and internationalist. Philosopher Perry rejected as "presumptuous and foolish" the notion of God as "a kindly indulgence at the seat of cosmic control," was alternately gloomy and optimistic about the U.S.'s future, concluded that its strength lies in its bedrock foundation of puritanism and democracy.

Died. Adlai Stevenson, 92 (born Bear-in-the-Water), a chief since 1895 of the Gros Ventres Indians, who adopted the name of President Grover Cleveland's second Vice President (and grandfather of last year's Democratic presidential candidate) when he became a government scout; in Stanley, N. Dak.

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