Died. Jesse Crawford, 66, paragon of U.S. theater organists, who rose from cornetist in a Seattle orphanage to the gilded consoles of the movie palaces' mightiest Wurlitzers without formal keyboard training, earned as much as $150,000 a year as the brilliantined virtuoso of the treacle-to-thunder style he called "the violets and Wagner stuff"; of a heart attack; in Sherman Oaks, Calif.

Died. Demaree Caughey Bess, 68, associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post and Far Eastern expert who, at the time of the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939, reported that Stalin not only expected war in Europe but welcomed it; in Manhattan.

Died. Frank Aloysius Barrett, 69, only Wyoming politician to serve his state as a U.S. Representative (1943-50), Governor (1951-53) and U.S. Senator (1953-59), a beefy ranchers' Republican who firmly plunked for his state's oil-and-grange interests; of leukemia; in Cheyenne, Wyo.

Died. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, 70, genteel English authoress, a lanky noblewoman whose needlepoint prose and aloof mien made her a leading light in the Bloomsbury Group of Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes and Virginia Woolf (who portrayed her as the fantastic heroine of Orlando) and who herself, though home-educated in her family's 365-room castle, penned a tapestry of 33 books, from biographies (Daughter of France) to novels (No Signposts in the Sea) and a history of nursery rhymes; in Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, England.

Died. Assar Gabrielsson, 70, Swedish automaker who in 1927 founded the many-sided (buses, harvesters, jet engines) Volvo Group, an efficiency-minded grocer's son who steered Volvo (meaning "I roll" in Latin) into his nation's second biggest industry (estimated 1961 sales: $350 million) and, until his 1956 retirement from its active presidency, hung onto the boxy "bumblebee"-styled auto he believed sold for utility not beauty; of cancer; in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Died. The Rev. Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard, S.J., 73, brisk, tousle-haired explorer and lecturer who won the nickname "The Glacier Priest" in the Alps but applied it in Alaska, which he observed and filmed during 33 visits on borrowed time from his post as head of the University of Santa Clara's geology department; of a stroke; in Santa Clara, Calif.

Died. Vice Admiral Patrick Neison Lynch Bellinger, U.S.N., 76, a South Carolina-bred early-bird naval aviator who helped test the seaplane's long-range military capacity by flying one of the three NC flying boats in their transatlantic crossing, led during World War II the Atlantic Fleet Air Arm that helped thwart the U-boat menace; of a heart attack; in Clifton Forge, Va.

Died. Aida de Acosta Breckinridge, 77, founder of Manhattan's Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, a stylish Spanish-American who while a Paris schoolgirl became the first woman solo balloonist in 1903 by piloting a prop-powered dirigible across the Bois de Boulogne, displayed the same pluck in her lifelong welfare work, raising more than $3,000,000, though nearly blind herself from glaucoma, for the U.S.'s first major ophthalmological institute, opened in 1929, and in 1945 its first national eye bank; after a long illness; in Bedford, N.Y.

Died. Egon Petri, 81, pianist exemplar of Liszt's fluidly romantic style, the urbane son of a Dutch musical family, who was revered in Russia as the first foreign pianist permitted to tour (in 1923) by the Bolsheviks and later fled the Nazis to the U.S. where he taught at Cornell, Mills College and the San Francisco Conservatory; of a stroke; in Berkeley, Calif.

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