Died. Walter Herschel Beech, 59, aircraft tycoon; of a heart attack; in Wichita, Kans. After serving as an Army pilot in World War I, Beech barnstormed the country as a stunt and race pilot, in 1932 formed Beech Aircraft Corp., which specialized in small private craft, lost money until World War II, when he piled up a fortune making training planes and airplane parts for the U.S. Government.

Died. John Douglas MacGregor, 74, who as vice president and general manager of Pan American-Grace Airways established (1929) the first air route connecting North and South America; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Louis Leon Ludlow, 77, onetime Washington correspondent (several Indianapolis papers, the Columbus, Ohio Dispatch) who became a Congressman himself (a Democrat from Indiana) after 27 years of reporting on Congress, held the job for 20 years; after long illness; in Washington. A militant pacifist and isolationist, Ludlow believed that war could be prevented by taking away Congress' power to declare it, in 1938 almost got through a measure (the Ludlow amendment) that would permit a declaration of war only if the voters approved it in a referendum. Franklin Roosevelt intervened and the bill missed enactment in the House by 21 votes.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Charles Reynolds Brown, 88, Congregational clergyman, longtime dean of Yale's famed Divinity School (1911-28), author of 35 books on religion; in New Haven, Conn.

Died. Robert Latou Dickinson, 89, gynecologist and sexologist, a founder of the American College of Surgeons, president of the Euthanasia Society of America, pioneer advocate of birth control and mercy killing; in Amherst, Mass.

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