Died. Michael F. Malone, 67, Italian-speaking Treasury sleuth whose evidence helped put the Brothers Capone (Al and Ralph) behind bars and who worked under cover against Ganglords Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, George ("Machine Gun") Kelly and Ganglady Kate ("Ma") Barker; of a stroke; in St. Paul.

Died. Margaretta Cox, 70, widow since J957 of James M. Cox, newspaper publisher, three-time Governor of Ohio, and defeated Democratic presidential candidate in 1920 (his running mate was Franklin D Roosevelt); in a fire apparently caused when she fell asleep while smoking; in her home in suburban Dayton, Ohio. An ardent Democrat, Mrs. Cox was friendly with Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt and Truman, and at her death was about to make a local TV address supporting Candidate Kennedy, her first "personal participation" in politics.

Died. Leo A. Rover, 72. Washington, D.C. judge and onetime U.S. attorney who helped convict bribe-taking Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall in the Teapot Dome oil scandal. Hoaxer Gaston B. Means, who swindled Socialite Evalyn Walsh McLean of more than $100,000 on the pretense of returning the Lindbergh baby, and the Puerto Rican terrorists who wounded five Congressmen in a 1954 shooting spree in the House of Representatives; of a heart attack; in Washington.

Died. Admiral Erich Raeder, 84, pint-sized (5 ft. 6 in.) martinet who transformed Hitler's navy from an "ugly stepchild" of the regime to the sleek scourge of Allied lifelines; of complications arising from a neurological disorder; in a Kiel mental hospital. A chairborne officer until he was 34, Raeder got his break as navigation aide on the Kaiser's yacht, plodded through the ranks until der Fuehrer named him admiral in chief in 1935. The success of hit-and-run pocket battleships Deutschland and Graf Spee earned him honorary membership in the Nazi Party and a later place in the prisoners' dock at Nuernberg. Crippled by arthritis, he served nine years of a life sentence in Spandau, where he spent his time supervising the prison library and feuding with fellow prisoner Admiral Karl Doenitz, who replaced him in 1943 after a raging Hitler scuttled surface craft for U-boats.

Died. Leon Dabo, 92, romantic painter of landscapes and seascapes whose varied career also included: World War I spy and counterspy, world traveler and women's-club lecturer; in Manhattan. A protege of James McNeill Whistler and John La Farge, Dabo once complained that America idolized Babe Ruth and Gene Tunney rather than its artists and philosophers, mourned that when Whistler could not sell the portrait of his mother for $250 in the U.S. he took it to France, where it is still a national treasure.

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