Died. Charles ("Pee Wee") Russell, 62, sad-faced but joyful jazz clarinetist, who wailed with Eddie Condon and a host of other Dixieland greats of the '30s and '40s, and in the past decade delighted audiences on four continents by blending his basic blues style with the experimental sounds of Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman; of pancreatitis; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Cameron Hawley, 63, bestselling author, whose four novels were mainly reflections of his 24 years as a businessman; of a heart attack; in Marathon, Fla. Hawley retired from Armstrong Cork Co. in 1951 to write his first novel, Executive Suite, a simplistic look at high-level corporate intrigue, and followed that with two more variations on the same theme (Cash Mc-Call, The Lincoln Lords), all of which made him far wealthier than most of his business colleagues. He suffered a heart attack in 1962, and his recent novel, The Hurricane Years, is a disquieting disquisition on the physiological stresses and strains that accompany the executive life.

Died. Vito Genovese, 71, vice lord and Mafia chieftain who reputedly directed a multibillion-dollar underworld empire from federal prisons for the past nine years; of heart disease; in Springfield, Mo., Penitentiary. Arriving in the U.S. from Italy in 1913, Genovese proved himself a tough and shifty "soldier" and then "capo" (officer) in the Mafia ranks. Over the years he was indicted 13 times, including a conspiracy-to-murder rap he beat when the state's key witness was found poisoned. In 1957, Genovese assumed the Cosa Nostra throne after the barbershop slaying of rival Albert Anastasia (no indictment returned), but two years later the Federal Government finally nailed him with a 15-year narcotics conviction. For a time in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary his cellmate was Joe Valachi, a suspected informer. Genovese planted the "kiss of death" on Valachi, who then did indeed inform on the entire Mafia operation before a Senate subcommittee.

Died. George ("Gabby") Hayes, 83, who played the whiskery, whisky-soaked sidekick to the heroes of some 200 horse operas during his 32-year movie career; in Burbank, Calif. Though a tenderfoot from the old vaudeville circuit, Gabby became a paradigm of the comical coot who sprayed Bad Guys with tobacco juice and such shattering epithets as "You goldarned son-of-a-prairie varmint!" He made 22 Hopalong Cassidy films with Bill Boyd, rode with Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, and nearly stole the show from John Wayne in the classic Tall in the Saddle (1944). Said Hayes: "Gabby is a lying, bragging old codger, but everybody loves him."

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