DIED. Alfred Frankenstein, 74, lively, irascible music and art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than 30 years who frequently championed local talent at the expense of internationally known performers and who, in 1939, published for the first time the sketches by Russian Artist Victor Hartmann, which inspired Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition of a heart attack; in San Francisco.

DIED. Lola Lane, 75, one of the three Lane sisters (the others: Rosemary and Priscilla) who became leading ladies in Hollywood during the 1930s and '40s and who, while maintaining separate careers, appeared with another actress in Four Daughters (1938), Four Wives (1939) and Four Mothers (1941); in Santa Barbara.

DIED. Isadore ("Kid Cann") Blumenfeld, 80, colorful Minneapolis hoodlum and international Prohibition bootlegger whose career was marked by acquittals--for such crimes as kidnaping, murder and fraud --before he was convicted in 1960 on charges of white slavery and in 1961 of jury tampering and sentenced to seven years in prison; in New York City. Though he was Jewish, Blumenfeld donated 10% of his estimated $10 million fortune to churches as well as synagogues. "I believe in playing all the angles," he explained. "I'm superstitious."

DIED. Harold Linder, 80, former Wall Street banker and Ambassador to Canada who served as the head of the U.S. Export-Import Bank from 1961 to '68, aggressively expanding the bank's operations to include the financing of American companies and banks and the underwriting of U.S. arms sales to foreign nations; in New York City.

DIED. Paul Butler, 89, Chicago industrialist and founder of Butler Aviation, one of the nation's largest general aviation companies; of injuries received when he was struck by a car near his home; in Oak Brook, Ill. Butler, an expert pilot, founded Butler Aviation in 1946 to provide fuel and service for private aircraft in airports across the country. An avid sportsman, he once maintained 3,000 acres in Oak Brook, comprising an airstrip, riding stables, a golf course and 13 polo fields.

DIED. Edward Ball, 93, for 46 years the shrewd, autocratic chief trustee of the $2 billion Alfred I. du Pont Trust, one of the nation's largest financial empires; of complications from an abdominal aneurysm; in New Orleans. A school dropout at 13, Ball was working as a salesman on the West Coast when Alfred du Pont, having married Ball's sister in 1921, hired him to run a Du Pont-owned tomato-canning plant. After Du Font's death in 1935, Ball took over the management of his estate, enlarging it to include the St. Joe Paper Co., two railroads and vast real estate loldings in Florida and Georgia.

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