Died. Frederick Charles Wood, 51, cocky confessed killer of five who rebuffed all efforts to win him a stay of execution, telling everyone "I really want to ride the lightning"; in the electric chair at Sing Sing. Just before the straps were fastened he said: "Gents, this is an educational project. You are about to witness the damaging effect electricity has on Wood."

Died. Lizzie Miles (real name: Elizabeth Landreaux Pajaud), 68, one of the last of the great Negro blues shouters. a laughing, mountainous, born-and-bred Bourbon Streeter who belted them out for the jazz bands of Kid Ory, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller; of a heart attack; in New Orleans.

Died. Elisabeth Marie Petznek, 79, only child of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Princess Stephanie of Belgium and last link to the 1889 "Mystery of Mayerling." in which her father and Baroness Marie Vetsera died in an apparent murder-suicide pact that left the Austro-Hungarian throne of the Habsburgs without a male heir; in Huetteldorf, Austria. Only five when her father died, she grew up to marry Prince Otto zu Windisch-Graetz but grew steadily disenchanted with her royal life, divorced him after 23 years to drift into socialism, marry Austrian Social Democrat Leopold Petznek and become known as "the Red Princess."

Died. Manuel Cardinal Arteaga y Betancourt. 83, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Havana, a slight, stooped man who opposed both Dictator Fulgencio Batista and Castro; in Havana.

Died. Rush Harrison Kress, 85, younger brother of the late dime-store king and famed art collector, who as president of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation since 1955, carried on his brother's 20-year project for the donation of $50 million worth of art treasures to U.S. museums; in New York.

Died. Chauncey Brewster Tinker, 86, Yale's great teacher of English literature (among his students: Stephen Vincent Benet, Sinclair Lewis, Archibald MacLeish. Thornton Wilder) and the university's keeper of rare books, world-renowned for his 1925 discovery of a supposedly destroyed collection of Boswell papers; of a stroke; in Hartford, Conn. Tink's literary sleuthing uncovered the papers in Ireland's Malahide Castle, but he was unable to persuade Lord Talbot de Malahide, Boswell's great-great-grandson, to part with the vast trove. It remained for Lieut.

Colonel Ralph Isham, a wealthy Manhattan collector, to accomplish that, and in 1949 he passed the papers on to Yale (for a reported $500,000), where at last they were published (seven volumes so far) and became part of Curator Tinker's rare books collection.

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