Died. Belle Barth, 59, brass-voiced entertainer and doyenne of dirty ditties; of cancer; in Miami Beach. "I love children. I also love music," Miss Barth once said. "But since I couldn't read music, I couldn't teach it to children. So I thought I'd teach grown-ups a thing or two." Her fondness for forbidden words kept her in and out of courts on obscenity charges but did nothing to hurt her recordings, which sold in the millions and earned her the sobriquet "the female Lenny Bruce."

Died. Roger M. Kyes, 64, General Motors executive who served the Pentagon as Deputy Secretary of Defense under Eisenhower in 1953; of a heart attack; in Columbus, Ohio. When G.M. President Charles E. Wilson became Secretary of Defense, he took along his vice president, Kyes, as No. 2 man. Tough-minded, outspoken, sardonically known as "Jolly Roger" because of his piratical ruthlessness, Kyes characterized the nation's military establishment as an organization plagued by "unrealistic requirements, poor planning and inefficient execution . . . waste of money, poor utilization of manpower, unnecessary drain of materials from the civilian economy, and the inefficient use of tools, equipment and facilities." Kyes ordered severe slashes in the defense budget, returned to G.M. the next year with the Medal of Freedom, the Government's highest peacetime civilian award.

Died. Adolf A. Berle Jr., 76, lawyer, economist, diplomat and charter member of F.D.R.'s New Deal Brain Trust; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Brilliant, often acerbic, Berle passed Harvard's entrance exams at 12, graduated cum laude from Harvard Law at the age of 21 and after the war opened a successful law practice that he continued until his death. But it was through Government service that he attained national prominence. As counsel to F.D.R.'s Reconstruction Finance Corp. from 1933-38, Berle helped shape much of the legislation designed to reform banking, railroading and the stock market. He went on to serve as a White House speechwriter, Assistant Secretary of State, Ambassador to Brazil. After Roosevelt's death, Berle devoted himself full time to the law: he taught at Columbia, wrote half a dozen books expounding his moderate philosophy "that all the social inventiveness of the world" was not restricted to "the two poles of Adam Smith and Karl Marx." One of Berle's last positions of Government service was as chairman in 1961 of an advisory task force for John F. Kennedy on Latin American affairs--a position in which he supported the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, but also advocated the massive hemisphere aid program known as the Alliance for Progress.

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