Died. Charles Berry, 69, All-America football player at Lafayette College (1924), major-league catcher during the '20s and '30s, and then one of the American League's most respected umpires; of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. Once, as a Red Sox catcher, Berry blocked a dash to home plate by Babe Ruth. Berry knocked the Babe so hard that he did a mid-air headstand, landed in a heap and was out of the game two weeks recovering from the injury. "But in spite of all I'd done to him," recalled Berry, "he scored the run."

Died. The Most Rev. James A. McNulty, 72, iron-willed, hot-tempered Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo; a conservative in matters of doctrine and discipline who nonetheless championed the cause of the poverty stricken in his own diocese and in Latin America; of a stroke; in Montclair, N.J.

Died. Warren K. Billings, 79, radical labor agitator who was unjustly convicted of planting a bomb that killed ten persons during a 1916 parade in San Francisco; in Redwood City, Calif. Billings and co-defendant Tom Mooney were condemned on testimony that was perjured and heavily biased because of antileftist sentiment. The case provoked a worldwide protest that focused on Mooney, the better known of the two. Billings spent 23 years in prison, where he learned watchmaking. Freed in 1939 and pardoned in 1961, he opened a shop only blocks from the scene of the bombing.

Died. Louis R. Lurie, 84, self-made multimillionaire, philanthropist and theater angel; in San Francisco. Lurie was selling newspapers in Chicago at age nine when a neighborhood bully beat him so badly that he was crippled for nearly ten years. After making a stake in the printing business, he settled in San Francisco and began building a $100 million fortune in real estate speculation and construction. Show business was one of his enduring interests; among the hits he backed were Song of Norway, The Teahouse of the August Moon and Fiddler on the Roof.

Died. Sanford Bates, 88, reform-minded penologist who presided over the massive expansion of the federal prison system during the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations; in Trenton, N.J. A lawyer, Bates was named head of Massachusetts' correctional institutions in 1919, and introduced such innovations as a merit pay system and partial self-government for inmates. When Congress set up the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in 1930, Bates was appointed its first director. He later created model, much-imitated parole systems for New York and New Jersey.

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