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I 9 ChrktmasMoUdam Dearth Toll Stands at 217 Throughout Nation Eventual 4 Fatal Total to Accidents In State) if Top 300 NINETY-SIXTH YEAR 10 PAGES Salem. Oregon. Tnuxsday Morning. December 2S. 1946 Price Sc No. 233 ' ' ' ; . i MUNDBS I6SI TPGDCTOCgj By th Associated Press The Christmas holiday death toll throughout the nation mounted to Th Lat libra tt board has ,217 late last nifiht. including 183 endorsed legL-lation to validate traffic .deaths, and the national as public records microfilmed ! safety council said the "eventual reproductions of documents. At highway toll" would be consider present the original document is j ably more than 300." of course valid, also photostat The "eventual toll," a spokesman copies of originals. Microfilm is said, included those injured in hol the method of photographing the iday accidents who did not die Un original on narrow strip flm to ' mediately. be reproduced bv a projection ! The council said the nation "ap machine. This method is not yet ! parently went on a traffic binge" legal; or rather the law does not as a result of fine holiday weath authorize this as a method of er prevailing through most of the preserving records. ! country, and estimated the even- Microfilm is however fat com- '. tual toll of this year's holiday ing into use in this field. Begin- would surpass 1941. which was ning with 1M6, The Statesman , marked by the largest number of is recording its daily issues on Christmas traffic deaths in his- recording microfilm. Soon we shall micro film the back files. Under the system the master film is re tained in the Eastman labora tories at Rochester and film copies may be made at any time In the number deired. The advantage of microfilming la that it gives a duplicate of the original, but occupies only a tory. ISC Estimated The council previously had es timated there would be 150 traffic deaths in the nation for the holi day period. California with 52 accidental death.-, all but two in an epi demic of highway crashes, topped frac- ! tne country in the gruesome sta- I n tion of space of the original. Thus a small cabinet of roll film would contain the whole file of The Statesman for its 95 years of publication (though unfortunate ly we do not have a complete file). In the case of modern news print too, the film, especially witfi the original preserved, is more durable, for our woodpulp paper quickly shows its age and deteriorates. Use of film in ref erence is also more convenient than dragging out old and often dusty or decrepit files. In the case of public docu ments, where the indexing is accurate (Continued on editorial page) Mrs. Oehler, Leslie Land In New York Irene Oehler, British bride of Harry Oehler. Silverton veteran, arrived with their son, Leslie, in New York City on Christmas day, according to the Associated Press. Twenty - three other British brides of American veterans ar rived. Mrs. Oehler and her son arrived for Christmas xfter an arduous trans-atlantic plane trip, with 23 other British brides of American veterans and their 24 children. Weather conditions caus ed many delays. The plane arrived at LaGuar dia field about 45 hours after the firt takeoff from London on Mon day On the second try, the' plane landed at Shannon but because weather over the North Atlantic was reported to be bad. it went south to Santa Maria in the Azores. From Santa Maria, the ship took off for North America, over-passed Gander. Newfoundland, and land ed at Moncton. New Brunswick. Each wife had one cnild except Mrs. Nellie Allen, wife of Clifford Allen of Bay Ninette. Alabama, a former private in the medical corps. Mrs Allen brought two children, Michael, one year and eight months, and Norman, eight months old. Six of the wives were met by their husbands, the remainder be ing taken to Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn by an army bus. tistical picture Meanwhile authorities pressed a search for an airliner with 12 persons aboard reported missing in the Laguna mountains near San Diego. Toll by States The toll by states, from 6 p. m. ' (local time) Tuesday: Alabama 2 traffic deaths, 0 mis cellaneous; Arizona 2, 0; Arkan sas 0. 2; California 50, 2; Colo rado 2, 0; Connecticut 1, 0; Flor ida 3. 1; Georgia 5, 1; Illinois 18, 5; Indiana 10. 1; Iowa 2, 1; Kan , sas 2, 0; Louisiana 2, 0; Maine 3, ! 1; Maryland 6, 0; Massachusetts 5, ; 4; Michigan 8. 2; Minnesota 3, 0; ( Missouri 2, 0; Nebraska 1, 0; New j Jersey 2. 1; New Mexico 3, 0; New ; York 9. 2; North Dakota 1, 0; Ohio : 6. 1; Oklahoma 4, 0; Oregon 3, 1; , Pennsylvania 5, 3; Tennessee 8, 0; (Texas 2, 0; Vermont 1, 0; Wash ; ington 4, 1; West Virginia 5, 1; ; Wisconsin 4, 2; District of Colum , bia 0, 1. , California accident story on page 5 PASADENA. Calif.. Dee. 25 W. C. Fields, long-time come dian, who died today at the age of ft. Fields is shown above In the movie role of Micawber la Dickens' "David Copper field." It was said to be the only part be ever played with out ad llbbing the script. Illness Fatal To Comedian W. C. Fields Red Ships Sail For Antarctic MOSCOW. Dec. 25-yP)-A 10 ship whaling flotilla, headed by the well-known Soviet explorer, Voronin, departed from northern Russia today for the Antarctic, Russian newspapers reported. The fleet, composed of -nine whalers and one large vessel car rying equipment, will be met off the Gibraltar by the Soviet , tanker Pamin. which will supply : the ships with fuel during the I voyage. 1 Oil. uranium and old claims to ! Antarctic ownership all have been mentioned in connection PASADENA, Calif . Dec. 25-JP) -W. C. Fields, the bulbous-nosed j comedian ; whose deadpan ges- j tures. raspy remarks and "never give a sucker an even break char acterizations which made him a showman beloved the nation over, died today. He was 66. The man who was born -Claude William Dunkinfield in Philadel phia January 29, 1880, succumbed at Las Encinas sanitarium, where he had been a patient for 14 months. Death occurred at 12:03 p. m. He i had been critically ill for several weeks. Fields' 'appreciation of good liquor ancj his reported fabulous capacity for it became practically his trademark, especially in quips and jibes on radio shows such as his famous feuding appearances with Edgar Bergen's Charlie Mc Carthy, j Noted Ad tibber He was 'equally ; well-known in show business for his ad libbing and complete disregard of pre pared scripts, either in the movies or radio. Once he said that the only lines he followed truly were those of Charles Dickens. Fields lft home and school at 11, existed for four years on odd! jobs and "then, having practiced Four persons lost their lives in holiday accidents in Oregon Christmas eve and Christinas day No injuries were caused by Salem traffic. A 19-year-old bride of six months, Mrs. Agnes Moore, died of gun wounds accidentally in flicted at her home in Reeds port the night before Christmas. A pedestrian was killed Christ mas eve at Astoria and auto ac cidents fatally injured two other persons on Christmas day, one at Pendleton, the other at Klamath Falls. Driver Free on Bail Main exception to traffic tran quility in Salem during the Christmas holiday occurred when a car driven by Milton Larson, Silverton, crashed into a city police car at about 2:30 " a. m. Christmas day, city police re ported. Larson was released after posting $250 bail on a charge of driv'ng while intoxicated. policemen J. J. Scheutz and Leonard E. Skinner were investi gating another accident in the Portland road underpass when Larson's vehicle hit the parked police car. The car was not ser iously enough damaged to put it out of use. I Victor L. Olson, jr.. route 1, ! Salem, and Donald Maclnnis of j Oregon City were drivers of the l two cars which originally col I lided at the underpass. ) An auto driven by John Rus : sell Huffman, 3260 Portland rd.t i collided last night on highway ! 99E with a car operated by Law r I ence Jasmin, 147 N. Commercial st when Jasmin, traveling north, I attempted to turn left into the Hayesville auto courts. Huffman was going south. Cars driven by Charles K. Mills, 1680 S. Winter st., and Clyde Holt Clark. Hollywood, Calif., collided early yesterday morning at Capitol and Madison streets, city police report. 7(5 E)0E OKI mm. run Lru Airliner Reported Sighted with the unprecedented number iueeline for as much as 16 hours ; shots missed Scattered Violence PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 25 -(JP) A fire, traffic mishaps and scat tered violence were discordant notes in an otherwise quiet Christmas observance here. A two-story rooming house suf fered $2,500 damage when fire spread from a davenport to a Christmas tree. J. R. Anderson, 49, jumped from a second-floor win dow and fractured a heeL Fred Morris, 25, was burned in at tempting to extinguish the blaze. J. P. Haywood, Vanport, was taken to a hospital with pistol wounds. Deputy sheriffs said they were told he tried to crash a party with a butcher knife. Woman Shoots at Husband A woman called police and said her husband shot at her because she refused to get out of bed and make him a cheese sandwich at 12:20 a.m. The husband said it was an accident and anyway the ui suenuiic ana wnanng expe ditions to the Antarctic during the current southern summer. Chinese Pass Constitution NANKING. Dec. 25.-yP-After a decade of delay causeo Dy war and internal discord, China has a new constitution which vests sov ereignty in the people and guar antees their rights. The document was formally ad opted today by the national as sembly, still minus representa tives of an important segment of the people - - the communists who have split with the central gov ernment. A coalition government, instead of the present one-party rule, will be set up under the new charter, which becomes effective a year from today. Hotel Blaze in Macon Believed Work of Arsonist MACON. Ga, Dec. 2b.-m-City police and fire officials said today they were investigating ev idences of arson in a spectacular earlv mnrn i n a thof 4ar(r.,. ea a wing of the Lanier hotel and I lentil Oil I lirKfiV a day, go; nis iirst jod in snow business ai a summer park in Nor ristown. Pa., at $5 a week. Aided by Zierfeld He went into vaudeville and after tours abroad came under the banner of Florenz Ziegfeld. In the Ziegfeld Follies, Fields worked ! for 10 years with such illustrious name comedians as Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynnj, Will Rogers, Fanny Brice and: Bert Williams. Lawyer Chokes to An early morning thief smashed a plate glass window and stole 12 watches valued at $234. A Christmas eve holdup of a gro cery store netted two men be tween $400 and $500. From early Christmas eve to early Christmas morning 80 traf fic mishaps, injuring 12 persons, were reported. Seven drunken driving charges were filed. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH V 11 r. - in L. l r V t sent an estimated 200 guests scur rying into the streets. Three persons were slightly in jured by the flames that broke out shortly before midnight, ap parently in a fourth floor linen closet that had been inspected 20 minutes before the smoke was discovered. Fire Chief Guy Mosely said, "This thing didn-"t happen; it oc curred," and Assistant Chief Jer ry Hudson connected the fire with the Winecoff hotel disaster in At lanta Dec. 7 which .resulted in in timations of arson before a grand jury last week. ROSLYN, N. Y., Dec. 25-(jP)-Harold Ci Vaughan, 38-year-bld New Yorkj attorney, told a family ; gathering ihe was no expert at self today ifrom the Christmas din ner table j to do the carving in the kitchen. Minutes later he was heard coughing; ;Hts father, Dr. Harold S. Vaughan, an oral surgeon, went to the kitchen and found his son choking oh a piece of turkey. The attorney died before ; he could be taken to a hospital. 1947 Building Boom Forecast With Federal Controls Lifted Bankruptcies Low in Oregon PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 25-;P) Fewer bankruptcies were filed in Oregon in 1946 than In any year since a uniform system was estab lished in 1898, Estes Snedecor, chief of the federal bankruptcy office for the state, reported to day. Up to December 24 there were 213 bankruptcy petitions, nearly 100 fewer than last year, he said. The total was about 800 ' below the average yearly for the past 48. .years. Snedecor said the largest num ber in any one year was 1,500, filed in the first year of the depression. Torn ihm brim down you look $Wy.w By Sterling F. Green WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 -JPy-Industry and government officials tonight forecast record-smashing construction activity in 1947, the commerce department predicting nearly $22,000,000,000 worth of building of all kinds. The Associated General Con- I tractors of America, Inc., agree ing that builders would hit the I $20,000,000,000 mark, estimated ! $15,000,000,000 would be in new construction, the rest in long-delayed repair and maintenance work. This would far exceed the prev ious peak in 1942, when the craft race for military installations and war plants was in full swing and the government was doing two thirds of the bujlding. Private industry rsow is perform ing nearly 80 per cent of all con struction, which this year wilj amount to about $15,000,000,000, according to the commerce depart ment Its construction division, at work on detailed analysis of the 1947 outlook for issuance next week, i said it now appears the total will $22,000,000,000 In the new year and that housing will account for about 40 per cent of the total, Thl division chief, John L. Haynes, reported a fortnight ago that about 1,000,000 new houses and apartments would be included in the 1947 construction total. This is far bejow the goal of 1,700,000 starts set by former housing ex pediter Wilson Wyatt but a di vision spokesman said next year would bring mere completions and a greater proportion of new, per manent dwellings, with less em phasis or trailers, temporary units and remodelling jobs. The Associated General Con tractors, : representing 4000 firms over the .country, said housing would benefit from the dropping of federal regulations and the promised relaxation of restrictions on commercial and industrial building. ' The contractors' group also fore cast a rise in state, local and fed eral public works, ending a delay brought about by the fact that many cities have rejected all bids on many jobs in the last year be- Fall from Theatre Balcony Wins Bet SEATTLE, Dec. 25.-iJPhQxunce Carroll, theater janitor, won a bet early today but came close to death when he did so. Carroll fell 25 feet from a bal cony in the Coliseum theater, landing across a row of first floor seats and suffering critical head injuries and undetermined inter nal injuries. Police said Carroll had placed a wager with another employe he could lean further over the bal cony rail than anyone else. SAN DIEGO, Calif., Dec. 25 (A3)- Sheriff's deputies reported tonight that an unspecified search plane, hunting for an overdue Western Airliner with nine passengers ana a crew oi three aboard, had sighted what its pilot believed to be the wreck- ace of a big transport near ia Posta. about 60 miles of here. There was no verification of the report, and darkness and lowering weather kept ground parties from an jmmediate in vestigation. The sheriff's office said it was either a navy or a coast guard plane which radioed in the report. Search had been discontinued for the night except for eight horsemen, led by Rudy Frowiss, El Centro, Calif., brother-in-law of Edgar Martin, reportedly one of the passengers on the ship which disappeared last night. The Red Cross had two mobile units about three miles from the point where the fliers reported seeing what they believed to be wreckage. Hunt Near Standstill Otherwise the hunt was at a standstill, after a coast guard flier had radioed that a silver colored airplane tail sighted through a cloud gap had been identified as that of an old wreck. Further air search for the air liner, now 24 hours overdue here with 12 aboard, was halted for the day by storm and approach ing night. Lt. Ira McMullan, pilot of a coast guard PBM plane which glimpsed the silver tail near Mt. Laguna, about 50 miles east of here, said on arrival at the air station that recheck observation had satisfied him the wreckage was old. To Resume Tomorrow The coast guard station said at 4 p. m. that its five planes were being held as they came in and would not resume the hunt until daylight tomorrow. Western Air Lines also an nounced an end of the air hunt for today. Ground parties, which were in vestigating various reports, were expected to pause also for the night at the nearest mountain communities. There were nine passengers and three crew members aboard the airliner when it vanished over the cloud-covered Laguna mountains on Christmas eve. The search had been concen trated on the mountain area, just north of the border, after various persons reported sighting a fire at about the time the plane dis appeared alter a iinai radio re port at 7:09 p. m. 28 Lost in Prior Crash Mt. Laguna is near Thing mountain, on which the earlier search had concentrated and on which another airliner crashed last March 3 with the loss of 28 lives. The missing plane was on a short triangle run from Los Angeles to San Diego by the way of Imperial valley when it disappeared. Full Stockings, Sunny !3 Planes Skies Mark Salem Down in . 1 I I Thick Fog he D Unusually beautiful weather, full gift stockings, and traditionally bountiful Christmas dinners marked the passing of Christmas d in Salem Wednesday. Some snow fell along the state's northern fringe, however, th weather bureau reporting a fall from The Dalles to Pendleton. The lowest temperature of the immediate area was 26 degrees at Salem Portland's low was 29, Med ford 28 and Eugene 32. All Salem businesses were closed except the theatres, a few restaurants and some drug stores. No major accidents were repotted locally to mar Christmas eve or day. The streets of downtown Salem were practically deserted during the day, and the sidewalks were littered with the refuse of Tues day's hectic, last day shopping by the crowds of worn shoppers. In some store windows the annual clearance sale signs were already posted. In the evening crowds of pleasure seekers filled the theatres southeast i but the streets were still relatively empty as fog descended over I the downtown area last night. Mid-night services at many Salem churches drew record crowds Christmas eve. Sales records across the nation show that this Christmas was one of the plushest in American history, and Salem apparently followed suit. With crisp, sunny weather, travel In Salem and Oregon was great and accidents were few. Bus and train stations were jumtned with holiday travelers going to and coming from reunions with friends and relatives. President Truman, King George Express World' s Peace Hopes 1 By The Associated Press Thousands of worshippers, some of them British troops on leave from their job of guarding the troubled Holy Land, knelt in solemn Christmas rites yesterday at the Bethlehem grotto erected to mark the birthplace of the infant Jesus. While the faithful gathered in the historic Church of the Nativ ity, cold waves swept many parts of war-ravaged Europe. The storms, plus food and fuel shortages, added to the day's bleakness for the continent's hungry millions. But the yule day also brought hopeful expressions from two world leaders. President Truman, celebrating the day with his family in Mis souri, told the nation before his departure from the capital that a "good start toward peace" already had been made. King George, in his annual Christmas message to his subjects throughout the world, promised that "better days lie ahead," Partisans temporarily placed aside worries over the new fourth republic's future and the fighting in Indo-China and celebrated the day with a gaiety reminiscent of pre-war years. Over the ruins of shattered Berlin, snow fell and American troops gave yule parties for tens of thousands of German children. The day brought reminders of the undercurrent of strife in the Holy Land and long police lines stood guard along the road to Beth lehem. In Jerusalem shots were fired into the air by a few Christian Arabs. Minutes later the city bristled with guns and armored cars. SHANGHAI, TJec. 26-)tRev-enty-nx prisons were killed In thiee airplane rrathes in the vi cinity of Shanghai yesterday. The planes belonged to the Central Air Transport Corp., a Chinese concern. i The fatalities made ChrUtmas the blackest day in China's civil ian flying history. Twelve plane from different province tried to reach Shanghai but in the heay fog three crash ed, eight were linaljle to land and turned back. i,r i miming and x.ibly met disi'.er. The misMng pUne is owned by the Chiriee Na:l ma! AvUtion corp., the counliy'i leading air line i The Shanghai Pret said the known toll is 7fi kill.-l. 10 mlu. and 18 seriou-lv imuiecf. addition, one farmer waa kill ed and four weie wounded when Tne of ihe cia,he1 pljnes hit farm near Wonnjiiii All persons kii!el in the ihree crashes were unofficially report ed to be Chinese, but one aer listed one Amern n among the injured and mechanic. described him at This Yule Present No Pink Elephant HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 25-P)-When Chet Lauck woke up this morning he wished he hadn't. On his front lawn was a 50-year-old elephant. The pachyderm bore a sign: "Merry Xmas to the Laucks." The elephant was sent by W. C. Stroube of Corsicanna, Tex. Stroube likes to do that sort of thing. Last Christmas he sent Lauck, known to radio listeners as Turn" of "Lum and Abner," a parrot. Year before it was a nondescript bird. run between $21,500,000,000 and i cause of ;hjgh costs. Auto Thief Collides With Car's Owner HOLLYWOOD, Dec 25-iJP)- His own. car having been ; stolen from his home. Mason Nunck borrowed a neighbor's automobile to drive to the Hollywood , police station and turn in a report today. En route home, his borrowed car was smacked from behind, in heavy traffic. Nurick got out to inspect the damage. There wasn't any, but the car which hit him was his own. He arrested the driver himself. Crash Second Tragedy for Stewardess SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 25 -(7P)-For the second Christmas of her life Mitzi Dunn Gibson, a Western Airline stewardess, today was faced with airborne tragedy. The fiancee of First Officer Ri chard J. Weber, co - pilot of W. A. L. plane missing in South ern California, recalled today that just two years ago her husband, James Edward Gibson, an army pilot, was killed when his ship crashed at Melden, Mo. The stewardess and Weber were to have been married next May. One of her co-workers, Stewardess E 1 d e a n e Mulcahy, said the co-pilot of the lost ship had planned a surprise visit to Salt Lake today to visit the girl he planned to marry. Instead, his Christmas present to her - - a cedar hope chest - -arrived along with the news that the ship he was on was lost. 4 Die as Car Hits Crowd NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C, Dec. 25 -(CP)- Four -persons are dead today following a Christmas eve traffic accident in the fog shrouded downtown district. Mr. and Mrs. James Jones of nearby Maillardville and Mrs. Mabel McKnight were instantly killed. Mrs. McKnight's husband, Hugh, died in a hospital today. Police said that the Jones auto mobile was in collision with a truck driven by Thor Steinson. The car then careened into a crowd of bystanders, striking Mr. and Mrs. McKnight. Mrs. Mc Knight's body was thrown through a drugstore window by the impact. Leave Pay on Way to Vels WASHINGTON, Dec. 25H4V Terminal leave pay now is rolling out to former GIs at a rate of more than $12,500,000 a day in bonds and perhaps $345,000 a day in cash. This showed up today n treas ury reports which also revealed that, in little more than two months after payments gut under way, the government has paid out more than a fifth of the total amount it expects to payi The program is budgeted for this fiscal year at $2,4 11.000,000, payments in the form of five-year bonds drawing interest at 2'i per cent a year now top J50J.60tj.000 Payments have been acceler ated rapidly since they began during October. That month's pay-off amounted to $22,302,000 in bonds, $296,344 in cash. Mrs. Haichs rBest Dressed9 Woman in 1946 NEW YORK. Dec. 25-U'i-TitU of the bet dreted woman in the world goes thit year to Mrs, Howard Hawks, wife of the Jlo lyvocd producer, who nonet! out the Duchess tit Windsor for top place in the annual lint of tlx "ten beM dressed " The 1946-47 list. ha.ed on a poll of 150 fashion editors, ly iM and social celebrities, win announced by the New Yoik dress institute in this order: 1 Mr. Howard Hawk. 2 Duchess of Windsor. 3 Mr. (uhing Mortimer (former Barbara Curb ing, sister of Mr. Vincent Aftof and Mis. John Hay Whitney), 4 Mis Byron Fv. 5 t Mrs. Thorn.. Shevlin 6 Mr. Willi cent Rogers. 7 Mr. Hinlsor Williams. 8 Mr. William Rhinelander Stewart 9 Mm. VVillium Pi.ley. 10 Mr. Cltae Booth Luce. The duches, who onre to(el the iinnual list, dropped 1 10th place last year but climbed to second place this year. i EARTIIQt'AKE IN LONDON LONDON, Dec. 25-OP-A seven-second earth tremor jarred the Lochaber district in Inverness-Shire, Scotland, shortly aft er 5 p. m. (12 noon EST) today, rattling crockery and shaking houses. No damage was reported. NEW PLASTIC GLOVE WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 -P)- Development of a seamless plastic glove to make artificial hands look natural was disclosed tonight by the veterans administration. Yule Tree Fire Imperils Five SEATTLE. Dec. 25 - (4) - A Chrihtman tree flash fue iht quickly spread through the living room cf a residence here today imperiled the lives of a mother and four small children. I One of the children suffered minor burns and the mother, Mrs. Ruth Paul, 26, was badly tinged about the head when she ran through the flaming living loom shielding her baby with her body. Liana Paul, 8'j, who wns standing near the tree when the Christmas tree lights short ed and quickly set the dry fir tree afne, suffered a hand burn. j Firemen confined the blave to the living room.. Rep. Rankin to Launch Inquiry Into Tink' College Professors FTEE DESTROYS BARRACKS NAGOYA, Japan, Thursday, Dec. 26 -(JP)- One U. S. soldier was burned to death and another was injured seriously in a fire which destroyed barracks of the First air force at Komaki air drome Sunday, the army an nounced today. WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 ;P)- Rep. Rankin (D.-Miss.) today outlined a congressional investi gation of what he called "pink professors" as one of the first tasks of the new session and called upon veterans organiza tions and civic groups to lend a hand. Rankin, a member of the house committee on un-American activ ities, told reporters an investiga tion of alleged subversive influ ences in some of the leading edu cational institutions will be one of the first undertaken by the group in the new congress. One of its main problems will be to enlist the aid of patriotic organizations, including veterans groups, to drive from our educa tional institutions those pink pro fessors who are now being subsi dized from questionable sources,'' he said. Rankin reported voluminous evidence that professors of "ques tionable loyalties" are holding po sitions in which "they can influ ence the minds of our young peo ple." Some, he added, receive a large part of their pay from "so-called foundations and are spreading subversive propaganda among the students of this nation." He did not identify them. Other investigations which the committee probably will start early in 1947, Rankin said, will cover the moving picture indus try, the radio and "other meth ods of communication." "The committee will intensify its drive and its efforts to remove from the federal payroll every Communist and every other sub versive individual," be said. MORE PORTAL PAY BRISTOL. Conn., Dec. 23m,J') William S. Zenan, counsel frtr lo cal 62A, United Auto Wonktis (CIO) said tonight that the un ion has started suit to re(-ovr $16,250,000 in retroactive ! por-tal-to-portal pay from the I new departure division of General Mo tors. The action, he said i baind on the claims of 6,000 eligible un ion members employed at Die new departure plant heie. itK. KPAATZ MIRHINO PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 25 i Police reported tonight Mr. Anne Leaver of nearby 0ei brook Hills had asked them to search tut her mother, Mr. Anne M. Spaatx, HO year-old mother of General Carl A. Spaatz, commander of the army all force. ! Wratlicr Mm. M ta Mas. Salsa 44 fori land 44 Ran Francisco M fhtravo 44 New York M F OK m ART (from Ul wsthr l.u. rcau. MrNarjr field. Iikmi litrrra. In rloudinma Umwhl with orraiw lie-it ram. Highest temswratwrf 47. Lowest ii i l 11 rreris. 4i0