Died. Clark Lee, 46, war correspondent and author (They Call It Pacific, One Last Look Around), who escaped from Corregidor, covered the Pacific war from start to finish before turning free lance and settling down on Monterey peninsula with his wealthy wife, Hawaiian Princess Liliuokalani Kawananakoa (granddaughter of the late Queen Liliuokalani); of a heart attack; in Pebble Beach, Calif.

Died. Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis, 64, one of two Jews* holding top-ranking posts in the U.S.S.R.; reportedly of a heart attack. A longtime Stalin favorite, he was a veteran revolutionist, editor of Pravda, vice-commissar of defense, and army political commissar. As Commissar of State Control, Mekhlis was wartime production boss (he directed the evacuation of industry to the east) and chief inspector of the Soviet economy until illness forced his retirement in 1950. Red leaders, busy at their purge of Jews, announced to the world their "profound grief " at Mekhlis' death and staged an elaborate state funeral in Red Square.

Died. Elbert Duncan Thomas, 69, scholarly New Deal Senator from Utah (1932-50) a sponsor of the G.I. Bill of Rights, and Truman-appointed High Commissioner of the U.S. trust territories in the Pacific; of pulmonary infarction; in Honolulu. A benign Ph. D., Thomas served five years as a Mormon missionary in Japan, taught Latin, Greek, political science and Oriental history at the University of Utah, wrote six books (Sukui No Michi. Chinese Political Thought, The Four Fears, etc.), doodled in Japanese.

Died. David Aiken Reed, 72, onetime (1922-34) Old Guard Senator from Pennsylvania and an early Republican casualty of the New Deal; of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. Polished, lofty Princetonian Reed was a spokesman in Congress for Pennsylvania big business, deplored the New Deal and all its works, including its articulate solicitude for the "common man" (he once referred to his own constituents as "a lot of dunderheads").

Died. Roy Orchard Woodruff, 76, longtime (1913-15, 1921-52) Republican Congressman from Michigan who entered the House as a winner on Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose ticket, was a conservative shaper of G.O.P. policy during 14 years as chairman of the House Republican Conference; after long illness; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Ralph Henry Cameron, 89, Maine-born Republican Senator from Arizona (1921-27), the state's last territorial delegate and a prime mover in its admission to the Union in 1912 as the 48th state; in Washington, D.C.

* The other: Presidium Member Lazar M. Kaganovich, brother of Stalin's third wife.

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