HOUSE COMMITTEE BEGINS OBSCENITY INVESTIGATION

A sweeping investigation of "obscenity" in everything from postcards to motion pictures will be launched today by the Granahan subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives. The probe will reach Boston before Dec. 1, after sessions in Philadelphia and New York.

Rep. Kathryn Granahan (D.-Pa.) intends to devote special attention to foreign films "which she regards of low moral tone," according to Varlety. French movies will be given particular emphasis, since Mrs. Granahan feels that they may be undermining the NATO alliance, the trade reported.

The subcommittee, holding its hearings in the major ports of entry, plans to concentrate on imported pornography, although other prime concerns will be "unclean" records and the flow of communist propaganda into this country.