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4 TODAY'S NEWS TODAY TUCSON, ARIZONA, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1958 MAin 10 CENTS-- 56 PAGES A Wirephoto RUSHMORES IN HAPPIER TIMES Howard Rushmore and his wife appeared together at New York's Stork Club several months ago. Friends say Rushmore's wife had left him two days before Christmas. Former Confidential Editor Kills Wife, Self NEW YORK--W--Howard Rushmore, an ex-Communist and former editor of Confidential magazine, wrote the final chapter of his life in blood last night when he murdered his attractive blonde wife and shot himself to death in a speeding taxicab. The shootings occurred just two blocks from the police station Mrs. Rushmore had told the taxi driver to take her to after her husband forced his way into the cab.

Police said Rushmore's wife, Frances, 37, a cover girl during her modeling career, died of bullet wounds in the head and neck. Rushmore, 45, after he fired one shot into his right temple. THE MURDER and suicide climaxed a futile reconciliation attempt. Rushmore apparently attended the meeting with his wife armed with a .32 caliber pistol and an 8-inch commando knife, police said. Rushmore still clutched the pistol in his right hand when police examined the two bodies sprawled in the back of the taxicab.

The commando knife was found strapped to his side. Cab driver Edward Pearlman, 37, told police Mrs. Rushmore hailed his cab shortly after 7 o'clock last night. He said she got into the cab and tried to close the door, but Rushmore forced his way in saying: "I'M HER HUSBAND, don't worry about it." "I don't want any part of him. We're separated," Mrs.

Rushmore snapped back. Then she told her husband to "get out," Pearlman said. Rushmore, however, refused and told her to tell the cab driver where she wanted to go. "Take me to the station house," Mrs. Rushmore said.

Pearlman said he headed for the nearest police' station. The Rushmore's meantime, were arguing bitterly. It was then that Rushmore apparently reached into his coat pocket -nd brought out the pistol. Mrs. Rushmore screamed, "Oh, my God!" Then a seVies of shots rang out.

When Pearlman looked around briefly he saw the woman sprawled on the rear scat with blood from her head and neck. The cabby then floored the accelerator and sped the last two blocks to the station house. Before he arrived there another shot rang out in the cab. Pearlman scampered from the cab and up the police station steps, falling once in his haste. "THERE'S BEEN a shooting out there," he shouted to the desk sergeant.

The Rushmores were married eight years ago when both were employes of the New York Journal American. He had one daughter by a previous marriage and she had two daughters by a previous union. They separated two days before Christmas when Mrs. Rushmore moved out of their apartment with her younger, unmarried daughter. Rushmore admittedly a a member of the Communist party in the 1930s and was movie i i i for the Daily Worker for about three years.

He said he broke with the party and the paper when he was prevented from writing a favorable review of motion picture "Gone with the Wind." For 15 years after that he was one of the chief anti-Red writers for the Journal American. He also served as a special investigator of the Senate subcommittee headed by the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) which was investigating communism. Later he became an editor of Confidential and testified as a prosecution witness at the magazine's recent trial in California. At the trial Rushmore testified he could not take the type of material publisher Robert Harrison wanted him to print.

He admitted writing several articles for the magazine, but said they were reportorial and not smut. HIGH-POWER BRAIN Polish Wizard Vows U.S. Aid WASHINGTON --(IP)-- Polish mathematical wizard Dr. Jerzy Leon Nowinski, who defected from Communist laboratories, pledged his high-power brain to America today in the great missile race with Russia. "I am ready and willing to make whatever contribution I can to the United States," the 52-year-old scientist said.

Nowinski, well-acquainted with Russian advances in research, is an expert theoretical researcher on thermo-elasticity. This is a science in the stress and strains of metals and other materials when subjected to high speed--a key one for the builders of ocean- spanning ballistic missiles and space ships of the future. It also deals in the nose cone problem of missile re-entry into the earth's atmosphere. Tne granting of asylum to Nowinski after his wife and daughter had succeeded in fleeing from behind the Iron Curtain to England was disclosed yesterday by Atty. Gen.

William P. Rogers. When his family escaped, Nowinski was in Baltimore lecturing at Johns Hopkins University. He had been a research professor at the University of Warsaw for seven years. "I was disappointed by the political, moral and religious conditions in Poland after the war," Nowinski told a news conference.

He said he chose asylum because he wanted to educate his daughter, Kristina, 7, in an atmosphere of freedom. The scientist said he had little firsthand knowledge of Russia's sputniks and rockets. But Rogers said he was familiar with Russian research. Officials at Johns Hopkins indicated Nowinski would be an invaluable addition to the nation's all-out scientific effort. Nowinski arrived in this country Oct.

16. But he did not request asylum until Nov. 16--two days after receiving word his wife and daughter had arrived safely in England. INSIDE THE CITIZEN SENATE CHI VOWS NO DELAY IN MISSIL 'Can Do'--Johnson WASHINGTON--(ffl--Sen. Lyndon B.

Johnson (D- Tex) predicted today the Democratic-controlled Congress will convene, next week in a mood to brook no delays in missile development. Johnson, the Senate's Democratic leader, put the missiles program and "a foreign policy that will bring peace to this world" at the top of problems -including domestic economic ones he listed yesterday as facing the forthcoming session. Enlarging on this in an interview, the Democratic leader said: "Congress is coming back here in a 'can do' mood. We know that we are faced with some grave problems because of the Russian sputniks and their missile advances. "WE ARE AWARE of the danger, but we are unafraid.

We have faith that the American people, once aroused to the threat against them, can accomplish anything they set out to do." Johnson said he regards the inquiry into the missile and satellite programs by his Senate preparedness subcommittee as "an investigation before a not after- Pearl Harbor." He announced the subcommittee will resume hearings Monday with Rear Adm. H. G. Rickover, who juided development of the atomic submarine, as the first listed witness in closed sessions. Rickover is expected to be questioned about development of an atomic airplane.

The program for such a plane has been delayed ay scientific difficulties. He also will be asked about development of the special type of atomic submarine needed to launch the Navy's range Polaris missile which is designed to be fired from under water. Rickover will be followed by 18 military and civilian defense department witnesses, including Secretary of Defense McElroy. In connection with the atomic plane, it was reported yesterday that Air Force, Navy and Atomic Energy (AEC) officials agreed in a Thursday conference with Deputy Secretary of Defense Quarles that money should be earmarked for that project in the defense budget for the coming fiscal year, starting next July 1. BUT IT WAS LEARNED these officials put off a decision on whether to continue present efforts to build an atomic aircraft that would be militarily useful, or to concentrate on a nuclear plane that might get into the air ahead of any Russian atomic model.

Defense Department sources said a decision on what course to follow will be made in the next few months. In talking with newsmen, Johnson said the preparedness subcommittee will continue to press for a look at the still secret Gaither Report on 'the status of the nation's defenses. But the Texan indicated he didn't have much hope of getting the White House to turn it in which the President can be compelled to divulge a confidential communication." The subcommittee chairman said his group can get all the basic information in the Gaither Report by its own efforts. He left the possibility that some member of the Gaither Committee might be called to testify about the report's conclusions. AT ISSUE is a report prepared by a committee headed originally by H.

Rowan Gaither a San Francisco lawyer. The report has been classed as a top secret document of the National Security Council. Meanwhile, the Air Force announced formation of the first two operational squadrons to be equipped with Thor and Jupiter missiles. The 672nd strategic missile squadron was created Jan. 1 and eventually will get the Thor, developed by the Air Force.

The 864th squadron will be organized Jan. 15 and will use the Jupiter, an Army-de- vfelope'd weapon. Sec COOKE, Page 27 HIS 'FINEST HOUR'-- Tucson Cowboy Coach George Ahee enjoys his "finest hour" in today's Optimist Bowl football Page 4. A LITTLE LIGHT Tucson's Beacon Foundation joins forces with the University of Arizona to bring a little light into the lives of tne mentally retarded, Page 3. FASHION NOTE-- Citizen Woman's View Editor Betty Milburn is winging her way to New York for a preview of fashions for 1958, Page 25.

NO WINNERS-- There were 3,616 puzzles submitted in Citizen Charlie's Crossword Puzzle Contest but they all missed. The prize next week will be $200. Correct solution, Page 32. Where To Find It Esther Henderson 32 Sports 4, 5 Inquiring Reporter 32 Today's Citizen 32 Kay Carson 25 Weather Map 7 Public Records 7 Woman's View 25, 26 School Lunches Your Stars 26 UA Solar House Approved The Board of Regents today approved final plans and authorized advertising for bids for the University of Arizona solar energy housii. This building, which will be used for research on solar air conditioning, is a project of the UA Institute of Atmospheric Physics.

"We hope to break ground the week of Feb. 10," Dr. A. Richard Kassander, institute director, said today. The structure is to be built on the UA Polo Field.

Last year, the regents granted $15,000 to be used for the house. "We think that through the donation of supplies and services, we will have enough money," Kas- sander said. "The Tucson Home Builders Assn. is taking it on as a project." Research in the building, which is the size of a three bedroom house, will be not only on heating and cooling through solar energy, but in construction materials. The institute will also use it as its radiation measurement laboratory.

"As far as we know, this is the first solar energy laboratory in which the building itself is part ose of the research," Kassander said. Johnson said the White House "We will be studying our own "has taken the position that the re- walls and ceilings." quest involves a question of basic charge of the solar energy concerning the secrecy project at the institute is Ray- of private communications to the mond W. Bliss Jr. who built the The senator added world's first completely solar that he doesn't know "any way heated house. FLORIDA STORM PILES UP YACHT --Af This 42-foot yawl rests on the rocks after'being driven from its moorings at the Palm Beach Yacht Club.

Skipper Lee Ault of New York and deckhand try to tio down sails of the seagoing yacht. Biting Cold Continues To Sting Eastern U.S. By Associated Press The East felt the sting of biting cold today while' temperatures rose in the mid-continent area. The coldest was from the Mississippi eastward to the Atlantic Coast, with New York state having its coldest weather of the year. WARMER SUNDAY It goes to my head, goes to my toes, This champagne air Gives me the glows.

--Elmer The temperature dipped to a nippy 33 this morning, but weatherman i slowly rising temperatures with a high close to 70 on tap for tomorrow. There will be variable high cloudiness, and there's a possibility that it may be windy at times tomorrow. Elsewhere in the state the forecast is for scattered showers east portion and north central mountains tonight, and sunny weather for tomorrow. Readings included: -10 at Rockford, and Lone Rock, -8 at Arcade in Erie County, New York: -6 at Grand Rapids, and Madison, and -1 in Milwaukee. The mercury contracted to 7 above in Chicago, but dipped to 6 at O'Hare Field northwest of the city.

Albany, N.Y., had even zero; Boston had above; Pittsburgh, 7: New York City and Philadelphia, 13; Birmingham, 22; and Jacksonville, 31 Snow flurries persisted near the southeastern shores of the Great Lakes, although amounts were light and Friday's heavy snow depths remained unchanged. Light rain or drizzle dampened portions of Texas and New Mexico, and there was light rain in northwestern Washington and scat- tercd snow flurries in parts of the northern Rockies. Elsewhere, the nation had mostly fair weather. Skies cleared in southeastern Florida where gale winds pounded many areas Friday and dumped as much as two inches of rain on Miami and Fort Laudtrdale. he predicted.

Snowfall in the northeast yesterday ranged up to 28 inches in parts of western New York State near Lake Erie, and a 20-inch blanket covered Oswego County, N.Y., along Lake Ontario. A low-pressure disturbance over the Southwest brought scattered snows through the mountains of northern New Mexico and Arizona during the night and kicked off thunderstorms in southern New Mexico. But precipitations amounts there and in southern and western Texas were generally light. Phone Strike Held Off As Talks Go On NEW talks resumed this afternoon in a threatened nationwide strike by 25,000 long-distance telephone workers of the American Telephone Telegraph Co. The strike which could have come at midnight last night -was postponed after the Communications Workers of America made a counter-proposal to the company.

Negotiations recessed early today. Sputnik I Still Flying High Sputnik I is still flying high and fast, according to Don Strittmatter, spokesman for Tucson's rnoon- watchers, who spotted the satellite at 6:21 p.m. yesterday. "It should be seen again tonight, 15 or 20 minutes earlier," Winds, which caused an estimated $35,000 damage at Miami, subsided, although gusts exceeding 30 m.p.h, continued at Key West during the night. AND HOT DOGS Hillary Feasts On Beans Church Page 6, 7 Comics 16, 17 Crossword Puzzle 2fi Dr.

Dean 26 Editorials 32 Tucson Tonight and Tomorrow 7 ON THE TOWN John Crosby 18 VOUR HOME Art News Book Reviews i Irving Kolodin 20 19 20 Movies Radio-TV Travel 21-24 15, IS 12, 13 Gardening Help Yourself By RENNIE TAYLOR U.S. SOUTH POLE STATION --ifi--Sir Edmund Hillary and his band of New Zealanders feasted on navy beaas and hot dogs after completing their to the South Pole over 1.200 mik's of snow and ice. The 38-year-old conqueror of Mt. Everest pulled into the American scientific station today after camping in sight of it last night with tractor gasoline left for only 2ft more miles. The five-man band was the first to make it overland from the coast in -ifi years.

Later trips to the including the ones that set up the 17-man station here, have been by air. Navy Lt. Vernon Houk, military commander of the station, and scientific leader Pallc Mogensen went out to meet Hillary in a snow tractor. Glad to be here," the rangy New Zealand beekeeper told them. The Americans led the New Zealand caravan tractors two miles to the spot which U.

S. scientists compute as the geographic bottom of the world. It is encircled by oil drums. The group stopped to look at it, but Hillary did not step inside the circle. Then they went to the station mess hall for their i hot meal in several days.

The four New Zealanders who accompanied Hillary are Murray Ellis, Peter Mulgrew, Jim Bates and Derek Wright. Their party made a forced march of 70 miles in 24 hours to arrive in sight of the S. base. With gasoline short, "we were cutting it rather fine due to the very soft snow encountered," Hillary explained. "The tractors are showing signs of wear and tear, but have gone magnificently in quite unsuitable conditions." Hillary is now awaiting the arrival of a British party led by Dr.

Vivian Fuchs, who set out on a trek across the frozen continent from the opposite side at Shacklcton Base below South America. Fuchs and Hillary planned to complete the trip across the continent together as a British commonwealth contribution to the International Geophysical Year (IGY). But Fuchs got bogged down while Hillary was setting up a supply depot 500 miles from the pole on the New Zealand side. Fuchs was reported yesterday to be about 200 miles away. Hillary was to have waited there for i but the New Zealand adventurer apparently got impatient and on Dec.

2G he radioed: "I am hcll-bsnt for the South Pole--God willing and crevasses permitting." Scientists have predicted that Sputnik I will die in the first few days of January. When sighted yesterday the satellite came out of the southwest directly under Venus, Strittmattcr said. It was about 20 degrees high Half-Day Sessions End At Wetmore i Completion of a four-classroom and library addition at Wctmorc school will end half-day sessions there Monday when all pupils ret to a full-time schedule, Supt. Marion Donaldson said today. A new rnulti-purposc room will i be completed in about one week.

i then lunches will be transported to classrooms from the Prince road a i a The additions, costing approximately $100,000 were provided for by a bond issue in 195(5. Completion of the new Holaway School later this month, will probably end half-day sessions in the school district. Donaldson said. and should be seen In the same spot tonight. "Sputnik I was traveling at about the same rate as when seen on other occasions," he said.

United Press reported a spokesman at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory said another sighting was made last night in Bryn Athyn, Pa. There also, he said, there was no indication that the object was flashing downward in a death plunge. However, a third sighting, made by the president of the Maine Astronomical Society, Robert M. Dole, described a flaming dive by an unknown object. Experts said i at present it could not yet be de- tcrmincd if it was a meteor or the i satellite.

i Premier Nikolai Bulganin was quoted in Moscow as saying Sput- I nik 1 would burn out either tomorrow or Monday. i ETNA STILL ERUPTING MESSINA, Sicily A long, fiery tongue of lava is rolling down the side of Mt. Etna in a new eruption of the ancient volcano. The volcano has been erupting periodically over the past several months. So far the SieiH.irs who live in villages on the nv.i: tainsirtes have not been en- danscred..