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3-A FORT LAUDERDALE JNEWS. Monday. Aug. 6, 12 Marilyn Monroe Found Dead In $75,000 Home Tragedy Ends Life Filled With Sorrow V'i- ing until its discovery expected later today. Playwright Arthur Miller, at his home in Roxbury, said his ex-wife's death "was a shock." He said he hadn't decided "whether to go to Hollywood (for the funeral)." Miller became Miss Monroe's third husband in 1956 and they were divorced last year.

Meanwhile, a special coroner's so-called suicide team prepared a series of tests to determine officially whether the 36-year-old actress accidentally or intentionally took the overdose of pills which investigators believe killed her. Coroner Theodore J. Curphey said psychiatric tests would play an important part in the verdict. "We will question her friends and others to determine her mood preceding death," the coroner said. "This is most necessary in a case where no notes were found with the body.

"Our investigation so far her attorney. They presumably will make funeral arrangements. Her mother, an inmate of mental institutions most of her life, was last confined to a home in nearby La Crescenta. Marilyn, who had shifted for herself since early childhood, as known to have made a will outlining plans for her own burial. A business associate said it had not been found yet and funeral arrangements were pend Her three husbands had little or nothing to say about her death at least to newsmen.

Joe Di Maggio, the ex-baseball star, flew here yesterday, apparently to be nearby for the funeral. Her first husband, James E. Dougherty, a policeman here, said he was "sorry." The coroner's office said it has received a telegram from Miss Monroe's half sister, Bernice Miracle of Gainesville, authorizing release of the body to DiMaggio or to Milton Rudin, Schoolboys could recite her famous measurements (37-23-37) and her photos, nude and otherwise, had appeared in practically every periodical in the world. But on her coroner's call sheet, tagged to crypt 33 in the morgue, were these unrevealing statistics: Weight 117 pounds, height 65Vi inches, hair blonde and eyes blue. Next of kin Gladys Baker, mother.

Address unknown. (Fame and sadness, Page 5-B) By.JA.MES BACON (AP Movie-Television Writer) HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Mari-lyn Monroe's body lay unclaimed today in the county morgue in a tragic climax to a lifetime of personal, sorrow that even wealth and fame couldn't ease. She was found dead early yesterday in the cluttered bedroom of her $75,000 Brentwood home, an empty bottle of sleeping pills near her nude body. BOTTLES OF DRUGS on Marilyn's table maeily: Untimely Death Saddens Fans Around World HOLLYWOOD, Calif.

(UPI) Most of the nation was still asleep when Marilyn the blonde Cinderella girl who never found happiness, was found dead in her bedroom. But as the day wore on, millions of movie fans sadly learned they had lost one of their IWwyiJ sx -t f.jL Xk. hi ft- I iptit fBmmmmffi I favorite stars. Today Marilyn's fans join, personalities in the entertainment ment world in mourning the untimely death of the woman who was a sex symbol to a generation of American males. News of Miss Monroe's death from an overdose of sleeping pills flashed around the world yester-terday, piercing the Iron Curtain and breaking through the Berlin wall.

shows she did not die a natural death, and we can make a presumptive opinion that death was due to an overdose of a drug." He said it might be 48 hours before a verdict can be announced. Thus, in death the screen's 6ex goddess left behind the same mysterious personality contrast that she evinced in life. As Marilyn Monroe, movie star, she was under a public microscopeexciting, wanted and mobbed by adoring fans. Her more than a score of movies since her first big break in "The Asphalt Jungle" of 1950 had grossed $200 At the banks which finance movies, her name on a contract meant unlimited credit for a producer. Only her last two movies, "Let's Make Love" and "The Misfits," had been disappointing at the box office a fact which distressed her.

She seemed happy as Marilyn Monroe, the star, with the spotlights beaming brightly. But when the lights went off in her lonely bedroom, ths dreams of Marilyn Monroe, the sex symbol, became the nightmares of Norma Jean Baker, lost waif in a lost world. Few movie scripts will ever match the drama of the Marilyn Monroe story, the beautiful girl who had everything but personal happiness. Her childhood was as publicized as that of the nation's Presidents. Every movie fan knew the details as tragic as her death.

The unwanted and unloved waif, boarded at county expense in a variety of foster homes a little girl who washed mountains of dirty dishes and scrubbed acres of dirty floors. And all the while dreaming of becoming a movie star and, when she did, her insecure childhood failed to cushion her against the shocking insecurity of the Hollywood jungle. Marilyn died proving that peace of mind cannot be bought even on an income of a million dollars a picture. FRUSTRATED LOVE In 1961, she lost two babies while married to Miller. Then came a frustrated love arfair with married Yves Montand, the breakup of her marriage to Miller because of it, and the untimely death of Clark Gable, her co-star in "The Misfits." The result two stays in New York psychiatric hospitals.

And only hours before her death she had called her personal psychiatrist in a vain attempt to sooth her troubled nerves. It was the same psychiatrist, called by Marilyn's housekeeper, who broke into a bedroom window to find her dead. In her hand she clutched a telephone which was off the hook. Perhaps she had been calling for help as she had for much of her life. A help that never came.

Friends said she was distraught in recent weeks over being fired from the film "Something's Got To Give" by Twentieth Century-Fox studio. MARILYN MONROE: A LIFE OF SORROW rose from a grubby waif to a movie queen With Joe DiMaggio In Moscow, the Soviet newsjto Give." The 36-year-old actress agency Tass reported the death was fired and the film shelved be- 10 r-M (AP Wirephoto) In London en Mill Sobl 1 tSTn' 4 3 How. Marilyn Israel 5 it ill arilyn City In February By BILL BOXDURAXT (News Staff Writer) Marilyn Monroe is dead, and her Ft. Lauderdale fans have only 24 hours of compiled during a February eyed blonde visited with onetime husband Joe DiMaggio in a penthouse at the Yankee Clipper. Asyl Temporary in a brief dispatch from New York, the Last German news agency ADN devoted four lines to a story which said Miss Monroe had died.

Clark Gable's widow was one of the first to, learn of the blonde beauty's death. Gable and Miss Monroe co-starred in "The Misfits," adapted from playwright Arthur Miller's story. It was the last picture for each of the famed stars. DR. ROBERT SOBLEN man without country UN Begins Blockade In Katanga ELISABETHYILLE, Katanga.

i if let 4 is reported to have offered haven. The British government ordered Israeli's El Al Airlines the 61-year-old psychiatrist York. The Israeli cabinet told Putin Made Headlines Offers The Finkbines flew here yester day from Los Angeles after they had failed to obtain an abortion in Arizona and had run into trouble getting a visa for Japan. Mrs. Finkbine immediately contacted the Swedish woman doctor who is handling her case here be cause she is in the 12th week of her pregnancy and unless an abor tion can be performed in the next few days what now is a minor op eration will become a major one Olas Brldqe, add Andrews Ave.

Bridge, add Dania Bridge, add Miami Causeway (east end), add Cape Florida (west side). Key Biscayne, Rocks Light, Largo- Sound, Key Largo, add Tavernier, add Alligator Reef Light, add Long Key (west end), add 0:45. Sunset today 7:04 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:49 a.m. Moonrise today 10:57 a.m.

Moonset tomorrow ....11:33 p.m. Temperatures High and Low temoerature readings for 24rour period ending at 8 a.m. (EST) August 6, 1962: FLORIDA Ft. Lauderdale 94 76 Orlando 95 75 Homestead 94 71 Pensacoia 94 77 Sarasota 92 84 Tallahassee 93 77 Tampa 90 73 W. Palm Bch, SOUTH 90 69 Memphis 86 79 New Orleans EAST 80 68 Pittsburgh 85 70 Washington 90 73 94 76 93 73 91 78 96 76 Jacksonville Key West Miami Dcala Atlanta Charleston 93 79 93 76 Boston New York Philadelphia Chicago Cincinnati 80 70 MIDWEST 75 68 Kansas City 90 72 92 75 Milwaukee 91 56 'Cleveland Des Moines 77 58 Paul 91 56 85 69 Omaha 85 68 82 72 Detroit Indianapolis 80 62 St.

Louis 89 68 WEST SUlClUK? Czechoslovakia him has to fly on to New I LONDON. (UPI) The Israeli embassy said today Israel is willing to take back Soviet spy Dr. Robert A. Soblen temporarily until he finds a country which will accept him. Communist Plea For Abortion Before Swedish STOCKHOLM.

(UPI) An American mother pleaded for an emergency abortion today on the ground she will suffer, a "mental breakdown' if she bears a deformed child. Mrs. Sherri Finkbine of Phoenix, asked a Swedish doctor to appeal on her behalf to the "I heard the flash over the air at 7 a.m.," said Kay Gable. "And I went to mass and prayed for her." Typical of the reactions at the personal level was that of actor Dean Martin, a close friend. "I just cant believe it I just can't believe it," he said.

"She was a wonderful person and a wonderful talent." Alanin was Miss Monroe co- Istar in the Mm "Something's Got cause of her frequent absences from the set At St. Paul de Vence, France French song and dance man Yves Montand, whom gossip columnists linked romantically with the act ress when they filmed "Let's Make Love," refused to see news men. A spokesman at Montand's Riviera villa told reporters he would say nothing, ZANX'CK SHOCKED In Paris, Darryl F. Zanuck, president of 20th Century-Fox, said he was shocked. "I disagreed and fought with her on many occasions But in spite of the fact that I have not seen her for six years, we were always personal friends," Zanuck said.

i Hollywood has suffered a genuine loss as, in spite' of her temperament which sometimes flared to conceal her basic sby- ness, she never let the public down. "I do not claim to have- dis covered Marilyn. Nobody dis covered her. She discovered herself," Zanuck said, "and earned her own way to stardom." In London, Sir Laurence Olivier agreed she was difficult to work with, but added: "She could be incredibly sweet, most tenderly appealing, and very, very witty." Olivier starred with her and directed her in "The Prince and the Showgirl." He blamed Hollywood for making her "the complete vic- of ballyhoo and sensation. French writer director Jean Cocteau also blamed Marilyn's death on a public hungry for per sonal details of her life.

"This atrocious death will be a terrible lesson for those whose principal occupation consists in spying on and tormenting the film stars," he commented. In Athens, actor Tony Randall recalled how she went out of her way to put him at his ease when they were making the movie, "Let's Make Love" together. 'A GREAT STAR "Everyone who worked with her found it a real and great ex perience. She was a great star. She'll be terribly missed." Elizabeth Taylor, who, like Miss Monroe, has had her share of personal troubles, learned of the death in Gstaad, Switzerland, and said she was "very sad and deeply shocked." In Portofino, Italy, British ac tor Rex Harrison heard the sad news and said "What a terrible tragedy! I always thought she was wonderful.

She was one of the most talented comediennes I've ever seen." Actress Susan Strasberg. a close acquaintance of Miss Monroe, said in Rome, "she was an extremely talented woman who was just beginning to do the things she wanted to do. She wanted to work in the theater and Miss Strasberg was unable to contain her grief and could not go on. Her parents, Paula and Lee Strasberg, who coached Miss Monroe in drama at their New xorK Actors btudio, also were stricken. iirrflrr lyiffrnmynr--- Visited local memory to cherish hotel stay here.

The wide She did not speak with bellboys or maids either to thank or tip them. She ventured from her apartment twice once for din ner; again to leave. "I've just loved being here," was her only public statement before climbing into an automo bile and heading for the airport Jack Dfury, public relations di rector for the hotel, swapped a few brief words with her. She chided him about being marooned on a Bahama isle with Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay. "What are you doing tomorrow, Jack," she said.

"Will you take me boating?" She checked in, unannounced ex cept to hotel officials at 4 p.m. Feb. 19, and left at the same time the next day. Hotel employes remember her this way: Bellboy Henry Peruzzi "Gee, dad, I couldn't tell you much. She didn't say anything.

Let's put it this She looked like Marilyn Monroe is supposed to look." Maid Idella Karpin "She told us not to disturb her even to make up the beds. Three of us. we waitea outsiae tne room on overtime, but didn't get in to clean up until she left." "You know, she brought a hair dresser all the way from Holly. wood just for one time. He did her hair in the room." Manager T.

H. Brown never said anything to her. waited in the dining room to catch a glimpse of her she ate about 8:30 that night I was in the back ground of a picture of her and it went all over the country. Friends kept sending it to me. Peruzzi summed up the stay.

"She was just like any celebrity I guess." Kellenberger Gets Chance To Tell Story TALLAHASSEE Martin Kel lenberger, suspended Palm Beach County sheriff, has been invited to tell his side of the story to a Senate committee at. a hearing tentatively set for 10:30 p.m. tomorrow. A five-man Senate special committee wired Kellenberger it has been created to recommend to the full Senate whether the governor's suspension should be upheld or rejected. Kellenberger was suspended by Gov.

Farris Bryant after he was indicted in connection with alleged irregularities in the sheriff's de partment. The sheriff," however, was acquitted by the court, but Gov. Bryant declined to reinstate him, saying there still was sufficient reason to keep Kellenberger out of office. (T TTia ITnitArl Nations rlnsprl.tim Russians Resume Atom Tests (The atom bomb child, Page lt-A) UPPSALA, Sweden. UP) The Soviet Union has launched a new nuclear test series with a superbomb blast which Swedish scientists placed in the 40- Megaton range, second only to the 50-megaton blast the Russians set off last Octo ber.

The first blast yesterday, ap parently touched off at Soviet atomic test grounds in Artie Si beria, came as no surprise to the West. Premier Khrushchev had announced his forces would have to resume testing because of the U.S. Pacific tests now being con cluded. The U.S. State Department called the Soviet explosion a "somber episode" but made clear it would not halt U.S.

efforts to get a nuclear test ban. "The urgent problem before the world is not who test last, but how we can rid the world of nuclear testing once and for all," said the department statement, referring to Soviet statements they insisted on holding the last round of tests. Estimates varied as to the size of yesterday's Soviet explosion, the blast was believed touched off on the island of Novaya Zemlya about 1,350 miles east of Uppsala. HIGHER SHOT Uppsala University's Seismologi-cal Institute classed it in the range of 40 million tons of TNT and said it occurred at a higher altitude than the Soviet series of 1961. A Norwegian scientist said his instruments showed only it was smaller than the 50-megaton bomb set off Oct.

30. The Japanese Metrological Institute estimated the blast in the 20-megaton range. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission said only that "the Soviet Union detonated a nuclear weapon in the megaton range." Washington observers recalled first Swedish reports had placed last fall's Soviet, super-blast in the 100-megaton range, but that the U.S. Commission later put it in the 50-megaton category.

But the Uppsala scientists said their equipment has been improved and pointed ou they are considerably closer to the explosion site than either the Japanese or the Ameri- the airline yesterday not to obey the order. "We are prepared to take him back to Israel and relieve the British government of the problem." said an Israeli embassy spokesman. "But once back in Israel he would have to look for a country to go to." A member of the British Par- liament, who had petitioned the government in Soblen's behalf, reported last week that Czechoslovakia had of.ered to grant Soblen a visa to enter there. This never has been officially confirmed or denied, however. The Israeli embassy spokesman said Soblen recently was refused a visa to return to Israel "and if he made a second application that would be refused, too." El Al has been instructed by the Israeli cabinet to fly Soblen back to Israel if Britain forces the airline to accept him as a passenger.

The British govern ment has given the until Wednesday to make a decision. "So, if Dr. Soblen was flown back to Israel he would be re fused permission to land and be detained," said the Israeli embassy spokesman. "He could then, if he wished, apply to the Israeli Supreme Court to test the validity of the expulsion order and also to ask for the Israeli government to show cause why he has been refused a visa." Soblen fled the United States June 25 and landed in Israel. Israel expelled him.

En route back to New York aboard an El Al plane Soblen slashed himself, forcing his hospitalization in Britain. ROBBERY VICTIM PULLS WRONG BOX ST. LOUIS. Jerry Murra told police he was talking to a man he knew only as Bicycle Sam yesterday when Sam pock- state medical board which has the power to terminate a pregnancy if it could lead to mental illness. The 30-year-old television performer fears her unborn baby has been crippled because she took the tranquillizer thalidomide in the vulnerable early stages of her pregnancy.

"My wife took 30 tablets and her doctors in America believe there is a 20 to SO per cent chance that the baby would be deformed," said Mrs. Finkbine's husband, Robert Forecast FTC LAUDERDALE AND VICINITY: Partly cloudy with widely scattered Red Sees No Great Hope In U.S. Shift GENEVA. (UPD-Soviet Depu ty Foreign Minister Valerian Zor- in said today an American shift in position on the number of on-site inspections necessary to police a nuclear test ban treaty "gives no great hope" for a solution. Zorin's comments came after the United States told the 17-na-tion disarmament conference Russia's resumption of nuclear tests underlines the urgency for reaching quick agreement on a test ban.

The Soviet delegate virtually rejected the new American position even before it was presented formally to the conference. He said U.S. Ambassador Arthur H. Dean had spelled out the new American thinking to him "in a preliminary fashion" yesterday. "We will, of course, give the new American position a thorough Zorin said.

6 KILLED ON WAY HOME FROM DANCE LUBBOCK, Texi B-Four men and two women were killed today in an auto collision six miles south of here on U.S. 87. There were no survivors. State police said occupants of both cars were farm laborers and apparently attended a dance which broke up a few minutes earlier in the Woodrow Communi- afternoon thundershowers. High todayjfdd Soldier Key, add Fowey the Elisabethville Airport yesterday to all traffic except UN air craft.

A UN spokesman said the air port was closed at the request of the central Congo governmenf, which had asked that all aircraft have its permission to land at any airport in Katanga except Albert- ville. Albertville is under control of the Congolese Army. Members of Katanga President Moise Tshombe's government viewed the closing of the airport as the first move in a program of economic pressure to end the secession of Katanga from the central government's control. They said if the central govern' ment persisted in-such blockades, it would mean an end to unity negotiations between Tshombe's regime and the government of Congo Premier Cyrille Adoula. The United States, Britain and Belgium were reported last weekend to have worked out a program of diplomatic and economic pressure on Tshombe to bring him to agreement with Adoula.

The western powers' chief aim is to divert to the impoverished central government some of the huge tax revenues the Union Miniere mining corporation now pays to Tshombe's government on the copper and other ores it mines in Katanga. Observers in Elisabethville; viewed the closing of the airport as an implied warning of stronger measures that might be takn. 90 to 96. Low tonight in the 70s. Variable 5 to 15 mile winds.

FLORIDA: Partly cloudy today and tomorrow with widely scattered after-naon showers. Continued hot with high today 90 to 96. Low tonight In the 70's except -near -SO Southeast coast and Kevs. JMARINE: Cape Canaveral to Key West including Florida Bay: Variable winds 5 to 15 knots today and tomorrow. Widely scattered showers.

Weather Summary .1 a.m. Barometer 30.08 Humidity- (per cent) 80 Temperature 84 High (last 24 hours) 94 Low (last 24 hours) 76 Mean temperature 85 Wind velocity (VPH) Variable 2 to 4 Total precipitation last 24 hours 0 Total precipitation August to trace Total precipitation year to 31.16 Tide Data (Port Everglades Inlet) HIGH LOW a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m.

Today 11:58 Tomorrow 12:11 12:46 5:45 6:05 6:29 6:53 NOTE: For accurate tides at other points add the following corrections in hours and minutes to Port Everglades time. Fort Pierce Inlet, subtract St. Lucie Inlet, subtract Sewall Point, add 1:35 (high), add 2:35 (low); Jupiter Inlet (near Lighthouse), add Port of Palm Beach, Lake Worth, add Palm Beach (ocean), subtract Hillsboro Inlet, add Pompano Beach Bridge, add Oakland Park Bridge, dd Sunrise Bridge, add Las "jeted the Murra billfold with more than $40 in it, hopped on his bike and pedaled away. Murra sounded an alarm he thought would bring the police. It did.

But unfortunately, it also brought a few fire trucks and disgruntled firemen. It was a fire alarm box. So Murra, 52, was booked for turning in a false fire alarm. 65 56 80 0 72 54 90 79 89 73 Denver 96 51 Seattle Los Angeles 87 64 CANADIAN STATIONS Montreal 77 69 Toronto PAN AMERICAN STATIONS Santo Domingo 91 71 Mexico City Balboa 85 76 Nassau Havana 89 76 San Juan Kingston 83 79 St. Thomas l.ty nearby.

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