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PART I ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME Times, Telephone Numbers MAdlsoa 8-2345 'r that concerning adverting. AditOB 3-441 1 for alt douffiW dvtrtitiiig colli." 1 VOL. LXXVII IN FOUR PARTS CC MONDAY MORNING DECEMBER 30, 1957 56 PAGES DAILY 10c UBEKTV UNDEK THE IAW( eds Clamp Cur OS CAR ACCIDENT TOLL AT 1430 FOR HOLIDAY Holiday accidents on Losi Angeles streets reached a total of 1430 yesterday, police report- Highest U.S. Peacetime Budget Seen Berlin v. Allies.

Plan Protest to Russ on New. Blockade of Capital by East Germany BERLIN, Dec. 29 () Communist East Germany today imposed travel restrictions on Allied civilians-including diplomats traveling in and out of Berlin. Tha Allies planned a protest to Russia. j- r-Jl "7f 4 1 In an obvious effort an obvious effort to force recognition from the West, the Communist' re gime announced that effec tive Jan.

1 travelers must have East German instead of Soviet visas. In effect, it is another Berlin blockade with pas sage of western civilians in and out of the old German capital possible only by air if they refuse to get East German visas. The regulations were an nounced in the East Berlin press. East German officials sent notices to the United States, British and French missions posted here 110 miles behind the Iron Cur tain. Side-step Crisis Th6 Communists side stepped a crisis similar to the 1948-49 Soviet blockade of West Berlin by exempting allied military garrisons, Replying' swiftly, a U.S mission spokesman snapped "We have no intention of applying to the East Ger mans for visas." The British and French reacted simi larly.

The West has refused to recognize the East German regime. Under four-power occupation accords accredited allied civilians have been I END OF HOLIDAY TOURA joyous Christmas" tour of the Cadett Barns fam-ily of Sranwood, ended in a qrash. on the Hollywood Freeway Yesterday e. Heft to right; Carrie; 3 Yt, held by Nancy ID; Dorothy; 14; Ellen, 16; Mrs. Barns and Barns.

Crash Kills Gunman in Police Chase Man Wanted in Dual Cafe Slaying Slams Into Car Head On; Companion Hunted $74,000,000,000 Comparable to Peak Korea War Spending WASHINQT0N, Dec. 29 (fP) President Eisenhower is expected to send Con gress next month a budget approaching 74 billion dol lars, the highest in peace time and comparable to the peak spending of the Korean war. An official said today the administration still hopes to balance this reply-to-Russia budget for fiscal 1959, despite the current decline in Fed eral revenue caused by business recession. Some budget decisions're- mam to be made, this high source indicated, including whether to ask for a special military contingency fund of perhaps $500,000,000 to be used at President Eisenhow er's discretion, Fund Called Stand-by Such a fund was described as one of several proposals advanced with the aim of giving the President standby resources to exploit any promising advance in rocket weaponry. In nondefense little if any cost reduction is foreseen in spite of the Pres ident November call for the outright elimination of some "desirable But "less essen tial" programs.

The official suggested the administration is trying to find additional money for the missiles race partly from cut backs in existing 'military programs. Gives Over-all View, He gave this over-all pic ture of the budget outlook as it stands today: Spending, apparently, will be somewhere between 73 billion and 74 billion dollars, but closer to the high fig "Within the military budg et there will be. cutbacks in some areas and increased spending emphasis in new er areas. Total spending will be higher. On the civilian, side the main idea will be to prevent anv increase.

The budget for the govern ment year starting next July therefore will sharply up from the 72 billion-dollar total officially scheduled for this (19ob) fiscal -year a sum which Secretary of De fense McElroy has indicated Turn to Page 17, Column 1 Weather Stays Bright and Pleasant The 'weather' continued bright and: pleasant yester day, raising the hopes of just about" everyone that New Year's Day will be perfect tor all those things going on in Pasadena. At any rate, the rain prob- aDiiity tnrough tomorrow is less than 10. Today will display variable cloudiness, but will be mostly sunny. The high temperature yes terday was 71 deg. and the low was 50.

The high relative humidi ty was 80 at 2 a.m. and the low was an estimated 35 at 1 p.m. Should be very little tem perature change today. INDEX OF on All WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (fP) Secretary of State Dulles announced today he will head the U.S.

observer delegation to the Bagdad pact meeting Jan. 27-30 at Ankara. Turkey. Dulles' decision apparent ly was aimed at dramatizing U.S. determination to promote, closer liaison among all free world alliances.

The decision was disclosed in a State Department announcement which said simply: The secretary general of the Bagdad pact has been in formed that -Secretary of State Dulles will head the U.S. observer delegation to the fourth Bagdad pact Min isterial session which will be held Jan. 1958, in Ankara, Turkey." Officials said the notifica tion was 'cabled yesterday to Awni Khalidy, secretary general of the pact and Iraq's permanent representative to the United Na tions. pac Supported The United' 'States has supported the pact since its formation Feb. 24, 1955, at Bagdad.

However, it is not officially a member. Mem bers include Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, Britain and Iran. The United States has sent observers to each of the previous three annual Bag dad pact meetings. It joined the pact's economic antisubversion tommittee at the 1956 meeting in Teheran. It joined its military- com mittee at the.

meeting in Karachi last June. Following Soviet, scienti fic military economic ad vances last fall, the United States moved to seek great er interdependence and in terlocking among its defense alliances. In line with this, the 15-Turn to Page 10, Column 1 Quiz Rivals Tie on TV for $16,000 NEW YORK, Dec. 29 HP) Dress Designer Oleg Cassini and Philadelphia Tailor Edwin Lieberman tied for tonight on CBS' $64,000 Challenge quiz program by correctly answering questions on American Indians. Tonight both, men were given maps of the United States with 10 numbers indicating locations of Indian tribes.

They were given the names; of tribes and were asked to identify their locations on the map and to what larger family group any three of the four tribes be longed. MIDWINTER EDITION ORDER BLANK. HANDY Three days remain in which to place advance orders for The Times' 1958 Midwinter Edition for mailing to friends and relatives in other parts of the world. An order blank appears in today's Times on Page 6, Part 4. The Midwinter Edi-tion will be published Thursday, It will carry the full story of Wednesday's Tourna-ment of Roses celebra- lion and" the Rose Bowl game, as well as the 144 page rotogravure Midwinter Magazine.

this colorful Southern California memento for your friends and relatives today. Dulles to Be Bagdad Pad Talk Visitor Trave able to obtain Russian visas for travel through East Ger many. The western big three in co-operation with West Ger many have been stubbornly opposing Russia step-by-step policy of granting all the trappings of sovereignty to the German puppet state. Allied diplomats expressed the hopeful opinion the re- Unctions would apply ti them, only on trips within East Germany and not on the 110-mile autobahn-rail corridor from the West German border to Berlin. No Assurances The diplomats hold they are entitled to the military exemption from the regulations since their missions come under: west Berlins military commandants.

However, the East German letters delivered to the U.S., British and French Consulates last night contained no such assurances. The letters declared: "Entry and passage through the German Democratic Republic will be possible only-through presentation of a Valid visa of the German Democratic Republic." It said that those holding diplomatic and other special Turn to Page 12, Column 3 toration of public transport tation. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen struck the two transit systems Dec. 1. The BRT', struck Pasadena City Lines and Glendale City Lines on the following day.

It Is estimated that the strike has inconvenienced some 300,000 regular riders in 125 communities in four counties. Mayor Poulson said the strike has disrupted the community's economic and social life and he was sharply critical of both sides in the controversy for what he termed lack of responsibility. 1 Neither he nor Miss Bergman would talk publicly in Rome about a divorce. Thev were reported arranging a divorce somewhere outside Miss Bergman told report ers she intends to return to Rome in February and will arrange to take the three children back with her to London. Since the separation the children have been living with Hossellini's sister Mar- JUDGING ENDING ON PUZZLE TIES The judging of the first series of tie-breaking puzzles of the Fun for All contest Is near-ing completion.

Complete information regarding this phase of the competition will be published in The Times one week from todav. 1 Their Christmas presents were "The front seat of: the car was bent from the rear and it's possible there might have been a second man in the vehicle." The a sergeant, said 'authorities were not taking any chances and about 40 officers were search ing the area. Overton had been report ed traveling south with Russell Wayne Carpenter, 21, charged with Overton with kidnaping, unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for mur der and auto theft. Crash Described The collision occurred on U.S. 1 just north of Wrens, following reports that the two men had been seen during the -day Charlotte, N.C.: near Jacksonville, and at several spots in Georgia.

Knight said he and Cpl. Calton were driving south of U.S.-1 in a Patrol car-when they spotted a 1958 Buick. "We turned around' and went after the Buick, Knight said. went 20 to 30 m.p.h in the, city. limits of Wrens and then speeded up.

We blew the siren and the other car really took off.j We chased him a couple Turn to Page 14, Column 1 144-piece marching band, the school's cheerleaders, Home-coming Queen Judy Cash and her royal court-Judy, 20, 5 -foot 2 -inch striking blue-eyed natural THE WEATHER Light smog today. U.S. Weather Bureau forecast: Variable cloudi ness but mostly sunny today and tomorrow. -Night and early morning fog near the coast. Little change In temperatures.

High today about fcS. Rain probability less than 10 through tomorrow. Yesterday' 71 1 low, 50, ed. There have been 11 The police traffic poll, which began at noon Dec. 20 and included all traffic mishaps up to 10 p.m.

yesterday, showed pthat 890 persons were in-, jured in 614 separate Police in the same period arrested 346 drunk drivers, including 11 persons for felony drunk driving. They also jailed 2679 other drunk-. en persons, the report stated. Subzero Wave Spreads Over Midwest Area BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Arctic blasts hammered temperatures' well below zero in Upper areas of the Midwest yesterday. The ex panding cold front signaled the end of an extended mud spell in '4he Midwest Northeast.

The subzero cold covered Minnesota, 'much of Wiscon sin, North Dakota and parts of Northeastern Da kota. To Hit Northeast Overnight lows of 15 to 25 below were forecast for Northern Minnesota for to night, Forecasters said the bit ing cold is expected to en- gulf most of the Northeastern States by tomorrow morning and spread south ward to Southern Illinois and Southern Indiana this morning. Heavy squalls near Lake Superior spread up to a foot of new snow overi parts of Upper Michigan, Houghton, was blanketed' to' a depth of 1 17 inches; Sault Ste. inches and Periston, 8 inches. BonesFourid by; Boys May; Be Woman's Bones, believed to be the forearm and hand of a woman, were discovered yester day by two boys on a hillside lot near the Sunset Strip, po lice reported, Anthony Athens, 10, and his brother Pierre, 13, of 1327 Sunset Plaza.

Drive, told po lice thev found the bones. alongside the remains of a small animal, on a lot near St. Ides Drive. Police crime laboratory technicians conducted a fur-. ther search in the area but found no other skeletal parts.

Two physicians examined the bones. Police said they could have dragged there' by animals, turned over by a bulldozer which al tered the lot two years ago or. could have been planted as a hoax. Hilda Vaughn, Ex-Actress, Dies BALTIMORE, Dec. 29 to.

Hilda Vaughn, 60, stage and. movie actress tor many years, died yesterday in her native Baltimore. Miss Vaughn spent many of her earlier years in stock company roles and in mo tion pictures. FEATURES Part 1, MOTION PICTURES. Paget IS, 19.

Part 1. OIL AND MINES. Paget 5-7, Part 4. POLYZOIDES. Page 11.

Part ADIO-TV. Paget 6. 7, Part 2. SHIPPING. Page 7, Part 3.

SOUTHLAND. Page 8. Part 3. SPORTS. Pge 15.

Part 4. VITAL RECORD. Page Part 3. WEATHER. Page g.

Part 3. Both Sides Ready to Resume Transit Talks Metro anr Union Officials Agree to Plan Put Forward by Federal Mediator in Strike 4 it V. strewn about on freeway. TtmM nei4 Family Ends in Christmas for the Cadett A. Barns family of Stan-i wood, ended' an a Hollywood.

Freeway crash yesterday. "Luckily, their injuries were relatively minor considering that their foreign-made sta-j tion wagon rolled over on the inbound freeway lanes near the AJvarado St. turn- off in Sunday Suffering numerous cuts and bruises were Barns, 42, a fifth-grade teacher in Stan- wood, a town! wife Mary Ellen, 41, and their" daughters, Alary Ellen, 16, 14, Nancy; 10, and Carrie, 3. Strewn across the freeway were the family's Christmas presents and their belong ings. The newly purchased station wagon was smashed.

Police said the accident occurred when a car Turn to Page 4, Column 4 Girl, 3, Missing- 48 Found CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. Dec. 29 UD Three-year-old Shirley Ann Raosburg, missing for more than 48 hours in the rugged Blue Ridge Mountains, was found alive by a search party today. Rooters Thousands blonde from Poland, will reigrf over most of the Ohio State festivities this week. The marching band, under the direction of Prof.

Jack 0. Evans and led by Drum Major Larry L. Cory, present ed a public concert on the Ambassador lawn yesterday afternoon. Today and tomorrow the band will rehearse at Occidental College field. perfecting precision forma-! lions for Wednesday's parade and football game.

At Union Station other special trains unloaded hundreds of jubilant rooters. Some 206 football fans, business and professional men and their wives, cama in Turn to Fa go 2, Column 7 Christmas for Freeway Crash WRENS, 29 Henry Clay Overton, 44, one of two gunmen wanted for killing two men in Washing- ton, D.C., died tonight in a head-on collision during police chase at speeds up to 110 m.p.h. r-The State Patrol said Over ton's body was thrown clear of the car, which burst into flames. SThe driver of the other car yas killed and later was identified by the Patrol as Charlie Wray, 42, of Cocoa, Fla. R.

L. Knight said officers found, a sa wed-off 6hotgun and "enough ammu nition ta, stand off a com pany, of men for a week scattered around Overton's 1058 car. Motel Raided Knight said a roomer at 4-. nearby motel reported broke into a motel imit. shortly after the crash.

Officers promptly surround ed the motel unit and waited for tear gas before attempting to enter. The -motel was empty when officers finally broke in. "We still don't know 'whether the other man was with Overton," Knight said. Both sides to the labor dis-l pute that has tied up the Metropolitan Coach Lines and its subsidiary, Asbury Rapid Transit System, expressed readiness yesterday to resume negotiations as proposed, by Federal Media tor Harry Malcom. 'The parties have not met in joint negotiations since Dec.

18, when the conversa tions ended in a deadlock Malcom announced his plans for resumption of talks Saturday, following the issu ance of a statement by Mayor Poulson' demanding res TRIP TO SEE ROSSELLINI? Ingrid Tosses Indian Puzzle at Reporters Oregon and Ohio State Pour Into Southland by LONDON, Dec. 29 Wl In grid Bergman threw a puzzler at reporters in Rome to-l dav. then flew back here after a Christmas holiday with her estranged husband Roberto Rossellini, and their three children. The Swedish actress and the Italian film director sep arated legally Nov. 7 but greeted each other with hugs on Christmas Eve when Ros- ellini showed up at their former apartment in Rome.lcella, Lions Stun Browns, 59-14; in Title Game The Detroit Lions won the pro football championship yesterday by handing the Cleveland Browns their worst defeat, 59-14.

Tobin Rote passed for four touchdowns and scored once himself. Story in Sports Section. Illuitralcd oa Pag 3, Part I They came by special Jrains and planes, pouring into the city from early mom until late last night. All loyal rooters from Ohio and Oregon here for Wednesdays big double fea ture Pasadena's 1958 Tour nament of Roses and the Rose Bowl game. are here al ready and many more are yet to' arrive.

Out-of-State automobiles, especially from Ohio and Oregon, are very much in evidence along Southland thoroughfares. At the Southern Pacific's Alhambra Station, hundreds were on hand at 8 a.m. yesterday to welcome Ohio State University's ON OTHER PAGES APPAREL WISE. Page 4. Part 1.

LEMORE. Pa 20, Rossellini left the next day Asked whether she would see him again. Miss Berg man told reporters before leaving Rome: I dont know when or if I will see him. If I eo to India, though And she didn't finish the sentence. It was in India where he was working on documen tary films that Rossellini's name became linked roman tically with Sonali Das Gup-j ta, an Indian.

script ASTROLOGY. Page 5. Part I. CLASSIFIED. Paget 0-19, Part 3.

COMICS. Page Part 3. CROSSWORD. Page 19. Part 3.

DR. ALVAREZ. Page 5. Part S. DRAMA AXD MLS1C Paget 18, 18, Part 1.

Pages 4. 5. Part S. FA MILT. Paget Part 3.

HOPPER. Page It, Part 1. -JCMBLE GA.ME. Page 10, Part 3. i.

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