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92 PAGES The South Bend Tribune. Editorial Classified 45-49 38-39 12 Sport Society Radio-TV 51-56 Departments and Features. Financial 44 Woman's Mishawaka 41-43 VOL. LXXXVI SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1958. GOLDFINE CHARGES SMEAR Heavy Fighting Erupts in PRINCESS ARRIVES IN VICTORIA FOR TOUR OF CANADA-Princess Margaret, riding with Lt.

Gov. Frank MacKenzie Ross of British Columbia, passes the guard of honor Saturday at the Victoria, B.C., airport. The princess, making her first official visit to Canada, arrived in Victoria after a 19-hour flight from London with stopovers in Vancouver and Goose Bay, Labrador. She will make a month-long tour of Canada. -Associated Press Wirephoto.

Miss Goshen Wins Indiana Beauty Title The Tribune's Special Service. MICHIGAN CITY Miss Goshen, otherwise known as Anita Marie Hursh, 19, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. W.

Hursh, won the MISS ANITA HURSH. Miss Indiana crown and the right to represent the Hoosier state in the Miss America contest Satnight. Miss Hursh, a DePauw Univer-. sity sophomore, won the state contest with a list of talents that included 5 feet, inches, 120 24, measurements in right spots, and talent at the piano. She played a Chopin piano solo for the talent judging.

Miss Hursh placed third in last year's Miss Indiana contest. Northern Indiana dominated the event, winning all the top choices in the contest. In second place was Miss Valparaiso, Elsie Jane Machnek, 21, of Chicago, a student at Valparaiso University. Third place went to Miss Warsaw, Sandra Anne Brubaker, 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Gordon T. Brubaker. The talent contest winner was Miss Plymouth, Tommye Lo Glaze, 19, daughter of Mrs. Herbert Glaze. Yankee Girl Buddha Nun; Kin Shocked SAN FRANCISCO (P Word that a pretty San Francisco girl had become a Buddhist nun in Singapore was greeted Saturday with shocked surprise by her mother here.

"Why, she's just supposed to be abroad!" exclaimed Mrs. Kenneth S. Van Strum. "I know nothing of this." Mrs. Van Strum is the Clarissa Van Strum, 22, who forsook the social register to become a nun.

Miss Van Strum, whose father is a prominent San Francisco businessman, arrived in Singapore three days ago. She became as Dhammadinna, after sacrificing her long blond hair, her fiance, a comfortable life and her medical studies. Happiness Through -Buddha. "I've been convinced that only through Buddhism can I find true happiness," she said after the ceremony. Her slender, gray haired mother, obviously upset, said her cently for a three-month vacation.

daughter left San Francisco last I heard from her she was in Honolulu," Mrs. Van Strum commented. "We knew nothing about this and until it is confirmed I don't want to say anything. "I just can't believe it." Reported No Mother's Blessing. Dispatches from Singapore quoted the young woman as sayshe had the blessings of her mother and a sister.

"They're wonderful," she remarked. "They understand me very well." Referring to her fiance, she said: "He took it gave him up because realize marriage and love are selfish." Her mother, badly puzzled, commented that her daughter "is not. a student of Buddhism." Mrs. Van Strum said she was leaving for New York City tomorrow to join her husband on a business trip. Couldn't Understand Arrival.

She did not undersand how her daughter got to Singapore "because she was routed through Hong Kong." Clarissa or Dhammadinna, clad in a saffron robe, left the scene of her ordination for Bangkok, and then will visit New Delhi. She said she had not decided where she will serve in her capacity. BOLT KILLS 3 CHILDREN IN NEW YORK NEW YORK (P) Lightning struck a tree in Queens Saturday a and killed three out of seven children huddling under it to escape a downpour. The four other children were knocked down by the bolt but were not seriously hurt. The three killed, police said, had been touching the tree when the lightning struck.

Dead were Bruce Barrett, 14, of Queens, Pat Medine, of Brooklyn, and James Quinn, 14, of Queens. Three- Killed in Florida. CLEARWATER, Fla. (P Two men and a woman were killed Saturday when lightning struck an umbrella on a crowded ocean beach during a sudden thunderstorm. From wallets the victims were tentatively identified as Floy Davidson, 24, and his wife, Marjorie, 24, believed to be from Illinois, and Robert M.

Hase, 29, believed to be from near by Tampa. STATE WAGE RAISE DELAYED Director, Handley Expect Revenue Decrease. INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-Indiana state employees won't get their usual midyear wage increasesnot rght away, at least. The State Budget Committee, Saturday froze salaries because of, a $10-million drop in anticipated gross income taxes during the last fiscal year. The committee, which seldom meets on Saturday, agreed with Gov.

Harold W. Handley to adopt a "wait and see" policy on spending any state money not definitely committed. Delayed Month at Least. William Hardwick, state budget director, said pay raises will be delayed. until the state's overall financial condition can be surveyed.

He hopes that can be done in about a month. The wage freeze hits more than 20,600 workers, including academic employees at the four state-supported universities and colleges. Pay raises usually are granted to state employees at the beginning of the fiscal year, July 1. They are not automatic but are based on merit. Raises given a year ago totaled over $2 million.

Although gross income tax collections were below expectations, the increased gasoline tax brought in about as much revenue as was anticipated in the year ending June 30. TRUMANS TRAVEL HOME. NEW YORK, (AP) Former Presi lent and Mrs. Harry Truman left Saturday by train for their home in Independence, after a vacation in Europe and Long Island. Hunt Given Up for High-Flying Mouse CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

(P) -The hunt was abandoned Saturday for the tiny white mouse that is known to have lived through at least part of a blazing, mile an hour journey though space. Sixty hours after she was hurled aloft Wednesday night by a mighty Thor-Able rocket, the Air Force announced it had stopped the search for the mushroomshaped nose cone in which she I traveled. Earlier the Air Force had said TWENTY CENTS. UAW WARNS OF WALKOUT 'IF REQUIRED' Big Three Talks On Contracts To Resume. DETROIT (P) The United Auto Workers Union said Saturday that its members at Big Three plants so far have voted 93.5 per cent in favor of authorizing strike action if necessary to win contract demands.

The union will resume negotiations with General Motors, Ford and Chrysler Monday following a nine-day recess. With 168 out of 220 locals reporting, the total vote stood at 175,972 in favor of strike action and 12,129 against, the union said. UAW leaders expect to complete the strike votes at all Big Three locals later this month. Voting to Start 1 Monday. The union's largest local, No.

600. at Ford's River Rouge plant will start voting Monday. It will take five days to complete the vote. The local has more than 30,000 members. The UAW meanwhile made public a letter it sent Rep.

Charles E. Chamberlain asking him to intercede with the General Motors Corp. in behalf of a union proposal for a poll of GM workers on the' kind of a labor contract they prefer. UAW Vice-President Leonard Woodcock said the poll would determine whether GM employees favor two-year extension of the wage formula of the 1955 contract. The poll would be conducted by the Honest Ballot.

Assn. The UAW made the same proposal to General Motors the night of May. 29 just before the 1955 contract expired. GM reject-, ed it. Plans Early Reply.

In Washington, Rep. Chamberlain said he expected to reply to Woodcock's letter early this week. He said, "I want to do anything I can legitimately to help arrive at a solution." Woodcock challenged the 1 results of a private survey conducted by Chamberlain in the Sixth Congressional, District which the congressman said showed that 7 75 cent of the auto workers in per the district favored acceptance of GM's offer of a two year extension of the old contract. The trict includes Lansing and Flint, which have large GM plants. Under the union's proposal, GM workers also would be asked whether they favored submitting economic issues to arbitration if further negotiations fail to effect a settlement.

The union said it would immediately sign a two year extension of the 1 1955 agreement if the proposed poll showed a majority, in favor of extending it without change. CONE LANDS IN BARNYARD; A PLANE PART? MOUNT VERNON, III. (AP) Police and mechanics at King City Airport puzzled Saturday over a piece of equipment that apparently fell from a plane into a barnyard near Mount Vernon. The blue, cone-shaped object is steel-plated and about four the feet long. It plopped among hogs and chickens on the farm of Clarence Allen Thursday night.

THE WEATHER. SUNDAY JULY 13, 1958. Mostly fair and warmer miles today, hour. with southerly winds 10 to 15 60. per MonHigh today, 84.

Low tonight, day outlook: Partly cloudy and warmer with showers or thundershowers likely by afternoon or evening. High Monday, 87. SLOWER MICHIGAN-Fair south with portion and cloudy north portion today, a chance of few scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers in extreme north. High in the 80s except near Lake Michigan. July 14: Sun rises, sets, 8:19.

SOUTH BEND TEMPERATURES. by the U.S." Weather Bureau office at St. Joseph County JULY 12, 1958. 8 p.m. 12 Noon .........74 p.m.

p.m. 74 10 p.m. p.m. .........77 11 p.m./ .65 p.m. p.m.

78 TODAY. p.m. p.m. p.m. a.m.

p.m. a.m. Maximum, 78; Minimum 60. Precipitation during the 24 hours ending at midngiht, none. Monthly total, 3.64 inches.

Monthly normal, 3.04 inches. Fear Rioting May Start Rebel Drive BEIRUT. Lebanon (AP)-Heavy fighting erupted in Tripoit Saturday after rebels blew up a big electric power station and dynamited the water main supplying the port district. It climaxed 48 hours of the worst outbreak of shooting and violence in that northern port city the rebellion broke out 64 diaseling ago. There was speculation in this capital that the outbreak might be the opening gun for a rebel offensive, long expected here.

But there have been many false alarms before. A rebel spokesman said Tripoli's Nahr el Bared power stationwhich feeds power to Beirut in peak periods -was blown up Friday. Informed sources in Beirut estimated damage to the electric power station at more than $2 million. After a relatively calm morning, shooting broke out again in Tripoli Saturday afternoon. The rebel spokesman said by telephone the shooting was getting hotter.

Building Blown Up. The rebels also claimed they had blown up a four-story building used by security forces as an observation post in Tripoli. Despite heavy shooting and widespread violence, the casualties reported were relatively light. Rebels reported 8 killed and 26 wounded on their side. Security forces did not give their losses.

Tripoli rebel leader Rashid Karami, former premier, narrowly escaped death Friday when security forces shelled the building in which he is living temporarily. He had left the house only five minutes earlier. Most of the house was destroyed. It was quieter than usual in Beirut. But a customs inspector was killed and three other persons were wounded when rebels ambushed a bus en route to Beirut's International Airport.

U.N. observer teams, sent to check on government charges that President Nasser's United Arab Republic is aiding the rebels, won an important concession. Near Syrian Route. They reported they had arranged for the first time to travel in the northeastern Lebanese area regarded as one of the most likely infiltration routes from U.A.R.'s Province of Syria. The area is controlled by rebel leader Sabri Hamadi.

Many sources in Beirut speculated that the outbreak in Tripoli might be the start of a rebel offensive designed to force a decision before July 24, date Parliament is expected to meet to elect a new president. Events on that day may decide whether Lebanon will have peace or a real civil war. If Parliament elects a compromise candidate to succeed proWestern President Camille Chamoun-the target of the the uprising will end. If a president who is considered a Chamoun stooge is elected, opposition leaders probably will form a rebel government. That will mean full-scale civil PERRY COMO SEES PONTIFF VATICAN CITY (UPI) Pius XII chatted affably with American singer Perry Como Saturday and blessed him and his family in an unusually long and warm special audience.

Como went to the papal audience with his wife and three children. AF Shows 49 Teen-Agers How to Fly Jet Planes PERRIN AIR FORCE BASE, Saturday wound up a week that youngsters envious. Civil They Air flew jets 49 are Patrol cadets, selected as the outstandTheing ones in their CAP wing. The climax of the training was flight from Perrin, a North Texas base, to Oklahoma City, then to Ft. Smith, and back to Perrin.

Most of the cadets had sufficient experience to operate the jet after the first few minutes of (instruction. Planes used were the AGAINST ME' Millionaire Calls Study Fishing Expedition. WASHINGTON (UPI)-Bernard Goldfine, bristling with anger, bluntly accused House influence investigators Saturday of conducta "smear, pry and spy" campaign against him. The New England textile millionaire told reporters as he left for Boston for the weekend that the subcommittee was carrying on a "fishing expedition" in its inquiry into his relations with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams. He issued his statement at Washington airport as he and his wife boarded a plane.

He characterized the subcommittee, which has had him on the grid for five days, of acting like a "detective agency." Incensed by Bennett. Goldfine was particularly incensed by the fact Rep. John B. Bennett a subcommittee member, predicted that new revelations would come to light if the group could lay hands on Goldfine's business records. Reading from a prepared statement, Goldfine declared: "That is exactly the point I have been making.

This proves repeated statements that this committee is on a fishing expedition land looking pertinent into or' matters relevant that to the are inquiry at hand. "A congressional committee cannot, and should not, be perto take unto itself the role of a detective agency. The purpose of Congress is legislation and not to smear, pry and spy as has been the case up to now." Joint Cypriot Plea Asks End of Strife NICOSIA, Cyprus (-British of Cyprus' Greek and Turkish joint appeal Saturday for an island. But even as their plea was broadcast over the government radio, the death toll from violence mounted. It stood at Turkish Cypriot and 28 Greek lives since the latest rash of outbreaks began June 7.

Six Turkish Cypriots and a Greek national who worked for the British forces died in Saturday's clashes. Eight Turkish Cypriots and five Greek Cypriots were Five Killed at Sinda. Five of the Turkish Cypriots were killed and one was wounded in an ambush at Sinda, in eastern Cyprus. Officials announced last night that 11. Greek Cyprivis of Lysi, nearest Greek village to Sinda, had been arrested and the village placed under curfew.

Cur 'ews were also slapped on the west coast port of Paphosa and the eas coast port of Famaforce in the southern of gusta. A curfew was already, in Limassol. There a Greek Cypriot was arrested after tossing dud bomb at Turkish Cypriot property. The latest killing came day night when unidentified assailants gunned down 50-year-old Demetris Grivaris in his Nicosia suburban home. The British governor was join, ed in the appeal by Dr.

Themistocles Dervis, mayor of Nicosia who is the Greek Cypriot leader, and Raouf Denktash, chief Turkish representative in the absence of Dr. Fazil Kutchuk. Kutchuk is an Ankara. Calls for Everyone's Help. The broadcast appeal said "we join the governor in calling on everyone in Cyprus to stop violence between Greeks and Turks at once.

If this goes on there is no end to the suffering it may bring. Let the bloodshed cease here. and now." This is the first time in the island's recent history that such la joint appeal has been broadcast. In a second radio appeal, Foot invited Greek and Turkish leaders to appoint delegations to cooperate with him on all security measures. At is the future of this British crown colony island.

400,000 Greek Cypriots want union with Greece. The 100,000 Tur-(a kish Cypriots want partition to protect their minority position. Britain has offered to share in to administration of the island for the next seven years with Greece and Turkey, but neither would laccept. Gov. Sir Hugh Foot and leaders communities issued an unprecedented end to factional strife on this troubled CONSUL TALKS WITH REBELS Officers in Cuba Grow Impatient At Delay.

GUANTANAMO, Cuba (AP) U.S. Consul Park Wollam, the diplomat in a T-shirt, flew back into the Cuban hills in a helicopter Saturday for more talks with Fidel Castro's rebels about the release of 29 U.S. servicemen. Officials at the U.S. Navy Base here were growing increasingly irritated at the delay in the return of the Marines and sailors.

Only one of them has been freed so far. Twenty other captives U.S. and Canadian civilians, have been released. Wollam took off after a conferalence in Havana with C. Allan Stewart, deputy director of the State Department's Middle American Affairs Division.

Wollam and his dungaree-clad vice consul, Robert Wiecha, have been with Fidel Castro's in the mounnegotiating, tain village of Calabazas- Pumpkinville. THREE MINERS LOSE LIVES BRICEVILLE, Tenn. (P) A coal mine roof collapsed near this cumberland mountain community in east Tennessee Saturday, killing three men and injuring three others. One body has been recovered. Dead are Columbus his brother, Luke, 52, and Hillery Olivey, 48.

Answer Charges. Subcommittee members retorted swiftly. Bennett called Goldfine's charges ridiculous. Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) said the Boston businessman was entirely wrong. "We are trying to do this job in the traditional way of fair play," Harris said.

"We've followed the rules very closely and have leaned pretty far backwards to be considerate." Bennett commented: "It isn't a fishing expedition to try to find out all the pertinent information. We are entitled to the whole story." Goldfine evaded a question about the threat of contempt prosecution which has been stirred up by his refusal to answer questions his tangled financial neuverings. Feel Pretty In response, he commented: "This is good weather. I feel pretty good." His stormy departure fired up had been intended as a three-day breathing spell in the headline making inquiry which centers on whether Goldfine's lavish friendship and generosity with Adams paid off in favored treatment for his business firms by government regulatory agencies. Bennett exploded Goldfine's wrath by telling a newsman earlier: "Undoubtedly we could get further new leads on other matters.

we could get his books." another development, the White. House New York broker Cliff Roberts, a close golfing crony of President Eisenhower, wrote a letter to Adams, reportedly castigating him for his dealings with Goldfine. Subpoenas Reportedly Signed. the nose cone reached its Ocean target area 6,000 miles away, near Ascension Island off the coast of Africa. It was the first intercontinental range flight by a United States Ballistic missile Capt.

E. M. Griffith, Thor-Able project officer, said Saturday the mouse was known to be alive 2 minutes after the rocket blasted off. By that time the three-inch-long mouse would have traveled more than 4,000 miles and the nose would have been only eight minutes away from its target. "We received telemetry data on the mouse here at Cape, Canaveral for 22 minutes," Griffith explained.

"At time the heartbeat was good." Griffith said that if the mouse survived the red-hot dive down through the atmosphere she could have lived for about a week on a diet of water and potato. "There was sufficient oxygen to last a week," Grfifith. said. "The mouse also had water to drink and a piece of potato to eat." Tex. (P Forty-nine teen-agers probably made other air-minded with the Air Force showing them T-33, standard trainer.

Regular air force instructors took the youths through the course and flew with them. TIES CHESS MASTER. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) Bobby Fischer, the 15-yeartouring American chess whiz, tied Friday night in a 37-movegame with the Yugoslav master Brasco Janosevic. Roberts was reported to have accused Adams of "letting down" the President and the Republican Party by his changing relationship with Goldfine. a that There Harris was has also a signed reliable four report subpoenas- which would give investigators access to Goldfine's business records.

The subpoenas reportedly would demand that the industrialist financier give the subcommittee records of three of his firms--the East Boston its subsidiary, Boston Port Development and Northfield Mills. Subcommittee members said were hopeful the records might unravel the mystery of $776,879 in uncashed checks issued by Goldfine's firms..

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