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WEATHER FORECAST U.a Weather Bureau PredEcli: Cloudy, Humid Tonight and Tuesday THE BRIDGEPORT POST COUNTY EDITION With Falrfield County Newt VOL. LXX1X, NO. 183 Stale Bridgeport, Conn. BRIDGEPORT 2, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1962. Second Class PoslaKe TH1BTK-THO RUSSIANS RESUME SUICIDE TEAM PROBING WITH 2ND BIGGEST BLASTrot BT BAN MARILYN MONROE DEATH Title Winners in Beauty Contest BOMB SET OFF OVER ARCTIC; NO SURPRISE Swedish Scientists Place It in the 40-Megaton Range U.

S. CRITICAL Zorin Says Western Compromise 'Does Not Look Promising' FINDS NO CHANGE Dean Asserts New Red Series Underlines Urgency of Treaty POit Photo--Plummer Top winners chosen In a beauty contest conducted last night in the Pleasure Beach ballroom by Bridgeport Yacht clubs are (left to right) Carolyn Engstrom, 23, at Hunlington, named -Miss Regatta; Sharon Smethurst, 19, of Trumbull, Miss Bridgeport, and Sally Kaimer, of 215 Palisade avenue, Miss Park City. The girls will compete for the Miss Connecticut title in a Miss World pageant competition Aug. 23-25 In Milford high school. SherriSeesSwedish Medic, TOP TITLE WON Seeking Speedy SECRETARY 6--(AP) Mrs.

Sherri Finkbine sees a Swedish doctor today, i speedy abortion of the baby she fears has been by the Thahdomide. "Penetrating" Probe Weather Data Karl-Inge Oester of the Dr. Royal "penetrating investigation of the BRIDGEPORT AND VICINITY 1 reasons" must precede any of- Sharon Smethurst, 19, Sikorsky Employe, Named 'Miss Bridgeport' By PETE MASTRONARD1 Brown-haired and brown-eyed Medical board, said a Sharon Smethurst, a 19-year-old --Variable cloudiness, humid today, tonight and tomorrow; high in upper 80s; low in 70s. LONG ISLAND SOUND--South- southwest winds at 10-15 m.p.h., ficial approval of the operation. Other Swedish medical sources said the Phoenix, television personality might have to stay in Sweden at least two or three weeks.

becoming 5-10 m.p.h. tonight and 10-15 m.p.h. tomorrow. Iin ity fair today; poor late and tomorrow morning. Sea calm.

Doctors at Stockholm's Car- hospital are expected to TEMPERATURE Low Today Highest Yesterday Lowest Yesterday Highest (Aug. 5, 1961) Lowest (Aug. 5, 1961) Harbor Water Temperature PRECIPITATION Today (12 hours to 8 a.m.).. For Month 1962 to date 70 S3 59 75' by i A a 0.00 0.03 18.38 physicians, they could recom mend for or against the abortion. The Medical board make the final decision.

"I am hoping and praying that the Swedish medical men will be able to help me quickly," I Mrs. Finkbine said when she ar- ived with her husband, Sikorsky Aircraft office secretary reigns as "Miss Bridgeport of 1962." Miss Smethurst, who weighs 118 pounds and stands five feet, six inches tall with high hoes, was chosen last night before an audience of l.SOO persons during a contest in tile Pleasure Beach ballroom, sponsored by Bridgeport yacht clubs. 2 Other Titles Awarded The title of "Miss Park City" was awarded to Sally Kaimer, 19, of 245 Palisade avenue; and the "Miss Regatta" crown went to Carolyn Engstrom, 23, of 6 Crestwood place, Himtington "Miss Bridgeport" daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Smethurst, 81 Lorma avenue, Trumbull, was sponsored by the Fayerweather Barometer (11 a.m.

reading) 30.12 Humidity (11 a.m. reading) 87'" SUN, MOON AND STARS Monday, Aug. 6 Two hundred and eighteenth day of the year. Forty-seventh day of summer. The sun sets today ai 8:04 p.m.

and will rise tomorrow at 5:53 a.m. The moon will set tonight at 11:20 p.m. There will be a first quarter Wednesday. The prominent star is Antares, low in the southwest at 11:43 p.m. The visible planets arc Venus, low in the west at 9:24 p.m.; Saturn, due south at 12:32 a.m.; Mars, which rises at a.m., and Jupiter, due south at 2:42 a.m.

THE TIDE Today Tomorrow 3:43 a.m. High 4:30 a.m 4:10 p.m 4:58 p.m 9:54 a.m. Low a.m 10:27 p.m. ":18 P-m Calls Firing 'Somber Episode' But Will Push Efforts on Ban A A Sweden, Aufj. 6 A Soviet i has a a new a test series i superbomb Mast which Swedish scien- i placed in the 40-mcga- range, second only to the blast the i a set off last October.

The first blast a a a olf at Soviet a i test grounds in A i Siberia, came as no i to West. i i i had an- his forces would have to i i because of U. S. Pacific tests now being concluded. A 'Somber Episode' The U.S.

State department called the Soviet explosion a "somber episode" but made clear it will not halt U.S. efforts to get a nuclear test ban. "The urgent problem before he world is not who tests last but how we can rid the world of nuclear testing once and for said the department statement referring to Soviet statements they insisted on holding the last round of tests. U.S. Ambassador Arthur Dean had returned to the Geneva disarmament conference Satur day with new Western com promise proposals for a test ban treaty.

No date has been an nounced for presentation of th proposals to the conference. Estimates varied as to the siz of the Soviet explosion yesterday believed touched off on the islan of Novaya Zemlya about 1,35 miles east of Uppsala. Uppsala university's Seismo range of 40 million tons of TNT and said it occured at a highe altitude than the Soviet series 1961. Varying Estimates A Norwegian scientist said hi instruments showed only that i was smaller than the 50-megato: bomb set off Oct. 30.

The Japanese meteorologica institute estimated the blast the 20-megaCon range. The U.S. Atomic Energy com mission said only that "the Sovie Union detonated a nuclea A Aug. Soviet Union -(AP) cold- houlclered today new West- rn compromise proposals to reak the deadlock on a realy for a i nuclear tests. Soviet Foreign i a i a i told he 17-nation i a a Western a for test ban controls does not look promising." Chills Western Jdeas 7orin thus chilled the West ideas even before they were ormally presented.

He told dele ates U. S. Ambassador Arthur 1. Dean discussed some of the Western proposals informally with him yesterday and that as ar as he could make out, the Western position on the test ban ssue "has not changed in prin ciple." Conference sources quoted Zor as saying the Soviet Union 'has no great hopes, for the U. position apparently still adheres to old principles which are no acceptable." Dean earlier told the confer ence the new Western suggestion: will be introduced after he com his informal discussion: with Zorin.

They will go first to the three xnver U. British and Sovie nuclear sub-committee, expect ed to meet next Thursday. A for mal presentation to the full con Terence is unlikely before earl next week. Urgency Stressed Dean declared the Soviet sumption of nuclear tests Sun day underlines the urgent neer for a treaty to end all testing. Dean returned from Washingto Saturday with the new proposals They are believed to reduce th number of international inspei tions in the Soviet Union manded by the West to guar against cheating.

Better scientific methods to detecting underground test would make this feasible. Bu (Continued on Page Four) yesterday. "What people forget," she told newsmen in Copenhagen, "is that is beginning to be more of a )aby to me every day. I want (Continued on Page Four) 34-24-34 and she is a graduate of Central bight school, class of 1961. The three girls will compete for the title of "Miss Connect- (Conlinued on Page Four) Johnny Comes Marching Home 475th i Wind Up 1 0-Month Stint at Fort Bragg "Johnny came marching home yesterday! In this instance it was the Army Reservist who was ending a ten-month active duty stint laid to the Derlin crisis of last fall.

Released from assignment at 7:30 a yesterday at Fort Bragg in North Carolina was the 475lh Engineer (Field Mainte- nance) Company, the Bridgeport area's only armed forces unit activated in its entirety. Personnel of the unit were "dismissed" by Capt. Victor J. Marino of Sandy Hook and departed the Airborne Corps base under individual orders. Most made the 700-mile trip home by auto.

Some arrived in the city (Continued on Page Four) weapon in the megaton range." Washington observers recalled that 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-megalon category. But the Uppsala scientists said their equipment has been improved and pointed out that they are considerably closer to the explosion site than either the Japanese or the Americans. The Soviet Foreign Ministry fused to comment on the explosion, which appeared to have launched a new round of Russian military maneuvers in the Far North. The Soviet Government announced two weeks ago that maneuvers would begin Aug.

5, with the Soviet northern rocket SOBLEN SEEN ELUDING U.S May Be Returned to Israe to Continue i Against Prison LONDON, Aug. 6--(AP) Th conviction grew today that run Recent Photo of Deceased Film Star AP Wlrepholo This picture, taken about two months ago, was one of the last ones made of Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood sex symbol. NOTE LACKING, SAYS CORONER, TIMING CASE Off Hook Hints Attempt to Place Call ILL BOTTLE EMPTY verdose of i Tablets Seen as Probable Cause By JAMES BACON (AP Moile-Teletlalim TCHter) HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 6 -A doctor smashed his way -to a locked bedroom--and ound Marilyn Monroe dead i bed, nude, a telephone utcbed in her hand, an pill bottle nearby. It was her psychiatrist found the body early esterday.

mysterious a rought a tragic end, at 36, 5 the trouble-scarred life of Iprma Jean Baker the waif who became lie world's most a londe as Marilyn Monroe. Overdose ot Pills She apparently died either late aturday or early yesterday of overdose of sleeping pills. The mpty bottle had contained 50 Nembutal capsules. Was tt suicide? Had she called omeone before she died? A coroner's special "suicide earn," aided by detectives, (Continued on Page Four) PEOPLE'S BANK PLANS BRANCH IN I People's Savings Bank-Bridge- 'port; will open a branch office Monroe sometime in October, approval today in Washington by the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation, bank officials announced. The branch will occupy 1,200 square feet of space in the Village Square Shopping center, now being built at the intersection of Route 111 and Gay Bower road.

i A spokesman said all savings bank services will be available at the new branch. There has no assignment of personnel, 'yet, the spokesman said. away Russian spy Dr. Rober Soblen will be returned to is racl this week to continue his fight to escape a life sentence in U. S.

prison. Dr. Ari Ankorion, Soblen's Israeli attorney, said the 61-year- old psychiatrist may he back in Israel by Thursday to begin a new legal battle to remain there. The Israeli cabinet was reported considering letting him find asylum in another country, probably communist Czechoslovakia. Soblen, convicted of spying for the Russians during World War II, jumped S100.000 bail and fled from the United States for Israel in late June.

Israel expelled him July 1 and put him with a U. S. marshal on a plane of the government-owned F.I Al airlines for the United States. Soblen stabbed himself in the (Continued on Page Four) Today's Index Page Bridge, Goren 5 Classified Sec. 25-26-27-28-29-30-31 Comics 22-23 County News 10-20 Crossword Puzzle 9 Editorials IS Health, Dr.

Brady 18 Hclolsc IX Home and Fashions 18 Obituaries 24 Poglor, Westbrook 16 Society News 19 Sokolsky, George 16 Sports Section 14-55 Stage and Screen 12 TV, Radio Programs 21 AP Wlrpphotoi Marilyn Monroe at left with her second husband, Yankee outfielder Joe DiAIaggio, at time of their marriage In San Francisco in 1954. They separated after nine months and later were divorced. Marilyn and her third husband, playwright Arthur Miller, at right, on June 29, 1956, when they were married in White Plains, N. Y. They were divorced in 1951 after maintaining a residence In Roxbury.

News of Star's Death Stuns Show Folk Stirs Reverberations Round the Globe By BOB THOMAS VYrllrn HOLLYWOOD, Anp. 6--From London, Ironi Paris anrl around the cam a i of the shock causer! by the a of Marilyn Monroe. Noted In Russia The news even penetrated the iron curtain. In Moscow, Tass reported: "The famous American lilm star Marilyn Monroe died today at Los Angeles at the age of 36. The official medical conclusion points out that death was caused by an extra large dose of sopo- rific.

A Los Angeles official coroner stated that suicide, in his opinion, was not excluded." In Paris, director Billy Wilder deduced from headlines and re- added- that hit the world when Valentii died." Wilder, who directed the st in "Some Like It Hot" and lat complained about her behavio actions of people on the streets! that it wasn't merely the passing of a Hollywood star. Said he: "It was like the shock wave No More Anxious Gaiety--First of Series: ragic End Seemed Inevitable As Climax to Unhappy Life (KIIITOK'S NOTE: Hollywood rolumnlit Bob'Thomai knnw Marilyn from thft brflnnlnr ol Tire HollrKiJOd rarrrr. In a Uiree-pun series starting torta, he writes an Intimate view nl Hie ol Die KorM's moil famous MoDrie.) By BOB THOMAS (AI 1 IVrllrr) HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 6--It happened so quickly you weren't prepared for it. The telephone call came at an early hour Sunday morning: "Marilyn Monroe died sleeping pills." That's all you needed to know and somehow the pieces seemed to fit into place.

It looked inevitable in retrospect that her 36- year-old life would end so tragically. She had reached the end of her rope. She had run out of all that (Continued on Page Four) "Maybe she was tough to wor with. Maybe she wasn't even a actress. But it was worth week's torment to get thoi three luminous minutes on tl screen." In London Sir Laurence Olivii agreed she was difficult to with, but added: "She could be incredibly swee most tenderly appealing, an very, very witty." Olivier starred with her an directed her in "The Prince an the Showgirl." He blamed Holl wood for making her "the co (Continued on Page Four) Chuckle Rich food and late hours arc what make a lot ol people thick and tired.

(Oopyrlifat Oraeral Corp.) Related stories, photos on Page six. seeking the answers to these ques- lons today. Evidence uncovered so far is conflicting. Dr. Ralph Greenson, her psychiatrist, said she called him at 5:15 p.m.

Saturday, distraught, se.king reassurance. They talked an hour. He told her to take a drive in her car to relax. It was a ride she never took, nslead, she retired at 8 p.m., in what her housekeeper, Mrs. Eunice Murray, thought to be spirits.

If she made any calls that evening, they wers local calls. Telephone company records disclosed no toll calls from her number. Mrs. Murray rose at 3 a.m. unday in her quarters in the star's Brentwood home--awakened by an uneasy dread she couldn't explain--and found Miss Monroe's light still burning, her door locked, and no answer to ler knock.

She phoned Dr. Greenson. He rushed to the home, smashed a hedroom window with a fireplace poker, forced his way (Continued on Page Four) COUNTY RECALL MARILYN'S VISITS Shopped in Weitport When Teamed With Weilon Mnn in Film Firm About seven years ago, Marilyn Monroe was regularly dazzling Westporters as she stopped in town. Those were when she had hopefully teamed up with New York fashion photographer Milton H. Greene, a Weston dent, to promote Marilyn Productions, firm whose principal asset was the "blonde bombshell." After a falling out with her studio, 20th Century Fox, in 1955.

Marilyn had with Greene to promote her talents. Two years later they were feuding and the business venture broke off. Marilyn'j visits to town ended also. Mr. Greene, who has since returned to fashion photography, now is in Europe.

Roxbury Enjoyed Marilyn's Friendliness ROXBURY, AUK. 6 (AP) When she lived in this quiet little Connecticut town, Marilyn Monroe tried hard to win the (Continued on Page Foot) Welcome Home, Reservists of the 475th Engineer Company i.