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Reds Fire A-Blast U. S. Tax Cut by Jan. 1

Injhe Atmosphere
Predicted by H o d g e s
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—
(AP) Secretary of Commerce
Luiher H. Hodges predicted
that "all of us—corporations
and individuals — should be
able to count on a tax cut ef-
fective not later than Jan. 1."
Marilyn Monroe Dies
ECHOES mm Interviewed on a television

After Pill Overdose

program (ABC-TV's "Issues
and Answers"), Hodges said
he doubted there would be an
immediate tax cut.
But in response lo a ques-
tion, he said: "If you didn't
have a tax cut in the next few
months. I ihink lhat the Presi-
dent probably . . . would stick

ON II. S. TESTS lo whal he said. Mainly, that

there will be a tax cut effec-
tive Jan. I,"
JAMAICA HOISTS
As for the passage of what
he termed a "meaningful" lax Police Regard Case
Swedes Estimate Power reform bill, Hodges asked that
Ihe people "keep in mind that
of Explosion at 40
Megatons
U f ' I ' S A I . A . Swerlcn. A n - .
ITS OP FLAG
these things do take a tre-
mendous time." As Apparent Suicide
5 (AP) — The Soviet l.'iiion
exploded a big nuclear Ijonib
lii^h in (he aliLiGr.phcrc to-
day.
ISRAEL IS FIRM NEW/NATION Foreign G u e s t s Include!
By JOSEPH FINNIGAN
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 5 ( L T f ) — Actress Marilyn
Monroe, blonde sex symbol of the modern generation,
was found dead in her home at an early hour today after
Estimates Differ taking an overdose of sleeping pills — her nude body
Swedish scientists estimated it 'Princess Margaret, Lyn- face down on her bed ami her hand clutching a telephone.
to bo in Ihe 40-megaton range,
second only to (he Soviet 50- don Johnson Police listed the .56-year-old star, who had been de-
met-a tonner set off last fall. Cabinet Upholds Refusal KIX'GSTOX, J a 111 a i c a, pressed about her skidding tnovic career, as an apparent
A Norwegian scientist said his REPORTED SOVIET NUCLEAR BLAST SITE -"
suicide, but said they were not certain. An autopsy was
Instruments showed only that it pates Soviet atomic testing ground on island of Novaj'a Zcmlya to Let El Al Fly Spy From Ant;. 5 ( A P ) — J a m a i c a be- performed today with inconclusive result;.
was smaller than that one. and in Siberia where Russia exploded a big nuclear bomb high in Britain to U. S. came the Western Hemis- Officers .said a bottle which contained -If) lo 50 pills
U.S. officials would say only lhat Ihe atmosphere yesterday according to Uppsala university's phere's newest n a t i o n at was found empty by Miss Monroe's bed when they ar-
it was "in ine megaton range." Sclsmologicat Institute in Uppsata, Sweden. Swedish scientists JERUSALEM. Aug. 5 (AP)- m i d n i g h t when it broke nit" rived at her small, Mexican-styled home. No notes "were
The Japanese meteorological estimated it to be in the 40-megaton range, second only to the The cabinet stood firm today 307-year-old tics as a B r i t i s h discovered.
agency estimated the blast to be Soviet 50-mcgaton set off last year. against permitting an Israeli air- possession.
in the 20-mcpaton range. liner to fjy Dr. Robert Soblen (Other stories and pictures ,
from Britain to the United States. Rains Threaten ! on Marilyn Monroe's death I about 10 miles from Hollywood.
Whatever the size, the blast
His lawyer said the convicted In ceremonies at the national will be found on Page Four). I got the pills two or three days
carried out Premier Khrushchev's
threat to resume testing in re-
taliation for U.S. Pacific tests.
Russia A-Test Shocks spy may be back by Thursday lowered stadium, the union jack was to be
to begin a legal battle to remain green and and Jamaica's new gold,
black emblem hoisted,
~Tlic body was found by th~e~a7-iag° ,aft,er Complaining she was
tress' psychiatrist. Dr Ralph " nable to slce P'
Uppsala university's Seismolo- in Israel. symbolizing the emergence of the Grcenson. who broke a side_win- Her body, covered by a pale
gies! inslitute. which classed the
blast as in the range of 41) mil-
lion tons of TNT. said it occurred
Hiroshima on Pray Day A communique Issued after a hemisphere's first new indepen-
cabinet meeting declared that an dent nation since Panama in 1903.
Israeli plane would carry the, Heavy tropical rains threaten-
doiv of the bedroom after being blue blanket and strapped to a
summoned by a housekeeper who stretcher, was taken from the
noticed a light under Miss Mon- two-bedroom home to Westwood
at a higher altitude than the So- 61-year-old psychiatrist "back (o ed to dampen the proceedings, roe's door at 3 a.m. PDT. Village mortuary at 7:30 a.m.
viet scries of 1961, which w a s ' - H I R O S H I M A , j a p a n , (Monday.) Au S . f, ( A P > —
Israel only and under no cir- to be attended by several Euro- The housekeeper, Mrs. Eunice PDT, and later transferred to the
climaxed by the superbomb. .Shocked l>v the Soviet Union's r e s u m p t i o n of n u c l e a r
cumstances to the U n i t e d pean dignitaries, including Bri- Murray, who also was the actress' morgue.
Recordings at the institute in- testing, tliis city ]>r;iye<l today for its iliotisanrh States." tain's Princess Margaret and U.S.
Associated Press companion, had noticed the light Former baseball star Joe Di-
RECENT PHOTO OF MARILYN — Actress Marilyn Mon- burning at midnight and decided Maggio. the second of Ihe actress'
dicated the lest was carried out t h e U. S. a t o m i c bomb a t t a c k 17 vears at; The cabinet stand reiterated an Vice President Lyndon Johnson. roe, 36, whose body was found yesterday in bedroom ot her
at the Soviet atomic testing to check again at 3 a.m. When three husbands, notified the local
earlier reply to Britain, which Before his arrival. Johnson an-
"What Irony!" home in Brontwood, a suburb of Los Angeles, is shown in one she was unable to rouse her. she mortuary in Westwood that he
pround on the island of Novaya has given the Israel's El Al air- nounced the gift of a 575,000 U. S.
Tens of thousands of Japanese of her most recent photos, made two months ago.
Zemlya, in Siberia about 1.350
miles east of Uppsala.
U. S. Deplores Blast
PRESIDENT FILLS line until Wednesday midnight government scholarship for Ja-
crowded into Hiroshima's Mem-
to get the fugitive out of Bri- maican students.
orial park at dawn for a mass
looked through the window from was flying here from San Fran-
the outside and saw her lying in cisco, .where he took part in an
bed. Oldlimers' game yesterday. He
tain. Under life sentence in the At an afternoon rally, several
pr yer meeting, as they do ever}'
In Washington, the Stale de-
parlment deplored Soviet re-
sumption of atmospheric testing
2 AEG VACANCIES l"ting.
United States for spying for the hundred Jamaicans cheered John-
year on Aug. 6. Most had just
Soviet Union, Soblen is in Lon- son
learned the U.S.S.R. had resumed when he said President Ken-
nedy sent him "because of friend-
Greenson, who had spoken with arrived late this morning.
the actress yesterday, found her Miss Monroe's first husband
dead, her body covered with a was James Dougherty, a Los An-
don's Brixton prison. sheet and a champagne-colored geles policeman, who declined (o
as a "somber episode." In Japan Dean Palfrey of Columbia "What irony," said Mayor Shin- ship which will grow and prosper blanket. He immediately summon- comment on her death; her third
only nalion to feel the wrath The Lithuanian-born fugitive with your independence." The
zo Hamai, "for us to receive such
of an atomic bomb in wartime and James T. Ramey to news on the anniversary of the skipped $100,000 ball in June and vice president said he will spend ed Dr. Hyman Engleberg. who was playwright Arthur Miller, au-
a government spokesman said fl«d to Israel. Israel ejected him at least three days in Jamaica. pronounced Miss Monroe dead at thor of the stage classic, "Death
the new Soviet testing "is re- Be Nominated very day the first atomic bomb
July I aboard an El Al plane.
was used over this city." Cheer Unionists
3:50 a.m. PDT (6:50 a.m. EOT). of a Salesman."
Complained o! Insomnia
grettable for world peace." Just before the plane landed in The crowd also reacted enthu- Pat Newcomb, Miss Monroe's
The big blast appeared to have 5 1IYANNIS (AP) —
PORT, Mass., Aug. Kiyoshi Yoshikawa, who sur-
President Kennedy is London he stabSed himself in siastically to remarks by William Detective Sgt. R. E. Byron said press agent, rushed to the star's
Misj Monroe, who lived in the
kicked off a new round of So- naming John O. Palfrey of New vived the atomic attack, declared, the stomach and slashed his star-studded Brenlwood area
viet military maneuvers in the York and James T. Ramey to Ihe whipping "the Russian tests represent
wrists, and has been there since (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two)
far north, designed among other Atomic Energy commission, fill-1 Yoshikawa the dead."fighting to stay out of the United
things to test new nuclear wea- ing two vacancies, the was among., the
Stales. I
pons.
The Soviet Foreign ministry White House
refused to comment on the re-"* Palfrey has been dean of Col-
announced today.
crowd that released hundreds of
Britain's position is that El All
brought Soblen 10 London and
(Continued on Page Two)
DRIVER ROBBED; Movie Colony Stunned
port of a ne\v lest, and tight umbia college, the men's under-
security blanketed (he military graduate liberal arts college of
should complete the trip. Israel
says Britain has no right to tell
El Al what to do.
BANDIT HUNTED By Blonde Beauty's Death
maneuvers in the Arctic circle. Columbia university since 1958. 15 Tons of TNT Seen In London, informed sources
The Soviet government announc- He is 43. a Democrat, a Harvard
ed two weeks ago. however, that graduate as is Kennedy, and his said Britain intends to hold to Y o u t h Flees in Trumbull
Hanging A b o v e You
land, sea and air maneuvers wife is (lie granddaughter of the its position and will not hand After Knife Fear Ride HOLLYWOOD, Aiiff. 5 (UP!) — The movie col-
TOKYO, (Monday,) Aug. 6—
over Soblen to El Al unless the ony awoke in disbelief today nt tlic ne\vs Marilyn Mon-
would begin today. late President Theodore Roose- (AP) The newspaper Asahi From Waterbury
New Series Ordered velt. He will succeed Loren said today every man, woman airline agrees to fly him to the roe is dead.
The announcement followed a Keith Olson on (he AKC. for a and United States. TRUMBULL, Aug. 5 — A 41- Gable's Widow Prays
child in the world has Ihe
The communique said the cabi- year-old Waterbury
Soviet government's statement term running until June 30, 19G7. equivalent man said he Clark Gable's widow was one
that it had ordered a new ser- Ramey now is executive direc- in nuclear ofexplosive
ies of nuclear weapons tests. tor of the Joint Committee on hanging over his head. power
The Soviet defense ministry Atomic Energy. He is being ap-
15 tons of TNT
net agreed that:
1. The original order to eject was held at knife point in his car
Soblen from Israel still stands. by a youthful bandit whoanforced
this afternoon for nearly hour
of the first to learn of the blonde
beauty's death. "I heard the
flash over the air at 7 a.m.
FRIENDS OF Ml.
said the troops would "conduct pointed to succeed John S. Gra- niversary
maneuvers with the actual use ham for a term ending June 30. ing of Hiroshima,
of various types of modern wea- 19W.
Commenting on the 17th an-
2. In view of Ihe fact that it his wav into the auto in Water-
of the atomic bomb-
was an Israeli plane which took bury. At the intersection of Route
Asahi de-
Soblen to Britain, the Israel gov- S and the Merritt Parkway Ihe
(PDT). I went to Mass this
morning and prayed for her. TO BE QUIZZED
pons." clared:
ernment feels obliged to take bandit fled, 'aking the driver's Gable and Miss Monroe work-
The
Western military experts said bers is 522.000. salary of commission mem- "If the thin string holding
him out again if Britain insists watch and money, State Police ed together in "The Misfits," Suicide Team Will S e e k
new tactical weapons would pro- Ramey, 47. was born in Eddy- this sword of Damocles breaks
on this. adapted from playwright Arthur Further Information for
someday, somewhere due to said. Miller's story. Miller was Miss
bably be tried out under battle- ville, Ky.. is a graduate of Am- accident or miscalculation, 3. An Israeli plane will lake The victim. Felhy Dessner of MARILYN'S BEDSIDE TABLE — A^pofice officer points
field conditions during the 11- herst, Mass., college and of Col- will be Ihe end." it
Soblen to Israel onry, and under Waterbury. told, police the bandit to an assortment of medicine hollies on the nightstand beside
Monroe's last husband. Coroner's Office
week period, as well as a series umbia University Law school. no circumstances to the United jumped into his car at 12:15 p.m. the bed (right) at Marilyn Monroe's home where she was The picture was the last ever
of experimental nuclear blasts. The paper estimated
States. the made by either star. LOS ANGELES. Aug. 5 (AP)-
at a traffic light in the south end found dead yesterday. Police said a sleeping pill boltle was
They said the Soviet Union is After Ramey graduation from law United Stales has 30.000 mega-
The unanimous cabinet decision of Waterbury. Mr. Dessner was empty. Two of Marilyn's closest An autopsy was performed today
believed to have trailed the Unit- school. jobs with
held a number of tons of nuclear weapons and
was reached after hearing a re- on his way to New York city.
the Tennessee Valley the Soviet Union an arsenal of friends on the West Coast were on Marilyn Monroe, but Countv
ed States in the development of
authority and in 1947 joined the 15.000 megatons. port by Foreign Minister Mrs. He said the youth, armed wilh aclor Peter Lawford and his Coroner Theodore Curphey saiil
compact nuclear weapons for its Golda Meir. It was relayed to a knife, told him to "get going". wife. Pat, sister of President results were inconclusive.
ground forces. Such weapons Al-X. He is married to and the The total is equivalent to 45
British Ambassador Patrick Han- During Ihe netriy one-hour trip Kennedy. "We do know it was not a nat-
Iiave probably been perfected by father of two children. His wife billion tons of TNT. Since the "Pat and myself loved her ural death," he said, "but further
is associate professor of physiolo- world's cock.
population is about from Waterbury to the intersec- tests will have to be made."
now and are ready for training Soblen's Tel Aviv lawyer. Dr. tion of Route 8 and the parkway, dearly," said Lawford. "She was
exercises in the field, they said. gy at Georgetown University three billion, "it means t h a t 15 Ari Ankorion, welcomed the Is- the bandit took Mr. Dessnc-r's a marvelous, warm human be- days He said it might take several
Further tests of the Russians' Medical school. They live in De- Ions of TNT hangs over the
ing." before it could be determin-
newly developed counterpart to thesda, Md. rael government's "decision to watch and wallet containing S5D
head of every man and wo-
right the wrong which it did to in cash. Dean Martin, who was to have edCurphey
how she died.
the U. S. Polaris missile also Palfrey was a lieutenant in mil- man, old and young," Asahi Soblen and not to extradite him After the youth left the car. Mr. co-starred with Marilyn in the (earn, including said a special suicide
are expected. Soviet Nuclear sub- itary intelligence during, World said. to the United States." Dessner said, he drove to a gas ill-fated film "Something's Got will try to determine a psychiatrist,
marines equipped with underwa- The (wo great powers' esti-
Saying Soblen may return by station on the parkway in Fair- whether
ter rocket launching devices (Continued on Page Two) mated total nuclear arsenal is to Give," was one of those most Marilyn's death was accidental
equivalent to 2.250,000 bombs Thursday, Ankorion announced he field and called Slate Police. stunned by the news of Ihe 30- or intentional.
the size dropped on Hiro- first will ask Israel authorities State Police, along wilh Trunv year-old star's death. "From information supplied to
(Continued on Page Two) MOREHEAD PATTERSON ofshima in 1945, the paper said. hull and Fairfield police, search- "I just can't believe it ... I us we feel we can make a pre-
AMF CHAIRMAN, D I E S (Continued og Paj;e Two) ed the area for Ihe youth with no
Official Weather success.
The voulh was described as
(Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two)
.s. «„«,,, n.r«u WASHINGTON. Aug. 5-(AP),
v.s. nrpi oi roinnirrrr Morchcad Patterson, 64, chairman, Swedish Crowd Sympathetic— about 20 years old, six feet tall,
BRIDGEPORT AND VICINITY of the board of American' Ma- 200 pounds, curly blond hair and
"very well tanned." Rule to Beach Was Advised—
—Becoming partly sunny and chine & Foundry Co., died unex-
warm today; high around 80. Ipecledly today in his home of a Sherri Awaits Mental Test, LI. Walter Foley of Troop G,
Moslly fair and mild again to- heart ailment.
night; low in the «0s. Becoming) American Machine & Foundry
Westport barracks, led the
search. Trooper Donald F. Dai- Marilyn Phoned Psychiatrist
partly cloudy and continued;Co.. and its subsidiary, American
warm tomorrow; high around 80 Machine & Foundry Pinspoiters,
Needed for Quick Abortion ton is investigating.
Police said Mr. Dessner was Only Hours Before Death
TEMPERATURE Inc., were among several firms STOCKHOLM, Aug 5 0UPI)— fants have been reported by not harmed by the youth.
Highest yesterday 83 which the government recently Mrs. Sherri Finkbine flew into mothers who took the sedative By JAMES BACON
Lowest yesterday 59 charged had cooperated in limit- Stockholm today hoping that un- duriflg pregnancy. Features for Everybody i said, lhat she had been dead six
Highest year ago yesterday .. 75 ing the establishment of new der Swedish law she will be able Mrs. Finkbine's schoolteacher
HOLLYWOOD, Ang. 5 (AP) to eight hours by lhat time.
Lowest year ago yesterday .. 61 bowling facilities and expansion legally to abort the life of a baby In Telegram Every Day Marilyn Monroe, no stranger to Byron said Miss Monroe spent
PRECIPITATION of existing ones. husband, Robert, supported her Page psychiatric treatment, called her most of the day at home Satur-
she fears will be born deformed. psychiatrist last night—only hours day.
Yesterday O.UO Patterson was appointed U. S. A crowd of several hundred with one arm while she walked Burton H. Fern, M. D. . . 9 before she died.
slowly down the steps of an SAS The last person she spoke to
For Month 08 representatives to the Interna- Swedes at Arlanda airport ap- Classified Ads T5-19 Det. Sgt. R. E. Byron, first po- was Mrs. Eunice Murray, her
Barometer (8 p.m. reading) 30.07 tional Atomic Energy agency in peared sympathetic to the plight polar flight to begin her race Comics 12 lice officer on the scene, added housekeeper.
Humidity (8 p.m. reading) 75% 1954, holding the rank of ambas- against time.
THE TIDE sador. He also was depuly rep- of the 30-year-old television ac- If Ihe State Medical board in Constantine Brown 8 that Dr. Ralph Greenson had ad- Byron said Mrs. Murray said
Today Tomorrow resentative to the United Nations tress from Phoenix, Ariz., who the next few days authorizes the Crossword Puzzle 12 vised the glamorous movie queen that Marilyn talked about her con-
3:4} a.m. .. High .. 4:30 a.m. Committee on Disarmament the was denied an abortion in her end of her pregnancy on the Editorials 8 to take a ride, to the beach. versation, with the psychiatrist.
4:10 p.m. .. .. 4:58 p.m. same year. home country. grounds of "grievous mental suf- Fashions 9 "Dr. Greenson said Marilyn had "She said she didn't think she
Pallerson, whose official resi- Pale except for dark rings un- fering," Mrs. Finkbine will not called him about 5:15 p.m. and would take a ride to the beach
fl:54 a.m. .. Low .. 10:38 a.m. Jacoby on Bridge 9 told him she was having trouble but might lake a ride nearby if
10:27 p.m. .. .. 11:18 p.m. dence was in New York, held de- der her eyes, Mrs. Finkbine hur- require major surgery. Obituaries 19 sleeping," Byron said. she couldn't sleep," Byron said.
ALMANAC grees from Yate and Harvard and ried to her hole! to arrange for But if she must wait much be- TV and Radio
Monday, August ft also had attended Oxford. Admit- psychiatric examination t h a t yond next week, Mrs. Finkbine, 13 Police estimated that Marilyn Then she went into her room
Two hundred and eighteenth ted (o the Massachusetts Bar in alone can win her a quick oper- who is in her J2th week of preg- Sports 6-7 Aijrx-ifllrtl 1'rrsi Wlrrrhoto died shortly after she retired for wilh cheerful "Good night,
FILM BEAUTY'S BODY REMOVED — Coroner's atten- the night at 8 p.m. The police honey," lo Mrs. Murray.
day of the year. Forly seventh 1924, he Joined American Ma- ation here and allay the anxiety nancy, may have to undergo an Sylvia Porter . 8 dants remove Ihe body of film star Marilyn Monroe from a Los The housekeeper said she notie-
day of summer. The sun rises at chine St Foundry in 1926 as as- caused by the drug thalidomide. Theater News 10 were notified of her death at 4:20
Angeles mortuary yesterday, on the way lo the Los Angeles a.m. by Dr. Hyman Engelberg.
5:33 a.m. and sets at 8:04 p.m. sistant counsel. The birth of scores of maimed in- (Continued on P«ge Two) Women's News 9 County Morgue. The doctors estimated, Byron (Cootlnued on Page Four)