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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER 122nd YEAR NO. 119 DAILY MONDAY 3IORNING, AUGUST 6, 1962 FINAL EDITION PRICE 7 CENTS Polio Doses Given To 600.000 Marilyn Monroe Believed Suicide HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 5 (it Blond and beautiful Marilyn Monroe, a glamorous symbol of the gay, exciting life of Hollywood, died tragically last night. Her body was found nude in bed, a probable suicide. All Areas Show Bigger Demand About 10 more doses of Type I Sabin oral polio vaccine were administered in the five-county Greater Cincinnati area yesterday than were given on the first "Sabin Sundae," for Type HI.

Dr. Woliver esti- p. 7 Of ft rf rrJ -AW WirAohota Recent Photo Of Marilyn had been to me besides it's being a means of combating polio!" The Type I vaccine administered yesterday ordinarily is considered the most important of the three. Type I virus has caused 80 or more of cases resulting in paralysis. The final step In the inoculation program, of Type II virus, has been set for September 16, a Sunday, Persons who did not get Type III virus on the June round may wait for six weeks after getting their Type and then get Type III from their physicians.

The three types may be given in any order, as long as the inoculations are six weeks apart. GENERALLY, yesterday's experience at the 130 inocu-lation stations indicated that both the volunteer staffs and the public had "smoothed out" through their June experience. Delays developed at some stations when unpredictable rushes of "customers" depleted stocks and there was a wait before emergency calls for more vaccine could be answered. But June's sometimes long lines had fewer counterparts yesterday. That was especially notable in Clermont County, where five stations passed out 26,500 doses with more dispatch than 19.500 doses had been passed out in June.

Norwood was among communities showing greatest rise 15,433 yesterday, compared to 8797 June 24. Ohio neighbors not far outside Greater Cincinnati have their own protection plans, too. At Mason, Warren County, 3700 individuals received Type III vaccine in the second round of their series. And Brown County is planning to dispense Type I vaccine from 9 a. m.

to noon Saturday at Brown County School. Enauirer (Bob Fr) Phot "Say, It Tastes Just Like Candy" Janita Gosser, five, munches "Sabin Sundae" Reds Test Bomb Of Megaton Size UPPSALA, Sweden, Aug. 5 upi The Soviet Union exploded a big nuclear bomb high in the atmosphere today. Swedish scientists estimated it to be in the 40-mega-ton range, second only to the Soviet 50-tonner set off last fall. A Norwegian scientist said his Instruments showed cle released this week.

She didn't discuss the contract dispute, but she did reveal some of her inner turmoil. Of the stresses of fame she said: Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you. They kind of like to take pieces out of you. I don't think they realize it, but it's like 'Grrr do this, rrr do that." But you do want to stay intact intact and on two feet.

"Fame was a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden." The end of her life was marked inauspiciously. A coronet's representative covered her slim body with a simple blue cotton blanket and put it in the cargo space of his blue station wagon. He drove to a mortuary In nearby Westwood Village, and later her body was taken to the county morgue.

Marilyn's beginnings were humble. She was born illegitimately in Los Angeles County General Hospital on June 1, 1926. Her mother was a movie cutter named Gladys Baker. Her father, a handsome Danish immigrant named Edward Mor-tensen, disappeared before Marilyn was born and was reported to have been killed in a motorcycle crash in Ohio in 1926. Marilyn's mother suffered a nervous breakdown after Marilyn was born and has spent a lifetime in and out of mental institutions.

Out of Marilyn's childhood she was born Norma Jean Baker came the fears that were to haunt her later life. The facts became part of the Monroe saga-how she was placed in a Los Angeles ophanage, how she later was shunted from one foster home to another, beaten by some of her new parents, adored by others. She learned early that she was attractive. She en-tered a hasty wartime marriage at 16 with an aircraft worker named Jim Dougherty, now a Los Angeles policeman. Her second and third She was 36.

The long-troubled star clutched a telephone in one hand. An empty bottle of sleeping pills was nearby. Miss Monroe, fired from her last movie, had been in seclusion for weeks at her rambling Spanish-style bungalow in Brentwood. At midnight her housekeeper, Mrs. Eunice Murray, noticed a light in the actress' bedroom.

The light was still on at 3 a.m. and Mrs. Murray got no answer when she called to her mistress and knocked on the door. It was locked. Alarmed, she called Miss Monroe's physician, Dr.

Ralph Greenson. He arrived at 4 a. m. and was unable to evoke an answer. He summoned another physician.

Dr. Hyman Engelberg. Failing to force the dooi, they broke a bedroom window and entered to find Miss Monroe dead. They told authorities she was in bed nude, the covers pulled up to her neck. In her hand was a telephone, whicn was off the hook.

On the table next to the bed were numerous bottles, including an empty container of nemoutal, a drug to induce sicep. Police said no notes were found. An autopsy was held, but County Coroner Theodore Curphey said results were inconclusive. Mr. Curphey said a special suicide team, including a psychiatrist, will try to determine whether Marilyn's death was accidental or intentional.

"From information sun-plied to us we feel we can make a presumptive opinion that death was due to an overdose of a drug," the coroner said. He said psychiatric tests play an important part in the official verdict. He added: "We will question her friends and others to determine her mood preceding death. This is most necessary in a case where no notes were found with the body." He said it might take several days before it could he determined how she died. Miss Monroe's attorney, Milton Ruden, said he had spoken to her Friday night to discuss a meeting Monday.

"She seemed in good enough spirits," he said. "Naturally she felt very bad that she was not able to finish the movie. "We were still negotiating to resume the picture and she was happy about that possibility." The actress had been depressed since she was fired from the film in June by the studio where she rose to fame, 20th Century-Fox. No word came from Miss Monroe during the stormy weeks following her firing. Her sole appearance in print was a magazine arti GREATER CINCINNATI SARIN DOSES CP: An estimated 600,000 persons received the Sabin Type I oral polio vaccine almost 10 more than received the Type III vaccine in June.

Page 1. STATE AND NATION HAD EVERYTHING: Glamorous Marilyn Monroe dies tragically In her Hollywood home, apparently from an overdose of sleeping pills. Suicide is probability. Page 1. CONTROLS: President Kennedy seeks amendments to a pending drug control bill to give the government more power over unsafe or ineffectual drugs.

Page 6. WASHINGTON BID FOR FAVOR: Peru's military Junta promises free and impartial elections in 1963 denounces Communism. Page 7. SOVIET TESTS: U. S.

State Department terms Russia's action in instituting new tests "a somber episode" that will not affect U. S. search for a test ban. Page 10. WORLD-WIDE BRRROOM: Russia tests nuclear bomb believed to be In range of 40 million tons of TNT, In atmosphere.

Page 1. ISRAEL BALKS: May return Dr. Soblen to Holy Land but will not be party to flying him to the United States. Page 4. IN STOCKHOLM: The Finkbines are in Sweden to plead their case for an abortion because Mrs.

Finkbine used thalidomide, the drug that has resulted in so many deformed babies. Page 6. istry refused to comment on the report of a new test and tight security blanketed the military maneuvers in the Arctic Circle. The Soviet government announced two weeks ago, however, that land, sea and air maneuvers would begin today. Further tests of the Russians' newly developed counterpart to the U.

S. Polaris missile also are expected. Soviet nuclear sub-marines equipped with underwater rocket launching devices were reported put through their paces for Mr. Khrushchev on his visit last month to the northern fleet's headquarters at Murmansk. The Soviet Defense Ministry has warned foreign ships and planes to stay out of the Barents and Kara Seas area during the maneuvers, from August 5 to October 20.

(Related Story on Page 10) only that it was smaller than that one and U. S. offi cials would say only that it was "in the megaton range." The Japanese Meteorological Agency estimated the blast to be in the 20-megaton range. Whatever the size, the blast carried out Premier Nikita Khrushchev's threat to resume testing in retaliation for U. S.

Pacific tests. Uppsala University's seis-mological institute, which classed the blast as in the range of 40-million tons of TNT, said it occurred at a higher altitude than the Soviet series of 1961, which was climaxed by the superbomb. Recordings at the institute indicated the test was carried out at the Soviet atomic testing ground on the island of Novaya Zem-lya, in Siberia about 1350 miles east of Uppsala. In Washington, the State Department deplored Soviet resumption of atmospheric testing as a "somber episode." In Japan, only nation to feel the wrath of an atomic bomb in wartime, a government spokesman said the new Soviet testing "is regrettable for world peace." The big blast appeared to have kicked off a new round of Soviet military maneuvers in the Far North. The Soviet Foreign Min mated a final figure of well over 600,000 for yesterday's total.

He is president of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati and chairman of the Committee for the Second Oral Vaccine Polio Prevention Program. Dr. Woliver based his prediction on early returns and the opinions of colleagues. Even the early reports were well above the final figures for the inoculation six weeks ago, which totaled 552,435 doses. Last night's early figure already stood at 566,741.

The returns showed rises in all four principal divisions. Cincinnati showed 195,652 against early returns in June of something less than 192,000. COMPARATIVE figures for the other three divisions were: Hamilton County outside of Cincinnati, 194,487, up from 191,716 June final tab; Northern Kentucky (Kenton, Campbell and Boone Counties), 150,102, up from Clermont County, 26,500, upfrom 19,500. Yesterday's total of voluntary contributions probably will be known late today, committee officials said. The June total in Cincinnati and Hamilton County alone was $101,000.

Dr. Carl W. Koehler, President-elect of the Academy and co-chairman of the prevention program committee, said if there should be any surplus above expenses the committee would hope to apply it toward research or scholarships. This drew the spontaneous approval of Dr. Albert B.

Sabin, University of Cincinnati scientist who developed the anti-polio vaccine at Children's Hospital Research Foundation. "Scholarship funds are important," Dr. Sabin said emphatically. "When you have something to offer, money for research is some how to be had. But men that's another matter.

We need them. We're short on people." DR. SABIN was nthusl-astlc about the Greater Cincinnati public's response to the protection program. "Today's turnout was a very gratifying demonstration that the June response was not merely reaction to the scare of one case," he said. (The mass inoculation with Type HI was undertaken after a paralytic polio case caused by that type of virus had turned up in Cincinnati).

"Today our people demonstrated that they will respond to a reasonable explanation of some problem to be faced in the future that can be acted on now," the scientist said. "This sort of community action is a most gratifying thing into the water. Clumps of palm trees, ordinary trees spreading out widely with green boughs and huge leaves, single trees of the pine family shooting up to a towering height in between them, wide fields of papyrus as tall as a man, with big fan-like leaves and amid all this luxuriant greenery the rotting stems of dead giants shooting up to Heaven He had found his forest Eden. The current, sluggish at first, became as strong as that of his beloved Rhine as Alembe poked and snooped her way up the twisting Ogooue. Two days later, picking her way gingerly among floating mahogany logs (Gabon is a great timber-producer and the logs are floated down the Ogooue to the sea) and treacherous sandbars salted with iz-ing crocodiles, Alembe snubbed her hawsers at Lambarene.

LAMBARENE THEN fit is a bustling little town today) was no deserted forest clearing. It boasted an administrative post, a police station and a few stores and sheds run by retail traders ar.d timber merchants. SPORTS REDS IN SPLIT: The Mets make it three straight over the Reds in taking an opener in New York 5-2. Manager Fred Hutchinson's charges snap back to salvage nightcap, 6-3. Page 41.

Refrigerator Draws 35 Calls Mrs. Edna i 1 lm, 1410 Cedar, sold her all- porcelain re-f i gerator through quirer Classi- ed. She sold it in just one day! Ima Want Ad reminds you that there is always a market for kitchen appliances. To contact this market quickly and economi-caly use Enquirer Classified, an 421-6300 It fi. in seclusion See Story Penny (short for Penelope) and Big Boy are estimates.

No one's foolhardy enough to try to coax them onto weighing scales. Big Boy is 16 years old. He arrived at the zoo in 1958, paid for by contributions of Cincinnatians in response to an Enquirer fund campaign to replace Susie, who had recently died. His mate came here as a gift from Dr. Albert Schweitzer.

They're living apart now and may remain apart. For Zoo officials fear that even a gorilla may be slow to forget the rash deeds done in the heat of marital discord. He was her man. But he done her wrong. Page Horse Sense 5 People In The News 11 Society News 19 Sports 41-45 Star Gazer 14 Suburban News 28 TV-Radio 26-27 Women's 17-22 Word Game 5-Star Pace 28 'Ya Big Ape' Gorilla Belts 'Wife' The Man Behind The Myth Schweitzer Finds Eden In The Jungles Of Africa Penny and Big Boy were lovers, but yesterday he done her wrong.

And it shattered a four-year history of domestic bliss in the split-level cage at the Cincinnati Zoo, where Penny, a 100-pound lady gorilla, dwelled with her hubby, 300-pound Big Boy, while the world passed by beyond the picture-window bars. Maybe it was the plus-90-d egret heat that did it. Keepers say Big Boy suddenly turned on his demure spouse and. with flashing teeth, mauled her. When the scrapping pair finally were parted, Penny had suffered a slashed back and wounds in her foot that took 35 stitches to close.

The weights given on Partly cloudy, hot and humid with scattered thun-dershowers most likely in the aftemoorf and evening; a low near 7 and a high in the low 90's. A low tonight of 76. DETAILS, MAP OH MGC 46 marriages were marked by headlines. She fell in love with Joe DiMaggio and they were married in 1954. The marriage lasted only nine months and she sued for divorce, saying he was uncommunicative.

Married to playwright Arthur Miller in 1956, she sought the quiet life as a housewife in Connecticut. Her efforts to have children ended in miscarriage. Last year the marriage ended. Related stories and pictures on pages 3 and 28. They were on their way.

At Bordeaux the doctor found a sympathetic customs official who helped him to clear his 70 boxes of medicine, equipment and clothing. An hour later, the couple boarded a train for Pauillac, a small roadstead for ships bound for Africa. There was the usual bustle and confusion of a sailing, perhaps heightened by the fact that the ship, Europe, was bound for exotic lands, which gave to the farewells a poignancy and feeling of finality not present in more prosaic departures. Porters shouted, passengers unable to find their baggage gave vent to their exasperation, the groaning cranes labored to fill the dark and cavernous mouths of the holds, and Europe, tossing restlessly on the Gironde and anxious to return to her element, whistled with impatience. FINALLY, after last-minute farewells, tears and promises to write soon, bearded colonial officials, callow merchants, well-tailored young army officers, and missionaries pushed their way or were A.

F. Satellite Up POINT ARGUELLO, Aug. 5 upt A satellite em-ploylng an Atlas-Agena combination was launched today by the Air Force. A spokesman declined any further details of the launch except that it took place "late In the morning." Alembe picked up speed, bumped once, held for an instant on the bar and then shot safely over into the placid waters of the lagoon. Ahead lay the brown, jungle-wreather Ogooue.

a silt-choked highway winding inland to the heart of darkness. The young Alsatian, used to the neatly manicured landscape of the Rhine, was enraptured. HE FELT himself to be dreaming and, to him, "it seemed impossible to say where the river ends and the land begins, for a mighty network of roots, clothed with bright flowering creepers, propects right 1 pushed by others up the narrow gangway, the engines coughed and shuddered with awakening power, the tugs bellowed and wheezed importantly, and the Europe slipped out into mid-stream. Three weeks later, her anchor chain rattled out. Across the greasy swell a few sheds upon a sandbar broke the green wall of the fevest.

This was Port Gentil in Gabon, one of the territories (now an independent republic) of French Equr-torial Africa The Schweitzers transferred their piles of luggage to the stern-wheeler Alembe, a squat, flat-bottomed river steamer capable because of her shallow draft of crossing the bar Which fringes Gabon's sultry coast. Alembe lay tossing in the slow swell for a few hours, waiting for the tide which vould take her over the bar and into the gaping mouth of the Ogooue River, the largest river between the Congo and the Niger. With the tide running hard, her engines sputtered and roared, her great stern paddles thrashed the sullen ocean into a widening wake of dirty foam as The Schweitzers were met at Lambarene by two evangelists of the Paris Missionary Society. They loaded their luggage into log dug-out canoes and, after a paddle of nearly an hour (for the canoes were heavily laden and the sun was hot) reached the mission station on the Ogooue. a few huts of mud and palm leaves, where they joined three other white missionaries.

The natives crowded around, shouting and laughing with excitement, Oganga is here! Oganga, the doctor, the seer, the healer, the white medicine man. So began the fourth career of Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, theologian, musician and now, medical missionary. It is worth noting that, although Albert Schweitzer began his stay in Africa with few comforts, he had the company from the be-F inning of his wife and five other white missionaries. His work in Africa is not now and never was a solitary vigil. TOMORROW: Schweitzrr, ivile fix each other's teeth.

i BY SMITH IIEMPSTONE Chicago Daily News foreign Service NAIROBI, Kenya As the church bells of the Alsatian town of Gunsbach reeled forth their Good Friday message of love and hope in 1913, Albert Schweitzer and his wife boarded the train for Paris, the first stage on their long Journey toward Africa and his veneration. On Easter Sunday.the 38-year-old, ramrod -straight doctor went to St. Sulpice Church in Paris to listen to the artistry of the great organist, Charles Marie Widor, under whom he had studied. At two o'clock, the Schweitzers left Paris, again by train, for Bordeaux. (Second of a Series) Dr.

Schweitzer recalls that "everywhere we saw people in their holiday dress; the sunshine was brilliant and the warm spring breeze brought out oi the distance the sound of the village church bells, which seemed to be greetings to the train that was hurrying past. It was an Easter day which seemed a glorious dream." Page Amusements 47 Bridge 15 Business, Markets 12 Classified 30-40 Columnists 8-9 Comics 14-15 Crossword 14 Deaths 30 Editorials 8 TiltphoM T2I-ITC0 Cassifn4 421-1300.

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