Pasadena Independent (Newspaper) - July 20, 1959, Pasadena, California Sunny Warm Weather News On Page 16 Vest Readies Compromise Sec Slory On Page 7 10 CENTS TELEPHONE ALL PASADENA CAL MONDAY JULY 20 1959 DON'T TOUCH THE MERCHANDISE Blush Harem Gasp By RAY DUNCAN At the opening yesterday of the California Corset Bra and Lingerie Show in the more Hotel in Los Angeles a handsome young buyer for a well-established firm was ing desperately lor a certain Susan He strode along a corridor entire second floor of the more yesterday They had brought in nearly a hundred girls io model their lines A salesman In a corridor was saying We don't hink of them as girls they're just jmrt of merchandise lie pushed on past but a gentle touch on his arm slop lined with lingerie him short He turned Salesmen were praising I eagerly but no it was only merchandise and lovely someone he knew in a els were wearing it girdle and One of the models stepped out in front of him No but not bad She wore one of the French Hug bras about a or C cup with edged satin straps He hurried past her looking for his Susan Morn than 200 exhibitors had taken over the with shaped front and back panels of dacron cotton batiste and spiral boning plushed with He mumbled something po lite and backed away Girls hurried past him in all tions He recognized them all the a couple of the nev Fulfillment several of the God dess group and a French Frolic in a startling 36 D He eyed them all looking fo Susan He saw that the higl rounded look was still th trend that necklines were no only lower but wider that ai easier line was creeping hit the waist moving away from the midriff He stopped to study a ing Revelation S o m c t h i n poked into both his shoulde blades in back Without turn ing to look he recognized th ribbed construe of the new Fantasy an he judged it to be about a He ducked into a roon across the hall Girls ther SOP Vag REPORTS Britain Plagued by Crime Problem By ARNOLD HUSS American tourists in London have dis- covered they've got more problems in common with the British people than how to deal with Russia and the mounting tax bills Of major concern to the public and officials alike in England at the moment is a sharp increase in lawlessness violence Monday only hours after 21 members of the Independent World Travel Club arrived in London Det Sgl Raymond Purdy was slain on a South Kensington street while an armed man At almost the same lime in n Waterloo church vandals started a fire destroying altar clothes Bibles and damaging furniture and fittings Teddy Boys Britain's counterpart o f America's rat continue to cause alarm by their crimes of violence and destruction of properly The public demand for action against crime violence and vice is bringing some re- sults Early this week the House of Lords passed a ly labeled Street Offence seeking to curb prostitution During debate on the Earl Winterlon supported Dr Billy Graham's allegations of dis- graceful behavior in London's parks I have seen things in Green Park and St James Park which astonished he said They took place under the eyes of the park keepers and police I am convinced they offend visitors Many Londoners are won if the time hasn't come for a militant crackdown on crime Former London police Supt Frank Elms frankly contends it is the ordinary people themselves who are lo blame for crime growth and weaknesses In law en- forcement Elms said that professional police officers are insufficient in numbers and in powers to law without sub stantial help from the public This explains he says why the law on betting is enforced badly the law on murder ex- tremely well why criminal abortion goes unrecorded See Page 10 Popular Ad Sells Furniture The first people who came bought all the furniture we advertised in our dent Classified Ad and we had 12 more calls reports Warren W La Barr 2715 San Marino For complete sales faction phone SYcamore or Zenith ask for Classified Your ad can run the very next dny Swimmers Flee Shark at Beach Thousands of swimmers left the water at Seal Beach when lifeguards spotted the dorsal fin of a shark about 75 feet offshore An estimated people were on the beach and in the ocean at the time of the ing The shark was later seen heading out to sea After a check of the area lifeguards permitted bathing again More than a million sons look advantage of Ideal weather at land beaches Lifeguards were kept on the move all along the coast as 200 persons were rescued from the surf A Inglewood boy was hit by a skiff with an outboard motor at Manhattan Beach and will probably lose his arm doctors said San Francisco Fire Routs 60 Residents SAN ty persons fled their homes Saturday night as fire struck the thickly populated North Beach section of San Francis co There were no injuries re- ported The braze fore through three frame flats at the foot of Tele graph Hill Iraq Riots Approach Civil War BEIRUT revolt an army at Kirkuk busy oil cei ler in northeastern Iraq wa reported yesterday to have n suited in near civil war an hundreds of casualties The outbreak brought fron Iraqi Premier Abdel Karim Kassom an angry that we will settle accounts with the Communists arid mi It declaration yet against th Reds Press reports in Cairo an Damascus of Game Abdel Nasser's United Ara Republic said fighting starte Wednesday while Iraq was sti celebrating the July 14 arm of Kassem's ant royalist revolution and Ilia clashes were still going on The press described th fighting as near civil war But Ahmed Saleh Abdi Iraqi military governor in a Baghdad broadcast mini the scope of armed clashes and said a normal situation had been restored Ho said some Incidents rii to the peace and these led to attacks 01 and damage to certain places in press reports said I cal army and police units i Kirkuk a city of approximate ly about 150 miles nort of Baghdad fought with Coir m u n i s t demonstrators o Wednesday and 27 person were killed and 150 injured The local authorities ha about regained control thes reports said when the 2n brigade of the 2nd army div sion mutinied killed the depi ty division commander ble tip bridges and seized points in and around the clt The bodies of at least 35 persons including Hie com- mander Turcoman men leading were reported hanged or dragged through streets The reports said there wer incidents elsewhere in Iraq in See 1 Rooster Rouser Aii El has u roster of ers which are causing him more than a peck of legal trouble Page 2 Pageant Opens An estimated spectators lined the route as 76 of the world's most beautiful girls rode in Uliss Uni verse contest parade at Long Beach yesterday Page 5 Classified Comics 20 2 Obituaries Ifi Opinion 8 Society 6 Sports J2 n Sumner Theater ARRESTED WITH FORMER NURSE West Covina Doctor Held in Wife Slaying MURDER Barbara Jean Finch housewife was shol to death at her home in the ex- country club section of West Covina Her husband Dr Bernard R Finch was arrested yesterday in Las Vegas Nev for questioning Anne Dr and Mrs Bernard Finch is aided by an investigator as she version of how Dr Finch her head after she saw Mrs Finch lying on floor il Housekeeper Tells Tale of Violence in Country Club Area Young Maid Claims Beating by Victim's Estranged Mate A wealthy West Covina lor is to be returned from Las Vegas this morning to face murder charges in the mid- night slaying of his attractive estranged wife Dr Bernard Finch 43 was arrested in the Nevada city yesterday after his wife's body was found near their ve hilltop home at 2750 Lark Hill Drive West Covina Mrs Barbara Finch was found sprawled near 4 trail leading to her parents home where she apparently sought protection from her attacker She had been shot once po lice the 38 caliber bullet entering the rear of her right shoulder and emerging under rier heart Dr Finch co-owner and staff member of the West Covina Medical Center S ange Ave denied any edge of the slaying claiming he had been in Las Vegas since Friday His young housekeeper Swedish born Marie Anne Lidholm however told police the doctor knocked her scious by crashing her head against a wall shortly before Mrs Finch was slain West Covina police were alerted Saturday at p.m when Miss Lidholm phoned and cried Dr Finch is killing his wife When police arrived the woman was dead A woman claiming to be the girl friend of Dr Finch told Las Vegas police last night she had driven him back into fornia and to his home day night Carol Tregoff 22 at whose apartment Dr Finch was ar- rested said lie was going to ask his wife for a divorce The red-haired cocktail waitress a former nurse at Finch's office told police Mrs Finch pulled a gun and a scuffle ensued She said she fled he house reluming to Las Vegas alone hut as slie wits leaving heard one and possibly two shots Dr Bernard R Finch Held In wife's Deputies said Finch had scratches on one arm and hand The housekeeper said Mrs Finch arrived home from a tennis engagement and was met at the garage by her band with whom she has been separated since last May She said she heard sounds of quarrel then screams for help She ran to the o find Mrs Finch lying on tho floor bleeding from a cut on her forehead The housekeeper said she turned the lights on only to have the doctor grab her head and slam it two or three times against the wall ing the plaster and knocking her unconscious Miss Lidholm told police that when she awoke Dr Finch was standing over her with a gun and forced her and Mrs Finch into his wife's 1957 Mrs Finch then bolted the car and tried to escape to the home of Dr and Mrs Raymond B about 75 yards away down the hillside Miss Lidholm said a shot antt then called police The slain woman Is the Turn lo 10 Tregoff 22 is questioned at the Las Vegas Ney sheriff's office about the slaying of Mrs Barbara Jean Finch in West Covina Miss Tregoff said she is a friend of the victim's husband Or nard R Finch who is being held in las Vegas Lost Family Survives J Desert Ordeal MOAB family of six children aged 4 to rescued yes made it through today Prayer and the Lord helped Scott said he and his wife after being stranded for more than two days in hot and children had no food nor istern Utah desert wator hc they cft out food or water The family of Mr and Mrs Virl B Scott of Murray Utah was flown to the Moab airport from the remote Country ofi Standing Rocks near the fluence of the Green and rado rivers Scott said they survived by rationing a pint of water from their disabled auto's radiator eating some salmon egg fish bait and digging into the dirt to keep out of the heat and sun We arc filthy dirty from dirt baths from our heads as relatives look him from the airport o heir home lo rest they left Moab Friday at 7 until two Civil Air Patrol fliers landed in the rugged area and hiked to them yesterday about 9 After the fliers reached them a pickup truck finally negotiated the rough uranium prospector's road and took them between five and 30 miles to a point where two planes landed From other there they were flown to Moab The point where they were stranded is described as about 40 air miles southwest of Moab in the wild desolate and ly c has mod rock country through which Green and Colorado rivers snake until they meet near Cataract yon Speaking slowly so as to make his cracked voice The left Friday ble he ring planning a Strive to Dead When two view so did we I don't sec how But Scott said they took a we survived as long as we of wrong turns and be- and I'm sure WB couldn't lost
