Rockefeller Still
Has Hopes of
Finding Lost Son
By Robert Myers
MERAUKE, New Guinea UPI -—
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller said to
day he is still hopeful his son
Michael iv jtlive and that he will
remain in New Guinea a few more
days.
But the New York Governor
indicated that chances of his son’s
survival were slim, saying: “I am
a realist and I know what he
faces if he reached that jungle.”
A dispatch from Holland!*, the
capital of Dutch New Guinea,
said Gov. Rockefeller was expect
ed to return there Sunday and to
P leave for New York Monday.
Michael set out to swim more
than two miles through shark
infested waters for shore after
his catamaran raft capsized last
last weekend in treacherous cur
rents off the wild jungle coast.
No trace of him has been found.
The Governor and his daughter
Mary rushed by plane from New
York to help in the search.
Gov. Rockefeller flew over the
tangled vegetation for a personal
search of the area less than an
hour after arriving in Merauke
Tuesday.
He and his daughter. Mary
Strawbridge, Michael’s twin, stud
ied the terrain in obvious dismay
as the DCS covered the coast
from the village of Merauke to
the^y£Uage of Agmts.
•with a thick matting of stubby
mangrove trees. Broad rivers cut
die shore and into each flow thick
muddy streams.
Parts of tee coast have narrow
sand beaches, but in most places
the dirty green mangrow grows
down to the water’s edge.
Dutch officials claim a man
could exist for weeks in this
jungle without getting word out
M or being spotted.
There is no way of searching
thoroughly except by the bush
to-bush method. >
Guarding the jungle from the
sea is a 300-yard-wide mud bank.
Crocodiles laze in the mud near
the shore. Outside the mud,
sharks, some 20 feet long, patrol
the shallow water. Residents say
the sharks are unpredictable and
sometimes do not disturb swim
mers, but there aren’t many who
take a chance.
What lies in store for a man
landing on this hostile coast?
He can subsist on roots, herbs,
a few grasses and river matter.
But he also faces crocodiles,
poisonous snakes and wild ani
mals, plus natives who, although
now officially classified as friend
ly, only a few years ago were
headhunters.
mm* made a final
Ike Deplores What
He Calls the Recent
“Rise of Extremists”
NEW YORK (fft—Former Presi
dent Dwight Eisenhower deplores
what he calls “super-patriots” and
the recent “rise of extremists”
in this country.
He also urged armed forces of
ficers to shun partisan .politics.
Among other points covered by
Eisenhower in the second of a
series of filmed television inter
views presented last night over
the CBS-TV network:
1. The Soviet Union would never
start a nuclear war because of
America’s destructive power.
2. Sooner or later the Soviet
people will get the word that the
free world is against aggression.
3. The foregoing will create
pressure inside the Soviet Union
for disarmament.
,4. The erection of a wall be
tween East and West Berlin is a
sign of Soviet weakness.
3. The removal of the body of
former Premier Stalin from the
tomb in Moscow’s Red Square
shows Premier Khrushchev is un
easy about something.
In connection with Thanksgiv
ing Day Eisenhower said: "We’ve
got a lot of things to be thankful
for. First of all, there’s not a war
. . . we are prosperous, we’re a
free people . . we are a people
that are respected for our strength
and not only our military
strength, our economic strength
throughout the world”.
Layoffs in Alaska
Boost Unemployment
Rate to 10.8 Per Cent
JUNEAU (A — General layoffs
in the construction and trade in
dustries boosted Alaska’s insured
unemployment rate to 10.8 per
cent during the week ending Nov.
18, State Labor Commissioner Gil
Johnson said today.
The rate compared with a rate
of 10.2 per cent during the pre
vious week and <10.3 per cent dur
ing the same week a year ago.
Continuing unemployment total
ed 3,647. New unemployment
totaled 817.
The insured unemployment rate
by area included Anchorage, ;10.1
per cent; Fairbanks, 13.6; Juneau,
6.1; Ketchikan, I'Ll; Nome, 14.3;
Petersburg, 23.7; and Sitka, 6.9.
Argentine Jet Airliner
Crashes Killing 52 Persons
SAO PAULO, Brazil ltf> — In
vestigators today combed the
wreckage of a New York-bound
Argentine jet airliner in an at
tempt to determine what sent it
plunging to the ground, killing
all 52 persons aboard.
One U.S. citizen, Gilbert Luy,
48, was listed by the Argentine
Airline Aerolineas among the vic
tims. Most of the others were
Argentinians.
Theplane.^a Bfttlsh-built Comet
takeoff from; Viraoopes Airport
and burst into what doe wtipwaa
described as a *ibaiU of fin.”
Dominican Republic
Denies Cuban
Charges U.S. Ships
Invaded Waters
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UR —
A representative of the Domini
can Republic today denied Cuban
charges that U.S. warships had
violated Dominican t e r r i torial
waters. He said the U.S. ships
had neither invaded Dominican
waters nor threatened to invade.
Dominican delegate Carlos San
chez told the U.N. Security Coun
cil, on the other* hand, the pre
sence of the U.S. vessels off the
Dominican coast had created a
healthy condition both inside his
country and in the Caribbean
area.
He sharply rebuked the regime
of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel
Castro for bringing the issue to
the United Nations.
Sanchez declared that “if Cuba
is afraid of anything, let her
protest herself and leave us
alone.” He said he saw no reason
to doubt U.S. statements that the
U.S. warships had appeared in
j the Dominican area to avoid a
I possible invasion from Castros
forces.
The council was called into ses
sion Wednesday at the request of
Cuba to consider an alleged US.
plan to invade the Dominican Re
public. The United States denied
the charges at that time and so
did Sanchez, hut the latter asked
to make a more complete declare
. tion this morning.
Sanchez told the council that
<the Dominican population “Re
joiced at seeing the American
ships g<o past.” He said .the U.S.
ships had not been requested by
President Joaquin Balaguer “nor
do we ask them to leave.”
“Their presence,” he said, “has
been a moat healthy preservation
of peace for the Dominican Re
public as well as the entire Carib- {
bean area.” ,
Traffic Deaths Reach 194
Fatalities on the nation’s streets
and highways mounted steadily
today in the second day of the
four-day Thanksgiving weekend.
Deaths in traffic totak-d 194
since the count of holiday week
end fatalities started at 6 p.m.
Wednesday. Fires killed 16 and
there were 19 deaths reported in
miscellaneous mishaps.
The 102-hc-ur weekend ends at
midnight Sunday.
The National Safety Council
did not make an estimate of traf
fic fatalities for the period but
the council said traffic deaths
during a nonholiday, four-day
weekend would total 450 at this
time of the year.
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair and colder. Low tonight
-15, high tomorrow 0. In the last
24 hours: High of IS, low of
>1. Maximum wind 32 mph from I
the northwest Sunrise at 9:03
am., sunset at 2:33 p.m. Temps,
* year ago to day: High of 15,
low of 17. JBktmnies on this
dote since 1907: high of 42 in
1947,1(9* 0* -27, in 1949.® 1
■ * "* ' 1 1,1 1 ..
Brazil Renews Diplomatic
Relations with Russia
-RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil OP) —
Brazil renewed diplomatic rela
tions with the Soviet Union yes
terday in a move apparently in
tended to demonstrate its freedom
from U.S. domination — but it
could mean trouble for the wobbly
young government of Premier
Tancredo Neves.
After a 14-year break. Foreign
Minister Francisco Santiago Dan
tas announced the resumption of
formal ties with Moscow during
a tumultuous session of the Cham
ber of Deputies in Brasilia. Anti
Communist deputies almost shout
ed him down.
Angry congressmen, shouting
“shame” contended that the Com
munists already had a strong
hold in Brazil without the pre
sence of Soviet diplomats in Rio
De Janeiro and the inland capital.
Neves told newsmen that the j
renewal of relations did not mean
that Brazil — which is 95 per
cent Roman Catholic — is selling
out its democratic Christian
ideals.
Relations with the Soviet Union
have been a hot ipotato for Brazil
ian politicians since President
Eurice Gaspar Dutra angrily
broke with Moscow in 1047 be
cause of Soviet newspaper attacks
on him and Brazilian army gen
i erals.
I
U.N. Recognize* Africa
As Nuclear Free Zone
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UR—
The U.N. General Assembly to
day brushed aside Western ob
jections and appealed to all coun
tries to recognize Africa as a nu
clear free zone.
The vote in the 102-nation as
sembly was 55-0 with 44 abstain
ing. The United States and Bri
tain were among those abstaining.
The Soviet bloc voted for the pro
posal. (
The resolution, initiated by a
1 group of African countries, urged
an end to nuclear testing in Afri
ca and called for a voluntary ban
on the transport and stockpiling
of nuclear weapons in Africa.
U.S. delegate Arthur Dean said
the United States sympathizes
with the aims of the sponsors, but
does not believe “that the con
tinent of Africa can be isolated
from the nuclear war or threat of
nuclear war from an uninspected,
uncontrolled agreement.”
Liquor Dealers License
Renewal Applications L..
Headlined for Dec. 15
JMMOSAU UB — Liquor dealers I
must submit their license renewal
applications to the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board by Dec.
15 if they expect to continue un
interrupted operations, Chairman
Bill Hay said today.
Ray said the ABC Board would
need the time from Dec. 15
through Dec. 31 to process the
applications and return the li
cense renewals.
Hay also said envelopes bear
ing license renewal applications
must be postmarked by midnight
Dec. 31 or the license may be con
sidered expired.
AF Transport
Crashes, Five Men
Die - Two Missing
ANCHORAGE UR — An Air
Force transport carrying 10 men
crashed and burned 17 miles
south of Whitehorse yesterday.
Five men died, two are missing
and three parachuted safely.
The pilot was trying to nurse
the crippled plane to Whitehorse,
where he had taken off moments
before. He reported an emergency
but did not say what it was.
The two-engined C-119 left
Elmendorf Air Force Base near
here with 14 men aboard. Four
left the , plane at Whitehorse.
Motorists on the Alaska High
way watched the plane circle and
then head .back toward White
horse, in Yukon Territory.
It was reported to have crash
ed in deep snow at the base of a
mountain. Temperatures in the
area were around zero.
A transport carried a helicopter
from Elmendorf to Whitehorse to
use in the search for the missing
men. Five parachutes were seen
drifting down.
A para-rescue team also was
sent from Elmendorf to help in
the search, which was hampered
by darkness but resumed, full
scale, at dawn.
The three survivors were taoe
I pitallzed but two were released,
after a checkup. They were S/Sgfc*
Leroy Cotton and A/1C J. R
Conklin.
Songfest-Drinking
Bout Ends in Death
For Navajo Indian
SAN FRANCISCO UFI — One
young Navajo, recently resettled
here from his tribal homeland Ian
Arizona, is dead and a second
faces murder charges following
a songfest-drinking bout on a
San Francisco beech.
Police said Wayne Ernie Etsitty,
23, a metal worker, died in a
fight that began with an argu
ment over whose turn it was to
sing.
Held on suspicion of murder
! was Herbert Billah, 19.
Etsitty and Billah were among
nine young NavajOe who wound
up a drinking bout early yester
day by singing tribal songs under
a cypress tree on the beach, police
reported.
Inspector Wm. Guthrie said the
others told him that Billah ac
cused Etsitty of singing out of
turn. They said that during the
fight, Etsitty fell to the ground
and Billah kicked him in die
head three times.
“We were trying to sing some
Navajo songs under the treets,’*
Billah said. “I had two turns and
this guy (Etsitty) tried to jump
me. I can’t fight because I have
a cast on my broken left wrist.
So my only chance was to kick
hkn.”
Doctors said an autopsy show
ed no fractures or other injuries
that could have caused loath
They said iit was possible Etsitty
may have suffocated as he
\ face down in the send.
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