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The OWN SUNDAY Independent rain with 70 tonight per and cent Monday probability morn- of Southland's Considerable cloudiness today Press-Telegram Ing. High today 68. Complete Newspaper weather A-2. Phone HE 5-1161 Classified No. HE 2-5959 PRICE 20 CENTS LONG BEACH 12, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1961 VOL.

10 -NO. 13 176 PAGES TO RUSS-CONQUERED SITE U.S. Plans Antarctic Trek SOUTH POLE STATION, Antarctica (P) American explorers unveiled plans Saturday for a trek across the Antarctic that will blaze a new trail to the Russian conquered Point of Inaccessibility--the geographical center of this ice-capped continent. Jack Long, traverse engineer of the University of Wisconsin, said the route across the Point of Inaccessibility is one of two under consideration. He said the alternate would allow the first check on some mountain peak locations reported in 1911 by Roald Amundsen, the first man to reach the pole, In either case, he said, the trek would cover 1,500 miles and for the first time would use the South Pole as the jumping off point for a surface traverse, Although the expedition is not scheduled to start before next October, preparations already are under way.

The Point of Inaccessibility, about 625 miles from the South Pole, is the Can Drop most remote point inland from all coasts on the continent. It was reached by the Russians several years ago after a journey over trackless territory from their base at Mirny on the Indian Ocean, The Americans, however, are considering trying to approach it from a different direction, also over unexplored territory, then making a left turn into additional trackless territory and finally returning to the South Pole. The alternate traverse would first lead to the Horlick Mountains: in the quadrant of the continent facing the Pacific Ocean. Then it would make a right turn towards the Filchner Ice Shelf in the quadrant facing South America, and eventually turn back toward the pole. Long, a veteran of five traverses, said the location of certain peaks on the route to the pole as originally reported by Amundsen still is open to question, Huge Anywhere, Russians Say MOSCOW -Soviet.

mili-land tary leaders Saturday claimed that the Soviet Union has rocket warheads equivalent to 100 million tons of TNT and the missiles to deliver the superbombs to any point on the globe. They asserted that the Soviet Union is superior to the United States in capabilities for both rocket attack rocket defense and the backbone of the Soviet fleet is missile-firing atomic submarines. But it was admitted for the first time publicly that there was a period when the Soviet Union was virtually defenseless against air attack. The Soviet Union fired a nuclear device of greater than 50 megatons in strength Oct. Dominican Coup Feared at Hand WASHINGTON (P)-The Trujillo Jr.

as leader of the fears here Saturday night of a members of the Trujillo family in the Caribbean Official announcement by the government in Ciudad Trujillo that young Trujillo had resigned and left the country followed by a few hours a United States' warning that trouble was impending in the Dominican Republic. Secretary of State Dean -Rusk in an extraordinary public statement warned that two members of the Trujillo family may be plotting to seize power and create a new dictatorship. "IN VIEW of the possibil- Ity of political disintegration and the dangerous situation which could ensue," statement said, "the government of the United States is considering the further measures that unpredictable events might warrant." Reports from Ciudad Trujillo said departure of young Trujillo from the political scene there was expected to create a political vacuum. dangerous as the one created when his dictator father was assassinated last may 30. The son had been regarded as the force that helped keep the Dominican military from splitting into groups and scrambling for power after his father's death.

The reported existence Flexible Line to Be Urged on Adenauer WASHINGTON (P) -President Kennedy plans to urge German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer this week to approve a flexible Western policy for, negotiations' with Russia on a Berlin settlement. U.S. officials who reported this U.S. policy line Saturday were vague on details. Evidently it aims at readiness to make limited concessions to the Soviets if they scale down their demands.

Adenauer will fly here today from Bonn, Germany. Kennedy and his advisers. are highly uncertain about Adenauer's mood toward the talks, which open Monday and may run through Kennedy Appeals for Brown Victory KILLER WHALE, dubbed Wanda, plows way gracefully across Newport Harbor (above) after three times evading nylon net of capturing crew. Near sundown, however, tiring monster was netted (lower right) and was on way to Marineland of the Photos by. Bob Geivet) FIRST LIVE CAPTIVE Killer Whale Netted in Newport Harbor By BOB GEIVET A killer whale, believed the first ever taken alive, was netted in placid Newport Harbor late Saturday after a 24-hour period in which she kept.

small craft sportsmen at bay. Captured by crewmen from the Marineland of the Pacific, the monster wa's loaded aboard a specially rigged truck Saturday night for an overland trip to Marineland. Her weight: 4,500 pounds. The whale tabbed Wanda temporarily--was docile as she sloshed about in a few feet of water on the truck's low-bed trailer. Three times she had broken out of her captors' nylon nets in the battle that began early Saturday morning.

The Marineland crew, working from the 45-foot boat Geronimo, found they had help from numerous boats which carefully--and a bit fearfully--maneuvered to keep her in Lido channel. NOT EVERYBODY ASHORE however, was pulling for the crewmen as they drew the net tighter around the errant Wanda. When she broke out, cheers rose from thousands lining the banks. Every time a lookout on the bowsprit missed her snout with his lasso, or broke his line, she got cheers. And when he fell in, there was pandemonium.

The seaman, elated over his catch after dozens of misses, let himself down from the catwalk into a rowboat where two other Marineland men had been closing the net. All three crowded the stern to cinch the trap around -and the man went overboard. For the short distance back to the boat, he probably broke all swimming records. Generally, however, Wanda was docile. She broke water all over the north channel as she dodged the craft closing in on her.

Her fate was sealed, however, as she tired- and the net drew tighter. Finally, she tangled and was drawn Soviet Premier Khrushchev has said the Russians have developed a 100-megaton bomb- the equivalent of 100 million tons of TNT. But this was the first time the Soviet Union claimed to have packaged the superbomb in a rocket warhead capable of being fired thousands of miles. The claim was made by Col. Gen.

V. F. Tolubko in the official military newspaper Red Star on the eve of Soviet Artillery Day. Tolubko added: "We can assure those across the ocean who like to go in for military adventures that our ballistic rockets have proved themselves so wonderfully that nobody has any doubts in their ability to lift and deliver any warhead to any point on the globe." In another Red Star article, P. N.

Kuleshov, a colonel general of artillery, wrote that "Moscow and the majority of I the big objectives in the Soviet Union possess powerful rocket and radar defenses and la chain of airdromes for fighter planes we have successfully solved the problems of destroying various rockets in flight." Carrier FDR Placed on Alert JACKSONVILLE, Fla, (P)- The aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt was alerted Saturday, a few hours after returning from operations at sea. Personnel were summoned back to the early in the afternoon. High Navy sources in Washington termed the action "normal training operations." However, the same sources indicated the alert was called by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. resignation of Gen.

Rafael L. Dominican armed forces raised possible coup by two other to set up a new dictatorship of a plot developed from re-, turn to the Dominican Republic on Wednesday of Hector. and Arismendo Trujillo, brothers of the late dictator. Hector was once Dominican president and Arismendo holds the rank of general. Officials said Arismendo is still believed to have a virtual private army loyal to him in the country.

The two men had been in Bermuda for about two weeks and the U.S. State Department thought they probably had left the Dominican Republic more or less perma- nently. Young Trujillo had been cooperating with Dominican, President Joaquin Balaguer in introducing political and ecoreforms. The two Trujillo brothers are known in the Dominican Republic and elsewhere as violent opponents of the restoration of democracy in (Continued Page A-4, Col. 1) FIRST -ROW MOURNERS AT RAYBURN'S SERVICE Attending funeral service for Sam Rayburn in First Baptist Church, Bonham, are President Kennedy (from left), Vice President Lyndon Johnson; former president Dwight D.

Eisenhower and former president Harry S. Truman. Stories on Page Photo) Speech Hits at Extremist 'Crusaders' 2,000 in L.A. Hear President Lash Vigilante Elements By BOB HOUSER Political Editor LOS ANGELES -President Kennedy crisply attacked fanatical "crusades of suspicion" here Saturday night and depicted the crusaders as a fringe element of society seeking to escape responsibility through slogans and scapegoats. Kennedy strongly endorsed Gov.

Edmond G. Brown for reelection. "He's going to be elected," said the President, "because this state, above all others, must continue to move forward, and Pat Brown's administration is committed to progress." The President told more than 2,000 at a $100-a-platedinner in the Hollywood Paladium that although the fanatics may achieve temporary success, "the basic good sense and stability of the great American consensus has always prevailed." ON THE DACIFIC TITO PROTEST IN CLOUDS GREETS JFK LOS ANGELES -Half an hour after President Kennedy flew in from Texas a skywriting plane spelled out over International Airport: "No Aid to Tito." Opponents of aid to Yugoslavia's Communist leader, Tito, have staged several demonstrations in Southern California this week- a previous sky-written message, The demonstrations began before a shipment of U.S. planes recently left. California for Yugoslavia.

Russians Plan to Send Man Around Moon MOSCOW (P) Reports circulated Saturday that the Russians plan to a man around the moon next January. It is not planned for him to land. According to these reports, the "lunanaut" has completed his training and is at the Soviet space base at Baikunur in Kazakhstan waiting for the blast-off IN OBVIOUS slaps at the John Birch Society, the, so-called California Minutemen, the defenders of Gen. Edwin Walker and the current rash of Southern California vigilance meetings, Kennedy said such groups could best be answered with the "different view of our peril" which most Americans take "that it comes from without, not from within." "There have always been those on the fringes of our society who have sought to escape their own responsibilities by finding a' simple solution or a convenient scapegoat," the President said. 60 Bands to Parade Saturday The -21st annual All-Western Band Review, featuring more than 60 of the west's finest high school bands, will be held here, starting at noon Saturday.

unit will be the Millikan High, School Ram band, under direction. of Michael Pappone, announced. Don G. Gill, executive director, who said some 6,000 participants will march westerly along Ocean Boulevard from. Falcon.

Avenue, three-hour to, Cedar musical Avenue extrava- in a ganza. Long Beach schools host the city-sponsored events on a rotating basis. They do not compete for honors. IN HOST division will be the Long Beach Motorcycle Drill Squad, Mayor Edwin Wade, Miss Welcome to Long Beach (Donna Kelley) and the official parade color guard from the U.S. Marine Barracks; U.S.

Naval Station here. An evening program in Municipal Auditorium will include a concert by the Municipal Band, directed by Charles Payne, and exhibitions of baton twirling by Beverly Miller, three time All-Western majorette champion and a national titleholder, and her 13- year-old brother, Darryl, junior champion of California for the past five years. The state champion corps twirlers, also will perform. Music for. a dance following the show will be provided through the Performance Trust Fund, American Federation of Musicians, Local 353.

Bands marching in the I (Continued Page A-14, Col. 4) "FINANCIAL crisis could explained by the presence of too many immigrants or too few greenbacks. War, could be attributed to muInition-makers or international bankers. Peace conferences failed because we were duped by the British or tricked by the French or deceived by the Russians. "It was not the presence of Soviet troops in Eastern Europe that drove it to communism, it was the sellout atYalta.

It was. not a civil war that removed China from the Free. World it was I treason in high places. "At times these fanatics have achieved a temporary' success among those who lack the will or the wisdom to face the unpleasant facts or un(Continued Page A'4, Col. 3) Expect Rain Today LOS ANGELES (UPI) -The U.S.

Weather Bureau reported the Los Angeles area should receive about one-quarter of an inch of rain today. Heavy snow was predicted for the high mountains, WHERE TO FIND IT BEVERLY AADLAND, whose love for Actor Errol Flynn made many a headline, is now "developing into my own personality." Read Staff Writer George Flowers' interview with Miss Aadland on Page A-3. SWEDEN'S NATIONAL policy is to mind its own business--and they do it with impressive, efficiency. Read how they handle the problem of Civil Defense. Story on Page A-10, Regular P-T features follow: Amusements B-10 Music and Arts W-8 Beach Combing B-1', Radio-TV.

TV 1-16 Bridge W-7 Real Estate R1-8 School Menus W-5 1-18 Ship Arrivals A-10 Classified Death Notices B-3 Sports S1-6 B-2. Star Gazer A-0 Medicine and You B-15 News 1-12.

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