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2 Pa pp. Ton fa 'J 9ru-f" WEATHER Variable cloudiness tonight Cloudy with scattered light anow beginning late Tuesday. Little temperature change. Low tonight 15-20. High Tuesday 35.

Sun sets 4:42 p.m. Rises 7:24 a.m. 101st Year No. 137 For fafo Reception Switch to FM Kennedy, ef elleir Adenauer Open Talks On Berlin OCK ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA, MONDAY.

NOVEMBER 20. 1961 Associated Press Leased Wir ii Hope Son A wvtj jour nam wees Buoyed by May Be Safe ty COMPANION RESCUED OFF GUINEA COAST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller flew toward the far Pacific today to give whatever aide he could to bis son Michael, last reported lost off the wild south coast of By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP) Presi-dent Kennedy and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer open series of policy conferences today in effort to agree on a basis for Western negotiation with the Soviet Union to settle the Berlin dispute.

Kennedy was reported hopeful that Adenauer would accept a flexible allowing for some concessions by the West, if the Soviet Union is willing to respect "vital interests" of the The President had telegraphed Rockefeller: "I am extremely sorry to hear about your son. Everyone connected with the government is most anxious to be of their prahu, a native craft made of two canoes joined together. The two had been on a hunt for primitive art and sculpture along New Guinea's southern coast of swamp and jungle, one of the wildest areas in the world. The governor, shaken and pale, arrived here this morning from New York on the first leg of the long joume. In New York, the Journal-Arierican indirectly quoted the Dutch companion, Rene S.

Wassink, as saying he saw Michael swimming in the ocean toward the New Guinea shore Saturday morning, New York time. "I don't know he made it, I haven't seen him since." quote was relayed the newspaper via telephone by Johan Van Beuge, director for Administrative, political and international affairs for New Guinea. Van Beuge also said Wassink was clinging to the capsized canoe at the time of his rescue this morning. The Dutch government here quoted Wassink as saying he had A A s.r A c-i iH a Royal Fleming conservatory at Antwerp and organist of the metropolitan cathedral of Bel-gium, will join St. John's symphony orchestra, under the direction of Gerhard Track, to play a Handel concerto.

The organ contains 45 separate registers comprising 65 ranks of pipes. The smallest pipe is three-eighth inch long and the largest is 16 feet. The recital begins at 8:30 p.m. Pipes Will Speak VS in the giant new Hotlkamp organ in St. John's abbey-university church, will come to life Tuesday night when world-famous organist and Belgian composer Flor Peeters plays a recital at the dedication and blessing of the instrument in in the new structure.

Rt. Rev. Baldwin Dwor-shak, OSB, abbot of St. John's abbey, will preside at the dedication. Peeters, director of the Girl's Story Hints Yacht Killed Skipper New Guinea.

The governor's party took off from San Francisco on a Pan American jetliner for Tokyo. As Rockefeller resumed his hur- ried. journey to the far-distant jungle island in the Western Pacific, he had some hope that his so might be safe. Michael's companion during the New Guinea mishap reportedly has been rescued, Dutch officials reported at the Hague, Netherlands. And the Dutch also said there was some indication that Michael too would be found safe.

Young Rockefeller was last seen floating on two all purpose military cans that could be used to keep him afloat, his rescued companion reported. Rescued R. S. Wassink, 34-year-old Dutch official, said he and Michael were forced to abandon officer in charge of marine investigations, said the standard procedure would be to refer the case to the Justice Department but since "the criminal negligence lies with a deceased it is not now known what will be done. Asked if the Coast Guard had drawn a definite conclusion that Harvey killed the passengers and sank the ship, Barber said such an announcement would have to wait until the investigation is completed.

Terry Jo's parents, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Duperrault; her brother, Brian, 14; and the captain's wife, Mary Harvey, apparently went down with the ship. The body of Terry Jo's sister, Renee, 7, was found in the dinghy in which Harvey escaped. The tall, powerfully-built skip per, 45, a former air force officer, told the Coast Guard, after a passing freighter picked- him up and brought him to Miami, that the ship's mast broke and tore a hole in the bottom.

The child denied that the yacht's mast broke or that there was fire aboard the vessel, as Harvey had reported. During Harvey's interrogation Thursday, Barber said, the word came that Terry Jo had been saved and Harvey expressed sur- I Oth Western powers in West Berlin. I The West German chancellor arrived here Sunday calling for cooperation among the Allies and predicting victory for "the peace- loving nations in the cold war. He told Secretary of State Dean Rusk who met his plane at Andrews Air Force Base that he is "convinced the peace-loving na tions will win." This is the 85-year-old German leader second visit since Ken nedy took office in January. He was here in April for a get-ac- quamted meeting.

He told Rusk, "My country is firmly on your aide. husk described Adenauer as "the dean of the Western world whose judgment is a great asset to the entire Western communi ty." He said the chancellor is "always a most welcome guest." Adenauer was accompanied by his new foreign minister, Gerhard Schroeder, and by Defense Min ister Franz Joseph Strauss. They will serve as advisers and also hold parallel talks with Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNaraara. In advance the late afternoon White House session, U.S.

officials said they were not sure about Adenauer's mood in coming here or Just how much flexibility he would display on key issues, but they said he has appeared to be seriously interested in prospects for East-West negotiations on Ber lin. U.S. officials; wid thaja er disagreements between Adenauer and Kennedy on fundamental issues. Both men are agreed that the Interests of the West require the continued presence of U.S. and British troops in West Berlin.

They also agree that West Berlin's access rojtes to West Germany across Communist East Germany must be kept open, and they consider workable ties between West Berlin and West Germany essential to the city's survival. The points of difference lie just beyond these agreed fundamentals: 1. Adenauer insisted last week that the Soviet government must agree to destroy the wall built by East Germany to seal off East Berlin from West Berin. The Kennedy administration is known to favor demanding that the Soviet Union destroy the but officials do not think there is any chance Soviet Premier Khrushchev will agree. They do not want See Page 2, No.

5 Jo said she saw the bodies of her mother and brother on the floor of the main cabin and saw blood all over the cabin and the main deck. Harvey, who killed himself last Friday after learning that Terry Jo had survived, took the ship's dinghy and main life raft and jumped overboard, leaving her MIAMI, Fla. (AP)- A terror- filled story indicating that Capt. Julian Harvey slaughtered the passengers of the ketch Bluebelle has been told to the Coast Guard by the lone survivor, Terry Jo Duperrault, It, of Green Bay, Wis. Well before the Bluebelle went down in Bahamas waters Nov.

11 with, the loss of five lives, Terry last seen Rockefeller off the southern mouth of the Eilanden River. Gov. Rockefeller planned to charter a plane from Tokyo to New Guinea. The governor, 53. said he had expressed his gratitude to dent Kennedy for a message of sympathy and offer of help.

GOV. ROCKEFELLER dash U.S. Seeks U.N. End to Congo Rifts UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) -The United States, fearful that Antoine Gizenga might withdraw Oriental Province from the Congo, sought today to have the U.N.

Security-Council call for an end to all secessionist activities in the turbulent country. U.S. delegates scheduled a meeting with delegates of Ceylon, Liberia and the United Arab Re public to urge them to write such a general anti-secession provision into a resolution they introduced last Wednesday. The resolution now calls for an end to secessionist activities only in Katanga Province. The 11-nation council was to meet this afternoon.

The three-nation resolution lacked the votes to pass in its original form and ran the risk of a Soviet veto if changed to suit the United States. Acting Secretary-General Thant was prepared to tell the council after the vote what he planned to do in the Congo. He told his Congo advisory committee Friday that previous resolu tions gave him all the authority he needed, but he was expected to welcome any new powers the council might grant. Besides demanding an end to the Katangan secession proclaimed 16 months ago by President Moise Tshombe, the resolution before the council would: 1. Authorize the secretary-gen eral to use force if necessary to deport foreign mercenaries from the Congo or detain them for Congolese legal action; 2.

Ask all countries not to supply war materials to the Congo nor to let such materials pass through their territories except for the U.N. Congo force. 3. Declare determination to help the Congolese central government Pag. 2, No 1 stranded on the she apU; Barber, district Seating of Russian Church Hailed by World Council Terry's story was disclosed by the Coast Guard at a news conference today.

The girl was interviewed Sunday by FBI agents and Coast Guard investigators in the hospital room where she is recovering from an ordeal of 314 days on 9 tiny raft bouncing through WOO bled seas the Hungarian Reformed Church in America. The Rt. Rev. Zoltan Beky of Trenton, N.J., bishop of the Hungarian Church, voiced the fear Russian churchmen would use the council "as a platform for political purposes." Other churchmen from East and West said the entry of the Russian Church broadened the scope of the Christian unity movement and gave ancient Eastern denominations full representation in it. Twenty-two other church bodies were admitted, including the Bul- Se Pag 2 No.

2 every possible assistance. I hope you will call on us for whatever assistance the Defense Department or any other agency can render." The Rockefeller party did not include Mrs. Rockefeller, from whom the governor has separated after 31 years of marriage. Michael, 23, was on a hunt for primitive art and sculpture in aa area described by a recent companion as "one of the wildest parts of the world." Officials in Port Moresby, cap ital of Australian New Guinea, reported early today that information received by government sources there indicated that Michael was missing in swamp lands about 250 miles northwest of Merauke, Dutch New Guinea. A Royal Australian plane was due in Port Moresby, just east of the Dutch New Guinea border, to aid in the search.

An Australian DC3 also was being readied to join the search. Young Rockefeller had gone to New Guinea last March to join a Harvard anthropological expedition in the mountainious jungle interior. After the team broke up, he remained to search for primitive artifacts ir. a southern area known as Asmat. The area was described by Dutch officials as a "controlled" one, meaning that it is relatively civilized.

In Boston, a student who accompanied young Rockefeller on the original expedition said the area where Michael is reported missing is not considered Jiaaard-ous. "1 do not believe he (Rockefeller) is in any danger from, the natives," said Samuel Putnam of Concord, a student at Harvard Medical School. Other members of the original expedition said many of the fierce tribes were but a few years removed from the stage. Dr. Robert C.

Gardner, director of the film study center at Harvard, headed the expedition. He said tribes in the area it had penetrated rated their prestige among their fellow-tribesmen on the number of enemies they killed. Gardner accompanied Gov. Rockefeller on the hurried flight to the search area. He said he hoped his familiarity with the terrain there might be of some aid.

Se. Pag. 2, No. 4 Papuans Murder 3 in Jungle HOLLANDIA, New Guinea (AP) Papuan tribesmen murdered and mutilated a 32-year-old Dutch administrator and two native policemen at a village in the Dutch New Guinea jungle last week, police revealed in Hollandia today. The killings took place at a village 40 miles east of Hollandia.

Officials said there was no connection between the murders and the disappearance of young Michael Rockfeller. The river where Rockefeller as last sighted was hundreds of miles from the village. the pair prowling near the bank and wanted to see whether Welke could identify either. Once inside Welke's home, the pair shucked their handcuffs. Welke was told he and his family would be killed if he didn't cooperate in their plan to rob the Glen Park branch of the Gary Trust Savings Bank.

The banker asked his wife, Betty, not to scream or sound any alarm. He sent their 3-year-old son to bed with a supply of picture books. The gunmen washed and shaved and talked about plans to go to Argentina, oelieving they couldn't be extradited from that country. Around 8 p.m., Welke's wife and son were tied up and left in the home. Welke was forced to open the night deposit safe.

He said the robbers took only cash. The banker said the main vault time lock wouldn't open until mid-morning. As they left, the men bound Welke to a pipe in the bank base-, ment with handcuffs used in their ruse. He broke loose in half an hour and Uia FBI. Adenauer Comes to Talks Approaching End of Line prise.

He left hurriedly. He was found the next day in a motel room with his veins slashed. Barber said Terry Jo told this story of her ordeal on the Blue belle: About 9 p.m., Nov. 12, she went to bed in the after port stateroom Sometime later, she was awak ened by screaming and, stamping ana running -noises on inp obck. She recognized some- of the screams as coming from Brian Running toward the companion way stairs, she passed the central cabin and saw her mother and Brian lying on the floor and blood all over.

Up on the deck, she saw more blood and Harvey coming at her through the darkness, with something in his hand she thought to be a pair or bucket. "Get down there!" he growled in a deep voice. He struck her and pushed her back down the stairs. At the frightened blonde child went back into her room, she heard water sloshing on the deck and wondered if the captain was washing off the blood. Harvey came into the room holding something she believed to be a rifle, stared at her, then left without saying anything and went back up on deck.

She heard Se Pag 2 No. 3 a dozen places along its 25-mile length. At the Brandenburg Gate a double concrete wall went up, each part 3'i to 4 feet thick, about 6'2 feet high and only a few inches apart. At the Potsdamer Platz, once a major crossing point between East and West Berlin, the Communists reinforced the wall with a double row of steel tank barriers. They were shielded by a camouflage net a block long.

If 1 A "tt'b i MjV, A A- 4 Irs 4-1 vlf in A sij I Aih Inl ra -r Mi- NEW DELHI, India (AP) The Russian Orthodox Church was admitted today to the World Council of Churches amid misgivings and considerable acclaim. The step came as believers of nearly every kind and culture began the most widely inclusive Christian convocation of the mod ern era. Outside the meeting place at the Vigyan Bhawan Temple of Learning a picket carried a sign reading "Russian clergy are Communist agents, not servants of God." But among church envoys here for the council's third general assembly, vigorous applause greeted the action seating the 16-man years to his authoritarian ways." It was demonstrated last Sep tember when in West Germany's elections his Christian Democratic party failed to win a majority in Parliament. He had to seek the support of the Free Democrats in order to get re-elected chancellor once more. After seven weeks of haggling, the Free Democrats exacted a price.

They were willing to put up with him but not indefinitely. On Nov. 8 he gave them a written guarantee he would retire before his term's end in 1965. It may be in 1963. It is against this background that he' is here a leader whose days are numbered to discuss with Kennedy solution's which will affect the future of Europe and therefore the Western alliance against communism.

Under his leadership, but with large American help, his country has risen from devastation to a soaring prosperity which 12 years ago might have seemed unbelievable. But his vision was broader than Germany. He led his country Into the Western Alliance. Through his re lations with French President Charles de Gaulle he has sought to dry up the ancient German-French enmity. He took his country into the European common market, which may do more for the prosperity of that area than any single act in history.

The result may be a Western Europe so powerful and united that it will truly a third world force no longer looking to this Ste Pas i. No 4 Russian Church delegation. Each member denomination 175 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and Old Catholic bodies was entitled to one vote. Two U.S. churches abstained the Russian Orthodox Church in America and Court Bows: States May Let Women Off Juries WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S.

Supreme Court, with a bow to women who feel their place is in the home, ruled unanimously today that states may relieve women of jury duty unless they volunteer to serve. The decision was given in the case of Mrs. Gwendolyn Hoyt, sentenced in Florida in 1958 to 30 years imprisonment for killing her husband with a baseball bat. In an appeal to the high tribunal, Mrs. Hoyt's lawyers argued she was unconstitutionally deprived of equal protection of the law because the jury that tried her was all-male.

Florida law says: "The name of no female shall be taken for jury service unless caid person has registered with the clerk of the court' her desire to be placed on the jury list." Justice Harlan, delivering the decision, which turned down Mrs. Hoyt's appeal, said there has been an "enlightened emancipation" of women over the years. But still, he said, woman is considered to be the center of home and family life. "We cannot say," he continued, "that it is constitutionally im permissible for a state, acting in pursuit of the general welfare, to conclude that a woman should be relieved from the civic duty of jury service unless she herself determines that such service is consistent with her own special responsibilities." Florida is not alone in this po sition, said Harlan. He related that of 47 states where women are eligible for jury service, 17 District of Columbia, give women an absolute exemption.

Today's decision does not mean that all women who volunteer must be taken for jury service. The decision simply upheld the Florida law which says no woman shall be taken unless she registers her desire to be put on the jury list. 3 Held as Bank Bandits Await $60,000 Getaway By JAMES MARLOW Associate! Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) An old man, who for 12 years nursed an idea which now seems as forlorn as the last leaf the wind has forgotten, today began another round in a career which is coming to a close. At 85. West Germany's Chancellor Adenauer is the oldest head of a major government.

He came here to talk with President Kennedy about Berlin, the Russians, and East Germany. What he has in mind isn't clear at all at this point. He is still vigorous but he is on his way out. An Associated Press report from Bonn this month talked of German "resentment that has built up over the KONRAD ADENAUER -Ax 1 1 between East and West Berlin. They waited until dark before sending construction gangs to at least six points along the 25-mile border to work under floodlights.

(AP photo) REDS CLOSE GAPS IN BERLIN WALL Hel-meted and armed guards stand watch as another uses an air drill to dig holes for concrete fence posts to plug gaps in the wall GARY, Ind. (AP) A banker was held prisoner with his wife and son 12 hours before three swarthy gunmen escaped in his car today with about $60,000 loot. Robert F. Welke, 43, whose bank had already been robbed twice this year, said the bandits got into his house by posing as a policeman with two prowlers in custody. Welke told the FBI two of the men were in handcuffs when they were brought to the door of his home.

The third man posted as a policeman, saying he had caught 6 Airmen Survive U.N. Plane Crash ROME (AP)-Wreckage of an Italian air force transport missing on a U.N. congo mission was sighted today in Tanganyika, and the Italian government announced six Italian Airmen survived the crash. The CI 19 disappeared Friday on a flight from Entebbe, Uganda, to Leopoldville with eight Italian crewmen and two U.N. civilian employes aboard.

Reds Add Tank Traps to Berlin Wall BERLIN (AP) The Communists today strengthened the wall dividing Berlin with tank traps and barriers as if they were digging to repel an invasion. Big propaganda signs were tacked up in front of the Brandenburg Gate reading: "Anyone who attacks us will be annihilated." About 2,000 workers, under the watchful eyes of 2,000 armed guards, labored feverisly during the night erecting massive fortifications that look more and more permanent. There was little military activity on the Western side of the wall. Ten U.S. tanks remained about 600 yards from the Friedrich-slrasse crossing point.

Two armored personnel carriers stood in the street itself, where they have been for. a month. Streetcar tracks were torn up to make tank traps and the wall was made thicker and higher in.

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