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THE WEATHER STORY BAY AREA High fog through Monday, but clearing inland in the afternoons. Low temperatures this morning 48 to 53; high today 65. Westerly winds 12 to 25 m.p.h. in the afternoon. HELTON ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 21? 187-4 OAKLAND.

CALIFORNIA TE mplebar 2-6000 $2.25 A MONTH VOL. 176, NO. 168 SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1962 10 DAILY, 20 SUNDAY CCCCC PI u.s ares an If A-War Conies BBBBBBBB II I West Berlin Rally Marks 953 Revolt Rusk Says Conflict Peril Grows Strategy Aim To Preserve Europe Cities I CONCORD, N. H. tf ANN ARBOR, Mich.

MV- Secretary of Defense Robert Secretary of State Dean Rusk Saturday warned the danger of war by accident is being McNamara spelled out to Boat, Plastic Bag night the nuclear strategy the increased by the unchecked nuclear arms race and he ap United States would use -if major war came in Europe-r-including no city bombing un pealed anew for an enforceable disarmament agreement. less driven to it by Soviet action. Clues In Rock Brea Only one breakthrough is BERLIN (UPII West Berliners lighted bonfires along ''the wall" and marched the streets with torches Saturday night in memory of the city's anti-Communist uprising nine years ago which had to be broken by Russian tanks. A giant rally, ejpected to draw 100,000 to hear West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, was set for today at the West Berlin City Hall. It was on -June 17, 1953, that East Berlin workers revolted.

Soviet guns killed 120 before order was At the same time, the U.S. required," Rusk said. "The Soviet Union must realize that it cannot eat the cake of dis defense chief sharply chal armament and keep the cake lenged, without naming names. President Charles de Gaulle's plan for France to go it alone with her o.wn of secrecy It is our hope Mystery Craft, List of Names Probed by, FBI that the Soviets will come to realize that secrecy is a dangerous anachronism in a nuclear age." nuclear weapons and strategy. Chutist Survives Long Punge He raised questions about In a speech to the -New 1 I the dangers created by a relatively weak nuclear nation, lampshire Council of World By BUCK WILSON Affairs, Rusk blamed the Two new major clues in the 1 Soviet's unwillingness to ac Golden Gate after making its stop.

cept a disarmament inspection Alcatraz escape emerged Saturday but still provided no Coast Guard officials said their 144-foot cutter Comanche and control system for the total failure of all the East-West negotiations to halt the Cuba Sends clear, final answer to the fate of three convicts who silpped off The Rock. was anchored off Fort Point at the time, but noted that the mystery boat could easily arms race. MANY APPROACHES The new, but divergent, evi dence: Troops Into He said the United States have slipped through the Golden Gate unnoticed. The report touched off an Discovery off the waters of including the possibility that its very weakness might invite a attack by McNamara set forth his views in a speech at the University of Michigan commencement. CLOSE REVIEW The text was understood to have been reviewed at the highest policy-making levels of government since it 'involves both U.S.

strategy in relation to allies and an apparent critique of the ambitions of one of the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Or has tried many approaches to VENTURA W) A sky-diver suffered serious injuries Saturday when his parachute failed and his emergency chute opened below 1,000 feet. Sheriff's deputies said he is Armand Eichwald, 32, a Santa Barbara laboratory technician. He was taken to a Santa Paula hospital with compound fractures of vertebra in lower back. Eichwald was injured when wind slammed him into the bank of the dry Santa Clara River 30 miles east of here. Eichwald told a reporter he the Golden Gate of an airtight.

intense, boat -by -boat search Rebel Area meet Soviet objections to inspection on the ground that it would only mean Western plastic bag containing names and addresses of persons the escapees planned to contact. Tribune photo by Bill Crouch 3IYSTERY BOAT San Francisco policeman Robert Checchi points to the spot between Alcatraz and St. Francis Yacht Harbor where he saw a large boat stop for 15 minutes on the night three convicts escaped. A San Francisco ponce offi Rusk Jo Europe Compiled From AP and UPI KEY WEST, Cas cer's report of seeing a large boat linger off Alcatraz early Tuesday morning, about the tro regime sent troops and time of the escape. tanks to the Cuban city of Cardenas Saturday in a dis Federal authorities said the Flight Engineers finding of the bag supports WASHINGTON Secretary of State Dean Rusk -will fly to Europe Tuesday for a series of conferences aimed at forging closer U.S.

ties with Western European nations themselves moving toward greater unity. play of force after a counterrevolutionary street demon ganization, France. On nuclear strategy in event of attack on the NATO alliance, McNamara said the was the second of three sky-divers to jump out of a four-passenger plane. He said the plane was at faai their theory that one or all of stration attributed to a severe the escapees drowned. FOUND OFF GATE food shortage.

throughout the Bay Area by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Agents hope to learn why the boat was near Alcatraz at such an early hour, and if any craft is unexplain-edly missing from its dock. Checchi's disclosure also points up a score of possibilities on the whereabouts of the escapees. With a boat of that size, they could still be on the high seas, or could have been transported to Mexico, Canada or other ports without being seen. The sighting also gives agents the first known clue on transportation of the convicts to a spot other than Angel Island, where land searches have so far been centered.

200 YARDS AWAY principal objective of the Strike Postponed In Washington, D.C., James espionage" inside the Soviet Reports reaching here stated that. crowds, principally women, gathered to beat on pots and pans while yelling, "We're hungry." For the first time, Cuban A flight engineers' strike against one or more Union. He declared this coun he nation's three largest air carriers failed" to come V. Bennett, director of Federal Bureau of Prisons, reported the bag was found bobbing in the water off the Golden Gate by the Coast Guard on Friday night. try and its Allies will go on off as expected Saturday night.

Eichwald said he tried three times to open his main chute, then grabbed the emergency ripcord and opened the spare chute "below 1,000 feet." The skydiver said he had planned to make a free fall, in which he would delay opening the parachute until he reached a certain altitude. "All of a sudden 1 realized I had dived too low for a free trying and he expressed hope that someday "responsible But union officials were scheduled to meet again United' States would be destruction of the enemy's military forces, not of his civilian population." But McNamara attached this significant qualifying clause The strength and nature of the alliance make it possible to retain, even after massive surprise Russian attack, "sufficient reserve striking power to destroy an enemy society soldiers marched through the streets wearing Soviet helmets instead of their traditional statemanship" in Moscow will He would not disclose, how his morning in Washington in an effort to arrive at lead to accord. a definite time for 1,700 berets or army caps. Rusk said if the "upward ever, whose names ana addresses were in the bag or whose writing it was. spiral" of nuclear destructive power continues to grow it New Pacts RALLY CALLED Premier Fidel Castro's Gov- Checchi said he was at St.

members of the Flight Engineers Association employed by Eastern Airlines, The FBI. here would not fall," said Eichwald. He said could "by 1966 be double what Frarfcis Yacht Harbor inspect ernment called "a rally to even comment on the find. it is today. if driyen to answer" the free falls usually are started about 8,000 feet.

an American World Airways ing a friend's boat during off-duty hours. He told author Bennett said the bag dis He said all the nations of and Trans World Airlines to lutionaries" who-had protested To this strongly implied warning against city attack the world are presently caught walk off the job. "I grabbed my main chute cord with both hands but it still didn't work." Then, even In Builder Disputes by Russia, McNamara added in a paradox, declaring that while they are "pouring more The decision to strike was covery definitely, has been traced to escapees. Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin. and indicates they got into the water after their elaborately hatched fexit from ities the craft was about 200 yards off shore-rfar outside the range of huge floodlights which illuminate the water near Alcatraz.

reached Saturday afternoon in and more resources and skil though he- was hurtling "to defiance of an urgent request into improving armaments, they are, on balance, enjoying ward the earth, Eichwald counted three and pulled the The Rock. A third new labor contract by President to settle the dispute by means of binding arbitration. less and less security'. GENEVA TALKS eord on the emergency chute. "It opened and broke the "They would not abandon late Saturday brought hopes Such rendezvous point was very favorable for an escape off Alcatraz at that Continued Page 2, Col.

1 fall immediately." of a speedy and complete end Rusk said that as recently A spokesman for the union. these names which they obviously carried for contacts unless they were drowning," Last November George as last April 18 the United soon to the seven-week North fW Al tT.11.. said its officers have been on rrancis, oi ionn nuny States had presented to the and Central California Bennett added. the telephone almost con construction tieup. wood, was killed when he fell 7,000 feet while 100 watched at the same skydiving range BOAT SIGHTED Disarmament Conference at Geneva major 'new proposals and he expressed hope that the Soviets might eventually stantly calling local representatives around the country in Carpenters uninon from 42 the food shortages.

Three Soviet-built Mig jets flew over the city during the parade, which featured an array of weapons from rifles and machine guns to. heavy anti-tank and anti-aircraft cannon. Soviet T-34 tanks also rumbled along the parade route. Maj. Jorge Zerquera, military commander of Matanzas Province, and President Os-waldo Dorticos charged that the -United States instigated the hunger demonstrations.

U. S. BLAMED "If the CIA, if the Yankee State Department, if that illiterate millionaire Mr. Kennedy, nurse.d some hopes with small counter-revolutionary groups, this is the answer of the revolution," Zergucra said. But investigators who- still where Eichwald was injured.

counties outside the Bay Area held to the belief that the an attempt to set a specific agree to negotiate on these. escape was successful 'had late Saturday tentatively ac time for the strike. Lifeguard Saves. Scout In Temescal A 9-year-old Cub Scout who wandered away from a picnic their theories bolstered by that "we are giving a possible opponent the strongest imaginable incentive to refrain from striking our own cities." TOP NATO ISSUE McNamara said "a central military issue facing NATO today is the role of nuclear strategy" and then ticked off items pointing toward what he called increased integra-tion to achieve common defense: 1 The NATO alliance "has over-all nuclear strength adequate to any challenge con fronting it." 2 This strength "not only' minimizes the likelihood of major nuclear war, but. makes possible a strategy designed to preserve the fabric of our societies if war should occur." 3 The damage to civilian-society from nuclear war.

would be very grave. 4 Improved non nuclear forces, "well within alliance cepted an agreement calling "If the Soviet Union and other Communist states wish The walkout, if fully ef Africa Chiefs Agree On Common Market the report from Officer Robert tor bo cents in wage and general disarmament Checchi of sighting a fringe benefit increase Rusk said, "they must be pre suspicious boat off Alcatraz CAIRO Six North and fective against all three of the airlines involved in the labor dispute would idle workers and knock out 40 per cent of the nation's com pared to await the verdict of spread over the three-year Tuesday. history and of peoples as West African government chiefs agreed today to form an pact, the Associated Genera Checchi, assigned to San at Lake Temescal and fell to the merits of political sys Contractors announced. African common market. Francisco's highly specialized mercial air service.

tems; that verdict must not into 25-foot-deep water was saved from drowning Satur The decision was taken at a TALKS CONTINUE be imposed." Squad," told his superiors he saw the boat halt for near Bay Area flights affected summit conference attended Negotiations between con The Quiet Ona, See Parade could be 17 TWA trips to Los Angeles and the East and four ly 15 minutes before resuming by President Gamal Abde: Nasser of the United Arab Re day by the quick action of a lifeguard. The guard, Steve Cuthbert, a University of California tractors and laborers' union officials still were continuing its course. weekly over-the-Pole flights public, King Hassan II of Mo Checchi said he was stand to Europe. Pan American student, heard the screams of rocco, Premier Ben Youssef Ben Khedda of the 'Algerian could be forced to cancel its a woman, raced around the provisional government, Pres ing at the St. Francis Yacht Harbor, on the Marina district waterfront, when he sighted the 30-foot craft approaching perimeter of the lake and State Law to Idle Under-18 Grads daily flights to Hawaii, the Orient and Europe, as well as its three weekly trips to Central and South America.

ident Mobido Keita of Mali President Sekou Toure of Gui dived into the water. resources, cpuld enhance de--terrence of any aggressive Alcatraz from the east about After two dives, he found Leon Courtney, 9, unconscious nea and Foreign Minister Ako Adji of Ghana, representing Eastern Airlines has no direct 1 a.m. Tuesday. He said the boat, which appeared to be a in the mud. He dragged him President Kwane Nkrumah of service to the Bay Area.

Ghana. fishing vessel, headed for the to the surface and applied mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, At issue are wages and a By DICK R1CCA Tribune Education Writer two-year dispute centering reviving him. The boy, who lives at 1211 around the replacing of flight engineers, aboard jets with which says a boy or girl who is Ylh cannot be given the 61st was reported in fair condition at Kaiser Founda men who have both pilot and same occupational opportuni Sunday Tribune Index flight engineer qualifications. tion Hospital. ty as those who have reached the favored age of 18.

At present, jets carry four- muvt's Miun ui uireci, au-ouj attack on Western NATO POTENTIAL The Soviets have superiority in non-nuclear forces today but that superiority "is by no means overwhelming," McNamara said. NATO has the potential for defense, against such manpower alone NATO has more men under arms, than." Russia and her satellites, he said. The United States has added $10 billion for non-nuclear strength buildup in the' current and next fiscal years. McNamara mentioned neither- France nor De Gaulle man crews composed of three Picture on Pg at a late hour Saturday. New talks with other construction unions "with lapsed contracts are scheduled for early in the week.

Most of $3.5 billion in area building projects is held up in the complicated strike and work shutdown. First breakthrough in the long furlough from construction work came Friday with agreement on two significant contracts. 3-YEAR PACTS New three-year pacts were tentatively agreed upon with Operating Engineers Local 3 and the Bay. District Council of Carpenters. Employers said the two contracts called for about 22 cents an hour or more in wage increases and fringe benefits in each of the three years.

A special meeting to vote on ratification of the tentative settlement will be held at 8 p.m. Monday by Operating Engineers Local 3, Eastbay District 2, at the Labor Continued Page 2, Col. 4 pilots and a flight engineer. Stephen Lee, supervisor of the youth and student section of the California Department A presidential board has Jilted Man Slays Girl's Mother, Self of Employment, says he ex pects to have nearly 10,000 graduates looking for jobs by SALINAS -m- Sheriffs in. recommended that the crews be reduced to.

three men and that the third serve as both flight engineer and relief pilot. Efforts to facilitate this by combining the flight engineers FAMILY LIFE Building Real Estate Homes Gardens Knave Peale Photo- Travel TELEVISION Best Bets Humphrey Radio TV Mailbox Under California law, many members of the high school class of 1962 will be condemned to a post graduate course in idleness. They are representatives of that 40- per cent of this year's graduates who aren't planning to go to college. For all intents and purposes, their education ended last week when they received their high school diplomas. Now they are ready to go to work and take their place in the adult world.

Few will have an easy time finding job, but nearly half of them will find most jobs closed to them, because they are under 18. They are -victims of a law EL DORADO Art Books Bridge Calendar Crossword Music Records Theaters WORLD OF OHE. Clubs Mixing Bowl Causerie Society the end uf the summer. vestigators said a 54-year-old rejected suitor of a 17-year-old Of this group, Lee -points girl, killed her mother Satur day night and committed sui out the 17 year old is at a great disadvantage! union with that of the larger pilot -union have failed. Flight engineers have balked at the cide with the murder gun.

The girl and her sister were In most cases, ne explained, "the 17-year-old will proposal, wounded the shooting. when he turned to the matter of ah independent nuclear force. He put it this way: "In, particular, relatively weak national nuclear forces with enemy cities as their targets, are not likely to be sufficient to perform even the function of deterrence William Mateo Sahagon and Mrs. Gloria Ferrer, 34, are Guide lo IVcws Sections stay unemployed until he is 18, sometimes even, longer." State labor laws require anyone under 13 to have a dead. Mrs.

Ferrer daughter Observers have noted that it would be far easier for the pilot to qualify as a flight engineer than for the flight engineer to qualify as a pilot. victoria, the object of the dead man's affection. Continued Page 2, Col. 5 Classified Ads 1-1 8C Churches 22 Editorials 27 Financial 35-37 Islands In the Bay. .23 Sports 29-34 Vital Statistics 24.

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