NEW GUINEA SEARCH

Press, Volume C, Issue 29680, 25 November 1961, Page 11

NEW GUINEA SEARCH

U.S. Navy May Assist <N Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, Nov. 24. American warships and naval aircraft are expected soon to join the search for Michael Rockefeller, the 23-year-old son of New York’s Governor, Mr Nelson Rockefeller, who was lost off the south coast of Dutch New Guinea, according to United Press International Governor Rockefeller, who flew to the area after his son was reported missing, was said to feel there still was “a glimmer of hope” that the search would succeed. He is planning to stay in the area until Sunday before boarding a plane to fly home. He will leave just one week after his son was last seen swimming for the shore from the disabled native boat in which he and a Dutch companion, Dr. Rene Wassing, were sailing down the coast. At The Hague, a Defence Ministry spokesman Mid that the Dutch Government bad "gladly accepted” an offer of help from the United States Navy to join the intensified search. The spokesman said the commander-in-chief of the United States Pacific Fleet. Admiral John A. Sides, had sent messages directly to the Dutch naval chief in Hollandia offering an aircraftcarrier with helicopters, patrol planes and other surface Th* °® er was relayed ,nd Dutch decided to accept