TUESDAY. MARCH 6. 1962 i
Powers |to Tell
For First Time
WASHINGTON (AP)—U2 pilot
Fra no? Gary Powers wiH tell his
story in' public today for the
first lime' since he was convicted
ini Moscow of being an American
«py- : !
Chairman Richard B. Russell,
D-Ga.,; announced, -yesterday the
flier wjl| appear at 2 pun. at lan
open session of the Senate Armed
Services Committee.-
It 1 will:be Powers ‘first public
appearance since he was released
on Feb. 10 in exchange for (the
Soviet spy, Rudolf L Abel. j
THE : DECISION to question
Powers at an open session was
announcedafter a closed briefing
by Central Intelligence Director
John A. McCone before two Sen
ale subcommittees.
McCone was reported to have
told these grpups be was satis
fied with Powers’ story and felt
the flier should not be critized
for what happened when his high
flying reconnaissance plane came
down deep inside Russia on May
1.1960.
Some senators who attended the
briefing told newsmen they felt
Powers had been criticized un
fairly, and that it would be to
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[the advantage of the United;had “no idea what it was.”
States as well as of Powers him-j The Senate Armed Services
self to give a public accounting.! Committee said-a Central Inttl-
THEBE HAVE BEEH Agency statement on the
plaints among some members of| case . would be made public at
Congress that Powers should havej noon today:
destroyed the plane before-bailing! OWE SOURCE said Powers had
out As it was, the plane and it?-successfully undergone be detec
eouipment were recovered virtu- tor tests. This informant said
ally intact by the Russians. that as: be now understood it.
Just what it was that knocked Powers believes his plane was
the plane out of the skies has knocked down by “a near miss
never been made clear. Powers * . Huas,aa "****"
refused to say at! his Moscow , » supposed to have «-
Ti, . . J ploded close enough to knock the!
trial that his craft had been hit:aircraft out of control and send it;
by '.a. rocket at 68,000 feet Hepitching so violently earthward!
conceded he felt an explosion that the pilot was unable to ac
while at this altitude but said he'tivate* self-destruction devices, j
Republican leaders Will
HARRISBURG (ff) Republi
cans reportedly were seeking can-'
didates from the Pittsburgh and I
Philadelphia ■ areas yesterday to
round out the organization-backed
ticket far statewide offices this!
year.
Leaders from all 67 counties
and the GOP State Committee are
due here today to look over and
informally enclose the regular
slate for the May IS primary,
headed .by U.S. Rep. William W.
Scranton, of Dalton; for governor,
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Searchers Recover 96 Bodies
In 111-Victim African Plane (rash
DOUALA, Cameroon (AJP) —[gers said a crew of 10. It plunged
Search, teams struggled through into the coastal swamps just two
dense African jungle Vast night [minutes after what seemed to
;to recover the 111 victims of theibe a normal take-off.
&!! 1“ D«mala. «rline spokesman
c ™\ "We believe everyone on
f u ei 7 ;^ r , aS^,. < *f ti^.l f^ ar t. was killed instantly when,
carping vacationers to Europe. it^e p j a!V . hit tho mud. There was
By nightfall M torn and charredS no explosion, but the fuel
bodies had been assembled in a.burst into flames on hitting the
jungle clearing three auks from ground. High flames could .be
where the iDiir-cix&ine CAlcdonui seen frouv the suxport terminal
Airlines plane crashed after tak- two miles away andthey burned
! ing off from Douala Airport Sun- mosti of the night”
day night for Luxenbourg. _ • , , ...
Rescue Kart clawed into
“THAT WAS an we can really the swamps but ram and the
thope to find, said a Douala air-,swamp slowed the pace of rescue
.port officer. “Conditions could not work and multiplied the difficul
jbe more difficult” ities of investigations seeking a
The DC7C carried 101 passen-lctue to the crash.
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