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DR.. Pryor said the family's
hopes for Frederic's release had
been rising steadily since be-
fore Christmas because the
student was not being brought
to trial.
my brother told me while
he was home that the longer
the East Germans delayed the
trial. the better the chances
were of Frederic eventually be-
ing released"
DR.. Pryor was the last rela-
tive to see Frederic before his
imprisonment. The clergyman
visited in August with his
nephew while turing East Ber-
lin and Russia. DR.. Pryor re-
turned to the United States
August 81.
Frederic had intended to re-
turn home early in September.
Frederic's father is board
chairman of the Mollard-
Barnes Manufacturing Co.,
Mansfield, Ohio.
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Here is a chronology of the
high points surrounding the
Francis Gary Powers case from
his capture by the Russians to
his release:
May S, 1960-Soviet Premier
Khrushchev announces to So
Wet Parliament Powers high
flying w. jet shot down over
Russian territory on May l. He
accused Powers of spying.
May 6, 1960-United States
State Department denies So
Wet accusation. In subsequent
days, United States Govern
ment reverses itself in broiling
domestic controversy
May 8, 1960-Western allies
see President Eisenhower's po-
sition as mid-May summit con-
ference of Western allies and
Russians weakened.
May II, 1960-Khrushchev
says that unless United States
apologies there will be no sum-
NIT conference. Summit con-
ference breaks up when Khru-
shchev fails to show up.
August II, 1960-Powers goes
on trial in Moscow court.
August 10, 1860 - Powers
pleads guilty, says he is sorry
for flight.
August 10, 1960-Pilot SEN
fenced to 40 years deprivation
of liberty" for spying. First
three years to be spent in prison
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CHRONOLOGY OF CASE
Powers Capture Led
To Summit Breakup

with remainder in labor camp
Sentence provides that time
spent in custody since his plane
came down May l would count
toward prison term.
January /, 1961-Khrushchev
says he is willing to drop U-2
controversy but makes no men
ton of powers.
April S, 1961-USSR drops
U-2 and RB-47 plane incidents
reports begin circulating
Powers to be released).
April IL, 1861 - President
Kennedy says he has no infor-
nation Soviet Union will re-
lease Powers.
May /, 1961-On anniversary
Of his downing, Soviets make
no mention Of Powers in their
May Day celebrations.
February 6, 1962-At Mil
ledgeville, Ga, Powers wife
tells reporters she received
letter from Powers saying
there was no hope for an early
release. Soviet officials told
Powers there was no hope of
clemency or parole because of
the seriousness and gravity of
his crime" Mrs. Powers said.
February 10, 19e2-White
House Press Secretary Pierre
Salinger calls 800 am. news
conference to announce Powers
released and turned over to
United States authorities in
Berlin.
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Powers Due
Big Chunk
In Back Puy
By the Associated Press


Francis Gary Powers, the
U-2 pilot, apparently will find
a stable chunk of money await
ing him on his return from
Russian captivity.
Capt. Powers testified at his
Moscow spy trial that his con-
tract called for remuneration
at the rate of $4,000 a month,
or $4,000 a year.
He did not make clear with
whom he had the contract, but
after his arrest he was identi-
fled as a Lockheed Aircraft
Corp. test pilot assigned to the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
It is now more than 81
months since his plane came
down in Russia. Twenty-one
months at $4,000 a month
would work out to $52,500.
However, the State Depart
ment announced August 10.
1860, that arrangements had
been made to provide for his
wife, Presumably that means
that Mrs. Barbara Powers has
been receiving part Of his sal
airy.
How much has not been dis
closed. But Pierre Salinger,
presidential press secretary,
said today Capt Powers has
back pay coming which will be
turned over to him.
When a reporter asked
whether the money will come
from the Central Intelligence
Agency, Mr.. Salinger limited
his reply to saying it would be
United States Government
money.
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morning she could not go back
to sleep.
Awakened by a newsman's
call, Mrs. Melvin said: MY
word-I'm so shaky I just can't
stop. This is just too good to
be true"
She had been waiting for the
monthly letter that her brother
usually sent. II had been so
distressed" she said, because
he had written he apparently
wasn't going to get any time off
for good behavior"
The other sister, Mrs. william
E. Hileman of SO Audrey lane,
Glassmanor, Md, said: Good
ness! I just can't believe this
just wrote a letter to him
yesterday, but it won't break
my heart if he doesn't get it,"
Mrs. Hileman, the younger
sister, attended her brothers
trial in Russia.
Capt. Powers parents re-
ceived first word of their son S
release from newsmen and their
attorney, Carl McAfee, of Nor
ton.
1.-THE attorney told us we'd
better be ready to make a trip
to meet him somewhere. We
don't know where we're going,
but we're ready" the father
added.
The father said letters had
been coming regularly from his
son, sentenced to 10 years in
prison after his plane was
downed during a flight over the
Soviet Union on May /, 1860.
In a letter to his parents
about a week ago, the pilot
said he would be able to write
more often-on the LIST, 10th
and Goth Of the month.
Ready for Meeting
Mr.. Powers and his wife ar
rived in Norton from their
home at Roundabout Is miles
away - shortly after Z am.
(EST) packed and ready to go
to meet their son at any place
he may enter the country.
81 always thought he would
be released" Mr.. Powers said,
"but I never could think when. P"
The shoe cobbler wore gray
trousers, a white shirt and a
black bow tie. His grazing hair
was combed back.
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Parents Never Gave Up
Efforts to Free Pryor

KALAMAZOO, Mich. Feb. 10
(AP).-The last relative to see
Frederic L. Pryor before he
was imprisoned in East Ger
many last August told today
of the intensive effort Mr.. Pry-
or's parents made toward his
release.
"This is wonderful news. We
are very, very happy" DR..
Thomas M. Pryor, pastor OF
the First Methodist Church and
Frederic's uncle, said on being
told by the Associated Press
today that his nephew had been
released with Francis Gary
Powers.
Frederic's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Willard H. Pryor of Ann
Arbor, Mich, were in West
Berlin when his release came.
Long, Hard Effort
MY brother and his wife
have been negotiating con-
stantly with the East Germans
since they learned in Septem-
Der of their sons imprison-
ment," DR.. Pryor said. ut has
been a long, hard time for
them and I know they are very
happy"
Frederic, 81, was working on
a doctoral degree at the Free
University in West Berlin when
he entered East Berlin August
Is and vanished. Three weeks
later his parents learned he
was in prison, accused of espio-
mage.
my brother and his wife
left Immediately for Berlin and
have been there since, except
for a brief visit home at Christ
mas time" DR.. Pryor said.
There were many diScour-
agements. Several times the
East German authorities told
them they would be allowed to
see their son. Then, when
they arrived at the prison, told
them the reunion has been de-
iayed.'"
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Word Flashed
To President

President Kennedy slipped
away from a White House din
ner-dance to wait anxiously in
his living quarters last night
for the flash from Berlin that
'U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers
had reached freedom.
Friends said he withdrew
from the party going on down.
stairs about an hour before the
word came. The party was for
the Presidents youngest sister,
Jean, and her husband, Stephen
Smith, a former State Depart
ment official.
For weeks the President had
known about and ratified the
semiofficial negotiations that
were to bring about the swap
Of Capt. Powers and young
Frederic L. Pryor, a United
States student held in East
Berlin since last August. for
Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
Five minutes after Capt,
Powers and Col. Abel passed
each other on Glienicker
Bridge. United States repre-
sentatives in Berlin had dis
patched the news to the White
House and Mr.. Kennedy was
notified Immediately.
At 3:15 am. White House
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger
summoned newsmen into his
office. He had changed from
his dinner jacket into a work.
aday suit. He was still niftier
than reporters who had been
routed from bed only a short
time before.
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HEADLINE PERSONALITY
Powers UnimPressive
Before W Incident

NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (AP)
- Polite and pleasant - but
quiet.
Those are the words most
often used by friends to sum
UP Francis Gary Powers.
In fact, they are hard put
to find anything else to say
about the U-2 pilot released
by the Russians today. They
recall no anecdotes about his
life before he became the CEN
ter Of an international Juror.
No one ever gave him a nick
name. He was always called
Francis.
Francis was a quiet sort of
boy, the kind you enjoyed talk
ing to, never any trouble" is
the description given by John
c. Mead, his high school prin-
cipal in Grundy, Va.
HE just wasn't particularly
outstanding:
Scholastically, Capt. Powers
ranked 22d in his high school
senior class of SO. Later in
Milligan College, Johnson City,
Tenn, where he took a four
year pre-medical course, he
again emerged 22d in a class
of SO.
The only way Capt. Powers
received any notability in his
younger years was in athletics.
He was a lineman on his high
school football team. He also
liked to ride horseback on his
fathers farm. once worked as
a lifeguard and was a member
of a fire-fighting patrol.
At Milligan College, Capt.
Powers was a track star in the
220, 440 and 88O-yard events.
He won medals in those divi-
sions at the 1850 Penn Relays.
His love of the outdoors
carried over into his adult life.
He enjoyed fishing, and even
tually took up skiing.
1t was a $3.50 plane ride at
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against which Capt. Powers
release was announced today
contrasts sharply with that at
the time of his capture almost
two years ago.
When his plane went down
the world was just two weeks
away from an East-West sum-
NIT conference IN Paris and
entertained unjustifiably high
hopes that something might be
done there about ending the
Berlin crisis. m the interim
between Capt. Powers capture
and the conference which took
both Premier Khrushchev and
President Eisenhower to the
French capital, Mr.. Khrushchev
generated a bitter propaganda
campaign against the United
States and Mr.. Eisenhower per-
sonally.
The level of attack on Mr..
Eisenhower went up after the
United States President per-
sonally took responsibility for
and defended w. operations.
On May II the summit con-
ference at Paris broke down.
Mr.. Khrushchev followed the
collapse with a news confer
ence in which he violently de-
nounced United States spy
plane operations and called Mr..
Eisenhower a "fiShy" friend.
From that time on relations
between Washington and Mos
cow became extremely bad un-
til the advent of the Kennedy
administration.
Basic Policies Unchanged
The contrasting side of the
picture is that today there are
few hopes of any radical
change in Soviet aggressive
policies though there is a eau
tiouS estimate within the Gov
eminent that some change may
eventually develop, especially
because of the Russian-Com-
munist Chinese situation.
Symbolic gestures of friend
ship such as the Adzhubei visit
to Washington have not been
accompanied by any indica-
tons of real readiness to nego-
tiate the Berlin settlement, and
the nuclear arms race, halt the
Communist guerrilla war in
South Wet Nam or remove
other dangerous sources of ten
sion.
With Russia's recent test Sc
ries the nuclear arms race is
going on at a stepped-up pace.
The decision to release Capt.
Powers thus fits into the cate
CORY of actions which the So
vietS could take to ease East
West tensions without having
to make any change in their
positions on vitality important
issues where their major inter-
ests are involved.
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the age Of IA which determined
his eventual career as a flyer.
This flight was made with a
woman pilot who was taking
passengers on rides from the
airport at Princeton, w. Va.
The brown-eyed. dark-haired
boy proved so enthusiastic over
the flight that the pilot gave
him double time in the air for
his money. When Capt. Powers
reached home, he was reported
to have said:
Daddy, I like it up there. 1t
does something to you. 1t gives
you something. Someday I'll
have to go back up there and
find out what it is"
His father, Oliver w. Powers.
a shoe repair shop operator and
former coal miner, never sought
to discourage him.
After graduating from Mill
gan College in 1850, the year
the Korean War broke out,
young Powers enlisted in the
Air Force as a private. Later he
became a second lieutenant and
a jet fighter pilot, but he never
saw action in Korea.
In 1854 he was married to
the former Barbara Moore If
Albany, Ga. They have no chill
dren.
Capt. Powers resigned from
the Air Force in 1856 and be-
came a test pilot for the Lock-
heed Aircraft Corp. In August
of that year he was assigned
to a group supposedly flying
weather research planes from
Adana, Turkey. His wife went
with him.
For four years his life was
one of obscurity. Then he was
downed in a w. reconnaissance
plane in Russia.
His life was one Of obscurity
no longer.
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POLICY
Continued From Page Al

NVhNAAuCu VAOAh oSC al
upon problem which the Ken
needy administration considers
of extreme Importance in the
world at present and from
which United States interest in
increasing Soviet contact is de-
rived. This is the problem of
the Soviet Chinese political
conflict which has split the
Communist bloc.
Because of this tension be-
tween the worlds two great
Red powers, some experts here
believe Russia may be impelled
to move at an accelerated pace
away from more aggressive in
ternational policies and toward
an increasing nationalistic con-
cept of it's own interest.
Whether this will happen no
one in Washington knows. But
it is known that Mr.. Kennedy
considers the effort to keep the
door open and to improve COM
munications with the Soviet
people extremely worthwhile.
So far as United States in
terest in bringing Capt. Powers
home is concerned, speculation
on the possibility of a deal in
volving the U-2 pilot and the
famous Col. Abel goes back into
the final months Of the Eisen-
hover administration and the
weeks Immediately following
Capt. Powers capture and con-
viction.
His return, in other words,
has been a matter of interest
to both administrations in
Washington ever since his spy
plane went down over central
Russia on May /. 1860.
Obviously, military and in
Itelligence officials are eager to
learn in detail what went wrong
with the flight, one Of a kind
which had been going on for
four years.
A great controversy in 1860
developed over MoScow'S claim
that the aircraft was shot
down. Officials here said they
were certain-though they did
not say how-that Capt. Pow
ers' plane initially lost its pro-
tective high altitude due to
some internal trouble such as
engine failure. It was sup
posed to operate in the very
high altitude ranges up to
100, 900 feet.
The Soviets are understood
to have shown during the
prisoner-trade negotiations that
they badly wanted Col. Abel
back.
Kennedy administration Off
Gals, noting that he had been
in jail here for several years,
considered his further impris-
onment useless in terms of
United States national interest.
They decided his release was a
reasonable price to pay for
freedom for Capt. Powers.
The cold war background
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-10
By the Associated Press

James B. Donovan, a promi-
nent New York attorney, was a
key figure in the swap of w.
pilot Francis Gary Powers and
convicted Soviet spy Rudolf
Abel.
Edwin Guthman, public re-
lations director for the Justice
Department gave newsmen early
today this account of the nego-
tiations and how Mr.. Donovan
who had been Col. Abel's court
appointed defense counsel, fig
ured in them:
Late in 1860. Col. Abel's wife
sent a letter to Mr.. Donovan
from East Germany asking If
as defense attorney, he could
get clemency for her husband.
Mr.. Donovan notified the JUS
tice department.
Acting with the approval OF
the department, he suggested
to Mrs. Abel that she address
her appeal to President Ken
nedy after he took office. CAT
the time President Eisenhower
was in office and William p
Rogers was Attorney GeneaD.
Donovan Sent to Berlin
Mrs. Abel dispatched an ap-
peal to Mr.. Kennedy and it
went down Through channels
to Reed Cozart, pardon at
torney for the Justice Depart
ment. He felt that there were
insufficient grounds to recon-
mend clemency.
A further exchange of letters
followed between Mrs. Abel and
Mr.. Donovan discussing what
Mr.. Guthman called various
possibilities concerning Abel's
release. Mr.. Donovan, acClng
as defense attorney for Col.
Abel, kept the Justice Depart
ment informed throughout.
The new Attorney General,
Robert F. Kennedy, wa S
familiar with all the dickering,
and although the Justice De-
partment did not say so, Presi-
dent Kennedy appeared to be
also.
About a month or six weeks
ago, when it appeared that
there were some real grounds
for negotiations, Mr.. Donovan
was authorized by the United
States Government to go to
East Berlin "and exploded the
situation" He arrived there
about two weeks ago.
To assist him he was given
a letter from Mr.. Cozart, the
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POWERS
W Pilot Freed
In Red Exchange

and Mr.. Donovan, however. and
they began discussing various
possibilities Of arranging for
Col. Abel's release. Officials
would not discuss whether Mrs.
Abel was acting on che advice
Of the Soviet government. or
If Soviet authorities worked
with American Government Of
ficials on the terms of the
exchange.
u. S. Kept Informed
The Justice Department was
kept informed throughout of
the exchanges between Mrs.
Abel and MI. Donovan. Off
Gals said.
Real grounds for a possible
exchange appeared a month
to six weeks ago, according to
informed sources, and Mr..
Donovan was then authorized
by the American Government
to go to East Berlin and ex-
plore the situation personally
with Mrs. Abel.
Attorney General Robert
Kennedy was fully aware of
this move, officials said, indi-
eating his brother, the Presi-
dent, presumably also followed
the case.
About two weeks ago Mr..
Donovan was provided a letter
from Mr.. Cozart, indicating
Col. Abel's sentence might he
committed under proper cir
cumstances," according to one
official.
The deal was set before
Wednesday, when Col. Abel
was removed from the Atlanta
Penitentiary, it was reported.
Col. Abels sentence was not
actually committed, according
to the terms of the arrange
ment, until Capt. Powers was
freed at Glienicker Bridge,
officials said.
Both the Attorney General
and the President signed the
communication order for Col.
Abel. Attorney General Ken
11edy has been on a trip since
February l and Is reported to
have signed the order before
leaving.