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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-07
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
Star staff Writer

Congress has shunted aside
until at least next year the
Kennedy administrators pro-
posal for overhauling the Gov
ernment's dual compensation
system regarding Federal civil
ian employment of retired mill
tary personnel.
Although it was submitted to
Congress a month ago, not a
single member of Congress has
yet sponsored the bill. There
seems to be little interest in it
at this time.
All of which is perfectly all
right with Federal employ
unions. which are not happy at
the prospect that many more
retired military personnel
would be able to hold Govern
ment civilian jobs under the
administrations proposals.
The employe groups complain
that there already are too many
retired military personnel in
civil service jobs now.
4
PAY TIP-Key House Civil
Service Committee members
have a tip for Government and
postal employe leaders to speed
up the committees pay raise
hearings: Submit your formal
statement for the Official record
and skip reading the statement
The committee already has
heard all the evidence it needs
to hear regarding justification
of pay raises from employe
leaders who already have
testified.
At the present rate at which
the hearings are proceeding
with each employe leader in,
sisting on reading his Statement
of 20 pages or more-the hear
ings won't be completed unit
the middle of July.
At Tuesdays session, only tw'
Of the House groups rs mem
berS were on hand to hear tn
employee leaders testimony. An,
even these two stalwarts locke,
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money in a plot to obstruct
justice.
Justice Keogh made his de-
NAL as his attorney began a
step-by-step inquiry on testi-
mony given by DR.. Robert Erd-
man, Manhattan orthopedic
surgeon, an admitted go
between in the alleged fix
attempt.
The last Of the three defend
ants to take the stand, Justice
Keogh said he had not received
an envelope containing ap-
proximately $500 from DR..
Erdman on March 81, 1861.
Brother Also Denies Role
In his five-day testimony,
DR.. Erdman charged that he
had given a total of $22, 500 to
Justice Keogh and S12,500 to
Elliott Kahaner. onetime chief
assistant United States attor-
ney in Brooklyn, in trying to
obtain favors for men involved
in a bankruptcy fraud.
The Justices brother, Repre-
sentative Eugene j. Keogh, a
Democratic Congressman from
Brooklyn for 26 years, testified
yesterday that he had no part
in the alleged fix attempt. The
Congressman is not a defend
ant.
Before Justice Keogh took
the stand, former Postmaster
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gether in an automobile on one
OF President Eisenhower's week.
end trips. On such occasions
the two men often talked in
timately and at length.
In the midst of one of these
conversations. President Eisen-
hover turned to Hagerty sud-
denly and revealed that United
States planes were flying over
the Soviet Union.
We're getting some informa-
ton back from Russie, JIM"
the President had said.
But the President made 1t
plain he was worried about the
overflightS. He had often asked
the CHA: What happens II
you're caught?
Every time he did so, the
CHA responded: 1t hasn't hap
pened yet.
Tomorrow: Tokins the Minnow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-07

headquarters, Bellevillc, III
Maj. Smith was Press regu-
lar contact with the Air Force
He told Press essentially the
same cover story that Yusui
Ayhan had picked up in Adana
several hours earlier.
Had Press known Of the Sun
day CHA meeting - which he
did not he might have de-
duced that the message he re-
ceived had gone out from
Washington to Adana, to Wies-
baden, to Illinois, and then to
him on H street. 1t had gone
halfway around the globe and
back again to travel a few
blocks in downtown Washing
ton.
Press thanked Mai. Smith
and passed on the news to Dry
den and Walter T. Bonney,
NASA's director of public in
formation. He was not sur
prised that they already
seemed to know.
Tip by Phone
zeyyat Goren, United Press
International manager for Tur-
key, was covering the NATO
meeting at Istanbul May 8
when he received a telephone
tip that a weather plane was
missing from Incirlik.
The Air Force confirmed the
story; Goren cabled it to UPI
in New York.
The story did not find its
way into many papers, but like
a very small fish swimming
from a river into the sea, the
story of the U-2 had entered
the flow of the days news, al
most unnoticed.
The mines are pretty well
worked out around Norton,
Va; is miles due south of
Pound.
A few doors down Seventh
street. just off Norton's broad
main thoroughfare, the sign on
the window Of the small shop
at No. Is read Better Sh o e
Repairing" Underneath ap-
peared the single word:
Powers"
The 55-year-old heavy-Set
man behind the counter was
chain smoking. He worked
over the shoes with strong
hands, stained from leather,
shoe polish and tobacco, finger
nails dirty. They were hands
that had worked hard from
boyhood.
Preparing for Summit
Into Oliver Powers shoe
shop at 4 pm. this afternoon
walked two men. One identi-
fled himself as from Lock-
heed. in Burbank, Calf" The
other said he was from the
space agency in Washington.
AS gently as they could. they
told Oliver his boy. Francis
Gary Powers. was missing on
a weather flight in Northern
Turkey. The two men said that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-07
THE U-2 AFFAIR
Wife Hears Bad News

planes had been searching for
three days. but had found nc
trace of him.
In Moscow, Soviet Premier
Khrushchev opened a Czecho-
slovak trade exhibit in Sokol-
Mkt Park and appeared in high
good humor. He picked up q
rifle at a shooting gallery and
made a bull's-eye on the first
shot.
In Paris, the chestnut. trees
along the Champs ElySeeS
were in bloom and prepara-
ton for a summit conference
were moving forward. Chill
dren were laughing at a spe-
cial summit puppet show. The
puppets depicted President de
Gaulle, Prime Minister Mac
milan, President Eisenhower
and Premier Khrushchev.
Above them fluttered. the
dove of peace.
Wednesday, May 4, was the
seventh day since Francis
Gary Powers had left Adana.
Now, Col. Shelton, chief of the
Weather Squadron" told
Barbara to go back to the
United States as soon as pos
Sible.
She had her first Fremont
ton that something very odd
was happening. Nevertheless
she followed her instructions,
packed and began making ar
rangements for the long trip
home to Milledgeville, Ga.
Francis Powers grandfather
had been born when Ulysses
S. Grant was President. James
Powers was 80 now, a tall fig
ure with a white beard, a flop
by felt hat and a cane. His
memory was failing a bit, and
all the members of the family
treated the old man gently as
he wandered about the house
amidst his numerous grand
children.
Ida Powers, a gentle, soft
voiced woman. had not been in
the best of health since her
heart attack. The wrinkles in
her thin, lined face made her
look older than her 81 years.
Wearing a flower-print apron,
she was busy in her kitchen,
just off the small living room,
when Oliver walked into their
home, accompanied by Jes-
sica, their daughter.
Revealing Faces
Ida could tell by their faces
that something was very wrong.
She insisted they tell her.
Finally they broke the news.
Francis was missinb somewhere
in Turkey. Ida Powers sad down
and started to cry.
In Moscow. Premier Khru-
shchev was in an expansive
mood at a Czech Embassy re-
ception. Tomorrow, Khrushchev
told the Western and Eastern
diplomats at the reception, he
would go before the Supreme
Soviet, the Russian parliament.
He promised that his speech
would be interesting.
At the White House the Pres
ident breakfasted with Republic
can congressional leaders,
signed a wheat agreement with
India and went out to the
Burning Tree Club for a round
Of golf.
But the Presidents press sec
James c. Hagerty, that
day learned a disquieting piece
of news. The weather" plane
down in Turkey was actually a
U-2 missing over Russia.
At the Commodore Hotel in
New York just after the 1852
election, the press secretary had
a long talk with President
Eisenhower. They agreed that
would be told of secu-
rity secrets only on a need to
know" basis. For a long time,
therefore, Hagerty had not
known about the spy flights. |
But about six months before,
in the fall of 1859, the President
and Hagerty were riding to-
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Gary is missing. We have
search planes out but they
haven't found him yet"
For the next few days she
remained under heavy seda-
ton, awaiting word of her hus-
bands fate.
Herter Gets Word
At the Municipal Palace in
IStanbul, the NATO foreign
ministers were meeting. Secre-
tary of State Herter was at the
conference table in the palace
when Livingston Merchant, IN
dersecretary of State for Polit-
ical Affairs, handed him a slip
of paper. 1t referred simply to
a missing plane; but because
the slip Of paper bore CHA
markings, the Secretary of
State Immediately realized
that a w. was down.
At Adana, Yusuf Ayhan, a
local newsman, thought he was
onto an interesting story. Ay-
han regularly checked with the
public information office at the
Incirlik base for news. He had
on this day picked up an inter-
esting tip. and he was able to
confirm it at the base.
Ayhan earned extra money
as a stringer, or part-time cor
respondent. for Yeni Istanbul
New IstanbuD, and he thought
the story he had stumbled on
was good enough to file to Is
tanbul for the next days pa
per.
"An American plane of the
U-2 meteorological reconnais-
sance type, which is well
known for its excellent per-
Torrance, and was based at
Incirlik near Adana, was re-
ported missing on Sunday"
Ayhan wrote. THE U-2 plane
had sent its last message on
Sunday, when the pilot reported
a breakdown of his OXYGEN
equipment. No further news
was received from the plane
after that"
Not much, perhaps, but Ad-
ana was a slow news town. and
Ayhan was confident that his
file to the Istanbul paper would
be printed, which also meant
that he. Yusuf Ayhan, would
be paid.
Knew of Mission
At $3.50 pm, Harry Press
telephone rang.
/ Press, a bespectacled, eau
tious bureaucrat with a cheru-
bic face, was In his office at
1912 H street one block from
the White House.
He was chief. loads and
structures division, of the Ma
tional Aeronautics and Space
Administration. He was also
one Of the four men at NASA
who knew that the w. was
photographing military targets
in the Soviet Union under
NASA cover.
This day. the caller was
Mai. James Smith, at the Air
Force Air Weather Service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-07
Sacred Music Event

The Bob Jones University
Trumpet Trio and Male Quar-
ter will feature a program of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-07
Justice Keogh, Brother
Take Stand Deny Fix

NEW YORK June (AP)-State Supreme Court Justice
Vincent Keogh denied firmly today charge that he had
taken payo in attempted fix in the sentencing three
men in bankruptcy fraud in March. 1861
He took the witness stand in Brooklyn Federal Court to
dispute testimony of Government witness that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-07

sacred music at 7:45 pm. Sat-
urday in the Alexandra Bible
Church, 204 East Del Ray ave-
nue., Alexandria. Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-07

This is the fifth of IA articles con-
densed from the book, THE W.
AFFAIR. which tells the story be-
hind the most explosive espionage
case Of the 10th century. Copy
right. 1862, by Dovid Wise and
Thomos B. Ross. Published in New
York by Rondom House, Inc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-07
BY DAVID WISE and
THOMAS B. ROSS

Barbara Powers awoke in
her trailer on the base at In
erik at 5 am. Monday, May
2, to the sound of pounding on
her front door. 1t was still dark
and the mountains to the north
were only dim shapes on the
horizon.
Sleepily. she went to the
door. Several of her U-2 pilot
husbands friends were there.
Barbara. We have some bad
news" one Of the men said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-07

Tomorrow: Tokins the Minnow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-11
jones Fortune
Is on Her Ears

HOLLYWOOD (AP). In
THE Chapman Report" Jane
Fonda wears for the first
time a pair Of earrings be-
queathed to her by her
mother.
Mrs. Frances Seymour
Fonda died when Jane was
IL and directed the earrings
to be given her daughter on
her oath birthday. Although
Jane had them for several
months. she hadn't worn
them until the film.
The reason for her hest
fancy: The earrings are
emeralds and diamonds set
in platinum and valued at
$4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-11
BY BONNIE AIKMAN
Star Staff Writer

Shakespeare's "Cymbeline"
is a drama which has per-
sistently evaded any precise
description. Representative
labels have included quasi
history" tragic fantasy"
and romantic fantasy" The
American University Players
have chosen the latter phrase
to define the mood in which
they will stage the first pro-
duction of the play seen in
this area in many years.
Conjured up by the Bard
from Holinshed's Chronicles
and those stories by Boccac-
clio, it has, in sooth. all the
aforementioned elements as
we'll as a full measure of
some of Shakespeare's most
fascinating characters.
Directing the Players ver-
sion, set for a four-day run
beginning Tuesday, is Robert
M. Henderson. He has cho-
sen part-time TV- drama desk
occupant Warren Bass to
play Cymbeline, the weak,
shilly-shallying old king of
England who held forth dur
ing the time of Augustus
Caesar. (The most striking
thing about Mr.. Bass Gym
beline, to add an inside note,
is his beard. Described by
the Stars Harry Macarthur
as "tawny Van Gogh," it be-
came quite an attractive odd
ity to this department once
we got used to it,
Cast as Posthumous Leo
natus, the hero-type, is James
Solt. Lucina Mason and
Phyllis Minkoff will alternate
in the role of Imogen, daugh-
ter to Cymbeline. Judy Bu-
chanan and Marcia Green
span alternate as the Queen,
Tom Hartman plays Cloton,
Hal Isen is the villain Iacho-
imo and carl Ericsson is
Arvigarus. the Kings lost
son.
Others appearing are Guy
Reeve, Judy Buchanan, and
Tara Lowe.
Curtain at AUS Clendenin
Theater, Nebraska and Mas
sachusetts avenues NV, is
8 o'clock each night.
QUITE A TRIP: A fantas-
tic journey through the jun
giles of Latin America, Eu-
rope, Asia and onward and
upward to outer space and
Planet x will occur not once,
but twice next Saturday.
Credit for this exciting feat
goes to New York's Story
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AWARDS
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sibilities were," he reported.
Then we arranged ads to
remind the voters of these
possibilities and set up show
ings so they could see the
pictures. That is about all we
do.
without being sanctimo-
NOUS about it, we feel the
Academy Awards are very
important to the industry
and shouldn't be a political
football. There is nothing
wrong with reminding voters
of awards possibilities. Bludg-
coming voters is something
else again"
Here are the Mirisch
targets for nominations:
West Side Story" B e S t
picture directors (Robert
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-11
LOCAL DRAMA GROUPS
Bord's 'CymbeIine'
To Be Staged at AU

Players, who will stage the
children's play, "Petey and
the Pogo Stick" at 1890 am.
and 2:30 pm. at the Roose-
welt High School Auditorium.
For further information, call
the District Recreation De-
partment.
MORE: 'Dossier," the quiet
satire on communism by Pol
ish Playwright Tadeusz Roze-
wicz, will continue its week.
end run through February rs
at Market Playhouse, 1899
Thirty-first street NV. Cur
tain time is 8:45 pm. on Fri
days and Saturdays and 7:45
pm. on Sundays. Mark Near
man directs.
TRYOUT WEEK: Three
Virginia play groups and a
District drama club that
sounds like it belongs in Vir-
ginia are holding additions
for future productions this
week.
Seventeen men and two
women are needed for the
cast of Time Limit" sched-
uled for a March opening by
the Mount Vernon Players.
Director w. Thomas Littleton
will hear readings for the
drama by Henry Denker and
Ralph Berkey at 1880 pm.
tomorrow, Tuesday and
Wednesday at 900 Massachu-
sets avenue NV.
On Monday and Tuesday.
8 pm, the Little Theater of
Alexandria will hold audi
tions for Harvey" at 600
Wolfe street. The comedy
will open March % for three.
week ends. Diane Helfrich
directs.
The Fairfax Players have
also set tryouts at 8 pm.
tomorrow and Tuesday for
their May production of Ar
thur Miller's Death of a
Salesman. Those interested
should report to the Old
Town Library at University
drive and Maine street,
Fairfax.
Additions for an original
play by Anne Stoutenburgh,
1.-THE Libra Boy" will be held
by the Falls Church Com
munity Theater at $3.50 pm.
Thursday and Friday at
Harris Arcade, 209 South
Washington street. This lex
perimental drama" which
calls for nine men and two
women, will be performed
April 4 and 5 at Broyhill
Auditorium in Arlington for
an invitational audience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-11
COMING ATTRACTIONS

Wise. Jerome Robbins, &C
tress Natalie Wood. sup
port Rita Moreno, George
Chakiris), writer ernest
Lehmann), etc.
zone, Two, Three"-Best
picture, director BILLY Will
der), screen play (Wilder,
I. A. L. Diamond, actor
Games Cagney).
"Children's Hour" B e S t
picture, director William
Wyler), actresses audrey
Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine)
support Fay BANTER, etc.
The Mirisches are also
plugging Kirk Douglas for
best actor in "Town With
out Pity"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-11

Roth estimated the COM
pany would pay out $4,000
to $4,000 for the campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-11

"One Of the world's very great
OrcheStrds"-New York Times
Program: overture to La Gazza
Ladra" = Rossini: Symphony by
Symphony No. 4 in D minor
Schumann; Overture to Die Meis-
tersinger Won Nurnberg" =
Wagner.
GOoD SEATS AVAILABLE
$500. 2.75. $50. 1856. 4.20. $50
Evening star., 1962-03-18

world meet, the Dutch girl
whirled through a variety of
double jumps. sparkling spins
and fancy footwork. Previous
ly, she had captured the COM
pulSory figures competition.
Tenley Albright of Boston
won the world title in 1855,
and Carol Heiss maintained the
United States domination with
five consecutive titles from
1856 through 1860. The 1861
championships were Cancelled
following the crash of an air
liner in Belgium in which the
entire United States team died.
An unofficial tabulation gave
Miss Dijkstra 2,350.O points to
2,273.0 for Miss Griner. Mrs.
Pursley scored 2,200.9 points.
Another Canadian girl, Is
year-old Petra Burka, finished
narrowly ahead of Austria's
Regime Heitzer on total points
for third place; 2,219.7 points to
2,218.3. However, the Austrian
girl had an advantage for third
in the judges placements in
the complicated scoring.
Evening star., 1962-03-18
Two-Yeur Man

Mickey Cochrane is working
on a two-year scouting con-
tract with the Detroit Tigers.
Evening star., 1962-03-18
Dutch Girl Wins World
Figure Skating Crown

PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia,
Mar. II (AP).-Sjoukje Dix
stra, a 20-year-old Dutch girl,
ended a series Of six straight
American triumphs tonight by
winning the women's world fig
ure skating championship with
a brilliant final performance.
Nine judges gave the blond
daughter of an Amsterdam doc
tor a unanimous first-place de-
cision as she completed a daz-
'zling performance. The wom-
ems competition was the final
event in the four day skating
carnival.
Wendy Griner of Canada was
second, while Mrs. Barbara Ann
Roles Pursley of Arcadia, Calf,
'leading American contender,
could do no better than fifth.
. The victory for Miss Dijkstra,
who flashed through her pow
erful free skating routine in
light greez: costume, thrilled
a crowd Of about 1880.
European champion three
times and runnerup in the 1860
Evening star., 1962-03-18
Dogs on Display
In Big Show at Armory

Fourteen hundred dogs of
nearly every recognized breed
will be on display today at the
Armory in the National Capt.
tai Kennel Clubs annual show.
Each dog-or really his or
her owner-hopes to survive a
long day of elimination con-
tests until somewhere between
8 and 10 o'clock tonight one
dog is judged best in show.
This best comes from six elite
finalists. the top dogs of the
six groups - sporting. nom
sporting, hound, working, ter
rier and toy.
Numerically. the dachshundS
top this years entry list with
rs hopefuls. followed by 81
Weimaraners. The high num-
ber of Weimaraners was
brought out by a speciality
show -within-a-show of the
Club. There are
Evening star., 1962-03-18

Bob Wills, Lee
Ray Hodgdon, Washington-Lee
Walter Wenk, Hammond
Jim Moushegian, Hammond
Second Team
Jim Jones, Groveton
Jim Connor, George Washington
Bud Anderson, Jeb Stuart
Herb Brown, Wakefield
Bob Dunn, Groveton
Northwest Conference Group I-B
Phil Newcomb, Handley
Butch Duncan, George Mason
Gary Yates, Herndon
Ronnie Kern, James Wood
Mike Kelly. Handley
Battlefield District Group 1-B
Lee Schwartz. James Monroe
Bill Edwards, Orange
Teed Waffle. James Monroe
Manfred Brown, Garfield
Jim Cline, Stafford
District o, Group II
Larry Mayhugh, Nokesville
Stewart Utterback, Nokesville
Jake Wolfrey. Nokesyille
Billy McGuinn, Marshall
John Russell, Rappahannock
ALL-SUBURBAN VIA
Thomas Cant, Hoffman-B Boston
Herman Lewis, Jennie Dean
Frank Pitts. Parker-Gray
Louis Powell. Hoffman Boston
Roger Woods. Luther Jackson
MARYLAND CLASS AA
Montgomery Co.
Sonny jackson. Blair
Dave Yates. Walter johnson
Pat Cawley. Wheaton
Butch 1sreal. Richard Montgomery
Jack Townsend, Blair
Prince Georges
Frank Beall. DuVal
Al Moraz, High Point
Buddy Quinn, Bladensburg
Dave Pyles, OXon Hill
Dave Buckley. Bladensburg
ALL SUBURBAN MARYLAND
CLASSES A, b AND C
First Team
Clifton Gardner. Fairmont Heights
Eulois Williams. Fairmont Heights
Phil Crawford. Sasscer
Horace Owens, Douglass
William Scott. Laurel
Second Team
William Vaughn, Fairmont Heights
Phil Curtis. Springbrook
Louis Naylor, Poolesville
Jimmy Ward. GaithersburR
Dick Hinchcliffe. Surrattsville
Evening star., 1962-03-18
GIines-CuIIinune
Capture First in
WG&CC Tourney

Skip Glines and his guest,
Perky Cullinane of Bethesda,
won the Washington Golf and
Country Club member-guest
tournament yesterday with a
three-under-par net 81, nosing
out Lou Russell and Emery
Hutchinson of Columbia who
shot SO.
DR.. Keith Poe and Jim Mort
inner Of Springfield ended in a
three-way tie for third with
70's, but won by a flip of a coin.
Glines and Cullinane actually
won low gross by shooting SO
without the aid Of a handicap.
But since they were limited to
one prize, they elected to take
the net award. Low gross went
to Bill Offutt and Dave Clark
of Argyle with IS.
Fifty-four teams competed
over a wind-swept course in
the opening event Of the clubs
season.