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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1960)
Mrs. Powers Hides Face as Husband Brought Moscow - HIPB - Mrs. Fran cis G. Powers, wife of the cap tured U2 pilot, went to her husband's military trial today expressing the nope that "no other wife ever has to go through this." The 25-year-old American woman wore a black silk dress and a black cloche hat to the concert hall where her husband is on trial on espion age charges which could carry the death penalty. She hid her face in a ges ture of despair when her hus band was brought into the hall. It was the first time she had seen him since May 1, when he took off on the flight that ended with his capture. The prisoner's parents, Mr. nd Mrs. Oliver Powers, were already seated in the loges at : the cock of the hall when nis wife arrived. She did not speak to them as she slipped Into a nearby seat. The prisoner's mother said the felt well enough to attend Conservatives Gang Up on Plan For Minimum Wage Washington - Ojpo - Con servatives ganged up on a Democratic-backed minimum wage bill today as the Senate reared a showdown vote on a major proposal to weaken It. Sen. Barry Goldwater (R Ariz.), denounced the election-year measure as infla tionary and said its attrac tion was: "You don't have to work for a living; the federal government can do it better." The Senate was set to vote by midafternoon on a move by Sen. Spessard L. Holland, D-Fla.), that would knock out proposed wage-hour coverage for S million more workers. The bill, sponsored by Dem ocratic presidential nominee John F. Kennedy, also would boost the federal floor under wages to $1.25 over a two year period. Goldwater and Holland teamed up to attack the meas ure In the wake of Tuesday's twin defeat of attempts to trim its scope. Other developments: Powers: Several members of Congress view the Moscow py trial of U2 pilot Francis Stock List Extends Tuesday Spurt; Drugs, Electronics Set Pace New York-WPD-Sloeks ex tended Tuesday's mild recov ery with a predominance of fractional plus signs today. Electronics and drugs took the upside spotlight with Tex as Instruments up around 3, Western Union Vi and Lional a point. American Home Products, Warner Lambert and Vlck Chemical all gained well over a point but Carter Products eased around Hi. Autos held mixed with American Motors up close to a point, Ford steady, Chrysler down V and GM up a small fraction. Steels and oils indicated the same pattern. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - (Ml - Dow Jont final stock averages: 30 Industrials 825.43. up 1.26; 20 railroads 136.99. up 0.5S; 15 utilities 94.76, up 0.38, and 65 stocks 207.62. up 0.59. Sales Tuesday war about 2.71 million shares compared with 2.45 million shares Monday. Tuesday's prtcci on selected locks: Allied Chemical .. Alum Co. Am. American Can ... American Motora ... A T T Anaconda Copper Armco Sleel Bendlx Corp Bethlehem Steel Boeing Air . Caterpillar Corp Chrysler Corp fxdi ConUnental Can Curtiss Wiifhl Dow Chemical Du Pont . Eastman Kodak Firestone General Electric . ... 53', 72'i 38 'i 31 , "' SO', 6 70 44 33 . 26', 42 , .... 3 18 .... . . .. IS6' 121 34 'i Mexican Labor Bill Scheduled Washington - HIT - Sen. Allen J. Ellendcr, D-La), sought to allay fears of farm ers in 25 states today that a bill extending the Mexican farm labor program might die in the agriculture committee. 'The bill will be taken up and reported, probably at the next meeting of the commit tee." Ellender said. The Louisiana senator said he did not know when he would call a committee meet ing, but that the bracero bill "will definitely be reported to the Senate." To Court the trial despite her weak heart. His father expressed con cern about the trial. "It would be bad enough to watch someone from our own family on trial in America." the Virginia cobbler said. "Here in this country . . ." The younger Mrs. Powers sat up far into the night Tues day, reading the Bible and praying for her husband. "The 27th Psalm will give me strength to sit in that trial room." she told an inter viewer at her hotel. Her mother. Mrs. Monteen Brown, said Mrs. Powers "has been reading the Psalm over and over ever since we ar rived in Moscow." Mrs. Brown said she also had been praying for Powers. "I asked the Lord to help Gary," she said. "He's the most wonderful perspn I ever met. I had supper with his mother and father." G. Powers as a Red propa ganda show. Some questioned whether Powers was shot down from a height of 68,000 feet, as he testified, because this would indicate Russia has a better antiaircraft defense than U. S. officials believed. Latin America: Chairman Thomas E. Morgan of the House Foreign Affairs com mittee said the outlook for the proposed new $500 mil lion economic development program for Latin America was "favorable." The com mittee decided to open hear ings Monday on the presi dent's request. Houie: Rep. H. R. Gross went ahead with his plan to cut off the House session again today despite some grumbling from fellow Re publicans. The Iowa lawmak er is peeved because Demo cratic leaders reconvened the post-convention House session Monday be scheduled no busi ness until next week. He forced the House to adjourn shortly, after . the opening prayer Monday and again Tuesday by objecting that a quorum was not present. General Foods 12Sli General Motora 44 Georgia Pacific 53'. 4 Greyhound 23H Guit 011 am, Homostakc Mining 42 Va I. B. M sastt Int. Paper (xd) 911 Johns Mnnvllle 3S Kaiser Ind n Ti Kcnnccott Copper 801, Lockheed Aircraft 2Ma Montgomery Ward 3MB Nat'l. Biscuit BlUi New York Central 21 Pas Gas fit Elcc OS Penney. J. C 40 Penn RR 13 Radio Corporation 63. Richfield Oil 78 ij Sears 87 i Shell Oil 3.U, Socony Mobil Oil 37 1'4 Southern Co 40', Southern Pacific ani Standard California 44 'a Standard Indiana 391; Standard N. J - 41 li Sun Mines 7 Texas Co 7R'i Texas Pae Land Trust 1st, Transamerica 27 3, Union Carbide 120J, Union Pacific 27; United Aircraft - 44', United Air Lines . 33 U. S. Rubber 32', U. S. Steel 82, Youngstown S Ax T 99, Family Safe As Car Goes in River Grants Pass A Tacoma. Wash., family of three escaped serious injury Tuesday morn ing when their car left High way 99 near Grants Pass and entered Rogue river. James C. Gaylord Sr.. 52. a machinist, told state police that he must have gone to sleep at the wheel. He appar ently escaped without a scratch, although he complain ed of a stiff knee. Mrs. Esther Gaylord. 43. was reported suffering from shock and skin abrasions and the couple's son, James C. Gaylord Jr., 26. received abrasions and scratches trom blackberry bushes along the riverbank. Gaylord Sr. said his family was returning to Tacoma from San Diego. "Then the car was in the water. I got the left front door open and my wife and I were scrambling out through it." Their son escap ed through a window. The car was still in shallow water, but about the time they all got out, it eased off into deeper water and disappeared. The car was pulled from 20 feet of water by a wrecker after a cable had attached to the front end bv skin diver Wendell Ellis, Grants Pass. Powers' Moscow Spy 12 Pilot Asserts Prosecutor Roman Rudenko asked Powers about the pois on suicide needle found in his possession. Powers said he was to use it in case of tor ture. Rudenko asked the young American if he had been tortured. "No," Powers replied, "I STANDARD GAUGE Of 223,427 miles of railway in the U.S. in recent years. about 222,934 miles or 99 per cent were of standard gauge. There were 584 miles of 3 foot gauge in some localities. BORDER AREA About 75 per cent of Cana da's population lives along the southern frontier adjoining the United States. All Milium jf jj lined for ji j lightweight l) J t warmth! 11 Trial was treated very nicely." Rudenko questioned Pow- Manager To Quit Klamath Falls - UTt - R. Frank Tucker, manager of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce for more than nine years, has announced he will leave Oct. 15 to join the Na tional Chamber of Commerce. Tucker said he would be come manager of the South ern California district of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, with headquarters in Los An geles. The Klamath county cham ber board of directors said it would name a successor prob ably next week. IT'S WORTH A TRIP. TO si to I I t fw m : ers in detail during the morn ing session and then Soviet appointed defense attorney Mikhail Grinev took over in the afternoon. With his pretty wife and his mother and father watch ing from a box in the rear of the great hall, jammed with 2,000 spectators, Grinev drew a picture of Powers as com ing from a working class fam ily. Powers said he nad taken the high-paying job with the Regional Edition the new fur-trimmed look, the important look for fall in coats,... all are made to sell for much more iood CIA because he could not find good employment elsewhere and he thought it would in sure him financial independ ence. The pilot said he wasn't asked if he wanted to make the flight over the Soviet Un ion. "I couldn't refuse. It was an order," he said. "I would by refusing-have been consid ered a coward by my associ ates. It would also would have been an unsuccessful comple tion of my contract." Page 2 Treatment Grinev finished the day's questioning by saying he had "no more questions now." It was not clear whether Pow ers had finished his testi mony or would face addition al questioning Thursday. Under questioning by his defense attorney, Powers said he was sorry if his flight in creased world tensions. "I have not had much news of what happened in the world," he said. "I heard that as the result of my flight, the Paris summit conference was not held and President Eisen hower's invitation to Moscow was cancelled. "I am sincerely sorry if I had anything to do with this." Powers was not permitted SHOP. LaPOIJVTE'S Mink Collared Coats 9 We believe these to be the most sensational coats ever offered! Choose the fur trimmed coat of your dreams with ranch mink, pastel mink or white mink collar . . . now at pre-season savings! 0 Famous names in wools 0 Beautiful fall fabrics Newest styles for fall 0 Newest Autumn hues Select and take your coat now -it will not be charged to your account till October 1st! IT'S A WONDERFUL STORI to talk with his wife or par ents although they 'conferred with his attorney during a re cess and after the trial. Describing his capture, Powers said that when he landed he was able to collapse his parachute and get his hel met off to get air. He said some "Soviet citizens" ap peared and that he offered no resistance. "I was treated much better than I expected," he said. Powers entered the plea less than two hours after the trial, which could result In a possible death sentence, opened in a former concert hall. It was not unexpected since the Russians, in previously publishing the indictment, had given announced Powers had plead ed guilty. First the court went through the process of formal ly identifying Powers, in structing his as of his rights and reading the indictment. At the end of the reading the presiding justice asked Powers: "Is the charge preferred against you clear to you? Ac cused Powers, do you plead guilty?" Powers replied: "Yes, I plead guilty." The court then adjourned for 20 minutes. After the recess. Prosecutor Roman A. Rudenko immedi ately started questioning the airman, who was 31 years old today.
