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Show a: lb) o rr ' through Friday. Warmer today and tonight IUgh both days 88 : eighty-eighth- sf Y year, no. h : tX YZZifj S&ititr 77'-v-. 'JSVLlW VlfD Vl f I ''AnQ A i rZA - n Life vdu l! nail II, . By HENRY SHAPIRO PROVO; UTAH COUNTY UTAH, THURSDAY, AUGUST , 196g United Press International MOSCOW (UPI) Frands G. Powers, 31, fighting-for his life, today repented his U2 flight over Russia as. PRICE FIVE CENTS a "bad service" .to his country. His defense attorney said he "hoped for the court's leniency" because of the defend- , ant's .admissions, i Powers, speaking from the prisoner's dock,' emotionally pleaded that he could not kill, even in and stressed again and again that he was acting only on orders and not of his own volition, in making the flight over Russia May 1. ; The Tass news agency said defense attorney Mikhail Grinev told the Powers' family that, "Considering Powers' behavior during, the trial, his repentance and regret about the committed offense, h Grinev hoped for tha ' court's leniency." , The statement could be an inkling that the military self-defen- se . .WASHINGTON (UPI) President Eisenhower todav nominated Gen. George Henry Decker as Chief of staff of ttie Army. : ' ' ' Decker, 58, now vice chief of staff, will succeed Gen. - , Jemnitzer layman i Canadians Jumped On i i . i N 1 i v well. (Herald-UP- I Telephoto) : By ALB IN KREBS , viewsn, ii 4 : - . Memorial Rites At Quake Site Province." 'kjX-:''--' He said he would renounce all United Nations aid and. turn im-- . ' 1 , , premier who decreed martial law two days ago to convert his government into a virtual' military dictatorship, was furious over Hammarskjold's re fusal to use the U.N. task force to subdue independent Katanga President Moise Tshombe., He' accused the U.N. chief of showing favoritism toward Belgian interests and thus to Tshombe, a fact he attributed in part to ties between the Swedish and Belgian, u royal families. He1 charged that hands-of- f tactics of. UJR. troops in Katanga "clearly shows some circles wish to turn the Congo into a second Korea." j - ! " ; - ; "' . . :n . . - ; . - . D-tf- , WASHINGTON . - The (UPI) R-P- Senate today defeated a Republican attempt to scale down- - covr erage of the minimum wage bill to give Sen. John F. Kennedy, an other legislative victory. . i a. 1 vote reThe Senate by a a substitute proposal sponjected : sored by Sen. Winston Proutyi designed to knock out about one million bf the ; approximately five million workers the Kennedy " bill would bring under wage-hou- r coverage for the first time, r Despite success in rebuffing an- other strong challenge, Kennedy's Democratic forces gave signs they may be willing to offer some concessions to pass some minimum ' wage bill at this session. Sen: George A. Smathers, and other Democrats were areas. Douglas and MdNamara conexpected to offer a compromise the' President's bill was untend plan to cut about 400,000 work' and would be of no real realistic ers , from the expanded coverage. ' ' . This would eliminate hotel, motel help i By WARREN DUFFEE acand restaurant own measure called and, employes Douglas' United Press International ' to Smathers' a spokes for $230. million in federal cording WASHINGTON Vice man, has the support of Kennedy and loans." But he said he grants (UPI) would President Richard M. Nixon re forces. , if administration the "negotiate' turned today from his first cam-The election-yea- r measure also would approve ' an "effective" would raise the $1 an hour mini- measure and help line up Repubpledged to a firm civU mum to $1.25 over a two-yelican votes in Congress to guar" 0 ni..eB(, ,;(Ai. period.' ' . antee ' j. 56-4- I R-V- t., ) . j D-Fl- a., . J ' ; WageBill At Reception In the South , fornia. WEST YELLOWSTONE , Mont. He accused . California of wa st A floral wreath and a (UPD ing precious water from the Colo bronze plaque stood today, as a rado River system. reminder of the carnage ; visite'd "Bunch of Nonsense " upon the Madison River Canyon This disaster talk w a bunch one year ago when 23 persons of ' nonsense," Wilmer said. "It died in : Montana's worst earth wws i ?. quake. r- 1 1 . i Gov. J. Hugo Aronson of Mon I , tana unveiled the plaque set in Of laW. a three-storydolomite boulder a "This is a disaster rvonly in Los I i an juiego news- Wednesday in ceremonies . com Angeies ana for the memorating the first anniver- papers, it is just publicity I . x u of the tumio vi that sary uvynua innuence earthquake uijyse bled half a mountain onto a riv somebody., , ! erside campground. . The only disaster that might J H. , Duvendack of Boze accrue from the Rifkind proposal, George man, supervisor of the Gallatin Wilmer said, would be in Arizona National Forest, laid the- wreath if iti is not adopted. He said the as 300 relatives and friends of 2.8 million acre-fee- t of water the earthquake victims brushed away decree would allocate was urgent-- 1 tears. (Continued on Page Four) mediately "to other nations" for usual : they split on how to go about it and how far to go The politically potent issue was discussed at a Senate banking subcommittee hearing called by Chairman Paul H. Douglas, ll Three bills came under discus sion; Douglas own bill supported generally by the Democrats, an administration bill, proposed . by President Eisenhower and support ed today byjCommerce Secretary Frederick H. Mueller, and a corft- promise- bill . introduced ' by Sen. Hugh Scott, No decision was made- - at today's meeting and there seemed to be . no break , in the deadlock over the two opposed bills. ' Douglas three times has sponsored legislation to provide federal help for, areas troubled with unemiploy-men- t. high and continued One bill died in the House Rules Committee in 1956. , Two others were vetoed by President Eisenhower, one in 1938 and the latest in May. Eisenhower last week urged Congress to enact the administration's proposal, which - would channel $180 million into 1 stricken Nixon Happy rilJ '... .... wumer a cnaracterizea as bunch of nonsense" California At torney General Stanley ; Mosk's statement ; Wednesday ' that the proposed division of river Water rights would be "nothing short of disastrous" for Southern Cali 1 ; ,;ojitroversju.atr. to . lima WASHINGTON Kennedy Wins Victory On day's session of the conference. Venezuela's Ignacio L. Arcaya formally charged Wednesday night that thei Dominicans were, impli cated in a misdirected leaflet raid early this year, in April's abortive revolt in Venezuela and in the June, attempt to assassinate Pres ident Romulo Betancourt. Used As "Scapegoat" The Dominican Republic's Por-firio Herrera Baer denied the cliarges, saying Venezuela was using his country: as a "foreign scapegoat" to distract attention (Continued on Page Four) counsel ror; Arizona, ap United Press International peared before Supreme Court Ref NEW YCIK (UPI) Arizona eree Simon K. Riffcind to back up today accused California of crying a. settlement of the proposed "disaster" : to , sway a Supreme Court referee's decision on the dispute division of Colorado River water, , i California had strongly opposed Mark Wilmer, Phoenix, special the ettlement proposed by Rif kind ) on ' grounds it would deprive 70 Southern California - communi ties of their primary water supply . Passage! Awaited . - Californ ia Accused Of Crying Water 'Disaster1 ; Bill (UPI) --Senate Democrats and Re publicans that chronically de agreed today nation. must be helped by areas pressed In. the face of mounting Latin the federal government but as American support for the Vene zuelan ' demand for" political and economic sanctions against the Dominicans, short only of armed force, the United States was 'ex pected : to agree to collective sev erance of diplomatic relations.Secretary of State Christian A. Herter prepared to express U.S - ! Afiiona Backs Cdforado , "1 Aid to Distressed Areas Bill Argued - ' HE FEELS JUST FINE, THANK YOU! Bernard M. Baruch, famous. American elder statesman, who will be 90 tomorrow, wears a lei of Hawaiian flowers he received today as a birthday gift, The silver-haire- d adviser to presidents told a group of reporters that he felt very ' 1 ; - fe"- French-speakin- , Wage large majority of the delegations from the 21 American republics present at the sixth Consultative Assembly of Foreign Ministers expressed Willingness to apply collective sanctions against the Dominicans as an aggressor 4. . ' . : - ar ; reception L AA 1 n J ..ml... auuicascu. uuuiiiicc ail tSsluliaitTU crowd of 14,000 in Greensboro. .... ' n.C. Police said another 2.000 were outside Memorial Coliseum ' . . , V wnere ne SDOKe. Nixon, who arrived back-ithe capital at 1:07 a.m. e.dj. said he was so elated at his reception that be definitely would return tothe state. It . was learned he planned to visit Durham and Charlotte la ter, ws m. tribunal would not mete out the ! death penalty. The pilot told the three military judges hearing the espionage trial in which he has pleaded guilty that the people who sent him over . the Soviet Union should, hay thought of the consequences. Friday is expected to be the last day of the trial. The prosecution and defense ar to make their summaexpected WASHINGTON (UP?) Presi tion speeches. Then Powers will dent Eisenhower says he finds no have the right to make a final evidence that the Russians have speech to the court. brainwashed. Francis G. Powers. The seemingly naive Virginian What is brainwashing? clearly was trying to avoid Communist death sentence. If the The official U.S. Air Force die trial ends Friday, the three-judgtionary says to brainwash isri'To court it expected to postpone the manipulate various psychological verdict and possible sentence unand moral factors so as to Induce a person to reveal confidential in No Thought of Consequences formation or to subscribe to false Powers told the packed courtstatements.' room he never even thought of the On that basis, Eisenhower's statement puzzled some other of fate of his May 1 flight,, let alone ficials who studied accounts of the that it might1 wreck the Parii summit conference or even lead opening session of Powers spy to military conflict. trial in Moscow. MDo you think now you did your Rep. George H. McMahon," D-- country a good or bad service? Tex., suggested Powers may have asked Chief Judge Viktor been brainwashed, on the strength of the pilot's testimony that his "I would say very bad," Pow2 was shot down at , 8,000 feet ers replied. That suited the Kremlin's desire -.- "Did it occur to you that a flight to show Russia could be defended might, provoke conflict?' military against air attack, but it did not "The people who sent me should agree with belief here that Pow have thought of that." ers had plane trouble which fThe prosecution had called anbrought him to much lower alti other technical expert, Lt. CoL tude before the Russians got him K. V. Voroshilov, at the afternoon Barred From Commenting session when Powers made his dramatic branch executive the in Officials plea of pacifism. Voroshilov identified a pistol of the government were barred with a silencer as part or equipped stern State .a Department by der from commenting publicly on of V the . gear found in Powers e the trial and Powers' conduct, plane when it was ' downed over Siberia. Rut authorities privately noted Powers been advised he had, subtle turns in the testimony could question the statement of which indicated the kind of com and he stood in his witnesses, pliance with . prosecution wishes to speak. box that characterizes a witness sub prisoner's . "Unfortunately, nobody but my, jected to brainwashing.' self knows that I could not kill a and Powers, under prosecution - testified he person even . to save my ' own defense examination, life" he said in a low voice. was "sorry for his part . in the U--2 High Altitude Hunting incident. He said he came from a "The pistol was given to me and family, I took.it "strictly, strictly for hunting." flew under military orders because Prosecutor Roman A. Rudenko, he had to and had been treated S3, a ' veteran" of the Nuernberg' "very nicely", in the Soviet Union. war crimes trials,,, stared at The effect of this testimony ap Powers. peared 4 to some to bear our ad "You are aware," he inquired, vance predictions that Russia was "that at 68,000 feet (the altitude endeavoring to 'put the United at which Powers says the U2 was States on trial and, that Po ers flying, when hit) It. is difficult to would be pictured as the pawn in hunt game?' , war-lik- e Washington' "Yes, I understand,". .Powers , , policies. said. "This was to be used only if I .had a forced landing or Brainwashing Technique The Russian brainwashing tech something." During the exchange over the form, is nique, in to imprison a person in a solitary pistol, Powers' family sat tensely cell for a number of days or even in their marble box at the rear weeks. Io time the prisoner be of the courtroom. The mother, comes utterly dejected, frustrated Mrs. Ida Powers,' came to the and has a compulsion to talk.' afternoon session after staying in Interrogators then take over the her hotel ,this morning lest she prisoner and make him review his "disturb", her son. Mrs: Barbara entire life history. At many points, Powers . watched her husband through opera glasses. (Continued on Page Four) The pistol was among the U2 equipment brought from glass Was President Right About Brainwashing? j e ; its passage. . . . U-- . , Fight Repeal ; Repu d iates P a rty's Labor Plank B y vd WSHINGTO - Sen. (UPI) F. Harry Byrd, repudiated the of Democratic part platform's labor- plank today and announced he would fight , any congressional effort to carry it; out. He specifically - attacked the platform pledge to repeals the provision permitting states to enact right to1 work laws. These laws, in effect in 20 states, outlaw union shop and similar contracts which require an employe to; join or remain in a union to hold a job. ' rcuzcistioa of the Byrd's plack, ia a tpsech prepared for the, Lzzzts, was his first public statement cn d?vdopments at the "Democratic c onveation last month. He has not yet said whether he would export Sen. John , D-V- a., " -- j ; . Taft-Hartle- y,, -- i ; - F. Kennedy as the presidential , nominee. ' , The Virginia senator said the y pledge to repeal the ' would destroy "two provision great principles on which this nation is founded individual liberty : . ; Taft-Hartle- and states rights." "These are - among the safeguards of our freedom against tyrannical central government," he said. "To defend this freedom, I shall oppose the platform pledge to repeal the authorization for state right to work laws whenever, and wherever the effort is made." ; its chief conservative voice in Ms party, said fulfillment of the pledge would , be "a massive victory" for such labor leaders as AFL-CIPresident George Meany, Vice Presidents vlter Byrd, O Reuther and David J . McDonald, ana teamsters president James . , "wild. of the authorization for Repeal n right to work laws would be lowed by a drive to repeal all protective provisions in the Taft- Hartley Act and gather statutes in the whole labor field," he said. He said all of the state laws pro- tect both the right to join and not Jo join a union. Fulfillment of the Democratic promise, he said, would mean national recognition of union membership as a condition for holding a job snd "wholesale nullification of the state laws. Byrd scid he suspected the Su-preme Court would move prompt- ly to invalidate the right , to work laws ia .Virginia and 19 other States. , , fol-ji- , i - ' high-altitud- . . -- 6 -- 1 non-capitali- st" -- , . ? so-call- ed . . - over-simplifi- ed . . - . n r i showcases placed around the gilded courtroom, scene of the bloody 1930 purge trials and prior to that the czars' music room. Voroshilov then introduced in evidence three incendiary devices and i a round box which he said contained "pyrotechnical substanc-- , es producing orange smoke and a colored flame." Asks for Translation . Powers interrupted again to ask the Russian translator to read the directions on the side of one of the "fire starters." The translator picked up one of the devices and 9 read: "This is for starting .bon- fires with , damp wood or sub stances that will not ignite very, fast." It was Powers apparent inten tion to show that the devices were "Respectful" Attitude Surprises The vice president said he thought he had a chance North Carolina. He said he was surprised not. only at the. size of the crowd that greeted him but its "respectful? attitude toward his remarks on civil rights. Nixon told both a local televised I news conference an dthe Col- Lseum audience that he would, KiYnntt efipic hv his nnvitmnt" on civil riehts wherever cnnV the South. ! "I still do not believe in eoinp y , . intended for peaceful purposes. The next technical witness, CoL of the Red , N. M. Burmdstov-Zuy- v said the of corps engineers, army I destruction unit installed in the into the South and demogoguing about . civil rights and making statements that will sound- - good in the North." he told renortw on his return to Washington. He (Continued on Page Four) U2 contained "enough explosives to insure the complete destruction of the plane." "The history of aviation has no precedent for the mounting of such a unit on a military or civilian plane," .be said. (Powers, for reasons not yet made clear, did net use the de-vice cr xtherwis destroy his . Nov You ICnov By United Press kitrnaticrl The largest zoological reserve in the world is the Kruw Na. tional Park, South Africa. It ex- tends over 8,250 square miles and contains an estimated half million head d rim : . . to-carr- - , Boriso-glebsk- y. . Right-to-Wor- k' ! - , ' 'I r .' .' - Latin American nations indicated today they were ready ; to vote overwhelmingly to punish the Do- mini can Republic : for intervening in the internal affairs of Vene- w -- " . , . President Richard M. iNixon. The Arkansas Democrat said that if any such thing happened, it would be "a very serious matter" and- "an outrageous violation of 'the ; customary "rules of political x partisanship." A ? ' WASHINGTON (UPI) Senate Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fiilbright, demanded to know today whether the State Department reversed itself on an African student program at the behest of an aide to Vice By HENRY KAYMONT United Press International SAN JCE, CosU Rica (UPD zuela. I ",j " ' ' , ! ''''II", Sept. 1. Collective Sanctions Against Dominican Republic Seems Sure . ;'. j -- :' today.. The three men were taken to hospitals but were not reported in serious condition. They were iden Ufied as Capt. JL C. A. Tascher-R.' T.iCpnroy, eau, Quebec; ' Cpl. " Kingston, and Signalman Andre i Mathieu, Montreal. ..The men were forced to lie on 'the ground after they were dis ' armed, then (were beaten. Tasch , ereauwas reported to; have suf fered a concussion. !j , The Congolese were inspecting luggage and identity cardsr in 'r a search for ''Belgian spies'? and disguised paratroopers when they .: overheard some of the Canadians speaking French TMs - apparently ,misled the Congolese into be-- . g lieving they were , Belgians. r The Canadians were boarding a plane to take their unit to Coquil- hatville in Equatorial Province and Luluabourg in Kasai, where thev were to set up ' U.N. communications. Meanwhile, a Congolese delegation flew, toward New York aboard a Soviet airliner to warn the U.N. Security , Council against turning The Congo into a "seeond Korea. The delegation was authorized by Premier Patrice Lumttmba to V deliver a three part ultimatum 'bringing grave action should the council refuse to send "neutral ob servers" to the Congo a direct slap at the good faith of Secretary ; General Dag iHammarskjold. Lumumba threatened to rush troops of his central government into secession - minded Katanga PHILADELPHIA (UPI) The $3.5 billion Pennsylvania Railroad said today "there is no way in the world" to keep its trains running if the Transport Workers Union' carries out its threatened strike In Dispute I By GEORGE SIBERA United Press International ' LEOPJDLDVILLE, The Congo (UPD Native Congolese troops disarmed three - Canadian soldiers of the United Nations emergency force and beat them with rifle butts Vat nearby Ndjilii Airport t . ,.. Venezuela Backed Up Victims of Airport Incident Reported; Not Seriously Hurt help. S : The .;? I 'Spy Hunt' ' r j Lemnitzer is to succeed Gen. Nathan F. Twining as of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. chairman, ' Twining is. to retire shorly because of ill heaiibh. . 'HIT BY SOMETHING AT C 3,C CD, American pilct Francis Gary Powers, his hand on map, answers pre caution's qucctions on second day of espionage trial in Moscow today. 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