THE Ml owers Returnsaces By JAMES NICHOLS jailed while collecting economic on future relations between the gard the release of Powers e cold war in Europe seemed information for a doctoral dis- two countries, he said. Pryor as a major diplon ke a mild upward turn over sertation. Both he and Powers The Russian people, who were breakthrough, but Secretar Neekend as two young Ameri- were being held as spies. never told about Abel's arrest and State Dean Rusk said that th reetuedastotyoungfamilen- Release Abel. conviction, heard the release ofSteDanussidhtth returned to their families At the same time, the United Powers described as a unilateral pnisonment of citizens of one prisons behind the iron cur- the cold war by the other Stts ordered the release of Col goodwill Lestutre by their govern- ntecl a yteoh and matic y of e im- side was Francis Gary Powers, pilot of e U-2 high-altitude reconnais- nce plane which crashed in Rus- E May 1, 1960, saw his wife and i r e n t s briefly before being lisked away for interrogation by ents of the Central Intelligence ;ency. The CIA is investigating e crash of Powers' plane, which e Russians claimed to have shot iwn with a missile. The other American was Freder- k L. Pryor of Ann Arbor, who has ent the past five months in an ast German prison. Pryor was Rudolf I. Abel, arrested in Brook- lyn, N.Y., on espionage charges in 1957 and sentenced to 30 years in prison. The exchange was ar- ranged by a Brooklyn attorney who defended Abel in court. The attorney, James B. Dono- Van, successfully negotiated Pow- ers' release with Communist offi- cials in East Berlin. Donovan also expressed a belief that Soviet of- ficials may release a third Ameri- can, Marvin W. Makinen of Chas- sell, Michigan, now in a Soviet prison in the Ukraine. The fate of further negotiations would depend guv~t guui 1y iG1gVil ment. Both Powers and Pryor were pronounced in good health by phy- sicians shortly after their release. The White House has referred all questions about Powers to the State Department. Sen. John Sparkman, (D-Ala.) yesterday asked the State Depart- ment to give the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a "full re- port" on its interrogation of Pow- ers. The committee made an in- quiry into the U-2 incident in 1960. Washington sources did not re- an irritation "that we can do with- out." The fact that Khrushchev agreed to exchange Powers and Pryor for Abel has caused unoffi- cial speculation here. Some think the Russians were worried about information Abel might reveal about Soviet espionage in this country. It is also possible that the Rus- sian Premier is seeking better re- lations between his country and the West before the Central Com- mittee of the Soviet Communist Party meets March 5. Vest Wins in Struggle with Russians over Use )f Berlin Aerial Lanes Reds Grant Allied Planes Right to Fly Soviets Change Plans To Control Air Lanes BERLIN (AP) - The Western big three allies yesterday forced a showdown with the Russians over free use of the Berlin air corridors and won. The Allies thrust military trans- ports through the north and cen- ter corridors during a period of more than two hours when the Russians wanted to monopolize them for Soviet Air Force planes. The Russians changed their plans, without giving any reason. The result was that a half dozen Western civil airliners and mili- tary transports of the United States, Britain and France had the corridors to themselves. An Allied spokesman revealed that the Soviet controller in the four-power Berlin Air Safety Cen- ter at first said the Soviet flights had been delayed. Then he an- nounced they were cancelled. To demonstrate their rights, military propeller planes deliber- ately flew through lower altitude MICHIGAN FIRST : IRomney Brushes Off Presidential Ambitions By ROBERT SELWA Special To The Daily DETROIT-George Romney, announcing Saturday his can- didacy for ,-Governor of Michigan, brushed aside the Presidential ambitions that many Republicans hold for him. "My interests are in Michigan," he -commented during a press conference at the Veterans Memorial Bldg. "As a gubernatorial candidate, I will have no interest in any other position in the state or nation-elective, appointive or other- wise." May Run However, Romney refused to declare himself as not being a candidate for President in 1964, as former Vice-President Richard Nixon has done in bidding for the " governorship of California. Romney said that his first con-Std ent G ou cern is his role as a constitution- al convention delegate in helping Top to create a satisfactory new con- O am paign stitution, and that he will be a personally active candidate only DETROIT - Students for Rom- after he has completed his re- ney. began their campaign Satur- sponsibilities as a delegate. day. That accomplished, his second At George Romney's news con- concern will be to gain the Re- ference in the Veterans Memorial publican gubernatorial nomination Bldg., members passed out but- andhisthrd oncrnwould then tons and other campaign materials and his third concern wol hnto Romney and newsmen. be winning the election, he con- tinued. "We will campaign for Romney If elected, he said, his only now," Steven Stockmeyer, '63, de- concern would be to work in the clared. "The organization had re- best interest of Michigan. laxed, waiting for Romney's ests M an decision." Gets Leave The group's main effort will be Romney has been granted a circulating nominating petitions leave of absence without pay from among Ann Arbor and student American Motors Corporation, voters. It hopes to hold a state- which he heads. wide rally for Romney here and, The American Motors Corp. yes- sometime after April 1, have Rom- terday named Richard E. Gross ney speak on campus. chairman and chief executive of- It will also attempt to expand ficer and Roy Abernathy was pro- the organization from the six moted to President and chief campuses where it is presently 10- operations officer. cated and increase the member- After the press conference he ship of these groups. submitted his resignation as chair -_______________ man of Citizens for Michigan. Romney told the packed press UNIVERSITY LECTU conference that Michigan's po- tential is not being realized. "And the responsibility for that must be laid, in part at least, at H A RRY the doors of too many partisan politicians of both parties acting Editor, The C like narrow partisans first and Author, "Onl Michigan citizens last," he said. OPEN AIR -- The West won a showdown in the Berlin air cor ridors yesterday when the Russians ended plans to reserve th north and central ones by cancelling announced flights. Th corridors for Red Army planes. However, the West defied these Russians, for the third time in a week attempted to reserve th demands by sending their own transports through the corridor a the hours the Soviets requested the space. - ke e e ke , t LAST WEEK ALBERT WIEBER PAINTINGS-DRAWINGS OPENING: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18 LINDSAY DECKER, SCULPTURE OTTO NEUMANN, PRINTS 201 Nickels Arcade Ann Arbor, Mich. OPEN 10 to 4 MONDAY THRU FRIDAY 10 to 1 SATURDAY turbulence because that was the air space the Soviets tried to re- serve., This was the third time in five days the Russians had attempted to reserve for themselves blocks of the air corridors to Berlin, which is 110 miles behind the Iron Cur- tain. The West put extra flights of military aircraft into the corridors and the airlines ran their normal schedules. Some Red planes were then spotted. But, unlike yesterday, the Russians did not announce any cancellation. Although the Russians know the number through flight plans filed at the Air Safety Center, the Al- lies refused to say exactly how many transports flew yesterday between 10:15 a.m. and 12:38 p.m. That was the period for which the Russians had demanded exclusive use of the corridors Berlin-Han- nover and Berlin-Hamburg up to 7,500 feet. The Western powers insisted on observance of four-power rules re- quiring notification of each flight through or across the corridors' separately. Western officials regarded the T Soviet move as a probe to see if; the West would give way. They re- acted firmly in the belief that to give way now would encourage the Russians to ask for bigger slices of air space and time in the future. There are three of the 20-mile I wide corridors in all - Berlin- Hamburg, Berlin-Hannover and Berlin-Frankfurt. They supple- ment links by highway, railroad and canals. The Ann Arbor I ORoundup By The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL-Two wave- lashing storms whistling into the central Atlantic yesterday cast doubt on whether Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. will rocket around the world tomorrow. DETROIT-Voters in Michigan's traditionally Democratic 14th Con- gressional District today will pick a successor to the late Rep. Iouis C. Rabaut (D-Mich). The special election pits Demo- cratic state, Sen. Harold M. Ryan against Republican Robert E. Waldron in a runoff that has at- tracted national attention. JAKARTA-Robert F. Kennedy has a date today with President Sukarno and an opportunity to reiterate American desires for a peaceful settlement of the West New Guinea crisis. He expected to take advantage of the opportunity. r Civic Theatre * I I reChen S Deutsch? Whether or not you speak German, you will thoroughly enjoy a meal at METZGER'S ! Traditional dishes in a continental atmos- phere. 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