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Howard Hughes

 

A mystery in life and death

HOUSTON (AP) In his
death, Howard Robard Hughes was
li'? much a mystery as he was in
1 e.

The billionaire industrialist and
aviation pioneer died of kidney fail-
ure yesterday on a private jet en
route from Acapulco to Houston,
the city of his birth.

From the age of 19, when he in-
herited his father?s tool company;
until his death, Hughes was an enig-
matic ?gure.

Hughes amassed an empire val?
ued at more than $2 billion. His
holdings over the years included ho-
tels, gambling casinos, airlines,
movie studios spacecraft and elec-
ironies.

As his body lay under guard in
Methodist Hospital a board of di-
rectors continued to run his far-
?ung financial empire ?as in the
past," said Arelo Sederberg,
spokesman for Summa Corp.

Customs officials identified
Hughes from a birth certificate.
Hospital officials did nothing more
to confirm the identification. There
was a possibility but no certainty.
that a medical examiner would
attempt to further establish the
identity.

AFTER A ?ing in Hollywood and
a stint as an daredevil pilot during
the 19305 and 19405, Hughes became
11101 and more retiring.

He disappeared from public view
in the 19505, conducting his busi-
nesses {mm a series of sealed-off
hotel suites. 

Hughes looked "like a tired,
worn-out old person? when he was
carried aboard the plane on a
stretcher, said Jeff Abrams, one of
the pilots on Hughes? last ?ight.

Roger Sutton, the other pilot, said
Hughes had a thin beard, long grey-
ish hair and looked ?very wasted"
and ?very, very pale."

?He moved his lips a little bit
when they put him on the plane, but
I couldn?t hear anything," Sutton
said.

?The only thing I was told was
to meet a private plane coming in
about 1:30 said a customs
agent, Nancy Carney. had been
told we had a patient coming in a
diabetic coma."

Howard Hughes hod flair for

NEW YORK (AP) When
Howard Hughes was young he was
not only a spectacular aviator and
producer of sensational movies, but
also the most highly publicized la-
dies? man of his time.

Olivia de Havilland once said: 
remember him only with'gratitude.
However, I'm also grateful we did
not marry. Marriage for us would
have been unfortunate."

Katharine Hepburn was first a ro-

But when the plane arrived about

2 Hughes was dead.

The doctors accompanying

Hughes said he died about half an
hour before the plane landed in
Houston.

business empire grew

out of the Hughes?Tool Co.

In 1909, his father and a partner

invented an oil-drill bit which today
is used by every oil-producing com-
pany outside the Communist bloc.

Hughes did not earn his initial
fame as a businessman but as a
pilot.

He set aviation speed records in
1935 and again in 1938 when he cir-
cled the globe in 3 days, 19 hours.

He started designing his own
planes, giving birth to the Hughes
Aircraft Co.. which in timemanu-
factured helicopters, missiles,
spacecraft and plane and rocket
electronics.

 

 

Beneath the mystique,
a technical genius

LOS ANGELES (AP) If
he had never made a movie, nev-
er clashed with a Senate investi-
gating committee, never run an
airline or been a hermit on an
epic scale, Howard Hughes
would still have left his mark in
the world as a technical geni-
us.

From the early experimental
planes through grandiose proj-
ects like the ?Spruce Goose," to
lasers and satellites designed by
his Hughes Aircraft Co.. Hughes?
inventions stood out in the tech-
nology of war and peace.

In his 303, while lionlzed in
Hollywood as a creator of sexy
films, Hughes set these aviation
records:

1935 World land-plane speed
record of 352 miles an hour in an
11-1, a low-wing monoplane he
designed.

1937 Transcontinental-speed
record, Los Angeles to Newark,
N.J., 7 hours, 28 minutes, an av-
erage of 332 miles an hour, in an
11-1.

1938 Round-the~world record
of 91 hours, 14 minutes, in a
Lockheed 14, built to his specifi?
cations. The plane later became
the Hudson bomber used by the
British in World War II.

1944 Speed recond for trans
port planes of 8 hours, 56min-
utes from Los Angela to Wash
ington, D.C., in a Lockheed Con-
stellation, designed largely by
him for use by Trans World Alr-
lines, which he controlled.

Hughes? H-l racing plane had
tremendous in?uence on military
craft of its period. First with
flush rivets, first with power-dri-
ven, retractable landing gear, 
first with jet-thrust exhaust, first
with air intakes on the leading
edge of the wings. it shook the,
idea that monoplanes were im-
practical for pursuit.

The Japanese tried to buy it,
but Hughes refused. They photo-
graphed lt and used it as the baa
sis for the famed Zero of World
War 

Hughes later was given I com
tract to build a high-speed photo-
reconnalssance plane. the XF-ll.

It almost killed him. While he
was testing the plane over Los
Angeles in July of 1946, the four
rear blades of the right propeller
failed and went into reverse
pitch. The plane went out of?con-
trol and hit three houses before
Hughes landed it. He was criti-
cally hurt, but he flew a dupli-
cate of the craft successfully a
year later.

 

 

Houston in 1925,
They were divorced in 1929, by
which time Hughes had moved to
Hollywood where he was making a
name as an aviator and a high flier
in Hollywood society.

mantic interest and then a close
friend for many years.

Hughes married Ella Rice of
when he was 20.

The Texan found the unknown

Harlean Carpenter and turned her,
in a blaze of publicity, into Jean

Harlow, who became America's top
sex symbol. His romance with Har-
low, or real, got him mil-
lions of words in newspapers and
magazines._

Others seen with Hughes were
Billie Dove, Ginger Rogers, Ava
Gardner, Marion Marsh, Mitzi Gay-
nor, Ida Lupine, Linda Darnelland
Jean Simmons. There were, - of
course, others from the highest
ranks of American and European
society.

The Summa Corp. was set up Is
Hughes' umbrella for Hughes Air.
west, his Nevada hotels and casinos
and his vast real estate holdings

MEANWHILE, Hughes had made
the headlines again. 

Clifford Irving had sold the New
York publishing company McGraw-
Hill an ?autobiography? of Hotvard
R. Hughes for $750,000. Irving said

Hughes had authorized the book?

and had collaborated on it.

In In elaborately engineered tele- 

phone call to several era,

mIn contending to be Hughes tie-i)
nied that ho had authorised the.

beak.

McGrIw-Hill sued the Irving: Ind
won I wart judgement for $766. 000.
including expenses

Hughes mute the headlines again

6 during the SonIto Watergate bedr-

ings which preceded former Presi-
dent Nixon' I resign Itlon.

Charles (Bebe) galbumin. Nixon?s?

close friend, reportedly told the 
tergate committee that Hughes
gave him 3100.000 for. thoNlmon'
campaign. But "reportedly
said he kept the money for nearly
three, year: and thon?returned it.

Robert Mabeu, I former Hughes

aide who had sued Hughes for do!? a

matlonof character, testified It his
trial that Hughes gave Vice Presi-
dent Hubert H. Humphrey $50,000

for his unsuccessful presidential.

campaign. Humphrey said he never
saw the money

The jury decided in MIhou'I f?I-
vor and Iwardod him $2.8 million
in damages, but In awed by Sum-
ma Corp. is still pending.

ONE 0? tho lost chapters in
Hugheo? strange career involved
the Control Intelligence Agency,- I
Russian Submarine Ind I gigantic
ship named the Glamor

It was usedby the CIA 1111974
in an attempt to salvage the Soviet
aub which hId sunk 'le years ear-
lier several hundred miles off HI-
wait.

The Glomar?s giant steel claw
started to raise the submarine, but
the submerged vessel cracked in
two.

One third of the sub was recov-
ered, but the rest sank back to the
ocean floor.

the ladies

But no romantic ties were ever
implied in accounts of Hughes?
association with another
star he created Jane Russell. For
her, he used his engineering talents
to design a special bra which she
wore in the multimillion dollar hit
?The Outlaw.?

Hughes was married for tbe sec- 

and time in 1957 to Jean Peters.

After 15 years, she got I divorce
and was married to Stanley Hough,
a producer.

 

the evening
in brief

 

Regional

Clockwork evacuation helped
keep the death toll in the Ketchikan
jet crash. yesterday to just one.
Three flight-crew members and I
passenger, who were flown to
Seattle, all remained in serious con-
dition. A 5.

Gov. Dan Evans yesterday ro-
counted the state?s successes in 'en-
vironmental matters and pointed to
unsolved problems, warning
?there' still plenty to be 
14.

The Eduation Asso-
ciation has withdrawn its request to
the School Board to reconsider its
ban on the book "Catch-22" from I
high-school English class. A 7.

Layoff notices will go out this
week to about 300 Seattle employeI
hired with federal funds. A 13.

6:1, 2?

George S. Corcoran, president of
the Seattle Community College dis
trict since 1974, will resign in April
of next year. 6.

The state's auction of 57 commer-
cial-?shing boats will take place

April .24 despite a continuing legal

Cloud. 17.

An antique-airplane buff took off
from Pasco today in I restored
Swallow biplane, beginning a
244-mile? flight that will commemor-
ate the first scheduled airmail
route. A 5.

Letters of apology were being
sent by Gonzaga University Law
School students to judges, 21 con?
gressman and others who attended
a student function where a young
woman leaped from a flaming cake

and did a strip tease. A 16.

Nation

 




 

Stale Auditor 

Graham's office is to be
audited on the authori of
Gov. Dan Evans. Gra am
lterms the circumstances of
+ho audit "unique and un-
usual." A.P. wirephoio.

. (Details, A 5.)

When the state?s commercial fish-

ing industry got its start in the
1

the term ?over-fishing" had

never been heard. Today, it is I
pn?me reason for the salmon and
steelhead crisis. Third article in a

series. 

A trial date of Why 20111 OlympiI

has been set for State Represent?
tive Dave Coocarelli on charges of
negligent driving. A 5.

 

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Sports

A three-way tie {Or second place
among Seattle. Phoenix and Los
Angeles in the National Basketball
Association' 5 PaCific Division? It's
possible, and it would be chaos,
Greg Heberleln writes. I) 1.

In only his third day as new 3111? 

letic director at - Michigan State
University, Joe Kearney'hired Dar-
Rogers of San Jose as football
coach and Jud Heathcote of Man?
fans as basketball coach at the
troubled Big 10 school. 2.

The Seattle SeIhawks are leaving
the door open on possible trades for
some of their college choices in this
week's National Football League
draft. 1.-

View
A workoholic' is mate who
makes relaxing more trouble then
it?s worth, Erma Bombeck writes.
I 1.

Television

ThoAdamszrooicloIisooming
toacloIeInditistimetoIsoeu
themes];

Editorial
Georgie Ame Geyer talks with
Cesar Chavez and concludes that
his United Form Worker-3' cause is

a good old-(ISM; black-and?
white issue.A!2.

Art Milne: what
might happen if I housewife told
the truth about I new detergent in
one of those laundromot TV inter-
views. AD.

The small truck farm is fast db
Ippouing from King County. Cliff
Rowe writes about an effort to save
the farms. the tumor: Inc! the
?real" market produce. A 13. .

Business

Vodiington?s 1976 wheat crop, the
state's No. 1 cash crop, looks pod,
Iitbough it probably won't equal the
record 145.: million bullet bor-
vutcd last year, according to Stow-
Irt Bledsoe, state agriculture direc-

tor. A 18. 
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Ray? 5 hopes
con?nue
for new trial

Compiled from news services .
James Earl Ray ?ashed a
trace of a smile when he was
asked through the bars of a dark
cell why was he willing to risk

the electric chair in a new trial 

rather than hope for an- early
parole. 

- ?You' ve never been in prison,
have you?" the man serving'a
99-year prison sentence for the

1968 sniper slaying of the Rev. .

Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr,
asked. 1

monty in the Tennessee state peni-

tentiary It NIshville. He spondl

his days working in the laundry
or lying silently in his dingy coll.
According to I Memphis otter:
noy. Robert um Roy
may be the target of violence
from others secretly responsible
for Dr. King's assassination.
think he?s in prime danger,"
Livingston said. "Ray spoke up
(about I conspiracy) in 1969. but
they all chose to ignore him." .
Dr. King was shut Is he stood
on the balcony of 11 Memphis mo-
tel eight years ago. Ray pleaded,
guilty with the understanding he
'would escape the electric chair.

 

Audrey Callaghan

rather see her prime min-
ister any day, says I friend of
Audrey Callaghan, one of many
who stand in awe of the wife of
Britain's new government lead-
er.

Whether running the governing

?board of a children?s hospital or -

whipping up'SundIyl dinner for
her husband, son; two daughters
and eight grandchildren, Audrey
Callaghan has a reputation for
getting things done.

Some friends say M-yearcld
James Callaghan, formerly for-
eign secretary, owes his new of-
fice largely to his wife of 38
years.

It was she, they say. who

coaxed him back into form when

he suffered setbacks

Mrs. Callaghan has served on
the governing council of Lewis-
ham, a borough of Southeast

. London, and was for years an al-
derperson on the old London

County Council.

Considered politically to ,the

Mogruder?s
wife writes'
of near spliiup

The wife of Job Stuart Magm-
dor, former White House aide.
writes that she considered di?
vorcing her husband at the
height of the Watergate scandal
but decided against it because
she didn't want to add to his miSo

cry.

In I 160pIge book called 
Gift of Love, to be published in
(May. Gall Magi-odor tells how
she turned to religion to help her
through the anguish of deding
with the ramifications of her
husbond's guilt while he served
seven months 1npr1

This is the MIgruder family's
second Watergate book. Two
years Igo, Magruder, who had
been No.? 2 man on Richard M.
Nixon?s 1972 reelection cun?
paign, wrote the story of his own
involvement in Watergate. Ma-
gruder now works in Colondo
for Young Life, I dumb 

for teen-agors.

die."

 

 

James EIfl?Ray'
Now he says his lawyer, Percy
Foreman, coerced him into the

plea and that he did not pull the
trigger on the rifle said to have

been the murder weapon.

Ray reluctantly interrupted I

ham to discuss an upcoming rul-

ing by the United States 6th Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals that could
allow him to stand tiial.

Sceming in good mental and
shape and looking youn-
ger than his 48 years. he apolo-

getiCIlly refused to discuss his
Ray receives no special treat. -
conspirators to take the blame
for Dr. King's death.

contention he was ?set up" by

?i think it will all come out in
court, he said "Anything 1 say
here now won?t mike any differ-

encebocausc it will be decided
in court."

Livingston says Ray refuses to
admit his life is in danger. He
also says it may be the underly? .
reason for his client?s sealed
lips.

"Of course. he isn't going
around naming addresses Ind to-
leph?o?no numbers (of conspira-
tors)," the 

?let's just say he cares not to

Behind every
Successful
"man

left of her husband, Mrs. Cali-
lIghIn is the darling of hospital
workers' unions. She opposes
beds for paying patients?in state-
run hospitals and likes to poke
around the hospital basements
listening to blue-collar gripes.

A home-economics course at a

London college when she was a

girl turned her into a careful
housekeeper and a cook who
serves wholesome food without
many frills

All agree she is a good home-
maker. When her husband be-
came chancellor of the exche?
quer in 1964, she had their own
6-foot double bed carried into the
London home that goes with the
job, No. 11 D0wning Street:

?Oh God,? Mrs. Callaghan
complained to a visitor, ve
tried everything _to make this
place cozy but it's still so offi-
cial. 

What she will make of the fa?
mous No.10 next door remains
to be seen.

 

Gail Magruder

Mrs. Magruder writes that, al-
though she found Washington life
as the wife of a White House aide
to be glamorous and exciting for
about a year, the sparkle faded
as her husband took on more re?
sponslbility in the presidential
campaign.

AI Magruder began to recog
nize his involvement in the WI-
tergate scandal. Mrs. Magmder
writes, he began drinking more
and was irritable and less re-
sponsive to her Ind the children.

It was at this point that she
thought about divorce.

Mrs. Magmder writes that the
months her husbInd spent in Al-

?lenwood prison in 

were thotwghost. Every week-
end sbo and the children made
?e eight-hour commute to visit

a

grader.
Today. they live quietly in Col-

People 

Golda Meir former Israeli
prime minister, signed I con-
tractinTolAvawiththoNew
York Theater Guild for I stage
productionof 
?My Life" . . 
has been granted I temporIry
citimband lioonoom In she
can commune-tom friends
while campoiguinforthm
dent. Her all letters Ire
KUY9532. Heb-d Thu-
sufferod an Ihkio {name in I
accident in Conway,
Ark., where be has I role in I
movie about the daft the Ic-
tor, James Deon. Timon-I, 34, is
John?Boy in ?no Walla!? tel?
evision senoo' .

 

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