Description given with photo: "102,246 - Watch Your Credit - International News Photo. Slug - (Howard Hughes) Hughes Ready For Senate Investigators, Washington, D.C. Howard Hughes, right, is interviewed by reporters at Washington National Airport after his arrival in a converted B-23 bomber from Culver City, X California. Hughes, there to face Senate Investigators, said he would be "most happy" to repeat under oath charges he has made against chairman Owen Brewster, (R) of Me., of the Senate War Investigating Committee now probing his wartime plane contracts. -Photo by G.B. Kress- 8/6/47."
Description given with photo: "Says Brewster of Fered to Call Off Hughes Probe. Washington, D.C. Howard Hughes, center, charged under oath today that Sen. Owen Brewster, ( R ) of ME., offered to call off the senate probe of his warplane contracts if Hughes would agree to a merger of his trans-world airlines with Pan-American Airways. Thomas A. Slack, left, counsel for the Hughes Tool Co., and Noal Deitrich, right, executive vice president of the Hughes Tool Co., are shown conferring with Hughes shortly after he took the witness stand. -INP Photo by N.K. Benson- 8/6/47."
Description given with photo: "Hughes Tells A Senator, Washington: At the close of today's session (Aug. 6), Howard Hughes (right) tells Senator Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.) (left), chairman of the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee, that he will have somewhere between 200 and 500 questions to ask Senator Brewster when the session resumes. Credit (ACME) 8/7/47."
Description given with photo: "Brewster Denies Hughes' Sworn Charge Of Blackmail. Washington, D.C., Chairman Brewster, ( R ) of Maine, of the Senate War Investigating Committee, today elaborated on his sworn denial of Hughes' charge that he offered to quash the inquiry if Hughes would agree to merge the Trans-World Airline with Pan-American Airways. Howard Hughes, at table, facing camera, center, listens to Brewster's testimony over a press table loudspeaker. Earlier Hughes accused Brewster of telling "a pack of lies." (Editors: Match above photo at a line through the water glass, right corner of witness table, with identical point in right edge of photo no. 102,259. -INP photo by N.K. Benson- 8/7/47."