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."
Narrator affiliation: Physicist, First director, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory; Arms control negotiator; Director, Defense Dept. Research and Engineering
Description given with photo: "Hughes Arrives in Washington, Washington: Howard Hughes (right) plane manufacturer, chats briefly with reporters at Washington National Airport today (Aug. 6) shortly after his flight from the west coast to Washington to appear before the Senate War Investigating Committee. In good humor, and wearing the battered "good luck" felt hat that he wore when he survived a crash of his controversial plane, Hughes told reporters that the third XF-11 photo-reconnaissance plane, the ship which Elliot Roosevelt recommended, is now flying. Hughes added that it is "a very fine ship". Credit (ACME) 8/7/47."
A portrait of Howard R. Stocker, Oscar Stocker's younger brother. The inscription reads "Howard Stocker died on Sunday January 15, 61 [1961]." Howard Raymond Stocker was born December 19, 1884. He was a graduate of Lehigh University, class of 1906.