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COLON E|_Continued from Page 1 feared the rank and influence ofregulation's were what we needed at that time, Kelly said.Another WitnessAnother witness for the defense this morning was Lt. Gordon L. Draheim, navigator rn the dune 19, 1953, flight in which Col. Dunn is charged with falsely logging the flight time..Defense Atty. John Fitzgibbon asked for an example of the colonels' conscientiousness in logging his flight time.Dunn. Adams, then a captain, was accountable supply officer at the Laredo base.Adams testified he knew of the colonel’s need for the five hoursherWlyes!pasdre;LeocioiliceRyeaflight time and he recorded themeven though the colonel did not fly that many hours and did not ask him to log them.I was concerned about his (Dunn’s) rank and the people he knew,” Adams testified.Other WitnessesStone said that Dunn called him Other witnesses yesterday m-L-non one occasion and said some instrument flight time had been log-ged that day that Dunn did not actually fly. Stone said that at the colonel’s request the two of them went on an extended flight that evening to get in the hours that had been logged.Correct lime Dogged Brig. Gen. Walter K. Agee, president of the court, asked Stone if he meant that the correct flight time was logged in addition to . the hours previously logged. Stone ;said to the best of his knowledge that was correct.Adams had testified yesterday that he falsely recorded the five hours of time for Dunn and then lied* about it under oath because he was afraid of the colonel’s rank and influence. Adams formerly was under the supervision of Dunn, who was base maintenance and supply group commander before he was relieved of his duties in July, 1953.Stone, as. commanding officer of the field maintenance squadron, also was under Dunn's supervision. He testified that Col. Dunn never exerted any pressure on him to log any incorrect flight time. He said that be flew on at least 35 missions with the colo-nel.Draheim said he could not be positive how many hours Col. Dunn flew on the trip from La-tJr.edo to. Wright-Patlerson Air i Force Base in Ohio.He said to the best of his recol*lection he -Telle ved Col- Dunn in the co-pilot’s seat just beyond Tyler, Texas, and occupied it until less than five minut.es before the plane landed at Wright-Patterson. Takes 5. Hours He said the leg of the flight from Randolph Air Force Base to Wright-Patterson took about five hours and 45 minutes.The court-martial of Col, Dunn began Monday. Attorneys expect to conclude it tomorrow afternoon. The prosecution rested its case early this morning.Yesterday Adams testified he lied under oath and made a falseeluded Airmen Robert J. Lehman and Robert D. Neuhaus, passengers on the June 19, 1953, flight to an Ohio air base; Draheim and Stone and First Lt. Dale H. Farms-fworth, who piloted Dunn to civilian airports near his Indiana farm.Neither Lehman, Neuhaus nor Draheim could say positively how much flying Dunn did on the trip. Neuhaus testified the colonel slept for. at least two hours and possibly more.Stone testified he flew Dunn to Marion, Ind., on Jan. 12. 1953, and to Kokomo, Ind., on Oct. 19, 1952, in a C-47 transport plane. They remained overnight on both trips.Fransworth said he flew Dunn to Kokomo on Aug. 18, 1952, and picked him up the next day. Adams testified earlier he flew the colonel to Kokomo on March 4. 1953.Jarpie;sau\vacogweiTgregU€27,Bofof\forAnwiitaiCohirthePOLICEContinued from Page 1 session o fthe man was a .45 Colts~idy.3,ina-lei-;sli-n-n-lt;eautomatic, When the case was turned over to the theft and burglary detail, Trevino checked the serial number of the gun and found it to be one taken from Stewart's Drive-In a couple of nights before in a burglary-intensive questioning of the man and his sister began. A second brother, 21, was arrested. Before police could arrest the 26-year-old brother, he bad relumed to the North Beach cottage where the three brothers and sister were slaying, and scooped up a quantity of cash and clothing and fled.Crews said the 30-year-old brother bad been out of the penitentiary since July, while the 21-year-old brother had been out since January of this year.The father of the three brothers and sister, Crews added, now is serving a sentence in the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., for violation of the Dyer Act which makes it a federal offense to transport a stolen automobilefouby45.tbacaiWito the er V bee ant a I by use ofrinter,wcwsce:JainE,rcjweSagaa !IaltbunijSOII* entry in a flight record because he|across slate lines.isa
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Corpus Christi, Texas, US
Fri, Feb 04, 1955
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