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The Boston Globe Friday, April 2, 1971 11 Colonel's court-martial for My Lai coverup starts today PER ANNUM United Press International REGULAR SAVINGS All deposit insirtt ia ton. Interest esupoonied daily. Interest day at deposit 1t day if withdrawal. Dividends paid tsoataly aa lalanca at ill ar atara. OPEN THURSDAY NIGHTS 4:30 to 7:30 This 117th Yar ims our 1 1 in i oar Twenty-five soldiers were charged with My Lai-connected crimes, originally, but charges against 21 of them were dropped for insuf ficient evidence." Besides Henderson and Calley, Capt Eugene M.

Kotouc and Capt. Ernest Medina still face court-martial. Pretrial hearings for Medina, 34, Calley's immediate superior, begin at Ft. McPherson, on May 24. No date has been set "for Kotouc, 37, an 11th Brigade intelligence mwm CambridgeporT require that a defendant be tried by his superiors, the six Henderson court-martial jurors will include a major general, brigadier general and four colonels with longer terms of service.

Henderson, born in Indianapolis, and the father of three children, has many decorations for heroism in World War II and the Korean War. He has been on the faculty of the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk, since July 1969. The Army's charges, however, state that he was "directed to investigate allegations or reports of excessive killing of noncom-batants" and failed to do so. Henderson will be asked to enter a plea at the pretrial hearings which begin today in a tiny courtroom at 1st Army Headquarters between Baltimore and Washington. The trial, itself, probably won't begin before the end of the month.

Since Army regulations It the My Lai 4 hamlet on Mai en 16, 196S, is charged with dereliction of duty for not conducting "a proper and thorough investigation," and two charges of making false statements. The maximum penalty he could receive if convicted on all three charges is four years and three months imprisonment, forfeiture of all pay and allowances and dismissal from the Army. Henderson was in a helicopter 1500 feet above the hamlet as Calley's platoon moved through. The colonel claimed he saw no civilians killed and said an investigation he conducted on his own initiative did ST. MEADE, Md.

CoL Oran K. Henderson, highest-ranking officer accused of My Lai-connected crimes will undergo court-martial proceedings starting today on charges he tried to cover up the massacre. But Henderson faces a much lighter sentence if convicted than the life sentence his subordinate officer, Lt. William C. Calley received Wednesday for participating in the killing of unarmed civilians.

Henderson 50, commander of the 11th Brigade which made the sweep into I A 689 MassaoliUTtts Ave, Central Sqaare CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 02139 Dial 8764240 BANK BY MAIL POSTAGE PAID BOTH WAYS if if CHAIN LARGEST FAMILY CLOTHING AMERICA'S COL. HENDERSON brigade commander not support reports of a massacre. II i OPEN If Editorial makes juror weep Sao TP, sympathetic gesture on the back of the aggrieved soldier. Brown looked at it and tears welled in his eyes.

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