FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1953 Senate Croup Looks Hurriedly At Explosive White 'Spy' Case WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (IP) —An all-Republican Senate inquiry committee took a swift 40-minute look at the explosive Harry Dexter White “spy” case at a jam-packed, televised hearing today. At the end, Chairman Jenner (R-Ind.) said he was convinced that’former President Truman received FBI reports linking White to a Soviet espionage ring in 1946. Cabinet . (Continued from v>age one ) committee-on discipline, Farrell’- approved proposal named as per manent members the director of student affairs, the chairman of the Senate committee bn stiident affairs, the dean of the concerned student school, and the president of the student’s student council. Other, members, depending on the sex of the student, are to be the . president of Women’s Stu dent Government Association or Men’s Student-. Government Asso ciation, the' dean -of.. men or. of women, and the chairman of judi cial or. tribunal. Farrell explained that on cases of appeal from judicial or tribunal, the respective chairman will not be present but will submit a writ ten report of the decision of his body. A special staff or faculty specialist may be added if de sired by the student, he said. Appeals from Tribunal. This group would be made re sponsible -for handling appeals from Tribunal or Judicial as pro vided: by the amendment to the All-College constitution passed at the meeting. Formerly the appeal, as provided by section eight, went to All-College Cabinet. Included in Farrell’s approved proposals also was the plan that appeals of the Elections' commit tee be handled by Cabinet. A final resolution was that the Associa tion of Independent Men’s Board of Judicial Review and the Inter fraternity ■ Council’s Board of Control should hear cases of indi viduals involving violations of conduct rules set up by those indi vidual organizations subject to appeal to Tribunal. He recom mended that the constitution be amended to include these. Students May See Planet Tomorrow Weather permitting, the planet Mercury -will be visible tomorrow as it passes the sun. This phe nomenon occurs at intervals rang ing from three to 13 years. Since the orbit of Mercury is smaller than that of the earth it rarely passes directly in front of the disk of the sun. The College Observatories will be open from 10:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. tomorrow. To allow several persons to observe the planet at the same time, the telescope will be arranged so that the image of the sun and Mercury .will be pro jected on a white screen.' Student Pined $l5 In Conduct Charge Bert Oberg, fifth semester in dustrial engineering major who was arrested Monday by borough police on a disorderly conduct charge, was found guilty yester day in a hearing before Guy G. Mills, justice of the peace. Oberg' was ordered to pay $l5 in fines and costs. He was found guilty of violating a borough dis orderly conduct ordinance Satur day. - \ TONIGHT DQORS OPEN 11:30 P.M. THE CASHING TERROR OF THE SKY! Sabre IN COLOR m.T*rKZ->T/ HB Cwf H lMf«t ROBERT STACK v COLEEN GRAY But Sen. Hendrickson (R-N.J.), who sat with f Jenner at- the two man inquiry, took a somewhat different' view. Asked if he thought the record . roved Truman had seen the FBI . reports on White, Hendrickson told newsmen: “Only by implication. I am not completely convinced we have the whole story. It’s a pretty strong record, but I want to be fair about it. “I would likg to hear from Tru man’s own lips whether he saw these reports.” The crux of the whole dispute is whether Truman actually saw the FBI reports and . knew about White’s alleged spying for the So viets when he promoted White from assistant secretary of the Treasury to U.S. executive'direc tor of the International Monetary fund. Rejected Subpoena Truman, who today rejected a subpoena to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee, says he doesn’t recall aver getting such reports. Jenner and Hendrickson, the only members of- the nine-man Senate internal security subcom mittee on hand for today’s in quiry, gave their views to news men after hearing testimony by former Asst. Atty.- Gen. T. Lamar Caudle and Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, Ret., Truman’s former military aide. Vaughan Not Talking Vaughan had little to say be sides reiterating that he had no recollection of receiving any fe'Bl report mentioning White. ‘ Vaughan told the senators, how ever, that if - Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell said such reports were sent to him—as Brownell did say —“I would not question it for a moment.” I The, subcommittee received a telegram from Gov. James E. Byrnes of South Carolina, who was secretary of state at the time the - FBI acctised White early in 1946. . Byrnes said the FBI report he saw “aroused such serious- suspi cions” that he thought Truman should try to stop Senate confirm ation of White. He said he dis cussed the matter with the for mer President, but by that time White had ' already been con firmed. ©rad Student's to Meet The Graduate Student Associa tion will meet" at 9 tonight at 118 W. Beaver avenue. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Adenauer Asks More U.S. Troops BONN, Germany, Nov. 12 (IP)— Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to day urged an increase in U.S. fighting forces in Europe to build up the western defenses against Russia, which he described as “ac tually imperialistic as always.” He warned that even a slight withdrawal of American troops would be regarded by - the Rus sians as the beginning df Ameri can surrender in the cold war and encourage continuance of the Kremlin’s aggressive policy. “We Germans know that these forces- are here only for defense and-never for attack,” the-Chan cellor said in an • interview pub lished by the U.S. Army news paper Stars . and Stripes. “Con sequently each strengthening of American fighting forces on the European continent will be wel comed by the German people.” There was a flurry on the con tinent last month over a remark by.U.S. Secretary of Defense Wil son that development of- new weapons would permit a -reduc tion of the troops “in the long run.” Subsequently Wilson, sec onded by Secretary of State Dulles, said the United States had no immediate plans for taking troops out of Europe. Israel Seeks Meeting With Jordan UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Nov. 12 (Jp) Israeli Delegate Abba Eban proposed today an immedi ate meeting of political and mili tary representatives of Israel and Jordan with Palestine truce offi cials here in an attempt to-pre vent further border raids. He expressed to the Security Council his - government’s “pro found and unreserved regret” for the loss of “innocent” lives at Kibya, Jordan, in an early-morn ing raid on Oct. 14 in which 53 Arabs died. Nevertheless, it was reported tonight the United States* Britain and France will, put before the Security Council/next week a res- Eisenhower Leaves For Canadian Visit WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (£>)—President Dwight D. Eisenhower packed up for a good-will trip to Canada today with a twofold purpose—to promote continental defense- and to stimulate inter national trade; It will be a two-day state v: the Canadian Parliament in Ot tawa- Saturday. Eisenhower said his speech will be a general dis cussion of some of the problems that are common to both coun tries. Shortly before, boarding his special train for the Canadian cap ital, Eisenhower announced the formation of a joint committee to deal with “broad questions af fecting the harmonious econom ic relations of the two countries.” “Both governments have recog nized,” a. White- House statement said,- “that the free world is vi tally interested in promoting a healthy flow of international trade.” The statement added: “The activities of the joint com mittee will constitute one aspect of the efforts of both countries in promoting .satisfactory trade relations on a multilateral basis throughout the free world.” The group, which is of Cabinet rank, will • be ■ known formally as the United States-Canadian Com mittee bn Trade and Economic Affairs. It will meet at least once a year, alternately in Washington and Ottawa. “After receiving reports of the joint committee’s work,” the an nouncement said, “each govern ment will have an opportunity to consider measures to improve ec onomic relations and to encourage the flow of trade.” American members are the Sec retaries of State, Treasury, Agri culture and Commerce. Canadian members are the Secretary of State for External Affairs and the Ministers of Finance, Trade and Commerce, Agriculture or Fisheries. olution censuring Israel for the Kibya raid. Diplomats familiar with the policy of the three Western pow ers said the resolution will also propose building up the truce supervision 'machinery by adding more military observers, and re quire a report from the truce su pervisor within three months. Palestine truce observers re ported Israeli armed forces car ried out the raids, .but Israel de nied the army was involved. Eban blamed the Kibya incident and other violence on the Arab “poli tical, economic and military siege.” against Israel. He told the Council his govern ment had designated him as its representative in the proposed talks here with the Jordan rep is H coming mPM to town ... for our own ... "MIL BALL" FRIDAY, DEC. II •REG HALL *9:00-1:00 •F©RMAL Tickets on Sa!e Nov. 19 and $4.00 per couple Lsit, highlighted by an address to Elections (Continued -from page one) son, State, in the sophomore class, and Robert Bennett received 595 votes to the 464 of Joseph Ferko, State, the widest vote margin. State Party swept the secretary treasurer positions in both classes. Marilyn Seltzer won over Virginia Hance, 547 to 513 in the freshman class race, and Barbara Stock, 401 to 321, over Shirley Mix in sophomore balloting. A total of 1787, or 31.4 per cent of students eligible to vote did so. Of this, 1063 or 35.1 per cent of the freshman class and 724 or 27.1 per cent of the sophomores voted. In last year’s fall election, Lion Party candidates won four posi tions, including a sweep of the freshman class offices. The posi tions of cabinet will be unchanged because each party secured one seat, as .they did in last year’s voting. Sinclair, in a statement issued after the vote results had been announced, said •“I am quite pleased with the results of the elections with the exception of the extremely discouraging size of the vo'ter turnout. We hope that the percentage voting next spring will be doubled, but re garding Lion Party prospects the election can be likened to the first robin: a harbinger of spring.” Kenneth White, State Party clique chairman, said, ‘‘The elec tion is now over and therefore in the continued spirit of Penn State campus politics, both parties will close the breach and together we’ll work to make Penn State an even better Penn State.” resentative and Maj. Gen. Vagn Bennike, Denmark, UN supervis or of the truce organization. He said, such conferences might bring about agreements which would end the border violence. Eban called on the Council to urge the Arabs to substitute per manent peace treaties for the pres ent armistice agreements. He charged the Arabs were determ ined hot to make peace with Is rael nor let Israel live in peace. He -said they were boycotting Israel and were constantly threat ening Israel’s security. He said there is nothing in his requests for peace and an end to the border violence which would go against the UN charter or the armistice agreement. PAGE THREE
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