SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1953
White Case Expanding
Aide Asserts
Ike Met White
NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (JP)— Fred
Smith, a former Treasury depart
ment aide, said today that Presi
dent Eisenhower met Harry Dex
ter White in a tent in England
in 1944.
President Eisenhower, ques
tioned at his press conference last
Wednesday about the controver
sial White case, said he had never
met White and knew.." nothing
about him. •
The question arose amid the
furore caused' by Atty. Gen. Her
bert Browneil’s charge sthat for
mer President Truman promoted
White in the face of an FBI report
that White was a Soviet spy.
Smith, a former assistant to
Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, confirmed details of
a magazine article he wrote in
1947 describing a conference of
Eisenhower, Morgen thau and
White in Eisenhower’s headquar
ters tent in southern England.
Smith said he was present also.
Existence of the article was dis
closed today by the New York
Post, which reprinted excerpts
from it on its editorial page. The'
article was published in the
March, 1947. “United Nations
World,” a private magazine on
international affairs. It had no
connection with the United Na
tions.
The article says that at a meet
ing on Aug. 7, 1944, the “Morgen
thau Plan was born.” This was a
proposal to turn postwar Ger
many into a farming nation, with
no industrial war potential.
The article pictures Eisenhower
as advocating stern policies
toward Germany, along with
White and Morgenthau.
Eisenhower, in his book, “Cru
sade in Europe,” published in
1948, confirms- that the meeting
with Morgenthau took place, but
he does not mention White.
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interested in or affected by its
services.
A spokesman for the adminis
tration said that, although the
name change was formalized by
yesterday’s action, it may be some
time«. before all the details in
volved are ironed out. It was ex
plained that major policy would
require trustee action, and that
the lesser details arising .there
from' would of necessity await
those decisions.
“The change-over will come in
orderly fashion,” the spokesman
said, and pointed out that “it will
take months, perhaps longer, to
have a new university seal in
corporated into our major publi
cations and other literature. In
the meantime, it will be expected
that administrators will continue
to use existing stationery and
supplies and thereby enable us to
effect this change without need
less waste.”
Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director
of student affairs, reported Wed
nesday that the University has
already contracted with James
H. Mathews and Co. to have the
official seal redesigned and cast.
The major change is.substituting
the word university for college
and centering the name around
the coat of arms, he said.
The spokesman continued that
the academic divisions presently
classified as “schools” would be
renamed “colleges” and some “de
partments” would become
“schools.” He emphasized, how
ever, the basic departmental
structure will more than likely
remain unchanged.
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High Court Justice
Refuses to Testify
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (fP)—Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark
refused to testify today and the Harry Dexter White “Soviet espion
age” case sank into a weekend congressional eclipse.
Further details in the sensational-packed case may break into
the light Tuesday. Atty. Gen. Brownell is scheduled to appear then
before the Senate internal securi
ty subcommittee.
Brownell lit the fuse for Wash
ington’s biggest political explos
ion in many a day with charges a
week ago that former President
Truman promoted White from as
sistant Treasury secretary to U.S.
director of the International Mon
etary Fund, in 1946, although FBI
reports to the' White House had
shown White to be a spy.
Brownell said copies of the re
ports also went to Clark, who was
Truman’s attorney-general at the
time, to' the State Department
where James F. Byrnes was sec
retary, and to half a dozen other
key offiicals.
Members of the House commit
tee assembled on schedule this
morning at 10:30 a.m.—the hour
for which it had subpoenaed
Clark. Instead of Clark, it got a
written opinion from him that
“complete independence of the
judiciary is necessary to the prop
er administration of justice.”
Clark said that much as he
wished to cooperate, “I must fore
go an appearance before the com
mittee.” He did offer to consider
any written questions the com
mittee might care to submit —
“subject only to my duties under
the Constitution.”
The committee announced it
would submit written questions
to Clark later.
Byrnes said the committee had
no right to bring him to Washing
ton but he agreed to let a sub
committee question him if it came
to Columbia, S.C.
HST Remarks
He May Speak
OsvWhite Case
NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (JP) —Har-
ry S. Truman remarked today
that he may have more to say
on his White House role in the
Harry Dexter White case.
He did not elaborate. But there
were reports in Washington that
the former President might take
his side of the case to the Ameri
can people on radio and televi
sion.
Truman yesterday refused to
answer a subpoena from the
House Un-American Activities
Committee, which sought to ques
tion him about his alleged codd
ling of White, a suspected Russian
spy.
He said the Constitution pro
vides for' separation between the
White House and Congress, For
an ex-President to surrender to
the whims of a Congressional
committee, he added, would make
the presidency “a mere arm of
the legislative branch of govern
ment.”
Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell
Jr. charged a week ago that
White, who died in 1948, was pro
moted by Truman in 1946 de
spite two FBI reports that' he was
a Soviet spy.
Scientists Back
Bureau's Tests
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (IP) —A committee of 10 scientists today
backed up the U.S. Bureau of Standards’ findings that AD-X 2, a
product designed to pep up tired, old batteries, is “without merit.”
The 10 scientists from the National Academy of Sciences labelled
the bureau’s tests as “excellent.”
Secretary of Commerce Weeks
once sharply criticized the tests
as “hot sufficiently objective” and
fired the bureau director, but to
day he expressed his “sincere ap
preciation” of the review which
the 10 scientists conducted at his
request.
Jesse Ritchie of Oakland, Calif.,
who manufactures the battery ad
ditive, has battled for five years
against the Standard Bureau’s at
titude toward his product.
The bureau’s finding against
AD-X 2 led to a postal fraud or
der, early this year, against Rit
chie and his company, Pioneers,
Inc. The order was suspended, at
Week’s request, in February and
canceled in August.
It was not immediately clear
what action postal authorities
might take in view of the com
mitte’s report.
Ritchie’s battle and the storm
that blew up over the Bureau of
Trustees recently pointed out
that such adjustments do not im
ply new areas of academic spe
cialization at the expense of the
present program. . -It explained
that mere name change to rec
ognize what is already a fact
would not alter the situation in
any other way.
... as usual
Standard’s verdict against AD-X 2
resulted in the ousting of Dr. A.
V. Astin last April as director of
the bureau.
Astin’s dismissal promptly
roused a wave of protests from
scientific organizations over the
country.
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Velde Warned
In GOP Session
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (JP) —A
representative of the Republican
National Committee warned
Chairman Velde, (R.-Ill.) of the
House Un-American Activities
Committee at a secret post-mid
night meeting, that his attempt to
subpoena former President Tru
man was “bad business.”
This was confirmed today by
Rep. Clardy (R.-Mich), who sat
in on the meeting.
White House staffers were also
reported to have taken a hand—
either directly or through inter
mediaries—in trying to block the
move to summon Truman for tes
timony in the Harry Dexter White
“Russian spy” case. The White
House disclaimed exerting any
pressure.
The story of the GOP huddle in
Velde’s apartment in nearby Alex
andria, Va., had already leaked
from several sources before Clar
dy gave his version to newsmen.
Moreover, it was no secret some
days ago that key officials at GOP
headquarters had grave qualms
about the wisdom of the Republi
can-led House group’s act in sub
poenaing an ex-president.
Some officials privately regard
ed it as fraught with the potenti
alities of a major political blunder.
That was the gist of the argu
ment set before Velde and his
GOP committee colleagues in the
early hours of Thursday morning
—before it was known whether
Truman would accept or reject
the committee’s summons.
Clardy told newsmen the Velde
group rejected the GOP high com
mand’s advice.
Allies, Commies Break
Conference Deadlock
PANMUNJOM. Saturday,
Nov. 14 (/ P) —Top Allied and
Communist diplomats today
broke a three-week deadlock
with agreement on an agenda
for preliminary talks to arrange
for a Korean peace conference.
U.S. Ambassador Arthur H.
Dean said the two sides reached
a "meeting of the mind" by
agreeing that the time, place
and composition of the peace
parley may be discussed simul
taneously in two subcommit
tees.
Dean and the top Red repre
sentative will meet again Mon
day to work out details for the
committee sessions.
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McCarthy
I nvestigates
GE Plant
ALBANY, N.Y., Nov. 13 (fP)—
Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis.), explor
ing the possibility of communism
in defense plants, declared today
that a two-day closed hearing
here found the unions had tied up
the General Electric sprawling
Schenectady works.
Amid charges from union men
that the probe was aimed at stif
ling labor opposition to McCar
thy and reports that a protest
walkout was brewing at GE, the
senator told' newsmen he saw a
“very dangerous picture” at the
firm’s shops.
McCarthy said GE faced a
“very difficult problem” in what
he described as threats by its em
ployes to “fight any attempt to
get rid of anyone who refused to
say whether he was an espionage
agent.”
The hearing here was McCar
thy’s first look at private indus
try. He has said he would inves
tigate other defense plants in his
search for any Communist influ
ences.
Seven witnesses appeared at
the Senate investigations subcom
mittee hearing today, bringing
the two-day total to 24.
Wable Indicted
For Murders
GREENSBURG, Pa., Nov. 13
UP) A Westmoreland County
grand jury indicted John Wesley
Wable today as the phantom kill
er of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Wable was indicted on two
charges of murder in the killing
of two truck drivers as they slept
in their parked rigs last July.
Dist. Atty. L. Alexander Scul
co, who presented the case to the
grand jury, said Wable will be
scheduled for trial at the Novem
ber term of court. He will be tried
separately on each charge.
Wable was arrested last month
in New Mexico. Police picked him
up following a wild auto chase af
ter a gasoline station was robbed.
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