TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1953 Truman Explai White's Retention KANP \S CITY, Nov. 16 (JP) —Harry S. Truman said tonight he knew of disloyalty charges against the late Harry Dexter White, but decided to retain him in the government service in order not to endanger an FBI investigation. Speaking before a nationwide radio and TV audience to “answer all the questions” in the White case controversy, the former President also leveled a charge of “shameful demagog uery” against the present administration. Engineer Names Self As Witness ASBURY PARK, N.J., Nov. 16 VP) —Carl Greenblum, 37-year-old electrical engineer, identified himself today as the “mystery witness” before the McCarthy Senate subcommittee investigat ing alleged espionage at nearby Ft. Monmouth. Greenblum held an interview with the Asbury Park Press after deciding to make public his part in the hearings because, he said, he and his family were being per secuted by neighbors. He lives in Wanamassa. It was the first time that Green blum, a native of New York, had been publicly identified as the witness who broke down before the Senate investigators at a hearing in New York Oct. 16. At the time, Sen. McCarthy (R.- Wis.) told reporters the 'witness had broken down under question ing. Then McCarthy said, he sent word that he had been “lying” and “wanted to tell everything” to the subcommittee. Greenblum denied that he had lied and declared he had always been a loyal American.' He said he broke down because his moth er had died two days before the hearing and he was unprepared for the rapid barrage of ques tions. He said he never had been sus pended from his job at Ft. Mon mouth’s Evans radar laboratory, but had for a time been removed from secret work. He now has been- fully restored to his former job, he said. Greenblum said none of the questions asked him by the Mc- Carthy committee or the FBI in volved him personally, but con cerned information he had about others and about certain inci dents. * He said he had been a class mate at City College of New York with Julius Rosenberg, the exe cuted atom spy, and suspected then that Rosenberg was a Com munist. Football Movies Set for Tonight Movies of the Penn State-Rut gers football game will be shown at 7:30 tonight in Schwab Audi torium. A member of the football coach ing staff will comment on films taken by Ray M. Conger, asso ciate professor of physical educa tion. Androcles, junior men’s hat society, and the School of Physi cal Education and Athletics, will sponsor the movies. i Special... SIMON'S 7th ANNIVERSARY SALE Tuesday and Wednesday on winter and fall SHOES, HANDBAGS, & HOSIERY 10% off on every purchase at Simon's 109 South Allen St. Taking up the White matter in detail, the former President said a lengthy FBI report on alleged subversive activities in this coun try, was sent to the White House in December, 1945. “The report contained many names of persons in and out of government- service concerning whom there were then unverified accusations,” Truman said. “Among the many names men tioned, I now find,-was that of Harry Dexter White. He said as best, he could deter mine “I first learned of the ac cusations against White early in February, 1946, when an FBI re port specifically discussing the activities of Harry Dexter White was brought to my attention.” He added the report “showed that serious accusations had been made against White, but it point ed out that it would be practically impossible to prove those charges 1, with the evidence then at hand.” Truman said he sent a copy of the report to the late Fred Vin son, then Secretary of the Treas ury, and later discussed it with Secretary Vinson as well as with Secretary of State James Byrnes. He added he learned White’s long planned appointment as a U. S. member of the Board of Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund, had been con firmed by the Senate before he saw Byrnes and Vinson. “When the results of these con sultations were reported to me,” Truman said, “the conclusion was reached that the appointment be allowed to take its normal, course. The final responsibility for this decision, of course, was. mine.” Fair T-H Ac President Eisenhower promised the CIO convention today that his proposals for amending the Taft-Hartley Act will be fair to labor, management and the pub lic alike. In a letter to the 70 delegates, the President said, he would sub mit suggested changes stemming from the administration’s months long study of the law to Congress in January. He added: “In formulating these sugges tions, our guide will be the funda mental principle that the. law must be absolutely fair to the laboring men. and women of the nation, to management, and to the public at large.” The message was read at the afternoon session of the conven tion’s first day, only a couple of hours after CIO President Walter P. Reuther lambasted the Eisen hower administration’s tax pro gram as “the big steal.” Dele gates listened attentively to the President’s message but after ward had neither applause nor cheers. The CIO as well as virtually all other organized labor, has battled the Taft-Hartley law constantly, since it went into effect in 1947. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA FBI Nabs 14 Alleged Klansmen WILMINGTON, N.C., Nov. 16 (JP) —The FBI struck before dawn today among the remnants of a one-time stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan and arrested 14 al leged former members on charges of kidnaping and flogging a broth er and sister. The arrests came on the second anniversary of the beating of Ern est Barfield Rogers, 31, and his sister, Mrs. Christine Rogers, 35. They told police they were force fully taken from their farm homes in Dillon County, S.C., at night, transported to Robeson County, N.C., and whipped. Before and af ter each beating, the victims re lated, a klansman prayed. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, in announcing the arrests, said they were “a continuation of in tensive FBI investigation of flog gings in the tobacco lands of northeast South Carolina and southeast North Carolina. The pair told the FBI that arm ed Klansmen wearing white robes and hoods broke open doors of their homes, blindfolded them and drove them into North Carolina, and beat them. Botll suffered ser ious bodily injuries. The-FBI did not disclose what reason the Klansmen gave the victims of the beatings. It calls the law repressive, dis criminatory against labor and par tial to management. ■ Eisenhower noted that he had “previously stated my conviction that this law, while fundamentally sound, should be changed in some respects.” nmmn club Basketball Team Meet Tonite 7:30 p.m. at Catholic Student Center ”[6wnL4| 0 use .DINNERS 5 toB DAILY (EXCEPT CUNj " A '" id—fc i Promised MUSIC EVERY NIGHT THIS WEEK DINNER 5 to 7:30 Today's Dinner Special "SWISS STEAK with BROWN GRAVY" New Demands Chill Trieste Settlement ROME, Nov. 16 (/P) —New Yugoslav demands today chilled opti mism' for an early Trieste settlement, on the eve of a critical foreign policy debate in the Italian parliament. The Italian Cabinet worked late tonight framing answers which Premier Giuseppe Pella will give to six questioners in the Chamber of Deputies. The chamber, lower house of Parliament, might decide whether Italy will sit down at a five-power conference on the thorny Trieste problem- Paper Chills Hope When Yugoslav President Tito in a major policy speech in Bel grade Sunday failed to mention his previous proposal that the city of Trieste be made autonomous— but did say Yugoslavia would waive its claims to the city in exchange for the rest of the Allied occupation zone of the Free Ter ritory.—hope for a compromise settlement sprang up here. This hope appeared chilled to day when Borba, official news paper of Tito’s Communist party, declared emphatically that Bel grade would regard as an “act of aggression” any Italian move to take over the key Adriatic port city before final settlement of the whole Trieste problem. Trieste Autonomy Asked Borba convened its editorial board to clarify Yugoslavia’s po sition. Presumably top Yugoslav foreign policy makers were con sulted before Borba came out with these demands: 1. No turning over of Trieste port to Italy and no Italian occu pation unless approved by the proposed international conference. 2. Autonomy for the port city itself, under Italian sovereignty. 3. Annexation by Yugoslavia of the rest of the British-American occupation Zone A of Trieste Free Territory. Yugoslavia itself occu pies Zone B. 4. A subdivision of the city it self to provide that predominantly Slav suburbs of Trieste be part of Yugoslavia. Before you go home... fO Get your hair cut and shaped at the Beauty Salon that JP.**’’’ |j| will take a personal Js interest . Make an appointment now with BERNIE'S BEAUTY SALON 328 W. Beaver Phone 7979 HOUTS' TOYLAND The largest in central Pennsylvania Visit Our “ONE STOP” SHOPPING ©ENTER Join Our Lay-A-Way Plan Today Store Hours: 7 a.m. to 5;30 p.m. Except Monday. Open to 9 p PAGE THREE Relations Club to Hear Atwater Discuss Korea Dr. Elton Atwater, associate professor'of political science, will discuss possibilities of a Korean peace settlement at a meeting of the International Relations Club at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Simmons lounge. Following the talk an organi zational meeting will be held. TODAY! Italian • Spaghetti and Meatballs at Bill's 238 W„ College Ave.
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