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.
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Movies of the Penn State-Rut
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A member of the football coach
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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!
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