WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1953
Hoover Says Promotion
Of White Hampered FBI
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (ff) FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover swore today that former President Truman’s promo
tion of Harry Dexter White to the International Monetary
Fund “hampered” FBI surveillance of the alleged Soviet spy.
This testimony, which exploded a new sensation in the
drama-crammed case, came less than-24 hours after Truman
told a nation-wide TV audience that he let the promotion
go through sd as not to “endanger” the FBI investigation.
His argument was that to fire White would have tipped the
alleged spy ring that it was un
der surveillance,
--Hoover, on the other hand, de
clared that he warned high ad
ministration officials that' White
was ’‘unfit” for office and that it
would be “unwise” to keep him.
At no time, Hoover stressed,
was the FBI a party to any agree
ment to shift White from assist
ant secretary of the treasury to
U.S. director .on the monetary
fund, although on Truman’s or
ders the FBI did continue to watch
White after the transfer.
Atty. Gen.' Brownell, whom
Truman accused last night of ly
ing, opened up today with a
WASHINGTON. Nov. 17 (TP)—
Aiiy. Gen. Brownell today
broke an eight-year seal of sec
recy on FBI reports, sent to the
White House during the Tru
man administration, which told
of the wholesale theft of U. S.
secrets by an alleged Soviet spy
ring within the government.
Testifying with Brownell at a
tense congressional hearing,
FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover dis
closed that the FBI delivered
seven separate warnings to the
White House not two as re
ported earlier—dealing with es
pionage and specifically men
tioning Harry Dexter White.
countercharge that the - Truman
/-regime failed to. take even “mini
mum precautions” in the White
case. He declared there is “con
siderable doubt that anything
was done to protect the national
interest” against White and others
named in FBI reports as members
of an espionage ring.
The cabinet officer and FBI
director testified at a nationally
televised hearing of the Senate
internal security subcommittee.
Vaughan, Hoover tesified, was
the person to whom Truman had
asked that FBI reports be sent.
He said this was in keeping with
practices in the administration of
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert
Hoover.
■ Another previously secret
Hoover letter to Vaughan on Feb,
1, 1946 disclosed that some of the
information about White came
from undisclosed Canadian sourc
es concerned about White’s shift
to the monetary fund.
Brownell has said Hoover sent
the White House two reports on
Soviet espionage, one a general
document dealing with White and
others in December, 1945, and a
second relating to White alone
the following Feb. 4.
The Senate subcommittee took
note of published reports that
White’s move to the monetary
fund was under an' arrangement
with the FBI so that White could
be kept under better surveillance
without tipping any persons in
volved in espionage.
It was largely to clear up this
point,. Chairman Jenner (R-Ind),
said that the subcommittee felt it
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Dufies Demands
All Prisoners
Be Set Free
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (TP)—
Secretary of State Dulles said
today all anti-Communist Chinese
and Korean prisoners should pe
set free Jan. 22 whether of not
a Korean peace conference is
held.
Dulles made his declaration at
a news conference, apparently
rejecting Indian Prime Minister
Nehru’s view that the future of
anti-Communist prisoners would
have to be examined again if
plans for a formal peace parley
collapse.
Nehru said. Sunday he believed
the Neutral Nations Repatriation
Commission, whose chairman is
an Indian, has no authority to
release prisoners who refuse to
return to- communism.”
Challenging this view, Dulles
said without mentioning Nehru
that “armistice provisions’’ are
clear” on the point.
“All prisoners who have not
chosen repatriation, and as to
whom no other disposition has
been agreed to by the political
conference, shall be given their
freedom after 120- days,” Dulles
said. , \
Increase Seen
For SU Board
Two graduate students, two
staff members, and two alumni
will be added to the membership
of the present Student Union
Board as a result of a board meet
ing yesterday.
George L. Donovan, manager of
Student Union, asked the board
to think of prospective members.
The board was asked to con
sider policies concerning use of
facilities in the new Student
Union Building and to operate at
the next meeting. Also under con
sideration is a name for the new
SU.
necessary to call Hoover to the
witness stand. And on that point,
Hoover said:
“I did not enter into any agree
ment to shift White from the
Treasury Department to' the Inter
national Monetary Fund. This was
not within my purview.”-
In fact, he said, he told Atty.
Gen. Clark on Feb. 21, 1946, a
fortnight after the Senate ap
proved the White appointment, it
would, be “unwise” to let White
remain in government. He said
Clark told him “an effort would
be made to remove Harry Dexter
White, although the attorney gen
eral expressed doubt that this
would work out.”
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 17 (TP)—
The sordid climax of a wasted life
unfolded before a federal jury to
day in Carl Austin Hall’s confes
sion of how he kidnaped and
killed fair-haired little Bobby
Greenlease.
The jury will determine wheth
er Hall and his common-law wife,
Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, 41,
shall die in Missouri’s gas cham
. KANSAS CITY, Nov. 17 (TP)
—Mrs. Greenlease faced the
kidnap killers of her only son
in federal couri today and fold
how the slayer lied to her about
little Bobby's safety.
It was the bereaved mother's
first public statement since her
6-year-old child was stolen from
his school and brutally killed
the same day in a shocking
$600,000 ransom plot. '
ber. Their guilt is admitted al
ready.
Hall’s confession was among the
last of the dramatic steps in the
government’s drive to complete
its case late today.
Defense attorneys challenged
none of the government’s effort
to build a weight of evidence
heavy enough to justify the death
penalty. They said they would
have few witnesses of their own.
Hall once was quoted as saying
he though the missing money had
been lost during a drunken spree.
But today, his confession revealed
for the first time that he had just
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taken an inventory .of .the ..money
and had ; approximately $592,000
in his possession when he was ar
rested at a St. Louis hotel Oct. 6.
He told of seeing a mystery
man -in the hallway near the door
to his hotel room after his arrest.
He said he was sure the officers
who arrested him did not take the
money with them when they
drove him to the police station. -
At one point, Hall said, the
larger of the two officers urged
him to “give me the facts and I
will get a promotion.”
Hall was arrested’ by former Lt.
Louis Shoulders and Patrolman
Elmer Dolan on a cab driver’s tip.
Shoulders is the larger of the two
men.
In St. Louis, Shoulders, who
previously had insisted the money
was taken to the police station
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from the police force when an in
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handling of the Hall arrest.
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Communists
Interested
li Peace
PANMUNJOM, Wednesday, Nov.
18 (/P) —The Communists yester
day for the first time showed in
terest in holding the
peace conference in December,
but negotiators were split wide
on more vital issues.
The Communists actually pro
posed the conference convene
sometime next month. U.S. en
voy Arthur H. Dean has been
urging December, but the Reds
refused to discuss the time until
other demands were met.
The date was left up in the air
at Allied suggestion, while the
two sides in subcommittee meet
ings tackle other unsolved ques
tions.
The Communists were expected
to turn down a new proposal ad
vanced by Dean aimed at settling
which nations shall attend the
conference.
Dean told the Reds yesterday
the United States would be pre
pared to ask its Allies to recon
sider opposition to seatihg neu
trals either: (1) after settling Ko
rea’S future, or (2) if the peace
conference boss down in debate
over their own plan—a conference
“between the two sides on an
equal footing” with Russia, India,
Burma, Pakistan and Indonesia
joining the active belligerents.
This indicated the latter five
would have not vote, but the Reds
did not say so.
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