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Ike Avoids White
Spy Case Comment
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 ( JP ) —President Dwight D. Eisenhower shunted the Harry-
Dexter White case aside today and voiced a ho p e the Communists in government issue
will be a matter of history and memory by the time next year’s election rolls around.
Eisenhower said that at this time he isn’t saying another word about the “Soviet
espionage” case that has rocked Washington and the country.
He told his news conference he hopes measures taken by his ad
ministration will clear from the minds of the American people sus
picions that the government is weak in regard to Red infiltration.
No, he said, that didn’t mean he would discourage persons in the
executive arm of the government or in the Republican party from
keeping the issue alive. But he
said he trusted sincerely that the
need for congressional investiga
tions along this line will be elim
inated.
The President, nevertheless, re
peated his view that Congress has
a right to investigate.
Republican National Chairman
Leonard W. Hall issued a state
ment that he agreed with Eisen
hower on cleaning "up “the mess
in Washington,” as “communism
is the basic is6ue of our times.”
One reporter wanted to know
what relative position the issue of
Communist infiltration of govern
ment would take in next year’s
congressional election campaign
in the light of an impression left
by GOP Chairman Hall in a tele
vision program that this would
be the top talking point in 1954.
Eisenhower said issues aren’t
made by individuals but by the
needs of the country.
The President recalled that in
his State of the Union message .to
Congress last January he had said
that cleaning up executive branch
es of the government was an ex
ecutive responsibility.
Now he hopes, he said, that this
whole thing will be a matter of
history and memory, by the time
the next election comes around.
He added that he doesn’t believe
we can live in fear of each other
forever and hopes and believes
his administration is proceedihg
decently and justly to get the
thing straightened out,
Senators
Obtain Spy
Information
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 OP)—
Senate spy hunters today pointed
to documentary evidence that for
mer Secretary of the Treasury
John W. Snyder promoted Harold
Glasser to a $lO,OOO-a-year post
in 1946 after FBI reports cited
Glasser as an alleged Soviet spy.
Chairman William E. Jenner
(R-Ind.) of the Senate internal
security subcommittee promptly
announced that Snyder will be
called to explain his attitude to
ward Glasser.
Jenner also announced that the
subcommittee will await further
data from Atty. Gen. Herbert
Brownell before deciding wheth
er to call Supreme Court Justice
Tom Clark, whose name has fig
ured prominently in the uproar
over the Harry Dexter White
“Russian spy” case.
The high court justice was at-
torney general in 1946 when for
mer President Truman promoted
White from assistant secretary of
the treasury to a tax-free $17,000,-
a-year post as U.S. executive di
rector of the International Mone
tary Fund.
J. • Edgar Hoover, chief of the
FBI, testified -yesterday that he
sent the White House repeated
messages linking White to Soviet
espionage and that he opposed
Truman’s decision to keep White
in. federal service. Hoover said
that White’s promotion to the
monetary post hampered instead
of helped the FBI investigation.
Snyder, who had been invited
to testify before, the Senate sub
committee, sent Jenner a telegram
saying he was unable to appear
today, but declaring: “I shall of
course be happy to furnish your
committee any facts in my pos
session which you desire and to
answer any questions you or your
committee may wish to ask me.”
Snyder also told Jenner: “I
want you to point out that the
record clearly shows that wit.h-
in approximately 18 months, after
I became head of the Treasury
Department and its 116,000 em
ployes, to the best of my knowl
edge, all suspected subversives
were separated from the depart
ment and none have been found,
so I am advised, in the depart
ment since I left.”
Summerfield Demotes
160 Postal Men
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (£>)—
Postmaster General Arthur Sum
merfield said today he has tem
porarily demoted 160 employes in
the Postal Transportation Ser
vice, including 42 supervisors, in
connection with alleged short
cutting of working hours on mail
train runs.
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CLEVELAND, Nov. 18 (/P) _
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
new secretary of labor, James P.
Mitchell, told the CIO today the
administration is striving to ex
pand the nation’s minimum wage
law and to strip the Taft-Hartley
Law of features “really dangerous
to labor.”
ln the fi:
.eech since
I taking the cabinet post six weeks
ago, Mitchell appealed to the'ClO
convention for labor cooperation
with the Republican administra
tion and said , labor problems are
“too big, too important, to be
treated as a political football.”
“There is no disposition in this
administration,” Mitchell said, “to
turn back the. clock, nor to recall
the old days when American labor
was cowed, exploited and un
organized. /
“On the contrary. There is keen
recognition that the national pol
icy to encourage collective bar
gaining between employes and
employers is sound policy, ac
cepted and encouraged by an
overwhelming majority of our
citizens.”
But Mitchell advised organized
Then, of course.
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KANSAS CITY, Nov. 18 (#>)—
Carl Austin Hall, ready to die for
the kidnap killing of little Bobby
Greenlease, turned the final stages
of his trial today into a dramatic
attempt to. save the life of his
paramour, Mrs. Bonnie Brown
Heady.
His surprise move came after
the testimony was completed. The
federal court jury will take the
case tomorrow, as soon as Judge
Albert L. Reeves instructs it.
Neither Hall nor Mrs. Heady
took the stand. But Hall’s attor
ney, Roy L. Dietrich, told the
jury: “He did this. He planned it.
It must not be put off on Bonnie.”
And Bonnie’s lawyer, Harold
Hull, said she was but “putty in
the hands” of the vicious killer,
Hall.
Both attorneys pleaded for
Christian mercy and charity from
the jurors. They said the guilty
pair already had been “tried, con
victed and condemned” in the
public eye. The only issue for the
jury is whether the pair lives or
dies. If the jury recommends a
death sentence, they would be
executed in Missouri’s gas cham
ber. If the jury recommends leni
ency, they would be sentenced
to prison.
labor to quit demanding outright
repeal of the controversial Taft-
Hartley Law and recognize that
it has “sound, fair and just” pro
visions.
“We will 'then jointly concen
trate on those features of the act
which are really dangerous to
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Pella Seeks Peace
On Trieste-Affair
ROME, Nov. 18 ( JP ) —Premier Giuseppe Pella made it clear to
night he seeks a solution of the Italian-Yugoslav dispute over Tri
este within-the framework of his government’s present pro-Western
policies,
Despite Italian displeasure with his attitude of the United States
and Britain toward the rioting in
the port of Trieste two weeks
ago, Pella told the Chamber of
Deputies Italy does not want the
incident to become a chasm “be
tween us and the people who are
determined to fight for democracy
and our civilization.”
This brought jeers from the
Communist and fellow-traveling
Socialist deputies.
Pella ignored them and con
tinued: “We maintain that we
can solve this problem within the
framework of our present poli
tics—there will be no other- com
bination.”
The entire chamber, except the
extreme left, cheered.
The Premier rejected a Com
munist proposal that Italy pre
sent the Trieste problem to the
United Nations. He said that, be
cause of Russian opposition to
Italy in the UN, he did not be
lieve this would be useful.
With an invitation to a five
power conference on Trieste con
sidered imminent, Pella walked
an oral tight rope in his half
hour speech to avoid prejudicing
Italy’s ✓ position.'
His carefully phrased replies to
eight questions raised by depu
ties apparently left the way open
for diplomats to pursue cheir plans
for talks by representatives of
Italy, Yugoslavia, the United
States, Britain and France.
Most of the deputies’ questions,
asking what the government has
done and plans to do, were
couched in bitterly anti-British
terms. A wave of anti-British
sentiment arose in Italy with the
killing of six persons by the Brit
ish-trained territorial police to
put down pro-Italian rioting in
Trieste Nov. 4.
Speed of Sound
Almost Doubled
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (JP)—
The Douglas Skyrocket has flown
1272 miles an hour, within split
seconds of doubling the speed of
sound.
The National Advisory Com
mittee for Aeronautics said the
jet achieved new speed marks
for piloted aircraft in its flignt
Oct. 14. NACA test pilot Scott
Crossfield was at the controls.
The former record of 1238 miles
an hour was set Aug. 15, 1951, by
Bill Bridgeman, Douglas test pi-
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Communists
To Hear
Dean Again
PANMUNJOM, Thursday, Nov.
19 (/P) U.S. envoy Arthur H.
Dean renews his efforts today
to learn from the Communists
just what role they want neu
trals to take in a Korean peace
conference.
The Red replies may reveal how
far they are willing to go toward
settling the dispute which has
blocked the opening of the peace
conference.
The Reds want India, Russia, In
donesia, Pakistan and Burma in
vited as neutrals. The United
States has said it might be will
ing to admit neutrals under cer
tain conditions if its Allies
agreed.
Dean Fires Questions
Dean fired a series of questions
at the Communists yesterday aft
er they had explained for the
second day their plan for neutral
participation.
He told correspondents later he
has asked seven or eight questions
because “frankly, I can’t under
stand their proposal.”
He said the Reds had promised
an answer today.
Want Equal Footing
The North Korean delegates, Ki
Sok Bok, said the Communists
want the conference “between the
two sides on an equal footing.”
Ki did not spell out what voting
rights the neutrals would have.
Wilfred Burchett, Communist
correspondent of the Paris l’Hu
manite, said the Reds’ proposal
amounts to abandonment of their
original insistence on a round--
table meeting with all partici
pating nations in an equal status.
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