BIG THREE PLAN
MEETING DEC. 4
WASHINGTON, UP> — President
Eisenhower will meet with Brit
ain’s Prime Minister Churchill and
French Premier Laniel Dec. 4' in
Bermuda to develop new policies
to counter Russia’s threat to
Western security.
The five-day meeting, suggested
by Churchill, will also bring to
gether Secretary of State Dulles,
British Foreign Secretary Eden
and French Foreign Minister Bi
dault to review joint Western
strategy.
The Big Three conferenc was
announced in Paris and London
and later confirmed by a formal
White House announcement.
Alaska Attorney General
Gerald Williams Gives
Opinion On 1954 Election
JUNEAU, (Jt—Atty. Gen. Gerald
Williams has given an opinion the
names of the candidates for na
tional committee members for the
major political parties should ap
pear on the 1954 election ballots
but that the national parties can
decide whether the appointive in
cumbents should serve out out
their terms to 1956.
The Republican National Com
mittee has advised Ray Beach, sec
retary of the Alaska Central Com
mittee, that it will recognize Rob
ert MacKenna, Fairbanks, and
Margaret White, Juneau, until
their terms expire at the close of
the 1956 national convention.
The 1953 legislature provided for
the popular election of the nation
al committeeman and committee
woman. It was known as the “An
ti-White Bill” because it was
aimed at the long existing strong
hand of Albert White of Juneau
over Alaska GOP affairs. The
committeewoman is his wife.
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Dispute Over Truman’s Promotion Of
White Grows As Former Secy. Of State
Recalls FBI Memo On Red Espionage
WASHINGTON, UP)—Investigat
ing senators announced Tuesday
that Gov. James F. Byrnes of
South Carolina will be asked “for
his recollection” of an FBI mem
orandum linking Harry Dexter
White to Communist espionage.
Byrnes, who was secretary of
state in former President Tru
man’s administration, said in a
statement Monday night that he
recalled the FBI document. * He
said he talked with Truman about
it early in 1946—at the time Tru
man was advancing White from
assistant secretary of the treasury
to U. S. representative on the In
ternational Monetary Fund.
The Senate Internal Security
Subcommittee, headed by Sen.
Jenner (R-Ind) said it would ask
for Byrnes’ recollection of the
incident.
Harry Vaughan io Testify
The group also announced it
definitely will question Maj. Gen.
Harry Vaughan, who was Tru
man’s military aide, at a closed
session Thurday, and will also
take testimony form Miss Ruth
Anderson who was Vaughan’s sec
retary at the White House.
The Senate group did not say
that Gov. Bymes would be asked
to testify but a committee spokes
man indicated that this may hap
pen, if agreeable to Byrnes.
Byrnes, now governor of South
Carolina, said he suggested that
Truman withdraw White’s nomin
ation to higher government post—
a nomination Atty. Gen. Brownell
contends was made early in 1946
despite an FBI report that White
was engaged in Soviet espionage.
Two other former members of
Truman’s official family said Mon
day night they did not recall such
a report, but Bymes said he read
it, went to the White House and
told Truman he was “shocked,”
and asked what the President in
t
tended to do about it.
“The President stated he had
read the report and that he also
was surprised,” Byrnes said.
Truman Did Not Recall
At the time Brownell first made
the accusations, Truman said “I
don’t recall that such a thing hap
pened.” He has also said “it was
never proved that White was a spy
... he was never indicted by a
grand jury.”
Byrnes and Truman have be
come bitter political foes in recent
years, and the South Carolina gov
ernor supported President Eisen
hower in the 1952 campaign.
Spruille Braden, an assistant
secretary of state under Byrnes,
and Adm. William D. Leahy, per
sonal chief of staff to Truman,
said they didrnot recall seeing any
FBI report on White.
Their names, and others, were
brought into the mushrooming dis
pute late Monday by Brownell.
Eisenhower’s attorney general is
sued a new statement declaring
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had
given “full and adequate notice
... of spying activities” by White
to the White House, to four cabi
net officials and four other top
men.
"Desperate Political Maneuver"
Truman, who has termed Brow
nell’s accusations a desperate poli
tical maneuver, maintained si
lence on the new statement. He
turned aside with a “no comment”
all questions, including those
about Byrnes’ version.
Byrnes, in a statement issued at
Columbia, S.C., said he saw an
FBI report on White’s “affiliation
with the Communists” the day be
fore the Senate acted on White’s
nomination by Truman as director
of the International Monetary
Fund.
He said he called at the White
House the following day and told
Truman, “in view of the charges
contained in Hoover’s report, I
thought he should immediately
ask the Senate to withhold action
and then withdraw the nomina
tion.”
Senate Confirmed Nomination
But, Byrnes, continued, the Sen
ate already had confirmed the
nomination, and he then suggested
that Truman should refuse to issue
a commission to White. Byrnes
quoted the former President as
saying he had been told, on a pre
vious occasion, that once the Sen
ate acted he had no alternative
but to issue a commission.
Byrnes said he did not remem
ber the exact date. White was con
firmed by the Senate for the mon
etary fund job on Feb. 6, 1946. He
died in 1948 a few days sifter
swearing before the House Un
American Activities Committee
that he had no connection with a
Soviet spy ring.
Sen. McCarthy, chairman of the
Senate Investigations Subcommit
tee, said “It begins to look more
and more as if Truman will have
to be called as a witness,” and he
added:
“It is important beyond words
to pin down whether Truman
knew White was an espionage
agent when he promoted him, and
he ought to have a chance to say
under oath whether he did get
such a report and when he got it.”
The United States has about
275,000 blind people.
New Arabian King
Proclaims 14 Days
Mourning For Dad
BAHREIN, Persian Gulf, UP) —
Saudi Arabia’s new king, Said Ibn
Ebdul Aziz( has decreed 14 days of
official mourning for the death of
his father, King Ibn Saud.
A report of the decree reaching
this Persian Gulf island Tuesday
said the body of the world’s rich
est and most powerful monarch
was flown from his summer palace
at Taif to one of the desert king
dom’s capitals at Riyadh within
two hours after his death Monday
morning.
The report said the 73-year-old,
one-eyed Moslem ruler died at the
fortified mountain village sur
rounded by the male members of
his family and tribal heads.
The new king, reported various
ly as being between 50 and 55
years old, closely resembles his
fabulous father. He is1 well over
six feet, wears spectacles and a
dark chin beard.
Presumably he inherits the es
timated 200-7nillion-dollar-a-year
income his father built up through
shrewd bargaining with his coun
try’s fabulous underground store
of petroleum.
Fish Experts Puzzled
By Chinook Salmon’s
Return To Hatchery
SEATTLE, (B—Can the hectic
pace of modern living be taking a
year off the life of the Northwest’s
famed Chinook, or king, salmon?
Fisheries experts at the Univer
sity of Washington are baffled by
the return of several dozen of the
species a year ahead of their trad
itional four-year cycle.
The Chinooks started appearing
in the fisheries department’s con
crete pool early Monday and the
total has climbed beyond the 50
mark today. It was the pool from
which the fish launched their trip
to sea and they were coming home
to spawn and die.
Prof. Laren Donaldson said he
was mystified by their appearance.
“Whether there will be many
more of these three-year Chinooks
or whether the bulk of them will
return next year, we have no way
of knowing,” he said.
A total of 39,245 Chinook finger
lings were planted originally.
Dr. Donaldson said the male sal
mon of the species have been
checked in a year early previously
but that this is a rare instance of
females also checking in a year
early.
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