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Harry Dexter White, Asst. Secretary of
Treasury In Truman Administration,
Was Russian Spy, Says Atty. General
CHICAGO, UP) — Atty. General*
Brownell said Friday that Harry
Dexter White, Asst. Secretary of
the Treasury in the Truman ad
ministration, was a Russian spy,
but was kept in the government
even after the FBI reported this
to the White House.
The Attorney General charged
that “in the face of this informa
tion” President Truman advanced
White to the important position
of executive director for the Unit
ed States in the International
Monetary Fund.
Brownell described Truman’s
action in the matter as “incred
ible.”
He asserted that “It is a source
of humiliation to every Ameri
can that during the period of the
Truman administration the Com
munists were so strikingly suc
cessful in infiltrating the govern
ment of the United States.”
This, he said, had left to the
Eisenhower regime a “very diffi
cult task” of weeding out sub
versive elements from the federal
payroll.
White came into the govern
ment during the Roosevelt admin
istration. He died Aug. 15, 1948.
Truman was informed in Kan
sas City of Brownell’s remarks.
The former President said: “I
don’t recall that such a thing
happened. As soon as we found
out that White was wrong we
fired him.”
Truman then added that the
Eisenhower administration is
“desperate.”
“There is a desperate effort to
offset what has happened in New
York and New Jersey,” he said,
referring to Tuesday’s election,
“and they’ll stop at nothing, lies
or anything else, to accomplish
their purpose. They’re scared.”
Although Truman spoke of hav
ing “fired” White, newspaper files
show that the White House an
nounced on April 19, 1947, that
White was resigning. The White
House made public at the time a
letter from Truman to White in
which the President said he was
accepting the resignation with
“sincere regret and considerable
reluctance.”
Bones Uncovered In
Ohio Construction
Are 2500 Years Old
COLUMBUS, O., — UP) Ohio
State Museum archeologists have
found skeletons of two women of
the Adena Indian civilization, es
timated to have flourished in Ohio
between 400 B.C. and 700 A.D.
The skeletons were found near
the top of a large Indian mound
in Columbus near the Scioto
River. The area is being leveled
for an industrial site.
Presidential Order
To Provide Public
More Information
WASHINGTON, Wl — President
Eisenhower issued an order Fri
day designed to give citizens a
freer flow of information about
their government without jeop
ardizing national security.
Effective Dec. 15, the order re
places a controversial measure
former President Truman put on
the books Sept. 21, 1951.
In announcing the forthcoming
repeal of the Truman order Atty.
Gen. Brownell denounced it as
smacking of “dictatorship.” The
cabinet officer also said that un
der the old order government of
ficials could cover up dereliction
of duty and mistakes.
In brief, the Eisenhower order:
1. Eliminates the “restricted
category for classifying govern
ment data as harmful to national
security if made public—leaving
only “top secret,” “secret” and
“confidential.”
2. Sets up a system for receiv
ing complaints, from newsmen
and others outside the govern
ment, and for checking up on the
program.
3. Takes away document-class
ifying authority from 28 agencies,
such as the American Battle Mon
uments Commission and the Vet
erans Administration.
4. Gives classifying authority
to the heads only, with no power
to delegate it to someone else, of
17 agencies, like the CAB and the
TVA.
Italian Court Convicts Two
U.S. Ex-G.I.s In Absentia
For Wartime Murder
NOVARA, Italy, UP)—'The No
vara court convicted two Ameri
cans Friday for the wartime,
behind-the-lines slaying of U. S.
Maj. Wm. Holohan of New York
City. They were tried in absentia.
The court acquitted three Ital
ian co-defendants.
Judge Francesco Sicher sen
tenced ex-Lt. Aldo Icardi of Pitts
burgh to life imprisonment. He
sentenced former Sgt. Carl Lo
Dolce of Rochester, N.Y., to 17
years in prison.
Since U.S. courts declined to
extradite them, they cannot be
forced to return to Italy to serve
the sentences.
Witnesses and attorneys laid
most of the blame for the killing
on Icardi although Lo Dolce was
accused of actually firing the
shots which killed Holohan after
an attempt to poison him failed.
U.S. Unrepatriates Protest
“Intimidation” By Mail
From Persons In U.S.
PANMUNJOM, UP) — The one
British and 22 U.S. prisoners who
supposedly choose Communism
held two Indian officers hostage
Friday until the Repatriation
Commission heard their charge
that they were being “intimi
dated” by mail from the United
States.
The two Indians were unharm
ed, but they were held for four
hours until the full commission,
headed by Lt. Gen. K. S. Thim
ayya of India, visited the com
pound and accepted a long, type
written protest.
The prisoners demanded that
mail from home be censored and
charged that many of the “come
home” letters they were receiving
from the United States were from
strangers.
Thimayya returned from the
camp with some unopened letters
which the prisoners handed over
to the commission.
At a news conference, he held
up one and read off the name of
the sender, “Mrs. Ernest N. Regan
of Weaberville, N.C.”
The letter from the prisoners
was a protest against an armistice
“violation by the United Nations
Command and the custodian
force, India.”
Gen- George Marshall Undergoes
Treatment For Inflamed Lung
WASHINGTON, UP)—-The con
dition of Gen. George C. Marshall,
undergoing treatment for an in
flamed lung, was described as
“essentially the same” Friday.
Walter Reed Medical Center,
where he is a patient, said he is
“still convalescing satisfactorily”
although “he had a little cough
ing last night.”
His lung became inflamed after
he was stricken by influenze at
his home in Pinehurst, N.C.
Vice President Nixon Views
Red Soliders On Patrol
HONG KONG, UP)—Vice Presi
dent Richard Nixon stood within
200 yards of Communist China
Friday and viewed Red soldiers
on patrol duty across the Hong
Kong-China border through field
glasses. He was accompanied by
police and security guards of this
British Crown colony.
Officials, however, turned down
on security grounds the Vice
President’s request for an even
closer look. Nixon wanted to see
Shautaukok Village where the
Red border runs through the main
street.
Fewer Gov’t Employes
WASHINGTON, (£>—Am official
Senate report said Saturday the
number of civilians employed by
the government has shrunk for 14
successive months, a net decline
of 209,866.
Mrs. Wells, At Liberty On $5,000
Bail Returns To Fairbanks To
Face First Degree Murder Charge
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Survives Two Da vs
In S.E. Alaska Cold
Without Clothes
KETCHIKAN, — A young
mother’s ordeal in wandering
naked along cold and rocky south
eastern Alaska beaches in fruit
less search for her drowned hus
band and child, was described to
day here.
David Tate, 21, Metlakatka
fisherman, was lost with his 7
month-o'ld son, David, Jr., when
they were swept from their 16
foot boat on a hunting trip Tues
day. The father’s body was re
covered late yesterday at the en
trance to Seal Cove, west of
Ketchikan.
A Coast Guard plane found 18
year-old Mrs. Tate waving a piece
of canvas on the beach at Gra
vina Island. She had swum ashore
from the foundering boat, after
removing her clothing on her hus
band’s advice.
She was suffering from expos
ure and was taken to a Metlakatla
clinic.
She had wandered the beaches
for two days with no protection
from the dold except the piece of
canvas she found in an old shack.
She spent two nights in the shack
while the temperatures dropped
to around the freezing mark. Her
feet were cut on the rocks and
she was hobbling on improvised
crutches.
Researcher Succeeds In
Photographing Polio Virus
For The First Time
POCONO MANOR, Pa., UR —
The camera lens has caught a
public enemy: polio virus.
Magnified from 200,000 to 300,
000 times, the deadly beings ap
pear as tiny round balls—so small
that a million side by side barely
would measure an inch long.
Dr. A. R. Taylor, research virol
ogist of Parke, Davis & Co. De
troit, showed the pictures—taken
with the aid of an electronic mic
roscope— to the Electron Micro
scope Society of America.
The pictures confirming esti
mates that the polio bug is one
of the smallest known viruses,
said Dr. Taylor, were taken dur
ing studies which indicate the
feasibility of preparing concen
trated virus necessary to make a
polio vaccine.
A vaccine Parke-Davis is devel
oping must be further tested, Tay
lor said, before it is ready for
general use — maybe a year or
more from now.
> SEATTLE, (£) — Mrs. Diane
Wells, at liberty on $5,000 bond,
flew north to Fairbanks Friday
to face first degree murder charg
es placed against her for the fatal
shooting of her husband, Cecil.
Mrs. Wells was freed on bond,
posted by Wallace Aiken, attorney
for the Wells estate late Thurs
day, under a promise to return to
Fairbanks on or before Nov. 23.
She was paying her own fare back
north, Aiken said.
The attractive 31-year-old
widow slipped away from the
King County jail Thursday after
declining to make a further state
ment on the case.
In Oakland, Calif., Johnny War
ren, 33-year-old Negro night club
drummer, still was held under the
same charges as have been pre
ferred against the widow of the
former president of the All-Alas
ka Chamber of Commerce.
Warren will face a preliminary
hearing before the U.S. Commis
sioner in Oakland next Tuesday.
Aiken said Mrs. Wells was freed
under bail because she is charged
with murder under Alaska terri
torial law, where Federal district
courts operate under dual juris
diction and murder is a bailable
offense.
Both Warren and the woman
have denied any part in the slay
ing but Warren was quoted by
police officials as saying he had
been in the apartment house early
the morning Wells was slain, look
ing for someone to drive to Oak
land with him.
Police in Oakland said they had
questioned Warren last week for
19 hours and had taken a 23-page
statement from him.
Warren was quoted in the state
ment as saying he became ac
quainted with the woman at the
Fairbanks Golf and Country Club,
where he was playing.
The officers said Warren then
told of meeting her several times
later
Inspector Mangini quoted War
ren as having said he owned a
pistol because he was “afraid of
Wells,” then denied knowing him.
Warren said he sold the pistol of
.38 caliber, before the shooting.
Fairbanks police said a .38 bul
let was imbedded in the pillow
under Wells’ head.
Gruenther Meets The Queen
LONDON, W —Gen. Alfred M.
Gruenther, supreme allied com
mander in Europe, was presented
to Queen Elizabeth II Friday in
formal audience at Buckingham
Palace. Mrs. Gruenther accom
panied him.
Youth For WILL MEET SATURDAY AT 8:00 P.M. AT THE COVENANT
CHRIST CHURCH. REV. RIMLING WILL BE THE SPEAKER.