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Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06
Services For d. w.
Jacobs TOMOTTOIU
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Served ManY Churches

DR.. Jacobs had entered the min
istry in 1913 in Wilmington. He
was superintendent of the Whining
ton District of the Peninsula Con-
ference from 1929 to 1884. Other
charges he served during his ac-
tive years were as follows:
Blades. 1874; RehobOth Beach.
1851; Bridgeville, 1880; Mil
ford 1921 to 1926; Newark, 1927
2S; Snow Hill, Md, 1858; Cam
bridge, Md, 1894. He was placed
on sabbatical leave in 1912, and re-
tired in 1943.
When stricken On the street he
was removed to the Beebe Hospital
in Lewes in the RehOboth ambu-
lance where he was pronounced
dead on arrival. His wife was down
town shopping, and the Rev. J.
Howard Link, pastor of Epworth
Church. who saw him fall, notified
her at her home.
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NeUU Colony Head
Named By Commission
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He will succeed George w. Bryan
as superintendent of the Delaware
Colony, the training school admip-
istered by the Delaware Commission
for the Predetermined, near George
town.
Mr.. Bryan resigned early in Sep
tember after a series of disagree
ments with commission members.
Shortly thereafter, a selection
committee of commissioners was
named by the chairman, Clyde M.
SpargO of Weldin Road. to choose
a successor. A number of candi-
dates were considered but board
members emphasized their particu-
lar interest in a superintendent who
had psychiatric training.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06
Dover Century Club
Plans Luncheon

The Dover Century will hold a
luncheon in honor of their 56th
anniversary, November 18th, at
Grace Fellowship Hall of Wesley
Church. Officers of the Delaware
State Federation of WOmen's Clubs
and presidents of all member or
ganizations have been invited.
Mrs. George w. Strunk, general
chairman, will have as her CO.
workers, Mrs. Harry f. Dixon, who
will present and direct a One-act
play, Bond Between, with Mrs.
Harvey Williams, property manag-
er, and Mrs. William S. Price, set
tings. Furnishings for the stage
will be donated by Nap and Spence
Furniture Store, of Dover. The
cast of characters are Mrs. E. w.
Ingram, Mrs. Robert Fletcher, Mrs.
Robert Williams and Mrs. Frank
Glover.
Mrs. Strunk's other Chairmen
are: Mrs. James B. KilvingtOn, dec
OratiOns; her cO-wOrkers are Mrs.
Ruben Brown, Mrs. Thomas Baker,
Mrs. Martin ZielaskO, Mrs. Oscar
/ KeimOn, Mrs. P. w. POte, Mrs.
! Ralph Baynard, Mrs. Andrew Glenn
ents and Mrs. Irving H. BucksOn.
Mrs. Walter f. Holt, cOTsages; Mrs.
William S. Price, invitations; Mrs.
Robert Owens, reservations; Mrs.
George D. TebO, Music; Mrs. Her.
bert E. Moore, publicity.
Tickets may be obtained from
the following committee: Mrs. Rob
ert Owens, 2339; Mrs. Alfred Biggs,
Jr., 401S; Mrs. Harold Curtis, 1888 !;
Mrs. Edwin Gienger, 1906.
Guests will be received by the
Club President, Mrs. William J.
Storey, and her officers.
A public address system has been
loaned by Mr.. James Gentry for the
occasion
Miss Frances BARLEY, who has
just returned from the west coast
will be sOlOist for the day. Miss
BARLEY will sing "The Latter
Scene, from Eugene Onegin' by
TchaikOvsky and Hello, Hello"
from The Telephone, by MeOtti
Her accOmpanist will be Miss
Suzanne ParrOtt. Miss BARLEY is
well known in the East, having haC
concerts in most of the large cas-
tern cities. Miss BARLEY is a grad
uate of Western Maryland College
also studied in New York, Phila-
delphia and California, had one sea-
son with the Adirondack Opera
Company, Saranac Lake, n. Y, alsC
won a Studio Club Concert award
and gave a concert at The Studio
Club of Ny. Miss BARLEY studied
with Fritz Lehman in California
and plans to return to the Acade
my Of the West, at Santa Barbara
to study with Madame Lotte Leh
mann.
Hostess Chairman, Mrs. A. c
Hopkins, will have as her hostess
es: Mrs. Alfred Biggs, Jr.. Mrs. e
w. Buchanan, Mrs. Harold Curtis
Mrs. Frank Hall Davis, Mrs. Jess,
FarlOw, Mrs. Earl Field. Mrs. Mel
son Forney, Jr., Mrs Edwin Gieng
er, Mrs. Harry Hancock, Mrs. JOIN
Hayes, Mrs William A. Muller, Mrs
Donald Robinson, Miss Alice Tay
lOr, Mrs Martin Zielaski.
All reservations must be mad
, by November 9th.
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by the class of 1923, and silver
service given by the class Of De-
cember '43. A silver tray given by
the class of 1918, silver service
and a lemon dish given by the
class Of 1923, and a silver bowl
given in memory of Professor
James A. Barkley will be used in
Smyth Hall.
The remaining reunion gifts pre-
sented to the University will be
awarded as scholarships for the
year, 1954-55, through the Alumnae
Association. A total of $1,438.5O
was contributed by the classes of
1918, 1928, 1888, 1888, April '4S,
and 1948 for this purpose.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06
Economists Hopeful
In Farm Outlook
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rary unemployment, but such
things as unemployment cOmpensa-
tiOn, social security and a schedul-
ed reduction in income taxes next
year should cushion the shock of
these adjustment periods.
Farmers will continue to be in
cOst-pTiee squeeze although no
greater than this year, it was be-
lieved. This tight position between
costs and returns will most likely
continue for the next several
years. However, there should be
plenty of opportunity for attrac-
tive incomes among farmers with
productive farms and good man
agement ability.
The Delaware economists, and
those from other states, were urg-
ed to help farmers develop plans
and management practices which
will provide greater efficiency and
lower production costs. This was
termed the best way of reducing
the effects of the cOst-price squeeze.
Farmers with small, low prOduc-
ing farms-Or very inefficient man
agement-aTe likely to find agri-
culture a difficult way of making a
living in the immediate future.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06
Bandana Follies
Now In Production
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many minstrels and comedies and
shows of all kinds, and at present
is teaching piano and voice, at her
h1me, i'll addition to being nusics
directress of the Bethel Mataol,st
Church in Ocean View.
Mr.. NcZIClI is a graduate Of the
State Teachers College at Ownsnn,
Maryland. and has taken part in
and directed many minsjc1is and
shows and has sung before audi
encoS throughout lower Delawa- e.
At present he is teaching u. tie
L1rd Baltimore School in Orean
N,CM
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06
TOO NUMB FOR ACTION

VICKSBURG, Miss. -(P)-Tax-
paying apparently has lost its
sting for residents of Warren
County. For the first time in the
memory of officials here, assess
ment rolls of the county tax asses
sOr went unchallenged.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06
Christian Western At
Presbyterian Church
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the film. From this number of
viewers, some $4,000 have made de-
cisiOns to accept the Christian way
of life, according to records on file
in the Graham film organizations
Washington, D. c., office.
The story revolves around the
Billy Graham Crusade i'm Will
Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth.
Texas, over a year ago. To produce
the film, an entire motion picture
company moved from Hollywood
to Texas and made all of the Texas
scenes in the vicinity of Fort
Worth. The rOdeO scenes, some of
the most beautiful color phOtOgra-
ply being seen today, were made
at Hardin Simmons University, and
feature the world champion Mayo
ROdeO Riders, together with the
famous Hardin Simmons Cowboy
BanG.
No charge for admission is
E6Ce for Mr.. Texas, and the
doors Of the auditorium will be
open at 6'h5, for the picture which
will start It 7:2O.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06

A good bell gives out two dis
tinct tones, the strike note and the
hum note.
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The temperature of birds is high
er than that of mammals.
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Finland is slightly larger than
New Mexico.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06

There were about 6,406,OOO cars
and trucks on L. S. farms in 1850.
BabylOnia had a banking system
as early as 1000 p. c.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06

Adjust your farm plan to meet
changing cost and price situations.
Evening star., 1953-11-15
California

TT ATTORNEY GENERAL Brow
L nell'S dramatic launching Of
the Harry Dexter White sensation
was really designed Gas Harry Tru-
man and other Democrats claimed)
as political pill to pep up an
ailing Republican elephant, it could
be argued that it had succeeded in
California last week.
In the oath district, State Assem-
blyman Glenard P. Lipscomb, SO,
trounced fellow Republican and
two Democrats to win the seat left
vacant by Norris Poulson's election
as Mayor of Los Angeles. Lipscomb
piled up a more than 8,OOO-vote
lead over his nearest opponent,
Democrat George Arnold. Mr..
Brownell said in New York that he
really didn't know enough about
the situation to comment on the
possible effects of his disclosures,
but Mr.. Lipscomb's supporters had
made the most of the sensation in
the last three days of the cam
paign.
AS in wisconsin and New Jersey,
where the Democrats recently won
two congressional seats in upset
of-year elections, partisans were
quick to make their own interpre-
Evening star., 1953-11-15
The Background

Of the White case, this much is
clear:
Harry Dexter White was born in
Boston 81 years ago, of parents
who had fled the Cars tyranny.
He came to Washington in the
'30S when the town was full of
young pinks remolding the world.
White was not precisely in this
category, being well into his 4Os
and thus about Is or 20 years
senior to most of the quiz kids.
People who remember White in
those days recall him as Sympa-
thetic to Russia. This was hardly
a conspicuous frame of mind; in
fact, the reverse would have been
more noticeable.
Being brilliant economist and
hard worker, White rose in the
bureaucracy. Where other "liber-
ais" fioated from job to job-pos-
sibly according to a well-co-
ordinated plan-White stuck with
Treasury. BY 1945 he was an
Assistant Secretary.
Early in 1945, a disaffected Com
munist named Whitaker Cham
bers gave a statement to State
Department security man, Ray
Murphy. In it, Mr.. Chambers
named number of Washington
figures as members of the Red
underground. Among the names
was that of White, whom Chambers
characterized as rather tiinid."
Rentley's Story
A few months later, woman
named Elizabeth Bentley appeared
at the FBI Office irt New York to
tell her story. 1t was a lurid one
indeed, replete with data about a
spy ring that had penetrated the
most sensitive levels of Govern
ment.
Either story, alone, might have
been laughed of as the babbling
of a screwball. But the two stories
together-plus the knowledge the
FBI must have had-added up to
something big. This was the
genesis Of the first report, which
Mr.. Brownell discussed at Chicago.
When the first report got to the
White House early In December
Evening star., 1953-11-15
stan Photo by Paul schmick.

to White and named him to the
Fund to keep him out Of mischief.
Whether this rings true depends
largely on whether one considers
an 88 per cent raise in pay (from
$4,000 to $4,000 suitable punish
ment for suspected foreign
agent. The FBI, for one group,
does not buy this story.
But whether or not an adequate
amount Of light had been gen.
Grated along with all last weeks
heat, one thing was certain: The
Republicans had founder manu-
factured-a f1rst-rate issue for the
1854 elections, provided the issue
does not backf1re in the future.
For several weeks there had been
indications that the G. o. P. would
hit at Reds in Government in the
coming year. Many Republicans
made ready to run, in years to
come, against Harry Truman and
communism, just as Democrats had
run for 20 years against Herbert
Hoover and depression.
McCorthy's Advice
Senator Mccarthy had urged his
party to pick up the issue after the
Wisconsin and New Jersey dis
aSterS: Republicans have got to
learn before next year that they
can't talk about sweet nothings.
I don't think the American people
want to 60 back to the Truman
Acheson administration of COM
muniSm, corruption and unending
war;"
And of course, Senator Taft last
spring had advised G. o. P. candi-
dates to dig through the past mis-
takes of the Truman administra-
ton for campaign ammunition in
1854.
A House Ways and Means sub
committee gave the cause an
assist last week by releasing q
summary of it's two-year investiga-
ton into Democratic shenanigans
in Internal Revenue. And the
Justice Department announced
week ago that it was moving in
on former Government lawyers
who had Illegally switched sides"
after leaving their Federal jobs.
So. when last weeks headlines
were added to the Republicans
stockpile, the G.. o. P. seemed to
be off in grand style on commu-
nism and corruption campaign
that would (many Republicans
hoped take the voters minds off
taxes, prices, farm policy and that
never-ending mess in Korea.
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Korea

Of on the edge of the news,
almost driven out of sight by such
monumental matters as the Harry
Dexter White case, the time bomb
of Korea licked quietly along last
week.
The prisoner interviews had
begged down in the muck of Red
intransigeance, and the political
conference was suffering from the
same complaint. The Communists,
suffering a terrific propaganda
defeat in the fact that only 8
per cent of the prisoners inter-
viewed so far have elected to re-
turn home, were doing everything
they could to halt any further
explanations"
And negotiators on the peace
conference Originally scheduled
to start October 28), while they
agreed on an agenda for prelimi-
nary discussions, still had nothing
concrete to report and no certainty
when, If ever, the conference
might actually begin.
Only the Indians seemed i'm
patient to get ahead with matters.
1t. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, chair
man Of the Repatriation Commits
sion and the most patient of men,
announced that Indian troops
would interview the prisoners If
the Reds didn't snap out of it.
The u. N.-set deadline for the
process is December %, and so far
less than 10 per cent of the 22, 400
Chinese and North Koreans have
been interviewed by the Com
muniSt exclamation teams
Evening star., 1953-11-15

the channel at the White House
for FBI reports. But he admitted
to the Jenner group that FBI re-
ports routinely crossed his desk on
their way to the President. He
could not, however, recall specific
details.
. Spruille Braden, former Assist
ant Secretary Of State under jim
my Byrnes, remembered the FBI
report, but said he was more in
terested in the case of Alger Hiss
than in that of Harry White. This
raised the question, voiced by Rep
reSentative Walter, Democrat, of
Pennsylvania, and still unanswered,
why Mr.. Byrnes was so concerned
about White and still let Alger Hiss
go untouched.
But at the end of the week, the
jig-saw puzzle that some day
might reveal the picture of Harry
Dexter White still had many blank
spots in it.
A few more pieces might be
added next week when Mr.. Brow
nell appears before Senator Jen-
ner's subcommittee. And when
former President Truman makes
public his side of the story-he will
speak to the Nation tomorrow
there might be other fragments
put in.
But there would always be blanks
in the picture of Harry Dexter
White. He is dead. So is the man
who, as Secretary of the Treasury,
was Whites boss at the time the
two reports were rendered. This
man, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson,
died last summer.
Evening star., 1953-11-15
United Motions

The United Nations Charter,
General Assembly President Vijaya
Lakshmi Pandit Of India said last
week, is the one thing all of us
can hide behind when we do not
want to fulfill our obligations. And
that is not the way to peace"
Whatever the bitter thoughts
of the U. N. president, the Assem-
bly, was going through the motions
last week. It voted, SO to S with 2
Continued on Page ABB
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The Bockdown

Beyond doubt, the strongest
flavor Of shoe leather in Mr..
Velde's mouth came from the we'll
polished oxfords, Of President
Eisenhower.
At his news conference Wednes-
day, Gen. Eisenhower was asked
about Mr.. Velde's action In sub
Evening star., 1953-11-15
The Developments

After Mr.. Brownell publicly
branded White a Russian spy, he
went on to tell the luncheon club:
st can now announce officially,
for the first time in public, that
the records in my department show
that Whites spying activities for
the Soviet government were re-
ported in detail by the FBI to the
White House by means Of a report
delivered to President Truman
through his military aide, Brig.
Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, in De-
cember of 1945.
"In the face of this information,
and incredible though it may seem,
President Truman subsequently on
January %, 1946, nominated White,
who was then Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, for the even more
important position of executive
director of the United States in the
international Monetary Fund"
AS soon as Whites nomination
was announced, Mr.. Brownell said,
q second, more detailed report on
White was handed "by the FBI to
Maj. Gen. Vaughan for delivery to
the President on February 4, 1946."
On February 5, Mr.. Brownell
went on, the Senate Banking Com
mittee recommended Whites con-
firmation, and on February 6 the
Senate confirmed him-apparently
in ignorance Of the two FBI
memos.
The Sum Of It
! What did this add up to?
The way Mr.. Browner told it, the
public was justified in drawing this
! inference: ID White was known to
be a spy; (2) President Truman
personally knew this about White;
(S) knowing this, the President de-
liberately promoted White to a
more important and highly sensi-
tive job; (4) this information had
been suppressed until Mr.. Brow
nell stripped it Of its cloak of
secrecy.
n This train of thought, If followed
to the end Of the line, would seem
10 brand Mr.. Truman as Cat least)
o blind collaboration with q Soviet
agent or (at most) q traitor.
This was more than even Harry
Truman's worst enemies were pre-
pared to admit. Even those who
were quick to blow the whistle
when Mr.. Truman said White had
been fred Che was allowed to re-
Evening star., 1953-11-15

tations Of the votes basic signifi-
canoe. Said the Republican Ma
tional Committee: "The outcome
Is an Endorsement of the Eisen-
hover administration and a trib-
ute to the power of enthusiastic
organization" Said the Demo-
cratic National Committee: The
election showed striking" Demo-
cratic gains and q continuing
trend toward the party"
Evening star., 1953-11-15

sign with a warm farewell letter
from the President), were loath to
link the former President with a
spy ring.
On the heels of the Brownell
charge, the inevitable happened.
Congress moved in, as follows:
. Senator Jenner's Internal Sc
curity Subcommittee subpoenaed
Gen. Vaughan.
. Senator Dirksen of Illinois said
his inquiry into the Alien Property
Custodian'S setup would inveSti-
gate Whites activities in regard to
alien property.
. Senator Mccarthy set his Per-
11anent Investigations Subcom-
mittee to work on the White case.
Then came the piece de resist
Guce. Representative Harold H.
Velde of Illinois, who heads the
House Committee on Un-Amerlcan
Activities, ordered Subpoenas is
sued for Gen. Vaughan, Gov.
James F. Byrnes of South Carolina
(who had publicly recalled talking
over the White matter with Mr..
Truman), Supreme Court Justice
Tom Clark (who as Attorney Gen
eral had been furnished copy OF
the reports on White) and-to top
it off-the former President him
self.
Four Witnesses
All four were to appear before
the Velde committee last week. If
it had come of, 1t would indeed
have been a "juicy hearing" as
Committee Counsel Robert Kunzig
was reported to have called 1t. !.
But this grandiose plan ranked
among the best ones of mice and
men in going agley. No one ap-
peared before Mr.. Velde's group.
In fact, the only one of the four
who did appear on Capitol Hill
talked to another committee while
Mr.. Velde and his associates sat
in the audience-very definitely as
guests only.
Mr.. ByrneS sent Snappish tele-
gram which denied the commit
tees right to call him and which
reaf1rmed his -eminence as
the most hard-shelled Of States
Fighters. He offered to answer
questions-if the committee would
come to him.
Mr.. Truman sent long letter in
which he refused to honor the
subpoena on the constitutional
ground that the legislative had
no right to demand information
about the affairs of the executive.
He, too, offered to answer ques-
tions-provided they concerned
him as a private citizen and did
not touch on his activities as Pres
ident.
Mr.. Clark sent a little note of
regrets from the nearby Supreme
7 Court Building, saying he did not
want to get involved in a public
controversy. Like the others, he
offered to answer questions-pro-
vided they were submitted in writ
ing and provided he wanted to
after serious consideration"
BY the end of the week, Mr..
Velde'S "juicy hearings" were over
with no hearings and no juice.
The chairman kept talking about
holding them later, but more ex-
perienced hands nodded their
heads sagely and observed wryly
that every time the Un-American
Activities Committee chairman
opens his mouth, some one else
puts his foot in 1t.
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poenaing the former President.
The Chief Executive said that he
probably, In that position, 1Oould
not do it. He'd think there 1Dould
be other means of handling it
rather than issuing a subpoena.
Though Mr.. Velde did not imme-
diately shush, it was apparent to
every one around him-if not to
the chairman himSelf-that his
house of cards was falling down.
Republicans, who had been wait
ing to see how the White House
wind would blow, joined Demo-
Gratis in deploring what some con-
sidered an ill-mannered, disre-
Spectful and ill-adviSed action.
The President, obviously dis
turbed, went on with his press
conference.
Did he think President Truman
knowingly appointed a Communist
spy to high office Gas Mr.. Brownell
had charged? No, it is inconceiu-
able; he didn't belieUe that-put
it in this aDGy-d man in that po-
sitioe knowingly damaged the
United States. He thought it
aOould be inconcetvGble.
But this was not to say that Gen.
Eisenhower admitted that Mr..
Brownell had impugned the loyalty
of the former President. The gen.
eral said he didn't kno1O-certainly
Bro,Dnell never told hin1-thGt
Bro1DneU said that the President
of the United States euer Saw the
papers. The Attorney General said
they 1Dent to the White House.
No1u that is all he eVer told PreSi-
dent Eisenhower.
BrowneII's Reversal
A bit quicker on the uptake than
Mr.. Velde, Mr.. Brownell fell into
line. There is no intention of
impugning the loyalty of any high
official of the prior administra-
tion," the Attorney General said.
He added that there had been only
"laxity" in the White case.
1t was at this same press confer
ence that Gen. Eisenhower said he
had not heard of a man called
White until Mr.. Brownell told him
of the FBI reports. To confound
confusion later in the week, the
liberal and perfervidly anti-Re-
publican New York Post dredged
up and reprinted an article out of
an old copy of the magazine,
United Nations World" The
article reported a meeting in Eng
land in 1914, attended by Gen.
Eisenhower (then supreme COM
mander in Europe), Henry Nor
genthau, jr. (then Secretary of the
Treasury, and Harry Dexter
White. The meetings. subject; the
article said, was the Morgenthau
plan, under which defeated Ger
many would be enasculated for all
time.
This was only one of the many
odd circumstances and apparent
contradictions that cropped up
during the week. BY the time it
appeared in the paper, Gen. Eisen-
hover was in Canada on a state
visit.
Other Bits and Pieces
AS the week wore on, bits and
pieces of information were being
put together:
. T. Lamar Caudle, former Assist
ant Attorney General under Mr..
Truman and Mr.. Clark, told report
ers he had seen the second White
report-"it was sweetheart"-and
had tried to get Mr.. Clark to do
something about 1t. Before the
Jenner Internal Security Subcom-
mittee, Mr.. Caudle remembered
that he had been alarmed" but
could not recall what was in the
report.
. Gen. Vaughan at first told news
men he had never heard Of Harry
Dexter White and that he was not