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Evening star., 1953-11-19
Doris FIeeson-
Doris EAeeson-
Assessing White Case Results
What Has the WeIAired White Controversy Contrbued2
A Trying Year Is Seen if This Has Been Preview

Before the last echoes of
the latest Brownell charges in
the Harry Dexter White case
had died away some of the
more sober citizens of this
frenzied Capital were trying
to assess the results. Where
have they left us?
The many-faceted case gave
reporters the StiffeSt workout
they have seen in years. With
Attorney General Brownell
holding himself unavailable
for questions, and with former
President Truman saying
nothing for the time being, in
New York, reporters had to
dig hard for their information.
Among the things they dug up
was the undenied political
basis for the Brownell charges,
the existence of a well-organ-
iZed plan to create a sensa-
ton which would take the
public mind off Republican
losses in Wisconsin and New
Jersey, which might affect the
election in California, and
would give farmers something
to think about other than Sec
retary Benson. This was the
groundwork for the kind of
campaign the Republicans ex-
pect to wage in 1854.
The pendulum of public
opinion which swung toward
MI. Truman when the Attor-
ney General overstated his
case and appeared to impugn
the loyalty of the former Pres
ident swung even more sharp
ly with the clownish shower
of Subpenas from Chairman
Velde of the House Un-Ameri-
can Activities Committee. 1t
is still too early to tell how
far it has now swung the other
way following Mr.. Brownell's
testimony and that, even more
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Carrying Charges Ruled
DeductibIe by Tax Court
BY the Associoted Press

If you pay carrying charges
when you buy something on the
cuff and it really amounts to
paying interest. the United
States Tax Court says you can
deduct the charges from your
income.
The court made this ruling,
and several others, in deciding a
dispute between the Internal
Revenue Service and o. G. Rus
sell, locomotive fireman, of Tab
lequah, Okla.
Mr.. Russell appealed to the
court against demands by the
Revenue Service that he pay an
additional $79.64 on his 1948 in
come tax, on the grounds that
he made deductions which
should not be allowed. The Tax
Court upheld Mr.. RuSsell's judg-
ment on most points. including
the carrying charges.
Mr.. Russell listed deductions
totaling 5000 as carrying
charges under the heading of in
terest paid on purchases of a
washing machine. a refrigerator,
two saddles and a set of tires.
The Revenue Service disal-
lowed the deductions on the
grounds that carrying charges
are not interest. The Tax Court
overruled the Revenue Service,
saying. "The fact that the pay
ments were called carrying
charges does not preclude their
deduction as interest if they
were OF that character"
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forward the work you so ably
began at Breton Woods and
you will have increased OPP
portunity for the exercise of
your wide knowledge and ex-
pertness in a field which is Of
utmost Importance to world
peace and security.
II am confident that in your
new position you will add dis
tinction to your already dis
tinguished career with the
Treasury.
Very sincerely yours,
Harry S. Truman"
It might be supposed that
Mr.. Truman would use more
careful phraseology and
wouldn't be so lavish in his
praise when he knew what the
FBI had previously reported
about White. But even if Mr..
Truman did carelesSly let some
one prepare such letter for
his signature, it seems incred-
ible that the former President
would repeat the same blunder
nearly IA months later-espe-
cially when. during the period
between November. 1945, and
July "a. 1916, the head of the
FBI says that he sent to Mr..
Truman "seven communica-
tions bearing on espionage ac-
tivities, wherein Harry Dexter
Whites name was specifically
mentioned"
Yet on April 7. 1947-just
eight days after Harry Dexter
White had resigned from the
international Monetary Fund
Mr.. Truman wrote him the
following letter:
Dear Mr.. White:
with sincere regret and
considerable reluctance ! ac-
cept your resignation as
United States Executive Di-
rector of the International
Monetary Fund, effective on
Mr. Quits return from Eu-
rope.
II know you can view with
a great deal of personal sat
isfaction your career in pub
lie service, crowned as it has
been by your ceaseleSs efforts
to make a real contribution to
the stability of international
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David LoWrence-

Wherever the debate on the
Harry Dexter White case may
lead in the court of public
opinion, 1t is not too early to
say that former President Tru-
man still has a good deal of
explaining to do if the record
for poSterity is to be complete.
For the facts as now official
ly confirmed by j. Edgar Hoo
yer, Director of the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation, show that
the famous conference held by
the President with his then
Attorney General Tom Clark.
now Supreme Court Justice,
led to a decision to keep White
on in Government employ so
he could continue to be
watched, but that Mr.. Hoover
did not concur in the decision
when he learned of it later
and urged the Attorney Gen
eral to help bring about
Whites immediate dismissal.
This was because Mr.. Hoover,
in a letter dated February /,
1946, had written to Mr.. Tru-
man that White had been
found by reliable sources-30
different oneS-to be a "valua-
BILE adjunct to an underground
Soviet espionage organization
operating in Washington,
D. c."
The conference between Mr..
Truman and Mr.. Clark oc-
CURED just after White was
confirmed by the Senate on
February 4, 1916. Yet, about
IL weeks later-on April 80,
1916. when White resigned as
Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury-Mr. Truman wrote
him the following letter:
Dear Mr.. White:
II accept with regret your
resignation as Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury.
MY regret is lessened. how
ever. in the knowledge that you
leave the Treasury only to
assume new duties for the
Government in the field of in
ternational economics as the
United States Executive Di-
rector of the International
Monetary Fund. In that posi-
tion you will be able to carry
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important from the public's
point of view. of John Edgar
Hoover.
Mr.. Brownell's charges had
to do with the past and with
men who are in several cases
dead. There is no denying
that in those days of 1945 and
1916 a Government which still
hoped for a peaceful relation
ship with Russia was not as
alert to Communist infiltra-
ton as later events demon
strate it should have been.
But the Alger Hiss case finally
Jared it into action. 1t is an
anomaly that the ranking
member of the Eisenhower
cabinet. Secretary of State
Dulles, as chairman of the
Carnegie Endowment. was as
blind to charges against Hiss
as Mr.. Brownell now charges
President Truman was to those
against Harry Dexter White.
If there was nothing new
in the basic Brownell charge
that the Democrats were soft
toward Communists, there is
something very new in the fact
that President Eisenhower's
Attorney General made the
charges and in the manner in
which he made them. This
arose from a high-level Re-
publican decision that the
Communist issue was good
for one more fling but that
the Republican attack should
rise above the level of Nc
Carthyism, That Senator was
carefully bypaSsed in the
plans for the new attack, but
in the Brownell overstatement
and in the subsequent Velde
antics the level of the attack
was not noticeably different
than that of the Senator from
Wisconsin.
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Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac ever

Senator Mccarthy gets Tv time answer Truman
Presumably Gen. Vaughan will TV time Mccarthy
and down the neto the gathering cheers of the movie
industry.
Los Angeles Postmaster Tanning fired for Incompetence
inefciency falsifcation action hurried
the of limitations might before they
finished reading the charges.
President Ike gets the Nations 50-mllionh telephone
Democrats they don't how times Ike changes
phones-they've still got his number
Democrats very silent after j. Edgar Hoovers spy
testimony They're probably out the cemetery-dggng
dead spy of their
The Political Committee votes unanimously
disarmament talks There's feeling it won't make
difference who the last H-bomb poor guy won't
be able to work it alone anyway.
Evening star., 1953-11-19

New as we'll was the en-
trance into the controversy of
FBI Director Hoover. He had
to an extraordinary degree the
trust and confidence of the
American people. His partici-
patton in a political affair will
disturb many.
Much more disturbing is the
reaction of Europe to these
events. At the same time that
Senator Jenner's big show was
being put on in the Senate
caucus room. a visitor rom
Holland. DR.. w. A. Wiser t.
Hooft, general secretary of the
World Council of Churches,
was speaking to a group of
Washington clergymen, "Ir-
responsibility in the United
States, as indicated by Nc
Carthyism," he told them.
looms as large in the Western
European mind as the threat
of aggression from the East"
There is little question that
European distaste for some
of the trends and events
in America has contributed
strongly to the rising tide of
neutralism and has endan-
gered the whole great system
of alliances with which we
hoped to stem the Russian
threat. 1t is charged, too.
that we have weakened our
once great ability to give moral
leadership to the free world.
At his press conference.
President Eisenhower expressed
the hope that by election time
next year the Communists-in-
Government issue would have
been disposed of. Whether he
can control the politicians in
his party is another matter.
If the Nation this week has
seen the shape of things to
come, it is in for a trying year.
Evening star., 1953-11-19

who successfully prosecuted
the famous Teapot Dome oil
cases. Justice Roberts said:
"The question is one of
policy. Congress may have
thought it less important that
some offenders should go un-
whipped of justice than that
officers should resort to meth
DDS deemed inconsistent with
ethical standards and destruc-
tive of personal liberty"
So Congress may have
thought when it barred the
use of wiretap evidence.
Whether it will continue to
think so with the issue raised
in the present atmosphere
should be learned during the
coming session when Mr..
Brownell will offer his pro-
posed law. It may think like
the member of the House Un-
American Activities Commit
tee who declared the other day
that. in his opinion. it is bet
ter to have one innocent man
suffer than to have a number
of guilty men escape.
If Mr.. Brownell obtains and
uses the law he is seeking, the
question is certain eventually
to reach the Supreme Court,
AS a constitutional question.
1t was not that in the case
cited. But the law Mr..
Brownell proposes will be
attacked as a dangerous inva
sion of privacy, on a par with
illegal search and seizure, the
constitutional prohibition of
which the high court has con-
Hstently upheld.
Evening star., 1953-11-19

And take meats Can you tell the differ
betueen U. S. Choice and u S. Prime? Maybe your
eyes lDont but your teeth and taste buds UH U. s..
Prime meats at LarimerS far superior But So
the price for u S. Prime Rib Roast is only 69c pound
than you pay for u S. Choice elSelUhere Myself
like Prime You ,oin too Or maybe for Sundays roast
you'd like nice tender Leg o. Lamb. Matter of fact,
couldn't haze timed it better for here again, Lari
ers price this Deekend only 69c pound And speaking
OF tining Thanksgiving is just nert l0eek and your
Turkey should be ordered
Evening star., 1953-11-19

Bishopville (S. CO. farmer. The
others he named:
Samuel R. Guard of Anchor
age, KY, editor and publisher of
the Breeders Gazette since 1927.
William A. Patterson of North
brook, ILL.,, president and direc-
tor of United Air Lines.
Edward Crumback of Phila-
delphia, third vice president of
the AFL International Brother
hood of TeamSters.
James p. Walsh of Cincinnati,
assistant secretary treasurer of
the Union Label Trades Depart
ment, AFL.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Lowell MeHett-
Lowell Me7ett-
The Use Of Wiretap Evidence
Attorney General BrowneI Does Not Agree With Former
Successful Prosecutor and Supreme Court Justice

Attorney General Brownell
has announced his intention
to ask Congress to authorize
the use in court of evidence
obtained by tapping telephone
wires in espionage cases. The
Department of Justice, he told
the Jenner committee, now
has some espionage cases. but
since some of the important
evidence was obtained by wire
tapping. the cases cannot be
proved in court and therefore
there will be no prosecution so
long as the law remains in it's
present state"
How Congress will respond
to the Attorney Generals de-
sire cannot be foretold. The
whole question of espionage
now being shot through with
politics. and a congressional
campaign coming up, congress
may be persuaded to abandon
the stand it has heretofore
taken against what the great
Justice Holmes once called
dirty business.
The latest expression of the
United States Supreme Court
on the subject was given in
1887 in the case of Nardone VS..
the United States. BY a vote
of 7 to 2 the court upheld the
rejection of wiretap evidence.
The decision was written by
Justice Owen j. Roberts, a
vigorous prosecutor in his
younger days. He had served
as a special Deputy Attorney
General in the prosecution of
cases arising out of espionage
in World War I. BY appoint
ment of President Coolidge, he
was one Of the two attorneys
Evening star., 1953-11-19

To bring out the best in foods takes fine Wines
and experts know what goes with what This week.
ends features In 1000 pure California Wines Western
State Sherry Port and Muscate 20 cent by volume
$1ss whole gallon; Western State Burgundy Claret
Wonderful with rOass) IL per cent by volume only S5
gallon Bordeaux Rouge vintage 1885, Soc fifth; Macon
rch red Burgundy vintage 1947, 69c fifth Vim Rose,
excellent wine in gift decanter vintage 1949 99c fifth.
Because of these extremely low prices must the
right to limit quantities
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OF course, towards the end.

OF course, toUards the end, to
the DESERTS By all means take tirm grip on your
Bakery Department, especially phen you encounter
taky crescents buerrtch Broche delicious Danish and
French pastries and fresh baked pies lit you roll your
be sure try of LariperS erclusUe S. S. Pierce
Pumpkin, '22 can, special only rs centS)
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Between now an
WslAN ~

Between and Thanksgiving though, you
might give little thought to these taste tempters all
week specials at Larmers I'm our food depart
men jumbOSize, fresh green shrimp, pound for CSC;
fresh hin-season Swordsh greatly at 79c pound. For
lunches salads casserole Dishes White Rose Fancy White
Meat Tuna 7-Ounce for 39c (save mOre-buy
for dOar) And, in frozen foods savOry STOAWAY pot
pies chicken turkey beef S9c package or for dollar,
(StOck up the freeZer).
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Two Blasted to Death
As Truck ExpIodes
BY the Associated Press

CALGARY, Alberta. Nov. 49,
Two oil exploration crew men,
bers were blasted to death yes
terday when their truck, be-
lieved loaded with 100 pounds Of
dynamite, exploded in a field As
miles northeast of here.
The dead were Larry Barbach,
10, of Calgary and Reuben
Remote, about 20, of Carstairs.
Evening star., 1953-11-19

editors note: In the 1928
Olmstead case the Supreme
Court held. by a five-to-four
vote. that wire tapping did not
violate either the 4th (Search
and seizure) or 5th (self-in-
crimination) amendments.
Mr.. Brownell is contemplat-
ing, in his zeal to catch crimi-
nails, a thing he and all of us
could live to regret. 1t in
wolves the weakening of the
structure of a society that has
survived the vicissitudes of
more than a century and a half
and still stands as a model for
all the world. There are other
countries in which the prose-
cution of guilty persons is
made easier. but these are also
countries in which the perse-
cution of the innocent is like
wise easier. There is Argen-
tina. for example, where citi-
zens scarcely dare use a tele-
phone. There is Russia. There
was Nazi Germany, Fascist
Italy and Japan in the days
of its thought police.
If Government wire tapping
is sanctified and made part of
our way of life, how long will
1t be until we are asked to ac-
cept some of the other unlove-
ly practices of the dictator
ships we abhor?
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Are Chain Store Tx
Prices Really Lower?

Maybe. And maybe not. You've got to prove It
to know independent food store of Larmers
selling green California Peas this week end
for only 2Sc pounds fresh California Broccoli for
just 29c large bunch extra juicy and large Florida
oranges at five pounds for &c., and big juicy tantizing
TangerineS from Florida Csc for two pounds And
maybe chain store prices lower and maybe not You
decide
Evening star., 1953-11-19
yeweIry SoIesmun Robbed

SHEBOYGAN. Wis. Nov. 10
P.-Gerald N. Perlstein, a Jew
elry salesman of st. Paul, Mimi,
told police he was robbed yes
terday of $11,658 in rings and
ring mountings he left in his
hotel room here. A
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rows of piquant foods d. fan,
at plain, dOwn-to-earth prices.
We deliver. Just phone DE-
catur 2-3366 and place your
order. Charge accounts? But,
of course. Store hours, 8 to
$3.50 daily, Fridays til 9. Lii
OuOr Department. 10 to 8 daily,
Evening star., 1953-11-19

with free delivery Except wine specas) until 845
Larmer headquarters for S. S. Pierce Fine Foods 1927
Connecticut Avenue.
Evening star., 1953-11-19

And while suggest visit to Larimers-why
her, unless want to feast upon and
of piquant foods fancy foods from the world over
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-04-10

Residence near Farmyillc Elc-
luentary school ) rooms, bath, oil
hot water he1t. hardwood floors
This home is III excellent condi.
ton $1,000
u acres. beautiful 6 room, home
with bath. near John Randolph
,chool on paved road Only 5000.
Lot adioinin Misunderstanding
College property $3.50
Lots in the Davidson SUBDIVISION.
water and sewage.
Residence, rooms. baths. IN
Victoria. Near school and churches.
Double garage. $4,000.
Residence 10 rooms. 3 baths. in
Burkevlle. Beauty parlor business
and equipment can be purchased
with this home Good investment
property. House alone. $4,000.
With beauty parlor equipment
$500.
Farm, near Blackstone. $50 acres,
l25 cleared, balance good young
pine and oak timber Beautiful
room house bath. Fenced and
watered On paved load $4,000
Dwelling, rooms, bath, electric
hot water heater. on cd"e Of
Farmyille. Only $500
Dwelling With 5 acres on Cumber-
land Rd. 7 miles out. -Four rooms
and full basement. Electric water
system and bath. Several out
buildings Only $4,000.
Lots several nice lots in and
around Farmylllc.
Farms 25 good farms. large and
small, located in Prince Edward
Cumberland AppomattoX. Amelia.
Charlotte and Bucklneham coun-
ties
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STATE OF VIRGINIA.

STATE OF VIRGINIA,
In .he CLERK : Office of the Cir
cult Court 'or the County OF
cumberland the Isl ia, ii April,
1853:
COUNTY or CUMBERLAND
Plaintiff
VS.
HARRY N HOLLAND, non resi-
dent WASHINGTON y c.. if he be
; living If nor his widow heirs.
uepisees and successors in title.
whose names are unknown, VITO
are made parties defendant by
the general description of Par
ties Unknown
The Object OF this SUIT is to sell
tract OF land situate III Ran
dolph AIagisteriul District o! the
County Of Cumberland, State Of
Virginia, containing thrty-five
t35 acres, more or less, and heing
the same land conveyed 10 Harry
N Holland by deed from Arthur
II PaulsOn and wife. and record
ed in the Clerks Office or tie
Circuit Court Of Cumberland
County in Deed Book SO at Page
40 on the llth day OF May, 1850.
to pay the leins thereon and par
ticuIarly delinquent taxes listed
and assessed on the and books Of
Cumberland County n the nant
Of Arthur PaulSOn. amounting TO
9l544 prior TO the transfer OF
said land to the SAID Harry A.
Holland
And an affidavit having been
made and filed according to Law.
stating that Harry A. Holland is
4 nonresident OF the State Of
Vlreinit. and that there might DC
other persons Interested III the
subject to be disposed of in this
suit whose names ale unknown,
therefore. il is ordered that the
SAID Harry N. Holland and PAR
TIES UNKNOWN do appear
within 10 days after due pubAca
ton hereof and do what may be
necessary 70 protect their inter-
ests in tins SUIT
r II BIanton, Clerk
William G. Carter, y a.
Cumberland, Virginia 4-lo-2J
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=
DITCHING f. let us DIG Your
bitches, septic tanks, etc. by ma
ctAnc especially designed for tina.
purpose Rural work solicited.
Putney Plumbing and Heating
Tnonc 483. Farmville. Va. 4-2l-tf
HAND LAWN novels sharpcned
So SO power mower $500 PICK
up and delivery S100 extra Mot
tley Hardware, 23I N MAN
street Farmville. 3-20-10p
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LEGAL NOTICE

-
VIRGINIA:
In the Office Of the Jerk Of the
Circuit Court for he tounty Of
Cumberland on thi> TIE l9th day
81 March, 1853;
VIRGINIA
IN lHE CIRQUE COURT or
TIE COUNTY or CuMBER-
LAND
HOWARD " PAINTER COM
pLAlNANr
RUBY ADAMS PAINTER, DE
PENDANT.
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
The object OF TINS suit is to OBJ
tain q divorce from The bond Of
nattmony for the complainant
nom the defendant Oh the ground
Of dcseruon
An affidavit having been filed
according to law Stating that
Ruby Adams Painter is non
resident Of the State Of Virginia,
it Il d dered that Site do appear
within ten days after due publi
cation Of this order and do what
may be necessary TO protect her
interest in this sut.
Teste r. II Blanton Clerk
William c. Carter. p, q
Cumberland Virginia 3-24-4t
STATE OF VIRGINIA.
In the Clerks OFFICE of the Cir
cult Court for the County of
Cumberland. this the 10th day of
March. 1853:
COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. in
The State of Virginia Plaintiff
VS.
W " FRENCH. Sheriff Of Cum
berland County and as such Ad-
mlnistratol OF the estate of Allen
A Dowdy, deceased MIS- Ray
Price. Mrs A F Plpjunge. Orzel
Oliver, MIS- Annie Dublin. Mrs
MIEnie Whitlar. AGREE DoWdy
Ruby DoWdy Catherine Dowdy.
fastelle DoWdy. Roy DoWdy. Allen
DOWdy, Rosa Lee Dow dy, GLADYS
DoWdy, Floyd DoWuy and all
other persons who are OF may be
interested in the subject 70 be
disposed of III this suit, whose
names are unknown ana who are
proceeded AGAINST uldeI the gem
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-04-10

Strout Bargains!

DANDY TOBACCO FARM
SACR1FICE'
1873 acres. 5 = acres dark tobac-
co and 9 ? 10 bright tobacco
allotment, about 50 in cropland.
apple orchard. pears Broom
dwelling. ) practically new to-
bacco barns. Other out build
inqs. 10000 $4,000 cash and
terms
DESIGNED FOR YOUR HAP
Ply LIVING
234 acres. Lovely insulated s.
room residence. Excellent con-
dition. Brick and stone fire
place, hardwood floors. 2
porches. bath electricity, cir
culatine oil heat, gas hot water
heater poultry house Fruit
orchards ! mile from Black
stone. Hard surfaced road
$500 Terms.
GENERAL STORE AND RESI-
DENCE
l acre Store and 4-room cot
taoe liehts bath. completely
furnished. Store 2s' \ 36' con
crete block: stock and equip
mcnt. Net $500 per month Price
$4,000 50 900 cash, Balance
financed BY owner at 5oc
5 acres Broom cottage pam
try and porch Lights well at
door 7 miles from Camp
Pickett. Price 5000. Cash.
$500 Balance financed
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-04-10

BULLDOZER work. 10 hours or
less SO per hour more than 10
hours So per hour Anywhere any
time Robert Z. Taylor, Farmville.
Va. Phones go or SAB 4-l0-tf
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FOR RENT

Dwelling, six rooms. two small
kitchens. two baths. Ideal for two
small families, City.
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LEGAL NOTICES

Commonwealth of Virginia.
In t.e Clerk Office of the Cir
cult Court of TIE County of Buck :
ingham, on the 18th day of
Iarch. 1858.
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r II HIantOn, CIerk
William G Garter = a.
Cumberland, Virginia 4-l0-2J