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Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05

Church the Junior and Chancel
Choirs made their final appearance
for the season. The entire service
was made up Of special music by
both choirs.
Following this song fest, the
choirs and all members of the con-
gregation were invited into the Col
Inns Educational Building for the
Choir Award Party.
The members of the Junior Choir
who received awards for perfect
attendance were: Carol Ann Gill
lette, Patty Hackett, ROsalie Wix,
Robert Gillette and Dwight Hack
ett.
Perfect attendance awards were
given to the following Chancel
Choir members: Charlotte Noble,
ImOgene Welch, Mary JO Pitlick,
Dick Pitlick and Billy Morris.
These awards were lovely books
of poetry and folklore.
Gifts of silver were given to the
following seniors, who were mem
bers of the ChanCel Choir: Misses
Imogene Welch, Barbara Smith,
jeanne DickersOn, Bertha B. Jar
rell. Sylvia Breeding, Patricia Hol-
loway and Richard L. Pitlick.
Gifts of appreciation were given
to the pianist and organist, Miss
Marlene Raughley and Miss ImO-
gene Welch; the choir mothers
Mrs. Milton Welch and Mrs. AbneT
Hickman and the junior and chan
eel chOirs directors, Mrs. Robert
Van Cleaf and Melvin Brobst.
After the presentation of awards
and gifts, home made cake and ice
cream were served.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
Y q U

ENTER
"MISS EASTERN SHORE" BEAUTY CONTEST
The Miss Eastern Shore" Beauty sponsored BY
;he Association of Master Plumbers of Maryland
inc which win hold its snnth Salisbury
Nc. June 49, 10 20.
Any single girl 30 eligible to compete for the title
OF Miss Eastern Shore" and valuable prizes Judging
or beauty OF face and figure pose and personality
NOT required "Nss Eastern Shore win crowned on Satr-
day night June 20.
The beauty contest is Of many Pageant
OF Plumbing and Heating Progress Association will
produce in the Salisbury Armoy during the days of its
convention.
Each contestant viii be judged bathing and evening
gown by competent panel Of local judges
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
HARRINGTON
mrs. Jack PItIlck
Phone HARRINGTON $40

Miss Blanche Price was the guest
of her brother, Fletcher Price last
week. This week Miss Price is Wis
iting in Henderson, Md.
mrs Howard Kitchens Of Gar
field Park, Mrs Jack Berry and
Miss Jolan Schwass Of Philadelphia
were the guests Of Miss Grace Wan
IA Ouillen in RehObOth for the hOl-
iday weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Melvin and
son Kenneth were Saturday dinner
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Shockley Of GOldsboro.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Littleton and
Miss Emma Richards of Salisbury
were dinner guests on Sunday OF
Mrs. E. S. Richards.
Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Denney had as
their holiday weekend guests: Mr..
and Mrs. John Lord of Wilmington.
MRS. Maude Hill entertained at
turkey dinner on Sunday: Mr.. and
Mrs. John Holloway, Sr., Mr.. and
Mrs. S. L. Denney and Mr.. and Mrs.
John Lord.
Mrs. al. 3. Parsons and Mrs. Err
nest Raughley spent last Wednes-
day in Wilmington
Mrs. Norman Masten and son
Donald Of PennsgrOve, N. j., were
guests of Mrs. Norris Adams on
Friday
Arnold Gilstad left on Monday
to visit his brother in Cumberland,
Pa. From there he will go to Grand
View. Wisconsin, where he will Wis
il his mother. Mrs. Gilstad accom-
panied him to Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles O'Neal
were Weekend guests OF Mrs.
Frank O'Neal, Sr.
Miss Emma Derrickson of Will
mington spent Memorial weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Peterson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hayward Quillen at
tended the Ringing Brothers Cir
Gus in Philadelphia on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Harring-
ton were the guests on Saturday OF
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Messner at their
cottage in RehObOth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Wells and
son Donald we're guests of Mr.. and
MES. marry EuS4A0A VI +4eANA q "a
Saturday.
Monday was Senior Odd Day in
the local high school. Miss Pat
Holloway read the Last Will anG
Testament of the Senior Glass. The
Junior Glass Prophecy for the sen.
iors was given by Miss Jean Ian.
s der. Athletic sweaters were award
ed during the assembly period
French and spelling citations were
also given at this time.
Pete Galloway stole the show
dressed in a grass skirt and mid
riff with a house coat to ward of
pneumonia. His hair was expertl!
done in curriers'.
Mrs. George w. Hanson has beel
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charles B
Wingate of Mt. Airy, Pa Mr.. ant
Mrs. Jerome p Hollis and son o
Harrington, Bermuda, we're ais,
guests of the Wingates. Mrs. HOlli
was the former Miss Metty Bell
Wingate, niece of Mrs. Hanson.
Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Parke spen
the holiday weekend in RehObotI
Mrs. Ralph Smith and daughte
of Trenton, N. J., have returne
home after visiting with Mr.. AM
Mrs. f. Brown Smith.
Mrs. L. r. Beauchamp entertain
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
SCHOOL TIE Rivals

WASHINGTON -(R)- Profess
sionally, they're at swords points,
but when it comes to the old school
tie Democratic National Chairman
Stephen A. Mitchell and his Repub-
lican counterpart, Leonard Hall,
see eye to eye.
They're both alumnae of George
town University's School Of Law
here. Hall graduated in 1920, Nit
chell in 1928.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
TIN PRICES LOW

SINGAPORE-(R)-A number of
mines have closed owing to the big
tumble in the price of tin, the
head of one of the two smelling
companies in Malaga disclosed.
E. M. F. Ferguson, chairman of
the Straits Trading Co., in a report
to the cOmpany's annual general
meeting also said the present price
of tin is probably the lowest at
which the metal could be produced,
excluding development and ex-
ploration.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05

friends for a happy married life.
Mr.. Dill served some time in the
service-several months of it be-
ing in Korea.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW
Post held their first meeting in the
new post home on Thursday night,
May %. This being a special meet
ing. Mrs. Mamie Adams, chaplain,
was the first one to take obligations
in the new post home.
Bobby VOshell, son of Harold
VOshell and grandson of Clarence
Voshell, who passed away on May
q, and Mrs. Laura Voshell, left on
Tuesday, May 26, to go into service.
He is at Camp Meade, Md, but sad
it was that he was called back
home the next day due to the death
of his grandfather, Clarence Vo-
shell, with whom he made his home.
He has seven Gays home with his
grandmother.
The commencement exercises
will be held at the FELTON, School
on Wednesday night, June 10, in the
auditorium.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
PIRATE PARADE

CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex -(P)-
Corpus Christi is a resort city that
likes to dream Of the time when
bold buccaneers repeatedly roam
ed over the Gulf Coast. So it an
nually stages whoop-to-do festi-
val it christens "Buccaneer Days
and gives toWnsfOlk and tourists
a chance to dress up like their fav-
orite pirate. This years big parade
drew 10000 persons
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05

About SO per cent of the farm
area of Sweden is privately owned
Evening star., 1953-11-07
BrowneT on Red InfiItrotion

by inquiry or long established
observation and evaluation. In
no instance is any transaction
or event related where the 1e-
liability of the source Of in
formation is questionable"
This new summary of Whites
activities as a spy was handed
by the FBI to Brig. Gen.
/. Vaughan for delivery to the
President on February 4. 1946,
and, yet, the Senate Banking
and Currency Committee was
ermitt ed to recommend
Whites appointment on Feb
ruary S, in ignorance of the
report. The Senate itself was
allowed to confirm White on
February s, without the Senate
being informed that White was
a spy. 1t is true that the full
text of the FBI report could
not be made public and, even
now, could not be made public
without compromising impor-
tant sources of information
and otherwise adversely affect
ing the public interest. But
there certainly was no reason
why the Senate could not be
informed of the established
fact that White was a spy.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Case Held Typical
OF Former Blindness

The case of Harry Dexter
White and the manner in
which it was treated by the
Truman administration is H.
Illustrative of why the present
administration is faced with
the problem of disloyalty in
Government. The manner in
which the established facts
concerning Whites disloyalty
were diregarded is typical of
the blindness which inflicted
the former administration on
this matter. When no atten-
ton was paid to so great a
danger as the espionage activ-
tiles of Harry Dexter White,
you can imagine how little
notice was given to Commu-
mist Party members, Commu-
mist propagandiStS, and Com
muniSt fellow-travelers in
Government That is the rea-
son why the problem of weed
ing out from the ranks of Gov
ernment employees persons who
are dangerous to the national
security is so great a problem
today.
To provide adequate Sc
curity for our Government
and for our people against dis
loyal persons in Government
is difficult because of the ne
cessity to safeguard at the
same time those employees who
are loyal, but there is no avoid
ing the necessity for action.
That is why in January, as one
of his first acts. President
Eisenhower called upon the
head of each Governmental
agency to be at pains to weed
out from among the Govern
ment employees all security
risks and to investigate all ap-
plicantS for Government en-
ployment in order to prevent
persons from obtaining Gov
eminent jobs who might con-
stitute security risks. Included
as security risks were not only
those who were known men,
bers of disloyal organizations,
but also those whose personal
habits and activities made
them prey for subversive ele-
ments.
The first progress report
under the new employe security
order has recently been made.
Fourteen hundred fifty-Six
persons have been elected from
Government service because
they were found to be security
risks. More cases are still
under examination. We are 60
ing to have no more Commu-
mist infiltration in the Gov
ernment and we steadily are
getting rid Of those who are
security risks. Americans are
more secure in their homes to-
night because the security pro-
gram, under the vigorous
leadership of President Eisen-
hover, is cleaning up the mess
in Washington.
Evening star., 1953-11-07

FOLLOWING is the tert OF that
portion OF an address to the
Executives Club yesterday By
Attorney General BroWneu dis
cuSsino Communist infiltrGtion
of the Government:
Communists cannot over
throw our Government by
force and violence as long as
the country has faith and
confidence in its public Serv-
ants. The Communists know
this, too. and their strategy is
to inflltrate positions of re-
Sponsibility and to undermine
our system of government
from within. Every place the
Communist movement has
been successful it has been
preceded by a period devoted
to breaking down the faith of
the people in their govern
ment so that it was weak and
helpless in the face of coup.
1t is a source of humiliation
to every American that during
the period of the Truman ad-
ministration the Communists
were so strikingly successful in
inf1ltrating the Government of
the United States. The failure
of our predecessors to defend
the Government from Commu-
mist inf1ltration left the new
administration a necessary but
very difficult task.
We are now confronted with
this problem. not because there
was any real lack of informa-
tion available to our predeces-
sors as to the identity of Com
munists in Government. but
because of the unwillingness
of the non-CommuniSts in
responsible positions to face
the facts and a persistent delu-
sion that communism in the
Government of the United
States was only a "red her
ring" AS an illustration I will
give you the case of Harry
Dexter White.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District and vicinity-Fam to-
night, lowest around %. Tomor-
row, fair and continued cold with
high in the middle 40s.
Maryland-Partly cloudy and
continued cold tonight and to-
morrow, with snow flurries likely
in the west. Lowest tonight Is
80.
Virginia-Fair and continued
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Truman Note Accepting
Resignation Is Quoted

The first FBI report inden-
tifying White as a Russian spy
had been in the White House
for almost six months and the
second report conclusively doc
umenting his espionage activ-
tiles had been in the White
House nearly three months,
when President of the United
States wrote White the follow
ing letter:
april 80, 1946
Dear Mr.. White:
Il 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 po-
sition you will be able to carry
forward the work you so ably
began at Breton Woods and
you will have increased oppor-
tunity for the exercise of your
wide knowledge and expert
ness in a field which is of ut
most 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.
Every Sincerely Yours,
Harry S. Truman"
The very next day, May /,
1916, Harry Dexter White as
Sumed his duties in the Inter-
national Monetary Fund.
White died without the prior
administration ever having
acted on the FBI report.
Evening star., 1953-11-07

tinction your present assignment.
I wish you the very best of
luck"
Mr.. Hagerty gave this chro-
nology of what happened:
December (no date specif1ed) q,
1945-First FBI report went to
the White House.
January %. 1946-Mr. Tru-
man nominated White for the
Monetary Fund job.
February 4-Second> FBI re-
port went to the White House.
February -6-Senate confirmed
Whites nomination. H..
February = Mr.. Truman
signed Whites commission.
March 81. 1947-White re-
signed. ....
White died in 1948. S..
Reporters told Mr.. Truman
about the White House state
ment that White had not
been fired. Mr.. Truman said
people are sometimes fired by
being allowed to resign" He
said this is what happened in
the White case. -.. ..
Search FruitIesS.
Mr.. Hagerty told his news con-
ference today that search of
the White House files for the
two FBI reports showed there
are no confidential files in the
White House from the past ad-
miniStration."
MI. Hagerty said he wanted
to point out that it is the Gus
tomary procedure" for a Presi-
dent to take away his confiden-
tial files at the end of his ad-
ministration.
He also reiterated that there
are copies of the reports men
toned by Mr.. BrowneI in FBI
files.
Mr.. Truman removed volum1-
nous records of his personal COR
respondence to Missouri where
they will be placed in a Truman
memorial library to be con-
structed at Grandview.
Asked if there is any other
way the Eisenhower administra-
ton can show that Gen. Vaughan
received the, FBL reports for
transmittal to Mr.. Truman, Mr..
Hagerty told reporters:
ASK the Attorney General
Evening star., 1953-11-07
65-Yeur-OId Man Found
Hunqed in Southeast

A 65-year-old man was found
hanged in the bathroom of his
home at 2915 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. Sc. last night.
Police identified the dead man
as George Harmon. a former
houseman at the Harrington Ho-
tel. They said the body was dis
covered by Mrs. Dorothy Har-
mon, who told them her husband
had been under the care Of a
physician. 4
Evening star., 1953-11-07

in my mind since my entry into
Congress and during my service
with the FBI that the sole fault
for this condition was in the
administration during the period
from 1882 until 1883"
Senator Duff, Republican, of
Pennsylvania said Mr.. Brownell's
revelations were Shocking and
horrible" They were "all the
more terrible" Senator Duff
added, because during the Tru-
man administration the White
House was appraised of Whites
espionage activities not by polit-
ical investigators but by the FBI
itself"
Senator Butler, Republican. of
Maryland. who was elected in
1850 with Senator McCarthys
help, claimed that the Senate
Internal Security subcommittee
already knew practically all of
the information disclosed by Mr..
Brownell. except the part about
Vaughan"
But I think it is very good
thing that the administration is
beginning to look into these
things" he added.
Senator HendrickSon. New
Jersey Republican. who joined in
criticism of the 1850 Maryland
senatorial campaign in which
Senator Mccarthy had a part,
was especially indignant about
the Brownell reference to Gen.
Vaughan.
If Gen. Vaughan knew any
thing about it and did nothing,
it is one of the worst traveSties
ever perpetrated on the Ameri-
can people," he declared. From
his comment Mr.. Truman ap-
parently did not want to know
very much about this case. He
should not be worrying now
about the Eisenhower adminiS-
tration but should be worrying
about the fact that his old ad-
miniStration was far too close in
too many instances to the Com
munistS and their travellers"
Democratic Leaders Accused.
/ Representative Arends, Re-
publican. of Illinois. deputy ma
/ jority leader in the House, said
the Brownell speech reveals
how the Democratic party, to
the White House itself. has
served as the vehicle for the
penetration of a secret Com
munist underground into Gov
ernment." He accused the Dem
ocratic leadership of being
completely indifferent to such
penetration"
/ Representative Hyde, Repub-
lican, of Maryland issued the
! following statement:
"The revelation today by At
/ torney General BroWnell show
ing that Mr.. Truman was aware
of Harry Dexter Whites affilia-
ton with the Communists when
he appointed him to the position
of executive director for the
United States Monetary Fund
completely flabbergaSted' me.
1T is beyond my comprehen-
sion to believe that a President
of the United States would have
such authentic information and
yet nominate him for such a
position. To say nothing of his
failure to make such facts known
to the Senate.
"One can only conclude that
the New Deal leadership of the
Democratic Party simply did not
believe that communism was a
menace or that membership in
/ the Communist Party made a
person unfit for high Office in
our Federal Government"
Evening star., 1953-11-07
White
CONTINUED From First PageD


Whites activities that he imme-
diately telephoned his boss. At
torney General Clark. Mr.. Clark
at the time was in Johns Hop
kinS Hospital for a physical
checkup.
Mr.. Caudle said he urged Mr..
Clark to do everything possible
to block Whites appointment to
the Monetary Fund post.
Mr.. Caudle elaborated on this
account in a later interview with
the Des Moines Register, Mr.
Caudle said:
That FBD report came to
me as head of the Criminal Di-
vision and was marked to show
that it was for the White House.
1t was a sweetheart. I jumped
when l read that thing.
Tom Clark. Attorney General,
was at Johns Hopkins Hospital
for a checkup. I got hold of him
and gave him the report. And !
said. for Gods sake. Tom, don't
let that appointment go through
1t will come out some day and
ruin u.s.
Tom said he sure would try
to stop it, and I am sure that
he did try to stop it.
II did as much as I could.
When it went to the White House
it was not on my level. 1t would
have been presumptuous of me
to go to the White House. All I
could do was deal with my su-
periors and 1 sure did. I begged
with Tom to stop it. l gave him
the report personally"
Mr.. Caudle was quoted as say
ing he later saw a picture OF
White bowling on the green with
the late Chief Justice Fred M.
Vinson. who was then Secretary
of the Treasury.
II got sick at the stomach
looking at that picture" Mr..
Caudle said.
Copies to Justice Department.
Mr.. Brownell, in a speech yes
terday, said the FBI sent
it's reports to the White
House in December, 1945. and
in February, 1916. Authoritative
sources said the FBI at the
same times sent copies of the
material to the Justice Depart
ment.
Mr.. Truman flatly denied that
he ever received any report in
dicating White was a Soviet
spy. His old friend, Gen.
Vaughan, backed up this story.
Gen. Vaughan went so far as to
say: II don't ever recall hear
ing the mans name in my life
until a reporter called me (about
the Brownell speech"
Both Mr.. Truman and Gen.
Vaughan said the Brownell state
ment was politically-i INSPIRED.
Mr.. Truman said:
LAS soon as we found out that
White was wrong, we fired him."
The White House promptly
said Mr.. Humans story of hav-
ing fired White was mot true"
Claim White Resigned.
President Eisenhowers press
secretary, James C. Hagerty. said
Mr.. White was not fired, but re-
signed from the Monetary Fund
March 81, 1947. Mr.. Hagerty
gave reporters copies of a letter
which Mr.. Truman wrote to
White in accepting his restgna-
ton.
Mr.. Truman wrote:
"You have filled with dis
Evening star., 1953-11-07
New Catholic School
At Scot Pleasant, Nd.

Parishioners of st. Margaret's
Catholic Church, Seat Pleasant,
Md, will seek $4,000 before No
vember 90 to start construction
of an eight-room school. audi
torium and convent.
The school will be erected on
church property at Addison
road near Central avenue. The
Rev. Charles D. German is ad-
miniStrator.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Special FBI Report
Followed Appointment

AS soon as Whites nomina-
ton for this sensitive post be-
came public, the FBI compiled
a special and detailed report
concerning Harry Dexter White
and his espionage activities.
AS you know, the FBI was not
allowed to make these facts
public, but merely to present
it's findings confdentially to
higher authorities. With re-
spect to the authenticity of
the information, the FBI had
this to say, and quote from
the report:
This information has been
received from numerous conf
dental sources whose reliabii-
ity has been established either
Evening star., 1953-11-07

when he returns to Washington
Monday"
The controversy, as it devel-
oped, centered more and more
on one question: Would the FBI
have dispatched casually to the
White House, in care of Gen.
Vaughan, a report of the sort
described by Mr.. Brownell?
Would it not be more logical to
suppose that such a document
would be- brought direct to the
President by the Treasury Sec
retary or by the Attorney Cen
eral himself?
Former officials of the Truman
administration, almost without
exception, testified that they had
never heard of such a transmits
sion procedure as that described
by Mr.. Brownell. Yet The Star
was assured by numerous reliable
informants that the regular roll
tine in the first months after
Mr.. Truman's elevation to the
presidency was for the FBI to
send reports of subversion among
Government officials direct to
Mr.. Truman, through Gen.
Vaughan.
Not a Military Matter.
Questioned by a reporter on
this score, Gen. Vaughan first
scoffed at the suggestion that he
might have been a proper chan
mel for the transmission of in
formation on Mr.. White from
the FBI to the President. He
was Mr.. Truman's military aide,
the general pointed out. and MIR.
Whites case was not a military
matter.
This sort of report would con-
Germ the Secretary of the Treas
ury, and he would present it to
the President himself" Gen.
Vaughan said. He added:
1T looks to me like some of
Brownell's ghost writer's had to
write a speech and got into some
thing and tore their lingerie. 1t
seems to me like there is a whole
lot of imagination in this"
Vaughan Comedies a Point.
Later the renor.ter called cen
Vaughan back and pressed him
further on this point. 1t now was
his understanding. the reporter
said. that Gen. Vaughan often
received FBI reports for the
President.
The general thereupon con-
ceded he had been the recipient
of such material at the White
House. But, he insisted, the COM
munications the FBI sent Mr..
Truman through him were
usually of a routine nature COW
ering "subversive activities in
the United States and that sort
| of stuff"
Gen. Vaughan said he could
not remember receiving single
report on an individual in the
Government unless he asked for
it. He said he did this only in
the case of job applicants or the
like.