Salem, Oregon, Thursday, April 18, 1957
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL
Section 2 Page 7 ,,. I-
Canada Says Discredited Report Used
By U. S. Solons to Label Norman a Red
OTTAWA W-Foreign Minister
Lester Pearson said last night a
Canadian secret agent's report
which later proved to be unfound
ed was used by a -U.S. Senate sub
committee in charging Canadian
diplomat Herbert Norman with
having been a Communist.
Pearson said the Royal Cana
dian Mounted Police in October
1940 forwarded to U.S. security
agencies a report from a- secret
agent that No man was a member
of the Canadian Communist par
ty in 1950.
The foreign minister said this
"no doubt" was the basis of the
statement by Robert Morris, coun
sel of the U.S. Senate Internal
Security subcommittee, last
month that "Norman was identi
fied in February 1940 as a mem
ber of the Communist party."
But Pearson said the RCMP in
December 1950 had sent the U.S.
security agencies this report:
"We have made extensive in
quiries concerning the information
(on Norman) originally supplied
by our secret agent, and have
arrived at the decision that the
information given is one of either
mistaken identity or unfounded
rumor by an unidentified sub
source. Of the numerous points
supplied at the time, the majority
have been absolutely determined
to be in error, the remaining few
have not been confirmed nor does
there appear to be any answer to
them."
Norman's suicide in Cairo April
4, after publication of Morris' re
marks to the Senate subcommittee
touched off a storm of criticism
in Canada of the Seriate group.
The New York Daily News said
today that before leaping from a
Cairo apartment building, Nor
man wrote his best friend that he
could not "bring myself to tell
you the true reasons that impel
me to commit suicide." The News
printed the texts of notes it said
Norman left for his wife and his
friend Brynoff Eng, the Swedish
ambassador in Cairo.
The Egyptian police previously
had released only brief excerpts
from the notes. As published by
FOR OFFICE BUILDING
Ike Would Expand
White House Area
By MARVIN L. ARROW SMITH
WASHINGTON - President
Eisenhower favors expanding the
White House grounds for construc
tion of a new office building for
future presidents.
Eisenhower's ideas along these
lines may touch off controversy.
One always seems to boil up
whenever anyone suggests physi
cal changes around the White
House.
The President's thoughts on the
matter were outlined yesterday by
his press secretary, James C.
Hagerty, who emphasized they
still are tentative.
Hagerty said Eisenhower thinks
it would be "a good idea" to en
large the White House grounds to
provide for construction of a mod
ern office building with adequate
room for presidential staff mem
bers.
The President's office is In what
is known as the west executive
wing, situated just west of the
mansion proper and its living
quarters. Despite several interior
renovations over the years, the
wing still is too small to house
the President's entire staff.
The overflow is accommodated
in the old State-War-Navy build
ing, across the street: So is per
sonnel of several other executive
branch agencies.
Hagerty talked to newsmen
about expansion plans after Eisen
hower had conferred with 'an ad
visory commission he appointed
several months ago to study the
problem. .
The press secretary emphasized
no final conclusions were reached
at the meeting and he said the
matter is going to get "a lot more
study."
The most recent controversies
over alterations to the White
House flared while President Tru
man was in office. He proposed
additions to provide more office
space, but they were blocked.
The most celebrated furor dur
ing Truman's regime flared, how
ever, when Truman ignored a
storm of protest and added a bal
cony on the south side of the
White House.
I the News, the note to' Mrs. Nop
to tell you all about my troubles
during these last few days of my
life ... but I finally decided to
bear them alone and not distress
you. ..."
Pearson ' disclosed the RCMP
reports on Norman in a telegram
to the Montreal Gazette, sent
after the paper's Ottawa corres
pondent wrote that the foreign
minister must have known that
Norman maintained "strange,
ultra-left-wing associations ... as
late as February 1930."
Pearson said in his telegram
last night that he "would be un
worthy to be a minister of the
crown and should resign" if he
had known of any "strange ultra-left-wing
associations" by Norman
or that Norman was a Communist
during his government service.
These were the text of Nor
man's suicide notes, as published
by the Daily News:
To Mrs. Norman:
"Dear Wife: Farewell to you,
my beloved, and to my family; I
wanted so much to tell you all
about my troubles during these
last few days of my life because
think of you as my spiritual
partner but I finally decided to
bear them alone and not distress
you.
"I also wanted to tell you before
going out this morning of my in
tention to commit suicide but I
changed my mind at the last min
ute feeling it would fce better for
you to learn of my death after
wards. I have no more hope in
life, no more future. Please for
give me, my love, for ending my
life like this. 1 feel I don't
deserve even to kiss your feet.
"Farewell my beloved. Best
wishs to my family.
"Herbert."
To Eng:
"I wanted to spend some time
with you during these last few
days of my life and tell you
what has been worrying me but
am afraid that even in this letter
1 cannot bring myself to tell you
true reasons that impel me
to commit suicide.
"I have decided to die near your
home. I know this' may cause
you some trouble and I am sorry
but you are my best friend.
Farewell.
"Sincerely,
"Norman."
Lava Spewing
From Mt. Etna
CATANIA, Sicily W-Mt. Etna
continued to erupt today, spilling
a stream of lava slowly down a
barren side of the 10,758-foot
mountain.
Mountainside towns far below
the volcanic activity were not in
immediate danger.
The current eruption is in the
same areas as that of 1950 which
sent millions of tons of lava pour
ing down the ancient peak to the
600-foot level. That eruption de
stroyed and damaged roads and
cultivated fields.
In thencxt five years about 1,000
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Labor Charges
Medics Greedy
In Pqlio Drive
NEW YORK tfl-A labor lead
er's charge that organized medi
cine has appeared more concerned
about reimbursement than about
the fight on polio brought quick
denials yesterday.
Leo Perlis, director of the AFL
CIO's community services activ
ities, said medical societies "ap
peared to be more concerned with
getting full payment for each Salk
shot administered than with the
wholesale prevention of polios
myelitis,"
Ho said actions of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis,
the U. S. Public Health1 Service
and the American Medical Assn.
combined to block federal alloca
tion of the Salk polio vaccine.
Spokesmen for all three organi
zations denied . Perlis' allegations.
In Washington, t h e Public
Health Service said Perlis was "in
error," A spokesman said a big
backlog of vaccine was built up
last fall and that a drive was
started to use up the supply. Then
a shortage developed, he said.
The spokesman said that after
this, federal and state officials
met with foundation and AMA of
ficials March 30 to see what could
be done.
Edgar Eisenhower
Sticks to Opinion;
No Family Breach
WASHINGTON I Edgar Ei
senhower says "a breach in our
family is the last thing that could
ever develop."
Edgar,' the President's older
brother, also said last night:
"I want to make it very plain
there are no differences between
my brothers and me. We can dif
fer on a friendly basis and no
rancor is involved."
He caused quite a stir earlier
this week when he was quoted as
criticizing the size of the Presi
dent's budget. i
When the President was asked
yesterday about this and about re
ports that Edgar was "disturbed
about the liberal influence of Mil
ton and Sherm Adams,'? he told
his news conference good humor
cdly: i
"Edgar has been criticizing me
since I was 5 . years old.".
However, the health service
spokesman said, those at the
meeting decided unanimously that
an allocation system would "serve
no useful purpose since it was dif
ficult to allocate anything we did
not have." , ,
Edgar Eisenhower, 68, is . 22
months older than the President.
Milton Often Consulted .
Milton Eisenhower, another
brother of the President, is head
of Johns Hopkins University and
sometimes has been consulted on
various matters by the chief ex
ecutive. Sherman Adams is Eisen
hower's top aide.
Edgar, a Tacoma, Wash., attor
ney, attended a White House stag
dinner last night, along with
brother Milton and a number of
other guests of the President,
Later, he told an interviewer
that "Dwight and Milton kiddlngly
gave me some advice about deal
ing with the press."
Edgar said the only mention of
the Ditdget during tne evening
came At a family gathering before
the dinner when "Dwight made a
remark that all expenses have
gone up.
"He asked me If the expenses
in my office were the same as
last year, Edgar said. 1 an.
swered I couldn't compare them
because I m , moving the office.
Wants to Forget It
When he was asked by a news.
man if he bad anything more t
say i about the administration's
budget, Edgar replied: -r
"I want to forget the whole
thing as fast as I can."
But he stressed that he hasn't.
changed his opinion "sot
bit."
Edgar said he and hii wife
planned to leave for home today;
Milton Eisenhower has not com
mented publicly on Edgar's re-.
marks. Adams laughed off ques
tions about Edgar's statements,
telling newsmen: Just say you
couldn't find me to ask that question."
In Chicago. Earl Eisenhower.
young brother of the President,'
said "it's nothing new" for Edgaf
to be critical. He added that Ed
gar has "been that way for about,
60 years."
Meantime, Sen. Mundt (R-SD)
said "maybe it would be a good
idea for the President to consult
with Milton one week and with
Edgar the next week," adding
with a grin: "Then he would hitf
from both wings of the party." ...
Siren Wails Protest
ST. JOHNSV1LLE, N.Y.
A fire truck turned out to pastur
by this eastern New York village
entered a mournful protest. The ,
wail of its siren rose one night
from a garage in which the v"
hide has been stored. Firemen.7
found a short circuit. They dls '
connected the siren wiring and rt' '
turned to their nearby fire statiol
and the new truck it now houses.
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