Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-24
President Discusses
General Situation
With Advisers
By Joseph A. Fox

moned the cabinet to a special
meeting at 3 pm. to discuss
what was officially described as
the general food situation"
1t will be the Presidents first
meeting with his cabinet since his
return from South America.
Acting Press Secretary Eben Ayers
said Mr.. Truman and his advisers
would discuss food generally. !"
Asked if that would not also entail
a discussion of skyrocketing prices,
Mr.. Ayers said II don't know what
they may go into"
He said in response to another
question that the statement on
prices which the President plans to
issue this week would not be forth
coming tonight. Later, Secretary
of Agriculture Anderson told re-
porters the statement probably will
be out tomorrow.
Will See Anderson Again. 7
Mr.. Truman in a letter to Repre-
sentative O'Toole, Democrat, of New
York, said yesterday that he is
giving the matter of high prices
careful attention and hopes to
reach decision sometime soon"
as to what may be done to help
the situation.
Before today's cabinet meeting,
Mr.. Truman saw Secretary Anderson
for the third consecutive day. He
also had an appointment with DR..
Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of his
Council of Economic Advisers.
= Mr.. Anderson is member of the
special Cabinet Food Committee,
along with Secretary of State Mar
shall and Secretary of Commerce
Hartman.
Gen. Marshall is calling his top
experts on Western Eurepe's needs
back to the United States for an
intensified discussion of what this
country can do to help and when.
Decision Due Soon.
Mr.. Truman has not indi-
Gated whether he plans to call Con-
gress into special session to deal
with prices and European recovery,
but he sent out word yesterday he
hopes to decide soon ION the best
manner of approach"
In his letter to Representative
O'Toole, who, on September 8, urged
the President to summon Congress
into special session, Mr.. Truman
wrote in reply that II am giving it
every consideration and will reach a
decision, hope, some time soon as
to the best manner of approach"
Mr.. O'Toole interpreted this as
indicating special session is practi-
cally inevitable"
Senator Connally. Democrat, of
Texas, commented, however, that he
is mot prepared to say whether a
special session of Congress to con-
troll prices would be justified" He
said he expected to confer with the
President about what he described
as the very difficult and trouble
some problem" of controlling soar
ing prices.
Will Report on Farley.
Will L. Clayton, Undersecretary
of State for Economic Affairs, and
Lewis w. Douglas, American Ambas-
sador to Great Britain, are due to
return next week to report on the
16-nation Paris Conference in which
they had a direct hand.
Other officials who took part in
the final stages of the Marshall Plan
Conference on European recovery
are back.
Myron C. Taylor, President Tru-
mans personal envoy to the Vatican,
arrived in New York today, pre-
sumably with f1rst-hand information
on the views of Pope Plus XII, He
said he would report to the Presi-
dent next week.
Searches for Funds Fail.
The word of these travels conceded
with these other developments:
/. It was learned that Gen. Mar
shall has been told by his top adj
visers that failure has met all
searches for funds which could be
used to meet Europe's needs before
Congress can act on long-range
recovery program. The attitude of
these advisers is that it must be "a
special session or bust" The in
formation presumably figured in