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Evening star., 1947-09-23
Beyin Halls Economic Repor,
As A Great Piece of Work

LONDON, Sept. % tR.-Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin returned
from Paris today and hailed the
report of the 16-nation Commit
tee for European Recovery as "a
great piece of work"
Il am very pleased" Mr.. Bevi1
said of the report. II hope it will
bear good results for the whole
world. We have got to follow it up
now"
London newspapers, with the ex-
ception of the Communist Daily
Worker, praised the document. The
press Of the continent-again ex-
cepting that section rejecting the
Communist viewpoint-also hailed
the report as the starting point of
economic recovery.
Communist editorials, on the
other hand, said the plan signaled
submission to the power of Amer
lean dollars and expressed fear of a
widening in the split between the
East and West when the plan went
into operation.
The liberal London News Chron-
icle said the report was lone of the
most important and fateful docu-
ments of recent times"
Evening star., 1947-09-23

aside politics" until the party
conventions next year and to con-
centrate on nonpartisan attack
against high prices.
The Oregon Senator, a frequent
critic of COP policy, told reporters
that leaders of both parties should
confer jointly with great regularity
on the vital issues"-domestic as
we'll as international-"that con-
front the common people"
Urges N0npartisan Action.
Senator Morse said "those issues
should be faced as nonpartisanly as
we faced the issues of our wartime
economy"
Declaring that the greatest do
mestic issue is the inf1ationary high
cost of living" Senator Morse
added:
Partisan politics have no place in
the solution of problems which are
common to each of the 100000, 600
people of America. The average
citizen is not interested in the parti-
sanship Of the average politician
He iss interested in and expects the
members of Congress to do every
thing in their power to check the
ravages of imitation and to exercise
some craftsmanship, rather than
partisanship."
Senator Morse said the price issue
is so important because unless we
have domestic economic stability, we
cannot hope to carry out our moral
obligations" to crisis ridden Euro
pean nations.
The Oregonian said he thinks
President Truman should call spe-
cial session of Congress as soon as
possible.
Evening star., 1947-09-23
Petkov
Continued From First Page J

Of what has already happened in
Hungary" where the Communists
throttled opposition after charging
the existence of plot against the
government.
Previously, the United States had
sought a review of the Petkov case
by the Allied Control Commission in
Bulgaria, composed of representa-
tives of the United States, Russia
and Britain Russia contended, how
ever that such action would consti-
tute Intervention in Bulgaria's in
ternal affairs.
The United States subsequently,
with British backing-appealed di-
rectly to Moscow to take a hand in
reviewing the case, but without re-
suits.
Mr.. Petkov had been under arrest
since June 6, when he was formally
charged with plotting to overthrow
the government and establish new
regime with himself at its head
He firmly denied the charges at his
trial, which began August S.
Nikola Dimitrov Petrov, 54 year.
old, was deep in the political tur-
moil of Bulgaria long before World
War II. AS leader of the Agrarian
Party he was involved in 1888 in
what the government called cam
paign against King Boris III, and
in November OF that year he and six
of his Agrarian members were ex-
PEELED from Parliament.
Mr.. Petkov, as the leader of this
group. was accused of directing the
distribution of pamphlets attacking
the king. MIR. Petkov vainly con-
tended that his group supported the
monarch but simply demanded that
the king limit his powers, as speci-
fled by the constitution.
During the war he was back in
the government, however, as a min
lister without portfolio, and he was
one of the ministers who signed
Bulgaria's armistice with the Allies
late in 1914.
His troubles with the Communist
Party began in earnest in Septem-
Der, 1945, when he Withdrew from
the fatherland front coalition gov
ernment because of its domination
by the Communists. He called for
free elections.
At the same time there began 6
Evening star., 1947-09-23
Prices
Continued From First Page

under way because OF perfect
planting weather.
fhe threat of earlier er-than-normsl
frost came as the Agriculture De-
partment estimated that last week s
hurricane destroyed between 5,0O0,-
900 and 1000, 900 boxes of citrus fruit
and possibly more than 100000 acres
of vegetable crops in Florida. The
citrus fruit destroyed Is equivalent
to between 6 and per cent of
Floridas combined production of
Oranges and grapefruit during the
last season.
Despite the weather adversities
this years total crop production is
oficially forecast to be near the
high average of the last five years
a period which the Agriculture De-
partment describes as "the best FIVE
year period in the Nations history
Record Wheat Crop Helps.
Contributing heavily to this pro-
speetive output is a record wheat
crop-mucn of which reached har-
vest, before the bad weather set in
In Chicago a special grand jury
called by the Justice Department.
Anti Trust Division to investigate
. food prices, was to begin hearing
evidence today.
. Thorough Meat Probe Sought.
John r. Sonnett, Assistant Attor
J ney General in charge of the Anti
trust Division, said in a statement;
"In commencing these proceeding
before the grand jury, the Govern
! ment does so with no preconceiveo
notions, except to assist the granc
Jury to make a thorough investiga-
ton Of the mat industry. In the
event that the grand jury finds that
there have been antitrust violations
ny members of the meat industry
these violations will, of course, be
! Immediately pressed
Six officials of the American Mea1
Institute, who were to have testi.
Z fled yesterday, were to return to.
Sday.
Meanwhile, Senator Morse, Re
publican, of Oregon called on Re
publicans and Democrats to ia,
Evening star., 1947-09-23

g.
the union picketed the place TO,
months.
Early in August, a Chattanooga
general contractor employing union
men obtained contract to remodel
a residence. The speciality store
was given the work of installing
the wall and floor coverings. How
ever, when the store workers showed
up the complaint alleges the Car
penters' Union ordered its members
of the job.
The injunction suit by the NLRB
regional office names both Local No
"a Of the carpenters and its bust
ness agent, Jack Henderson.
Other Such Acts anticipated"
Although the home remodeling
job subsequently was finished, pre-
sumably with nonunion carpenters
the NLRB complaint said that 1t
anticipated" the union would in
dulge in other boycott strikes OF
a similar nature.
Actually, the NLRB is asking hte
court to prevent the carpenters from
indulging in actions it holds in VIOLA
Evening star., 1947-09-23
Arlington Candidates
To Address Women

At least 16 of the 20 candidates
for the Arlington School and County
Boards will speak at a meeting Of
the Organized Women Voters at
1890 pm tomorrow at the Com
munity Methodist Church.
Mrs. Ruby G. Simpson OF the
women's group, said the meeting
is the first in series at which can
didates in the November elections
will be heard.
Evening star., 1947-09-23

ton of the Taft-Hartley Act in the
future.
Under the law, a secondary boy
colt is described as an .'unfair" labor
practice of a union. The NLRB it.
self may only issue cease and de-
sist" order If it finds the charges
justified and such orders are not
punishable.
However, the law instructs the
NLRB to obtain court injunctions
against the practices. Failure to
comply with such a court order may
bring prosecution on a charge of
contempt, similar to the action
brought against John L. Lewis as d
result of the Nation wide coal strike
last November.
An NLRB spokesman said that
the unfair" practice charge filed
with the board by the CHATTANOOGA
contractor will be heard by one of
its trial examiners. The examiner
will make report of the case upon
which it may be appealed to the
NLRB itself by either side.
The injunction is sought to main
tain status quo until the NLRB has
had opportunity to look into the
full merits of the boycott charge.
Meanwhile. the Labor Department
disclosed that only about 2 per cent
of union locals and national orpani-
cations have filed the required finan-
cial reports and other information
in the month since the entire Taft
Hartley law became effective.
The department said it had re-
ceived the financial statements and
organizational data from i,ll2 labor
organizations. There are in the
country an estimated $4,000 to $4,000
local. national and international
unions.
Under the new law unions must
file with the Labor Department in
formation as to how they conduct
their affairs and afidayits that
their officials are non-CommunisU
with the National Labor Relations
Board in order to use NLRB facili-
ties.
Evening star., 1947-09-23
Hospitals
Continued From First Page J

funds asked by DR.. RuhIand to i'm.
prove the operation of his depart.
ment includes provision for 215 ad.
ditional department employees ane
$l6,948 increase in the amount te
be spent on part-time help.
Points to Staff Needs,
High lights of DR.. Ruhland's re-
quests for bigger staff are:
Sixty additional nurses, 81 of them
to replace wartime cuts in the nurs-
ing staff. OF the new nurses. &c
would be assigned to tuberculosis
duty, 20 to duty in the schools, Is
to maternal and child welfare and
5 to mental hygiene.
Two additional psychiatrists and
a clerk for the new Bureau of
Mental Hygiene.
A public health engineer, super
visor and three junior engineers tc
step up the city's fight against ro-
dents.
A budget and administrative, of.
ficer, budget analyst and account
ant, property and supply officer and
assistant property and supply officer
These are positions formerly paic
out of Federal grants, but now re.
quested as District jobs because the
United States Public Health Service
has criticized DR.. Rutland for pay
ing their salaries with none,
granted for other purposes.
Personnel increases all along the
line include IL more dental assistant
technicians, IL more food inspectors
6 more medical social workers ir
the hospital permit bureau, 10 more
housekeeping aides. II additions tt
the maternal and child welfare staff
a doctor and 6 additional staff
members for school medical inspec.
tions, Is additional sanitary inspec.
tors, an assistant director and addi.
tional doctor for tuberculosis con.
troll, and 9 additional field in.
vestigators to help control venerea
disease
Evening star., 1947-09-23

of the freedom allowed for political
activity by means of the press, meet
ings, ETC., for uniting and organizing
all reactionary and pro-Fascist
forces for struggle with every pos
sible means against the established
peoples power" the prosecutor
charged The deputies voted to de-
prive him of parliamentary i'm
munity.
In his Jail cell Mr.. Petkov said that
all this was nothing but a pro-
longation Of what already has hap
pened in Hungary"
The purge widened then. The
Communist ousted from the National
Assembly the % other opposition
Agrarians, all on charges of being
"teols" of Mr.. Petkov. Pro-govern-
ment members insisted the Agrar-
ians resigned voluntarily from the
Assembly, but the Agrarians them
selves said they did not and would
not resign. The Assembly, nonethe-
less, voted to accept their "resigna-
tions." -
The United States, meanwhile,
protested Mr.. Petkov's arrest. The
American note suggested that Bull
garia, in trying the opposition
leader, herself would be on trial be-
fore the world.
During his trial Mr.. Petkov denied
the governments charges, and sale
that Never have I thought to dc
anything illegal against the state.
He pleaded innocent, but appar.
emily realized he might be sen.
fenced to death. He told the court
his father and brother were muir
dered In the streets of Sofia as
traitors, and I am ready to share
their fate"
He was sentenced to death August
16, four co-defendants received
prison sentences.
Evening star., 1947-09-23

tense struggle tor control of botf
the title of Agrarian Union and o.
the party's newspaper. Both hae
great political value among the
tradition bound peasants. Ths
struggle was between Mr.. Petkov'.
opposition Agrarians and the Min.
istry of Information. A section OF
Agrarians who remained within thu
framework of the Fatherland Front
registered itself as the Agrariar
Party and retained control of the
newspaper Agrarian Flag, for years
the voice of Bulgar peasants. Mr.
Petkov sought to publish a paper
under the same name and wa:
turned down.
Shortly after Mr.. Petkov charged
that the Fatherland Front govern.
ment was subjecting the opposition
to beatings and killings for attempt.
ing to organize politically against
the government. He called on the
government to resign and clear the
way for the forthcoming elections
Instead, the government an.
nounced one list of candidates-it.
own-for the November 18, 1945
election.
Mr.. Petkov urged his followers tt
boycott the election.
Joined by the United Social Dem
ocratic Party, he issued a manifesto
saying the opposition would not par
ticipate "in confirming and legaliz.
ing the undemocratic regime" ane
therefore decided mot to take par
in the elections set for Novembe,
1S, but to repudlate them completely
and boycott them"
Front Won Election.
Britain and the United States al
ready had sent notes saying the,
were not satisfied that the govern
ment of Bulgaria was adequatel,
representative or that arrangement
for the elections would ensure fre,
balloting. The election was melt
and government figures said 80 pc
cent of the electors voted. The gov
ernment tabulation showed so pc
cent of the vote for the Fatherlant
Front.
The opposition renewed its com
plants of terror and suppression
during 1916. Mr.. Petkov, as hi
party's general secretary, was tn
prime mover.
In the subsequent parliamentar
election in October, 1916, Mr.. Pet
kov was among the oppositionist
chosen an Agrarian deputy. In tina
election the Fatherland Front seate,
366 deputies, the united opposition
80. Communist Georgi Dimitro
became Premier.
An incident shortly after the elec
ton foreshadowed events to come
Mr.. Petkov attacked government
policies in a speech and was ex
PEELED from the chamber by tn
speaker. All the opposition deputie
walked out with him.
The Fatherland Front govern
ment. following a pattern laid dow
In Hungary through which the Com
munists there eliminated the op
position. charged that a plot wa
afoot to overthrow the regime. M,
Petkov was arrested June 6.
The public prosecutor, in a lette
to the Assembly dated the day be
fore, charged that Mr.. Petkov ant
collaborators were preparing t,
make coup d'etat against the peo
Piles power by means of arme,
force" The prosecutor said dat
collected showed Mr.. Petkov "begal
soon after he left the Fatherlan,
Front and the government in July
1945," to hatch such a conspiracy
relying upon the complicated in
ternational situation"
"Nikola Petkov began making us
Evening star., 1947-09-23
NStote Department AssoiIs
Bulgaria on. Petkov Case

The Bulgarian regime has shown
itself wanting with respect to ele-
mentary principles Of justice and the
rights of man" in its conviction ano
execution of Nikola Petkov, the State
Department said today.
The department issued a statement
declaring that Mr.. Ptkov's stead
fast opposition to forces of oppres-
sion has evoked worldwide admira.
tion"
1t termed his trial a "travesty or
justice" one of a series of measures
designed to eliminate all but purely
nominal opposition and consolidate
"a totalitarian form of government
in Bulgaria. 49,,
Evening star., 1947-09-23
Truman Weighs Plan
For Voluntary Food
Rationing, Exports Gu
BY II. A..esiatsa pr...

President Truman Is weighing
recommendations today for a
voluntary food rationing at
home and smaller grain ship
ments abroad as the most feasi-
BILE approach to soaring domestic
prices and threatened unrest
overseas.
Any attempt to keep grain exports
at the record levels of earlier months
would require a return to rigid war
time controls and only Congress
Gould restore them, Mr.. Truman's
Cabinet Food Committee told the
Chief Executive yesterday.
Hence the group composed OF
Secretary of State Marshall, Secre-
tary Of Commerce Hartman and
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson
proposed that the Government: (a)
Place 9 ceiling of between $50, ,O00, ,0OO
SOC. 100000 bushels on foreign ship
ments this crop year; (b) set up q
voluntary conservation program In
this country and (c) try to find
some way to augment European
diets with costlier but less scarce
foods. ts
Truman Plans Statement.
This information came from OFF.
cials in position to know but
not to be quoted. The White House
itself was silent except to say that
Mr.. Truman will have a statement
on world food problems "in a few
days."
Whether that statement will cover
the whole field of emergency cid
to Europe and settle the issue OF
whether there is to be q special
session of Congress remains to be
seen.
The Food Committees meeting
with Mr.. Truman to submit its re-
port was only one of series yes
terday dealing with steps that lnay
be necessary before Congress car
get around to considering the long,
range Marshall plan for European
recovery.
Food looms large in both the stop
gap and long-range pictures.
The State Department, stressing
what it regards as the seriousness
of the shortage abroad and the
necessity of providing supplies to
prevent friendly governments from
falling prey to communism, has been
pressing for an export goal larger
than last years.
Statistics on Exports.
Shipments from last years crops
totaled more than 10000 tons,
including about SIS, 1000, 900 bushels
of grain. Wheat exports alone were
slightly more than 100000, 900
bushels.
In drafting yesterdays report to
Mr.. Truman, both the State and
Agriculture Departments apparently
gave ground.
Mr.. Anderson is reported to have
emphasized the effect of this years
short corn crop on grain supplies
and food prices in contending that
it would be impossible to match
last years exports without return.
ing to dark flour, forbidding the use
of grain for alcoholic beverages, re.
stricting the use Of grains in feed
and cutting down on the size ot
bread loaves.
Both Gen. Marshall and Secretary
Hartman are said to have agreed
with Secretary Anderson that
neither the public nor Congress
would be willing to resort to such
measures.
The State Department then came
down on its export goal and Mr..
Anderson came up somewhat on his
estimate of the quantity of grain
which could be spared for export.
He previously had indicated that
supplies for export would not ex-
ceed 400, ,000, 900 to 425 200, 900 BUSH
Evening star., 1947-09-23
Britain Plans to Protest
Execution of Petkoy

LONDON, Sept. % R.-Britain
will protest sharply to the Bulgarian
government against the execution OF
Nikola Petrov, government sources
said today.
A Foreign Office spokesman said
Foreign Secretary Bevin would deal
with the matter personally. This
country made II unsuccessful bids
TO save Mr.. Petkov's life, after the
Bulgarian Peoples Court sentenced
him to death.
Evening star., 1947-09-23
The Admiral's March l."

The Admirals March"
The business of the Navy was
virtually at standstill as hundreds
of employees were released to bid
farewell to their boss.
John L. Sullivan, Mr.. Forrestal's S
successor as Navy Secretary, said
the ceremony was arranged in ap-
probation of Mr.. Forrestal's leader
ship during the war and his sound
and able guidance during the period
of the postwar transition.
Mr.. Forrestal sent this message
to his successor:
"On leaving the Navy to take up
duty as Secretary of Defense, 1 wish
to express my appreciation to all
hands for their cooperation and
good will during my terms of office
1t has been rare privilege to serve
in such an organization"
Evening star., 1947-09-23
Hendrick
Continued From First Page =,

Yugoslav troops took up positions
along the new borders established
by the Italian peace treaty.
Pfc. Earl G. Hendrick. jr., lives at
1923 South Sixteenth street, Arling-
ton, Va.
A graduate Of Washington-Lee
High School and a premedical STU
dent at George Washington Uni
versity, he entered the Army on his
18th birthday. August 81. 1916, and
trained for several months at Fort
Belvoir
His parents live at the Arlington
address. His father is special as
sistant to the director Of claims
for the Disabled American Veterans.
The elder Hendrick was with the
10th Field Artillery in World War I.
Evening star., 1947-09-23
tem-by-Item Survey
Planned for Europe S
n-BiI|ion Aid Plea
by the Associated prsx.

A. searching American scrutiny
awaits Western Europe's esti-
mate it must have some $22r
440, 100000 worth of help, largely
from the United States, in the
next four years to get back on its
feet.
State Department officials said
today the report of the 16-nation
Paris conference which drafted the
so-called Marshall plan estimate
will be studied item by item before
any request for actual funds is SUBJ
mitted 20 Congress.
There, too, the figures are due
for sharp examination.
Representative Chenowith. Re-
publican, of Colorado, a member of
the potent Rules Committee which
must clear all legislation before IL
can reach the House floor, told a
reporter the whole report will be
gone over with fine tooth comb. ;"
Dirksen Predicts Quick Approval.
However, a prediction of speedy
approval came from Representative
Dirksen, Republican, Of Illinois,
chairman of the joint House Armed
Forces and Appropriations Commit
tee now touring Europe. Mr.. Dirk
sen said in an interview at Munich
yesterday he. expects special Ses-
sion OF Congress to okay the project.
There has been virtually no talk
here of a special session to consider
the long-range aid program. Presi-
dent Truman is, however, pondering
whether to summon the lawmakers
into emergency session to consider
stop-gap help.
In fact, the full Marshall plan re-
port has not yet arrived in Wash
ington.
Findings Due Here Soon.
The voluminous findings of The
Paris conference which drafted the
recovery blueprint at Secretary of
State Marshalps suggestion is cue
to arrive by air courier late today Or
tomorrow. The overall calculation
of needs, along with proposed Euro
pean self-help measures, was sub
mitted in an official summary made
public yesterday.
This suggested that the "Ameri-
can continent" should supply in
loans and grants some $19,330, ,000,-
600 and assumed" the remaining
S3,110,000,000 for machinery and
other capital equipment would be
financed by the World Bank.
The American first year share
was put at $7,12o, 900 900, diminish
ing year by year to $4,000, ,000, 900 in
1851.
BY comparison, this country's
foreign aid spending in all forms
during 1916 and 1947 has been esti-
mated at about $4,000, 900, 900 year.
State Department Silent.
While the State Department was
officially silent, authorities left little
doubt that the administration ex-
poets to ask Congress for substant-
tally less than $7,120,000,000 for
European aid next year.
President Truman already has
made a bid for Latin America to-
share the burden. In his adress to
the Inter-American Defense Con-
ference at Rio de Janeiro, he re-
ferred to economic aid for war
devastated Europe as "our collective
responsibility" .,e
Just what proposals may be made
to such exporting nations as Argen-
tina and Brazil, and to Canada, will
be decided, officials said, after the
European estimates are placed
along side those supplied by Secre-
tary of Commerce Harriman's COM
nittee studying American ability to
meet further foreign demands.
Evening star., 1947-09-23

000, ,000, 900 more than was actually
needed to win the war"
This appropriation has been can
celled, he added, "but certainly we
should be willing to spend part OF
that to win the peace"
Evening star., 1947-09-23
Dr.. White to Give Talk

pr. Charles E. White, dean of
science at the University of Mary
land, will speak on atomic Energy"
before the Silver Spring Rotary Club
at 1890 pm. tomorrow at the In
dian Springs Country Club.