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Broadcast by Nagy .Approved After Study By State- Department •y th« Associated Pros* Ferenc Nagy, former Hungarian Premier, got the unprecedented right to use the official Unitde States radio to urge a boycott of Hungary’s coming elections only after careful State Department study, it was learned yesterday. Mr. Nagy, forced out by a Com munist coup, appealed to his coun trymen In a "Voice of America” broadcast Friday night to fight "in ternational Communism” through an international coalition of demo crats. Officials in charge of the radio program said Mr. Nagy made his request to use the official Govern ment radio channel “some time ago.” It was referred to State Department policy makers for a yes or no answer. Permission was granted, officials said, presumably because Mr. Nagy’s boycott appeal conformed with this country’s own protest against the plans for hungary’s election. Allowing Mr. Nagy to use the fa cilities constituted a departure from past practice of confining the broad cast to expressions of the United States viewpoint by American alone. The decision raised the possibility of similar requests from other exiled leaders, for example, those opposed W- MK, JJI cocuo X UllOii guvciumcill. The “Voice of America” officials said, however, that any such re quests would be handled on an in dividual basis and be referred to the Department's policy making branch. In his broadcast Mr. Nagy called on "Hungarian patriots" to battle against international Communism by joining with leaders of “other forcibly dissolved peasant parties of Southeastern Europe." UAW Council Backs Plea For Senate Steel Probe By the Associated Press OSHKOSH, Wis., Aug. 16.—A quarterly meeting of the CIO United J Auto Workers’ National Gear, Axle! and Transmission Wage and Hour Council went on record today back ing the request of Walter Reuther, international UAW president, that the Senate Small Business Commit tee investigate an alleged “bottle neck" in the steel industry. The resolution claimed the “bottle neck” was due to manufacturers’ refusal to expand facilities, result ing in shortages in the transporta tion industry affecting automobiles, trucks and railroads. It was con tended these facilities can not now transport necessary commodities to the public in sufficient volume. The group also went on record opposing the Taft-Hartley Labor Act, claiming it created “slave labor.” The council represented 18 locals claiming a total membership of 60,000 to 80,000. Patrick H. Mack, 95, Dies; Famous for Oil Patents By the Associated Press BRADFORD, Pa., Aug. 16.—Pat rick H. Mack, 96-year-old oil pioneer who began his career as a railroad machinist and whose patents are used in most major oil fields throughout the world, died last night at his home here. Mr. Mack—known as “Patsy” to hundreds of oilmen in the United ..._U._ _ A- V XT X U UU WU nnu l/VX XX AAV 1 * VJ , X » l X ■, XXX 1852. He worked in railroad shops at Corry, Pa., and Oil City, Pa., as a youth and about 60 years ago went to Bradford, where he was hired by the Oil Well Supply Co. Mr. Mack soon developed new pieces of equipment for drilling and ‘'flshi-' Within a short time he was made superintendent of the company’s Bradford shops, the posi tion he held when he retired about 12 years ago. Mrs. Peron Reaches Rio RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 16 0T>).— Mrs. Eva Duarte Peron, wife of Ar gentine President Juan D. Peron, arrived in Rio de Janeiro by plane today from Recife, Brazil. She is en route to Argentina after a Eu ropean tour. Bulgaria (Continued From First Page ") Gergov and Maj. Hadji Atanasov to 10 years, and Dimiter Ivanov to five years. Mr. Petkov received the verdict calmly. The foremost leader in the op position ranks, he was arrested on June 6 and placed on trial August 5. The United States denounced the arrest and declared that Bulgaria itself would be on trial before the bar of world opinion. Six days after Mr. Petkov. was placed in jail the Communists ousted 23 members of his party from the National Assembly, charging they were “tools” of their jailed leader. He pleaded Innocent to the charge. On the witness stand he declared dramatically in his behalf “Never have I thought to do any thing illegal against the State.” Apparently Expected Death. Petkov apparently realized he might be sentenced to death, for he told the court his father and brother were “murdered in the streets of Sofia as traitors, and I am ready to share their fate.” He told the court the Agrarian Party had as its principal aims “peace, order and the people’s rule.” He was a member of the first Fa therland Front government after the liberation from the Germans, but >e quit in September, 1945, declar ing it was under the complete domi nation of the Communists. "Since I left the Fatherland Front until I was arrested I worked for the co-operation of the agrarian union and the Communist Party,” he declared from the witness stand. He had termed his arrest as "nothing but a prolongation of what already had happened in Hungary.” He referred to the Communist ouster of Premeier Ferenc Nagy, who was accused also by Hungarian Commu nists of plotting against the govern ment. Signed 1944 Armistice. The prosecution charged Mr. Pet kov plotted actively to overthrow the regime and during the trial one witness, a former leader in the Agrarian Party, testified that Mr. Petkov instructed him to prepare Payments on your home are made easy by renting a room. Renting a room is made easy by advertising in The Star. Call National 5000. Open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. WALLINGFORD, PA.—CAPTURED GERMAN HELICOPTER TESTED—This German helicopter is being tested by the Prewitt Aircraft Co. to determine validity of claims that it has radical im provements in engineering and performance. Known as the Flettner 282, it has two intermeshing, contra-rotating, two-bladed rotors. Right rotor revolves clockwise; left one counterclockwise’ It climbs 300 feet per minute and has speed of 90 m.p.h. _AP Wlrephoto. cadres for an armed struggle against the government, to provoke armed foreign intervention and to incite sabotage. Mr. Petkov was a signer of the 1944 armistice with the allies. When he quit the Fatherland Front gov ernment he charged that the Com munist-controlled Ministry of In terior was waging a terror campaign against all its political opponents, beating and even killing them. In an election two months after he quit the government the Father land Front presented only one list of candidates—its own—and Mr. Petkov urged the Agrarians to boy cott the voting. Front Won 366 Seats. Another election was held October 27, 1946, and the Fatherland Front won 366 of the National Assembly’s seats. The opposition, Mr. Petkov’s Agrarians and the smaller Lulchev Socialists, got only 99. The premier of the present Bul garian government is Georgi Dimi trov, international Communist leader who once won acquittal in the Nazi Reichstag fire trial. The Communist Party’s newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo indicated yester day that the end of the Petkov trial would not mean any cessation In the drive against the Agrarians. “The opposition Agrarian Union must be dissolved because it is a nest of Fascist conspiracies," the newspaper declared. Soldier Admits Slaying Gulf Restaurant Owner By the Associated Press BILOX, Miss., Aug. 16.—Pvt. John Robert Tall, 18-year-old Keesler Field soldier, admitted in a signed: statement that he shot and killed! John Peter Rabito, Gulf Coast! restaurant operator, in a pre-dawn holdup August 2, Police Chief Louis Anglada said here today. Tall, a native of Columbia. Ohio, is being held at the Biloxi jail on charges of murder and armed robbery. Chief Anglada quoted Tall as saying that he and Noahson Walters, 24, and Mrs. Marjetta Walters, an ex-strip tease dancer, were at the Walters home that night when Walters "told his wife that we were going out and pull a job to rob somebody or someplace.” Tall was quoted further as saying the place decided upon was Mr. Rabito’s. Mr. Rabito was fatally shot resist ing the holdup and died the next day. Tall, Chief Anglada said, then left town on the advice of Walters after the latter had promised to pick him up in Mobile, 70 miles away, for a trip to Florida. Tall said he read in a Mobile newspaper that Walters had been arrested. He then continued to Columbus, where he was arrested by FBI agents. 4 Model Plane Builders Win Awards in Meet By th« Associated Press DETROIT, Aug. 16.—Four handy fellows in model airplane designing won the major prizes of the first international model plane contest at the Army’s Selfridge Field air base today. Two Michigan entrants, Edward Naudzius of Highland Park and Richard Tarjany of Wyandotte, captured the open and junior championships, respectively. W. Thomas, Jr., of Daytona Beach, Fla., won in the senior class and Jim Saftig of San Diego, Calif., was first in stunt flying. Four hundred contestants took part in the affair, sponsored by the Plymouth Division of Chrysler Corp. and the Michigan Aero Club. A total of 150 winners divided a prize bank of $6,000 and dozens of trophies. Georgia Sothern Causes Arrest Of Husband and Sally Rand *y th» At&ociattd Pren SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. 16 Fan Dancer Sally Rand and strip teaser Georgia Sothern are billed to appear here Monday in Police Court. Sally was summoned today to an swer a disorderly conduct charge brought by Georgia, who alleged that Sally and Sally’s manager—Geor gia’s husband—were together in a Springfield hotel room last night. Sally appeared here this week in a carnival sideshow at the Illinois State Fair. Her manager is Harry Finkelstein of New York City, hus band of Georgia, who currently is featured at a Cincinnati night club. Sally and Finkelstein, later freed on $500 bond each, were arrested by city detectives in Sally’s room after Georgia signed complaints and obtained warrants from Police Mag istrate William Conway. Mr. Conway said Georgia told him that she had listened at the door of Sally’s room and heard her husband and Sally "laughing and talking” inside. The police magistrate said he Is sued the warrants because, in some circumstances the presence of a man in a woman’s hotel room can con stitute disorderly conduct. Sally told a reporter that there was no unseemly conduct involved in Finkelstein’s presence in her room. He was there, she said, to give her medicine prescribed by her physician for heat exhaustion which forced cancellation of her show Wednesday. Magistrate Conway said Georgia told him she had not seen her hus band since he joined the Sally Rand show about three months ago. Fight on Bryan Statue May Be Taken to Court By th« Associated Prut LINCOLN. Nebr., Aug. ^.--For mer Gov. Sam R. McKelvie said today he will seek a court restrain ing order if necessary to prevent placing of a statue of William Jen nings Bryan at the main entrance to the Nebraska statehouse. "I hadn’t heard a peep about this monstrous proposition until re cently,” Mr. McKelvie, who was chairman of the original commis sion which planned the State build ing, said. “If I had realized what an outrage was afoot I surely would have spoken up long ago.” Bryan, known as the "silver tongued orator of the Platte” in his days of public service, was a presi dential candidate three times and served as Secretary of State. He died 22 years ago. Mr. McKelvie recalled that the capitol planning commission “felt it was not even well to put the statue of Abraham Lincoln” before the main entrance of the state house. He said he agreed with several architects who contend a statue placed before the main entrance would be "architecturally unwise.” Firemen s Brotherhood Renames District Man By the Auociated Press SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16.—Carl J. Goff of Birmingham, Ala., today retained the No. 2 post in the Bro therhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen—that of assistant president—against a challenge by W. B. Woodward, Jr. of Philadelphia. The International Convention yesterday chose D. B. Robertson of Cleveland as president. He is now in his twenty-sixth year in the post. W. E. Jones of San Francisco was re-elected by acclamation as gen eral secretary and treasurer; Ray Scott of Huntington, W. Va„ defeat ed Robert L. Lemn of Alexandria, Va., for editor-manager of the union magazine. Jonas A. McBride of Washington, was re-elected vice president and national legislative representative. About 1,000 delegates are attend ing the organization’s first conven tion in six years. Next week some 13 vice presidents and a board of directors will be chosen and the 1948 convention city named. Newman Cruise Tonight The Newman Club of George Washington University will sponsor a cruise at 8:30 o’clock tonight from the Seventh street wharf on the S. S. Potomac. Government Reports Cost Of Electricity Declining fty the Associated Press The Government took a look at the Nation’s light bill yesterday and figured that the price of electricity in homes and stores is one thing that hasn’t gone up. Residential and commercial users paid less for electricity in 1946 than in 1945—continuing a general trend that has been apparent for years, the Federal Power Commission re ported. The commission said that bills for industrial consumers of power have shown a tendency to increase. It did its meter reading in 204 cities with 50,000 or more residents and a total population of some 46,000,000. The commission said that in 100 of the cities there were reductions last year in typical bills for residen tial service. It reported increases in 13, with offsetting decreases in some categories in eight of the 13. The commission puts the average residential consumption at 100 kilo watt hours a month. The bill for that amount as of last January 1 ranged from $1.70 in Tacoma, Wash., to $5.10 in Mount Vernon, New Ro chelle and Yonkers, N. Y. 2 District Men Named To 83d Division Posts •y tht Associated Press CLEVELAND, Aug, 16.—Joseph C. Hanrahan, former military gov ernor of Naples, was elected presi dent today of the newly-formed 83rd Division Association of World War n. Mr. Hanrahan is a resident of nearby Berea and is vice president and general manager of Scrlpps Howard Radio, Inc. Sgt. William Haynes, of Wash ington, was named first vice presi dent; William Schuman, of Waynes boro, Pa., second vice president; Ralph Neppel, of Glidden, Iowa, third vice president; Julius Ansel, of Boston, secretary, and Lt. Col. George Rhyne, of Washington, sec retary-treasurer. . Bergman and Olivier Head List of Awards Sy th* Associated Press NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—The "Don aldson awards,” nearest equivalent in the New York theater of Holly wood’s "Oscars,” tonight were an nounced by Billboard Magazine, which annually polls more than 3,000 workers in the legitimate the ater to determine their choices in the various “best” classifications. Heading the 37 categories, Ingrid Bergman and Laurence Olivier were named the best actress and actor of the 1946-47 season. Miss Bergman won her laurel be cause of her performance earlier this year in Maxwell Anderson’s “Joan of Lorraine”; Sir Laurence Olivier, knighted by the King of England for his acting accomplish ments, was the choice of the theat rical workers because of his per formance in Sophocles’ "Oedipus,” presented last year during a reper tory season when the Old Vic play ers of London visited the Century Theater here. Arthur Miller’s drama, "All My Sons,” which also won this year’s drama critics’ award, was elected best play of the 1946-47 season, and “No Exit,” by Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existentialist, was voted best “first play.” In the musical division, “Finian’s Rainbow” was chosen best and its book by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy was named the top script Ethel Merman, to no one’s sur prise, was tabbed the best musical comedy actress for her spoofing in “Annie Get Your Gun.” Irving Berlin’s score for the same produc tion was selected as the best merger of music and lyrics. 'Thunderbolt' Division Elects 2 District Men ly th. Associated Press CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—George Hal trin, New York, today was elected president of the 11th Armored Divi sion Association at the conclusion of the first reunion of the famed “Thunderbolt” Division. Mr. Haltrin succeeds Ted Cronyn of New York. Other officers named were W. A. Holbrook, jr„ Washing ton, vice president, and Morris Stolar, Washington secretary treas urer. Approximately 700 persons at tended the three-day meeting. The next convention will be held in New York. Gold is mined near Johannesburg in Africa at depths of 9,000 feet. FURNITURE NEWS The Hearth Co. FEATURING A Great Sale OP Home Furnishings Living Room, Dining Room, Bedroom Suites HOLLYWOOD AND SOFA BEDS COMFORTABLE CHAIRS Outstattding Specials $29.00—$39.00 ATTRACTIVE MODERN ALSO PERIOD Lawson Tvmn per hairs Luxurious, Cushioned. 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