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DULLES MAY TAKE PART IN PARLEY WASHINGTON. March 19—(U.R)— "foster Dulles, Gov. Thomas npwey's adviser on foreign af F U 'mav participate indirectly falI"hP San" Francisco security con |r'r*nce next month, it was learned it Was understood, may the parley in the capacity of t° ‘°ide to Sen. Arthur Vanden an ,a r Mich., a member of the berg' , 'united States delegation. Vandenberg has told reporters . , he has not determined who o nrcompany him but it was re "-l!, , he wanted an adviser with P°j 1 experience. Dulles is both lawyer and an expert on foreign a, L,s and it is known that Van genberg holds him in the highest ^During the last campaign, Dulles Dewey’s adviser was in con *s , iouch with the then secretary f stale Cordell Hull on the pre action of the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, which will form the bas [. of the San Francisco discus 51 Vandenberg has conferred with n„ncs several times since the Flection and has filed with the State Department proposals for ela borating the Dumbarton Oaks ag ^The^Michigan Senator said his amendments, in general, advanced hjs oft-made recommendations lhat the proposed new league of nations should have power to re view political decisions made dur nig the war. y_ OLD TAX RECEIPT PROVES PUZZLER The New Hanover County Com missioners briefly constituted them selves a board ot handwriting-ex perts yesterday afternoon in an at tempt to fix the validity of a 12 vear old back-tax receipt present ed for their inspection by B. C. Watts, of Sunset Parx. After 15 minutes’ peering, they owned them selves stumped by the signature iniaals on the unorthodox docu ment, which Watts said had been given him by an unidentified clerk in pre-consolidated tax-office days as clearance on a real estate pur chase. A further investigation was ordered. A short discussion of the feasi bility of equipping the consolidat ed Board of Health clinic to handle pneumo-thorax treatment of indi gent victims of pulmonary tuber culosis was initiated by Commis sioner Louis J. Coleman. This topic arose in connection with a vote to reimburse Dr. R. B. Rod man, surgeon currently charged with administering such treatment to County patients. Board opinion was that no change would be prac tical at present. The Commissoners also moved to grant permission to the R. and S. Amusement company to install its “rides”—including a merry-go round and a Ferris wheel—on the outskirts of the American Legion field and to authorize Alcohol Beverage Control officials to do nate potable confiscated liquors to hospitals and other institutions. A stirring five-minute address on several unidentified topics was de livered before the Board by Kings ley Lee King, suburban resident.„ -V Pan-American Airways Planning U. S. Routes WASHINGTON, March 19.—(U.R) ~?an American Airway handed a new problem today to domestic anlines and givernment agencies trying to break its strong hold on overseas air commerce. The big international airline ap plied to the Civil Aeronautics board for 12.738 miles of routes within the United States. The routes would cut deeply into markets of the domestic lines which want fo extend their routes overseas. Declaring that it proposed to kring air travel rates “within the range of the average man for the f-st time.” Pan American said frst domestic routes would be served in part by 148 and 204 pas ser aircraft. GOP Press Director’s Disappearance Probed Washington. March 19.—<u.r) “-Police today were investigating ':e disappearance of Leland L. tnesley. acting publicity director ® . the Republican National com tt'itiee. whose clothes were found Mne days ago on a bridge across Potomac. A note in the clothing requested Mat the finder “please notify” ^rs- Chesley. Police said the case as turned over to the detective eau because “it appeared the c n'rig Was left to mislead po lice. ' Jo 'rac, of the body has been | » --V "e teeth of the wolf agree in ei'y structural detail with those ^domesticated dogs. The Jewel Box GIFT SHOP Wilmington’* Only Downstairs Store I Headquarters For FINE gifts Come In and Make Your Selections! located Downstairs THE jewel box 199 North Front St Bkl fI _Miles o Too| yC05St Seo of Japan *• w Ai Base* I r»4&ffly*% ® Naval Base*] I Acquisition by the United States of air bases within B-29 range of Japan put the enemy homeland’s Six major war production cities sadly out of luck As map above shows, they are clustered fairly close together, so that more than one of them can be smashed on a 6ingle mission. STIMSON URGES NURSES’ UT WASHINGTON, March 19—(U.R)— Secretary of War Henry I,. Stim son today urged prompt enact ment of nurse-draft legislation. He said “the wounded cannot wait.” Stimson advised the Senate Mili tary Affairs committee, beginning hearings on the House-passed nurse draft bill, that “a serious shortage” of military nurses ex ists “now.” His plea was contained in a letter to Committee Chairman El bert D. Thomas, D., Utah. It was presented by Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, first witness at the hearings. Under the House bill, virtually every unmarried nurse age 20 through. 44 would be drafted for military service. Nurses married after March 15—a deadline estab lished by the House—alsb would be called. Stimson and Patterson said that unless the bill is enacted the Army would still be short 9,000 nurses on June 1. Delay now, he said, “may result in tragedy to thousands of wounded soldiers.” More than 5,000 nurses joined the Army Nurse Corp after Presi dent Roosevelt’s January plea for a draft, but the volume of appli cations “is now almost down to the inadequate number that pre vailed in 1944,” Patterson said. --V COLOMBIAN DIES BOGOTA, Colombia, March 19— (IP)—Alfonso Villegas Restrepo, 61, founder in 1911 of the newspaper El Tiempo and attorney in Colom bia for several American oil com panies, died today. He was a broth er-in-law of former President Edu ardo Santos. J i i ii i Onslow Merchant Held In Slaying Of Marine JACKSONVILLE, March 19.—A coroner’s jury today found that Cpl. James Thomas Shaw, 24, U. S. M. C., who was reported to have been fatally shot Saturday night by John A. Meadows, formerly of Farmville,” came to his death from gunshot wounds and was shot from the hands of Meadows,” Coroner Timons Jones of Onslow county disclosed. It was recom mended at the inquest that Mea dows be held for grand jury in vestigation. Meadows, a Jacksonville mer chant, was released under bond of $2,500, it was reported. The case will be set for the May term of Superior court. Four Marines, said to have been with Shaw when the shooting oc cured, testified at the inquest that they were taking a short-cut across the property of Meadows’ on their way to the bus station in Jack sonville, Coroner Jones said. They said they were celebrating St. Patrick’s eve, admitting that they had been drinking beer, the coro ner disclosed. Four of the Marines were Irish, while the fifth was Chinese. The witnesses told how they were accosted by Meadows on his back porch, who ordered them off his property, the coroner said. The Marines testified that they did not realize they were on pri vate property. According to the witnesses, they started to leave, single file, for it was dark and they were walking with caution, they said, when two shots were fired from the porch. One of the Marines as hit, and the witnesses told how they dragged him ‘‘from the line of fire” to the street, while a third went to summon police. Meadows did not testify today, but previous had told Sheriff Frank Morton that he was not at home when tne Marines entered his yard, and that his wife had called him to get the boys to leave. It was reported that Meadows had told the sheriff that when he order ed the Marines to leave the yard, one of them cursed him. It was at this time that he went to gei his gun, he said. Meadows also related that he did not fire until one of the men started toward him, it was said. Coroner Jones said that there were no powder burns on Shaw, and that there was a two-inch hole in the screen door and another in the yard. Shaw was struck ir the lower abdomen. Coroner Jones said. He was taken to the Naval hospital at Camp Lejeune, where he died 20 minutes later. The other Marines reported to have been with Shaw are Pfc. Charles J. Dwyer. Pfc. James D, Huxford, Pfc. J. R. Kirsaw, Jr., and Pvt. Pa Fu Chin, all of Camp Lejeune. ——-v GOOD STOMACH HELPS MIDLAND, Mich., March 18. - (U.R)— Seventeen-month-old Freder ick Augdahl has queer tastes for a baby, but evidently a good stom ach. Frederick recently drank some shampoo and followed it the next morning by eating some dra no. Neither proved of serious con sequence. The chow is a Chinese breed of the Eskimo group. POPE PIUS ASKS FOR JUST PEACE VATICAN CITY, March 19—(U.R) —The three great leaders of the world had before them today an appeal by Pope Pius to show fore bearance and understanding in forming a peace generous to all peoples in the light of their tra gic war sufferings. Never before have the sufferings of the peoples given them a great er right to benevolent considera tion, the Pontiff said a speech yes terday from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. An estimated 50,000 persons, in-1 j eluding thousands of American soldiers who jammed the square, broke tradition repeatedly to in terrupt the Pope and shout ac claim when he referred to the com ing peace. The applause was long when he implored all the people of the wor ld to pray to the “Almighty, who pardons all, so that he may aid suffering humanity and put an end to this horrible catastrophe and bring about a just and lasting peace.’” In his message, which was divid ed equally between political and moral considerations, the Pope also assailed war profiteers, particular ly blackmarket operators whose hands are “stained with the blood of widows and orphans.” The Pontiff’s speech was based primarily on the responsibility of victorious leaders to the entire world. “The reconciliation of the peo ples cannot have a guarantee of stability unless it is accomplished with loyalty and spiritual genero sity,” he said. ‘‘We cannot suppose that after so many unhappy events, there could be anyone capable of suc cumbing to the temptation of ex ploiting things to their own ad vantage, contrary to .he laws of justice and the organization of peace.” The security of the world can not be ensured without justice and liberty, he said, adding “6od will help those who in this great hour think they hold the reuins of des tiny.” -V AMNESTY GRANTED TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras—(W —Many students and military men who abandoned Honduras after un successfully seeking to overthrow the government are returning un der an amnesty granted by Presi dent Tiburcio Carias Andino, who personally is paying the plane pas sages of many. -V New York City now ranks first as the diamond-cutting center of the world. YOUTH WILL FACE ASSAULT CHARGES The case of Ernest Brooks. Jr.. 15, Negro, of 901 Queen street, charged with criminal assault and burglary was bound over to Super ior court yesterday in Recorder's court. Brooks was accused of breaking into the home of a 28-year-old mother in the city on December 18 of last year, and criminally attacking her. Police said that Brooks entered the house by use of a common house key. threaten ed the woman and her seven-year old daughter with a knife, attack ed the woman and left when "he young girl started to cry. Brooks was apprehended December 22 at Tenth and Queen streets, and was being held without bond. The case of Alfred Brown, Ne gro, of 516 1-2 Campbell street, charged with larceny and receiv ing and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, was continued until March 28. He was accused of taking $9.40 from John Ander» of Long Creek. 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Then Reddy loses his happy dis position and like a thunder bolt, he’ll lash out with a kick that will set you back on your heels. “Just a reminder”, he says. Reddy knows what a frayed cord or loose wires can do. Spring housecleaning is just around the corner. Make it your job to check your appliances for loosened screws, foreign objects that have made their way into hidden crevices- The more care you give your appliances, the fewer trips to the repair man or calls for service. Reddy doesn’t like to remind you with a shock from his magnet ic finger tips. You will check up, won’t you? Let Reddy keep on giving that fine efficient service — he’s always there wherever you turn! ★ ★ ★ ★ I Tide Water Power Co. !--i-* -—1 NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 100th Annual Statement to its Policyholders The company will be one hundred years old on April 12, 1945. Since beginning business in 1843, it has paid to policyholders and beneficiaries over $6,000,000,600. As it ••mpletes its first century, the Company has in force its greatest amount of life insurance. Our centennial, while significant in the history of the Com pany, comes at an especially significant time in the history of the nation. The war, with the additional duties and respon sibilities it imposes upon all of us, has been a primary influ ence affecting the Company as an institution and also the officers, agents and employees individually. More than 1,970 members of the New York Life organization are now serving in the armed forces. Twenty-two have already lost their lives in the service of their country. Although there have been five wars during the 100 years since 1845, the past century has been a period of great devel opment for the country. Through all those years, the New York Life has played its part in the nation’s social and eco nomic growth. As the Company emerges from its first cen tury, it reaffirms its faith in the stability of our fundamental American institutions. Foremost of these institutions is the family. With it goes the family’s freedom to participate in the nation’s progress towards a better civilization, and the right to protect the fruits of hard work and perseverance. In America and Canada, where we live, this freedom to participate, and the right to protect, is assured by our representative form of government. It has enabled us to attain our present high standards of living and family security. But while our form of government can assure this freedom of opportunity, it is the responsibility of the individual family to avail itself of that opportunity by constant effort and savings. Freedom of opportunity and in dividual effort mu6t be inseparable if we wish to maintain security and insure progress. Under the circumstances, it is natural that fife insurance as an institution should have had such a remarkable development and should have become so increasingly important during the past one hundred years. Through life insurance, New York Life policyholders erect the fortifications of security for their families and for them selves. But not only do the funds of this Company improve and protect the financial position of the individual family; they are at the same time acting in the service of the country as a whole. Before life insurance fun^s go back from the Company to policyholders or beneficiaries in accordance with the terms of the policy contracts, those funds become avail able for employment in the economic life of the people in the form of investments or loans. In normal years they help finance the pursuits of peace. In war years they help in win ning the war. Indeed, over 54 per cent of all the Company’s assets are now invested in United Slates Government securi ties helping to finance the war. The growth and development of the Company during the past half-century are illustrated by these iuteresting com parisons: Payments to Policy- 1894 1919 1941 holders and Beneficiaries.. §13,665,003 $116,174,621 $132,029,316 Number of Policies Outstanding. 277,600 1,456,194 3,292.584 Insurance in Force.. $813,294,160 §3,127,920,086 $7,644,703,430 Assets....,.$162,011,770 §961,022,120 $3,570,738,940 j Throughout the years, the Company has recognized that the confidence of its policyholders must be based on a strong foundation of security. Prior to 1899 the Company assumed that it would earn in excess of 4 per cent on highest grade investments and it had been using a 4 per cent interest factor for life insurance premium calculations. However, in 1899, in view of decreased investment yields, the Company adopted a 3 per cent rate for new policies. This change added to an important element of safety behind the Company’s future contracts. During the past year, because of the still low'er yields which now prevail, the Company has again strengthened its reserve basis by changing its interest rate assumption for new policies from 3 per cent to 2J/2 per cent. As we come to the end of our first century, we look hack on a long life of service to the greatest of American institutions, the family. And as we enter Our second century, we look for ward to the opportunity in the years to come of even greater service to the family and the nation. STATEMENT OF CONDITION December 31, 1944 ! A3Sb 1 a Cash on hand or in banks.... $38,387,783.54 Bonds: United States \ Government Obligations. $1,939,104,821.00 J State, County I and Municipal. 60,843,275.00 f Railroad. 271,880,886.00 \ o ?86 704 388 00 Public Utility. 339,229,311.00 / ’ Industrial and 1 Miscellaneous... 70,120,079.00 l Canadian. 105,524,016.00 J Stocks, preferred and guaranteed . ... . .. 71,985,551.00 First Mortgages on Real Estate... 393,255,289.57 Policy Loans and Premium Notes.. .. 188,185,417.76 Real Estate: Home Office. $11,927,693,00 1 Other Home Office I Properties. 1,066,244.78 ( Foreclosed Properties under / 35,976,144.08 Contract of sale. 3,642,692.93 I Other Foreclosed 1 Properties. 19,339,513.37 J Interest and Rents due and accrued... 24,123,580.78 Deferred and uncollected Bremiums (net)...... 30,692,338.50 Other Assets..... 1,428,447.51 $3,570,738,940.74 Of the Securities listed in the above statement, Securities valued at $47,866,889.00 are deposited with Government or State authorities as required by law. LIABILITIES Reserve for Insurance and Annuity Contracts: Computed at 3% interest.. . $712,543,012.00 1 Computed at 2%% or ' $2,301,332,010.00 lower interest. 2,091,838,998.00 j Present value of amounts not yet due on Supplementary Contracts. 269,919,967.00 Reserve for Dividends left with the Company. 164,120,985.30 Dividends payable during 1945 . 36,070,951.00 Premiums paid in advance. 25,434,168.51 Reserve for fluctuations in Foreign Currencies*. 42100,000.00 Reserve for other Insurance Liabilities. 22,302,871.38 Estimated amount due or accrued for Taxes.... 7,782,937.30 Miscellaneous Liabihties. 5,617,727.97 TOTAL LIABILITIES. $3,339,831,618.46 Surplus Funds held for general ; contingencies. 230,857,322.28 $3,570,738,940.74 *Tbis Reserve is held chiefly against the difference between Canadian currency Assets and Liabilities which are carried at par. A more complete report at of December HI, 1944, containing additional statistical and other in formation of interest about the Company, will be sent upon request. A list of bonds and preferred and guaranteed stocks owned by the Com pan v is also avail- i able. These booklets may be obtained by writing to the Acto York Life Insurance Company, hi Slndison Avenue, ,\ew ) urk 10, X. Y. This Company has always l>een mutual and is incorporated under the laws of the State of \ew ) urk. 'The Statement of Condition shown above is in accordance with the Annual Statement filed with the Aeu York State Insurance Department. , . . ' —.- ..—■■■■■■-- >
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