VETERANS WIVES
TO RECEIVE AID
Robert S. Matthews, Jr., Wil
mington contact representative,
Veterans’ administration, explain
ed yesterday that the wives of ex
service men are eligible for medical
and hospital maternity care, with
certain restrictions.
Following recommendation of
congress, the Children’s bureau,
U. S. Department of Labor, has
informed the VA of liberalization
of maternity care for families of
eligible World War II veterans,
Matthews said.
The wife of an ex-serviceman
may apply for natal and pre-natal
care for herself and child, pro
vided her husband was in the
fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh pay
grades, or an aviation cadet dur
ing any period of her pregnancy,
he said. Matthews further ex
plained that the care is given
whether the father has been pro
moted, is a prisoner of war, or is
listed as missing in action, or
dead.
State health departments who
administer this program are now
accepting applications for care
from eligible ^yives. No applicant,
he explained, will be considered
whose husband has been dishonor
ably discharged.
Upon acceptance of an applica
tion, care is provided for the wife
through the pre-natal period and
for the baby until its first birthday,
regardless of any change in the
status of the mother and father,
the program provides.
Applications for care may be
received from physicians accept
ing cases or from local or state
health departments. All inquiries
here should be addressed to the
State Health Denartment, Raleigh,
Matthews explained.
COMMUNISTS LAY
PLANS ON TABLE
(Continued from Page One)
to China, was increasing interest
in the forthcoming peace talks by
the political consultative council.
Since his arrival last Saturday,
Marshall has talked with repre
sentatives of the government, the
Communist parfy and the Demo
cratic League and is believed to
have a good idea of their posi
tions.
In his fact-finding mission, on
which he will base recommenda
tions to President Truman, Mar
shall has shown himself to be ac
cessible to persons of all shades of
opinion.
Davis said there were unofficial
reports that Marshall would visit
Peiping in a quick tour of troubled
North China.
TAX LIEN FILED
DURHAM, Dec. 27. — (JP) - The
United States Department of In
ternal Revenue today • filed tax '
liens against R. M. Kinton, local
jeweler, and Kinton’s, Inc., foi* a ;
total of $395,697.81, alleged to be
due the Federal government in un- :
paid taxes and penalties over a
period of years. __'
RESCUE WORKERS
REDOUBLE EFFORT
(Continued from Page One)
sibility persisted that continuing
firee might frustrate all rescue ef
forts and compel the sealing of
the mine—with the bodies in it.
So iar, the rescuers had extinguish
ed 11 fires and billowing, sticky
brown smoke heralded more fires,
farther ahead. Late this afternoon,
the rescuers still were only a little
more than half way toward the end
of the long, sloping tunnel.
Only a few of the bent women and
shallow-faced children maintain
ing sorrowful vigil around the tip
ple clung to the thin hope that
events would prove they were not
newly made widows and orphans.
Tears coursed down the cheeks of
Mrs. Anna Mae Bain as she said:
“Jim will come out alive. He
simply has got to do that for me
and hjs children.”
sne is tne wire or miner jame
Bain, the step-mother of his fivi
children.
Elias Elliot, 30, so recently dis
charged from the Army he stil
wore his uniform, said: “What cai
we do but hope?’’ His brother-in
law was one of the entombed.
Every inch of forward progresi
revealed the force of the explo
sion and minimized the possibility
that any of the men survived it
The ventilating and electric powei
systems were wrecked. A series o:
intense fires smouldered in th(
veins of unmined coal. Shoring
vas splintered and tons of rock and
slate were dumped into the tunnel,
Water released from scores of sub
ierranean springs accumulated ir
pools through which the rescuers
vaded to their knees. The tunnel
vails at some points were so hot
hey blistered the hand on touch,
jut the water was ice cold.
The air was foul, ladened with
smoke and carbon monoxide. All
■escue workers, laboring in crews
>f 20, had to wear masks. Air
lipes were extended as they pro
tressed, but the hissing streams
jumped through them from the
lurface, did pathetically little.
Floyd Rhodes, one of the work
irs, expressed the most discourag
ng fact.
"It’s obvious that we haven’t yet
■eached the center point of the
ixplosion,” he said.
W. E. Lewis, operator of the
nine, said “those men know every
nch ol the mine and how to barri
:ade themselves off against gas
hat is if the explosion didn’t get
hem.’’
The mine is at Four Mile, four
niles from here. The Pineville
ihurch people were keeping big
lots of coffee boiling ovfer camp
ires around the tipple for the res
ue workers and for the women
md children of the entombed,
^oads of sandwiches were periodi
ally sent from Pineville kitchens
a the scene.
Socony Plans8,000,000
Gallon Oil Plant Here
. 1
(Continued from Page One)
g
i still another is planned for Nor
f folk, Va.
Four Socony products—kerosene,
. light heating fuel, and two grades
y of gasoline—will be stored here.
Socony’s tanker fleet, operating be
' tween Texas ports and the Atlr.n
* tic cpast, will service the new
* terminal.
1 In confirming the company’s
new construction program officials
1 also brought the news that Socony
- is invading the southern states with
- its own name-brand products,
t which include Mobil gasoline.' At
t present Socony does not distribute
. its product under its own name
f south of Pennsylvania.
“Completion of the Wilmington,
, Norfolk, and Charleston facilities
, will place Socony in a position to
serve a large and growing area of
the southeast,'* Walker said.
® The official said Wilmington was
5 selected because of the excellent
port facilities and its proximity
' to a distribution area of several
* million population. He said Soc
1 ony’s tanker fleet, already one of
• the world’s largest, is being aug
mented with 6,000,000-gallon capa
5 city carriers. These tankers, draw
- ins 28 feet, will barely navigate
’ the Cape Fear with its present 30
. foot channel depth and consider
■ able dredging will be necessary to
I accommodate the new fleet.
> With the Socony company's new
; terminal the Wilmington area’s oil
I terminal capacity will be approxi
mately 92,000,000 gallons. The area
. already has the largest combined
i oil storage facilities in the south
! east, outranking Norfolk, Charles
ton, Savannah, and Jacksonville,
Fla. By way of comparison, it was
pointed out that Morehead City,
for example, only has a 3,000,000
gallon capacity.
In 1941, last normal year for oil
storage and transportation because
of the war, Wilmington’s port ac
commodated an average of one 5,
000,000-gallon capacity tanker per
day and one oil terminal here fill
ed 3,000 truck transports leaving
here for points upstate during the
year.
Basic terminalg-located here are
Atlantic Refining company, Cape
Fear Terminal company, National
Oil company, Shell Oil company,
Texas OL' company, and Standard
Oil company of New Jersey. The
Cape Fear terminal company
houses the facilities of the Pure
Oil company, the Gulf Refining
company, the Arkansas Fuel Oil
company, the Republic Oil com
pany, the American Oil company,
and Sinclair Refining company,
while National Oil shares its facili
ties with the Southeastern Oil com
pany.
Herbert Gerlach is operations
manager for the southeastern divi
sion of Socony and Henry Sharpe
is in Wilmington as field super
visor for the company.
BRITISH THROW
NOOSE OVER JAVA
(Continued from Page One)
sibility for disarming and repatriat
ing the Japanese, and rescuing
European and Eurasian prisoners
and internees.
"My troops,” he said, "have suf
fered daily Casualties at the hands
of terrorist and extremist organi
zations. These people have com
mitted the most horrible outrages.
. "I had hopes conditions might
improve, but they haven’t. I am
compelled to take more active
measures to insure order. I call
on Indonesian leaders to cooperate
and to make available, if possible,
such units of the Peace Preserva
tion Corps as I deem necessary.”
Meanwhile, large-scale fighting
flared again at Bandoeng. In one
sector of Java's summer capital
British Mahratta troops in six
hours of heavy house to house
fighting cleared an Extremist
training center. They found a well
organized defense system of trench
es, trip wires,' boobytraps, mines,
road blocks and snipers.
AT ALL COOD SHOE REPAIRERS
Coughs That
Cause Rustless
Sleepless Nights
Resulting from folds
But adults can't expect real results
♦««»I?2;h*..aamS. *we«t ayrupy concoc
tions that you'd give to a child. When
y°u want to throw Oft a bothersome
oough from a cold you've Just got to
SH®,* ret1 C0USh medicine: then you
should ask your druggist for a bottle
°*JSSr 1!d Bron-ehu-llne Emulsion.
Bron-chu-Une isn t a cheap cough
syrup mind you. for flrst-ralers are
never cheap. But If you want relief
and are willing to pay a llttla more
for rea,, results, get a bottle today
how the first dose takes
right hold and gives you real relief
r2J?e« ®hushing and soreness.
Don t Ignore a cough—get relief
as quick as you can. Ask any prog
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ron-chu-llne Emulsion and koep
i*!’? 15.0h?*"dr”J* "®t Joyfully satis
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VETERAN OFFICERS
HEAD NEW SHIFTS
One officer of each shift, all vet
erans in their own rights will be
in charge of the three eight-hour
shifts when the city police depart
ment goe» on the new schedule
January 1.
The officers in charge of the
three shifts are: assistant chief,
J. F. Jordan who wiU have charge
of the third shift operations. Jor
dan has had over thirty years with
the department having joined the
staff in 1909. His service has not
been consecutive however as he
has been reinstated twice. The
desk sergeant for this shift will
be Sgt. T. B. Hughes.
Lt. O. V. Thompson, the officer
in charge of first shift operations
das more than 22 years with the
department to his credit. His time
is not consecutive, naving been in
terrupted once. At the desk will
be Sgt. Phil J. Parish.
Lt. Coy Ethridge, officer in
charge of the second shift chalks
up a total of 15 years uninterrupted
service with the department. Desk
Sergeant for this shift will be Sgt.
L. B. Rourk.
The new schedule will begin at
8 o’clock on the mornnig of Janu
ary 1. The first shift will run
from 8 a- m. to,4 p. m., the second
shift from 4 p. m. to 12 midnight,
and the third shift from 12 mid
night to 8 a. m.
The bulletin issued yesterday
by Chief C. H. Casteeh, states that
officers will report ten minutes
prior to +heir tour of duty for roll
call, inspection and orders. Writ
ten reports are to be made after
the tour of duty, it waa learned.
Each officer will be allowed 30
minutes for lunch time during his
hours of duty, the bulletin stated.
: MINISTERS DRAFT
; ATOMIC BLUEPRINT
e ■
1 (Continued from Page One)
j on it, along with an American and
e Chinese member, and a fourth rep
yr resenting Britain, Australia, New
e Zealand and India.
I General Douglas MacArthur still
1 will play a dominant role as the
- American representative, council
, chairman, and "sole executive au
. thority for the Allied powers in
• Japan."
Russia also joins a revised Far
Eastern Commission, an 11-nation
3 Iranian question was discussed it
' length, that no final agreement
5 was reached, but that assurances
were repeated that British, Rus
sian and American troops would
be withdrawn from Iran by the
treaty date of March 2. Through
diplomatic channels, Bevin, dis
cussions on Iran will continue,
i Before he left Moscow, Byrnes
1 termed the meeting “veiy con
structive" from the standpoint of
agreements and the development
Ui VWXl*XCIX X viwUvllOi
Byrnes said there were no secret
| agreements beyond the scope of
the three-way communique. That
ruled out any decision to let Rus
sia in on the secrets of making
. atomic bombs.
The communique said discussion
of atomic energy dealt with the es
; tablishment Of a Control Cpmmis
i sion.
Plans were made for writing the
i final peace treaties for Italy, Ro
' mania, Bulgaria, Hungary and
Finland.
Foreign Ministers of the big
powers will draft the terms in the
first instance—Russia and Britain
for Finland, the U. S., Russia and
Britain for Romania and Bulgaria,
and the “Big Three” plus France
for Italy.
Then a conference of all the
United Nations which “actively
waged war with substantial force
against European enemy states"
will be called by May 1 to pass
upon the treaties. After that the
agency which' will consider policy
for governing Japan.
In addition, the Russian-spon
sored governments in Romania and
Bulgaria are to be recognized by
Britain and the tlnited States after
they have been broadened to in
elude representatives of addition
al political parties.
The communique omitted any
reference to conditions in Iran,
Turkey and Germany. But Bevin
told newsmen in Moscow that the
countries which signed the final
armistice terms with the former
Axis-Allied nations in question will
draw up the final texts.
The Moscow meeting agreed to
set up for Korea a provisional
"democratic government” and a
four-power, five-year trusteeship—
with "a view to the reestablish,
ment of Korea as an independent
state.”
The three Foreign Secretaries
reaffirmed adherence to a policy
of “non-interference” in the inter
nal affairs of China. And Byrnes
and Molotov said they were in
"complete accord as to the deslra
bllity of withdrawal of Soviet and
American forces from China at the
earliest practicable moment con
sistent with the discharge of their
obligations and responsibilities.”
The communique was released
simultaneously in Washington, Lon- 4
don and Moscova Most of its major
points had leaked out ahead of
time.
Cobalt blue, made of an oxide
of cobalt metal, ie the moat ex.
pensive color on most artist’ pal
sttes. jjl
PRESIDENT TRUMAN
PLANS TO RETURN
TO CAPITAL TODAY
(Continued from Page One)
Chief Executive included Mai. Gen.
Ralph Truman, his cousin, Mayor
Gage, of Kansas City, Jim Pender
gait, nephew of the late T. J. Pen
dergast, and a half-dozen memberr
of hii World War X outfit, Battery
D. He also had an opportunity to
talk with Theodore Qu'nn, post
master from St. Joseph, Mo,, long
among his close friends.
At the newspaper luncheon, the
guests included the President’s
brother, Vivian Truman; Thomas
Evans, Kansas City drug store and
radio executive; Ted Marks, Kan
sas City, who recently completed
a mission in China for the Chief
Executive; Col. Southern; and Roy
Roberts, managing editor of the
i xvansas uiy oiar.
Mr. Truman slipped away from
the press luncheon long enough
to put in an appearance at a Ro
tary Club luncheon, also at the Ho
tel Muehlebach, where he was in
troduced to sons and daughters of
Kansas City Rotarians by Presi
dent Cecil Bathurst and H. Roe
Bartle, Boy Scout executive.
After his luncheon, the President
retired to the hotel Penthouse for
a brief nap before returning to
Independence. He hoped to have
one more visit with his mother,
Mrs. Martha E. Truman, at Grand
view, before his return to Wash
ington.
He made it clear that he would
begin work at once on two major
public addresses. The first will be
his radio speech, the first week in
January, which will be an appeal
to the people in behalf of labor and
other legislative proposals he has
submitted Congress as part of an
overall administration post-war
program.
The second will be his formal
message to the new Congress on
the state of the nation.
White House officials have indi
cated that the latter may be broad,
cast by television if the President
delivers it 'n person.
delivers n m person.
UNIONSTHREATEN
TWO BIG STRIKES
(Continued from Page One)
Bell System companies using W,
E. equipment.
Joseph A. Beirne, ^president Of
the telephone worlaars^'aatd hifit
group would support the' W. E.
strike, Western Electric spokes
men,, however, said the company
“always welcome a resumption of
negotiations in the hope of reach
ing an accord." The union has
rejected a company offer of a 15
per cent wage increase.
In Detroit, the General Motors
announcement that it would be
represented at the fact-finding
board hearing, which resumes to
day, did not »tate whether or not
the company would continue its
participation in the government
study.
The giant corporation said it
would issue a formal statement at
the hearing regarding its position
"with respect to further proceed
ings of the board.”
The President’s board, which has
no statutory authority, was named
to inquire into* the strike which
has idled 175,000 workers for more
than a month in support of the CIO
United Auto Workers’ demand for
a 30 per cent wage rate increase.
During preliminary hearings, the
board—which had been offered the
cooperation of both GM and the
union—issued a statement which
said in part that its policy would
be that profits are relevant in a
dispute over wage increases. GM
has objeted to examination of its
prices and profits by the board.
Including the GM walkout, the
nation’s total of workers idle be
cause of labor disputes was ap
proximately 386,000.
OPERATING INCOME
OF ACL IN SLUMP
(Continued from Page One)
Operating income was $959,017 ir
November, 1945, $1,266,345 in Nov
ember, 1944, and $1,106,563 in Nov
ember, 1943. This income for*the
first 11 months of this /ear was
$10,214,832 as compared with $16,
144,244 in 1944 and $18,629,351 ir
1943.
The compdny paid $138,192 for
rent of equipment and joint facili
ties for the past November', $333,
066 for the period last year and
$199,219 in 1943. Total amount for
--;^**440
11' months in 1945 , I
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