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big katy owner
SEEKING MERGER
' MIAMA, Fla., Feb. 2.—(^P)—Ed
rd N. Claughton, one of the lar
w st stockholders in the Missouri
■ xansas-Texas (Katy) railroad to
, confirmed reports that he had
d cauired large common stock
holdings in the Chicago & Eastern
; jjjinois and Chicago & Great Wes
tern railroads, and that he intend
ed t0 work for a merger of the
three properties.
The combined assets of the prop
erties approximate $440,000,000. If
,hey were to be combined, a new
stem with some 5,500 miles of
track, tapping some of the richest
agricultural and mineral wealth of
the nation would result.
The Katy, with terminals at St.
Louis Kansas City, Mo., San An
; tonio and Galveston, traverses Mis
souri Texas, Oklahoma and a sec
I tion of Kansas. The C. & E. I.
operates between St. Louis and
Chicago and Chicago and Evans
ville Ind. The C. & G. W. links
Chicago with St. Louis and Min
neapolis, and with Omoha and Kan
“I have purchased a substantial
amount of C. & E. I. and C. & G.
common,” Claughton said,
“hoping that a merger agreement
may be worked out by stockhold
I ers with the approval of the inter
■ siate commerce commission and
the securities exchange commis
[ sion. Such matters proceed slow
; ly and usually at the instance of
Federal regulatory bodies.
“A group of stockholders of the
"Katy” have become stockholders
in the other roads. They feel that
at some future time a merger may
be effected which will be ’advant
ageous to all parties.”
s “cfaughton said that he could
( speak only for himself, and that he
had not discussed and did not
! know of discussions on the part of
others looking toward a merger.
He feels, however, that such is
the logical solution of a railroad
; problem which was emphasized
during the depression years when
quite a few roads went through
the financial wringer.
He said perhaps at some future
date the St. Louis-San Francisco
Railway cmpany might be a log
ical addition to the suggested con
solidation, "although it has no
place in the immediate program.”
CHINESE LEADERS
PLOTTING FUTURE
CHUNGKING, Feb. 2—W—'While
China celebrated her Lunar New
Year’s day today in the fresh air
of internal peace, her leaders work
ed on plans for the nation’s future.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
was in conference with Vice Adm.
Charles L. Cooke, Jr., commander
of the U. S. Seventh fleet. It was
reported they were discussing a
training program for China’s new
navy.
(Adm. Chow Shi-chang, chief of
the navy department, said in
Shanghai that 30 U. S. landing ships
for tanks had been given to China,
and that 30 more, along with eight
destroyers, mine-sweepers and sub
marine chasers were promised
soon. He said Britain also would
give China 13 naval vessels of vari
ous types.)
Negotiations are expected to be
gin within the next few days for
settlement of some questions left
unsolved by the political consul
tation (unity) conference which
closed Thursday.
Principal among these is the
number of ministries of the reor
ganized executive Yuan or cabinet
to be granted to non-members of
the Kuomintang, Chiang’s national
party.
Meetings of the cabinet originally
were scheduled to be held at Nan
king this month, but the transfer
of the capital from Chungking has
been postponed.
It is expected that the capital
will be formally re-established at
Nanking a few weeks before the all
Party national assembly meets
there May 5 to adopt a new consti
tution.
GIVES UP SON
SEATTLE, Feb. 1. —(P)— Ann
Cleo Cook, 20, signed a statement
today saying she was the mother
ot Seattle’s “John Doe Child,” and
announced that she had decided to
give up her son for adoption^
Police Capt. James Moore stated.
The girl was reunited with son,
19-month-old Billy Boy Weaver,
last night after she was found
working as a waitress in a Fort
Lewis restaurant. She abandoned
him in a hotel restroom eight days
ago.
WEATHER
(Continued from Page One-)
WASMNGTON, Feb. 2. —(JP)—Weather
rl: -,aL’ report of temperature and rain
•r toe 34 hours ending 8 p.m. in the
where^ eotton growing areas and else
8t*tl0tl High Low Free.
Ashev'Ue-45 33 0.00
Piii'rL,-54 32 0.00
Birmingham- 60 26 0.00
feton --- 4g 22 0.00
n 80 ,- 22 10 0.00
Cincinnati-45 28 0.00
fever- 57 23 0.00
feroit-21 15 0.00
G°?h Worth- 65 31 0.00
feveston- 58 47 0.00
Kn^ „Clty- 60 30 0.30
- 51 30 0.00
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jg^-=S 57 °o:°oS
Ss orssnzzzz O6? 2? °oZ
SJ*- 45 30 0.00
Ph?°!k, -- 52 31 0.00
pf.,idelPhia-45 28 0.00
Rich m8]1 —- 32 26 0.00
lehmond _-51 31 0.00
h Louis-58 27 0.00
Kr:? --« 5 !:S
"Sife,— £ £ S
4,300 JAPS RESCUED AT SEA
Passengers from the sinking Japanese repatriation ship Eno
shima Maru (right) are helped across gangplanks to the U. S.
Naval freighter Brevard which pulled alongside and rescued about
4,300 persons in 25 minutes Jan. 23 after the Jap ship hit a mine
and started going down 60 miles off the mouth of China’s Yangtze
river.__(AP Wirephoto).
ACL’s Office Buildings
Receiving ‘Face Lifting*
----- X.
Modernization Program Is
Expected To Be Com
pleted In Few Months
Atlantic Coast Line general of
fice buildings here are in the pro
cess of having their “faces lifted”.
The entire program to moder
nize the tum-of-the-century office
building will take a few months
yet for completion. Work was
commenced more than a year ago.
“We had hoped to complete this
program earlier,” C. McD. Davis,
president of the railroad, said,
‘but the war turned our efforts
to modernization of our roadway
and the addition of latest-type
diesel locomotives and stream
lined coaches and new freight
equipment. Now that materials
are being released we can pro
ceed with completion of our plans
at Wilmington.”
Work to be done Includes clean
ing and painting of exterior
masonry and painting interior of
buildings, laying of asphalt tile
floors, accoustical tile ceilings,
providing Venetian blinds, installa
tion of flourescent lighting, and re
placement of frame window sashes
with metal and weatherstripping.
Electric self-operating elevatogs
will replace the present hydraulic
type, and a central stokerized
heating plant will be installed.
Improvements to the telephone
system are now in progress.
In order to more conspicuously
mark the Coast Line group of
buildings, large emblems, repre
senting the trademark, will be
placed on the overhead bridge be
tween buildings “A” and “B” and
on the bridge connecting buildings
“B” and “C”. One sign will face
up Red Cross street and the other
up Front Street and will be visible
for several blocks. A small em
blem is now temporarily in place
on the overhead bridge connecting
buildings “A” and “B”.
Work in progress on the record
building at the foot of Red Cross
street includes repairing and water
proofing, also other exterior re
storation, which will be finished in
March. The contractor is the A.
C. Horn Corp., New York. This
building was constructed about
1Q15
The Shaw Paint and Wail Paper
Company, Inc., of Durham, is ex
pected to finish the cleaning and
painting of the passenger station
concourse next month. This struc
ture was erected in 1913.
“Building “A”, constructed be
fore the turn of the century, is
now being steam-cleaned by the
Guaranteed Waterproofing com
pany, Greensboro, and all exterior
work should be completed in
March. .. „ ,
B E. Widder, engineer of build
ings, who is in direct charge of all
the work, has asked for bids to
cleaning and painting up masonry
on buildings “B”.and C and
work should begin in a few weeks.
When this project is c°mPje‘®^
buildings “A”, “B” and C wiU
be in harmony as to color with
building “D”, which was com
pleted in January, 1945.
MAY POSTPONE PARLEY
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 2-01.91
Present diplomatic tension between
the United States and Argentina is
likely to result in a new postpone
ment of the conference of Ameri
can foreign ministers now tenta
tively scheduled to convene here
between March 15 and April 15,
authoritative Latin American dip
lomatic sources said tonight.
Special Allied aircraft, known
as “Ferrets,” packed full of elec
tronic equipment, were used dur
ing the war as aerial “spies” to
spot the enemy’s closely guarded
radar secrets. These paved the
way for bombing raids on enemy
strong points. <
Greensboro City Manager
Denies Portsmouth Offer
GREENSBORO, Feb. 2.—UH—
Henry A. Yaneey, Greensboro
City manager, tonight said he had
not received any offer from Ports
mouth, Va., officials to take the
city managership there.
Yancey declared that the report
of such an offer was just as ground
less as that which started a few
weeks ago that he had been pre
ferred the city managership of
Norfolk, Va.
Mayor C. M. Vanstory, Jr., add
ed that he had not been Informed
that such an offer had been made
Yancey.
Meatless and fishless Wednes
days in Washington’s 52 govern
ment cafeteries saved six tons of
the two products weekly.
,1
RUSSIANS URGED
TO CAST VOTES
MOSCOW, Feb. 2—M5)—The cen
tral committee of the Communist
party appealed today to all voters
to ballot in the Feb. 10 Soviet
general elections, declaring that
“those who strive for further
strengthening of our Red army and
navy” would vote for the candi
dates of the Communist and non
Communist bloc.
The statement said the Commun
ist party "“will in the future un
ceasingly struggle for the further
strengthening of the armed forces
and the Soviet state.”
“Those who desire that the bor
ders of the motherland shall be.
inaccesible for the enemy, those
who strive for further strengthen-,
ing of our Red army and navy—
the true defenders of the mother
land—those persons will vote for
the candidates of the Communist
and non-Communist bloc.”
The Communist party is the only,
one that participates in Soviet
elections, but some non-Commun
ists are elected. Voters are offer
ed only , one candidate for a posi
tion, and he is nominated in ad
vance. The voter turns in a blank
ballot if he does not want that can
didate.
Nikolai Kolchitsky, dean of Bogo
yavlensk cathedral, said in an in
terview today that all clergy of
the Russian orthodox church, in
cluding Alexei, patriarch of Mos
cow and all the Russias, would
vote in the elections.
“The entire clergy, from the
patriarch down to the deacons, will
exercise their citizens’ electoral
rights in the coming elections,”
said Kolchitsky, who is also senior
administrative head of the Mos
cow patriarchate.
Grade Crossing Wreck
Takes Lives Of Two
SALISBURY, Feb. 2.—(£>)—Death
of Harold V. Massey, 25, last night
brought to two the toll of a grade
crossing accident Thursday nisht
When a taxicab driven by Massey
was involved in a collision with a
Southern Express train.
M. C. Peninger, a passenger in
the cab, was killed instantly in the
crash. His brother, J. C. Peninger,
was seriously injured but was re
ported “recovering "tonight at the
Rowan County hospital.
REFUSES TO RUN
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 2.—CU.R)—
James W. Carmichael, strongly
regarded as a potential candidate
in the 1946 governor’s race, today
turned down the offer to run. Car
michael, wartime head of the big
Bell Bomber plant at Marietta,
Ga., said previous committments
and the condition of his health
would keep him from entering the
campaign.
Back Home To Die 1
Three-year-old Sandra Dildine
(above) has come home to die in
Detroit after doctors diagnosed her
illness as a malignant tumor which
medical science cannot cure.
SYRIA PLANNING
APPEAL TO UNO
(Continued from Page One)
tween Ukrainian delegate
Dmitri Manuilsky and Ameri
can delegate Senator Tom Con
nally (D.-Tex) over a demand
from the world federation of
trade unions for association
with the United Nations.
Manuilsky, pressing for approval
of the WFTU demand, said “we
should first deal with international
groups” and only then with Na
tional groups such as the American
Federation of Labor.
Connally replied that to admit
the WFTU to the United Nations
would be a violation of the organ
ization’s charter, and argued that
if the WFTU was admitted “then
the American Federation of Labor
must also be admitted.”
Both Manuilsky and Soviet dele
gate Andrei Gromyko have opposed
admitting the AFL on the ground
that it is a National organization,
while the WFTU, of which the CIO
is an affiliate, is international.
A thigh-length tunic as a cover
ing for a bathing suit is making
its appearance in the southlands.
It’s a grand garment for covering
up on the way to and from the
beach. ’
TAFT DECLARES
INFLATION HERE
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—W—Sena
tor Taft (R-Ohio) declared tonight
that “we already have inflation”
through action of a government
which has “lost all sense of moder
ation or sound permanent policy.”
Addressing the real estate board
of New York at an annual ban
quet, the chairman of the senate
requblican steering committee said
that all hopes for further tax re
ductions “must be abandoned if
President Truman’s program for
spending is adopted.”
To date,' Taft said, every Truman
recommendation calls for more
spending.
He said he thought it fair to
say the President had adopted a
theory of Secretary of Commerce
Wallace “that government spend
ing is a good thing in itself, and
that there need be no concern
whatever as to the tax burden cre
ated thereby.”
Continuing on the present path,
the senator said, will lead to these
alternatives:
Either our tax system will be
come so burdensome as to take all
the life out of our system, check
further expansion, and reduce pro
duction and employment, or we
will go on with increasing deficits
until we can balance the budget
only by further inflation.
Either course, he said, will bring
‘‘the very hardship and depres
sion” which the administration
seeks to avoid through its so-called
“full employment” bill.
REFUGEE
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 2.—(U.R)—The
Miami ’ Herald reported tonight
that Oswald C. Brandt, Haitian
industrialist, is a refugee in the
British legation at Port-Au-Prince
because of death threats made
against him.
Dial 2-3311 For Newspaper Service
Story Of Hopkins’ War
Years To Be Published
NEW YORK, Feb. 2—(U.fi)—The
story of Harry Hopkins’ war years
as the confidant of the late presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, which
will include material Mr. Roose
velt himself would have used in
his own memoirs, will be published
fall^arPer 3nC* ®ros" Probably next
Hopkins, who had been working
wi h two assistants since last sum
mer recording anecdotes and per
sonal recollections, died before the
material had been completely com
piled, but the publishers said the
work was far advanced and prob.
ably could be rinished by an
editor. ?
J. E. SMALL
J. E. Small, colored, a sea-food
merchant, died in his home on
Greenville Sound Friday morning.
Funeral services will be held from
the Greenville Sound A. M. E.
Zion church at 2 p. m. Tuesday.
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