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Romania Is Stalling
On Mihai's Marriage,
King's Uncle Charges
ly the Associated Pren
LAUSANNE. Switzerland, Dec. 19.
King Mihai’s uncle, Prince Nico
las, says the Communist-bossed Ro
manian government is “stalling for
mysterious reasons" in giving its
approval to the marriage of the
26-year-old Romanian monarch and
Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma.
“I do not think they have any
thing against Princess Anne per
sonally,” he told reporters last
night. “They probably would have
done the same thing with any girl
the King wanted to marry.
"They are stalling for some mys
terious reason * * *, probably be
cause they do not want the royal
wedding in Romania at this time.
It would mean a lot of foreign visi
tors in the country and they may
have good reason for wishing to
avoid that.”
Prince Nicolas, who makes his
home permanently in Switzerland,
said Mihai fell in love with the
beauteous 24-year-old Anne “at first
sight” when he saw her in London
at the wedding of Princess Eliza
beth and Prince Philip.
He said the Romanian government
had not rejected the King’s request
for permission to marry the Princess,
who once worked in a Fifth avenue
shop in New York, but had given
only “evasive and indefinite re
plies."
Princess Anne and her mother jeft
Lusanne yesterday for Luxembourg.
King Mihai drove them to the sta
tion and kissed the Princess an af
fectionate au revoir.
The King’s private secretary said
Mihai would leave for Romania with
his mother to spend Christmas with
his neonle.
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Yugoslav Taxation Order
1 Threatens Private Shops
By the Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Dec. 19.—
Hundreds of privately owned shops
throughout Yugoslavia were threat
ened with extinction today by a new
government order requiring them
to pay back taxes.
The order, a brief official notifica
tion which almost went unnoticed
on the inside pages of Yugoslav
newspapers, requires that income
taxes for 1945, 1946 and 1947 must
be paid in full before any additional
purchases of supplies will be per
mitted. Merchants purchase their
supplies from government-operated
stores and warehouses.
A government spokesman ex
plained that the order was not ac
tually aimed at closing private
shops. He described it as a legal
measure designed to enforce lag
ging income tax collections. The
spokesman added that Yugoslavs
can get everything they need from
government-owned shops and that
in most cases, private owners could
get Jobs in the state stores.
Dr. Wassell Resigns,
[Hits Church Hospital
By the Associated Press
HONOLULU, Dec. 19.—Dr. Cor
dyon M. Wassell, famed medical
missionary, yesterday announced his
resignation as superintendent of
Shingle Memorial Hospital, operated
by the Episcopal Church on Molo
kai Island.
Dr. Wassell said the hospital “is
being administered as a commer
cial, public institution and not as
a missionary hospital.”
“Hence,” he added, "we do not
feel that we should give our serv
ices without pay, and we do not
want pay.”
Dr. Wassell is a retired rear ad
miral who was decorated for hero
ism in the Java campaign. He em
phasized that his statement was
made with the knowledge of the
Right Rev. Harry S. Kennedy, Epis
copal Bishop of the Honolulu mis
sionary district, at whose request
he came here October 22.
Dr. Wassell and his wife, who
acted as superintendent of nurses
at the 32-bed hospital, said they
would leave today on the Matsonla
for the mainland.
Rites to Be Held Today
For Claude J. Burton
Funeral services for Claude Jack
son Burton. 76, retired Naval Gun
Factory machinist, were to be held
at 2 p.m. today at the Simmons
funeral home, 2007 Nichols avenue
S.E., with burial in Cedar Hill Ceme
tery.
He died unexpectedly Wednesday
in his home, 1347 Maple View place
S.Ef.
Mr. Burton was bom near Bates
ville, Va„ and was graduated from
Miller School in Albermarle County
in 1888. He was a machinist in
Virginia until 1898, when he enlisted
in the Navy. He was discharged in
1901 after serving in the Spanish*
American War.
He came to work at the Washing
ton Navy Yard in 1903 and was
retired in 1933.
He was a. life member of the
International Association of Ma
chinists and a member of Local 174
for 30 years; also a member of Ad
miral George Dewey Camp of the
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Baptist Church.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Emma J. Burtpn, a Treasury Depart
ment employe; two sons, J. Robert
Burton, 1338 W street S.E., an
employe of the Naval Ordnance
Laboratory; 1st Lt. Edward K. Bur
ton, Army Transportation Corps;
three brothers, John Austin Burton,
Hagerstown, Md.; George Burton,
Croeet, Va.; Henning H. Burton,
213 Eighth street N.E., and two
sisters, Mrs. Julia Dolllns, Bates
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Why not have a through coast-to-coast train instead
of merely “through sleeping cars”? Passengers could
be spared all that stalling in Chicago—and save
hours of traveling time.
A word to the public:
It is an unusual circumstance when the largest owners
of a business must present their ideas to the management
in the public press instead of in a Directors’ meeting.
But though the C&O is now the largest owner of the
New York Central, our officers may not sit on its Board
of Directors, nor may the C&O have any voice in the
Central’s affairs, until the wheels of the Interstate Com
merce Commission grind out an approval.
It appears now that this may take months to win.
Meanwhile we are making our recommendations in this
way. What, you will find here is merely a sample of the
kind of thinking the C&O would like toxcontribute to
the Central—in the interest of the railroad and you the
traveler.
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To the New York Central:
Knowing your sincere interest in improving passen
ger service, the C&O urges your immediate consider
ation of a through coast-to-coast train.
It is badly needed. It is perfectly practical. There is
every evidence that it would pay.
Why should American businessmen have to lose
thousands of man-hours every year sitting it out in the
railroad yards at Chicago?
The coast-to-coast traveler is now given what is
called “through service.” But that service is more a
phrase than a fact. It is true that he no longer has to
change cars, but his trip is still interrupted by several
hours of waiting around at Chicago. He has the option
of killing the time in the city or wasting it staring at
freight cars in a switching yard.
The C&O, whose appeal to the public won the first
steps in through service two years ago, still believes
that through passengers are not being well served.
Why shouldn’t we have a through train, by arrange
ment with a western road, that would go through
Chicago with no more delay than other through trains
have at Kansas City, Washington or New York?
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The airplanes go through Chicago without layovers.
You can even travel through Chicago by bus with less
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delay than with the present so-called "through sleep
ing cars”! Why should’the train traveler be the only
one penalized? Why should the railroads give the
airlines a strong and unnecessary advantage—in the
competition for coast-to-coast passengers?
Is it Practical?
When the C&O first urged through service, other
railroads objected that there wouldn’t be enough
demand to support it. There is so great a demand
today that the through sleepers at Chicago represent
the most profitable sleeping-car business in the country!
These cars average more than $50,000 a year from
sleeping car tickets alone. There is clearly enough
demand to justify a transcontinental train.
The traveler from New York to Los Angeles or
San Francisco today must leave hours earlier than he
should. And he must spend three to six hours mark
ing time in Chicago before his train for the Coast is
ready to leave.
The traveler from the Coast to New York is even
worse off. By the fastest route from Los Angeles to
■ New York he must depart at noon, arrive in Chicago
at noon, and then hang around until Century time at
5 o’clock. Certainly there Is a way for the Central and
a western road to combine on a through train that
would avoid all this needless waste of time.
Why not Do it Now?
The C&O strongly urges this improvement. We
believe that if the Central would initiate it, you would
gain a great competitive advantage over other rail
roads servicing the coastrto-coast traveler. Both the
Central’s customers and Its stockholders would win I
Transcontinental passengers must still twiddle their thumbs for three to six hours at Chicago!
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