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LAWYERS OF NATION
URGE ATOMIC ENERGY
CONTROL GO TO UNO

WASHINGTON, Dec. 60 up -
The National Lawyers Guild urged
today that control of atomic energy
be given to the United Nations
Security Council.
The Guild said, in a statement
directed to the Secretary of State
Byrnes, that the British-Canadian'
Americana declaration on atomic
power was a departure from the
entire structure" of the United Ma
tons Organization.
This declaration, issued last Nov
Is, proposed that control of the
atomic bomb be turned over to q
UNO commission after effective
enforceable safeguards against its
use for destructive purposes car
be devised.
The Guild said this weakened
the Security Council and the cause
of world peace,
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GEN. LUTES NAMED
ASST COMMANDER

WASHINGTON, Dec. Is. -WH-
1t. Gen. Leroy Lutes, chief of staff
and deputy commanding general
of the Army Service Forces, has
been appointed ASST commander
succeeding Gen. Brehon B. Somer-
veil, Secretary of War Robert p.
Patterson announced today. The
appointment is effective Jan. /.
Prior to becoming Chief Of Staff
and Deputy Commander of the
Army Service Forces in April of
this year, Lutes served three years
as director of plans and opera
tons, Army Service Forces.
He served in six of the combat
zones during the Second World
War.
He went to the British Isles in
1912 to arrange supply support for
American forces being sent to the
United Kingdom. Later in the same
year he went to the south and
southwest Pacific to coordinate
supply operations to support thee
Army and Nays drive back
across the Pacific.
Then he flew to Puerto Rico and
Brazil to help prepare logistical
support for air transport activities
through Brazil and supply troops
to and from Africa. In August, 1913
he returned to the Pacific, and in
November of that. year attended
the Cairo conference. Next he turn
ed his attention to supply matters
in Italy and North Africa, and then
proceeded to New Delhi to help
solve the manifold problems con-
nected with supplying Allied forces
in China over the hump and along
the Lido road.
He served with Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower's headquarters plan
ming support Of the cross-channel
assault on Europe, and last winter
assisted logistical operations in the
assault on Germany.
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PALESTINE STOPS
ENTRANCE OF JEWS

JERUSALEM. Dec. 26 -(P- a
spokesman for the Jewish agency
said tonight the Palestine govern
ment had confirmed officially thai
Jewish immigration into Palestine
had been stopped completely.
The spokesman asserted thai
the world had been misled" by
the statement of British Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin on Nov
10 in which he said immigration
would continue at the rate OF L.
500 a month pending the report
of the British-American commits
sion of inquiry.
Even the rather dismal promise
of Bevin's statement has been
broken" the spokesman said.
The spokesman said immigration
had stopped apparently because
the. Arabs said mo-"
IF that is the case, what is the
use of an inquiry commission? -
the spokesman asked, adding, ii
the British dare not to lift finger
without Arab consent, then II
dooms the work of the commission
to complete futility."
Earlier, leaflets distributed here
asserted that several hundred Jew
ish refugees from Europe landed
on the northern Palestine coast
today, despite British precautions
and were guided to inland dlsper'
sal points by Haganah. Jewish de-
tense organization.
Stating that the refugees hac
landed from the vessel Hanah Sen
esh, the leaflets announced the
immigrants arrived d e p i
stormy seas and Notwithstanding
the most modern devices OF the
guardians of the white paper.
The vessel bearing the refugees
the leaflets said, flew a flag bear
ing the inscription "let this ship
be a symbol for six million breth'
rem in farflung dispersion"
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Reached On
Many Points
OBSERVERS STATE
Prompt Announcement OF
Conference Results Ex-
pected At Capital
BY EDDIE GILMORE
AP Staff Correspondent

MOSCOW, Dec. 26. - Up - The
Foreign Ministers of the United
States, Russia and Great Britain
were said late tonight to have
reached an agreement on all points
of their discussions and Secretary
of State James F. Byrnes and
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
were making arrangements for an
early departure.
(The Moscow Radio in broad
cast heard in London said that the
conference had ended and that
Byrnes would hold a press con-
ference at 7:3O am. Thursday
11:3O p. m. Wednesday,.
Diplomatic observers forecast a
prompt announcement of important
and definite results concerning
the conference.
Unquestionably agreement has
been achieved on many main is
sues, these observers said, adding
that the conference has gone well
beyond anything that had been ex-
pected even by Byrnes, British For
eign Secretary Ernest Bevin and
Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyache-
slav M. Molotov themselves.
All world ills have not been solv-
ed, these informants said, 'but pro-
gress, and great progress, has been
made"
(In London, Foreign Office Off
Gals were called back from holiday
vacations to be at their posts for
All expected release of the confer
ence communique.
Nondon diplomatic observers
felt it was safe to assume that the
major part of the conference had
been devoted to current pressing
problems for the purpose of an ex-
Continued on Page Two; Col. A.
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New River Navy Unit
Contributes 100
To Pool

WASHINGTON, Dec. 90 P) -
The Veterans Administration is
borrowing hospital space for ap-
proximately 100000 patients to meet
the fast rising demand for medi-
cal care of veterans.
( Maj. Gen. Paul r. HoWley, act
ing surgeon general of the VA,
announced today that beds for TO-
600 disabled veterans have been
obtained in civilian hospitals, for
9,375 in Navy institutions and for
10000 in Army hospitals.
This action, Hawley told a news
conference, breaks the bottle.
neck in veterans disqualification
temporarily. However, he warned
that, generally speaking, it will
mean that the hospital situation
for civilians will be "criticar' for
some months ahead.
Actually" he added, 1--WE found
no new hospital ia 'ilities but are
placing veterans in hospitals that
already exist
The Administrator is now pro.
viding hospital care for S7,967 vet
Grams and the number is growing
approximately 1000 a month.
Congress has approved funds fol-
construction of veterans hospitals
with a capacity of $4,000 beds but
they are not expected to be com
pleted for two yea1-
Male veterans will be placed ir
private hospitals only if they have
service connected disabilities. Wo
men will be cared for in private
hospitals regardless of the origin
of their disabilities.
The government also will hire
private PHI sicians to car for the
veterans. They will be paid on {
fee basis.
The Navy made $50 beds avail
able Immediately including $50 al
Portsmouth, Va.
Other Navy beds, to be turned
over by Sept. l, are located at:
New River, N. c., 100; Dublin,
Ga, 1875; Key West, Fla, Is; Mem
phis, Tenn, 200; Portsmouth, Va,
So.
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% Nations To Sig1, Pact
On MonetaryPlan Today

dor, South Africa, the United King.
dom, Yugoslavia, the Dominican
Republic, Greece, Honduras.
Luxembourg, Mexico and Bolivia.
Several other governments, in.
Guiding France, Canada, Cuba, and
Venezuela, have given notification
of adherence but must await par
liamentary action.
Each of the agreements becomes
effective when IS per cent of the
subscriptions set forth have been
subscribed.
Forty-five countries signed the
final act of the Breton Woods con-
ference.
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FOREIGN Ministers Conclude Mosco1u MEETINGS
PRESIDENT TRUMAN
NAMED IMAM OF YEAR"
BY TIME MAGAZINE

NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-P)-
President Harry S. Truman
was named today by Time
magazine as its MAN Of The
Year" for 1915.
In selecting the President,
Time said in its Dec. 81 issue,
released tomorrow, that "the
greatest of all 1855 great
events was the atom bomb"
The President, the magazine
said, Somewhat unwittingly,
somewhat against his own will,
became more than any other
man responsible for the bomb,
its use in 1915 and its future"
Except for the bomb, the
greatest events of 1915 would
have been the surrender OF
Germany and Japan, and the
greatest men of the year would
have been Allied military men,
the Magazine declared.
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Rescue Grew
|Hampered By
Severe Fire
AT PINEVILLE, KY.
Early Morning Explosion
Cuts Off Men Two Miles
From Shaft Entrance

PINEVILLE, KY, Dec. 26-(P-
The majority of workers, miners
and families of the 80 to so miners
entombed by a coal mine explo-
sion here today, abandoned hope
tonight that any of the trapped
men would be brought out alive.
Rescue workers were reported
to have encountered flames 300
feet from the mine entrance to-
night, running into an inferno of
burning debris and coal less than
half way from the area where the
trapped miners were believed en-
tonlbed.
Indications were that tn explo-
sion was violent one, and Daniel
Harrington, of the Bureau of Mines
at Washington, said it was prob
able that all the trapped men were
killed.
Highway Patrolman Austin Hall.
who reported the latest develop
ments, said the miners were be-
Geved to be trapped at the dead
end of the two and one-half mile
deep mine.
All available means were being
employed to combat the flame,
which apparently had been burning
since the eIIluyioh occurred about
$3.50 am.
Rescuemcn Lad been in the mine
seven hours, digging through piled
framing, dislodged coal, smoke and
gas fumes, when they came upon
the fire.
Hall said it appeared unlikely
that the explosion area could be
reached short of two or three
days." and that there appeared
little hope for this reason that the
men could be reached in time.
Mine operator W. E. Lewis said
he believed there were mot less
than 30 nor more than 5O'' men
in the mine.
The explosion, which Lewis said
occurred about $3.50 am. (CST)
today, was so far back from the
mine entrance it was not heard
above ground.
Rescue crews, trained for such
work, were summoned from sew
eral mines in the southeastern Ken
lucky coal fields. First squads en-
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
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DUTCH TROOPERS
FIRE ON SJAHRlR
Premier Of Indonesian Re-
public Escapes Injury;
Leaders Confer
Bv VERN HAUGLAND
APP Staff Correspondent

BATAVIA, Java, Dec. 26-Native
Dutch troops fired volley of bull
lets today at a car in which sultan
Siahrir, premier of the unrecog'
nized Indonesian republic, was a
passenger, but Sjahrir was unln'
jured.
British authorities said 1t was
established that the native troops
-Eurasians and Surinamese- dld
not know the identity of the car
occupant, and had sought only to
confiscate an lndonesian car. ~-
Another unidentified 1ndoneslan
passenger in Sjahrir's car also es-
capped injury.
Sjahrir, who returned yesterday
from a tour of Java, said an auto
mobile containing five young men
in Dutch uniforms approached the
car in which he was riding. One
man opened fire. The bullets
struck the radiator of Sjahrir's car.
One of the Eurasians leaped
from the attack car and aimed ms
pistol at Sjahrir, the premier SAID.
The weapon jammed.
Fifteen other Eurasians, all In
Dutch uniforms, approached, but
fled when the British military
patrol car reached the scene. The
five occupants Of the attack car
were arrested.
sjahrir is a key figure in the
negotiations to restore order in
strife-torn Java, and such an at
tack could have thrown the deli
cate political situation into con-
fusion.
prime Minister Wilhelm Scher:
merhorn of the Netherlands and
acting Governor General Huburtus
J. Van Nook of the Netherlands
East Indies were in London today
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
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RUSSIAN OFFICIALS
STILL UNCONVINCED
OF HITLER'S DEATH

HALLE, Germany, Dec. 19-De-
layed)-W.H-High Russian officials
are still not convinced Hitler is
dead despite the overwhelming cir
cumstantial evidence that he is, a
Russian officer close to Soviet &C.
cupation headquarters said today.
Speaking unofficially, the officer
said the Russians were not assum-
ing Hitler IS dead Until there is
positive proof, which he said, is
still lacking.
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TRUMAN TO CARRY
AIMS TO PEOPLE
Will Address Nation By
Radio Early In January;
Leaves Friday
Rv CHARLES B. DEGGES
. :, Y, S@,ff ent

BY CHARLES b. DEOUCo
United Press Staff Correspondent
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 26-
President Truman dropped Christ
mas pleasantries long enough to-
dsv 10 reveal that he would out
line his overall legislative program
including labor proposals-direct
TO the people in a radio speech in
tbe first week in January.
Mr. Truman also said he still
Manned to fly back to Washing
An Friday neutrality-suspicious. per-
hitting. He made it plain that the
weather would have to be con-
sderably worse than the overcast
his plane bored through on the
westbound trip Christmas day be-
fore he'd return by train.
The President told an informal
press conference his January "a
dio talk would not conflict with or
take the place of his regular Estate
Of the union" message to Congress.
However, it is apparent that Mr.
Truman plans to tell the people his
legislative plans before he lays
them on Congress, although o.
ylousIy in less detail.
A correspondent told him that
he understood the speech would
be "anti-labor" and asked if that
we're true. Mr.. Truman replied thai
It would not be anti-labor at all;
that it would cover the whole leg
isative program - a state OF the
m.on speech. Pressed for some
idication of his labor proposals,
Mr.. Truman smiled and suggested
that the speech would just have
TO speak for itself.
Mr.. Truman himself brought up
the subject Of bad-weather flying,
when he snilingly asked reporters
if they had a rough trip in their
plane that followed his to Kansas
City yesterday.
Rough" some of these news
men exclaimed with emphasis that
amounted to the most positive IL
trmative they could muster. they
demanded in return:
Did your"
Mr.. Truman laughed and said
that he had had rougher trips but
not many.
II was at this point that he said
he would fly back to Washington
friday, weather permitting.
What do you mean weather per
hitting, Mr.. President"
It didn't do much permitting
yeSterdayl" Felix Belair, New
York Times correspondent, added.
Mr.. Truman laughed and laid 1t
would have to be considerably
worse than that we came out in.
Belair then asked the President
L he had any pressing matters
Or engagement" that required MS
presence in Washington Friday
Inc President replied that there
was nothing in particular except
mat his desk would be piled aign
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Erwin RITES SET
FOR 3P. M. TODAY

MoRGANTON, Dec. 2e-(P =
Funeral services for Congressman
Joseph w. Erwin. A, who was
found yesterday in his gas filleo
kitchen in Washington, D. c., vii
be held here tomorrow, December
27.
Services will be conducted at
o'clock in the afternoon at the
home of his mother, Mrs. S. j
Erwin. Interment will be in For
est Hill cemetery.
Representative Erwin, who fol
several years, has been suffering
from Osteomyelitis and more re
Gently from heart disease, hac
been released from Walter Reee
Army General hospital shortly be
fore his body was discovered
Christmas Day by a friend, Theron
L. Caudie, assistant attorney-gen
eral.
Erwin, who was elected to. the
10Th Congress in 1914, was a grad
uate of the University of NORTH
Carolina.
His wife. the former Miss Susar
Graham Erwin was spending the
holiday in Morganton with her par
ents and the representatives moth
err when she learned of his death.
Surviving are Mrs. Erwin, nj:
mother, Mrs. S. J. Erwin, of Nor
canton; three brothers, S. J. Ervir
Jr., DR.. John w. Erwin and Hugh
Tate Erwin. all of Morganton:
three sisters, Mrs. j. K. Hall, o:
Richmond, Va; Miss Jean Conyer:
Erwin of the University of Missouri
faculty, and Miss Eunice Wooe
| Erwin. of MOrgantOn.
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 26-W.D -
The Breton Woods Monetary
agreements will be signed by %
nations, including the United States
in ceremonies at the State De-
partment at 4 p. NJ, EST, tomor'
row.
Secretary of the Treasury Fred
MI Vinson has been authorized by
President Truman to sign on the
behalf of the United States. Other
signatories will be China, Colon
hia. Czechoslovakia, Ecuador
Egypt, Ethiopia, Iceland, India
Irau. the Netherlands, Norway
Paraguay, the Philippines, Saliva
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Depleted Carmen Cast
Sees That Sho1u Goes On

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Dec. 26.
-REThe Opera Carmen has been
presented in both hot and cold YER
sions, but the Charleston perform
ance last night was something the
New York Opera Company never
wants to play again.
About half of the members OF
the troup were injured in high
way accident but the show went
on with hastily recruited orches-
ira, a substitute conductor, and a
ballet of only three dancers.
About 20 persons-almost half of
the company-were injured when
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Veterans Administration Borows
Beds For 10000 Hospital Patients
1880 SILENT JAPANESE
TO SAIL FOR HOME SOON

PORTLAND, Ore Dec. 26.-d49-Two tranoads of silent
Japanese arrived today from theueake Caf board
ship that will take them back to Japan.
of the 1900 and children bound for Japan
their deportation ORDERS stood expression
less customs officials examined their baggage in the
barkation depot. ~+
Only boy questioned reporters said he would
remained here He started quickly down at his
sports shoes when the question NO. No. he muttered
don't go Japan" He walked quickly away.
$500, including 1900 children and 1,4OO
General w. H. Gordon probably at the of
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Ia bus bringing the orchestra and
some members of the chorus ano
ballet to Charleston skidded near
Staunton, Va, and struck another
vehicle.
Edward Levedott, musical direc.
tor, suffered broken leg and
other musicians also were hos
pitalized. None of those with lead.
ing roles was hurt.
A Charleston orchestra played
the score under the direction of
w. R. Want, former conductor
of the Charleston Symphony.
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WEATHER
Eastern Standard Time)

Eastern Standard Time)
Ma. (by U. S. Weather Bureau)
genealogical data for the "a hours
'"Nii'g 1870 pm. yesterday.
,.,o Temperatures
Ion sc'V am. 60; 7 80 am. 81: 1880 pm. 81;
NMaSlmum SC; Minimum So; Mean 3d.;
,.,o Humidity
"a. 3o0o am. SO; 7:3O am. go; 1 80 pm. 81;
r.. Precipitation
10ai 1or "a hours ending 1880 pm.
r., inches.
-o'al since the first of the month
fF,. Tides Cor Today
Y s0in the Tide Tables published by
WilTn,i Soast and Geodetic Survey
iislon $500 4:16 am. 11:24 am.
Msson,. 4:32 pm. 1850 pm
'0nooro Inlet 2:21 am. 8:25 am.
ns sunEise 7:ls am; Sunset 5:lo pm;
Rise 1853 am; Moonset 1904 pm.
Stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at
-1 Wednesday --teet.
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Trunk Mystery Here
Solved By Officers

Mammie jackson, Negro, 512 Bay
street, told police yesterday morn
ing, that she found trunk in front
of her house and that she did moi
know anything about it.
The police brought the trunk to
headquarters where it was opened
and letters were found addressed
to Catherine st. Allings, Kenans.
vile, N. c.
The police wrote her a card in.
forming her the trunk was being
held at headquarters.
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Firemen Called Out
Twice On Quiet Day

City firemen were called out
twice yesterday during a quiet
post-Christmas day, once to 103
South 4th street, where an over
heated stove brought call for aid,
and to 9th and Chestnut on a false
alarm.
No damage was reported from
the overheated stove and police are
still looking for the misguided
prankster who turned in the fake
alarm.
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Wilmington and vicinity: Continued
fair and mild today and tonight. Possibly
colder tonight with continued fair to-
morrow.
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CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. ~
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-11

the wife persists the husband must gently take the
lipstick and compact away from her saying:
when you are ready to go to the powder room
will return them" This comment is from our
Horses & Women File No. 894D, which is headed:
How To Handle A Wife and Make Her Like It
ASKING
Queries from clients. O. What does II mean when
a letter Is written in red ink? A. Couldn't say.
don't like red ink II reminds me of the weary.
dull and dreary days when was forced TO study
bookkeeping at Commercial High School, Brook.
lyn. @ Is II true Jimmy Durante and Eddie Cantor
were singing walters at a cafe In Coney Island
where they were discovered and given their first
chance in the show business by Irving Berlin?
A. Durante was a piano player at the Roseben
Cafe in Coney Island. Cantor was never singing
waiter. Berlin had part in the start of either
Dursnte broke into vaudeville with the act OF
Clayton, Jackson and Durante. These three later
opened night club in Manhattan. There Durante
first became famous Eddie Cantor was in vaude
vile with the juggling act of Bedini and Arthur
lie was given his musical show start in Los An
Copyright 1916. King Syndicate. Inc
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-11
EY Z. v. DURLING

~ NLY IL per cent Of housewives now have
" domestic help. This situation is very dis
tressing to many home managers. However.
perhaps they shouldn't worry too much. Some
health experts say housework Is very good exer.
else and can do lot for the figure. II you mention
this opinion your wife don't forget TO duck. You
know when women throw things they afterwards
say they did II impulsively not knowing what they
were doing. Yet observers Of this matter say
woman never throws anything that will break.
She usually picks up a heavy book or something
unhreakable. On the other hand. angry hus.
band will throw anything he put his hands
DELIeHTs
When the young women Of Paris want to know
q mans first name they ask: What Is your little
name?" My little name. by the way. is not Ed
ward. II is Edgar. In British courts they do not
ask What Is your name?" but What are your
names?" My names are Edgar Vincent Durng
The shortest career in the history of profes
sIonal football that OF Willie Heston, Michigan
University star who was paid $500 to play one
game with the Canton Bulldogs Willie broke his
leg In the first play he figured in and never
played pro football again
HORSES & WOMEN
Y. S. Marine sergeant wants to know how he
can convince his newly acquired wife he Is the
boss OF the family without appearing domineer.
ing. Our Horses Women experts say at the be.
ginning the husband must strive TO please his wife
yield TO her wishes in minor matters On impor.
tant things he must be firm. To show the little
lady he intends 10 keep everything under control,
the young husband must wait for a spot when his
wife is plainly in error For example II she starts
putting makeup on at the table in a restaurant
the husband should say: please don't do that" II
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-11

with Piscean wife spends 30 per cent of his time
at home saying: Nov. honey. you should know
didn't mean II that way" Piscean girls incline to
playing the horses and good longshot picisers.
They excel in occupations calling for direct dealing
with the public. Or 80 claim the stargazers..
Elephants often forget and do not have such re.
markable memories. A horse has better memory
than an elephant. So has a dog.