
    Petition of the UNITED STATES AND MARINE TRANSPORT LINES, INC., as owners of the U. S. NAVY SHIP POTOMAC, for exoneration from or limitation of liability. Mary Esther Ford LEONARD, etc., Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. AVIATION FUEL TERMINALS, INC., Appellee. Eugene ALVES et al., Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. AVIATION FUEL TERMINALS, INC., Appellee.
    Nos. 14371-14373.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
    Argued Nov. 10, 1970.
    Decided Nov. 25, 1970.
    Patricia S. Baptiste, Atty., Department of Justice (William D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Atty. Gen., Warren H. Coolidge, U. S. Atty., and Alan S. Rosenthal, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for the United States.
    Hugh S. Meredith, Norfolk, Va. (Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for Aviation Fuel Terminals, Inc.
    Before MURRAH BRYAN, and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       Senior Circuit Judge, Tenth Circuit, sitting by designation.
    
   PER CURIAM:

We affirm on the opinion of the district court, Petition of United States, 303 F.Supp. 1282 (E.D.N.C. 1969).  