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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-15
HOMES ALERTED
If: :: !" .AS0IL SPILLS
100000 Gallon Capacity
Tank Overflows And
Z. Sprays Houses J..

A 230, 00-gallon acity Stand
ard Oil company storage tank over
flowed last night and sprayed fuel
oil over considerable area around
the tanks, and doused several
buildings ne arby. Some of the
buildings were occupied, and resi-
dents of the area were ordered to
put out all fires in the houses until
potential danger from the spilled
oil ended.
The alert was later lifted when
it. was learned that the oil did not
have highly inflarnmable qualities.
Officials of the Standard Oil COM
pany said a gauge valve became
stuck on the storage tank while the
oil was being piped in from a
tanker, the ESQ Portland, docked
at the company pier.
The storage tanks are located
between Second and Third streets
on Beatty street. Three other tanks
Of similar capacity are located
nearby. -.
It was learned from officials that
the oil lost by overflow would not
exceed 1900 gallons.
Police, firemen and company
men esaid there would be little
danger from the oil. They said the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-15
WIDE BOOST
WINS GROUP NOD
Senate Labor Committee
!. Approval Would Affect
Four To Six Million

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14-P)-
A bill estimated to raise the pay
of 100000 to 100000 persons
was approved today by the Senate
Labor committee.
It would raise the minimum
wage required by law from 40 to
IS cents an hour. And it would ex-
tend the minimum wage act to
many businesses not covered by it
now.
Senator Ellender (D-La.) of the
committee. promising vigorous OPP
position when the bill reached the
floor, told reporters it would
cover all business and industry in
the country like a blanket He
said 4 that ''about the only thing
exempted was the small corner
grocer. ~4.>..r-.. ~.
Businesses engaged in interstate
commerce or producing goods for
it are covered now. The new meas
ure would, cover all businesses
affecting interstate commerce.
This is the language of the Nation
al Labor Relations (Wagner> act.
Businesses whose total annual
volumee DOT sales or .servicing' is
$500, 00Oss or less would be exempt
provided they had no. more than
four stores or outlets.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-15
Bowles Gets
Top Position
In Shakeup
Steel Strike Settlement Ex-
pected Shortly Under New
Policy OF Truman
1868 PROFIT LEVEL
Approval Necessary For
Wage Increases Leading
To Higher Prices

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA
R - President Truman to-
night gave the nation a new,
higher wage-price policy and
named hold-the-liner Chester
BoWles to run it as stabiliza-
ton administrator.
Government approval will
be required for any wage in
crease which might lead to
higher prices, the White
House announced, and indus
tries granting permitted pay
raises may seek price adjust
ments at once. At present
they must wait six months to
establish a record of need.
In the shakeup of his eco
nomic high command, Mr..
Truman named OPA Admin
istrator Bowles to succeed
John C. Collet in the economic
sterilization post.
Paul A. Porter, chairman of
the Federal Communications
Commission and q supporter
of Bowles' firm hold-the-line
convictions, was appointed the
new OPA chief.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-15
UNO ENDS FIRST
WORLDASSEMBLY
Session Chooses Tempo
rary Headquarters In New
York; Reds Beaten

LONDON, Friday, Feb. 15-W.H-
The frs world assembly OF the
United Nations adjourned at 1875
am. today after approving COM
mittee recommendations to set up
temporary -UNO headquarters in
New York city and establish per-
manent headquarters in the area
of Westchester County, N. Y, and
Fairfield County, Conn. =
The final hours of the first as
sembly were marked by another
Russian defeat when by vote of
80 to delegates gave the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor the same
consultative privileges accorded
the new world federation Of trade
unions.
There was also another angry
exchange between British and Rus
sian delegates. British Delegate P.
j. Noel-Baker, addressing Dmitri
Manuilski of the Ukraine, said
Lies" were being told that Brit
tain opposed the WITH.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-15
ROBOT FLIGHT \.
new AIR PLAN
Push Button Planes De-
veloped To Take Place In
Fast Postwar World


DAYTON, O., Feb. 14-R)-The
mechanics of Push Button Flight, :"
whereby a plane without anyone
aboard takes off and lands with
the mere press of button, were
described tonight by the Air Tech
meal Service command at nearby
Wright Field.
Brain of the fully automatic plane
"a Douglas, our-engined C-54 now
under tests-is called the automatic
hight controller. Developed by AT
~, the device is used in conjurc-
uon with the ALI automatic pilot
and displays a battery Of buttons
similar to those on radio receiver
officers said.
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CAPE FEAR ENDS
RISE; WILL CREST
IN BLADEN TODAY

RALEIGH, Feb. 14-(P)-
North Cardinals major rivers,
swollen beyond flood stage at
many points during most of the
week, began to crest at vari-
Gus localities today and are
expected to fall in other COM
munities tomorrow.
C. E. Lamoureaux, director of
the United States Weather Blu
reau said tonight the Cape
Fear at Fayetteville had SUBJ
sided to 1913 feet after drop
ping 1876 feet in the previous
"a hours and was safely below
the flood stage. No report was
Immediately available from
Elizabethtown but crest stage
was indicated at the Bladen
county town today.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-15
Board Plans
Battle Over
McKoy Case
Funds Available To Carry
Ineligibility Ruling
Through Courts
DELEGATION NAMED
Education Group Here Told
All Athletes Uneasy After
NCHSAA Stand
By JACK C. LUNAN

Approving the action of
Coach Leon Brogden, -Princi-
pal T. T. Hamilton, Jr., and
Superintendent H. M. Roland
in the. Johnny McKoy ineligi-
bility case before and at the
hearing conducted by the eli
gibility committee of the
North Carolina High School
Athletic association in Chapel
Hill recently, the City-County
Board of Education, last night
instructed the secretary to
the board to inform Messrs.
Brogden, Hamilton and Ro-
land by letter to that effect.
Further, the board, after a
thorough discussion of all
angles of the case, made it
plain that Wilmington plans
to fight the matter through
to a definite conclusion when
on motion of James Roe and
Emsley Laney, the board in
structed Attorney Cyrus D.
Hogue and Principal Hamil-
ton to go to Chapel Hill next
week for a conference with c.
E. Mcintosh, executive secre-
tary of the conference, in Or
der to ascertain all facts and
(Cantinued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-15
PRESIDENT GIVES Ma TON NEW
WAGE-PRICE PLANS IN EFFORT
TO END WAR ON LABOR FRONT
TRUMAN SEEKS MAN
TO STEM ICKES ROW

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14-WD
President Truman today be-
gan searching for a success
sor to Secretary of Interior
Harold L. Ickes, who leaves
the cabinet tomorrow after a
political blowup that rocked
the Administration.
All evidence pointed to the
selection of westerner.
Several Mentioned
Among the White House call
ers was Sen. Joseph c. O'Ma-
honey, 3D., Wyo.,) who is being
mentioned prominently + or
1ckes' job. Others mentioned
include former Sen. D. Worth
Clark, 3D., 1da.,) Gov. Robert
S. Kerr of Oklahoma and Rep.
H rry R. Sheppard, 3D.,
Calif.,, ~.
One thing certain. Mr.. Tru-
man will not seek Ickes' opin-
ion. The bitter manner in
which they parted company
Wednesday precluded that.
The principals in Washing
toms all-time battle Of inyec-
tive were silent today. ,~..
A White House caller said
Mr.. Truman appeared s'to have
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-15
BLASTS
STATE OFFICIAL
Charges Braden With Es.
pionage In Argentine;
Expels u. S. General

BUENoS AIRES, Feb. 14-(R-
Col. Juan D. Peron in a published
statement tonight asserted that
Spruille Braden was "chief of a
vast spy network throughout
South America while he served as
u. S. ambassador to Argentina and
that a former U. S. military at
tache had been expelled from Ar
gentina for espionage.
Peron also charged that Braden
while ambassador collected money
from Argentine firms under the
threat of blacklisting them.
Demands Proof
His statement, published in the
newspaper La Epoca which is sup
porting him for the presidency of
Argentina, fatty denied charges
made earlier this week by the U.
S. State department that Peron
conspired to aid the Nazis and de-
manded that the United States give
proof OF. its charges.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-15
FATHER MURPHY
VIEWS HOSPITAL
Catholic Priest Here Issues
Statement On Hopes
For Institution.

In response to late. developments
concerning the proposed establish
ment of a Catholic hospital in Will
mington, the Very Rev, c. e. Muir
ply, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic
church here, yesterday issued a
formal statement of his hopes and
plans for. the future institution.
Father Murphy's statement reads
as follows: e , 4,-.... -, ;. d"
Need For Hospital
'To The People of Wilmington:
For fear of being misquoted or
misunderstood, I am writing this
letter to your paper. It seems that
the people of Wilmington feel the
need Of Catholic hospital and our
City Council, according to news
paper account, by unanimous
vote has confirmed this feeling.
It would be well to clarity the
hospital issue.
''Why a hospital?-To relieve
human suffering. This is essential
ly matter of Christian Charity.
BY His teachings and example
Christ taught us to be merciful.
This is the whole purpose of the
Church which He established to
represent Him on earth. There
fore the. Church is primarily a
Charitable institution: First in a
spiritual sense as regards the sal
walton of the Immortal Soul and
second as regards the body. 49,,
Charity To Neighbor
1.-The reason tor tine hospital is to
do in an institutional way what we
are required to do as Individuals
namely, Charity to our neighbor.
It is thus the duty of the Church
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AndSo ToBed...

A Wilmingtonian recently re-
turned from Richmond, report
ed to the Star last night that q
suspicion he has held for years
has been confirmed.
Folks, General Robert e.
Lees surrender at Appomatox
was simply clever ruse to
give the Southern underground
a chance to work on.
But things are different now:
The Southerners have come out
in the open. Proof? There's a
sign in the lobby of the John
Marshall hotel in the Virginia
city which reads Confederate
Bonds For Sale Here"
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CAROLINA BEACH
LEGION FORMED
Kenneth L. HUM Named
Commander OF Veterans
Group At Resort

Kenneth L. HUM, Past Com
of the American Legion
post Katona.' N. Y, was elected
Commander of the newly organ
lied Carolina Beach post last aight
when it was organized in the Caro-
lima Beach City Auditorium
Commander HUM, resident OF
Kure Beach for the past four years,
is a veteran of World Wars I ana IL.
Percy r. Morton. former city
clerk: was elected adjutant. George
W. Troy, veteran of World War II
was elected ergeant-at-arn1s.
Ned Mills. was made financial
officer Of the post. Charles Raynor
was elected Post historian oscar
Zuker was appointed Post chap
lain. ~ ~ +.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-15
276 PERSONS DIE
WHEN EARTHQUAKE
SHAKES ALGERIA

PARIS, Feb. 14-(P)-At least 276
persons were killed and 70 injured
in an earthquake that shook the
mountainous region of northeast
ern Algeria, and rescue workers
were still digging in debris of fallen
buildings for additional victims.
advices from Algeria said tonight.
The casualty count came from
the towns of Setif, and Batna IN
Constantine, northeasternmost de-
partment in Algeria. Setif is $50
miles and Batna 200 miles south
east of Alters.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-15
GEN. VANDERBILT
!. !. AT CAMP LEJEUNE
ON VISIT TODAY

CAMP LEJEUNE, Feb. II
1 Gen. Alexander Archer Yande--
GRIT, commandment of the U:
S. Marine Corps, win spend
Friday and Saturday here as
guest Of Mai. Gen. John Mars
ton, base commandant. j.
General yandegrift' will tour
the base Saturday in an un-
aofficial inspection.
He was stationed here four
years ago as assistant division
commander and later as divi-
sion commander Of the now low
famed First Marine division.
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taken all his troubles in stride
and he looks fine.
"Curmudgeon" Packing
Ickes, the 71-year-old cur
mudgeon," went about the
business of packing up so he
could leave by the close of
business tomorrow-the time
Mr.. Truman "graciously al
lowed" him to wind up an &C
cumulation of 10 years on the
job. When Ickes submitted his
resignation, he expected that
Mr.. Truman would give him
until March 81 to clean up odds
and ends. But the President
was in no mood for dawdling.
He told Ickes to get out at the
close of business tomorrow.
But 1ckes, though out of a
government job, won't have to
worry about where the next
dollar is coming from. Besides
being independently wealthy,
he has a choice of glowing Of
fers.
Hasn't Said Yes
Sources close to Ickes said
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GRAVEYARD - For the time
being let's move our locale on up
the coast bit and talk about cape
Hatteras.
Although the waters of cape pc
Hatteras have long been known as
the Graveyard of the Atian1lc'
# is interesting to note, our II
vestisators assert, that less than
a dozen shipwrecks along the Nort tn
raro1;na coast have occurred IN
which there was any loss of life.
In fact, during the expanse OF
1909 years, only seven ven suG 4 av naI heen
reported in shipping circles
m Oct. y. 1851.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-15
PHYSICAL STANDARD
FOR ARMY DRAFTEES
AGAIN ARE LOWERED

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA P -
The Army today lowered its ply
steal standards for draftees and
asked for 125, 1000 in April.
The War department said it
hopes by this means to get the full
100000 men the Army needs from
Selective Service in the first five
months of this year.
The Army asked draft boards to
induct Immediately those 4Fs-men
previously disqualified for physi-
cal reasons-who can meet the
lowered standards.
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BY LARRY HIRSCH

Complaints of 81 get the neck
of the chicken" will be heard less
frequently in Wilmington this year,
according to predictions made yes
terday by local poultry retailers
and wholesalers.
This doesn' mean that this years
crop of biddies will be born neck
less. 1t means, rather, that the
per capita consumption OF the
South's favorite bird will be less
than during the war years, and
hence will be fewer necks, as well
as fewer dhumsticks and tail
pieces, being handed around the
supper table during 1916.
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Here's Diplomatic Crisis
Some Stiff Shirts d End

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-R-
another diplomatic crisis has been
reached in Washington: The new
ambassador to Belgium can't find
any stiff shirts.
Vice Adm. Alan G. Kirk, who
leaves for Belgium March 10, I'M
oosomed himself to a reporter to-
uay. He says there just aren't any
SUN shirts working clothes for an
dmDassador) on the market.
Two Old Stiff Shirts
Did the admiral have any old
Stlff shirts that might do? -'
Well yes, have a couple" he
replied. "At least, 1 hope I have
couple. But they've been at the
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Weather T able
FORECAST

if FORECAST f *
North and South Carolina: Friday fair
and rather cold.
Casters Standard Time) 81,
(By u. 3. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1880 am. Sc; 1880 am. 65; 1880 pm. Sc;
MAXIMUM 10, Minimum 81; Mean 50;
Normal 4s 49,:
Humidity
1870 am. rs; 1880 am. 80; 1870 pm. 10;
7:30 pm. 81.
Precipitation ..
Total S%for "a hours ending 1880 pm
0 inches. =
Total since the first of the month
$50 inches.
Tides for Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
HIGH LOW
Wilmington 1850 9:24 am. 3:49 am
9:42 pm. 4:25 pm.
Masonboro Inlet TIT am. 1889 am
1877 pm. 1880 pm.
Sunrise 6:57 am; Sunset :56 pm;
Moonrise SOL pm; Moonset 6:52 am
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. c. al
8 am. Thursday 3o.a feet.
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0PA TURNS DOWN
RENT hike PLEA
Officer Says Increased
Taxes Does Not Consti-
tute Valid Reason

The Office of Price Administra-
ton yesterday told landlords that
increased taxes alone do not con-
stitute valid reason for raising
rents in this area. The announce
ment was made through the Will
nington area Rent Control office.
Maurice Moore, manager OF the
office said the policy ruling has
been sought from the Regional
OPA headquarters in Atlanta, IN
anticipation of petitions from land
lords in the newly annexed areas
OF Wilmington. *e..- I'll $.
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Old Boys Brigade
Hands Over Torch

Hghlighng the anniversary of the Old Brigade
symbolic presentation Of the responsibility for the Brigade
Senior Fraternity members
in the Brigade arrnory last night II
presentation for the Old Brigade E. P Dudley
president remarked the privilege it had been to work with the
Younger members Of the Brigade Boys club.
Kelly president Of the Senior Fraternity accepting the
responsibility of guiding the Brigade said that his club
the traditions of the older and
continue the job the He invited older club
meet with the Senior FRATERNITY each year on ner
birthday, Feb. "A. .. a:, :,
Delivering the address the evening, Col Charles c.
Loughn u Army retired Rocky Mount who served with the
infantry H. and charter member OF the
Brigade used thesis the organization and functions OF
UNO.s .r,t.
Pace Three. Col
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laundry for two or three weeks
Heaven knows who's got them
now"
Kirk said he had toured local
stores, discreetIy flashing State de-
partment credentials. No shirts
He even wrote large manu1ac-
turer. No shirts.
Just Dozen
.sMy wants are meagre, ne
said. '"Only dozen stiff shirts. :
The admiral added that in view
of annba ssa dorial dignity, he did
not think it fitting that his dllem-
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EYEWITNESS TELLS
STORY OF Staying
Neighbor Relates Events OF
Tragedy Here To
Coroner's Jury

An eye witness told a Coroner's
jury last night she saw Mrs. Cor
enc Graham Collins, accused slay-
err of Mrs. E. F. Bordeaux, run
10 to IS feet, throw her left arm
around Mrs. Bordeaux's neck and
with her right hand stab her in the
left shoulder, inflicting wounds"
which later proved fatal.
The stabbing occurred in a pub
lie playground of the Riverside
apartments last Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Bordeaux, 30, mother of three
young children, died a few minutes
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HARTMAN RESIGNS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14-U.H-c
President Truman tonight accept
ed the resignation of W. Averell
hartman as U. S. ambassador to.
soviet Russia and named 1t. Gen.
walter Bedell Smith, wartime
ehIef of staff to- Gen. Dwight D..
Eisenhower, as his successor.
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Along The Cape Fear

the steamer, Home, bound from
New York to Charleston, was
wrecked off Ocracoke-about 10
miles south of Hatteras village
with a loss of 100 lives.
The following year the SIS Pulaski
while enroute to Baltimore from
bouth Carolina, blew up OF the
Tar Heel coast and killed 14O
people.
Cape Hatteras comes again into
the picture Oh Jan. q, 1871, When
the SIS Kensington rammed the
bark Templer some distance or
shore, taking toll of $50 lives
from the two ships.
0N
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Fe1u Chicken Necks In Pen
For Wilmington Platters
Not "Chicken-Minded"

As ]. H. Holmes, proprietor Of
Holmes Poultry company on Dock
street, said yesterday: "Just be-
cause people ate lot more chick
en- in the last four years than
ever before, it doesn't mean that
they've become 'chickenminded'.
It's simply that they couldn't get
the steaks and roasts they were
accustomed to. Now that the
steaks and roasts are on the way
back, l look for a big drop in the
chicken market"
M. Won Oesen, another Dock
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MEASURE LOSES
Heavy Vote OF 1,5OO Re-
gistered Rejects School
Supplement Tax Hike
Special to the Star

WHITEVILLE, Feb. 14-With
four out of five precincts reported
in the special tax supplement cleo
ton in Whiteville, yesterday, de-
feat of the measure doomed as a
certainty last night, according to
Elmore Powell, Sr., chairman Of
the board of elections.
GIL tc AL
Powell's unofficial tallies in the
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wilmington and vicinity: Friday fair
and rather cold.