*- r- i __ '' FORECAST + \ ^ + L 7 ^ Served By Leased Wires - ■■ mux and National News State ___ Mnrmnn timtttnfam^^^F j^^F lfQL79.NO. 81._~ _WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1946_____ESTABL1SHEIM867 PRESIDENT GIVES NA TION NEW WA GE-PRICE PLANS IN EFFORT TO END WAR ON LABOR FRONT Board Plans TRUMAN SEEKS MAN” Bowles Gets TO STEM ICKES ROW Over •VAMinuiUIN, Feb. 14—(U.PJ taken all his troubles in striae Battle —President Truman today be- and he looks fine.” Position gan for a succes- Top searching “Curmudgeon” Packing sor to Secretary of Interior Ickes, the 71-year-old “cur- Harold L. who leaves Ickes, mudgeon,” went about the* the cabinet tomorrow after a Case business of packing up so he In McKoy political that rocked blowup could leave by the close of the Shakeup Administration. business tomorrow—the time All evidence to the Funds Available To Carry pointed Mr. Truman “graciously al- selection of a westerner. Steel Strike Settlement Ex- lowed” him to wind up an ac- Several Mentioned Ineligibility Ruling cumulation of 13 years on the the White House call- pected Under New Among job. When Ickes submitted his Shortly Through Courts ers was Sen. C. O’Ma- Joseph resignation, he expected that Of is Policy Truman honey, (D., Wyo.,) who being Mr. Truman would give him mentioned for DELEGATION NAMED prominently until March 31 to clean odds Ickes’ Others mentioned up job. and ends. But the President 1936-39 PROFIT LEVEL include former Sen. D. Worth was in no mood for dawdling. Clark, (D., Ida.,) Gov. Robert Education Group Here Told He told Ickes to get out at the S. Kerr of Oklahoma and For Rep. close of business tomorrow. Approval Necessary All Athletes After Harry R. Sheppard, (D.t Uneasy But Ickes, though out of a Calii.,, Wage Increases Leading government job, won’t have to NCHSAA Stand One certain. Mr. Tru- thing worry about where the next To Prices man will not seek Ickes’ Higher opin- dollar is coming from. Besides By JACK C. LUNAN ion. The bitter manner in which bging independently wealthy, WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.— Approving the action of they parted company he has a choice of of- glowing — are Wednesday precluded that. (A3) President Truman to- Wilmington’s American Legion Post No. 10 goes on the air Shown above at the broadcast, left to right, seated, W. W. Coach Leon Brogden, Princi- fers. ever' Wednesday with a to of the Tide Water Power company; and J. G. The principals in Washing- the nation a night program designed bring about a Bell, president Hasn’t Said night gave new, and com- pal T. T. Hamilton, Jr., and ton’s Yeg spirit of cooperation and understanding between civilians and Thornton, president of the Wilmington Savings Trust all-time battle of invec- and tive Sources close to higher wage-price policy sci VK'i inen. t,ach week the program features outstanding jnen and Standing, Commander Donald King, of the Legion post; Col- H. M. Roland were silent today. Ickes said pany. Superintendent named hold-the-liner Chester women in various pursuits of life. onel Pickens; John H. Farrell, secretary of the Wilmington Cham- in the Johnny McKoy ineligi- A White House caller said On Wednesday night’s program Col. Wiley Pickens, Raleigh, ber of Commerce; Mayor W. Ronald Lane, and, at the microphone, Mr. Truman appeared “to have (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) Bowles to run it as stabiliza- case before and at the director of the State Veterans’ commission, was featured along Ben McDonald, Round-the-Town Reporter of the Wilmington Star- bility tion administrator. with outstanding Wilmington men. News.—Star Staff Photo by Pete conducted the eli- ~ hearing ■ Knight._ by Government will ■ approval V j gibility committee of the FATHER PERON be required for any in- North Carolina High School MURPHY BLASTS wage crease which might lead to ENDS FIRST HOMES ALERTED Athletic association in UNO Chapel higher prices, the White Old Hill recently, the V YS HOSPITAL STATE OFFICIAL Boys Brigade City-County House announced, and indus- (HL Board of Education, last nighl WORLDASSEMBLY AS SPILLS tries granting permitted pay instructed the tc secretary Catholic Priest Here Issues Charges Braden With Es- raises may seek Hands Over Torch the board to inform Messrs price adjust- Gallon In ments at once. At present Session Chooses Tempo- 230,000 Capacity Brogden, Hamilton and Ro- Statement On Hopes pionage Argentine; Highlighting the 50th anniversary of the Old Boys Brigade, they must wait six months to In New of the for the Tank Overflows And land letter to that effect. For Institution U. S. General rary Headquarters was the symbolic presentation responsibility Brigade by Expels establish a record of need. Boys’ club to the younger Senior Fraternity members at a banquet Further, the after a Houses board, In the of eco- York; Reds Beaten in the Brigade armory last night. Sprays In response to late developments BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 14—(AP)— shakeup his for Old E. P. thorough discussion of all In making the presentation the Brigade, Dudley, concerning the proposed establish- Col. Juan D. Peron in a published nomic high command, Mr. on the it had been to work with the A 230,000-gallon capacity Stand- of the made i1 LONDON, Friday, Feb. 15—(U.R)— president, remarked privilege angles case, ment of a Catholic hospital in Wil- Statement tonight asserted that Truman named OPA Admin- members of the Boys’ club. ard Oil company storage tank over- The firs, world assembly of the younger Brigade plain that Wilmington plans mington, the Very Rev, C. E. Mur- Spruille Braden was “chief of a Newton Kelly, president of the Senior Fraternity, accepting the flowed last night and sprayed fuel istrator Bowles to succeed United Nations adjourned at 12:35 to the matter phy, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic vast spy network” throughout ‘moral responsibility’ of guiding the Brigade, said that his club oil over a considerable area around fight through John C. Collet in the economic a m. today after approving com- church here, yesterday issued a South America while he served as would endeavor to carry on the traditions of the older group and the tanks,, and doused several to a definite conclusion wher mittee recommendations to set up formal statement of his and U, S. ambassador to and stabilization post. continue the fine job done in the past. He invited the older club Some of the hopes Argentina in buildings nrarby. on motion of James Roe anc a temporary UNO headquarters to meet with the Senior Fraternity each year on their plans for the future institution. that former U. S. military at- Paul A. chairman of members buildings ,were occupied, and resi- Porter, New York city and establish per- Feb. 14. Emsley Laney, the board in- Father Murphy’s statement reads tache had been expelled from Ar- birthday, dents of the area were ordered to the Federal Communications manent headquarters in the area Delivering the main address of the evening, Col. Charles C. structed D as follows: gentina for espionage. out all fires in the houses until Attorney Cyrus Commission and a of Westchester County, N. Y., and Lou°hlin U. S. Army retired, Rocky Mount, who served with the put Need For supporter from the and Hamil- Hospital Peron also charged that Braden Conn. World War II, and a charter member of the potential- danger spilled Hogue Principal The of Bowles’ firm Fairfield County, infantry during "To People of Wilmington: while ambassador collected money hold-the-line as his the and functions of oil ended. ton to go to Hill nexl The final hours of the first as- Brieade, used thesis, organization Chapel "For fear of being misquoted or from firms under the was The alert was later lifted when Argentine convictions, appointed the sembly were marked by another UNO. week for a conference with C misunderstood, I am this of _ threat them. it was learned that the oil did not writing blacklisting new OPA chief. Russian defeat when by a vote of E. executive secre- letter to It seems that Col. have inflammable McIntosh, your paper. Demands Proof 32 to 6 the Ameri- (Continued on Page Three; highly qualities. ! delegates gave 3)_ in or- the people of Wilmington feel the on Officials of the Standard Oil com- tary of the conference, His statement, published in the (Continued Page Three; Col. 5) can Federation of Labor the same need of a Catholic hospital and our pany said a gauge valve became der to ascertain all facts and newspaper La Epoca which is sup- consultative privileges accorded City Council, according to news- stuck on the storage tank while the porting him for the presidency of the new world federation of trade paper account, by unanimous DOWN WIDE PAY BOOST oil was being piped in from a (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) Argentina, flatly denied charges unions. OPA TURNS vote has confirmed this tftWUNIM 1ELL5 tanker, the Esso Portland, docked feeling. made earlier this week by the U. There was also another angry would be well to the at the company pier. Jt clarify S. State department that Peron exchange between British and Rus- issue. RENT HIKE PLEA WINS GROUP NOD The storage tanks are located hospital conspired to aid the Nazis and de- sian delegates. British Delegate P. STORY OF SLAYING between Second and Third streets BUS T AX "Why a hospital?—To relieve manded that the United States J. Noel-Baker, addressing Dmitri COL1 give on Beatty street. Three other tanks human suffering. This is essential- of.