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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1947)
U.S. Marines to Evacuate China Oregon Emerald WORLD NEWS SECTION _ Bob Frazier, Wire Editor Theives Steal Checks At UW SEATTLE, Jan. 29 (AP)—Up wards of $2,000 in veteran’s allot ment checks have been stolen from dormitories on the Univer sity of Washington campus this month and 12 were cashed in Uni versity district business estab lishments, O. S. Buehler, campus marshal, said Wednesday. “There has been more thievery on the campus the past three months than in any five-year peri od in the university’s history,’’ he said. Other thefts include 20 overcoats and many books and personal items. 50 Drown in Japan NUMAZU, Japan, Thursday, Jan. 30 (AP)—At least 50 Japa nese, many of them women, child ren and aged, drowned here Wed nesday when an overcrowded ferry overturned as it drew near the dock. As the ferry neared the slip passengers crowded to one aide of the vessell causing it to capsize. Rescuers brought 250 persons from the waters. More Scotch Allowed LONDON, Jan. 29 (AP)—Minis ter of Food John Strachey told the house of commons Wednesday that he had “squeezed out” 50,000 tons of barley from the 1946 crop for Scotch distillers because “whiskey is a most valuable dollar export.” CECIL. HARRIOTT RELEASED CHICAGO, Jan. 29—(AP)—The Chicago Cubs tonight announced the release of Cecil Gariott, outfield er, to Los Angeles. f British Civilian Flees Underground Tortures JERUSALEM, Jan. 29 (AP) — An exhausted 48-year-old British banker, held prisoner by the Jew ish underground for 78 hours, stumbled into a clinic in the heart of Jerusalem Wednesday and told police he had fought his way to freedom. Taken promptly to a heavily guarded government hospital, H. A. I. Collins, the second of two civilians kidnapped by the under ground, was quoted by police as declaring: “I was badly treated.” Physicians at the hospital de scribed his condition as “danger ous.” Potato Salad Poisons 150 WENATCHEE, Jan. 29 (AP) — A poisonous bacteria in the potato salad, staphaloccossis by name, sickened 150 persons at an Elks lodge banquet Tuesday night. The state health department labora tories at Seattle, to which food samples were sent, diagnosed the cause. Admit Train Wrecking WALTON, Ind., Jan. 29 (AP) — Sheriff Harold Smith said Wed nesday two Walton hoys 10 and 12 years old had admitted that they put a 175-pound roll of fence wire on the Pennsylvania railroad track here Monday, causing a wreck in which four persons were killed. Weather OREGON—Mostly cloudy with rain or snow showers Thursday; partly cloudy Friday. Little tem perature change. Moderate to fresh/ northwesterly wind off coast. Snow, Rain, Wind Sweep Northwest By The Associated Press Eight inches of snow blanketed Grays Harbor communities at nightfall last (Wed.) night and western Washington appeared in for a heavy night's snowfall. Traf fic accidents had taken four lives, three in one collision north of Stanwood. Air service was disrupted, high way traffic stalled or halted and school closings appeared probable today (Thurs.) Northwest Airlines westbound planes were grounded at Spokane and Yakima as the storm reduced visibility in western Washington. A United Air lines plane from Vancouver, B. C., passed up Se attle, and landed its six Seattle passengers at Portland. One Pan American Airways plane from Alaska managed to land in mid afternoon at Paine field, between Seattle and Everett. Southeast storm warnings were issued for the Washington coast and through the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Port Townsend, with small-craft warnings for inland waters.” Continued cold was also forecast for western Washington. Snow fell during the day in Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Seattle, Port land, Longview and other west side cities. UO Alumni to Receive Campus News Bulletin Oregon alumni will receive a pamphlet-form University nesw bulletin soon, published under the direction of George N. Belknap, University editor. The four-page publication is called “Oregon News to Oregon Dads,” and contains information about this year’s Dads’ day and news about current state legisla tion which will concern the Univer sity. Mary Spiller hall was built in 1909. .a SpsUwxi, ubdedded. and Suit-i gracefully tailored to accentuate your feminine charm. You'll find the Styles breath taking — at — GORDON’S .... of course 1050 Willamette .. . "■-.-r=-=: ■■ Fiercer War Feared If Troops Leave Now PEIPING, Jan. 29 (AP)—China today was left to work out her own salvation as the United States announced it is closing the American branch of executive (truce) headquar ters here and withdrawing U. S. marines from north China. Some military sources said the first effect might be intensi fication of China’s civil war. The announcement—made simultaneously in Washington, Nanking and Peiping—came with out the slightest advance hint to either Chinese government or Chi nese communist leaders. At least 1,000 U. S. army and ci vilian personnel at headquarters and thousands of U. S. marines, de pendents and equipment will be re moved in an operation requiring weeks. (Washington said 8,000 ma rines were involved; President Tru man in December said there were 12,000 leathernecks in China, but Peiping dispatches consistently have placed the number at 15,000.) The leathernecks had a twofold purpose here: to keep a supply route open from the Chihli gulf port, Tangku, through Tientsin to Amer ican headquarters in Peiping, and ' to protect American personnel. The marines’ job was toughened considerably by the headquarters closure order, said an American au thority, because American person nel will be moved out of China along the Peiping-Tientsin railroad and highway. Strong communist guer illa bands constantly harass both, have cut the highway for severat days at a time, and have interrupt ed rail traffic. A University ambulance went to France in 1918. WONDERFUL GIFTS To please anyone for that special Valentine Remembrance— SEE OUR ♦ Radios * '' ♦ Costume Jewelry ♦ Parker Products Huff's Jewelry The Jewel Box 827 Willamette 1036 Willamette For the Song in Your Heart • CORDAY IN YOUR SOUl Tiffany-Da vis 8th and Willamette