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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1947)
WORLD HEADLINES By UNITED PRESS PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 21. Portland’s third meatless Tues day wasn’t as meatless as the first two, a survey of markets and eating places indicated here tonight. Independent meat mar kets, closed the first two Tues days of the president’s food con servation program, were open today. H. E. Carlson, secretary of the group, said the indepen dent dealers did business today because retail markets failed to . observe previous meatless days. CHICAGO, Oct. 21—A dispute involving James C. Petrillo’s American Federation of Musicians threatened today to halt the per formance “La Boheme” by the San Carlo opera company The opera company itself was an innocent by r .. ' 'i .... . - .- - - stander. The dispute was betweer the union and the Wacker Corp., which operates the civic opera house in which the opera is being staged. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21—The army is going to continue its full occupation duties in Germany, jAustria, Japan and Korea for the rest of the year, and probably a Not longer. The state department said its plans to take over ad ministration of the occupation job have been postponed indef initely. Administrative reasons and not the present international situation prompted the decision, officials said. PARIS, Oct. 21—France's com munist-led labor movement, smart; ing from the election victory of Gen Charles De Gaulle’s anti communist party, demanded new and larger wage increases tonight under the renewed threat of a na tionwide general strike. De Gaulle, hero of the wartime French resistance movement, was scheduled to issue a statement to morrow which may disclose his po litical plans. Next spring is the earliest possible time for a general election under the French consti tution. KENNEBUNK, Me., Oct. 21. Nearly 1000 smoke-grimed volun teers brought a raging forest fire generally under control today though the flames which had swept over a half-dozen homes and summer cottages still were out of hand along the Biddeford Pool road. Several outlying farmhouses still were cut off by the racing flames but it was believed no one had been killed as the wind-driven blaze cut a swath through North Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and threatened to sweep into the tex tile city of Biddeford. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21—The j largest grocery chain In the West, Safeway stores, today in full-page newspaper advertise ments ran prices on 175 foods which are lower today than a year ago. Fbr each article listed the ad gave the price today and the price on the same date last year. CAIRO, Oct. 21. The Ministry of Public Health announced tonight that 561 persons had died of cholera in Egypt during the past 24 hours and that 1,022 new cases had been reported, an increase of approximately 54 per cent in the rate of incidence. SALEM, Ore., Oct. 31. The Oregon unemployment compen sation commission predicted to day that 1947 payroll total's in Oregon will exceed those of last year and may pass the all-time high of $799,000,000 of 1944. The total was $708,816,251, slightly more than the 1945 total of $708,885,646. LIMA, Peru, Oct. 21. The wreck age of a U.S. air mission transport plane missing for 11 days has been located on a height near the Ma ranon river and its condition in dicated that all of the five Ameri cans and one Peruvian aboard' were killed, it was announced of ficially today. Col. J. R. Hawkins, head of the air mission, was pi loting the plane, en route from El Pato air base, near Talara, to Iquitos, on the Amazon river. Neon signs with letters that can be changed as often as a new mes sage is desired is available. V The boys who ploy for pay, says Stanley Frank, are often thrown for a loss by the tiniest personal crises. They develop more complexes than any psych major ever heard of. But Red Smith, the New York Giants’ line coach, knows how to baby the bruisers ... and make ’em outdo even Frank Merriwell himself when it comes to the old college try. Don’t miss the amusing article in this week’s Post about the fellow who is pro football’s one-man court of human relations. YOU HAVE TO BABY THE PROS Frank - Alumni Plan Party For Stanford Game Activities preceding the Stanford game on November 15 will include a party and rally at San Francis co's Whitcomb hotel for the North ern California alumni association of the University of Oregon on Friday evening, November 14. University representatives at the party will include President Harry K. New born, Athletic Director Leo Harris, and the Oregon coaches. Election of officers will highlight the pre-game affair scheduled for 6:30 p.m. The University band will play in 1 front of the hotel at 9 p.m., follow I ing the party, for an alumni rally. Wednesday Adv. Staff: Day manager, Sally Waller Asst, day mgr.* Doug Hayes Layout Staff: Deno Vichas Ardath Cox Donna Brennan Kloh Ann Mayer George LaRoche Barbara Osburne Barbara Schultz Carol Ann Wall Solicitors: Barbara Beck Jim Ivory Andy Moore Donna Babb Loralee Warnock Betty Treischel Jackie Weis Lois Himmelsbach Office Staff: Dana Lind Barbara Wheat Sue Huggins Margaret Gammil SPORTSMAN 1 -- COLOGNE <|j • colognes • shaving lotions • hair preparations xbqoei3V“5L; ■ l 3 ; I % For a birthday, game or dance— send her the gift she'll adore. ’ t "MUMS" FOR THE GAME Chase Flowers ; 58 E. Broadway Phone 4240