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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1948)
WORLD HEADLINES By United Press MONTEREY, Calif—Tony, a heart-broken collie dog who would n’t eat while his soldier master was gone, was re-united today with Corp. Robert H. Stratman. But the army wonders if it was worth it. The three-year-old tail wagger was flown here from Santa Monica, Calif., in a special air force “mercy plane." A group of army officers, who went to considerable trouble to save the grieving.pet’s life, made a proud and admiring audience for the grand reunion at the Ford Ord kennels. JERUSALEM, Palestine, —Twenty bandits robbed Bay clay’s bank in Tel Aviv of more than $31,000 today and British reinforcements were rushed to the Palestine - Syrian border where new fighting broke out be tween Arabs and Jews. Tlie border fighting, described as skirmishes, was around the settlements of Dan and Kefar S/.old, which 800 Arab invaders attacked last Friday. There was no indication whether the Arabs today had filtered across the bor der. ANNAPOLIS, Md - The naval academy, weary of seeing its foot . ball team kicked around, scrapped ! ts graduate coach system today . and announced cryptically that it * was going into the open market to | obtain a civilian coach with an out i rtanding reputation. Under the arrangement, Capt. Tom Hamilton, the navy coach will become director of athletics 'ind will be among those who will decide on his successor. PORTLAND, Ore. — I). L. Marlett, acting Bonneville ad ministrator, said today that the i $88,47.5,000 requested hy Presi dent Truman in his budget mes sage (o congress was the “mini mum” necessary to take care of present electric service needs in the Bonneville and Grand Coulee dam areas. The amount, lie added, will not solve tlie basic shortage of pow , cr supply for industry and other development which can only he alleviated by completion of new dams tinder construction or au thorized. WASHINGTON Sen. Wayne . Morse, R., Ore., today introduced i bill authorizing a navy expendi ture of up to $1,600,090 on a water apply system at Astoria, Ore. The • measure also would provide service for naval installations at Tongue mint. ! SAN FRANCISCO — Steak at j $1 a pound—amt up—was pre ; dieted hy AFL butchers’ presi : dent, Milton Maxwell. He said increased wholesale costs are almost certain to re sult in higher prices to the con sumer. TIENTSIN A Chinese gov rnuient communique claimed to night that nationalist forces had routed 10,000 attacking commun ists in a desperate battle to prevent tie capture of Tientsin. It said the bandits" suffered such heavy cas alitios they wouldn't "dare attack Tientsin again." WASHINGTON Secretary of Ygriculture Clinton P. Anderson. . i enewed demands today for limited price controls on hard-to-get “cost of living” goods and angrily denied -a Republican charge that his meat Driver Escaped From This Crushed Car Thomas J. Bell, 59, of Valatie, N. Y., escaped with only ninui njunes n his c.oueni -u Albany-New York highway. His car was crushed when the huge tractor-trailer overturned on top of it. Bell was thrown 20 feet by the impact, but was not seriously hurt, ..—,——1 shortage predictions would “scare the people” into a depression. He told the senate banking com mittee, which went to work on a wide range of GOP and.Democrat tic plans to combat high prices, that the country would feel the meat shortage in March, April and May, and that congress “ought to set up rationing machinery now so we can have it when we need it.” WASHINGTON—Congress was asked today to give the state de partment's foreign information program $44,000,000 in the next 18 months to challenge Russia’s “misleading propaganda” against Help Your Clothes to Keep THE "NEW LOOK" send them to i BEST CLEANERS S21 East 13th I’hone 740 For After Study Hour SNACKS (let your supplies from UNIVERSITY GROCERY 790 E. 11th Phone 1597 l U. S. foreign policy anil tne Mar shall European recovery plan. CAMPUS CALENDAR 12 noon YWCA cabinet meeting at YMCA 12:30 Druids meet at Sigma Chi 12:30 p.m. Gamma Alpha Chi meeting at Side 4:30 p.m. YWCA International affairs committee meeting at YWCA G:30 p.m. Kwama meeting at Hendricks hall 6:30 p.m. Phi Beta will meet at 2001 Fairmont. Transportation will be provided outside Gerlinger hall at 6:15 p.m. 6:45 Newman club meeting at YMCA 7 p.m. Skull and Dagger meeting at the Side 7:30 Symposium meeting: “High Cost of Living” and “World Gov ernment” groups at Room 107 Friendly hall 7:30 Booth representatives meet ing for WAA carnival in alumnae hall of Gerlinger and are requested to bring $2 booth rental fee and preferences for concessions 7:45 p.m. Christian Science or ganization will hold its regular testimonial meeting in the YWCA 8 p.m. Dames business meeting at YMCA Lv. 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