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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1948)
;) WORLD HEADLINES By United Press BERLIN, Feb. 11—(UP)—An American military train enroute » from Frankfurt to Berlin was de layed today for 25 minutes at the Marienborn inter-zonal checkpoint by three Soviet officers who in sisted on verifying the travel or . ders of five German passengers. In a similar incident last night, an official British military train was ' stopped for two and a half hours by four Russian officers and al r lowed to proceed only after a sealed car had been detached. PITTSBURG, Feb. 11—(UP) — Republican Presidential aspirant Harold E. Stassen today took credit for helping to stop the up ward price spiral by smoking out “insiders” in grain.” Stassen said in a news conference that he be lieves the market will level off somewhere lower than when the break came “and will definitely reflect in lower food prices for the country.” BEAUMONT, Cal., Feb. 10—A coroner’s jury today ruled that pretty 17 year old Marjorie Winn was slain by “a person or persons unknown,” while California bor der stations were alerted to watch for the elusive highwayman killer. The jury returned a routine ver dict that the Redlands high school beauty died of a homicidal shot gun wound early Sunday morning. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—The commodity market crash in creased farm state presure for quick action on the European re covery plan today and senate president Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., expressed confidence that the slump would not in it self justify cuts in the foreign aid program. A high administra fic-i source said the market break probably would speed up the work of Vandenberg’s senate foriegn relations cimmittee, which is working full-time on which is working full-time on the draft of the Erp legislation. BERLIN. Feb. 11—Marshal Vas sily D. Sokolovsky, commander of the Soviet occupation zone, said today that Russia would reduce its occupation costs if the Germans carried out the reparations plan and increased production. In an. in terview granted Wilhelm Kuelz. leader of the German liberal Dem ocratic party, and printed in the Soviet army newspaper Taegliche Rundschau, Sokolovsky said that Russia would also re-examine its policy of confiscating German pro perty and foster peacetime produc tion in its zone. JERUSALEM, Palestine, Feb. 11—An illegal immigrant ship carrying 679 Jews got within 440 yards of the Palestine shore to day, but was intercepted by the British navy and escorted to Haifa. The immigrants—402 men, 216 women and 61 heildren —were shipped to Cyprus inter nment camps tonight. 31ost of them w:ere young and many were said to have had under ground experience in Germany during the war. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11— For the second time in four months the armed services of the "Sail Francisco Bay area will pause in their peacetime duties tomorrow to honor the return of men and women who gave their lives in the Pacific war. The ar my transport Cardinal O’Connel, converted to a funeral ship, One of the great perfumes of all time .. .This superb creation by Prince Matchabelli is too famous to demand description...as well try to describe the nostalgic fragrance of lilacs on a Spring day when you're in love and all the world's in tune. ..that's what the perfume reminds you of, that's what it's like. It’s Romance in a beautiful crystal Crown. 6.50 11.50 20.00 35.00 all prices plus tax. . • •' l- •* i • steamed into the Golden Gate to day carrying 2,812 war dead brought home at the request of next of kin for burial in this country. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 The construction of 2,745 new airports and improvements to 2,090 exist ing ones in the next three years at a cost of $1,048,500,000 to federal and state governments was recom mended today by the civil aeronau tics administration. With Texas first and California second in the number of airports and heliports to be built or improved, the three year estimate divided the cost at $469, 700,000 for the government and 5578,800,000 for state and local authorities. SALONIKA, Greece, Feb. 10 Greek guerrillas fired heavy art illery and mortar shells into this port city of 250,000 for 00 minutes before dawn today, killing four persons, including a British sol dier. But within a few hours they were trapped by Government sol diers and by early afternoon they appeared doomed to defeat. ATHENS,, Greece, Feb. 11— Authoritative. American sources said today that Col. Augustus ,J. Kegnier, who accompanied Greek army units in yesterday’s guer villa fighting near Salonika, had no command function and acted merely in the capacity of observ er and adviser. The informant said that an erroneous impres sion had been created abroad that the colonel commanded a platoon in an engagement.. Actu ally, it was said, the unit wa> commanded as usual by Greek officers, though American “ob server-adviser" officers were present. Mr.R?reney, I have a problem... “So many people want to give affectionate remembrances on St. Valentine’s Day—and lots of them have only a little to spend. How about helping me to help them?” 'OCv.V-'i'' Why Cupid! You KNOW Penney 9s Eases Folks9 Valentine Budgets! 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