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Rapid Increase Noted In
State; Jackson Couty Has
98 Per Cent Increase.
Salem, Oct. 10 Divorces In
Oregon are increasing more
rapidly than population, accord
ing to State Treasurer Leslie
M. Scott. In Jackson county
there were 124 divorces in the
1939-1940 period while 245 di
vorces were sought in the 1943
1944 period, an increase of 98
per cent.
Scott said since the law re
quires each county to collect
and pay to the state $5 for each
divorce suit filed, the number
cf divorces may be determined
approximately by counties for
the entire state.
State treasury department
records show that for the year
ended last June 30 there were
8215 divorce suits filed in the
entire state compared with 3570
during the year ended June 30,
1935.
Multnomah and Columbia
counties, each with an increase
of 147 per cent in divorce fees
paid to the state in the year
ended June 30, 1944, compared
with the year ended June 30,
1940, are in top place. For the
fiscal year 1944, Multnomah
county fees covered 4519 di
vorce proceedings, as against
1827 for the fiscal year 1940.
Population Jumps Reflected
The figures for Columbia
county were 84 for 1944, as com
pared to 34 for 1940. Josephine,
Benton, Lincoln, Umatilla and
Tillamook counties were next
in line with increases ranging
from 104 to 137 per cent. Part
of the increases, Scott opined,
was due to growth in population
and to war marriages in close
proximity to army eamps.
There, were fewer shattered
romances in Gilliam, Harney,
Wallowa, Sherman, Lake and
Wheeler than in any other coun
ties in the state. Each of these
counties shower a reduction in
the number of divorce suits
filed in the fiscal year 1944
compared with the record five
years ago.
The following summary
shows the total of divorce pro
ceedings filed by counties dur
ing the years ended June 30,
1940, and June 30, 1944, and the
percentages of increases or de
creases in such filings during
the five-year period:
1JJ9- 1943- lite-
County 1940
Baker 52
Benton 37
Clackamas . 210
Clatsop 82
Columbia
Coos
Hamey 29
jjlood River 32
I Jackson 124
' Jefferson 4
Josephone ...... v 46
Klamath 231
Lake 46
Lane 219
Lincoln 40
Linn 80
Malheur 35
Marion 192
Morrow 7
Multnomah ....1827
1944 crease
70 35
Crook t
Curry
Deschutes
Douglas
Gilliam
Grant 14
17
15
60
76
15
79
314
148
84
211
23
16
87
97
4
23
114
50
80
147
80
35
7
45
28
73
. 64
Polk
Sherman ...
Tillamook
Umatilla ...
Union
Wallowa 25
Wasco 41
Washington 108
Wheeler 9
Yamhill 78
Decrease.
19
43
245
5
109
289
33
403
85
153
40
327
14
4519
52
2
55
174
80
16
52
215
8
124
45
34
98
25 ;
137
25
28
87
113
91 ;
1 A !
70
100
147
4
33
104
112
36
36
27
99 .
11
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Washington, Oct. 10 0J.R
Price Chief Chester Bowles
warned today that another "dis
astrous depression" faces the
country after the war "if major
segments of American industry
attempt to cut prices by de
pressing wage rates."
In a summary of reconver
sion pricing addressed to 8,100
members of OPA industry com
mittees, Bowles said he believed
diminished production and dan
gerous unemployment would re
sult under a high price, high
unit profit basis for Industry.
Meanwhile, the Brookings in
stitution, taking issue with fore
casts of postwar national income
of around $200,000,000,000 an-
'nually, predicted a 1947 income
of only 11 to 18 per cent above
the 1940 figure of $80,400,000,
000. A survey prepared by Econ
omist Joseph Mayer estimated
the 1947 income at about $127,
000,000,000, attainable only
with a 20 per cent increase in
employment and production.
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Dewey, Is Belief
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 10 (U.R)
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Wendell Willkie, said today that i
his late brother had "never said I
a positive thing" to him about !
whether he would vote for either
President Roosevelt or Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey In the Novem
ber elections.
"It was my personal opinion,
however," Willkie said, "that my
brother eventually would have
come out for Governor Dewey."
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