Gen. Patton Partially Paralyzed
After Sunday Automobile Accident
By JAMES F. KING!
MANNHEIM, Doc. 10 (!)
don. CJoorfio B. Pulton lay nor
tlnlly pnrnlyr.od today in Ilcl
dolbortf honnitiil iih prominent
norvo H)iclalll wuro summon
cd from Knxliind mid thu United
Stains to trout aplnul injuries
which ho rocolvocl In nn aula
mobile iicvldont yesterday,
An nrmy moclicitl bullolln mild
Hint Putlim'H Kununil condition
wim stitlnfaclury, that lie wuh
completely rational and had
snout ii comfortable nlKlit but
clocllned to oroenst the probublo
cnursa of u niinilvsls of the low
er limbs ronultintf from a iilmplo
f rue to re of tho third corvictil
vertebrae.
llurrylim to bin aldo by trims
Atluntlo pluno were his wife and
a nouro-suruory apcclullnt, Col.
It. O. BpurlliiK of Louisville, Ky.
Already nt tho hoHpltal nro Mnj,
Gon. A. W. Konner, thvtitcr
auriiuon, nnd Prof. HuKh Cur
nes, k Hrltlith specialist who hud
bean flown from Oxford lit Uio
roquent of Mrs, Patton.
Mm. Patton wan expected to
orrlvo in I'urls tomorrow morn
ing und (io from tbcro to Holdel
, berg either by rail or air.
Restful Night
An 'official army bulletin Is
uod at tho hospital mid the fiery
general hud punned a restful
night, aleoplnu five hours.
Tho text of tho bulletin:
"General Piitton'a condition
as of S p. m., Dec. 0: A simple
fructuro of tho third cervical ver
tobrno with poatorlor disloca
tion of the fourth cervical, com
pletely uurulyzed below tile lo
vol of the third cervlcul; prog
nosis guarded,
"Mr. I'utton l flying by army
piano to be ut the general' bed
side. She will arrive In Paris
at 6 a. m. Tuesday, From there
she will travel by air or rail
Immediately to Heidelberg. At
Mrs. Piitton'a request, Hugh
Carncs, professor of neiiro-aur-iiery
at Oxford, wilt bo In at
tendance. Ho was flown from
England tills morning, arriving
at Frankfurt at 8:43 a. m. and
lie was driven Immediately to
Heidelberg.
"Mrs. Patton will bo accom
panied on tho flight from the
united states Dy col. Hoy uien
wood Smirllnu of tho medical
corps and Lt. Cot. Kerwcn of
tho war department operations
division.
"Two bulletins will be issued
dally on General Potion's condi
tion."
Collision
Tho accident occurred whon
an army truck reportedly turned
off a sido road into tho auto
bahn (super highway) and
crashed into Potion's sedan, Pat
ton and his chief of staff, Mnj.
Injured
Two Oregon
Men Honored
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (IP)
Two Oregon men wcro among
100 U. S. naval heroes awarded
honors today by the Russian gov.
ernment for outstanding mill
tary activities" in transporting
war goods to Russia's northern
ports on tno turned "Murmansk
Hun."
The awards and recipients In.
elude:
Order of Glory, third class
Ensign Harold L. Hannshuh
USNii, deceased, whoso address
was 827 E. 11th Ave., Eugene,
Oro.
Medal of Bravery Oswald
irvin uassidy, ex-senman 1c,
USNR, Vonnort City. Oro.
Tho honors wore displayed
hero briefly by charge d' affaires,
Nikolai Novlkov, at tho Russian
ombossv. They wcro then on-
trusted to Rear Admiral Thomas
B. Inglls, USN, for tho navy and
coast guard mon who are still on
assignment.
Oen. George 8. Patton, who
Is Dartlallv paralysed as tha re
sult of an automoblla collision
yesterday.
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Gon. Hobart R. Gay, had loft
U, S. ISth army headquarters
at Bod Nauhelm yosterday morn
ing to go pheusant hunting near
Mannheim. Gay and tho driver,
PKC. Horace Woodring, were
unhurt.
Patton was being treated by
Lt. Col. O. a. Hiu, on army sur
goon, Mai. Gen. A. W. Konner,
theator surgeon, also was at the
hospital.
A combat engineering unit
commanded by MaJ. Charles
Tucker of Now Hamburg, N. Y.,
was summoned by an unidenti
fied Red Cross girl and found
Patton slumped In tho rear scat
of his sedan. An eve-witness said
Patton's face was covered with
blood from cuts suffered when
ho was thrown forward by the
Imnnct nt tha crash.
Patton was reported to hove
sold thut, though nis necK nun,
ho felt no other injury,
Copt. Ned Snyder of Texas
trcuted Patton at tho sccno of
tho accident, after which tho en
gineering unit's ambulance
rushed him 20 miles to tho hos
pital in 25 minutes.
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Killed In Wreck
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oaiurauy wnen ineir car collid
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Myrtle Creek, was taken to the
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of shock and a fractured leg.
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than that, If possible! to get Northwest service men home from camps and
separation centers for Christmas.
But, please do not count on miracle, for the nation's railways face to
day the worst passenger travel congestion they've ever had !
You are entitled to know why train travel, particularly on Western lines,
now is difficult and will continue to be so for at least 60 days.
The principal reason is the accelerated rate at which service men ars
being returned to the United States. This month more than 1 million men
will be landed at Pacific and Atlantic ports. And, at least 90 per cent of them
must and will be moved homeward by railway.
There are two "rubs" in today's train travel picture. One is that railways
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a time when thousands of civilians, including students and teachers, plan to
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