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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1946)
RKKALS NSWS. HlaaaaUl rails, Ota. TllaAi "'. t, Htt, In 9mm CtttSHES KILL, 1NJIM 85 Bankruptcy Rate Drops PORTLAND, Dec. 26 (P) Prosperity was general In Ore gon this year, Estes Snedeeor, chief of the federal bankruptcy office for the state, reported to day in listing only 213 bank ruptcy petitions for the year to December 24. This was the smallest num ber for any year since a uni form system was established in 1898, he said, and was 100 few er than 1945, the previous low year. The total is about 800 un der the yearly average, he said. High point was reached the first year of the depression when 1500 were listed. Snedeeor said, however, that in recent months a trend sug gests that in lines such as jew elry, night clubs and beer par lors an increase in bankruptcies is in prospect, GOP Split In Ranks Widens (Continued From Page One) Halleck (Ind.) generally has been conceded the inside in the floor leadership contest. Rep. Jenkins (Ohio) and Dirksen (111.) are the other announced candidates, and Rep. Brown (Ohio) declared himself "available." As an example of the heat that has been engendered within the party. Rep. Hoffman (Mich.) lashed out today at what he called "a small clique" of house republicans "hogging all the jobs and trying to run things." U. S. Spending Sets All-Time Record WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (At Americans spent a record $127, 000,000,000 for goods and serv ices this year, or an overage of more than $900 for every man, woman and child in the country. The commerce department's office of business economics which came up with this esti mate today said the total is $21, 000,000,000 over last year's pre vious record. Courthouse Records Camplalnl rile Lillian 3. Johnson vs. Charier W. Johnson, nilt for divorce. Charge, cruel and inhuman treatment. Couple mar ried. Reno. Nev., December 2. 1944. W. Lamar Townaend. attorney for plain UK. sfsrrlsga License! JOHNSTON WIGGINS. Charlea Har old Johnston, 38, engineer. NaUve of Minnesota. Resident of Oakland, Calif. Sylvia Wiggins. 39, secretary. NaUve of England. Resident of Oakland. Calif. PATZKE FAG AN. Patrick J. Patxke. 21, logger. NaUve of Minnesota. Resident of Biy. Ore. Annie Jewel Fagan, 16. Native of Mississippi. Resident of Blr. Ore. CARNIVAL eon. i4i w mca tenvwe. we. f. m. Mo. u. I wanna report a fn The Day's Slews (Continued From Page One) better. They have just captured a villnge only seven miles from Peiping. Other communist suc cesses have been reported re cently. It is Just possible that the name "communist" applied to these northern Chinese rebels may be misleading. Reports from reliable sources have been suggesting that the communist faction in China represents more nearly what the Chinese PEO PLE want than the Kuomlntang government. What the bulk of the Chinese people want, these reports make clear, is a standard of living above the starvation level. It is a reasonable ambition. Atomic Board Adopts Draft (Continued From Page One) containing several comments on the United States proposal. The commission's working committee will meet tomorrow in closed session to deal with the findings and recommendations. It will work on the United States plan for atomic control, which Bernard M. Baruch, U. S. dele gate, has been urging the com mission to include as the base of its report to the security council. Holiday Traffic Toll Reaches 220 (Continued From Page One) from 6 p. m. Tuesday through Wednesday. A council spokes man said the eventual death toll in highway accidents for the period would be "considerably more than 300." More than one-fourth of the traffic deaths 61 occurred in California. The heavy toll in highway accidents was blamed by a police traffic official on a "combination of wet streets and drinking." Forty-three of the 61 deaths were reported In a 10- county area near Los Angeles. Rain and fog were reported in the area. Illinois' violent death toll ranked second with 27, including 22 in traffic mishaps. Nineteen of the fatalities occurred in the Chicago area. The heaviest single toll on the holiday was the death of five persons in a head-on auto colli sion near Norristown, Tenn. B Dick Turner t pftr. err. missing hous!" One Killed In Yule Eve Auto Wreck (Continued from Puge One) uninjured. It is understood that both Dcllingvrs are former em ployes of the J. Frank Allium ranch at Morrill and the French Johnson place at Tuleluko. They aro thought to have been v: route to spend Christmas Eve with Mr, and Mrs. Charles Ilea ton and the E. C. Lemlor family at Merrill. Five to Hospital A second Christmas Eve acci dent at Altamunt drivo and the Great Northern trunks sent five persons to Hillside hospital. Driver of the cur, according to state police, was Victor West Powell, 26, chief putty officer, USN, who told officers he did not see the Creut Northern freight us It stood o:i the tracks across the road. In the car were Mr, and Mrs. Powell, her moth er, Mrs. Gertrude Springer, 85, Portland, and Mr. and Mrs. El mer Bradford Nichols, Bonanza. All wcro hospitalized but Mrs. Patricia Powell, 23 Bonanza, who was dismissed today. Powell has head, leg and acute back injuries, Mrs. Springer has a badly bruised heud, Elmer Nichols has body Injuries, and his wife, 47, music teacher at the Bonanza grade school, was badly bruised. Officers said the highway was slick with ice but that two signs, a "stop" and a railroad sign, are at that cross ing. Hospital attendants reported numerous accident victims treat ed for minor cuts and bruises Christmas Eve but that they were dismissed after treatment. Passengers Hurt Christmas Day saw several traffic accidents which hospital ized passengers. At 9 o'clock yesterday morning state police were called out on the Ashland highway to investigate a two-car crash which sent two to Hillside. The accident occurred near the McVcy machine shop when of ficers said a car driven by George W. Hill, 41, route 3 box 1052, started to pass a machine operated by Walter Bernard Mulligan, 41, 17S0 Hope, the Hill car skidding on the ice and striking Mulligan's car which overturned in the borrow pit. Hill was uninjured, but Mrs. Velma Mulligan, 38, and her mother, Mrs. S. H. (Anna) Rose myer, 70, were taken to Hillside. Mrs. Mulligan was to be dis missed today, Thursday, but Mrs. Koscmyer has severe Injur ies including head and chest hurts and multiple bruises. Mul ligan la a Kestcrson employe. Late Christmas afternoon, at about 4:15 o'clock, an accident at Shasta way and Arthur street injured two, not scrloutily. State police said the driver of one car. Glen Hart of 1610 Oak, was going toward Klamath Falls on Shasta way at about 40 to 45 miles per hour, when a sedan pulled out in front of his car and in attempting to avoid a crash the Hart car overturned twice and landed on its ton. Pas sengers in the Hart car were Mr. and Mrs. Orville Sampson, route i dox iiua, city, tioth were treated at Hillside. Hart was uninjured. State police were called out at 12:30 a. m. Christmas morninif on highway 66, three miles west of the Lenox junction, where a fiarKca car was struck by a pass ng motorist. Officers nmxitwl Arlie Joe Sessions, route 1 box 60B-A .Merrill, for parking on the highway. Sessions posted $100 bull to appear in justice court at 2 p. m. today. Officers said Session told them he was sleepy and pulled his sedan to tne side. He was asleep when a sedan operated by Virgie Arlis Walker, Tulelake, hit the rear of the machine. Walker said he did not see the narked enr Thoso involved suffered minor nurts but both cars were dam aged considerably. Five nogro passengers of one car were injured and the passen ger of another machine Involved in a three-car collision at the viewpoint near tho Klamath View auto court, was hospi talized, in a Christmas night ac cident, stntc police advised. Officers said a car driven by Haig Chown, about 28, route 3 box 149, city, turned sideways on tho slick pavement and skid ded into a sedan driven by Na- Three Chinese Airliners Pile Up In Thick Fog SHANGHAI. Dec. 26 (It Three Chines airliners, loaded with more than 100 persons anticipating gay Christmas parties her, cracked up in the (og blenkeled Shanghai ere last night, killing or Injuring 85 persons. On American pilot was killed and another Injured. A fourth transport was missing and leared lost with at least 10 persons aboard. Yesterday was the blackest in China's civilian aviation his tory. The American-owned Shanghai Evening Post end Mercury reported 82 passengers and crewmen were killed and I were Injured, tome so critically they may not survive. A Chine woman was killed and her three children were lev Colcon Bray, colored, 3334 Cros y. Shortly utter the two cars collided a third muchlna driven by Ralph B.-agtf, state highway employe, Altamunt auto court, struck the rear end of Bray's car. Injured in tho Chown cur were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mnffalt. route 3 box 164, city. Mrs. Mnf fatt, 36, is In Klamath Valley hospital with triple fracture of the pelvis and other hurts, and her husband, at their home, is suffering from possible Inter nal hurts. Ho is a Weyerhaeuser employe. In the Bray car were Napo leon's wife, Alllp May, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Day, and Rosle Jones. All suffered severe lac erations of the face and head. They refused to be hospitalized and were given treatment by a private physician who said Rosle Jones' lower Up was near ly severed and all had bad head and face cuts. Day, owner of the car, is em ployed as car washer at Hau ger's, Bray Is porter at Lombard Motors. Mrs. Bray and Mrs. Day are twin sisters. Mrs. Bragg, passenger In the third car, Is suf fering from severe shock. In Hillside hospital is Mrs. Edith Kirk. 24. Merrill, who has head injuries received at 11 p. m. Christmas Eve when a car in which she was riding over turned. The hospital said Roy Ballingcr and Webb White, also passengers, were treated. Mrs. Kirk is employed by Schuck brothers. Tulelake police reported minor accident but no injuries over the holidays. Driver of a truck crashed into the Associated ser vice station across from the Bank of America, snapped off the water pipe and drove away. Before authorities could shut off the water Main and B streets were flooded and ice formed rapidly, creating a huzardous condition at that point. Don Dy scrt is station operator. The truck driver was unknown. The accident occurred Christmas night. All in all, state police reported 10 accidents Christmas Eve and five Christmas Day, There were a number of others of which they were not advised, it is un derstood. OUT OUR WAY i&J UvAilN0' NO-'NOT J A4' THOSE GUYS DON'T 1 . f yU W ANOTHER INCH DARE CHANGE THEIR MINDS ) Jk3KiJA OP SHOVELIM' I NOW ABOUT SKATINl WITH J fib M FER US--THIS TH' GIRLS ALONG- V IflM OK l& ENOUGH TO THEY'LL HAFTA jr YS, !1 , i SHOW 'EM MOW V-i SHOVEL m- B-J . THE BOOMERS eS V?.."1,.!1.?? P i i it asasaaasr"''''MTflBsaasaa. Jurrd when one of the trans ports crashed into ncr iarr home near Woosung. Shanghai pape" earlier Km reported 76 were killed aboard the three planes, but revised their figures downward. The Post and Mercury said two of the victims were Amer icans Capt. J. M. Greenwood, who was killed, and K. B. Preus, Injured seriously. Their home addresses were nut given. U. S. Pilots Greenwood ant! Preus were piloting two of the crashed planes, both owned by the Chi nese National Aviation corpora tion, the country's lending an lines. It employs mony Ameri cans as pilots. The third plan was owned by the Centrnl Air Transport corporation, also a Chinese company. Another American, William II. Byrne, wing flight surgeon of the U. S. air transport com mand's Tokyo heudtuarter, nearly lost his life in a hero's role. He went into the burning fuselngo of ono of the planes in search of survivors. Over come by fumes, he was pulled to safety by another American officer, who was not Identified, Byrne is from Cookvlllo, Tenn. All three of tho crashed filuncs were from Chungking, uaded with , passengers plan ning a Christmas night la Shanghai, VITAL STATISTICS MAIIP1N nm at Klamath Valla hospital. Klamath Falls, Ore.. Deeemher 23. IMS. to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Maupln, Merrill, a boy. Weight: pounds S' WAI 4tr.ll Bom at Klamath Valla hospital, Klamath Valla. On . Marember 24. ISM. to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walker, routs 1 bus SIWA, a boy. Waisht: pounds IS n unrs. OI.1VCH - Horn at Klamalh Valla hoaplUt. Klamath rails. Or. . Mersmbar XI. IMS. to Mr. and Mrs. II. J Oliver. Ml. Ilsbron. 'Ilf., a lrt. Wslshli 1 pounds 10 ounras. HAMI'l.A WNKI Born al Klamalh Vat lay hospital, Klamalh rails, lira., De cember 23. IMft. to Mr. ami Mrs. Emu Hamplawsal. routa 2 box Sat, a ssri. Weight: 9 pounds SV, ounces, JOHNSON Horn at Klamalh Valla hospital. Klamath Falls. Ore.. Dacemlier an, ivsa, to Mr. ana Mrs t;rit jonnson. Tennani. tailt., a bor. walant: a iu ouncee. Eskimos are said to bury a dog with a dead child, in ttva belief that the dng may guide) the child in another world. By J. R. WILLIAMS
