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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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One Killed In Yule
Eve Auto Wreck
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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
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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