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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1944)
PAGE EIGHT THE (SEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1944 OAo Trappers Report Skunks Now Scarce Cleveland ui This Is not a story about an odor. Rather it is a tale concerning the increasing scarcity of the possessor of said odor namely, the skunk. Trappers in Ohio blame the dis appearance of the valuable fur bearing animal to disease. Conser vation officials, however, report the skunk population has been de pleted by "over-trapping." Meanwhile, the ladles will soon be doing without skunk fur coats. And professional trappers and farmers are losing a rich source of winter Income. Worse, perhaps. Is the word from Mantua, O., farmers, who report a serious shortage in po tato production because there are no skunks to dig out the grubs which feed on the young potatoes. Trappers In northern Ohio counties say rabies found main ly among dogs was killing off the white-striped woods kitty. Sportsmen report finding full grown skunks lying dead in the ueias 01 nortnern unio. The Ohio department of con servation, however, discredits the disease report. Assistant Depart ment Chief H. C. Rider says trapping has been "prohibited" in 13 southern and southeastern counties because of "over-trapping." I Arthur M. Johnson, a Chardon, O., fur buyer, says he has pur chased only 40 skunk pelts this year. Normally, he points out, "I buy 150 skins by the end of Janu ary." Another buyer, Forest Little of Middlefleld, O., says he is pur chasing "less and less" skunk. POLIO VICTIM SETS PACE Med ford, Mass. ilii Miss Mar lon Kelleher, 24-year-old infan tile paralysis victim, is Medford's top war bond saleswoman. Al ready she has sold more than $40,000 worth. Jap Tank Under New Management 'JJJ X r fa Captured at Maun wnen Army captured ttiat utibert island etruwrpulnt but November, this Japanese tank is now "under new management'' at Oahu, Hawaii, Is used to familiarize American troops with what Jap light tank looks luce from an; angle, u. 8. Navy photo. .. Privates Head Camp Fathers With 8 and 9 San Diego, Calif. tP Between the two of them. Pvt. Bernard Valdepena and Pvt. Wilfred Elias, trainee soldiers at Camp Callan, Calif., can list 17 good reasons for being In the army. Pvt. Valdepena, Kansas City, Mo., has the distinctive title of champion father of the camp, with nine children to his credit. Pvt. Elias runs him a close sec ond as father of eight. With some hesitancy, Valde pena, 36, listed the family roster as Bernard, Jr., Raymond, Rob ert, Ronald, Richard and Jerry; then, Romans, Rosalie and Betty Jean. "They're all under 10," Valde pena said. "I'd have to consult the family Bible to name their ages." Valdepena's 31-year-old wife Marguerite receives an allotment check of $240 each month from the government. The champion finds sympathe tic company in runner-up Pvt. Ellas, 35, Lafayette, La., who gets family mail from Wilfred, Jr., Robert, John, Donald, Raymond, Gilda Lee, Maria Jeannette and Dolores. Eliass' children are between the ages of three and fifteen. Mrs. Elias, who is 35, receives a month ly check for $220. "Despite our allotments and honorary titles," Valdepena said, "we'll be glad to get back to our wives and kids." ' ... A Pin-Up for Those Who Don't Buy Bonds X STUDENTS ON 70-HOUR WEEK Worcester, Mass. IP Reduc ing collegiate activities to the im pressive decimal point, the Wor cester Polytechnic Institute News figures that war-busy students are working a 70.6-hour week un der the accelerated program'. "However, such a program keeps life from becoming monotonous," philosophizes the News. Buy National War Bonds Now' n , atfr, t. : Locomotive talc, a terrific pounding they pull their heavy loads acrou the country. After each run they must be thoroughly Impacted and made ready for the next. The picture ahowe one of the slant steam locomotive, that haul. Croat Northern's train, acrou the Rocky Mountain, on a turntable at the railway's roundhouae at Whlten.lt, Montana. aReinfiovcements Roundhouses aren't very glamorous places. They don't make pretty pictures. The men and women who work in them know the smelt of smoke and the feel of grease. For theirs is the seriou, and rather grimy business of grooming thousands upon thousands of horsepower, day in and day out overhauling, repairing, servic ing and checking the tons of whirling steel and iron that haul the trains. They fifht too, these men and women fight time, for engines are desperately needed all around the clock; fight engine failures, for failures delay this grim busi ness of war. When this country went into the war, the Great Northern had 882 engines. That was fewer by 513 than were in service during the first World War. With fewer but more powerful engines, the Great Northern is moving mora than twice the traffic it did during the first World War. That gives an idea of what hat been going on in its round houses and locomotive shops. When Japan struck at Pearl Harbor several huge Diesel-electric engines were Hearing completion for the Great North ern. But almost immediately came the interruption of gasoline and fuel oil de liveries to the East coast by ocean. This important task had to be taken over by the railroads, and the engines which were built to haul Great Northern freight trains across the continental divide were rushed into action in other parts of the country. For more than two years the Great Northern has had to do its part of the war job with what it had. Not until recently has there been any relief in sight. But now three new mammoth Diesel electric engines are hauling heavy freight trains between Havre and Whitefish, Montana. Each engine rates 5,400 horse power, measures 193 feet, and weighs 463 tons. By fall it is expected that ten more of these engines will be in operation on this mountain division. They will release nearly twice that number .of steam loco motives for service on other parts of the system. ' And that is good newt for the determined workers in roundhouses and locomotive thopt whose achievement in meeting every requirement for power, when it wat needed, hat fashioned another brilliant Victory for the home front. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY time by American bombers, are cluster of coral and volcanic islands whose "big star" is Truk, Japan's strongest mandated area base, says the National Geo graphic society. Kusaie, the is lnnrl Mr at the. ..tram. ..... . .'" "..,.... 2An7ttiariAX)m'wwter' These "coins" never end of the 1,800-mile island chain, jin,e a.Docket. but are r.lanted bdoui naiiway oeiween Tarawa, i ln ,,." o( thc hllh.lahu, M! recently captured American base ! ki u r in the Gilberts, and Truk. s, -tj.- cardllnea. ainn with tho Were the Carolines' (including Marshalls and Marianas, rnmnrisp. : the Palau group at the extreme the "Mandated islands" nlaeod! weaw pmceu over a map oi ine under Japanese administration by T T 1 . 1 . . I 1 1 1 . . - ..... . uimeu oiaiL-s, iney wuum reacn me League oi Nations. They had from Baltimore to Denver. Yetlbeloneed to Germanv since 1899. in area they aggregate one-third j and before that to Spain. Na- less than that of Rhode Mandatives show the results of these The 500-odd islands vary from 1 changes. Youngsters greet each tiny atolls and reefs to sizeable other in the morning with "Oha areas with high mountains, yo," their parents say "Guten sfreams, fertile fields and thick; morgen," and old-timers use the ly-clustered villages. Spanish "Buenos dias." The islanders, called Kanagas, are Mlcronesian a mixed race of 1 Buy National War Bonds Now! k CI J r .CinUffe v. r! Army SigaMl Corpm Phot This American soldier took refuge nnder a truck d tiring a Jap bombing raid of our positions on Ren dova. A Nipponese bomb, however, had his number on it. Here you see his comrade, gently removing his body from under the engine. When vou are asked to buy War Bonds think of this picture. ' Tnm U, S. TrtaMurj Bombed Caroline Islands Are Believed Strong Jap Bases Washington, D. C The Caro-- l'l'l0! Polynesian,' Melanesian and Ma- laysian stocks. They often differ island by island, especially in be liefs and customs. Yap islanders are known for their stone money huge disks resembling mill stones sometimes reaching 12 feet Mustering Out Pay and Draft Notice on File Seattle, Feb. 21 IP Lawrence Anderson is a patient man but he wishes his Uncle Sam would make up his mind. Anderson enlisted in the army in 1942,. was discharged three weeks later when it was found he had lost his trigger finger many years before. Forgetting the missing digit, the army drafted him last sum mer. He served a little over two montlu that time, leaving again tor the same reason. Saturday he received two com munications one notifying him he is again In 1-A and the other a check lor $100 mustering out pay. He extects to be in uniform again within a month. Keep backing the attack with extra war bonds. Details of Bari Bombing Revealed by Eye-Witness (Pint drtalb of th blr Gwniae air rala 4- on In Adrtaue purl oi Hurt, a major upplr Srput tor the allfed forces la Italy, were permitted throuah cenaurahip In the following dbpetrh eeven week after the diatr. which wai compared unofficially in Wachlnxtun to Pearl Harbor. Huff Correspondent Walter Uffia and Frank FUber were in Hari at the time. Lonan waft knocked out by an explosion and hospitalised. Fisher witnessed the entire raid and report what ho saw in thia dispatch.) " .. By Frank Fisher (United Frets Stsff Correspondent) London ill German bombers, wnumipd and .hose wokir.. .Jf flew over Bari harbor at 10,000 jter poured through the revolvin, feet on the night of Dec. 2 and door, the fragments were ground ships and personnel. (U. S. See. retary of War Stimson announced on Dec. 16 that there were rough ly 1,000 casualties to service pet. sonnel.) Scores were wounded by flyln glass. They walked about as u stunned, their faces like man. drawn with lines of blood. The plate glass doors of a hotel behind us blew out and as the blasted It Into a nightmare of ex ploding shells, leaping flames, and shattered buildings by a iucky hit on an ammunition ship. I stood under the clear, starlit sky on the opposite side of the harbor from the target docks and watched the sight in all its ter. rific magnificence. Only now does censorship permit me to tell about it. The German planes struck shortly after 7 p. m. The harbor was Jammed with ships, loaded with war goods.. The planes an nounced themselves with a string of chandelier flares, which lighted the harbor. Bombs Cascade Down - Then the bombs came cascad lng. The harbor's two long piers stand out from a shore that runs straight for more than a score of miles so it was almost impossible for the enemy to miss. The first bombs fell short but one pitched into the town 150 yards from the car ln which my party was driving and sent a spout of smoke and dust sky ward. We drove through the middle of the town to the other side of the harbor. Watching across a neck of sea a mile from the docks, we saw yellow Hame spread out and then a cloud of smoke pour upward, its underside tinged with red. Without warning, that was blot- tea out by a terrific explosion. The whole sky seemed to fill with a dull reddish flame. A sailor near me whispered: "My God, they got an ammu nition ship." Wind Comes Up There were a few seconds of silence. Then a wind whipped through the town like a tornado. There was a continuous crunch of breaking glass, punctuated by the heavier sound of doors, win dow frames, and Venetian blinds being ripped out. Although it was then too late, many persons dropped to Jthe ground for shelter. 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Freak Of Blast ' One of the freaks of the blast was the blowing of three large window frames across a room without damaging a single pan. of glass. A naval officer, slightly wound ed, told me later he stood within 200 yards of the ammunition ship when it went up and was not even knocked down. Ten miles inland, the wind blew out windows. The force wai felt at some points 20 miles away. But it freakishly jumped some areas closer to Bart. Several more persons were killed in the town and virtually every window in Bari proper wai shattered. Ships Are Ablaze The ammunition ship set afire several other ships. Some sank swiftly and some burned all night The next morning I counted nine ships partly sunk or burning so fiercely they could not be saved. The navy has been criticized for putting so many eggs in one basket, but hundreds of ships supplying the allied armies had passed through Bari ln a few months. 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