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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."
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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
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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."
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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.
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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
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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!
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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.
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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.
We could onlv conlecture tho
havoc being wrought amid the
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with a screeching sound.
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. Bari and Taranto prob
ably were the only ports at that
time capable of handling a large
amount of traffic so the ships
pushed In time and again. Every
opportunity was taken of a
strange German reluctance to at
tack the port. When they did at
tack, it was a profitable target,
but the total score was only 17
vessels destroyed out of several
hundred safely berthed and un
loaded and thousands of tons of
war materials delivered to the
fighting men.
CHOP FISH FROM ICG
Stickney, S. D. P Residents
of this community get their fresh
dozen fish the easy way. They
simply go to nearby Platte lake
and chop fish out of the ice,
Piatt lake is best described as
"a mile wide and an inch deep."
When the water froze this winter,
the fish froze along with it
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