THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, OREGON. FRIDAY. MAY 4, 1945
PAGE THREE
Manila Wantonly
Ruined By Japs;
City Is Crushed
(United Press war correspondent
Ernest Barcella has reached Manila on
An army-conducted tour( of the Factflo
battlefront. This dlspaU'h he described'
the "Murder of Manila." ,
the "Murder of Manila.") . i
By Ernest Barcella
(United Press War Correspondent)
; Manila, May 4 (IB Manila is a
murdered city,, wantonly butch
ered by the Japanese. -.
It is a grotesque symbol of the
effects of total war total de
struction. What once was the
pearl of the Orient now is a gi
gantic junkpile. Not a single struc
ture south of the Pasig river es
caped the fury of war.
Modern buildings, built to with
stand earthquakes, are a mass of
rubble. The legislative building,
made of reinforced concrete and
steel, was no match for concen
trated artillery fire. It is bent and
broken, as if a giant hand had
crushed it to the ground. The city
hall, completed in 1939, is a shell,
its walls blasted by bullets and
Its dome a skeleton of steel
against the skyline. The Manila
hotel, once a luxuriant structure,
is a fire-blackened mass' of shat
tered concrete.
Buildings Ruined
Entire buildings have been lev
eled to the ground put to the
torch by the Japs, blasted by ar
tillery fire or reduced by demoli
tion charges left by the enemy.
Nothing was spared by the de
monical enemy churches, cathe
drals, government buildings,
downtown business establish
ments, bridges, modern apart
ment buildings and humble dwell
ings all suffered the same fate.
Only northern Manila escaped
the full fury of destruction. That
was because American troops
moved in too quickly for the Japs
to do anything about it. There,
the Malacanan the magnificent
presidential palace with its rich
trappings and massive chande
liers stands untouched. :
But southern Manila is a vast
mass of wreckage, for It was
there that the Japs converted the
city into a fortress for a fanatical
last stand. Hundreds of dead Japs
still lie beneath the wreckage,
trapped by their own suicidal
tactics.
Streets Mined
The Japs mined streets and
buildings. Sapper have cleaned
out most of these death traps,
but an occasional Filipino still is
killed by the hidden charges as
he forages the city for sticks of
wood to build his family a shel
ter. ' . .
U. S. army engineers have ac
complished miracles in cleaning
up rubble. But a gigantic task still
lies ahead.' It will take years to
rebuild the city; some architects
estimate as much as 25 years.
Water is perhaps one of the
most precious items. It is rationed
because the Japs still control two
of the three reservoirs which sup
plied the city. There is 'no mu
nicipal transportaion. The Japs
destroyed all the street cars and
stole all the buses and locomo
tives shipping them off to Ja
pan. There is little shelter for the
natives huts, crude lean-tos.
Some sleep out in the open.
Food still is a desperate prob
lem. The army is striving to ease
the situation, but shipping re
mains a big problem. In the early
days of American occupation, na
tives looked for food in G.I. gar
bage cans and American soldiers
shared their rations with them.
There is a black market in food.
A half loaf of bread brings 75
cents.
Inflation Rampant
Inflation is rampant. Money
means little because there is so
little than can be purchased. A
pair of silk pajamas would cost
you $50 cash. But you can make
a deal if you have food to barter.
A 10-cent bar of chocolate is price
less for trading purposes.
Only a limited amount of ship
ping can enter Manila because
the docks are wrecked and the
harbor is strewn with sunken Jap
ships- sticking out of the water.
Salvage crews already have raised
114 sunken vessels, mostly small
ones. All told, there were about
600 sunken ships in the harbor,
half of them 2,000 tons or more.
It will take years to clean up the
harbor.
The task of reconstruction and
rehabilitation in- Manila is one
that challenges the imagination.
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April Weather
Very Dry, Cool
For the sixth consecutive
month, precipitation in Bend was
again below the 40-year average
in April, with only .34 of an inch
measured here in the 30 days. Ob
servers in . charge of the local
weather station report that not
since October, 1944, has the pre
cipitation in any month exceeded
the 40-year mean, and then by
only .01 of an inch. Bend's normal
precipitation in April is .78 of an
inch.
Not only was the past month
dry, but it was cool, the mean
temperature being 42.2 degrees,
compared with a mean of 45.0 de
grees. Lowest temperature of the
past month was 13 degrees and
highest was 73 degrees. A total of
two inches of snow fell in April.
Maximum and minimum temp
erature 'for the month follow:
Max,
..38
46
47
57
54
52
53
53
.44
April 10 .... 47
April 11 47
April 12 46
April 13 50
April 14 ...63 '
April 15 59
April 16 60
April 17 69
April 18 71
April 19 75
April 20 75
April 21 57
April 22 60
April 23 58
April 24 .. 52
April 25 ; 48
April 26 62
April 27 59
April 28 65
April 29 76
April 30 : 73
April
April
April
April
April
April
April
April
April
Min.
21
14
14
25
34
35
33
24
13
22
28
19
14
"'23
30
19
30
38
32
34
35
19
37
' 32
31
26
38
34
39
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Homemaking
WEIGHTS VERSUS PINS
To save time and do a more
accurate job of cutting out pat
terns from certain materials Eliz
abeth H. Boeckli suggests that
weights are sometimes better than
pins for holding:the paper pattern
on the fabric. If the fabric is
thick, pins make it "buckle," that
exact cutting is difficult. When it
is necessary to cut through two
thicknesses of fabric, the pinning
may cause so much buckling, that
one piece comes out a different
size from the other.
Weights allow the fabric to lie
flat and anchor it against shifting.
Small objects of heavy metal like
bolts, nuts, small paper weights,
heavy cups or sauce dishes may
be used for pattern weights. Lay
the weights far enough away from
the edge of the pattern to allow
for easy cutting, warns Miss
Boeckli.
For cutting out medium or light
weight fabric, pins generally are
better than weights.
IFire Destroys
Portland Plant
I Portland, Ore., May 4 (IPi The
Lumber Manufacturing Co. of
j Portland was swept by fire last
: night which did damage estimated
at $125,000 and kept firemen bat
j tling for an hour and a half bo
j fore bringing the blaze under
, control.
The plant was a total loss, R.
'A. Stevenson and J. W. Capp,
I owners, said today. The fire was
believed to have started near the
j planer room of the mill,
j The company was using the
; plant to process lumber for air
: plane construction.
Kirlcham to Speak
Here on May 18
With a topic of "Tourists Un
limited," Art Kirkham, vire prrsi
dnnt and genera! manager of Ra
dio station KOIN in Portland, will
address a town meeting of the,
Bond Chamber of commerce in
the Pine tavern at noon on May 18.
it was announced today. Accord
ing to Don H. Peoples, secretary
of the chamber, the town meet
ings are open to the public, and
reservations for the luncheon
should be made the day before.
U.S. Takes Over
Big Coal Mines
Hazleton, Pa., May 4 ilIWTho
A -.1 ...... tw .iiql. raiciul fWmr II
Pennsylvania s aiiuuauue uuutr?
today as the government look
over operations of the strike
bound industry. . -President
Truman, confronted
with his first big labor problem!
since he became president April
12, ordered the mine seizures lust
night.
Acting on the presidential or
der, solid fuels administrator t-iur-1
old Ickes took over control of the
properties and ordered the minors
to return to work Monday. It wus .
the second time in two years that
Ickes seized all of the hard coal ,
properties because of a labor dis
pute. !
The back -to -work movement
was expected to get under way
Monday with full production ex
pected by Tuesday or Wednesday.
A spokesman for the union said
the 72,000 miners will await offi
cial, word from the government
and United Mine Workers presi
dent John L. Lewis to return to
work. He said the men would
abide by any government order:
Idle Since Monday
The hard coal mines have been
idle since Monday night when the
UMW contract expired.
- Operators and union omciais;
have been deadlocked In their!
contract negotiations. Secretary
of Labor Frances Perkins certi
fied the dispute to the war labor
board late Monday after failing
to break the deadlock. (
The board ordered a 30-day ex
tension of the old contract but
Lewis balked. His miners had
voted under the Smlth-Connally
act to support his negotiations by
strike and the mines were closed
Monday midnight under the
UMW's policy of "no contract, no
work." ..
Reported Free
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Illness Strikes
Church Delegates
Bollingham, Wash., May 4 ll'i
Forlytwo delegates to a church
conference, most of them minis
ters and their wives, were in St.
Luke's general hospital today
with food poisoning, but attend
ants said many of them were
much improved and would be dis
charged by nightfall.
All of the stricken persons who
were hospitalized several hours
after attending a luncheon yes
terday were out of danger. They
were here for the district conven
tion of the North Pacific Mis
sionary conference.
Dr. C. L. Longstreth, Boiling
ham city physician, said bacterial
toxin and not chemical poisoning
was indicated by the lapse of sev
eral hours between the end of the
late luncheon and the time when
the illness struck.
He tentatively attributed the ill
ness to custard pie served at the
luncheon in the local Mission Cov
enant church. Only 13 persons es-
ton nod the efforts.
In one summer, a single fire
weed plant will produce 80,000
seeds.
Five Day Forecast
Five-day forecast ending Tues
day night: ...
Oregon and Washington west of
Cascades: Few light showers
Tuesday or Wednesday. Near nor
mal temperatures.
Idaho, Oregon and Washington
east of Cascades: Few scattered
light showers beginning of period.
Somewhat cooler but with tem
peratures rising above normal,
SNOW FALLS IN EAST
Kane, Pa May 4 mi A one-,
inch snow was reported here to-'
day by the U. S. weather bureau.
Buy National War Bonds Now!
Leon Blum, above, former
French premisr, was one of the
political prisoners held by the
Germans, whose release was re
ported negotiated by the Inter
national Red Cross. Dispatches
from Schoenberg, Germany,
said Blum was among Allied
prisoners that Nazis prodded
ahead of them as they retreated.
Ads to Include
Facts About Cars
Washington, May 4 itPi-As part
of its campaign to enforce price
control on used passenger cars,
the office of price administration
today -directed that newspaper
advertisements offering automo
biles for sale must include the
make of the car, the model year,
the body type, the price and a
statement that the price is "within
OPA celling."
At the same time, OPA removed
from price control all used pas
senger cars of the model year 1925
and earlier.
Kessler Cannon
Advertises Bend .
Mindful of the days when he
was with radio station KBND and
an ardent promoter of Central
Oregon, pfc. Kessler R. Cannon,
now stationed at Camp Roberts,
Calif., is carrying on an advertis
ing campaign down there.
Cannon wrote Don II. Peoples,
executive secretary of the Cham
ber of commerce, complaining that
many of the soldiers at the fort
didn't believe that there was such
a charming place as the midstate
and the lofty Cascades.
"I want to convince them that1
there are other places besides
their own home towns," Pfc. Can
non wrote.
So today there were two pounds
of attractive literature, en route
to the Bend soldier for distribu
tion among his buddies.
CARS ARE TAGGED'
Bend police today reported that
they had issued four more cita
tions for improper parking on
downtown streets. A car register
ed to Esther Emery, Bend, was
tagged for assertedly blocking an
alley; and overtime parking was
charged to cars registered to
Gladys H. Gregg, 815 Wall street;
lone S. Morsel h, '538 StiKe street,
and to Lome B. Carter, 1445 West
Fourth street.
Over 15,000 electric soil-heating
devices are now In use in America.
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Split-toed Japanese shoes that help snipers climb
trees make wonderful souvenirs. So they're sonic
times left behind, cleverly attached to explosives
that would maim a souvenir hunter who wasn't
wise to such Booby Traps.
Safety First . . . Start
Safety Sheliubrication Today
Seven and a half years! That's the average age of all cars on
the road. Naturally, the older they get, the more attention they
need to keep 'em rolling. That's why it's a good Safety First
idea to let Sheliubrication Service stand between yon ami the
wear-out or break-down that illicit Irave you afout.
Sheliubrication is a special system of car maintenance, de
veloped by Shell lubrication engineers, to minimize Stop and
Go wear. Sheliubrication not oidy puts the ri(?ht grade lubri
cants at the right )latcs, but includes a careful check of a score
jpy ""1" l MialaaJjalia
L-?aiili,l ; v j j y'l , Booby Traps aren't confined to ftyj 'A
tlSJ. 't&l-J i i the battlefield. Your car's brakes, if A ' 1
J--J J I ..I5j?'aaWM for instance, are potentially dan- r 'I r j I ai.jl"
I'liii'.a""-! VLW'"' gerous. If neglected, they can 11. .1 V 1 V1
Viljiw J cause an accident as disastrous as H.I
C( I a TNT explosion. That's why you i will
li- J should start Sheliubrication serv- I VI 1
aasaaa. ice today. It includes a check of 1
vital parts all through your car. 1
pEil'
of hidden spots where wear can start. Your Sheliubrication
receipt tells what this check-up reveals. Thus you're warned in
time about possible Booby Traps.
Drive in at the Sign of the Shell today, and start this pro
tective Sheliubrication.
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oil bayonet. If the oil looks dirty, don't take a chance.
Change to fresh, clean, safe Golden Shell Motor Oil.
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