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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND,0REGON, FRIDAYMAY I I , 1945
Berlin, Nightmarish Labyrinth
Of Ruins, Is Visited By Writer;
Famous Buildings Demolished
By Joseph W. Grioc, Jit
(Unital Prpw Staff CorrMiiomlf nt
Berlin, May H (U.P) In the language of the air forces,
Berlin has had it. As a city it no longer exists.
The saturation raids of the Royal air force and the United
States air forces did four-fifths of the job of obliterating the
German capital. It needed ten days of suicidal .street-to-street
and house-to-house fighting to complete it.
Now the proud capital, where Hitler ordered nazidom to
make its suicidal last stand, has been wiped from the map of
Europe wholly and irrevocably.
It is Stalingrad and Coventry, Cologne and Aachen all
heaped into one a hideous,"
nightmarish labyrinth of ru
ins beyond all hope of repair
or rebuilding. Only on its out
skirts does it even remotely
resemble a city where human
beings can live.
I saw Berlin last on Deo. 14,
1941, a week after Pearl Harbor.
I left it under gestapo arrest to
be interned with other American
correspondents after covering the
first 2!t years of war there.
I returned almost exactly
three years and five months luter
as one of the first group of al
lied correspondents officially per
milted by the Russians to enter
ine city since lis ran on May z
It was only with the greatest dif
ficulty that I could identify the
site of the former United Press
office, 43-45 Unter den Linden,
where I had worked for more
than three years.
"Berlin Kaput"
As we stopped the car in the
silent, echoing waste that is all
that's left today of Unter den
Linden, the Russian chaffeur
kept repeating "Berlin Stalin
grad! Berlin kaput!"
The extent of the catastrophe
that has overtaken Berlin is dif
ficult to grasp. It's a whole city
practically obliterated.
From the fashionable Kurfuer
stendamm in the west to the
Aiexander-Platz and Frankfurter
Allee in the east a distance of
maybe 4V4 miles and the same
distance from north to south, the
city is an eerie, ehcoing waste of
ruins and bomb - craters and
burned-out skeletons of buildings.
Often whole areas are blocked
by enormous bomb-craters in the
streets or piles of debris which
the bull-dozers have not yet had
time to push aside. Some build
ings are still blazing, but no one
makes any attempt to nut out the
fires. It couldn't be done, anyhow,
because there are no water-mains
British Air Head
Aw to Prvtan Paul
with the dust of blitzed buildings
and passing Russian army motor
vehicles churn it Into great, chok
ing, swirling, dust clouds that
blot out visibility like miniature
Sahara sand-storms.
Buildings Ruined
It's hardlv worth even begin
ning to list the famous buildings
in Berlin destroyed. There Is hard
ly one that does not stand in ru
ins. Unter den Linden the "tri
umphal route" of 150 years of
German history is only recogniz
able by Its breadth and by the
Brandenburg Tor, bomb-scarred
and mutiliated but still standing,
at Its western end.
The former Kaiser's palace, the
Opera House, the Prussian State
library, the hideous late Victorian
cathedral, the Adlon and Bristol
hotels, the American, French,
British, and Russian embassies,
all have been wiped out complete
ly or are nothing but grim, smoke-
blackened husks of buildings.
In the Alexander Platz one
time hub of traffic in the eastern
part of the business district, I
was unable to Identify for sure
which pile of rubble was the for
mer dread gestapo headquarters
and prison where I and 15 other
American correspondents spent
12 hours after being arrested, by
the gestapo on Dec. 10, 1941, the
day before Hitler declared war on
the United States.
New Building Wrecked
Hitler's new reichschancellery,
completed In 1939, by which the
nazi leader thought to perpetuate
himself for all time. In concrete
and yellow stucco and marble, is
something that should be seen by
millions of nazidom's former
slaves throughout Europe. If any
building in Berlin was to be com
pletely bomb-proof Hitler Intend
ed it should be his chancellery.
He had it built with a roof of con
crete nine feet thick, under the
whole building was an air-raid
HORIZONTAL
1 ,8 Pictured
British air
marshal
13 With anima
tion (music)
14 Starvation
15 Frozen water
16 Hangman's
knoU
1 8 Fastener
19 Dull, heavy
sound
2) Fore part of
boat
22 Vipers
23 Exempli
gratia (ab.)
23 Home of
Abraham
28 Expunge
29 Bedaub
33 Slopes
34 Sacred (comb,
form)
35 Those opposed
38 Heron
37 Toward
38 Anent
39 Painful
42 Barbed spear
46 Highway
SO Egg (comb.
form)
81 Kind of dog
53 Compass point
54 Iterate
56 He servtu
with General
Eisenhower in
the North
campaign
58 Meeting place
SO Concisely
VERTICAL
1 C:!ry action
2 Measure of
length
3 Stead
4 Long meter
- 24 Gypsum
5 John (Gaelic) 25Condu(:t
e un lop
7 Waste land
8 Existed
9 Type measure 28 Scandinavian
10 Mouth Darts territorial
26 Age
27 Raced
11 Clip
12 Fowls
14 Not many
17 Thus
20 Notwith
standing
division '
30 Ever.(contr)
31 Exist
32 Decay
39 Kind
40 Above
42 Obtained
43 Morlndin dye
44 Level
49 Musical
Instrument
47 One tun
48 Analysis (ab.)
49 Contradict
61 Feline .
62 Make a
mistake
55 Electrical unit
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No Changes Due
In Milk Routes
Milk routes fn Deschutes, Jef
ferson and Crook counties must
remain as they are now, accord
ing to a ruling of the office of de
fense transportation made public
today. The ruling is for the pur
pose of conserving present trans
portation facilities, it was re
ported. According to the ODT, there
must be no alterations, reloca
tions or extensions of milk routes
without first receiving the approv
al ui me uu i .
Handlers of dairy products in
central Oregon who desire to
alter their routes must first con
fer with members of the commit
tee set up to work with the ODT.
Chairman of the committee is
Paul Spillman of Powell Butte:
H. H. Kilgove of Redmond is vice
chairman and Howard G. Smith,
Deschutes county agent is secre
tary. Members of the committee
are Fred Shepard, D. M. Lay, H.
P. Eby, Robert Wilson, Delmer
Davis, L. L. Cox and E. L. Woods.
working. The; streets are thick shelter- supposedly able to with-
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stand the heaviest bomb any
plane could drop.
That was lust another of Hit
ler"s -dreams. A blockbuster from
an American Flying Fortress hit
the chancellery fairly and square
ly early this year, smashing a
yawning hole through the nine
feet of "bomb proof" concrete,
tearing through the building it
self and right down Into the air
raid cellar below, blasting open a
crater 20 feet deep and large
enough to hold a bus. The whole
interior of the chancellery was
deep in dust and rubble through
which the Russians had cleared
a path along the famous "gallery
of mirrors" through which fa
vored foreign dignitariesused to
be escorted into Hitler's p'resenco.
The chancellery today is derelict
just another bombed-out rtfin in
this city of ruins.
Sawmill Workers
To Meet Sunday
Madras, May 11 (Special) A
meeting of the Central Oregon
district council of the Sawmill
Workers of the A. F. of L. will be
held In Madras on Sunday May 20.
Executive assistant secretary. of
the Northwest council, Bud Pear
son Is expected to be here as well
as many delegates from Central
Oregon and Washington. A ban
quet and a dance will also be on
the program.
Meetings on Sunuav will be
held at the Community hall, be
ginning at 9 o clock Sunday morn
ing and lasting until noon and
resuming again at 1:30. Local
Union 29-11 will serve a banquet
at noon at the New Madras hotel
and act as hosts at a dunce the
night before. .
Delegates will bo here from
Klickitat, Wash., Gilchrist, Prine-
vllle, Kinzua, Dayville, John Day,
nenu ana Klamath Falls. All A. F.
of L. members are asked to at
tend.
8th Grade Pupils
To Be Graduated
Madras, May 11 (Special)
Graduation exercises for 18 mem
bers of the eighth grade will be
held at the Madras grade audi
torium on Friday evening May 18.
Rev. Edward H. Cook, Episcopal ! on the Polton site on the Crooked
rector with missions in Prine- river, which was then considered
ville, Madras and Cross Keys, will Droiect ".up
be the speaker. Mrs. Edward
Wiclciup Designer
Leaves U.S. Bureau
' John Lucian Savage, for 34
years a member of the U. S. bu
reau of reclamation staff and de
signer of the Wickiup dam and
reservoir, has retired from serv
ice, it was learned here today. At
the time of his retirement in Den
ver, Savage was chief designing
engineer for the bureau.
Savage, accompanied by Dr.
Charles P. Berkey of New York,
consulting geologist for the bu
reau, first inspected the site for
the Wickiup dam and reservoir on
August 28, 1935. The two officials
spent a day at the scene. In 1939,
Savage approved plans for the
Wickiup dam, and in 1942 official
ly okehed drawings for the Wick
iup reservoir.
In 1935, Savage made a reDort
Carlson will give the Invocation.
Salutatoriun is Leona Wallace,
valedictorian, Shliley McKenzie.
Members of the class are: Elva
Jean Ashcraft, Ann Brownhill,
Betty DeLude, June Hull, Bar
PINE DATA RELEASED
Portland, Ore., May 11 iU")
Orders for all species of Western
pine for th-week ended May 5
totaled 52,407 "feet as compared
witn 4S,ai,uoo feet for the pre-
Dara Hunt, bhirley McKenzie, vious week and 73,853,000 feet
Mildred Nance, Mancel Nance, for the corresponding week last
Durlene Spafford, Leona Wallace, ftyear.
Lucille Duling, Neil Carter, Mar-1 -The Western Pine association
vin Dee, Calvin Gregg. Philip reported toda that shiDments of
Haggstrom, James Jackson, E1-, Idaho white Dine. Ponderosa Dine.
don King and Lewis Crocker. I sugar pine and associated species
A reception will follow the ex- for the week amounted to 61.751.-
ercises. 4'v 000 feet.
V-
to mS) and
BUILDING WOHK STARTS
Madras, May 11 (Special)
Excavation has been completed
for the erection of a new two
story building east of the First
' National bank here. Howard W.
Turner, owner of the site, states
that lie has no definite date in
which the building will bp ready
for occupancy. He plans to use
the lower floor for his abstract
office, which is now located on
Fifth street.
TO DELIVER SERMON
Madras, May 11 (Special)
Rev. G. R. V. Bolster of Trinity
Episcopal church, Bend, will de
liver the baccalaureate sermon at
the services to be held at the
I ingu sctHMn Hutuioriuni jMinuay
I evening before members of the
graduating class of Madias union
' high school. Mrs. Edward Carlson
will give the Invocation and bemv
I diction.
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S. W. Redmond, May l'O (Spe
dal)-Mrs. Floyd Holt and Mrs.
August Anderson attended the
luncheon and D.A.R. meeting at
the home of Mrs. C. W. Heim Fri
day afternoon.
Redmond grange home econom
ics club held the May meeting last
Tuesday at the grange hall, with
Mrs. John Vlegas as hostess. Rou
tine business was transacted, with
Mrs. Laura Ahlstrom presiding.
The members voted to serve sack
lunches at grange meetings, be
ginning May 25, until further no
tice. Refreshments were served
by Mrs. Vleeas. Mrs. Forrest
Lowe will be the hostess for June.
F. A Hein and daughter, Mrs.
James Baxter, of Prineville, were
Friday dinner guests nt the Owen
Brown home.
Mrs. Fannie Sharp and Mrs.
Morgan Sharp were visitors Tues
day afternoon at the August An
derson home. I
'A group of grangers, including
past masters of Redmond and
subordinates and their wives met:
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.,
Brown Wednesday evening to:
plan for the May 11 program.!
Those present were Mr. and Mrs.
B. L. Fleck, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. I
Davenport and Iris, Mr. and Mrs. j
Milfred Wallenburg, and the Owen
Brown family.
Saturday evening, May 5, Mr.
and Mrs. A. B. Davenport and
daughter, Iris, were guests of
honor at a farewell party at the
Redmond grange hall. Games.
dancing and visiting occupied the
evening, after which refresh
ments of cake, ice cream and cof
fee were served. A gift was pre
sented to the Davenports, who
will leave soon to make their
home in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Davenport
and daughter, Iris, and Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Riebhoff were din
ner guests Sunday of Mr. and
Mrs. August Anderson.
Next Sunday. .Mav 13. mem
bers and friends of Redmond
grange will enjoy a potluck din
ner at the hall at 1 o'clock, after
which a program of speaking and
special music honoring Mother's
day will be given. Servicemen and
their wives are extended a spe
cial invitation to be guests of the
grange on this occasion.
Nurse Induction
Date Announced
Miss Lucy Davison, local cadet
nurse recruitment chairman, an
nounces that the second annual
induction of the U. S. Cadet Nurse
corps will take place Saturday,
May 12.
The response to the cadet nurse
program In Deschutes county has
been very gratifying, especially In
the quality of girl who is'plannirigj
to or who Is already in the corpsj
Miss Davison said adding:' ''Only
those who have the necessary
qualifications in disposition, phys
ical and mental health and grace
reauirement have been encour-
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