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10 E THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1362 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Arsonist Awaits Judgment of Society for Burning Tenement BY ALBERT E. KAFF United Press International Manlla-tUPll-Just before day break on a Sunday morning In September, 21 men, women and children died in one flash of fire. They perished screaming lor help in a rotting rooming house where the wealthy once lived. They were killed by an arsonist. Why would a man pour gas oline on the stairway of a lodging house where his neighbors slept? Why would his landlord and a national magazine of wide circulation in the Philip pines look beyond the arsonist for the blame? It was, said the magazine and the landlord, a story of a man lost in poverty and a tragedy of the city slums, blocks and blocks of mansions decayed into tenements The grandeur of old Manila has fled with the automobile into the suburbs, where lawns are wide and the air is fresh. Street peddlers and pick pockets live today in the rub' ble of the 16th century walked city of Intramuros, once the home of Spanish bishops, governors and gen erals. jj '"V i4y fit ?'JA CONTROL TOWER ADEQUATE - It might be the jet 3e but this improvised air traffic control tower is adequate for the operation of this forward airstrip in the North East Frontier Area of India. Small groups of duty crewmen oper ating under their officers provide maintenance as well as tower services on this strip which under normal conditions could barely accomodate an aircraft. (UPI) Oregon Supreme Court Decisions Salem- (WD -The following action was taken by the Ore gon Supreme Court here Wed nesday: Reversed and remanded back to Jefferson County Cir cuit Judge Robert H. Foley was a ruling which allowed landlords Vern B. and Vcle thia M. Moore to terminate a lease with Richfield Oil Corp., and regain possession of their property. A decision from Marlon County Circuit Judge George A. Jones which voided the conviction of Gordon Jerome Kloss on a charge of statutory rape was reversed. Kloss had been convicted in Multnomah county, and sen tenced to nine years in prison, and appealed because he was not given a psychiatric exam ination before sentence was impossed. Similar Decision Also reversed was a simi lar decision by Judge Jones involving Ernest Enyart. Grounds of reversal were the same. Enyart had been sen tenced up to 20 years on a statutory raw conviction, and the high court ordered the sentence reinstated. Affirmed as modified by the Supreme Court was a case involving Security Es crows, Inc. Multomah Coun ty Judge P. K. Hammond enjoined the two firms from preparing or filling in blanks on printed forms. Lower court decisions up held by the high court today Were: - Dismissal of a taxpayer suit brought by Robert C. Standbery before Washington County Circuit Judge Avery A. Combs against the Sylvan School District in opposition to a school reorganization plan. -Dismissal of an action bv G. B. I.-cnhart brought before Multnomah County Circuit Judge Alfred T. Snlmonetti against the General Casually Company of America. Isen hart alleged the company had Dreaclicd its insurance con tract. Conviction Upheld -Conviction of Chester Ray mond Iledriik on a charge of assault with Intent to rape. Hcdiick had charged Multno mah County Circuit Judge Virgil Langtry had allowed errors in proceeding with the trial. -Denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus brought by Paul Courier Holland, a prison Inmate, against the sheriff of Coos county. Coos Counly Circuit Judge Robert C. Bellonl had ruled Hol land's conviction and sen tence on charges of burglary and rape were proper. -Affirmed the conviction of Virgil Nelson before Lane County Circuit Judge Lyle R. Wolff, on a charge of assault with intent to rape a 9-ycar-old daughter. ' Laborers and drifters pay a few dollars a month to sleep on floors where debutantes once were introduced to the aristocrats of high society. One of those old stately homes burst into a fiery coffin on a Sunday which Manila long will remember with dread. An itinerant photographer, his lungs infected with tuber culosis, waits in city jail for judgment to be passed on his deed. Locked Door I The arrested man. Gavino Dorado, 48, told police he re turned to the lodging after a night of lonely drinking and found the outer door locked. It was raining. He could not enter and sleep in his rented cubicle, built with plankings between a toilet and a win dow. What kind of a lodging was it? In one rented room, too small for a bed, two married couples, one baby and a bach elor slept side by side on the floor for $10 a month. Anther roomer, a tinsmith, prowled the halls nightly with a flashlight, disturbing sleep ers in his apparently crazed search for a wife who desert ed him long ago. Locked out, Dorado went to an all-night bar. He brooded that night over cheap wine about his loneliness in a big i city, the death of his wife 14 years ago and the unfriendli ness of his fellow poor who lived, slept and ale amid odors from clogged sewage pipes. : Commits Act j At 5 a. m. he returned to the lodging and committed his act of arson. The Philippine Free Press, a weekly magazine with half a century of Scotch, American and Filipino editorship, said, "Behind that holocaust is the tragedy of a city that is no longer a home but just a lodging house." The magazine said, "By abandoning his old home, the old Manilcno (original resi dent) doomed it to a slum. By yielding his city to people with no roots In it, he suffered it to become what it is now: a city of squatters, a city of lodgers. "The 21 dead were the vic tims not merely of Dorado's rancor but ot the postwar blight that has turned Manila into one of the most danger ous places on the world to live in." lldel'onso Tierra, landlord of the destroyed house spoke philosophically, lie said: "Society is ti blame. Dorado is Ihe victim of the greed of the wealthy. Not only Dorado but all the people who died In Ihe fire-they arc all vic tims. 'Dorado wm nenmlnw homeless, hopeless, friendless and desperate. He was starv ing in the midst of nlenlv If 1 were a lawyer, I would de-1 fend him." MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU FROM ALL OF US AT THE QUALITY MARKET 4t& O ..AIIAIAPM m a IIAIf WE FEATURE ONLY "SWIFT'S PREMIUM BUTTERBALL" TURKEYS j 3 is 3 3 o WELL AGED, VERY TENDER E STEAKS $1129 U LB. o- Jjjj; HEN FRESH FROZEN 10 to 18 LBS. HO!0!0i0!(l!!Oi0'0!0!0i0!0!0!0!0!0i0!0!O!01!ss: GIFT PACKAGE TILLAMOOK CHEESE Pound Ctf70 2-Yr. Age GIFT PACKAGE CANNED HAM DANISH ?69 HAM j1 H)lb. FRESH FROZEN 19 to 21 LBS. Over 21 -lbs. 43c lb. 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