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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.
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the operation of this forward airstrip in the North East
Frontier Area of India. Small groups of duty crewmen oper
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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."
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