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...company. But it is still awaiting planes to resume flying. Procter & Gamble's Philippine Manufacturing Co. (soaps, lard, coconut products) does not expect to get into production until next spring. Most industrial plants were destroyed, along with the Islands' chief industrial cities, Manila, Cebu and Iloilo. Salvage work on plants which might be restored easily was hamstrung by the inflation which had shot wages and materials sky high...
During the three years of Japanese occupation of the Philippines, stocky, brilliant Tomás Confesor, 54, hid out in the lofty, mist-drenched mountains of Panay. There he calmly continued to conduct the affairs of his office as governor in exile of Iloilo Province and later of all Panay...
Flight to Panay. The son of a farmer-schoolteacher in Iloilo, Confesor came to the U.S. as a youngster, worked his way through three years at the University of California. Later he graduated from the University of Chicago, where he majored in municipal government and economics. He was in Manila, as chief of the National Cooperatives Association and also gover nor of Iloilo, when the Japs arrived, got away to Panay in a small sailboat. When he struck out for the hills, he took with him his wife and three children...
When the Japs failed to capture Tomás Confesor, they tried persuasion. The puppet governor of Iloilo begged Confesor to return, to bring "peace and tranquillity to our people." Confesor's reply has become a classic of resistance literature: "This war has placed us in the crucible to assay the metal in our being. . . . You underrate the nobility and grandeur of the character and soul of the Filipino. . . . I will not surrender as long as I stand on my feet." Firmly on his feet last week, Confesor was ready to start clearing up battered Manila, preparing to rebuild...
...inspection cruise through the Philippine leprosaria (Culion, Iloilo, Cebu, Legaspi) which 25 world-famed leprosy experts pursued last week served to remind Society that: 1) leprosy still ulcerates the entire earth;* 2) myriads of lepers are segregated (12,000 in the Philippines) ; 3) 2,000,000-3,000,000 cases are at large: 4) the germ of leprosy closely resembles the germ of tuberculosis; 5) leprosy is not especially communicable, far less so than syphilis; 6) cleanliness and general hygiene prevent leprosy's spread; 7) lepers' children are not born leprous, but catch the disease when very young...