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...Banos, choppering to Corregidor for a look at the enormous Malinta Tunnel where Douglas MacArthur holed up during the Japanese siege in 1942. Then, while Lady Bird set out for Manila in one helicopter, Lyndon boarded another for a secret trip that was to become the high point of his tour...
...General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 83, memories came flooding back when the Philippine government presented him with a 30-lb. chunk of reddish granite. The stone was cut from the mouth of Corregidor's Malinta Tunnel, where in 1942 U.S. and Philippine troops held out for four months against Japanese forces. Said MacArthur, his eyes misty as he touched the souvenir: "Corregidor-a wartime rock -but in it, it holds the symbol of the honor of two great nations...
...court, the prosecution produced witness after witness to back up its charges that Provoo (rhymes with "no boo") had committed a long series of "overt acts" against his fellow prisoners after the fall of the Philippines. As they told their stories, the grim old names-Corregidor, the Malinta Tunnel, the Death March of Bataan-evoked bitter, half-forgotten memories of the painful days of U.S. humiliation and defeat...
...held at which a debtor's friends bid in his property for a few cents and then returned it to him while the creditor was being restrained, forcibly or otherwise, from participating in the sale. At Deshler, Ohio, a $400 debt was extinguished last week for $2.15. At Malinta, in the same State, a large noose was ominously suspended from Albert Roehl's barn to scare off outside bidders. Illinois' Governor Horner got a telegram reading "We are face to face with anarchy" from a Monticello mortgage broker who collected $4.90 on a $2,500 claim...
...Interstate Commerce Commission on Aug. 1 granted authority to build 56 miles of new line for the D., T. & I. at a cost of about $7,500,000, as well as to issue first mortgage bonds to raise the funds. The new line will extend from Malinta, Ohio, to Durban, Mich., and will serve to shorten haulage distances over the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton line...
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