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...Force chaplain went with some G.I.s on a sightseeing tour of the country around Manila. At a village called Tala, he saw a sight that horrified him. The people of Tala were all lepers...
Born: March 6, 1896, in San Rafael, Calif.; eldest son of the late Rear Admiral Augustus Fechteler, Annapolis '77. His German-born father captained the gunboat Concord at Manila, commanded the Fifth Naval District from 1918 to 1921, when he retired and died soon after. His brother Frank (Annapolis '18) was killed testing his plane for the 1922 Detroit Air Races...
...underground agent in the Japanese-run Philippines. She smuggled food, medicine and messages to U.S. prisoners of war, mapped enemy fortifications for the Air Force, once walked 56 miles through lines of trigger-happy sentries to report a mine field where the 37th Division was scheduled to attack Manila. Though she took many long chances, the Japanese never caught up with her because they were always afraid to search her; through her ragged blouse they could see the dreaded lesions of leprosy...
...carpentry shop at Manila's Camp Murphy, operated by reformed Huks. This month, making mess tables for the Philippine army, the shop netted a profit of $582. Said Foreman Manuel Caiyot, a onetime Huk leader known as Ahmad the Killer: "I didn't believe it, but here we are, doing business with the army and getting cash instead of bullets...
...Palomar 1'26-'27, 505 Insular Life Bldg., Manila...