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Died. Tomás Confesor, 60, Filipino statesman and anti-Japanese guerrilla leader; of a heart attack; in Manila. After working his way through the University of California and the University of Chicago, he returned to the Philippines, gave up a brief teaching career to enter politics, in 1937 was elected governor of Iloilo. When the Japanese came he rejected collaboration feelers, declared himself governor of all Panay, sent word to the invaders: "I will not surrender as long as I stand on my feet." When MacArthur returned, he was still standing...
...grew up in around Blooming Grove, was on the U.S.S. Hornet in Manila Bay in 1944 when an unreleased bomb on an incoming plane exploded. A fragment struck him in the head, injured the optic nerve, left him almost totally blind...
...There he dealt with rebels and lepers, dug graves for cholera victims, paddled his canoe along jungle streams (the diocese could not afford a paddler), and led the Roman Catholic theological struggle against the "Independent Philippine Church," founded by Gregorio Aglipay, who had been a Roman Catholic priest in Manila. Dougherty became Archbishop of Philadelphia in 1918, was created a cardinal in 1921, devoted much of his remaining life to traveling in line of duty, was acclaimed the "missionary bishop of the 20th Century...
During MacArthur's five days of retreat in Manhattan, coveys of cops, MPs and hotel dicks turned both press and public aside. Special switchboard arrangements diverted almost all of his 3,000-odd daily telephone calls. His zealous military secretary, Major General Courtney Whitney, onetime Manila lawyer, carried his word to Manhattan's clamoring reporters...
...their first full-dress test the researchers picked Bataan, across Manila Bay from Williams' old laboratory. They drew a line down the peninsula. East of the line, all the rice to be eaten was milled the ordinary way, then mixed (200 parts to one) with rice which had been coated with Bi, niacin and iron. West of the line, the Filipinos ate plain white rice...