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...pretty village of Charan Kanoa, where banana trees line the streets, there were speeches and posters, dances and rallies. Trooping to the village hall, Chamorros and Carolinians cast secret ballots. When the results were totted, tall & balding Elias Sablan, 46, had beaten 25 other candidates for the office of chief...
...former policeman and government official at Yap, Chief Sablan went to a German school on Saipan, speaks English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chamorro, Carolinian. In his new job, something like an American mayor's, he is responsible to Navy civil affairs officers...
...then on, he was official physician for Pan American Airways, examiner for a U.S. life-insurance company, a civic leader in Agana, Guam's largest town. When the Government ordered all U.S. families home, A.P.'s Guam correspondent, pretty Mrs. Dorothy Trady Perry, had to go. Dr. Sablan took over her job, filed the news faithfully until the Japs came...
...Sablan's wife and little daughter got out in time, arrived in San Francisco on Dec. 7, 1941. Mrs. Sablan got a job in an aircraft factory in Louisville (her husband hopes that he can go there for a vacation when things quiet down). Back in Guam, Dr. Sablan took to the hills with most of the population. Of those who stayed in the towns, some were mistreated by the Japs and fled to him for treatment...
Navy men say that Dr. Sablan did "a great job" in spite of dwindling food supplies and the lack of drugs-he has a knack for keeping villages immaculate, the greatest public-health safeguard. As he has not been paid in three years, his Army and Navy friends are now trying to get an appropriation...