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October 10, 1942

I know four of the fourteen executed. Cipriano Unson was a topnotch man in Quezon's time and second to Placido Mapa in the Bureau of Supply. Lorenzo Silverio was Mapa's horse trainer and a fine chap I knew well. Pablo Katigbak was Reuters' night man; on stormy nights I relied on him for the news. John Cowper, the sole American in the list, was caught for disseminating anti-Japanese information at a bus station and for criticizing the Japanese Military Administration at a club. I last spoke to him in March — he thought the war would be short. It's over for him now.

Father Theo delivered the medicines to Cabanatuan. He met POWs Priestley and Burrell but missed seeing Joe. A Father Talbot will deliver the packages to him. The men there were overjoyed to get the medicines and learn of the people outside working to support them.