Tribune: "2 million pesos released to Biba for palay purchases." Sanvictores is on tour, turning rice-growing cooperatives into buying agencies.

"Prices of coffee, chocolate fixed" has people wondering whether the government is nuts. Schaer has been buying coffee at P10 a kilo, but now must pay the fixed price of P33.50!

The Japanese retreat again: "While intercepting the enemy drive, the Japanese forces in the sector were gradually concentrated in an area northwest of Kalasa, 56 kilometers northwest of Finschhafen, in order to prepare for the launching of next military operations."

Public Pulser Nicomedes Alcobar hits the nail squarely on the thumb:

If anomalies have really been committed by certain officials of the former Naric, the erring officials should be punished without quarter. [Else] the public may take the presidential blast against corrupt government officials as just so much wind. We need an example and pronto.

Citing, of all gals, wrote a pen pal letter, enclosed P5, and threw it at the POWs in Pasay Elementary. One Lynn B. Brotherson of Pennsylvania, who arrived on the USS Luzon on December 4, 1941, answered. He thanked her, warned her it was risky to write or send food, but didn't ask her to stop writing. Somewhat romantically, he wondered if she could stand at some place when he's passing to and from work so he could see her? Citing isn't saying anything anymore, but there's a little more color in her cheeks these days.