The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-30
BY LEE G. MILLER

MANlLA-(by WlrefeSS)-B u l.
ness is picking up.
Staff Sergt. Bill Landau, who
used to work on the Houston Press,
dropped in to invite me to take
course in parachuting at the 11tr
Airborne Division. Guess who hao
previous engagement?
Capt. Glen "Blackie" Weinberg
of the Marines, just in from
Peleliu, phoned from the airport.
And it turned out that the stranger
waiting beside him to use the phone
Next was my old friend Lieut..
Comdr. Ewel Stone, of Oklahoma,
Just in from Palawan. They came
up to my place and we mad quite
a rally.
Mai. Addison "Spotsie" Clare,
Atlantic, Ia, of the Sixth Division
dropped in, and then three friends
from the 43rd Bombardment Group
Maj Albert w. Brownfield, of Ba-
ton Rouge, Capt. "Slim" hummer
man. of Oklohama, and Lieut.. Bob
''Mole" Make of Massachusetts,.
Lieut.. Col. Bernard j. Macauley,
of Poplar Bluff, Mo-, division sur
geon of the Sixth Division, and an
old friend of President Truman,
came by on the way to catch an
airplane for Nome. And Capt. C..
Harmon Nelson-the c. stands for
Colonel, so he is Captain Colonel
Nelson-sent an invitation to visit
the 25th Division.
So now I've promised to go to
the 25th and the Sixth Divisions
and to the 43rd Bombers, if I don't
get tied up.
I had been invited to cocktail
party by pretty Filipino girl, Miss
Conchita Sunico, formerly Miss
Philippines, but my clothes were
all dirty and l had no transporta-
tion-there being about four jeeps
to divide among scores of cores
pondents here. Well, l fast-talked a
corporal into driving me. borrow
ed pair of pants from a Press
Wireless man and shirt from an
other correspondent And then
after all that finagling l arrived
breathless at the appointed address
and found that the party was to be
the next day. (They gave me a
cocktail anyway
My son, who is 10 and a newly
commissioned d lieutenant
writes he has arrived in Belgium,
as commanding officer of d COM
pany of 200 requirements. He also
seems to be turning literary critic.
An excerpt:
1--WE just about finished For
ever Amber" which is a filthy
piece of literature, l must say.
It's pretty good reading though"
An officer was complaining about
heat rash all over his back. A
friend said scornfully, You call
that heat rash? You should have
been with us in New Guinea. Why,
that's gooseflesh you've got"
NV mother in Seymour, Ind,
wrote that Mrs. j. L. Davis there,
who comes from the prominent
Perez Rubio family in Manila, had
heard that her entire family had
been murdered by Japs. l was fin
ally able to wireless Mother that
three of Mrs, Davis close relatives
had returned safely to Manila from
Baguio. The rest apparently were
killed.
Laundry service is excellent
everywhere I've been in the Philip
pines. There are always laundress-
es who will give you 48-hour serv-
ice or better. The only drawback
is they get the stuff mixed up. As
a result I. now have drawers in
four sizes ranging from 30 to SO.
My officer asked me to have
some pictures taken, but that will
have to wait until I get. the band
age off my forehead. The other
night I "augered in''-as the flies
say-tripped and fell and got a
little and over NV 1ef eve. and tne