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Head Hunters at Abra Corner Tubby Hicks Defies Attack
Tubby Hicks, an American electrician at a Luzon power plant, hides a severed Ilocano head inside his trunk and uses a dummy to scare Ilocano head hunters prowling near his Abra hillside shack. A late night siege ends with the village chief arriving to calm the scene.
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