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iefUsed $IOO Bills to Light Cigarets on CorregidorIe h 111loti*ahemlestin■s.n-MELBOURNE (U.H) — Some sold-iers in the Philippines had the thrill of lighting cigarets with $100 bills, the last group of evacuees from Corregidor said today.They arrived in Australia recently and included six of Lieut.-Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright’s key officers, 11 army nurses and two other women. They left Cor-legidor during the night on May 3, three days before Wainwright surrendered.Report Brainerd Nurse 'Tin* nurses brought to 22 the total of the nursing corps evacuated from the Philippines from nearly 100 stationed there.I he money the soldiers used tot'ijluht cigarets was worthless. It n as igipart of the currency being destroy-I ed by Finance Col Royal G. Jenksof Columbus, Ga., lest it fall intoJapanese hands.The women arrivals included: Second Lieuts. HortenseMcKay, Brainerd, Minn.; andTuhin Straub, Milwaukee, Wls.J Mabel Stevens, Creighton, Neb., arm nurses.The staff officers Lieut.-Col. Charles corps, Reading, Fa.; Col. John W. (Pete) Irwin, infantry, Laramie, Wyo.; Col. Thomas Doyle, infantry, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Col. Milton A. Hill Norfolk, Va . and Col. Mott Ramsay.were Jenks, Savage. airThe arrival of Second Lieut. Hortense McKay in Australia was announced here several v eeks aro through a message from the nurse herself to members of her family
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Brainerd Daily Dispatch
Brainerd, Minnesota, US
Mon, Jun 08, 1942
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