Hide Article Text (OCR)
Ex-POW's in RowCorregidor Memorial Dispute Splits GroupBy Jlr 0. LUCASWnkrWASKIiN'CiTON, June 16 — A row is brewing hetwecji oud oC the nalioii's best known nx-prisoners of war and somis of the men who also were m Japanese prison camps during SVorld War IT.Involved vs a plan by the Ameiican and PhilJippine Congresses'to er«^ a S7.5 million memorlnl on Corrogidor, Ihc fortress isUnd In Manila Bay.Ruo. James Devorcux (R-Md.* retired Marine gaieral who was captured on Wake Island after heroic hut iutile josistanee. is aulhur of a me* inorNI hill. It woulil have Ihe ■ Navy sell 29 olvsolete warships and give approximately half ol i the money .lo Ihe Conegidor-* Bataan Meinonal Coimnission ' created by CongreSvS in lflo3,Dcvureux saya this mellmd• of raisins money “is Ihu most ; iitliDg and appropriate one.”: ho is a commission Tneniber.The American Ex - PO\V Assn. opposes the idea, teo J. i MnsrrlU, Cftlifornia slate rom-* niandor, spys the assoriallon would “much proler” that the money go to its proposed Walnwright Memcrinl Ke-search Foundotion nnd Hospi-* tal. The project is named for Ihe late LI. Gen. .Tonathsn M. ^Sfai^^v^ig^1l, who died in 1953.' lie spent 41 months in Jep-• anese prison camps.; Navy Capt, Samuel G. Ke]]y»• executive secretary of the Cor** rcgldor-Botaan Memorial Com-• misstuii, says the ex-rOV/s aro *'a reputable orgnnizallon, hutthey have onc-frack minds/' ‘They gel too emotional ahout these ' things,” CapL Kelly added. “They want us lo give them the money. They’re not going to gel it, even if we don’t build the lue-morial.”Ho said the commission “certainly won’t do whai they want, for two obvions reasons. One, hospitals are strictly a maUor of the Veteran a Admin-islration. And two, VA is doing an excellent job.”He said the VA alrendy had spent $11 million on a hospital in the Philippines for ex^pris-oners of war.1I
Newspaper Details
Albuquerque Tribune
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Mon, Jun 16, 1958
Page 24
Full Page
Clipped by
University O.
NM, USA 01 Aug 2018
Other Publications Near Albuquerque, New Mexico
Industrial Advertiser and Weekly News
Albuquerque Tribune
Albuquerque Daily Journal
Albuquerque Weekly Journal
Albuquerque Journal
