December 24 in diaries
Best Holiday Wishes to All!
1898: John E.T. Milsaps, Salvation Army missionary, James Loughrey, California Volunteers, Chriss Bell, Oregon Volunteers, Alfred Burton Welch, Washington Volunteers, John Henry Asendorf, Pennsylvania Volunteers.
1899: Simeon Villa, staff of Pres. Aguinaldo; Karl White, Iowa Volunteers, Joseph Collins, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Ernest Dieball, 47th U.S.V., Capt. William Herman Wilhelm.
1931: Marcial Lichauco, member, OsRox Mission.
1935: Francis Burton Harrison, former governor-general, adviser to Pres. Quezon.
1941: Filipino soldiers: Gen. Basilio Valdes, Philippine Army chief of staff, Felipe Buencamino III, Philippine Army intelligence officer, Eriberto Misa, Ateneo ROTC cadet, Ramon Alcaraz, Q-Boat captain; Filipino and Spanish civilians: Teodoro M. Locsin, journalist, Antonio M. Molina, lawyer, Fr. Juan Labrador O.P., rector of Colegio de San Juan de Letran; American military personnel: Gen. Lewis Beebe, USAFFE chief of staff, William Fairfield, engineering officer, John P. Horan IV, USAFFE commander, Baguio, George Steiger, Corregidor, Lt. Col. Edward Bowes, Cpl. Leo Arhutick, John P. Burns, pilot; American and other foreign civilians: Henry Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War, Paul Esmérian, Herman Bieber, Lucy Hardee Olsen, Fay Cook Bailey, Denny Williams, Tress Cates, Carl E. Rice, Elizabeth Lautzenhiser, Claire Phillips (Manila), Elizabeth Vaughan (Negros).
1942: Louise Fillmore Blancaflor, American married to a Filipino in Negros.
1943: Fr. Juan Labrador O.P., rector of Colegio de San Juan de Letran.
1944: Gen. Basilio Valdes, Philippine Army chief of staff; American civilian detainees: Carl E. Rice, Albert Holland, Raymond Leyerly (UST); American P.O.W.s: Arthur Shreve, Warren Wilson.
1945: Jorge B. Vargas, Sugamo Prison, Tokyo.