I attach a letter from a certain Laureano Abaya of La Union who gives a different version of father’s death. He claims that he was executed by the guerrillas in an eastern barrio of Bacnotan, La Union. But he is unbelievable as we have checked some of the details. His letter does not jive. He has father speaking in Spanish when he favored English and Ilocano.
I attach also reports on Concon [Constitutional Convention] by Dr. Guino de Vega as well as on the political plans and activities of Sens. Gerardo Roxas and of Salvador Laurel as reported by Nestor Ponce, Chairman of the National Students League, one of our sources of information.
Official Gazette for February 5, 1972: PRESIDENT MARCOS as usual started early on the day going over urgent state papers.
Among others, the Chief Executive:
1) Issued a proclamation designating the period from February 15 to June 15 for the 1972 national membership and educational fund campaign of the Philippine Mental Health Association, Inc.
2) Signed the nominations for one original appointment and four promotional transfers in station assignment of judges of the Court of First Instance.
He then submitted the nominations to the Commission on Appointments for confirmation.
The President also issued a directive to the Philippine Constabulary, “to employ all available and necessary force” to keep the peace in Lianga, Surigao del Sur. He issued the directive at a conference in Malacañang attended by officials of the justice and labor departments, the PC and of the province of Surigao del Sur. The President had summoned these officials to work out solutions to the labor dispute in the area.
Present at the conference were: Secretary of Justice Vicente Abad Santos, Undersecretary of Labor Amado G. Inciong, Reps. Jose G. Puyat, Jr. of Surigao del Sur and Roberto M. Sabido of Albay, Fiscal Vicente Murillo of Surigao del Sur, and Commodore Hilario M. Ruiz, PN flag-officer-in-command.
Two versions of Marcos’ death are: execution by the Japanese or by guerillas for collaboration. National Historical Institute marker installed in Don Mariano Marcos State University in Ilocos Norte in 1983 did not elaborate and just states at the end of the text “Died in La Union March 1945.”