Career
He is most remembered today in Boy Scouting literature. During the United States Navy"s assault on 17–20 October 1944 in the, Abello (aged 31), accompanied by Antero Junio and Vicente Tiston, successfully established communication with a warship using his knowledge of semaphore, learned in youth as a Boy Scout of Troop 11, Leyte, Boy Scouts of America. Abello identified himself "Boy Scouts of America", paddled out by bangkâ (outrigger canoe), was taken aboard ship 467, and provided information for pinpointing Japanese installations and diverting bombardment away from populated areas of Tolosa.
Abello"s intrepid action made good copy for war correspondents on board ship.
Ramon Magsaysay, in 1956. An attempt by relatives to have him buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani / Heroes" Cemetery failed, but a monument in his honor stands at Telegrafó, Tolosa, Leyte.
He is remembered on "Signal Day," 18 October, in Leyte.
