Priest Who Died in Jap Camp Wrote Song for Churchill
Dutch Catholic priest Father Bakker wrote a farewell song for Winston Churchill from a Sumatra prison camp while imprisoned with journalist William H. McDougall Jr. The dying priest entrusted the song to McDougall for delivery. Churchill expressed deep appreciation. Bakker died June 16, 1945, at age 43 after sharing the composing effort with interned Dutch evacuees.
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Churchill
New York
Tliim
Winston Church
Tegt
J. W. Thompson
Hiitis
Stuns
Fito
William HH. McDougall, Jr
United Press
Sumatra
B. E. Bakker
Church Pauchettt
McDougall
McDougail
Pathay Bakker
Muntok
Banka
Beith Vetugers
Arthur Hugh Clough
Juve
Indian Ocean
Palecabang
Father Bakker
Bakker Himaehf
Bakker
Incorporation Papers Filed for Lord & Tonn Inc
Copy of the certificate filed with the County Clerk shows Lord & Tonn Inc incorporated to design manufacture and sell women s wearing apparel. Capital stock $470 000 700 shares at $100 par. Offices 404 Fulton Street. Directors William C Tann Algene C Tann Leutgard F Lard. Attorney Thomas P Huxtable. Francis M Denner filed to do business as Superior Decorators at 2213 Fifth Avenue.
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Lord & Tonn, Inc
Fulton Street
William and Algene C. Tann
Hoosick Street
Leutgard F. Lard
Second Street
Thomas P. Huxtable
Francis M. Denper
Second Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Superior Decorators
Prison Camp Priest Composes Amid War's End
The article profiles Father Bakker a soft voiced white priest with a Van Dyke beard who, despite harsh prison conditions, taught Chinese and Malay prisoners, organized monthly choir concerts, and composed prolifically. He and fellow priests ran a makeshift prison hospital while war ended. A film copy was made under Sister Mary Sienna at the College of St. Mary of the Wasatch in Salt Lake City.
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McDougall
Mary Sienna
College of St. Mary-of the-Wasatch
Salt Lake City
Ulat
Bakker
van Dyke
Chucchill
Yrea
Museum guard on job forty years at Carnegie Museum
Pittsburgh UP reports on Venu Polis a forty year museum guard at the Carnegie Museum who repairs and maintains plaster casts of famous statues. He has faced vandalism such as thefts of statues parts and sword thefts from the fallen gladiator. Polis was recruited by Andrew Carnegie during a 1906 tour to help transport and install copies to Pittsburg.
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Pittsburgh
Venux Dal Milo
Julie Cassar
Rosy Polis
Carnegie Museum
Polis
John the Baptist
Potis
Andrew Carnegie
Murope
Eigin
Pittsburg
America
Melrose Families Travel After Sunday Departure
Melrose Mr and Mrs Roberts left Sunday to spend the weekend in New York. Ste. Lea Dufty of the U S 8 called his parents Mr and Mrs Harold Dufty Sunday. The Willing Workers of Tohi s Lutheran Church meet today at 2 30 am at the home of Mrs L A Nible. Melrose Grange holds a game party today at the home of Mr and Mrs Charles Weise for the building fund.
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Melrose
Roberts
New York
Tohi's
Lutheran Church
L. A. Nible
Melrose Grange
Charles Weise
Ste. Lea Dufty
U. S
Chawanne
Harold Dufty
Honoluu Wedding Event At Mulroso Home Bureau
Reports from Honoluu note a social gathering at the Mulroso Home Bureau on Thursday at 2 pm honoring Mrs. Walter Love. The event features a clothing project called Aceuwborles and a community meeting with guests including Arnold Nibble Kenneth Gitte and Mr. and Mrs. Johnayt. Harriett Sluperly and Alfred la Chabert are linked to the wedding context following the murt.
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Mulroso
Walter Love
Lawon Oy
Aceuwborles
Mie County
Kit
Arnold Nibble
Kenneth Gitte
Mor
Johnayt
Harriett
Alfred «la Chabert
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Peerless Co
Harry M. Fleishman
Fleishmans
Albany
the Fur Department
Jonathan Logan
Honoluu
Tanya
Mr Bridge Eyele
Manied Sagle Vonce
Possam
Harco
Dad
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