Word: berthas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maria Bertha Hertogh was five years old when the Japanese soldiers took her mother & father away from Bandung, Java, where papa Adriaanus Hertogh was a sergeant in The Netherlands East Indies army. Bertha was too young to remember just how it happened, but while she was staying at the home of Che Aminah, a Malay woman known to her parents, the rest of the family disappeared into prison camp...
...jungle village north of Singapore. After VJ, the Hertoghs were repatriated to Holland. As best they could, they tried to find Che Aminah and their lost daughter, finally found them last May. Then they ran into fierce emotional barriers. Che Aminah insisted that mama Hertogh had given her Bertha. The girl, now 13 years old and brought up as a Moslem, did not want to leave her foster home...
That night a soaking, life-giving rain came to the farms of Clarissa, Bertha and Eagle Bend...
Five Methodist missionaries have been reported captured in the Korean war: the Rev. A. Kris Jensen of New Cumberland, Pa.; the Rev. Larry Zellers of Weatherford, Texas; Miss Bertha Smith of Marshall, Mo.; Miss Nell Dyer of Fort Smith, Ark.; Miss Helen Rosser of Cordele, Ga. Together with Dr. Ernest Kisch of Austria, a Jew recently baptized a Methodist and doing special work for his church in Korea, the five were cut off by North Korean troops in the city of Kaesong...
...Died. Bertha ("Chippie") Hill, 45, brass-voiced blues singer in the oldtime Bessie Smith tradition; after being hit by an automobile; in Harlem. Chippie would try any request from her stomping audiences except a hymn: "You can't play with God in a nightclub ... As long as I work for the Devil, I better continue with...