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- ↑ Diamond Jubilee Yearbook. Manila: Boy Scouts of the Philippines. 1996. p. 44.
- ↑ Salonga, Jovito (2001). Journey of Struggle and Hope.
- ↑ "The Philippines Free Press". 1938-07-02.
Meanwhile, "fighting" Rev. Samuel W. Stagg, Protestant pastor, defended the chief executive in a radio speech over KZIB, and at the same time accused the Catholic hierarchy of being "the sworn enemy of all democracy." He lauded the President for his "great courage in taking issues with the hierarchy in defense of the hard-won liberties of the Filipino people.
- ↑ Ramos, Fidel (2009-04-11). A Heroic Church.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ↑ Hawthorne Darby (13 Sep 1894, Colfax, Indiana–Aug 1944, Cemetery, Manila): Pediatrician, missionary, and humanitarian. Director of the (Methodist) Emmanuel Cooperative Hospital, Tondo, Manila
- ↑ Helen Jonaline Wilk / Helen Virginia Wilk (1901, La Porte, Indiana–Aug 1944, Cemetery, Manila): Missionary in the Philippines, 1925–44. Nurse and business manager of Emmanuel Cooperative Hospital, Tondo.
- ↑ Blanche Anna Walker Jurika (1885-1944): mother of naval officer Stephen Jurika and guerrilla Thomas Walker Jurika, and mother-in-law of Charles Thomas "Chick" Parsons
- ↑ "Santo Tomas Internment Camp". Philippine Scouts Heritage Society. 2004-05-22. Archived from the original on 2013-11-03.
- ↑ Jurika, Louis, A Philippine Odyssey (PDF),
Blanche was dead, executed in late August, 1944, hands tied behind her, blindfolded and kneeling over a newly-dug trench somewhere in Manila's North Cemetery, killed with over two dozen other civilians accused of various acts of conspiracy by the Japanese. For Blanche and the few other American women, death was by beheading by Samurai sword. For the men, it had been a single shot to the back of the head
- ↑ "Sakakida - Hero or Turncoat?". corregidor.org.
- ↑ Smith, Donald (2007). We Survived War's Crucible. Bloomington: AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1434329677.
During the house arrest period, Mary Boyd Stagg, pastor of the Cosmopolitan Church and others in the congregation, were helping the Filipino guerrillas. Somebody infiltrated their number and the Japanese came suddenly to pick her up. It happened that young Sam Boyd Stagg, Mary's son, was out with his bicycle at the time the Japanese came to pick up his family. He was visiting Paul, who was a good friend. Sam was at our house several blocks from the Church when he heard the news of it. We advised him to go back and be with his family. We felt that if they caught him later and knew who he was, it would be harder on him. He went home, and was picked up with his family. Sometime later the soldiers tortured and beheaded his mother along with several others. But he survived.
- ↑ Universidad de Santo Tomas: At that time, the oldest university under the American flag, founded 1611; older than Harvard University, founded 1636.