WEALTHY AMERICAN
KILLED IN NEW GUINEA (N.Z.P.A. Special Aust. Correspondent) SYDNEY, October 23. Lieutenant Bruce Fahnestock; aged 31. the elder of two wealthy American brothers, was killed last Sunday in New Guinea at the same time as Mr Byron Darnton, the ‘ New York Times ’ war correspondent, lost his life. Lieutenant Fahnestock’s brother, Captain Sheridan Fahnestock, is stationed in Australia. The two brothers sailed their three-masted auxiliary schooner Director 11. into the’ South Seas in 1939. They were with a party of 17 scientists who were collecting; urare Pacific birds and recording primitive native music for the Helen• FahnesWdk' Hubbard Foundation. New York. ' The brothers had, made two earlier trips through the Pacific Islands.
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Evening Star, Issue 24334, 24 October 1942, Page 4
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113WEALTHY AMERICAN Evening Star, Issue 24334, 24 October 1942, Page 4
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