The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
Bishop Lee To Head
 Work For Chaplains
Begins Work June in WashingtOn To Help Churches
 Deal With Returning Soldiers Problems

open for the resumption of Mission work, Bishop Lee will begin iis new work on June first. His headquart- CTS will be in the Woodward Build ing, Washington, D. 0.
 Commenting upon the appoint ment of Bishop Lee, Dr. William Barrow Pugh of Philadelphia, chair man of the General Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains, said:
 "The appointment of Bishop Lee is another indication of the increas- ing sense of responsibility for giv- ing stronger support to the chap lains. Today more than 1000 repre- sentatives ofthe Protestant churches are serving as chaplains in all parts of the world. The churches have no greater opportunity for spiritual leadership today than that which comes to them through these men"
 According to Dr. Pugh, Bishop Lees service in connection with the Protestant chaplains will include D securing additional ministers for the chaplaincy; 9 representing the interests of the chaplains in the government, particularly the War Department and the Navy Depart mbent: 3 maintaining constant contacts with the chaplains through correspondent and through organ- iZing systematic visitations of all the chaplains by outstanding rep resentatives of the churches; 4) helping the churches to deal with the problems of returning soldiers and sailors.
 Vice Chairman of the Commission is the Rt. Rev. Henry K. Sherril of Boston, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church. who made spe- cial trip to the Aleutian Islands in the Interests of the chaplains last summer. As Chairman of the Com mission, Dr. Pugh made an overseas visit last year to the chaplains in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America.
 A veteran of 9 years service in the Far East, Bishop Lee was forc- ed to leave Singapore at the end of January, 1942, when the Jap anese army was only IT miles dist ant. During the preceding seven and a half weeks, while the city was under constant bombardment, he went through 100 air raids. On the second Sunday in January, 1e42, he was conducting an ordina- ton service for an American mis- sionary in a suburban church when an air raid alarm was sounded. He asked the congregation to take tenn porary refuge under the pews to protect themselves from flying shrapnel. When the "all clear" sig nal was sounded he continued the service at the point where 1t had been interrupted.
 Evacuated at the urgent advice of the United States Consul General Bishop Lee, with his wife and "A other Americans, escaped on small American freighter. While their ship was still tied to the wharf, however, along with IS others. 27 Japanese planes bombed the harbor. Finually, after 66 days of travel via Java and Australia, 46 of them on three different ships, the Lees landed in San Francisco on April 6, 1922.
 One of the first chaplains appoint ed out of civilian life in the last war, Bishop Lee served for a year and half with the American Ex- peditionary Force in France as senior chaplain of Base Section No. '. After the armistice he was appointed Spe- cial representative of the senior chaplain at Army headquarters in Paris, with the rank of captain.
 On his return from Europe in 1919, Bishop Lee was made associate secretary of the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions for Europe and North Africa. Elected missionary bishop of the Methodist church in 1928. he has been in charge of mission work in Malaysia, the Philippine Islands, Sarawak and Sumatra since that time, with head quarters in Manila and Singapore. He has travelled extensively through southern and central Europe, and the entire Orient, and has been around the world six times.
 He has received the following dec- orations from foreign governments: the Cross of Mercy from Jugoslavia for his part in the relief program after the war; King George V Silver Jubilee Medal from Great Britain for his educational work in British Malaga; and Officer of the Academy, Order of University Palms from France in recognition of his war work.
 Born in Eldorado. Iowa. Bishop Lee was educated at Northwestern university, Garrett Biblical Institute and the University of Chicago. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographic society. London, and member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia: the American Institute of Pacific Rela- tions. New York. and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.