Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1944 — Page 20
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Pilot Serving in India-China Wing Has Been Overseas
Since March.
Capt. Ray L. Walton, a nilot in the air transport command in the India-China wing, has been promoted from’ the rank of first lieutenant. Overseas since March, Capt. Walton is the son of Mrs. Doris C. Walton, 362¢ E. New York st.; husband of Mrs. Rose Louise Walton and father of Emilie Ann, both of 1637 N. Illinois st. .
Men Transferred
The following men have been transferred from Ft. Harrison to various army camps: To Camp Blanding, Fla.: Pvt. Elmer E. Everett, husband of Mrs. Joan L. Everett, 1360 N. Olney ave,; Pvt. Lee Cauble, husband of Mrs. Mary E, Cauble, R. R. 8, Box 108; Pvt, Joseph D. Carrico, husband of Mrs. Helen C. Carrico, 1536 E. Raymond st.; Pvt. Jack Biggs, husband of Mrs. Florence Biggs. 704 E. Georgia st.; Pvt. Elbert Ray Elder, husband of Mrs. Edna Elder, 834 Olive st.; Pvt. A. J. Phelan, husband of Mrs. Lela PF. Phelan, 1023 Tabor st.; Pvt, John H. Aitmeyer, husband of Mrs. Ruth Altmeyer, R. R. , Box 547-E; Pvt. Guy A. Bertram, husband of Mrs, Dee Bertram. 647 Warren ave.: Pvt. Russell Short, husband of Mrs. Katherine Short, Mooresville; Pvt. Homer Hines, husband of Mrs. Jean Hines, 3956 Hoyt ave. Pvt. Robert Curley, husband of Mrs. Grace Curley, 1548 Ringgold ave.: Pl.
W. E. Flageol, husband of Mrs. W
Plageol, 517 Chase st.; Pvt. Willlam Hagan, husband of Mrs. Margie Hagan, Indianapolis, and Pvt. Virgil D. Carver
Jr., husband of Mrs. Florence Carver, Indianapolis. To South Camp Hood. Tex.: Pvt. John M. Quassy, son of Mrs. Joseph Quassy, 2005 Bluff ave To Ft. Sill, Okla.: Pvt son of Mrs. Dotty Manuel,
Francis Manuel, 1733 Lambert
st, and Pvt. William Holstine, husband of Mrs. Margaret Holstine, 611 8. Sherman dr,
3 Are Graduated
Among graduates in specialized training courses at Great Lakes naval training center are Harry Thomas Miles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Miles, Cossell dr. torpedoman school: John Bruce Craig, 2112 Napoleon st., signalman school, and Ray Curtis Shelby, husband of Mrs. Laura J. Selby, 526 N. Centennial st, basic engineering school. .
At Lubbock army air field, Tex., three Hoosiers are in their final period of pilot training before they receive their silver wings as bomber pilots.
RAY L. WALTON |
E Serve Marines
Hubert Johnston
PFC. son of Delaware st., has been home on furlough after 28 months’ service with the marines overseas.
Mary Stites
rs. Opal Johnston, 2030 N.
PVT. MARY STITES, marine daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stites, 2322 N. Gale st, has completed recruit training at Camp Lejeyne, N.C; and is now serving as a clerk-typist at marine corps headquarters, Washington, D.C.
William Rusher Orville Rusher
The men in the Rusher family on Thompson rd. have gone to war. ORVILLE RUSHER, husband of Mrs. Margaret Rusher, is at Great Lakes naval training station, while their son, PVT. WILLIAM RUSHER, is fighting on the Anzio beachhead.
Joseph Rajer John Rajer
TWO INDIANAPOLIS brothers who hadn't seen each other in 15 months met last April in Italy and so far as their families know are still together. Joseph Rajer, a tank crewman, whose wife, Katherine, lives at 1413 N. Concord, met his brother John, an infantryman whose wife, Jean, lives at 454 Goodlet st. Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
They are 2d Lt. Strother H. Brann. formerly of 3249 N. New| Jersey st.; Aviation Cadet Dow B.| Hickam, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L.| Hickam, 323 8. Keystone ave., and Aviation Cadet Robert D. Marshall of Manilla,
Aviation Cadet Albert E. Gilligan, a mechanic in civilian life, is taking basic flight training at the army air force pilot school, Garden City, Kas. Cadet Gilligan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Gilligan, 1329 Hiatt st., was graduated from Technical high school. His wife is the former Miss Lola Mae LaFollette| of Indianapolis and his brother is now a pilot in the air forces,
Win Their Wings
Second Lts. Edgar L. Johnson of Indianapolis and Albert R. Dan-
Rajer, live at 739 N. Ketcham st.
LOCAL SOLDIERS AID HEADQUARTERS UNI
Stationed with the allied forces in the Mediterranean theater, three Indianapolis soldiers and one from Pittsboro man have their hands fuil looking after headquarters and helping house and supply soldiers with equipment. Local members of this headquarters are 8. Sgt. Clyde E. Balsbaugh, 310 N. Illinois st.; T. Sgt. Earl R. Brown, 645'2 Massachusetts ave., and Capt. Leo P. Mongan, 5900 Rockville rd. Cpl. Donald W. Tanselle is the Pittsboro soldier there.
Intent upon mastering the
ner of New Augusta have been graduated as B-26 Marauder first | pilots at Dodge City army airfield, | Kas. Lt. Johnson is the husband of Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson, 1812 N. Capitol ave, and son of Mrs. Estella Johnson, Greenfield. Lt. Danner is the son the Mrs. Gene Anderson,
New Augusta.
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mysteries of operating a radio set from rumbling, rolling tanks and half-tracks, Pvt. John Allen, husband of Mrs. Doris Allen, 647 Bright st., has reported at the armored school communication department, Ft. Knox, Ky.
The following men have ‘been in-
ducted by local board 5: Leonard Paul Harrell, 862 W. North st ; Robert Robinson, 332 Minerva; William Arthur Gholston, 531 Patterson st.; James Otis Johnson, 1018 Sheffield; Mose Williams Jr., 811 Maxwell; Henry Havden Cork, 5425 Burgess ave.; Maurice William Hudgins, 909 N Utica; Elzie Wayne Pullins Jr., 943 N. Belmont; Bert Ben Hudgins, 909 Utica st.; Thomas Owen AcFarland, 336 Bright st.
FIREMAN IS INJURED
IN FIVE-FOOT FALL
Injured in a five-foot fall this morning, Lt. Peter J. Gallagher, 526 Goodlet ave., a member of the city fire department repair and maintenance bureau, was taken to City hospital. Lt. Gallagher slipped and fell to the floor while repairing a window at fire house 30, New Jersey and South sts.
DECATUR NATIVE DIES DECATUR, Ind, June 7 (U.P.).—
today for Miss Annie E. Winnes, 80, business woman and for 25 years secretary of the Adams county Red Cross chapter, who ‘died yesterday. Survivors were three sisters and a brother.
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Funeral services wére set for Friday
Arrives With Laundry Unit To Solve Another
+ Oversea Problem.
The marines have a reputation for landing in the nick of time and this was it. The whole outfit at an advanced base in the Pacific were walking around in a G. I, shade of tattle tale grey when Pvt. James W. Ruse of Indianapolis came in with! a mobile: laundry platoon. | Civilian laundries had been swamped by marine laundry and the way the marines paid the natives played hob with the local
Holland, " of Mrs. Dorothy Holland, 35 8. Oxford st.; Pfc. James Fitzgerald, son of Mrs. Esther Fitzgerald, 1145 Church st, and T. 5th Gr. Clem J. Hubbell Jr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clem J. Hubbell, 17 N, Harding st.
son of Mr. and Mrs. M. B, McDonald, Greenwood, recently wen his pilot's wings at Blackland field,
economic scale. So they did their] own washing—by request of their commanding officers. Being a rescuer wasn’t Pvt. Ruse’s idea, he wanted combat duty. He was attached to the laundry platoon by, in the words of his commanding officer, brute force.
Gained Experience Here
Pvt. Ruse, whose wife, Peggy, {lives at 4334 Spann ave. was em- | ployed by Gregg’s dry cleaning plant before he enlisted on Aug. 12, 1943. The laundry platoon, commanded | by Lt. John Kelly, is mobile enough | to start work 24 hours after arrival! and can handle 250 pounds of clothing an hour. Because of the damp climate on many of the islands the main problem has been of drying, but the laundry carries its own drying machine. Each man’is entitled to 20 pieces of laundry a week—it's rough dried but free,
Pvt. Earl L. Miller, former Butler university journalism student, is a reporter for the camp newspaper at Keesler field, Miss." The paper recently won a place in the camp newspaper service contest to de-! termine’ the best paper in the armed forces today. Pvt. Miller, who lived in Indianapolis while attending Butler, is the {son of Mrs. Johanna Miller, Michigan City. |
Roth Teaching Gunnery
Sgt. Daniel R. Roth, an aerial gunnery instructor in the army air | forces, is teaching combat gunners |in Northern Ireland how to protect | their plane from the waist-gunner's | position. { | Captain of the Washington high {school football team in 1940, he is | the son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. | | Roth, 3344 Wilcox st., and has made three combat missions in a B-17.| Hig wife, Mrs. Gwendolyn Roth, and 3-month-old daughter, Vickie Rae, | live at 38 N. Traub ave, | Pvt. Robert W. Stephens, husband of Mrs. Claudia V. Stephens, 2816 | McPherson st., has been transferred | trom Ft. Harrison to Sheppard fleld, Tex.
Pvt. Betty Jane Alexandbr, a 1042 Technical high school graduate, will receive marinc recruit training at Camp Lejeune, N. €. She is the
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Second Lt. Frederick St. George Hulsman, 3540 N. Pennsylvania st., has ‘been selected for training as a bomber pilot at Maxwell field, Ala.
8. Sgt. Gayle S. Palmer, 3363 College ave, was awarded the good conduct medal recently during serv-
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The necessity prises because tl men Aare retur battlefronts with site in their blo The report, o _ the mosquito an in the county, i Joseph L. Quinn of the division
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