Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1945 — Page 11

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| WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1945 — ———,—,—————_ Th THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

scrist, Roberts, Whitlow, Pilkington, Kleine, Norton and Ray Give Lives on European and Pacific Fronts

{One Sunny n Washington, next evening nh on the scate , not the flam« PA of old, but a vels, ris, the end of e hovers, then rkness. Every« ed. For hours g for this. We 1l landing, for

‘hump of solid mati X - te : | Ne fora J : J Pfo. Fred W. Kleine .. . killed | pvt. Vernie Wayne Whitlow ,., | Pfc. James W. Ray . , . killed in | Pvt. Kenneth Pilkington , , . Sgt. Russell L. Roberts . . . died

vas is rough] in Germany, died tn France | Germany. | killed in Germany. | in England. ei, su ne (Continued From Page One) { Wilson, and his father, O. T. Pilk- ltruck driver for fe cr Ma STATE— : house, Decatur; Bie Edward C_ Brodley, ¥ 3 v Te y C He -attende anua Th ¢ d t t, ¢ : Muncie, vt, James 0D. Capshaw, N lhe holes still Plc. Fred W. Kleine, 5661 Madi. | ‘P8ton. all of Washington, 0. e . war department has an le!” Pi ames Sapshiw wii

AFB school. I nounced the names of the following | burn; vt. Clarence H. Cash, Conners

Cpl. Vernon F. Bruder . . . miss- Second Lt, Philip Morgan . . . Pfc. John F. Smerdel, husband

| ing over Yugoslavia. | prisoner of Germany, of Mrs. Frances Smerdel, 770 N.

Arnolda ave; is a prisoner of Ger-

{Val J. Crofts, Evansville; Sgt. Jack J. 2d Lb. Vance C. Harney, Carbon Sgt man | Deal, Mishawaka, S. Sgt. John A. Dona- Prank I. Henry, Chrisney; P Josep y.

hue, East Chicago; Pfc. Arthur—R. Doyle, | Hickey, Jeffersonville; Pvt mond : v Winamac; Pvt. Harold L. Ebbert, Markle- | Hines, Frankfort; Pfc. Oscar R Horton, ler Jr., Jasper; Pfc. Gurley Lauderdale, ville, Schererville; Pfc. Cyril H. Huber: Sellers-! Gentryville;, T. Sgt. William F. Lee, Bhele Pfc. Earnest G. Elliott Jr., Mflltown; | burg; Pvt. John A. Joseph, Evansville; byville; Sgt. Walter L. Lundberg. Muncie. Cpl. Elmer E. Ellis, Ft. Wayne; Pvt. Rich- | Pfc. Eldon B. Keller, Elkhart; Pfc. Wil-| Pvt. Albert W. Lunsford, Rosedale; Pfe. ard FP. Esterley, Gas City; Sgt Maynard | liam L. Killen, Goshen: T. 5th. Gr. Ken-| Robert A. Malm, Elkhart; T. 5th Gr. Joha A. Faux, Kendallville; § James neth W. Knoll, Cloverdale; Pfc. Lbuis J.|T. McBride, Valparaiso; 8. Sgt. Charles Fiore, Hors; tes. Lt Bier om Por "| Kovacevich, South Bend: Pfc. Steve|D. Mellendorf, Marion; Pvt. Fred Musser, Brook; Pfc. Donald E. Grills, Hammond; Krupa, Richmond; Pfc. Charles: W. Kueb- Ft. Wayne

son ave, in Germany. : ‘A brother, Sgt. George W. Kel-| {Indiana servicemen killed in action: | ill Pu! nC: Coe, Elwood; Pvt. Ce g 9° | Pfc. James W. Ray, husband of! nest: Cook Jr. Clayton. Pfc. Wendell t Paris’ Er Ton al Mrs. Eloise Ray, 828 Park ave., pre-| S¢Y. 1s on Ney Sslelonta f Mrs.| Pt william E. Ad pion t; Pfe | Cooper Ym Pic, Glen L. Copeland 'S Juxe 'g. A Pfc i n ams 1kfor y > CAT S e nd go ave d Pfc. James W. Ray 828 Park ave, viously wounded in Belgium Nov. 19 | Sxt Leland Shnk, son 0 lr n¢ 2d Lt. James way ne: Pre. James ML Creek, Greenfield; the I : y i Ge AiBabal "|was killed in action in Germany| Agnes Shonk, 617 N. East st, WaS A. Baker, Ft. Wayne; Cpl Robert M. Barp- £gt. Gerald H, Craven, South Bend; F.O. 1 ane, for n Germany. - He was the 30 tanks, nh ® [Feb. 25. The war department wire | Younded Te. 2 gi infansuddenly into WOUNDED |was received by his wife, March 7. [serving in the 3 : : . Stewar ‘ 2. He wa the 334th infantry of uy. out the plane Set. David L. Stewart, 7820 E. ie was in € 1 ] Aniry Entering service Oct.-22, 1942, el 46th st, in Belgium. [the Ist army and had been overseas ul heh d| took hig basic training in Honolulu psterday. . To T. 5th Gr. Robert L. McClure, [since September. Pvt. Ray joine Australia in September tneton. ai 1347 W. 28th st., in Germany. the army in 1938. : anit lesy 107 Ausira-da BR ington airport | ov 1508 |’ iSutviv Y besides tl fe| 1944. . From Australia he went Pfc. Frank M. Kelsey, 1525 E.| ‘Surviving him besides the wife Ho is in pairs, each : : . are a "T- hs-old d } his| the Philippines. Sgt. Shonk, “who i out of casual Southern ave., on Leyte, are a 7T-months-old daughter; his| Vernon if sat Sot. Leland Shonk, 617 N. East|mother, Mrs. Edith Ray, and three| 22, attended high school.at on x iy ye st. on Luzon. sisters, Mrs. Floyd Phillips, Mrs.| and formerly was employed W — Yo oe Second Lt. Eldon L. Alig, 5650 N. Winifred Branch and Miss Gene | the Bemis Brothers Bag OD ink E W when y Meridian st., near Siegfried line. |Ray, all of Indianapolis. His brother, Pfc. Roy B Airs \ q isce V “ 8 =n with the army in France, not yet quite’ Pfc. Albert L. Loviscek, 717 N. | se officers had Haugh st, in Germany, ; [MISSING — 4.0.5 : al times, as I Pfc. Alfred W, Singleton, 1730 W : : Second Lt. Eldon L. Alig, son of

wards. Lambert st, on Luzon, Cpl. Vernon k, Bruder, yirrel Bune Mrs. Paul Weer, 5650 N. Meridian

. hey 7 or ner on. a B-24 based in. Italy, has : Be: Rober, W, Meyer, R. R. 4, been missing over Yugoslavia - since St 1S back in combat with the 3d ox 712 = Termany. W943 N.| PED 19 army after recovering from Naunds 5, Sgt alter W, att, 244 18 Belle Vieu pl., on the en front He is the son of Herman. Bruder, received Reb ea First. Lt. Jon W. Stalcup, 5015 1311 > adium dr., and the grandson Sompany gd DR try compels, Lh Graceland ave., in Germany. of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bruder, 1312 wit 2 _- ns had led the group Pvt Leonard Hilmar Price 35458 Milburn st. A student & Technical) Sig, x i t v beyond the Sauer N Ilinois st., in Germany high school when "he entered the;to tel Ob clave h he stepped » 1st Lt. Ivan Stoshitch. 3205 E. my in February. 1944, he is 19 river, Germany, when h Pp! So YT uleh, clio Bond went overseas last November. on a mine in the darkness. Both st., :

d out of the us silent. We ats. Presently young captain, nd announced

would be and feet. He was 1 we were off

below us. His brother, S. Sgt.” Charles W.! the medic who rushed to ‘aid him ' MISSING Bruder, is stationed in Muroc, Cal,|and his squad leader were killed. er Cpl. Vernon F. Bruder, 1311 Sta- | after serving with the 7th alr force Ati Yok nay Hea%y Shel See . ci | in the Central Pacific. | twé nights and a day, he wa Fork ooking Glen of over Yugoslavia. * =» back across the Sauer river. and iniature. Not » PRISONER WOUNDED— hospitalized first in Luxembourg » snow lay on Second Lt. Philip Morgam, 1505 | and later in France. He has been| en, looking as Castle ave.=in Germany. | 8. Sgt. Walter W. Pyatt, husband overseas since November. tering slighitly Pic. Herbert C. Netter, 122 W.'of Mrs. Evelyn Pyatt, 244 N. Belle] A graduate of Shortridge high| he had never 31st st, In Germany. Vieu pl, received the purple heart school, Lt. Alig attended the Uni-| Pfc. Harvey Yansel, 3332 Robson Dec, 18 for “wounds received in! versity of Southern California one ing time, and st., of Germany. | action.” He sent the medal and the year and then enlisted when he was | y and got out "8 = bronze star medal to his wire BR ne = member of Kappa Bemal Now serving in Germany, ne has 1lratern Jofleiling ou DEAD— been overseas five. months and.is 30. Two other brothers are also in! ° : Pvt. Lamoine R. Norton, husband He has a daughter, Judy, 31. .and service, Sgt. Frank, with a combat ow the world : of Mrs. Flora Norton, 239 S. Emer- a son, Walter Mike. 6 months, engineers corps in England, and Lt. A. Lindbergh, son ave, was killed in Luxembourg, whom he has never seen. Clarence Jr. an instructor in the York to Paris, Jan. 18. He arrived overseas Jan. 12. | a engineering corps at Ft. Bevo ching a street iy member of the infantry. he was, T. 5th Gr. Robert L. McClure, son Va. 26 and entered the army July 17.0 +» noo 14 Mrs. Albert E. McClure, 2 nn = | and off again, 1944. He formerly lived in Jackson, 1347 W. 28th st, was wounded in Pfc. Robert W. Meyer, son of Mrs. | ed briefly, like Mich, and was a freight conductor the right arm Florénce Meyer, R. R.-4, Box 712,| ~the Azores— on fhe Michigan Central railroad. Feb 27 while Was wounded in Germany Dec. 16 | uld be at 7000 Survivors besides his wife are a = serving with the and is in a hospital in England. | daughter, Shelley Rae, 2':; and SS 3d army in Ger- He is 23. I: ers, four army two brothers, Lamar, Jackson, Misha | many. Overseas since October, he has | 10spital planes and Seaman 2-c Billy, stationed at4 i Overseas two been in the army 27 months and | plane, Guilford, Miss, 12% a years, he is 21 attended Southport high school. 2 4 2 a, i and ‘is a member £. 0 a ’ Pvt. Vernie Wayne Whitlow, son ; of the medical Pfc. Albert L. Loviscek, son of Mr. » Addicks. of of Mrs. Clara Whitlow, Mooresville, # corps. He entered and Mrs. Anton Loviscek, 717 N. H® has béen who was wounded Feb. 1 in Belgium; France on D-day Haugh st, was wounded in Gerce the captain ~died Feb. 19 in France and” wa¥ em- many on/Feb. 23. flying, génera- Pvt. ‘Whitlow, who was 18gis sur; R. McClure ployed in the-ship A graduate of “dust” cotton vived by his mother, three brothers, a yards at Long Washington high t would hardly Sgt. Charles Ratliff, at Camp Liv- Beach, Cal. before entering the school Pfc. Lovingston, La.; Pfc. Robert Whitlow, army in January, 1942. He attended iscek is 22. He ot. We stood in Germany, and Ivan Earl Whit- Technical high school. entered the army one plane and low, Mooresville, and two, sisters, - ns April 28, 1943, and, Tk for nurses Fire K. and Mary Alice, Moores. First Lt. John W. Staleun, hus wen oversqns ¢ i ‘ re at tv aln sn1s 1a8t Septe r e new captain . = 8 Uae 3 hs Betsy Balen. i At present he is joe us when Pfc. Fred W. hicine, son of Mrs Geriiany Feb 28 33 vovhued Bah ospitalized in at 7000 feet. It J. A. Whalen, 5661 Madison ave. | « > 2 Europe. He was He was righty was killed -in action in -Germany Son of Mr. and Mrs. IF. Stalowp, P

an ra Bloomfield, he 15-32 ‘and went overs with the ita. Pfc: Loviseek : eb. 1, seas last April. Before enfering’ try. a : 9 With. the 94th division, he had (pe army in November. 1942 he| FI¢. Loviscek formerly was emif been in combat since September. was employed by the oli Deere ployed at the U. S. air corps depot He had earned both the combat in-| pow co. "He is a graduate of 8 the fairgrounds. A brother, fani;yman and expert infantryman | ‘Butler university, where he was a Henry Loviscek, is with the navy in

, barges. | member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. | {the South Pacific, and a brother2 , oil the army Oct. 5, 1943. he. ._, in-law, T. 5th Gr. James Medsker, ’ I trained at Pt. Benning, Ga., in the’ Ee is in France. 5 — 1 A. STP. He was trauséerzed to... Pvi. Leonard H. Price, son of ; # xu ] the infantry at Camp McCain be- Mr. and Mrs. David. Price, 3548 N.| pirst Lt. Ivan Stoshitch, son of fore going overseas in August. Pfc | Tilinois st, was seriously wounded | pMr. and Mrs. Milan Stoshitch. 3205 March 14.— Kleine was 19 and a graduate of in Germany Feb. 25, while serving |g 3g¢h st. was wounded in Belgium esident” James Southport high school. (With the 9th army. He is hos-|jan 4 and is in a hospital in Engdown on race MET pitalized in England, land. s, conventions T. Sgt. Ross Secrist, son of al The 19-year-old serviceman has| A member of the parachute servsities of life, Margaret Secrist, 66 8S, LaSalle st., Ly overseas since December, and \jce, he is 23 and entered the army yors of these Hn was killed Feb. 7, on Luzon while| VS Previously wounded in Holland three years ago. He has been over-

egan to ask, es?” with the of “How does

{in January. * He holds the combat! cess six months and attended Tech- | Infantryman’s badge. ical high school and Indiana uniBefore entering the army last | versity ; Ja gn Price was employed at| The lieutenant has two brothers re more of A army more than four years. He was) 2° ee iy Laboratories. He is| serving in the Philippines. They rance on the " a former employee of Hugh J. Baker onl Sragus . o Shortridge high | are Maj. Savo Stoshitch and Capt, clubbers and & Co. Set. Secrist attended Tech- | S100 ; bral wer, Pfc. Karl Price, | Bogidar Stoshitch. A slur on the nical hign school and was a mem. |3'SC on the Western front, is mo a8

November has ing in Belgium: PRISONERS—

serving with the infantry of the| 38th division. The 23-year-old serviceman had been oferseas 14 months and in the

ber ‘of Assumption Catholic church. |’

irector of the Surviving him besides the mother, | 8 8 n ersion. are the father, William Secrist, West | Pfc. Alfred W. Singleton, son of| Pfc. Herbert C. Netter, son of Mr.| /ashington for Newton two sisters, Miss Mary Jean | Mr. arid Mrs, Roy Singleton, 1730 and Mrs. Herbert Netter, 122 W, years, the war Secrist, ‘ Indianapolis, and Mrs.|W. Lambert st., 31st st, listed as missing since Dec. less Jobs, and Dorothy. Walrod, Los Angeles, and|was slightly [8 17, is a prisoner of the German gov“many honors the paternal grandmother, Mrs. wounded on Lu- ernment.

nded any man Anna Secrist. West Newton. zon Feb. 2 ac- With the 99th division of the 1st : aa [cording to a war ; army, Pvt. Netter has been overseas| Sgt. Russell L. Roberts, husband department wire go Tce September, 104 Ne Saleen} of Mrs, Virginia Showalter Roberts, received here Sat- gg ” me shy J Desember, hy high| 5414 N, Illinois st. and son of Mr, | urday. re Pvt Do i ot and es and Mfs. Guy L. Roberts, 3220 Fall] Previously sta- tended th gE of Arkansas Creck pkwy., north dr., died in Eng- tioned on New A Brother. Pvt Sard Netter is| land, Feb, 24 of bronchial pneu- Zealand, Pvt serving in Hawaii : monia. - Singleton has ? .

” n J His illness i§" believed to have been in the army Pvt. S < ; ¢ . n vi. Singleton Second Lt. Philip Morgan, husfollowed injuries received when the since July 31, Por

B-17 on which he was flight en-|1942, He is a member of a medical Re Mes De Morgen, Joos "Wer Cras : corps attached tq an infantry regi- , di - - eT gineer crashed. He. enlisted in‘.the ps Q an y regi Nov, 19, is now reported to be a | army in, December, 1942, and was ment. prisoner in Germany called to active dut¥ in August, 1943. A former studenf at Washington As pilot of a B-26, Li. Morgan He went overseas last January, and high school, Pvt. Singleton, who is pi ob wa

ess from South e for 14 years, he senate. He the war broke tough job of bills for army iment. , for the third who was his ntion, though stage. Byrnes he ticket. He en Roosevelt's

19 was employed at Best Foods was based on Corsica. He has | ious issue was was. 31. ? , ' been overseas since June and in| He attended Technical high school Inc, ae the air force since January. 1943. and Purdue university and was a| i, oy member of the Sigma Nu fraternity,| Sgt. David L. Stewart, husband ot en Teaches Briglish al named to the Millersville Masonic lodge, Prather | Mrs. Joan Stewart, 7820 E. 46th s a a to keep this chapter, Raper commandry, and the is hospitalized in England it Pre. H yy Ls t Mrs. 1 oCInG In Scottish Rite. {wounds received in Belgium Jan. Ethel inl aC. 0 : IS, him to resign Two brothers, Walter V. and 20. Se, Son St. a

: AW ber of the 106th division, is a ¢ Harold E., also survive. Sgt. Stewart is the son of Col, Mem ' ii as director Nin» | David. Stewart, former surgeon. at Pp Qevipany. He was’ re- : ! ne Ft. Harrison. Sgt. Stewart has bee: issing Dec Pvt. Kenneth Pilkington, brother RFOSS- Site Soom and > thal * He left Camp Atterbury for over- , of Mrs, Hubert Achepohl, 4418 ROEk= | a : seas service Oct. 11, 1944, and enS ; army since April of 1943, He at-!|,.” e : ? bs were made, ville td, was killed in Germany a

. | tered the army Dec. 11, 1943. A nonths in OES: Feb, 5. - ended hae University of Texas and, (graduate of nt high school, | e head ofthe Serving with the 3d army, he had © AD whe : y oh ew Exico. | he carried The Indianapolis News y the President returned $o combat Dec.”28 after re |» > Prother, 1st Lt. Dana, is in Bc six years and is a member of the 1 as taking on covering from wounds received in tion in Luxembourg, * | {Newsboys band alumni. He forencies. |, France June 20. He was 30 and En | mefly was employed by the Insley cond place on went overseas last May. ‘Before en-| Pfe. Frank M. Kelsey, son of Mr. Manufacturing Co., and is, 19. as director of tering, the army ih November, 1943, and. Mrs, William T. Kelsey,. 1525, ...; an. conscientiously he was employed by the Reliance: E. Southern ave, is back in action] HONORED r—in this casa parachute firm. He attended high on the Philippines after. having 1.O-P. A CO, ‘school In Washington- and pre- been wounded on Leyte Dec. 22, First Lt. Robert L. Blanton, hus- | enry Wallace— viously was employed by the. Wash- A cavalryman with the 6th army, band of Mrs, Helen Blanton, West- | Boss Ed Flynn lpgton Herald, Pvi. Kelsey has been overseas since field, a prisoner of Germany, has em Negro vote Other survivors are a brother, June 1943, previously in- action on been awarded the distinguished flyof Gov. Dewey, | Arthur Pilkington, 2272 8. Peinsyl- the Admiralty islands. He 4ea'-nq ing cross and the air medal with

ause he came -vania st.; his wife, Mrs. Chloe Pilk- the army in 1041, and is 26. Be- three oak leaf clusters. He was| . : ‘ington; another sister, Mrs. Paul fore entering the service he was a pio of a B-17 wbefore his capture,

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