Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-28
WIN ARMY RANK
More Philadelphians in
Latest List of Second
Lieutenants
CAMDEN GAINS OFFICER
Graduates of Schools al
Camps Lee and Taylor
Receive Commissions

Inetf np,nleS appear among tnOse OH 'ie
latest roster OF officers issued by the
stoned at Camp Lee. Va. others at Camp
Zachary Taylor. Ky.
A Camden man and another from
Camp Hill. Pa, are also listed among
the recently commissioned soldiers at
Camp Lee. The Philadelphians at Camp
Lee are:
George Frederick Ate. 32i5 Jasper
street William Louis Bencker. s2S West
Erie avenue; william Bishop. 1895
Wyoming avenue; oliver Funsten
Byren, 51i5 Marion street, Germantown !;
Joseph Jersine Kiillan. 6s32 Morton
street. Germantown: Charles Lafferty.
es2i Cumberland street; John Michael MIC
Mack, 541S Walnut street; Philip e.
Mack, 1890 North Sydenham street I:
Bertram Benjamin Mrich. S626 Barring
street; James Carey O'Halloran, 2312
Christian street; Donald Price, 1891
Spruce street; Frederick Schultz, 1922
South Nineteenth street. and Alfred
Bailey Thomas. o2o South st. Bernard
sreeet.
The Camden man is James Russell
Carrow. 22i Nortly Eighth street, and
the soldier from Camp Hill. william
Amos Good.
Quickly Wins Commission
Bishop. who IL twenty-six years old.
/, went to Camp Lee six months ago, after
giving up his position as inspector for
the E. X. Schultz Company. fire insur-
ance agents. He was recommended for
a commission soon, after reaching camp
and entered the officers training school.
He Is now detailed with the First Gas
Regiment, c. w. s., at Camp Sherman.
Ohio. His mother, Mrs. Mary Bishop,
is widow. One sister is doing duty
overseas as an army nurse. He has two
older brothers.
Mack went to Camp Lee about four
months ago. Previous to that time he
was employed as a clerk with a manu-
featuring firm here. He received his
commission on October is and imme-
diately left for Camp Dix. stopping of
in this city only long enough to inform
his father, Henry l.. Mack, of his rise
IN rank.
O'Halloran was a student at st.
Joseph's College when he was notified by
his draft board last April that he had
been selected for service. He was sent
to Camp Lee and shortly afterward
made a noncommissioned officer. Last
Wednesday he received his commission
and was sent to Camp Upton. O'Hallo-
ran is thirty-one years old and the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. James O'Hallcran. At
one time he conducted musical instru-
ment store at Sixtieth and Market
streets.
Schultz, who was also commissioned
last Wednesday, was in his senior year
at the University Of Pennsylvania at the
time he was selected for army service
and sent to Camp Lee. He is twenty
three years old and is the son OF Mr.
nj Nfr0 rod RAfnra al
tering the University he graduated from
the Southern High School.
Resigned As Botany Instructor
Bencker went to Camp Lee last April
and soon afterward was made corpo-
raj The following month he was rated
. sergeant and on July 20 entered the
officers training school. He received
his second lieutenant's commission last
week. He has been ordered to Camp Dix
to take up his duties as personal adju-
tant of the 1884 Depot Brigade. Lieu
tenant Bencker was an instructor in
botany at the University of Pennsylva-
MIA before entering the service. He is
a graduate of the University and this
summer was permitted to return there
for commencement to receive his mas
ter's degree. He is the son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Bencker.
Byren is thirty-one years old. He has
been sent to Camp Dix, n. j. He was
born in this city and attended the John
Welsh public school at Fourth and Dau-
phin streets. Later he attended the
Palm Business College. and upon gradu-
ating he entered the advertising busi-
ness in the firm Of Byren & We'll. He
enlisted in the Ambulance Corps on
June is, 1918. and was sent to Erie to
an officers training camp.
Inside of four weeks he was promoted
to corporal and then to sergeant. and
when a call for men to train for COM
missions came he was one Of three men
picked because of physical and mental
ability. At Camp Lee tie was forced to
contend with college and professional
men, but overcame the handicap and
won a commission near the head of the
class. He is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Benjamin L. Byren.
Lafferty. who is twenty-four years
old. enlisted In April. 1918, and in July
was entered in tho officers training
school at Camp Lee. He was originally
In medical service with a base hospital,
but has been assigned for instruction
duty a. Camp Upton. Before entering
the service Lafferty was q storekeeper
for tho Lincoln Furniture Company, of
this city. His father is dead. and he
uHeu Win MS IlotheI, NTc. NinHI0 1<hI-
ferty.
A brother, James Lafferty, is now on
the ocean bound for France In the tank
service. He is a corporal In Company
c. 804th Regiment.
IL Made nm Instructor
George A. Robinson. who got his COM
mission At Fort Zachary Taylor, went
70 Camp Meade on September 90 last
year and was sent TO the officers train
iag oeheol In July OF this year. He has
been assigned to instruction duty at
Camp Zachary Taylor He was an in
teytpF decorator and lived with his wife
q ySe1 North Fifteenth street.
winfield Scott Smith went to Camp
Meade OH November I, 1917. and to
Camp Zachary Taylor In July Of this
.yaxr. He has been assigned also to
instruction duty at the latter camp. He
was Q machinist and lived with his
father and mother at 1881 North Hope
strees. lie IL q graduate OF the North
east Manual Training School. He was
really ana tagged to 20 to France when
hin captain obtained his admittance to
Inc officers training school. He was
me shortest man there. measuring only
9 feet inches.
Another Philadelphian awarded a
commission at Camp Zachary Taylor IL
fieutenant Thomas N. Ford. i7i3 South
Fifty-second street. He was drafted
al November and went to Camp Meade.
whsrs has was assigned to the S1eth
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