Evening star., 1939-06-27
Son of'CoI. Wells
Finally Catches Up
With Tradition
Named to Army Medical
Corps After Variety
Of Studies

Francis Patterson Wells has
caught up with the tradition of his
family. He's entering the Army.
Born into an Army family, with a
brother already in the service, young
Wells had fling at West Point, but
'busted" on French. Then he tried
aviation as flying cadet at Brooks
Field. Tex, but failed to make the
stiff grade required of all cadets.
Then young Wells went to the
University of Maryland. He took
honors in bacteriology and decided
to study medicine.
That pesky French bobbed up
again. He had to have it to get in
medical school. 1t took him just
six weeks to make up a years work
in that subject. Then he entered
Georgetown University Medical
School.
He was graduated last year and
took his interneship at Georgetown
Hospital.
Named First Lieutenant.
Yesterday, nearing the completion
of his interneship, he received an
appointment as first lieutenant of
Medical Corps, Regular Army He is
the son of Col. Frank L. Wells, U. S.
A., retired, and Mrs. Wells of 1920
Twentieth street NV. His brother,
1t. James B. Wells, was graduated
from West Point in 1884 and is now
on leave before going to Fort
Benning, Ga.
DR.. Wells was one of nine from the
District, Maryland and Virginia who
received appointments in the Regu-
lar Army. Several others were an
nounced as accepting appointments
in the Reserve Corps.
Among the IS to be appointed
1ieutenants in the Medical Corps
is Wilbur Warren Hiehle, 20, son of
the late Capt. Ernest T. Hiehle,
Quartermaster Corps, and Mrs.
Hiehle, who lives at 1922 South Da-
kota avenue NE. Young Hiehle re-
ceived his medical degree from
George Washington University and
is now completing his interneship
at the Gorgas Memorial Hospital in
Panama.
Others include Wolcott Loweree
Etienne of Berwyn, Md, another
graduate of George Washington, and
Norman Elwood King of Haynesville,
Va.
Sixty-five Are Selected.
Among the IS reserve officers who
are completing years service in
the Regular Army and have been
selected for appointment as second
lieutenants in the regular service
were these:
1t. John Enos Wood, jr., of Wash
1ngton, now on active duty at Fort
Monroe, Va: Oliver Kenneth Mar
shall, jr., of East Falls Church, Va,
also on duty at Fort Monroe; Robert
Allen Sharrer of Westminster, Md,
on duty at Fort George G. Meade,
Md; Charles William Reeves of
Front Royal, Va, on duty at Fort
Monroe, and Claude Jones Merrill
of Pocomoke City, Md, stationed at
Edgewood Arsenal Md.
District residents listed as accept
ing second lieutenant commissions
in the Reserves include John Henry
Beers, 1748 Irving street NV; War
rem Pruden Davis, 5315 Twenty
ninth street NV; William Bates
Davis, jr., 1908 street NE; Henry
Alfred Essex, 4317 River road NV:
Sigmund Irwin Gerber, 1926 Shepherd
street NV; Robert Gottlieb, GOT
Webster street NV; Herbert Pres
colt Hall. 1916 Decatur street NV;
Robert Edgar Kraft, 511O New
Hampshire avenue NV; James
Michael Lanigan, jr., 81 Adams
street NV; Walter Leroy Miller jr.,
4425 Fourteenth street NV; Ned
Herman Oakley, 5O42 Conduit road
NV; Floyd Allison Soule, 1922 Six
teenth street NV; Emit Cleveland
Witt, jr 3l8 Fourteenth street NE;
Flies Elvove, 4725 Eighth street
NV. and Freeman Wilfred Sharp.
jr, 2140 Thirty first street Sc.