Evening star., 1942-06-01

medical onicer for American forces
on the Yangtze River patrol In
China. En- route home when war
broke out he was caught in Manila
when the Japanese attack came.
He took his M. D. degree at the
University Of Virginia and was COM
missioned lieutenant, junior grade,
in 1898. He Is now a full lieutenant.
Mrs. Smith lives at 6 Chapman
street, Alexandria.
An Oklahoman.
William L. Manney, 81. private first
class, U. s. M. c., enlisted when
he was II years old. His father.
Jack Manney, lives at 30 Chinqua-
pin Village, Alexandria, and is a
machinist at the Naval Torpedo
Plant.
First 1t. William F. Harris, U. S.
M. c., lived with his mother, Mrs.
Field Harris, at Quantico Marine
Barracks before being assigned to
the Pacific area. His mother has
since moved to Coronado, Calf.
Maj. King Missing.
Mai. Max w. Schaeffer, U. S. M.
c., was also assigned to Quantico
prior to his transfer before the war
His wife lives at Quantico.
Staff Sergt. James H. Hendricks,
U. S. M. c., formerly Of Quantico,
was transferred and bis wife moved
from Quantico after war broke out.
Mai. Stuart w. King, U. s. M. c.,
also is among the Alexandrians
listed as missing.
1t. Col. Reginald H. Ridgely, regi-
mental quartermaster of the 4th
Marines when Corregidor fell, is
the husband of the former Miss
Josephine Dalton of Fredericksburg,
Va, who is now living there with her
two children.
Col. Ridgely is from one of Mary
lands oldest families. He is the son
of DR.. Reginald Heber Ridgely of
Baltimore, once acting president of
st. Johns College, Annapolis, and
professor of biology there from 1912
to 1899.
A native of Lexington, Va. Col
Ridgely, now 80, was appointed a
second lieutenant in 1923 from St
Johns College, where he was an out
standing football player.
His assignments since joining the
Marine Corps have carried him to
Quantico, the Maryland State Rifle
Range at Glen Burnie, the Army
Transport School at Holabird. Md,
and to the Marine Barracks in
Washington, where he was captain
Of the marine rife team.
Served as School Inspector.
While in Quantico, Col. Ridgely
served as adjutant and inspector of
the Marine Corps schools for three
years and in San Diego was with
the war plans section.
For service in Nicaragua in 1928
1880, he was awarded the Mica
raguan Medal of Merit, and in 1884
in Haiti he received the Haitian
Order of Honor and Merit with the
grade of officer"
Col. Ridgely was ordered to
Shanghai for duty in the spring of
l94l as regimental quartermaster
Of the 4th Regiment and from
there went to the Philippines in
November.
Employed as Messenger.
Edward Jennings Hutchison, IT.
seaman first class, lives only few
blocks from young Kaufman al
4441 North Sixteenth street, Ar
lington. He is also 20, though his
mother said the two boys did not
know each other.
Seaman Hutchison also attended
Westinghouse. Before entering
the Navy in September, 1910. he
was employed as a Western Union
messenger. He had been anxious
for several years to enlist in the
Navy, but could not because Of his
age. according to his mother, Mrs.
Edward J. Hutchison, sr.
Mrs Hutchison got three letters
from her son on January 3, all from
Cavite. She received another letter
saying he was well March %
There was no address, however. He
is reported missing in the Manila
Bay area.
1t. q. g. Harry Sankey Morton
is also reported missing in the
Manila area. 1t. Morton's brother,
1t. q. g. Charles v. Morton, lives
at 2705 South Thirteenth street in
Arlington. The two brothers were
in the Philippines together for sew
eral years before the war broke out
1t Harry Morton held a Reserve
commission and was called to active
duty about year ago. He was born
in Kobe. Japan, and was graduated
| from Stanford University. Hi;
mother, his wife and three sister;
are also unheard from in the Manila
/ area.
Frederick Youth Missing.
Pvt. first class Elmer E. Long, jr.
"a, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer E
Long, ST., of Frederick, was serving
his second enlistment in the Marine
| Corps at the time he was reported
missing. He applied for Asiatic dut!
and sailed for China in 1910, serving