Evening star., 1942-06-01
Navy Casually LIST
includes 15From
Sections Near DC.
Arlington Man Dead,
Annapolis Officer Hurt,
Others Are Missing

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One Arlington enlisted man was
reported dead, one Annapolis officer
was listed as wounded and eight
officers and five enlisted men from
nearby areas Of Maryland and Vir-
ginia as missing in Navy Depart
ment casualty list issued today COW
ering the period from April 16 to
May 10.
Altogether IS from the two States
are included in todays list.
Pvt. First Glass; John w. Kauff-
man. jr., 20. son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Kaufman. 1921 North Abing-
don street, Arlington, is the Vir-
ginian listed among the dead.
The wounded officer Is 1t. Col
Samuel w. Freeny. U. S. M. c., of
Obery Heights, Annapolis.
Pvt. Kaufman joined the marines
q year ago. He attended Washing
ton-Lee High School and was grad
uated from Carlisle Military Acad-
emy at Bamburg, s. c.
He first attempted to join the
Royal Canadian Air Force and after
joining the marines was told he
had been accepted for the r. C
A. F., but he could not be released
from his enlistment. His parents
last heard from him in December
Pvt. Kaufman was reported dead
at Guam.
Col. Freeny is a graduate Of st
Johns College at Annapolis, where
he was an outstanding athlete. HI
also has been active in athletici
in the Marine Corps. His wife live!
in Annapolis.
The wife of 1t. Comdr. David AL
bert Hurt, who also is listed as miss
ing, has recently returned to Annap-
oils.
Those reported missing:
Comdr. Thomas Hirst Hayes
Medical Corps, Is a specialist ir
orthopedic surgery. He was gradu-
ated from George Washington Uni
versity, where he obtained his M. D
degree in 1920, and interned at Cas-
ualty, Emergency and George Wash
ington Hospitals and became resi-
dent physician at the latter insti-
tuition.
From 1921 to 1924 he was with
the United States Public Health
Service, but enlisted with the Navy
in 1924 and has seen duty in the
West Indies, Florida, Boston anc
Norfolk. While in the Navy he pur-
sued studies at Johns Hopkins Hos
pital in maggot surgery, method
Of healing wounds discovered in the
World War, but only gaining prom
inence in recent years. He attained
his present rank January /.
His wife, Mrs. Marye K. Hayes
1877 South Fairfax street, Alexan.
dria. Va. lives in one of the re.
stored old row houses popular there
MaggOts Bred in Kitchen.
Mrs. Hayes said she raised thou.
sands and thousands" of maggot.
in her kitchen while her husband
was studying at Johns Hopkins
The maggots must be bred to the
third generation before they are
considered sufficiently sterile fol
surgical purposes. More recently
she said, it has been discovered
maggots secrete fluids which assist
healing and the live larvae are nc
longer applied to wounds.
Comdr. Hayes, A, was born ir
Philadelphia, but has lived in Alex.
andria since he was years old
He has one son, Thomas H. ir.
fourth-grade student at the Wash.
ington Elementary School in Alex.
andria.
Comdr. Hayes hobby for many
years has been composing poetry
but more recently he tried his hanc
at water colors. He's pretty gooc
at both, his wife said.
Comdr. Hayes reported for duty
at the Naval Hospital, Canacao
P. l., last July.
Studied at Virginia U.
1t. Alfred Littlefield Smith, Medi
cal Corps, was born in Kennebunk
Me, and is married to an English
teacher at the George Washington
High School in Alexandria.
Mrs. Smith was evacuated from
China in December, 1910, making
her way to Australia, the Neither
lands Indies, the Philippines ant
the West Coast before coming Il
Alexandria. Like many wives o
servicemen, she works simply to keel
her mind occupied.
1t. Smith, before this country en-
tered the war, was the commanding