Evening star., 1942-07-06

260th Coast Ar
1t. stoutenburrh. tillery, National
Guard.
At Camp Lee, Va, announcement
was made that the following grad
uated Friday from the officer can
didate course of the Quartermaster
School and received commissions as
second lieutenants: Herman A.
Gumenick, 1850 Harvard street NV;
Philip Chaffin, OLA Old Georgetown
road, Bethesda. Md: Charles L.
Moore, $3.50 Connecticut avenue NV
Wayne w. Rice, serving in the
Quartermaster Replacement Center
at Camp Lee, has been promoted
from private to corporal Corpl. Rice
formerly worked with the Standard
Oil Co. here.
Four Graduated at Fort Knox.
The following Washington men
graduated from the Armored Force
Officer Candidate School, Fort Knox,
KY, winning commissions as second
lieutenants: Ernest w. Smith, 627
Orleans place NE; Hebert A.
Boyd, 16041a Fifth street NV;
Charles w. Simms, 2719 Forteenth
street NV; William L. Muncaster'
3525 Davenport street NV, and
Francis G. Nordstrom, 4014 Ninth
street NE.
Pvt. Norman G. Hough, jr., AZ
George Mason drive, Arlington, Va,
graduated last week from the gun
merry department OF the Armored
Force School at Fort Knox and re-
ceived a diploma as a qualif1ed
eunnery instructor.
Raymond Jackson McElhannon,
son of the late James McElhannon,
a former employe of The Star, and
Mrs. Stella McElhannon of the La
Sale Apartments, 1923 Connecticut
avenue NV, recently received a
commission as captain IN the Signal
Corps. Capt. McElhannon received
his first military instruction in the
cadet corps at Eastern High School.
He was a member of the law firm
OF Ward, Crosby & Neal in New
York City.
At Keesler Field, Biloxi, Miss, II
men from Washington and vicinity
started training in the Army Air
Forces Technical Training School.
They are: Pvts. Jack Kaplowitz, 710
Otis street, NV; Kenneth T. Shuey,
1890 Meigs street NE: Melvin P.
Jones, 494 G street S.W.; Hike H.
Bagdasian, 1406 Harvard street
NV; Dante A. zagami, 10l7 G
street Sc; Fred Schwaner, 625
Sixth street S.W.: Samuel Adelman,
1929 Park road NV; Roy M. Cur
tiss, 628 Uorth Carolina avenue S. E:
Russell Joseph Bury, 1923 Twenty
third street Sc, and William c.
Phelps, Route 2. Oxon Hill. Md.
Ex-Reporter Wins Wings.
Chester Clark, 2811 Twenty
eighth street NV, is an aviation
cadet at Maxwell Field, Ala. Cadet
Clark was a radio announcer in
Norfolk, Va; Frederick, Nd, and
Pittsburgh, before he enlisted. He
attended George Washington Uni
versity.
First 1t. Albon HALEY, former
Washington reporter, won his wings
Friday at Spence Field, Moultrie,
Ga. 1t. HALEY was called to active
duty in July, 194l.
William w. Dwyer, 1906 Potomac
avenue, Sc, received his wings at
the Navy Air Corps Training Center
in Miami, Fla. Ensign Dwyer will
be stationed at Norfolk, Va, for
advanced training.
At Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma
City, John F. Severn has been pro-
NOTED from corporal to sergeant at
the Army Air Force bombardment
base. Sergt. Severn formerly lived
at 1919 Maple View place Sc.
Pvt. Harrison E. Deason, 9l5
South Washington street, Alex
andria, Va. Pvt. Harrison Is as
signed to a bombardment group for
basic training at the Oklahoma City
Air Depot and Pvt. Allison M.
Poythress, formerly an empolye Of
the Safeway Food Stores here has
been assigned to repair squadron
Tor general DUTY.
Other Assignments Listed.
Other assignments include the
following: Second Lit. James R. Pea
cock, Silver Spring Md, to the
Lincoln (Nebr.) Air Base; Kenyon
Weeks Coleman, West Underwood
street, Chevy Chase, Md, to the
naval aviation flight training school
at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill; First 1t. Richard w.
Conway, 1912 New Hampshire
avenue NV, to Fort Bliss, Tex, in
a special service unit, and Pvt. Ian
Forbes, jr., 1877 New Hampshire
avenue NV, to the Officer Candi-
date School at Fort Sill, Okla, as
candidate for a field artillery
officers commission.
Two Washingtonians have been
promoted to the rank Of first lieu
tenant. 1t. Stuart J. Fuller, jr,
32l0 Rodman street NV, is q
weather officer at the Columbia
Army Air Base, Columbia, S. C
1t. Fuller enlisted as an aviation
cadet in June, 1941, after graduating
from Rensselaer, Polytechnic In
stitute. 1t. William H. Waikart
1000 Thirty-seventh street Sc, has
exchanged his gold bars for silver
ones at Fort Bragg, N. c., where he
is assigned to the Ninth Quarter
master Battalion in charge OF
motor maintenance.
Ernest w. Shirmer, 2l30 o street