The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-23
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- Our Boys

Private First Class Edwin Brown
and Mrs. Brown, Haddisburg, Miss 4,
were guests OF their uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kruger, f.
Michigan Ave. Sunday. Pvt. Brown
is on a IS day fGrlough at the home
OF his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Brown. Milan. Mrs. Brown lives in
Haddisburg to be near her husband
who is stationed at Camp Shelby.
Corp. Raymond Wiedmayer has
been transferred from Seattle,
Wash. 10 Alaska. lie writes that IL
was "only" AZ degrees below zero
there.
Lieut.. Raymond LAmoreaux, who
was recently transferred from the
Army Air Base at Cutbank, Mont,
to Kearney. Neb., has met a flier
at Kearney who had just spent
five weeks at Ford Bomber Plant
and who said There never was a
nicer town, and I'll always have
fond memories OF good old Ypsi-
lanti.'
Ensign and Mrs. John Evans LETT
by auto. Sunday, for the Great
Lakes naval station in Chicago.
Mrs. Evans had been spending sew
eral days with Mrs. G. Frauklin
Campbell, and her husband came
Saturday. Ensign Evans is an in
structor at Great Lakes.
First Lieut.. Ulrich r. Gress, son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. A. Gress, had ar
rived for a 10 days leave but re-
ceiyed orders by telegram to report
back imm ediately and he left De-
troit by plane Sunday evening for
Charlotte, n. c., where he is sta
toned at Morris Field.
Oscar Mats, Jr., residing at 7l14
buckingham Rd., prior to his en-
listing in the Navy Jan. 10, is re-
ported confined to the hospital at
Great Lakes Naval Training sta
ton, Great Lakes, ILL.,, where he
has been i'll for about a month with
pneumonia.
His wife and mother, who re-
turned from a visit to Great Lakes
Monday say he is recovering slow
ly. He was employed in the Born ber
Plant at East Ypsilanti previously
and is a graduate OF Plymouth High
School.
Earl Wright, son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Levi Wright, who has been
stationed on an island somewhere
in the Pacific for about two months,
has been returned to Camp Elliott,
San Diego, Calf.
Staff Sergt. Carl knight. S4sth
Night Flying Squadron, Orlando
Air Base, Fla. was a week end
guest at the home OF Mrs. ]. F.
Haynes, pol Wallace Blvd.
Billy Roscoe Holt left Saturday
for Fort Custer.
Ellis B. Freatman, Jr., son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis B. Freatman,
Sr, reported for duty at Fort Gus.
ter Saturday. He was a freshman
at Michigan State Normal College.
Word has been received by
friends in Ypsilanti that Harold De-
Ward is in the medical corps in
Vancouver and is now sergeant. He
lived in Ypsilant several years and
while in Michigan State Normal
College was prominent in football.
He is from Jackson.
Lieut.. Martin Hensley has arrived
in Alaska, according TO word to
his family. He is Mrs Robert Lis
ter's brother.
James Ray, son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Ray. has enlisted in the
Navy and expects to leave Detroit
Tuesday for the Great Lakes Naval
Station, near Detroit.
Corp. Bernard Harrington arrived
Sunday night on a 15-day furlough
from Fort Travis, Galveston, to
spend the time with his wife and
little son Melvin.
Second Lieut. Walter ]. Daschner
has been transferred to Camp Man
tic, Conn.
Mrs. James Reeves has received
word that her husband was promot-
ed to Corporal. Corp. Reeves has
been in Camp Claiborne, La, two
and a half months.
Mrs. W. II. Johnson, 10 Water
St.. Monday received a long dis
lance telephone call from her son,
William, who is stationed with the
Air Corps OF the armed forces at
ST. Petersburg, Fla. He reported
the men are staying in hotels there
and that the weather was Just like
summer. with a temperature OF 80
degrees" when he phoued.
Pvt. William McCandless was
home from Fort Custer for the week
end.
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