Evening star., 1943-11-01
Is D. {. Area Officers
Receive Promotions
In Army Services

motions in rank, the War Depart
ment announced today.
Included in the group were eight
District men, promoted from second
to first lieutenant; four from nearby
Maryland, promoted from first lieu
tenant to captain; two from Airing
ton, Va, promoted from captain to
major; one from Arlington promoted
from first lieutenant to captain. and
one Arlington man promoted from
second to first lieutenant.
District Men Advanced.
District men promoted to first
lieutenant were Joseph L. Bailey,
527 Harvard street NV: Thomas M.
Edwards, jr, 237 Rock Greek Church
road NV; William F. Carpenter,
GIG Nineteenth street NE; William
A. Randolph, jr., 1852 U street NV:
Samuel w. Bailey, 434 Twenty third
street NE; Vincent P. Anthony,
1903 Ninth street NV; Allen M.
Phillips, SIG Forty-fourth street
NE, and Matthew Gault, jr., whose
Washington address is the Army and
Navy Club
Richard Ackroyd, 4ll7 Third road
North, Arlington. and Thomas P.
| Wootton. 641 North Jackson street.
both of the Corps of Engineers, were
given temporary promotions from
captain to major. The other Ar
llngton men promoted were Edward
w. Solomon, 2409 Fort Scott drive.
promoted from first lieutenant to
captain, and Charming D. Strother.
1883 North Fillmore street, promoted
from second to first lieutenant.
Marylanders Promoted.
Maryland men promoted from first
lieutenant to captain were Paul F.
Clements, 1888 Belleview avenue.
Cheverly; James H. Freeman, 4 East
Thornapple street. Chevy Chase;
Henry H. Shugart. 50l2 Thirty
seventh place, and Marshall McGov-
ern, Sargent road, both of Hyatts-
vile.
Maj. Wootton. 80, was born in
Hazard KY. He attended Kentucky
Military Institute and later the
New Mexico School of Mines. from
which he received a degree in min
ing engineering. He came to WASH
lngton in 1941 and served with the
Bureau of Mines prior to entering
the Army in 1912.
Capt Solomon. 36. was born in
Salt Lake City. He attended public
schools in Los Angeles, Calf, and
the University of California at Los
Angeles, where he was captain of
the football team in 1929. He came
to Washington in 1885 to teach phv- /
slcal education Before entering
the Army in April, 1912, he taught
at Langley and Jefferson Junior
high schools here. Capt. Solomon
also holds masters degree in edu- /
cation from George Washington
University.
Capt. Shugart, native of Wash
lngton, is brother of Mrs. Efie
E. Hanes of the Thirty-seventh
place address. He attended Catho-
lie schools here, and enlisted in the
Army about 10 years ago. Com
mlssioned last October on gradua-
tlon from ordnance officer candi-
date school at Aberdeen, Md. he
Is stationed at Camp Young, Calf.
A brother, Master Sergt. Joseph
Shugart, is serving in North Africa.
1t. Gault, whose rather was an
Army officer in the last war, is %.
He was graduate from Episcopal
High School, Alexandria, and
Princeton University. He went on
active duty Immediately after grad
uatlng from the university in June,
1912, and is now stationed at Fort
Sill, Oklahoma.
1t. Carpenter. "a. was born in
and was graduated
from Armstrong High School and
Virginia State College. He taught
electrical work at Armstrong before
the service with a reserve
He was married three
days before going on active duty
two years ago and is now a radio
technlclan stationed at Fort Ben
ming Ga.
Brothers Both LieutenantS.
1t. Randolph, %, who has lived
here since childhood. is the son of
the Rev. and Mrs William A. Ran
dolph. His brother, Horace, 26. is
also a first lieutenant and the two
ofhcers entered the service together
Two years ago and have been sta
TONED together most of the time
1t. Randolph was graduated from
Dunbar High School and attended
Howard University. He is now sta
Toned in New York City.
1t. Anthony, 20, who was born in
attended Howard Uni
'erSlty and was a machinist at the |
Navy Yard when he went on ac-
i've duty. He is now stationed in
Jersey City, N. j. His wife, Mrs.
Dora Anthony, is War Depart
nent employe
1t. Edwards, 26, worked in the
'ards of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad before he went into the
service. He was commissioned at
Fort Benning, Ga, and is now
stationed at Fort Jackson, S. C.
Lit. Joseph Bailey, 80, born in
Norfolk, Va, was graduated from
he University of West Virginia and |
received his law degree from the
Howard University Law School. He
was employed as clerk in the
Office of the Register of Wills when
ne volunteered for the Army and
S now stationed at camp in
Georgia.
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