The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-11
Service Briefs

Station hospital at Camp Hood,
Texas, due to heart ailment. Ar
thurs father plans a trip to Texas
next week to- visit his son.
Roger J. Curtlss. son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. f. A. Curtiss, 929 Pleasant
/ Drive, is now enrolled as an avia-
ton cadet in the Army Air Forces
Pre.flight School for Pilots, at Max.
we'll Field, Ala, located on the out
skirts OF Montgomery, the capital
Of Alabama.
s. T. William, 546 Harriet St., Is
to report at Fort Custer for active
duty Oct. &c.
PFC. Oscar c. Johnson, RID. 3,
is among 20 American soldiers re-
ceivlng a military police course in
England.
New recruits at the U. S. Naval
Training Station, Great Likes, H.,
are seven Ypsilanti men. Upon
completing their recruit training.
these men will be home on a nine
day leave. They are: Donald j. De-
Meyer, IS, son OF Mr.. and Mrs. r.
]. De Meyer, 229 North River Blvd. !;
Frederick John Frank, IS, son OF
Walter F. Frank, 203 Park St..
Jesse Allen Bambill, IS, 1903 Cen.
tennial Road; Frederick George
Wadke, 81. son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman Wadke, 7S4 n. Prospect
ST.; Leslie Hoyman Hoeman, 49,
son OF Mrs. Mable Taller, 2021 ide
St; Lyle Everett Armbruster. 81
954 Sheridan Avenue; and WiRiam
Gordon, 80, son OF Mrs. Marian
Gordon, i54 South Huron st.
The promotion OF Sgt. Lynn A
Porter, son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Ken
meth Porter. 500 North Adams st.
Ypsilanti, Mich. from the rank OF
corporal has been announced al
Laughlin Army Air Field near De-
Rio, Texas. Sergeant Porter, who
attended the Michigan State Nor
NAL college and Michigan State Col
| lege Is assigned to duty as superin
tendent OF labor in the office o.
the post engineer He VAS a foun
dry clerk in civilian life. Sergean
Porter was q member OF the Beta
Alpha Sigma. Pi Alpha Xi and Sen
Potany fraternities.
Ernest Arthur. second class petit!
officer L. S. Naval Reserve, y
| spending a short leave with hi
wife and infant son, 1908 Grant st
Mrs. Arthur was formerly Bett.
Feathers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Furtney haC
n pleasant surprise Saturday whel
their son. Pvt. Donald Furtney
phoned them from near Alaska
They had not heard from him TO
nearly two months as he had beef
on a mission from Seattle to where
he is stationed. The conversation
was by radio.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Ferguson
have received word from their sor
Seaman &c Donovan Ferguson
that he is now stationed on Treas
ure Island, San Francisco, Call
Seaman Ferguson told his parent
he had visited his cousins. Mr.. an
Mrs. J. F. Laney, in Los Angeles
recently. and said he had taken
tour through homes OF several mo
ton picture celebrities.
John F. Goodwin. Jr.. left 70
Keesler Field, Mississippi, Satur
day where he was notified to repor
for Army Air Corps training.
Hospital Apprentice Seaman Lu
Glen Finklea writes home that h
has returned from a cruise to Homo
1 lulu and has been assigned to Sai
Diego Bay, Calf.
|
Capt. F. f. Reyer arrived thl
morning from the middle east are
Of North Africa where he has bee
commanding officer of base pos
office. He flew back, arriving 4
Miami last week. He Is on a ]
day leave and expects to be sta
toned in this country for a time
Mrs. Reyer, who was Miss Bett
Vanden Belt before her marriage
met him in New York Saturday an
Capt. Reyer first met his six mont
old son, Billy, on his return
Ypsilanti this morning.
Pvt. Virginia C. Hughes, OF 81
st. John St, Ypsilanti, has begu
training at the First Women