The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-13
Service Briefs

Friends here Sunday heard the
voice OF Pfc. Joseph Payne. son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. L .E. Payne. Ann
Arbor, on the Percy Jones radio
program. Pfc. Payne, former resi-
dent OF Ypsilanti, is now a patient
in the Battle Creek Hospital as a
result OF wounds received on D.
Day. He was badly wounded within
five minutes OF landing. "a.
1t. Edward Zumbroegel OF U. S.
Merchant Marines, surprised his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Yum
broegel, Sr.. by returning home
from England in time to spend the
holidays with them.
Pfc. Thomas Cleary has arrived
in a Naval hospital in Santiago,
where his condition is improving
after an attack of malaria fever
and yellow jaundice, according to
a telegram received Sunday by his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles B.
Cleary. Pfc. Cleary has been in
three major campaigns In the South
Pacific where he has been serving
for nineteen months. He has been
in three hospitals before arriving
in the United States, and until the
telegram Sunday there had been
no word from him for three weeks.
Allan NJ. Eales, %, has been com.
missioned a second lieutenant in
the United States Army Air Forces.
Prior to receiving his commission,
he held the rank OF flight officer.
He is a pilot with the 490th Bomb.
Group commanded by Colonel
Frank p. Bostrom, OF Bangor. Me,
a BIZ Flying Fortress unit OF the
Eighth Air Force. 1t. Eales is the
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Fred w.
Eales, s lakewood Ave, and prior
to entering the Army Air Forces in
May, 1871, was supervisor at the
Stove Company here. His wife, Mrs.
Emiline l.. Eales, lives at 654 South
18th St, Columbus, Ohio,
Pvt. Alice Hathaway, 127 Avenue
D., S. w, Winter Haven, Florida,
has completed the Statistical Con-
troll Procedure Course at the Air
Forces Tactical Center in Orlando.
Florida, and will now be assigned
to one OF the many statistical con
troll units scattered throughout the
country. She is graduate OF the
Ypsilanti High School and the
Cleary Business College and was
ticket auditor for United Air Lines
before enlisting in the WAC. Her
brother Chief Petty Officer, Neil
w. Hathaway, is now in the South
Pacific.
Radioman &c Paul Schreiner,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford
Schreiner, Congress ST., arrived
home Saturday afternoon from
Norfolk, Virginia, to spend seven
days leave with his parents, and
brother, EN-. &c Robert Schreiner.
This is the first time in two and
half years that the two boys have
seen each other.
The promotion OF Edward l..
Steele %, son OF Mr., and Mrs
Walter A. Steele, 1898 n. Prospect
ST.. from the grade OF Corporal TO
Sergeant, is announced by Colonel
Frank p. Hunter, Jr, Roanoke Rap
ids, North Carolina, commanding
officer Of the 39Sth heavy bonn.
bardment group. Sgt. Steele is an
armorer gunner on a BIZ Flying
Fortress. Before entering the Army
November 10, 1913. he was en-
ployed by Ford Motor Company
here. His wife, Mrs. Margaret In
gram Steele, is from Tishomingo,
Mississippi.
1st Lieut.. Henry b. Lawrence,
with a Technical Air Command in
Italy has been promoted to the rank
OF captain as announced in letter
received by his father, Henry D.
Lawrence, 321 E. Michigan Ave.
Capt. Lawrence, overseas since
August. 1912, has seen service in
N. Africa, Scotland, Ireland, Eng
land, Sicily, Corsica, and France.
Pfc. Jack McCandless, who is
spending a furlough from Fort Sam
Houston, Tex, at his home here,
will report back to his station Dec.
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