The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-04-06

Sgt. Joseph E. Bitner, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry K Bitner, Moller
apartments, has completed course
at the Air Service Command School,
Macon, Ga, and has won the expert
rife award, as well as being quail
fed as an expert with the bayonet.
Sergeant Bitner is at present sta
toned at Warner Robins Field, Ma
con, but expects to be transferred
almost Immediately.
Seaman second class Robert Fork
ner, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. r. F.
Forkner, 734 West Franklin street,
is now stationed in New Jersey. A
graduate of HagerstoWn High
School, Robert joined the Navy last
July and took his boot training at
Sampson, N. Y. His address is: U.
S. N. A. F., Bar. 3, Mercer Field,
Trenton, N. ].
Fireman first class Joseph Elmer
Gates, husband of Mrs. Virginia M
Gates, 1877 Spruce street, was ad-
vanced to his present rating upon
completion of his recruit training at
the Great Lakes U. S. Naval Train
ing Station, Illinois Gates won his
early promotion because he had CT
william experience in a trade essen
tial in the Navy.
Pvt VIM. Gelwicks, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Chas. F. Gelwicks, 613
North Mulberry street, is now sta
toned in Texas. In letter to his
parents, telling of his train trip to
his new post, William gave a vivid
description of his trip across the
country and told his folks that he
made the trip in Pullman. His
address is: 3390O359, Student Recep-
ton Pool, Laredo Army Air Field,
Laredo, Texas.
His brother, Cpl. Carroll Gel
wicks, who is stationed in Alaska,
didn't forget his mothers birthday,
for on March Is she received a
beautiful corsage from him.
Pvt. Theodore A. Jennings, whose
wife and two-year-old daughter,
Phyllis Kay. make their home at
$50 Frederick street, is stationed in
Georgia. Private Jennings entered
the Service on March 18th and was
formerly employed by the Jewel
Tea Co. His address is 338491, Co.
c, 5th Inf Ing. Bn., 3rd P. l., Camp
Wheeler, Ga.
Pvt. Roy A. Lint, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl S. Lint, AIS Elizabeth
street, is getting a real Easter Egg
for his mother is on her way to ILL
nois to spend Easter with him.
Roy enlisted in the Army Air
Corps about year ago and is now
taking a course at a Radio and Gun
ners School. His address is:
13141626, 371st T.S.S., Bks. 156, Scott
Field, Ill.
Private Julia Over, of 604 Hamil-
ton Boulevard, member of the Wo-
mems Army Corps, stationed at
Camp Crowder, Missouri, has been
awarded the Army's Good Conduct
Medal symbolic of a years service
with exemplary behavior, efficiency
and fidelity.
The award was made by Colonel
George w. Teachout, Post Comman-
der, at a formal ceremony held on
the Post Parade Grounds.
Private Over was a school teacher
employed by the Washington Coun-
ty Board of Education in Hagers-
town. She also holds degree from
the State Teachers College at Tow
son, Maryland, and took graduate
work at the University of Maryland
prior to her enlistment in the ser
vice on December 9, 1912.
Lieut.. E. Russell Rouzer, son of
Mrs. E. Eva Rouzer, 228 Summit
avenue, who is serving as provost
marshal at an outlying base of the
Sixth Air Force in the Caribbean
Defense Command area, has been
promoted from second to first lieu
tenant.
Pvt. Leon A. Spessard, son of Mr..
and Mrs. c. w. Spessard, ZIG N.
Cannon avenue, graduated las
week as an aircraft mechanic, from
the Seymour johnson Field, Army
Air Forces Training Command,
North Carolina. Private Spessard,
who entered the Service Aug. q,
1913, attended Hagerstown High
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