Evening star., 1944-05-14
Ii. Fritts Models suit
For Sfettinius on Tour:
Notes From England

Notes From England
AN 9Th AIR FORCE FIGHTER
STATION, England.-A summer fly
ing suit, modelled by 1t. Herbert e.
Fritts, 2418 Third street NE, WASH
ington, was inspected by Under
secretary of State Edward r. Stet-
tinius, jr., when he made a recent
tour of this Mustang base, looking
into planes, living quarters, work.
shops and recreation facilities. 1t.
Fritts was one of four pilots chosen
to demonstrate the various types OF
flying equipment worn by airmen
in this theater.
Corpl. John S. Meade, jr., 25. 1409
South Carolina avenue S.Es helps
maintain and operate delicate in
struments which serve as radio
beacon to direct Fortresses back to
an 9th AAF bomber station.
Sergt. Hugh C. Veirs, 856 Venable
place NV, and Corpl. Mark p.
Coughlin, 1918 Georgia avenue.
Silver Spring. Md, are members OF
a mail unit which has been termed
the outstanding mail section OF
the division" by the commanding
general.
Capt. Clarke Is Quartermaster.
Capt. Albert H. Clarke, whose wife
and 9-year-old daughter live at
22l2 I street NV, serves with a
9th Air Force Service Command
Advanced Depot area as group
quartermaster. Before his entry
into the service In April, 1912, Capt.
Clarke was warehouse manager and
buyer for the Welfare and Recrea-
tionaI Association in Washington.
Corpl. James r. Phipps, "a, Of
1910 I street Sc, plumber in
civilian life, Is the non-commis-
stoned officer In charge of a K-9
dog detachment at an 9Th AAF
Composite Command Station. Corpl.
Phipps supervises training course
for the dogs, which help guard the
heavy bombers against sabotage.
Corpl. Conrad s. Voegler, 81, son
Of Mrs. Ruth S. Voegler, 1447 South
Carolina avenue Sc, is a motion
picture projectionist and photog-
rapher at 9th Air Force Service
Command Advanced Depot. A grad
uate Of Eastern High School, Corpl.
Voegler formerly was employed as
photographer and apprentice ma
chinist at the Navy Yard in WASH
ington.
Col. Gregorie Directs Base.
Col Edmund M. Gregorie, 1885
Forty-fourth street NV, veteran
OF rs years in the Army, has been
chosen to command a Services of
Supply general depot IN England.
His son. Edmund, ir., is cadet at
West Point.
Master Sergt. Leo r. williams,
SO, 1918 Euclid street NV, is group
operations section chief at an 9th
AAF base, reporting daily on planes
and crews that are ready to fly
and keeping individual records of
flying time.
Tech. Sergt. william C. Norton.
22, OF 4309 Twenty-ninth street,
Mount Rainier, Md, holder of the
Distinguished Flying Cross. has
completed Is combat operations al
engineer and top-turret gunner. His
ship Is the 9th AEF Flying Fortress
Lady Lylian.
Three Washington area men re-
Gently arrived in England, have par
ticlpated in a course designed to
bridge the gap between training In
the States and combat duty in a.
theater Of war. They are: First 1t,
Albert K. Leon, jr, 1916 Wisconsin
avenue NV; Second 1t. Row s.
Huffman, Broad Branch road. Chew
Chase, Md, and Pvt. Donald e.
Reeves, 1919 M street NV.
When a shortage of beds for
american troops arriving in Eng
land developed recently, the task Of
constructing beds from packing
crates fell to an engineer regiment
OF which Pfc. Edward McRorie. 1713
G street NE, is a member. The
flrst double-decker bed was ready
Tor use 27 hours after the first crate
mad been broken down. Approxi-
mately $50 double decker beds ara
now turned out by each shift. with
TWO shifts per Gay, seven days a
week.
Corpl. Rayford w. Ellis % n,
IiSz Y street NV, and Pfc. Benia-
MN u. Burch, 80, of 2800 Woodley
road NV, are attending a shors
course at oxford University.
Helps Write Variety Show
Corpl. sprague Talhelm. 1114 p
street NE, was one of 1s soldiers
who wrote and produced a unis
variety show, Strictly From Hum
ger. The entire show cost 81 25
ana the troupe presented 27 per.
formances.
capt. Arthur L. Jacobs. Tenth and
Constitution avenue NV f7ies uith ~
the Marauder medium bombers of
tne sth Air Forces as intelligence
Pvt. Herbert J. Wiker, q. of 4so4
Twelfth place NE, is working in
the Signal Corps Amateur Film
Laboratory, in which thousands of
prints are developed daily without
charge for American troops in
Englandt i
STAN Sergt. John ]. Curtin, 90
OF 1924 Summit place NE, and
Sergt: Charles J. Saglinbene, Is
1910 b street Sc, serve with an
ordnance unit which uncrates and
processes "half-tracks" for "active
duty"
Second 1t. Raymond E. Coombes
zooo second street NE. recently at
tended a British fire-fighting school
as part of air raid precaution duty.