The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-06
YPsANrI YesAsr MICH SATURDAY JANUARY sa
Service Briefs

Woman Martin Baltzell left Sun.
day for Treasure Island, Calf, az.
ter spending the New Year holiday
with friends and relatives in Chi
cago. His parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Baltzell, who accompanied
him to Chicago are now at home.
Mrs. Harold Coe, 2l1 E. Cross St.
received word Thursday that her
husband. son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Man.
ford Coe. OF the same address, has
been made a second lieutenant. II
was only December 2. 1914, that he
was promoted from staff sergeant
to technical sergeant, a promotion
which followed his winning the
Bronze Star for meritorious
achievement in action against the
enemy, In France.
The lieutenant entered the sery-
Ice In December, 1912. He received
his first years training at Camp
Claiborne, La, and his second year
OF training at Camp Howe. TEXAS.
lie had advanced to the rank OF
staff sergeant before going over
seas in October, 1914.
LIT. Coe and his wife have two
children, Harold Allen Jr. Buddy
one and a half years old, and
three months old Joyce Eileen. Lit.
Coe has not seen the baby daugh-
ter.
The twenty-five year old lieuten-
ant has three brothers in the serv-
ice: Manford Jr.. 26, training in
Missouri. Kenneth Clarence, 20, a
private serving in France, and Ray
mond, ID, In training with the naval
air force in California.
pleted IS weeks basic training at
Camp Hood, Texas, and is now sta.
toned at Rudger University, New
Brunswick. New Jersey. where he
will continue his studies in cleo
trical engineering under the A. S.
T. p. PVT. Woodward had completed
the nine months basic engineering
NOui DC ~ lhc VI WlbIOh-
sin, and three months electrical en-
gineering at Kansas State College |
before entering Camp Hood.
Mrs Florence Baldwin, 303 Mid |
die Drive, has received letter |
from her son, Sgt. Guy Averill, who !
is with General Patton's third ar
my somewhere in Germany. The
letter was dated December fourth,
around the time of his arrival in
Germany.
Pvt. Charles Payne left Friday
morning for ST. Joseph where he
will work in industry. He has been
transferred from the Army to the
Enlisted Reserve Corps. He was
able to spend New Years and all
OF last week with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Payne, 2l1 Maple
ST.
Corp. Duane Leslie came home
Monday on furlough from Fort
John, South Carolina, where he has
been in the Field Artillery. He will
return to his station Jan. 10.
Pfc. Edward Sanocki, infantry,
Is returning from 80 months over
seas in the Southwest Pacific thea.
ter OF operations to Fort Sheridan,
Illinois, prior to reaching his home
at Route three, Ypsilantl, where
he will visit his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Sanocki.
Private First Glass Alexander
Ringhauser, a member OF front
line medical detachment, was re-
Gently awarded the Bronze Star
Medal by the commanding general
of veteran infantry division now
in New Guinea. The decoration was
given for heroic achievement in
connection with military opera
tions" against the japanese at
Lone Tree Hill near Maffin Bay,
New Guinea, last June.
Volunteering TO 60 out zoo YARDS
ahead OF friendly troops to assist
in bringing in an officers body
Ringhauser though fired upon by
the enemy performed the task
with complete disregard for his
own safety and with the utmost
GOODNESS" Married, he and his
wife, Mrs. Ethel Ringhauser, have
their home in Ypsilanti.
Mrs. Clarence Wickerham, Sci
leck Trailer Camp, received
mounted and stuffed genuine Aus
tralian Kola bear as gift from
her son. Cpl Arnold l.. Wicker
ham, now stationed on Leyte Is.
land in the Philippines.
Cpl Wickerham is with the L. s.
Air Forces.
MFR. and Mrs. Wickerham are
from Ionia and have two other
sons in service, Tech. Cpl. Merle
Richard, a crane operator in a
transportation corps on New Gui-
nea, whom they have not seen
since his enlistment Feb. 10, 1892,
and Roger S &c, Ypsilani High
graduate of 1914, now at Great
Lakes H., waiting in O.G.U. for
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