Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07
Todoy's Casualty Lists
Killed

1880 North Upland street, Arlington
was killed February "a at Samar, the
Philippines, the War Department
has announced. 1t. Phipps entered
the service in March, 1912, after
having been employed by the Amer
lean Oil Co., Rosslyn, Va, hi
mother said, and went overseas in
February last year.
He was born in Hawarden, Iowa
Three brothers are in the service
Chief Petty Officer Arnold A. Phipps
Admiralty Islands: Electrician
Mate &c r. w. Phipps. San Fran
cisco, and LIST 1t. James w. Phipps
Army Air Forces, who completed
40 missions over Japan as B-24
pilot and is now stationed at Mis-
sion, Tex. Three sisters also survive
Mrs. c. w. Wilson, with whom the
mother lives; Mrs. L. r. Newton
Milwaukee, and Mrs. Ralph Lamb
Chicago.
Capt. Olin w. Bales, 26, brother
of Miss Mable Bales, 1872 Nine
teenth street NV, and son of H
S. Bales, Thurmont, Md, was killed
in action in the China Burma India
theater last August 2, his family
was notified last week. Capt
Bales name was on today's official
casualty list.
Navigator of a B-29, he had been
overseas since April, 1914. A grad
uate of Thurmont High School, he
was a student at Johns Hopkins
University when he went in the
service in April, 1912,
Pvt. George L. Fearnow, 20, whose
wife, Mrs. Dorothy v. Fearnow, lives
at 1923 Piney Branch road, Silver
Spring, died last November S in a
German prison hospital, his wife
has been notified.
Pvt. Fearnow, native of West
Virginia, attended schools there,
and later worked with the Inter-
state Commerce Commission here.
He joined the Army in March, 1914,
and went overseas last July. He
was the father of two children,
Bobbie Carol, 5, and Diana Dean,
10 months.
Sylvio Faela, 80, chief commissary
steward, U. S. N, who has been in
the Navy for Is years, was killed in
action in the South Pacific March
10. His widow, Mrs. Kathleen L.
Faela, lives at 1125 Eighteenth street
south, Arlington.
Steward Faela was educated in
Providence, r. l., and entered the
Navy when he was II years old.
He served in the North Atlantic
from 1941 to 1943. During that
period he received severe burns in
a fire aboard ship. He recuperated
at a hospital in Philadelphia, and
was assigned to another ship sta
toned in the South Pacific.
Pvt. William H. Glendinning, son
of Mrs. Mary M. Glendinning, 423
Seventeenth street NE, who was
today officially reported killed in
the European area, was the subject
of previous story in The Star when
next of kin was notified.
WOUNDED
Corpl. James c. Gilmore, %, Ma
rine Corps, suffered head wounds
on Two lima February az. He is now
at a rest camp some
where in the Pacific. His wife and
14-month-old son live at 1903 v
street NV.
Corpl. Gilmore attended WASH
ington and Lee High School and
worked for the American Railway
Express before entering the service
in August, 1943. He went overseas
last October.
Pvt. William L. FOust, %, Marine
Corps, was wounded in the hip on
Two lima in March. He previously
was wounded on Saipan. His wife,
Mrs Margaret A. Foust, lives at
525 Somerset place NV.
Pvt. Foust attended woodrow Will
son High School and worked for
the Potomac Electric Power Co.
before entering the service in Sep
TENDER, 1912. He went overseas in
1914.
Pvt. Foust was last reported on
his way to the Bethesda Naval Hos
pital from California.
Pvt. William Nicholson, 10, Ma