Evening star., 1945-10-22
Killed

Mrs. Paul Hathaway, 1926 T stree
!, NV, was among Is American flyer.
executed by the japanese on For.
mosa last June 10 after being taker
lprisoner, the Navy disclosed yester-
day.
Hathaway. who would have beer
20 years old December 25, was re.
ported missing in action last Jan.
uary %, after the Leyte- based Navy
Liberator on which he served al
tail gunner was shot down.
I Indication that he, with five other
crew members, had survived the
crash was found in captured Japa.
nese documents which the Navy
made public some time ago, his
father said.
| Next news of his son came from
Ensign John Bertrang, the Liber.
ator'S navigator who reported, aftel
being freed from a prison camp
that the underground grapevine
had Hathaway alive and we'll il
April.
On October II, a telegram from
the Navy Department announced
the youths death. In i'll health
since her son was first reported
missing, Mrs. Hathaway went under
doctors care after news of his exc.
cution reached her.
After eight months of waiting,
Mr.. Hathaway said, "the shock OF
learning he had been killed foul
months ago was too much for my
wife,
I'VE had every hope that we woulc
see Donald again. We thought we
would hear any day that he hao
been liberated"
Young Hathaway's ashes are now
in Shanghai awaiting shipment
home. The Navy indicated a post
humous award of the Air Medal will
be made to him.
! A former student at Paul anC
Deal Junior High Schools, Hathaway
enlisted in the Navy in October
l943, when he was IT. He was a
member of the national Hi-Y Club
while in high school and worked as
Star carrier boy.
| In addition to his parents, he is
survived by a sister, 10 Ann, is. Mr.
Hathaway is executive secretary OF
the Society of Industrial Realtors.
Sergt. Dominic G. LeOgrande, 10
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony
Leogrande, 34O4 Upshur ! street
Brentwood, Md, was killed in action
in raid over Germany April 10
1914, the War Department has in
formed his parents.
Sergt. Leogrande previously was
reported missing in action. He was
gunner of a BIT that was shot
down over enemy territory.
A native of the District, he was
graduate of Mount Rainier High
School. He enlisted in the Army
in November, 1912, and went over
seas April l, 1914. He was killed
less than a month later.
Safe
Sergt. Travers Harman, "a, whose
wife is Mrs. Myrtle r. Harman,
1881 Sherrier place NV, returned
home about two weeks ago after
being liberated from a japanese
prison camp. He was captured less
than a week before the end of the
war. Gunner on B-29 that
terashed% into theeseas4fe~~hada es-
caped from the. plane III a. rllbkef
boats and was captured -wiieny the
boat drifted to Japanese-held ter
ritory. 7-a
Sergt. Harman was on the Met
ropolitan Police Force before he
enlisted in 1942. He had been over
seas four months and completed
about 20 missions. He held the All
Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster.
Comdr. Leo Cromwell Thyson
Medical Corps, U.S.N., whose
brother is Tauluas Thyson, 1445
Park road NV, Is listed as safe
by the Navy Department He was
previously reported a prisoner OF
war. Comdr. Thyson was the SUBJ
ject of story in The Star on Sep
tember 20.
Promotions
Advancement of Stanley Ear
Hagen, Dental Corps, 4109 w street
NV, and Wade Hampton Heavey
Finance Department, SAB Wiscon-
sin avenue NV, to colonies are
among promotions announced this
week by the Army. Others from
this area promoted recently include
Lieutenant Colonel.