Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23
News of D. c. Area Men in the Armed Forces
Returnees

Returnees
Thirty Washington veterans ar
due to arrive at San Francisco to
morrow aboard the transpor
Duchess. They are;
ssfEss NV g g1ssss.tR John M0pes sa5
Evans, sos Twenty-frst Street NET
WWillie L Amis; 1915 G. street Sc. II
IT/5 Paul Mullen. 20IO Ninth street NV
~. R15ert j., Thomas. 1900 Thirteent
sIxtS nv NM 20 p Atugnstus Tens: 152
Fifth street NV Pfc RiDg G 3 Everett as
lfs th ses Street Nw Rte P Eieh Rsfph nv;
Tenex is6s sixth street NV; ist y ssfe
Edward l.. Horne, 511 Twenty fifth plac
NE; Pvt, Charles Kemp, III. Rhode islam
sLsergt. Raymond Newman, Seret. Tim inc {
Martin, TIA julius Brown. TIA James s
ddee B GSlp GeoTse s " Park er
| fred Hunter, It's James L. Jones, tbs Eu
gene Roebuck,, Pfc. Marshall G. Carpenter
snd M Iaeius pimksny; , PVT: Joseph Addiso
ton.
Nearby Maryland and Virgini;
men returning aboard the Duchess
1
Cecil n. Robinson, Alexandria; Sergi
Harry Strather, Culpeper; Sergt. Theiber
TTo9nmi nS9m:; 1dO5 Queen street. Alsxandria
Alexandria; T15 Charles a i n Putnam ina s'f 81
North Patrick street. Alexandra, and ~
henry sny0 Burke, 1902 oronoco street
Arriving at New York tomorrow
aboard the Lewiston Victory:
sISergt. Morton K. Footer, LIST serg,
aaa su ~ ssgs rn9m sic D JAMES,
Garter, Pfc. Paul r. Christofi. Pfc. William
e King Pfc. Joseph A. Lee. Pic .Howar'
&e Nes PIC r1a amdi sta sliond P Pfe
Willie wilson, Pvt. Earl B. Cecil and Pfc
b zoe Il Poys ,,; Al Of washington, and Pfc
4. Walker. Seat Pleasant and ia Richar,
/. Dade. jr., Alexandria.
Arriving at New York tomorrow
on the Samuel Adams:
LIST Sergt. Raymond r. Hair, Washing
ton; S/Sergt Noley B. fitzpatrick, Airing
ton, and SlSerst. Sigurbjorn C. Sigmund
| son, Arlington.
Decorations
Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, Wit
succeeded Gen. Eisenhower as com
mander of the European forces
heads list of SO Army generals t,
whom the War Department ha
awarded the Distinguished Servic
Medal. Eight other generals wer,
awarded the Legion of Merit.
In the case of Gen. McNarney, tn
award constituted an Oak Lea
Cluster to the DSM previously
awarded him. The Cluster is il
recognition of his services when h
commanded the Mediterranean
theater of operations from May t.
October, 1945. 1t was in particula
reference to the speed with which
he redeployed his troops for possibl
use in the Pacific in the planne,
assault on the japanese mainland
Brig. Gen. Frank N. Roberts O
1901 Connecticut avenue NV, VIII,
was awarded a second Oak Lea
Cluster to the DSM, was one O
10 generals on the citation list whit
are either residents of the Washing
ton area or had been on duty here
during the war. Gen. Roberts wa.
cited for duties performed when hi
headed a special planning group
with the United States Military Mis-.
sion to the Soviet Union. This group
was sent to Russia in December
1914, to help plan Soviet participa.
ton in the war against Japan.
Mai. Gen. James L. Collins, 9
brother OF 1t. Gen. j. Lawton Col.
Inns, director of Information Services
at the War Department, and vel
known in Washington, was given thu
DSM for leadership of the 5tf
Service Command in the centra
west, from December, 1s43, to Sep.
TENDER, 1945.
Gen. Brehon Somervell, retired
former chief of the Army Servic,
Forces, received the Legion of Merit
for services from December 7, l941
to March, 1912. At that time h,
provided for emergency defens,
measures in developing ports of EN-.
barkation, the procuring of trans.
portation facilities and shipment Of
supplies.
Maj. Gen. Leslie r. Groves O.
1903 Thirty-sixth street, who di.
rected the development of thu
atomic bomb, was awarded the LIE.
gion of Merit as an engineer ir
charge of wartime construction, No.
vember, 1910, to February, 1912.
Other awards of the Distinguished
Service Medal were made as fol.
lows:
Maj. Gen. John B. Anderson, III
Albemarle street NV, as command.
ing general of 10th Corps for service.
IN Normandy and Germany, Sep.
TENDER, 1914, to February, 1945.
Maj. Gen. John r. Deane of tn,
Kennedy-Wa Apartments, whit
headed a United States Militar,
Mission to Moscow from October
1e43, to September, 1945. During
this time Soviet plans for co-ordina
ton in the Far East and Europe wer,
co-ordinated with those of tn,
United States.
Maj. Gen. Warren F. Draper, U. S
Public Health Service, Alto Twenty
fifth street, North Arlington, Va. fol
governing public health in Liberated
and conquered European countries
He was chief of the Public Health
Branch at Allied Headquarters from
May. 1914, to June, 1945.
Maj. Gen. Edwin p. Parker, jr., o
1347 Thirtieth street NV, who dis
tinguished himself while command
ing the 18th Infantry Division il
Germany from February % to Apri
8, 1915. The division, with clement
of another, seized the Remagel
bridgehead and later sealed NOR
than 100000 German troops in tn
Ruhr pocket.
A resident of Washington sine
childhood, Gen. Parker was grad
uated from Western High Schoo
and was a major in the World Wal
Maj. Gen. william s. Rumbousl
of the Kennedy Warren Apartments
for service as chief signal Officer
European theater, from July, 1914
to May, 1945.
Maj. Gen. Henry B. Sayler Of 321
Klingle road NV, who was chic
ordnance officer Of the European
theater from July, 1914, to May
1915.
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