Evening star., 1946-05-05
Returnees

The transport Marine Swallow
due in Seattle today from the Pa
ciflc, carries the following District
veterans, for whom no street ad-
dresses were given in the Associated
Press report:
Capt. Arthur Ribe, Corpl. Kelly
Edwards, Corpl.' Earl Pollock, 1st
1t. Walter Wade, End 1t. Nave Krei-
man, Capt. Frederick Brandt, Corpl
Edward Williams, TIA Clifton Bar
nett, T/5 Isidore Berkowitz, T/5
Ulysses Jones, Pfc. Pitmon Ratch-
ford, Pvt. William Stewart, TIA Don
Leak, Pfc. George Hale, T/Sergt.
Joseph Miller, Sergt. Willie Harries,
TIA Creel Shields, S/Sergt. Ludwell
Pruett, TI5 Bernard Tutson, T/5
Ernest Williams, Pfc. Louis Brooks,
Pfc. Valentine Klein and Mai.
Douglas Sharp.
Nearby Maryland and Virginia
veterans aboard the Marine Swallow
are:
S/Sergt. Thomas Hardesty, Seat
Pleasant; Maj. Zachariah D. Blacki-
stone, Chevy Chase; S/Sergt.
Charles Wilhide, Hyattsville: 1t. Col.
Kenneth Degon, Silver Spring; TIA
William Pierce, Cheverly; Pfc
James H. Blankenbaker, Culpeper;
1t. Col. James E. Simmons, Arling-
ton. and Pfc. Chester McGlothlyn,
Vienna.
Aboard the transport Sea Star
due in San Francisco today, are:
Sergt. Roger T. Davis, 3051 N
street NV; Pfc. James o. Cash, GOT
Sixty-second avenue NV; Sergt.
Stewart Warren, $40 Twenty-frst
street NE; Ti5 Charlie E. Page, 304
C street NE. Pfc. William T. Sella-
man, 1l30 Bladensburg road NE,
and Sergt. Sebert H. Keiffer, II
Delano drive Sc.
Decorated
Rear Admiral Malcolm F. Sch0ef-
fel, U. S. N, 1859. Twenty ninth
street NV, last week received the
Legion of Merit for outstanding
service as assistant research direc-
tor for Aviation Ordnance, Research
and Development Division, Bureau
of Ordnance. and later as aviation
assistant to the chief of the bureau,
from December 7, 1941, to April 18,
ls43.
Capt. Thomas J. Day, U. S. NJ.
4514 Connecticut avenue NV, has
received the Legion of Merit for
meritorious service as head of the
heat transfer section, Bureau of
Ships, throughout the war, the
Navy announced.
Through his tlreless efforts" the
citation reads, various industrial
gases were provided to the fleet in
ever-increasing quantities and ship
ment of liquid oxygen was put on
practical basis, thereby relieving
the critical situation in the Pacific.
Col. Harold w. Grant, Air Forces,
309 South Ivy street, Arlington, re-
Gently was awarded the Legion of
Merit for services as deputy and,
later. as chief signal officer of the
Southeast Asia Command, from
December, 1943, to April 1945
Brig. Gen. John G. Williams, Pip
Wisconsin avenue NV, last week
received the Legion of Merit for
outstanding contribution as assist
ant chief of staff, "A, headquar-
ters, A. A. F. Eastern Flying Train
ing Command, from November, 1941
to June, 1942, to the expansion of
the flying training program during
the critical period Immediately after
the outbreak of the war, the Army
announced.
1st 1t. James r. Porter. Air
Forces. 40l8 Hamilton street, Hy-
attsville, has been awarded the Sill
yer Star Medal for gallantry in &C
tion over Ploesti, Rumania, on
June and 26, 1914, while assigned
to the 484th Bomb Group, 825th
Bomb Squadron. 18th Air Force.
On the first occasion of, heroism,
1t. Porter made successful bomb