Evening star., 1946-01-28
News Of D. C. Men
In Armed Forces
Promotions

FTOmOtlOn OF Lit. Col. Clarence e.
Geiger, graduate of Western High
School and former student at Mary
land University. to full colonel has
been announced by the Army. Col
Geiger, who was director of the Ar
mored Schools Wheeled Vehicle De-
partment at TT. Knox, KY, will
begin his terminal leave on Feb
ruary /. Other promotions include
Lieutenant Colonel
Nelson Peabody Rose, 250O q street NV
Tom Kouze. Ad;,'t AGdspta11s; IN c.n.r.r. n.,.r.
ment 1144 Eouth Thomas street, Airing
Edmund John Bennett, Adjutant Gen.
e eIaIs Department, 119 Leland street
Harry Richard Smith. AAF. Gathers
Harry Steward Green, Adjutans Gen
Walter AUGUSTUS Indyk, Signal Corps.
l02 Long street, Alexandria.
cate Generals Department. warrenton.
Melvin Hirsch SieRel, Judge Advocate
Giensral's Department. 1851 Sixteenth
coEle R,ehara ,s,, joseph @ Kehoe, auartermsster
~. First LieStenants. -
Jenises Das ,Irssa hshaFa Fisher Infantry. 1923
fsesntn EewaTd .trssp ysrRoa Dorsey. Infantry $40
=, Ralph Curtis Wells. AAF, 211s street
Paul Paul, Hswsrd White. Signal Corps. 1926
Wizard LeVaine Paris, AAF. Bill South
Lawrence K Bailey, Washington
Commissioned Second Lieutenant.
street NV. at # i Beinniirns. ca. ao' newton
Technical Sergeant.
Holt F'B Watts ir. Eo3o I street NV
wa Way S. Lee, zoos Twenty fourth stree,
Bernie oittlesen. 24o1 F street NV.
Returnees
The following Washington area
veterans are due to arrive at Seat
tie today aboard the transport East
land:
place NV; Pfc. John Brown. s3s Srett M streei
braska avenue NV: s7serst. Addison H Il
8 1sergt; PAU 3. Taylor ssl Howard @ Nim road d
Wosas TGssarty-sixth Hdfs street ,,IS NE; T.5 Ray "
Tserst George nssaasn Psppas, 4ios ifss' Eishtb I'll
iaio ksloEsns set road so0s1I NV sssa5aGa' sssrsf'
NV; TI5 Jerome n. Lopes. 1882 Seventh
street NE. and TI5 Robert E. Nolan, jr..
t1n 1a Eeyen1h aeG street Ne all Of Washing;
Fourth street: Arlington, and Pfc Leon L.
Dodson. 2l61 South Twelfth street. Ar
Arriving at San Francisco today
aboard the Hoggart Bay:
, Pfe: John W.. Watts and TVS Robert
Due at New York today aboard
the Alhambra Victory:
Ti5 James F. Hineary. sergt Ernest T.
Randall NJ Gardner and AAJ PIC James es Il Il
Murphy, all of Washington.
Due at New York tomorrow
aboard the Alexander Ellington:
se5sa csmpbs gfrnsps s1s B oGis Harry
ranks gwen. al Of & WasSiRgton. ses snd serrt Ro
Charles S. Fendleton. Arlington.
Decorated
Capt. William Gordon Beecher,
jr., former deputy director of public
relations at the Navy Department,
who lives at 1915 North Hartford
street, Arlington, has been awarded
the Legion of Merit, the Navy De-
partment announced today. He
was honored for services as COM
mander of a mine sweeper division
in the Okinawa campaign.
Capt. John r. Redman, 2432 Thir-
ty-ninth place NV, was given the
Legion of Merit for commanding
the battleship Massachusetts in Pa
cific operations. including the bonn
bardments of Kamaishi and Hama
matsu.,
Capt. Clinton J. Thro, 1702 Min
nesota avenue Sc, was given a
Bronze. Star Medal for services as
supply of1icer on the staf1s of the
commanders of the Central Pacific
forward area and OF the Marianas.
These awards were numbered
among the Legion of Merit given