1942 . . .
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
1 October 1942
Gary C. Gall, 19, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Gall, 3614 Seventh Avenue, has enlisted in the Iowa-Lexington squadron of naval aviation cadets now being formed by the Kansas City naval aviation cadet selection board in connection with the launching of a new aircraft carrier Lexington which occurred September 28 at Quincy, Mass. He was graduated from East High school in 1941 where he played football, basketball and tennis. He also attended Morningside College for one year.
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Private Donald Lawrenson, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Lawrenson, 107 Helen Street, has completed his basic training at Camp Robinson, Arkansas and is awaiting orders to report for preflight schooling as an aviation cadet, according to word received by his wife, Mrs. Virginia Lawrenson, 2523 First Street.
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Eugene E. Heck of Sioux City has been certified by headquarters of the Seventh Service command, Omaha, for three month’s training as a junior repairman in the civilian signal corps service. He was to leave today to begin training at the Nebraska trades school in Milford.
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Private David Liljedahl, 520 Ninth Street, has been promoted to the rank of corporal at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, where he is in charge of the recreation center. Word of the promotion was received by his wife, Mrs. Beulah Liljedahl. Corporal Liljedahl was inducted last June 3. He was stationed at Camp Warren, Wyoming, before being transferred to Camp Gruber.
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Mrs. Roy Hook, 2515 Warner Avenue, has received word that her husband, who enlisted in the navy September 12, is training at the navy yard in Philadelphia. Mr. Hook, gunner’s mate third class, has had four years previous training. He received an honorable discharge from the navy in 1929.
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An award of merit certificate from the navy recruiting service has been given Leland B. Hayes, 1523 Pierce Street and Edward R. Rumple, 4432 Military Road. Mr. Hayes, while home on a five-day leave after enlisting recently, secured four additional recruits. Mr. Rumple enlisted one.
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Jay H. Keyser, son of Mrs. Pauline Keyser, 1105 28th Street, has been made a staff sergeant at the Maxton, North Carolina army air base. Mrs. Keyser returned recently from Bowman field, Kentucky, where she visited her son before his transfer to Maxton field.
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After attending school at Fitzsimmons hospital in Denver, Private Claude A. Rector of Sioux City has been promoted to the rank of sergeant and now is in charge of the hospital laboratory at Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming.
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Corporal Harry S. Cook, son of Mrs. Evelyn H. Cook, 412 15th Street, has been transferred from Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri to the United States recreation Camp at Penn Valley Park in Kansas City. Corporal Cook enlisted more than two years ago at Fort Snelling. He is a former Sioux Cityan, attending the Woodrow Wilson Junior High School.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
3 October 1942
William H. Johnson, second class gunner’s mate in the navy, recently spent a 15-day leave with his wife at Cherokee and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Johnson of Salix.
Robert E. Bedlington, 1510 Geneva Street, recently was graduated from the officer candidate course of the quartermaster school at Camp Lee, Virginia and received a commission as a second lieutenant in the army.
Lieut. Harry D. Kellogg, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Kellogg, 310 W. 18th Street, who is in the army air corps, is stationed at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Word of his assignment was received by his parents. Lieut. Kellogg left Sioux City about 15 years ago and since then has been a hotel manager in New York City. He received his basic training at Miami, Florida.
William M’Rae, 3210 First Street, left this week for service with the army air corps. He is a welder and reported at Des Moines.
Corporal Del W. Long, 4827 Military Road, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant and transferred to Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi. He was formerly battalion clerk at Camp San Luis Obispo, California.
Howard LeRoy Holmes, son of Mr. and Mrs. J L. Holmes, 1709 W. Fourth Street, who enlisted in the navy September 22, has left training school at San Diego, California.
Robert H. Reppert, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Reppert, 2016 S. Cedar Street, who was inducted into the armed forces recently, is now stationed at Fort Robinson, Arkansas. Vernon L. Reppert, a brother of Robert, left Tuesday for the Great Lakes naval training station.
Nathan N. Fishgold, 21, a son of Mrs. Rebecca Fishgold, 811 W. Eighth Street, has been named a technical corporal in the specialist signal corps of the army. For the last three months, he has been attending Midland Radio and Television school in Kansas City. He was graduated from Central High School.
Clark W. Watkin, son of Dr. and Mrs. Clifford Watkin, 2218 Nebraska Street, is to report today for navy training at Notre Dame University at South Bend, Indiana. He enlisted last winter while a senior student at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.
Private F. O. (Whitey) Rosenberger, now stationed at Camp Roberts, California, is to be transferred soon to an officer candidate school at Fort Benning, Georgia. Mrs. Rosenberger and their son Gary, 4816 Morningside Avenue, will leave Monday evening for a three-week vacation visit with Private Rosenberger in California.
George Hargraves, first class seaman, in a V-mail letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Hargraves, 1114 16th Street, said that he had been stationed at Pearl Harbor since June. Previously he had been trained in Brooklyn, New York, Norfolk, Virginia and had been in Ireland and Scotland He is a former Tribune carrier. Other members of the family who are in defense work are Bob, stationed at Camp Roberts, California; Bill, employed in the Douglas Aircraft Company in Los Angeles and a sister Marion who is working in a defense plant in Long Beach.
Private Donald R. Stodden, 4232 Orleans Avenue has been promoted to the rank of technician, fifth grade at Camp Barkeley, Texas.
Charles A. Diehl, has been promoted from private to corporal. Corporal Diehl is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Diehl, 1215 Summit Street. In civilian life he was employed as a purchasing agent at an automotive supply jobber company. He is stationed at Camp Rucker, Alabama.
Homer E. Garretson, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs G. A. Garretson, 3712 Orleans Avenue, has enlisted in the Iowa- Lexington squadron of naval aviation cadets now being formed. When ordered to active duty, Garretson will report to the navy preflight school at St. Mary’s College in California. Garretson is a graduate of East High School and attended Morningside College for four years.
James D. Thompson has been promoted to corporal. He is the son of Mrs. E. Thompson, 1410 Silver Street. Corporal Thompson was employed at a bakery here and was active in civilian defense before entering the service. He is stationed at Camp Rucker, Alabama.
Corporal Luke F. LeBlond, son of Mrs. Frances D. Gray, 1927 Iowa Street, has been accepted for Officer’s candidate school at Fort Benning, Georgia. Corporal LeBlond formerly attended Central High School.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
4 October 1942
Sergeant Ralph Bruneau, son of Mr. and Mrs Ralph Bruneau of Jefferson, South Dakota is home on a 14-day furlough visiting his wife and parents. He is stationed at Long Beach, California. Sergeant Bruneau was inducted last February. He is a graduate of Trinity High School.
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S. A. Carter, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. S.A Carter, 2541 S. Cedar Street, is a member of the Great Lakes choir, which sings every Friday night on the Meet Your Navy program broadcast directly from the United States Naval Training Station. Mr. Carter was graduated from East High School in 1939 and until he enlisted was working for Armour & Co.
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Sergeant Elroy R. (Dick) Baker, after completion of his training in officer’s school at Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming, has been promoted to second lieutenant. Lieut. Baker will report for duty Monday after spending a 10-day furlough with his mother. Mrs. Lydia Baker, 610 ½ Pearl Street and sister, Mrs. Frank Johnson, 2321 Dace Avenue.
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Herbert Jacobson has returned to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station after spending an eight-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Jacobson, 3220 Morgan Street.
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Wilford J. Lindsay, formerly of Wayne, Nebraska and well known here, is in a Shanghai war prisoner’s camp in Central China. He informed his mother, Mrs. John Lindsay and Miss Joyce Miller, 1615 Jackson Street of his good health and that there was no need of worry. He was taken prisoner on Wake Island at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Keith C. Adams, son of Mrs. Joe Miller, 3805 23d Street, is home on leave from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station after receiving his preliminary training. He enlisted six weeks ago. Seaman Adams has resided in Sioux City all his life and is a graduate of Central High School.
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Harry E. Alaire, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Alarie, 110 Isabella Street, who enlisted recently in the army air corps, has left for Texas for his basic training. Private Alarie, a resident of Sioux City, all of his life, attended Central High School, later was an assistant theater manager and worked as orderlie in St. Joseph’s Hospital.
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Edward Louis Tumilovich, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tumilovich, 2521 Washington Avenue, who is an aviation machinist’s mate third class, is studying automobile mechanics at the naval training pier in Chicago. He enlisted here last January 21.
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Private Farley Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Peterson, 2218 S. Palmetto Street, has completed eight weeks of basic training at Camp Robinson, Arkansas, and has been assigned to duty at the 93d base hospital at Little Rock, Arkansas as a member of the 103d medical training battalion.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
10 October 1942
Sergeant Donald Tarrant, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Tarrant, 1308 24th Street, has returned to Connellsville, Pa., after spending a furlough with his parents. He recently completed a seven-week course in advanced radio mechanics at Scott Field, Illinois.
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Private Loren J. Husted, 1218 W. 26th Street, has been assigned to army technical training school, Wichita Falls, Texas. He was inducted last September 12.
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Forrest Allen, son of A. F. Allen, 704 Ninth Street, has been advanced to the grade of lieutenant commander in the navy. He is on duty with the Hawaiian sea frontier and the 14th naval district. Mrs. Allen and son are in San Francisco for the duration.
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George DeVault and Lester W. Burdick have been selected for training as specialists in the navy and now are undergoing 16-week courses in the service schools at the Great Lakes naval training station. De Vault is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G.W. DeVault, 1232 Mulberry Street and Burdick, the husband of Christine Burdick, 1003 Pierce Street.
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Edwin J. Kamp, 2507 Court Street, who enlisted in the army several weeks ago, will be home on leave this week after completing his recruit training station.
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Leland B. Hayes, 1410 Isabella Street, was to be home on leave this week after completion of recruit training at the Great Lakes naval training station.
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Delmar Stone, third class petty officer in the navy, has returned to Norfolk, Virginia where he is attending radio school, after a leave spent with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Stone, 509 W First Street.
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Corporal Charles A. Diehl, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tony Diehl, 1215 Summit Street. Shortly after his promotion to sergeant, he was sent to officer’s training school at Fort Benning, Georgia, where he now is stationed.
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Apprentice Seaman Irving Halstead, son of Taylor Halstead, 4138 Van Buren Street has returned to the Great Lakes naval training station after a nine-day furlough. His father accompanied him.
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Harold W. Helmhold, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Helmhold, 317 W. Sixth Street, has been promoted to corporal technician at O’Reilly general hospital, Springfield, Missouri.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
11 October 1942
Wayne Earl Shellenberger, recently graduated from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, now is stationed in the naval hospital at Bremerton, Washington as a hospital attendant. Wayne’s brother, Harry Shellenberger, a navy store-keeper, who is stationed at Minneapolis, was here on leave recently to visit the men’s mother, Mrs. Ella Shull, 3106 Irene Street.
David Black, seaman second class in the navy, recently mailed a letter and pictures to his aunt, Mrs. Carl L. Mummert, 1418 Jones Street, from Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone. Seaman Black has been serving on oil tankers. His mother is Mrs. Ada Black of South Sioux City.
Private Herb Baumsten, 1617 Jones Street, has been admitted to the army air force noncommissioned officer physical training instructor school at Miami Beach, Florida. After completing a six-week course of instruction, he will be certified as a noncommissioned officer, qualified to teach physical training in the air forces.
Private Floyd G. Morris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd C. Morris, 3221 Athlone Avenue, has been graduated from the radio school of the armored forces at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Sergeant Art Hafits of Camp Barkeley, Texas is spending a furlough at the home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. Dave C. Hafits, 1419 Virginia Street.
Herbert W. Ford, seaman first class, was to arrive today from the Great Lakes naval training school to spend an eight-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.J. Ford, 2132 Heights Avenue.
Private W.C. Woods, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Woods, Hornick, Iowa has been stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Bob Rafferty is home on a week’s leave after completion of recruit training at the Great Lakes naval training station. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Rafferty, 4221 Harrison Street.
Private Veryl Murray, stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, is home on furlough, visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Murray, 420 W. Fourth Street.
George Shindler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Shindler, 1724 Hamilton Street, has been promoted to staff sergeant in Northern Ireland. His wife resides in the Metz apartments.
Melvin T. Haried, a staff sergeant in the quartermaster corps of the army air base, has been transferred to the Sioux City air base from Ephrata, Washington. Sergeant Haried is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Haried, 1715 Jackson Street.
Private William A. Maloy, in the medical corps at Fort Devans, Massachusetts, is spending a five-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Maloy, 407 W. Seventh Street.
Jack A. Rose, son of Mrs. Margaret Davis, Jackson hotel, has been promoted from the rank of ensign to lieutenant, junior grade, in the naval reserve. He is a flying instructor at Corpus Christi, Texas.
Harry O. Hansen, third class petty officer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hansen, 2026 McKinley Street, has been sent from the Great Lakes to the destroyer base at San Diego, California for training.
C. William “Bill” Burkle is spending an eight-day leave from the Great Lakes naval training station with his wife, Shirley, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Burkle, 415 Myrtle Street He has just completed “boot” training and has been selected for special training in the aviation metal smith school.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
13 October 1942
Jack M. Downing, baker second class, husband of Mrs. Lois Downing of Whiting, has been promoted to baker first class and assigned to the naval station at Sampson, New York. Mrs. Downing’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Downing, live at 715 14th Street.
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James J. Green, 521 Sixth Street, aviation cadet in the army, has completed his preflight training at the San Antonio, Texas, aviation cadet center. Cadet Green was a member of a class which passed in review before President Roosevelt on the president’s recent tour.
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Private Thomas Phipps, husband of Bonnie Ellen Phipps, 614 W. Fourth Street, has arrived at the infantry replacement center at Camp Wolters, Texas, to begin basic training as an infantryman in the army.
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Private James F. Legg and Private Stanley C. Hamel have reported to the armored force school wheeled vehicle department at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Private Legg lives at 413 11th Street and Private Hamel, at 115 Main Street.
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Dwight E. Nystrom, Fireman first class in the navy, has returned to Mare Island, California after spending a leave with his wife, Roberta and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Nystrom, 1300 26th Street.
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Naval Aviation Cadet Robert Kass has completed training at Wold-Chamberlain field, Minneapolis and is to report for advanced training at Corpus Christi, Texas. He is a son of Mrs. A. G. Kass, 3024 Pierce Street.
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Private Arthur M. Johnson of Camp Crowder, Missouri, is home on 10-day furlough, granted so that he could attend funeral services for his mother, Mrs. F.W. Johnson of Moville. He is in a medical branch of service.
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Jack Gaylo has been promoted to sergeant at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. Mrs. Gayle lives at 213 Lee Block.
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Raymond Mahon enlisted in the signal corps September 26, bring the “men in service” of the family of Mrs. Laura Mahan, 117 Sioux Street, to the 100 per cent mark. Her two other sons are Richard Mahon, a private in the Marine Corps, and Wilmer F. Mahan, a private in the signal corps.
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Milton W. Love of San Jose, California, a former Sioux Cityan has enlisted in the navy and has a rank of petty officer.
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Oran Dee Wells, fireman second class, stationed at navy pier in Chicago, spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.T. Wells, 3420 Fifth Avenue.
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Private George C. Pullman, son of Dr. and Mrs. George C. Pullman, 1617 Jackson Street, has been graduated from officer’s training school at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas. A June graduate of Morningside College, he will report at Camp Barkeley, Texas, for officer’s training in the medical administration corps.
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Donald Daniel, son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Daniel of Kingsley, Iowa has been promoted to the rank of corporal at Amarillo field, Texas, where he is is an instructor in airplane structure. Corporal Daniel enlisted in the army air corps, December 10, 1941, three days after Pearl Harbor.
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George W. Martin, son of Mrs. C. S. Van Eaton, 2414 E. Solvay Street, has been commissioned an ensign in the navy and will leave Thursday for the University of Tucson in Arizona, where he will begin a special 18-week training course. Mr. Martin, a graduate of Central High and of the University of Chicago, is married and has been manager of a grocery store in Grand Island, Nebraska. Parties for Mr. Martin were held Sunday and Saturday evenings at the Van Eaton home.
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Floyd C. Morris, of Sioux City, who recently was graduated from the armored force school at Fort Knox, Kentucky, is a technical sergeant rather than private as previously reported. He is spending a 15-day furlough with his family here.
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Vernie Elwood Pauley, apprentice seaman, left Thursday after an eight-day furlough and visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pauley, 817 Wall Street. He returned to the Great Lakes naval training station. Seaman Pauley is 17.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
14 October 1942
John N. Eggink, is spending a leave from the Great Lakes naval training station at the home of his father, Nick Eggink, 1009 Pierce Street.
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James Eugene Roddy, son of Mrs. Anne Roddy, 507 16th Street, recently was appointed a naval aviation cadet and was transferred to the naval air station in Pensacola, Florida for flight training. He completed elimination training at the naval reserve aviation base in Kansas City, Kansas. He was an athlete at Nebraska Wesleyan College, Lincoln and Nebraska State Teachers College, at Wayne.
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Second Lieut. Charles M. Swanson, 1621 23d Street, is being trained at the new air force officer training school, Miami Beach, Florida. The school was established for the purpose of enlisting the services as commissioned officers of civilian specialists.
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Private Merwyn F. Hamm, son of Mr. and Mrs Elmer Hamm, 402 14th Street, is stationed at the armored force displacement training center at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
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First Lieut. Clifford M. (Tip) Skalby is the new rank of a former Sioux Cityan, son of Mrs. James T. Brown, 2506 S. Cedar Street. He was promoted recently at Muskogee, Oklahoma. He received his second lieutenancy at Fort Benning, Georgia, in June and is a former Morningside college student.
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Private Emmett L. Connelly, 2608 W. Fourth Street, is in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, at the armored force replacement center.
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Private LeRoy M. Jarman is one of the Sioux City selectees who have arrived at the armored force placement training center, Fort Knox, Kentucky.
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Private Grant L. Jensen, son of Mrs. Caroline Jensen, 3415 Seventh Avenue, is in training at the armed force replacement Center, Fort Knox, Kentucky.
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Private Leo T. Foley, 1715 Lakeport Road, has arrived at Fort Knox, Kentucky for training with the armored force replacement Center.
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Sergeant Nathan Dvorkin, a son of Mrs. Ida Dvorkin, 1522 Ross Street, has been graduated from a mess sergeant’s school. He is stationed at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
16 October 1942
Lieut. Edward F. O’Brien, former Sioux City lawyer, has been graduated from this naval training school at Fort Schuyler, New York, after completing an indoctrination course. Lieut. O’Brien, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. O’Brien of Chicago, is a graduate of DePaul University, Chicago.
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John C. Dahl, Jr. son of John Dahl, 813 Pierce Street, has enlisted in the Iowa-Lexington squadron of naval aviation cadets being formed by the Kansas City naval aviation cadet selection board in connection with the launching of the new aircraft carrier Lexington. The squadron will be inducted at a Navy day rally October 27 at Kansas City.
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Apprentice Seaman Francis Uhl, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alois Uhl of Climbing Hill, will return to Great Lakes naval station. He has been spending an eight-day leave with his parents.
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Corporal Howard G. Mann, brother of Mrs. Marvin Mortensen, 2018 W. Fifth Street, has arrived in the United States from Ireland, where he had been stationed. He will enter officer’s training school. Mr. Mann’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mann, former Sioux Cityans, now live at Pittsfield, Illinois.
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Private Lloyd Shaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Shaver, 1320 Summit Street is an enlistee in the army ordnance division. He left October 5 for Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky, where he is in training. He was a Central High School graduate in 1940.
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Warren C. Williams, son of Mrs. Carema Anderson of Whiting, has been home on a 10-day leave. He is a radio technician in the navy.
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Lieut. LeRoy H. Rowse, is being trained in the new air force officer training school at Miami Beach, Florida. He is the husband of Mrs. Muriel Rowse, 3322 Garretson Avenue.
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Private Frank Cassidy and Private S. T. Courey have begun basic training at the armored force replacement center at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Private Cassidy is the son of Mrs. R. Cassidy, 816 17th Street and Private Courey, the son of Mose Courey, 1009 Eighth Street.
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Maj. Everett Waller has arrived in Alaska, he informed his wife, who lives at 2916 Jones Street, by cablegram.
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Bonnell Norman Hart, son of Arthur C. Hart, 2321 Grandview Boulevard, has been commissioned as an ensign in the naval reserve, according to an announcement from the naval air station at Lakehurst, N.J., navy lighter-than-air base. Immediately after being commissioned, Ensign Hart was presented with the designation as a naval aviator (airship) by Capt. W. E. Zimmerman, commanding officer at Lakehurst and was ordered to active flight duty.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
17 October 1942
Sergeant Charles L. Stivers, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Stivers, 1833 S. Pomegranite Street, has arrived in America from Ireland to attend officer’s training school.
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John B. Fountaine, 1222 Jackson Street; Merwin E. Geidl, 2801 Davidson Street and Alfred A. Miller, son of Mrs. Myrtle Lamphlaugh, 609 Panoah Street have reported for recruit training at the Great Lakes naval training station.
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Harold Haisch and Melbourne Haisch, sons of Mrs. Kathryn Haisch, 1015 Pierce Street, have received promotions. Harold was promoted to chief pharmacist’s mate in the navy and Melbourne was promoted to staff sergeant in the army air corps. The former is stationed at Port Hveneme, California and the latter at Moody field, Georgia.
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Corporal Walter Behn of the military police detachment at Fort Des Moines, who underwent an operation a month ago at the post hospital, is visiting in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Behn, 1613 Villa Avenue.
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Charles E. McPherson, 116 W. Third Street has enlisted in the Marine Corps in Denver, Colorado.
H. (Tone) Kelly, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Kelly, 1817 Summit Street has been commissioned an ensign in the naval reserve. His commission will be taken up as soon as he graduates from medical school at Northwestern University. He will complete his premedical course at Princeton University in January.
Private First Class Royal G. Carman has arrived safely overseas, according to word received by his mother, Mrs. Carrie D. Carman of Oto.
Sergeant Sam Bach, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bach, Correctionville Road, has been transferred from Camp Hahn, California to a base in the Canal Zone.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
18 October 1942
Sergeant Ray Weinheimer will arrive here today from Northern Ireland to visit his wife at 3022 Lindenwood Street. Sergeant Weinheimer has returned to attend an officers’ training school.
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Staff Sergeant J.B. Dagle, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Dagle, Sioux Point, has been promoted to first sergeant at the army air base at Ogden, Utah.
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First Class Private Arthur L. DeLaughter has been promoted to corporal at Camp Edward, Massachusetts. His brother, Private Robert DeLaughter, is stationed at the signal corps school at Camp De Soto, Drew field, Florida. Mrs. Robert DeLaughter resides with her mother at 4336 Springfield Street. Robert and Arthur are sons of Mrs. Lyda DeLaughter, 317 11th Street.
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Francis W. Luce, son of L. H. Luce, 311 Center Street, is enrolled in the navy preflight school at Athens, Georgia. He is a former student at Trinity College.
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Staff Sergeant Eli H. Maresch, stationed at Camp Campbell, Kentucky, is spending a brief furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gappa, 1910 Boise Street and his wife, Mrs. Berydene Maresch and family at 2104 Boise Street.
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Eugene McArthur, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. McArthur, 3405 41st Street, returned to Great Lakes naval training station after spending an eight-day leave in Detroit, Omaha and Sioux City He enlisted September 8 in the aviation machinist corps.
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Staff Sergeant John F. Pauley has returned to Fort D. A. Russell, Texas. Sergeant Pauley was called home by the sudden death of his father, Nicholas J. Pauley, 1517 Main Street.
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William Frances Kelly, 19, stationed with the navy at San Francisco, is here on leave visiting a half-brother, George Early, 44, 2546 S. Helen Street. The meeting was the first for the brothers.
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Private First Class Charles Richards, has been transferred from Fort MacArthur, California to Fort Benning, Georgia. His brother, Private Kenneth Richards, has been transferred from Camp Robinson, Arkansas to Camp Stoneman, California. They are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Richards, 2104 W. 14th Street.
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Second Class Seaman James Ardemoure Spear has returned to the Great Lakes naval station after spending an eight-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B.G. Spear, 1511 Carlin Avenue. Mr. Spear is a former employee of The Journal-Tribune.
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Edward J. Schopp, Leo C. Madsen, Martin H. Trudeau and Pierre P. Chiquette, all of Salix and Robert F. Jorgensen of Sioux City all have arrived at the infantry replacement center at Camp Wolters, Texas.
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Sergeant Glenn E. Pennell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Pennell, 2729 First Street, is spending a furlough at home. He is stationed at Inglewood, California.
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Leon L. Uknes, of Sioux City, naval aviation cadet, has completed a three-month course of preflight training at St. Mary’s College in California and has been assigned to the naval aviation base at Livermore, California for primary flight instruction.
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Private First Class Kenneth Jorgensen, son of Mrs. Marie Jorgensen, is home on a 15-day furlough. He will return to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Tuesday.
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Private C. A. Johnson of Camp Barkeley, Texas, is spending a 10-day furlough with his mother, Mrs. C. Johnson, 3421 Garretson Avenue.
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Vernon P. Muow, Sioux Center, Iowa has finished three months of preflight training at the navy preflight school at St Mary’s College in California. He has been assigned to the naval aviation base at Los Alamitos, California for primary flight instruction.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
20 October 1942
Private Ralph Behn, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Behn, 1316 Villa Avenue is spending a furlough at home. He is stationed at Chanute field, Illinois. Corporal Walter Behn, another son of Mr. and Mrs. Behn, also is home on furlough. Corporal Behn is with the military police detachment at Fort Des Moines.
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Richard Lowell Sardeson, apprentice petty officer second class, who has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Sardeson, 201 S. Collins Street, while on nine-day leave from Great Lakes training station, will return there this morning. A 1940 graduate of Central High School, he enlisted in the navy a month ago at Los Angeles and was one of 29 men chosen from a group of 125 to attend aviation machinists’ service school.
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Alfred E. Hennessey, signal corps staff sergeant, has notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hennessey, 1905 S. Clinton Street, of his arrival “somewhere in England.” Sergeant Hennessey has served in the army three years.
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Charles R. Trulock, son of J.E. Trulock, 2803 Center Street, has been promoted to the rank of corporal at Camp Rucker, Alabama. He is a squad leader at the camp.
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James D. Thompson, son of Mrs. E. Thompson, 1410 Silver Street, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant at Camp Rucker, Alabama, where he is a squad leader.
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Privates Clarence J. Manning, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Manning, 1211 Ninth Street; J. Patrick Grego, husband of Mrs. Rose Grego, 1100 Steuben Street; Glenn S, Miller, son of Mrs. Mary A. Miller, 907 Grand Avenue; Dayrl O. Newman, son of Mrs. Eva Newman, 1506 Fairview Boulevard and Robert B. M’Allister, brother of Earl McAllister, 718 ½ Iowa Street, have arrived at the armored force replacement training center, Fort Knox, Kentucky.
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Jack Allen Rose, son of Mrs. Margaret Davis, 523 Pierce Street, has been advanced from ensign to lieutenant, junior grade, in the naval reserve. Mr. Rose is an instructor at the naval air station at Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Arnold V. Anderson, radioman and second class petty officer in the navy, is spending a few days leave in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Anderson, 1916 Bryan Street. He also visited his sisters, Mrs. Hilma Craft, 1918 Boise Street and Mrs. George Skidmore, 1512 W. 14th Street. Before returning to San Francisco, he will visit another sister, Mrs. Kenneth Hill at Sioux Falls.
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Emanuel Herzoff, 3226 Nebraska Street, has entered the armed forces and reported at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana.
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R. Dale Swearingen, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Swearingen, 3115 Lakeport Road, a yeoman third class in the navy, will arrive in Sioux City October 26 with his wife for a few days visit. He has been stationed in Washington.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
22 October 1942
Royal W. Jaynes, 703 10th Street, has arrived at the army reception center at Fort Logan, Colorado.
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Sergeant Richard L. Peete has returned from Ireland to attend officer’s training school at Camp Croft, South Carolina. Sergeant Peete is spending a 10-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Barrett S. Peete, 3000 Pierce Street.
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Corporal Gail E. Martin, husband of Mrs. Emma Jean Martin, R. F. D., Mapleton and Private Francis J. Taylor, son of Mrs. P. N. Peterson, 2023 McKinley Street have reported for duty at the Armored force school, tank department, at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
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Sergeant Roman Lukes, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Lukes, 2423 W. Fourth Street, who left here nearly two years ago with the national guards, is home on a furlough from Northern Ireland where he had been stationed since last January. A member of the infantry, Sergeant Lukes will be assigned to officer’s training. He expects to leave here soon for a southern training center.
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Joe Skaff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Skaff, 1515 Virginia Street, is attending the new naval training school for diesel operators at the University of Illinois at Urbana. Skaff enlisted in the navy here in August. He received his preliminary training at the Great Lakes naval training station.
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Private Clarence A. Huna, who recently was inducted in the army here, has been assigned to the engineer replacement training center at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. He has been assigned to the Seventh engineer training group.
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Corporal Edmund Heenan, son of Mr. and Mrs Dennis Heenon, 822 W. Sixth Street, is spending a nine-day furlough with his parents. He will leave Thursday night for Camp Edwards, Massachusetts.
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Second Lieut. J. B. Stitt, attached to a tank destroyer division at Camp Hood, Texas, where he recently received his commission, is home on a 10-day leave visiting at the home of his mother, Mrs. June Stitt, 5300 Morningside Avenue. His wife gave birth to a son at Lutheran Hospital Friday.
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Lieut. Ernest W. Baumann has been promoted to first lieutenant and made regimental personnel adjutant at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Baumann, 1112 Newton Street.
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G. H. Pearsall, former Tribune advertising manager, is now stationed at Cardiff, Wales, with the United States army.
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Private Marvin Rodvold, a son of Mrs. Hanna Rodvold, 1024 Douglas Street, has been transferred from Camp Robinson, Arkansas, to Camp Pickett, Virginia. He was graduated from Central High School in 1940 and enlisted July 20 of this year.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
23 October 1942
Ronald and Donald Jarman, twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Jarman, 1011 Seventh Street, are in the navy. Ronald Jarman is a third class fireman at the naval training station at Farragut, Idaho. His wife, Maxine, resides at Huntington, California. Donald has been transferred from the San Diego training base on completion of his preliminary training to Seattle to begin training as an aircraft machinist’s mate.
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Roy Parmelee, son of Clarence Parmelee, 2317 W. Third Street, is home on an 11-day leave from guard duty on the east coast after four years in the navy. He has several months in gunnery on torpedo boats with the rating of chief gunner’s mate.
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Sergeant Philip A. Donohue, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Donohue, 3723 Jackson Street, is home on a 10-day furlough from the Enid, Oklahoma army flying school where he is attached to the base hospital. Jack Donohue, his brother, a student at Georgetown University at Washington, has enlisted in the naval reserve and has been sworn into service as an apprentice seaman.
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Private Farley H. Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Peterson, 2218 Palmetto Street, has returned to Camp Robinson, Arkansas. His wife who had been spending several months at Little Rock, Arkansas, accompanied him to Sioux City and will return to her home at LeMars to reside.
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Edward P. Meents, Jr.; Robert M. Moore, Wilbur L. Stokley, Sioux Cityans, and Glen F. Redmond, Sloan, are receiving their first training as aviation cadets at the San Antonio aviation cadet center. Cadet Meent’s home address is 1500 Pierce Street. Cadet Moore’s home is 4606 Morningside Avenue and Cadet Stokley lives at 1713 Hamilton Street.
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Ensign Edward Glaser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Glaser, 1723 Nebraska Street, is spending a leave with his parents before going to a west coast assignment. He had been stationed at Newport, Rhode Island.
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Cadet Vernise Grant Polly, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd G. Polly, 518 S. Helen Street, has been appointed an aviation cadet in the army air forces and began his preflight course at Maxwell field, Montgomery, Alabama. Cadet Polly is a graduate of East High school and has served in the army 18 months,.
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Cadet Jacob Hester Foreman, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Foreman of Orange City, Iowa, a former student and teacher at Western Union College, LeMars, has been accepted as an aviation cadet in the army air forces. Cadet Foreman had a civilian pilot training pilot and private pilot’s license before becoming a cadet. He is stationed at Maxwell field, Montgomery, Alabama.
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Vernon Gibson, brother of Mrs. Charles Gibson, 1505 W. 29th Street, has been transferred to an army base in Alaska, where he will serve with the ground air force. His mother, Mrs. Nora Gibson, is living here.
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Corporal Francis Mead, son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Mead, 515 Cook Street, is spending a furlough with his parents. He has returned from Northern Ireland where he had been with the American troops for several months. Corporal Mead expects to be assigned to an officer’s training school. He left Sioux City originally with the national guard.
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Sergeant Tom B. Clark, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Clark of Sioux City, had a busy week recently when he was transferred, promoted and became a father all in one week. He is stationed in England. His wife and daughter live in Sioux City.
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Private M. A. Baxter, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Baxter, 306 S. Fairmount Street, is home on a 10-day furlough from the marine base at San Diego. Private Baxter enlisted in the Marine Corps here last June 12. He is a graduate of East High School.
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Maj. R. E. Gobell, brother of Mrs. Martin Obe, 301 S. Judd Street, is serving with the army field artillery in Australia. A recent letter from him indicated that he enjoyed receiving The Journal and listening to rebroadcasts of World Series baseball games.
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Private Ivoran D. Noe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Noe, 5900 Sioux River Road has notified them of his arrival in Northern Ireland.,
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Private Leonard L. Jones, recently inducted into the army, has been assigned to training in the military police escort guard at Fort Bliss, Texas. His wife, Dorothy Jones will leave October 28 to live in El Paso, Texas.
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Sergeant Murrish J. Yanney, son of Very Rev. and Mrs. M. M. Yanney, is home on furlough. He is with the army air forces stationed in New Mexico. Prior to August 25, Sergeant Yanney was stationed I Victorville, California and received basic training there.
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Lieut. (J.G.) John L. Rose, former Sioux Cityan, is undergoing a month’s indoctrination at the naval station at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. A former Tribune employee, Lieut. Rose was employed by a press association in Des Moines before he joined the naval reserve recently. Mrs. Rose is expected to return to Sioux City in November.
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Martin I. Fretheim, former Sioux Cityan, has been promoted to the rank of corporal at Fort Bliss, Texas.
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Herman Rubin, formerly of Sioux City, has been promoted to the rank of corporal at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
24 October 1942
First Lieut. E. R. Rizk of Fort Gruber, Oklahoma, will leave Saturday after spending seven days here with his mother, Mrs. E. Rizk, 3500 Fifth Avenue. Private Fred Rizk, 1912 McDonald Street, a brother, will leave Tuesday after spending a few days here with his wife and mother. Fred is stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in an armored division.
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Sergeant Robert A. Hawley, who has been stationed in Ireland since January has returned to the United States for officer’s training. He will report at Camp Croft, South Carolina, Saturday, October 31. He is spending a 10-day furlough with his wife, the former Agnes Burns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Burns, 509 Otoe Street, in Washington, D C. Mrs. Hawley is employed in a government office in Washington. Sergeant Hawley’s sister is Mrs. Cliff Taylor, 5010 Morningside Avenue.
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Sergeant Herman Bennebose, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bennebose, Fair Acres, Leeds, is spending a 15-day furlough with his parents here. He is stationed at Hill field, Ogden, Utah.
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Sergeant Erwin B. Heifner, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Soderstrom, 1320 26th Street, has returned from service with the armed forces in Ireland to attend officer’s training school at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He is spending a few days with his parents before reporting for instruction.
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Pilots Gerrick Duncliffe and Arthur Cook of the royal air force will visit here in about three weeks with Mrs. Jennie Fawcett, 612 W. Fourth Street. Pilot Cook is the son of Mrs. Fawcett’s cousin, and has been a member of his majesty’s flying force since 1940. He is training with other British boys at the Darr School of aeronautics at Ponca City, Oklahoma.
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Herbert Jacobson, 3220 Morgan Street, less than six weeks since his enlistment in Sioux City in the navy, is enrolled in a submarine chaser school at Miami, Florida. Word that Seaman Jacobson, the tallest man in his company, had been assigned to the school was received Friday by Mate Frank Scesny, in charge of the naval recruiting station. Jacobson will undergo a 16-week course at the school.
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Lieut. Robert P. Munger has completed a six-week course of military instruction and physical conditioning at the air force officer training school at Miami Beach, Florida. Lieut. Munger resides at 1625 Grandview Boulevard, where his wife now lives. He is an attorney and a former state senator.
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Private Robert A. Gmeinder, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gmeinder, 514 Main Street, is stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where he is assigned to the armored force school.
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Gale Stevens, former Morningside college basketball star, is one of 128 youths less than 20 years old enrolled at the pilot preflight school at Maxwell field, Alabama. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stevens, 711 Plymouth Street.
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Robert H. Marx, who resided at 1610 Jackson Street, before his enlistment in the armed forces, has been transferred from Scott field, Illinois to Maxwell field, Montgomery, Alabama for preflight training. Cadet Marx is the son of Mrs. Johanna Marx, who recently moved to Chicago to make her home with her daughter, the Misses Betty and Doris Marx.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
27 October 1942
Sergeant B. J. (Bernie) Kirkpatrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Kirkpatrick, 3613 Peters Avenue, returned Monday from overseas duty and is visiting his parents. He will leave soon to enter officer’s training school at Camp Davis, North Carolina. His wife, who has been living in Los Angeles, will arrive here today.
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Sergeant Aldern F. Wingert, son of Jacob Wingert of Lawton, Iowa, returned Monday to Camp Haan, California, concluding a four-day furlough spent with relatives and friends in Sioux City and Lawton.
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Hoyt J. Granter, 1616 Douglas Street, left recently for New London, Conn., where he will enter the training school of the United States coast guard. On completion of the course, he will be commissioned an ensign and placed in active duty.
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Wilbur Sands, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Sands, 1615 23d Street, has enlisted in the railway engineers battalion being formed here and will leave this morning for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He has been living recently at St. James, Minnesota.
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Private Orvie C. Christensen, son of Mrs. Hattie Christensen, 1222 Virginia Street, has been assigned to an armored battalion at Camp Polk, Louisiana.
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Sergeant Paul M. Strong, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Strong, 3705 Peters Avenue, is now on maneuvers at Nashville, Tennessee.
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Private Harlan J. Holmes and Private Sylvester V. Smith, both of Sioux City, have arrived at Camp Polk, Louisiana for duty.
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Private Donald J. Anderson, 1120 23d Street, has been transferred from the signal corps school of Camp Crowder, Missouri, to Drew Field, Tampa, Florida.
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Robert Jorgen Sogge, 26, of Sioux City, was awarded his wings and commissioned an ensign in the naval reserve at the United States naval air station at Jacksonville, Florida.
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Frank C. Goolsby, 1511 W. Lunah Avenue, has been promoted in rank to technician, fifth grade, at Camp Barkeley, Texas, where he is a member of a station hospital staff.
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Wilford w. Jung, is spending a nine-day leave with his wife who resides at 1122 12th Street. He has just finished a four-week training course in the bakery school at Great Lakes naval station.
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Private John H. Wingert of Camp Bowie, Texas, is spending a five-day furlough here with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Wingert, route 2, Sioux City. Private Wingert is in a tank destroyer outfit.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
28 October 1942
George W. Prosser, boatswains-mate, 2d class, arrived here Tuesday for a nine-day visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs A. H. Prosser, 1520 Prescott Street.
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Private Robert E. Haynes is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milo Haynes, 1523 S. Royce Street, while on a 27-day furlough from the Marine Base at San Diego, California.
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Robert D’Laughter, son of Roy DeLaughter, 1000 Pierce Street has been promoted to corporal and has been transferred from Drew Field, Florida to Kansas City, Missouri for radio training. He is a member of the radio signal corps.
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First Class Seaman Stanley Ring, son of Mr and Mrs. Everett Ring, Vincent Apartments is stationed at Pearl Harbor. Before his enlistment last January 1, he had resided in Sioux City most of his life and was graduated from Central High School in June 1940.
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Dr. Ture Larson, a son of Mrs. A. P. Larson, 1117 Morningside Avenue, has been promoted to the rank of captain at Camp Wolters, Texas. Dr. Larson served with the nation’s armed forces at the Mexican border. He was in the First World War and was stationed at Camp Deming in New Mexico. A member of the dental reserve corps, he was again called to the colors in February of this year.
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Duane J. Whitehead, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whitehead, 2116 Boise Street, stationed at naval headquarters in Boston, is home on a 10-day leave. Mr. Whitehead has been promoted three times since last November and is now boatswain’s mate, second class.
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Ray I. Winslow is spending a nine-day leave with his wife and fami;ly at their residence, 1111 Eighth Street and his mother, Mrs. N.S. Shaw, 908 Iowa Street. He has just finished five weeks if instruction in the Great Lakes Naval Training School as a baker. His rank is petty officer third class.
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Jack D. Strain, son of Mrs. H.C. Obermoller of South Sioux City, will be graduated Wednesday from the army air force officer’s candidate school at Miami Beach, Florida and will be commissioned a second lieutenant. Strain a graduate of Central High School, enlisted here January 14.
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Ernest L. Moreland, 613 W. Fifth Street and Morris Durik, 510 W. Ninth Street, apprentice seaman, have returned to duty on the U.S.S. Arkansas after spending a leave here with relatives.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
29 October 1942
Private Richard F. Anderson has left for Fort Riley, Kansas, after spending a 10-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Pederson of Goodwin.
Bernard Kelly, formerly employed on Sioux City newspapers and who enlisted in the navy three years ago, has been on the Quincy since then, according to a letter written by his mother, Mrs. Walter Kelly, now in Washington, to a friend here. Another son, Eugene Kelly, is also in the navy, but has not been heard from in two months.
Cadet John D. Ashford recently left Nashville, Tennessee for training at Maxwell field, Alabama. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Ashford of Omaha, former Sioux Cityans and a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. John Ashford of Winnebago and the late Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Mullaney of Sioux City.
Raymond Spindler, second class machinist mate in the United States navy stationed at Pensacola, Florida, is spending a leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Spindler, 311 W. 25th Street.
George F. Atwood, a store-keeper at the Norfolk, Virginia naval, here with his wife, Violet, 1126 Pacquette Street and with his mother, Mrs. Minnie Atwood, 207 Cook Street.
Eugene Nyhus, a son of Mrs. Marvel Nyhus, 1006 Seventh Street, enlisted in the navy and is en route to Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
Arthur R. Kobernus, who left early last week for Great Lakes Training Station has been given the rank of first Class Seaman.
Robert Reinke, petty officer third class in the coast guard stationed in Brooklyn, is spending a 10-day leave at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Reinke, 601 Casselman Street.
Carleton F. Ritts, has been made a seaman second class in the United States coast guard at Samos,m California according to word received by his mother, Mrs. R. Watson, 309 14th Street.
LeRoy J. Hays, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Hays of Lawton, has graduated as hospital apprentice, second class from the hospital corps school at United States Naval hospital, Great Lakes, Illinois.
William Lansburg of the intelligence department at Fort Leavenworth is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lansburg, 2707 Jones Street.
Joe Goldberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Goldberg, 1801 Seventh Street, has graduated as a parachutist at Fort Benning, Georgia.
Neal Shay, a gunner’s mate, first class, in the navy, is spending a 10-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Shay, 4243 Fillmore Street.
Men In Service
Sioux City Journal
31 October 1942
Private First Class Marvin H.B. Tapper, who spent a 10-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tapper, 3017 Harris Street, has returned to Fort Russell at Marfa, Texas. He was granted leave to attend his grandmother’s funeral service and while here he had an opportunity to bid farewell to a brother, Elmer, who left Tuesday for induction into the army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Corporal Gresmond Bruggeman, formerly of Sioux City and a son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bruggeman, Thief River Falls, Minnesota, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Adolph Mathieson, 109 Ross Street, on his way home on an 11-day furlough.
Sergeant Bernard A. Borger, son of Mrs. Laura C. Borger, 207 W. Second Street, has been chosen to take officer’s candidate training in the tank destroyer school at Camp Hood, Texas. He has been stationed at Camp Polk, Louisiana.
Sergeant Robert W. Reid, stationed at Rice, California, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Reid of Seattle, former Sioux Cityans, while on furlough.
Private Lambert R. Brostrom, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.R. Brostrom, 715 S. Irene Street, has arrived at Fort Logan, Colorado, where he will be stationed.
Private Richard L. Kesner, 1809 W. Third Street, is stationed at Scott Field, Illinois. He was a musician in Sioux City with Heckscher’s orchestra before his enlistment. His wife resides at the Third Street address.
Private Carl Rogers of Sioux City is a member of the coast artillery platoon that won the intracompany drill competition conducted recently at Fort Hancock, New Jersey.
