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The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 23

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THE NASHVILLE TENtfESSE AN THREE Sunday Morningr, March 28, 1943 With the Armed Forcest Boca Raton, Fla, for army train- Ing. A student In the Vanderbllt Share-Ride ly promoted from the rank of ensign and given command of a minesweeper. He and his wife, the for Nat Caldwett Politics School of Engineering, Spain en listed In the Army Air Corps as an mer Miss Edna Mae zicgisr of Nashville, are making their home Board Getting aircraft engineer. (Continued from Pegs 1-B) at Virginia Beach, Va. The officer Cadet William P.

Peek, Jr- 18, Is a native of Btatesboro, Ga. son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P.

Peek of Good Results Three Tennessse soldiers sta Tennesseans Get Commissions In All Branches of Service Nashville WAVES Complete AdvOnce Training; William and Raymond Morris Become Cadets Donelson, baa entered the Nash tioned at the Armored Force Re ville Army Air Center. placement i Training Center, Ft magistrates and, for that matter, ths voters living outside the city limits, and that. If he does not hop In their direction publicly they'll spank blm soundly no later than the April term of court Pvt Jsck I Moore, Jr, ton of Stuttgart, and bow Joins the armed forces newest air arm, glider transport, as a pilot Flight Officer Turner la the son of Mr. and Mrs, William D. Turner.

Temmie J. Raglans, 129 FlfUeth Avenue, North, now a member of the Mth Evacuation Hospital, Camp Carson, was recently promoted to the grade of technical sergeant His parents are Mr, and Mrs. Pettus Raglsnd. Murray Spencer, former Southern Golden Oloves heavyweight champion and T. I 8.

athlete, haa been promoted to the rank of staff sergeant In a Military Police detachment at Ft Brady, Mich. 8ergeant Spencer was Southern champion twice and was the first southern The Share-Tour-Car board which has been recently moved from reason the proposal of City -Tax Assessor W. E. Steger likely wUj meet the same warm reception from the anti-Cummlngs forces that it has met from the able tax assessor's friends around the City hall. 1 There Is no way of knowing how many more legal makeshifts will have to be contrived before the J.

I Moore, 1111 Draughon Avenue, Knox, Ky, have been cited for their skill with the submachine gun, with which they have fired perfect the chamber of commerce to the has) been transferred from Camp Croft, 8. to Camp Butner, N. C. scores. They are: Pvt.

James Pvt Herman- Schutt son of Mr. Hamoton. son of F. F. Hampton, and Mrs.

H. of Hutson They have told him that their Interest Is the same as his long tlms hobby of keeping the tax rate Whits Bluff; Pvt Lee E. Jamison, Street has started recruit drill at son of Edgar M. Jamison, McEwsn, holes and tpe gaps and the sleepers In the new charter are all exposed for the publlo to look at tactics department of the Field Artillery School at Ft Sill, Ok la. Major Torrey, who is a graduate of the U.

8. Military Academy at West Point, was formerly stationed In Washington, D. C. Aviation Machinists Mste Leon the basic training center at Keesler and, Jsmes H. Pstten, son of Mrs.

Field, reporting there; from Ft. Oglethorpe). Whit Patton, Bloomlngton Springs. Attorney Cornelius, Sen. J.

H. Ballew and the other distinguished CdL Lee L. Cenley, Jr, son of Mr. Eight Tennesseans, four of them and Mrs. Lee Conley of Old Hick Just la civilian schools and Colleges, graduation dajrs art becoming mors frequent in the armed forces and many, Tennessee men and woolen have received eommls- lions In all branches of the serv-.

Ices during the past week. Edward t. Sumner, son of Mrs. Gertrude Sumner, 3802 Baxter Avenue, received his wings and second lieutenant's commission In graduation exercises at Moody Field, Qe, legal lights who composed this work ard D. Brannom, 20, son of Mr.

and from Nashville, have been assigned to the medical replacement center bo to reach the finals in Chicago (1934). Ha has a twin brother, Maurice Spencer, here In Nashville. ory, was recently promoted from private, first class at Camp Blend in such a hurry may some day have an opportunity to receive the full measure of the gratitude of the county courthouse, Is) drawing warm response from motorists la the building to buy their new automobile licenses. "We have had steady streams of people at the board ever since we moved It" an attendant said yesterday. "We expect many more next week when the last rush for licenses comes." The Junior Chamber of Commerce, which Is sponsoring the Share-Tour-Car plan to get owners and riders together on regular trips, believes that the new location of the board will enable many more drivers to cooperate In the tire and gas saving plan, explained C.

N. Crlghton, J. C. C. member.

"More people are offering rides' than are asking for them," Mark Bradford. director of the plan. at Camp Robinson, where they ing, Fla, and Is now spending a furlough with his parents. will undergo eight weeks of train votere of Nashville for their unself Ish labor. ing.

They are Paul Keaton, for these folks outside ths city as low ss possible, sven If It does mean that the city taxpayer has to bear a double load as a result. It's a puddle of hot water for the good Judge, and some folks are just mean enough to think his predicament Is funny. Aid for Jsnkins Rumor Ws suggest you discount the rumor that John W. Little, leading local beer distributor, plans a large contribution to the campaign of Sam Jenkins. Ths latter formerly worked for Little, as a sort of book- keeper and Idea man.

Jenkins Is making a vigorous 4709 Nebraska 'Avenue; Lemuel Todd. 1910 Fatherland Street; John Metregen, Nashville, Routs Rob ert Msye, 4504 Utah Avenue; Ewell i Rufus Allen Goodwin Killed Under Train No Witnesses to T. C. P. Neil, Brentwood; Robert Hitman Rlppy, Portland; Virgil Andec son, Cookevllle, and Fred Ayers, it- l-' Ka i Goodlettsville.

Mrs. J. H. Brannom, 960 Main Street, has been graduated from the. Naval Training School at Navy Pier, Chicago.

He will be assigned to active duty aboard an aircraft carrier or at a naval base. i Lt. Len E. Maggsrt, 33, son of V. O.

Maggart, Elmwood, has been transferred to the Army Finance School, Durham, N. C. Pfc. Ernet Tidwell, son of Mrs. Jettie Tidwell, has been assigned ta the 2nd Division at FtB.ra.ggj, N.

C. Alton E. Wheeler, first class, in the navy's Seabees, Is visiting his sister, Mrs. C. H.

Swallows, 2109 Wsters Avenue. Wheeler, who was sales manager for the Sanders Manufacturing Company here for 13 years, is stationed at Ft. Hueneme, Calif. He la well-known here as a pianist and organist. Two other Tennesseans received their wings and gold bars at Turner Field (Ga.) graduation exercises Isst week.

They are John Crossing Accident handshaking campaign for the of stated. Vve wish people would not be so backward about being forward. The plan cannot work unless the riders ask for the rides." Rufus Allen Goodwin, of 317 Two other Nashvilllans have been transferred from Ft Harrison, Ind, to other army posts. Pvt John H. Clsy, 703 Ninth Avenue, South, haa been sent to Camp Lockstt, Calif, and Pvt Len E.

Fitigersld. 113 fice of Commissioner of Water, Health and Welfare against the incumbent, Dr. J. W. Bauman.

and Mrs. T. A. Hill, 317 Grace Avenue, has been promoted to first cook at Camp Blandlng, Fla, and Tuck Spencer VlA l4. i.

Ml South Park Circle, haa been trans The United States Fish and Wildlife Service, by banding birds, hss learned that soma birds live IT years. ferred to Ft. Riley, Kan. Cenley Hughes James R. Tuck, son of James O.

Pvt Curtis Newsen, 2119 Wsst is attending an advanced cooking Tuck, Dresden, now wears Thirty-second Avenue, North, wss killed last night under the wheels of a train at the Tennessee Central Railroad crossing at Twenty-eighth Avenue, North, and Felicia Street Police said they were unable to find witnesses to the accident, but said there was no doubt Goodwin was crushed by a train. G. A. Scruggs. Investigator for the T.

was still checking the Earl Wilson Hughes, 18, son of the silver wings of a fighter pilot school there. He wss born and raised In Nashville snd attended 1 Linden Avenue, has been assigned to Ft Harrison to taks a course in Sumner Epps ic MUS He received his second lieutenant's commission at the Craig Army Air East High School. Prior to his Field last week. army finance. Prior to his induction Into tho army in February, Private Newson wss a teller in the Federal Reserve Bank In Atlanta.

Willlsm C. Epps. 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.

B. Epps. 324 Elbert Street, was commissioned a second Ten Naval Aviation Cadets from entry into the army In October, 1942, he was employed by the Standard Candy Company. He has received all his training at Columbus Brown, son of John E. Nashville, and vicinity, have For Your Heme fill your leisure hours with music entertaining snd educational.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS lieutenant in the Army Air Forces Brown, Huntingdon, and Volney T. ported to the United States Nsvy Mrs. Vslma Weedard, wife of Pfc. A. G.

(Him) Woodard, 607 Pesvsyhouse, son of T. A. Peavey- Pre-Flight School in Athens, Ga house. Crab Orchard. for training in Naval Aviation.

Twenty-fifth -Avenue, North, has snlisted in the WAAC and Is sta Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Hughes, 1607 Cshal Avenue, has been promoted to the rank of private, first class, st the Atlanta Ordnance Motor Base, Atlanta.

Ga. He attended Isaac Litton High School and was employed by the General Shoe Corporation before he was inducted into the army in January. Corp. John W. Harrison, son of Mrs.

Elisabeth Harrison, 1312 Lillian Street has been graduated from the Armored Force School Tank Department Ft Knox. Pvt Harden Etheridge, son of Mrs. Blanche Edwards of McEwen, also has received a diploma as an ex death at a late hour and could not be reached for a statement. The body was taken to the Fin-ley M. Dorrls funeral home, police said.

Police said Goodwin's wrist watch had been smashed, the hands pointing to 9:52 o'clock. They are: Norris Reese Ear- Cadet William Jones Morris, 21. son of Capt. and Mrs. Robert L.

Morris, 4701 Utah Avenue, la now tioned at Daytona Beach, for I STROBEL'S heart 950 W. Cshal Street; Robert four weeks' training. Privets Wood Jsmes Jesse Redwing, 304 Elberta street; Duncsn Elmer Rsgsdsle, at the Nashville Air Center. Cadet Camp Blanding. Marion H.

Brooks, petty officer third class, U. S. N. has returned to Camp Peary, Va, following a visit with his parents, Mr. snd Mrs.

J. M. Brooks, 706 Meridian Street. A former letter carrier here, he is connected with the Post Office Department of the U. S.

N. R. Sgt Murrey Carvsr, 26, is spending a six-day furlough with his ard Is stationed at Casper, Wyo. J. D.

Bell, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. last week after qualifying for heavy bomber flying. Lieutenant Epps was employed as a salesman for Cullom and Ghertner Printing Company here before enlisting last year from his former home in Murfreesboro. Two other Tennessee men received their wings and officers' after completing twin-engine bomber flight training at the Blytheville Army Air Field in Arkansas.

They are Lt. Rlchsrd Nsal Sttterfleld, 23, son of W. A Setter- 1408 Arthur Avenue; William Marshall Bracy, 2909 Belmont Boulevard; Willlsm Wallace Knex. Jr, Vernon Bell, 3204 Charlotte Avenue, DURATION QUALITY WITH A FASHION r-UTUM has been promoted to sergeant and ta now stationed at Love Field, 1111 Douglas Avenue, Waverly; Dallas, Texas, his wife is an em Lewis Frederick Lyne, III, 200 pert airplane mechanic from Kees Twenty-fifth Avenue; Eugene Don ploye of the Poet Office at Love Field. father.

Pate Carver, of Mt. Juliet. Sergeant Carver Is In the Quartermaster Corps attached to the 18th Division at Camp Forrest. He at ald Psrgh, 3907 Harding Road; David Tslmadge Hibdon, 1702 Tenth ler Field (Miss.) Bomber School. Lt Joe Tishsll Brsndon was graduated from officer candidate school March 9 and has been assigned to the 124th Infantry at Ft.

Benning. Merry A. Maney, Jr, son of Mr. and Mrs. M.

A. Maney, 1108 East Cshal Avenue, has received his Avenue; John Duey Story, Route John Daniel Starbuck, Linden. tended Donelson High School. Jenkins Is a natural born lnde-Dendent. It seems.

Some of the second lieutenant's commission and Pvt. Eugene L. Allison, 20, son Ga. The officer is a graduate of silver of Phil P. Allison of 467 Chestnut Street, who has been In ths army Morris was graduated from Hume-Fogg High School and from Draughon's Business College.

Prior to joining the Air Forces, he was employed by the LAN. Railroad Another Nashville cadet recently entered at the Center Is Raymond J. Morris, 27, of 412 Bushnell Avenue. He Is married to the former Miss Marjorle Andrews. Cadet Morris, an East High graduate, is a former employe of the Nashville Post Office.

Robert Brandsu, former New York advertising man and son of Mrs. A G. Brandau, 201 Twenty-third Avenue, North, has been inducted into the Army and will report to Ft. Dlx. N.

on Tuesday. He Is a graduate of Wallace School and attended the University of the South at Sewanee, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsllon fraternity. Assigned to the Medical Replace Field, navigator wings at Selman Peabod College and waa employed If- R0W I by the H. G. Hill Company before with the Air Trsnsport I th, on of entering bttR W5a KiljisSSBaBM iTyy S) F.r TVtf navigator tator Command in Miami, Fla.

Lieutenant Maney is a graduate of Goodletts i a si Sjp mmamm- mil I i iLJ 7 Large new roup, new 1 943 ityles, exquisite furt Wide selection full length costs, few excluive am-plet. All tun. IN. Sstterfield Rinks folks he's shaking hands with say that he freely concedes the defeat of his comrades. Commissioner Luton and General West, if they express opposition to these friends.

Others, who are close to Luton snd cool toward West, say that he is equally impartial in linking his own intrests with theirs. This independent spirit naturally attracts the warm commendation of his fellow candidates, we hear. Charter Tex Problems Wouldn't it be a joke on all the candidates if they got into office snd there was no city tax money to spend for four or five months? There Is just that kind of a possibility In the background, because of some difficulties In the wording In the new city charter, which Is going to make lt awfully difficult, if not Impossible, to collect this year's taxes before the last of the year, or even (See story on 10 months and who recently has been stationed st Lowry Field, Denver, has returned to Nashville after receiving a medical discharge. B. R.

Myares, who has been a member of the personnel of the army recruiting station here since January 14, recently received a promotion from staff sergeant to technical sergeant. Sergeant Myers has been on recruiting duty for the past seven years. Lt. Luther L. Griffin, who was commlasioned a second lieutenant on March 19, after completing the instruction course in the Camp Lee (Va.) Quartermaster School, has gone on to an advanced officers' school In Texas, after stopping in Nashville on the wsy, for a brief visit with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. tV- at -V ment Center at Camp Robinson, ville High School and a former employe of the Newspaper Printing Corporation composing room. Miss Sue B. Trueleck, dsughter of Dr. and Mrs.

W. G. Truelock, Blackburn Drive, has completed her basic training in the WAAC and haa been transferred to Ft. Des Moines, to begin training as an officer candidate. Pfc Ruth Rundle, daughter of Mrs.

Clara F. Rundle, 1220 North Fifth Street, was promoted from the rank of auxiliary in the WAAC last week and has been sent to administrative' specialist school in Richmond, for further training. Roy B. Johnson, Jr, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Roy B. Johnson of 4306 Mr. end Mrs. Newman Brandon, 1408 Gartland Avenue. Pvt Earl Crswford, son of W.

C. Crawford. 1120 Twenty-eighth Avenue. North, has been graduated with "honors from a specialized course in electricity at the National Schools, Los Angeles. Corp.

Robert B. Burnette, 28, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Burnette, Antioch, Is now a qualified army air force ground crew member, having graduated from the Enid (Okla.) Army Flying School.

Two Nashville men have been assigned to the Army Air Center here as aviation cadets to determine their fitness for various branches nf tbe flying service. They are Horace H. Self, 27, son of Mrs. Alice D. Self.

108 Cherokee Road, and Herman Leonsrd Kirkpstrick, for 11 weeks' training are field. 1209 Demonbreun Street, and Lt James Edwsrd Rinks, 22, son TOD OUR USUAL LARCI SHfCTION OF CINUINI $29 Joe Bell, Jr, 6016 California McGuIre, 9S1 Russell of V. L. Rinks, 1903 Highland Ave nue, Columbia, Street; R. D.

Fitts, 1217 Meridian 1 us t. S15 Sstterfield practiced law In Street, and Lewis Dill of Hunting Nashville for a while after gradu don, Tenn. SPRING COATS Two Nashville WAVES, Stella ating from Cumberland University In 1941. Rinks Is a grsduate of 95 Rosenblum and Msry 8ulibacher, MANY 1004 WOOL 14 have completed their advanced training at the U. S.

Naval Train' Irtah.o Avenue, has recently completed basic training in the Navy Made Mil as te 2 at enty Smart stylet. EASTER HATS L. Earl Griffin', 1413 Jennock Ave Ing School at Milledgevllle, and have been assigned to sctive duty at San Diego, and has been 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.

H. Klrk- promoted to second cless. 'trlck 4,02 P.rK Avenue. Self nue. His father is chief clerk in the office of County Judge Litton Hickman.

Prior to going to Camp Lee, Lieu He has now entered a machinist I ttmA.A wih Srhnnl nH Page To say the least it gives the sponsors of the new charter, and those who bitterly opposed its enactment, a Joint concern. That both sides will fasten on any plan Paulino Eicivnj Cumberland University and before school In New Mexico. Johnson was formerly employed In the machine shop at Smyrna Air Base. tenant Griffin was staff sergeant "Th Srss At HtiM" 1200 IshMRt llvi. jjCORNER CALI LANI IELMONT 9UI ITOF9 AT DOOR at the Tennessee Headquarters for Selective Service, where he had been stationed since October 7, to get around this gap in the new I to 0 Measlay tag Thirtiay Nights Opt 'Til liSO, charter seems very iweiy.

or mai 1940. He is graduate of Isaac Litton High School and Andrew Jackson University, and was assistant credit manncer for the Caatner- Columbia Central High School. Charles M. Siico, son of J. I Slsco, of Goodlettsville, received a commission as second lieutensnt in the cavalry last week after completing a three-month course of training at the Cavalry Officer Candidate School at Ft.

Riley, Kans. The Merlcal Administrative Corps office candidate school' at Camp Berkeley, graduated two Nashvilllans as second lieutenants recently. They are Vincent M. Small, 28, ion of Henry Small, 2813 West End Avenue, and Rlchsrd C. Stunts, son of Dr.

Hugh C. Stunts, 1703 Eighteenth Avenue South. Mortimer Trull, a former reporter for the Nashville Banner, has been promoted from lieutenant, junior grade, to full lieutenant In the U. S. Naval Reserve.

Lieutenant Trull, who Is the son of Mrs. R. W. Ratllffe. 209 Twenty-second Avenue, South, has been serving In the Pacific area since entering the navy two years ago.

Knott Dry Goods' Company when" 1 HOUSING MOVE" entering the service was employed at Vultee Aircraft, here. Klrk-patrick attended Selmer High School and the University of Tennessee and was employed at the Chickasaw Ordnance Works In Memphis before joining the air force. Corp. Joe. A.

Haralson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bishop Haralson, of Lebanon Is In the ordnance branch of the army stationed on the West Coast Pvt. William Lowell Calhoun, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Will Calhoun, of Puryear, has completed his basic training as an airplane mechanic in the air force and Is now stationed at the Lincoln Air Base, Lincoln, Nob. I ii Rosenblum Sultbecher 6fM Inducted into the army, in 1940. Miss Sue Trulock of Nashville, who joined the WAAC at the recruiting station here about five weeks ago, has completed basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, and has gone to the officer candidate school at Fort Des Moines, for training leading to a commission. Mias Trulock, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.

W. G. Trulock of Blackburn Drive in Belle Meade, Is a Andrews Johnson John Houston Polk, of Nashville, Shirley N. Andrews, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs.

M. V. Andrews, 1113 Sgt. Joe Wsrlick Duncen, of Hum and Eldridge Allen Furline, of boldt, son of Mrs. Mary Duncan.

Nashville, hss arrived in the Fiji Islands with an army unit. He has been in the army for two years. In various sections of the country. They were given their indoctrination training at Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Iowa. They now hold the rank of yeomen, third class.

Lieut. Charles L. Harris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee J.

Harris of 223 North Twenty-second Avenue, Humboldt, is at Brooks Field attending the Aerial Observer School of the Army Air Forces. Surviving nine weeks of rigorous four-engine bomber pilot training. Second Lieut. Richard B. Cheatham, 24, son of Mr.

and Mrs. James P. Cheatham of 1023 Carolyn Avenue, recently won his graduation certificate as "first pilot," ready to command a combat crew on a B-24 Liberator, at Tarrant Field, Ft. Muter Sgt. Aia M.

Gentry Is spending his furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd former student of Vanderbllt University and at the time of her enlistment was connected with the personnel department of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company. Earl R. Brawner.

Box "446. Madison, haa recently been promoted to private first class, at Camp Anita. Arcadia. and has been selected to sttend the Cook's and Baker's School there. Leland Avenue, has been promoted to the rank of corporal at Wilmington, N.

where he Is attached to his Signal Corps. Five Nashville students In the Vanderbllt School of Engineering reported to Boca Raton, last week for training In the Army Air Forces. They are: Kenneth Spain, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.

L. Spain, Glendale Road; A. Harmon Sharer, Jr, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.

H. Sharer. 2109 Natchex Trace; Horace D. Luton, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Hor- Spring Hill, have been commissioned second lieutenants after completing the officer candidate course at the Infantry School, Ft. Benning, Ga. Lieutenant Polk Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. M.

T. Polk, 2000 Convent Place. He attended Peabody Demonstration School and Vanderbllt University. Lieutenant Furline is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

D. W. Furline, of Spring Hill, Route 2. He attended Athens High School in Athens, Ala. Noah L.

Lawson, son. of Mr. and Gentry, 1807 Woodland Street, after having served 10 months In the Aleutian Islands. Hsrry W. Francis, son of C.

L. Francis. 802 Hime Streiet.has grad uated from the AAF Flexible Gunnery School, Ft. Myers. and According to a letter received re- has been promoted to the rank of oently hy Jack Monroe, Pvt.

John are D. I.uton, 2'01 Hillshoro Road Worth, Texas. M. Murray, Jr, 22, of 1423. Stratton Walter Williams.

Jr, son of Col. Mrs. William Lawson, Hermitage, The following Nashvilllans have i rived at the University of Ten- Avenue, Is a parachute trooper i Walter Williams, Noelton l-ene, and has been promoted from somewhere In North Africa." Fri c. tt lurmay, ion ui mi. auu sergeant to lecnnicai sergeani Mrs.

E. W. Turnley, Woodmont at the Air Forces Proving Ground Command, Elgin Field, Fla. Pfc Boulevard. The fathers of all five James H.

Cortnsr, Jr, son of Mr. youths are veterans of the last war. Aviation Cadet Jsmes W. Birth- and Mrs. J.

H. Cortner, Sr, of ett, former agent for American Air nesaee r.t Knoxville to lke a course of instruction lasting five months, prior to appointment as aviation cadets In the AAF Flying Training Command: Joseph Monros Carter, 20, 2708 Hawthorne Place; Kenneth B. Fslsr, 22, 1203 Cherry Avenue; Leonard J. Brunsen, 19, 612 Fifth Avenue, South, and John Edward Hemlin, Jr, 18, 1205 Clayton Avenue. Spring Hill, has been graduated from the Air Forces Technical aesgeant.

Sgt. Nolen, former civilian clerk at the Nashville Air Onter, has been transferred to the AAF Technical School, Sioux Falls, 8. for training as a rsdio oper-ator-mechsnic. Sergeant graduate of Howard High School -here, completed his training In aerial gunnery at Harllngen, earlier this year. One Clarksvllle and three Nashville men have been sent to Ft.

Benjamin Harrison, for training In army finance. The Nashville men are Dsvis, Wood-mont Boulevard, son of James E. Davis, Red Boiling Springs; Pvt. vate Murray, who has been in the Army since December, 1941, is a nephew of Mrs. M.

H. Nixon, with whom he made his home. Richard B. Chsathamt 24, son of J. P.

Cheatham, 1023 Carolyn Avenue, was promoted from second to first lieutensnt last week after completing advanced training for first pilot of Liberator bombers at Tarrant Field. Ft. Worth, Tex. Lieu- Training School, Amarlllo, Tex. Aviation Cadets Delbert M.

Mann, Jr, 1208 Eighteenth Avenue, South, and Elwood N. Stsrksy, 2200 Hobbs Road, have, completed their pre-f light pilot training at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center in Lt. Gerald M. Foremen of 1103 Buchanan Street. Nashville, left tenant tneamam wire is me lorm-Camp Stewart, recently for er Fay Evelyn Gardner, of Maxey Camp Forrest, for duty with the Lane.

Texas. ers completing the lines at Berry Field, haa completed his basic training as an air force pilot at Marana Baslo Flying School, Tucson, Arts. He Is the son of Mrs. W. N.

Burchett, of Dyers-burg. David L. Gross. JrM son of Mrs. Bernlce Gross, 205 Nineteenth Avenue, South, has been promoted from" aecond to first lieutenant at the Richmond Air Base, Richmond, Va.

Lieutenant Cross was sttending the Vanderbllt Engineering School and was a supply sergeant in the state guard at the time of his enlistment in the army In January, 1941. Charles E. Armstrong, 29, son of gam L. Buckner, son of Mrs. R.

H. Buckner. 2001 Sweetbrier Avenue; i James O. Smith, 'son of Mrs. Bettle Smith, 1617 Franklin Avenue.

Before their induction Into the army Davis was employed by Allen and Foster here; Buckner was an ac-' countant for International Harvester" and Smith was a teller in the Commerce Union Bank. Pvt. Everett Cooper is the Ctarks- unit in which he formerly was a buck private. He entered the service In 1940 at Jackson. S.

was graduated from the Quartermaster OCS in September, 142, and then assigned to Stewart The following Tennesseans havs recently arrived at Camp Wolters, Texas, for basic training at the infantry replacement training eenteri David Ft. Huffins, 20, Lebanon; One answer was the Texas Pre-Fab Victory Hut now "home" to tens of thousands of troops. Pre-fabrication from available materials is the reason why Victory Huts spring into actual being in six wun-bmrs; it is also why they effect a saving to government of $30 to $0 per man io hutments new homing troopu To the men who live in them and to government that must meet the expense. Victory Huts are therefore an answer to one of the most important aspects of war housing out fighting forces wtU, tjjwitntly and tanomicallj. Housing for thousands of troops moves across the country at 33 miles an hour from the Texas Pre-Fab plants five houses on each giant carrier destined to provide comfortablt living quarters for our soldiers in this country and Behind these shipments, now tolling' bj hundreds daily, lies a story of determination by government that in this war our fighters should get the kind of housing they need and deserve wtatbertigbt, Air-Spact insulated housing, fully prt-fdbricattd, dmountablt snd portable Mrs.

Leo Mulloy, 1324 Fourth Ave course included: William L. Grant, berry, Brentwood; Alva F. Carden, Donelson; Ashley 8 1 1 Silver Point, and' Ernest R. Henry, Vo-nore. George W.

Rutledge, son of Mr, and Mrs. Alvls Rutledge, Fayette-vllle, haa been promoted from privets to corporal In the Camp Lee Quartermaster Replacement Training Center. Pfe. James Russsll Jones. 22, son of Mrs.

Ivle Jones, Wslter Hill, is now stationed at Camp Claiborne, La. He was formerly employed at Old Hickory. H. C. Ballard.

26, son of Mrs. O. A. Gross. White Bluff, received his commission as a second nue, South, has been promoted from corporal to sergeant at Camp Hood, A ville men nw Harrison.

He Tex. Sergeamt Armstrong attended the School of the Assumption here Is me son oi a. CoumDU, 1B, (Pulaskt; Ville. and wss employed as a 20 Savannh; mm and was employed st the Cain-Sloan Company before he entered military service In the spring of last year, Canard Griggs, Pulaski; James Wetterfield, 1521" McGavock Street, Nashville; Robert Orr, 24. 1608 Linden Avenue, Nashville; Walter In the Northern Bank of Tennessee --there, Pfc.

Ftaymend Ft. Whitworth, Jr, son of R. R. Whitworth, of Mt Pleasant, has been graduated as an Cheatham Malone J. B.

Harris, Jr, 24. who has been stationed at Pearl Harbor for the in the Army Air Forces at Turner past year, has been promoted to Field, last week. Ballard lived in Nashville before entering service working for the Neuhoff Packing NOW AVAIIAIII-Due to the completely pre-fabricated nature of Victory Huts and the systematized facilities which produce and deliver them, mis com- piny has met many emergency "rush orders" for the armed forces and can meet others. If your duties involve personnel bousing, write or wire fori "Vict07 Huts and Homes," which contains a complete "description of this, improved, efficient type of troop housing with many interesting Company here. Edward P.

Malone of Lynnville has recently' been 'promoted to the rank of staff sergeant in the Army, snd Is now stationed at Ft Bragg, N. C. He completed the automotive mechanical course at Ft Banning before going to Bregg, where he has been, for the past six months. At present he Is a dispatcher. He la the son of Mr.

and Mrs. I. P. Malone of Route 1, Lynnville, and has been in the Army for U. Hall, 19, Route 5, Lebanon.

Aviation Cadet Wallace Buttrey, son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Buttrey of Donelson, Is now at Pecos Army Air Field, Texas, Completing his basic training. He Is the husband of Miss Ruby Jean Womack of Nashville.

Albert Lee Lowe, Jr former department head at Montgomery-Ward's here, was recently graduated and commissioned a second Auxiliary Mildred C. Noener, 234? Burbank Avenue, has completed her basic training at Ft Oglethorpe, sergeant in the army. He Is ths son of Mr. and Mrs. J.

B. 'Harris, Ashland City, and ths brother of Mrs. Sophie Smith, 362 Hester Street Nashville. --Lt John R. Jackson, Jr, was recently promoted from the rank of lieutenant.

Junior grade, at Tampa, where he is y. S. Nsvy sons security officer In charge of the Tamps office. He is the son of. airplane mechanic at Kessler Field He completed a 17-week course, in -l the great Liberator bombers.

Jsmes Frsnk Leeper, 20, son of Frank V. Leeper, 1110 Riverside Drive, and a Junior In the V. T. Pharmacy In' Memphis, -m Was been ordered to report for in-ductlon into the -army at Ft Oglethorpe April 8. He has been a member of the army reserve corps since and will be sent to.

East Ken tucky State Teachers College, Rich mpnd, Ky, for specialist training. She -is the daughter Mrs. Jose phine Nooner, of Nashville. Aux. Jackson.

110.1 Klo-ht- lieutenant at the officer candidate. one year. Cpl. William T. Cope has been Avenue.

South, and was a last summer, Auk. Susil Susie i. L. Sehmittou, 1712 scnooi ar tump unvis, promoted to the grade of sergeant of wmiam mini i urner, ir, Street, has completed her V. Msiielte H.

Colemsn, daughter of Mrs. Rowerva Coleman, 3815 Park Avenue, been promoted to the rank of junior leader at Ft. Sam Houston, where she is at Headquarters Technical School, Henderson ville, has been appointed special agent for the Home Insurance Company here before going on active duty In ths navy last April. Lt. (Jg) Hubert Psul Jones.

Jr, who was graduated fromYandr- Army Air Forces Technical Trainrt i in xr.n- a I Sioux Falls, S. i if ii I la 11 sm ii a flight officer in the Army Air ing Command, Forces, lt waa announced recently. tn Bakers and Cooks School at the WAAC training ter ft Des Moines, Iowa. Msi. John D.

Torrsy, Jr, of Naan Ville, la bo" instructor In the Pvt Henry 0. Hill, 21, son of Mr. bllt University In 1841, was recent- Turner recently completed hie train-j Kenneth C. Spain, son of Mr? and ing at the Stuttgart Army Air Field, Mrs. K.

Spain, left last week for.

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