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Second Lieutenant Richard E. Miller, D.F.C.
In This Issue: How He Bombed Tokyo
OCTOBER
1942
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
War Story — Continued
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We Bomb's] the City of Tok
yo
in Same Bomber Shot Down
Correspondents Tell Stories
Per Cent of Who's Who Ours
• wary Degree
s for the Brethren
Snug, Little Nook by the Fireside
Fratres Qui Fuerunt Sed Nunc
Ad Astra
( .‘ms of White Star Dust
- Here, There and Everywhere
ks on Phi Gamma Delta's Shelf
S
outh Sea cannibals are
far-famed for their sin
gular hospitality.
New York cannibals
, though not so
un
compromising, ky
claim to the same
distinction. With Amer
ica at war, the Fiji Club
has become more
than ever an arsenal
of warm friendship,
gathering place for me
a
n from every corner
of the Allied Earth.
Here doubts are dis
pelled. (There's always
someone around who
has a new slant on
what's cooking.) Here
visit arniy and navy
men, marines and
coast guardsmen — hai
lin
g not from America
alone, but from En
gland, Canada, Australia
,
New Zealand, Tasmania and Free
France as well. Since
Pearl Harbor, savory
stories of nineteen
fighting services have
si
mmered beneath this
roof.
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41SICAlictic
KILLED IN ACTION
*aralb Jrnstn 4:thriataphrr
(Northwestern '41)
111triparbUlan' bartmatt
birl'arb Null
(Richmond '39)
(Georgia Tech '391
billlfaitt Calla! book. Jr.
illrebrrirk New: Illalsh
(Pennsylvania '42)
(Knox '37r
liant b. Jahns. Jr.
ibtantrg Allen Douglas. Jr.
(Washington '42)
(Washington and Lee '39)
MISSING IN ACTION
ariuw EngrneImson
(British Columbia '37)
(Brown '37)
William Immix At'Uri'
Carl Ilatnit Ilriffrr
(British Columbia '43)
N.,rth Carolina '38)
U. S. ARMY DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
JACK WILLARD HALL
(William Jewell '38)
U. S. ARMY DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS
CF.CIL EDWARD COMBS
RICHARD EWING MILLER
(Chicago '33)
(Indiana '40)
U. S. NAVY DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
HARALD JENSEN CHRISTOPHER
(Northwestern '41)
U. S. NAVY DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS
RICHARD BULL
(Georgia Tech. '39)
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(Rutgers '39)
Oltpuits Nam,!gator
Eric Sault. liftman'
OCTOBER. 1942
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Our War Story—Continued
Fijis Lose Lives in Coral Sea, Midway and Alaska
Engagements and on Patrol in the Atlantic
By CECIL J. WILKINSON (Ohio Wesleyan '17)
Editor of THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
HE unfolding panorama of the Millerd (British Columbia '43), who
world at war continues to reveal has not returned from air operations
the noble part which the loyal sons of over the coast of Holland where he was
Delta are playing in the mightiest con- laying mines.
Ensign Carl David Peiffer (North
fl' • of all time.
'38), unreported since the
Carolina
of
reports
to
backdrop
sombre
ci• .t:ons won for gallantry in ensan- Battle of Midway on June 4.
On the brighter side is the award of
gultied arenas of battle, the inevitable
Distinguished Flying Cross by the
the
fatality roll grows longer.
States Army to Second LieuUnited
Since the last issue of this journal,
the following Fijis have been reported tenant Richard Ewing Miller (Indiana
as having made the supreme sacrifice '40), who was one of the bombardiers
who attacked Tokyo, and the bein action against the enemy:
of a Silver Star upon Brigadierstowal
William Cahill Hook, Jr. (PennsylNT; 'a '42), lost in May in Atlantic General Charles A. Willoughby (Gettysburg '14) for gallantry in Bataan.
waters on the U.S. S. Cythera.
own story of his
Ensign Paul H. Johns, Jr. (Wash- Lieutenant Miller's
city is told elseJapanese
the
to
visit
ington '42), killed in action on May 8
issue.
this
in
where
aboard the U.S.S. Lexington.
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Ensign Frederick Weber Walsh
Death came with dramatic swiftness
(Knox '37), killed in the Midway Island engagement on June 4, when the to Bill Hook, who was not called into
He
bomber he was piloting was shot down. the naval service until last spring,
at
player
basketball
varsity
Sergeant Stanley Allen Douglas, Jr. was a
naval
the
in
enlisted
and
Pennsylvania
in
(Washing-ton and Lee '39), killed
continued
action on June 11 "somewhere in Alas- reserve in August, 1941. He
he went
when
March
in college until
ka."
yacht,
converted
a
Scythia,
the
Two other Fijis are reported by their aboard
the
in
patrol
submarine
on
was
which
re,pective countries as missing in acAtlantic.
tion. They are:
On June 3, Bill's parents received
Flight Sergeant William Francis
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notice from the Navy
Department that the
vessel was "presumed
lost."
Bill, a towering lad
of 6 feet 3 inches, was
born on April 24, 1920,
at Columbia, Pa. One
of his contemporaries
in Beta Chapter has
described him as "an
all-around good fraternity man." He was
given his degree of
bachelor of science in
absentia by the university last commencement.
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He set about to rem,1
94 after completing a special course
(as my guess would
them from a safe. .
f training at Northwestern Univer-
Aboard the Lexington he served
The ship's surge,.. sity.
as''tommunications officer.
story:
The Tacoma Lumberman's Club has
I first saw him [I
presented
the sum of $2,000 to the Unisign Johns] on the
Washington to be used as
versity
of
of the battle about
o'clock. This was an It prizes to be presented at the end of
and a half after the , spring quarter to the outstanding jungagement and about • ior and the outstanding senior in the
same time after his
college of forestry. These awards will
jury. He was lying in •
Jr.,
captain's cabin on a tr be hnown as the Paul H. Johns,
tress in an unconsci. Memorial Awards.
conceives it to he its duty to record, month by month, the story of
the deeds of the "knights so bold"
as they engage in combat on the
far-flung battleline in the greatest
struggle in the history of mankind.
The help of our readers is solicited in gathering information.
Men who hare seen action or are
preparing for action in camps overseas are invited to write their experiences. Such accounts should be state, with blood from •
in conformity with cessorship re- lungs coming from
strictions.
mouth. He had been nl
It is hoped, too, that we may be comfortable and was ‘k.
able to revive the "Coincidences" covered when I saw h::
column which was an interesting
At that time his breat
during World War I. This ing had ceased and we
Vivid descriptions feature
was a collection of stories of chance tempted to revive I' of the death of En- meetings of Fiji:,
with blood plasma in :
unknown to each
sign "Pat" Johns are other, in unusual surroundings.
vein. He needed no m
phine as he suffered
contained in letters
pain then or at any tiltwhich his father, a
The blood plasma, ar
Tacoma lumberman.
ficial respiration
has received from a fellow officer and sponging of his face all failed to revive aIi
from the ship's surgeon on the Lexing- and all signs of life ceared within the nt‘
15 minutes.
ton.
His death was the result of the tern
The former wrote, in part, as follows:
blast caused by the enemy bomb hit on t
Before the battle began Pat and I played
port five-inch gun gallery forward, whi,
a game of "acey-deucey" as we followed
in turn exploded the ammunition locker
the
advance of the planes toward us. When the
the vicinity of the admiral's cabin and r
fireworks started we all hit the deck in a
coding room. . . . Death from such bla-•
crouch. Gas masks had been tried and testseems to be the result of the sudden cor
ed and were on our shoulders. I
pression and very quick releasing of ti
got up to
get my hat and was standing with my left
chest, often resulting in the collapse of be
side facing the open door. just about
lungs and invariably with severe tearing
this
time I was blinded by a white flash.
injury of the lung tissue. This action, alot
My face
seemed to draw up and pain a great deal.
with similar violent action on the brain at
I
later found out that the left side was
abdominal structures, seems to produce str
burned
to a second-degree extent. At the same
violent shock of the entire human mechanist
time
my chest filled with smoke of such
that few survive or recover from the ei
density
as to allow only a 2-foot visibility.
frets. . .
I went
for m3 gas mask which had blown from
my
Paul H. Johns was born on Jam;
shoulder to the deck. Down on my hands
ary 27, 1920, in Tacoma. He starre,
and knees looking for it, I saw the
three
other fellows there with me moving.
Pat as a broad jumper while at the Uniwas going to the safe in which
the publica- versity of Washington. He received hitions with which he was charged
were kept. commission in the navy in September
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In the fraternity records the name
appears as Frederick Weber Walsh,
but in the navy he was known as Frederick T. Weber, the "Walsh" being his
adol qed surname.
Fred trained for his wings at the
naval air station in Pensacola, Fla. Following his graduation and commissioning, he was ordered to duty in San
Diego, Calif., assigned to an aircraft
carrier and stationed at Pearl Harbor
until the start of the war.
A few weeks prior to his death he
had been hospitalized following a previous brush with the enemy when his
plane was shot down at an undisclosed
location. It wa.5 learned that his teeth
had been knocked out and that 24
stitches were required to close a facial
laceration.
Ile was pilot of a dive bomber which
was shot down in the fatal engagement.
A native of Des Moines, Ia., Fred
Was born on February 4. 1916. He
spent a year at Knox College, where
he became a Fiji, and then transferred
to Drake University, where, as track
manager, he had charge of the famous
relays.
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The first Fiji fatality in the Alaska
5
arena of combat is believed to have
been Sergeant Stanley Allen Douglas,
Jr. (Washington and Lee '39), who
was killed on June 11 while on flight
duty with an army bomber.
Stanley enlisted in the air force in
August, 1941, and trained at Scott
Field, Ill., and Morrison Field, Fla.
He specialized in radio operations. Last
March he was assigned to a B-24 Liberator bomber and engaged in Atlantic
anti-submarine patrol duty. He was
sent to March Field, Calif., in June
and thence to Alaska.
LOST
IN Tilt.:
ATLANTIC
When the U.S. S. Scythia, a converted
yacht on submarine patrol duty, was sunk
without a trace, Second Class Seatnan
ham Cahill Hook, Jr. (Pennsyttnnia '42)
gave his life for his country. Tall (6 feet, 3
inches) Bill was a varsity basketball forward at Pennsylvania and. in the words of a
contemporary. "an all-around fraternity
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Pittsburgh, where he was born
March 28, 1917. His home was
Scarsdale, N. Y.
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The Royal Canadian Air Force
May 26 reported Sergeant Air Gu
ner William Francis Millerd (Brit!,
Columbia '42) as missing after :.
operations overseas.
Bill joined the R.C.A.F. in 1940 a:
trained in Canada for eight mont1
He had been in England for more tli.
a year and was engaged in laying mii:.
along the Holland coast when he
shot down.
His father advises THE Put GA'
MA DELTA that one of the airpla.
crew has been reported a prisoner
war in Germany and that hope is h('
that Bill will turn up later. What ;
interesting turn of fate it would be if
were to be assigned to the same prisi
camp with Pilot Officer Ralph R. Hel
KILLED ABOARD "LEXINGTON"
derson (British Columbia '37), wl
(1. Ensign Paul H. Johns. Jr.
(Washington was shot down over France or Ge.
:
'42i was killed in action aboard the aircraft
many a year ago and who recently se::
carrier Lexington, of which he was communications officer. The battle took place in THE PHI GAMMA DELTA greetituz
from his place of captivity.
the Coral Sea.
Bill was born on May 3, 1918, i•
Vancouver
and while at varsity was :
Sergeant Douglas' chaplain has sent
member of the light-weight rowis.
the following message to his parents:
crew and business manager of Tote')
Since my assignment to this group last the
university annual.
year. I have known Stanley rather intimate* * *
ly. In all my contacts with him I have
found him to be a fine soldier, devoted to
From Eugene B. Williams (Norti
his duty and to his God. His commanding Carolina '41) comes the
following inofficer, who lost his life in the same plane
teresting
communication
concernini:
as your son, had chosen him for this
last
fateful mission because of his great skill Ensign Peiffer:
as a radio operator.
I chanced upon a story you'll probably I);
All the circumstances of the death are as interested in for use in THE PHI GAMM
yet unknown. However, I can tell you
that DELTA.
your son died bravely and unflinchingly, as
a true soldier and American. The plane
in
which he was lost was instrumental
in inflicting great damage upon the enemy.
Sergeant Douglas was a native of
The son-in-law of the Yorktown Navp.:
Mine Warfare School's commanding officer
has been here for two weeks. Because he
a North Carolinian, I decided to ask him if
he knew Carl Peiffer, who, you no doub;
know, is listed as missing in action.
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Captain Frederick L. Berry (Stanhis is the story he told me:
rother Peiffer reported to the same air- ford '37) is believed by his parents to
carrier to which the narrator was at- be a prisoner of war.
(1 just before the battle at Midway.
Robert K. Roberts (Missouri '39),
Ihe few days Carl was aboard before the
recwas
and
popular
infantry officer, was in Bataan just
quite
became
an
ttic he
n;zed for his steadiness and cool-headed- before the surrender.
s• The affinity of one Tar Heel for anMajor George B. Hart (Wittenberg
Other resulted in the narrator's (a squadron
is reported "missing in action."
'33)
put
be
leaf!, r) asking that Ensign Peiffer
his squadron and made one of his wingNo word has been received since
n, so that he could keep his eye on him
March from First Lieutenant Henry
and give him what help he could.
Rancke, Jr. (North Carolina
lu the Battle of Midway, Brother Peiffer, Charles
with the rest of the squadron, went out to '35), air corps. He was then in Cebu.
att:“..k the Japanese fleet and successfully
Major Charles W. Miller (Oklahoma
came out of his dive in which he loosed his '27) is likely in the hands of the Japaentire load of bombs on an enemy carrier.
was a member of the 19th
The squadron then split into two groups to nese. He
Group.
Bombardment
retlIrn to their carrier. A group of Zero
planes soon attacked the Americans, but
Major James Curtis Rinaman (Ohio
our men came out unscathed.
The tragedy of the day was that several of
the. American planes ran out of gas on their
re:::rn. Such was the fate of Ensign Peiffer.
He was seen to land perfectly on the ocean
and get Eafely into his rubber life raft. That
was the last that has been heard of him.
t
Ensign Peiffer's mother, Mrs. Frank
W. Peiffer of Wilmington, N. C.,
writes to THE PHI GAMMA DELTA:
Carl was trained at Miami and Jacksonville, Fla., and was commissioned in September, 1941. He was stationed in Norfolk
until he left for the Pacific in February.
He loved his fraternity; it meant so much
V, him. I am so glad for you to use his
picture in the magazine.
The news of my precious boy's being lost
is a terrible blow to me. I find it almost
impossible to accept and I keep on hoping
that
t
he will be found and safely returned
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News of other Fiji soldiers captured
by the Japanese in the Philippines continues to reach this magazine. The Japanese have declared their intention to
conform to the provisions of the
Geneva Convention and to furnish a
roster of prisoners, but this has not yet
been done.
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KILLED IN MIDWAY BATTLE
Ensign Frederick Weber Walsh (Knox
his name
'37), pilot of a dive bomber, wrote
He
Midway.
of
Battle
the
at
in history
engagement.
crashed to his death in the
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account of the hazardous speed-4.
voyage of Colonel Charles A. W
loughby (Gettysburg '14) from 1
leaguered Corregidor to Austra],
where he is serving as assistant cL
of staff to General MacArthur.
Now comes word that Colonel N.N
loughby has received the United Sta..
Army's Silver Star decoration for g:,
lantry in action. The accompanyn
citation reads as follows:
Colonel Charles Willoughby, G.S.C.,
the vicinity of Agloloma Bay, Bataan, P.
on January 24, 1942, who while on a
sonal reconnais:ance of the area, voluntat
assisted in ree-stablishing the firing line a•
taking charge of the left section ther,
with utter disregard for his personal sal,:
In the face of heavy enemy fire, by sett:
a personal example by encouraging the n
in his vicinity, he moved the line by fire
movement to within 35 yards of the enen
In a recent letter to the Editor. Col
nel [now Brigadier-General] Willoug:
by said:
A CASUALTY IN
.cergeont Stanley Allen I
Jr.
(Washington and Lee '39) was killed by the
Japanese while serving as a radio operator
on a 13-24 Liberator off Alaska.
Wesleyan '28), medical corps, is presumed to be a captive.
Lieutenant-Colonel James V. Collier
(Oklahoma '21), whose picture appeared in Life as a member of General
MacArthur's staff, was in Bataan when
it fell.
Captain E. Richards Carle (Massachusetts Tech. '33) was one of the heroic defenders of the Philippines. His
name had not appeared on any casualty
list up to May 6, the day before the
surrender.
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It will be recalled that this magazine
has previously reported the thrilling
I have just received the April issue
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erence to my activities in your very int,esting column, "Our War Story." I wa•
to thank you for your fraternal interest. V
are certainly living in tense days. I am oft,
reminded of the other World War (I w:
a captain in the 16th United States Infant:
of the First Division) to find myself, aft,
30 years service, in the midst of another. :
is a privilege to serve on the staff of
distinguished soldier. In the face of ti
heaviest odds MacArthur has maintain,
the tradition of the American arms.
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Another chapter has been added t
the saga of Colonel Cecil E. Comh
(Chicago '33). the gallant West Point
er who has been strafing the Japs Iron
the air and who was one of the firAmericans to win the Distinguishe,.
Flying Cross.
In June, a monsoon storm caught
nel Combs and a party of officers
whom he was flying in a fourred bomber from India to China.
The group was attempting a non-stop
flight from Calcutta to Kunming, an
air-line distance of 950 miles over some
ofitihe worst terrain in the world, when
it an into a storm which forced the
officers to seek a landing field. They
found one inside Chinese territory, but
it Ir‘iis so obscured by rain they could
not be certain whether it was in Chinese or Japanese hands, although they
flew as low as 10 feet trying to read
the markings on plane wings.
They then decided to fly back to India. When they landed, they had only
40 gallons of gasoline in the tanks,
enough for 10 minutes' flight.
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Writing to THE PHI GAMMA DELTA,
Brigadier-General Leroy P. Collins
(Union '05), a former Section Chief
of the fraternity, commanding the
Northern Ireland Base Command, tells
of life in the Emerald Isle, as follows:
Tids is a beautiful country in which to
fight a war and the Irish are the most hospitahle people you can imagine. They like
the American soldier, who usually does win
a place in the hearts of any people he lives
among in very short order, and some of our
men have found relatives here.
At one place farther north, where we
served for a while, the leading citizens gave
usas.incleere
ftIy affectionate farewell party
when we
Next month I am to make the graduation
speech at Campbell College for boys, which
had to move out of Belfast when its buildtflg
hover by the military to use
as a
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J. deLanauze, 25 Cours Pieere Puget,
Marseilles, France.
Arthur had represented several large
American concerns in Paris.
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Samuel H. Rickard, Jr. (Bucknell
'21), who was dean of Judson College,
Rangoon, Burma, and professor of
English at the University of Rangoon,
has returned, with his family, to the
United States.
His 17,000-mile trip included an 11day walk through the mountains to
Assam.
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James R. Young (Johns Hopkins
MISSING IN ACTION
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Sergeant Air Gunner William Francis
It has been learned that Arthur I.
Columbia '42) is reported
Donahue (Dartmouth '15) is in a con- Millerd (British
by the Royal Canadian Air Force as missing
centration camp. probably somewhere in action after air operations over the Holin occupied France. "Jiggs" can be land coast where he was laying mines. Hope
reached by air mail letter in care of M. is held that he may have been taken prisoner.
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ro
I mi.-ht as well have walked with my eyes
closed The half dozen men could have "got"
me 1 times before I could have found them.
Tli- • business of camouflage is one of the
most Important arts of the bushmasters. To
begin with, they wear special mottled green
SOMEWHERE IN PANAMA — The jur coveralls and matching helmets. Then, in a
was still as I crouched on the nar: thick inat over and around them, they weave
vines, grass, and small tree branches, all
animal trail. Then, suddenly, a matted
straightened up and jabbed a submacl laced with fishline. Crouched in the jungle,
gun into my back. From the jungle step: they :,re invisible from 20 feet.
Most of the bushmasters are armed with
clumps of sawtooth grass carrying mad
subma,•hine guns and several hundred rounds
guns and hand grenades.
Here were the bushmasters in act: of ammunition. Other men carry carbines
Panama's bushmasters — a bewildering or artomatic rifles. If the need arises, the
sortment of Indians from the southwest bushmasters have 60 mm. [21 inch] mortars.
states, Dodger fans from Brooklyn, ..1sL These, with the dozen or so hand grenades
cans from the border towns, strap' carried by every man, give the jungle units
youngsters from middle western farms. great tire power.
Inead of the regular infantry rations,
welded by months of hard training int,
the blishmasters have special oiled silk sacks
crack jungle combat unit.
If enemy forces should attempt a I. contai:Iing rice, dried fruits and vegetables,
thrust at the Panama canal, the bushmast milk is"wder, peanuts and chocolate. By
using ,,nly lightweight dehydrated foods and
will meet them first.
At hidden outpoAs in the jungle the (- chlorine they can carry enough supplies to
my will find them waiting with a bag full stay in the jungle 60 days.
lethal tricks. It will be these hand pick Among Colonel Herndon's jungle units
and schooled young men who, as silent Ire several hundred Indians from the southdeadly as the terrible jungle snake for wh western reservations who have taken to junthey are named, will ambush advance un • gle warfare like ducks to water. They, with
hardened Mexicans, form the nucleus
harry flanks with machine guns and e "order
nades, honeycomb the jungle with explco "f the bushmasters.
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traps, and bog down the hostile force tY
the main land defenses of the canal atta
Soldier
life
"down under" is deThe leader of the bushmasters is as col
;critic('
in
received by THE PHI
a
letter
organized
ful as the unit which he
trained. Two years ago Colonel J. Pry JAM MA DELTA from Captain Meredith
Herndon was the dignified, sedate contro! VI'. I Iuggins (Oregon State '38. Minof the University of Arizona at Tucson. 1 ikesc
us,:raai'
ja
3,1:
), on duty "somewhere in
day he is a hard-bitten officer.
Colonel Herndon selected the name Thu
masters" for his jungle troops, explain:: We had a nice trip over there— that is,
"I want them to be as fast, as silent. f you call a long journey on a crowded
or a
ltr7ras, however, quite a thrill
nice.be
as deadly as the bushmaster — the n1 rna
land lubber.
feared snake of the tropics. Like their nay
sake, they should be able to kill quicl, We are now getting some intensive trainng, N,.) that when the time comes we can
and efficiently if the need arises."
It was while I was Colonel Herndo: ock the Jap back on his heels and make
guest at a "practice session" in the jun" an Nt slt he had never left his island hole.
is a semi-tropical country with much
yesterday that I had my experience with !
bushmasters. Colonel Herndon told me tannin! vegetation and thousands of gorwalk down the animal trail, told me tl eons birds. The magpie, a big black-andhalf a dozen of his men were hidden sow ?hite fellow, is quite interesting. He makes
where along it, and asked me to try to St,•bout as much noise as a battery of guitars
nd sounds quite similar to one. There are
them before they "got" me.
Studying the underbrush, I started o:
officer is Colonel J. Prugh Hero.
(Arizona '19), who has attended s,
eral Ekklesiai.
The dispatch:
MISSING OFF MIDWAY ISLAND
(. When the bomber in which he struck at
the Japs ran out of gasoline as he was returning to an aircraft carrier, Ensign Carl
David Peiffer (North Carolina '38) took to
his rubber boat, but he has not been heard
of since.
'25), who several years ago spent some
61 days in a Japanese hoose-gow as
"national guest" because of his unfriendly wi-itings as correspondent in
Tokyo for the International News
Service, is on a two-month tour of
United States Army air fields to lecture on Japanese aviation, military
targets and psychology as a part of the
army's orientation course.
*
*
*
A vivid description of the life of
American soldiers, led by a gallant Fiji
officer, in a tropical jungle was sent to
the Chicago Tribune by one of its war
correspondents in Panama. The Fiji
THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
II
also many pretty woods, especially the jarrah
and the many types of gum trees.
It is rather strange to be dealing in shillings and pounds, rather than cents and dollars. All of their bills are of different sizes
and of different colors. A lot look like tobacco store coupons.
The Australians are surely putting every
bit of their energy behind the war effort
and their hospitality toward the Yanks is
exceeded only by their generosity.
Lieutenant Raymond K. Hirsch (Chicago
'37) is a member of our tank destroyer battalion. Lieutenant Maelin H. Frierson (Alabama '36) is a member of my regiment.
While sitting in our mess shack one night,
with my feet cocked on the stove and thumbing through THE PHI GAMMA DELTA, someone tapped me on the shoulder and said,
"Are you a Fiji?"
BELIEVED PRISONER IN P. I.
C. Lieutenant-Colonel James V. Collier
(Oklahoma '21) was a member of General
MacArthur's staff in the Philippine Islands.
His Fiji friends are hoping that he has survived the campaign and that, tough luck as
it would be, he ii is prisoner of the Japs.
12
THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
PRESUMABLY IN JAP HANDS
C. Major Charles IF. Miller (Oklahoma '27)
was a member of the 19th Bombardment
Group in Bataan. The Japanese have not ye!
adhered to the Geneva Convention and released the names of prisoners of war.
"Sure 'nough," I replied.
It was a Princeton man. He was not a
Fiji, but his father and his grandfather were
— Edgar H. Johnson (Ohio State '05) and
Henry Webb Johnson (Hanover '72) [chairman of the 1902, 1903 and 1904 Ekklesiai
and vice-chairman of the 1909 and 1910 Ekklesiai].
* * *
Canadian service notes, with an invitation to the lads of the Maple Leaf
and their friends to make their names
and their branches known:
Two Fijis are stationed at the air observers' school at Edmonton, Alta. They are
Percy Williams (British Columbia '28),
famed Olympics sprinter, who is a captain,
and Frank N. Buckley (British Colt:
'33), who is a co-pilot. Their function is
give student observers in the R.C.A.F.
tual aerial practice after they have finii
their ground courses. .. .Captain Wilson
Salter (Toronto '37) is overseas with
Fifth Canadian Armored Division. .
Lieutenant Franklin D. Handley (Tor
'40) is with the 48th Highlanders, Can.
Holding Unit, New Martinique Barr.
Bordon, Eng. . . . Ian MacTavish (To.
'42) is in the officers' training scho.
Brockville, Ont. His unit is the Irish I
ment of Canada. . . . Dr. Harry E. R.
son (Toronto '36) is an officer in the 1:
Canadian Medical Corps. . . . Flight I
tenant John E. Macdonald (British Ci
bia '30) is overseas. . . . Genial Join
McGillivray (Toronto '28), onetime
Secretary of the fraternity, has been
meted to a majority. He writes to the
tor: "Please send my magazine to the
dress above [No. 2 Detachment, R.C.,
Canadian Army, England]. I am born
the copies from one of my sergeantGrant Stirrett (Toronto '24). 'Jo-Jo' :
an officer cadet training course and will
into the mess on return, but I would
like my own copies—not that I find
magazine interesting, mind you, but if a
geant can read it and live, so can I! I
a talk with Major James D. Wilson
ronto '12) the other day. I see Huber
Keenley-side (Toronto '23) quite a I.
Colonel Keenleyside to you! He is din
of ordnance services and my boss."
THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
bat duty. . . . Private Samuel L.
(Denison '35) is overseas.. .. First
enant Stewart L. Leonard (Yale '39)
rseas.
*
*
*
S. Navy news. Tid-bits of iniat ion about the cannibalian sailormen. of no value to the enemy, we
hopc. except to put the fear of God into hi, heart:
William S. Robb (Pennsylvania '34),
former Field Secretary of the fraternity, has
been promoted to a senior grade lieutenancy.
Bill i. reported to have been in the Battle
of Midway on an airplane carrier. . . .Third
Class Yeoman Kenneth McL. Jones (Denison '3.-0 was aboard the U. S. S. ll'asp, the
aircraft carrier which delivered aerial reinforcements to the British island of Malta.
... Lieutenant-Commander John Carl Woelfel (Purdue '28), who was graduated from
the 1 nited States Naval Academy in 1928,
is chief engineer of the cruiser U. S. S.
Phocnis
Neville V. Williams (Indiana
'25), %%ho once cruised to Bermuda on his
honc)intion with the famed Fiji tour of 1932,
has joined the navy as a lieutenant. . . .
George W. Stokes (Williams '38) is in V-7
at Abbott Hall, Chicago. . . Ensign John
Dickey Ligon (Richmond '34) is at the coast
guard academy in New London, Conn. . ..
Ensign David H. Crosse (Oregon '37, Berkeley '.39) is flying at Guatanama Bay, Cuba.
. . . Benjamin F. Stahl, Jr. (Williams '36)
is at the training school at Ithaca, N. Y.
* * *
... When last heard from, Lieutenant-ComDevil Dog department. News of mander Ray N. Latimer (Washington '28)
Fijis who have the situation wel. was at the Naval War College in Newport, R.
I.... \V. Webber Young (Amherst '27) is a
hand:
lieutenant-commander in the medical corps at
Merritt B. Curtis (Berkeley '15) has the Norfolk Naval Hospital, Portsmouth,
promoted to a full colonelcy and is on Va. . . . Gerald E. Veltman (Texas '32),
at the headquarters of the corps in V\ Spark -plug of the Houston Graduate Chapington. . . . Thomas E. Norpell (Den ter, is wearing the stripe-and-a-half of a
'41) was commissioned a second lieute: 3. g. . . Ensign Ben F. Railsback (Illinois
on his 22nd birthday. He has returne. '36) is on duty at Newport, R. I.. . . Paul
A. Mastin (Nebraska '38) is a third class
Quantico for further training. . . .
colm R. Chandler (Worcester Tech. Petty officer at the naval air base in Corpus
is first lieutenant in a unit whose mail I
Ensign Lavern Nelson (Pennes through San Francisco. . . . Fran) sal‘z,nia State '41) is at the naval air staGarretson (Washington '40) is a Devil tion in Jacksonville, Fla.. . . Frank X. DeLieutenant Frederic). Lone ( Pennsylvania '42) has joined the air
lieutenant. . .
, . Ensign Robert H. Cunningham,
Scatena, Jr. (Berkeley '39) has been ord con)
13
Jr. (Ohio State '40) is chief engineer officer on the PC-486. . . . Lieutenant Percy
Doremus (Gettysburg '35, Pennsylvania '35),
dental cbrps, is at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
. . . E. Abbot Woleslagel (Wittenberg
'38) has been commissioned an ensign. . . .
Joseph C. King (Cornell '39, North Carolina
'40) is training in naval ordnance on Staten
Island, N. Y. . . . The "rookie of the year"
of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station baseball team is Third Baseman Ernest
II. Andres (Indiana '39), who was the only
serviceman to make two hits off American
League pitching in the Service-All Star
game in Cleveland in July. He played the
entire game. Ernie was formerly with the
Louisville Colonels. . . . Lieutenant John
Trolan Sill (Colgate '29), medical corps,
has closed his physician's office in Hamilton,
N. Y., and is off to the wars. . . . Forest
Evashevski (Michigan '41), former Wolver-
A PHILIPPINE CAPTIVI:
41. The uncertain shadow of "missing in action" hangs over the family of Major George
B. Hart (Wittenberg '33), which hopes that
he will turn up as a prisoner of war. He
was stationed in the Philippine Islands.
14
TIIE Pill GANIMI DELTA
me football star who became head backfield
coach at Pitt, has been appointed an ensign
in the naval reserve. . . . G. Vernon Baker
(Occidental '38) has been commissioned an
ensign and is in training at naval school
at Cornell. . . . J. Percy Gill (Missouri
'33), well-known athlete and coach at the
Missouri School of Mines, has enlisted in
the physical training branch of the air corps.
. . . Lieutenant Frederick Woods Hinrichs
(Northwestern '36) is awaiting orders to go
to sea on a submarine. . . . Lieutenant Eugene L. deKieffer (Northwestern '34), who
had been an instructor of discipline and ordnance at Abbott Hall in Chicago, has been
transferred to the submarine training center
at Miami, Fla.... John M. Plummer (Wabash '32) is a junior grade lieutenant operating out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. . . .
Ensign Malcolm E. Nafe (Pennsylvania
'41) and Ensign John R. Ramsey (Pennsylvania '41) are flight inftructors at the
air station in Jacksonville. Fla., while Joseph Catherine (Pennsylvania '42) and
Thomas Fatkin (Pennsylvania '43) are naval cadets in the same city. . . . Charles P.
Hurd (Columbia '41) is an ensign. . .
Robert Morris (Stanford '41) is in training
at Corpus Christi. . . . Lieutenant Emory
H. Anderson (Richmond '29, Virginia '29),
medical corps, is at the Naval Hospital,
Pearl Harbor, T. H. .. . Ensign Albert E.
Baur, Jr. (Wabash '39) is stationed at Balboa, C. Z. . . . Lieutenant Henry Parker
Seymour (Ohio State '27) is executive officer in the office of inspector of ordnance
at the ordnance plant in Canton, 0. . . .
Ensign Paul B. Lanius, Jr. (Dartmouth '42)
is awaiting orders to 'ea at Norfolk. . . .
Lieutenant (j.g.) Eugene G. Sheasby
(Northwestern '39) is a naval aviator with
the Pacific fleet.
. Ensign James N. Lemon (Purdue '41) is stationed at Norfolk.
. . . Ensign George K. Peck (Worcester
Tech. '41) and Ensign Joseph W. Whitaker
(Worcester Tech. '41) are in the de-ign
division at the naval gun factory in Washington. . . . J. Smith Miller (Idaho '29),
former Section Chief in southern California
and Arizona. has been commissioned a junior
grade lieutenant and ordered to report to
the naval air station in Quonset Point, R.
I., for the well-known indoctrination. . . .
Ensign Robert A. Haynes (Kansas '41) is
aboard the U. S. S. Bagley. . . . Dr. Patti-
THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
15
on Fulton (Wisconsin '37) is in the medi
Hither-and-yon notes about the Fijis
corps in Pacific waters
kshley J. I:
tie (Georgia Tech. '38), a 1940 graduate
in the United States Army, with no
the United States Naval Academy. has
sequence of mention according to rank
promoted to a junior grade lieutenancy.
and
with no claim to all-inclusiveness
is aboard the U. S. S. Mississippi. . .. E
(this department never closes):
sign Paul W. Conolley (Washington '1
reports that as assistant navigator of the
Lieutenant Victor McVey (Colorado ColS. S. New Orleans he "enjoyed a zig-z
lege '40) is in a ferrying group. . . . Ennis
voyage to Australia and New Caledoni,
I). Sandberg (Kansas '34) is a captain in the
. . . Charles A. Nicholson (Indiana '42
medical administrative corps in Panama....
stationed at Upham, C. Z. . . . William 1'
Lieutenant Herbert H. Newton (Rutgers
Roy McLean (North Carolina '38) has
'41) and Lieutenant William J. Bolin (Davidcommissioned an ensign. . . . Robert
son '41) are in the same company at Camp
Tweedle (Wabash '37) is an aviation ca,i
Croft, S. C. . . . Major Dale E. Brown
at Corpus Christi. . . . Ensign Fred
(Illinois '29) is in the Third Armored DiviVance (Illinois '39) is with the Pacific fk:
sion at Rice, Calif. . . Harry B. Johanson
. . . Dr. J. Harold MacArt (Rutgers '1
(Yale '33) is a captain in the ferry command
has closed his office in East Orange, N.
in Detroit. . . . Captain Lawrerwe R. St.
and reported for duty as a lieutenant (j.g
John (DePauw '34) is with the engineer rein the medical corps. . . . Lieutenant \V
placement training center at Fort Belvoir,
ham B. Sheppard (Washington and Lee '3!
Va.... Lieutenant Nicholls W. Bowden, Jr.
medical corps, is stationed at the rem:.
(Tennessee '39) is with troops in Great
ing office in Detroit. . . . George F. RI:Britain.... Erie A. Kightlinger, Jr. (Mich(Mifsouri '40) has graduated from the na,
igan '33) is at Keesler Field. Miss.... Lieuair station at Corpus Christi, Tex., and
tenant Boyd A. Moore (Idaho '38) is flying
been commissioned an ensign. . . . Lieutc
overseas. . . . Captain William 0. Waid
ant (j.g.) P. Leon Godchaux, II (Yale '3'
(Oklahoma '32) reports in: " 'Aloha' from
is in the naval ordnance laboratory in Wathe Pacific. Quite a number of the brothers
ington.... John W. Rettig, Jr. (Texas '4:
are scattered around out here and every once
is an ensign. . . . Ensign Albert M. H._
in a while we chase a wild pig out of camp.
WINS PRE-WAR MEDAL
(Denison '39) and Lieutenant Will:.
If we ever find one that does not rattle
47.
Although the achievement for which he
Thorne Rimes (Denison '31) are at
when he runs, well have a real 'puaa
was cited dates back before Pearl Harbor.
naval air station in Alameda, Calif. .
luau'." . . . Lieutenant Robert L. Steenrod
(Missouri
Ernest
Lieu:owns-Colonel
Moore
Lieutenant John Bernard Honan (DePa
(Washington and Jefferson '31) is overseas.
'29) hos been awarded the Distinguished Fly'37) is on a Pacific patrol. . . . Lieuten: ing
. . Lieutenant Robert C. Fordyce (Los An'f•(j.g.) Edward J. Galway (Brown '38) Part oss for extraordinary heroism while geles '42) is at the reception center in Fort
paling in an aerial flight of nine B-17 Dix, N. J. .. . John E. Flemming (Brown
a psychologist on the aviation cadet sel,
bomir..rs from Honolulu to the Philippine
tion board at First Naval District Hr.
'33) has been promoted to a captaincy and is
Islcw.ls from September 5 to September 12,
assistant adjutant general at the Sixth Army
quarters in Boston. . . . Weston P. Wil1941 The citation recorded that "Colonel
Corps headquarters in Providence, R. I. . .
(Lafayette '38) and Alfred B. Cenedc.
displaved
airmanship
skillful
and
acLieutenant-Colonel Lawrence B. Wyant
prim(
(Brown '40) have completed their
cam,. knowledge of the highly technical de- (Ohio State 16) is stationed at Camp Ruckflight training at Squantum (Mass.) Na. tails
involved in the successful execution of er, Ala.... Captain Lawrence Cole (Illinois
Air Station. . . . Lieutenant-Commarli- this flight. .
. . This outstanding achievement Wesleyan '22) looked over a group of newlyHenry F. Ulrich (Minnesota '23), medi. reflects the
highest credit on the military arrived officers at his station in Wichita and
corps, is stationed at the Naval Hospital
forces of the United States."
picked out one to serve as his assistant adPhiladelphia. . .. Ensign John Robert Scl
The man selected turned out to be a
jutant.
ler (Idaho '38) is aboard the V. S. S. . at
Fiji—Lieutenant Philip R. French, Jr.
Notre
tong. . . . Paul Mooney (New York 'I - Brooke Dame. . . . Lieutenant Russell J.
Major William R.
(Georgia Tech. '32) is aboard the (Dartmouth '27)
on leave from his duties as head baskett U. S• S.
C. Mills Durand (Washington '26) is stationed at
Henry
Blakeley.
.
.
.
coach at Columbia, is a lieutenant. . (Kt, x
'30) is stationed at San Pedro, Calif. Fort Shafter, T. H.... Lieutenant V. Earle
Lieutenant (j.g.) Cornelis E. Groenewe.,_ ; Lieutenant
(j.g.) Allen V. Davis (Texas Nicklas (Amherst '39) is in Australia. . .
(Occidental '28, Stanford '28) has complc; 30) is at the naval air station in Corpus
Captain Paul W. Bell (DePauw '23) has
Thor Christi, Tex.
a course at Quonset Point, R. I. .
been stationed in W:shington... . We wonas H. Rugg (Amherst '41) is in train::
* * *
der where in the world Major Julian G.
THE PHI (',\\l1.\ DELTA
Washinghm and Jefferson '26)
Hearne
could have been when he wrote the following
message aboard a U. S. transport: "Major
H. Craig Seasholes ( I fenison '22) and I
have wanted to see the lceilsoecd] Islands
for some time and now it looks like we are
going to be located near them for some little
while." . . . Major Harry I,. Swicegood
(GeOrgia Tech. '261 is ordnance officer of the
Newport subsector and harbor defenses of
Narragansett Bay. . . . Does LieutenantColonel John Gordon Fowler (Northwestern
'78) know that Dow Field. Me., where he
has been stationed. was named after a Fiji,
the late Lieutenant James F. Dow ( Maine
'37), who was killed in an army airplane
accident over New York City in 1940? . . .
Second Lieutenant Clinton G. Sweazea (Missouri '40) is seeking to change himself from
a caterpillar to a butterfly. i.e.. he is taking
pilot training and will be transferred from
infantry to air force when he completes the
course. .
'lyric 0. Springer ( Indiana '24 )
is a captain
Stephen T. DeLaMater
(Cornell 'OW is a major in the specialist corps
in Washington. .. . Frank L. Miller ( Pennsylvania '40). who has volunteered for the
air forces, reports that Edward Bechtold
(Pennsylvania '40) is in Australia. haying
left the Phillipines before the surrender. . . .
Lieutenant Albert H. Hoopes ( Yale '37) is
stationed at Harding Field. I a
Second
Lieutenant George A. Ford, Jr. (Williams
'33) is on overseas duty with the service of
supply. . . . Paul B. Headland (Wisconsin
'12. Chicago '14) has been commissioned a
major in the medical corps and assigned to
the 108th General Hospital. organized by
the medical school of Loyola University.
.
Robert E. Fox (Oklahoma '44 ) is in training at the Enid (Okla.) Flying School. . .
Ralph E. Lampman (Ohio State '38) is in a
signal regiment at Fort Monmouth, N. J.
First Lieutenant Gerard J. \los, Jr. (Missouri
'37) is on coast guard duty near Los Angeles.
. . . Dr. Robert I.. Thomas (Ohio State
'17) has been commissioned a captain in the
medical corps
Aviation Cadet Kenneth
F. Hodson (Ohio State '42) is in training
for the air forces at Santa Ana, Calif. He is
a son of Colonel Fremont B. /1,4son (Oregon '20) of the regular army. . . . Captain
Robert I.. Woods (Los Angeles '33) is to
be envied—or is he? He has been recruiting
for the WAAC in Los Angeles (Question:
Should you whack the WAVES or wave at
the WA.\C 5?,. . . . Captain Leonhar -•
Schemer ( Bucknell '35) may he ad):.
c/o Headquarters. Services of Supply, A
0. 871. New York. N. Y.... Reports
tenant Richard Walter (Washington
"I drove to my first duty with Lient,John P. Heaney (Colorado College '34 ).
into I,ieutenant Cornelius E. Sedges,•
( Bucknell '36) and worked with my
staff sergeant for a month before disco\
ing that he. too, is a Fiji." . . . Richard
Jordan (Cornell '33) is a first lieuter
with the air ferrying command in 1,Vilmi•
ton, Del., as a supervisor of instruction.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest L. Osborne a
'12 I is at Fort Sill. Okla. . . Captain V
liam Langley Sibley ( Virginia '29), med corps. is stationed at the United States M
tary Academy at West Point as assistan)
the chief of the surgical service. . . . J,
I). Kemp (DePanw '41) has been made ••
geant of the permanent staff in the clafication division at Bear Field, Ind......
B. Budd ( DePauw '41) has joined the
forces.... First Lieutenant Russell Voori
(Knox '31) is stationed at Fort Lev
Wash
Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph
Baghy ( William Jewell '14) is adva)
echelon officer of the troop carrier comm; •
of the air force in England. . . . Capt
Coleman L. Isaacs (Indiana '23) is in c)
mand of the 122nd Ordnance Company
Camp Perry. 0. . . . Private Robert
Dwyer (Chicago '42 I is a personnel te
nician at Camp Crowder. Mo. . . Fredel
B. Hohenhorst (Iowa '40) is in the offic,
candidate school at Fort Belvoir. Va. "It •
gine a journalist trying to become an
gineer officer," he writes. (We know of , •
"journalist," at least, who passed out ph
pills as a medical detachment man in
Rainbow Division in that other fracas.)
Lieutenant Leonard L. Boyer. Jr. (Pei:
• ylvania '39) is in New Caledonia with
tank battalion. "Only across the way a bL
are the Fiji Islands," he reports. In t.
same outfit with him is Lieutenant Andre,
Labash (New York '41). . . Paul S. 11,,
ley (Colorado College '13) is a captain •
the engineer corps. . . . Lieutenant-Colw ,
J. Earle Dunford (Bethel '12, Richmond
was the honor guest at a dinner of the F. •
Meade Graduate Association of Phi Gam)
Delta in June. The affair was a bon
age tribute to "Pete" who was to lea
soon thereafter for duty in England.
THE PHI GANINIA DF.LTA
en post adjutant at the fort. .
had
Harr) J. McDonald (Columbia '361 is in
the 4nal corps' officers' training school at
Major Edgar
Fort Monmouth, N. J
A. V. ilkerson (Los Angeles '33) is aide-decamp to the commanding general of the
Nor)ern California sector of the Western
Debi, e Command. He is stationed at the
Major George Morey MilPre.:lio
ler ( Idaho '34) is at Fort Dix, N. J. . . .
A. _Joplin (Missouri '40) is a second lieutenant in the field artillery at Camp
Pickett, Va.... Captain Eugene II. Brownell
(Washington '29), who was associate edithe fraternity's catalogue of memtor
bersHp in 1930, is in the small arni,. diviMajor Braxsior in Washington, I) C
ton Roberts (William Jewell '16) is at Fort
Newton A. S•earns
Lea‘enworth, Kans
(0' 'oil '37) is at the army air base in
Sat''.: Ana. Calif. . .. Two stars now gleam
fr(ir the shoulders of Ward H. Mans
wiri,,m
.1.‘PANAZIS TAKE
17
(Kansas '14, Chicago '14). He was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in June
and is in the war plans division of the general staff in Washington. . . First Lieutenant Francis \V. Spearman (Berkeley '29)
is a personnel officer on duty at the state
headquarters of the selective service in
Sacramento, Calif. . . . Ralph T. Holsapple,
Jr. ( Virginia '43) is at Camp Roberts. Calif.,
where Second Lieutenant Richard H. Beech
Mc(Oregon State '41) is on duty
Gowan Miller (Oregon '33) has resigned
as art retoucher for the Associated Press
photos in New Yiirk and has joined the
air corps as a private. . . First Lieutenant
Raymond H. W. Watkins (Illinois Wesleyan '35) is over,ens. . . . Captain Eugene
1,. Fleece (Purdue '.26) is stationed at Ellington Field, Tex. . . . Lieutenant Douglas
Stevens (Sewanee '32) is post chemical officer at Camp Bowie. Tex. . . Lieutenant
Wo,,dhull Spitler. Jr. (Purdue '37) is with
i'l*NISIIMENr IN
THIS HELL \\ EU.
ifs by
a new type of chores Jr their pled
address
in downtown Bloomington...1 public
original goal 701S $500, but
..-itystein aided and abetted the eannibalian victory T•endors. The
had been disposed of by
securities
anti-Japana:i
'*heit the drive ended $27,500 worth of the
the white star boys.
/1/inois Wesleyan introduced
The Fijis
•-41..,snianig them to sell defense bonds in a booth
1111.
THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
the procurement division of the
air corps at fit. . . .
Lieutenant
Wichita, Kans. . . . Charles R.
Rosewall hard, Sr. (Indiana -Colonel John J. R•
(Minnesota '43) is a cadet in the
air corps bow Division, is '(6), veteran of the Pa
at Santa Ana, Calif.... Lieutenant
back in khaki. He d•
J. Fred
the staff of the Third
Gerding (Knox '42) is flying
Corps Area in Bal.
plants for
more. . . . Captain
gimnery students at Las Vegas,
Wilfred W. Wiggi•
Nev. . . . (Berkeley '25)
is on a special mission
John Sewall Ross (Penrifylvania
"son-,
'40) is a
where in Australia." . . .
first lieutenant in the coast artill
Cadet Robert
ery at Fort Shoemaker
(Indiana '43) is dashing alai',
Williams, Me. . . . Lieutenant Willi
am \V. toward a commi
ssion at the United Stati
Steele, Jr. (Lehigh '39) is on the
staff and
Military Academy. . .
faculty of the tank destroyer school
Louis A. Woltz,in Camp (Wabash '41)
is at Camp Wallace,
Hood, Tex. . . . Captain Hubert
're
G. Heren .
. Lieutenant Theodore
(Knox '38) is in Australia. . .
H. Wats(
Robert (Georgia Tech.
'41) is flying 13-17s at
Treat Lang (Oregon '37) is a priva
He:
te in dricks Field, Fla.
the air corps at State Fair Groun
ds, Spring- nell '19), edito . . . Peter Vischer (Con
r
field, Ill. . . . Lieutenant Rober
t W. Mc- Life, has been and publisher of Count'
Giffin (Deni on '40) is an engin
commissioned a major an,
eering and
ordered to \Vashington....
technical supply officer at Langley
Corporal Jam,
Field. Va. W. Eaton
(Virginia '35) is an illust
. .. Captain Frederick K. Pear
ran•
man (Wash- with the visua
l aid section at Fort Benni
ington and Lee '31) is "somewhe
ng
re in Aus- Ga. . . . Josep
h A. Thiel (Western
tralia.". . . Roger W. Eisinger
Rt:
(Indiana serve '41) is in
'42) is a second lieutenant in
the officers' training scho(
the quarter- at Fort
Berming, Ga. . . . Aviation Cad
master corps and is stationed in
Virginia. James R. Ruthe
... Lieutenant-Colonel Paul D. Meek
rford, Jr. (Brown '43) l (Ohio in primary pilot
State '05), winner of the Belgian
training school at Helens
Cross of Ark. . . . Capta
War in the First World War,
in Richard N. Fickett, If
is an execu- (Georgia Tech.
tive offiter of the officers' train
'27) is in the coast artiller
ing school, in Hawaii. . .
. Captain Thomas H. Fick
signal depot, in Lexington, Ky.
. . . First ett (Georgia
Tech. '32) is in the 50th Ar
Lieutenant John Vogler (Nebrask
in the engineers in New York a '38) is mored Infantry at Camp Chaffee, Ark. .
City. . . . Vincent Sheea
n (Chicago '21), the fame
Aviation Cadet Egmont Vrooman
(Illinois author and war
Wesleyan '39) is in training
at Sequoia in the air force correspondent, is a captai:
. . . . Homer L. Hadley, Jr
Field, Vi:alia, Calif. .. . Dr.
Isaiah Lukens (Illinois '37)
hopes the information that
(Nebraska '24) has been commi
h,
ssioned a is a first lieut
enant will "pass the censor.'
captain in the medical corps.
. . George . . . Lieutenant
\V. Parker (Syracuse '19)
Louis D. Abney, Jr. (Okla
has been pro- homa '40)
is at Camp Elliott, Calif. .
moted to a majority. He is statio
ned in New
Captain Donald P. Jenks (New
York City. . . . John Marle
York '38
y, Jr. (Arizona is overseas
with an engineer regiment. . .
'38) is in training for the air
corps at Santa
Varley H. Taylor (Oklahom
Ana, Calif. . . . First Lieut
a '30) is :
enant Herman major with the
field artillery in Fort Sil'
J. Garretson, Jr. (Washington
'40) is in a - Okla.... Lieutenant
C.
tank destroyer battalion
at Fort Lewis, high '36) is in Trini Atwell Moore (1.,(
dad, B. W. I., wit(
Wath.... Dr. J. Gilbert
Bramley (Colorado the air corps. . . . Capta
in Eric E. On
'35) has given up his medic
al practice in lashin (Williams '36) is with
an army mis
Denver to serve as a first
lieutenant in the sion to Russia and the Middle
East. . .
medical corps. . . . E.
Edgar G. Frey (Johns Hopkins
Coghlin DeLone
'40) is bat
(Pennsylvania '39) is in the
field artillery talion supply sergeant with the 47th Iii
at Camp Pickett, Va. . .
. Private Ernest fantry in Fort Bragg, N. C. . . .
F. Andrews (Maine '38)
Leonhardt B. Scheffler (Bucknell Captait
is with a chemical
'35), ail
battalion at Fort Russell,
Tex. . . . It's corps, is stationed in London. . . . Major
Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew
Rober
t
B.
Taylo
r (Oregon State '30) i
Barr (Yale Fac.)
now. The genial former
New England Sec- an infantry officer assigned to the quarter•
tion Chief was promoted
maste
r corps to give basic training
in June and is G-2
at Fort
of the 3rd Armored
Francis E. Warren, Wyo....
Division, Major Dale
Captain John
E. Brown (Illinois '29) is
D.
Osmo
nd,
Jr.
(Denison '35) is stationed
in the same outat Fort Knox, Ky. . . Joseph
C. Robinson
THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
(Pennsylvania State '39) is an aviation
cadet at Scott Field, Ill. . . . Lieutenant
William M. Coffey (Pennsylvania '41) is
in a quartermaster regiment at Fort Leonard
Wood, Mo. . . . Ernest Watson Farley, Jr.
(Rh hmond '33) is a lieutenant in the ordflank , corps and is stationed in Washington.
... Handsome Vernon M. Knox (Pennsylvania '19), member of the famed Five Ekklesiai Club, is sparkling in a captain's uniform He is in the ordnance corps across
the Potomac from Washington. . . Kenneth Collins (Washington '19) is on leave
of absence from the New York advertising
agency of Arthur Kudner, Inc., while serving as a major in the army air force. . . .
Col-nel Charles E. Rayens (Columbia '14)
is in the office of the G-3 at Governor's
Island, N. Y. . . . Private Lewis A. Murfey (Cornell '36) is with an evacuation hospital in New Caledonia. . . . Captain Pierre
J. Purcell (Cornell '29) is instructing a signal emps unit of the R.O.T.C. at the Univer-ity of Maine. . . . Lieutenant William
I). Pryor (Tennessee '39) is in a bombardMt!! squadron at Howard Field, C. Z. . .
R, dtrt B. Lyon (Colgate '38) is in a tank
de foyer battalion at Fort Benning, Ga.
Bruce B. Johnson (William Jewell
. .
'43 was commisfioned a lieutenant in the
air forces at Williams Field, Ariz., in July.
. . Carl B. Johnston (Cornell '37) is a
.lie•derant with the water supply section
at Fort Belvoir, Va. . . . Rush H. LimJr. (Missouri '40) was graduated
in the Gulf Coast Air Corps Training
ier at Brooks Field. Tex., and commiscd a lieutenant in the air forces. . . •
;tenant Harper B. Miller (Indiana '29)
all the way from Johannesburg, South
it-a, to Chicago, a distance of 12,000
s, to report for duty as a first lieutenant
the air corps. He is stationed at Lowry
1,1, Colo. . . . Private Jack L. Coleman
,- estern Reserve '37) is stationed at Penon Field, Ore. . . . Private Walter V.
•rtin, Jr. (Oklahoma '38) is at the finance
r acement training center at Fort Harri• . Ind., as is also Private William B. Mc.crudy (Kansas '42). . . . First LieutenDavid P. Griffiths (Oregon '41) is an
tructor in the air corps at Roswell, N.
• • . Lieutenant-Colonel W. Kenneth
19
McKnight (Pennsylvania '12) is in active
service at Camp Pickett, S. C. . . . Laurence B. Tipton (Alabama '32) has been
appointed a captain and assigned as aide-decamp to the Secretary of Labor. He will
be in charge of safety and health training
in the army, navy and war industries. . . .
James E. Lamb (Rutgers '32) has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the medical
administrative corps and assigned to Percy
Jones General Hospital in Battle Creek,
Mich.. . . William B. Beeson, Jr. (Washington and Jefferson '32) is a first lieutenant in the air corps in Albuquerque, N. M.,
while his brother, Henry R. Beeson (Washington and Jefferson '37) is an aviation
cadet at Spence Field, Ga. . . . Ralph E.
Lidster, Jr. (Denison '36) is a private in
the infantry in Iceland. . . . Richard H.
Chambers (Arizona '29) has taken in his
law shingle at Tucson, Ariz., and is off to
the wars as a captain in the army air force.
. . . Willard G. Barker (Richmond '23) is
on leave from the presidency of the Morris
Plan Bank in Washington, D. C., to serve
as a captain in the air force. . . . Former
Field Secretary James Reese ISIcKeldin
(Virginia '25) is a first lieutenant in the
air force and is booked for overseas duty.
. . . Gene Littler (Nebraska '42), who used
to burn up the cinder path in the quarter
mile, is an aviation cadet in training on the
campus of St. Mary's College in California.
. . . Lieutenant-Colonel Elvin S. Ligon
(Richmond '31) is on duty with a training
command in Tulsa, Okla. . . . First Lieutenant James K. Watts (Oregon '34) is in
the military police at Fort Ord, Calif. . . .
Henry L. Mace (Williams '35) is a technician at Fort Niagara, N. Y. . . . Richard
H. Morgan (Ohio State '40) is a second
lieutenant in the quartermaster corps. . . .
Major Allan Berne-Allen, Jr. (Columbia
'33) is in the chemical warfare service at
Huntsville Arsenal, Ala. . . . First Lieutenant John H. Stark (Colorado '30) is on duty
in Washington. . . . On leave of ab.:ence
from his duties as puidlisher-owner of the
North Platte (Nebr.) Daily Bulletin, First
Lieutenant Fred W. Speers (Stanford '28)
is with the air corps at Columbus, 0. . . .
John E. Whelden (Dartmouth '38) is stationed at Fort Benning, Ga.