C News o[ Our Friends in The Services ,D

Lieutenant James R Pierce, U. S. Navy has been promoted to lieutenant, senior grade. He is a son-in-law of Frank Paramino, Paramino Lumber Company, San Francisco, and was formerly a salesman for the company.

Lieut. John A. McBride, U. S. Marines, son of E. S. McBride, Davis Lumber Co., Davis, Calif., and formerly associated with this firm, left in Septem,ber for service in the Southwest Pacific area. He is attached to the Marine Air Group.

Pfc Earle E,. Johnson, Jr., son of Earle E. Johnson, Sr., Watsonville Lumber Co., Watsonville, Calif., is in service with the Marine Corps anti-aircraft in the Pacific area. He is a graduate o{ San Rafael Military Academy, and worked in his father's yard in vacations. He enlisted in August, 1943, and went overseas at the first of this year.

Lieut. Bob Hogan, IJSN, was recently promoted to tieutenant senior grade. He was overseas in the Pacific area for ayear, bnd is now stationed at the Oakland Naval Supply Depot.

Lieut. Albert Hogan was also recently promoted to lieutenant, senior grade. He is stationed in San Francisco. Both are brothers of Tom Hogan III, Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland, and were formerly employed by the company. Both are graduates of the University of California.

First Lieut. Cameron Hall, Army Medical Corps, son of James L. Hall, wholesale lumberman, San Francisco, is now taking Paratroop training at Fort Benning, Georgia. He is a graduate of Stanford Medical School.

James O'Banion Handley, Jr., son of J. O. Handley, Sr., Carmel Builders Supply, Carmel, entered the Marines V-l2 Training Corps at the age of 17 in July,1943; spent a year at the University o{ Colorado, Boulder, Colo., and is now attending U.S.C., Los Angeles. He will go to Paris Island, S. C. for final U. S. Marine Corps training.

Charles Schaffer, Citizens Lumber Co., Kingsburg, Calif., has three sons in the service of their country. Staff Sgt. Charles L. Schafier, former manager of the 'company's Reedley yard and a member of the firm, is in the U. S. Air Force, a radio operator and gunner on a B-D bomber, with two years' service. He has had two close calls, was injured and is now nearly recovered.

Stanley Schaffer is a Stafi Sergeant in the Army Medical Corps in the Pacific area. He has three years' service, was a medical student at U.S.C., and used to work in his father's yards in vacations.

Corporal Harold B. Schaffer has been in France since D-Day with the U. S. Infantry.

Herb. Bickell, who was manager of the Merner Lumber Co., Palo Alto, before entering the service, and who has been with the Navy Seabees for some time, is now managing a sarvmill on an island in the South Pacific, cutting hardwoods and softwoods. The natives who work for the mill are head-hunters, and Herb reports they are very good workers.

Major Wilbur M. Wilson, Overseas Supply Division, Oakland Army Base, was a guest at the head table at the dinner of the Lumber Merchants Association ol California, held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, October 20. He was a partner in the Willard Lumber Co., Fresno, before entering the service several years ago.

Lieut. Ed La Franchi, USN, is stationed at a Naval supply base on the recently taken island of Peleliu, in the Palau group. IIe was formerly with Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland wholesale lumber firm. fn a recent letter he asked to be remembered to all his friends in the lumber business.

A. J. Koll Planing Mill Ltd., Los Angeles, has just received a letter from Angel Tristan, who was one of their truck drivers before going into the Service, reporting that he is now in Germany. His brother, Johnny, who was a cabinet worker with the company, is in France.

A/S James E. Clarke, Jr., son of James E. Clarke, Sr., fnanager of the St. Helena yard of Hammond Lumber Co. is in boot camp at San Diego U. S. Navy training center. He worked in his father's yard in school va,cations.

Lieut. Roy E. Hills, Jr., USN, was re,cently on leave from his ship. His father, Roy E. Hills, Sr., WendlingNathan Co., San Francisco, recently spent 10 days with him in San Diego and Los Angeles.

Machinist's Mate, First Class, W. K. Kendrick, Jr., recently spent 20 days leave with his parents. He is the son of W. K. Kendrick, Sr., sales manag'er, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno. l{e wears the Silver Star for participation in five major campaigns, the Asiatic Pacific and American Theater ribbons and other decorations. His destroyer fought in the invasions of Attu, Sitka, Hollandia, the Carolines, the Marianas, including Saipan and Tinian. It also raided Truk, Palau, Yap, Wake and other island fortresses. W. K. J.. was in his second year in Fresno State College before enlisting, and worked in vacations at Yosemite Sugar Pine Lumber Co.

Gene Hall was in San Francisco recently between trips to the South Pacific. He was formerly with Harbor plywood Corporation of California, San Francisco, as salesman, and is now a navigator in the Air Transport Command.

\Marrant Officer, Junior Henry M. Hink, president Co., San Francisco, is now in

Grade, Robert Hink, son of of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber F'rance with the 95th Infantry.

Sgt. Ed lfeiberger, Headquarters Company, 38th Infantry Division, I-ISA, is now in New Guinea. Before going into the service he was with Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. at the San Francisco office.

T/Sgt. Wm. B. McCabe, USA, has been in Italy for some time. His brother, T/Sgt. Jack McCabe, USA, is in the South Pacific area. They are sons of the late John C. McCabe, San Francisco wholesale lumberman.

I-ieut. John Gamerston, son of H. B. Gamerston oI Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., San Francisco, was home on leave recently after 18 months' service in the antiaircraft in the Aleutians. He has returned to active duty for reassignment.

Kenneth E. Galpin, lS-year-old son of Ed Galpin, Seasicle Lumber Co., Seaside, Calif., entered the U. S. Army October 17. He assisted his father in the yard in school vacations and is looking forward to becoming a lumberman after the war.

Quartermaster William Mclellan, Submarine Service, son of Keith Nlclellan, purchasing agent for White Brothers, San Francisco, was recently home on leave.

Pvt. Schuyler Lelvis, son of Everett Lewis of Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., Oakland, who was in an anti-aircraft replacement battalion at Fort Bliss, Texas, has been transferred to the paratroopers.