B R O T H E R S IN THE ARMED FORCES ARMY MAJ. FRED DOWDY, JR.. - Eastover, S. C , recently completed the 18-week associate course at the Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He is a graduate of South Carolina State College.
graduate of Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. SPECIALIST FOUR HAROLD L. MONTAGUE - Little Rock, Ark., recently was promoted to specialist four at Edgewood Arsenal, Md., where he is serving with ChemiARMY CAPT. HAROLD N. BRADBY, JR., cal Research and Development Laboratory. - Corona. N. Y., recently was assigned to the He is a graduate of Philander Smith College. 80th Artillery in Vicenza, Italy. He Is a ARMY PFC JAMES E. PORTER - Washinggraduate of Morgan State College. ton, D. C , recently returned to his home staFIRST LT. CECIL E. BRAY. JR., - Atlanta. tion at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii after reGa.. recently was assigned to the U. S. Army ceiving three months of counter-insurgency Broadcasting and Visual Activity, Pacific on and guerilla warfare training in the jungles Okinawa. He is a graduate of Morehouse College. ARMY 1ST LT. BENJAMIN H. GROOMES - Tallahassee, Fla., recently was assigned to Headquarters Detachment of the 27th Transportation Battalion at Fort Eustis, Va. He is a graduate of Florida A & M University. ARMY 1ST LT. ELRIDGE W. McMILLAN, JR. - Atlanta, Ga., recently was assigned to the 39th Artillery's 1st Missile Battalion in Germany. He is a graduate of South Carolina State College. JOHN OLIVER BLANTON, SR. ARMY 2ND LT. WILLIE T. McGEE - BalBro. John Oliver Blanton. Sr., second son timore, Md., recently completed the eightof John and Eliza Blanton, was born Decemweek officer orientation course at The Inber 25, 1885 in Versailles, Ky. He attended fantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. He is a the public school of his native city, gradugraduate of Morgan State College. ating with honor. Shortly after the death of ARMY 2ND LT. TOMMIE L. McCOLLUM his mother, he came to Louisville and enTuscaloosa, Ala., recently completed the eightrolled in old State University, graduating week officer orientation course at The Infrom both the Normal and College Departfantry School. Fort Benning, Ga. He is a ments. He did special work at Armour Ingraduate of Tuskegee Institute. stitute of Technology, Chicago. 111., and later ARMY 2ND LT. GEORGE H. ESSEX. JR. enrolled at Brown University. Providence. De Ridder. La., recently completed the eightR. I. from which college he received his week officer orientation course at The SouthMaster of Arts degree. eastern Signal School, Fort Gordon, Ga. He The following fall Bro. Blanton returned is a graduate of Southern University. to Louisville to. teach Mathematics at Central ARMY 2ND LT. GEORGE H. BROWN, JR. High School, remaining until 1926, when he Memphis. Tenn.. recently completed the fiveresigned to become president of the American week demolition and mine warfare course at Mutual Savings Bank. With the unfortunate the U. S. Army School. Europe, in Murnau, closing of the bank, the State Banking DeGermany. He is a graduate of Florida A & partment appointed Bro. Blanton a Deputy M University. Banking Commissioner to liquidate the asARMY 2ND LT. AQUILLA W. WHEADON sets of the bank. East St. Louis, 111., recently completed the 11In the following few years he worked under week officer orientation course at The EnDr. C. H. Parrish on a government survey gineer School, Fort Belvoir, Va. He is a as a Group Leader on the 1940 census and graduate of University of Iowa. with the local Housing Authority. In 1942 ARMY 2ND LT. JOSEPH FEAST, JR. - New and 1943 he worked in Baltimore, Md. and Orleans, La., recently completed the 11-week Washington as Statistician and Pay-Master officer orientation course at The Engineer School. Fort Belvoir, Va. He is a graduate for Mr. Samuel Plato, contractor. Upon returning home he decided to establish his own of Southern University. business as Accountant and Tax Consultant. ARMY 2ND LT. LeROY M. METZ - JeanHe was a charter member of Alpha Lambda, eretta. La., recently completed the eightAlpha's first graduate chapter - a fifty year week field artillery officer orientation course at The Artillery and Missile Center. Fort Sill. member. At the Midwestern Regional ConOkla. He is a graduate of Southern Uni- vention last May, Bro. Blanton was enrolled in Alpha's "Hall of Fame". versity. ARMY 2ND LT. WARREN B. EDMONDS On November 24, 1915 he was happily marBaltimore. Md.. recently completed the radio ried to Miss Carolyn A. Steward. To this officer course at The Signal School. Fort union two children were born - Mamie OliMonmouth, N. J. He is a graduate of Mor- vette and John William. gan State College. The Funeral Service for Bro. Blanton was SPECIALIST FOUR JOHN W. HAINES held Thursday, October 11, 1962, 2:00 o'clock, Pittsburgh, Pa., recently participated with Fifth Street Baptist Church, Louisville, Kenother members of the 35th Quartermaster tucky. Battalion in Operation Silver Shield in Germany. He is a graduate of Lincoln University. CHRISTOPHER C. WIMBISH ARMY SPECIALIST FOUR JOHN A. SARTIN - Chicago Heights, 111., participated in Bro. Christopher C. Wimbish. prominent the recent air defense buildup in southern Chicago citizen, illustrious state senator and Florida during the Cuban crisis. He is a noted lawyer, was born in Atlanta, Ga. on
6f Thailand. Ht iÂŤ a graduate of Talladega College. ARMY PFC Paul L. JONES, JR. - Newark, N. J., recently participated in Exercise Mama Rock in Southern Germany. He is a graduate of St. Paul College, Lawrenceville, Va. ARMY PFC NATHANIEL FRAZIER - Savannah, Ga., is participating in a three-week training exercise in Hawaii. He is a graduate of Savannah, Ga. ARMY PVTi JESSE W. BLALOCK - JoneSboro, Ga., recently was assigned to the U. S. Army Biological Laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md. He is a graduate of Morris Brown College. ARMY PVT. JOHN GUILLORY - Opelousas, La., completed basic training at Camp Jackson. S. C, now stationed in Spain. He is a graduate of Grambling College. ARMY CAPT. CHARLES F. WILSON - Marietta, Ohio, recently completed the 15-week associate quartermaster officer career course at The Quartermaster Center, Fort Lee, VaÂť He is a graduate of Ohio University.
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February 6, 1892, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Christopher C. Wimbish, Sr. Attorney Wimbish attended Atlanta University. Howard University, and was graduated from Northwestern University Law School with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1925. From 1915 to 1917, he was an agent of the Standard Life Insurance Company of Atlanta. In 1917 he volunteered for military service and saw active duty at the front in World War I. From 1919 through 1923, he owned and operated the Idle Hour Theatre in Philadelphia. Later in 1924. he was employed in the real estate department of the Lincoln State Bank of Chicago. Bro. Wimbish was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1927. He was Assistant State's Attorney for four years, and Assistant Corporation Counsel of the City of Chicago. He took special courses in Real Estate Law, and was proficient in abstracting of titlei and all matters pertaining thereto. In his Work, he was specialized and practiced for 32 years. He was elected to his first public office as a State Senator in 1940 and served 12 years. He was the original sponsor of FEPC legislation, and a bill to provide for compulsory insurance for auto drivers. Bro. Wimbish was the first Negro to serve as an assistant to the Chief Justice of Municipal Court, and is the co-author with Judge Joseph B. Hermes of a book titled, "firiminal and Quasi-Criminal Complaint Forms and Bail Bond Rules," a standard referenoe work in all Chicago police stations. Since 1958 he served as a Trustee of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago. He was appointed by Governor Horner of Illinois, as a member of the Commission to inquire into present conditions and to make recommendations to the General Assembly to improve the economic, cultural, health and living conditions of the urban colored population of the State of Illinois. This appointment was made in 1940. Bro. Wimbish died at home on December 27, 1962. He is survived by his widow Mrs. Odessa Ireland Wimbish and his sister Edythe Wimbish Thomas. Funeral Service and burial were held in Atlanta, Georgia.
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