With Men In Service: March 11, 1942

With Men In Service

Local Lieutenant Is In Australia

At least one Ann Arbor soldier, Lt. Charles L. Brooks, jr., 25, is with United States Army Air Force units which have reached Australia.

His mother, Mrs. Laura P. Brooks, 829 Tappan Ave., has received word of his safe arrival on the continent "down under" in the form of a radiogram reading: "Everything fine. No trouble crossing. Australia beautiful."

Lt. Brooks is in the engineering division (or ground crew) of the air corps, the branch of the service which keeps the planes in tip-top flying condition.

Son of Mrs. Brooks and the late Charles L. Brooks, sr., Lt. Brooks enlisted in the Army Air Corps last March but was not called to service until June. He then was sent to a school at Chanute Field, Ill., for training of officers of the air corps engineering division.

Upon graduation Jan. 15 he received his commission as a second lieutenant. He then was sent to Daniel Field, Augusta, Ga., but soon was on his way to San Francisco--and to Australia.

Before being called, he was a technical salesman for the Standard Alcohol Co. of New Jersey, working out of Chicago. He graduated from Ann Arbor High school in 1934 and from the University of Michigan in 1938 with a degree of bachelor of science in chemical engineering.

Lt. Brooks

World War Soldier Recalled By Navy

Robert William Hodge at the age of 42 is entering his fourth branch of the nation's armed services.

A national guardsman before the First World war, an Army artilleryman in France during that war and a marine afterward, Mr. Hodge has been called to active duty with the Navy.

It's just as involved as it sounds.

Mr. Hodge, who then lived in Lansing, enlisted in the National Guard in 1916 and was with the First Michigan field artillery which guarded the Mexican border that year. When the United States entered the World war he was transferred to the 125th field artillery of the 32nd division and went to France in November, 1917, slaying overseas for 19 months.

During that time he was slightly wounded, won a French government citation for bravery in fighting in the Marne river sector, and served with the Army of occupation at Coblenz in Germany after the armistice.

R. W. Hodge

Enlisted in Marines

When he returned to the United States in May, 1919, he was with the 119th field artillery of the 32nd division.

He then enlisted in the Marine Corps, being one of the marines who battled the rebel Sandino forces in the Nicaraguan campaign. He also saw service in the Philippines, China, the Dominican Republic and Haiti before his discharge in 1924, but things were quiet there.

After retiring from active duty with the marines, as a gunnery sergeant, Mr. Hodge was assigned to the Marine Corps Reserve, but later he was assigned to the Navy Fleet Reserve. That's how it happened his recall to service found him in the Navy.

He will report at the Great Lakes naval training station near Chicago soon.

Mr. Hodge, who lives at 44 Luella Ave. in Buena Vista subdivision, which is along Jackson Rd., three miles west of Ann Arbor, is a carpenter and contractor by occupation. So the Navy has given him the grade of chief carpenter's mate, which makes him a chief petty officer.

A resident of Ann Arbor and vicinity since 1925, Mr. Hodge is married and has seven children. His wife, whom he married in 1926, is the former Florence Leverett, of Ann Arbor. He is a member of Graf O'Hara post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Brother-In-Law In Army

Sergeant Chief-Chief Petty Officer Hodge's brother-in-law, Donald F. Leverett, has begun training in the Army's signal corps school at Fort Monmouth, N. J., as a second lieutenant.

Before leaving Cleveland, where he was employed when called to service, he was married on Feb. 21 to Dale Redder. His wife accompanied him to New Jersey.

Lt. Leverett is a graduate of Ann Arbor High school and the University of Michigan.

Lt. Leverett

Father, Son In Service

Ralph E. Teeter and his son, William M. Teeter, both are in the nation's armed services.

The senior Mr. Teeter, who is 50 years and who retired Jan. 1, 1941, after 30 years' service in the Navy, has been recalled to active duty to serve at the Naval Armory in Detroit.

His son, who is exactly half as old, is a first lieutenant in the Army, being plant production officer at the Des Moines ordinance plant at Ankeny, Iowa.

The father is a chief petty officer in the Navy, with the grade of chief printer. He first enlisted in 1909 and saw service throughout the world.

During the First World war he was on duty on the battleship Missouri, which somehow managed to miss actual combat. Before the war he was with the fleet unit which shelled Vera Cruz, during the dispute with Mexico, serving on a ship which landed marines.

He and Mrs. Teeter live at 1012 Bath St.

The son graduated from the mechanical engineering department of the University here in 1940, holding a commission as a second lieutenant as a reslt of ROTC training.

He was called to duty last August and this February was advanced to first lieutenant.

Lt. Teeter and his wife, the former Louise Coon of Ann Arbor, live at Des Moines. Before being called up he worked in the general Motors Corp. research laboratory in Detroit.

Teeter, sr.

Teeter, jr.

Raised To Sergeant

Carl H. Swickerath, 25, of Chelsea, recently was promoted from the grade of corporal to sergeant. He is now serving in the Station hospital of the Army air depot at Middletown, Pa.

he was inducted into the Army last April 3 and first served with the Army Air Corps medical division at Camp Grant, Ill.

Sgt. Swickerath is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Swickerath of Chelsea, graduated from St. Mary's Catholic High school there in 1935 and from the Chelsea High school in 1937 after taking special courses.

Before his induction he worked as an apprentice in an optical firm at Denver, Colo.

Sgt. Swickerath

Navy Volunteers

Two Ann Arbor youths, Herbert C. Watson, 20, and Horace Lewis Cartter, jr., have enlisted in the Navy and have begun "boot" on recent training at the Great Lakes naval training station.

Cartter, who is a photographer, third class, in the Naval Reserve, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Cartter, 819 S. State St. Prior to his enlistment, he was employed in the Dey Studio here.

He graduated from Ann Arbor High school, attended Michigan State Normal College at Ypsilanti and graduated from a photography school in Indiana.

Navy enlistment came naturally to Cartter. His cousin, Lt. Com. Howard Cartter, is athletic and morale officer at Newport, R. I. His uncle, Clarence Cartter, of Chicago, and another cousin, Fred Cartter, of Ann Arbor, were in the Navy during the First World war.

Watson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Watson, 508 S. Ashley st. He graduated in 1940 from the Hartland High school where he was president of his class for four years. He was on the baseball team and played in the school band and orchestra.

He enlisted last December but had to wait a month until he reached his 20th birthday before being able to enter

H. C. Watson