Introduction
FRANK CRAWFORD was born in New Jersey on July 14, 1880. He joined the Camden city police department on August 1, 1912. In 1920 he was living with wife Katherine and son William, then 16, at 550 Spruce Street. In 1924 he resigned from the force to open up a seafood store, Consumer’s Fish Market, at 1003 Broadway. He returned to the police force in 1930.
At the time of the April 1930 census, Frank and Katherine Crawford had moved to 569 Spruce Street. Their neighbors at 571 Spruce Street during these years was the Albert Stutzke family, their son John Stutzke, would become prominent in Masonic affairs in Camden. Katherine Crawford passed away sometime thereafter, and Frank Crawford married for a second time, on February 1, 1936 to Mrs. Reba Monroe, and moved into her home at Chestnut Street.
Frank Crawford re-joined the Camden police in 1931. He was promoted to Detective in 1932, and received a citation from then Police Chief John Golden. He was promoted to Acting Sergeant by January of 1933.
Frank Crawford applied for his pension in July of 1950, a mandatory retirement at 65 law having been passed covering police and firemen. His last day on the police force was August 31, 1950, when he retired along with Captain Samuel E. Johnson, Captain John T. Garrity, and Patrolman Harry Stahl. At the time of his retirement, Captain Crawford lived at Chestnut Street in Camden.
Frank Crawford was still living at 578 Chestnut Street as late as October 1959. Not long afterwards he moved to the Parkview Apartments in Collingswood, New Jersey. Reba Crawford died on January 5, 1962. Frank Crawford passed away on June 4, 1971.
Frank Crawford – Camden Courier-Post, February 24, 1936 and July 7, 1950
Patrolman Crawford Subdues Hospital Patient
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Taken to Cooper Hospital apparently injured. Joseph Bryan, of Germantown, early yesterday morning attacked the physicians and nurses, but was subdued by Patrolman Crawford. He was later given ten days in jail by the Recorder.
Camden Police Department
Philadelphia Inquirer —
POLICE CARNIVAL WAS A GIGANTIC SUCCESS
Considered one of the most successful events ever given in Camden, the second annual industrial show and carnival of the Camden Police Beneficial Association came to a close in the Third Regiment Armory Saturday night with the “crowning of the queen.” Miss Margaret Rudolph, daughter of Chas. Rudolph, of Master street, was accorded that honor. It is estimated that during the week more than 50,000 persons visited the armory and participated in the festivities.
The committee that had charge of the affair included Milton Stanley, Captain Edward Hyde, Sergeant E. B. McClong, Frank Crawford, Peter Gondolf, William Lvone, Harry Miller, Arthur Colsey, Thomas Reed, William Potter, Tabor Quinn, Charles Whaland, George Anderson, Albert Shaw, Sergeant Horner and Thomas Cunningham.
Recluse Kills Self After Worry Over Age and Infirmities
Camden Courier-Post —
Daughter Discovers Body; Lived Alone 35 Years After Wife Died
Apparently despondent because of his age and infirmities, Edward Babnew, 73, committed suicide by inhaling gas in the bedroom of his home at 294 Chestnut street. He had been dead several days when his body was discovered last night, Benjamin R. Denny said.
His body was found by a daughter, Mrs. Katherine Paul, of 223 Evergreen avenue, Woodynne, when she came to visit him. He had been living alone since the death of his wife about 35 years ago and had refused the invitations of his children to live with them.
Mrs. Paul found the house dark and summoned Sergeant Frank Crawford and Detective Joseph Carpani, who broke open the back door. The odor of gas led them to a bedroom upstairs where they found Babnew lying on the bed, a rubber hose leading from his mouth to the gas jet. He had carefully tied the hose in such a manner that the flow would be uninterrupted. Atop a clock was a note giving Mrs. Paul’s name and address but containing no message. The clock had stopped at 7.07 o’clock.
Babnew is survived by two other daughters, Mrs. Mary Wood, of 9502 Westfield avenue, Pennsauken, and Mrs. Elizabeth Stow, of Merchantville, and two sons, Raymond, of Gloucester Heights, and David, of 614 Pine street.
Man Gets 50 Days For Taking Taxi To ‘Fool’ Friend
Camden Courier-Post —
What he declared was intended only as a practical joke sent a South Camden man to the county jail for 50 days when he was arraigned in police court yesterday on a charge of stealing a taxicab.
Police Judge Pancoast failed to see the humor of the situation when Walter M. Drake, 23, of 539 Newton Avenue, said he had taken the taxicab only because he believed it was in charge of a friend and he wanted to play a practical joke on him. He earned later, he admitted, that the cab was not operated by his friend, but by another driver.
Acting Police Sergeant Frank Crawford testified he was on Sixth street when he saw Drake enter the driver’s seat of a taxicab and drive away. Crawford said he overtook the cab and arrested Drake, who appeared to be intoxicated.
Drake told the court he had been married only two months ago and asked for leniency. Judge Pancoast fined him $50 and sent him to jail for 50 days when he was unable to pay the fine, after the judge had been informed Drake is on parole from New York, where he was sentenced for stealing an automobile.
Drill Thief Jailed; Buyer Is Fined $50
Camden Courier-Post —
A youth was given three months in jail by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday on charges of stealing an electric drill from a South Camden garage. A man charged with buying the instrument from him was fined $50.
George Brown, 18, colored, of 1411 South Fourth Street was arrested Wednesday night on complaint of Isadore Mesrau, of 1411 Broadway, and confessed that he stole the drill because Mesrau owed him $1. He told Detective Frank Crawford that he sold the drill to John Casto, of 763 Chestnut Street.
Casto when arraigned yesterday denied that he bought the drill but was found guilty and was fined.
Woman Is Jailed
Camden Courier-Post —
A woman found beaten at Second and Penn Streets early Monday was sent to the county jail yesterday for 30 days by Police Judge Pancoast.
The woman, Mrs. Margaret Templeton, 20, of 1148 Kaighn Avenue, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of being intoxicated. She had been hit with a blackjack and robbed, she told patrolman Walter Patton when he found her and took her to Cooper Hospital.
Questioned by Judge Pancoast as to who she had been with, the woman said she knew him only as “Harry.” She said they had been to Gloucester. When arrested she gave her name as “Martha Shay,” and several addresses which proved incorrect.
Detective Frank Crawford, who investigated the case, said Mrs. Templeton and her husband, William, of 722 Cherry Street, had been estranged about a year.
Gun Toter Sentenced to 6 Months In Jail
Camden Courier-Post —
Charged with carrying concealed deadly weapons, a South Philadelphia man was sent to the county jail yesterday for six months by Police Judge Pancoast.
Sebastian Grace, 24, of 1819 South Street, Philadelphia was arrested by Detective Frank Crawford, who testified he was called to a South Camden house where Grace is alleged to have threatened to shoot a girl. Manuel Canto, 26, of 947 South Street, Philadelphia, held as a material witness, was given a suspended sentence.
3 Boys Arrested, One As Burglar
Camden Courier-Post —
Others Captured on Roof of Vacant House; Oldest 13
Three small boys were arrested last night as lawbreakers.
John Greely, 13, of 419 Cedar Street, charged with malicious mischief and breaking and entering, was arrested by Detective John Kaighn on complaint of Carl H. Brummer, of 629 Clinton Street, manager of an American Store at Fourth and Elm Streets, who said he found the boy hiding in the cellar of the store.
The other boys, Victor Linkletter, 13, and William Hoy, 12, both of 506 Penn Street, are charged with trespassing. They were arrested by Detective Sergeant Gustave Koerner and Detectives Kaighn and Frank Crawford, who from windows of the detective bureau in new city hall, said they saw the boys on the roof of a vacant three-story building at 427 Market Street.
Climbing up the rear of the building they said they cornered the boys hiding behind a chimney, apparently planning to enter the building.
All three will be arraigned in police court today.
Shoe Clerk Held in Robbery On Refusal to Name Thief
Camden Courier-Post —
The police court cannot be used to compound a felony nor to aid criminals in defeating the ends of justice, Police Judge Pancoast declared yesterday when he held a shoe store clerk without bail for the grand jury because he refused to name his alleged aide in a robbery.
The clerk, Maurice Serotkin, 25, of 902 Cooper Street, who was employed in a shoe store near Broadway and Chestnut Street, was charged by John Burk, 511 Market Street, Philadelphia, the manager, with breaking and entering, conspiracy to rob and stealing $225 of the store’s receipts.
Detective Frank Crawford testified Serotkin had confessed to the theft and said he implicated another man. Serotkin, according to Crawford, said he received $35 for telling the other man where the money could be found. Serotkin entered a plea of not guilty.
Asked by Judge Pancoast who the other man was, Serotkin refused to answer.
“It looks to me like this defendant is keeping quiet until the money is returned to the store, and then the charges will be dropped,” Judge Pancoast said. “Well, the charges will not be dropped. If this court permitted such a move, it would be compounding a felony and would be aiding a criminal to escape justice. This court is not going to do anything of the kind.”
Judge Pancoast instructed Detective Frank Crawford to get in touch with Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin, and held Serotkin without bail for the grand jury.
Big-Scale Payroll Forgeries Feared as Man Dupes Dentist
Camden Courier-Post —
Large scale forgery of payroll checks drawn against a Philadelphia laundry is suspected by Camden police in the passing of a check against a Camden dentist.
Dr. Edward Schiff, dentist, of 602 Federal Street, reported to police that a strange man passed a $25 check on him after obtaining treatment for a toothache. The check, drawn to “Herman Kragen” against the Holland Laundry, Philadelphia, and dated March 3, was returned to Schiff by the Market Street National Bank, marked as a forgery.
Detective Frank Crawford declared Dr. Schiff was unable to identify any rogues’ gallery photograph as that of the man who passed the check to him.
Police fear the check may be the forerunner of an epidemic of payroll check forgeries similar to that found here two years ago when merchants were fleeced by men garbed in working clothes. At that time checks were forged against the RCA Victor Company.
12 Arrests Halt Bogus Money Flow
Camden Courier-Post —
South Jersey Police Believe Majority of Those in ‘Ring’ Are in Jail
Flooding of South Jersey with counterfeit money was believed by police to be effectively stopped yesterday with a total of 12 suspects now held for prosecution.
Six men, all of Philadelphia, arraigned yesterday before Police Judge Garfield Pancoast, were held in bail of $1000 each for possession of a spurious $10 note which one of their number tried to pass at a Camden gasoline station last week.
Two men were held by U. S. authorities in Atlantic City on Monday for allegedly passing counterfeit half dollars, and three men and one woman, all of Philadelphia, are to be arraigned here today before U. S. Commissioner Wynn Armstrong. Two of the latter four were arrested in Philadelphia Monday, and two at Somerdale on Saturday.
The six men held here had been in jail for a week pending yesterday’s hearing. They were held for the grand jury.
Two of them, Edward Duncan, 36, of 805 South Sheridan street, and James Wilson, 33, of 2023 West Norris street, have confessed to City Detective Frank Crawford and Department of Justice agents that they purchased $100 worth of bogus money for $30 from a man in Philadelphia, Crawford testified.
Duncan and Wilson told the agents the name of this man and he is now being sought. Agents believe his capture would provide an important step in their crusade to stem the flood of false money in South Jersey.
When they were arrested they declared they had received the $10 bill as a payoff for hitting the “numbers.” They tried to pass the money at a gas station at Haddon Avenue and Sycamore Street owned by Samuel Goldberg last Tuesday, Crawford testified.
The detective stated that the agent did not “want” the other four prisoners arrested with Wilson and Duncan. But Judge Pancoast refused to release them, naming the same amount of bail for them and saying that the prosecutor’s office would take over the matter.
The latter four gave their names as Aaron Howell, 46, of 2008 North Twenty-first Street; Samuel Coles, 38, of 1936 North Twenty-second Street; Fletcher Hammond, 28, of 2007 Merville Street, and Frank Henderson, 47, of 2021 North Lambert Street.
Sergeant Reveals Marriage on February 1
Camden Courier-Post —
Detectives Learn They’re Not So Wise as Crawford Breaks News
Camden detectives are supposed to know everything that is happening in Camden.
It was left for one of their own members, Acting-Sergeant Frank Crawford to show them they were not so wise. Last night he revealed he had been married since February 1.
Crawford’s bride is the former Mrs. Reba Monroe, 578 Chestnut Street.
The marriage was solemnized by Rev. Reiges Larkin, O. M. C., at Seaside Park, and the couple decided to keep it a secret for a time after returning to Camden.
Crawford, a widower has one son, William, 34. He joined the Camden police force in 1912 and after serving 12 years, resigned to enter business. He conducted the Consumers Fish Market, 1003 Broadway for six years and then returned to the police force. He has been assigned to the detective bureau for two years and has been an acting-sergeant a year.
Mrs. Crawford is the mother of Miss Olga Monroe, a teacher in the Broadway School, Broadway and Clinton Streets.
Neighbors Find Man Dead at Liney Ditch
Camden Courier-Post —
Friend Cross, 69, of 51 Jasper street, Liney Ditch, was found dead early last night by neighbors. They notified police. Detectives Thomas Murphy and Frank Crawford found Cross apparently had died of a stroke. The body was taken to Cooper Hospital morgue. Coroner Frank J. Leonard will perform an autopsy today. Cross had lived at Liney Ditch for 15 years. He is survived by a brother, Harry, who lives at 119 North Sixth street, Darby, Pa.
Bed Sheet Rips to Fail Attempt at Suicide
Camden Courier-Post —
An 82-year-old man, despondent over advanced age, allegedly attempted suicide Saturday night. He was John Williams, of 860 North Twenty-eighth street.
Detective Sergeant Frank Crawford said Williams tied a bed sheet to a bureau in his bedroom on the second floor, climbed out of the window with the other end of the sheet tied about his neck, and dropped. The sheet was ripped and Williams fell to the ground.
Patrolman Everett Joslin and John Toal took him to Cooper Hospital where he was treated for cuts of the left eye and possible fractures of the left hip.
Charles E. Williams, his son, living at the same address, told police the aged man attempted to cut his throat a few weeks ago.
3 In Assembly Race Plan Tour Tonight
Camden Courier-Post —
Lodge, Sheehan and Roye to Speak at Democratic Rallies
All three Democratic Assembly nominees—Henry Lodge, Bartholomew Sheehan and Harry Roye—will speak tonight at three Roosevelt rallies, one at Magnolia and the others in the First and Ninth wards, Camden. Announcement was made they also will endeavor to address other Roosevelt meetings tonight.
The other rallies tonight will include meetings in Ashland, Pennsauken and the Fourth, Twelfth and Thirteenth wards. A Collingswood rally will be conducted this afternoon, at 3.30 o’clock, at 784 Haddon avenue, that borough. Lodge will be the principal speaker at the Ashland rally, to be held at the hall of Ashland Fire Company, under sponsorship of the Ashland Democratic Club. The other Ashland speakers will include Edward J. Kelleher, Camden county campaign manager; former Prosecutor Ethan P. Wescott, Frank M. Lario, Grover Richman, Jr.; Samuel T. French, Jr.; William Brooks; Thomas M. Madden, of the Camden County Board of Elections, and Benjamin Dzick. The Magnolia rally, sponsored by the Roosevelt Democratic Club, will be held at the fire hall there at Evesham avenue, west of Warwick road. The speakers will include Sheehan, Roye and Lodge; Mrs. Bertha Shippen Irving, Guy Lee, Jr., nominee for Congress; Mayor-designate George E. Brunner, of Camden, state committeeman; Howard Callingham, Daniel West, Mildred Yemmans, Mrs. Emma E. Hyland, Democratic state committeewoman; Oliver H. Bond. Kelleher, Prosecutor Samuel Iando, Alice Pearl Harris and George Aaron.
Rally in First Ward
The First ward meeting will be at 235 State street, sponsored by the First Ward Democratic Club. The speakers include Lodge, Roye and Sheehan, City Commissioner Frank J. Hartmann, Jr.; Gene Mariano, Camden county Italian campaign chairman; Aaron, Samuel T. French, Sr.; Kelleher, Norman Heine, Frank Crawford and John Blandy. Sheehan, Roye and Lodge also will address the Ninth Ward Democratic Club’s Roosevelt rally at Sixth and Berkley street. Also listed for addresses are Lee, Dr. Ernest Larossa, nominee for coroner; Aaron, Angelo De Persia, Blandy, and Kelleher. The Twelfth ward meeting will be that of the Twelfth Ward Democratic Club at 2822 Mitchell street. Among the speakers will be Kelleher, Allen Dolgin, Samuel Gelfand, Dr. Bowman, Carl Egerton, Foster Meekins and Ralph Acoo.
Fourth Ward Rally
The Fourth ward rally, to be conducted at 428 Stevens street by the Fourth Ward Democratic Club, will be addressed by Meyer Wessel, formerly of the Camden Board of Education; Benjamin Daick, Madden, Lario, Kelleher and De Persia. The Pennsauken Colored Democratic Club is sponsoring a Roosevelt rally at 1838 North Forty-ninth street, Pennsauken, with Dr. Howard Primas, Grace Jones, Dr. Bowman, Milton Jones, Clarence Leigh, and Kelleher listed as the speakers. The Thirteenth Ward Democratic Club will conduct another Roosevelt rally at Haddon and Kaighn avenues. The speakers tonight will include Isaac Eason, assistant prosecutor; Freeholder Andrew J. McMahon, Frank Suttill, B. G. Fox, Leonard S. Bradford, Howard Callingham, Kelleher, Anthony Mitchell and Abe Greenberg. A group of speakers will address two central-city rallies in the morning and afternoon, one at 11:45 o’clock and the other at 7:45 p.m. The speakers listed are Theodore French, John Donges, Clarence Dunkelberger, Grover Richman, Jr., Joseph Moss, A. David Epstein, S. A. Levy, Harry Adams, Benton Childers and Victor Rocco.
Burglar Gets Nothing, Leaves Fingerprints
Camden Courier-Post —
Mrs. Marion Miller, of 257 Mount Vernon Street, reported to police today that a burglar broke into her home Wednesday and ransacked the second and third floors. The intruder was frightened away without any loot.
Detective Frank Crawford found that entrance had been gained by taking a pane of glass out of a side window. Crawford said that he had obtained fingerprints.
George Stinsman, of 14 York Street, reported that someone had broke into his home and stolen a washing machine valued at $59.
Dog Dies Fighting To Rout Thieves From Junk Yard
Camden Courier-Post —
A German shepherd dog gave its life yesterday in routing thieves from the junk yard of its master at Eighth and Liberty streets. Walter Gintoft, proprietor of the yard, found the dog lying beside a pushcart that had been filled with automobile tires and batteries. Its head was crushed.
Gintoft told Detectives Edwin Mills and Frank Crawford he was awakened by a rumpus in the yard, but arrived too late to save the dog. Detectives are seeking to trace ownership of the pushcart.
Police Photo Aids in Holdup Arrest
Camden Courier-Post —
Suspect in $2046 Robbery, Identified by Victim, Will Face Grand Jury
A man identified from a rogues gallery photograph as one of a pair who held up and robbed an East Camden man was held without bail for the grand jury yesterday when arraigned before Police Court Judge Gene R. Mariano. He is Stanley Geda, 26, of 1273 Whitman avenue. John Miller, of 2827 Clinton street, who was held up and robbed of $2046.49 at the point of revolvers by two men, picked Geda’s photograph from the police gallery.
After Geda had been identified, City Detectives Gus Pfleiderer, Joseph Mardino and Frank Crawford learned that he was on parole from State’s prison. When Geda appeared at the office of Albert Brager, parole officer, who summoned him, he was arrested. Miller was then called to the detective bureau and positively identified Geda, police said. Geda pleaded not guilty.
Taproom Robbed for Second Time
Camden Courier-Post —
Thieves Take Key on First Trip, Use It to Enter on Later Visit
Rudolph Di Paolo, proprietor of a taproom at 826 Locust street, has learned that it is lightning that never strikes in the same place twice—not thieves. According to Detectives Edwin Mills and Gus Fortune, thieves entered the Di Paolo tavern Saturday night by breaking a window in the cellar. This episode netted them $5 in cash from a register and $20 in war stamps. Also included in the loot was a key to the front door. Yesterday the thieves returned and entered by the front door. This trip enriched them to the extent of a case of whisky, a case of gin, 10 quarts of whisky, a large radio and three cartons of cigarettes, all valued at $200. He reported the second robbery. Asked why he did not inform the authorities of the original breaking, Di Paolo said: “What’s the use?” Sgt. Rox Sapanore [sic] examined the premises for fingerprints. The restaurant of Agnes Abrams, at Fifteenth and Mickle streets, was entered between Saturday night and yesterday afternoon and 13 cartons of cigarettes and 20 one-half pound bags of coffee stolen. According to Detective Frank Crowford [sic], the thieves broke the glass in a door and turned the lock.
Erie Street Grocer Beaten and Robbed
Camden Courier-Post —
Greeted by ‘Polite’ Thug Outside Store; $100 Taken From Box
It cost a North Camden grocer $100 and a severe headache to receive “personal greetings” early today when he opened his store for the day’s business. The grocer, William Reddus, 56, of 501 Erie street, arrived at the store about 5.30 a.m. and heard a cheery “good morning.” Turning around, he faced a gun and blackjack held by a husky thug. Reddus was forced to the rear of his store by the gunman, who hit the grocer four times on the head with the blackjack, then walked to the rear of a counter where he picked up the grocer’s cash box containing the money and fled. Reddus found the gun and blackjack on the floor a few minutes later. The gun was a “toy” but the blackjack was real. At Cooper hospital four stitches were taken in his scalp. The grocer told Detective Crawford he believed the thug had “cased” the store for several days.
4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions
Camden Courier-Post —
Johnson, Garrity, Crawford, Stahl Retire Aug. 31
Four police officers and four firemen applied for pensions under the mandatory 65-year-old retirement law today. The applications, all approved by the police-firemen pension board, are in line with Commissioner Aaron’s order in December, 1948, advising chiefs of the respective services that state law requires retirement of all personnel who have reached 65. Police officers to be pensioned are Detective Capt. Samuel E. Johnson, 71, Capt. John T. Garrity, 65, Detective Frank Crawford, 69, and Patrolman Harry Stahl, 68. Fire department members include Deputy Chief Clarence Madden, 67, and Firemen John Prucella, 75; Spencer Smith Sr., 68, and Frank L’Esperance, 66. The eight men will retire Aug. 31, with each receiving one-half of the average annual salary of the last three years.
Also approved today was an application for a widow’s pension by Mrs. Carrie Bean, 1103 North Twenty-sixth street. Her husband, Patrolman Howard Bean, died June 8, eight days after being pensioned. She will receive $1000 annually. Captain Johnson, of 211 Elm street, is considered the dean of the police department, having served 40 years. Johnson, who will receive $2019 annually, was appointed in April, 1910, and was made a detective 10 years later. He was elevated to sergeant in November, 1928, and to lieutenant in 1930. One year after he was cited in 1942 by former Public Safety Director Mary Kobus, Johnson was raised to captain. He served as acting police chief from December, 1947, to December, 1949.
Captain Garrity will receive $1601 annually. He served as commander in each of the three city districts. Garrity was appointed in January, 1920; made sergeant July, 1930; lieutenant in 1940, and captain on June 30, 1944. He lives at 2515 Morgan boulevard. Following a “pep” meeting with city detectives Thursday, Aaron announced he had transferred Captain Garrity to his office for “special assignments.” Sgt. William Schultz was named acting captain to head the third police district to replace Garrity.
Crawford, of 578 Chestnut street, will draw $1501. He was named to the force in 1912 and resigned eight years later. In 1931 he was reinstated and received a promotion to detective status in 1942. He was cited by former Chief John Golden.
Stahl Appointed in 1917
Stahl lives at 1513 Baird avenue. After his appointment in 1917, he saw service in most departments of the bureau. He will receive an annual pension of $1401. Chief Madden, 2760 Mickle street, is serving as fire commander for the second fire district at Twenty-seventh and Federal streets. He was appointed July 1, 1910 and assigned to Engine Co. 5, Fifth and Arch streets. In 1922 he was raised to lieutenant, and six years later became senior captain. Madden was named battalion chief Nov. 21, 1944 and deputy chief on Dec. 16, 1949. Madden will receive about $2000, with the others drawing approximately $1358 annually.
Prucella, 919 Penn street, was sworn in on Nov. 1, 1911 and joined Engine Co. 5. Since 1933 he has been serving at No. 6 Engine Co., Front and Linden streets. Smith was appointed May 1, 1914 and assigned to No. 1 Engine Co., Fourth and Pine streets. He has been attached to No. 10 Engine Co., Ninth street and Morgan boulevard, since 1920. Frank L’Esperance, 604 Clinton street, is also a member of No. 10 Engine Co., where he has been attached since 1938. He was appointed June 6, 1918 and served with No. 5 and No. 3 engine companies.