Frank J. Potter
Humboldt Standard
Wednesday, July 11, 1945 pg. 10 “Frank J. Potter Lost In Pacific” Among the 1700 American prisoners of war aboard a Jap freighter which was sunk last October off the China coast when mistakenly torpedoed by a United States submarine was Frank J. Potter, electricians mate first class, of Eureka, whom the War Department has declared lost at sea. The ship was en route from the Philippines to Japan. Potter graduated in 1939 from Eureka High school and enlisted soon after in the Navy. His parents. Mr. and Mrs. Boone J. Potter, now live at Milwaukee, Oregon, where a sister, Jean Potter, also lives. Another sister, Mrs. Eldred Look, lives at Clearwater, Florida, where her husband, a lieutenant, is stationed. |