Wayne was graduated from the
University of Kansas at Lawrence |
where he was also prominent in

_ athletics, and a member of Kan-

 

sas’ track and relay teams. After
his graduation there he became an
accountant and was employed in.
West Virginia when he was in-

ducted through Selective Service.
-| On Nov. 23, 1942, he was gradu-
‘|; ated from the Infantry School at
Fort Benning, Ga., with the rank
of second lieutenant and was home.
on a furlough shortly afterwards. |
At that time he expressed his con-
viction in the value of military
training and said that he hoped
that after the war it would be-
come a compulsory part of the
training of young peone in the
schools,

No details of his sad death were
given in today’s message but it is
presumed he was killed in the
Aleutian Islands as that was the
week when fighting on Attu was
at its peak. x

Wayne is remembered as an in-
dustrious and ambitious young
man. After hig graduation from
high school here he worked in
Ohio, saving money enough for his
tuition at Kansas University, at :
Lawrence. He worked his way
through that institution,  be-
ing handicapped by the loss. of
time following a major surgical
operation. He was a member of
the Sigma Phi Epsilon Greek let-
ter fraternity there.

Lieut. Nees was 30 years of age
and most of his years were spent].
in Brazil. The family survivors
‘are the parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Alonzo B. Nees; Carl, of Port Clin-
ton, O.; William Earl and Burton, |
of Indianapolis, and Warren, ‘of
Terre Haute. A brother, John
Paul, was drowned while bathing |
at Mansfield twenty-two years ago
this month.