Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 287, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 6, 1950 Page: 1 of 8
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The Weather
Temperature. hi*h Tuesday. 33; tow
Wednesday morning, 06; barometer. 30.44
ruin# Mostly clear, continued cold Rela-
tive humidity. 30 per cent
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SWEETWATER, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1950
NEA Telephoto Service
Number 287
Vishinsky Claims Mercury Here
"'Maniac Nations' Drops To 6--
Backed U. S .A. .12 At Roscoe
Answer to 13
Arab Nations
* Appeal May Be
Hint Of Split
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y„
(i (UP)—Russian Foreign
Cease Firing'
-Nehru Asks
NEW DELHI, India. Due. 6—
(UPI— Prime Minister Jawuh-
, , , . . ... , . . , . .! a rial Nehru called today for a
lrter Andrei \. Vishinsky told ;t.e.,„. . fir(! m Korea, establish-
the United Nations today that intent of a demilitarized zone,
the countries which have up- and a peace conference among
all nations concerned, including
Communist China.
"The issue is now peace or
war,” he told parliament in open-
ing a foreign affairs debate.
Dec.
Min-
pealed to Communist China to
h tit at the 88th parallel were
iliose which supported "that
n«ar maniac, MacArthur" when
he drove Into North Korea.
It was lie fitst reference in the
General Assembly to tile appeal
issued last night by 1.8 Asian
and Arab nations, which called
for a guarantee that the Chinese
I eds would not push southward
a :ross the 88th parallel in pur-
suit of Gen. Douglas MucArthur’s
retreating UN troops.
is our duty to prevent the bor-
rows of a third World War.”
Nehru appealed to the United
States, Britain, Russia and
Communist China ti get toge-
ther to settle their differences.
“They must make every ef-
fort to solve the present tun-
Severe Cold Due
To Last 24 Hours
—State Hard Hit
Temperatures dropped to two
degree- atxive zero — the coldest
in several year.- - at Roscoe
early Wednesday. Weatherman
E. \1. Cooper reported. The sev-
er cold will help make the hugs
and insects die or become dor-
mant. he -aid. About a hall inch
of talcum • powdef - like snow
blew away fast, amounting to
only .01 of an inch of mois
lure.
The official low temperature
in Sweetwater Wednesday morn-
ing was 0 degrees alxjve zero,
Weatherman M. C.
ported.
gle by a peaceful approach to
Vishinsky’s slighting reference j negotiate or any other way,
41" the appeal might indicate a j providing it is peaceful.’ he said.
possible split between Moscow j “The consequences of not doing
and Peking. Washington’.-; for J so would be vcy terrible to
oign circles said the Chinese j contemplate.
Communists may have given In- J . ... ,,iu, w„i-l,l front Texas' worst storm of the ,
■ ia some indication of willing- j(lo|lenri, *mort. on them than on ! '' "’ter. Two fishermen wore |
Encircled Marines Make Dash
For Freedom In North Korea
8th Army Slows Appeal Sent
Up Its Retreat Chinese Reds
To Withdraw
Manioc
by l*(tiled Frew
A bitter cold front, carrying
strong winds and light snow,
sent the mercury down to two
degrees above zero at Dalhart
early today and the Texas out-
look was cold for another 2411
hours.
At least one death resulted
TOKYO, Thursday, Dec. 7 O'P)—Fifteen thousand en-
<0^1 circled Marines and infantrymen smashed out of Chinese-1
j surrounded Hagaru unci drove southward toward a north-
; east Korean Dunkerque Wednesday night against an es-
:P| timated two communist divisions blocking their escape.
A small British Commando unit and elements of two U.
j S. 7th infantry division regiments joined the 1st Marine di-
vision in a dash for freedom down a snow-covered road
J across a mile-high plateau south of the Chosin reservoir.
Their immediate goal is the
jji | mountain village of Kotori, sev-
& I en miles south, where 5,000 men
I of another Marine regiment and
[other infantrymen also are sur-
; ounded.
5,000 Airlifted
l ess to halt their rampaging I a|,* ,h(> ()lheI. counlrk,s in lhe feared lost after they were
t -oops at tlie parallel.
Speaking in assembly session!sent moment!
t illed to approve the steering
committee’s action in putting
t ic complaint against Peking's
pen ‘ intervention’ in Korea on
i ie agenda for full-dress debate,
Vishinsky declared:
“The Chinese people's govern-
i lent is anxious for a peaceful
settlement of the Korean ques- j
t on. This is proved by various j
1 roposals made by that govern-1
ment.
“All their statements contained
t /arm appeals for the settlement
< f the Korean question by peace-
ful means and the withdrawal of
iVmerican forces from Korea —
v/hicli would tie tantamount to
the end of the Korean war."
But, tile Russian said, the UN
has not answered the Chinese
Communists’ appeals.
“Having crossed the 38th pais.
; llel, lie said, “the American
forces acted with the approval,
among others, of certain powers
who now have appealed for file
Chinese people's government to
■-halt at the 38th parallel. At that
time, the powers which have now
made this appeal, supported the
MacArthur march northward.
Now they make appeals for a
halt at the 3Sth parallel."
■world put together at the pro- i caught in the freezing weather
1 <t-hi oil ..voiiiMoti rwvir
Member- thumped their desks
in approval as Nehru said he
earnestly hoped there would bo
“no question now or hereafter”
of using the atomic bomb.
2nd Trammell
Well In Pay
Pay sand was encountered in
tlie City of Sweetwater No. 2.
Rowan it Hope oil well at nine
feet, higher than in the No. 1
well, according to officials.
An "excellent show of oil" has
been encountered and operators
were cautiously coring ahead at
5,228 feet late Tuesday after-
noon.
Both Jack Rowan and Alvin
Hope have been in Sweetwater
during the past two days and
Rowan is remaining in order to
keep an eye on developments.
Hope returned to San Antonio
Tuesday night.
Rowan said that he is “very
enthusiastic about current pro-
gress and developments of Hie
well" and that “this is the best
showing we have had.”
According to officials, opera-
tors will core on down to rock
in order to determine the extent
of tlie sand. If better pay is en-
countered operators will go back
into tlie No. 1 well and produce
it in the same formation.
while on an excursion near!
Houston.
Only the extreme lower Rio
Grande Valley escaped last
night's freezing temperatures.
But even there, a low of 26
degrees was predicted for to- j
night in the Mission - McAllen- j
Edinburg area, a damaging tern-1
perature for citrus and killing j
for vegetable crops.
50 Mile Winds
Cold north winds with gusts
up lu 50 miles per hour were
clocked in the McAllen area last
night damaging foliage on cit-
rus trees. No fruit was reported
blown off the trees but the wind
damaged tender vegetables,
particularly lettuce.
The forecast for collier wea-
ther in the valley was born out
by temperature levels at Brown-
sville. Shortly before 0:30 a. m.
the temperature was down to 35
degrees. Two hours later it had
TURKISH TROOPS FIGHT GALLANT REAR-GUARD BAT-
TLE—Turkish troops, lighting u rear-guard action in North
Korea, launch a quick counter attack across a frozen creek
hed. The Turks held hack the attacking Chinese Commun-
ists allowing the 2nd U. S. Division to escape to new defense
positions near Sunchon. (Exclusive NEA Telephoto).
Hope Held Chinese
May Heed Proposal
few miles south.
A spokesman for
WASHINGTON. Dec. 0 (U?) | Minister Juwarharlel Nehru's
A foreign diplomatic official ex- peace hid at New Delhi.
nesf Commun\stsa^^ A llu‘ '-'01lferecs met behind
dicated' Miine'u illingne- s'pY ha It closed White House door,-. Amor- Communist invasion of last June
.Spearheaded by a Marine task threatened with isolation by an
force, the trapped Americans
and British abandoned Hagaru
airstrip late Wednesday and
started their desperate bid for
freedom after Hying out 5,000
casualties in the past five days.
At the same time the U. S.
8th army in the west halted its
headlong flight just north of
the 38th parallel and turned to
strike back at Chinese Commun-
ists troops moving .south from
Pyongyang along side roads.
Eight army patrols probing
north found no Communists in
immediate pursuit and it ap-
peared that the 10-day-old Chin-
ese Red offensive may have
slowed temporarily.
But in Seoul, 29 miles south
of the 38th parallel, frightened
refugees began again the same
flight south that marked the
their rampaging troops at the' ican officials reiterated their
38th parallel in Korea. ! hope that the Chinese Commu-
The diplomat said that Sir j nists would accept the 13-nation
Donegal Rau. Indian delegate to! , t() halt at the 38th pural.
the United Nations, would not j leY Th(St, officials stated flatly,
utkiccs. i wo nuuio mici .i „au *1.*,ve associated himself with the however, that there could be no
dropped by one degree. A low ^.-nation appeal to Red t nine to ■ ‘appeasement’ ’and that any ne-
*- - ' '• - -top at the old boundary he-|j;^ation, should be on Korea
tween North unci South Koieujajnnp indicated reluctance
of 30 was forecast for Browns-
ville tonight.
At Amarillo and Lubbock the
mercurv went to three degrees. {"V OIIL'‘ ^pni.una
Sherman Bonham and Child- >>eillg accepted by I’eipmg.
unless he had reason to believe | NehruV feeling that
the offer had a good .chance of ; Formosa should tie included.
25. Included were the families
of minor government officials
heading for Pusan in the far
southeast.
Gen. J. Lawton Collins, C. S.
army chief of staff, made a five-
hour survey of the Korean front
Wednesday before flying to To-
kyo for final conferences with
Gen. Douglas MacArthur on the
in
Commission Gives
Assurance Border
To Be Respected
SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 6 (CP)—
The United Nations comnn :oi
| on Korea appealed to Communist
tainous roads before reaching I China today to withdraw it1
the big American supply cen. forces from Korea,
ter at Hamhung. The commi*s.on informed
... . . China that it would mn-ide
Hamhung and its big port °f “any proposal likely to insure a
Hunmam themselves were| conaition of stability in the
,, ... northern frontier areas of an
<"11111* force | independent and united Korea.”
° dri'mg toward the j commission's aim is to
north - south coastal highway a do q,js work with the help o'
(Korea and then to leave Korea
MacArthur ! to the Koreans. Yet before it ha
said the latest information was ; had any opportunity of begin
that the Communists were driv- :ning its*task, it finds the countr-
ing toward the main highway j plunged into renewed hostilitie-
between the ports of Hungnam which have been caused by larg-
and Wonsan hut had not yet
reached it.
Howevei. lie indicated it would
not lie too important even if the
highway is cut since Hungnam
has excellent docking facilities
fully cajiable of handling the
vessels needed for an evacuation
by sea.
Temporary Defense Here
In the west, the 8th Army
continued its retreat toward Se-
oul from Pyong. ang bei ind tem
Chinese forces attacking the
United Nations troops.
“As the supporters of these
forces have proclaimed that tli
United Nations forces are the
aggressors, the commission find
it necessary to repeat once again
the reasons why the United Na
[tions forces are in Korea," the
(broadcast appeal said.
“The forces of the United Na-
tions are in Korea because o‘
acti’"' «ggre**j< committed or
the 25th of June. 1950. . jwinsi
crisis facing American arms
the undeclared war with China.
,,,. , ,, , f . . ... Officials said the main prob- Collins said in an interview
ress ail reported lows of seven j with the report ol tin.- Ujpio- | jem jn Korea now is not the j in Seoul that the United States
degrees with traces of snow, Wi-[ mat the previous bleak outiooK j tjnle for anv "package arrange- could spare only one more di-
chit ;> Falls had eight, Abilene 11. Dn <»ificial quarterschanged to , ment phis'apparently left the vision, the 82nd Airborne, for
IS. It. i • i » .. .*!_ Id ITM ..... id ,1,110 /if dtmtmn- nlitimi-m in t 1( . _____
Prowler Beats
Santa Fe Man
A Negro man, giving his name
tjas Frank Moton, about 24, ar-
rested by police officers ill con-
nection with attack on a Santa
•’e employee here Monday night
at the Santa Fe freight office,
has been charged by complaint
with complicity in burglary of
Hie Rigsby Transfer Co., Satur-
day night.
Don Eng ike, IS, tliiid Dick cat if gan .\ngL,i0 were expected to
checker for the Santa fe, was vislt jn Sweetwater Wednesday
attacked by a Negro( man when afternoon and inspect the Mus-
ghe came 'nt,° lhe off!ct‘ a',(,ul A i tang football bowl,
t a. in. Tuesday morning. Appar-, for ., 11CW
tMilly the man was hiding in the
Dallas 12. Austin Is,' El Paso HM one of cautious optimi-m in tin w. . consideration
San Antonio 21, Waco IB, Luf-jhght of rapidly-developing l)oa(0|()f Xehru’s broader plan if nego-
kin 20, and Texarkana 18. moves. nations are possible.
Houston 22 ( President Truman and Prime Authorities said Korea is the
At Houston a record low of Minister Clement Attlee ot Brit- j «„[aorjtv proh!em” and is receiv-
nln scheduled two meetings to- iTi/w»s n...... o
the Korean War.
Snow-Choked Route
The Marine drive to escape the
Communist encirclement south
of the Chosin reservoir face 35
airmiles of snow • choked moun-
office. As soon as Englke sat
down, tlie intruder grabbed him
from behind, by both arms. He
struck Englke several times,
knocking him unconscious and
tearing off his shirt in the fight.
When Englke came to, he call-
'd Station Agent J. F. Gilbert
ind tlie police. Moton was arrest-
ed nearby and identified. Fur-
• titer investigation connected him
with the Rigsby burglary, of-
ficers said. It is believed that
three men who were said to have
been in the burglary cashed
forged checks made out on stol-
en four blank checks.
Englke was treated at Sweet-1 trance that tlie United Nations
22 degrees was reported. The ain scheduled two meetings to-, yet, j j o' | > jq pag<_, s
weather bureau said the lowest day. 1-----------—-—-j---——
previous Dec. 6 was in 1898 when i British officials in touch with; _ _
the mercury dropped to 29 ^ ROdCl AllOtmeilt
Even the usually - balmy coast-j days welcomed both the 13-na- j
itr .sas ‘m" "1"“mVoted For North Road
Christi had 29 degrees. Beau-1 . . .n
m nt 2- Mrs. Edwards, 49,
After dawn the mercury be-
Several school board members gan climbing slowly. At 8.30 a ftiac In KOCTOC
m. temperatures Included Am-
arillo 9, Childress 11. Wichita f\L I nnn IllriPCC
Falls 11. Lubbock 5, Cl Paso 20. A/l *-Olig Illne5b
Midland 12. Abilene 13, Dallas 13,1 ...
football plant Waco 16. Austin 19. San An-j Death ended 14 years ol lU ( ^ iv ______________
at San Angelo are in the making, tonio 21. Brownsville 3-1. and [health for Mrs. James II. Ed- t'ommi.ssioner’s court Wednes-
and the school officials are in- j Lufkin 18. Swards, 49, of 1408 Lubbock at i(jay morning,
specting several stadiums over | The 40-mile winds accompany- Young Hospital in Roscoe at; Tlie vote of the court was two
CR teTS? JS [ jjjyw*--
SStfJ"0 m"‘" ”r,h ■ '"'h:™ny“nths.reaP
nignways. j “These international force1
A spokesman for MacArthur | have been contributed by mem-
said tiie 100,000 - man 8th Army,: hers of the United Nations to re-
which abandoned Pyongyang to |pe) this aggression. They are not
overwhelmingly Chinese Com- to remain permanentlv in an-
munists forces Monday night, part of Korea. Their task is in
now has stabilized its position ; Korea and not bevond its fron
between Pyongyang and the 38th tiers,
parallel. ' ~ “The task of the United Na
The spokesman said the pos- tions forces was nearing complc
it ions could not he termed a new |tion. but now untold suffering
defensive line hut that the 8th j and destruction are threatened
Army was in sufficiently good j in Korea. The commission ap
position to send patrols probing peals for tlie immediate with
back north toward the pursuing I drawal from Korean soil of the
Chinese. [Chinese forces and for ending
An 8th Army spokesman said \thls unnecessary slaughter,
the patrols have no contact with
Inspect Bowl Here
Nolan County will use its ap-
i proximately eight miles of farm
1 to market highway allotment for
! 1951 and 1952 on the oil mill
toad north of Sweetwater and
extending into l' isher County to-
i ward the Claytonville com-
! inunity, it was decided by tlie
the state as a blue-print for their [ ing the norther in the Houston [ U;35 a. m. Wednesday. She had |for and two against tlie location
See WFATHER—Page 8
Truce And Meeting Of
Truman-Stalin Sought
! been in the hospital for about1 with the County judge casting
i four days. the deciding vote. Raymond
Mrs. Edwards and her family ] Bishop and A. J. Gorman were
moved here from Sylvester four
years ago. They were long-time
! residents of that area.
Mrs. Edwards was born Mary
Ann McCollom in Trenton, Tex-
LAKK SUCCESS, N. Y„ Dec. j While tlie assembly was vot-jton' on Feb. l.Y 190L and was
B (UP)— A lB-nation appeal tu the j ing on the western complaint, j married to Mr. kmvarcts in
Chinese Communists not to | the Arab countries submitted 1 vester on May 1917.
drive into South Korea was sent1 a resolution calling for a truce! Surviving are the husband:
to Peking w ith an implied as-j in the war-blackened peninsula, two sons, Glenn C. Edwards of
WBt„f Hostiit-d for -, wreiirlipd i su,lince that the United Nations The measure, submitted to Sec- 202 East Alabama and James
Sra,Hi oCr inhudes'amelias source^sald^todav11* ( ^tary-Gcneral Trygve Lie by j Robert Edwards, also of Sweet-
been sent to the Santa Fe bos-1 e^i n ,J11 UIC i ,' Rahman Abdul Azzam Pasha water: three grandchild!en,
pB “ t, "T, ! four brothers, C. ». mt L. M.
„“«'■. ................roitSff lb •SJS, S Sy'ves,cr;-A' J‘
The Santa Fe freight office tung's Communist government i i'talso would l econimend ^ three-
had been ransacked but nothing
was missing. Ai Rigsby Transfer
blank and cancelled checks, a
flashlight and hats were stolen.
1 f- SHOPPING
ID PAYS LEFT!
that Gen. Douglas MacArthur's | month truce in the overall east-
forces would not remvade North i wesl coid war, Arab sources
Korea. 1 sajd,
The American delegation had '
tCtHR
^ 4^1
tio comment.
Sir Betiegal Rau, India’s chief
UN delegate and instigator of
the appeal to Peking, said he had
received no.assurance from Gen.
Wu Hsiu-chan. leaders of Mao's
UN delegation, that the Chinese
Communists would accept the
appeal and declare their inten-
tion of staying north of the par-
allel.
The UN General Assembly
overrode strong Soviet objec-
tions today and voted, 51 to 5
with three abstentions, to put
the Chinese Communist question
on its agenda. It ordered its poli-
tical committee to take up pre-
liminary debate.
The Soviet bloc voted against
the action and India, Indonesia
and Afghanistan abstained.
of Pilot Grove, and S. J. of Leon-
I ard.
Funeral services will he held
at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Syl-
! vester Methodist Church. Offi-
E. Biggs
the Rev. W. D.
Green of Loraine, and the Rev.
Bruce Parks of Sixth Street
Methodist Church in Sweet-
water.
Interment will be in Newman
Cemetery with Patterson Funer
The sources said that while. ... .,, , ,, .
this truce was in force, the 01a,'n8 VVIJ* be the^ I
Arabs hoped President Truman I Paducah,
and Russian Premier Josef Stalin ''r 1 “
could confer “at a neutral spot”
oil east-west differences.
This appeared to he in linn
with suggestions heard here last
week and said to have Soviet
blessing that the big five chiefs
of state — including Communist
China’s Mao—meet at New Delhi
for a top-lex el conference.
Indian sources said the spon-
sors of the 13-nation appeal to
Peking to stay north of the 38th
parallel believed that tlie mes-
sage would carry no weight un-
less there was agreement from
both the Communist and UN
sides to respect the parallel as
a cease-fire line.
Attlee Pledges
Support To U. S.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UP)
British Prime Minister Clem-
ent Attlee pledged today that
Great Britain will stick by the
United States “in fair weather
and foul" and will seek together
to ease the Korean crisis.
Our forces are fighting along-
side yours,” he told a National
Press Club luncheon. “You may
be certain that in fair weather
or foul, where the stars and
stripes fly in Korea, the Brit-
ish flag will fly beside them. We
stand by our duty. We stand by
our friends.”
These were the sentiments he
expressed in a prepared text
made available shortly before
he spoke.
The times are critical," Att-
the enemy but that airmen had
spotted a vanguard of 4.000
Chinese moving south and south-
east along secondary roads four
| miles south of Pyongyang.
Kill 1,500
The Allied air forces raked the
lied.-, and killed another 1.500
1 to run their two-dav score of
for the project and Jap Craig and ! <lead enemy troops to at least
C. E. Waggoner casting the ah- ;,ou.
staining votes. A spokesman for the 10th
District Highway Engineer S.; Corps estimated that the Chin-
J. Treadway, accompanied byjese have thrown at least 85.000
engineer Shaw were present at j troops into their east coast at-
the meeting and informed the j tack. Of these 65.000 are con- ................... .........
group of the 1951 and 1952 al- cent rated in the Chosin reser-1 vvV.s'cailed to'the scenel'but'the
iotnient of approximate!} 3 miles \oir area and another 20,000 are , house was not o aiagaii scriou -
for Nolan County. They took no at Majon, 17 miles north of Ham- ijy Complete tie'ails could no;
part in the discussions as to the 1 See 8TH ARMY—Page S die learned bv press time.
court s action in placing the al- j-----------------;— -___—
lotment north of Sweetwater in- j
toinisTOthig°aSainst u.e project Sweetwater's F/Vsf Poc/Z/c
Craig and Waggoner explained j
County'^ aHotmcu^diould"1^ HOTO In IVOf II Is HoHOrcd
used in Fisher County.
Gorman, however, stated that More than eight years have
the farm to market highway i passed since Sgt. Raymond
Robert L. Powell
Seriously Burned
Here Wednesday
Robert Lee Powell, about 30,
was badly burned Wednesday
afternoon when a gas stove
which he was connecting explod-
ed.
Powell was taken to Sweet-
water Hospital by a Cate-Spen-
cer ambulance.
The explosion occurred at 1506
I East Broadway. Fire equipment
____ lee said. “It is idle to deny that
al Home of Sweetwater direct-1 the forces of the United Nations
ing, have suffered a serious setback.
------ This is not a time lor criticism.
FRENCH START DRIVE We must seek to find how best
SAIGON, Indo-China, Dec. 6 ] to help those who are bearing
(UP)—French troops supported | this burden."
by planes started a drive against Attlee did not join in the
Communist-held pockets in In- criticism ol Gen. Douglas Mac-
do-China’.s vital rice bowl to- Arthur expressed in some Brit-
day as official sources denied a ish official quarters and in the
reported invasion of 20,000 Chi-1 British press. Rather, he prais-
nesc Communist troops. 1 ed the general.
rightly belonged in Bishop's pre- , Bull i Mav of Sweetwater stood
einet because he had little or no (lf{ and killed at least 250 Japs on
F-M highway in the precinct, [ yataan to become hi,- home
and that lit* should designate town's first Pacific hero of
where it should be placed. .World War II, hut hi- mother
According to Treadway, l' tsli-! learned this week that the Army
er County will receive an allot- )las not, forgotten his heroism,
ment of approximately seven Tiu, 1TK,ther, Mrs. W. E. May
and one half miles of farm to i 0f sio East Avenue C, received
market highway during the next i ;l utter this week from Col. R.
two years. i t. Burket, commanding officer
Just where it will be placed is j of lht, Desert Chemical Depot
not known but it is expected it (at Tooele, Utah, saying that a
will run southwest out of Roby. ( street on the military reservation
- i there is being named May
TviiaIt Driver l< Street in "lasting tribute to the
* ■ i memory” of the service of Sgt.
Badly Hurt Here ;^mond ,Bllll) May on Ba‘
Bataan
Clinard Hobbs, 19, of O’Don-j sgt. May lived through Bataan
nell was seriously injured about jvid more than two years of Jap
5:30 a. m. Wednesday when his j imprisonment before he died
truck went out of control on with some 1,775 other American
Highway 80 just east of the prisoners aboard a Jap transport
overpass at the eastern edge of which was sunk while moving
Sweetwater. His truck plowed them from the Philippines to Ja-
into some trucks at the side of pan in October, 1044. His parents
the highway. did not learn officially of his
Hobbs was brought to Sweet- death until June. 1945. His fa-
water Hospital in a Patterson ther has since died.
Funeral Home ambulance. At Born in Colemen, Sgt. May
with the 31st artillery. He mo.-
ed with his group from Fort.
Wm. McKinney to Bataan afti •
the Jap invasion.
T,onc Stand
A Davoa on Japan he made h: ;
famous lone stand against a Jan
warship trying to cover a landii ;
party. Manning a machine e- i
mounted on a truck, he mowed
the Japs downs by the boatload
as they came in to land. Tim
warjship finally shot the truck
out from under him but he gro;.
another gun and commit l
See SGT. MAY—Page 8
the hospital later, attending phy-
sicians said that he sustained
concussion and possible frac-
ture of the skull plus lacerations
of the scalp. His condition was
reported as very serious.
moved here with his parents in
1921. He worked as a trucker
before going into service in Sep-
tember, 1941. Little more than a
month later he was in tlie Phil
ippines as a machine gunner
Child Critically
Hurt At Loraine
In Gun Accident
A 4-vcar-old Loraine fat' t
boy, critically wounded who
a .22 rifle accidentally discharg-
ed while he and his broth •
were playing,,with it Tuesd t
afternoon, waF lighting for 1 i
life in Sweetwater hospital Wed-
nesday afternoon.
The little fellow, Andras Cm-
doza, soft of Mr. and Mrs Jes ;
Cardoza, who live near Lora it •,
underwent and operation and ! t
condition was declared vi r
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 287, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 6, 1950, newspaper, December 6, 1950; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth749387/m1/1/?rotate=0: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.