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Trie Odessa American are aims PAGE FIFTEEN Largest Afternoon Circulatio.i Between Fort Worth arid El Paso FRIDAV, DECEMBER 26, 1958 Ei A A A A A crir wns Pi uf- -vHtK (fw. Victim Hot Seriously Hurt, Hospital Reports Ronald Lee Tavlor. 14-vear-old 1401' Wilshire. who had been shoot-xDodson said City Humane Officer MKDIC'AL CKNTKR HOSPITAL Fatten! Admit! Dec. M.

Mrs. AlberT L. Klnehen. Mn. Sam W.

Dute. Cynthia Dutchover. Jack Scot Ramon San tot. Orbln Weldun Sadler. Ma Barman Km Wlneturg.

Therun Gale Graen. Tlberlco Caldern. Mri. H. I.

Til-lay. Freddie Travli Taylor: Joe Frank BoWlev. Mrs N.nnl. Pui.l.u i Odessa youngster, was accidentally ing the pistol belonging to Taylor. GeraJ4 Thomas, who wag enroute shot in the neck today while tar- The shooting occurred at the city to the "city pound, saw the boys get practicing with a friend.

dump grounds south of Odessa. immediately after the shooting. He Taylor, son of Mrs. Cleo Taylor, "The Davis boy got a new gun said Thomas drove both boys to the i 3207 Walnut, was admitted to Med-for Christmas so the two decided hospital. u.

4, urammer. Faits INx-hern Dee. U. Mrs. Henry T.

Hlllon, Robert Herchell ical Center Hospital for treatment, i to go target practicing," Dodson Dodson said the Taylor youth nev- is zkr "A He was not believed to be in seri- said. "The Taylor boy had owned er lost consciousness after the ous condition. his pistol for quite some time. shooting. Investigating officers said a-slug "The two went to the dump He said the Davis lad was to from a caliber automatic pistol grounds ana urea tne guns, men aistraugnt it was auiicuii to iearr struck Taylor in the right side of they swapped guns.

After the Dav- complete details of the accident. the neck just tinder the ear and! is boy fired Taylor's pistol hei nuoianage, jsmes t. Merrltt, Daniel P. Muller, R. D.

Mahan. George E. Poiton. ranlue Hemandea. Beverly Sue Haveni, Junes Donald Geen, Mrs.

Opal Robbiiu, Mrs. Rupert Farice Crockett, H. L. Tilley. Mr.

Nannie Pauline Vernon, Thomas H. Farmer, Mra. W. R. Reevei.

Mra. Wyn- D. Rotoblns. Mra. Harold Eugene Headrlck, Michael Lynn Houck.

Walter Jackion Filler, Michael Stephen McCann. Patricia Joyce Huron, Mra. Minerva Ar-line Acuff, John R. Mlddleton, Mra. Geor- ge Flowers.

T. W. Jack Womack, Forrest A. Houston. Karl Charles Jones.

D. L. Mc-Keeler; Mrs. H. A O'Neal, Mrs, Henry L.

Larlson, Sam a Rose, Henry J. Richmond, Thurman Theodore Wilkinson, Ore-ta Key Case. Mra. John T. West.

Owen nmrtnus Mra "hw I emerged from, the fight cheek, turned around and started to hand Clint Dodson of the cityjuvenile it to Taylor when it accidentally division, said Taylor was accident-: fired and the bullet struck Tay-ally shot by Marion Davis, 14, oflof." Bomb Damagos Odessan'sCar Roy Livingston. Felix E. Jones, jerry te ua.ro.ner, Mrs. verna Jackson, Mrs. William Travis Johnson.

Deborah Winn. Firemen reported seven alarms sammie Edward Heard, Ronald Dale Warren. Otis E. Brasfield. Larry Ray Donald-( son, Travis Dwayne Reed, Barbara--' Jul Monk, Madlene Carol Mrs.

I Several Are Injured In Odessa Accidents More than half a dozen persons 0n him. was treated at the during the Christmas' holiday, including a call early Friday after Wendell Ray McFarland Jr-and baby.l vandals threw an incendiary bomb mrs. a. uarcia ana unity. Mra I J.

Slay and baby. Mrs. Archie Leroy Brown and baby. Mrs. Willie Jean Jones and Steve Lemuel Holi- at a parked neid and baby," Mrs.

Leo Layton John The bomb damaged a front tire of a car belonging to Jerry Tid- ston ana oaoy, Mrs. Hubert Paul Bige-kw and-baby, Mrs. Harold E. Nolte and baby- and Mrs. Robert G.

Fitzgerald and Iwere treated in the emergency hospital and later released. at Medical Center Hospital! Dennis Gardner, 18, Abilene, ac- well, 2105 West Van. Detectives are investigating the report and Births Dee. M. Mr.

and TWO INJURED A 19-year-old serviceman and hit wife, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Oran Jackson, 1324 Dr.ury Lane, Odessa, were injured late Thursday when their car (shown above) was involved in a traffic accident at the intersection of Farm Road 1936 and U. S. 80, fo-jr miles west of Odessa.

Jackson suffered minor scratches and bruises and his wife sustained a cut on her leg. Both were treated at Medical Center Hospital and released. Driver, of the other car involved, Scottie Williams, 1 5, of Odessa, was (American Staff Photo) plan to question several suspects. Christmas Eve and Christmas Dayicidentally shot himself in the left after being involved in an assort- instep while hunting four miles ment of separate mishaps. jwest of Odessa.

Garner, Visiting Juan Beaze, 2500 East Eighth, girl, 8 Little or no damage was report ed in the other blazes. jo. J.uy oz. J. W.

Blackstock. Odessa, boy. W. A. Newman, SOS Santa Rosa, boy, 6 Paint was blistered on a.

Demp Five of the mishap victims re-ifriends in Odessa, was released mained in the hospital Friday, after treatment at the hospital. Two are in fair condition. Nell Browder. 21, 906 East 17th In Odessa Ml OK. PaUeata Admitted Dee.

SS. ster Dumpster in the alley in the 300 block of North Lee when trash George L. Wright, 30, 1705 North was treated at the hospital for caught fire. Lee, received burns on his and released. She was in Jenny Lynn Wright.

Mra. Audie J. Hunt, Dennis Striplin, Drafy Dudley Pitman. Mrs. R.

C. Alexander, Mrs. George Frank Hicks, Mrs. John Phillips. John R.

Russell. Linda Mae Cox. Mrs. L. A.

Smith, Mrs. Kenneth B. Cable. Mrs. Douglas Fire trucks raced to the Sears ana tace late nursaay wnen a ou-, jurea in ner nome, Nine Persons Injured In Holiday Accidents tane burner he was lighting on a Roebuck Store, 1010 East Eighth, Mishaps Hurt Four Persons hot oil unit exploded.

Wright is an Christmas morning but the call was a false alarm. employe of Cody and Teague Steamers, Inc. was working on a lease near Penwell at the A cook stove too close to a wall wooti. Mrs. weiley K.

Reeves. Miss Jan-Ice Kay Pointer, Catherine Thomas. Wayne A. Russell, Rita Elaine McWhorter, George L. Wright Harold Adamson.

Kenneth Wayne Childers, Frank H. Priddy Mailt Delaney, Bradley Kent Vines. Mrs. Francis Ball, Tommy Mrs. Adella Faye Thomas B.

burned a small hole in the wall at 305 East Ann. Assault Count Filed On Man Nine persons were injured, in, shoulder and lacerations while hisiand scratches, according to hos-time of the accident. He was ia fair condition Friday. Harber. Mrs.

Manuela Ramerez, Mrs. Two of the four persons injur- three separate traffic accidents' In i son, Kenneth W. Childers, sufferedjP'tal attendants. Fire of unknown origin started blaze in a store room in the W. O.

Lehew, 45, 7513 Florida, Mrs. WlUlam Febert Steinhauer. Joseph ed traffic mishaps in Odessa 1 Gieaton and Mrs. David Arthur shaw.icity limits Christmas Day re- the Odessa and Midland areaf3 broken rlBnt arm and lacerations Thursriau nnH Kririav fabove the right eye. Chance Suffer-! aviyi vamp, iu uicitnar i on vniiaiii S.

C. Merchant, the F.riday he (f garage of William T. Payne'i 1. AA fcf 1 a. A a Mifa.

vemon Contee. Eresmo 'aer-sos. mained in' Medical Center Hospi in tin- wv uiwn mauaiiia. iic in a rwrwar t-i lacerations, of the face and ing accident occurred when a 1956 A rnmnlaim fiW ThiirWnome. rm ventury.

n. mai- Mrs. Ingram Lee Broaddus. Mrs. Fridav a.m.

Fridav. 2U miles nor fhands plus a sprained ankle Charging a 24-year-old clothing and several pieces man with assault with deadlv luBBag aamageo. car driven by Freddie Reayes! w3s faJr WUh, stalled in the path of traffic Onf concussion and mul-Highway 51 just north of Odessa, 'f8. Merchant said a 1956 car driven W-A Clements, 46, Denver City, Odessa on State Highway 51, four AlsoXtreated a released at a William 0. Stump, 18, 805 was in good condition at the as.

isaeze ana oaDy. Births Dee. IS. Mr. and Mrs.

Grass fires were doused at Sec Medical tenter Hospital were weapon after C- Brown, 33 iana CI nii a direct 10 anI hlc! ond and Elliott and in the 700 block hospital with a broken cheek bone persons suffered in juries -and were treated at Medical Center Hospital was in eood condition Fridav with i iw Autumn, reported he was stao- Audie J. Hunt, 210 Eldson. girl. 7 OL Manuel R. Flores, 809 Jeter, boy, of Clements.

wife, Betty uordon Jackson, both in Odessa. and several teeth knocked out. Stump was injured early Thurs by Monroe Rolen, 40, of Andrews, hit the Reayes veincle. broadside, wsing heavy damages to both vehicles. Rolen was unhurt.

of 1324 Drury lane, Odessa, who were hurt in two-car mishap a broken jaw. He was injured while working on an oil rig. Hej In county jail Friday as J. D. was to undergo surgery Fridav.

iF-lrod, 807 Fall. No bond had been Treated for minor lacerations 9 OS, Freebrt Steinhauer, Dell Dty. boy. CVs at dtl TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS and scratches -were: Freddie Victims Report four mils.4 west of Odessa on U.S Catherine Jones. S4 1406 Nlnrthiset Rrrvwn nipnorl tho r-nmnlnint -t-u i 80.

Both suffered aiTcr bruises Bonham and 27th James Fredprie day when his car hit a construction sign, a utility pole and two gas meters at West County Road and Second. said Stump told them he fell asleep at the Reayes, 22, of Midland; Margaitin Hernandez, 18, of Midland; Ernesto Rodriguez, 21, Midland; and Vir Patterson, 907 West 30th. and Norman Thursday afternoon occurred when; feii annA Dale Williams. Zt, 271t Eisenhower. Darn 4 Theft Cases a 1955 pickup driven by J.

C.jm hmi, ages. S675. Grant and Sixth Felix Claude Gipson. ginia Reyes, 18, also of Midland. wheel.

Damage was estimated at Ch-lders overturned. Highway Pa-j Marv F. Ba 81 West 58, 817 North WhiUker. and Donnella Thieves refused to take" the dav $350. Brown was treated at Medical Center Hospital Thursday for multiple cuts on his arm and back.

He-was released after treatment. All were released after treatment. Admitted to Medical Center Hos trolman Jimmy Gibson said the Jean George, 19, 1208 West 20th. Damages, U0. off Thursday, even if it was Christ Victim Reported In Good Shape John Floyd Hudson, 59, 522 received second degree burns on her' back, arms, legs and hands pital following a one-vehicle acci Texaa and Third Henry Clay 40.

S17 Drury, and Lee Smith Rhein- vehicle came to rest on its right side. He added that cause of the Crane, was injured Thursday af dent, 9 miles west of Midland when she fell against a heater at ternoon when his car hit two fence Police said he was injured about 5:30 p.m. during a fight at 905 mishap had not been determined ner home. She was reported in posu at Grandview and Sou 8 -In the accident late Thursday LUBBOCK (Staff) A '50- mas, as four persons reported items stolen. Robert Craig Jr Tom Green Ho tel.

told officers $69 was taken from his wallet in his home a' the hotel while he slept. Mrs. Mazella Alexander, 604 South Crane. good condition Friday. wiiiiuci 9, -to, iviuiiaiiaiia, icimciii gans.

sz, colonial. Damages, X2U0. Lee and Eighth George Edward Greene, 19, 1917 North Lee and M. G. Creger.

62. 1206 North Alleghaney. Damages, 2S0. Grandview and Grant John Floyd Hudson, 58, 522 Crane, hit two fence post. Hudson was injured in the mishap.

Dam involving Jackson and his wife, Wayne Childers, 15. Monahans; Two other men were treated at year-old Odessa truck company Grant. He was treated at the hospital for a cut lip and released Police said Hudson wa driving Michael umore, 7, 1815 North Lincoln, received a broken rieht Patrolman Milton Rasberry said and Johnny Chance, 16, also of the hospital for knife wounds but arm when he fell while riding his n0 complaints have'-been filed. west on Grandview when fiicar cars driven by Scottie Williams, 15, of Odessa, and Jackson col employe and driver of a pickup involved in a Monday night butane truck crash at Brownsfield was Monahans. Hospital sources said J.

C. Chil South Dixie, reported, four sheets, ages, axuu. 3900 block Melody Lane Nancy Jeanne Carre II. 14. 1707 Glenwood.

hit a park ders suffered a possible broken ed car owned by Russell W. Bennett. 3920! a wrest watch and an assortment of costume iewelrv worth S37 were new bicycle he received as ai Police said Jerry Neal. 47, Christmas gift. He was treated Odessa, was cut on the face dur-and released.

me a fight at 117 West Pearl. I. a rrw I ao RMfean lJt HU TAkn tc mt r.A:.'A lided at the intersection of Farm Road 1936 and U.S. 80. Damages Melody Lane.

Damages, Jfm. reported in good condition at West failed to make a turn and hit the posts. Damage was estimated at $100. Faye Plunkett, 45, Hobbs, N. M.

was admitted to the hospital Thurs Andrews Highway and 2Uth r- Prlssilla; stolerV from her unlocked home. oh the Jackson car were listed at Texas Hospital here Friday. D. King. S3.

700 West 18th. and B. J.i Lisenbee. 17, 1527 Beverly Drive. Dam $500 while thex other vehicle incurred $)0 damages.

George Timmons, employe of North Grant, received bruises treated for a cut hand and re- Mrs- euoen when the horse he was riding feH leased. 1 Tom Green, said six pairs of blue Service Stations Hit By Burglars ages, sia. East County Road and Mth Leo Hold-William Eastham. 40. 292S Dawn, and day for observation of spinal in Ca ruth Trucking Odessa, suf Bobby Ohmart.

20, Las Cruces, Nl M. juries received in a two car col fered a left shoulder injury and ijamages, aaju. Texaa and Third Robert Thomas Burglars settled for 40 gallons lacerations, according to hospital jeans wuun siu iiuin a machine in the Dime-X Laundromat, Hancock and Murphy. Pete Barner, 226 Barrow, reported two hubcaps stolen from his car. lision at Fourth and Muskingum.

She was in good condition Fridav. George Robert Moore, 31, 1402 of gasoline Thursday when they sources. They added, that he is i i mnfh imnrrnron onH urill nrnkakltf 1 .1 B. failed to gam entry to Huckaby's Service Station at North Cowden be released soori. North received minor injuries in the same mishap and was released -frdftv the hospital after treatment.

Service station burglars also left Carruth was driving a pickup HefUn. 44, 3110 East 31st, and George D. Wolf, 48. Odessa. Damages.

13S. Grant and Second Edgar T. Holmes. 41. 1334 East Seventh, and Billy Wayne Smith.

20. 303 South Devine. Damages. S175. Texas and Third Gertrude M.

son. 75. 615 North Sam Houston, and Louiae Walker Rice, 39, Crane. Damages, 5. 1000 block East Eighth Bellie Martin Wilson, 24, 4224 Bonham.

and E-. G. Garcia. 22, 816 South Gulf. Damages, $200.

Grant and Ada Geneva H. Johnson. empty handed when they broke into an Odessa service station. that collided with a bytanP truck near the southwest Brownsfield city limits. The crash causedMhe bu listed Fave Plunkett and Suspect Facing Robbery Charge Deputies said someone tried to Moore as drivers of the cars.

Dam force open a rear window at the age was estimated at $700. tane truck to explode a fewmin North Cowden station but were ju.es after accidet killing four S3, 1516 South Broughton. and A. P. Ramirez.

37, 327 East Ann. Damages, 175. and injuring some 200 persons who Inspection finished the job. If i rl 1 I Ct 47 I 5 Est County Road and 13th Leo hold-en. 51.

1012 East Fifth, and Dolph Miller. 13, 502 North McKlnney. Damages, .7350. Andrews Highway and 42nd Ray were watching firemen fight, the blaze: Johnny Louis 24, 213 remained in county jail Friday in lieu of $3,000 bond on a charge that he robbed an Odessa service station attendant. TV C.

Brown signed the armed Thugs prowled Ray and Bill's NEW YORK (UPI) The Fire station, 1303 West Second, mond Frank Bright, 3703 Permian, and William Edward Harris, 26. 921 Nor Sixteen of the persons burned Department has completed an in-entlv in search for monev. Thev Texas. Damages, 3500. spection of all schools in opened the cash it jn.

the explosion were seriously Sam Houston and 16th Doris Ann Xlrod, 22. 3004 Century and Johnny Le- tsew i one i-iry. uunng tne u-aayiwas empty. Thev entered the sta- y'mr robbery complaint before -justice .1 Tt. r-.

ma.J .1 inspectitMi, 36 schools were closed ition after smashing a rear win- -lana etnereage, 15, sou west am damages. 1650. Muskingum and Second C. H. Wilson, 46, 308 Cass Grande, and L.

D. as fire hazards. dow which led to a wash rack. White. 42, 400 Washington Lane.

Damages, 1150. ui tne reace inumas v. iviuipuy. Murphy said Brown told him RObinson offered him a ride to Midland Wednesday and then robbed him of $10 at knife point. City police arrested Robinson.

3100 block East County Road A car Drive Launched At Youth Center Plans are being laid for the an wnicn lert tne scene hit a parked car uwnea Dy Jim taieway. iwr lYin, Damages. $100. Lincoln and Second A car which did not stop side-swiped a car driven by Albert Earl Heweu. IS, Monahans.

Damages, 110. Christmas Thief Takes Auto Burglar Enters Odessa Concern nual membership drive of the Odessa Youth Center to: be held throughout January, announced di West County Road and Second Dale Juvenile Inmate Flees From Home rector Jack Hans. The goal' for r. uallenune, 33, Shreveport. and James E.

Jackson. 34, Midland. Damages. $i00u. West County Road and Second William Owen Stump, 18.

805 Foster, hit a utility police and a gas meter. Stump was 1959, Hans said, is 1,000 new and NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP- A renewed memberships. burglar broke into the C. C.

McDonald Buick Company Membership in the Youth Cen injured in tne misnap. Damages, Ku. iuu duck Laredo nova u. Bennett, ter is open to students of the ninth through twelfth grades. Fee is $6 for a full year or $3.50 for 3t" A 36, 315 East Mable, hit a parked car owned by E.

H. Jiminez. 1102 Matamoris, after knocking down a fence in the 900 block of Monte ray. Damages, $400. Muskingum and Fourth Faye Plun-kett, 45, Hobbs.

N. and George Robert Moore, 31. 1402 Lincoln. Kayej six months. juvenile detention hpme inmate stole a pistol and ammunition fled from a private home wherb he had been invited for Christmas dinner, police reported.

I Lewis Waldman, 13, was r-" rested two hours later by Patrolman H. T- Lay of -the. suburban Belle Meade police department. Lay' said the boy still had the .38 in the wall and knocked a hole in the wall leading to the office. The keys to the cooper-glow colored car were taken from the office.

The burglar opened a service door on the Muskingum entrance to the building and drove off in the car. Nothing else' was reported missing. C. McDonald reported the burglary -and theft; when he found the service door open late Thursday. A state-wide a'ert has been issued for the stolen car.

Plunkett and Moore were both Injured in the collision. Damages. $700. Dow. 55.

1003 East Fourth, and Carolyn late Christmas Day and drove off on a 1959 model automobile worth $4,533. Detectives said the car thief, smashed a window on the building at 520 East Second and used a power drill to bore Holes in the door, and wall leading to the office. tyWficers said the intruder first, wied to open the door after drilling several holes-in it! When the held, went to a rest room and drilled several Youth Center Dance Members of the Odessa Youth tales, IX, am Belmont, uamages, $400. Center and their guests are invit canber pistol and 75' rounds of ammunition in his pocket. Increase Trader ed to a juke box sports dance at the Center Friday an STOCKHOLM (JJPI) Sweden nounced Jack Hans.

Members will nd the Soviet Union wtll increase be admitted free, guests pay a 50-cerit fee. Door Drizes will award- SURVIVC3R OF SEA DISASTER More than most men this holiday season, A. B. Shows, 1 1 12 West 23rd, is enjoying his home, his wife and children. He is one of the 316 survivors who were on a heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis when if was torpedoed at midnight, July 30, 1945.

He is pictured looking at a newly-printed book detailing the disaster at sea, while the family cat peers on curiously at the opened pages. (American Staff Photo) Window Smashed Bobby Powell, told police Thursday vandals smashed a picture window in his home, 413 East 49th. trade under terms of an agree ment signed here. to holders of lucky tickets: Odessa Recalls World War II Sinking Off American Cruiser 4 By TRACY BYERS sinking as he read a newly-publish-lnawa. It was patched up and went' explosion that knocked the off the men clustered, around one life jtart tof the rhirage island The, They rescued one man who had American Staff Writer ed "Abandon Ship," which; back to the States, where major, I was sitting on.

Then a sec-! raft, which floated about a foot men-in the gi'ouV dissuaded a all bur drifted away and was bitten in bhowi.dame out of a delirium to see a' flashlight shining in his face. Two o'her: Odessans were, in "We'll soon be in port. Think of; was written by Richard F. New- pairs were done. Then it went back ona as iwo torpeaoes dciow me sunace oi tne sea, wnn un un riicon, in the tropic the side by a shark.

After getting hit tit? s. I 'walked to the opposite 26 men Jt.J"he wounded were 4., I mn bal Ihn nnnnrita 'IK. mnn ail the sweet mail that will be wait-rcomb upon dictation from LL( to Guam the man onto the raft they pated Vr. i. KZ- fc-T IT sea and were saenlno more.

ing form." CharlesjrB. Kissick, and is pub- On July 28. the ship put out of siuc m.wenmp iu see wiidin. on me rau, ana oiner men Between the fa and the salt oil onto the'wound to stop the bleed- volved in Indianapolis story. The son of Lloyd Rich of the" Rich These were the last words of a lished by Henry Holt.

Kissick was Guam. Capt. Charles B. McVay ul i OJ rhte men's skin slowly was mg. Shows the man later in III was the commander.

Later he delirious dying boy; lying half-; one of the officers on the ship; 0 tntttn ftff nf thPrn ocnana on Natl IllPan ukara UA u- Mnfpl Fact WnnH ua Inc Bh ws iic iiau iwrn "i 'vwiini "us niicii The book is accurate and de-; submerged on a life raft from the He showed scars that flown after their rescue. ship went down. The son of sunken heavy cruiser USS Indian- was tried by court martial and was acquitted. He was charged with running the ship in a straight scribes how the men wenf crazy, saw mirages, and slowly died in apolis, which had gone down half-l "I walked down the ship to the second day from exposure. All sti" are, on his le8s' oiI mark s'nl was on the1 sack with life jackets in it.

A bud-! of us were covered with oil." All day long we fought sharks, man side, coloring -the newly- way between Guam and the Philip- by; when he was told to ztg- Nash Tucker, Grant Avenue store owner, had been transferred off the Indianapolis before it started the fatal voyage, Showg said. the sea, or were attacked sharks," Shows said today. pine Islands, dy joined me, and we slit the sack! "It seems impossible, but the' TOU 1 imagine now micK and got life preservers. The ship-first day o'r tw0 we had fun. we-were around us.

"By-slapping, the! After three days floating, drift- Memories of the sinking of the His own which he Itiere is another survivor at Indianapolis are strong these days had pushed out of his mind through That is the part the book that I know nothing tVas I didn't know our orders." Shows said by then was so far over on its often joked about our discomforts. ana wnisjnng snriny, we ing about 40 miles, a scouting in A. B. Shows, 1112. West 23rd, the years, have come back now, af side, that I walked out onto the-We prayed onre or twice, but af- coud make them move plane from the Palau Islands and one livinS north of MTliA -arrrtrHino tn thflicirlf.

in inmn inin Ko. east thf firRf t.un Have pvorvnnt f''W feet. Dallas. I don't remember their ter he read 'the captain in the Odessa Fire De cidentally flew over them. There partment, who is one of the.

316 He was holding up a boy's head men of a crew of 1,196 that was on book, was defended on his order The first torpedo had hit the' was too sick to laugh or joke or! One day he and a b'uijldy drifted that if it remained cloudy that nerv center of the ship cutting 'pray anymore. Everyone at times a few yards away from the men night the ship could go straight, of halt power and lights- went out of his mind, jdustering around the raft. Sudden-but that if the clouds broke the! the radio and loud speakers. On boy said, "See that pretty his friend said, y- above the water on the life raft when the dying youth suddenly spoke of getting back to toort, and, the ship when it was torpedoed at midnight, July 30, 1945. He is one.

to the "sweet mail." ship was to zigzag." The book explains that throughjisfand. My mother owns it. Seer "Look, under me." Shows looked pi tne lucky survivors in wnat is called the "greatest tragedy at seal were groups of men clustered around life rafts and around life) He came to Odessa after getting boats for several miles across thesis discharge, arriving here Dec. sea. 4, -1945, and wenHp work for the The pilot radioed he alarm dePartmeh' TXx.ll.

1945. all th hir in rhit Mr nf thiHe now captain -at the Nlimber all the ships in that part of the3 Statjon Eas nd Dix Pacific headed for' the survivorsjHe was about 29 years old when It was 4 a.m. the next day thatjthe ship went down. Shows had been on the Indian Shows was a coxswain on dtityrsome error in Navy records, thethat big hotel. She owns it, too.

'and saw. a big shark quietly swim- the night of the-sinking, standing ship was never reported missinglLet's swim over there." jming along and then another shark apolis for some time before the sinking. The ship had been hit by in the history of the American Navy." i Shows waa talking about the a gun watch. and ho hunt was started for it. It all was a mirage, but "he under him.

He kicked his shark "Suddenly there was a terrific! Shows afld a group of about Hi persuaded several other sailors toiand it moved away a few feet. Japanese suicide plane at OkH s. as as r-- 1 -ti-fi r-, -r a life's.