Show japs stop him shot in beer garden does DALLAS TEX peter M gomez former bartender lived through enough wartime close calls in the pacific area to become a national legend only to stop a bullet in a beer garden As a private first class in the 3 ad infantry regiment gomez was orderly to the commanding officer col john M finn offos of lo 10 angeles th their air hairbreadth hair breadth exploits were related in an article in a nationally circulated magazine I 1 As gomez was leaving a little mexico tavern with his former wife a man called him into the garden the shooting followed I 1 elmo 1 strada estrada surrendered to police and a charge of murder u was field against him ile he declined to d discuss escuss the shooting gomez served 28 months overseas most of it with the ath divi slon A machine gun bullet in his left arm earned him the purple heart on attu aatu in the aleutians Aleut lans ians and he received the bronze star for wiping 1 9 out a jp japanese nee machine gun nest and two snipers on one of 0 the most famous fighters in the pacific gomez had many a close shave once when japanese were threatening 20 american amor nn soldiers he and his pal ck col mickey finn covered the american retreat and then leaped 40 feet off of a cliff to escape the japanese bushes broke their fall and hid their flight |