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Show I 'Missing In Action! Is Word Received i With the surrender of American 1 forces on Corregidor island, last organized stand of American forces in the Philippines, it has . been expected that official "miss-1 ing in action" word would come ; soon to the next of kin of four Minersville young men who were! stationed there the only Beaver' county boys who were in the Phil. ippines, to the best of our knowl- j edge. The families of two of these 1 boys have now been sent this word ; by the war department and simi-; lar information concerning the j others is expected soon. I Royle Wood, George Erickson, j Fred Potter and Maurice Clothier j are the four young men who, hap- j pening to be stationed in this sphere of action, were parties to some of the hardest fighting ever engaged in by United States soldiers, sol-diers, and it is likely that they are prisoners of the Japanese I though one or more of them may have' given their lives' for their country in the last heavy fighting. fight-ing. Wood and Erickson are the two concerning whom the war department de-partment has sent the "missing in action" information. Later word may establish their status as prisoners or otherwise. Word of the Erickson youth being missing in action was received re-ceived by his mother, Mrs. Nellie Erickson, while word of Corporal Wood was received by his sister, Miss Effie Wood. I The Salt Lake Tribune carried ; the following historical accounts j of the two young men: j "Young Erickson enlisted in the! United States army in November, i 1940, and was serving in the medi-j cal corps at the time of the Philippine Philip-pine fort's fall. His mother re- j ceived a letter in March which hadj been written in February. "He was born September 27, 1915, at Shauntie, old-time Beaver Bea-ver county mining camp, but had resided most of his life at Minersville. Miners-ville. He was a member of the L. D. S. church. He also has a sister, Mrs. Alverta Parkinson, of Los Angeles. "Corporal Wood was attached i to the Sixtieth coast artillery, anti-aircraft division, on Corregidor Corregi-dor when last heard from in No. vember, 1941. "He was a graduate of Beaver high school, and worked in a civilian civil-ian conservation corps camp for two years prior to his enlistment. "Sherwin J. Wood, a brother, is serving with the air corps at Shep-pard Shep-pard Field, Texas. Another brother, bro-ther, Floyd B. Wood, resides in Los Angeles. Two sisters, besides Miss Wood, Mrs. Ileen Jameson and Mrs. Virgene Jameson, live in Minersville." j |