The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-06-19

and after long and tedious work,
he located by sound the position
Of the nest. He crawled up close
enough to see in the hole where
the gun was planted and there
saw four Germans, one with
his hand on the trigger, two
feeding the gun with cartridge
belts, and the fourth directing
the range. Hawie hurled a hand
grenade in their midst and rapid
ly threw two other grenades in
and around the hole. When the
third grenade struck on the
edge of. the hole, two Germans
arose with eyes and ears full of
dirt and hands extended to the
heavens and yelled "Kamerad.'
He ordered them out, took them
prisoners and marched them to
his command. On inspection it
was found that he had killed two
of the Germans outright and put
the machine gun out of business.
After Hawie had delivered his
prisoners and got a receipt there
for, he filled his duty as mes
senger and thereby opened the
way for the safe return of several
thousand American soldiers. For
this unusual bravery, General
Pershing pinned on Hawie's brest
the Distinguished Service Cross,
brought down his two sturdy
hands on Hawie's shoulders and
said, Young man, to my mind
you are the greatest type of an
American citizen. You have won
your citizenship, not by the
scratch of pen, but grappled it
from the mouth of cannon"
Wounded in Action.
The many valiant deeds of this
young man are too numerous to
be given in detail here. During
his many months of strenuous
fighting, which ended only by his
being wounded two days before
the signing of the armistice, he
was conspicuous for his bravery
and humanity. When Hawie~ and
his regiment approached Sedan
on the 9th of November, 118, they
saw from the rise of a small hill
that every house in that little
city displayed white flag from
it's top. Thinking the Germans de-
sired to surrender without re-
sistance, they unhesitatingly en-
tered the town. When Hawie
and patrol of eight men reach
ed a little two-story house, being
the first that they came to in the
town, upon which there also ap-
peared white flag, they decided
to make prisoners of the Germans
therein. When they had reached
a point within about twenty five
yards of this house, the Germans
turned loose on them with ma
chine guns from all over the
town. Hawie directed his men to
fall to the ground and return the
fire that was turned on them
from the second story window Of
this first little house. AS Hawie
raised upon his elbows to fire his
rifle a machine gun bullet struck
him on his left wrist, glanced off
and penetrated the right shout.
der, turned downward and came
out under his last rib and ex-
ploded as it. came out. Notwith.
standing this serious wound, he
sprang to his feet and directed
his men to charge the house, as
signed two men to each corner
thereof, and accepting the door
as his point Of approach. AS they
ran up to the house two husky
Germans hurled themselves from
the window upstairs, and two A
merican doughboys quietly plant
ed a rife with a bayonet attached
between them and the ground
with the result that they were
hung out to dry. Two more scuffl-
ed from the east window with the
same result. BY this time Hawie
had reached the door and press
ing himself gack against the wall
SO as not to be seen waited for
the remaining Germans in the
building to make their way down
a winding stair. When the first
German stuck his head out
Hawie very politely blew it off
for him. The other and last Hun,
fell to his knees and begged fer
mercy. notwithstanding the fact
that young Hawie had been
cowardly fired upon and wound
ed, he spared his life. When
asked by bis comrades why he
spared the Hun, Hawie's reply
was, Boys, as I see it, am 4