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OAT RCE EIMTBEIN NTE at # j : a | i rl | dH i af ; fr 7 5 bd z a E + 3 Ft ais il © my dear.” was to the den & flash with two matches. Uncle Louie > tot oy me go first, my deer to the basement with —-— ee ©. sar ‘Third Army, Patton's Army, tamed flembeyence and dash with the ehill of its pistol-totin’ com- @aeier to muscle its way across France and Germany in one of the war's mest spectacular surges. A pelpgict collection of divi- @eme from other armies, it start- «@ from Nermandy'’s treacherous “ws and dashed through hee Le gop, made by the First Aree, with euch speed that the whole pian of the European cam- paige hed to be changed hen they entered | straight Sin Low served to} number. @| the Moselle and for a time it was ing, Magnolia, I have a “Please, please,” she begged on bended knee. , mah baby, don’t go down in dat dungeon with dat Uncle Louie!” lia, get up on your feet!” Madge said crossly. lia s' toher feet. ive to go down fo'?” “Uncle Louie needs me.” “What fo’?” she asked in a frightened whisper. “I'm going to help Uncle Louie startle the scientific world and revolutionize the entire universe.” wees eyes bulged. “You is’ AGNOLIA pulled her shud- dering self together, headed for the telephone and, with trembling fingers, dialed a When someone an- swered, she nearly blasted his ear drum, “Dat you, Doctor Bliss?” Dis am Magnolia. Doctor, you come right over here befo’ it’s too late. io suh, I ain’t sick, but my said,| honey-chile is! What’s dat? Where is she? She am down in the base- ment wid Uncle Louie. Who is Uncle Louie? He ain't nobody, ‘cause he am daid!” Then she flared up, “Dat ain’t true! You-all knows dat I never indulges in a ! How does I know dere is a Uncle Louie? I knows, ‘cause he done go ridin’ wid mah baby dis morn: a den he don’t eat The doctor undoubtedly said he would come over. “Glory be, Doctor, come over here quick befo’ mah baby gits mixed up in helpin’ dis here Un- cle Louie revolutionize de whole world!” we Doctor Fred Bliss ar- rived at Winston Manor he was greeted by a_ tremulous, sniffing Magnolia, who led him into the long, great hall. “Well, Magnolia, what’s this all about?” he asked calmly, for he was that type of man. He looked more like a country doctor than PUTT TCV TVET CCV. jumped the Saucr and Our I FLASH, DASH SET PATTON'S PACE Ae te et te tnt tte tn te ts bn te tn te tn te tem | jt beCaUSE get more, the Germans came back.| They dug ‘in on the east bank of} murderous along that river of so many battles. Some of the buys forced a cross- ing early in September, but they were wiped out. Late in Novem- ber after Metz had been taken by assault for the first time since | Attila, the Hun, we found their |skeletons around their shattered assault boats. , Forts Driant and St. Jeanne |d’Are on the Moselle surrendered en condition the facts not be ot throwti its main wean design, osaly nt cal wena east toward Lemans, south and sowthwest through Fa- vel end Lorient, west toward Brest and north toward Si. Malo. The Germans fought grimly to held the Falaise-Argenton pocket, tat ot the same time Patton was @ column into Chartres werthing 8 toward Puris. The enemy was Gumpletely befuddied. The ad- vemcing Ame m, plunging @eeth, overran batteries with guns petnting the other way The army advanced so fast that Gee planned paratroop opera- tiem in front of them were eotled tex « the ground forces eet there th sehedulca time of (he parachute drops. Petion’s men stood aside to let the Preneh stride into Paris, and then ent their tanks charging mne, one of the ields of World Wer 1, without losing a man Then fei ome of the worst tactical setbacks| of the wer With the Germans in tee wethorng crossed the etreat Moselle n.| miles away made public. The commanders |feared their families.in Germany would suffer.” The, forts Broadcast “Our ammunition exhausted, our | food is low,” But we found plenty | of both in the forts. In the battle of France, the | Third had been fighting on fronts 500 miles apart with flanks hun- dreds of miles long. Now it turn- ed to a new task, the rescue of | Bastogne in the Von Rundstedt | breakthrough. It accomplished one of the most | difficult of all military tasks, swinging from the attack on one front to attack on another—120 in some instances. {One company of tanks, marching | 69 miles through snow and ice in | one day, was shooting at Germans on the new front that night. | The Germans hurled 17 blazing | counter-attacks against the Third in their effort to re-encircle Bas- jtogne. The most critical day was | Dec: 30 when the enemy threw in what may go down as: five divisions. “The fighting quality of Ameri- ‘can troops never reached a higher Patton's patrols’ level than in this operation,” Pat- got beyond} ton said. “Neither intolerable Mets and were reported in the} weather nor the best of troops in vieimity of Saarbrucken the possession of the Germans But after the fall of Verdun, the} were able to stop them or prevent the Third Army's gasoline gave! their supply.” out. ft had outrun its supply lines. | Still crunching through snow During the four days it took to and ice, the Third's doughboys Just Received a Shipment of {DIRECT FLOOR LAMPS Reduced trom $24.95 to tee large. Prompt and 190 DUVAL STREET mesic ® SARIN RIE MONE ITORn A FEW FANS left for Home, Office and Store. All Brand New. 1 B¢-ineh Pedestal Fan. Equipped with a High Speed Gen- eral Electric Motor. 3 Rebuilt G. E. 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A captured German been visiting Mrs. Higgs’ parents, | ePinch Top SHIRTS | officer said Patton got away with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hicks, eFlat Top Hickok 5 a jam by theorizing t | Roosevelt, son of a President, | eeeeeeeoooooooooes THE KEY WEST CITIZEN coco ; KEY WEST IN |_TODAY_IN WistoRY |‘ ors_"" |F_ RATIONING TIMETABLE In the year ending June 30, DAYS GONE BY 1690 — Battle of the Boyne —| 1944, the Coast Guard issued 45, FOODS — Ph | Aug. Op eeenans Day. 000 officers’ licenses and more Book 4, Blue T2-X2, expire GAS 1812.— An American force of| than 300,000" merchant seamen's July 91; ¥2-Z2, Al-Cl ex- Al6. good for fe gollons ! FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN |S°Mme 2,000 invades Canada in documents, to: rasmbers._of - the pire Aug. 31: DI-HI expire through a physician whose clientele was second war with England. i the cream of society. He was mid- ie OF JULY 12, 1935 me ps ag | Merchant Marine. Sept. 30, Red K2-P2 expire Airplane L 2 0 Book dl: cae ft ? 1870 Act of Congress gives ry e cea ee Ayes orn eeonaiiey eRe a ‘i a : women clerkships under Govern- July 31: Q2-U2 expire Aug. reacted like a sedative on his ne Navy Department has as«-) ment on same terms as men. Now She z iro Sept. 30." Old 4 and 5: new 1 through: atients. He was adored socially. |¢d the Department of Works Re-|' 197)_Orangeman’s parade riot al, VAEe eee * 4 LU * Ration Board Office, Post Office Phone 43 le was tall and inclined to b slightly awkward. His thin f. was deeply lined with kind wrin- ‘lief Administration for $80,400 tO'in ‘New York—60 die. peu the finger Lane at , the| 91 ferman chancellor ‘says kles and his gentle eyes could ee Arai erapeare hab ec Muay President Wilson’s speeches force X-ray into one’s very soul. | a . tGfrmany to continue war. | ‘i 2 > ;dispatch published in today’s During the past few years he '1939—Thousands dismissed as! maycausenacsinghackache,rheurmaticpains, boeuheetits strike. Gey nights, ea and gh event oF e : eae! id and Rus: with smarting an ing some~ ngland and Russia sign passages had spent numerous evenings at | Citizen. the Winstons’ and he had gradu- ally grown concerned over Madge. pane e He knew that the dreary old! Several sis in the Convent di ze ' ar e are ond- tual assistance pact at Mos- ‘kid bladde house was corroding her sunny of Mary Immaculate are attend-j|@ Mu | your kidneys or jer. i disposition, and, as a friend, ing summer school in Washington | COW. Fe gh nes Lem g eet gy peed 2 wanted to suggest that they move | University, says a special dis-| 1942—Russians on the defensive _ by millions for over 40 years. Doan's give to more cheerful surroundings; ‘patch from the capital in today’s| in violent fighting with Germans. , [iduey tubes flush out, polsqnows Waste from but knowing it was none of his F be Sey 5 business, nenbad Temained silent. | Citizen. 1943—Allies forge ahead in the your Get Doan’s Pills. Holding’ his medical bag he; taking of Sicily. listened intently to Magnoliz 1944 — Brig. Gen. “Doctor, I ain’t one fo’ fr an’ gettin’ all riled over noth but you just got to help mai Buy More and Larger War Bonds Kantor’s Men’s Shop Quality Men‘s Wear for Civilians and Service Men 517 Duval St., Opposite Palace Theatre Phone 897 ‘SPORT SHIRTS lions for over 40 Lage Doan’s give Key West Woman’s Club has completed arrangements for the entertainment of members of the | honey-chile!” Professional and Business Wom- | “Where is she, Magnolia?” he ;an’s Club, due to arrive tomorrew ; asked quietly. from Miami. = =<" MONROE THEATER Vineland TONIC JOHNNY MACK BROWN in “Land of the Outlaws” “Like I done tole you on de j eee F ing: “ ight” phone, she am down in de base- | s Lost your appetite? Feel drag- [a Coming: “Gas Lig e ment wid dat Uncle Louie.” | Henry Hollerich, who died gy? When due to simple or nutritional anemia, Vineland Tonic can help you “fee! like @ billion”, FULL PINT $1.19 a Sana eect “And you say this Uncle Louie : Wednesday in the Florida State | cea & A ae | Hospital, will be buried here! reader than a door nai Sunday after: - | Then she poluted to his lifecsize | Sunday afternoon, with the Rev.) Perea “bats his up th |W. M. Reagan, of St. Mary’s “So—that’s Uncle Lou | Roman Catholic Church, officiat- Thoughtfully the doctor d | ing. the painting; despite the E ness of the’ situation he couldn't help but smile. “Quite a personality,” he said. “De personality of himself. He ain’t got no keep company wid mah STRAND THEATER KAY FRANCIS in “Four Jills in a Jeep” Coming: “Blonde Fever” i Members of the Key West Junior Beach Patrol will be drill- ed tomorrow morning at the sub- marine base, | “When did she begin to imagine | Glenn Archer was installed LZ ; \ ie of this dead rela- Thursday night as noble grand 4 Aart QUICK HENRY, re ai | “When Master John do: out and left her. Yas, s' de minute Master John w in walks dat Uncle Louie! “I can’t believe John would do a thing like that,” he said to him- self, completely nonplussed. “Seein’ is believin’, Doctor. Here, read dis fo’ you eh handed him the torn-out article. To be continued of Equity Lodge of Odd Fellows. Buzzing flies and mosquitoes are | put out of bu: ness fer good... | when you spray ’em with Flit! ‘This efficient insecticide not | ozly kills many nagging household pesis .. «but is sure death to { p the dread, disease-laden malaria mosquito as well! Play safe! Buy a summer's | State Senator Arthur Gomez, | who had been visiting in Miami, returned yesterday. Harry Baker, chief of the Key West Fire Department, left yes- y on a business visit to Isla- a. terd: mor Tan, Blue, Brown, Sizes 8 to 18 $395 4 $595 Mrs. Ralph Higgs and daugh- ‘we didn’t think even! White and Division streets, left the Americans were fool enough!yesterday for their home in to try crossings under such wea-| Miami. ther conditions,” i eHard Straws B E L T $ KILLS FLIES, MOTHS, $950 $F95 Botany and Wembley AND MOSQUITOES | 2 5 TIES: eos 1-2-3 Are Good Patton reportediy was suppos-' Today The Citizen says in an ed’ to be holding while other editorial paragraph: troops stormed the Roer. The hy do we speak of nuisance story goes that he wa: Hed on| ta when we know all are the carpet, and talked himself out! that?” Airplane Stamps BE SURE ITS FLIT) ASK FOR THE CONTAINER WITH THE YECLOW LABEL AMD THE BLACK BAND > THEM” arket PHONE 178 “BUY MORE WAR BONDS AND KEE are leaning against a barn door and the door falls you don’t stay suspended in the air. ou = uo _TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS The drive to the the only usable road on the Third Rhine, over Dr. Olin West, secretary of the Army front, was tops in military American sande igen Medical Society, Chi- ii euvering. And tt thine'cago, born Gadsden, Ala. 1 ‘ crossing without advance prep- years ne: — ou SUPER aration by the light of a full moon!” Jean Hersholt, famed radio eaeten teen as ele sen- ee born in Denmark, 59 years Sen" BHO: | KEY WEST'S LEADING FOOD § Duval and Petronia Streets 7 4 sation. > 4 o : _ Prof. Lyman Bryce of Teachers | all over College. New York, noted teach- er of education, born Valentine. Nebr y | Gilmore D. Clarke, dean of the | entry into Czechoslovakia and’ 5, )He8 “ ere Some drove into Austria to meet the City % 7 a pe aes lew York F on Russians near Linz. foe Pianta fared | ee ae = ster agstad, famed so-| Through it all, Patton, who prano, born in Norway, 50 years could win hands down in a con- Di test with the toughest Arthur M. 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