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ay ae Page & THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, August 14, 1951 Allied Forces ... But Nobody Was Hurt Seriously Have Grim Battle | With Elements ON THE WESTERN FRONT IN KOREA, Aug. 14—(P)—A powerful allied force has retw ed from a grim battle—not with jenemy forces—but with the ele- ments. The main force was made up of Americans. Its job: to proba enemy positions: across the Im- | jjin river on the Western front, | The second forcée,;'made up of Commonwealth troops, was to hold a bridgehead, and to pro- tect the flank of the American forces. The Yanks crossed the Imjin the night of August third. They advanced from 3,000 to 4'000 yards against stiffening enemy | resistance, then dug in for the caught the American force. As one artillery officer recalls it: The lightning was so intense it w continual drumfire.” Then, explosions began. Light s (ning was touching off Paes ;mines. The American positions (®) Wirephoto Were under a foot of water, but NINE CARS of the Atlantic Coast Line railway’s “East Coast Champion” passenger train are derailed near Four Oaks, N. C., but more than 500 passengers escaped serious injury. A cloud- burst caused a washout in the railroad and wrecked the fast streamliner enroute from Miami to New York. Three cars plung- ed down a 20-foot embankment. A few passengers suffered minor injuries. |holes filled with water. | Bridges washed out—first |fragile plywood pontoon bridg |Then, thé ‘sturdy, semi-perma- nent steel bridge let go. Finally, |the pontoon bridges failed—until | |only one remained. Engineers decided to cut it, and, permit it to swing into the pro-| tection of one river bank. But} the was Senior Medical Officer land | Director of the Amer {the troops had to get into fox E the |Pacifie Ar | Hilda Spears of have four children, Hilda Cullen, D., 6, and Sara Transferred To Washington Was Executive Officer Of Key West Naval Hospital Captain William P. Stephensy executive officer of the Key West Naval Hospital for the past twol years, has red to Washington, announc ed today. He 22 for his new duty in the plan- ning of the Medicine and Surgery been tran; Nav will leave August the section Bureau of Captain Stephens ntered the Naval service in June 1929 as an | night. interne at the Norfolk Navai Then it happened. |Hospital, Portsmouth, Va. From The skies opened up. One of |December 1942 until July 1944 |the worst cloudbursts of the war {he was Senior Medical Officer of the aircraft Carrier, USS Prince- ton. From July 1947 until reporting s like artillery coming in a|t0 the Key West Naval Hospital in July 1949 Captain Stephens and Naval Hospital, ‘an Samoa. ptain Stephens is entitled to Bronze the Star, Pur a, Asiatic en stars), ina Service and World War II ictory Medal. He is marrie to the former ennessee; they’ 10 years old, Vida Lea, 8, John h_ Elizabeth, 2. APC SR MOA ACLS SE Ses SRR SE RSSE SSS RES RSAwe seem ~ Local Sewage ! [te 7 | jthey never had to; Svstem Will Be ‘DEATH |The biden however, Subject Of Talk swung | j against the bank and held. MRS. BERNARD LIPPMAN The American task force and | «bis “Red” Backsliding Found By Pravda the protecting Commonwealth} MOSCOW, Aug. 14—(4)—The _ Mrs. Bernard Lippman died {troops were cut off. {Communist _ party vspaper Key West's sewage system will|Sunday at the Monroe Generali For some reason, the Chinese'| Pravda is distressed by certain be the main subject covered by | hospital after a short illness. | never counterattacked. And fly-|traits of bourgeois nationalism ete ave Leal Disacan of she] panera _pesenimenay is) Wee ing box cars, motor boats and which it dinds in some Russian. Buréau of Sanitary Engineering, | held for the family in New York. | Helicopters began to haul in bad- | literature fms kilt tonieht at the regular monthly | griends in Key West will be held jother supplies. ber of Soviet republics was criti- Be ee tee, wan aan fat ber home, «1108 South atrest, | Ane te rerieintinged to zalte) s Club. The meeting will | tomorrow afternoon at five o'- | making. every task a hardship. in Building 55 at the} clock. Food was cold. Troops were chill- | se, at 8:00 p.m. | — aie Equipment was soggy. | will also discuss th¢| The British legation in Wash-| Finally, the river began to sub- | various proposed methods of im-i| ington was raised to the rank of| side. And the engineers got a| proving the overloaded sewage! embassy in 1893. E | bridge back into operation west s v have been et of Yonchon. | r er ally due to the It took 13 years to build the! One hour later the convoys of | eatir the tops of the! Suez canal |troops and equipment began rol+ i she —jling eastward and home—after i : vy officials have been invited to | five days behind enemy lines. vr Dave King, *j attend, announced Mr Peary cel Fred Fro4} | and hock, president of the Engineera| Pasture plants store food in| rs and Na+ Club: | pipes as a resuit of the corrosiv@| — | et gases, ; | their roots and crowns. ja party | criticized a Leningrad magazine cized for publishing reviews |praising what Pravda considers natic by a Ukrain- ian poe Pravda mentions literary back- sliding in Kazakhstan, Azerbaid- jan, Admenia and Estonia. The official party re comes on the fifth anniv decree which for s led ideological faults.’ SEER cena The Militar Point had only it was opened, July 4, 1802. election of officers. Saturday morning, and the exciting finish. SUBSCRIPTION BY CARRIER DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR Weekly Young sop missed the importa’ because he didn’t know the meeting place at 6 I didn’t know it was play but didn’t know that sh versary sale of their f they failed to see the bi KEEP INFORMED ON LOCALEVENTS . . . PHONE 51 THEY DIDN'T KNOW Mother didn’t know that her club’s meeting date had been changed, so she missed the important Dad didn’t realize that the golf playoff was set for That good show that the family wanted to see, they Mother wondered how Mrs. Brown wa from the hospital, a few days ago. The family didn’t know they could have sold those household items when they cleaned out the attic with a Citizen classified ad — and used the cash to buy a new porch glider! The family missed out on the real savings at the annie The Key West Citizen so he missed out on nt Boy Scout affair, he was to report at » M. i here. getting along, e had been discharged avorite store, because ig advertisement. BY READING Capt. Stephens |1200 Jobs Open | ‘To Unemployed | | Over 4200 jobs are open to un-| jemployed workers in the state | who fill the specific requirements] |to be met, Jeff H. Knight, Jr.,| | manager of the local Florida State | Employment Office disclosed. Engineering vacancies from civil engineers to aeronautical en-} gineers are the most numerous on| the latest Job Inventory of the] Florida State Employment Serv-| ice, followed closely by openings for nine draftsmen and eight con- struction men. | } Medical and scientific workers| such as chemists, occupational therapists, physicists, X-Ray tech- nicians, and dental hygienists con- tinue to be in demand, as well secretaries and stenographers. | In Belle Glade 2400 farm han jere needed to work with suga cane production crews while 1500} general farm hands are needed in| Orlando. | Jacksonville, Pensacola, Miami, | Tampa, Orlando, and Key West | report the most job openings,} though humerous others are scat- tered through all parts of the state. Further information may be ob- tained concerning these or any others of the approximately 40 different type jobs listed from the Key West office of the Florida at 314 Simonton street. City Electric Builder Arrives | Field superintendent La | Van Warren of J. F. Pritch- | ard company who will su- | pervise the actual building of the $3,000,000 steam-elec- Van Fleet Ready To Battle Reds Says His Men Would ike To Have The Opportunity To Meet Communists SEOUL, Aug. 14—(#)—-The UN ground commander has declared his troops are ready to “Clobber” the Reds if cease-fire talks break down. General James A. Van Fleet said “We'd like to have the op- portunity, to meet the Commu- nists if they attack. “It would be a real clobber. I don’t know of a better way to get it over faster. “The enemy is hurting. He’s in bad shape. He needs peace.” jn Toky@ General Ridgway said the Reds have been steadily building up their strength and are in a better position for an offensive now than they were when cease-fire talks started in July. He too expressed confidence UN forces could deal with an at- tack. There's been no progress toward breaking the buffer zone dead- lock in the cease fire talks. But neither has there been any sign that the talks are about to break has been | State Employment Service located | gown, Another meeting | scheduled for 9 o'clock tonight, | eastern daylight time. Truman Attends Early’s Funeral WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—()— | } shot him five French Statesman |. Slain, Wife Held “y | ' (®} Wirephoto via Radio from London PRETTY YVONNE CREVAL- | LIER (top) of Orleans, France, | has been charged with the mur- der of her war-here husband, Pierre Chevallier (bottom), a member of the new French | told police she | cabinet. She times when he told her he wanted a divorce | Eighteen national ‘alifornia cover one fifth of the state. 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