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| motorcycle. Never tell a man to do patton, In fact Patto did | He was a strict disciplinarian,| with polo. Patton was independ-| ; . In facet, n never did | but he never ordered his men to|ently wealthy. jeny hing that you wouldn't do your- achieve a major objective—he al- | | self.”

do anything he could not or world not do himself. He believed that officers must lead and he often was in the thick of the fighting. During the landings in Sicily he splashed ashore

He asked whether there wefe any stable facilities on the post for private horses. A captain pointed to the stables and, to his amasgement, Patton produced a string of 26 polo ponies. It was during a horse show in

ways opened the way. He got al-| most to the German border but ft| is tank, with a meta] flag of |

was the 1st army which later made |} two red stars attesting to his ele- the crossing. yation wo Maj goss, ’ Machting | He hoped to capture Berlin but J on Sie 8 1042 he sent his 0° Russians did that. Finally he! > 3 hoped to make the Anglo-Russian

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(Continued From Page One) and {ato the fight wher his ope 1 1 tanks had not run out of gasoline ! 5 er} a ay us - th en hard after » lightning dash across France| y, srony even if he gets killed.” he| ing Cervantes. va — 10 the gates of Germany. told his officers. Another time,| “He tried to : — FOR QUALITY But he died~with Big touts off~{Aending thew off ‘on an oftensive, elodding, We Own and Offer RE-UPHOLSTERING ion forward. must not fail. Beanies bod : the front be until the last shots are fired and : g . Of Course It's the Congressional| he ast drop of gasoline is gone, 4nd drox re or SHEL BY NG fy men As ne cormpictes tha] He learned his lesson that thel AL the outbreak ~ Preferred Stock Co. 3d army men. As he completed the | .,,0 45 what their officers do in| Yar Patton reierr OC 3501 Mass. Ave, ‘CH-g743 ||ceremony, he said quietly: the last war. He flopped to the|Armored warfare. : “1 would give my immortal soul groung when he heard his first tank at $25.00 per Share dreds of men doing the same Phos ing ven io. ake eter cri He was promoted to colonel by Loar "IOUS PEO! ESL on Oot. 7, with tears tn his eyes 412 CIRCLE TOWER wm LIncoLn $5838 strafing raids. the war's e ound ‘peace . } urned over his beloved 3d army Dec, s oo Mon Stary Peging on Nov.|dull. He participated in - horse parang, » Eup of Sep were to Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott a — , 1885, Gabriel, ilitary books and | 8 th was the son of a wealthy real estate Shows, Soljgeted m a red 3 [Patton figured big in those plans. SS ERR ER RR RL RR RE RE | : Shortly before D-Day on June 6, : : operator who had migrated west-' Hawaii, he and his wife bought a » ® rere rt nd « po | er enor ot sana oa cone} SHOP af Southside Furniture were afistocritic and a proud fam-!g brief course in navigation and Sardinia and Corsica. : 0 ily of the Confederacy sailed 9000 miles to Hawaii via the a Sy ary wa ieaining thee : ; CUCUMBERS? | == Pie Yeast Won ro [Fors ws aces tor woud we sims @)pem Every Evening This Week 1: . He was half-legendary and half-| George Jr. learned to play polo, In 1940. when it appeared that of southern France. They were Pp y ng wr ’ » ‘ real. He was a showman and had|at an early age. He entered Vir-| War was imminent, he was made a Hiery over PAT Beit § - 8 re love'em...butleave’sm... | io live up to his reputation. Of his ginia Military Academy and then brigadier general and began build- UTR Ter Falton's movements. | ". Sr * : 5 Pistols he once sad. -This Coltiwent to West Point in 1904. He(ing the 2d armored division into’ _, "LIC Aes Struck tn the woet if Livin Room and Bedroom Al in ne 1 But sometimes you don't leave that I carry. Don't you think I| was not a brilliant student. a mighty weapon. - The U. 8. 1st arm and the British |X ; cucumbers, sometimes they of § |oot tired-of it? It's damned heavy. He failed at the end of the first| In 1942 he took his forces to the went into Normandy. Days later | | other foods disagree. Youeat'em § |But 1 can no more leave it off than year, but was not dismissed because California desert and trained them Patton's newly formed oy army | . So a & : : mo, i andthenexcemstomachacidgives } |wilam Jennings Bryan could have| faculty members observed he had|for desert warfare in Preparation | lipped into the allied beachhead ~~ on SRR you gas or heartburn. Then's the left off that white tie of his” the makings of a good soldier. As/for the African campaign. Pa July 27. th pa ead. |y a Thi wr po -Sime to take BiSoDol, quiok/ Much of Patton's acting was de-|a_result, he was one of the few| He pushed his men unmercitully Then. on July Ist rey break- | . a Unlike single-ingredient com- | | iberate—he admitted as much him | “Sve-year” men in West Point his-|—but he knew the German was a OU came. 2 Pattus rs ened | alias edies, BiSoDoL gives you triple self. He remained aloof from most | tory. savage enemy and that only highly- | “0 We and Patton's tanks began ' \ —— action relief:— (1) Fast relief, (2) § |of his fellow officers—he was de-| The first Patton legend on rec-| trained men could beat them. . Prolonged relief, (3) Soothing § |scribed as the “loneliest man in| Ord came when he went to his first| He told his officers: “The dugout Demoralized Germans I relief that, gently eases your up- the army”—because he ‘believed| station in- Texas as a brash lieu- telephone days are over, gentlemen. Mile after mile they rolled against set that familiarity would cause a loss| tenant. He had chosen the caval.| YOU €80't run a war {rom a desk. |ight opposition. The Germans were | Conges in powder form or § [in respect. ry because of his early association| YOU Can now run it from a tank or

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Massachusetts that he met Beatrice Ayer, of the American Woolen Co., family. They were married. Patton developed into a fine pistol shot, - an excellent swimmer, rider and horseman. He entered the 1912 Olympic games in Stockholm at his own expense and participated in the pentathlon competition. He was out in front in

forces ashore at Casablanca and quickly crushed French resistance. Over on the other front, trouble was developing and Patton was champing for action. Finally came the disastrous battle of the Kasserine Gap.

Trap for Rommel In Pebruary, 1943, he took command in Tunisia and set the trap| for Rommel, in March, 1943, that!

Junction but his army by that time wag beating through southern Germany and Austria.

On Sept. 3, 1944, Patti's army |

pulled up outside of Mets, its fuel

Ardennes offensive in December,

tanks dry. The Germans had evac- |} uated Metz. They came back. Then |} the armies settled down for a bitter |y | winter. The Germans launched the

; the varied competitions but in the 1044. Patton swung his army up : i J Pevent. the. Judges PFOke the back of German re-|yon GOR clifped the Ger- Sofa Bed and Four Other Pieces : {| : '® sistance. Then he withdrew to Oran 3 a bea ana rour ALL FRESHLY DRESSED—COME EARLY lound that only nine of PAtton's|,,” epare the 7th army for the| Tons {fom the south. it ly ans on | 10 shots struck the target, cutting|),,qinee in Sicily The fal offensive began i “Lovely and Livable"—a DOUBLE SERVICE group of furni- . Pp w ARI N PO LTRY CO down his score. It was at that time that Patton's “arch. 1045. Patton's army broke | ture—it's both ving room and bedroom-—at less than half nm Five oi ° As it was he finished fourth in| no necame a byword throughout, asses Da dita the price you might pay for only ONE room. el the overall competition. Some 0b-| ie army An officer remarked that § Two Convenient Locations + J| servers said that Patton's 10th shot| «yoy haven't been cussed untill © Spacious. Innerspring Sofa-Bed aie Sune 1 {_(026 S. MERIDIAN 3T, STAND 118 ITY MARKET Ji=CCms fO0 same target hole as 8) youve been cussed by. Patton 3 AYE | 3 Narwsuliiag Ocessioust Chwir $ 95 ; : a fo © Gracefully Sty a : all-star anet | J Se ———————————————————" du M6 ne Yet fap» Heavy Dyes fn Appearing without, 3 % * End Table to Match 8 w ago, are ex- JME ; ; ing the Pancho Villa uprising. Pat-| He believed that his men must have ASPIRIN ¢ Table Lamp with Decorated Shade . | attack of the -| NOW IN OUR ton wanted action and Pershing pride to have offensive strength and ama ears against the had to restrain him. {to do that they had to be clean and india kys in 8 Nar || i A bandit called Candelario Cer- neat. Comfortable Tilt-Back t ab the Armory e F|¥antes killed some Americans and| He once noticed his men were YI]! THROAT -i'i “ro A : Patton got his chance. . He set out| not shaving daily and issued an : Iwill get under, -§ after Cervantes with a squad of his| order “all men old enough to shave UE TO Ch i o Ott with Gorman’s § own choice. They surrounded the will do so daily.” cal WIA air ana oman ot the bandit in a small hut. The bandit{ - Only July 10, 1043, the Americans : artain-raiser. 8 withstood a day-long siege. Final-|and British went ashore in Sicily. : 7 opped the fra : afi v : Both Pieces for. ra rood; 221 W. WASHINGTON ST. only... Sears tomorow. . “Hi 2 OPPOSITE STATEHOUSE 1a CHRISTMAS oiIFrT 46 } 2 *MNILLER’S usavovarrirns is 1 395 =o li CHRISTMAS | ( Ty. , Who BB : : : : ardinals of the JEN = ; po a . : ’ wl Football Ji = Jnl avy toward the J

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