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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 24, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS 'uel Oil 3 - - - Until Feb. 20 (Each stamp, ll gallons) 'up! Oil I - - - Until Apr. 12 Each stamp, ll gallons VALID RATION STAMPS Sugar ll - Feb. 1-Mar. 15 (Each stamp, Jhree pounds) Coffee (I lb.) - Feb. 8-Mar. 21 Gasoline No. 4-Jan. 21-Mar.21 NEWS THE MT. PHEASANT, IOWA WEDNESDAY, KEB. 24, 1943 SCOUT CIRCUS ATTENDED BY 142 SCOUTSDrive Nazis From Valley In Tunisia They’ll Do It Every TimeTigers End Season With A VictoryBy Paul Mallon Ja* MR DESKTHUMPER - 1 SOU VE BEEM SENDING SALARY CHECKS OUT TO vermin sneaker and ive boss fired him J , Six, WEEKS AGO. sf* h Bot-LET HIM PULLA 60NER-0H, BON1 THATS DIFFERENT* ONLY A TEN-CENT ERROR? ONLY? I don’t care if it was A TENTH OF A CENT ? IF NOU CAN'T HANDLE > THI5 JOB EFFICIENTLY, WE LL GET SOMEONE WHO CAN! When mr DESKTHUMPER CATCHES ONE OF THE FORCE IN A MISTAKE ITS JUST TOO BAD-— < Distributed by King Feature* 83m-iifftte, Inc.. Reproduction la Full or m Part Strictly Prohibited.) TJLxau*- "to BELLE FADEM LOS ANGELES, CAUF.Fortresses Go Into Action ^ WE LL, WELL- HA, HA* THAT'S ONE ON ME ! HO,HO,HO-ONLV<30ES TO PROVE WERE ALL HUMAN. THATS WHY x THEY PUT ERASERS \ ON PENCILS, HEY ? Allied Headquarters in Ndtth Africa (INS)—Heavily supported by mobile artillery and the best bombing planes in the allied arsenal. American and British lighting men hurled Field* marshal -Erwin Rommel’s axis armv out of the entire valley leading toward Thala, regained IO miles of vital territory and took hundreds of prisoners. For the first time in Tunisian ground fighting American Flying Fortresses went into action, pounding reireating axis ground forces without mercy. Latest reports from the battlefront said that American and British forces now are pursuing Rommel both from the Thala valley area and from the Fesscuan Valley along the Tebessa road leading to Kasserine Gap Rear guard elements of Rommel’s armored forces have taken up a new position three miles west of the gap and are trying desi)erately to hold up the swift allied advance. Battles are raging on a large scale. The same axis troops which a week ago Sunday made a lightning attack {rem Kasserine Gap and swept into positions gravely menacing the allied lines, new are in full retreat within the narrow confine- of the pass itself, heavily pounded by allied bombers and fighters. i (Editor's Note: An exchange telegraph dispatch to London said the ai lies had recovered nearly 15 miles in the Kasserine area up to nightfall yesterday.! MARGARET STIEFEL AND FREDDIE MOORE MARRIED TUESDAYDollar Day — Opportunity Aerial Defeat of Germans Moscow, Russia —>INS)—A decisive aerial defeat was scored against the Germans today w hen Soviet air forces, countering a Nazi attempt to stem the Russian drive west of Rostov with an armada of planes, destroyed 35 of the enemy craft. Announcement of the large-scale air battle was made in the noon communique of the Soviet high command which reported steady gain all along the front. The high command said Red army forces which ousted the Nazis from their big base at Sumy. 90 miles northwest of Kharkov, are advancing deeper into the fertile Ukraine. Three Hoaglin Buildings Sold

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