Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
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~ BY ROBT. II. YERKES ~

Heavily reinforced Japanese con.
tinue to gain on Bataan This omi-
nous headline appearing in one Of
the large eastern dailies yesterday
has caused every American, re-
gardless of color or creed, no enc
OF mental suffering. These brave
men, outnumbered 20 to 1, have
electrified the entire world by their
amazing stand. If the Yellow devils
succeed in driving them off Bataan
Peninsula, General Wainwright will
evacuate them to mighty Corregi-
dor, where they will continue to
harass the invader, until the time
when General Douglas Macarthur
comes to their rescue. There is not
a man ON Battan who is not living
through the man-made hell of shot
and shell, waiting for that day
when the scum of Toxic will be
driven into the sea, to provide food
for the sharks-a well deserved end
for degenerate, sadistic race of
lower animals.
R/s/
In Russia, the Nazi war machine
frozen in its tracks by the severe
Russian winter, has with the COM
ing of spring and warmer days
made one or two feeble efforts to
renew the famed "Blitz" but strong
Soviet aerial assaults and we'll
directed artillery fire has forced
the Germans to again retreat.
The position of the Russians,
however, is precarious, for the Ger
mans, despite removal. have kept
their armies and lines intact. That,
coupled with the fact that they still
hold number of strongly fortified
bases from which to launch coun-
ter attacks, can only mean one thing
when the ground dries off-the
drive to the East will begin all
over again. Whether the Russians,
who have shown the world they
can fight and fight we'll, can with
stand this coming assault, depends
greatly on the United States and
England, The Russians need mill
tary equipment. They have man
power, but their manufacturing
power has been greatly reduced
while on the other hand the Ger
mans have used every minute this
past winter to turn out great mass
es of war material, both at home
and in the nations they have con-
quered. Conveys to Russia must go
through for the Russian front in
the estimation of United Nations
military men is supreme. Let Hitler
crash through and effect a juncture
with the hordes of Nippon and the
Allied cause is lost forever.
/s/s/
ALI news is not bad news. In
Australia, the "Aussies" and
"Doughboys" have won the first
round in the battle to save the
down under" continent from Jap
domination. The next round is
coming up and we predict that here
the United Nations will go ON the
offensive 1000 and drive the Japs
northward TO their home bases.
/e/s/
How about going to Dover this
coming Sunday afternoon and see
the Delaware State Guard go
through its. .paces2 There is, not a
man among the more than 300 COM
posing the regiment, who would
not be glad to know that people are
interested in the guard Naturally,
the outfit composed mostly of mar
ried men, some fifty years of age
and older, will not look as good as
West Point cadets on parade, but
every single man of them is willing
to make any sacrifice whatsoever
for their country.
e /S/s/
Our old friend, William Feather,
comes up with the following:
The following is from the trans
cript Of a patent-law case. 1t is
given to us by Frank Richey, a
patent attorney, who handled the
case.
Question: How did you happen
to invent your wrench?
Answer: Well, a Dago fellow re-
ported to me that the nut ON the
second cutoff in the third slit was
stuck. / tried a monkey wrench
and it broke. l then tried a gas
wrench, and the teeth tore out. l
then lashed a pipe onto the nut
and two negroes and this Dago
strained on it until they busted the
pipe. l tried to drive some grease
between the threads with a high
pressure grease gun, but the grease
recoiled and curled up on the top
of the nut. then tried to drill the
nut loose, btu the drill. broke. 1t
was then half-past eleve nat night,
so l went home, had me a double
rye highball with a beer chaser and
then sat down and invented my