Milford chronicle., 1942-10-30

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small town or community can buy
many Of them by uniting in the pur-
chase Of War Bonds. At least ten
percent Of your. income In War
Bonds every pay day viii do the
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The laps are still attacking our
strongly defended positions on
Guadaleanal,, but latest dispatches
state that the attacks are weaken
ing and that the .'Nips" have suf-
fered staggering losses in men and
material. The prize which the
Japs seek on Guadalcanal is of
course, Henderson afrfield. So far
they have been repulsed every time
they thought they had the field
captured. A cemm1nique from the
fighting zone claims that naval
fighting in the vicinity of the Solo
mons has dropped of; neither side,
however, has. withdrawn forces
from the immediate vicinity of the
islands. and attack may be Joined
again at any time. In the mean
time dispatch from Pearl Har-
Dor states that the Japanese are
preparing to launch an extensive
attack against key American bases
and lines of communication on our
supply route to Australia. This
force is being made ready at the
Japanese Truk Island base and
consists probably of carriers, bat
tieships; cruisers and destroyeRs.
Naval men now agree that the Jap
anese, despite terrific losses, still
have powerful fleets, while our own
valiant navy is spread thinly thru
out the Pacific. --.....
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The great battle of the desert is
on with the first round going to the
Allies; and we might even say the
second round for the counter-at-
tack feebly carried out the middle
Of the week by the Nazis has now
petered out. Watch this front, it
may be the decisive one. From the
coast of Egyptoto Italy is netfsuch
a long jump-it might happen, who
knowsi r. 80 3. p 1T
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It's an i'll wind that blows no.
body good, and at least it can be
said Of the present emergency that
widely disseminated knowledge
relative to fire prevention in the
event of incendiary bombing, is
making the people of our land
actively fire-prevention conscious.
For the first time in history, the
American housewife can system
atically do first-line work. in fire
prevention. She can attack those
piles of old magazines and news
papers; those mountainous collec-
tions of desiecated sewing scraps
left by the family dressmaker of
by-gone day; the corner by the
chimney partitioned off for young
Georges darkroom, and still full of
highly inflammable Photographic
equipment, although young George
is now serving IN his cOuntry'S
armed forces. Only the housewife
can make a systematic cleanup of
such accumulation. No one ever
looks at old magazines and news
papers, although father has been
saving them since 1910, on the
premise that some time he might
want to find something" Mother
has saved sewing scraps because
in the back of her mind for years
has been the housewives dream
that maybe some day she might
make hooked rug for the upper
hall. Young Georges high school
hobby was photography. But nova
days father is busy with air warden
duties, mother is involved in all
manner Of war work, and young
George has no time for hobbies.
So the American housewife can
really clean the attic, and more
power to her. She can, with tradi-
tional strength and enthusiasm,
cripple the red menace of fire.