Milford chronicle., 1942-04-03
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~ By ROBT. H. YERKES ~


After brief struggle the United
Nations have finally won air su-
periority in the battle for Austria
liza, and the willy Japs, who for SC
long have enjoyed having every
thing their own way, are now def
nitely on the defensive in this sec
tor.
In Burma, the news is not SO en-
couraging; there the Nipponese
aided by the natives, are repeating
their Malayan performance, and
again the troops of the United
Nations are forced to fight without
adequate air support, The fight for
Burma is all important to the al
lied cause, for with the fall of
Burma the pathway to India will
be open, the main supply route to
China will be cut, and the Japs
will control the rich oil fields of
Mandalay.
/s/s/
For over a week, day and night,
the heroic defenders of Bataan
have been subjected to an about
air assault by the Jap invader.
Thousands of bombs of the largest
calibre have been dropped in an at
tempt to soften the positions held
so tenaciously by the Americans
and their Filipino allies. AS the
Chronicle prepared for press an
all-out land drive had been started
and hordes of the yellow devils
were preparing to capture the PEN
insula by mass attack. While this
initial mass attack has won some
advanced positions, the invaders
have paid dearly for every fox-hole
they have captured. Let us pray
that these young heroes may hold
this all-important line for democA
racy, until reinforcements arrive
by land and sea to blast the Japs
tc Kingdom come.
/e/s/
In Europe, Hitler is preparing
for the long-awaited spring assault
on the Russian Bear. According to
reports coming by way of Sweden,
the German warlord is preparing
to hurl nearly two hundred fresh
divisions into the fray. The ma
iority of these men however are
not young-the flower of German
youth will not be found in these
divisions, as claimed by one news
commentator; that 1ower wa S
crushed, and froze to death last
winter. Many. of these men are
veterans of the last war and they
know that the cause for which they
fight and die is lost 1t was lost
to them December 9Th, when the
United States of America declared
war on Japan, their honorary
Aryan allies.
/s/s/
In reading through one of the
States leading papers we noticed
an article on the group hospital
plan, that has been SO favorably re-
ceived throughout the State. While
we know that many of our readers
are not acquainted with this plan,
we do know from personal exper-
ience that it is one. OF the hest
things TO come out of the depres-
sion. William Feather, editor Of
a printing trades magazine, reports
that the plan has made a great im-
preston on him. Says he:
I'VE have a friend who has just
returned home from a spell in a
hospital where his total bill, after
eight days, was A cents,
He put through three telephone
calls at 10 cents each. The A
cents was some kind of tax.
AS you have perhaps guessed, he
was member of a group that pays
a small monthly fee to non-profit
association. He is entitled to 21
days of hospital care each year.
plus meals, nursing. x-ray, use of
operating room, anesthesla, drugs,
and dressing. In short, the doctors
bill is the only expense he has to
worry about.
rOur friend tells us that this
freedom from worry was the incest
feature of his disqualification. He
rather enjoyed his conyalescence,
knowing that he was neither a
bother nor an expense to his
family. ra
"As single subscriber, with
access to a room with one other
occupant, he paid cents q month.
For a fee of $1.30 he could have
included his wife, and for $1.65 his
children.
Ward service costs less, and
there is no limit to. the extra pri-
vate luxurious service that may
be purchased.
Hundreds of thousands of people
are members of these hospital
groups, which have proved to be
one of the blessings of this era.
They are good for the communities,
the hospitals, the doctors and the
patients. Why didn't somebody
think of this before?"
/e/s/
Good news for lower Delaware
fishermen was received this week
from Major General Irving j. Phil
lipson, commanding general of the
Second Corps area, who instructed
the Coast Guard and Naval Patrol
to permit seine fisher.
men in the Slaughter Beach area
to use lanterns at night in ac-
cordance with a customary prae-
tice.
This use of light is an exception
to the regulations against all shore
lights because Of the activities of
submarines off the Atlantic Coast.
Along the same line of thought
this news will also be gratefully
received by lovers of the fish fry"
who for years have depended on