Milford chronicle., 1942-11-13

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These select horses cost from $100
to $165 and our crack cavalrymen
are expert riders and carry on the
traditions which have followed the
cavalry from the earliest days of
the Army. Purchase of War Savings
Bonds will insure good mounts for
the Cavalry. You and your neigh
bors buying War Bonds and Stamps
regularly every pay day can help
buy these horses for the U. S.
Cavalry. Invest at least 10 percent
Of your income in War Bonds.
U. S. Treasury Department
SIN shing, crashing, driving
ahead, the Americans have opened
a second front in North Africa that
may well prove to be the death
knell of all Axis hopes. This mag
niflciently equipped force of fight
ing men is under the personal di-
rection of General Dwight D. Eisen-
hover, and already they have ended
resistance in Algeria and Morocco,
and are racing towards Bizerte, the
huge French naval base on the
Mediterranean Axis forces are
also on the way to Bizerte, for this
base is the key to the Tunisian sit
uation. The Americans are eager
to meet the Germans, in battle, and
Herr Hitler and his battered le-
gions are going to find themselves
fighting a determined foe, using
weapons that are rated the best in
the world. Poor, senile Marshal
Petain is bewildered by the rapidly
moving events of the last few days,
and snake" Laval, also stunned, is
kissing that it is not legal and the
Americans are taking an unfair
advantage of the French Empire.
Hitler, seeing the handwriting on
the wall, has taken over what was
called inoccupied France. Why it
was ever called ''unoccupied" has
always been a mystery to me, for
Germans were as thick there as
fieas, and Petain and Laval were
mere figureheads or front men for
the Nazi conquerors) The disposi-
tion of the French fleet is still a
mystery. Reports from Vichy say
it is still at Toulon; reports out of
Sweden say it has sailed to join the
Allies. One thing is certain, it is
doubtful if Old Petain and Laval
can get the French sailors to fight
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now in the custody of the Ameri-
cans, says no. And while we have
never admired Darlan, we believe
that he has some honor left and
will not turn the fleets guns on the
Americans, who he knows are only
interested in restoring-not de-
stroying-the French Empire and
the liberty of the French, every
where.
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The Japs are also being giving a
shellacking in New Guinea, with
the allied forces destroying one
large body of troops and trapping
another. The Nips who came down
the Stanley Mountain range so in
tent on taking Port Moresby, are
now going back up the range in
high gear, leaving huge numbers
of their comrades and masses of
equipment in their hurried retreat.
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Statistics show that loss from
fire for the first nine months of this
year was slightly less than in the
same period last year. They also
show we are not giving enough real
thought and energy to fire preven-
tion. The most potentially deadly
fire problem-that of sabotage i'll
our industrial plants-can never be
fully controlled without concerted
effort on the part of all. The ship
yard worker, the airplane factory
worker, everyone employed in any
capacity yin the many and various
sub assembly plants. must individ-
ually watch for any inadvertent act,
any slight deviation from normal
behavior in their fellow workers,
that might point to incendiarism
and the destruction and delay that
fire causes. In the home. it is up
to- the housewife to become the
fire-watcher. She must double
check the iron or the fireplace
screen when she leaves the house.
She must prevent the accumulation
Of trash in attic, basement, and
garage; she must see that exposed
wiring of household appliances is
in good condition. Her job is i'm
portant and must be done we'll.
This country faces an ever more
difficult job in producing sufficient
goods to meet the Unsuitable needs
of a worldwide war machine.
Every fire, whether it damages a
garage or destroys a factory, con-
sumes materials, money and labor
which are needed for the war effort.
Every fire is a barrier to fulfillment
of the United Nations cause.
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AN EFFICIENTLY run business /
does not always get all the trade
to which its service entities it, be-
cause the people may not know
about the values it offers. When
it advertises. the people find out
what it has to offer, and they flock
10 get the advantage of its SER
1ice.