The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-22


 Asserting that there is still big Job to be done before Japan has
 been conquered, James E. Moran,
 chairman of the War Fund Con-
 mlttee, urged residents in this area '. to buy bonds unstiltingly during the Seventh War Loan drive. to assure ,- the safe return of millions of Amer = lean fighting men.
 Our showing is very good" he ~ said, But we must keep in mind ~,the admonition of President Tru- s. man. We must not abandon our post or slacken our efforts. Evidence of
 this tendency is already evident on co the home front, but the war is not :. over for 6,000,000 American fighting .,s men.
 -s We must keep in mind that we 60 are meeting Japanese fighting
 force comprised of 100000 men 9 and almost quarter of million . Japanese reach fighting age each
 year
 gs Their replacements are growing - faster than We are replacing them. s. Japan has at her command the -y rich resources of three stolen em- '. pres. The Jap is an able fighter
 ne would rather die than surrender,
 The biggest fight is still ahead in
 the battle of the Pacific and it will
 take billions of dollars to make an ? American victory of Tokyo possible = Every individual purchase of 70 war bonds is measure of the = American determination to get that ss Job done - and done quickly ~ Workers Cooperating s- Chalrmen of bond drives in all = local factories, where a substantial ~s portion of quotas have been re- 's ceived, asserted confidence that Q their employees would meet estab- 2 llshed quotas, the largest ever in-
 stituted since the beginning of the -. war.
 At all plants of the Chase Brass
 & Copper Co.'s, total receipts have g. hit 56 per cent of the quota of $. so68,o56, Rodney Chase, chairman,
 announced today.
 = The fifty per cent mark was also rs passed at the Scovill Mfg. Co., sev- Y eral days ago, while the U. s. Time g Corp. already has over 35 per cent 2. of its quota of S865 ,0O0. Figures in :, all factories include payroll deduc- ,~ tions from April l.
 a Members of the Womens Repub-
 llcan club which is staffing Vic - tory house today sold several thou = sand dollars worth of bonds be- !. tween II o'clock, when the house |. opened, and noon today, Mrs. Vio- 5 let Amelung, chairman, reported s Model "Jeeps'' exact 12-inch re- plicas of the famous war Jeep, will ; be awarded aSe prizes throughout ]. Connecticut for outstanding bond :. selling jobs in the state during the 2 Seventh War Loan Drive. 2 By arrangement with the United 7 States Treasury Department to pro- vide incentive in support of the , campaign, the miniature Jeeps were made available to Eugene E. Wilson, : chairman of Connecticut's War Fi- nance Committee, by Ward M. Can- aday, chairman of Willys- Overland Motors, Toledo, Ohio. Thousands of . these Jeep trophies have been dis tributed throughout the nation by the automobile company z The models, scale replicas of the @ Jeeps manufactured by Willys for [. the Army and Navy, were built es- pecially for use in the drive by wounded servicemen at Army con- "alescent centers. The Toledo com- pany supplied the hospitals with the cut-out parts, plastic wheels and 9 transparent windshields, and paid z the veterans for each model they 4 produced.
 The idea of usir.> the models as ~prizes in the war bond drive, said ! l. Mir Canaday, came as result of thousands of letters from people all .s over the country expressing desire to have model of the famous scout l ~car.