“Fight! 'I and SAVE!”
A War Message on WAR BONDS from the President of the United States
JK "... The American people know tha<
Mm if we would raise the billion* which we
now need to pay for the war and at the same
time prevent a disastrous rise in the coat of liv
ing, we shall have to double and more than
double the scale of our saviugs.
"Every dime and dollar not vitally needed for
absolute necessities should go into WAR BONDS
and STAMPS to add to the striking power of
our aruied forces.
"If these purchases are to have a material effect
in restraining price increases they must he made
out of current income.
"'ll! almost every individual ease they should l*e
big enough to mean rigid self-denial, a -mbatan
lial reduction for most of us in the scale of ex
penditure that is comfortable and easy for us.
"We cannot light this war, we cannot exert our
maximum effort, on a speud-as-usual basis.
"Wc cannot have afll we want if our soldiers and
sailors are to have all they need."
—Franklin D. RootevM.
But/ War Savings' londs
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EGYPT TAKES
PACIFIC WAR
COUNCIL EYE
President Tells Canadian
Minister About
Aleutians
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Washington, July — The
i situation in Egypt and its
; relationship to operations
i in the other theatres of
j war received the major
I share of attention at a
meeting of the Pacific War
: Council recently.
Leighton McCarthy, Can
adian Minister, said that
he had inquired about the
Aleutian ilsland situation
and that the President had
corroborated reports of the
sinking of four Jap destroy
ers there and had observed
that the weather had been
bad lately.
WHERE JAPS MAY HAVE LANDED
ATTU, OUTER ALEUTIAN ISLAND
American airmen were searching out small Jap invasion units, which already have been forced
from population centers like Attu Village on Attu Island in the Aleutians. Neslted beneath snotv
' covered mountaias, Attu is just about 700 miles from the northern tip of Nippon’s Kurile chain.
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U. S. BOMBS JAPS IN ALEUTIANS
JAPS MAKE NEW LANDING AT AG ATT U
Five New attacks by U. S. Army and Navy planes on Jap forces in the Aleutian Islands, including
one bombing attack on transports and escorting vessels off the Island of Agatlu (1) and the others
on enemy shore installations on Ki.->ka (2) were announced by the Navy.