Gold Hill news., February 13, 1941, Image 2

The Gold Hill News, Gold Hill, Oregon
Thursday. Fob. 13. 1941
WEYGAND:
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS_________ By Edward C. Wayne
Threat of German Invasion of Britain
And Congressional Lease-Lend Debate
Present Grim Picture of War Situation;
Italians Continue to Fall Back in Africa
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CRISIS:
For Lease-Lend
The real crisis in the lease-lend
legislation found a well-deftned pub­
lic response to the antagonistic ef­
forts of the isolationists and the non-
interventionists.
The result?
The administration
called big guns to the support of
the measure, and predicted its
passage during the week beginning
March 3. The schedule called for
unlimited debate in house and sen­
ate, but there were many indica­
tions that this limitation would bring
forth tremendous opposition in Re­
publican floor circles and in senate
committees as well.
Generally speaking, the public at­
titude, as disclosed in numbers of
polls of sentiment conducted by
newspapers throughout the country,
seemed to be that the all-out aid
to Britain principle was favorably
received.
The public, on the other hand,
seemed to feel that there was at
least a reasonable doubt whether
the President should be given as
much and as drastic power as the
original lease-lend draft indicated.
This was reflected even in the
sponsorship of the measure, because
Representative Bloom (N . Y .) who
was chairman of the house foreign
relations committee, scarcely put up
any opposition against three or four
m ajor amendments, limiting the
time for which the presidential pow­
ers w’ould be granted, declaring in
principle against convoys and other
items in which the opposition found
fault with the bill.
This showed the administration
forces to be in the unusual position
of fostering legislation of which they
do not approve themselves, at least
in part.
Either that, or they were “ shoot­
ing for the moon,” and willing to
R E P . SOL BLOOM
Scarcely any opposition.
give and take in order to reach their
main objective—of the passage of a
bill which would in effect repeal the
Johnson act forbidding Ioans to bel­
ligerents who had not paid their
World w ar debts.
INVASION:
Threat Near
As
the
lease-lend
argument
reached its zenith, predictions that
England was nearing the critical
period in the Battle For Britain
were legion. Lindbergh had set the
most gloomy picture, figuring that
Britain could never withstand the
onslaught.
One could figure which side of the
lease-lend battle the predictor was
on by the darkness of the picture he
painted. Knox and Stimson predict­
ed a crisis, but gave few details
and little soothsaying as to what
would be the outcome.
But those opposed to the lease-
lend proposal varied widely in what
they saw in the future’s crystal ball.
Most gloomy of all was Von Wie­
gand, who in a dispatch date-lined
Shanghai, purported to report what
German and Japanese authorities
believed was about to occur.
Six weeks would tell the tale, said
Von Wiegand. He envisioned 247 di­
visions of trained men, 15,000 para­
chutists, a score of tank divisions,
descending on England, and Hearst
papers printed an “ artist’s concep­
tion” of the “ Blitz on Britain,” which
would tear London into shreds—long
before American aid could swing the
balance.
Every authority who discussed
blitzkrieg on London talked of poison
gas—new forms, lethal gas for
which “ no gas mask” has yet been
provided.
H IG H LIG H T S
Rome—The practice of killing
horses for m eat was attacked by
the newspaper La Tribuna, which
said:
“ The horse is more useful
when alive than when put in the
form of beefsteaks and sausages.”
Baltim ore—A “ sample” blitzkrieg
started a near-panic in a movie
house. Tanks and motortrucks vi­
brated the pavement, setting off the
automatic fire alarm .
LABOR:
Raises Its Head
Finally Unmasks
Washington, D. C.
THE NEW VICE PRESIDENT
Senator Vundenberg of Michigan
droppped into the vice president’s
private office just before Henry W al­
lace was girding himself to make
his debut as president of the senate.
He found Wallace with the senate
chaplain, Rev. ZeBarney T. Phillips.
Vandenberg looked at the two
men, apparently trying to decide
which was the more devout. Josh­
ing Rev. Phillips, he said: ” We won’t
need you uny more. Henry Wal­
lace can offer the prayer."
In senate circles it is generally
agreed that Wallace w ill be every­
thing that G arner wasn't. G arner
used to make his appearance for the
opening at noon, stay for 10 minutes,
then disappear. Wallace w ill start
at noon and stay on the job, really
running the senate in a conscien­
tious manner.
But what G arner did after he left
the chamber, Wallace w ill fail to do.
Garner was a m ixer, a m ixer of
men and a m ixer of drinks. His
backstage work was enough to put
any bill across—or to kill it.
As one senator put it, "G a m e r's
office was the only place in the sen­
ate wing where we could always
count on getting a drink. We know
we can’t count on Wallace for th at."
s e e
H O P K IN S ’ S U R V E Y
H arry Hopkins went to Britain as
the personal emissary of the Presi­
dent, but he also had a private as­
signment from Mrs. Roosevelt.
She asked the ex-cabinet member
to make a first-hand survey of the
activities of English social welfare
’ agencies, both private and public,
under blitz conditions. Hopkins is
particularly fitted to make such a
study because of his many years as
1 a New York social worker.
Note— Mrs. Roosevelt has decided
to break her recent self-imposed
plan to stick closer to Washington.
Following the election last Novem­
ber, she made up her mind to aban­
don her speaking tours. But on the
strong advice of friends she w ill re­
sume her practice of getting out in
the country, feeling the pulse of pub-
I lie sentiment, soon w ill visit the
| Midwest.
• • •
The domestic labor situation be­
came steadily worse during the
weeks that the lease-lend bill was
“ on the tapis” in Washington.
Perhaps the Allis-Chalmers strike
was the most serious, affecting as
it did not only that single industry,
but as Allis-Chalmers was making
GEN. MAXIME WEYGAND
parts, it meant a serious hold-up all
He'll 'lrack-along.‘
along the line, particularly in planes
and tanks.
Gen. M axim e Weygand went to
But the most striking labor devel­
Africa an enigma.
opment of the week was the state­
Much of this enigmatic quality
ment issued by Henry Ford through
! was dispelled when he issued a
one of his industrial lieutenants.
Ford authorized this man to say in statement in which he definitely re­
fused to “ throw in" his hand with
, DeGaulle, but said he would "track
j along” with the Petain regime in
Vichy.
Yet it was not quite so clear as
i all that, although it was extremely
important that Weygand should
have finally unmasked himself.
For the Vichy situation was still,
in its way, considerable of a mys­
tery.
The Nazis were reportedly much
disgusted with Vichy’s failure to
back up the L aval ideology, particu­
larly in regard to the use of Tunisia
for N azi bases of operations in A f­
rica.
So the stand, announced by Wey­
gand, that he would continue to sup­
port the Vichy regime, could or
could not be taken to mean that
Weygand had fallen in with the Nazi
party line.
Yet Great Britain had hoped that
Weygand, in going to A frica, was
S ID N E Y H IL L M A N
Mr. Ford refused to ‘lit down' with him. “ escaping” from Vichy, and would
turn in the direction of DeGaulle.
his name that the Ford enterprises
That hope, at least, was complete­
would never yield to the govern­ ly dispelled by Weygand’s state­
ment demand that defense products ment, which unhesitatingly lined
be manufactured under union labor him up with the Vichy government.
What that government would turn
conditions.
Ford’s rejoinder was that he out to be, remained undecided.
would never knuckle down to labor’s
G. O. P.:
demands, that instead he would
lease his industries to the govern­ On Two Sides
m ent at one dollar a year, and let
Oddest picture of the lease-lend
WILLKIE CLUBS
the government run them.
bill fight in Am erica was the sudden
I t wasn’t made public, but that
Ford agreed in principle with the junket of Wendell L. W illkie, late meeting of W illkie club chiefs in
necessity of America arming in its G. O. P. standard-bearer, to Eng­ New York recently named a com­
own defense, and with the principle land to take “ his personal look” at m ittee of 14 to draw up a plan for
that in defense work patriotism was the state of Britain.
the future of the movement.
the prim ary urge, and profits had
W illkie’s departure was speeded
Actually no one could agree on a
no part.
by a paternal pat on the head from definite policy. Some state leaders
He therefore offered to give up his his erstwhile opponent. President reported that there was little hope
industries, and let the government Roosevelt, and a note written by of keeping the clubs alive in their
operate them under a non-profit a r­ hand to Winston Churchill.
particular bailiwicks. Others, par­
rangement, producing whatever vi­
W illkie flew to Europe. He was ticularly in Pennsylvania, disclosed
tal materials were wished for.
greeted practically with presidential that a plan already was afoot to set
The only government answer to honor in the Azores, where the na­ up a permanent organization of
this was to refuse Ford a contract tives could not be convinced they county units to be financed by sus­
on which his organization had been were not greeting the President him ­ taining membership, running all the
low bidder.
self.
way from 25 cents for rank-and-file
Basis of the dispute had been
He landed at Lisbon, was ferried members, to $100 for founders.
Ford’s refusal to sit down with Sid­ hastily to England, dined with Chur­
Members of the group are Robert
ney H illm an, labor chief of the na­ chill, lunched with royalty, and hob­ G. Allen, ex-Democratic congress­
tional defense, and to find some plan nobbed with the plain and fancy in man from Pennsylvania who bolted
by which the Ford interests could London.
to W illkie; M rs. Henry Breckin­
operate in the defense scheme— set­
He underwent air-raids, habitually ridge, N. Y . ; Henry A. Budd, To­
tling the labor difficulty once and roamed about the streets without peka, K an.; Arthur Bunker, N. Y .;
for all.
helmet or gas-mask, (on three occa­ Mrs. M arie Jay Cady, Grand Rap­
Labor, as personified by the C.I.O, sions he had to be handed both with ids, M ich.; Russell Davenport, W ill­
had set as its m ajor objective for a gentle reprimand from some high- kie “ discoverer” and campaign
1941 the organization of the Ford er-up), and generally inspected the brain-truster; James H. Douglas
plants.
state of Britain as he, W illkie, had J r., Chicago; John W. Hanes, for­
This objective seemed to mean intended to.
m er Roosevelt undersecretary of the
America was treated to the treasury; W illiam H. Harm an, Phil­
only one thing—abandonment of the
Ford plants—of their complete di­ strange spectacle of the Democratic adelphia; Richard D. Logan, Tole­
vorcement from national defense administration “ needing” the testi­ do, Ohio; Oren Root, head of the
mony of the ex-Republican standard- W illkie clubs; Howard M . Wall,
contracts.
bearer to help it over the hill on Portland, O re.; Cloud W ampler, Chi­
ITALY:
the lease-lend bill.
cago; and James K. Watkins, De­
The whole situation was some­ troit.
In Africa
• • •
thing of a shock to Republican lead­
The African campaign of the B rit­
ers of the fight against the meas­
INCOME TAX CONSCIENCES
ish forces against the troops of Mus­
ure, especially when Hull let it be
With the a rriv a l of open season for
solini continued to be a victorious
known that W illkie’s sudden return income taxes the public conscience
one, despite the fact that it was re­
had been demanded by Senator begins to hurt. People send money
ported that the Nazi a ir force had
George, head of foreign relations in to the treasury, with no name at­
given considerable aid to the Fascist
the senate, who wanted the Indian- tached, to square old debts.
legions.
ian to testify before the committee
From San Francisco came a let­
In succession one port on the Medi­
hearings
on the bill.
ter containing $193 and the words,
terranean after another had fallen
In fact, the shock was so drastic “ A mistake in 1935. Penalty and in­
to General W avell’s men—Salum,
in some quarters that Republican terest at 6 per cent."
Bardia, Tobruk and D em a. In Libya,
groups in various centers held meet­
From Norwich, Conn., an anony­
none but Bengasi remained to be
ings to “ decide W illkie’s status” in mous taxpayer sent in $15. From
conquered.
•
the party, with the evident intim a­
All the cities previously captured, tion that if he should prove too good Morris, 111., a blind contribution of
some of them cities only by cour­ a friend to the administration, he $8. From Phoenix, A riz., $1.80—this
coming from a regular and frequent
tesy, for they were only a few huts might be “ read out of the p arty.”
contributor.
huddled together and a small group
A ll such money goes to the treas­
of embryo wharfs, had been on flat JAPAN:
ury’s "conscience fund.” Total re­
land. In passing Derna the British
ceipts, since the tim e of President
were moving on the capital of Cyre- The ‘Peacemaker’
With dram atic suddenness, peace Madison, $647,563.98.
naica, and were stepping into a
• • •
more mountainous territory, the so- came in the Indo-China w ar with the
MAIL
BAG
Siamese.
called Green Mountains of Libya,
H .D .S ., New York—The horoscope
Japan, it developed, had been “ in­
where a force of 50,000 Italians were
vited” by the belligerents, when a reading on John L. Lewis which was
determined to hold out to the last.
strong Nipponese fleet had ap­ sent to us was to the effect that,
The same combination of land at­
peared in the offing, to sit down and “ there is a good deal of conflict and
tack, backed up by a ir force and
discord in his life between January
settle the hostilities.
navy shelling from naval craft at
This settlement, as might have and June, 1941. A fter that, however,
sea, was being used by General
are
some
very
sudden
been expected, was that Thailand there
Wavell in the final phase of the
should keep what it had taken from changes, with the return of old con­
Libyan campaign. There was every
Indo-China, together with some ad­ tacts and associations, and very def­
belief that with the capture of Ben­
inite financial increase for this la­
ditional cessions of territory.
gasi the campaign would end.
Keenest observers of the far-east­ bor leader.”
P.B.H., Milwaukee — The words
ern scene foresaw in the Japanese
used by T V A Director Lilienthal in
intervention only one outcome.
. in the w eek’s news
They believed that Japan would warning Wisconsin against soil de­
become so dominant in southeast­ pletion were: “ The same process
of depletion of minerals in the soil
London—The R A F claims that 370 ern Asia that Thailand and Indo-
that has brought the South to its
German and Italian planes were China would soon be mere puppet
present unhappy economic status is
downed in January, as compared states sim ilar to Manchukuo.
at work steadily and inexorably in
with only 33 British w arcraft. The
The state department in Washing
total for the w ar shows 3,069 G er­ ton viewed these events with a seri­ Wisconsin and the Middle West.”
J.S.H., Westport, Conn.—Thanks
man planes downed over Britain.
ous eye, seeing in them assured
for your letter noting that the Con­
Lansing, Mich.—Wild deer, for­
proof that sooner or later there
m erly forced to swim across the Au
tinental Congress came within one
Sable river, this winter have a rustic would have to be a showdown of vote of making Germ an, rather than
footbridge. It was built for them by power in the Pacific between the , English, the official language of the
United States and Japan
the conservation department.
Colonies
GUARANTEED TO GET THE FAMILY UP IN THE MORNING
(See Recipes Below.)
BREAKFASTS TO GET THE
FAMILY UP
"The nice thing about breakfasts"
said one newlywed, "is that you
don't have to plan them, you just
serve them.” Although it is possible
to get a breakfast with whatever
there is at hand in the line of toast,
coffee, and fruit juices, a little plan­
ning does yield big dividends.
For it is planning that makes pos­
sible the breakfast specialties that
get the laggards out of bed in the
morning—and down to eat before
they go. And that’s important, be­
cause they miss the V itam in C in
the orange or tomato juice when
they skip breakfast, the V itam in B
in the whole grain cereal, the iron
in the egg yolk, which aren't always
' made up later in the day.
A sketchy, hurried breakfast, or
none at all, accounts, too, for some
of that mid-morning fatigue. I t ’s a
long time to go without food, from
1 six o’clock of one night until noon
i of the next day.
Here, then, are some breakfast
menus, and some recipes for new
breakfast special-
ties,
that
are
A c i jy
guaranteed to get
¿-¿if) the fam ily out of
bed *n the m om -
Vv
ing. Just let them
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get one whiff of a
/ /
platter of shiny
' ( t —< / ( |
brown sausages
j '— S "
garnished
with
I orange slices, like that in the picture
above, and no coaxing w ill be need­
ed to get them down to breakfast.
Q U IC K B R E A K FA S T
Chilled orange juice
Hot cornflakes over banana wedges
Oven eggs in cornbread cases
Pan-fried bacon
Coffee, m ilk
L E IS U R E L Y B R E A K FA S T
G rapefruit halves
Bran flake cereal with brown sugar
and cream
Apricot omelet
Buttered toast
Coffee, m ilk
Raisin Sally Lunns.
(Makes 2 dozen 2-inch Lunns)
1 cup m ilk
1 cake compressed yeast (Vi ounce)
3 tablespoons sugar
Vi teaspoon salt
Vi cup melted shortening
2 eggs
3 cups sifted flour (all-purpose)
Vi cup raisins ’
Scald m ilk and cool to lukewarm
(85 degrees Fahrenheit). Add crum ­
bled yeast, sugar, and salt. Add 2
cups flour, beating thoroughly. Add
melted shortening and beaten eggs.
Add remaining flour, beating until
smooth. Add raisins. F ill greased
muffin pans half full. Brush with
butter (if desired), cover and set in
warm place to rise until doubled in
bulk (about 45 minutes). Bake in
moderately hot oven (400 degrees
Fahrenheit) for 15 minutes.
Eggs In Corn Bread Cases.
(Serves «)
6 squares or slices corn bread
Vi cup butter (m elted)
6 eggs
Salt
Pepper
Cut off top crusty portion of corn
bread. Then remove part of com
bread from each
a.
slice, forming a
depression. Brush
top of each slice /Sur
lllllh
with melted but- O
ter. Break an egg
into each depres-
s io n . S p r in k le
with salt and pepper, place on bak­
ing sheet and bake in hot oven (475
degrees Fahrenheit) for 10 minutes
or until white of egg is set. For
quick breakfast, corn bread should
be prepared the day before.
Grated Apple Wallies.
(Makes 8 waffles)
1V4 cups flour (all-purpose)
Vi teaspoon salt
Vi teaspoon cinnamon
Vi cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 eggs
1 cup milk
lVi cups cooking apple (grated or
cut fine)
3 tablespoons melted shortening
Sift flour once before measuring.
Then add salt, cinnamon, sugar, and
baking powder and sift again. Sepa­
rate eggs. Combine m ilk, eggs, and
cooled melted shortening. Add dry
ingredients to milk and egg and stir
lightly until Just dampened. Fold in
grated apple. Beat egg whites un­
til stiff and glossy and fold in, using
a spatula. Bake on pre-heated w af­
fle iron and serve with butter and
brown sugor.
Cora Bread.
(1 8-inch square)
lV i cups yellow com meal (un­
cooked)
Vi cup flour (all-purpose)
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup m ilk
2 eggs (beaten)
2 tablespoons fat (m elted)
Sift corn meal with flour, baking
powder and salt. Combine m ilk,
eggs, and shortening and add to dry
ingredients. Bake in a well-greased
8-inch square baking pan, in a mod­
erately hot oven (400 degrees Fahrw
enheit) for 40 to 50 minutes.
Bran Griddle Cakes.
(Makes 15 cakes)
1 Vi cups m ilk
1 egg (well-beaten)
2 tablespoons melted fat
1 Vi cups flour (all-purpose)
Vi teaspoon salt
2 Vi teaspoons baking powder
1 tablespoon sugar
Vi cup bran cereal
Combine milk, beaten egg and
cooled melted fat in mixing bowl.
Sift flour once before measuring.
Then add salt, baking powder, and
sugar and sift again. Combine dry
ingredients with bran cereal. Add to
m ilk, stirring until Just mixed. Bake
on a hot griddle and serve with but­
ter and strained honey or maple
syrup.
Apricot Omelet.
(Serves 4)
Vi pound dried apricots
1 cup water
Vi cup sugar
2 tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca
Vi teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
4 eggs
Prepare apricots ahead of time.
Cover them with water and let soak
30 minutes. Then
sim mer until ten-
d e r , a b o u t 25
minutes. Add sug­
ar and cook for 3
minutes more. To
make the omelet,
drain juice from
the apricots and
measure. F ill to the Vi cup m ark
with water, if necessary. Combine
tapioca, salt and apricot juice in top
of double boiler over boiling water
and cook 10 to 12 minutes. Add 1
tablespoon butter, remove from heat
and cool. Separate eggs. Beat
whites until they are stiff and w ill
stay in a partially inverted bowl.
Without washing beater, beat yolks
until thick and lemon-colored. Add
egg yolks to tapioca m ixture, then
lightly fold in egg whites.
M elt 1 tablespoon butter in large
frying pan (10 inch). Turn in egg
m ixture. Cook over low heat for 5
minutes, then place in a moderate
oven (350 degrees Fahrenheit) to
finish cooking for 15 minutes or un­
til golden brown on top and firm to
the touch.
Make a shallow cut
across the omelet at right angles to
the pan. Cover half the surface
with finely cut cooked dried apri­
cots. Fold over omelet, turn out
onto hot platter and serve at once.
Codfish Toasts.
(Serves 4)
2
2
1
2
1
tablespoons butter
tablespoons flour
cup m ilk
eggs (hard-cooked)
tablespoon green pepper (minced
fine)
1 cup shredded codfish (freshened)
Few grains white pepper
Few grains onion salt
4 slices bread
Vi cup grated cheese
M elt butter and add flour. Stir to
make a smooth paste. Add m ilk.
Dice eggs and add to m ilk mixture
together with green pepper and
shredded codfish. Season with white
pepper and onion salt. Toast bread
on one side, cut in half diagonally
and place codfish m ixture on un­
toasted side of bread. Sprinkle with
grated cheese and brown lightly in
a hot oven (450 degrees Fahrenheit.)
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