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•INSIDE’ ON ALEUTIANS
The inside story can now be told
of why the Japs were able to land
in the Aleutian islands and bomb the
U. S. naval base at Dutch Harbor
with so little opposition. As with
most things in this war, the problem
goes back to lack of foresight, and
also, to some extent, lack of army-
navy co-operation.
Not generally known is the fact
that the navy in September, 1941,
some two months before Pearl Har
bor, refused to let the army build
an air base on Umnak island to
guard the navy’s Dutch Harbor
base.
What happened was that Senator
Brewster of Maine, a member of
the Truman committee and of the
naval affairs committee, flew to
Alaska last September with Brig.
Gen. Arthur Wilson to ascertain
whether Alaska needed further for
tifications. At Kodiak they met
Brig. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner,
commander of the army's forces,
Heap High the Cookie Jar!
whose father, a famous Civil war
commander, once helped to pay
(See Recipes Below.)
Ulysses S. Grant’s w’ay home from
West Point and later surrendered to
That Sweet Tooth
Grant in Tennessee.
This Week’s Menu
Apricot Juice with Lemon Slice
“Mom. may we have some cook
General Buckner wanted to go on
Macaroni and Cheese
ies, please?”
from Kodiak to Dutch Harbor with
Tomatoes Baked with Chopped
That question asked in a childish
Senator Brewster, and although the
Green Pepper Center
voice with real pleading is going to
navy was willing to supply an am
Shredded Green Salad
.
be as daily as the
phibian plane to the senator, ti ey
A"
Rye Bread
Butter balked at having General Buckner
sunrise and sun
y z
•American Prune Pie
go along, referred to him as a
set these days
Beverage
“hitch-hiker.”
as your younger
members of the
Finally, however, the party, in
family feel the homemade cookies of yours will be cluding General Buckner, went on
snap of fall in the mighty welcome to him at camp:
to Dutch Harbor and located an ex
air. School days
cellent site for a flying field on Um
Honey Fruit Bars.
with their de-
nak island. Immediately upon their
(Makes 3 dozen)
_ mand on youthful
return, Senator Brewster arranged
2 eggs
energies will perk up summer’s lag
for a senate appropriation to build
14 cup honey
ging appetite too!
• an air base at Umnak, while the
14 cup sifted flour
Very few of you can say “no” to
war department prepared to pro
la teaspoon salt
a request for cookies. Far from
ceed.
14 teaspoon baking powder
spoiling the appetite for dinner, a
Navy Says No.
14 pound pitted dates, sliced
cookie or two with a glass of milk
6 ounces mixed, candied fruits
The
war
department also notified
will help the child get gracefully
Beat eggs and honey to blend. Add the navy of its move, since the army
through the late afternoon hours un sifted dry ingredients and fruits and is charged with protecting the shore
til dinner time.
mix well. Turn into a greased, wax- establishments of the navy. A few
Keeping the cookie jar full may paper lined pan. Bake in a moder- weeks later, however, word came
have been your major problem in ate-to-slow (325-degree) oven for 45 back from the navy that it did not
former years. This year it will be minutes. Remove paper. Cool and want the army to build an air base
that plus making cookies with a ra cut into bars. Poll in powdered on Umnak island to protect Dutch
tion of sugar. But you’ll do it, I sugar if desired. Store in covered Harbor.
know, and these recipes will help jar for several days to mellow.
When senators asked Vice Admiral
you:
Frederick J. Horne why, he replied:
Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Oatmeal Crispies.
“The navy can protect Dutch Har
(Makes 314 dozen)
(Makes 4 dozen)
bor.”
14 cup butter
1 cap shortening
14 cup honey
This was in late September. Two
14 cap sugar
1 small egg
months later, after Pearl Harbor,
1 cup dark corn syrup
1 cup sifted flour
the navy frantically demanded an
2 eggs, beaten
air base to protect Dutch Harbor,
1 teaspoon baking powder
Y: cup sour milk
14 teaspoon salt
but it had to be started during the
2*4 cups sifted flour
14 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips snow and ice of an Alaskan winter.
94 teaspoon salt
14 cup nutmeats
Therefore the date of completion
1 teaspoon soda
was July, 1942.
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking powder
Cream
butter
and
honey
until
light
Probably the Japs knew this date.
2 cups oatmeal
and fluffy. Add egg and beat well. They have had fishing vessels cruis
2 cups raisins
Sift dry ingredients twice, and add ing through the Aleutians off and
Cream sugar and shortening. Add to butter mixture. Add vanilla and on
time. At any rate it
corn syrup. Blend. Add beaten eggs. blend well. Fold in chocolate chips was for the some
first week in June, one
Sift together dry ingredients. Add and nuts. Chill, then drop by spoon month
before the Umnak air base
alternately with sour milk. Stir in fuls on a greased cooky sheet. Bake was finished,
that the Japs struck.
oatmeal and raisins. Drop by spoon at 375 degrees for 12 minutes.
And
when
they bombed Dutch
fuls on an oiled baking sheet. Bake
Can you spare a cup and a quar- Harbor, the navy’s flying patrol
in a moderate (350-degree) oven for
ter of sugar?
boats there were helpless. Heavy
15 minutes.
think you can if and slow, they lacked protection
Ginger Snaps.
you know that from the army's fast pursuit planes,
1 cup molasses
you
will spread so speedy Jap Zero fighters made
3!4 cups sifted flour
that
sugar over mincemeat of them.
1 teaspoon salt
eight dozen cook
Lack of a nearby army air base
14 cup butter
ies as in the fol from which fighters and bombers
2 tablespoons sugar
lowing :
could protect the rest of the Aleu
14 teaspoon soda
Vanilla Nut Ice Box Cookies.
tians undoubtedly contributed also
l l i tablespoons ginger
(Makes 8 dozen cook.'es)
to the ease with which the Japs took
Heat molasses to boiling point and 2 cups sifted cake flour
pour over fat. Add sifted dry in 114 teaspoons double-acting baking Kiska harbor and the western Aleu
tians.
gredients to mo-
powder
lasses and fat.
Ya teaspoon salt
PERSISTENT LEON
Mix well and
6 tablespoons butter or shortening
shape dough into
The
army
doesn’t seem to think
14 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
a long, thin roll.
that hard-hitting Leon Henderson,
1 cup granulated sugar
price-fixing boss of the OPA, is
Wrap in waxed
1 egg, well beaten
paper and place
lethargic about wanting to put price
1 cup chopped nuts
in refrigerator to
ceilings on tanks, guns, trucks and
114 teaspoons vanilla
other
army material for which it
chill overnight.
Sift flour once, measure, add bak
Cut into thin slices with sharp knife ing powder and salt. Sift again. is now paying top prices.
and bake in a moderate oven until Cream butter and sugars gradually,
In a knock-down, drag-out session
lightly browned. Remove from pan creaming thoroughly. Add egg, nuts, in the office of mild-mannered Un
while hot and store in tightly cov vanilla and mix well. Add flour dersecretary of War Patterson, Hen
ered container to keep crisp.
gradually, mixing well after each derson banged on the table, told
That son of yours may be grown addition. Shape into rolls, 114 inches Patterson the army was paying too
up now and in the service, but my in diameter and roll in waxed paper. much, that he demanded the power
guess is that some of those good, Chill overnight or until firm enough to put price ceilings on army sup
to slice. Cut in 14-inch slices. Bake plies.
“I’m going to keep after you on
on ungreased baking sheet in a hot
oven (425 degrees) 5 minutes or un this till I get it,” Henderson stormed.
Lynn Says:
“When I was younger and I was
til light, golden brown.
Preserving Food: Eat and can
A fruity, unusual pie is this one courting a girl, I kept after her until
whatever you can from your Vic
tory garden. But you still may
combining prunes and bananas with I got her. And that’s what’s going
have some left, you say?
cornflakes and coconut. A sugar- to happen now.”
saver, too:
There are several methods to
CAPITAL CHAFF
•American Prune Pie.
take care of the surplus. First,
(Serves 6 to 8)
investigate to see whether your
C. Frank Grillo, president of the
2 cups cooked prunes
community has one of those stor
United Rubber Workers, is one man
114 cups whipping cream
age lockers where you can rent
who doesn’t believe that labor lead
14 cup honey
space in the freezing locker.
ers at home are more necessary
1 cup sliced bananas
Cleanliness and speed are impor
than fighters at the front. He has
Few grains salt
tant factors in this type of stor
resigned from the Rubber Workers
2 cups uncrushed corn ffakes
age. Food must be well select
and asked for hi3 old job back in
14 cup shredded coconut
ed to warrant the expense of this
the army—not a cellophane commis
type of preserving.
Baked pastry shell (9-inch)
sion (you can see through it but it
Cut prunes from pits in small protects from the draft). He wants
Drying at home is another ex
cellent way and one of the oldest
pieces. Whip cream. Measure one to be a sergeant.
methods available. Driers can
cup and blend with honey. Add fruit <L The navy has wisely drafted some
be bought for a reasonable sum
and salt and stir to blend Add corn of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI sleuths
and used to advantage for drying
flakes and blend lightly but thor to help train naval intelligence at
and storing fruits and vegetables.
oughly. Pour into baked pie shell tic irs. They are doing a bang-up
Other foods such as root vege
and sprinkle with coconut. Top with job.
tables, pumpkins and squash have
remaining cream and serve soon aft C. T h e Truman committee has per
er preparation.
good keeping qualities if stored
suaded the army to lend it Brig.
in their natural state under well
If hat problems or recipes are most on Gen. Frank Lowe, a Maine Repub
regulated temperatures such as
your mind during these fall days? Explain lican, as its executive officer.
your problem to l.ynn Chamber! and the C. On her way from Hollywood to
in attic or cellar. Dried beans,
m il give you expert advice on it. Address
peas and cured onions may be
your letter!, enclosing a sell-addressed Washington to participate in the
stored in an attic. Squash and
stamped
envelope for your reply, to her as treasury’s big bond show, demure
pumpkins require a relatively
U lin l.ynn Chambers, Western Newspaper Ann Rutherford sold several hun
warm place with free circulation
I nion, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chi dred dollars worth of bonds at each
of air.
station stop. At Albuquerque on«
cago, Illinois.
Released by W estern N ew sp aper U nio n
man handed her S1.000 in cash.
Thursday. Sept. 17, 1942
JUST
TERNS
SEWDNG COKCILE
Overlooked
Wife —Do you know what day it
Is? Just twenty-five years ago we
got engaged.
Absent-minded Professor— Why
effect through the wuiat which em
phasizes the perky flare of the didn’t you remind me before,
skirt and, is becoming to slim and dear? It's high time that we got
married.
chubby figures alike!
• « •
Barbara B ril Pattern No. 1033 la da-
•hilled (nr sizes 4. 6, (. la and 11 rears.
Sire tl years requlrea 1’ , yarda M inch
m aterial.
yard contrast tor collar and
Ila yarda rlc-rac fdgln« to trim .
S E H ÌS ’t l t IR C I K P A T T K ItN IIK P T .
14» N ew M on tgom ery Street
San F r a n c h e «
C alti.
Force of Habit
“She is suing to have her hug-
band's will set aside? Why?”
“I'm not sure, but I think she
got into the habit while lie was
alive.”
Self-Preservation
Encloae 20 canta In coltra tor eacb
pattern dealred.
“ If hat a dancer!
I never knew you
could jitterbug.“
“I can't. II e were just trying Io keep
our fret Iram being trampled by the
real jitterbugs."
P a tte rn N o ..........................S ir e ...................
Name .......................................................
Addreas .........................................
That's It!
Sonny Boy—Dad, what Is meant
by the bone of contention?
Dud—The jawbone, my son.
IT IS a simple design which al-
* ways looks best. That’s why
you’ll admire and approve this
cunning frock every time you see
your little girl wearing it. The
raised skirt line achieves a smooth
Small 'Bin' Men
It is a strange but true fact that
we are living in an age of big men
who are under medium height.
Hitler is below average height,
and so is Stalin. Churchill is by
no means tall, although he is taller
than little Franco. Mussolini is
well below average, and he has al
ways been rather ashamed of it.
Until the Munich crisis very few
people in this country had seen a
photograph of Mussolini standing
near any medium-built men. He
was always photographed against
the skyline, with the camera at a
low angle, to give him height and
that imposing jaw line.
The great Napoleon was only an
Inch over five feet, and his two
most implacable enemies, Horatio
Nelson and the duke of Wellington,
were very little taller than he was.
Wellington cculd never mount his
horse without help or without a
stone to stand on.
Esealloped corn is especially
flevoruble if several chopped ripe
olives are added to the dish before
serving.
• • •
III choosing an innerspring mat
tress, look for these: well-tem
pered steel wire coils, long-fibered
cotton or curled hair padding top
and bottom, sturdy borders, strong
ticking that won't stretch and
some provision for ventilation.
• • •
Make an oilcloth cover for your
ironing board, to use when brush
ing und sponging garments.
a
a
S K IN
Raw, smarting surface relieved emez-
Ingly by (he toothing medication of
R E SIN O ft.
AWAY CO CORNS
I*Bln KIH i q u irk , corns
■pratili y m uovati « I mmi
yuu unsi thin, attfMhln«.
cushioning Ih*. MchoU •
Zloo-pads. T ry Ihren t
D-SchoHs Zino pads
a
A good spice tip: Try putting
Many Trades
cinnamon in lamb stew.
A man of many trades begs his
• • •
bread on Sunduy. - Scotch Proverb.
Do not cut the skins from apples
when making applesauce. Remove
i blossom end, stem and parts that /T o Relieve distress from MOMTHLY\
are not good. When thoroughly
' cooked, put through a course
sieve. Made in this way the skins
give the sauce a pink coloring.
• • •
When making raisin breads,
T ry L y d ik E. P ln kh srn ’s Vegetable
cookies, etc., cover the raisins with
C om pound to help relieve m o n th ly
p e in , backache, headache, w ith 1U
hot water and simmer them for
w e a k , n e rv o u s fe e lin g s — d u e to
about five minutes before using.
m o n th ly fu n c tio n a l disturbance«.
T a k e n r e g u la r ly t h r u o u t th e
They will be larger and softer.
FEMALE
WEAKNESS
To help prevent peeled pears,
apples and bananas from darken
ing when they’re to be used in a
fruit cup, cover them with grape
fruit juice and chill.
• • •
Spiced waffles are delicious. Add
a teaspoon of cinnamon and half
a teaspoon each of cloves and
nutmeg to your regular waffle
recipe. Hot strained honey, mixed
with a little cream, butter and a
dash of cinnamon makes a de
licious topping for these waffles.
m o n t h — P ln k h a m 'e C o m p o u n d
helps b u ild u p resistance against
such distress o f “ d iffic u lt days.”
Thousands upon thousands o f girls
and wom en have reported g ra tify
ing benefits. Follow label directions.
Well worth trying!
% COLDS
L IQ U ID
TABLETS
SALVE
N O H osoet
COUGH PROFS
R ia to e s?
q A nourishingfood,
Mr. Hitler !
E H A V E potatoes in America. We also have fruits, meats and green and
yellow vegetables. For every crop you harvest w ith forced Lbor, wc have a larger
crop grown by men who work hard from dawn u n til dark because i t ’s their land,
their country. You’ve never met an American farmer— or his wife— have you, M r.
H itler? Too bad. Otherwise you m ight have thought twice before you started this war.
O ur cellars are used to store foods, not as bomb shelters. But our boys know the
meaning o f bombs. H ow did you like that first air raid, w ith not a single U. S. plane
lost? Those boys didn’t live on potatoes— they had meat, m ilk, fruits, vegetables. . .
all the things we have at home. American food follows them to the corners o f the earth.
H ow can we do it? American women are doing it — home-canning fo r the home fro n t
and saving money fo r W ar Bonds at the same time! Do you know how much o f it
they’re doing? W e ll. . . what would you give fo r FO U R B IL L IO N JARS of home-
canned foods, M r. H itler?
BALL
BRO THERS
M U N C IE ,
Can Successfully!
COMPANY
IN D IA N A ,
p ut some o f those 4
billion jars on your shelves; they represent a
dependable, low c o il food supply fo r your fa m
ily. But be sure your home-canned foods beep.
Use B A L L Jars, Caps and Rubbers. F ill in the
coupon on the printed leaflet fro m a carton o f
B A L L Jars and mail i t to us fo r a free copy o f
the B A L L B L U E B O O K — complete canning in
structions and more than J00 tested recipes. I f
you do not have the printed leaflet, tend lO f
w ith your name and address.
U. S. A.