Page 2 Friday^JanH^^-ll SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Germans Removed From Japanese Liner Here's a Change From Old Stand-Bys: Cereal Cookies; So Tasty, Low in Cost MID you ever hear of a “cerealia?” No, it’s not a breakfast food. It’s the festival that the ancient Romans staged every yenr in honor of Ceres, God­ dess of the Grains. You can have a cerealia of your own; a Cookie Cerealia, for when it conies to turning out those botches of cook­ ies, there’s nothing that adds so much taste and variety ut such u low cost as the well-known morn- ing cereal. Nice purt about making cereal cookies is thut the cereal is al­ ready cooked and tested in the manufacturer’s ovens. All you need do is mix it in according to directions. But nicer still are the gorgeous-tasting delicacies that you can produce from just ordi­ nary, every-day corn Hukes und the like. Sort of a change from the old stand-bys, the sand-tarts and ginger snaps. Even the nurnes of these cookies sound good: Bran Butterscotch Cookies, New Zealand Corn Flake Kisses, Mincemeat Hermits, Pep- pies, and Peanut Butter Maca­ roons. Happily, none of these cull for expensive ingredients. Bran Butterscotch Cookies, Washington, D. C. BRITAIN WANTED U. 8. TO GET EIRE TO GIVE IH> HASES Confidential conversations have been taking place between the Brit- I ish and the state department for some time aimed nt getting Irish naval bases for the British. In those conversations the British have wanted to place the United States in the unique role of either persuading or bulldozing Eire into handing over the bases. Just how the United States handled it the British didn't much care. But in talking to the state depart­ ment, the British pointed out that if they took Irish bases by force, there would be a burst of anti-British feel­ ing from Irish ail over the United States, particularly New England. This, the British felt, would be ex­ tremely bad just at a time when Britain particularly needs American support. The British also pointed out to the state department that they were placed in the unfortunate position of I having to bring food to Ireland at Howard C. Hopson, left, with V. 8. i the risk of having the ships sunk, Two German Nationals of military age were removed from the Jap­ marshal as he left the federal court ' and with no protective co-operation 1 cup butter 1 cup all-bran anese liner, Tatuta Maru, at San Francisco, by officials of the N. Y. K. In New York, after being sentenced 1 cup* brown *ug*r 3 cup* flour from the Irish whatsoever. Steamship line, delaying sailing of the vessel for more than an hour. Taken to five years in the federal peniten­ 3 leatpoons baking : rk’g Therefore, the British foreign of­ powder off the ship were Nicholas Kraus. 33, a machinist (left), and Heins Ernst, tiary as the convicted looter of his fice urged the state department to Cream butter; add sugar gradu­ 21, who termed himself a student, shown al right, both of New York. billion-dollar utilities empire. use its immediate and vigorous good ally und beat until light and fluffy. offices with the Irish government. Add egg and beat well. Stir in The state department, however, all-bran. Sift flour with baking has been eying the situation with no great enthusiasm. Informal powder and work into first mix­ soundings revealed that the Irish ture, a small amount at a time. Knead and shape into rolls about minister in Washington. Robert Brennan, is vigorously opposed to 14 inches in diameter; wrap in British naval bases, and so is the waxed paper, covering ends so Irish government—at least until the that dough will not dry out. Store recent bombing of Eire by German in refrigerator until firm. Cut into thin slices and bake on ungreased planes. This has changed Irish public cookie sheet in moderately hot opinion considerably, and it is now oven (425 degrees F.) about 10 possible that U. S. persuasion might minutes. Yield: 7Mt dozen cookies (2 get somewhere. inches in diameter). • • • Note: One tablespoon water or SHORTAGE OF SHEET BRASH HAMPERS DEFENSE PROGRAM milk may be added to dough if it The serious shortage tn aluminum is difficult to sh. pc into rolls. (a factor behind the lagging plane New Zealand Corn Flake Kisses. 1 teaspoon baking production* is not the only crucial ti cup butter powder raw material bottleneck now pla­ 1 cup sugar 1 ess •A teaspoon salt guing the defense program. IV« cup« flour 1 cup finely cut dates Another is the lack of sheet brass. !» cup corn flak« crumbs \ out of which shell casing is made. As in the case of aluminum, de­ Cream butter and sugar thor- fense chiefs are shush-shushing the oughly; add egg and beat until brass shortage. But it Is so grave fluffy. Sift flour with buking |>OW- Mr. and Mrs. George Stubbs of Atlantic City, N. J., are pictured Lieut. A. C. McDonough, reserve that experts admit privately that it der and salt; add to first mixture here with their two-month-old baby, George Jr., who was recovered by a officer, pictured in Atlanta, Ga., aft­ may become necessary to curtail along with dates. Mix well. Roll detective's “bunch” a short time after he was kidnaped. The child was er reportedly diving an Aircobra consumption for civilian purposes in one teaspoon of mixture in corn found in an apartment occupied by a young Negro woman who has only pursuit plane 620 miles per hour in order to meet the steadily soaring recently been released from a mental Institution. military demand. In fact, brass army test at Buffalo, N. Y. may be one of the first base metals to be put on the military priority list. Cause of the shortage is twofold: 1. Lack of sufficient zinc smelting facilities. Zinc is an essential ore in brass, which in turn is essential in the manufacture of all ammuni­ tion casings, from bullets for small arms to giant shells for the heaviest cannon. 2. Shortage of brass manufactur­ ing facilities. The two are Interrelated and there can be no improvement in one un­ less the other also is remedied. There is no dearth of zinc ore or scrap zinc, which are in plentiful supply. The bottleneck is in smelt­ ing and brass-making plants. At present the United States has some 20-odd primary slab zinc smelters and five so-called secondary smelters, which use scrap zinc in­ stead of ore. Their combined out­ put is 450.000 tons—far short of the American and British defense re­ quirements already specified. Meanwhile, our own shell needs and those of the British increase daily. To meet this, brass manu­ facturers are hurriedly expanding their rolling mill facilities and also adding machinery to turn out cas­ ings. But all this will be useless un­ less they can get more smelted zinc. In a belated move to deal with this menacing situation, the Defense commission several weeks ago granted a “certificate of necessity” A girl examines the portable ra­ to a large zinc smelter at Amarillo, dio transmitter which was used by Texas, for an addition to its plant. Mass production of the new Curtiss Tomahawk fighters for Great two German spies who slipped into That will help—when the plant is England as refugees. They sent Britain’s RAF now total a new high of eight planes per day at the huge finished. But even then it will be back military movements to Germa­ Buffalo, N. Y., plant, a part of whose final assembly department is here far from enough. ny. The spies were executed In Pen- shown. The Curtiss Tomahawk is the British name tor the Curtiss Hawk Independent producers charge that tonville prison. 81-A “pursuit.” The planes shown above will soon be England-bound. the zinc delay is caused by the same I factor which has held up aluminum, namely—monopoly. They assert that the big operators don’t want new competitors in the field and operate undercover to bar them, through strategically placed influences in the Defense commis­ sion. • • • UNDER THE DOME Thanks to careful advance plan­ ning by Floor Leader Alben Barkley and Senate Secretary Edwin Halsey the convening of the senate was the smoothest in the memory of veteran employees. There wasn't a single hitch. Tennessee’s new Rep. Percy Priest, of Nashville, who performed the extraordinary feat of ousting an incumbent {Southern Democrat who had won the party nomination, was the most photographed rookie on Capitol Hill. “And the least photo­ genic,” quipped the new congress- man. Most active glad-hander at the Axel Anderson, five, an American was bulky, 68-year-old Sen. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., left, and Arthur boy who was stranded in Norway opening David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, Purvis, head of the British purchasing commission in the United States, when the Axis took over, arrives in who, easily re-elected, sat In his aisle are shown at the entrance of the White House executive offices, after a New York from Lisbon. The label seat hand-pumping everyone in luncheon conference with President Roosevelt. Purvis said they had a around his neck shows he had to go sight. Most conspicuous absentee general talk on supply matters and the situation in London. via Berlin. was Sen. “Cotton Ed" Smith. Detective's ‘Hunch' Recovers Baby Tomahawks’ for Tom Against Jerry Nazi Spy Radio British Purchasing Agent at White House Home Via Axis ___ flake crumbs und flatten down on greased cookie sheet. Bake in slow oven (325 degrees F.) about 2U minutes. Remove from pun while worm. Yield: 3 dozen cookies (1% inches in diameter). Mincemeat Hermits. tb cup butler I)« cups sugar a css« lb cup milk % cup all-bran 34 cup« flour 3 teaspoons baking powder Pi Iraspouns clans» mon 1 (va»|HH>n cloves on nutmeg I teaspoon salt I cup mincemeat Blend butter und sugar thor- mighly, 1 uih I l»< ut well. Add milk mid ull-brun. Sift flour with remaining dry ingredients und add to first mixture; mix well und chill. Roll dough to ulniut % inch thickness on lightly floured board und cut into rounds. Place teaspoonful of mincemeat on one round, cover with second and press edges together. Buke on greased buking sheet in moderate­ ly hot oven (400 degrees F.) for ubout 12 minutes. Yield . 45 cookies (2% inches in diameter). Pepples. « cups flour cup »hortcnlng 4 teaspoon «alt 1 cup «ugar I teaspoon aoda 3 egg* I teaspoon ginger 1 cup iiio I m **«** t teaspoon cinnamon i cup vitamin- Is cup «our cream enriched wheat flake* Fiend shortening and sugar thoroughly. Add well beiiten eggs, molasses and wheat flakes. Sift flour with salt, soda and spices; udd alternately to first mixture with cream. Chill thoroughly. Roll to H-inch thickness; cut und bake on greased baking sheet in mod­ erate oven (375 degrees F.) about 20 minutes. Yield: 24 dozen cookies (24 inches in diameter). Orange and Lemon Cookies. (Makes about 5 dozen cookies) 3>, cups flour i sifted) I cup sugar V* cup orang* Juic* 1 teaspoons baking powder !* cup lemon juic*