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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ APRIL 9, 1943
America Spreads
Her Wings
By Robert McCormick
(WNU Future—Through special arrangement
with Collier's Weekly)
In less than 12 months our army
air force has grown from nothing
into one of the mightiest fighting
outfits the world has ever seen, with
bases speckled over the globe like
pepper on a fried egg. Every line
of it was designed around a cen
tral idea that it must have a posi
tive part in destroying enemy re
sistance. It was patterned for
bombing the heart out of the enemy,
for subduing enemy aircraft, and for
attacking enemy ground and sea
forces. These things it would do, not
in any one battle or one spot, but
in all American battles wherever
they might come.
The production of airplanes more
than doubled, got up to better than
5,000 a month. The types of com
bat planes being manufactured were
cut to less than a dozen, but each
of these had a specialised purpose.
Many got their first battle tests in
the last 12 months.
Level Off a Glacier.
These ships appeared at bases in
the Caribbean, in Alaska, in Brit
ain, at points all through the Pacific
and Africa and the Middle East and
India and China. A glacier was
leveled off to make an airport in the
Far North. An American engineer
dropped by parachute into the mid
dle of the Sahara, armed with a
pocketful of money, rounded up na
tive labor .and built an airfield.
Measure Distance by Hours.
Between these isolated spots, grew
up an AAF air-transport system that
became bigger than all the prewar
commercial airlines of the world put
together. The air transport com
mand became larger than the en
tire ait corps was before the war,
and it flew more miles than all the
world’s airlines before the war.
It stopped measuring dis
tances in miles. India became
76 hours away, instead of 14,000
air miles; England became 10
hours away, instead of 3,300
miles; Africa 40 hours, instead
of 3,900 miles.
Lieutenant General “Hap” Arnold,
chief of the AAF, flew back from
Australia in 35 hours, compared with
the conventional ship-sailing time of
33 days. The air transport com
mand shuttled great people around
like suburban commuters. Mrs.
Roosevelt flew to L ondon and back,
Madame Chiang Ki i-shek flew here
from China, Harry Hopkins flew
hither and thither with loose-jointed
freedom, the Harriman mission flew
to Russia and back, Wendell Willkie
moved all over the globe.
Climax Comes With Casablanca.
The climax came when the Pres
ident himself—who hadn’t flown on
a domestic airline since he took of
fice-broke all the rules by letting
the army fly him to Casablanca to
confer with Churchill. It wasn’t
simply a matter of picking the Pres
ident I'p and putting him down. The
Secret Service had to go first, high-
ranking army and navy officers had
to be taken along, and extraordinary
protection had to be given each one.
When Mr. Roosevelt did do away
with precedent, he did it in a big
way, knocking off 15,483 miles in the
air.
The army, and civilians as
well, got used to seeing young
men in their twenties and early
thirties wearing the eagles of a
full colonel. The youngest of
these officers is Col. Charles M.
McCorkle of North Carolina,
who was graduated from West
Point in June, 1936, and became
a colonel on November 16, 1942.
He was 27 years old.
Other Sources Contribute.
New training schools turned out
quantities of at-home pilots, navi
gators, bombardiers, gunners,
ground crews, mechanics, radiomen
and pll the other specialized per
sonnel necessary to such a gigantic
business. Wright Field erected a
building big enough to test 40-foot
propellers; aircraft engines of more
than 2,000 horsepower appeared;
swanky hotels were taken over at
Miami Beach, Atlantic City and Chi
cago to house AAF cadets in train
ing; stretches of desolate land in all
parts of the country were set aside
as bombing ranges; emergency
landing strips appeared along Amer
ican highways.
American parachute troops were
flown nonstop 1,500 miles from Eng
land to Africa; troop-carrying glid
ers were developed; General Kenney
moved enough supplies and troops
into New Guinea to enable the
American forces to start a hammer
ing offensive at the Japs—and al
most all of both men and material
went by air.
AAF officers took over control of
large sections of the entire army.
Lieut. Gen. Frank Andrews headed
up the European theater of opera
tions; Lieut. Gen. George Brett took
over Caribbean defense.
TT IS quite apparent, after taking
a look at Bivins and Mauriello,
that some part of the war services
will have to provide a challenger for
Louis and Conn, if these two are
still on top when the smoke clears
away. Bivins, however, is a good
light heavyweight.
There is no reason why some of
the various services shouldn’t come
through with a fine heavyweight
parade.
For there is no comparing the
quality of instruction the army and
navy is receiving for this war over
the other big roundup. Army, navy,
marines, air force and coast guard
now have most of the outstanding
talent around, teaching the uni
formed millions how to jab and hook,
feint and block, use feet and hands,
GENE TUNNEY
handle a right cross and the various
other details that make up a pro
boxer’s trade. •
They have been called in by the
hundreds, and while they may not
all be the best instructors of all-
time, they at least know the rudi
ments and most of the fundamentals.
Hot So Many
Professional boxing is one of the
hardest and most intricate of all
sports—all competitions.
So there won’t be many who will
finish around the front rank. It isn’t
often that nature produces a heavy
weight champion—meaning one who
has the size, the strength, the speed,
the skill, the durability and the co
ordination required to top the list.
You get a Dempsey and a Tunney
together—with no one else close. You
get a Louis and a Conn, who stand
alone where other games may carry
a flock of stars well matched.
It is man against man in the ring
—not team against team. No pals
can help to carry you along in times
of trouble and distress. There ik no
rougher road to the top.
But from some 10,000,000 fighting
men, well taught in the way of
ring skill, the harvest should be un
usually large.
The Other War
Only two good heavyweights came
out of the service side of the other
war. These two were Bob Martin
and Gene Tunney, although Gene at
the time was a light heavyweight.
Tunney’s record is one of the ring
classics. But I have always thought
that Bob Martin might have gone a
long way if he hadn’t figured in a
motorcycle accident that left him
with a badly injured head.
I have been told, by those who
should know, that Martin suffered
a blood clot that effectively wrecked
any chance for co-ordination. Big
Bob was a fine-looking prospect
when he came back from France.
In the meanwhile, it took Gene
Tunney seven years before he was
ready for Dempsey, then ranked as
unbeatable. I doubt that any ring-
man ever worked as long, as hard
and as smartly as Tunney worked
to reach the top.
He was certainly no flaming ball
of fire when he faced Soldier Jones
on the Dempsey-Carpentier $1,300,-
000 card.
Gene then was just another name
on the program. He was never a
natural athlete in the way of speed
and power. But he more than made
up for these defects by his deter
mination to learn and keep in con
dition.
There was never any doubt about
his smartness and his courage. A
combination of head and heart is
always something to bank on, no
matter what the game.
Head, heart, speed, skill, power
and durability are not so easy to
locate in one lone human system.
This present war, when it is over,
may leave us a better answer than
we have known before, with so many
more having so much the better
chance to move up.
• • •
Crowds Will Be There
Sports’ winter campaigns, East
and West, have shown the crowds
will be there.
In boxing, basketball, hockey and
indoor track the turnstile count has
baffled even the leading optimists
of the sports world.
The vast fan crowd, whatever the
sport, apparently no longer demands
big names.
They carry a yearning to see good
competition — to see almost any
game that has action.
Greet the Day With a Well-Balanced Breakfast
(See Recipes Below)
Good Morning!
What’s your breakfast? A squirt
of orange juice and a sip of coffee
or fruit, cereal,
eggs, toast and
coffee? No need
to tell you which
one you can start
a m a n-s i z e d
day’s work on, is
there? A break
fast should supply almost a third of
the day’s calories and food value.
A slight breakfast will prevent you
from waking up fully—and thus
starting to realize your full quota
of production whether you’re on the
home or factory front. But, treat
the first meal of the day with the
same respect you do the other two,
and you find yourself refreshed and
more than ready to do your job—
and do it well.
If you’re still in doubt about the
value of a good breakfast, look at
breakfasts fed servicemen. Do you
think they could get up and do their
work if it weren’t for fruit, cere
als, eggs, toast or hotbread and
beverage for their first fare of the
day? No, ma’am.
Breakfast affords a grand’ chance
for you to get your vitamin BI—
that important morale vitimin
which prevents nervousness and
restlessness. You need this vitamin
every day—and its best sources are
whole grain cereal and bread—and
yeast.
On warmer days, serve oatmeal
or whole wheat cereal, on cooler
days, use the enriched, ready-to-eat
cereals which are unrationed. When
the berries and fruits start coming
in, use a few of them with the cere
als for a delightful breakfast dish.
Breakfast is a good way to take
care of the citrus fruit requirement
of the day, too. A
half grapefruit, a
large orange or a
large glass of or
ange juice will
fulfill the vitamin
C quota of the
day. Remember,
however, that vi
tamin C is easily
destroyed by air, and that means
you should not squeeze or cut up
oranges until just before serving.
*OId-Fashioned Popovers.
3 eggs
I Vi cups milk
„ 114 cups enriched flour
Vi teaspoon salt
Sift flour and salt into a bowl.
Beat eggs and add milk to them
and stir gradually into the flour to
make a smooth batter, then beat
thoroughly with egg beater; put in
hot greased muffin tins two-thirds
full of mixture. Bake in a hot oven
(450 degrees) half hour, then in mod
erate (350 degree) oven 15 minutes
until brown. Note: No leavening
agent is used in popovers, and their
rising action is dependent upon thor
ough beating.
Lynn Says:
Make Rationing Work: Keep
food essentials in mind when
planning your menus, and use
point-rationed food to best advan
tage. When you spend any of
your coupons for rationed food,
make sure you are not buying
anything that you could buy
fresh.
In buying meats buy those of
which you get the most for your
points. Extend whatever cuts
of meat you can with cereals,
stuffings, food extenders and
vegetables to make them go fur
ther.
Start today to save sugar and
put it in a bank so that you will
have enough for the canning you
are going to do this summer.
Do not use sugar anywhere that
you possibly can avoid it. Start
planning your victory garden, so
that you will be ready to put up
as much of your share in fruits
and vegetables.
Buy quality foods to get the
most value of your points. This
applies to canned and processed
foods, meat, cheese and butter.
Lynn Chambers’ Point-Saving
Breakfast
*Baked Apples
Ready-to-Eat Cereal
Cream and Sugar
•Old-Fashioned Popovers
With Jam
Beverage
•Recipes Given
If possible, have eggs for break
fast—with bacon, if you can man
age it, but remember that a nice hot
bowlful of oatmeal will give a good
ly quantity of health. Then, of
course, you can vary the menu
with pancakes, french toast and waf
fles when the mood strikes you.
Baked pears or apples are a good
fruit for breakfast variation. Try
apples this way:
•Baked Apple With Orange
Marmalade Filling.
Select apples that are suitable for
baking. Core, and fill cavities with
orange marmalade. Prick skins
with fork and place in a baking pan
with a little water. Cover with lid
and bake in a slow oven until ten
der. Remove lid just long enough
to brown.
Creamed Chipped Beef Omelet.
(Serves 8)
1 cup chipped beef, cut fine
1V4 cups white sauce
6 eggs
6 tablespoons top milk
V4 teaspoon salt
V6 teaspoon pepper
Fold chipped beef into white
sauce. Beat eggs until fluffy, then
add milk, salt
and pepper. Melt
enough butter or
margarine into a
heqvy skillet to
cover bottom and
sides of pan, pour
in eggs and shake
gently over fire.
When set, loosen
sides and bottom, cover with heated
creamed beef, carefully fold over
with spatula, and slide onto hot plat
ter. Serve at once.
For variety, there are many types
of griddle cakes:
Sour Milk Griddle Cakes.
1V4 cups flour
1 cup buttermilk
1 tablespoon melted but
ter or margarine
54 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon sugar
2 eggs ,
Sift flour and sugar; dissolve soda
in buttermilk and add to flour. Drop
in unbeaten eggs and beat well,
then fold in butter. Drop by spoon
fuls on a hot, greased griddle and
brown on both sides.
Flannel Cakes.
2 eggs
154 cups milk
2 cups enriched Hour
54 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons sugar
2 tablespoons melted but
ter or margarine
3 teaspoons baking powder
Sift all dry ingredients. Beat egg
yolks and add to milk. Pour this
into the flour, add melted butter,
and lastly the well-beaten eggs. Drop
by spoonfuls on hot, greased grid
dle and serve with syrup, preserves
or jelly.
Crisp Waffles.
(Makes 4 4-section waffles)
2 cups sifted cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
54 teaspoon salt
2 egg yolks, well beaten
1 cup milk
54 cup melted shortening
2 egg whites
Sift flour, measure, add baking
powder and salt and sift again. Com
bine egg yolks and milk, add to flour,
beating until smooth. Add shorten
ing. Beat egg whites until they
hold up but are still moist, then
fold into batter. Bake on hot waf.
fle iron.
Lynn Chambers welcomes you to submit
your household queries to her problem
clinic. Send your letters to her at ITes tern
Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines
Street, Chicago, Illinois. Don’t forget to
enclose a stvnped, self-addressed envelope
for your reply.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
ROBIN HOOD’S BARN
“I say,” said a bumptious individ
ual to a man standing at the street
comer, “just tell me how I can get
to Blank street."
“Well," was the reply, “take the
third turning on the left, first to the
right, second to the right again,
fourth to left, first to right, fifth to
left, cut across a square, pass
through a crescent, take the second
to the left, and you’ll get it.”
Hie stranger jotted down the par
ticulars and followed the instructions
given. After three-quarters of an
hour he was startled to arrive at
the place where he had asked the
question, and to see the samO man
still standing at the comer.
“Why did you direct me wrongly?”
he demanded, angrily.
“You asked for Blank street,
didn’t you?”
“Yes.”
“Well, then, I directed you all
right. This is Blank street.”
THAT DOES IT
“Is she pretty?”
“Well, she always gets a seat in a
bus.”
Cryptic Response
The landlord of offices tenanted
by a firm of Scots lawyers whose
lease was about to expire wrote to
ask whether they were going to con
tinue in occupation. Their reply
was:
“Dear Sir, We are, Yours truly—”
Not appreciating this effort in
economy of words—and paper—he
wrote again to demand whether or
not i* was their intention to remain.
The answer was:
“Dear Sir, We remain, Yours
truly—”
The landlord is not trying again.
Gained a Bit
An Irish priest had been trans
ferred from one parish to another.
One of his old flock met one of the
new. “Well,” he said, “and how do ,
yez like Father Murphy, Dennis?”
“Ah, to be sure,” answered Den
nis, “he’s a fine man; a fine man,
but a trifle bellicose.”
"Bellicose, is it? Well, if that
isn’t quare. When we had him,
he was as thin as a rake.”
Gambling Instinct
A Scotsman visited Niagara Falls
with an American friend.
As they approached the great rush
of water, the latter said: “There’s a
story that if you throw a penny into
the falls, it will bring you luck.”
"Is that so?” inquired the Scot.
He considered a moment, and then
asked, hopefully: "Ha’ ye a long
bit of string?”
GOING UP
“When water becomes ice," asked
the professor, “what is the greatest
change that takes place?"
“The price, sir.”
Wrong Method
“Look here, Mrs. Murphy, why
have you been hitting my little
Bobby?”
“I only hit him because he was
rude and called me a fat old pig!”
“But, good gracious, Mrs. Murphy,
you ought to know better than that.
Hitting my son won’t do you any
good; you’ll have to start dieting!”
Pedestrian Note
“Well, I’ve got one record to be
proud of anyhow.”
“What’s that?”
“I’ve lived in this town seven
years and haven’t been run over by
an automobile yet.”
An Improvement
"Jack is one of those fellows who
reads up 09 things and then insists
on talking about them.”
“Well that beats the fellow who in
sists on talking about things without
reading up on them.”
(Fnel)isb Question
“Pops, why do they call it hard
coal?"
“Because, Tommy, it’s not only
hard in itself, but hard to get and
harder still to pay for.”
Geography Quiz
Teacher—Bobby, where is Mos
cow?
Bobby—On page 15 of the geogra
phy, Miss.
She’s Covered
“What would you say if I were to
steal a kiss?”
"Nothing; I carry burglary insur
ance.”
Made Over
"Agnes married a self-made
man.”
“Yes, but she compelled him to
make extensive alterations.”
So He Says!
Grandmother—Freddy, did you
wash your hands this morning?
Freddy—I washed one of them,
the other didn’t need it
THE CHEERFUL CHERUB
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exploring
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WNU Features.
‘Booster’ Explosives
Amatol, an explosive used in
shells and bombs, requires a
heavy charge of another high ex
plosive to set it off. This “boost
er” is usually the more sensitive
TNT which, in turn, is detonated
by the still more sensitive mer
cury fulrqinate.
I LICKED MY
CONSTIPATION
Of course. It wasn’t due to
anything organically wrong
with me. It was just ordi
nary constipation, due to
lack of “bulk” in the diet
A dose of some medicinal
laxative gives only tempo
rary relief for such consti
pation. You got to find
something that gets at the
cause and corrects it. I
found Just that—in kxixocg’i
ALL-BRAN.
all-bran Is a wonderful,
tasting breakfast cereal and
a swell way to start tha
morning. Eat it regularly,
drink plenty of water and
—if your constipation’s like
mine—you’ll “Join the Reg
ulars,” too! ALL-BRAN is
made by Kellogg’s in Battle
Creek, Michigan.
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Caution: Use only as directed. First
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druggist if not satisfied. Get 02228,
A. Vegetable
Laxative
For Headache,
Sour Stomach
and D. izzR
Spells when
caused by Con
stipation. Use
only as directed.
15 doses fot;
only 10 cents.
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