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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, APRIL 30, 1943
Flying Fortress
Dishes It Out
By CapU Clyde B. Walker
(WNU Feature—Through special arrangement
with The American Magazine.)
WNU Sen-,,
Newspaper Man Stuff:
So here's to the gallant reporters.
The boys with the pencils and
pads.
Those cool, imperturbable, calm, in.
disturbable,
■ Nervy, inquisitive lads.
Each time that we pick up a paper.
Their marvelous deeds we should
bless;
Those bold, reprehensible, brave,
indispensable
Sensible lads of the press!
—Newman l evy.
We were carrying some mighty
heavy stuff for Jerry in our big
Flying Fortress.
Leaving our home field in Eng
land at six o’clock in the morning,
our objective was the submarine
pens at Lorient, France.
As we approached, somebody
yelled “Flak!” and the anti-aircraft
shells broke around us. At the
same time the ball turret gunner
shouted “Wolves coming up!“He had
sighted a dozen German fighters,
Focke-Wulf 190s, climbing fast from
downstairs.
I held the ship steady on her
eourse. A few seconds later
Bombardier Bentinck pressed
his bomb triggers. The giant
bombs hit exactly where he had
aimed them, in the middle of a
platform between two subma
rine pens.
"Bull’s-eye!” he whooped over
the intercom. I never heard any
one sound so jubilant. Those were
the last words Bentinck ever spoke.
The next second, everything hit us
at once. Things started happening
much faster than I can tell them.
FW’s Take Us On.
We were raked from end to end
with flak. At the same time a
swarm of FW’s dived out of the
sun. They came in like hornets,
with 20-millimeter cannon and ma
chine guns wide open.
One burst of flak ripped into the
nose. It killed Bentinck instantly.
The same burst wounded Navigator
Smith and knocked him uncon
scious.
A second burst ripped away the
doors of the bomb bay. Another
burst sprayed around Co-pilot Bill
Reed and myself.
That wasn’t half of it. Krucher,
in the tail, had been hit. A cannon
shell had torn a big hole in the ball
turret. Radio Operator Frishholz
had a flak hole in the back of his
head, and the radio room was on
fire.
No. 1 Engine Is Ont.
The first broadside of flak smashed
the drive shaft of No. 1 engine. The
No. 2 had been hit on top and was
throwing oil. It might catch fire
any second. Flak had knocked a
big dent in the propeller of No. 3,
and No. 4 had a big hole in its base.
I carried on with 3 and 4. The
ship staggered and started falling
behind the rest of the squadron.
I put the nose down and dived steep
ly for the cover of some clouds
far below us.
FW’s Close In For Kill.
Seeing we were badly hurt, the
FW’s closed in for the kill. Then
the boat really lived up to her name
of Flying Fortress. We took plenty
during the next 60 seconds, but not
half as much as we dished out.
My waist gunner. Bill Stroud, took
care of 'the first one. It was so
close that he could see the back of
the pilot’s head. Stroud poured a
stream of bullets into him. The FW
went into a spin, and Stroud fol
lowed him with burst after burst.
A moment later another Jer
ry eame under his sights. He
poured steel into him, saw him
fcfcak up.
Right waist gunner Berring
was pumping 50-caliber slugs at
range. He, too, got a “proba
ble,” a red-nosed FW which spun
down and out of sight.
Meanwhile the wounded tail gun
ner got a chance. While he was ly
ing back there losing blood, an FW
roared in to finish him off. Krucher
took steady aim and rapped out one
long burst. It literally sawed the
German’s wing off. He went down
in flames.
With the wind shrieking through
the.flak holes, we raced down, down,
for that beautiful layer of clouds.
We made it. The remaining FW’s
didn’t attempt to follow us into the
clouds.
Somehow or other, we limped
home on our two engines and landed
at an English airport near the coast.
Our wounded went to the hospital,
and have now recovered.
Bentinck—as great a bombardier
as ever served in any man’s army—
was gone, but the other nine of us
will soon be flying again.
Our trip back was as big an ad
venture as our fight with the FW’s.
Coming out of the cloud cover, we
were down to 600 feet when we saw
the ocean again, then a large town,
which I recognized as Brest, one of
the most strongly fortified places in
France.
I pointed the ship straight over
Brest. We were so low that we
could see people staring up at us,
but there were no fireworks.
Crossing the harbor, we passed
right between two German destroy
ers at anchor. They could have
blasted us to blazes.
City editors are like those you see
in the movies . . . They really are
. . . Cynical, indifferent and inces
santly so-whatty . . . Ask Jim Bish
op, one of the Mirror’s nimble news
paper sleuths . . . Jim was a wit
ness to this incident many years ago
. . It was one of those lovely tid-
vts that brightened a dull night
>ut of the nowhere came a stranger
msely waving a pistol ... “I wan-
a see the Fish and Game editor.”
i said softly, “very important” . .
\nd so Bishop brought him to the
/'ish and Game man ... “I just
killed my wife,” began the fellow.
“I trussed her in a trunk and then
I tied up her boy friend in a chair
and then 1 set fire to him. I always
liked your column, so I thought I’d
give you the scoop.”
Bishop and the Fish and Game
editor took him over to the city edi
tor . . . Now this city editor is one
of those guys who wouldn’t blink if
Rommel walked in and brought Hit
ler with him—and he was irked . . .
“I’m busy,” he said, motioning to
his assistant across the slot . . .
The murderer was told to repeat his
story to the assistant city ed . . .
He took a deep breath and rubbed
his face, which was scratched like
a ten cent ruby ... As he unfolded
the details he kept yanking chunks
of wire and rope from his pockets,
and waving the pistol . . . The city
editor never looked up from the copy
he was studying, except to stifle a
butt.
“Now with this rope,” said the
killer, “I tied up her boy friend. And
with this wire I strangled her lovely
throat. And here is the pistol, you
can see for yourself that one bullet
is missing” . . . The indifferent city
editor, who was still occupied with
the dummy of a page, looked up and
said to his assistant: “Hey. Think
there’s anything to this one?”
This actually happened recently in
one of the editorial offices . . . There
had been rumors again that a shake-
up was taking place and that heads
would roll . . . One morning a
stranger sat at a desk in the comer
and answered the phone when it
rang and when it wasn’t ringing, he
just looked around at everybody . . .
It gave the staff the screaming jit
ters ... Nobody knew just what
he was there for and all were afraid
to ask . . . Finally, one feature writ
er engaged him in gab . . . “What
is your job around here?” he asked
. . . “Oh, I don’t work here,” was
the reply . . . “Well, then,” queried
the other, “who are you waiting to
see?” . . . “Oh,” said the stranger,
“I’m not waiting to see anyone. My
friend works in the advertising de
partment. I’m his insurance agent.
He told me I could use this desk.”
The reporters down at Police
H’quarters are the most colorful, we
think . . . They “live” in a shack
across the street from the gold braid
cops . . . Life is a game of pinochle,
a brass bell bonging a second
alarm, a slip boy shuffling in with
a suicide’s name and address or a
phone call from the city desk to
check on a rumor out of Washington
that the Nazis are invading Turkey
. . . But what we started out to
say was that the kid who brings the
morning papers to the niteside re
porters there was bawled out by one
of them. The boy had forgotten to
leave a Times for the irate man . . .
The kid said he was very sorry, and
that it wouldn’t happen again . . .
“It better not,” barked the reporter.
“You know I bring a fish home ev
ery morning. What the hell am I
gonna wrap it up in?”
My favorite newspaper man story
always was the one about the vet
eran editor, who on Christmas Eve
gave these instructions to a cub . . .
“Now I want you to go down to the
Bowery,” said the boss, “and dig up
some human interest about those
poor unfortunates. Jot down how
they enjoyed their Christmas dinner
at the mission. Then after you
cover the Salvation Army feast for
the poor—bring me a couple of hot
dogs.”
Those are the kind of stories
scribes tell each other, at any rate,
and they have spellbound newspa
per men ever since they got their
first assignments . . . Take this one,
frixample . . . Nobody’s asking you
to believe it . . . But take it, any
how ... A reporter phoned his
city desk about a homicide . . .
“The core,” he said, “is still at the
scene of the crime!”
“Don’t you mean corpse?” snarled
the rewrite man.
“I cei iny don’t!” was the re
tort. “There was only one!”
Make Red Points Work!
Making red points fit your menus
and still give you plenty of valuable
proteins and fats
on which to do a
man - sized day’s
work is like work
ing out a jig-saw
puzzle. But yoU
remember how
they all can come
out if you try
The answer is in
_ points before you
spend them, getting meats with low
point value, and extending flavor of
meat as much as possible.
First of all, let’s realize that meat
is a high quality protein, and that
the body needs it for repairing and
building tissue—which is a full-time
job. We designate proteins as com
plete and incomplete, the ones which
are complete do a complete job of
body building and repairing. Com
plete proteins are meat, cheese, fish,
poultry, eggs and milk.
hard enough?
budgeting your
Incomplete proteins are those
which can do just part of the job,
and in this class we have breads,
cereals, beans, peas and nuts. Of
course we can use these foods al
ternately or in combination with
meat, when we cannot get enough
meat to fill our requirements. But,
always, please bear the difference
in mind.
Pork is our foremost source of
thiamin or vitamin B,—sometimes
called the pep and energy vitamin
because of its important contribu
tion to mental health. Here pork
sausage is combined with a cereal
for a really delicious “stretched”
dish:
All-Bran Scrapple.
(Serves 8)
1 pound fresh pork sausage i
2 cups water
1 teaspoon salt
% teaspoon pepper
>/£ teaspoon powdered sage
Few grains cayenne
% cup cornmeal
% cup bran cereal
Brown sausage in heavy skillet;
stirring occasionally; pour off and
save fat. Bring
water to a boil,
add salt, pepper,
sage and cayenne.
Stir in cornmeal
gradually; cook
until thickened,
stirring constant
ly. Add bran ce
real and sausage and mix thorough
ly. Pour into dampened loaf pan;
chill until firm. Unmold. Cut into
%-inch slices and brown in sausage
fat on hot griddle. Serve with ma
ple syrup or apple butter.
Chicken is a complete protein—
and goes a long way, nicely in this
delightful fruity salad which you’ll
enjoy serving company or Sunday
night supper guests:
Lynn Says:
The Score Card: With 35 mil
lion homemakers carrying ration
books to the grocers, new ways
for managing limited foods are
the order of the day.
Many of these homemakers are
accustomed to pulling off cans
from their shelves, or taking
quick-frozen food from their stor
age lockers. Now they will have
to glean all possible facts from
labels of these processed foods,
budget their points carefully.
It’s smart to buy the size of
can most profitable for her own
individual family. Keep a table
of equivalents handy in your
purse until you become proficient.
Usually, 16 ounces or one fluid
pint will fill two measuring cups.
The 32-ounce size will fill four
cups.
Remember canned vegetables
are already cooked and need be
brought only to boiling to be
ready to serve.
Buying fresh fruits and vegeta
bles relieves pressure on canned
goods. e
This Week’s Menu
•Stuffed Veal Hearts
Buttered Noodles
Quick-Cooked Green Cabbage
Grated Carrot—Fresh Grapefruit
Salad
Whole Wheat Rolls Jelly
Rhubarb Sauce Cookies
Beverage
•Recipe Given.
Orange-Chicken Salad.
(Serves 6)
1(4 cups orange sections
2 caps cooked ehicken, minced
1 cup diced celery
(4 cup lemon french dressing
Lettuce and other greens
Toss orange sections; chicken and
celery together with the lemon
french dressing. Arrange on six in
dividual beds of greens or lettuce.
Kidney beans are a second-class or
incomplete protein food, but they
are fine to use on that extra day
when there are no red points left
over for meat. Dried peas and len
tils have a low point value which
makes them fine for tide-overs on
meatless days: Grated cheese adds
food value, takes only a few red
points:
Kidney Bean Loaf.
(Serves 6 to 8)
2 .cups dry kidney beans
2 cups water
4 cups stale bread crumbs
2 cups grated cheese
(4 cup chopped onion
(4 cup shortening
1 egg
1(4 teaspoons salt
(4 teaspoon pepper
Soak beans overnight in the 2 cups
water. In the morning, bring to a
boil in the same
liquid and then
sifnmer until
beans are tender.
Mash beans fine
and add all other
ingredients, mix
ing well. Pack in
to a loaf pan and
bake 1% hours in a 325-degree oven.
Baste occasionally with 1 tablespoon
melted butter and V« cup water.
You may use fish generously as a
real menu aid during these days.
Many types of fish are in season all
the year round, and a great many
other come in season during spring;
Fish Loaf.
(Serves 4)
2 cups flaked, steamed fish
(4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs, separated
1 cup medium white sauce
Combine, fish, salt, beaten egg
yolks, white sa|fce and beaten egg
whites. Pour into greased baking
dish and bake in a moderate oven
20 to 30 minutes.
•Stuffed Veal Hearts.
(Serves 5)
2 veal hearts
2 tablespoons chopped onion
!4 cup chopped celery
2 tablespoons shortening
1(4 cups fine bread crumbs
3 /i teaspoon salt
(4 teaspoon pepper
(4 cup water
3 tablespoons shortening
2 cups stewed tomatoes
2 whole cloves
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon salt
(4 teaspoon pepper
Clean hearts by cutting through
side to center, open with a sharp
knife, cut out all veins and arteries.
Wash well. Make a dressing by
cooking onion and celery in shorten
ing. Add crumbs, salt, pepper and
water. Stuff the hearts with dress
ing and tie together with string.
Roll hearts in flour, brown in short
ening. Add tomatqes, cloves, bay
leaf. Sprinkle with salt and pepper
Cover with tight fitting lid and cook
on low heat for 1(4 hours.
Lynn Chambers welcomes you to sub
mit your household queries to her problem
clinic. Send your letters to her at Western
Newspaper Vnion, 210 South Desplaines
Street, Chicago, III. Don’t forget to enclose
a stamped, self-addressed envelope fa
your reply.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
By VIRGINIA VALE
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
T ’HE Hollywood telephone
Repairman was phoning
his report. "Yeah, I fixed it;
cord was chewed.” Pause.
“Yeah, chewed. No, not a
dog—a lion.” Pause. "Sure I
said lion.” Pause. “Look, I
haven’t had a drink all day,
and I said a lion chewed it.
I’m at Jinx Falkenburg’s house.”
He grinned. “Yeah, I knew you’d
understand.” The cub, a present to
Jinx from her brother. Bob, has
since then taken to sharpening his
teeth on the piano legs. The Co
lumbia star of “She Has What It
Takes” says that’s perfectly all
right, if he sticks to piano legs.
*
Pola Negri, who years ago was
one of the head glamour girls of the
silent movies, is returning to the
screen in the United Artists film,
“Hi Diddle Diddle”; she’ll play an
operatic star, the wife of Adolphe
POLA NEGRI
Menjou, a role from which Menjou’i
real wife, Veree Teasdale, retired
because of illness. Martha Scott
has the leading role. Animated se
quences by Leon Schlesinger, the
film cartoon creator, will begin and
end the picture. *
*
N.ne-year-old John Donat, son of
Robert Donat, makes his film debut
in “This Land Is Mine,” starring
Charles Laughton and Maureen
O’Hara. John breezed through his
lines, and between takes sat high on
a stepladder, reading a comic strip
magazine—stayed there until Direc
tor Jean Renoir called him down
from his perch to go to work again.
*
David Niven returns to the screen
after a two-year absence in “Spit
fire,” the British-made Goldwyn pro
duction which will be released by
RKO Radio. A major in the British
army, he was given leave to co-star
with Leslie Howard in this picture.
*
After testing Hollywood stars by
the dozen King Vidor has selected
an unknown for the important role
of Brian Donlevy’s wife in Metro’s
“America.” She’s Ann Richards,
who arrived here from Australia on
the last boat to leave after the bomb
ing of Pearl Harbor.
*
Little Margaret O’Brien, who stole
the honors in “Journey for Mar
garet” and did the same thing when
the “Screen Guild Players” did a
dramatized version of it on the air,
won Jack Benny's heart when, ask
ing him for an autograph, she said
she’d seen him fall into a lake in a
picture. “That was with Bob Hope,”
said he. And Margaret replied “Bob
Hope? Is he a comedian, too?”
*
Red Skelton’s been having a swell
time, working at Ebbets Field in
Brooklyn on “Whistling in Brook
lyn”; every member of the famous
Dodgers, including Manager Duro-
cher, appears in the picture. Five
hundred rabid Dodger fans sat in
the bleachers for some sequences—
and what’s more, got paid for it!
—*—
The quickest way to become a
star on your own program is to do
a guest shot on Rudy Vallee’s Thurs
day show. During the past year
he’s presented Groucho Marx, Billie
Burke and Ransom Sherman, among
others. Now Marx stars on his own
Saturday night program, Sherman
recently launched a new series, and
Billie Burke will have two air shows
going during the summer.
*
That new “Salute to Youth” pro
gram has just about everything ra
dio fans can want. There’s WiUiam
L. White, war correspondent; Ray
mond Paige and an all-youth orches
tra; Nadine Conner, Metropolitan
Opera star; Berry Kpoeger as, nar
rator, and a guest war worker. With
most of the cast in their ’teens or
early twenties, the program—on
NBC Tuesdays—is a salute to youth,
by youth.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Lesley Woods,
“Bright Horizon" actress, has said good-
by to her dog. Bouncer; he’s joined the
army as a buck private . . . Fred Allen
will return to motion pictures this sum
mer . . . They’ve found another road for
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, “Road to
Utopia," to be made this summer, but
probably without Dorothy Lamour . . .
After five years, Phil Baker will return
to the movies in 20th Century-Fox’s “The
Girls He Left Behind" . . . Ginny Simms,
star of “Johnny Presents," has begun a
tour of desert army camps within a day's
distance of Hollywood; she offers a one-
woman show and the entire expenses of
the trip, including those of the orchestra.
UOUSEHOU)
HINTS®
Save the peels of oranges and
tangerines, dry them in the oven,
and store them in glass jars. They
give puddings a delicious flavor.
• • •
Small bits of soap in a thin cloth
bag are as effective as a large
cake of soap for use in a bath.
• • •
Next time the steps need paint
ing, try painting every other step;
let these dry, then paint the oth
ers. It takes a bit longer, ’tie
true, but it’s a lot handier and the
kiddies will love having to take
’em “two at a time.”
• • •
To remove old wallpaper, wet
with a solution of one tablespoon
of saltpeter in a gallon -of water.
Works best if the water is hot.
* * *
If a little piece is chipped off
walnut furniture, touch up the
spot with iodine applied with a
piece of cotton, then go over the
surface with furniture polish.
A small piece of tin or a thin
piece of wood is useful when
washing the baseboard of a room.
It can be sbpped along 'as the
woodwork is scrubbed and save
many a nasty smear on the wall
paper.
C/WT BUY ASPIRIN
that can do more tor you than St. Joseph
Aspirin. Why pay more? World’s largest
seller at 10c. Demand St. Joseph Aspirin.
Two-Ton Baby
A whale weighs approximately
4,000 pounds at birth.
SNAPPY FACTS
ABOUT
RUBBER
'* rt “ ^
It was not until 1916 fbatfh* U. S.
made ita first annual appropriation
lor Federal aid highway*. ^ Good
roads, good automobiles and good
In return for their sUanlatedruhbaf
growing and collecting activities the
United States has agreed to pay
South and Central American coun
tries from 33 to 45 cents a pound foe
rubber until the end of 1946 at least.
Before government price Peering,
rubber was selling urfhe U. S. aft
223$ cents a pound.
mi <n peace -
SKIN
IRRITATIONS OF
EXTERNAL CAUSE
acne pimples, bumps (blsckhesds). sad
ugly broken-out skin. Hllllons relier.
miseries with simple home treatment.
Goes to work at once. Direct action aids
healing, works the antlsepUc way. Use
Black and White Ointment only as di
rected. 10c, 26c, 60c sizes. 26 years success.
Honey-back guarantee. CV Vital 1m
cleansing is good soap. Enjoy famous
Black and White Skis Soap daily.
DON'T LET
CONSTIPATION
SLOW YOU UP
• When bowels are sluggish and you
fed irritable, headachy, do as bullions
do — chew FEEN-A-M [NT, the modem
chewing-gum lazativb. Simply chew
FEEN-A-MENT before you go to ImL
taking only in accordance with msekag.
directions — sleep without being dis
turbed. Next morning gentle, thorough
relief, helping you feel swell again. Try
FEEN-A-M1NT. Tastes good, is handy
and economical. A generous family supply
FEEN-A-MINTlo*
“COLD
taVlIvs.
NOS^DROPS,
Ww COUGH DROPS,
fry "Rub-My-TItin**—■ Wonderful I l.lwe.l
f SHAVE with SHELBYi