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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, MAY 28, 1943
Speak American,
Lady
By Lucie Kinsolving
(WNU Feature—-Through special arrangement
with Woman’s Home Companion.)
All over the world, the American
soldier likes a joke, even when war
puts him in a field hospital. To
keep him happy, the American Red
Cross girls of the hospital recrea
tion groups help a lot. I was the
first of these girls to go to North
Africa.
“I’d give a month’s pay to talk to
an American girl,” confided one dis
consolate boy. “This morning when
I stepped up to a neat little French
number and said, ‘Bonne jawer,
comment alesse vu\ she breezed
right past me! No American dame
would treat me that way."
It’s being unable to make them
selves understood by the feminine
sex over there that’s one of the
hardest things for our soldiers in
North Africa, I found. I interpreted
for an hour and a half to a French
lady for an American officer. His
tactics were Anglo-Saxon directness,
hers were Gallic evasion. At the
end of that time the gentleman had
no idea whether the lady was
amused or merely contemptuous.
This incident gives you only a
slight idea of the varied ways that
we Red Cross recreation workers
try to make ourselves useful.
There was a rumor that a very
great American general had said a
year ago he would never ‘‘have
wanted women mixed up in a war,”
but after he saw what Red Cross
workers accomplished in England
he definitely wanted them in Africa
and right away.
Greeted by Soldiers.
When our Red Cross group docked
in North Africa on the first sunny
day we had had for two months,
we were greeted by shouts of wel
come from the soldiers. “Speak
American, lady,” they cried as they
had in London where they had
stopped us on the street just to
hear the home twang.
As we drove up the roadway, the
populace of varying races and re
ligions who had learned American
isms fast, held up two fingers in
the Victory salutation, hoping this
would bring them chocolate and
“chue-gomme. ”
Some faces wore doubtful expres
sions, mystified by our women’s uni
forms, but when we came closer a
light broke through. “Voila La Croix
Rouge,” they shouted enthusiastical
ly. “Vive La Croix Rouge.” Imagine
what a thrill that gave us! .
First Red Cross Club in Africa.
That very night we opened our
first American Red Cross club in
North Africa. Only a few hours
before it had been a barnlike empty
automobile showroom. But A1 Fink,
Herb Siffert and Jim Sneider, three
of our enterprising field directors,
had wrrked such wonders that as I
played the piano for the soldiers to
sing I heard one boy blurt out, “Gee,
this sure is like home!”
This was in Oran, Algiers, not
many days after our troops ar
rived. Since then in our Oran
club hundreds of men have
found “a home away from
home.” In addition to the piano,
we have radios, games and at
night entertainment by army
musicians.
At first we had difficulty provid
ing snacks for the boys, but we
found we could fill in the hungry
spaces with mandarins and dates.
Our next job was a tough one—
to organize a Red Cross hospital for
which our six months’ supply of
everything was lost. I felt like
Christopher Robin, for I spent my
time going down “to the end of the
town,” getting warehouses open
where there were priceless Red
Cross stocks of cigarettes, tooth
paste, brushes and shaving cream
for the wounded.
Living Problems.
Our personal problems of living
are easier than we had imagined,
as women in a man’s army on a
battle front, but they are extremely
incongruous. Unbelievable luxuries
are mixed with discomforts. We can
have coiffures that “do things for
you” but no hairpins. We have ex
otic tropical fruits but no pasteurize4
milk. Fine handmade shoes are in
shop windows, but no stockings. We
live in a typical French house sur
rounded by palms, golden cascades
of mimosa, and giant tree ferns.
We have become increasingly
resourceful since that hot day in
September when, loaded down
with musette bags, steel hel
mets and gas masks, a group of
us Red Cross girls hitched up
the gangplank of a troopship.
Our quarters were comfortable,
on a very crowded ship, and we
learned our first lesson then—the
chivalry of the United States army.
We were faced with hundreds of
homesick and seasick men. I found
a tin-pah piano and started playing.
By the end of the evening the crowd
was booming.
Who’s News
This Week
By
Delos Wheeler Lovelace
Consolidated Features.—WNU Release.
■^EW YORK.—It was a good, hop,
^ ^ skip and jump that carried the
amphibious forces of Rear Admiral
Richmond Kelly Turner onto the
u > c •» ../» Russell Is-
Here s Sailor Who lands.North
Quite Well Knows of Guadal-
His Turbulent Sea canal v ^ey
are that
much nearer Tokyo and the day of
reckoning which the admiral has
been helping to shape since Pearl
Harbor.
Turner has spent 19 years on the
uneasy, untrustworthy bosom of the
sea since he finished Annapolis in
1908. He was married two years
later, so his wife has been a navy
widow almost half the time. He is
57 years old, has a DSM and was
born in Oregon.
Four years ago the admiral
had a fine, close look at Tokyo
which may help on the cheerful
day an American task force goes
boiling past Boso peninsula. He
was a cruiser captain then, and
the cruiser had just borne home
all that was mortal of the late
Ambassador Hiroshi Saito, dead
in the United States. The em
peror shook Turner’s hand and
expressed undying friendship,
but didn’t add that his fingers
were crossed against December
7, 1941.
Already Turner has squared ac
counts somewhat. His were the
plans on which our invasion of
Guadalcanal was based. He bet that
he would catch the Japanese napping
there and he did. The first convoy
unloaded men, guns, supplies before
the enemy sea force discovered what
was up.
Later, when we lost four cruisers,
the issue was nip-and-tuck but then
we caught two bevies of Japanese
warships with their sampans down
and after that even Tojo agreed that
Turner had called the turn.
•
CTONEWALL JACKSON was only
~ in his late thirties when he was
giving lessons to arthritic generals
sent out from Washington. Phil
d d a/ » Sheridan
Russ Boy Wonder was gtjn
In Class of Our younger
Sheridan, Jackson ^ h ,f n , his
’ hell - for -
leather cavalry was easing Grant’s
work. Now in Russia, older than
Sheridan, younger than Jackson,
Konstantin Rokossovsky climbs to
a full generalship over crumpled
Nazi armies.
Rokossovsky is just rounding 38.
In the first weeks of the war he
rose from colonel to major-general.
This because of a heady, stubborn
defense that stalled the first Nazi
blitz for a month back of Smolensk.
Ten weeks later he set going Rus
sia’s first counter-offensive and el
bowed the Germans so solidly that
Stalin moved him up a notch.
In last year’s bleak fighting
before Moscow the Germans out
numbered Rokossovsky three to
one. Just the same he was able
to put 200 tanks, 29,000 enemy
out of action in October alone.
This year he broke the Nazis at
Stalingrad.
His employment of cavalry has
been notable and once was inspired.
This was when he rushed cossacks
in massed raids behind the German
rear, a disruptive triumph in the
great tradition begun by Greek Phil
ip and Alexander and kept going by
Parthian Surena, Roman Belisanius
and, to skip a lot of centuries and
a lot of good cavalrymen, Sheridan
and Jeb Stuart, another boy wonder.
Rokossovsky is big, handsome,
with a wide, full mouth, a broad,
untroubled forehead and a right eye
brow that cocks higher than the left,
maybe in astonishment at his own
rise.
♦
IF JEREMIAH could come back he
A would get plenty of sympathy
from Robert F. Patterson. As Hil-
kiah’s son worried over his careless
i, c - . p e o p 1 e’s
It Seems a Testy plight, so
Critic of National the under-
Pollyannism Is He secretary of
war worries
over too much optimism about this
global muddle of ours.
He talks gloomily of gasless fight
ing planes, because, he says, tough
Bill Jeffers tapped our nil supply so
heavily to make rubber. Recently he
said: “We cannot be sure of vic
tory in 1945. We must have an army
of at least 8,200,000.” He said we
must put a legal curb on absentee
workers.
Patterson has cause to be
quite satisfied with his personal
record. He quit a prosperous
law practice for a federal judge-
ship, resigning this when he was
asked to take hold under Secre
tary of War Stimson three years
ago.
This is the second war that he has
gotten into. He finished the last one
a major, with a Distinguished Serv
ice cross and one wound stripe. He
also saw service on the Mexican
border. Now he bosses a new gen
eration of our fighting men from a
heavy desk in Washington, but he
flies his own plane, and in a pinch
might do active duty again for all
that he is 52.
He is a trim 52, with a long, stub
born upper lip, and the high nar
row forehead that suggests percipi-
ence. His intimates say he is fast-
moving, concise.
★ ★★ ★★★★★★★★★★
HOUSEHOLD
Children Need Good,
Wholesome Foods
At Their Parties
Simple parties help make chil
dren at ease with their friends, do
a lot toward laying the foundations
for their social success. Watch them
enjoy playing host and hostess as
this little pair is doing.
How do you rate with your young
er generation? Are you content
when you keep them clean, get them
off to school, and give them some
extra tutoring when they need it
in English or math?
Yes, that in itself is a big job,
and you are doing a big job if you
have that part in smooth, running
order. Notice, I didn’t say whole
job, because unless you provide for
healthy recreation and play, the
child is not getting his rightful share
and start in life.
Future Americans must be a so
cial as well as business success
to be wholesome
and happy. To
prepare the child
for this, you must
provide him with
a social and rec
reational outlet—
and that means
an occasional
party to which to
invite younger
friends so the child is at ease in
his role as host or hostess.
There’s a certain excitement at
children’s parties which easily up
sets their tummies, and the best
way to handle them is to have nour
ishing, wholesome food, rather than
partified” dishes which will upset
them even more. You’ll find co
operation from other mothers if you
let them know you will do every
thing to make her children at ease.
Let your decoration be a bit fussy
and party-ish, of course, but keep
to the sensible on the food. Have
table favors, of course, for this
carries out the theme and the chil
dren adore it. It stimulates con
versation and keeps things going
smoothly.
Fresh salmon steaks may be used
in making the flaked salmon called
for in this recipe. Serve it on small
toast rounds and the children will
adore it:
'Salmon Timbales.
(Serves 8)
4 eggs, slightly beaten
2 cups milk
1 cup bread crumbs
Wt teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons chopped pimento
1 pound salmon, flaked
1 teaspoon paprika
2 tablespoons shortening
1 teaspoon onion juice
8 toast rounds
Parsley
Add butter and bread crumbs to
hot milk, then stir until all soaked.
Add slightly beat
en eggs, flaked
salmon (steam
fresh salmon 8 to
10 minutes, then
flake), pimento,
salt, paprika and
onion juice. Pour
into buttered tim
bale or greased
Lynn Says:
Sandwich Ideas: Cream cheese
or cottage cheese with olives and
mayonnaise.
Peanut butter, honey and crum
bled fresh yeast, on whole wheat
or enriched white bread.
Peanut butter and chow chow
on enriched white bread.
Cream cheese and orange mar
malade on raisin bread.
Mashed liverwurst, chili sauce,
mayonnaise on whole wheat or
rye bread.
Minced corned beef or sliced
tongue with horseradish on rye
bread.
Roquefort cheese, celery and
mayonnaise on white bread or on
celery as a garnish for salad.
Watercress on thinly sliced
white bread, rolled and kept in
refrigerator in damp cloth for 15
to 20 minutes.
Finely chopped figs or raisins
with nutmeats, mayonnaise and
lemon juice, on white or brown
bread.
Hard-cooked eggs, celery and
mayonnaise on whole wheat
bread.
Children’s Party Menu
'Salmon Timbales on Toast
Rounds
Celery Hearts
Carrot Strips
•Orange Juice with Orange
Sherbet
•Peanut Butter Cookies
•Recipes Given
custard cups. Bake in a pan of hot
water in a moderate oven (350 de
grees) for 15 to 20 minutes. Un
mold on toast rounds, garnish with
parsley and serve.
Few children would pass up this
delicious cheese ’n bread dish—it’s
delicious and good for them, tool
Cheese Fondue.
(Serves 6)
3 eggs, separated
1 cup grated cheese
1 cup bread crumbs
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon butter
% teaspoon salt
Beat egg yolks until lemon col
ored. Cook cheese, bread crumbs,
milk, butter and salt over low heat,
stirring constantly. Add beaten egg
yolks. Fold in stiffly beaten whites.
Pour into a well-greased casserole.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes
or until inserted knife comes out
clean.
An afternoon party menu may con
sist of assorted sandwiches.
Deviled Egg and Cheese
Sandwiches.
3 hard-cooked eggs
1 tablespoon dry mustard
34 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
8 slices buttered whole wheat
bread
3 wafer-thin slices of Swiss-type
cheese
Watercress
DiU pickles
Cut eggs, crosswise and into
halves. Mash yolks and blend with
mustard, salt and Worcestershire
sauce, mixing well. Fill the whites.
Cut eggs into thin slices and ar
range on three slices of bread. Top
egg slices with cheese and a second
piece of bread. Cqj in halves and
garnish with watercress and dill
pickles.
A citrus fruit drink is refreshing,
fine for keeping up young spirits
busy at play dur
ing party time.
Keep all the fla
vor in the orange
juice plus valua
ble vitamin C by squeezing it only
just before serving. To have chilled
juice, chill whole oranges in refrig
erator before extracting juice.
Wholesome drink with a party
air is this cool glass of orange juice
topped prettily with orange sherbet,
decorated sprigs of mint and whole
raspberries. Orange float will keep
you cool and full of pep, for vitamin
C helps mitigate effects of heat.
•Orange Sherbet.
134 cups sugar
1 cup water
2 egg whites stiffly beaten
2 cups orange juice
3 tablespoons lemon juice
Boil sugar and water together for
5 minutes. Beat egg whites slowly
and add to fruit juices. Mix all in
gredients and pour into freezing
tray of mechanical refrigerator.
Freeze stiff, then beat thoroughly.
Return to freezing compartment and
freeze until stiff.
•Peanuf Butter Cookies
(Makes 2 dozen)
134 cups flour
34 teaspoon salt
34 cup honey
3 tablespoons com syrap
34 cup peanut butter
34 cup shortening
Apple butter
Sift all dry ingredients together.
Cream shortening, add to peanut
butter, honey and corn syrup. Add
flour and roll dough into six* you
prefer for finished cookies. Chill
for 15 minutes. Cut into thin slices
and top half of them with apple but
ter. Cover with a second slice of
dough and seal as for a tart. Bake
in a slow oven (325 degrees) for
25 minutes.
Are you having difficulties planning
meals with points? Stretching your meats?
Lynn Chambers can give you help if you
write her, enclosing a stamped, self-ad
dressed envelope for your reply, in care of
her at W'estem Newspaper Union, 219
South Desplaines Street, Chicago, Illinois,
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
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By VIRGINIA VALE
M argaret sullavan’s
willingness td return to the
screen in order to play “Smitty”
in “Cry Havoc” indicates that
the picture will really be some
thing special. Absent from pic
tures since she made “Back
Street,” in 1941, she’s resisted all
efforts to lure her in front of the
cameras. Merle Oberon gave illness
as a reason for resigning from the
MARGARET SULLAVAN
role. Joan Crawford left the cast
because this would have been her
third ruccessive war picture, and
she felt that the role assigned her
wasn’t satisfactory.
*
Hollywood’s best oriental actors
flatly refused to portray Japanese
soldiers, so Director Richard Wal
lace got the Japs for major and
minor roles in “Bombardier” out of
the make-up box. RKO faces the
same problem in “Behind the Ris
ing Sun.” y
Fred Giermann, character actor,
has an odd reason for wanting the
war to end. “I haven’t been out of
a Nazi uniform as an actor for the
last seven months,” he explains.
“Five Graves to Cairo,” with Fran-
chot Tone and Anne Baxter, is his
latest.
*
You’ll see most of the cast of that
swell picture, “Casablanca,” in
“The Conspirators”; Humphrey Bo
gart, Paul Henreid, Sydney Green-
street and Helmut Dantine all have
leading roles. Ann Sheridan has the
leading feminine role.
X
Bill Stern, whose “News of the
Day” newsreel is a favorite with
moviegoers, is happy because now
he can make predictions on the air.
His NBC Sports Newsreel has been
a Saturday feature, and he felt that
even an expert couldn’t predict the
outcome of the following Saturday’s
games without sticking his chin out.
Now he’s broadcasting on Friday
evenings, which is better.
X
Albert Parker was a noted direc
tor, until he lost his eyesight seven
years ago as a result of an auto
mobile accident. Recently Director
Frank Tuttle, shooting a street scene
in Prague for “Hostages,” decided
to use a blind man with a seeing-eye
dog. He thought of his friend Park
er, who thus, for a brief time, will
once more take part in the making of
a motion picture.
X
Black-haired Mona Berle was the
first extra hired by Producers Wil
liams Pine and Thomas when they
began making pictures for Para
mount nearly three years ago.
They’ve found a spot for her in
every picture they’ve made since—
currently she’s in “Tornado,” which
stars Chester Morris and Nancy
Kelly. “She’s good luck to us,” say
the two Bills.
Private Harry Keaton of Fort
Greely, Alaska, thought that the
pretty girl he asked to dance with
him was one of the civilian nurses.
Some time afterward he learned that
she was Marjorie Reynolds, who’d
danced with Fred Astaire in “Holly
wood Inn” and teamed with Bing
Crosby in “Dixie.” By that time
Marjorie had moved on to the next
camp in her Alaskan tour.
Sol Lesser, producer of “Stage
Door Canteen,” feels that the pub
lic ought not to pay an extra pre
mium for quality picture entertain
ment, at least for the duration, ac
cording to a recent announcement.
So, although “Stage Door Canteen”
could undoubtedly run on and on at
advanced prices, if released only in
key cities at first, and shown twice
a day, it will be made available for
general runs as soon as it is re
leased. “This is a soldier’s love
story,” says Mr. Lesser, “and it
belongs to the public.”
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Claudette Colbert
spent her No. 17 shoe stamp on a pair of
luggage tan pumps—said she chose them
because they'd harmonize with any other
color . . . Dennis Day expects to leave on
an overseas entertainment tour the middle
of June . . . “Those ITe LoveC will move
into the air spot vacated by Jack Benny's
program for the summer; the last Benny
broadcast will be May 30 , When Mar
guerite Chapman was a telephone opera
tor, in her pre-movie days, her “employ
ment number” was 206; now that she’s
starring in Columbia’s “Appointment in
Berlin 11 with George Sanders, her dress
in* room number is—206!
Uncle: fthil&i
' I 'HE trouble about seeing botk
-*■ sides of a question is that botk
sides go for you for being on the
other.
It’s true that you can do almost
anything you desire to do; the
trouble is making yourself desire
to do it.
It may not be possible to find
the perfect girl, but there’s a lot
of fun in the hunting.
Well, we’ve certainly got the right ma
terial for making a new world. The old
one was fashioned out of chaos.
The man who sits down to wait
for Opportunity to appear should
put a good cushion in the chair.
A compromise is what two peo
ple arrive at to their mutual dis
satisfaction.
When you have a bad neighbor,
one who just doesn’t get along
with you despite your every ef
fort, doesn’t it rather reassure you
when you find out that he quar
rels with all the other neighbors,
too?
Stimulating Colors
The color of light is more or
less stimulating to human muscu
lar activity, says Collier’s. Tests
have shown that, when such activ
ity is normal at a rating of 100
under artificial white light, it in
creases to 104 under blue illumi
nation, 121 under green, 130 under
yellow, 159 under orange and 187
under red.
Ever Great
For he that once is good, is ever
great.—Ben Johnson.
DON’T LET
CONSTIPATION
SLOW YOU UP
• When bowel* are sluggish and yon
feel irritable, headachy, do as millions
|do — chew FEEN-A-MINT, the modem
che.wing-gum laxative. Simply chew
FEEN-A-MINT before you go to bed,
taking only in accordance with package
directions — sleep without being dis
turbed. Next morning gentle, thorough
relief, helping you feel swell again. Try
FEEN-A-MINT. Tastes good, is handy
and economical. A generous family supply
FEEN-A-MINT ”i of
Keep the Battle Rolling
With War Bonds and Scrap
MEDICATED
POWDER FOR
FAMILY USE
Soothe itch of simple
rashes with Mexsana,
formerly Mexican
Heat Powder. Relieve
diaper rash, heat rash.
WNU—7
21—43
O Out where our soldiers are at
tacked by mosquitoes that “zoom
like Keros’* and flies that “buz*
like bullets”—the Army uses
thousands of gallons of FLIT and
our other insecticides.
So you can imagine how deadly
FLIT will be when you “shoot” it
on common household pests! It
slays ’em as you spray ’em!
FLIT has the AA Rating, the
highest established for household
insecticides by the U. S. Bureau
of Standards.
Buy a bottle of this
super-slayer—today!
FLIT
llll I C m osquitoes, flies, moths bedbugs
nlLLO roaches, ants, and other household pests