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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Bumper Crops Due This Year,
May Crack High Cost Living;
Spy Probe Confusion Mounts
By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer
[EDITOR'S NOTE: When eplniona are expressed In these eolnmns, they are those of
western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.!
SIDETRACKS . . . Two potential witnesses who were expected to add
some information to the Washington Red spy hnnt were Mrs. Oksana
Stepanovna Kosenkina (left) and Alexander Koral. Neither did,
however. Mrs. Kosenkina, who taught children of Russian U. N.
officials in New York, made headlines by leaping from a third-story
window in the Soviet consulate where she allegedly was being held
against her will. Koral, billed as a “mystery witness’* and accused of
being a paid courier for the wartime Communist espionage ring,
refused to tell anything he might know on the grounds that he would
be incriminating himself.
CROP REPORT:
Momentous
There was momentous news from
the nation’s farms: In the cards
for 1948 was a record-setting com
crop, the second largest wheat crop
and substantial increases over last
year in oats, barley and rye.
Government estimates, as of
August 1, of this year’s grain pro
duction read like a statistical fan
tasy of the promised land.
Bureau of agricultural economics
reported that a com crop of 3,506,-
363,000 bushels is indicated this
year, far above 1947’s small, weath
er-plagued crop of 2.4 billion
bushels.
An approximate 1,284,323,000
bushels of wheat will be forthcom
ing this year. Other crop estimates
were: Oats, 1,470,444,000 bushels;
barley, 313.139,000 bushels, and rye,
26,664,000 bushels.
Trouble grew out of the fact that,
although the huge crops are wel
come this year, they may set the
scene for huge postwar surpluses,
mostly of com and wheat.
Officials contend that there sim
ply aren’t enough animals left on
the nation’s farms to take care of
the kind of production being
achieved this year, particularly the
com outturn.
Immediate result of this sudden
condition of oversupply probably
will be the government’s starting
to support com prices as soon as
the crop starts moving. Other
grain supports are likely to be
evoked later.
Grain exports will be pushed, of
course, but the export market Is
almost certain to fall off in a year
or so because other nations also
are intensifying their farm produc
tion with considerable success.
Deflation?
Brighter side of the crop situation
is the fact that it promises the
consumer almost certain relief from
inflated food prices sooner or later,
since grain supplies and prices are
basic in determining cost of living
at the household level.
Prices of most grains, as a mat
ter of fact, already have broken.
Com was down to $2.02 a bushel
from its postwar peak of $2.80.
Wheat was down from $3.13 to $2.09,
oats from $1.47 to 74 cents. Further
decreases are inevitable when this
year’s great yield makes itself felt.
Generally, cheaper grain means
cheaper feed for livestock. Cheap
er feed means less expensive meat
in the butcher shop.
This apparently certain relief
from the high cost of living is not
just around the comer, however.
It lies somewhere in the middle
future. Prices probably will con
tinue to rise somewhat for the rest
of this year, after which the im
pact of the 1948 crop should be felt,
causing them to come down.
Despite the optimistic outlook,
there is another problem to com
plicate the picture. This year’s
great crops could lay the ground-
Everybody works. Everybody
makes money. That is the theme
song of the American people who
are, nevertheless, twisting and
turning in the clutches of an in
tolerable condition of inflation.
But the money keeps on rolling
in. Personal income hit a historic
high rate of 211.9 billion dollars in
June, the commerce department
feas reported. That figure is 2.5
work for farm gluts that would be
followed by costly subsidies in the
form of farm price supports.
Should another year of heavy
crop yields follow this one, and.
should there be a recovery of agri
culture abroad, tremendous sur
pluses in grains would result. Thus,
U. S. taxpayers would stand to lose
in the cost of price supports a
good deal of what they might save
in food prices.
CONFUSION:
And Spies
America’s current top thriller, the
Russian spy sensation, had devel
oped more facets than a cylindrical
lens in a lighthouse and each one
was blinding 'to the eye of the be
holder.
The motley group of persons called
to testify before congressional in
vestigating committees was grow
ing and growing. It was getting to
the point where even the witnesses
had witnesses.
A sensational offshoot of the orig
inal spy investigation temporarily
stole the spotlight from the main
event. This was the battle of the
schoolteachers—Mikhail I. Samarin
and Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Ko
senkina, both U. N. personnel.
The goings on over this pair of
Russian pedagogues seemed to be
fairly complicated, but they could
be boiled down to a sophisticated
international game of run sheep
run.
Both Samarin and Mrs. Kosenk
ina had appeared on the scene as
potential witnesses in the congres
sional investigation. Then things
started to happen.
First Mrs. Kosenkina disappeared
for a few days. According to the
official Soviet version, she had been
“captured’’ by a group of anti
communist White Russians and
held prisoner. Then she was "res
cued’’ by loyal U. S. S. R. sub
jects. A few days later she leaped
from a window in the third story
of the Soviet consulate in New York
where, she said, she had been held
captive. Driven to desperation by
fear, she was seriously injured when
she took the only way out.
On top of all this the other school
teacher, Samarin, also disappeared.
He, too, was supposed to be in cus
tody of anti-Commie White Rus
sians. However, information leaked
out from the Samarin camp: He
wanted to testify; he liked the U. S.
and revolted against going back to
Russia. »
ACCIDENTS:
100,000 Deaths
Possibly the most shocking set of
statistics compiled year in and year
out in the U. S. is that dealing with
the nation’s accidental death rate.
In 1947, National Safety council
has disclosed, about 100,000 persons
died accidentally. The full accident
toll was approximately 2,000 deaths
higher than in 1946.
Accidents in the home accounted
for a majority of all the deaths list
ed by the council. There were 34.500
such fatalities. The total also in
cluded 32,300 traffic and 17,000 oc
cupational deaths.
Some of the other facts released
in the annual report:
More people died in disasters last
year than in 1946—550 in the stu
pendous Texas City explosion, 167 in
a Texas-Oklahoma tornado. 111 in
the Centralia, 111., mine blast, and
198 in airplane crashes.
Total of 20,900 deaths resulted
from rural traffic accidents, while
city traffic accidents accounted for
11,400 fatalities.
billion dollars above the total per
sonal income for May.
Responsible for the large May-
to-June increase were the absence
of major strikes, impact of third-
round wage boosts in durable goods
industries and higher prices re
ceived by farmers for livestock,
the department of commerce said.
Wage and salary payments jumped
2.3 billion dollars in June
YOUTH MONTH:
Awareness
If the day should ever dawn when
every family in the nation becomes
fully aware that all juvenile delin
quency has its beginning in the
home, then U. S. society will have
reached its Elysian fields.
Once families become endowed
with this awareness they will tend
to bring pressure to bear to elimi
nate the secondary factors that con
tribute to delinquency in young peo
ple: School failure, church failure,
bad housing and the inevitable shift
in ethical values from one genera
tion to the next which are some
times confusing and frightening to
immature minds.
To that end. and because a
healthy store of young minds and
bodies is the best overall insurance
any nation can have, September
has been proclaimed Youth Month.
The Theater Owners of America,
who feel they have a big stake in
the welfare of U. S. youth, have
undertaken to organize the princi
pal media of information—newspa
pers, magazines, radio and motion
pictures—to publicize the month.
Aside from the publicity to be ac
corded the problem of juvenile de
linquency, which is the immediate
purpose of Youth Month, the observ
ance is more deeply significant in
that it provides some evidence that
Americans are becoming actively
conscious that at least a partial
remedy must be found.
Springboard for Youth Month and
any other concerted group action
that might obtain is a probing and
thoughtful report on juvenile delin
quency by the National Conference
on Prevention and Control of Ju
venile Delinquency, Washington,
D. C.
A digest bf this report, or series
of panel reports, covering basic
causes and possible solutions of the
problem, is well worth a few hours’
study on the part of every parent
who is aware of his inevitable falli
bilities as a guide and leader of his
children.
NEW LOW:
Bitterness
While American, British and
French ambassadors in Moscow
were grimly making peace talk
with Soviet Foreign Minister Molo
tov in the Kremlin, general relations
between the East and West were
sliding to new depths of mutual re
crimination.
This state of affairs was not eased
any by unsubstantiated reports that
the Moscow talks had degenerated
into a deadlock and that no progress
was being made.
For the most part, however, the
animosity was being spread through
raucous propaganda by Berlin
newspapers, with the publications
sponsored by the Russians and the
western powers waging a pitched
battle of words.
The British-licensed paper Tele-
graaf reported that the Soviets were
getting ready to move great num
bers of new troops into Germany
and that Russia was pressing to
ward “sole rule over all of Berlin.”
Soviet propaganda instruments,
meantime, renewed their overall
attacks on the West, demanding
that the Berlin city council be oust
ed and that the whole city be made
part of the Soviet zonal administra
tion.
Regardless of any truth implicit
in the Berlin newspaper fight it was
obvious that the vindictive battle
would do much more harm than
good to relations between the two
power spheres.
It was equally obvious that there
was more bitterness and fear at
work in Berlin than there was a
rational understanding of how to
cope with the crisis.
Headliners
IN LONDON. . . . Mrs. Fannie
Blankers-Koen. stupendous Dutch
woman athlete who won four gold
medals in Olympic track and field
competition, subsided into house
wifely bliss (above) after her en
deavors as she received an un-
Olympian kiss from her husband.
IN OAKLAND, CALIF. . . . Edwin
G. Chester dejectedly told a judge
that the price of meat was pretty
high, pleaded guilty to a charge
that he wrestled and killed an 850-
pound heifer.
IN CHICAGO. . . . Diane Janakos
charged her husband with cruelty
in a divorce action, displayed as
proof a pocketbook full of hair
which she said he had yanked out
of her head.
DRAFT:
Questions
This may come as a shock to
young future draftees who want the
world to know that they are loyal
Americans, but just about the only
question draft boards will not ask
the potential inductee is whether
or not he is a Communist and if
he is loyal to the U. S.
All the queries in an eight-page
questionnaire for draftees deal with
the subject’s social, economic, phys
ical and marital status.
211.9 BILLION
U. S. Personal Income Still on Elevator
Women's World
Professional Cutting Tricks
Permit Ultimate in Sewing
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T AKE a critical look at some of
the clothing or other items you
have sewed in the past. Do they
look as though they had been
bought or does something label them
as homemade?
True, clothing made at home fre
quently has better sewing in it, but
if it does not have styling or flair
or effect, as some people call it, it
hasn’t achieved the ultimate in sew
ing.
It’s a real art to cut properly be
fore you actually embark on the
sewing itself, and much can be
achieved when a garment is cut
properly and marked explicitly. Al
terations on a pattern must be
made before cutting or the gar
ment will not have the styling
which your figure problem may
dictate.
Before buying a pattern, study
your figure type and select the lines
most becoming to you. Buy the fab
ric to fit the pattern as well as to
fit yourself.
Even though you buy a pattern
closest to your size, there may be
a few adjustments necessary before
it really fits well. Taking measure
ments will help, pinning the pattern
together and trying it on is also
m _
Cut fabrics on a floor
good. However, if you are using a
very expensive fabric, stitch the
pattern in cheesecloth or muslin
first, then rip and use it for cutting
and making the dress or blouse it
self.
A pattern is really a recipe or
guide, and it pays to study the de
tailed instructions that go with it so
that you will have a complete pic
ture of just what is done to make
the finished garment
Assemble Equipment;
Cut on Table or Floor
Everything needed for the sewing
project should be assembled, to pre
vent running off for basting thread
or needles, and thus interrupting
your train of thought. Thread nee-
Mark them with chalk.
dies before cutting so that any bast
ing or markers that you need will
be right at hand.
Sharp cutting shears, either with
plain or pinked edges, are essential.
You also m?y like to have a small
pair of nicely sharpened scissors for
cutting notches. Have plenty of
pii.s, threaded needles, chalk, tape
measure and ruler at hand.
Unless you have a large table
which can be padded, it’s best to
use the floor. A surface that allows
plenty of room, as well as one from
which pieces of pattern and materi
al won’t slip off, is essential to
good cutting.
Never try to cut fabric that is
wrinkled or torn at an angle. Some
materials will need pressing to
smooth them before cutting is done.
If the uncut edge is not smooth.
Be Smart!
The combination of exquisite
handiwork and exceptional design
is setting a new trend in costume
blouses that can be a major part
of a costume for virtually any oc
casion. In the typical interpreta
tion sketched, the Victorian yoke
is adapted in a flattering shape
and depth. Then it again is re
flected in the cuffs. Note the re
straint in treatment that makes
for true smartness.
Bold Look
Men’s shoes are featuring the
bold look, as shown here in Win-
throp’s variation on the wingtip
lace oxford. A conventional wing-
tip design extends from the inside
over the tip of the shoe, flowing
then into a curved tip line on the
outside. The shoes shown here are
in imported gorse, with a long
vamp circling the entire quarter.
The tip is medallion with a special
medallion added to the quarter at
the lace row. The shoe also feat
ures white sole stitching.
draw out a cross thread and cut
along this line so the fabric will be
straight. If you cannot draw out a
thread, mark the fabric with chalk
and ruler, then cut along the line.
If the fabric is a second or has
flaws and imperfections in it, mark
these with pins, basting or chalk,
so you'll notice them during cutting
and can piece the pattern properly
to avoid them.
Check the fabric for right and
wrong side, marking the right side
with pins so that it can be seen
easily when you lay the pattern
on it.
Study Fabrics
Before Cutting
When you plan to cut napped fab
rics, lay the pattern pieces on it so
that all pieces point the same way.
This is done so that the nap will all
run the same way when the garment
is finished. Velveteen, corduroy and
velvet are some of the more com
mon naped fabrics, and they should
be studied so that you will know
how to cut them.
If you are in doubt as to whether
the fabric is napped, feel it. If it
has the feeling of fur, you will know
it is napped.
Sheen fabrics also must be stud
ied before cutting, and here again,
it is important to place all pieces
of the pattern running the same
way before cutting. Sheen fabrics,
such as satin, catch the light in dif
ferent ways, and cutting this way
is a necessity or it will look as
though you had used different pieces
of material. ,
Both sheen and napped fabrics
are best cut on a rough $urface such
as the floor so they won’t slip. If
you are using a table, lay a sheet
or other piece of material on it so
that the materials do not slip as
you cut.
Take care to fold the material on
the straight of the goods or along
the lengthwise threads if you want
the garment to hang properly. If
you do not check this little matter
of the fold, you are apt to have a
crooked dress.
The fold is particularly important
when you cut sleeves, for if the pat
tern is not placed on the grain of
the fabric, the sleeve always will
twist no matter how much you try
to remedy the fault in sewing.
Follow the Guide
In Cutting Patterns
A guide usually is given with a
pattern which you purchase. It’s
wise to study this and lay the fabric
with the pieces as directed because,
as you study, you will see there’s
always a reason, and a good one
for doing it a certain way.
The pieces should be pinned be
fore you cut. Insert the pins from
the top, without slipping your hand
underneath the fabric. Wherever
the pieces are curved, use a lot of
pins so there is no chance of slip
ping.
A good seam allowance is made
in most patterns, but it’s a good
idea to allow more of a seam if you
are using material that ravels eas
ily. It’s especially important to
make an extra seam allowance on
the underarm seams of such ma
terial.
Cut with a long steady motion, slid
ing the scissors along in a gliding
motion so that the cut will not be
uneven or ragged. The thick blade
of the shears is placed above the
material and the pointed one under
neath. Use the middle of the blades
for cutting as this will give the
smoothest edge.
If the pattern advises the sleeves
to be cut double, this /means that
they are reversed. As you remove
the pins from the pieces, fold one
sleeve one way, and the other in
another way.
When the sleeve is cut single,
place on fabric and cut. To cut the
second sleeve, the pattern must be
turned and reversed as it is placed
on the materiaL
Mark with chalk all notches and
other notations after cutting to help
guide your sewing.
Simple Enough for Youngsters to Moke
(See recipes below)
For Amateurs Only
ARE YOUR CHILDREN shy and
awkward in the kitchen or can they
don an apron and turn in a credit
able performance as a cook?
Mothers who give their children
the run of the kitchen occasionally
deserve a bouquet of orchids be
cause they are
helping to turn
out well b al-
anced, healthy
children. And it °
does mother good, too, if son
or daughter occasionally can whip
up a batch of good cookies or cake,
or prepare a tasty salad.
There are days when youngsters
just simply are bored with their
usual pursuits and then they tend to
wander around the house without
anything to do. Perhaps it’s too
stormy to play outside or maybe
all their, friends are on vacation.
This is the psychological moment
to suggest they try their hand at
being an amateur chef.
Give them a few pointers before
hand if they need it so food will not
be wasted, and help only if it’s re
quested once they start their cul
inary adventure so you won’t spoil
it by being the “extra cook in the
broth.” Have it understood, too, that
the kitchen is to be cleaned after
they finish.
• • •
I’VE OFTEN SAID that anyone
who can read, can cook. But here
are simple recipes that involve no
complicated procedures. Let the
children try these recipes so espe
cially designed for them that they
will really have a wonderful adven
ture on their day in the kitchen.
Boys and girls alike will enjoy
making these hamburgers, and they
are so easy, you simply won’t have
■ny failures:
'Hamburgers De Luxe
(Serves 6)
1 pound ground beef
t eggs, unbeaten *
1 tablespoon flour
% onion, grated
1 teaspoon salt
hi cup catsup
Bacon
Fried onions
Mix the meat with eggs, flour,
onion, salt and catsup. Beat the mix
ture thoroughly with a large fork
or spoon. The longer the mixture
is beaten the better. Form into thin
cakes.-Spread a layer of fried onions
between two cakes and press the
edges of the meat together. Place
a strip of bacon around the ham
burger, fasten with a toothpick and
fry in hot fat or place in the broiler.
If using broiler allow cakes to brown
six to eight minutes on each side.
If frying, allow a little more time
for hamburgers to cook.
• • * .
BOYS AND GIRLS alike wifi en
joy making a salad and tossing it
together with a fork and spoon the
way real chefs do:
'Tossed Green Salad
(Serves 6)
1 head of lettuce, cut in quarters
4 tomatoes, quartered
1 bunch watercress, if desired
1 cucumber, peeled and diced
1 bunch green onions, cleaned
1 green pepper, sliced thin
1 bunch celery, diced
1 bunch radishes, sliced
Lettuce cups
French dressing
Chill the vegetables thoroughly
after preparing. Place all in a large
bowl. Add French dressing and toss
LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU
'Hamburgers De Luxe
Potatoes Au Gratin
Corn on the Cob
'Tossed Salad
White Bread or Buns Butter
Plum Pie Beverage
'Recipe Given.
lightly with fork and spoon. Serve
in lettuce cups or from a bowL
* • •
YOUNGSTERS LIKE to make
cooling beverages. Let them do these
simple things on hot afternoons:
Chocolate Milk Shake
(Serves 2)
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 tablespoons chocolate syrup
2 ice cubes
Place all ingredients in a quart
sized glass jar or
shaker with cov
er. Shake until
fluffy. If desired,
2 tablespoons of
chocolate or va
nilla ice cream
may be added be
fore shaking.
Root Beer Shake
(Serves 2)
2 scoops vanilla ice cream
2 cups root beer
Place together in a glass and stir.
Serve at once.
Lemonade
6 lemons
1 quart water
1 cup sugar syrup
K cup maraschino cherry juice
Squeeze lemons and strain juice.
Mix with sugar syrup and water.
Add cherry juice. Chill thoroughly.
• • •
SIMPLE TYPES of cookies may
be made by the youngsters. Neith
er of these types requires tedious
creaming of ingredients.
Brownies
H cup flour
ii teaspoon salt
% cup lard
H cup chopped nuts
2 squares chocolate
2 eggs »
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Sift flour, then measure. Add salt
and sift again. Melt lard with choco
late in saucepan.
Beat the eggs un
til fluffy, then add
sugar and beat
again. Mix eggs
and sugar with
chocolate and
lard. Add flour,
nuts and vanilla.
Bake in a shallow pan which is
greased, in a moderate (350 degree)
oven for 25 to 30 minutes. CooL Cut
into squares.
Drop Cookies
1 cup brown sugar
% cup white sugar
K cup lard, melted
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
H teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon soda in 1 tablespoon hot
water
H cup raisins
H cup nuts
3 cups flour or enough to hold shape
when dropped
Combine ingredients in order giv
en. Drop by teaspoonfuls on greased
baking sheet. Bake in a moderate
(350 degree) oven for 10 to 15 min
utes.
Released by WNU Features.
LYNN SAYS:
Use Proper Methods
When You Cook
Do you use neat methods when
you cook or is everything a jumble
when you get into the kitchen?
First check the recipes you use
and see if you have all ingredients
on hand.
While the food cooks, wash all
the dishes you have soiled. In this
way, you never will have an ac
cumulation of dishes in the sink
when you get ready to eat.
Most dishes are easy to wash aft
er they have been soaked. Have
a pan of suds ready so that dishes,
cups, measuring spoons and other
utensils can be placed in the wa
ter to soak as soon as you finish
using them.
Paper toweling should be used
to wipe greasy pots and pans be
fore washing so that grease does
not accumulate in the drain pipe.
Never let silverware which has
egg on it stand without rinsing. Egg
tarnishes silverware.
—
* Ain’t It So «
It’s a race now, whether wo
or prices will break first.
A lot of people care more
about who Writes their songs
than their laws.
Strange as It may seem, con
ditions in Europe will never
seem rosy as long as they are
predominantly red.
New Way to Construct
An Old-Fashioned Swing
D O YOU want to bring back
happy moments you’ve long:
since forgotten? For fun in the)
sun or a pleasant place to spent ai
quiet period of relaxation under;
the stars, we recommend this’
modernized version of an old
fashioned lawn swing. It’s a hit
with grownups as well as children.
There’s room for four in the form
fitting seats.
The lawn swing Is easy to build. Ns
special tools or skill are required. The
full size pattern offered below provides
all the Information needed to buy the
materials, cut and assemble the swing.
All materials specified are stock size and
are now readily available at most lum
ber yards.
It’s as easy as that. The pattern pro
vides a full size, printed paper outline ot
each component part of the swing. TTacq
each piece on the lumber specified, saw
and assemble. Wherever two pieces are
g ined, their exact location Is shown oa
e pattern. AU bolt and screw holes are
also shown. You’ll have fun buUdlng this
swing and lots more fun using it.
• • •
Send 50c for lawn swing pattern No.
155 to Easi-Bild Pattern Co.. Dept. W..
pleasantvUle. N. Y.
HOME-PLANNERSI
Get SCALE MODEL of
"Blandings Dream House’’
Helpful I Fun to put together!
Pull-color 3-dimension model of boaee
featured in RKO movie hit. PLUS
Sketch Plans Book with floor plans, out
side elevations, decorating hints. Also
colored landscape plan. Helpful guide to
all who plan to build or buy.
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OR SPREAD ON ROOSTS
Kidneys Must
Work Well-
For You To Feel Well
24 hour* every day. 7 days every
week, never stopping, the kidneys filter
waste matter from the blood.
It more people were aware of how the
kidneys must constantly remove sur
plus fluid, excess acids and other waste
matter that cannot stav in the blood
without injury to health, there would
be better understanding of whp the
whole system is upset when kidneys fail
to function properly.
Burning, scanty or too frequent urina
tion sometimes warns that something
is wrong. You may suffer nagging back
ache, headaches, dizziness, rheumatic
pains, getting up at nights, swelling.
Why not try Doan’i Pill*? You will
be using a medicine recommended the
country over. Doan’s stimulate the func
tion of the kidneys and help them to
flush out poisonous waste from the
blood. They contain nothing harmful.
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