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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1941-08-21, Page 2CHAPTER 17 From the buckboard he had Just driven into the Hat 'la plaza, Kassel' Mosely descended and /lung the lines to a; stable boy. "Send Jad to me ---and Pesky Kennedy, if he is here." He strode to the main house,' walked up the porch steps; and vanished inside the house, a long lowstricture which occupied one side of the square. The bunk- houses of the men and themess ball faced it. On one flank were the store, the blacksmith shop, and an old adobe building used for piling up saddles, bridles, harness,, and ranch implements. On the other, more adobe shacks, the stables, and back of these a corral. .The Hat T home ranch was a squalid enough place, entirely without any attempt to make it presentable. Its owner had been too occupied with making money to have any pride about keeping up appearances. . Some day he meant to build a big house, marry, and found a dynasty. But there was still, plenty of thnc for that. He was not quite thirty-three, and as yet had not found a chance to enjoy life. Since the age of ten be had been making his own way in the world, and it had been -hammered into him that the way to power and place in the lend was to hold Large possessions in his grasp. For' the first time today, as he had looked down on the ram- shackle buildings and their deso- late background from the road which dipped into a long slope to the ranch, there had risen in him a feeling of distaste for the ugli- ness of the scone. He was think- ing of how it would appear to the eye of a young woman used to the neat houses and orderly lawns of a little Ohio town. The stable boy went to the blacksmith shop where Prentiss was supervising the' shoeing of a horse. As ha approached, the boy heard the heavy voice of the fore- man shouting at the man fitting the shoes. "Anybody with a lick of sense knows how easy it is to ruin a good horse with shoes that don't fit. I dunno wha ever told you that you are a blacksmith, Dunn." When the stable boy delivered his message, Prentiss scorned to pay no- attention. He kept on roughly criticizing the smith, then in his heavy flat-footed way clumped across the square to the house, "Mean as a bear with a sore paw today," the wrangler said, his eyes following the heavy awk- ward figure. • "Wheesay today M particular?" Dunn wanted to know. "Did you ever know him in a decent tem- per? One of these days I'll let him have a hammer on that thick skull of his. To hear him you'd think we were all slaves." The boy departed to get Pesky. He found the range rider in the bunk house. Pesky was a short crook -nosed man with ensty hair and a sulky face. "What's Russ want with .me now?" Kennedy was disturbed.. 'He's got' a kick about something. That's a cinch. Darned if I stay on a ranch where you get honied up on the carpet for every dog - coned thing you do," "Jud is with him," the boy vol- unteered. The cowboy glanced at the bed- roll on the bunk which he had just brought in with ]rim. There • To the tramp of marching fent, the roar of aeroplane engines, the rattle of machine guns and the rumble of tanks, Canada gives her answer to the world. And you'reinvited to see it an and see it often at the moat dramatic, informative,inopiringExhibition ever held. • SEE Navy Army, Air Force men in thrilling action diaplaye l SEE Canadian -built fighting ma- chines go through their paces SEE a lillesserschmitt and other "souvenirs" from the Battle of Britain! SEE Canadian women answering tho call in a dozen important wayel SEE the tools of war being mann- fabtured for use by Empire fighting monl SEE the stirring pageant, Briton• nia, on the 1000 -toot grandstand stage! SEE "Canada's Answer" in an Exhibition all Canada will be talking about for months to comp, was something in it which might come in handy if 'they started .to ride him too much. He hesitated an instant and then made up his mind. There was no sense in looking for trouble before it came. While he was still a dozen yards from the office he heard Jud's. raucous voiee. "That's a damn lie, Russ. I don't care who told you.. Silcott butted in at the Trail's End be- fore any of us had said a ,word to him. We were lined up at the bar having a drink. He wasn't in the partte lust horned in, like 1 said, The hard insolent voice of loosely answered. "Silcott didn't say a word till you started to beat up on Lamprey's' kid brother. Don't deny it. I talked with wit- nesses." "Meaning Revelling and that bartender Walt." "They did not want to talk, but I got the story out of Them. Lis- ten, Jud." The manner ' of the Hat' T owner was offensively arro- gant. ' "You're just one of: my hired hands. Don't forget that, Any time you wantto beat up Jess Lamprey it's all right with me, or Phil either, if you want to pick on a kid just out of the cradle. But don't make the play . you are doing it for me, not un- less I give you orders. I'm run- ning this ranch. Understand? When I want anybody punished I'll let you know." "I didn't say I was acting for you," Prentiss replied sullenly. "You can't ride me, Russ. I'm no four -bit puncher. I won't take it," "You'll take it long as you draw wages from me," Mosely told him evenly. "I thought yon knew I was boss here, and." "That doesn't make me ,oro slave. I don't come to heel like a whipped cur." A shadow darkened the door- way. (Continued next week) Aluminum For Young Aeronauts Air -Minded Youth in Canada and the United States Make Model Airplanes Powered by Gasoline Engines People visiting model aircraft meets in recent years have been amazed to find that in addition to the model airplanes driven by elastic bands, the young builders flew craft which were powered by tiny gasoline engines. The zeal and the air.mindeduess of youth in Canada and the United States have to be seen to be believed. The Ll. S, authorities recently made a decision which indicates how greatly they cherish this alit• mindedness in American boys and Youths. Aluminum is it commodity so precious in building .American air power that a shortage tbreat- ens in the face of time demand, Yet the Office of Production Management, the body that de- termines how available supplies shall be used in defence Indus- tries, has authorized the allotment of as much as 40,000 pounds of aluminum to manufacturers of these tiny model engines. Home Made }read The Speedier Way Remember how Mother always "set" her bread the night before, and then kueaded It in good shape next day, before she put it Into the loaf pans to rise again? And by noontime, the kitchen would have that tantalizing odor of home - baked bread. Well, you can have home -baked breadby twelve o' clock, too, and you needn't start the bread -making procedure till ten o'clock in the morning, either! Here is the recipe. 8 cakes yeast 4 tablespoons sugar 6 tablespoons warm water 2 cups milk 4 tablespoons lard 5 teaspoons salt 2 cups cold water 12-14 cups all-purpose flour Crumble ,yeast, add sugar and warm water, and stir until smooth, Scald milk, pour over lard and salt, stir until melted, then add cold water. When mixture is luke- warmn, add yeast and 4 cups of Roar and beat for 3 minutes. Add 3 caps flout' and beat 3 minutes, Add 3 'cups flour and beat 5 min- utes. Stir in enough flour so that dough loses its shiny look. Turn out onto a floured board and knead until smooth and elastic (about 10 minutes), using just enough flour to keep from sticking, Divide dough into 6 pieces, Place 2 pieces of dough in each buttered bread pan. Brush tops with butter. Pre. heat oven 1 minute. Titin off oven and `place loaves on the rack. Close oven door. Let rise 30-35 minutes, The bread should be. double in bulk and up to top of pan. Set oven Imeat -'control at 425° P. and bake bread ten minutes. Then reduce temperature to 375° ll'. and bake 50 minutes. Turn out on rack; bruah tops with 'butter and enol. In FLM,S I(ing George V, our newest battleship, there are 1,200 telephones in various parts of the ship, all linked up to one switch- board. TABLE TALKS By SADIE B. CHAMBERS A Medley of Conserves All of us who like something different do delight in trying new recipes. Nothing gives usa bet- ter scope fee this than the tnek- ing of new conserves.. I have a number of requests and I am ge-. ing to combine thorn in this week's column with a few very special favorites. , Peach Conserve 15 large peaches 1 lemon' 1 orange 1 grapefruit 1 teaspoon almond flavoring % teaspoon nutmeg 1 eup blanched shredded almonds Sugar, equal quantities for, peaches Peel and slice peaches, add orange,, grapefruit and lemon., Cook for one-half hour then add the sugar and cook for 45 minutes until a marmalade consistency, Add nuts and cook 6 minutes. Pour into sterile glasses; when cool seal with paraffin. If desired % eup chopped maraschino cher- . ries may be added. Peach Conserve with Pineapple 3 cups sliced peaches s cup _crushed pineapple 1 grapefruit 1 eup raisins 3 cups sugar a cup rolled or chopped pecans Scald and cold dip peaches, peel. Add pineapple and grape- fruit, sliced thin or chopped very fine. Add the raisins and cook until mixture thickens. Add the sugar and cook until it thickens again. Add the nuts and cook for five minutes. Poor into glasses and cover with paraffin when cold. Cantaloupe and Peach Conserve 4 cupd peaches 4 cups cantaloupe Juice and grated rind of 1 lemon and 1 orange 1 tablespoon of chopped citron peel g cup blanched and shredded almonds Cook all the fruit for %. hour. Add the sugar and cook 12 nmin- ntes, stirring constantly. Add nuts and cook 5 minutes. Pour into hot sterile glasses. When cool seal with paraffin. Melon Jam Choose melons which are al- most ripe but not overly ripe. Peel, remove the seeds, and cut up the pulp into neat uniform pieces. Weigh the melon and for every pound of melon allow '/a lb. of sugar and 4 tablespoons water. Put sugar and,water together into preserving kettle, bring to the boil, add the melon and boil stead- ily until the syrup answers the usual test for jelly. A drop or two of vegetable coloring makes a prettier yellow in color. This is a delightful jelly for tarts and is very economical.. Grape Conserve 4 lbs. sugar 1 lb. of seedless raisins 2 oranges (medium) 1'ri cups shelled and chopped pecans Sugar Wash and stem grapes. Place in kettle.. Mash and cook until skits separate from pulp. Press through colander. For every cup of pulp use 'Ye cup sugar. Com- bine, adding the raisins and oranges which have been sliced very thin, Boil until thick, stir- ring frequently. Then acid the nuts. Pour into sterile jelly glasses and seal. g1 t»a C11a41ler14 ,s eCM,OieR. persuital lettere, tr,», inlcr,`oted rea"lera. 8110 IA ldunned 10 releive roggeationa on loples for ner r5)01111, and 15 even 10,1,1) 10 1114100 le roar "11e1 444v40' Iteotsoga for 'tallies 1') dpeoial loom, sire In order. A,IdrCAA your letter» to "adorn Sidle 17, Mann - brie, 71l Wast Adelaide Street. To- ronto." Saud stamped, 5, If -addressed 0,1.011)50 If 3.1I ,vias 1 ragdr. Britain Trains Women Recruits Hairdressers and charwomen. nee among the most promising recruits at Government Training Centres for women engineers in Britain, Hairdressers, whose hands and fingers have become sensitive front wave -setting are doing par- ticularly well on precision and fine instrument work. Charwomen, with their well- developed muscles, are tackling heavier jobs well. They concene trate on such work as painting and cleansing heavy castings they remove from the moulds. Pounds of Fat Could Be Saved Woman Price Adviser Urges National Campaign to Save and. Collect Fat - In Gormauy they even collect the fat out of sowers and purify it. /But he Canada tate honsowlfe holds her frying pan under the faucet and washes time cooking greases down the sink, of rolls it up with time garbage. Suppose as little as a bale. spoonful—ane ounce—ls thrown away in Doubler 1,000,000 Canad- ian bones every day. That lmmeens 62,500 pouncle a flay, 487;500. poundsa week and 22,750,000. ngppt i.s a year go dawn the sial( er into trio garbage can. If there was ho 080 for fats left over from cooking it wouldn't mattes But itis needed ie making soap, palnts and a lot of othee. manufactured goods. And because we throw away such huge quan- MTA HEMLOCK A young Indian bead worker of Caugimawaga Reserve, near Montreal. This handsome Indian maiden is one of the group of In- dians demonstrating their native crafts in the booths arranged in the courtyard of the National Industries Building,. Canadian National Exhibition, by the Welfare & Training Service, Indian Affairs Branch, Department of Mines,& Resources. ' Thies of grease from chops, steaks and roasts and the bacon we now use only occasionally because Bri- tain needs it, we have to import vegetable oils. One person who is disturbed over the waste of fats is Mrs.. Phyllis Gregory Turner. Mrs, Turn- er might be called Canada's house- keeper, though, actually, she is ec- onomic adviser to the wartime prices and trade board and tech. 'Meal adviser to the oil administra- tor. Her salary is the highest re ceived by any woman in the gov- ernment service. Housewives, slme said, should save every available punto of fat and pour or scrape into a jar or can after frying or roasting. This information should be of particular interest to those living in rtu•al areas where, for' generations, the making of "soft soap" has been no secret. Wo- men's organizations, she suggests, could help the war effort by set- ting up collecting systems, bring- ing all the fat to a central place, where processing companies could get it. Silk Stockings Soon to Vanish Tho most beautiful thing on earth—a well -tilled stocking — to quote Mary' Garden of the Chicago Opera, will be a thing of the past by October 1, according to the predictions of the Ofiice of Pyo - duction Management in the United States. For after two days of discus` 81ans the O.P.M. bas come to time realization that silk Mae for wo- men must be sacrificed for the national defence effort. There may be a rush to buy them, but merchandisers are not going to be permitted to boost time prices, V Propaganda The W ,>r ld #fiver British authorities claimed last week that 100,000,000 people in Europe listened to BBC broad- casts of the Morse dit-flit-dit-dar, the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, various versions of V propaganda. In Gibraltar British Tommies with paint pots sloshed Vs on all cars passing into Spain. ' The campaign spread to South America, where Brazilian students plastered Vs on the walls of an Italian newspaper building. Best measure of the campaign's success were the efforts of the Vaterland and :its vassals to neu- tralize it. From the Eiffel Tower hung a V flag. Nazi propaganda photographers snapped V -stenciled trains in Prague, To good Nazis, these Vs of course stood for the unfamiliar word Viktoria. Tack This Up On Hen House Hens Expected to Work Overtime to Produce More Eggs For United States and England When the old rooster sounds reveille down ou the farm these days, it is 'a signal for the hens in the flock to get an' early start on a full day's work for Uncle Sant and England, writes Roderick Turnbull In The Ransas City Star, For the hen really is playing an Important part in the defence pro- gram. The United States Govern- ment wants more eggs for the health of the American people, for the American soldiers hm camp and for the people in England. Dried eggs afford a great econ- omy hi shipping space, a vital factor in this country's aid to Eng- land, A 80 -dozen ease of eggs dries down to ten pounds, including the Package, All the food value in the original egg is maintained in the powder of the dried egg. You can do everything with a dried egg you do with a fresh ono, except fry, boil or poach it. The product can be served as seramb• led eggs or in any omelet. It can be used in all hinds -of cooping. The Government of the United States titin year already has pur- chased 3,250,000 cases of eggs as compared with 2,500,000 cases 111 511 of 1040, Thousands of cases have been sent to Britain. F...11 Ensemble Shows Variety Three Different Fabrics Us- ed In New Fall Fashions This is the fashion season that will go down in history as the one when designers got tbe fashion significance out of the Idea of three fabrics in a coaturee, You see this tri-faltric scheme In so inane' good collections that it deserves respect. 11 Is the jacket costume as well as the long coat ensemble that gets the three-iabrie rating. Ir., involves a plaid or striped wool for tate jacket cr coat, a solid color wool for the skirt, and match- ing crepe or wool jersey for the bodice. which may be a casual slmirtw'alet type with draped detail at nealtiine and bosom. The. jacket fabric is sometimes repeated In it detail of the blouse, and the skirt fatale is repeated as a facing for the revere of the jac- ket, Tile black dress Is a favorite. in these costumes, and often the black shows up In the Jacket me- dium—black with red, black -with green,' black, with gold or rust, LAURA WHEELER HELPS YOU GIVE SOME YOUNGSTER A TREAT COPR.''19n,'NEEDLECRAFT,SERVI61, 440. TEDDY BEAR QUILT PATTERN 2916 bust one patch cut from the left -overs in your scrap bag makes this Teddy Bear quilt. It can be a quilt as colorful as you choose to make it. Finis]) Teddy with a bit of easy outline stitch, Pattern 2016 contains accurate pattern pieces; diagram of block;.sewing inseruc- tons; yardages;-diagram of quilt, ' Send twenty cents hi coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft Dept„ Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto., Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. Miles of Carpet From Old. 1'_,and Carpets From England Find ' Successful Market in .;United States, ,Australla and New reatand • Ten Miles of Axminster earpete In two novel designs have been shipped from Yorkshire, England, to the United States during the past ,year The designs were created frdm flowers piclted.by ihe'ntanufactur- er from his own gsrden in the midst of moorland `made familiar to the world by "Wnthering Heiglits." The flowers were sketched and hmcarporated In two patterns nam- ed after thehome of the inann- facturer and that of a fellow ilia eetor. In design and doloring they were so successful that a group of prominent American carpet . manu- facturers asked to see them dis- played in New ' Yoitk, t Guying last year, trade with the United States was ` so good that the makers of these carpets sold more, four Ones alemany Axmin ster. piece goods'and Broad• loom plain Wilton' as in 1030. The flowers of Yorkshire are now being arranged in other de. signs. Their success in the United States has already been repeated in Australia and New Zealand. 6f;�Jeaufig ter's!f Power °1risdosed Powerful British "B e a u - fighter," with Range of 15,- 000 Miles is Practically a Flying Panzer The Ministry 'of Aircraft Pro- duction has disclosed that the Royal Air p'uree's Bristol Beau - fighter carries the exceptionally powerful armament of four can non in the fuselage and sic m- eatus guns in the wings. Other details released for the firsts, time: 1t is an all -metal mid -wing monoplauo with a nominal top speed of more than 330 miles an hour at 1`3,000 feet, carrying a load 01 7,200 pounds, including oil and armament. It is powered by two Bristol Hercules 14 cylinder 111 engines developing 1,400 horsepower for the take -off. It has a nominal than of 1,500 nmiies, carries a crew of two and is "designed and equip- ped as a formidable long-range° day and night fighter." it has an all-over weight of 21,- 000 pounds, wing span of 57 feet 10 inches and length of 41 beet foam inches; One of its features is two hatches in the underside of the fuselage which when released, create a dead air region for the crew's emergency parachute exit. Rayon's Progress In Textile Trade Moves Into Second Position Among World's Leading Tex- ttte Products Statistics of the world produc- tion of rayon (artificial silk) last year provide the material of much speculation. 1t was a record pro- duction for any year, 2,380,810,- 000 ,380,810;000 pounds, an increase of seven percent on the production for the previous year. Rayon was the only one of the great textile staples (if rayon can be called a textile) which last year showed a record production. More than that, rayon moved into second place among the big four of the textiles—cotton, rayon, wool and silk—displacing wool and being exceeded in production only by cotton. Perbaps it is not extravagant to say that rayon is coning more and more to be, in varying degrees, a universal syn- thetic substitute for the three standard textiles. Economists and political philo- sophers may be left"for the aura- -Won!' to make what they can of the fact that Germany was first last year in rayon production and Japan was second: Germany pro- duced 825;000,000 pounds, or 35 percent, and Japan. 525,000,000 pounds, or 22 percent. Women Helped Sink Bismark Women's Royal Nava) Ser` vice Takes Part in Battle of Atlantic, Handling Signals and Charts Women are taking an important part In the Battle of the Atlantic, They even. Iniad a :Mare in tee op- eration which resulted in the de- struction of Abe German battle- ship Bismarck. In the Headquarters dimectbng the Battle of the Atlan- tic these officers and ratings of the Women's Royal Nafal Service work day and night at key jobs, Thus they release experienced MEM for service at sea. The most secret signals about 'the ceaseless ocean struggle pass throug'm 'their hands. By code and • cypher they translate the messages which flash between warships and the base. Some of these women work at charts, plotting the ever- changing positions of convoys and warships with great efficiency. Most of the signals which pass through thetm'hands for cooling o' decoding concern routine move• merits of ships. But now and then cone the brief wireless messages telling of some tragedy or success away out there at sea. Through their hands 'there 'passed the ur• 013 YOU USE LESS B'I'ER RSUS It's the double -action of Calumet Baking Powder that • permits 'you to use less, and still get better results. Calumet gives continuous leavening --during mixing end in the oven. Easy -opening, won't -spill container, with handy measuring device under the lid. AND THE PRICE IS SURPRISINGLY LOW. gent signals which told the story of the hunt for the German bat- tleship Bismarck and its final de- struction. Those who worked on time sig. nae about the chase and sinking of the battleship Bismarck are de- lighted to think that they were privileged to play a part in this operation. But even to their fellow -ratings in the, same group they cannot give details of thoee thrilling hours as the exciting wireless messages about the oper- ation came streaming in. Overwork Kids Three Goldfish The last of three "wcrkiug" goldfish ie dead. A large Industrial plant in New York found that it took a man seven hours a week to peep algae from the sides of a measuring bowl filled with water, The firm put the goldfish to work and the algae disappeared; - But alter five months of algae diet the first goldfish turned brown and succumbed. The second was caught in a drainage pipe, sprain- ed its back, and succumbed. The last one declined and died— of loneliness,. No Tea Shortage - In view of tbe alarmist reports about 'the tea situation commsmn- ers will be glad to have the hope expressed by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board that clue to shipping arrangements which have been concluded adequate supplies for the remainder of the year will arrive in this country. Tie up to Ogden's! 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