The Seaforth News, 1943-12-23, Page 3Let
Relieve yea
Headaches
Backaches
Golds
Rheun il('
Pains:
Blind Newt Holds
Record For Fasting
The eat which survived a 41 -
day voyage as a stowaway with-
out food, prodaeing four kittens
into the bargain, must certainly
lee a rare specimen of endurance,
though the licking of cosmogene
from a crated engine no doubt
helped to keep the wolf from the
door. But the annals of the ani -
nal world contain fasting feats
oven more remarkable.
Passing over the case of the
Liverpool dog buried during a
blitz which survived after 20 days
without food or water, the first
of the really notable records is
that of the marine iguanas from
the Galapagos Islands, which ob-
stinately refused food for three
months before giving up their
hunger strike. This, however, has
been beaten easily by a 25 -foot.
python in the London Zoo, evliich
declined all foul whatsoever for
18 months and was none the
worse when it began eating again.
A. Madagascar boa-constrieter,
however, turned even ,this record
into small beer by existing, in
similar conditions, in the Paris
Jardin des Plantes for four years
and a month. The world's record
so far is held by the blind newt,
the Proteus, one specimen of
which spent five years between
two meals. The record for a
man, by the way, is GO days.
HONORED BY THE KING
Captain J. H, Hubley, blaster of the
S.S. Colborne, of the Canadian Na-
tional Steamships, received the insignia
of a Member of the Most Excellent
Order of the British Empire at the
recent investiture at Ottawa for his
action in safely piloting bis ship from
Penang, en island off the west coast of
Malaya, which the Japanese captured
early in their campaign against Singa-
pore.
Tho voyage of
the Colborne,
which ineaee-
time was known
to thousands of
travellers as one
of the line's West
Indies "Vagabond
Cruise" ships, will
likely bo recorded
as one of the most
remarkable and
thrilling sea
stories of the war.
It began in Can-
ada in Septem-
ber, 1941, and
when six months later Captain Ilubloy
brought his ship back to an Eastern
Canadian port with patches covering
shrapnel holes in her starboard side
the result of a near bomb hit while at
Penang, he had guided his ship for
32 000 relies, much of that distance
being through unfamiliar waters, and
lead brought her safely through several
large minefields.
On the outward voyage the ship
earned cargo to Calcutta, afterwarda
proceeding to Penang where she
arrived in time to enoountcr two aerial
bombardments staged by the Japanese
au December 9 and 1I. On the second
attack a bomb bit a lighter alongside
tbo Colborne and the shrapnel made
more than 50 holes in the ship itself.
The Captain headed for sea and con-
tinued to Singapore. There the hull was
patched, loading completed' and with
20 passengers on board the Colborne
set out again as the Japanese staged an
sit' attack en the port.
He brought the Colborne back to
Canada via India, South Africa ate the
WeaIndies. •
Captain Ilubley, whose home is in
Sbediac N.B., was born in Dundee,
Prince Edward Island. He has been
commander of the Colborne since 1932.
CAPT. HUSLEY
THELE TALKS
SADIE B. OHAMBERS
A Happy Christmas
To All
Christmas Dinner
Jellied Tomato Bouillon
Roast Turkey
Apple and Sage Dressing
Creamed Rieed Potato
Parsnips with Tomato Sallee
Beet Salad
Plum Pudding Carrot Sauce
Beverage of Choice
Jellied Tomato Bouillon
2 ceps tomato juice
1 cup consomme
ee slice anion
1 cup, water
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon gelatine
2 tablespoons cold water
Seasoning to taste
Simmer tomato juice, consom-
me, onion and water in eovered
pan for ten minutes. Remove the
onion. Reheat to boiling. Sea-
son, add lemon juice then gels..
tine which has bean soaked in
cold water, Chill. Serve in bouil-
lon cups. Serves 6.
Apple and Sage Dressing
6 cups soft stale bread crumbs
1% cups diced apple
% cup diced onion
3 tablespoons soft butter
11 teaspoons salt
Dash pepper
1 teaspoon sage
Combine all ingredients and
stuff the tuelccy.
Parsnips with Tomato Sauce
4 large parsnips
1% cups tomato juice
fit cup diced celery
1 bay leaf
fico sliced onion
2 whole cloves
1 teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
Wash, peel and dice the pars-
nips and par -cook in salted, boil-
ing water for 15 minutes. Boil
together all other ingredients and
strain when cooked. Add parsnips
and simmer for 10 minutes.
Serves 6.
Carrot Sauce
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons flour
Ye teaspoon salt
1% cups boiling water
3 tablespoons finely grated
carrot
2 tablespoons orange juice
2 tablespoons lemon juice
4 tablespoons batter
Mix the sugar, flour and salt.
Add the water and cook until
thick and clear, stirring constant-
ly. Set over hot water; add re-
maining ingredients and cook
gently over hot water until ready
to serve.
Hiss 4aantbera nett:mu a personal
letters front interested readers. She
Is pleased to receive suggestions
ontoples for her enhunn, and is
always ready to Ilstea to your "pet
peeves.' Requests tur recipes or
Special menus are to order. Address
your letters to "itis, Sadie B.
Chambers, 70 west Adelaide St.,
Toronto,' Scrod stamped self-ad-
dressed envelope It you tvisb a
reply.
SCOUTING ...
Lord Peter Baden-Powell, only
son of the Founder of the Boy
Scouts is a Cubmaster in Africa.
t * *
In the scrap metals campaign
in the United States, 431,769 Boy
Scouts took part and collected
292,008,406 pounds of needed met-
als,
5 . 0
.A. letter of congratulations to
the Boys Brigade, on the occasion
of eta Diamond Jubilee has been
sent by the Governor-General as
Chief Scout on behalf of its broth-
er organization, the Boy Salute
of Canada.
r * *
Pilot Officer James G. Noel, ,for
nine years a member of the 40th
Vancouver Scout Troop, was the
hero of a rescue when a woman
jumped overboard from the S.S.
CHAPTER IX
SYNOPSIS
Dave Bruce, out of a job, arrives
at Wilbur Ferris' Cross•9ar ranch.
Curran, the foreman, promises him
a Job If he can break a horse call-
ed Black Dawn, When, he succeeds,
he discovers Curran expected the
horse to kill him. A girl named
Lois r!dea up. She is angry with
Pave for breaking "her" horse and
refuses to speak to him even after
he has used his say' is to help
her foster father, Hooter, pay off
the mortgage on their ranch. She
leaves, and that night, while Hook.
er Is trying to tell Dave a secret
ht. has learned, Hooker is killed
by a shot fired through an open
window. As Dave starts to town
to get the sheriff he meets Lois,
who Immediately believes him
guilty. Now Sheriff Coggswell has
just arrested Dave for murder.
Por an instant Dave sizoe up the
situation, It hadn't occurred to him
before that he could possibly be
under suspicion of having killed
the harmless old man whom be
had befriended. Per a monmeut the
ignominy 01 his position maddened
him with anger. But he hadn't a
chance, with Sheriff Coggewell's
gun covering his heart,
So, with a shrug of his shoul-
ders, he held out his hands. While
• Sinms oovered him in turn, Coggs-
well extracted a pair of handcuffs
from his saddle bag and snapped
them aver Dave's wrists.
"I guess you loin handle this bad
hombre, Sims," said Coggswell to
his deputy. "Me and hiss Lois will
ride up to the mesa and investi-
gate. Turn yore hawss, Bruce.."
In another moment Dave was
riding back toward Mescal, Sims
WAS at his side with a gun in bis
`hand, while the sheriff and Lois
were galloping back across the
valley.
Mescal, which had appeared
Princess Alice as site steamed into
Vancouver. Harbour. Noel, who
had just received his commission
was wearing Ids officer's uniform
for the first time, "I guess it's
christened now" he remarked.
" a C
The Chfef Scout for Canada,
His Excellency the Governor-Gen-
eral has sent the following Christ-
mas message to the Boy Scouts
of Canada. "Cordial greetings and
good wishes to all my brother
Stouts and Scout Leaders. May
they have a jolly Christmas, and
remember in their thoughts and
prayers their less fortunate broth-
er Scouts in Europe who have bad
anything but happiness for more
than four years. Let us trust that
peace may be theirs and ours be-
fore the coining of another Christ,
mas."
APPLE -A -DAY APRON
Fun to make, inn to wear is
this simple, sprightly apron, Pat-
tern 4575. You can perk it up
with ruffles, decorate it with an
apple for apple time (pattern for
applique is included) or have ie
lust plain 'n' mighty pretty.
Pattern. 4575 is available in
µizes small (82-84), medium (86.•
88) and large (40-42), Small
Rize takes 1% yards 35 inch
fabric.
Send TWENTY CENTS (20e)
in coins (stamps cannot lee me-
eepted) for this pattern to Anne
Adams, Boom 421, 73 A.dolaide
St. Weab, Toronto. Write plainly
siee, name, address, style number.
empty the afternoon before, was
now very much alive. Storekeep-
ers were standing le their door-
ways, Iooking on: Little groups of
inhabitants, gathered at street
corners and watched the two men
ride by. A bobtail of Mexican ur-
chins formed in procession, run-
ning behind the horses and hoot•
lag lousily. It was evident that
Lois' story of Hooker's murder
, Had immediately become public
property,
tI was with a feeling of relief
that Dave walked up the stone
steps 01 the jail. Passing tbrough
the anteroom, he was ushered in.
to one of the two steel cages that
comprised tate cells, In one corn-
er was a cot bed, and that was
all. The deputy clanged the door,
"Ain't you goin' to take these
wrist -bands off?" demanded Dave,
"Nope, not tin the sheriff gets
back," answered the deputy. "Taira
a deap'rate killer, Bruce, and I ain't
taken' no chalices with ytath,"
It must have been midday before
Sheriff s'eggswell appeared, with
Sims beside hero. Each man had a
gun in his hand, and the look on
the sheriff's face destroyed all
Dave's hopes of immediate liber-
ation.
"Pm taken' you before Judge Lon -
organ," said the sheriff. "Unlock
that cage, Sims."
"So you thlulc I killed 014 Hook-
er?" Dave demanded,
"Yon kin argue that with the
judge. He's waitin'," was all that
Coggswell vouchsafed.
Coggswell led the way, and Dave
followed, with time deputy's revolv-
er pressing into the small of his
back. They went up a' flight of
stairs to a small courtroom over-
head. 'The two dozen or so of seats
were all filled, and other spectators
lined the walls, Lonergan, seated
on the bench, grinned viciously as
Dave was brought in front of him,
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"You haven't lost any time since
you hit Mescal," he observed. "Have
you • been through your List of
wanted men yet, sheriff?"
"No, I ain't had the chance,"
Coggswell responded, "bet the
facts is as clear as daylight. Yore
honor heard hint cheat old Hooker
out of a half-share in that valuable
property when the said Hooker
was iu a state of intoxication. Lille- ,
wise they was seen to ride away
together, and by tele prisoner's own
admulsslomi him and Hooker Wpent
the night together in the amble,"
"And Miss Hooker?" asked Lon.
organ.
"She spent the night out on tete
mesa with her hawses. Didn't like
the looks of the hombre's face, and
r•eekernized him for the feller 'wbw
boatup Curran at the Cross -Bar
yestidday, Well, yore honor, we
brung Hooker's body into town. 111e
was ]tilled instantly with a forty,.
five slug through the brain, whiebt
the doe extracted. Likewise there's
one shell fired from the prisoner's
forty-five."
"Looks like you killed that poor,
harmless old mal," reaped Loner -
gale, 'hoping to find some money
or something. What have you got
to say?"
e w
"All I got to any is," answered
Dave, "Mr. Hooker woke up be-
fore daylight and started talkie' to
me, and all of a sudden a masked
man atuclt a gun through the win-
dow and shot him dead. Did pay
best to ketch him, but lie was too
slicks for nee. I -Ie was away in the
dark before I could get near enough
to shoot."
"Anything to corroborate that
atony, sheriff?" asked Lonergan,
"Nary thing," responded Coggs-
well. "No trail nor nothing. Looks
to nae this is an open and shut
ease,"
"Well, what did this masked man
look like?" Lonergin demanded.
"You SAY you saw him. How tali
was he? What sort of build did be
have? Could you identify him if
you were to see him again?"
"Nacherally not, him being mask-
ed and it being dark as pitch,"
Dave returned. "But he was about
Yore build, judge, and he stood
about as high as you do, and he
had a loolt like a mangy yeller
coyote, and—"
• "Silence!" roared Lonergan,
banging his gavel down on the
desk, "You'll get nothing by those
tactics, Bruce, I'm holding you with-
out bail for the coroner's jury.
Keep him in close confinement,
sheriff, and see that no one is al-
lowed to visit him."
(Continued Next Week)
Milan Church Bells
Taken By Fascists
The Swiss radio reported that
"210 church bells weighing over
100 tons were removed in Milan
at the order of the Fascist author-
ities."
This is about one-third of all
•church bells of Milan, the repeat
added. The bells of the Milan
cathedral were left in place.
Cornflake Cranberry Puffs
Other jams than cranberry are delicious also in these little cup.
desserts—marmalade too, when you feel inclined to use it for this
purpose! Serve the Puffs very hot, with sauce or cream.
1% cups Saxon Brand (pastry) 4 tablespoons shortening
Flour 3 tablespoons sugar
OR 1?cl cups Quaker (hard- 1 egg
wheat) Flour • % cup milk
2f teaspoons baking powder i• teaspoon vanilla
el teaspoon salt 1 cup Quaker Corn Flakes
3 tablespoons sugar
Cratmbeery Jam
Sift the flour once before measuring. Add baking powder and
salt and sift again. Combine the shortening and sugar, beating well
together. Beat and add the egg. Add dry ingredients alternately
with the milk, making three additions of dry, two of liquid, and com-
bining after each. Add vanilla and Quaker Corn Flakes. Use to
two-thirds fill greased medium-sized muffin pans. Top each with a
spoonful of jam. Bake in moderately hot oven, 375 , about 20 min-
utes. Slakes eight "Puffs,"
CHRISTMAS PRAYER
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lees, realoatmeal leads all natural comae
in protein, the very thing that is meat's
main element. Children must have pro,
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it for stamina and to help fight fatigue.
Nature richly stored so many important
food elements in Whole -Grain Oatmeal;
It stands alone among cereals. Give your
family its wonderful protection daily'
now that so many foods
are scarce and rationed.
Geta package at your
grocers today—start
each (*with th is wh ole -
some, delicious, Whole-
Grain breakfast.
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The Both Shelf
Barrie & Daughter
By Rebecca Caudill
"A girl's got one calling,"
Blanche Barrie told her daugbter,
"To get married and houselteep.
Against her wedding day, she can
teach school," This was agreed in
Poor Folk, with no dissenters ex-
cept Peter, Fern's father, and
Fern herself.
Fern's story is more than a
novel about enterprise and comer
age. It is the delicately handled
relationship between a young girl
and her parents, and a double love
stony: of Bjancho and Peter Bar.
rie, and of Fern and Clint Stacey.
This is the mountain country
Of a half -century ago, when it took
ten yards of sprigged calico to
make a dress, and Mlle itatiiff
couldn't believe that folks exist•
ed so lazy they would buy a guilt
'stead of making their own. But
the underlying theme of honor
and justice. and the Kentucky
hills with the frail spring lady^
slipper, the summer calico bush
"line a thousand candles burning
bright." the fall pawpaw trees
and the' pines, are eternal. And
when the harries set tint to right
certain wrongs in the valley, they
found "that victory, then, as al-
ways, belongs to the stout of
heart."
Barrie & Daughter ... By Re-
becca Caudii' . The Macmillan
Company ... Price 52.50.
Meeting Reported
In 26 Languages
The Overseas Branch of the
United States Office of War In-
formation worked full blast to
carry to the ends of the earth the
story of the historic Roosevelt -
Churchill -Stalin conference at
Teheran.
Shortwave radio beamed the
story in 26 languages and dialects
out of New York over 20 east
coast transmitters, with relays
from London, Algiers, Tunis,
Rabat, Palermo, Bari and Naples.
YOU CAN'T BEAT
lie's only one of millions, but he typifies t,bts spirit that all Al-
Iled fighting meta will have as they kneel to offer a Christmas prayer.
Be they on bloody Tarawa, in nod -bound Italy, the steauming jun-
gles of New Guinea, in England, Iceland, China, India, somewhere
Afloat on foe -Infested waters or in the training camps at home -•--in
ell their hearts will be the same prayer—for victory, a speedy peace
and the return of good will among men,
r1N Toronto It's The
St. Regis Hotel
o Every Room with Bath,
Shower and Telephone.
'a Single, $2.50 up—
Double, $3.50 up.
o Good Food, Dining. and
Dancing Nightly.
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