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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-05-19, Page 2Saved From Death By Girl's Betrayal yal When in Poland recently, 1 heard the war -time escape story of a very gallant resistance fighter, Dr, Tabeau, a Pole of Trench extraction. Like thousands of his Cher cruelly oppressed countrymen, he was thrown into Auschwitz, the no t o r i o us concentration camp, where, by the end of the roar. four million men, women anti children had been slaugh- tered. There he met, among his doom- ed fellow prisoners, a dark- nr+:ed attractive gipsy girl called Zino. Any day. any hour, might be Ater last, but this girl had a vitality and gaiety of heart not lo be subdued by the hideous privstions, the filthy food, ver- minous, overcrowded living con- clitions and the sadistic guards, She fell wildly in love with Rbc handsome young Pole. But although attracted to her, Vtc had only one thought in mind —e ,cape, One day he confided his plan 4c her. He had worked out a scheme in which he and a com- patriot, equipped with wire -cut- lers, intended to out their way through the electrified barrica- des. and dash for a hiding place in the forest. "That's impossible. You must stay here with me, darling," she ctrl"d. "It's 00 use: 1 love you, but 'r must get out of this ghastly Camp and tell the world about it:. replied the doctor, "It's my slut;—other nations must know what is doing on here." "No," Zina insisted. "Your place is with me. We must share Our fate together. I love you, You're everything to me." But Dr. Tabeau resisted her Flew. "All right," said Zina, "I shall stop you, and keep you where you belong, with me!" True to her threat, she report- ed her information to the camp floss and Dr. Tabeau, his accom- plice and others thought to be in the escape plot were seized, They were hustled into a lorry lo be driven for interrogation inside the inner compound of the main camp, writes A. J. Forrest In "Tit -Bits." Dr. Tabeau knew what savage tortures such an interrogation held for anyone suspected of organizing an escape so he de- cided to make a break for it on the way. His friend agreed to jump with him. At least they would have the advantage of teeing outside the camp's main line of barricaded fences. At a given signal, the two men leapt from the lorry, dashed to the nearest fences and attacked them with wire -cutters they had smuggled o u 1. Bullets spat around them and great sheets of blue flame burst out as they cut through one electrified fence. They tore on and hacked their wavy through the second fence. But the Nazi bullets were get- ting, very close. One nicked Dr. Tabeau, though not seriously as, running for their lives, they reached the shelter of the forest. What they had relied on proved true, The guards had not dared to leave the lorry in case the ether prisoners also bolted, Making their way at nightfall, through wooded country, the two Poles hid up by day, some- times in water, sometimes in trees, while over 4.000 storm- troopers, with tracker dogs searched for them. Thanks to many strokes of luck. the Iwo men made good their escape. But perhaps Dr. Tabeau's biggest break was the gipsy girl's betrayal. T-Iad he stuck to his original plan he would have had to run much greater hazards in break- ing through more formidable barricades of wire, protected, too, by watchtowers, in which S.S, guards sat, night and day, with their machine guns at the ready. And had he agreed to her pas - donate entreaties he would no doubt have shared her fate: death in a gas chamber. BONJOUR, BABY — French President Charles de Gaulle was surrounded by cheering crowds in Quebec after arriving from Ottawa where he began his tour of Canada and the United States, t 2somw ILJfS 1/41 Andrews. If you like plain cakes, try this sponge cake that is enliven- ed with lemon juice and rind. SPONGE CAKE 1 tablespoon lepton juice Grated rind of 1 lepton. 2 tablespoons water 1 cup sugar 6 eggs, separated 1 cup sifted cake flour le teaspoon salt Add lemon juice, lemon rind and water to sugar. Stir until well mixed. Add unbeaten egg yolks to sugar mixture and beat until flufdy and light Fold flour into yolk -sugar mbatutre. Add salt to egg whites and beat un- til stiff but not dry. Fold whites into flour -yolk mixture. Pour batter into ungreased tube pan (about 7t/4 x 31/2 inches), Bake at 350 degrees F. until c a k a springs back when lightly touch- ed with finger — about 45 min- utes. Remove from oven and in- vert on cake rack. Allow cake to cook entirely before remov- ing from pan -- about 1 hour, Here is a three -layer cake re- cipe with a chocolate butter frostine that makes it tops. CHOCOLATE CAKE 4 squares unsweetened chocolate t„, cup hot water cup sugar 2 cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt t;; cup shortening' 1 Shu cups sugar 3 eggs, unbeaten Milke 1 teaspoon vanilla Chocolate butter frosting *With vegetable shortening, use :)4 cup milk; with butter use ee cup milk, Place chocolate and water in bop of double boiler. Cook and stir over hot water until choco- Iate is melted and mixture thick- ens. Add r.•a cup sugar and cook and stir 2 minutes longer. Cool to lukewarm. Soft flour once, measure and add soda and salt and sift to- gether 3 times. Cream shorten- ing, add 11 cups sugar gradu- ally, and cream together until Light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition. Then add Cour alternately with milk, beating after each addition un- til smooth, Add vanilla and cho- colate mixture and blend. Pour hatter into 3 round 9 -inch layer pans, 11/2 inches deep, lined on bottom with paper, Bake at 350 degrees F. about 30 minutes, or until cake springs back when touched Tightly. TRUMAN AS BABY SITTER - Former President Harry 3, Truman, obviously pleased with his role as baby sitter for his two grandchildren, poses in the window of his New York apart- ment with Clifton, left, 3, and VJilliam Daniel, 11 months. His d. ur*h:er and her husband are vacationing abroad. CHOCOLATE BUTTER FROSTING oup butter w vegetable shortening 4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 4, teaspoon salt 3 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted 6 tablespoons milk (about) Cream butter; add part of sugar gradually, blending after each addition, Add vanilla, salt, and chocolate and mix well. Add remaining sugar alternately with milk until mixture is right consistency to spread. Beat af- ter each addition until smooth, then beat 100 additional strokes, or until mixture is creamy. 11 you happen to 1 i k e tire ready - to - use packaged cake mixes here are some suggestions that will help you to vary the results. MARBLE CAKE Mix white or yellow batter as directed on box; pour eh of bat- ter into pans. Melt 1 square un- sweetened chocolate (1 oz.) and mix with 2 tablespoons warm water, 1 tablespoon sugar, and 14 teaspoon soda. Pour into re- maining batter and beat 30 sec- onds. Pour over light batter, Cut through batter with knife sev- eral times to obtain marbled ef- fect. • CHIP CHOCOLATE CAKE Make white batter and fold in 2 squares shaved sweet, semi- sweet, or unsweetened chocolate r2 ozs.). DOUBLE PEPPERMINT CAKE Make white cake batter and fold in SS cup finely crushed peppermint candy. Sprinkle over top of batter a few drops of red food colouring and fold in with only 3 or 4 strokes to streak through hatter — but do not blend completely. Frost with White Mountain icing (recipe follows. in column) tinted pink, Sprinkle . with more rruslte1 peppermint candy. WHITE MOUNTAIN ICING Blend well in small saucepan 4 cup sugar, Ye cup white corn syrup, and 2- tablespoons water. Boll rapidly to 242 degrees le. (Mixture spins a 6-8 inch thread ur a few drops form firm ball when dropped into cold water.) When mixture begins to boil, start beating 1/4 cup egg whites (2 small). Beat until stiff enough to hold peak. Pour hot syrup in thin steady stream in- to beaten egg whites, beating constantly until it strands in very stiff peaks. Blend in 1 tea- spoon vanilla. The colour of the egg she), has nothing to clo with the qual- ity of all egg -- brown or white they're all the same. But here's how you can tell if they're Iresh. Old ones are smooth and shiny- fresh hinyfresh eggs are rough and chalky in appearance. Also, a fresh u,n :inks in water. the contents should not shake: back and forte loosely,. the yolk should he 1n the centre( hold up to the light), • ll seems many people waste electricity or gas and cold, via the refrigerator, Make this sim- ple test close the door of the frig on a slip of paper. If ii pulls out easily, have the doer strip replaced at once. Is your bathroom scale telling the truth? Test its accuracy by weighing a 5 err 10 -pound bag of flour or sugar an it, We? ihty Thoughts Of De Gaulle ik' ides loin); soldier and statesman, President Charles de Gaulle considers himself a philo- sopher. From his private desk, his often profound, sometimes sentimental thoughts have been est forth in his memoirs, Some of rte Gaulle's observations: On ]!ranee: "The emotional side of me tends • to imagine France, like the princess in the .fairy stories or the Madonna in the frescoes, as dedicatee) to an exalted and exceptional destiny . In short, France cannot be France without greatness.” • On America: "To what power, to what wealth can America's be Compared? , (This nation's) economy, based on apparently unlimited resources, (produces) enormous quanitities of consum- er -goods . , . The United States is assured of being the most pros- perous nation „for some time. Then, too, it is the strongest!" On China and Russia: "No doubt Soviet Russia, in spite of having aided communism to take root in China, recognizes that nothing can change the fact that she is Russia, a white nation of Europe , , , richly endowed with land, mines, factories, and wealth, face to face with the yellow masses of China, number- less and impoverished, indes- tructible and ambitious .. , cast- ing their eyes about them on the open spaces over which they must one day spread." On a Third World War: "Who can say that if the opportunity arises, the United States and Russia, while each deciding not to launch its missiles at the main enemy so that it should itself be spared, will not crush the others? It le possible to imagine that on some awful day Western Eur- ope should be wiped out from leloseow and Central Euroi'ia from Washington. And who can say the two rivals , , will not unite?" On Disarmament: "France be- lieves that peace can only be at- tained if the general fear of sud- den annihilation is first removed She wishes above all that stocks of nuclear weapons be deo stroyed , , . that rockets and air- craft capable of carrying them b,e placed under surveil- Iancc," On Nature: " . , , On our little property—I have walked around it fifteen thousand times — the trees, stripped by the cold, rare- ly fail to turn green again, and the )towers my wife has planted bloom once more each spring , , The buds , . , remind me that ever since it has existed on earth, life wages a battle it has never lost. Then I feel a secret solace passing through me, Since everything eternally begins anew, what I have done will sooner or later be a source of new ardor after I have gone." LAW BREAKER The judge looked wearily at one of his regular "customers" standing in the dock, a man who had already been before him for speeding, reckless driving, drun- ken driving, parking, and driv- ing a car with faulty brakes. "It's you again," grunted the judge. "I seem to remember sus- pending your driving licence for a year last time, What's the charge now?" A hushed silence fell over the court. The defendant looked shame- facedly at the floor. A blush spread over his face. He looked at the judge and said: "Jay walking, your honour," Stolen Heirloom -'• A Hot Cross Sun! You can imagine how hot and cross an English baker become when he woke up on Good. Fri. day morning to discover that, arz overnight thief had stolen one of his most cherished possessions -- a hot cross bun mare than it hundred years old. He had exhibited it for years in a glass case in his little shop for it was made by a member of his family, also a baker, as long ago as 1869. The shrivelled, blackened bum was regarded by the baker as a family heirloom. Why the thief took it remains s mystery, It was certainly more precious in the baker's eyes than the few pounds' worth of silver' which the thief also took from his ti11, Nobody seems to know when the first hot cross buns were Made. The earliest trace of something like them was in Egypt about 4,000 years ago, It's still customary for house- wives in Devon and Somerset to hang a bun in the rafters from. one Good Friday to the next in the belief that it will bring good fortune to house or cottage, And there's a popular supersti- tion in other parts of Britain that these buns never mildew. The famous actor, Edmund Kean, always travelled with a hot cross bun in his luggage as a talisman, For years he said it brought him good luck, if he hung it up in any house or hotel where he was staying while touring, But one night a fire broke out in his lodgings despite the pres- ence of the aged bun and he was forced to escape in his night- shirt leaving the bun to perish in the flames. ISSUE 19 — 1900 birthday no. 1 for 3 of a kind Celebrating triplets' first birthday — at least these triplets — is enough to make strong men weep. John, Robert and Eugene — sons of Mr, and Mrs. Milton R. Fry of Bremerton, Wash,— literally plunged into their birthday cakes. Total destruction time: 5 minutes, Dodging the flying frosting, an alert photographer recorded the debacle, "WI WANT OUR CAAAAKI:I I I" "Hey, this is more like in" "Why bother with forks and plates?i'r ti 11'