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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1943-12-23, Page 2Blind Newt 1-Iolas Record For Fasting The cat which survived a 41 - day voyage as a stowaway with- out food, producing four kittens into the bargain, must certainly be a rare specimen of endurance, 'hough the licking . of eosmogene from a crated engine no doubt helped to keep the wolf from the door. But the annals of the ani- mal world contain fasting feats even 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, which declined all food whatsoever for 18 months and was none the worse when it began eating again. A Madagascar boa -constrictor, 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 60 days. TABLE TALKS HONORED BY T KID ' Captain J. H. Hubley, Master of the E.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 his ship from Penang, an island off the west coast of 'Malaya, which the Japanese captured early in their campaign against Singa- pore. The voyage of the Colborne; which inpeace- time was known to thousands of travellers as one of the line's West Indies "Vagabond Cruise" ships; will likely be 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 Hubley brought bis ship back to an Eastern Canadian port with patches covering hel holes in her starboard side e result of a near bomb bit while at ?enang, be had guided his ship for 32,000 miles, much of that distance being throfigh unfamiliar waters, and tad brought her safely through several large minefields. On the outward voyage the shi carried cargo to Calcutta, afterwards Proceeding to Penang where she thrived in time to encounter two aerial bombardments staged by the Japanese en December 9 and 11. On the second attack a bomb hit a lighter alongside the 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 net out again as the Japanese staged an air attack on the port. He brought the Colborne back to Canada via India, South Africa and the West Indies. Captain Hubley, whose home is in Mediae N.B., was born in Dundas, PrinceEdward Island. He has been commander of the Colborne since 1932. SADIE B. CHAMBERS A Happy Christmas To All Christmas Dinner Jellied Tomato Bouillon Roast Turkey Apple and Sage Dressing Creamed Bleed Potato Parsnips with Tomato Sauce .Beet Salad Plum Pudding Carrot Sauce Beverage of Choice Jellied Tomato Bouillon 2 cups tomato juice .1 cup consomme 1 slice onion 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 covered pan for ten minutes. Remove the onion. Reheat to boiling. Sea- son, add lemon juice then gela- tine which has been soaked in cold water.. Chill. Serve in bouil- lon cups. Serves 6. Apple and Sage Dressing 6 cups soft stale bread crumbs 11/ cups diced apple 1/s cup diced onion 3 tablespoons soft butter 11/s teaspoons salt Dash pepper 1 teaspoon sage Combine all ingredients and stuff the turkey. Parsnips with Tomato Sauce 4 large parsnips 19i 'cups tomato juice Mi cup diced celery 1 bay leaf lie 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 aid simme r. foe -' I1 ;t utes� Serves 6. " Carrot Sauce 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons flour l4 teaspaon salt 1% cups boiling water 3 tablespoons finely grated carrot 2 tablespoons orange juice 2 tablespoons lemon juice 4 tablespoons butter Mix the sugar, flour and salt. Add the water and cook until thick and clear, stirring constant- ly. Set over hot water; acid re- maining ingredients and cook gently over hot water until ready to serve. CAPT. HUBLEY V:C By RQSSEAU CHAPTER IX SYNOPSIS Dave Bruce, out of a Job, arrives at Wilbur Ferris' Cross -Bar ranch. Curran, the foreman, promiee i him a job If he can break a :horse call- ed BIack.Dawn. When he stiveeds, he discovers Curran expected the, horse to kill him. A girl named Lois rides up. She Is angry with Dave for breaking "her" horse and refuses to speak to him even after hQ has used his savings to help her foster father, Hooker, pay o f the mortgage on their ranch. She leaves, and that night, while .Hook- er Is trying to tell Dave adecret ha 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 belie es him guilty. Now Sheriff Cog well has just arrested Dave for mur. r..• Ar For an instant Dave sized `tp the situation. It hadn't occurred to him before that he could possibly ,;be under suspicion of having? -killed the harmless old man" whom he had befriended. For a"moment the Ignominy of his position maddened hien with anger. But he h n't' a chance, with Sheriff Cog well's. gun covering his heart. So, with a shrug of his shoul- ders, he held out his hands.'While Sims covered him in turn, Coggs- well extracted a pair of handcuffs from his saddle bag and snapped them over Dave's wrists. "I guess you kin handle this; bad hombre, Sims," said Coggswell to his deputy. "Me and Miss Lois will ride up to the mesa and investi- gate. Turn yore. hawss, Bruce." In another moment Dave was riding hack toward Mescal Sims was at his side with a gun in his hand, while the sheriff and Lois were galloping back across the valley. Mescal, which - Miss Chambers wetcomca persunat letters from Interested readers. She Is pleaeed to receive suggestions on topics for her eolunni and Is always ready to listen to your "pet peeves." Requests for recipes or special menus nre In order. Address your tetters to "miss Sadie It. Chambers, 73 %Vest Adelaide St., self-ad- dressed Toronto." pe stamped Send if You wish a reply. SCOUTING . Lord Peter Baden-Powell, only son of the Founder of the Boy Scouts is a Cubmaster in Africa. * * * In the scrap metals campaign in the United States, 431,769 Boy 1Seouts took part and collected 292,008,406 pounds of needed met- als. • s * A, letter of congratulations to the Boys Brigade, on the occasion of its Diamond Jubilee has been sent by the Governor-General as Chief Scout on behalf of its broth- er organization, the Boy Scouts of Canada. c * * 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. A MILDER TASTIER TOBACCO had appeared Princess Alica as she steamed into Vancouver Harbour. Noel, who had just received his commission was wearing his officer's uniform for, the first time. "I guess it's christened now" he remarked. * * The Chief. Scout for Canada, His Excellency the Goyernoi'-Geu- eral Ixas sent the foilowiug_ Christ- max: message to the. Betalteants of Canada. "Cordial greetings and good wishes to all my brother Scouts and Scout Leaders.. May they have a jolly Christmas, and remember in their thoughts and prayers their less fortunate broth- er rother Scouts in Europe who have had 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 empty the afternoon before, was now very much alive. Storekeep- ers were standing in, their door- ways, looking 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- ing loudly. 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 of the jail. Passing through the anteroom, lie was ushered in- to cue of the two steel cages that comprised the 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 till the sheriff gats back," answered the depety. "Yo're a desp'rate killer, Bruce, and I ain't takin' no chances with yup." It must have been midday before Sheriff Coggswell appeared, with Sims beside him. Each man had a guns in his hand, and the look on the sheriff's face destroyed all Dave's hopes of immediate' liber- ation. "I'm takin' you before Judge Lon- ergan," said the- sheriff. "Unlock that cage, Sims." "So you think I killed old Hook- er?" Dave demanded. "You kin argue that with the judge. He's waitin'," was all that Coggswell vouchsafed. Coggswell led the way, and Dave followed, with the deputy's revolv- er evolt'er pressing into the small of his back. They went up a Plight 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. "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 ehauce," Coggsweli responded, "but the facts is as clear as daylight. Yore honor heard him cheat old Hooker out 62 a half-share in that valuable property' when the said . Hodder was.in a state of intoxication. Like- wise they was seen to ride' away together, and by the prisoner's own admission him and Hooker spent the night 'together in the cabin." "And Miss Hooker?" asked Lon- ergan. "She spent the night out on the nxesa With her hawses. Didn't like the looks of the•honibre'3 face, and reckernized flim for the feller who beat up Curran at the Cross -Bar yestidday. Well, yore honor, we brung Hooker's body into town. He was killed instantly with a forty- five slug through the brain, which tile doc extracted. Likewise there's one shell fired from the prisoner's forty-five." "Looks like you killed that poor, harmless old roan," rasped Loner- gan, "hoping to find some money or something. What have you got to say?" a "All I got to say is," answered Dave, "Mr. Hooker woke up be- fore daylight and started taikin' to me, and ail of a sudden a masked • man stuck a gun through the win- dow and shot him. dead. Did my best to ketch him, but he ,was too slick for me. He was away in "the" dark before I. could get near enough to shoot." "Anything to corroborate that story, sheriff?" asked Lonergan, "Nary thing," responded Coggs- well. "No trail nor nothing. Looks • to me this is an open and shut .ease." "Well, what did this masked than look like?" Lonergin demanded. "You say you saw him. How tall was he? What sort of build did he 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 look 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, report 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. 1.9a cups Saxon Brand (pastry) 4 tablespoons shortening Flour 3 tablespoons sugar OR 1;a cups Quaker (hard- 1 egg • wheat) Flour lh cup milk 21/2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon a poonvanier lla a Flakes 9a teaspoon salt 1 cup 3 tablespoons sugar Cranberry Jam Sift the flour once before measuring. Add baking powder and salt and sift again. Combine the shorteiung and sugar, beating well together. Beat and add the egg. Add dry ingredients alternately with the milk niakin • 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 jain. Bake in moderately hot oven, 375°, about 20 min- utes. Makes eight "Puffs." 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CHRISTMAS PRAYER He's only one of tnillionsl but he typifies the spirit that all Ale lied fighting men will have as they kneel to offer a Christmas prayer, Be they on bloody 'Tarawa, in mud -bound Italy, the steaming jun- ties of New <itiinea, in England, Iceland, China, India, somewhere afloat on foe•.winfested waters or in the training camps at home—in all their hearts will be the same prayer--•forW victory, a speedy peace and the return of god will among men. That's Why 1 Need Whole Grain Quaker Oats ::: Richest of All Natural Cereals in Growing Factor Proteinl, Yes, realoatmeal leads all natural cereals in protein, the very thing that is meat's main element. Children must have pro.' teiafor normal growth. Adults must have. it for and to help fight fatigue. Nature richly s{pred so many important food elements an -Whole -Grain Oatmeal.: It stands alone among cereals. Give your family its wonderful protection daily; now that so many foods are scarce and rationed. . Get a package at your grocers today—start each daywiththiswhole- some, delicious, Whole= Grain breakfast. The of CCanada. Llmite1O{1v6°/7 The Book Shelf Barrie & Daughter By Rebecca Caudill "A girl's got one calling;" Blanche Barrie told her daughter, "To get married .and housekeeP. 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 cour- age. It is the delicately handled relationship between a young girl and her parents, and a double love story: of Blanche and Peter Bar- rie, and. of Fern and Clint Salcey. This is the mountain country of a half -century ago, when it took ten yards of sprigged calico to make a dress, and Uslie Ratliff couldn't believe that folks exist- ed so lazy they would buy a quilt '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 "like.' a thousand candles burning bright," the fall pawpaw trees and the pines, are eternal. And when the Berries set out to right certain wrongs in the valley, they found "that victory, thea, as al- ways, belongs to the stout of heart." Barrie & Daughter . , . By Re- becca Caudil: . The Macmillan Company . Price $2,50. 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 rdlays from London, Algiers, Tunis, Rabat, Palermo, Berl and Naples. IN 'Toronto It's The St. Regis Hotel G Every Room with Bath, Shower and Telephone. a Single, $2,50 up— Double, $3.50 up. NhI c► ' Good Food, Dining and Dancing g fitly. Sherbotirne at Carlton TeL RA 4135 ISSUE No. 52---43