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Nutmeg
2 tablespoons hotter • Cut squash in halves and
scoop out seeds. Place squash. in,
baking dish: All centers with
apple. Pour a little water into
dish, Cover and hake at 350 ° V.
30 minutes, or until partly done,
Sprinkle with salt, sugar, and
nutmeg, and dot with butter,
Bake uncovered about 45 min-
utes, or until squash is soft.
POTATO. PUFF
3 cups mashed potatoes
1 egg yolk
Hot milk
2 tablespoons melted butter
Salt, \
1 egg white, beaten stiff
Combine potatoes, egg yolk,.
melted butter and salt, Moisten
with hot milk, Beat well. Fold in
egg white: Pile lightly into.
greased baking dish, Bake at
375° F. 30 minutes, or until puffy
and brown.
Moths With
"Radar" ARTISTICALLY INCLINED—Apparently bent on creative, endeavor,
actress Linda Christian, left, gets the brush froin Rorrian painter
Novella Parigini as she tries her hand at a canvas in' the artist's
studio. The ,star is holidaying in the Eternal City,
*nd- for JeSephine O'Dare, Arrest of Davie wag soon follow-
ed. by the arres# Morton, an
Of Josephine herself,
In Marell, 1927, Josephine
O'Dare stood, in the dock at the
Old Bailey, She was charged
with the forgery of wills, of
cheques, and with 'gating 'cash`"
from moneylenders by false.
PTetenses,
What Manner of woman was
this who began life in a faun.
Cottage, who had but little edu,
cation, and yet who could daz-
zle and bamboozle society men
and women and business tye'
coons?
She was, of course an advert,
turess. But not an ordinary (me.
She had intelligeitce and a'ready
wit. When she went into the
witness-box at the Old Bailey
she, did not try to lie her way
out:" but admitted freely what
she 'had done.
When Josephine O'Dare went,
clown 'the dock steps at the Old
Bailey she disappeared frbm
the gay and glittering world
she had loved for four and a-
half years. . .
And then, one day in 1931, the
Westminster Coroner held an
inquest on a woman named Joani.
Brooks. She had been found
dead in a shabby bed-sitter, and
said the- pathologist, she had'
died by her own hand from bar-
bituric poisoning.
Being charitable, the coroner
returne an open verdict on
Joan Brooks.
In so doing he said the last
word on Theresa Agnes Skyrme,
alias Josephine O'Dare, master
forger, social butterfly, convicted
criminal. •
Perils Of The Jungle Keep Her Young
Biologists have long suspect-
ed that warfare in the animal
world is at least as complex as
in the human world. Now, they
have evidence that moths pos-
sess an early-warning defense
which is triggered by the navi-
gational radar of their enemies,
bats.
Accordirig to the current issue
of the magazine Scientific
American, when Kenneth D.
Roeder of Tufts University and
Asher Treat of the City College
of New York attached electrodes
to a moth's ear, they found the
ear sensitive to the ultrasonic "-
echo-locating cries of a bat 10
feet away. Even more subtle,
the biologists found that a par-
asitic mite which lives on moths'
ears is careful to abstain from
eating both of its host's ears —
leaving one line of defense,
against hungry bats and saving
his own skin.
CAUPFLOWEE WITH
prviENTo. SAUCE
1 bead cauliflower, cooked.
1 can ar jar (7 ounces) pimento
6 tablespoons sharp cheese
(optional)
2 tablespoone butter
2 ti biesporms flour
1 cup In/lk
1/2 teaspoonful salt
Dash cayenne
Melt butter and blend in flour;
add milk graduallY. Cook over
hot water in double boiler, stir-
ring constantly, until thick. Add
salt, pepper. Cook 5 minutes,
stirring occasionally; add cheese.
Add pimento stars and Pour over
cauliflower just before serving:
g.
Mash cooked sweet potatoes
and serve them in orange shells.
Or if you want to serve them
in a casserole with marshmal-
lows, cook them this way:
SWEET POTATOES WITH
MARSHMALLOWS
3 cups mashed sweet potatoes
3, cup' brown sugar
V2 teaspoon, salt
1 teaspoon each, nutmeg and
cinnamon
1 tablespoon melted butter
V4 cup cream or rich milk
.16 marshmallows
Combine potatoes, sugar, salt,
spices, butter, and cream. Cut -6,
marshmallows in half and mix
with this combination. Turn into
greased baking dish. Top with
remaining marshmallows, Bake
at 350° F, for 20 minutes, or
until mixture is puffy and
marshmallows are delicately
browned. Serves 6.
If you'd like to tombine, apples
.with a vegetable, try this acorn
squash with apples. This recipe
serves 4.
ACORN SQUASH WITH
APPLES
2 small acorn ;quashes
'S cups chopped apple -
1/2 teaspoonful salt
• HOME e, GROWN BLANKET —
Sporting a two-year growth of
whiskers; Lt. John Tuck Jr., first
.Arrierican to spend two consecu-
tive winters, in ..the Antarctic,
is' pictureeduring a press con-
ferenie. Tuck, 25, 43 returning
to sChobl to Work on his mas-
tees degree'in geography.
celled herself, embarked Ort
social career on the proceeds et
thiS particular felony,
Morton bOartie her close as-
sociate, and- with, hint his, friend
1411g had added his liaMe as
second: witneSs to the forged
Will, This was a romantic
crook named. Davis, who Passed
himself Off as Lord $t. Helier
and captain Danvers,
These three, while strutting
about the drawing rooms and
dance clubs of Mayfair as so-,
cialites and members of the
aristocracy, operated as a bus-
iness, a business with three par-
tners and one product: forged
documents.
Between 1922 and 1.927 this
Partnership yielded no leis than
60,000.
During those years there were
two Josephine O'Dares. There
was the Irish heiress who gave
magnificent' parties in her lux-
urious Mayfair fiat, who, rode a
fine mare in Rotten Row, was
prominent at the great race
meetings, and, a notable figure
at the most fashionable night-
clubs.
The other Josephine was a
hard - working criminal who,
with her two male associates,
made a business of forgery.
Though Josephine had gate-
crashed some of the most ex-
clusive mansions in Mayfair, she
had not entirely escaped the in-
terest of Scotland Yard, They
had nothing definite to go on,
but they could not find out the
source of her income, and she
was seen with Davis who had a
long criminal record. So they
watched and waited.
A forged will having done the
trick the first time, Josephine
continued on the same lines.
When she forged a will, with
Davis's assistance, generally, she
overwhelmed with her allure
even the toughest of money-
lenders. She seldom came out of
their Offices empty-handed.'
Another of their activities was
collecting authentic signatures
for later forging.
The system of forgery to
which Davis introduced his apt
and willing pupil was essenti-
ally simple,
He taught her that while the
forging of a "guardian's" will
may be an excellent idea, it had
the obvious limitation of num-
ber. On the other hand there
were many banks to which they
could turn their talents.
Davis's method was to steal
letters from the letterboxes of
big business houses. Many of
these letters contained cheques
which bore genuine signatures.
With these, application was
made in the name of the cus-
tomer to the bank concerned for,
a new cheque book. Using .the
new cheque book, a cheque was
drawn and signed and presented""
at the bank by messenger.
The, bank had just supplied
that customer, so 'it believed, -
with a new cheque book. .What.
more natural than that he, should
be making use of it?
By means of this trick and
some brilliant forgery,. Jose-
phine and her two male.associ-
ates robbed ban' after bank of
large suing of money.
After each successful coup
Josephine would throw a party
in her flat. To those who knew
her then she seemed completely
carefree, without a trace of the
strain which she was undergo-
ing.
One day a man presented to
the cashier of a West End bank
a cheque for $750. He was tall
and well-dressed and aroused in
the cashier not the slightest sus-
picion. Round the corner a pret-
ty girl waited anxiously for
his return.
Meanwhile, the cashier, intent
on his work, went across to con-
sult a ledger. At that moment
panic seized the waiting man.
He lost his nerve, turned and
ran out of the bank. He could
have done nothing to make pur-
suit more certain.
That was the beginning of the
Decorative ,Vases
From Old 'Bottles
Smilingly they faced one ant
Other across the silver and int-
tiamilate linen of the exclusive
Vayfair restaurant,' the lovely
girl and the handsome man.
For her, a blue-eyed brunette
with a dazzling smile andd. Cu
bowmouth; the man with.
she looks and air of a Guards
Officer mild open the door to
riches,.
FOr him, the lovely woman
who now leaned provocatively
across the lamp-lit table seemed
a vision of loveliness too good
to be true.
They had met at a Mayfair
cocktail party only a few days
previously. They had taken to
one another at once, and. soon
she was confiding to him ,that
she was worried about a grave
problem.
He would be only too glad
to do what he could to help, he
%aid. He suggested a pleasant
Mae dinner togethei-- when she
could tell him all about it .
And now, leaning towards him
over the table, the satin sheen
of her bare shoulders made rosy
by the shaded lamp, she talked.
"I had a guardian," she be-
gan,. "a perfect old dear who
loved me like a father He had
no relatives at all, and when he
died he made a will leaving me
his great fortune."
"Then, if you are rich," inter-
posed her companion, "your
trouble cannot be so very ter-
rible!"
"But that's just it," she de-
clared. "I'm not rich—I'm very
hard up, even if I do move
around in Mayfair and dress
well. You see, though my
guardian eigned his will, he did
so without the presence of wit-
nesses. Such a will, of course,
Is not worth the paper it is
typed on."
"Well, how can I help?" ask-
ed her companion.
"By signing as a witness,"
"But that would be forgery!"
he protested.
"It would also be a fortune
for me and a tidy slice of it for
you."
"I see " he-remarked slowly.
Before they parted that night
the man Morton, had agreed to
sign the document purporting to
be the will of an elderly Bir-
5alingliam solicitor, He also un-
dertook to find a friend who
would sign as the second wit-
ness, for a cut.
Thus Josephine O'Dare, daugh-
ter of a Herefordshire farm
labourer, anchehristened Theresa
Agnes Skyrme, launched her-
self by crime on one of the most
amazing careers of fashionable
Undon in the gay and naughty
1920s.
Her story of the old guardian
was nonsense, of course. The
Old gentleman whose will she
forged was a wealthy, Binning-
am solicitor under whose pro-
tection she had lived and who
ad imbued her with a love for
ury and ambition to climb
London society.
Forgery, like poisoning, is a
crime that is often repeated,
and Josephine O'Dare, as she
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AFTER DINNER SPEECH
A prominent politician was
the guest of honor at a banquet
where the speeches introducing
him were many, dull and
lengthy. 'When at last it was time
for him to give his own speeeh,
the hour was late.
Rising to his feet, he put aside
his prepared notes and looked
out at his audience with a tired
"I hatte been asked to give
an address," he said, "and I
shall beg the privilege of giving
my own. It is number 513 Robin-
Ion Street, and with your kind
aermissiOn, I shall go there gt
Ince."
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STANDING STILL—Making a last stand against progress, this• -
pietbreeque building inMdnhattan finds itself alone, but not
for long, The houses that formerly surrounded it have been
cleared away as workers continue excavations for a new apart-
ment building. The owner of the old house has refused to sell
and the new building will be erected around his property. In
the hackground is Washington Square Arch with the Empire
State, Building looming in the distance.
reveled in their prowess as head-
hunters.
These new welfare services
tend to reduce jungle hazards
especially the casualties caused
by crocodile bites.
A ,I)yak, involved in a cruel
tussle with a crocodile, had an
arm partially severed. In the
old days he would have, lost his
arm and perhaps his life. But
thanks to prompt 'and proper
first-aid action his wound heal-
ed.-
Miss Johnson has also intro-
duced blood' transfusion services.,
Richly ,endowed 'with Lanca-
shire "pep", refreshingly broad-
minded, resourceful and unof-
ficious, Millicent Johnson first
'threw herself into Red Cress
Work at the outbreak of war.
She' Was' then a fashion' buyer
in a Middlesbrough store. But
soon Red Cross work, with its
travels, variety, and fascinating
insight into human problems, be-
came her chief love.
After serving in a British gen-
eral hospital in Brussels, she
volunteered in 1945 gor relief
work in India, but was switched
en route to Colombo, Ceylon.
There sheaelped to receive ship-
loads of men released from Jap-
anese prison camps.
One day her heart jumped a
couple of bounds. The man now
before her and posted as miss-
ing three years earlier from
Singapore was the brother of
her own brother-in-law! Nat-
urally, he - was equally dumb-
founded at this meeting.
Wheri this work was finished
she found herself with some sur-
plus medical supplies. A leper
colony near-by was, she knew,
desperately short of such sup-
plies. To hand them over was
unauthorized; it might well earn
her a rap from authority.
But Johnny never hesitated.
She gave the supplies to the
Franciscan sisters who ran' the
colony.
The place was infested, she
noticed, with large disease-car-
rying Mosquitoes. So, through a
naval friend, she recruited a
ship's disinfestation squad, The
men, all volunteers, sprayed the
site thoroughly. Then, in re-
sponse to Johnny's invitation,
they treated the lepers to a
round of sea shanties. Not to
be outdone, some lepers them-
selves grabbed their drums and
beat out breezy rhythms.
Meeting emergencies is all
part of this go-ahead, practical
women's daily life. And court-
ing fresh hardships and adven-
tures at 60 shows just how deep-
ly Red Cross pioneering hes got
-44nto her blOod.
Most 'hbusholds have a dusty
collection of nicely-shaped- bot-
tles which no one has the heart
to throw away.
Here',s a 'way to swirl them
in eoior to create highly deco-
rative vases or 'lamp bases. All
you need are odds and ends of
left-over enamel.
First, give the bottle a base
coat' of flat paint — creamy
beige is good. When the paint
has dried over night, take a
good sized pail arid fill it with
water to-about four inches front
the top. Now, dribble a few
dhops of each of several eolors
of quick-drying enamel oft top
of the water. The enamel will
float and the drops can be flat-,
tened out on the surface by
blowing on there gently.
Now comes the fun. Holding
the bottle by the neck — as
cibes to the top. as possible --
dip it down into the water, The
bottle will pick up' the colors
on top of the water as it goes
down, so make sure a smooth,
continuous motion , is used =-
don't stop half way. Give it a
twist as you dip it to create
a sWirl ,of color.
As each bottle is dipped, extra
paint will have to be added to
the pail. But don't use too much
paint at once. Very small drops
do the trick. When dry, give
the surface a lustre with wax
and polish.
find you have a Pattern
of color which could never be
predtided by brush, of e for that
Matter, ever be repeated, If,you'
decorate bottles for your friendg,
you can assure them that the
deSigris atd guaranteed
Seeing the snake, they rushed
into the garden ,shouting a warn-
ing. Startled by this noise,' the
snake remained indecisive, -and
so presented its head to a fatal
stroke by a native, wielding his
large grass-cutting knife.
Had not that dog barked so
opportunely, the Far East might
have lost one of the British Red
Cross Society's most courageous
and adventurous field workers,
Lancashire-born Miss Millicent
Mary, Johnson, holder of seven
service decorations.
Though now in her 60th year,
"Johnny", as everyone calls her,
returned only a few weekS ago,
after a visit to England, for a
further spell of two years as a
pioneer welfare officer in the
jungles of North. Borneo.
Being Interested in people and
Toughing it are the two ingredi-
ents of her recipe for keeping
young. Despite her years,- she
faces many physical hazards in
carrying out her jungle duties.
Not long ago, at Kotablud,
-while she was preparing for bed,
:the stepped back with a gasp „
Of amazement and alarm. There,
nestling below her pillow, was a
bulging centipede, fully 18
inches longl
Adventure dogged her even
on her trip back from England.
Flying front Damascus to Co-
lombo, she 'found herself, owing
to bumpy cOnditions, impressed
into service as the sick-bay at-
tendant. Two little girls were
dreadfully air-sick, and one little
boy became so ill that she had
to give him oxygeri.
Her job in Borneo is to intro-
duce "mercy services"
'
such as
health clinics, first-aid training,
old folks' hemes and tubercu-
losis welfare centres to thp back-
ward areas.
Sometimes she travels by sea
in a native canoe . By this
means she reaches communities
where everyOne lives in huts
perched high 'on stilts. A bam-
boo stairway leads down to the
sea. Climbing these stairs in
rough weather is tricky. Even
trickier is stepping back into the
canoe when it bobs up and down
at the bottom of the stairway.
Here, she said, the' natives
have a very simple way "r:if• deal-
ing, with dirty dishes, They
merely put them in a basket aid,
securing it by a rope, fewer it
through a hole in the floor into
the sea.
Once, when visiting an isolated
Chinese echoOl, the made first
a 20-mile earide trip and then,
the tide being loW, had to wade
for half an hour knee - deep
through treacherous inti&flatS:
On arrival, she washed her feet
arid legs, blackened by Mud, in
Water butt Outside the school,
but 'could do nothing about het
dripping
At One Otago slie invariably
gets a welcome frciiii a little boy
who ridee a buffalo 'wears
trilby hat and very little else.
With a grin of joy, he dale his
SOfiteWthet battered headgear lit
salute 'td "Missy Johnny"
The people she visits, include
'Dyaks, 'bans, Murats, Dtisatie,
IVIelatreitai Chinese, She hag
'formed iirst.CiaSS Ikea Cross de-'
tachments Iebtri dark - haired
bytk: girls Whose' grancifathedi
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CHURCH IN PARIS—POsicleht Eisenhower is w ovine SO Ordwds in Perris opt ttreiday as he drove,
to church, The President Was oyer there for the to leVel NATO meetings OS Well as personal
Meetingit With the delegates of the other' participating Countriet.i
tttnidit SEIL VICE
As an impdttatit looking btatt
iteSA Man wet leaVing the small
teWri hotel, he suddenly ititned
to a not,too-bright-lotetirig lad
leaning 'against the desk.
son," he ordered. "Atilt
ui to, ROOM 13 'and see if left
,friy brief case' there. ilineer! 110
trairi,leavei Id nitte minuteS,".
A fo* thetrientS later the boy`
rusher. Back. 'Yet i ;Sii,P` he pant.,
"telt !`It' there 411 lithe'
TidIttt. tilt—The Florida Highway Patrol hat fauna ct Way
to Make eiVieri traffic tickets pleci dnt. Haticlitid ciUt the bad
itiewa is Trooper' AndreecCouture,"latit who would 'get' triad eit
receiving tickef fitirn'iich a pretty officer?
XV,,Wftai4•
As the little dog started bark-
ing frenziedly, the tall English-
wcfrnan who was digging in her
garden spun around and drew
back instinctively. There`, a few
paces away, poised ready for
the kill, was a krait, one of
North Borneo's deadliest snakes.
Thihking more of her dog's
safety than her own, the woman
grabbed hold of it and called
out to some natives who were
laying down pipes in an adjoin-
ing field.
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