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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-08-20
MONTGOMERY SIDELIGHTS
BIZ ELSIE WHITE HAINES

invented a method for removing
kinks from hair and waxed rich
thereby.
Tarrytown, once known as
Greenburgh, was an early trading
post, The Dutchmen loved to ling
er there so their wives dubbed it
larry Town. We saw Sunnyside,
the vine-covered, gabled cottage of
Washington Irving - Sleepy Hol-
low Manor, and just across the riv-
er at this point is Nyack summer
resort, noted for its motor boat
and yacht building the Glass
House built by Adele Leigh a sun
worshipper.
Sing Sing, so named for the Sin
Sinck Indians, state prison since
1926, now has over three thousand
"guests." 1t interested US greatly
Of course, as did Kidd's Point,
where the famous pirate is sup
posed to have buried his treasure
Before coming to Sugar Loaf we
passed Bear Mountain, 1900 feet
above us-Anthony's Nose, 900
foot mountain named after the big
nose of Anthony Corlear, Peter
Stuyvesant's trumpeter, and after
| West Point comes Storm King
Mountain the most beautiful of all,
with highway winding around it.
No one is allowed to get off the
boat at West Point now, but we
! ran in close enough to have pointed
out to us the administration build
ings along the river front, the rid
ing hall, officers mess and the
bachelor building. Back from the
river is the post headquarters, and
high on hill we saw the chapel.
We could glimpse the famed
"Flirtation Walk" three fourths of
a mile in length, ending queerly
enough at Battle Monument. There
is kissing Rock, a fitting stone
its said that it will fall and
crush the man who fails to kiss the
| girl he escorts down Filtration
Walk-well, it is still there!
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-08-20
New England Corn
ChOwder Has Place In
Menu Of Any Season

1t isn't often, even during the
hottest weather that occasionally
we don't have crave for good
hot soup. Sometimes thin soup
sometimes thick soup and some
times a chowder, so with this in
mind, here is a good recipe for
corn chowder that will be grand
the next time someone in your
family starts limiting along these
lines.
NEW ENGLAND CORN
CHOWDER
3 tablespoons fat salt pork,
diced
l onion, sliced
2 cups potatoes, diced
Ia cups boiling water
/ cup canned or fresh corn
l cup milk
/ cup cream
Salt and pepper
crackers, split
Fry out salt pork, add onion
and cook until golden brown.
Add the potatoes, water. corn
and cook until potatoes are ten
der. Add milk and cream and
reheat. Season. Place cracker
in each dish and pour chowder
over crackers. Serves four.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-08-20
ROCKVILLE LIBRARY
NEWS NOTES

Mrs. Thomas w. Pyles (Bebe
Howard) has resigned as librarian
of the Public Library of Rockville,
and has Joined her husband, En-
sign Pyles, in Itchaca, N. Y, where
he has been sent as an instructor.
Mrs. Byron D. Mcbride, who has
had some experience in the library
at Hyattsville, is temporarily act
ing as librarian.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-08-20
Corn Bread

Ia cups corn meal
Ia cups sour or buttermilk
2 tablespoons shortening !
l egg
l teaspoon soda
teaspoon salt
tSift meal, salt and soda; add
half the milk, then egg and rest
of the milk. Add melted shorten
ing. Pour into pan and bake in
hot oven (450' F.) for twenty
minutes, or until done.
PLANTATION SPOON BREAD
/ teaspoon salt
cup corn meal
IL cups boiling milk
2 egg yolks
2 egg whites
2 tablespoons shortening
.Sift corn meal and salt in a
bowl large enough to give room
for mixing. Scald meal with boil
ing milk, which must be boiling
hard at the time it is poured over
the meal. Use a wire egg beater
to mix the milk and meal, so as
to save every bit of time possible.
Add the egg yolks which have
been slightly beaten, then the
egg whites, stiffly beaten. Pour
the hot melted shortening in the
bowl and fold it in with as little
beating as possible. Put in a
pre-heated baking dish tit should
be hot enough for the mixture
to sizzle when the batter is poured
in). Bake in a hot oven for
about 20 minutes. The secret
of spoon bread is to keep it at
boiling point until it is in the
oven. Have everything ready be-
fore you scald the meal.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-08-20
COnserves Made With
Fruits Are Cheapest

Day by day now the market
are getting filled with fruits that
we will want to "put up for the
coming winter and shortly they
will reach that low price that in
vites housewives to buy a good
amount and go to work on them.
He . are a few of the things that
can be done:
PEACH AND PINEAPPLE
CONSERVE
pounds peaches
l small can pineapple
l orange
Sugar
Pare peaches, add 2 cups of
water and cook until soft. Mash
or rub through collander, add
pineapple and the orange, cut in
small pieces, and cook until
slightly thickened. Add p as
much sugar as fruit, and cook
until it is as thick as marmalade.
If fresh pineapple is used, it
should be cooked with the peaches.
GRAPE CONSERVE
8 pounds concord grapes
] pound seeded raisins or figs
3 or A oranges
2 lemons
Sugar
Pick over, wash, drain and re-
move stems from grapes. Put in
preserving kettle, add only a lit
tie water, let simmer until the
seeds are free. Then press
through sieve, discarding skins
and seeds. Add oranges and
lemons cut fine; TO / pound fruit.
add l pound sugar. Boil until
thick. Fill jelly glasses. Cool
and seal.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-08-20

Mrs. Sarah Kilenberger. a new
member of the Rockville Club, has
sent in some excellent sugar-sav-
ing recipes, according to Mrs.
Beall, who has tried them. They
sound good-get them from her.
There is one for "Cadet Chocolate
Cake" "Fluffy Seven Minute
Frosting" and several kinds of
cookies.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-08-20

Hillanddale wants a Homemak-
ers Club, Montrose wants one, and
SO does Kensington-we are no
longer strictly rural, you see!
"There will be no night meetings
this year, so Rockville and Da-
mascus will have to change their
time of meeting" says Miss Turn
er.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-08-20

ON Nv"
Sugar Loaf Mountain" said the
lecturer on the Hudson River boat.
And sure enough there it was-our
own Sugar Loaf, which we thought
we had left in Maryland! Having
read Washington Irving's tales. of
the Catskill region, we knew that
anything might happen in that
land of wizardry and strange do
ings-but our mountain!
We were treasured by the lee
turer, who said THAT, most every
state settled in colonial times had
a c5ne-shaped mountain called
Sugar Loaf" because of the re-
semblance to the loaf of sugar of
that time, when sugar came in
cones weighing about ten pounds.
was cut as needed by shears or
cutters. This sugar was reserved
for special occasions-it might last
thrifty family a year. For
everyday" use they had maple
sugar or honey.
The Hudson River has it's origin
up in the Adirondacks, 300 miles
north of New York City, and
trickles down thru pine and
spruce, gathering force and volume
on its course until it is well-de-
fined river when it reaches Albany.
Those who have Travelled in many
lands pronounce it one of the most
| romantic and picturesque rivers
they have seen-this "Rhine of
America.
Navigable for $50 miles, the
! Hudson is the only river in the
world tidal to the head of naviga-
! tion-the channel at low water is
40 feet deep at Tarrytown, and not
less than q feet at any point to
Albany. Founded by Dutch fur
traders in 1914, Albany is the old
est chartered city (1686) in the
U. SA. 1t is also the farthest in
land seaport and the gateway to
the interior and to the Great Lakes
for incoming and outgoing ocean
, freight.
BY a queer coincidence the S. S.
Alexander Hamilton, on which we
travelled, starts at 42nd Street.
just across from the spot where
Aaron Burr killed Alexander Ham
ilton in July 1904 in the last i'm
portant duel fought in America.
AS one sails up the river the
Jersey shore is on the left. with
the Palisades, fantastic cliff for
nation with coEors shading thru
yellows and reds, running along
for IL miles. On the right, or
New York side, is glimpsed the
Empire State building-the high
est in the world-102 stories, the
Chrysler building with 1.-THE
Thousand foot piers used by ocean
'iners-the Normandie on her side
like harpooned sea monster.
Riverside Park extends along
the river for about fifty blocks and
is overlooked by costly houses and
! apartments. Grants tomb beside
the water-Riverside Church with
the lsrgest carrillon in the world
and in this vicinity is Columbia
University-King's College. before
tho Revolutiona War. A little
farther up we passed under the
George Washington suspension
bridge, where in peace time the
two million candlepower beacon
flashes red and white in memory of
Will Rogers and Wiley Post.
We steamed by so many inter-
esting places-Yonkers, a large
residential and industrial city
the Philipse manor house where
lived one of the many girls said to
have refused the hand of George
Washington-Irvington, an aristo-
cratic suburb of New York-the
white stone mansion built fo~ thn
late Nine. Walker "a negress who
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-08-20

Last We heard of Miss Turner
she was busily trying to find a
place in which to have her vaca-
tion-with the nice, restful hotels
at Atlantic City taken over by the
Army or Navy, a day or two there
proved anything but restful. Solo
mons Island was disappointing.
too.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-08-20

Mrs. Philip Watkins, president
of the Homemaker's Council. has
asked all club presidents to meet
her in the Rockville office of the
Home Demonstration Agent at 2
o'clock on August 81 to plan a
membership drive, the fall meet
ing and next years program
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-08-20
AMONG THE
HOMEMAKERS

The Farm Bureau picnic was
trained out" last week, SO the date
has now been set for September
10. Same arrangements, same
place-Fry's meadow - and same
folks invited-Momemakers, All
ers-the Grange and anyone else
interested.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-08-20

Contrary to an often-expressed
opinion, we believe that the people
of the world are better today than
ever before in the history of man
kind.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-08-20

The Germans will know what an
aerial offensive is like when the
Army Air Force joins the R. A. F.
in dropping bombs.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-08-20

One can improve gr7vies by the
addition Of anv Of the fol'nw.n~-
Kitchen Bouquet. celery 9 It on;o-
silt, pa7rika, thyme, sr mixed
ravory ! RIBS.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-04

ably within four months. Nelson
has told Henderson to speed ra-
tioning plans so they may be put
into operation within a few days
after the WPB names the effec-
tive date.
The OPA's licensing order makes
a license a required condition for
the sale of meat or meat products
subject to price regulations. This
includes at present dressed hogs,
beef, veal, and lamb carcasses, and
virtually all wholesale and retail
cuts except mutton
In another move to halt alleged
violations of price orders, the OPA
filed suits in federal courts in 18
cities seeking injunctions against
100 packers allegedly engaged in
"upgrading" veal and beef to evade
price regulytiorts. An OPA at
torney in Chicago said. "the up
grading practice has become so SER
ious that we felt we should ask for
a temporary restraining order to
bring the practice to an immediate
conclusion"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-04
Two Plead Guilty
In Morals Cases
BeforeI.V. Judge
Two Defendants Ask
Probation on Counts
Involving Young Girls

Defendants in two morals
cases involving 16-year-old
girls pleaded guilty in Impe-
rial county superior court
Friday and asked for proba-
tion.
Paul Rollins, 19-year-old truck
driver, pleaded guilty to raping a
young Ell Centre girl. He will be
given a hearing on probation Sept.
18.
Finch Heron, Negro, pleaded
guilty to contributing to the de-
linqUency of a minor and to failure
to support his unborn illegitimate
child.
Il want to marry the girl" Her.
ron said at the time he entered his
plea.
II take it you want to ask for
probation said Judge r. D. Nc
Pherrin.
81 won't have to take probation
if I marry the girl, will I?" Her.
ron asked. He was informed he
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-04

In the Western desert the canopy
of American, British and South
African planes was so vast that the
luftwaffe was reported almost driv-
en- from the skies
Marshal Erwin Rommel appeared
to be falling back in the desert, try
ing to escape the terrific air and
artillery pounding and get his Of
fcnsive started again.
Reports from Cairo indicated he
was suffering considerable tank
losses-39 were known destroyed
and he had moved in some exposed
wings of his columns which had
been subjected to especially heavy
attack
The Allied air attack in the desert
was the biggest North Africa ever
had seen and it was on an expand
ing scale with each days operations
topping those of the previous day.
NOTHING DECISIVE
However, there still was no report
indicating that a decisive clash of
British and Axis armored strength
was being fought
In the Far East the story again
was one of Allied air attacks.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's bomb
ers hit four important Japanese is
land bases, supporting the U. s.
Marine forces in the Solomons. The
Marines were driving to exterminate
new japanese landing parties which
have appeared on the islands.
Farther back in China, American
bombers smashed at Japanese head
quarters in Nanchang, scoring direct
hits on japanese headquarters and
taking heavy toll of light Japa-
nese shipping. The American air
action backed up the Chinese drive
against the Japanese in Chekiang
and Kiangsi provinces.
The defenders of Stalingrad were
exhorted by the Red army news
paper to turn the cit? into "a Red
Verdun" and fight to the last breath
to save the vital industrial and
communications center from Ger
man hands.
However, military dispatches from
Moscow indicated that the Russians
were heavily outmanned and out
weighed by the powerful Nazi at
tacking force. German reports placed
the Nazi vanguard in the western
suburbs of the city and claimed that
Nazi columns on the Volga north of
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-04
Sixteen Leave for
TRAINING in Army

With Arthur J. Watson as group
leader, Is men left Ell Centro on
the 10 O'Clock train Thursday night
to be inducted into the U. S. Army,
said Charlotte Moore, newly ap-
pointed secretary of selective SER
vice board 1863.
New soldiers were Jose Ali Khan,
Weldon Rowland, Joe Gutierrez
Saturnino M. Rillo, Herman Hughes,
Julio Orosco, Alfred Spurlock, Joe
William Addison, Virgil Robertson,
Coy Miller, Louis Coburn, Alexander
Aguilar, and Juan Rentirio Con-
zales.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-04
Orders Meat
Dealer LicensinQ

WASHINGTON. Sept. 4-CUP) =
The office of price administration,
taking the first step toward full
cirectorship cf rationing meat sup
plies to civilians, today ordered the
entire meat industry from slaugh-
terhouses to wholesalers brought
under a unified licensing control.
The order, effective Sept. 8, will
place the remainder of the meat
industry on the same footing as
meat retailers, already licensed un-
der general maximum price regu-
lations. 1t is designed, the OPA
said, to prevent the evasion of ex-
isting and forthcoming price regu-
lations.
1t was learned Production Chief
Donald NJ Nelson will issue a di-
rective to Price Administrator Leon
Henderson early next week giving
him full responsibility for distrib-
uting civilian meat supplies.
The directive, it was said, will be
a forerunner to meat rationing and
will allow the OPA to prepare for
coupon distribution when the WPB
has the machinery set up-prob-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-04
Death of braw|ev
Manager of Bank
Shock TO Friends

BRAWLEY, Sept. James
Thomson, 81, manager of the Bank
of America branch in Brawley
since May of 1899, died suddenly
at his home Thursday night from a
heart attack
His sudden death came as a
shock to his family and friends as
they had not realized his condition
was critical after a recent indis-
position.
Rosary is set for I 80 Sunday eve
ming at Hopes Chapel with re-
QUEEN mass at Sacred Heart church
Monday at 9 a. m. Burial will take
place at Mt. View in San Bernar-
dino.
Thomson was a popular member
of the banking fraternity in I'M
perial Valley and was president of
the Imperial Valley branch of the
American institute of banking He
was devout Catholic, member
of the Brawley Rotary club and
chamber of commerce. and was ac-
tive in projects of charity and
community betterment. He was
born in the southwest and before
being transferred to the valley was
engaged in banking in San Bernar-
dino county.
Among his survivors are is wife,
Mrs. katherine Thomson; and
sister.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-04
Field Secretary
Now in War Zone

From Pacific Coast headquarters
in San Francisco, DR.. Claude Peters
Friday brought back the news that
Mark Tomas, Red Cross field Secre-
tar who organized the earthquake
relief in Imperial Valley in 1910,
and who has visited the local Red
Cross chapter on many occasions,
is now in Cairo, Egypt
Tomas, who is originally from
San Diego, left the United States a
few weeks ago by clipper plane as
Red Cross foreign secretary.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-04

tween 18 and Al, he added, will be
employed in the war effort by that
time.
McNutt announced creation of a
women's policy committee of IL
members to advise him in the re-
cruiting and training of women
workers. Margaret A. Hickey of st.
Louis, Mo-, vice-president of the
National Federation of Business and
Professional Women's clubs, will
head the committee.
CONSIDER QUESTIONS
McNutt said the committee will
consider questions of policy and
submit recommendations to him.
The committee also will work close
ly with the management-labor poll
cy committee of the war manpower
commission.
increasing participation of Wom-
en- in our all-out war production eff
fort is essential to its success" Nc
Mutt said. War production alone
emploTed about 100000 women last
December. This figure will jump to
4,500,000 by December, 1912, and
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-04
Scrap
Drive
Sno9s
Nelson Foresees
Drop in Ste eI
Production Soon

WASHINGTON, Sept. d..
(UP)-War Production Chief
Donald M. Nelson and army
and industry representatives
today foresaw a dangerous
curtailment of steel production with
in the next few months unless the
collection of scrap to feed furnaces
is accelerated considerably.
Declaring that the collection of
scrap metal has begged down, Mel
son appealed to a group of about
200 newspaper publishers and edit
orS to help convince every family
OF the Importance of donating scrap
metal to the current nationwide
salvage drive
Nelson said frankly that the Unit
ed States is mot doing a very good
job at winning the war yet" so far
as production is conce med. He
added that today the junk situa-
ton is as important as any single
problem in the country" The scrap
must be moved to furnaces before
the snow flies" if it is to be most
effective, he said.
EXPLAINS CAMPAIGN
After listening to Nelson and
other officials, the publishers heard
Henry Doorly, president Of the Oma-
ha (Neb) World Herald, and j. M.
Harding, assistant to Doorly, explain
how the newspapers campaign had
produced nearly 10000 tons of scrap
in Nebraska during three weeks.
Walter M. Dear. of the Jersey
Journal, Jersey CITY, N. j., president
of the American Newspaper Publish
ers association, accepted the "chal-
lenge" from Nelson on behalf of
the newspapers and asked all the
newspaper representatives in the
auditorium to accept it.
All of the newspapermen raised
their hands in agreeing to carry out
the program to help salvage scrap
in their communities.
Dear said that he would appoint
a representative committee to work
on the plan which was presented
by the Omaha World Herald.
Lieut.. Gen. Brehon Somervell.
commanding general of the army's
services of supply, echoed Nelson's
plea.
I'VE haven't won the war yet and
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-04
ALLIES SHOW SUPERIORITY IN AIR WAR
laps Jittery

CHUNGKING, Sept. 4 UP)
- Jittery Japanese stationed
at the Lrnging garrison on the
Burma Yunnan border defeated
herd of buffaIoes but lost a
duel to the Chinese the next
evening, it was reported today.
Hearing suspicious noises in
the jungles, the Japs opened
artillery bombardment but the
next morning found they had
wasted their shells on a herd
of wild buffalo.
The next night, the japanese
paid no attention when similar
noises we're heard.
This time the buffaloes turn
edOut to be Chinese guerillas
who raided the garrison and
killed more than 100 Japanese.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-04


Friday. Mrs. Westerfield received
a grand total of 2,875 votes and
Mayfield 2,700.
TO RUN AGAIN
In the county's next biggest bat
tie, T. M. Adams received 142 votes
and Jim Wagner, the write-in can
didate, 115 votes for justice of the
peace at Winterhaven The two
candidates will run against each
other in the November general cleo
ton. The two eliminated from the
race were Frank Preston, 113 votes,
and Thomas Kilian, 94 votes.
L. w. Porter, 100 votes, and w. L.
Wallace, l08 votes, will run for con-
stable in Winterhaven at the No
vember election. C. C. Foster re-
ceived 70 votes for constable, John
Ruiz SIS, Dave C. Harris As, Sidney
Duke "a, and w. H. Ray 20.
Attorney General Earl Warren
received 1861 Democratic votes for
governor and 2,27l Republican votes,
Governor Olson received 1878 Dem
ocratic votes, running on only one
ticket.
Mark Rose, candidate for con-
gresham, received l,945 Democratic
votes and Oil Republican votes.
John Phillips received 374 Demo-
cratic votes and 945 Republican
votes
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-04
breaks down, Reuther charged.

breaks down, Reuther charged.
He said Great Britain at the close
of the last war proposed that the
Allies continue wartime controls of
raw materials to prevent rearming
IF 1t had been put into effect,
German war power would not now
be what it is," Leith said. "Only one
attempt was made under the cove
nant of the League of Nations to
apply economic sanctions-to Italy
In the Ethiopian war The result
was a failure because the attempt
was badly planned and half-heart-
edly applied ...
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-04

red with Farouk for as minutes.
Willkie yesterday conferred with
Egyptian Premier MuStafa NahaS
Pasha and visited U. S. army troops
based near Cairo.
Here on a special mission which
will take him to Moscow and Chung
king, Willkie was asked yesterday
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-04

Sion OF the war prOduCtion board,
addressed round table at the In
ternational Student Assembly here.
Reuther accused the Ford Motor
Co., the Chrysler Corp, and General
Motors Corp. of holding out for cer-
tain individual privileges in their
war production and In that way
hampering an an-out war effort.
He said that while all automobile
manufacturers now build the same
kind of tanks, each has insisted that
his company's motors go into the
tanks 1t builds. Because of this sys-
tenn, repairs are complicated in three
different ways whenever a tank
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-04
Gun Battle RACES
In Belfast Streets

BELFAST, Sept. 4-tUP)-Police
fought a gun battle on Lesson
street in Belfast just before dusk,
wounding one man during a spor-
adic outbreak of Ira violence.
The Leeson street battle started
when gunmen opened fire on the
police car. The police fired back,
wounding one of their assailants.
This battle followed an attack by
IRA guerillas on a police barracks
on the northern Ireland border,