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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-04-23
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SPRING AT, THE WHITE HOUSE


Outside the White House fence
march soldiers with fixed bayonets.
But inside the tall, iron fence, defy
ing the changes wrought by war,
is the perennial TRANSPORTATION of
spring.
The grass is soft green, and the
beds of pansies and jonquils have
burst into bloom in colorful bril-
lance. The Towering shrubs and
trees were never lovelier-the mag
nolias, japonica, and forsythia.
On the Pennsylvania avenue side,
the magnolias are making a gor-
geous showing, supported by the
forsythia and japonica bushes, all
at their best. The same three faith
fuls are on display near the fountain
in the South garden. These are the
two best show places in the White
House grounds.
The only scar in the scene is
the construction work on the East
grounds, where sewers and conduits
are being laid for what is officially
described as 'remodeling opera
ton"
The colors seen best by the Presi-
dent from his desk are those of the
jonquils and pansies in the rose gar
den just outside his office window.
There is a touch of irony in the
fact that some of the best color is
Nipponese in origin-the japanese
magnolias, and the japonicas, which
are otherwise known as Japanese
ounce.
-Ruv nefenSa RnndS-
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-04-23

ball players carry away too many
kinks in shoulder, knee Or ankle
to be good ball players. And too
many are also muscle-bound."
With Ceorgia's Best
Chandler was star back and a
star kicker at Georgia around 10
years ago. He went north with three
Georgia teams that beat good Yale
teams three years in a row. His
Georgia teams also made it two out
of three from N.Y.U. when Chick
Meehan had the Violet at violent
tide. Those were among the best
teams Georgia ever turned out.
81 was lucky" Spud said. IT was
never hurt although we played tough
schedules every year. I didn't take
any battering that ever cracked a
ligament or strained a muscle"
Now at the age of 80 it would not
be any too surprising to see Chand-
Ter stepping into his best season.
Last season, although pitching well,
he dropped his first four starts. Then
he won his next ten straight.
The Georgian, now living at Moul-
trie, has husky son who is just
nine months old.
Laughing, he wakes me every
morning at six O'clock" Spud says.
''He laughs all the time"
Which shows in these times what
wonderful thing it must be to be
nine months old.
After the football-baseball argu-
ment had subsidized, someone opened
another debate, namely, what is the
easiest job to handle on a ball club?
Bill Dickey picked right field. AT
which point some indignant right
fielder named catching. Words flew
in various directions until the final
verdict pointed directly at third
base.
Mel OFT, who has played many
jobs, voted for third. So did Jimmy
F'oxx who has also caught, played
first and third. Their angle was that
at third you either door you don't.
It's either hit-or an out.
"The toughest play a third base
man has to make is handling a
swinging bunt," Bill Dickey said.
"But there are not so many of those.
And, when they come off they are
generally hits, anyway"
The Rebuttal
This final decision failed to lift anv
cheers out of the third basemen ir
sight.
"a third baseman has to be set
for the two Opposites," one of them
said. either smoke ball or a
bunt. The majority of those balls
driven down our way leave tail of
fire behind. They are moving in a
hurry. And we have to move in a
hurry to kill off the hit.
cat the same time we have to
be ready to come in fast on hunts
or slow-hit balls. We haven't the
time shortstop or second base
man has. And we have longer
throw to make-a throw that often
has to be made in hurry"
In that football-baseball debate we
overlooked Eddie Collins, a good
quarterback at Columbia before he
went to the Athletics.
But such crack football players as
Sammy Baugh, Ernie Nevers, Har-
ry Hopp, Jim Thorpe, Dixie Howell
and many others couldn't make tie
grade. They couldn't hit.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-04-23

Lnen arm your
self with a few
str a w b berries, a
bit of sugar, an
egg beater, and
old faithful, the
refrigerator, and
in no time at all
you will have a
perfect dessert
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-04-23

party-mannered one, so cherish it
as you would an heirloom: /;
Strawberry Sauce.
1 quart strawberries
Powdered sugar to taste
Grated rind of one orange
Few drops Of lime juice
tablespoons currant jelly
cup whipping cream
Stem and wash strawberries. Slice
them and sweeten to taste with pow
dered sugar. Sprinkle grated rind
and lime juice over berries, and
stir in the currant jelly beaten with
a fork. Beat the cream and fold it
in carefully to the strawberry mix
ture. Serve over ice cream or cold
pudding.
Then there's shortcake! Nothing
is so good as slivered or crushed
strawberries spooned between hot
biscuits, slit and buttered:
strawberry Shortcake.
(Serves 81
2 cups -four
l tablespoon sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
% cup milk
- teaspoon salt
tablespoons fat
Mix and sift dry ingredients. Cut
fat into mixture, using two knives.
Add milk gradually to make a soft
dough. Toss on Toured board, pat
lightly to A-inch thickness. Cut with
biscuit cutter and bake on I'M
buttered pan in a hot (425-degree)
oven for IL minutes until a light,
golden brown. Split, butter and fill
with crushed or slivered, sweetened
fruit: Replace top and spoon more
fruit on top. Be sure that you let
the sugar stand on the fruit for a
half an hour or so before using.
Baked Spareribs.
(Serves g.
Place to 4 pounds of spareribs
in a roasting pan. Pour over the
following sauce and bake at 300 de-
grees for 2 to 8 hours, basting &C.
casionally with the sauce.
Sauce: Combine II cup soy sauce,
"a cup honey, level teaspoon pre-
pared mustard, and l finely chopped
onion.
*SteWed Tomatoes.
(ServeS g.
1 can tomatoes mo. 2 CAM
l tablespoon butter
Salt and pepper
II teaspoon sugar
slice bread, cubed
Heat tomatoes, add salt, pepper.
butter and sugar Fold in cubed
bread and as soon as all is heated
thoroughly, serve Immediately in
small sauce dishes. Cracker crumbs
may be used in place of bread
crumbs.
II you would like additional informa.
ton on any of the recipes in this column,
or haze any problems on volich you ,oant
expert aduice, turtle to Lynn Chambers,
Western Newspaper Union, 2l0 South
DespIaines Street, Chicago. Illinois. Please
enclose a stamped, self.addressed envelope
for your reply.
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Notes of an
Innocent Bystander:


Innocent Bystander:
The Story TeIlers: Because of
wartime economic difficulties, some
mags have ceased publishing. One
of the regrettable casualties is The
Living Age The Nations In
The Wind Dept is its zippiest fea-
ture World Digest reports there
are five thousand press agents in
America And twice as many
wastebaskets, thank goodness !.
Back in June 1881, Gen'l Macarthur
wrote a piece for vets mag sug-
costing a draft of million men for
army training. Naturally, nobody
listened. Hoover was President i. =.
VIM. B.. lifts new book, due in June,
is called "The Coming Battle of
Germany" We hear it is dynamite,
designed to tumble an avalanche
of brass-hat thinking. Duell, Sloan
and Pearce will publish. Ziff is
the one responsible for the re-
instatement of the late Billy Mitchell
"The Murder That Rocked
Broadway" (the Arnold Rothstein
affairJ in the current True Detective
is our favorite murder story.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-04-23
Scrambled Eggs:

No matter how little you have
you're rich if you envy nobody E.
The Indians who sold Manhattan for
$21 weren't such goons. 1t didden
belong to them! The island had to
be bought back again from the real
owners If owned the paper
I'd tell my editorialists, colyumists
and staff: Before you write any,
thing always ask yourself the ques-
tion-'Will it be anything Hirohito,
Hitler and Benito would enjoy read
ing?" Or hearing? A
scholar tells me that the style Time
uses in part isn't SO modernist-
ic. That some of Times literary
acrobatricks are patterned after
Homer's "Iliad"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-04-23

berries DOT Ine
markets in this
; spring unto sum-
mer season. For
the Tilt that it
gives to foods in
which you use it,
for the harmony
with which it
h;roc Wi =
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-04-23
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HULL AND ,VINCHELL

Cordel Hull, dignified, austere
secretary of state, sat gazing out
over the Atlantic ocean recently
from Miami Beach cabana ada
cent to the cabana of turbulent,
Broadway news-sleuth Walter Win
chell.
For two months Mr.. Hull has
been absent from Washington; there
has been speculation whether he
would return. So news-sleuth Win
chell put the question bluntly to his
cabana neighbour:
"Mr. Secretary, are you going
back to work."
The secretary of state replied in
the affirmative. He said that after
he had had sufficient rest in the
South, he was going back to work.
Note--One of Winchells friends
reproached him for putting such a
blunt question to Mr.. Hull. Replied
Winchell: GIVE gotta ask questions.
That's my racket"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-04-23
HOME FRONT FLASHES

Donald Nelson's appointment of a
co-ordinator to boss the rubber in
dustry is the first of a number OF
similar industry rulers. Others
slated to be named will be CO.
ordinators for textiles, food, aircraft,
metals, ores.
Attention draft registrants! You
can write it down as certain that
congress will enact allotment legis-
lation providing government aid for
dependents. That means those ex-
empted on dependent grounds will
be reclassifed.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-04-23

The friends who are most deserv-
ing of your favors are those who
were your friends before you were
in a position to do them any =.
Nobody's ever perfectly content.
The poor man is often bored, the
rich man blase.
Next time anyone complains about
cuffless trousers remind him that
they don't wear 'em in the Army
and Navy, either The only ac-
tual talent possessed by many celeb
rites is the knack of getting their
names in the papers If the late
William Rhodes Davis, the oil pro-
moter Che tried to interest the State
Dept in peace with Hitler) we're
alive-Would he be in the headlines?
Whatever became of Verne
Marshall, the Cedar Rapids editor,
who said Davis was his hacker in
''The No Foreign War Committee"
gag? One report had him in sani-
fundamentally upset, etc.
Joan Edwards says that what the
country needs most right now to win
the war is blockade around Japan
and fewer blOckheads around Wash
ingtOn il. Comes the real blackout
what happens to guys carrying
torches? Nifty crack by a
draftee: "Well, s. long. Any mes
sages for Macarthur" What
we need, too, are more editors like
Jack Carley of the Memphis Com
mercial-Appeal. The way he laid it
on that Chattanooga Coo-Coo, who
patterned himself after Hitler .
Boy, how they are being dealt with.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-04-23
Strawberry Doings

Once again this red, bright berry
is coming into its own, as straw
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-04-23
This Weeks Menu
Baked Spareribs
Drowned Potatoes
*Stewed Tomatoes
Lettuce Salad with
French Dressing
Bread and Butter Beverage
strawberry Shortcake
*Recipes Given.
This Weeks Menu
Strawberry Mousse.
(ServeS g.

Strawberry Mousse.
(ServeS g.
~ cups crushed strawberries
cup thick cream, whipped
2 egg whites, well beaten
Pinch of salt
u cup sugar
Combine sugar and crushed fruit
and stir until sugar is dissolved.
Fold sweetened fruit into the
whipped cream. Fold salt into
beaten egg whites and mix with
fruit and cream. Pour into a re-
frigerator tray or mold for freezing
until firm.
No roundup of strawberry reel
pes is complete without a sauce to
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-04-23

A notorious Sixth Colyumist
argues that writers who pen
malicious things about women
in public life deserve to be shot
What a fraud! That from
the AmericOunterfeit, who has
made a career out of malice.
He has written dozens of dis
honest pieces about persons in
public life, including Mrs. ROose-
welt, whose politics his boss OPP
poses. Like shady lady, he can
be hired for an hour or a week
end. Every one of his attacks
on Axis enemies in the U. S. is
repeated over the short-wave
circuits from Berlin, Rome and
Tokyo If he had any intel
lectual honesty-he'd shoot him
self.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-04-23

for lunch or dinner or afternoon
refreShnnent. y
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-04-23

The Editorial of the Week: (From
the Memphis Commercial-AppeaD:
"Sedition laws need immediate re-
examination for the purpose of CIV
ing them teeth. There is desper-
ately needed policy of government
which will lump all traitors, sedi-
tionists, and subverters, whatever
their citizenship status, into one
category j.. In total war where
internal attack is chief technique
we cannot expect survival from the
incongruous and piddling policies
the Government now follows in deal
ing with those who seek its defeat
or overthrow George Chris
tians (of Chattanooga a crackpot
and a fool? Once they said that of
the Nazi paperhanger, who has en-
gineered the greatest revolution and
bloodiest conflict in all history
Let's swap the kid gloves for a
pair of brass knuckles!"
The Front Pages: Editor & Pub
isher's thumbnail editorial: ''If
it's anything we can't print, you
shouldn't be talking about i'll"
Newsmen who used to see convicted
Nazi agent Viereck in Washington
say that he acted as though he were
above and beyond arrest, that he
rated himself invulnerable.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-04-23

crown that dish
of ice-crean or
that cool vanilla
pudding which
you m a d e this
morning. This
one will really
turn your simple
dessert into a
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-12
Home Guard Officers
Leave For Training

Three officers and Is non-com-
missioned officers of the First
company of the State Guard here
will leave today for a weeks in
tensive training at Henderson as a
part of the summer training pro-
gram of the State Guard
Colonel ]. w. jenkins of the first
regiment of the guard will be in
charge of the encampment. Reg
ular Army instructors will con-
duct classes in rifle and machine
gun drill, tactics, riot duties, and
other military subjects.
Making the trip will be Capt.
George L. Cain. First Lieut.. Leo
E. Sykes and Second Lieut.. D. B.
Upchurch, and the non-commis-
stoned officers. They will conduct
classes for the enlisted men of
the First company upon their re-
turn.
The company now has 47 men,
bers out of an allotted so. Volun-
teers. men between the ages Of 18
and 45 who are not in IA classi-
fications. should report to Lieut..
Upchurch at the Wilmington Light
Infantry armory on Market street.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-12
ARMY TO EXPAND
WAAC PROGRAM
v;u Boost Facilities At Des
Moines To Train About
1000 Women

nEs MONIES, Iowa, July IL
70, Don c. Faith announced
.oaov the Army is negotiating for
three Des Moines hotels and three
,,,.,di,os at Drake university here
~ move to expand greatly the
training program of the w0men's
Army Auxiliary corps
The commander of the WAAC
+rai.,ina school at Fort Des Moines
Ca;d tGtIlttrs the Army had decided to ac-
oo1arste oaIa ate the training program and
','a'Il5 CI+T boost facilities so 1000 wom-
W. ~'pIr 1lav he trained at one time in
~ -4aad l['' If t5e 1000 maximum ca
nactv originally planned.
PST, me- first WAAC officers and a
hosir Group of auxiliaries 77O
,ronnen in all-will report for duty
July 20.
nils for training and housing S.
ooo women on the Army post in
Stead Sv of 1000, while 200 more
viii be trained in specialist schoc' ;
IN be established in the downtown
hotels and university buildings.
The Savery, one of Des Moines'
hotels. the Chamberlain and tn e
plaza are the three to be taken
over under the pending negotia-
tions. The women attending the
specialist courses at the hotels
also will be housed there.
Officers, basic auxiliaries, (pri-
vates) and cooks and mess ser.
geants will be trained at the Army
post. Specialist schools to be
housed elsewhere will include ad-
ministration, chauffeurs, and COM
munications. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-12
that's why so many people will
miss Sam Mcdonald.
CONSTRUCTION OFFICER

Lieutenant ,jg) W. R. Wray will
be at the Wilmington Navy Re-
cruiting office again today to in
terview men who are qualified in
any type of construction.
Many men made application
here yesterday for petty officers
ratings, and those men will be en-
listed in the Naval Reserve within
a few das.
Most of the men who are ac-
cepted for enlistment are placed
on inactive duty for about two
weeks before they are called to
duty. Ratings available for con-
struction men run up to Chief Pet
ty Officer, with pay up to $126 per
month plus allowances for depend
ents.
Every man who is qualified in
construction, and who is interested
in the Naval service, should ar
range to see Lieut.. Wray today.
The local recruiting station. is To-
Gated on the second floor of the
postoffice on the second floor of the
YEOMEN, YEOMEN
Prosperity is coming back for
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-12
Navy
Notes
BY JESSE HELMS
Sp. Lc. (R) U.S.N.R.

Editors Note: Sam McDon-
aid, former sports editor of
The Raleigh News and Observ-
er and native Of Wilmington,
was killed Wednesday after
noon in the crash of a huge
Army bomber at Smithfield.
Six other soldiers were killed
in the crash. Jesse Helms of
the local Naval Recruiting Sta
tion worked with Mcdonald in
the sports department of The
News and Observer before
joining the Navy about the
first of the year, while Nc
Donald was drafted in Feb
ruary.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-12

in every state in the Union, is
undertaking to make new
fliend'' annually for each local
society ia fellowship with some
group of different background in
the local community. Also each
individual in each local society
is ''to make at least one friend
annually in another group, seeking
to know and understand that per
son and his background, and by
exchange of experience draw
closer together in facing the COM
mon task of Kingdom building"
According to the Moderator of the
Church of Scotland Presbyterian
German air raids on Scotland have
damaged beyond use until later re-
paired 80 churches, manses ana
church houses; and also damaged
Ais structures less seriously. He
reports that three Scottish clergy
men have lost their lives in the
war and nine have been made pri-
soners.
DR.. Gorden Seagrave, mission
ary-surgeon, ans DR.. Brayton Case,
an agricultural teacher-tWo of the
outstanding missionaries of the
American Baptist Foreign Mission
ary Society in Burma-have re-
ceived distinguished mention from
the Orient because of their serv-
ice to the Burmese people and to
the British Chinese army during
the days when Japan's soldiers
were pushing their way into Bur-
ma. Word now comes that DR.. Sea-
grave, after trekking to India with
General Stilwell, will establish
new hospital for wounded soldiers
and for civilian refugees in AS
sem; while DR.. Case will remain
in India and offer his expert serv-
ices as an agricultural missionary
and teacher to the people in that
land. A number of other British
nurses and doctors, American and
Burmese, will become staff mem
bers of DR.. Seagrave's new hos
pital.
The Iglesia Evangelical Perkins
Memorial in Coatepequa, Guate-
mala, is celebrating its twenty
first anniversary It all started
years ago when Miss Perkins
Sunday school class of boys in tho
Covenant Presbyterian church.
Erie, Penn, became interested in
two evangelical families in this
little Central American community
The group that met in home for
worship began to grow; funds
sent by the boys enabled them to
buy lot, lay the foundations and
the cornerstone, and secure sheet
iron for a roof; the rest of the ma
terial and labor they provided
themselves. Today the church is
self-supporting, has fine building
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-12
SAM MCDONALD

When war comes storming onto
would-be peaceful people, reali-
ty somehow drags far behind until
it forces itself into prominence
with a shockingly horrible occur
renee. Then, war is no longer an
unwelcome vision, but something
that we're all in-and all must
strive to conclude.
I've seen the bodies Of many
men who were killed in this war.
I've seen the saddened faces of
mothers who had lost their sons.
But, until this week, those tear
stained faces had not found a per-
manent place in my mind.
But, Sam McDonald's death
brings back with a rush all the
incidents that were momentarily
forgotten. Sam Mcdonald, some
how, wasn't the kind of boy you
could imagine being dead-and
even now, as he lies in rest it
still doesn't seem possible.
Sam was born here in Whining
ton % years ago, and while he
moved westward to Sanford and
later to Raleigh, he still had host
of friends here. He was just that
kind of boy, dead serious with de-
termination, but yet with a heart
just as alive and warm as young
fellows could be.
And, when that huge bomber
crashed during an electrical storm
at Smithfield last Wednesday
night, the toll cost me my best
friend.
Sans friendship wasn't the kind
you could lay on shelf and call
upon when you needed it. And,
McMilIan's NOMOPPIN cures sorehead
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-12
he poor old male secretaries.

the poor old male secretaries.
The Naval Reserve now has a
few openings for yeomen, whose CT
william brethren are men wfp can
type and take shorthand.
Immediately after the war, hun
dreds of men in North Carolina
were enlisted as yeomen, to do
clerical work in the Navy. It
wasn't so long before the Bureau
of Navigation decided that the
quota in that field was fil1cd-so
the secretaries had to choose an
other field of endeavor in the serv-
ice.
But, now there are more yeo-
man places open-for a few days
and men may apply for a petty Of
ficer's rating in that line at the
local Navy recruiting station.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-12
and manse, a Quatemalan pastor,
and a flourishing congregation.


and flourishing congregation.
The evacuation of Japanese citi-
zens and aliens on the West Coast
of the United States has violated
christian principles of racial non
discrimination and respect, of
justice and fair play, according to
resolution sent to President
Roosevelt and the governors of
seven western states by the Am
erican Baptist Foreign Mission
ary Society ano the Woman's Am
erican Baptist Foreign Mission
Society. Many of the evacuees vera
members of Baptist churches. The
denomination recently voted $50,
900 for years Christian ministry
among the evacuees.
Answering the question, care
college students religious?", Secre
tary R. H. Edwin Espey of the
Student Volunteer Movement, said
recently: 1.-THE students themselves
are clearly more receptive to re
Egious influence than was the case
ten years ago. They do not display
their concern in demonstrative
ways, and they are openly hostile
to sham and undue sentimentality.
Many even shy away from the nor
NAL outward expression of relig
ious life, including attendance at
church. But there is probably less
of scorn and more of openminded-
mes sthan at any time since the
first World War. Thousands of STU
dents are not only willing but
eager to hear a Christian message
that is both genuine in spirit and
practical in relation to problems
that are real to them. They ara
seeking religion that is intellectual!
ly tenable, socially relevant, and
personally dynamic.''