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Evening star., 1944-07-25
THERE'S A WAR on"
Thanks to Mrs. W. W. S.
Wdshinhf0n

have been out of the city nearly
three weeks and so missed Mrs. B.
r. C.'s letter, but returned in time
to read Mrs. F. B. Ms retort.
I note the latter remarks that
Mrs. B. r. G. is only one OF q mil
lion mothers Of servicemen-well,
does F. B. M. realize that she Is
only one of thousands Of public
servants and that she cannot judge
the service that others give? My in
terest is aroused when I read her
words, as to what amount Of civility
she would show. doubt that she
experiences discourtesy from one
in ten thousand and, II so, she prob
ably arouses 1t.
Why is there so much impatience
fairly safe In saying that Ia cor
dial sort--could deal with 10 clerks,
in my best style, and receive not one
smile or a thank you." In fact. any
pleasantly is treated with indiffer-
>ence or shock.
One of our finest stores insists on
"thank you's" and asks that clerks
express fitting remark in parting.
That has a personal touch and it Is
nice to deal there. Almost every
where else there have been few ex-
ceptions when clerks did not dis
pose of my purchase with wordless
impatience and superiority.
I know they cannot waste time
with talk, but smiles and decent
treatment do not take time. No
wonder that sour souls grow out of
sober faces. THE WORLD NEEDS
SMILES!
X
BUDGETING PROBLEM.
(Thanks to Mrs. E. B., Washington
In answer to the plea of Mrs.
j. E. S. of Washington for advice
on her budget:
Having had nine years of expert
ence dealing with men and women
in all walks of life, I have come to
the conclusion that the man or
woman who is well fed has the best
chance to make good in the business
world. Many a man would have
Evening star., 1944-07-25

loved them? Or did she follow the
time-honored tactics of husband
hunters and stalk her victim until
she caught him?.
We pause for q reply.
Evening star., 1944-07-25
Readers Clearing House

squeezed. Scoop out the inside and
mash with butter and enough cream
to make . fluffy consistency. Add
" teaspoon minced thyme, y tea
spoon chervil Tor parsley, " tea
spoon chives and bit Of sage. Salt
and pepper to taste, mix well and re-
f1ll potatoes, but do not pack tightly.
Reheat In slow oven. A little
paprika may be sprinkled over the
tops.
Pot cheese with herbs: / pound
cottage cheese, ! teaspoon minced
chiveS, salt and pepper to taste, q
little paprika, tablespoons cream,
! teaspoon olive oil, l small sprig
each of marjoram, basil, thyme and
sage. Mix all ingredients well and
put in q covered dish and let stand
for at least an hour before using.
Sage biscuits: Add u teaspoon of
powdered sage uresh sage can be
used, minceO to your favorite recipe
for biscuits. Bake and split them
and top with creamed chicken.
May I add two very helpful and
interesting books on herbs? I'm sure
you will enjoy Irma Mazza's Herbs
for the Kitchen" and also Rosetta
Clarksons Herbs, Their Culture
and Uses"
II Mrs. L. A. S. will contact me,
Ordway 1882, we might be able to
exchange some herbs.
CORRECTION.
Due to typographical error, the
amount of gelatin called for in the
recipe for Black Bottom Pie"
which appeared in the column on
Wednesday. July 10, was given as -
tablespoons This should have
read Il tablespoon. We regret the
mistake.
Editors note-Thank you,
Mrs. d. S. H., for calling this
to our attention.)
FOR WEARY WAITING"
Thanks to Mrs II. w. c.,
Washington.)
If it is not too late, I should like
to add another thought in the hope
that 1t will give boost to Weary
Waiting" can sympathize from
the heart because my 3-year-old son
and I have been wearily waiting for
over year for my Navy husband to
come home
My house, garden and child keep
me busy and in a way the time has
gone rapidly. However, in addi-
ton to keeping busy, I find that
controlled thinking is necessary in
order to keep the blues away. Don
see too many war movies, and If
possible have some outside interest
such as active membership in some
church organization Ito which the
baby can often be taken or left in a
nursery.
Mrs. J. D. may feel, as have
often, that life is rather dull and
futile since she does little else but
keep house and care for her baby.
I have felt better about this since a
recent letter from my husband in
which he said. Il am very proud
that you are able to keep our home
running efficiently; Just consider
that your part in the war effort
and keep your spirits up"
Perhaps we are contributing more
than We realize toward morale, as
certainly every husband wants to
feel that he has home intact watt
ing for him to come back to. Let
ter-writing takes up a lot Of. time,
too, and that Is also a morale
builder.
II Mrs. j. D. is interested In the
Mothers Circle I belong to. she
might phone me at Ordway ESQ.
Evening star., 1944-07-25
FLAKY PIE CRUST.
Thanks to Mrs. P. II. H..

Cheperly.)
The secret Of many little layers"
in the pie crust Is this: Pat layers Of
air into it by folding the crust over
several times and patting or press.
ing 1t together before rolling out.
OF course, the first requisite Is .
dough with just as little cold water
as is necessary to hold it together
and the least possible working.
I am a new reader Of your column
but am enjoying 1t every day since
became acquainted with it.
Evening star., 1944-07-25
THANKS to Mrs. D. H. G.,

W uS7IIHVEOH.I
This Is an unusual but wonderful
recipe and never fails. Three cups
flour (unsifted before measuring
IA teaspoons salt, ia cups short
ening, large egg, 2 tablespoons
vinegar, l tablespoon cold water.
Sift flour and salt and cut in short
ening. Beat egg and mix with vine
gar and water. Mix this liquid with
-four and shortening. Makes
enough for two double crust pies.
Can be stored in refrigerator. 1t is
almost necessary to use a canvas
pastry board cover and a cover for
rolling pin for best results. They
c"n be purchased for $10O.
The CIO news., 1944-10-09
just What
Has Dewey
Done?

Did Mr.. Dewey do anything tc
secure the abolition of the nefari.
Gus poll tax? 1t Is not known that
he did.
Did he use his influence, whatso-
ever It might be, on his party men,
bers In Congress to obtain price
control legislation? 1t is not known
that he did.
Did he advise his party men,
bers in Congress to oppose the un-
just tax bill which President
Roosevelt had the courage to veto +?
1t Is not known that he did.
Did he advise his party members
In Congress to support liberal re-
conversion bill, like the Kilgore
bill, as against emasculated George
bill? He did not.
Did Mr.. Dewey ever express him
self in favor of a single war meas
ure Of President Roosevelt when
the isolationists were doing their
best to defeat them? He did not.
Did Dewey, prior to his recent
speeches ever commend a single
achievement or feature of the New
Deal? He did not.
Therefore, what claims has this
politician upon the serious consid-
Grafton Of the candid voter for the
great Office Of President Of the
United States?
The COP at Chicago gave you
Thomas E. Dewey to vote against.
The CIO news., 1944-10-09
SOMETHING TO VOTE AGAINST

Are you of those who against something not for
something? Very WELL You have plenty November to vote
against:
Inexperlence in the person Of Thomas E. Dewey. Being
governor of a state the thing being Pres
dent of the United States.
q Isoationsm in the person of Thomas Dewey The iso
lationists will for him.
Opposition the Soldier Vote in the person Of Thomas
E. Dewey. He afraid of the whose lives stalk
ed the earliest possible conclusion of the In Victory
Pretensions to the acceptance Of the New Deal in the
person of Thomas E. Dewey Until lately he its better
foe
Opposition to Lend Lease which saved England Russia
and China from Naz conquest--and U.S.A. in conse-
quence.
o. Want Of Integrity in the person Of Thomas E. Dewey
who has filed his speeches with misrepresentation of the
Roosevelt Administration and with downright prevarica-
tions.
IncOmpetency In the person Of Thomas E. Dewey, who
has dared to base his claims the presidency his
accomplishments governor.
Unseemly b0astfulness about "house cleaning and Elm
tegrity In the White House" and youthful Vigor" and
dding the government of bureaucrats etc., ETC., in the
person Of this little Napoleon of Politics
Hooversm eincaraed in the person of Thomas E Dewey
Harding, Coolidge, Hoover-woud that be series of
Presidents to be proud Of?
The CIO news., 1944-10-09
OUR AIM

LABOR MOVEMENT THAT SHALL HAVE
POWER AND EFFECTIVENESS, VISION AND
UNDERSTANDING, DEVOTION TO ITS HIGH
PURPOSES AND COURAGE TO ACHIEVE THEM.
A LABOR MOVEMENT THAT SHALL BE PRO-
GRESSIVE IN ITS POLICIES, VIGILANT OF ITS
RIGHTS, SCRUPULOUSLY RESPECTING ITS
DUTIES, APPRECIATIVE OF ITS OPPORTUNI-
TIES. A LABOR MOVEMENT POSSESSING LIFE,
ENERGY, AND DETERMINATION.
Evening star., 1944-04-26
Methodisfs Observe
200 Anniversary at
Kansas City Session
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, April 26.-The
Methodist Quadrennial Conference
lawmaking body for 5000, 900 ad-
herents, convened here today in
celebration of the 200th anniversary
of the church's first conference and
to chart a course for the future.
Church historians recalled that
the first conference, called by John
Wesley in June, 1744, was held in an
old factory and was attended by only
ten delegates, six ministers of the
Church of England who had en-
braced Methodist doctrine and four
lay preachers.
Bishop H. Lester Smith of Gin
cinnati presided over today's open
ing session at which Bishop Her
bert Welch, retired, New York, con-
Quoted communion service for the
1852 delegates, who then plunged
Evening star., 1944-04-26
REA ConsuItant Raps
Private Utility Aims
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Judson King, consultant to Harry
Slattery, rural electrification admin
istrator, told Senate Agriculture
Subcommittee yesterday that the
REA could be twice as large "if it
were not for the private power in
terests trying to hamstring it."
He said there could be $500 to
1900 local REA co-operatives in
stead of 800, "but for the opposition
of private utilities and we're going
to have big battle with them after
this war;
Even though the REA has en-
tered a field which the private utili-
ties would not touch before, now
the private interests are in there
building spite lines and trying to get
State laws passed adverse to REA,'
Mr.. King testified.
He suggested that the REA be
transferred from the Agriculture De-
partment back to the status of an
independent agency where it can
carry on free and unhampered from
people who don't know anything
about It,"
Evening star., 1944-04-26
Southern Catholics Begin
Study Of Areas Problems
1y the Associated Press.

4y the Associate Press
MEMPHIS, April 26.-Ihe Catholic
Committee of the South entered into
a study of the regions economic
and social problems today after
hearing high church leader say
that in the new South "romanticisn
has been driven out by sane realism. ;"
The Most Rev. Samuel A. Stritch,
Archbishop Of Chicago, told the fifth
annual convention last night that
realistic Southerners no longer re-
fuse to recognize low standards of
living, racial problems and UNEQUAL
economic opportunities.
The Catholic Committee presented
to DR.. Howard w. Odum, Kenan
professor of sociology at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina, its annual
award "for significant contribution
to the welfare and progress of the
South"
Mr.. Odum was honored for his
book, Southern Regions of the
United States"
Evening star., 1944-04-26

into the work Of appointing COM
mittee chairmen and organizing the
conference for the business which is
expected to keep it in session until
May 7.
Reviewing the church's growth,
statisticians declared unomcially
that in addition to its active mem.
bership of 100000. there are H.
100000 others who lean toward its
doctrine but have not joined. One
person out of seven in the United
States, they explained, writes Meth
odist" when asked his church pref
erence.
The most important business Of
the day will be voluminous report
of the council of 81 bishops, pre-
sented by Bishop Arthur J. Moore
of Atlanta. 1t will deal with achieve
ments and failures since the last
conference four years ago, and offer
recommendations for the future.
Evening star., 1944-04-26
Maj. Gen. H. c. Hale, g.
Reported Seriously Iii.
BY the Assoclated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Maj. Gen. Harry c. Hale, 80, U.
s. A.. retired. who served in the
Sioux campaign in the Dos and in
the Philippines during the Spanish
War and the insurrection, is seri-
ously Ill at Walter Reed Hospital.
the War Department disclosed
today.
Gen. Hale, who was born at
Knoxville, Ill, July 10, 1861, and
was graduated from West Point in
1888, Is an uncle of Maj. Gen. Willis
II. Hale, now with the 7th Air Force
in the South Pacific.
He retired from active duty in
1925, after commanding the 9Th
Corps Area. with HEADQUARTERS in
Chicago. Since his retirement he
has lived at the Army and Navy
Club here.
Evening star., 1944-04-26

NEW SERVICE MEDAL-The
Bronze Star Medal, newly au-
thorEed by the President for
award to military, naval or
civilian personnel for heroic
or meritorious achievement
against the enemy, consists of
an acid-toned bronze star
pendant Interested with a
small modelled star. The Rib
bon, worn on the service uni
form in lieu of a medal, is red
with a vertical blue stripe in
the center. Both the stripe
and the ribbon edges are
piped in white.
Signal Corps Photo.
Evening star., 1944-04-26
Ex-CoIiforniu Governor Dies

LOS ANGELES, April 26 P. -
William Dennison Stephens, IS,
Governor of California from 1917 to
1925, died yesterday. Born in Eaton,
Ohio, he came to Los Angeles so
years ago.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Hospital Planes Save Lives

BOWMAN FIELD, KY-More than
l25,0O0 men have been successfully evacuated
by air from combat areas all over the world
since the United States went to war. There
is no safer means to transport sick and
wounded than by air evacuation" Ma jor Gen.
David N. w. Grant, army air surgeon, said
Each hospital plane carries either flight
surgeon or Army nurse one non-commis-
stoned medical officer. They attend to patients
in flight, administering blood plasma and oxy-
gen while the CATS Hamilton Standard pro-
pellers drive her through the air.
Air evacuation has been called one of the
greatest savers of lives in this war of speed.
1t returns to battle many men who, were it
not for the speed of the airplane, would be
permanently manned.
No empty airplane ever "deadheads" it to
or from the fighting fronts. The Skytrains
designed by Douglas, powered by Pratt &
Whitney engines, always bring in troops or
vital cargo for use against the Axis before
they fly back to the hospitals.
Evening star., 1944-01-05


1T took ten years to turn out our first mil
lion blades" Mr.. Stewart said, but we will
have to build our second million in little more
than single year. That means better than
blade minute "a hours day, ! days a week"
The historic blade was unveiled by Arvid
Nelson, factory manager, and presented to
Captain John Z. Pixton, U.S.N, and Major
Charles Wright, USAAF, jointly, as token
of the teamwork between industry and the
military services through which aircraft
manufacturing has moved into boxcar pro-
duction figures. The blade was Immediately
assembled into propeller and shipped to the
Chicago plant OF the Douglas Aircraft Com
pany where it will be installed on an Army
C-54 Skymaster transport to help absorb the
$500 horsepower OF four Pratt & Whitney
Twin Wasp engines.
"Seventy-sx per cent of all American COM
bat, cargo and advanced training planes are
using Hamilton Standard propellers,' con-
tinued Mr.. Stewart. I'VE take great pleasure
and pride in noting that the four licensee
members of our team have made substantial
contribution to the task of supplying these
propellerS and will continue to share our tre-
mendous job and grave responsibility.
These four licensees are Nash -Kelvnator,
Frigidaire, Remington Rand and Canadian
Propellers. They have worked with US,
worked with the Army and Navy, in this
great national emergency"
Army and Navy speakers emphasized the
fact that the actual milionth blade might we'll
have been of type used on Navy Corsair,
Hellcat or Avenger, or an Army Mustang,
Fortress or Liberator, or any of score of
other types of Army and Navy war planes
that roar into battle with Hamilton Standard
propellers.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Air Cover Gets Conveys Through

LONDON-During the second week of
December, three Allied conveys steamed in
tact into British ports with fresh proof of
the effectiveness OF the Allied air cover now
stretching across the North Atlantic
For eight days, Nazi U-boat packs had
stalked the conveys, according to the British
Air Ministry. During all the daylight hours,
aircraft of the U. S. Navy, RCAF and RAF
gave them air cover. AT night the action was
turned over to escorting warships.
During the crossing, Twin Wasp-powered
Llberators sank three submarines a Lock-
heed Hudson got one, Double Wasp-pow-
cred Ventura got another; and on the sixth
day, an RAF Sunderland attacked U-boat,
saw it sink leaving IS survivors and much
debris. Nine other submarines were attacked
during the eight-day period with undeter-
mined results.
One Liberator was lost in these actions, but
according to press report, the conveys came
through with not a single torpedo having
been fred against the merchantmen.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Propeller Research
Adds TO Bomb Load

EAST HARTFORD, CoNN.-When the
new big super -bombers announced by General
Henry H. Arnold loom up over Berlin and
Toxic, they will embody the fruits of pro-
gram OF propeller research which in no small
degree made their very existence possible.
The vibration studies at East Hartford by
engineers of Hamilton Standard Propellers
division of United Aircraft Corporation had
iar-reaching results, Engineering Manager
Erie Martin revealed last month. These stud
les, ne said, made it possible virtually to
eliminate propeller failure and to check the
trend toward increasing weight per horse
power of propellers
Vibration stresses in rapidly whrlng
propeller constituted one of the bugbears of
propeller building up to few years ago. 1t
seemed impossible to measure them to locate
and correct the causes. The only remedy was
to beef up" the propeller by building it heavy.
AS engine power grew, heavier propelIers
were necessary to absorb the power, until it
appeared that the size of future airplanes
might be limited by the growing weight of the
propelers
After years of study, Hamilton Standard
engineers evolved a solution. Ability of
strip of carbon to conduct electricity is affect
ed by stretching or COMPRISING A small strip
OF carbon was cemented to the propeller blade
at any desired spot and connected to source
OF electrical current by fine wires As the
blade stretched or bent at that spot, current
flowing through the carbon strip fuctuated.
BY measuring the fluctuations and comparing
them with the actual operating conditions at
the time, it was possible to study the vibra-
tion stresses as they developed
1t might seem like black magic, Mr.. Martin
said, but from the charts, the propeller engi-
neer now can tell not only where the stress is
and how much, but also what causes it. Some
of the causes might even be in the engine. In
one installation, for example, it was discov-
cred that change in the angle between the
master rods of twin-row engine reduced
the vibration to safe limits.
Now that the vibrations could be traced to
their sources and corrected, propeller failures
virtually vanished. Moreover excess weight
could be eliminated and ample strength fac
tors still be maintained
The trend toward ever greater weight of
propellers per horsepower was checked,
trend which had threatened to place limit on
the size of aircraft. 1t became possible to de-
sign the super-bombers of tomorrow and to
have ready for them the propelers adequate
to absorb the greater horsepowers without
excessive increase in weight.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
0hio-|ndiu Airwuy Opens

DAYTON, OHIo-The worlds longest
air freight line has been established by the
Army between the United States and India.
1t is now operating out of Patterson Field,
Ohio to Karachi, India on regular schedule,
the War Department has announced.
A huge Army C-87, cargo carrying coun-
terpart of the Consolidated Liberator bomb
er, made the first trip in October. Its four
Twin Wasp engines and Hamilton Standard
propellers carried the transport over the
2S,OO0-mile round trip in IL days including
time for loading and unloading. On his re-
turn, the pilot reported that the voyage was
made without difficulty. "Wc hit the tail end
of hurricane" near Puerto Rico he said.
but the big Liberator Express plowed right
through it.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Girls Join Engineering Stuf
Press Association Photo

EAST HARTFORD, CoNN.-A group of
AZ girl engineering aides. having completed
their half-year course at Pennsylvania State
College, last month joined the engineering
department of Hamilton Standard Propellers
division of United Aircraft Corporation here.
The new girls will fill the places of employees
called to the colors
Their places at Penn State will be taken
by IS more girls who have won Hamilton
Standard scholarships.
ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Burma Veterans Return n

WASHINGTON-Credited with 400 COM
bat hours on Sc missions, the crew of the
Rangoon Rambler, Pratt & Whitney pow
cred Consolidated Liberator bomber, last
month became the first to return to America
from the India-Burma war theatre.
The Rambler and her crew had fought
for IS months with the Tenth Air Force. In
their tour of duty they bombed scores of Jap
anesc installations, and in addition sank four
enemy ships and downed six Zeros.
ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Little Planes Do Big Job

WASHINGTON-A detachment of IS
Navy pilots, flying ll0-mie- -per-hour Curtiss
SOC biplanes, were revealed as performing
near miracles in the carly days of the Guadal-
canal operations, when they recently we're
singled out for praise by Vice Admiral John
5. Mccain, U.S.N., Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations (Air).
Designed to operate from catapults off
cruisers solely for tactical scouting and OBJ
servatlon, the little seaplanes were detached
and sent to Tulagi harbor when their war
ships were damaged in action. There they
were formed into "Airplane Cruiser Scout
ing Detachment, Tulagi" From their new
base, the squadron teamed with PIT boats to
upset the timetables of the Jap warships
which came down the "slot' to shell the Ma
rines' positions every night the moon waned
or bad weather afforded them a cloak. On
such nights, the "Tulagi" squadron went out
prowling for trouble
When enemy ships loomed in the darkness,
they radioed the position and dived to strafe.
Two .3O-caliber guns per plane couldn't do
much damage to cruiser, but their job was
to make the Japs open up so the PTS could
spot them. When the brilliant orange bursts
OF torpedo hits intermingled with the gun
flashes, they knew the mission was success.
Their Pratt & Whitney engines carried
them through many such encounters, but with
range of only 675 miles, number of the
little planes were forced down for tricky
night landings on the rolling sweIls of the
Coral Sea-
In spite of the odds against them of Zeros,
concentrated anti-aircraft fire, and night
landings on the open sea, ten of these pilots
have come home. Five of their companions
were killed in action or are listed as missing.
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