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Evening star., 1945-04-12
Bv the Vicforv Chef

ton and labor difficulties (plus. 'tis
said, that rumored B-M-) have
made ducklings almost rarity in
these parts. But later you may be
lucky enough to find one-or, better
still, to live where you can have a
nice little flock of your own, and
you will want to treat the treasure
with all the best tricks in your
culinary repertoire.
In prewar days, the Book Cadillac
Hotel in Detroit served duckling
Evening star., 1945-04-12

Contributions and requests
must be accompanied by the
sender's full name and address.
We will withhold both and use
only initials. Please address
mail to the Readers Clearing
House. Woman's Page, The
Evening Star, Washington 4.
Views expressed in the Clear
ing House are not necessarily
those of The Star, and as it is
obviously impossible for us to
test all recipes submitted, we
cannot assume responsibility
for them. B. c.
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Here's vegetable and egg combination that ,oW do duty
as dinner dish 0hen the red points the
"No Eeeplant Oh creamed TOPPING sncchini squash
tch herb and boiled onions 1Vih chopped peanuts
offer plenty of nourishmen and interest," If xucchni
nnavaiabe cucumber instead in the recipe you'll find
this page.
Evening star., 1945-04-12

dJ ledSI OIle-Ildll cup LlOIc uQulU
milk, fruit juice, water depending
on type of cake) so that the batter
| is a thinner creamy consistency.
Important when baking to have
oven slightly warmer than usual so
cake will rise quicker, then a slower
fame until baked, otherwise her
cake may not rise enough. A de-
licious icing for cake is cocoanut.
In these days when fresh is so hard
to find l take any box coconut and
soak in a little coffee cream. This
gives that fresh moist taste and
helps retain freshness when tightly
covered
Now for my own problem If any
of you readers can help me- I have a
blue silk brocatelle couch on which
my -year-old baby recently
spilled his cod-liver oil concentrate.
In addition to this used hot iron
over brown paper thinking I could
draw it out, but only scorched 1t in
stead.
Yes. I can turn my pillows over
but the idea that it's there worries
me. Please, has any one ever had
this experience or knows of any
remedy for it?
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SYRIAN RECIPES?
Requested by Mrs. S. P. X,
Omaha, Nebr.)
Although living far away from
Washington, l am subscriber for
your paper for the sole purpose of
reading your column, and wish to
submit request to the readers for
the following Syrian foods:
Lamb meat pies: lamb meat loaf
"a combination of lamb. Syrian
wheat, etc.: cookies casually eaten
at Easter, and are round with a
hole in the center and favored with
a certain kind of spice the name of
which I cannot remember).
1t has been many years since I
have eaten any Syrian cooking, and
have searched in vain for these
recipes in every cook book I have
ever read. If any of the readers can
furnish the above recipes it will be
very much appreciated.
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CLEANING DRAINS?
BOOK ON FEEDING?
requested by Mrs. E. J. F,
Washington
I hope some one will help me with
a suggestion about my drains. They
do not have much slope, but we're in
stalled by regulation plumber
They now drain very slowly The
question is how does one clean
them? Seemingly the commercial
cleaners generally advertised do not
do the job. Will it be necessary to
get plumber to dismantle the
plumbing in order to clean these
drains?
What is a good book on feeding
children aged from / to 6? Sew
eral booklets were listed short time
ago, but so far I haven't been able to
find any
BUILDER UPPER.
(ThankS to Mrs. II. L. G.,
Arlington.)
Has the reader who requested a
quick builder upper" for her s.
year-old thought of asking a doc
tors advice about vitamins?
VANISHING FLOOR?
Requested by Mrs. c. G. w..
Washington
The instructive, helpful letter Mr..
E. A. B.. Silver Spring, wrote in an
swer to some ones floor query in
terested us very much and we Won
der if he would kindly tell us If the
same directions work for removing
varnlsh and revarnishing a soft pine
hall floor. We canpot get the new
coat of varnish to stick. 1t wear off
Immediately in beaded spots, as
though it had been danced on with
hobnailed shoes. We have followed
accurately instructions on COM
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mercial product that says it will take
wax off, and though we have tried
this job several times, it has never
turned out satisfactorily.
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BUSY BEES?
REQUESTED by Mrs. M. X. NJ,
BetheSdd)
Enjoy your column thoroughly. I
am wondering If any of your readers
have had any experience with get
ting rid of humble bees. We have
some that continuously hover around
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COLE CLUB GRIPS,

| Thanks to Mrs. F. E. M, Arlington. }
During the First World War ]
came here as q bride and begar
clipping and using the recipes from
the Woman's Page of The Star.
have an old loose-leaf book which
l started then. 1t has always been
in the kitchen drawer with all my
later cook books, and ! very often
used some recipes that l learned
when 1 first started to cook down
here.
A few years ago, when my daugh-
ter was about IL, she began taking
an interest in that old book, and
pasting old recipes and clippings in
it that I had thrown in loose from
time to time. She started cooking
from that very book, because Of its
history, l guess, and sentimental
reasons. You can imagine how sur
prised and pleased we were when
We came here again to find that the
page was still going strong and was
more helpful and interesting than
ever
If the golf clubs which Mrs. A. L.
B. writes about have steel shafts,
and 1 think they must have from
the price she says her husband paid
for them, he can send them back to
the factory and have new grips put
on. For a fair charge they will re-
wind them, buff and polish them so
they will look like new clubs. If
they are a full set of good clubs
they would be more than worth hav-
ing done over just to improve her
husbands game and temper. If he
will stop at reliable sporting goods
store they will give him golf club
carton to send them in or send them
Tor him.
My husband was In the golf club
business before Pearl Harbor and
We are family of golfers with no
place just now to play, so 1 know
that this is the right procedure to
take!
Editors note: Welcome back
to Washington! We are so glad
Ue still merit your prdiSe-and
many thankSD
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DRESSING TABLE.
Thanks to Miss X. G.,

WGShingtOn.)
Some time ago I noticed that
some one asked how to extend
drawer space for a dressing table
This is what I did. Bought a shoe
box with two drawers at the top and
six boxes for shoes. In the deep
drawer at the top l keep cleaning
tissues. In each of the boxes l put
my toilet articles, everything for
the manicure in one, hair brush
tonic, ETC., in another and in one !
even keep medicine, eye drops. soda
mints, etc 1t works beautifully for
me and as the dressing table skirt is
made of slipper satin the box doesn t
show through
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BRICK HEARTH.
THANKS to Mrs. E. w.,
Washington
Several times in the RICH I have
noticed inquiries and suggestions
about the care of fireplace hearths
of brick. If such a hearth is given
a good rubbing with a rag soaked in
mineral oil, all the aShy appearance
will disappear and the hearth will
remain in good condition for about
six months. 1 do mine only twice a
year. However we do not have fire
often. A fireplace used great deal
will need attention oftener. Be sure
to wear heavy gloves when the oil
is applied.
X
MOIST WHITE CAKE:
OIL STAIN FROM BROCATELLE?
THANKS to Mrs. c. B. L.,
Washington.j
In answer to the lady's inquiry on
how to bake a white cake that will
stay moist instead of getting dry, I
wish to advise that she should add
Evening star., 1945-04-12

Here and There: Ne wcomers
to the lineup of good things put out
by famous herb producer include a
"many-purpose blend" appropri-
Evening star., 1945-04-12
CLEANING DRAINS?

Thanks to Mrs. II. L. G.,
Arlington.J
Has the reader who requested a
quick "builder-upper" for her s.
year-old thought of asking a doc
tors advice about vitamins?
Evening star., 1945-04-12

and knowledge have resulted in the pro-
duction of cured and smoked meats, fresh
meats, and ready -to-serve products of the
highest quality.
In KINCAN'S great packing plants moth
ing is ever wasted, and many vitally i'm
portant by-products are manufactured
and sold :. hides for leather, greases for
soap, strings for musical instruments
glue, gelatin, glycerine, drugs and many
other things of value.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
License Tabs Put on Sale
In Montgomery County

The new corner tabs for Mary
land automobile license plates are
on sale at three places in Montgom-
cry County, Treasurer John Diamond
reported today. These are the Rock
vile Courthouse and the County
Building at Silver Spring and Be-
thesda.
Prince Georges County motorists
must apply by mail to the State
motor vehicles commissioner in Bal
timore for tabs, since the tabs are
not on sale in the county.
Motor Commissioner w. Lee Elgin
reported that thousands of tab ap-
plications were put in the mails at
Baltimore within the last few days
He said application forms for Prince
Georges County motorists would be
mailed later this week.
The new tabs may be displayed on
license plates as early as March
Is, Mr.. Elgin said, and will be re-
quired beginning April l..
Evening star., 1945-02-16

Ston, retiring president, when the
dishes were cleared away. ANY OF
us may have the mystic number
that conceals the last man"
Percy Smith Nominated.
"It1l be Percy Smith," several
members shouted.
Percy Smith, rotund doorman at
the Statler Hotel, is the youngest
member. He is 43 and weighs 25a
pounds London born, he enlisted
in the Canadian Expeditionary
Force in Montreal at II. He was a
fat boy then whose 1876 pounds
dwarfed the drum they gave him to
play.
William B. Covert, Times Herald
linotyper who organized the club
told this visitor about the bottles
close call. During the festivities
three years ago, shortly after italy
had declared war on the United
States, a minority of the members
wanted to break it. They were
forcibly dissuaded.
@. w. Meyers, who heads a
mimeographing unit in the Treasury
Procurement Division, rose to his
feet.
1--WE have been seriously attacked
by a certain influential lady of this
land" he said.
Eleanor Roosevelt!" shouted sew
leral Of the members.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Last Man Club STAGES Dinner With 90 Members Still in Rank.

"The other day." continued Mr.
Meyers, "she said that your sons
and nephews returning from this
war wouldn't want to associate with
you-with the American Legion OF
the Veterans of Foreign Wars. She
said they would form an organiza-
ton Of their own"
Opinion Is Divided.
"I1l bet they WILL" said one men,
Der, but others shouted, mo, no."
just then Ralph Werner, a War
Production Board employe dressed
in his Legion uniform, entered from
the adjoining room and electrified
the group.
I'VE have just heard" he shouted
that the United States Navy is now
bombarding Tokyo!n
Every one cheered.
Two of the members had empty
sleeves. Both had lost an arm in
the World War and both had been
with the 9Th Marines at Belleau
Wood. They were Robert Slater
who mails out War Bonds for the
Treasury, and Leroy Westbury, cap
tain Of the special police guarding
the Navy's Bureau Of Ships in the
temporary buildings at Sixteenth
street and Constitution avenue.
Capt. Albert Pugh, q salesman
who returned to uniform rs an
officer of the Air Transport Conn
mand, rose and was recognized by
the chair.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
BY GEORGE KENNEDY.

A wine bottle stood on the table
between two lighted candles. II
was a bottle of chianti. The label
said Castillo di Montefioralle.
1t was one of those dubious bottles
of Italian wine, basketed with rat.
tan, that used to sell for 81.
The bottle was the ceremonial
center of last nights annual din
ner of Washington's Last Man Club
of the World War.
You remember reading about final
meetings of last-man clubs of Civil
War veterans. True to his pledge
of membership, the last man alive
would make the final gesture. Eat
ing dinner alone where the dimin-
ishing membership had dined each
year, he would open the bottle and
drink brave toast to his gallant
departed comrades.
The Capitals World War club is
still in its infancy. It was organ
lied eight years ago with 100 MEM
bers. Two have died as the tive
lighted candles fianking the cere-
|monial bottle indicated.
Joel E. Mason was killed In an
automobile accident in 1941 and
William r. Gallagher rejoined the
marines and died in action last
year on Guam.
Each Of us bears number from
l to l00," mtoned Samuel l.. Hol-
Evening star., 1945-02-16
DR.. Harry Bowen, II,
|CountyCommissioner, +,
Dies al Aquasco, Md.

DR.. Harry Morton Bowen, u
prominent lower Prince Georges
County physician and a member oil
the County Board of Commissioners
died yesterday at his home al
Aquasce. Md .......
Although he had been Ill recently
DR.. Bowen attended the regular
weekly meeting of the commission
ers Tuesday at Upper Marlboro.
DR.. Bowen was born in George
town and was graduated from
George Washington University here
He went to Medical School at Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Active in county and church af-
fairs, DR.. Bowen had served several
terms as member of the Board OF
Commissioners. He was a vestry-
man at st. Paul's Episcopal Church
Aquasco, and had served as a dele
gate from st. Paul's Church to sew
eral general church conventions.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Bertha Thomas Bowen; a son, War
rant Officer Harry l.. Bowen, now
with the Army in India; brother
DR.. w. Sinclair Bowen. prominent
obstetrician and Episcopal leader
here, and two sisters, Mrs. j. Frank
Parran, wife of State Senator Par.
ran, and Mrs. George Peterson
Washington.
Funeral arrangements have moi
been COMPLETED.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Kutsch Assumes Posi-
As Assessment Chief
In Prince Georges

Louis w. Kutsch. 46, of Ardmore
Md. today began his duties as SUI
pervisor of tax assessments for
Prince Georges County after being
sworn in yesterday by Circuit Court
Clerk Brice Bowie at the Upper
Marlboro Courthouse.
Mr.. Kutsch, a senior field investi-
gator for the Maryland Unemploy-
ment Compensation Board at the
time of his appointment, succeeds
Thomas w. Baxter, who died last
month.
A native of Baltimore, Mr.. Kutsch
moved to Prince Georges County
about 20 years ago and was active
in county politics before passage
Of the Hatch Act. He is a former
justice of the peace and was fore
man of the 1910 county grand jury
He was educated in Baltimore
schools, obtaining his first job with
the Chesapeake g. Potomac Tele-
phone Co. there. In 1917 he Joined
the Washington, Baltimore g. Ann
apolis Electric Railway as an elec-
trical supervisor, remaining with
the firm until it went out of bust
ness in 1885.
He was in the insurance and real
estate business until 1887. when he
was appointed assistant safety
engineer at Greenbelt. In Decem-
Der of that year Mr.. KutSch went to
the Compensation Board.
He is married and has three chill
dren. A son, Boatswain's Mate
first class Wilmer Kutsch, %, has
just returned home after spending
two years overseas.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Mrs. Roberto 6. Esworth,
To Be Buried Tomorrow

Mrs. Roberta Garrett Esworthy
IS, widow of Frank Esworthy and
former Darnestown area resident,
died Wednesday at the home Of her
son and daughter-n-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert J. Garrett, $500 Riley
drive, Silver Spring.
Funeral services will be held at
2p.m. tomorrow at the funeral home
of Ernest C. Gartner, Gaithersburs,
Md. The Rev. Frank A. Tyler of
Rockville, formerly pastor of Grace
Methodist Church, Gaithersburg,
viii ofnciate and burial win be In
Forest Oak Cemetery, Gaithersburg.
Mrs. Esworthy is survived by two
daughters and another son by an
earlier marriage, Mrs. Edwin M.
West, Darnestown, and Mrs. Walter
G. Byrne, Gaithersburg, and George
Garrett, st. Louis; two grandchil-
dren and one great-grandehild. She
was a lifelong resident Of Mont
gomery County.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Victory Garden Centers
Reopen for New Season

Reopening of the Victory Garden
centers in Bethesda and Silver
Spring in preparation for the spring.
and summer programs was an
nounced yesterday by Judge Albert
E. Brault, director of Montgomery
County Civilian Defense.
The offices opened yesterday after
being closed for the winter. The
Bethesda center is located at 1858
Wisconsin avenue, telephone Oliver
$500, and the center at Silver Spring
is at 1884 Colesville road, telephone
Shepherd 1854.
Mrs. Ernest F. Klinge, county Vic
tory garden chairman for the subur-
ban area, viii use the Silver Spring
center as headquarters. Requests
for information regarding the 1945
Victory garden program may be
addressed to either of the centers.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
House Group TO Consider
Commercial Rent Probe

Whether commercial rents In
Washington have been boosted to an
extent demanding congressional ac-
ton will be considered Monday
morning at closed meeting of the
National Defense Subcommittee of
the House District Committee.
Chairman Murphy of the subcom-
mittee, said his group had received
numerous complaints from local
business firms. The commercial
rent law recently adopted by New
York will be studied, he said, along
with whether public hearings shall
be called.
Besides Chairman Murphy, mem
bers of the subcommittee are Rep
resentatives Combs, Democrat, of
Texas; Healy, Democrat, of Cali
fornia; Beall, Republican, of Mary
land, and LIE Fevre, Republican, of
New York.
Evening star., 1945-02-16

Mr.. Chairman" he said, Il make
a motion that we sing For He's q
Jolly Good Fellow"
Harold J. Mclaughlin, an &C
countant in an American Legion
uniform, who wears . Purple Heart
ribbon for 80 machine gun wounds
received in the Meuse-Argonne, OBJ
jected.
Captain Out Of Order.
"Sit down, captain" he said, you
are out of order. move we sing
Let Me Call You Sweetheart. >"
Mr.. McLaughlin's motion was car
ried informally. The members
began singing.
Joseph B. Irvine, chief of vital
statistics for the District, took over
as the new president.
He asked the membership tc
stand. Then he recited:
Let us give = toast to those who
have gone to prepare place for Us
In that Valhalla which Is the last
retreat Of all good soldiers. Com
rades, to our departed brethrenl''
All drank the toast soGne with
water.
Mr.. Irvine was last seen going out
the door with the bottle Of chianti
under his arm.
What are you going to do with
it?" some one asked.
Il am going to take it to my ofice
and put it in the SAFE" he said.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Country Garden Market
Sale Approved by Court

An Arlington Circuit Court order
for the sale of the Country Garden
Market, 901 North Columbus street
Alexandria, to the Fairfax Super
Market was entered yesterday by
Judge Walter T. Mccarthy.
Under the order, the Alexandra
store, one of three markets formerly
operated by Samuel Shanker, will be
sold to the Fairfax Super Market
for $40 900 to satisfy certain credi-
tors. All of the Schanker markets
are in receivership, under the
operation of Arthur cinnamon.
The court order stated that the
$700 monthly rental on the AleXan-
dria store has not been paid since
August l, and that the owner of the
building has entered suit to repos-
sess the property. The order also
stated that another suit has been
filed by fixture company to repos-
sess fixtures and equipment in the
store.
The court order further decreeo
that the receiver is to pay an inter-
nal revenue levy from proceeds o1
the sale and to place the remaining
merchandise from the Alexandris
store on the shelves of the two re-
naming markets.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Police Ii. McGinness
To Retire After n Years

The retirement of Police 1t. John
w. McGinness, veteran of more
than AZ years of service, was ap-
proved yesterday by the Commits
sioners, effective March 81.
1t. McGinhess reached the re-
tirement age of 81 on March L.
1943, and has been granted two
yearly extensions by the city heads
He decided to retire rather than
accept another extension, Maj. Ed
ward ]. Kelly, superintendent OF
police, informed the Commissioners
He was appointed to the force on
October l, 1902. Now stationed al
the 18th precinct, he also has served
in the first, third, eighth, sixth
10th and 18th precincts and has
been commended for his services
on a number of occasions.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
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Hatch Act Cases
Aides
Officials in Five i
Other States, Howoii
To Foce Hearings
BY JOSEPH YOUNG.

Action against public ofIicials In
six States and Hawaii on charges Of
violating provisions of the Hatch
Act win be taken shortly by the
Civil Service Commission, it was
learned today.
Ofhcials in Maryland, New York,
Illinois, Georgia, Kentucky and
Texas are said to face hearings.
Though the commissions policy
dictates that the names of the ac-
cased shall not be made public until
after hearings on the charges, it
was learned that all the persons in.
yolved are officials in various admin.
istrative State Offices.
The forthcoming hearings follow
closely on the commissions decision
yesterday which found two Pennsyl-
yania officers and another employe
guilty OF violating the Hatch Act by
|coercing subordinates to contribute
campaign funds to the Republican,
State Committee.
Commission Power Defined,
The commission has power to take
action against State employees under
section IL ta) of the Hatch Act,
which applies to officers and en-
ployes of State or local agencies
whose principal employment is irs
activities financed in whole or in
part with Federal funds.
In the forthcoming cases some OF
the State employees are expected to
be charged with violations Of Hatch
Act provisions during the recent
campaign. The charges against
others are expected to date back to
other elections.
Coercion to Be Charged.
Among the charges to be placed
are ones Of coercion of subordinates
to contribute to party campaign
funds and active political activity
on behalf of candidates.
The hearings will be before civil
service examiners In the States.
Finding of the examiners will be
submitted to the commission here
for final decision
Under provisions of the Hatch Act,
the commission is empowered to or
der State employees found guilty OF
violations dismissed from their jobs.
Should these orders be ignored, the
Federal Government is empowered
to withhold from the State grants
amounting to twice the salary of
the employe.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Parole for Mrs. RundIe
To Be Considered Aquin
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 16.-The parole
application for Mrs. Helen Aileen
Randle, serving five years for man.
slaughter in the Women's Prison at
Jessups, will be considered for a
second time Wednesday, State pa
role and probation authorities said
today.
Her case will be among 66 to be
heard by F. Murray Benson, State
director of parole and probation.
Mrs. Randle was convicted of
manslaughter in the fatal shooting
of 17-year-old Allen Wiley January
30, 1943, in the Randle home at Bay
Ridge, near Annapolis. She first
applied for a parole last September.
Parole was refused but the case was
set for rehearing in six months.