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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION I NEW IDEAS fel " J By RUTH WYETH SPEARS NOTE: If you have a metal bed that you woulfl like to modernize you will find sketches and directions in Mrs. Spears' Book 3. There are eight of these booklets of 32 pages of things to make from odds and ends which accumulate around the house, or from inexpensive new materials. Copies are 10 cents each and with an or-der for three (No. 1 to 8) you will re-ceive a set of three different quilt block patterns including the Whirl Wind illus-trated herewith. Send order to: ilia! If you know a Navy man, don't ever call him a "gob" sailors consider the name an insult. You can get on the right side of him though if you offer him a Camel or better yet, send him a carton. Camels are the favorite cigarette with men in the Navy (Army, Ma-rines, Coast Guard, too, for that matter) based on actual sales rec-ords from the service men's stores. Local dealers are featur-ing cartons of Camels to send to any member of our armed forces anywhere. Send him that Camel carton today. Adv. MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents for each book de-sired. Nos Name Address SAME BED WITH FOOT CUT !kc DOWN-TK- DOTTED SWISS V VALANCE IS ra. J )fl STITCHED TO r25, SSvet. Iff MUSLIM BETWEEN S3fe5g$feJ THE SPRINGS AMgMATTREi WjlB jHAND-MAD- 'i J?''l'S'''''' 1VIOST quilts today are planned as bedspreads and have a col-or scheme to harmonize with other decorations. If a variety of fig-ured scraps is used one color is generally repeated in each block to give the design unity. The beauty of any quilt is en-hanced if it is set off with a val-ance around the bed. The bed in the sketch had no particular tra-dition and the footboard was much too high to display the quilt to advantage. What a difference in the effect when the board was cut down and the crisp frills of dotted Swiss were added! Surely, any quilt worth piecing is worth this extra touch. or dickey. Nothing could be more useful in a summer wardrobe, made in a washable seersucker, gingham or chambray. Tops for tailored smartness, tops for com-fort and tops for figure flattery it makes you look straight and slim and ready to go places. Pattern No. 8161 is designed for sizes 12 to 20; 40 and 42. Size 14, short sleeves, takes 48 yards material. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco Calif. Enclose 20 cents In coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size Name Address f 1If I t Teen Age Playsuit IT IS no trouble at all to slip into this smart slack suit with its practical bib top you'll probably insist on wearing it all day long while you are enjoying the wide outdoors! Note the smart treat-ment in back which exposes a generous area of skin to sun tan-ning and ' the buttoning which closes the slacks. Make the bo-lero to match and trim with the latest in decorative braid giant ric rac! Pattern No. 8169 is for sizes 8 to 16 years. Size 10 years slack suit takes 2V2 yards 35 or material, bolero Is yard. Two-Piec- e Dress BRIGHTEST new fashion idea in years! A two piece frock which looks like a suit. You can wear it as a suit, in fact, with a blouse Advertisements That Will Save You Money j& CX'HIGH-VIRE- " :; I artist HE'S A 'SELF-STARTE- R" I THE L ,. CARL WILLIAMS 1 --VaKFAST" :ySi-,- is a telephone company v. ti1 ol e!,0&dlo"s "trouble shooter".That's I ,,U'U fmUrg&S job that's tough and plenty I ol m- viMM"s dangerous. Mr. Williams nrJl V"" I P II If wW I J "ys: "I've got to be alert I 'I' V f .. and on my toes every min-- (toODlNW urq ute I'm working. I've found ,MlmomflWil, ' rLJE.r thateatingthe'Self-Starte- r &'c'"fWes Si JL". 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And minds situation, to fight as a liberty- - need freshening . . . change . . . loving individual. relaxation. ;3 one of jjj gj.eat dif. j So one of the biggest undertak- - ferences from our enemy, ings of the USO is its sponsoring To help carry on the of free entertainment, through the tant work of maintaining the mo-- cooperation of the movie and the- - raieof ourfightingforCe3,theUSO atrical industries, at army camps, needs your hd it needa naval bases-wher- ever the fight- - contribution- - ing men of the USA go to train or Your dollar has many demands dig in Man of USO Camp Shows, Inc. is ac- - on tually the biggest single theatrical mands ust be e "lu serve to be mcL And among enterprise the world has ever seen, It books 264 shows for the boys laer' Plea of Uf? ff whatever sum can every week, which play to an aver- - you merits earnest cons.deration. age nightly attendance of 50,000. your ia For we have a war to win, and It contacts movie stars, tneatn- - the USO .s directly concerned cal headlines, big name bands and th men who their leaders. It routes all these . . . plans their itinerary . . . ar- - wm ranges the most convenient times Djg deep for the men who ar when soldiers and sailors can take digging in! time out to sit and be entertained. Send your contribution to your For it realizes that the one great local chairman or to USO, Empiro advantage of the American fight- - State Building, New York. GIVE NOW TO E J Q Victory Tea Towels Patriotic and Gay A PATRIOTIC kitten is Tom, the tea towel cat. From Mon-day to Saturday he is a willing subject for illustrating six timely and clever captions, and on Sun-day he . dons his best cap and hangs out a V for victory. You'll adore Tom on your kitchen towel rack; a few quick stitches will put him there. And he is not stopped then, since he also poses for a trio of panholders Hip, Hip, Hoo-ray. Order this "Man of the Hour" as pat-tern Z9476. 15 cents: make tea towel and panholder sets for yourself and for gifts bridal or otherwise. The transfer is the kind that stamps several times. Send your order to: AUNT MARTHA Box 166-- Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No Name Address I FOR US?-O- H, THAT'S KINOpSiij'f I MY! 1SNT THAT SOMETHING NEW-- . A MERE I B NO INOEEDY.' FLEISCHMANN'S IS THE I I ANOTHER THING TO REMEMBER SUSAN IS I I I OFYOU.MRSOWEN. JOrmjTfii VrtAM.NS IMBONS? MAN CAN ONLV YEAST WITH ALL THESE VITAMINS- -I I THATFLEISCHMANNS YOU BtW THESE f3h JUST LOVES HOT BUNS' AT ALL, CHILD.' IJ 6 J SFCRET SUSAN STICK HIS I B DND S. WHAT'S MORE, SUSAN, I DAYS KEEPS PeRfSCTLY IN YOUR REFRIGERATOR. Fi T AND YOU LET THAT eR5 I 1 I OASI- N- NOT ONE OF THEM IS APPRECIABLY J I YOU CAN LAY IN A WHOLE WEEKS SUPPLY. mw4 I HUSBAND OF YOURS EAT I J V THEM WTH I ARENT ALL LOST IN THE OVEN. THEY ALL GO I AND BY THE WAY. SEND FOR FLEISCHMANN'S AZM WmWlSJVm ALL HE WANTS . THESE , 1 A INTO YOUR BREAD OR BOLLS FOR I f MARVELOUS NEW RECIPE BOOK. IT'S $SfM BUNS ARE GOOD FOR HIM. H. 0$ tTTZMTlVAt SAME' THE EXTRA VITAMINS THAT A OF ALL SORTS OF DELICIOUS N-EW JVf liUS I l mil f . kf- - Ti i:LJ':t:i 60 reclPes- - Wri,e Standard Brands, Inc., f 'I.- " LI i I Bl7- - II If I II - fed 595 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. I Advertisement. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Russians Cheered by U. S. War Pact Pledging Support of Second Front; Nation's Scrap Rubber Pile Grows; U. S. Information Units Consolidated (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper ) I Released by Western Newspaper Union. - ALEUTIANS,: foggy Details When the Jap radio announced that Nipponese troops had made a landing on the Aleutian islands there was no immediate denial by the U. S. government. For the navy had to wait for the fog to clear in that area to check these claims. When the weather turned better it I was found that enemy landings had 1 been made on the island of Attu, at the extreme tip of the island group which stretches off Alaska in the Pacific ocean. Also Jap ships had put into Kiska harbor on an island nearer the North American main-- "' land. Navy "operations" were called into play immediately to squelch any threat of a Jap drive for Alaska. It was believed that the landings took place at the time of the first raid on Dutch Harbor and about the same time as the beginning of the RUSSIA: Diplomacy and Death In Russia, even as the "citizens army" took up arms to defend to the death their city of Sevastopol, word came from Washington, Moscow and London that gave them cause for cheer although their immediate fate was darkened. It was the word that the Soviet Union and the United States had reached a with regard to the urgent tasks of open-ing a second European front in 1942. After a conference between Russian Foreign Commissar Molotov and President Roosevelt in Washington, methods of speeding U. S. war aid to Russia were developed and the fundamental problems of post-wa- r to safeguard "peace and security" were decided upon. The state department of the Unit-ed States had further good news for life mmmm mmm Ik l ev ? ; i " I T': f - Midway island battle. Rear Admiral John H. Towers, U. S. navy chief of the bureau of aeronautics, classed the Jap thrust as of "no real importance" and figured that it could even become a liability to the enemy. WAR INFORMATION: Gets an Overhauling At long last there came word from Washington that all the information functions of the government agen-cies were being consolidated by the creation of an "Office of War In-formation" to be headed by Elmer Davis, n writer and radio commentator. All the duties and activities of the Office of Facts and Figures, the Of-fice of Government Reports, the di-vision of information for the Office of Emergency Management and the foreign information service of the of information, will be under the authority of the new of-fice, according to a White House an-nouncement. Further, Director Davis will have "full authority to eliminate all overl-apping and duplication and to dis-continue in any department any in-formational activity which is not ; I sk f 'it-lmi"' n,' wine nt nrmmtM'f-niitt- ft Wfllltii VYACHESLAV MOLOTOV In full accord with F. D. R. the Russian people. It was that a lease-len- d agreement similar to that signed betmeen the U. S. and Brit-ain as well as China, had been en-tered into with the Soviet. The good news from London was that Russia and Britain had signed a mutual assistance pact But in the Sevastopol area and around Kharkov the Nazis continued their pounding at Russian lines. Ci-vilian morale was good, said Mos-cow reports. BOTTOMS UP: For Jap Navy - Eight Japanese aircraft carriers at least half of that country's known carrier power were sunk or so badly damaged in the Midway and Coral Sea battles that they will be unfit for early action, informed naval sources have estimated. Based on communiques issued by the U. S. army and navy and Allied headquarters, capital ship losses of Japan and the United States from December 7 up to and including the Midway battle are as follows: JAPAN 1 Battleship 1 Seaplane tender 4 Aircraft carriers 16 Cruisers UNITED STATES 1 Battleship 1 Seaplane tender 1 Aircraft carrier 1 Cruiser 4 The official communiques concern only those ships whose loss is un-questioned. Wnofficial reports in-clude ships whose loss, though un-verified, is fairly certain. ' TREASURE HUNT: This Time Rubber Although it was only one cent a pound, that fact didn't stop Ameri-cans from stripping their homes, garages and factories of every avail-able pound of idle and (to them) useless rubber. The rubber salvage program got underway upon President Roose-velt's order. Collected by the na-tion's gasoline filling stations, the scrap rubber is being transported to central collection points by petro-leum industry trucks and sold to the Rubber Recovery corporation. Undersecretary of War Patterson reported that army and navy crude rubber requirements during the 21 months after April 1, 1942, will be 800,000 tons, compared with the present U. S. reserve of 600,000 tons. He said he hoped the differ-ence would be made by the syn-thetic program. WPB Rubber Co-ordinator Newhall stated that the synthetic program will produce 30,000 tons in the rest of 1942 and 300,000 tons during 1943. Bl'RON PRICE To collaborate with Davis. necessary or useful to the war ef-fort . . ." Under policies laid down bythe President this office will "issue directives to all depart-ments and agencies of the govern-ment with respect to their informat-ional services." This means that while the various agencies and departments will still continue to operate, their activities must now conform to such direction as the Ofiice of War Information may give them. The presidential order provided for close collaboration between Byron Price, director of censorship, and Davis to "facilitate the prompt and full dissemination of all avail-able information which will not give aid to the enemy." HOUSING: Conversion Loans' With a term as long as seven years, a new type of "war convers-ion loan" up to $5,000 is available tor converting an existing structure into additional living accommodat-ions for war workers in war pro-duction areas". This new type loan was announced by Federal Housing Commissioner Ferguson at the same time it was fevealed that during the first five months of 1942, 70,225 new dwelli-ngs "were started in war housing areas. New home programs gener-all- y are from 35 to 45 per cent lower than a year ago. HIGHLIGHTS the week's news HEROES: Visiting Washington on a tour of the nation in behalf of war bond sales 15 American and British war heroes paid their respects to President Eoosevelt and congress. At the White House, President and Mrs. Roosevelt and British Ambas-sador Lord Halifax were on hand to greet them. On Capitol Hill they were greeted in the house cham-ber and by senate members. DEATH: Political quarters in Berlin announced that Free French soldiers captured at the Bir Hacheim outpost in Libya are ir-regulars and, as such, are liable to execution under the German and Italian armistice terms with France, which forbids subjects to serve in anti-Axi- s armies. OIL: Within six months the i.as: coast should be getting "an in-creased supply" of oil, according to the WPB, as the result of that agency's authorization of immedi-ate construction of a pipeline from Texas to Salem, 111. COMMCNICATION: The house ays and means committee has ap-proved an increase of at least 50 P cent in the tax on telephone and telegraph charges of all kinds. RESIGNATION: In order that a younger man might take his place, r Harry Luke, British governor of e Fiji islands and high commiss-ioner of the western Pacific since 1938, has resigned. PRODUCTION: Cheerful Note Donald. Nelson, chairman of the ofar Prduction board, added a note to the current scene when e stated that U. S. war production higher than we had any reason suppose it could be" when war sairi WCre being Planned. He industry can "more than dou- - present production by 1944." r Production in May, 1942, was kttes that of May, 1841. Fortunately Hole in Barrel Was Discovered in Time The particular unit in question had taken on a large number of new recruits and some of them were a little raw. During the first rifle inspection, the officer ap-proached one of the men, had a look at his rifle, and then called to the N.C.O. in charge. "Look at this man's rifle!" he announced. " The sergeant looked down the barrel, swung the rifle around to the recruit, and barked: "Take a look at that rifle, you!" The recruit peered carefully down the barrel, then muttered in a surprised tone: "Well, what do you know. Got a hole clean through it!" All salads should be served cold and free from water. Wash let-tuce well and keep in refrigerator until you are ready to make the salad. Fine grained sandpaper will re-move surface spots from white felt hats and will raise the nap on felt hats that have been caught in the rain. For white straw or fabric hats, try art gum. When frying in deep fat use a heavy aluminum kettle. It holds the heat and does not tip over easily. Use a wire basket to transfer food from and to hot fat. Lemon juice sprinkled over alli-gator pear salad just before it is served improves the flavor. Red raspberry leaves are said by some to be an excellent substi-tute for tea, now that tea is scarce. They are to be picked and then dried before using. When a splinter has gone very deep into the flesh try extraction by steam. Heat a wide-mouth-bottle and fill it two-thir- full of very hot water and place under the injured spot. The suction draws the flesh down when a little pressure is used, and the steam in a few minutes removes both splinter and inflammation. This method is particularly good when the splinter has been in for some time. To poach eggs so they will not break, break eggs one at a time into shallow dish and slip easily into slowly boiling salted water. When all the eggs are in pan, cover and turn off fire under the pan, or place pan on back of stove. Let stand until white film forms over tops of eggs and then care-fully, with aid of wide spatula or pancake turner, remove to serv-ing platter. To prevent marmalade from graining, do not boil it too fast and take it off the stove as soon as a little of it jellies on a cold plate. Be careful that you have pure sugar for this and all pre-serves. When the corrugations on the wheels of your lawn mower wear out, take a rattail file and renew them. This will give your mower better traction. Spread a thin layer of orange marmalade or apricot jam on baked pancakes. Roll quickly and sprinkle with confectioner's sugar. Serve with pineapple syrup for breakfast or luncheon. PREPAREDNESS ly igi the AMERICAN RED CROSS NEWEST of all the American activities is the Wool Conservation program. Un-der it, volunteers from the more than 3,700 Red Cross chapters throughout the nation collect scraps of new, unused wool and place them in reprocessing chan-nels. The Wool Conservation program was developed jointly by the War Production board and the Red Cross when it became apparent that the nation faced a serious wool shortage. There were only two ways in which this shortage could be alleviated within the next year. The first was, by cutting down wool consumption in every possible way by restyling and re-designing garments to save wool. The second was to have every scrap of new; unused wool reproc-essed as rapidly as possible. ' The Red Cross was selected to do this job. Under the agreement be-tween the Red Cross and the War Production board, the 3,700 Red Cross chapters ar-range for the collection of trousers cuff clippings, wool samples and other wool clips from tailors, men's clothing stores, department stores, clothing manufacturers and cleaners. These are then placed in reprocessing chan-nels by selling them to wool reclaiming firms. When reprocessed into woo cloth, the clippings from 21 pairs of men's trousers will be enough to make a complete soldier's uni-form or another civilian suit. One Red Cross chapter in a large city collected enough wool clips in one day to make 1,755 soldiers' uni-forms. Proceeds from the sale of the wool clips collected under the Wool Conservation program are retained by the local Red' Cross chapters to carry on their work of War Relief and Civilian Defense Preparedness training. Prepared Exclusively for WNU. Wartime Problem Solved Necessity has forced the Ameri-can people to do many new things. While in the past many bird lov-ers have raised canaries at home for the pleasure and satisfaction they derived, now the breeding of canaries at home has become a new, worthwhile hobby a money-makin- g hobby that is spreading all over this country. With the major supplies of canaries from abroad abruptly stopped . . . with a strict war-time ban placed on the importa-tion of hundreds of thousands of canaries formerly shipped yearly from Central Europe and Asia, the ingenuity and foresight of the American people have met the situation with smiles of satisfac-tion as they turned this canary shortage into a wartime oppor-tunity. But a small out-la- y was required to start this worthwhile hobby turning a most pleasurable under-taking into a profitable, money-makin- g business at home. |