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Show 1 . THE BULLETIN. IHNT.HAM. UTAH ., . - i . . i is " Plan Gas Rationing After Rubber Report Illl 1 j,,,,, imfj n in ' P Y ' ' . ; M- - Jl 'A v i It 7 'W' ITTVh - The Barnch Rubber Investigating committee has recommended nation-wid- e of saving tires, and President Roose-velt. gasoline rationing as a means In transmitting the report to congress, stated its recommendations "will be put Into effect as rapidly as arrangements can be made, ine Baruch committee offered a many-side- d plan to Insure meeting of mili-tary and vital civilian rubber needs. Shown, left to right, are Bernard Baruch, Dr. James B. Conant and Dr. Walter Compton, as they left the White House after conferring with the President. American Housewife's Part in The War Is an Important One $ - a rniii mmmmtmmmmmmmmmnrmmt r ttims 4 a - j .Miif.i'tiiiiiiiijai-jijiiiMMMiit- al Keeping Her Family Well In Wartime Is Her Special Task. By JANET CUPLER rieleused by Western Newspaper Union. One of Uncle Sam's best sol-diers is the American house-wife. Her uniform is a kitch-en apron, her ammunition a bright smile and the capable hands with which she does the proverbial million and one things that make hers a 64-ho-seven- da- y week. She is usually content with the only reward she really wants the love and gratitude of a happy, healthy family. But once in a while you hear her say, "I feel so guilty. I'm rot doing anything to help win the war. Of course I keep house and save scrap and buy war bonds, but I'd like to feel that I'm doing some-thing definite, like Joining the WAACs or working in a defense fac-tory." We can't all Join the WAACs. And we can't all work In defense fac-tories. But we can do an Important Job right In our own homes. The war will finally be won only with the help of the American housewife, and the better Job she docs, the sooner she will be able to rejoice In the victory she helped to win. When government reports recent-ly showed that only about one-thir- d of the families in the United States have diets that are adequate to maintain health. It became appar-ent that one of the Important factors In winning the war would be proper nutrition (the right food as well as the right amount of it), for, although SAVE SCRAP When you save scrap, kitch-en grease, tin cans or paper, you are really helping to clothe our soldiers and send fighter planes to bomb the en-emy. The grease you save is processed to secure glycerine, which is then used in the man-ufacture of TNT for shells. Waste paper can be used for shell containers; 25 pounds makes eight shell containers. One hand iron contains enough metal for two hel-mets. Fifty feet of garden hose will make four raincoats. Thirty-tw- o toothpaste tubes contain the tin needed for a fighter plane. will help you get the most from the food you buy: , Don't keep vegetables long at room temperature. 'Wash them and put them in the refrigerator. Pare potatoes as thinly as possi-ble. Scrub carrots with a brush in-stead of scraping them. Don't shell peas until you are ready to cook them. Don't soak vegetables in water for any length of time. Cut carrots and other long vege-tables lengthwise. Cook frozen vegetables without thawing first Some vitamin content is lost in thawing. Don't handle vegetables any more than necessary. Don't squeeze oranges until you are ready to use the Juice. Don't chop salad vegetables and greens until you are ready to use them. Then add the dressing immediate-ly after chopping them. The dress-ing acts as a protective covering and helps to prevent the destruction of valuable vitamins by exposure to the air. Don't handle vegetables any more than necessary. Don't use soda in cooking green vegetables. That lovely, vivid green color it gives them is a danger signal. HOW TO COOK IT Last year, Impressed with the Im-portance of proper cooking. Home Economics Institute of Westing-hous- e Electric and Manufacturing company sponsored a program of research conducted by scientists to determine the exact amount of vita-mins lost In improper cooking. Four typical vegetables were chosen po-tatoes, carrots, fresh peas and bro-ccoliand the results of the tests demonstrated conclusively that wa-ter, heat and air, used improperly, can destroy as much as 33.7 per cent of the precious vitamins. Water, heat and air are essential to cooking, and some vitamin con-tent will be lost in all cooking, but the following procedure helps to re-duce this loss to a minimum: USE LITTLE OR NO WATER. Steaming is preferable to boiling, so use Just enough water to produce steam. Wash leafy vegetables thor-oughly Just before cooking. The amount of moisture that clings to the leaves will be sufficient to pro-duce steam. START FAST, COOK QUICK-LY. When the boiling point is reached, turn your fire down and let the vegetables simmer. Continu-ous boiling is destructive. Be sure the heat is evenly distributed. For this purpose a fiat bottomed pan with straight sides is best. COOK IN COVERED UTENSILS. The cover keeps the steam in, the air out. Be sure the cover fits tight-ly. DON'T STIR. Again, this lets in additional air. If the heat is evenly distributed, stirring is unnecessary. Don't spurn the lowly peanut! On the way to your table by way of the peanut butter jar, these peanuts are rich In food value. Experts recom-mend that peanut butter be Included regularly In your diet. today, with gas rationed In many parts of the country and with the housewife eager to do her part by saving her tires, she may find it necessary to do her marketing only once or twice a week. HOW TO KEEP IT Then proper refrigeration be-comes more Important than ever. But putting foods in the right place in the refrigerator is Just as impor-tant as keeping them there at all. They must be kept cold, but not too cold. And they must have the prop-er amount of humidity, neither too much nor too little. Frozen foods need extreme cold with no humidity. Vegetables and greens need mild cold with lots of humidity. Milk, butter, staples and prepared dishes other than frozen ones need only mild cold. Meat re-quires a slightly lower temperature than vegetables, and more humid-ity. In general, 40 degrees Is consid-ered a safe temperature for most foods. At that temperature the growth of bacteria Is usually retard-ed. Cold air travels downward, so the coldest places In your refrigera-tor will be the freezing chamber and the spot directly under It. Put frozen foods in the freezing cham-ber, meat and fish directly under It. Milk and cream and other bev-erages to be chilled should be placed on the shelf next to the freezing chamber. Staples, butter and left-over- s will keep satisfactorily in the middle section, as they require moderate cold but no special care. Vegeta-bles, too, and most fruits can be kept there, but they require more humidity. Some refrigerators have special compartments for them, but if yours does not, one of the vege-table bags or a covered dish will do. Canned foods that will not be used right away, salad dressing and pickles need not, and bananas must not, be put In the refrigerator. On the other hand, bread, coffee, shelled nuts and chocolate keep bet-ter there. SPARE THAT VITAMIN Even when she buys the proper foods and plans her meals to include them, the housewife's job has only begun. Vitamins are perishable. Minerals can be washed away. By Improper preparation and cooking she can lose much of the value for which she so carefully paid at the market. Here are some suggestions that & 0 J 1 vtf r LlJ Women in rural communities, faced with a shortage of farm labor, are learning to care for poultry and livestock. Rural health programs in-clude the study of nutrition. our soldiers are the best fed in the world, the men and women who keep them equipped, those employed in our war Industries, are some-times very badly fed indeed. A sur-vey conducted among employees of one large aircraft company revealed that about half showed definite signs of vitamin deficiency. Healthy work-ers are good workers, and it is up to the American housewife to see that the members of her family are properly fed. WHAT TO BUY Proper nutrition begins with the food you buy. Although there is much to be learned about those mys- - I t; ! it vV--. ,'! ' ft , - J v terious substances called vitamins, the fact, is that we need them, as well as minerals, fats, proteins and v carbohydrates. A balanced diet must include them all. The amount of food each person requires de-pends largely upon how active he is. One who sits all day will, of course, require proportionately less food, particularly of the muscle and tissue building and energy produc-ing types, than one who is doing hard physical labor. Each normal person, however, needs every day some milk; whole grain or "enriched" bread or cereal; green or yellow vegetables; oranges, or other citrus fruit, or tomatoes; meat, fish, or poultry; eggs (at least three or four a week) ; butter or other fats rich in vita-mins; and a limited amount of sweets. These foods can always be supplemented with additional vege-tables and fruits. Experts also recommend that peas, dried beans, nuts and peanut butter be included from time to time. Under normal circumstances it is best to use all fresh foods, especially vegetables, as soon as possible. Long exposure to the air deprives them of some of their value. But Women all over the country are taking courses in nutrition, first aid and home nursing to fit them for the important task of keeping their families healthy. These women, part of a class of 20, are taking an ex-amination in nutrition. Nobody Home And Nobody Hurt! t t This WAS a house! And that WAS a plane sticking out of the shattered timbers. Spectacular picture, taken just after the plane ripped into the aide of a cottage near Glenview, 111., shows graphically the after-math of the crash. Four passengers were only jarred when the plane, en route to Mexico, hurtled down to earth after the motor suddenly failed. Washington, D. C. 'INSIDE' ON ALEUTIANS The inside story can now be told of why the Japs were able to lane in the Aleutian islands and bomb th U. S. naval base at Dutch Harboi with so little opposition. As wltt most things in this war, the problerr goes back to lack of foresight, and also, to some extent, lack of army-nav- Not generally known .Is the fad that the navy in September, 1941, some two months before Pearl Har-bor, refused to let the army build an air base on Umnak island tc guard the navy's Dutch Harboi, base. What happened was that Senator Brewster of Maine, a member oi the Truman committee and of the naval affairs committee, flew tc Alaska last September with Brig. Gen. Arthur Wilson to ascertain whether Alaska needed further for-tifications. At Kodiak they met Brig. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, commander of the army's forces,! whose father, a famous Civil war commander, once helped to pay Ulysses S. Grant's way home from West Point and later surrendered to Grant in Tennessee. General Buckner wanted to go on from Kodiak to Dutch Harbor with Senator Brewster, and although the navy was willing to supply an am-phibian plane to the senator, they balked at having Genera; Buckner go along, referred to him as a "hitch-hiker.- " Finally, however, the party, in-cluding General Buckner, went on to Dutch Harbor and located an ex-cellent site for a flying field on Um-nak island. Immediately upon-thei- r return, Senator Brewster arranged for a senate appropriation to build an air base at Umnak, while the war department prepared to pro-ceed. Navy Says No. The war department also notified the navy of its move, since the army is charged with protecting the shore establishments of the navy. A few weeks later, however, word came back from the navy that it did. not want the army to build an air base on Umnak island to protect Dutch Harbor. When senators asked Vice Admiral Frederick J. Home why, he replied: "The navy can protect Dutch Har-bor." This was in late September. Two month'; later, after Pearl Harbor, the navy frantically demanded an air base to protect Dutch Harbor, but it had to be started during the snow and ice of an Alaskan winter. Therefore the date of completion was July, 1942. Probably the Japs knew this date. They have had fishing vessels cruis-ing through the Aleutians off and on for some time. At any rate it was the first week in June, one month before the Umnak air base was finished, that the Japs struck. And when they bombed Dutch Harbor, the navy's flying patrol boats there were helpless. Heavy and slow, they lacked protection from the army's fast pursuit planes, so speedy Jap Zero fighters made mincemeat of them. Lack of a nearby army air base from which fighters and bombers could protect the rest of the Aleu-tians undoubtedly contributed also to the ease with which the Japs took Kiska harbor and the western Aleu-tians. PERSISTENT LEON The army doesn't seem to think that hard-hittin- g Leon Henderson, piice-fixin- g boss of the OPA, is lethargic about wanting to put price ceilings on tanks, guns, trucks and other army material for which il is now paying top prices. In a knock-dow-drag- ou- t session in the oifice of of War Patterson, Hen-j'vo- n banged on the table, told Patterson the army was paying too niuc'i, that he demanded the 'o powei pul joriro ceilings on army sup- - pi 'OS "I'm going to keep after you on his till 1 got it," Henderson stormed. ' W.ien 1 was younger and I was lu'.irfng a girl, I kept after her until I got !c- -. And that.s what.s gQtag t r.;; now." C M'ITAL CHAFF C Frv.k Crillo, president of the Rub'.-e- Workers, is one mar j v." .,,eMs t bdieve that labor lead-- ! ers at. heme are more necessary tllu:l f!t'h, at the front. He has K:,,ori from the Rubber Worker ' asved fr his old job back ir he anny-n- ot a cellophane commis- "you can see through it but il Piotect, from the draft) He wanti w be a . C The na vy has wisely drafted som m jI.B.dgar Hoover's FBI sleuths Z V i:'un naval 'ntdligence of j'Ci'S. Tncy are doing a bang-u- j v.5TnUman commlee has per cv! amy t0 lchd " Brig he '; Fj.s"nits; Lowc' a Mne Repub , executive officer. WasAr W frm Hollywood t( Vh,Parlicipate ta An H iJRd Show' demur. d , L Sld several un-"ta- WOrth of bonds "t eact maLn ,0 AIbuerque on, her $1,000 in cash. We Must Plan.,, Our hav, to yet we are only war. No nation a? "main ankleJ !( plunge or gct coldL, that the sacrifice ? match the bravery M ' forces. A nation lives by th. ues of its soul. Not pnees on its store ? c sugar is a lu J comfort But libeZ. are still American cuff on your American J worth a Japanese American jaw. Our problem at horce standard of living. Americans have alreadi heroic standard by dyir. The Marines who UBC! beaches are in this war, their ankles. And the , the channel cannot be P: price ceilings. The m divided their food, not there was no night-shif- t to defenders of Wake. It will cost rupst'ofot win this war. But allot lose it. We must give t privileges or lose all oi Captain Colin Kelly mailt He went into this warm ankles, but up to his hear he knew what it meant tc on his knees. Notes of a A'ew York John Mason Brown, tl critic, who went under tt blade to put himself in a naval commission, r. be worthy of the navy navy need have no fears presence of mind, either when Brown was delive ture in New Orleans-- he and down the rostrum, n tures as he lectured . . so far he walked oft the dumping himself into son Returning to the platfor albeit a bit bruised, he with: "To pick up the si! we dropped it . , ." Sallies In Our Alley; briel, the former drair. is now an officer in the a: where in Alaska . . . Ei commissioned some intir requested to give the Ta lowdown on Gil's charac and so forth . . . "Hew a als?" was one query , so moral," replied 1 should be sent there as ary!" . . . One of the sportsmen was saying weather at Saratoga was portant to a gambler "t can sleep like a top when ning" . . . "And," said "when you're losing yoi one" . . . David 0. Sel: Sam Goldwyn: "Why d so many writers for oa . . . "Because," saidS each writer I get a gerr Zeppo Marx of tie li men was the "kid brothe; ordered into the act by er . . . Zeppo was too ; trusted with valuable pie: business or punch-li- i merely tagged along, w or joining in the chow course, he was paid H Harpo, Chico and Groc dered their coin on thei fun or at dice games--; salting his away he wearied of hamming denly popped up as agent buying into agency . . . Uter be own and represented stars . . . He's rich to 3 brothers aren't . In fussed with time Zeppo t things at home-w-hile made whoopee-a- nd now was laughed at for wast' at his "experiments' . . Zeppo now owns defense plant! Man About Ton".- - rumored The Star Spangled: Washington-Wi- n the army, isn't eltfj ' there for orders on Drive . . . Ty Po-- ; for the gliders, prou' emblem of the marm mere . . . narrvl Zanuc his 20th ConturyW per week) consider ' ' he said, another actor-pl- ag Hazel ScoA Hollywood, getting ; from MGM for her ...Lieut. Burg-.- Saroyan and u. dame hunters The Mj rr a Lisa SoundS-in-the-NiK-- "Horace Greeley Man!' and Young ; He stayed m J"" s rich!" . ' .A!, keep keep punching-0- 01 out" . yourself (l tral Cocoanut Grov caught in . trui; Aquarium: sne took the first p At Toots Sbor daVa. check is V grab hlmi" Pacific Fleet's Cincus With Jap Sword Adm. C. W. Nimitz, commander In chief of the Pacific fleet, holds the samura, sword of the Japanese commander at Makin islands, after the recent successful raid by U. S. marines. In which Maj. James Roose-velt was second In command. Others to Admiral Nimitz' left are, Com-mander J. M. Haines, t'SN; Lieut. Col. E. F. Carlson, V. S. marine corps; and Lieut. Gen. D. C. Emmons, USA. U. S. Signs Aid Pacts With Great Britain ifA7 V4f - " K' - N-- In a move designed to strengthen the bonds of unity between the V S and four of its Allies, a aeries of agreements was signed with Groat Br i. Sin. Australia, New Zealand and the Fighting French. Shown left rfcht, are: Sir Owen Dixon, minister of Australia; British Ambassador Halifax, Secretary Cordell Hull and Walter Nash, minister of New Zealand Are YOU a Good Housekeeper? Try This Test . , . If you can answer "yes" to all these questions, you probably are. If you answer "no" to any of them, better make a note of it Because it's patriotic to be careful of your household appliances. You may not be able to replace them for the du-ration ... DO YOU remember never to pour grease into the kitchen sink? DO YOU always repair rips and tears in upholstery immediately? DO YOU brush the crumbs out of your toaster before putting it away? DO YOU remove stains from all clothes and linens before ' putting them in your washer? DO YOU wipe the inside of your refrigerator every week with warm water and soda? DO YOU have worn out washerj replaced if your faucets drip? DO YOU keep the bottom of your iron clean? DO YOU empty the dust bag of your vacuum cleaner after each use? DO YOU always remember to dis-connect electric appliances careful-ly, without yanking on the cord? DO YOU drain all the water from your washing machine after each use and remove all soap cuius and lint? DO YOU remove food spilled on your stove burners? |