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Show J3ST LIKE MOTHER'S New F.sd Ciess Class Designed To Apprises Caks-hungry Vets WNU Features. JAMAICA, N. Y. It will be luscious home-baked cakes for returned G.I.s in this suburban area of New York City from now on, thanks to the nutrition service of the central chapter of Queens Red Cross. The new epicurean slant is the result of the recent poll conducted by the local Red Cross among its hundreds of G.I. brides, all graduates of the chapter's chap-ter's two-year-old "School for G.I. War Brides," originally initiated in-itiated to indoctrinate young wives and sweethearts of G.I.s with the rudiments of housekeeping. The poll was intended to gauge opinion among these women as to reaction of their husbands to the tutored domesticity of their wives, and to discover the "inner yearnings" yearn-ings" of returned and discharged G.I.s along domestic culinary lines. Signed returns to the widely distributed dis-tributed poll amazed Red Cross nutrition nu-trition officials. A majority of the pollees re-sported re-sported that their husbands were elated with their "homebody" wives, and that the former soldiers sol-diers craved most their mother's moth-er's old - fashioned "home-baked" "home-baked" cakes. The result was a determination to refashion the Red Cross school, changing it to the "Red Cross School for Cake-Hungry Cake-Hungry Vets." Amid a great deal of fanfare, Red Cross officials formally opened the school. The first wave of "students" overwhelmed Red Cross executives. Not only war brides but also grandmothers, grand-mothers, mothers and sisters at- ly f i ' M EAT IT, TOO . . . War brides, mothers, sisters and even grandmothers grand-mothers flock to the Red Cross school to learn how to bake old-fashioned old-fashioned cake. tended. It indicated, in the opinion of the school supervisors, a "definite "defi-nite trend back to home baking and cooking as the best way to a man's heart." Baking experts were pressed into service at the school as "professors." "profes-sors." Topping this list were Miss Dorothy Wettemann, nutrition director di-rector for the Red Cross, and Grace Lohmann, heralded as the nation's top "amateur baker." Miss Lohmann Loh-mann baked thousands of delicacies for G.I.s during the war. The school, according to Miss Wettemann, will continue indefinitely, indefi-nitely, and classes will be arranged in groups of 25. |