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Show t American Housewifes Part in The War Is an Important One Nazi Break With Russia Keeping Her FamilyWell In Wartime Is Her Special Task. Foiled Sabotage in U. S. Released by Western Newspaper Union. One of Uncle best sol- Sams . By BAUKIIAGE ews Anu'.y :( and Commentator. VVXl A 1343 II Street, Washirgton, D. C. mystery that has perplexed Service, many laymen and some officials in Washington with respect to the manner in which the government has forestalled a mammoth Nazi plan sabotaging American industry can now be explained. There will to- - be no official confirmation of the explanation but it comes to me from wr.at are frequently described as informed sources" which really means a man who has never lied to me so far. In a sentence: The man who wrecked elaborate Nazi plans for blowing up munitions plants, railway terminals, bridges, electric light and power plants in the United States W'as none other than Adolf Schikelgruber, Hitler himself. He did it when he tossed the Ribbentrop-Moloto- v pact put of the window just after Nazi armies had launched their surprise drive on Russia. To understand what a job the fuehrer did for himself we must repiember that for years, with the methodical care of the German mind, a detailed plan had been worked out for the sabotage of American industry. Even during the last war there were some terrible and effective pieces of sabotage accomplished by a comparatively untrained and unregimented crowd of German spies. The famous Black Tom explosion which wrecked the huge New Jersey plant not far from New York city, was an ex- -' An international mixed ample. Claims commission finally awarded huge damages to the United States for that act. But the Nazis began where the kaiser left off. They had schools for the training of saboteurs especially selected from Germans who had lived In the United States and were lured back to Germany and either bribed or intimidated into undertaking the work of destruction in territory with which they had become . . familiar. Details of this training cameout the secret testimony in the recent trial of the Nazi saboteurs in Washington. But much of it was ancient history to the department of justice. And the way the advance information came into the hands of our intelligence officers was this: While the Germans had their pact of friendship with Russia, Nazi agents were busy making friends with Communists all over the world the hope that they could use them for subversive activities. The Communists naturally did not turn a deaf ear and Hitlers agents told all. Then came the double cross, Germany attacked Russia, and and Nazi who had always hated each other thoroughly gave vent to their real feelings. The plans which the Nazis had confided io the Communists were turned over to the governments of the United Nations. The United States also had been picking up a little information about the German sabotage methods in Other ways such as by planting a man or two in the German Gestapo. men learned, from one source or another, that the Germans had hired safe crackers in this country to steal the blue prints of factories from insurance companies, which always demand a detailed de--. scription and plan of all buildings they insure. The plans were stolen, photographed and returned. That is one example. Many other little devious tricks and enterprises w.ere revealed by dint of our own investigators, and with the help of the Communists who had complete and exhaustive data, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was able to take the necessary steps to break up the complicated plots and counter-plot- s to wreck American industry. So far there have been very few, if any, major cases which have been branded as sabotage in this country, thanks to Mr. Hitler. in Com-Mnuni- st On Pronunciation . may not know it, but nobody thinks broadcasters know how to the names of foreign pronounce places. Some write in and tell us about it and even the news services You BRIEFS , The WPA has just completed a survey of automobile graveyards for the War Production board. There are still a number of men who have rushed into Washington to do war work who honestly think the sun rises in the East river and sets in the Hudson. They work on the basis that if New York never heard about it. it doesn't exist. try to help us. When an item comes over the news ticker about Rzhev or Chumbly they obligingly put the pronunciation in brackets. The other day the news services had something to say about disturbances in Lyons, France. Now Ive been hearing about Lyons all my life and I know perfectly well that Lyons is pronounced like two lions m the zoo. I also know that the same city is spelled by the French without the "s, Lyon and Ive visited that ancient and attractive city and I know how the French pronounce it. So when the ticker said Lyons I got the (pronounced Lee-on- ) same feeling as when I once heard two Frenchmen disputing whether Washington was called Vashinjton or Vassington. Lyon, if you want to be pedantic, is not pronounced Lee-oor anything like it. If you want to pronounce it the French way, you'll have to study French. As for me, Ill go on saying Lyons, and I'll con" tinue to say Paris not and Rome, and Vienna and The Hague and Cologne and Athens, although I know that the natives dont call any of those cities by those n Pah-ree,- names. Notes From a Broadcaster s Diary Is the government is. 1 am going to risk a gentle indiscretion and quote a suggestion from a high government source to broadcasters. It is part of an appeal to encourage enlistment in our merchant marine that must have one hundred thousand skilled workers for the shipyards in 1942; must have 120,000 experienced seamen. Here is the suggestion: Take care to specify that the Merchant Marine does not want men engaged in farming or war production work. They do their share now. Any change would bring more harm than good. It does, however, want the young, the strong, the adventurous for seagoing jobs, and the skilled capable workers for the shipyards And the government wants the skilled farmer to stay on the farm where he is: Food will win the war and write the peace. diers is the American housewife. Her uniform is a kitchen apron, her ammunition a bright smile and the capable hands with which she does the proverbial million and one things that make hers a 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. Im one-thir- k It ... The Whole Truth The Nazi regime is not usually credited with doing much to encourage truth. Hitler himself spends many paragraphs in "Mein Kampf telling about the importance of being a good liar. But, strange as it may seem, according to a tale that is whispered behind the closed doors of state department offices, the Nazis have.struck a blow for verity. Here is the tale which may never appear in the official communiques of our ministry of foreign relations. When Germany declared war on the United States last December, after Pearl Harbor, there were still several hundred Americans, men and women, living in Paris. Many of them had lived there for 20 years, getting their American passports renewed periodically. Some of the ladies, it seems, took advantage of these periodical renewals to lop a couple of years off their age now and again. And who would grudge the ladies a few years stolen from the calendar, especially in Paris? But the gentle prevarication bounced back with a vengeance. For when the Nazis announced that women under 60 would be interned in concentration camps, while older women would be allowed to remain at liberty, a certain number of American women suddenly discovered that the age shown on their passport was erroneous. They hurried to the Swiss consulate, which had charge of American interests, and swore out affidavits to the effect that they were not, say, 43, but 62. Not all of these belated amendments were accepted by the Nazi officials gallant for once. The consequence is that the rigors of the Nazi internment camps are now being suffered by women who, if they hud been less coquettish about their years, would now be free. Buy War Bonds . - fVA V i Oj jt v u ; - j, Women in rural communities, faced with a shortage of farm labor, are learning to care for poultry and livestock. Rural health programs Include the study of nutrition. , 1r Getting enough workers is the e Number One problem of farming Buy War Bonds The USO at Phoebus, Va , not only provides hostesses for its guests, but precedes its dances by a Charm School so tli at hostesses will present the ultimate in charm, poise, personality, how to wear their hair and how to play games well. hel enough t.c 'al lor tuo of garden ..t mef. Fifty hose tiiti make four raincoats. nines i toth paste Thirty-twcontain the tv, needed for a war-tim- A jfl a:i-o- fighter plane. i will help i Srii ' Hitt ffonii turf lowly peanut! On the way to yonr table by way of the Dont spurn the peanut butter jar, these peanuts are rich in food value. Experts recommend that peanut butter be included regularly in yonr 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. IIOW TO KEEP IT Then proper refrigeration becomes more important than ever. But putting foods in the right place in the refrigerator is just as important as keeping them there at all They must be kept cold, but not too cold. And they must have the proper 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 requires a slightly lower temperature than vegetables, and more humidity. In general, 40 degrees is considered a safe temperature for most At that temperature the foods. growth of bacteria is usually retarded. Cold air travels downward, so the coldest places in your refrigerator will be the freezing chamber and the spot directly under it. Put frozen foods in the freezing chamber, meat and fish directly under it. Milk and cream and other beverages to be chilled should be placed on the shelf next to the freezing chamber. will Staples, butter and keep satisfactorily in the middle section, as they require moderate cold but no special care. Vegetables, 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 vegetable 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 better there. you get the food jcu buy Dor, t keep r st fy,n e long ro'm toirperature Wa-- the p it their in the rtf:gcra' ir Tere potatoes as thinly as possi- inble. Scrub carrots with a bus Jr stead of sci aping c.e rr. Don't shell peas until you are ready to oos them. Dont sock vegetables in water for any length of time. Cut carrots and other long vegetables lengthwise. without Cook frozen vegetables thawing first. Some vitamin content is lost in thawing. Dont handle vegetables any more than necessary. Dont squeeze oranges until you are ready to use the juice. Dont chop salad vegetables and greens until you are ready to use them. Then add the dressing immediately after chopping them. The dressing acts as a protective covering and helps to prevent the destruction of valuable vitamins by exposure to the air. Dont handle vegetables any more than necessary. Dont use soda in cooking green vegetables. That lovely, vivid green color it gives them is a danger signal. c IIOW TO COOK IT Last year, impressed with the importance 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 vitamins lost in improper cooking. Four typical vegetables were chosen potatoes, carrots, fresh peas and broccoli and the results of the tests demonstrated conclusively that water, 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 content will be lost in all cooking, but the following procedure helps to reduce 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 thoroughly just before cooking. The amount of moisture that clings to the leaves will be sufficient to produce steam. START FAST, COOK QUICKLY. When the boiling point is reached, turn your fire down and let the vegetables simmer. Continuous boiling is destructive. Be sure the heat is evenly distributed. For this purpose a flat 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 tightly. DONT STIR. Again, this lets In additional air. If the heat is evenly distributed, stirring is unnecessary. our soldiers are the best fed in the world, the men and women who keep them equipped, those employed in our war industries, are sometimes very badly fed indeed. A survey conducted among employees of one large aircraft company revealed that about half showed definite signs SPARE THAT VITAMIN of vitamin deficiency. Healthy workers are good workers, and it Is up Even when she buys the proper to the American housewife to see that the members of her family are foods and plans her meals to include them, the housewifes job has only properly fed. Vitamins are perishable. begun. Minerals can be washed away. By WIIAT TO BUY Improper preparation and cooking she can lose much of the value for which she so carefully paid at the nutrition with the market. Proper begins food you buy. Although there is some suggestions that much to be learned about those mysterious substances called vitamins, the fact is that we need them, as well as minerals, fats, proteins and A balanced diet carbohydrates. must include them all. The amount A 9 of food each person requires depends 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 some milk; every day v whole grain or ellriched', 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 vitamins; and a limited amount of sweets. These foods ran always be supplemented with additional vegetables and fruits. Experts also recommend that peas, dried beans, nuts and peanut butter be'includcd from time to time. Under normal circumstances it is best to use all fresh foods, especially Women all over the country are taking courses In first aid vegetables, as soon as possible. and home nursing to fit them for the important tasknutrition, of keeping their Long exposure to the air deprives families healthy. These women, part of a class of 20, are takine an x" them of some of their value. But amlnation in nutrition. - 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 duration . . . DO YOU remember never to pour grease Into the kitchen sink? DO YOU always repair rips and tears in upholstery immediately? rm Xi .r. . Washington, D. C. INSIDE ON ALEUTIANS be told ".e .midi, story can now to lane able ox whv .re Japs were the bomb and islands I, die Aleutian Harboi I) 3 i.c a! base at Dutch As with w.th so htffc opposition. n os', tilings in this war, the problem ves back to lack of foresight, and i . to some extent, lack of army-ns- 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 washers 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 disconnect electric appliances careful-ly- . without yanking on the cord? DO YOU drain all the water from your washing machine after each lintlnd remVe aU !oaP curtJs and DO YOU remove your stove burners? i;ot generally known is the fact n at the navy in September, 1941, Har-j- . .v'.e tv o months befure Pearl build the army i, refused to let tc oi a.r base on Umnak island Harboi Dutch the navys pane b.ise What happened was that Senator Breuster o? Maine, a member ol the Truman committee and of the navel affairs committee, flew tc Alaska last September with Brig. Ger.. Arthur Wilson to ascertain whether Alaska needed further forAt Kodiak they met tifications. Bolivar Buckner, Simon Gen. Brig. commander of the armys forces, whose father, a famous Civil war once helped to pay commander, Ulysses S. Grants 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 amphibian plane to the senator, they balked at having Genera) Buckner go along, referred to him as a hitch-hike- food spilled r. Finally, however, the party, including General Buckner, w'ent on to Dutch Harbor and located an excellent site for a flying field on Umnak island. Immediately upon their return, Senator Brewster arranged for a senate appropriation to build an air base at Umnak, while the war department prepared to proceed. 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. Horne why, he replied: The navy can protect Dutch Harbor. 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 cruising 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 navys flying patrol boats there were helpless. Heavy and slow, they lacked protection from the armys 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 Aleutians undoubtedly contributed also' to the ease with which the Japs took Kiska harbor and the western Aleutians. We Must Plunge Our leaders have told yet we are only ariw war. No nation m remain plunge or get cold feet ; that the sacrifice of , ankle-dee- CiV' match the bravery 0l .' forces. A nation lives by the i ues of its soul. Not h prices on its store counv sugar is a luxury and comfort But liberty are still American nect cuff on your American tr, worth 'a Japanese cufi American jaw. Our problem at home standard of living. Too c" Americans have already , heroic standard by dying. The Marines who land beaches are in this war dt their ankles. And the the channel cannot price ceilings. there was no divided their defenders It s? be pn The men food, not pr night-shi- to: ft of Wake, will cost most of our win this war. But all our lose it. We must give ir privileges or lose all oi Captain Colin Kelly madet He went into this war not ankles, but up to his heart he knew what it meant tot on his knees. o Notes of a New Yorker: John Mason critic, Brown, who went under the si mother : h :j rate; nerpt that the blade to put himself in co: a naval commission, will be worthy of the navy navy need have no fears , presence of mind, either when Brown was deliver: ture in New Orleans best and down the rostrum, ma tures as he lectured . . , far he walked off the dumping himself into some Returning to the platiom albeit a bit bruised, he with: To pick up the subje we dropped it . . . KATHL mi TOW an ol mothe 1 1 youtl childre ey, p net ans its al m heart itnn, ir.ly e fan anc Sallies in Our Alley: G1 ibedier briel, the former drama dy tyrai is now an officer in the army- - n e thing Bel. where in Alaska commissioned some intuna requested to give the War I lowdown on Gils character and so forth . , , How are als? was one query so moral, replied a ct. should be sent there as a . . . One of the ary! sportsmen was saying weather at Saratoga was ik effing, portant to a gambler "bee, onstot them I can sleep like a top when yoi ning . . . "And, said a J lather "when youre losing you ol inva ... a1 s . , . David O. Selznic Sam Goldwyn: Why do so many writers for one p. said Sam . . . "Because, each writer I get a germ." one nother y ar ol 66, ot read, it blind siste 'e colleg Zeppo Marx of the famei i that h men was the "kid brother '4 help i very ordered into the act by the er . . . Zeppo was too you mall trusted with valuable pieces ai business or punch-line- s ti merely tagged along, mat. uncle or joining in the chorus q our course, he was paid well . about Groucho Harpo, Chico and f ung e dered their coin on their ce mi fun or at dice games Ze; tint r E'e . salting his away . . t ent, v it he of hamming wearied s alre PERSISTENT LEON H The army doesnt seem to think denly popped up as a ! Bess a buying into agent that lee, n Leon Henderson, he ope g i a boss of the OPA, is agenejr . . . Later yea man? own and represented b am lethargic about wanting to put price today ceilings on tanks, guns, trucks and stars . . . Hes rich priva other army material for which it brothers aren.t . . . In hancs met with time Zeppo fussed is now paying top prices. eithi t at home while the In a knock-dowdrag-ou- t n sic session things ano now and made whoopee in the. office of Unwas laughed at for wasting h 'ime, dersecretary of War Patterson, & ery . banged on the table, told at his "experiments ve ea a owns . . . Zeppo now Patterson the army was ;ain paying too defense plant! much, that he demanded the tgeth powei to put price and ceilings on army hard-hittin- iv g price-fixin- r Hen-derso- n ' sup-plie- , to keep after you on this tfil I get it, Henderson stormed. When I was younger and I was courting a girl. I kept after her until I got her. And thats whats going to happen now. 6ing CAPITAL CHAFF C Frank Grillo, president of tht United Rubber Workers, is one mar who doesnt believe that labor leaders at home are more than fighters at the front. necessary He has resigned from the Rubber Worken and asked for his old job back ir the army-- not a cellophane commis-sio(you can see through it but it protects from the draft) He wanti to be a sergeant. The navy has wisely drafted som, Hoover's FBI sleuths tSat haln BaVal intelligence iee of They are doing a bang-u- f C. Arc YOU a Good Housekeeper? Try This Test by Uaukliage -V o left-ove- fcirtftV 'a conia.ns fon pppUND P clothe our sohtiers .he enfa liter planes to bomb save is on emy. The prer.se y process'd to secure plyimre, u hich is tin used in the of T.M jor shed.. Waste pape cun le usi. for F shtlL containers: mah s fifth shell contrition. One hand - 64-ho- ur, not doing anything to help win the war. Of course I keep house and save scrap and buy war bonds, but Id like to feel that Im doing something definite, like joining the WAACs or working in a defense factory. We cant all join the WAACs. And we cant all work in defense factories. 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 does, the sooner she will be able to rejoice in the victory she helped to win. When government reports recentd ly showed that only about of the families in the United States have diets that are adequate to maintain health, it bfecame apparent 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 I jr hi n you ai e scrap, or paper. cant tin srcti n )' o you are really an I seed pen-ujactu- By JANET CUPLER Hitter Held Responsible for Wrecking Germanys Elaborate Plans to Blow Up Vital Points in U. S. s iVE SCR IP lT;!e,T.!'Uman committee has perthe army to lend it Brig Mane ReP STn a?? LWe executive officer Washington T frm HolI''ood t( participate in tin big bond show, dmu Ann Rutherford sold several hu treasurys on ,At man handed her Albuquerque on, $1,000 in cash. Man About Town. C Bing The t rumored Washington-bounin the army, isn't eligiblethere for orders on the Gres Drive . . . Ty Power, who for the gliders, proudly wea emblem of the marines as j nit-r, . . Darryl Zanuck, ' knit c ther, d e no! tor ad ti j s eh i ma n old e his 20th Century-Fo- x job relit' per week) considerably r he said, "that 1 was felt, ParI a another actor playing so Hazel Scott, who clicked Jh0 a Hollywood, getting from MGM for her fortm6h;s . . . Lieut. Burgess Moreduf Welle Saroyan and G. O. hor dame hunters . The My rna Lisa. Sounds-in-the-Nigh- At t: "Horace Greeley said: mo PO! th; Lee the wife t t to the the otr R'1, an G anc nn did Young Man! and what York He stayed in New us rich! , . 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