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I Jlytut QUamLe^i ^. HALLOWEEN TRICKS FOR OCTOBER’S FAVORITE PARTY (See Recipes Below.) WITCHES* NIGHT OCT Spooks and fun while the goblins, black cats and ghosts make merry— isn't that an in spiration to have > one grand, merry party before the winter sets in? Come, let’s plan, stew and brew and set the witches’ cauldron boiling and bub bling! You'll need hearty sandwiches, plentiful and hot since the weath er's slightly nipped with frost. Of course you'll have cider and dough nuts because they’re wedded togeth er and traditional. To top it off, have a witches’ cake, a chocolaty, honest - to - goodness devil's food, moist and crumbly, and perhaps one of those pumpkin shaped molds of ice cream, or at least orange ice, to carry out October’s orange and black color scheme. The party starts as sooA as the invitations are sent out These can be pumpkin, black cat or cauldron shaped, made double with the invi tation written on the inside. Send them early so your guests won’t make other plans. The more, the merrier. Twirl some streamers of orange and black crepe paper around the room, bring out the frayed straw hats, checked shirts, and grand mother’s costumes from that trunk in the attic. All set? Here we go: 'Sandwiches. These can be made on the buffet or at the table if you have a sand wich toaster. If made in the kitchen use the broiler. Have assorted bread, butter, place cheese on first layer, then another slice of buttered , bread, then a slice of ham, and top with a slice of bread. Toast, cut in three, and fasten with toothpicks. To bewitch your family and guests completely serve them a cake with that agreeable melt - in - your - mouth quality. Measure the in gredients careful ly so you’ll attain that feathery lightness so es- - sential to a good cake. After the icing is spread on the cake, make decorations with melted chocolate. •Witches’ Cake. (Devil’s Food) 2 cups sifted cake flour 2 teaspoons double acting baking powder % teaspoon soda V4 teaspoon salt % cup butter or shortening 1 cup sugar 2 egg yolks, well beaten 3 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted IV4 cups milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten Sift flour once, measure, add bak ing powder, salt and soda. Sift to gether three times. Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar, and cream LYNN SAYS: A Halloween party can be a success without the least fuss. First of all, decorations and ta ble settings don’t have to be letter perfect, for you can have the most fun in the midst of the basement or barn decorated with sheaves of cornstalk, pumpkin faces, rakes, hoes and goblins made of sheets. For your table use a large piece of burlap or cotton sacks sewed together and dyed scarlet or gold. A centerpiece of pump kin with candles inside the hol low or fruit and burnished au tumn leaves will bring cheers. Write fortunes and place them in apples or nuts. Play pin the tail on the cat. Bob for apples. Have target practice with bean shooters. Dance the Virginia Reel • and other square dances if your floor can stand it—all amid plenty of black and orange crepe paper. Halloween's the time for all this noisy fun. -— together until light. Add egg yolks, beat well, then chocolate and blend well. Add flour alternately with milk and beat well each time. Beat un til smooth, add vanilla, and fold in egg whites. B.ake in two greased fl inch layer pans in a moderate (350 degrees) oven. Ice with: Seven Minute Frosting. 2 egg whites 1 % cups sugar 4 tablespoons wuter 1 Vi teaspoons vanilla Va teaspoon cream of tartar Put egg whites, water, sugar, in top of double boiler and set over boiling water. Beat constantly for seven minutes with rotary beater then remove from fire. Add vanilla and cream of tartar and beat until of consistency to spread. Marsh mallows (about 12 to 15) cut in pieces may be added. Speaking of luscious cakes, there's another type of cake which will be just as much oi a success either at i your Halloween party or cake sale. As different from a chocolate cake as night from day, is this light, tender Sil ver Moon cake. I Its velvety tex ture is no trick if you use a good snortening ana cream it well: Silver Moon Cake. V4 cup shortening iy« cups granulated sugar 2 cups sifted cake flour 2Vi teaspoons baking powder Vi teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon almond extract % cup milk 5 egg whites Cream shortening and sugar until light, then add milk and sifted dry ingredients alternately, beating aft er each addition until smooth. Fold in stiffly beaten whites and flavor ing last. Bake in three layers in a moderate (375 degrees) oven, 25 minutes. Frost with a butter frost, ing: Uncooked Butter Icing. Mi cup butter 2 cups powdered sugar 3 tablespoons hot milk 1 teaspoon lemon or almond flavoring Cream butter and shortening, add milk and blend until smooth. Add flavoring. For variation, add 2V4 squares semi-sweet chocolate melt ed before blending in milk. Flavor chocolate icing with vanilla. A cake that wins a place in the Hall of Fame is this spice cake without which no cake sale is com plete. But it isn’t just an ordinary spice cake for it has the subtle fla vor of bananas combined with the spices: Spice Cake. (Makes three 9-inch layers V4 cup butter 2 cups brown sugar 4 eggs 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon each, cinnamon, nutmeg V4 teaspoon each, allspice, cloves 2V4 cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 2 bananas, mashed fine Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add beaten egg yolks and bananas and blend well. Sift together the dry in gredients twice. Add them alter nately with the milk, beating smooth after each addition. Last, fold in egg whites. Bake in three layer pans, in a moderate (350 degrees) oven, for 35 to 40 minutes. Ice be tween layers with a double recipe of the Seven minute icing or Choco late flavored uncooked icing. For a fruity spice cake, V4 cup raisins and V4 cup nuts may be added with the flour. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.} WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) NEW YORK.—During his 16 years in the house. Representative Lindsay Warren of North Carolina used to lie back in his chair with his eyes closed, Deceptively Sleepy seemingly Eyed, Warren la asleep. But Alert oa Watchdog ^.“^en he snapped into action, his mates noted that he had missed nothing of even the most complicated goings on. To them he was known as “The Fox.” Similarly, not much has been heard of him since he became comp troller general two years ago, but here he is suddenly in action with a brief against the National Youth administration, accusing it of play ing politics to keep up its member ship rolls and get appropriations. Characteristically, he goes into de tails. Bulky, bull-necked, pompa doured and of a general leathery makeup, Mr. Warren liked to go Ashing In old clothes at Hatteras or Kitty Hawk. He didn't want to be bothered with this comp troller general Job, although it pays $10,000 a year for IS years. His predecessor, the penny-pinch ing John Raymond McCarl, who once nicked a pullman berth Item on General Pershing’s ex pense account, was known as "the watch dog of the treasury.” Mr. Warren didn't want to be a watch dog, and after Mr. Mc Carl quit, in 1936, President Roosevelt offered Mr. Warren the job three times before he took it. One of his three children, Lindsay Jr., aged 16, is ailing. The impor tance of getting the best medical care for the boy, and his desire for a permanent home is said to have induced him to accept. He had been one of the most popular men in congress, and watch dogs aren't al together popular. His post carries more power than almost any in the federal Job portfolio, although no quia entrant would be apt to list it. He passes on government ap propriations, audits governmen tal accounts, settles claims and In numerous other ways polices hidden or furtive charges in fed eral expenditures. He bad valu able training for this In his long experience as chairman of the house committee of accounts. He is 51 years old, a native of Washington, N. C., up "through channels’’ in politics, as county at torney and state senator. He has been regarded as one of the ablest political strategists of the Democrat ic party. Furthermore, there is a legend that he once trimmed the President handsomely in a week end poker game. Being deceptively sleepy-eyed, and at the same time alert makes him a formidable poker player. Reinhardt heydrich, setting up drumhead justice in the for* mer Czech provinces, with more than 100 executions to date, has improved „ J • . D -LI greatly on Heydrich Possibly compar. Has Cost-Finding atively loose System on Killings and casual * techniques of the Germans after the Franco Prussian war. In the latter instance the French Francs Trireur gave the Germans a lot of real trouble. The reprisals were ruthless and widespread, but unsystematic, and quite amateurish compared to Heydrich’s highly pro fessional exploits, for the fatherland and the iron heel. ‘ Old Baron Constantin von Neurath, whom Heydrich suc ceeds as “protector” in the Csech region, liked to shoot wild boars, but beld back on shooting too many people. So they give a younger man a chance. The new “protector” was Hitler’s finger man in the 1934 blood-purge, one of his principal victims being his friend Ernst Roehm, with whom he had risen to Nazi party emi nence in the SS organization. They Immediately afterward made him director of the Berlin office of the Gestapo. As he rose in the Gestapo, Hey drich established precise and up-to date methods for killings and may hem. It was in 1938, when the Gestapo took on the activities of the “Inter national Criminal Police commis sion,” that he foreshadowed the wid er outreach of his espionage system. He said: “We are aware that the criminal activities of the world can only be fought internationally.” It was reported at the time that in his office there was built up a dos sier on “criminals’ all over the world, who had spoken disrespect fully of Nazi Germany One exploit which won him increased power was filching Scftuschnigg’s private letters and papers. EGG SHORTAGE IS THREATENED More Laying Hens Needed To Meet Demand. By LESLIE M. BLACK (Extension Poultryman, New Jersey College of Agriculture, Rutgers University.) Keep your pullets and turn them into laying hens instead of putting them on the market thereby provid ing more eggs for Uncle Sam’s food-for-defense program and aid ing your own income. There’s no definite egg shortage now but there may be in the future unless egg production is increased. People are eating more eggs at home, the army needs lots of eggs, and large quantities are scheduled for shipment overseas. The gov ernment recently asked poultry pro ducers to increase egg production 10,000,000 cases during a 15-month period ending next summer; and they have responded, but latei figures indicate the increase will fall short of that figure. We know that we can produce all the eggs needed in the food-for-de fense program. It’s just a matter of having plenty of laying hens and taking care of them properly. Eggs are one of the best foods, and no one should eliminate them from one’s diet because of shortage. On the average, each person in the United States uses 26 dozen eggs a year. This average should be main tained along with supplies for the army and Britain. A recent United States depart ment of agriculture report shows that about 19 per cent more chicks have been hatched since January 1 than a year ago, but the increase in numbers of young chicks on farms on June 1 was disappointing. This would indicate that many pul lets are being sold as meat along with cockerels for the broiler mar ket. * The egg-feed price ratio is at tractive to the poultry producer now, and the government has announced that a favorable ratio will be main tained. It looks like this was the year to fill all available poultry houses with well-matured laying pul lets. A special effort should be made to withhold all well-developed pul lets from slaughter. The market or poultry meat can be fully sup plied from the cockerels out of this year's hatch because prices will be better if the broiler market is not overloaded. To Prevent Fuel Waste Adjust Oil Burner Now Owners of household oil burn ers can avoid unnecessary ex pense and conserve fuel this win ter by having burner flames prop erly adjusted with a flue gas analyzer. With his flue gas analyzer, a service man can adjust a flame for the most efficient use of fuel. Homeowners, however, are warned against trying to adjust the flames of their oil burners themselves. Oil companies and furnace representatives can sup ply trained men for the job. The majority of the country’s 2,000,000 house-heating oil burn ers are east of the Alleghenies, according to the U. S. department of agriculture. Use of a flue gas analyzer can help materially in conserving oil, which is particu larly important in the region faced with a shortage. Experiment in Use Of Dried Vegetables BERKELEY. — Dried vegetables will soon be a part of every army cook’s larder, if experiments carried out by the fruit products division of the University of California college of agriculture are any indication. The division began investigating methods of dehydrating vegetables for army use more than a year ago at the suggestion of the quartermas ter corps. Dr. W. V. Cruess, head of the division, reported today that the methods developed have been very successful in drying the vegeta bles and still retaining their color, flavor, and cooking quality. The secret of success, said Dr. Cruess, was found to lie in thorough ly scalding the raw vegetables in steam to precook them and destroy enzymes responsible for undesirable changes in flavor, color, odor and texture. Very thorough drying was found to be essential to preparing vegetables that will keep well. Farm Hill Land One of the big advantages of farm ing hill land on the contour is the amount of water that is saved for soaking into the ground. During an eight-year period at a government soil erosion station in southwestern Iowa, an area listed on the contour lost only 2.7 inches of water a year, while a similar slope area farmed up and down hill lost 19 inches of rainfall. In a drouth year, especial ly, such differences are very signifi cant. IP1 /TO MAKE i DUTTERFLIES of print, potted flowers—20 such blocks make a beautiful quilt. Partial piecing is augmented by applique; strips Stomach Always Acid ( I There’s nothing wrong with THAT! Dis comfort only comes when there’s TOO MUCH acid. Fear, anger or excitement help cause sour stomach, heartburn, indi gestion. ADLA Tablets contain Bismuth and Carbonates for QUICK relief. 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