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WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK I- I By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Feature*—WNU Service.) NEW YORK-There’s a nice al literation in “Cape Town Clip per," and an invitation to rhyming which in other days might have in terested Tin Clipper’s Skipper: Pan Alley. He’s a Topper; The tall, Job’, o Whopper! Capt. Harold E. Gray, who brings the ship back from the Belgian Con go on a round trip of 19.961 miles, is smart and good looking and could walk on in a Jerome Kern musical, commemorating his exploit, but it is a safe bet that he never will. Just a glance at his work sheet for the last 15 years shows that he had to keep his mind on his work to at-: tain this eminence. There may never be a Casey Jones of the air, the bucko lad who will ride anything, any where, on the slightest provoca tion. Just a look at the dash board of a modern plane is enough to convince one of that. Even the Lindbergh saga might have been different if it had been paced to differential equa tions. But, of course, there will be another Kipling with another "Night Mail," who will find in modern air transport an exalt ed theme—this time fully real ised. Just now there seems to be no master or journeyman of poetry or prose who is quite up to It. As to being a Clipper skipper, any lad who starts to day-dream his way into the job had better make other arrangements. Here are a few but not all of the qualifications of 35-year-old Captain Gray: He Is t master mariner, a licensed engine mechanic, a li censed airplane mechanic, a graduate radio engineer, a li censed radio operator, a first class seaman and the holder of certificates In International law, maritime law and business ad ministration. That’s about par for the course on the ocean fair ways for the men who command the big flying ships. Mr. Gray was born in Gutten berg, Iowa, in 1900 and left the Uni versity of Iowa to take flight train ing at Brooks field in the army school. He later went to the Univer sity of Detroit and took a degree in aeronautical engineering. He flew first for the Ford Motor company, and then joined the Pan-American Airways for flights to the Canal Zone. In 1931 he took up studies for his master pilot rating and be came one of the youngest men to attain the highest flying rank of “master of ocean flying boats.” THIS department never has been able to get It quite straight, as to women owning 70 per cent of the wealth of the country, and wield ing propor Women Out to Get tionate influ- j A Play for Their «nce in pub 70% of Wealth »« ■«•*«. Some per sons informed in finance in politics say they do and some say they don’t. Miss Cathrine Curtis, the tall, Junoesque lady who organized women investors in America, a few years back, not only insists that women do have all this money and say-so, but makes it a business to see that they get a play for it—a big new feminine pressure group if you want to put it that way. At Washington, Miss Curtis leads her embattled 70 per cent —if that’s what it is—into a fight against price control legislation. Her battle is one of many, on various public issues, which she has centered at Washington. In her home town, Glen Falls, N. Y., where her father ran a hotel, the 18-year-old Miss Curtis saw Gus Thomas' play, ''Arizona.’’ She fol lowed it around the up-state circuit and became so saturated with its romantic glamour that she kept right on going—to Arizona. There Harold Bell Wright saw her and put her in his moving picture, “Shep herd of the Hills.” This was her start in various moving picture and ranching enterprises. It was in 1935 that, in New York, her present home, she organized the women in vestors. It appears that nobody ever has figured out how much of that 70 per cent is merely something in the wife’s name for safe-keeping. IN 1840, the principality of Sara * wak, in Borneo, was a safe re treat where one might hide out and let the world go by. James Brooke of England, and his descendants found it so, for 101 years, ruling 500,000 persons. There’s an end of that, with Lieut. Gen. A. E. Perci val, flying from Singapore to Sara wak, 400 miles, to inspect and en large defense operations on the Bor neo northwest coast. Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white rajah, co-oper ates. Sarawak is important in em pire survival, as an air base. Let a Star-Studded Ham Say Merry Christmas! (See Recipes Below) Deck the Table Greetings, homemakers! Here's my Christmas present to you, a menu with recipes designed to ring in the holiday season and to crown your table with luscious food. Just wonderful to eat. The menu is worked out in the best colors of the season. THIS WEEK’S MENU Christinas Dinner •Grapefruit-Persimmon Salad •Sweet French Dressing •Baked Ham ‘Holiday Sauce •Virginia Cranberry Mold •Sweet Potato Pone •Green Peas With Beets Crescent Rolls Celery Olives Jelly Plum Pudding with Sauce Coffee •Recipes Given There's a touch of the traditional in the menu in the baked ham and sweet potato pone topped off with the plum pudding, and then there's a dash of newness in the cranberry mold, the salad and its perky dress ing and the holiday sauce. Whether you’re welcoming your sons from camp, your daughters from college, make this their gala feast, for f Christmas din* ( ners are some thing to cherish and remember. •Grapefruit-Persimmon Salad. Be versatile with your grapefruit. Peel, separate into sections, then slip the thin peeling off the sections being careful to leave the section whole. Alternate the sections of grapefruit wth thin slices of persim mon, having the outside sections on top so the fruit together gives the appearance of a mound. Use three sections of grapefruit per serving. Lay this on a crisp bed of lettuce and serve with dressing. Avocado and pink grapefruit sections may also be used in this way. •Sweet French Dressing. (For fruit salads) 8 tablespoons oil 3% tablespoons powdered sugar ft teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons paprika V4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 4 tablespoons lemon juice Set all ingredients in icebox for three hours before mixing. Com bine in order given, blending thor oughly. Chill again in mason jar. Before using, let melt, then beat until thick with wooden spoon. •Virginia Cranberry Mold. You’ll want something tantalizing ly tart as foil to the bland sweetness of the ham. Here it is: 1 17-ounce can cranberry sauce Juice of two oranges Grated rind of 1 orange 1 cup hot water 3 packages gelatin Mash cranberry sauce fine; add rind and orange Juice. Dissolve gel atin in hot water and add to first mixture. Pour into molds and put in cool place to set •Sweet Potato Pone. (Serves 6 to 8) Delicately spiced, heart-warming and gracious accompaniment to your dinner is this sweet potato pone. Satisfy your desire for sweet potatoes with ham this new-old way. It’s like - grandmother used j to make, homey, ij tasty, just won ^ derful food! 2Vi cups grated raw sweet potato Vi cup butter Vi cup sugar Vi cup milk 1 teaspoon powdered ginger y« teaspoon mace Grated rind of 1 orange Blend sugar and butter. Add sweet potato and milk. Beat well, then add spices and orange rind. Bake in a shallow, buttered casse role in a moderate (350 degrees) ov en, 30 to 35 minutes. * Baked Ham. You can depend upon your holiday dinner to go over if you serve a ham, glistening and shimmering. « baked in sweet. • spicy Juices. Wrap ~ the ham in clean wrapping paper. Place fat side up / on a rack in anl open pan. Use no \ water. Bake in a slow oven. Hams weighing 16 to 18 pounds require 4 to 444 hours baking; 12 to 15 pounds, 344 to 4 hours; 10 to 12 pounds. 3 to 344 hours; and 8 to 10 pounds, 244 to 3 hours. Remove paper and all rind. Cov er with a glaze of pickled peach juice or 1 cup honey and 44 cup or ange marmalade, or 1 cup pureed apricots for extra special goodness. To make stars, cut slices of pineap ple and form into a star. Use a maraschino cherry in center. Bake until brown (about 15 minutes) in a hot (400 degrees) oven. •Holiday Sauce. For your masterpiece, the ham, serve a sauce that’s rich and jewel red. Ladle it over the ham gener ously to bring out the best in the meat. Like all good things, the sauce is a simple, good-tasting combina tion. Melt 1 small glass of currant jelly in double boiler, add 3 table spoons chili sauce, blend, and serve hot •Green Peas With Beets. Bright red and green touch in the best tradition of Christmas is your beet and green peas vegetable com bination. Boil the beets with two Inches of their tops left on until ten der, 25 to 35 minutes depending on age and size. Plunge into cold wa ter and remove skins. Scoop out center, add salt and butter. Just before serving, heat beets, fill cen ters with cooked, seasoned green peas, heated piping hot. Don’t forget the big, overflowing bowls of fruits and nuts for the family to nibble on during Christmas day. Cluster raisins, apples, yellow, supple bananas, and nuts in the shell—all these the family will want to make their festivities complete. The children will give you three cheers if you string red cranberries and popcorn on a string and hang on the tree or in their stockings. Steaming the Pudding. Plum puddings are best when served piping hot. This means they should be steamed for at least l%-2 hours before serving. If the pudding is in a mold cover with a lid or with heavy waxed paper. Place on a rack in a large kettle. Have about 2 inches of water in the bottom of the kettle, and have this water boiling all the while. More water may be added if necessary. A double boiler or a pressure cooker may also be used to good advantage for steaming. To serve, unmold the pudding and garnish the platter with holly or other leaves and bright berries. LYNN SAYS: Few holidays can offer you the same decorative possibilities as Christmas season, so make the most of the evergreens, berries, cones, candles, ornaments, and rich colors. Here are some centerpiece ideas which would be effective: Use a green wreath on a mir ror and fill with evergreen branches dipped or sprayed with white paint and place brightly colored ornaments or fruits among the branches. Surround candles with pine branches and cones and have sev eral small silver bells around the base of the centerpiece as though they came out of the branches. Make a gingerbread house, frost with a thin powdered sugar icing and sprinkle with silver snow. Set this on a mirror or surround with spruce or pine tranches and cones. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ‘Peace on Earth . . •‘DEACE on earth, good will to * men!” There seems to be precious little of either on this Christinas day. Yet that’s not so unusual. Glance through the pages of American his tory and you’ll And plenty of ex amples of Christmas days given over to war. instead of peace, and to ill will, instead of good will. It has been true since this repub lic was founded. The first Christ mas after the signing of the Decla ration of Independence saw George Washington and his Continentals struggling to keep alive the fight for liberty. On the evening of Decem ber 25 he crossed the Delaware, at tacked Trenton and spoiled the Christmas celebration of Colonel Hall and his force of 1,000 Hessians, killing 22, wounding 84 and captur ing 868. The American casualty list was only four wounded. But if Christmas, 1776, was bright with victory, Christmas, 1777 was correspondingly dark with despair. For it was spent at Valley Forge and that fact speaks for itself. Christmas, 1786, was scarcely a time of good will among the men of the new nation, especially in western Massachusetts where armed men were marching over the hills and through the valleys, ready to plunge their state into the horrors of a civil war. For on that Christ mas day the incident, which has come down in history as "Shays’ Rebellion,” was Counting to a cli max because a people, driven to DANIEL SHAYS despair by poverty, high taxes and a loss of faith in their government, had resorted to armed force to right their wrongs. Their leader was Daniel Shays, who had served with distinction for five years in the Continental army and came out of the Revolu tion a captain. But the “Patriot” of 1776 became a "rebel” in 1786, was driven out of his native state when the governor of Massachusetts called out the militia to suppress the "rebellion” and died a poverty stricken exile in 1825. In 1836 the Texans won their in dependence from Mexico and for a time there was peace between the two countries. Then the Mexicans began making raids on Texan terri tory and the Texans, under Gen. Thomas Jefferson Green, deter mined to retaliate. Over the pro test of Sam Houston, an army of 304 men invaded Mexico. On Christ mas day, 1842, they met a force of more than 2,000 Mexicans under General Ampudia at Mier and after killing nearly half of the enemy were induced by false promises to surrender. Thus the famous ‘Mier expedition” ended in disaster, for later, by order of Gen. Santa Anna, every tenth Texan was executed. Four years later the Americans and Mexicans were at war again— this time a formally declared war— and on December 25, 1846, Col. Alexander Doniphan of the First Regiment of Missouri Mounted Vol unteers was fighting a battle with 1,200 Mexicans at Bracito river The Mexican loss was 63 killed and 150 wounded; the American, seven wounded. December 25, 1800, was a fateful Christmas in American history. On that night a little force of soldiers, commanded by Maj. Robert Ander son. stole quietly out of Fort Moul trie and occupied Fort Sumter in the middle of the entrance to the harbor of Charleston, S. C. Four months later the commander of the Confederate forces in Charleston called upon him to surrender; he refused and when a shell went screaming across the waters to strike Sumter's brick walls it set 2,000,000 Americans against each other in the greatest civil war in history. Happily, not all Christmas days in American history have been dedi cated to war. On Christmas Eve, 1814, John Quincy Adams, Albert Gallatin, James Bayard, Jonathan Russell, and Henry Clay, American commissioners, met with represen tatives from Great Britain in the city of Ghent in Belgium, to try to end the long-drawn-out negotiatipns which had kept them there since the preceding August. Perhaps the spirit of Christmas filled them. At any rate the wrangling ceased and they signed the treaty which ended the War of 1812. NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Interference With Law Of Supply and Demand Results in Headaches . . . Reorganization Looms for SPAB . . . (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) WASHINGTON. — Many theoret ical gentlemen, who were confident until just recently, that they knew all the answers, are finding out that when government interferes with the old law of supply and demand the result is headaches. Never have better illustrations of this been manifest than in the "Big Brother" activities of the govern ment, aimed at protecting the pub lic from the dire consequences which would result from the nation al defense effort Price control, for instance, and civilian supply. To see the picture more clearly it is necessary to imagine what would happen if the government went ahead full steam with its de fense spending and commandeer ing, but paid no attention to the ef fects on ordinary non-defense busi ness. It is never so simple as for the government to want all of something. That would leave no problem. But when there is some left over after the national defense needs have been served—how to divide that leftover? Even in some cases where the government wants practically all there is difficulty. For instance take copper. Copper has been used very liberally in making lipstick contain ers. After it has been processed for this use it is of little use for anything else. Recovering the copper so as to make it fit for something else would be too expensive. Not that the government cares anything about expense, but the process of getting the pure copper out of the alloy used for lipstick containers would re quire too much labor. So—there is agreement in the government that such copper as al ready has been worked into this al loy for lipstick containers may be used for that purpose. Not So Simple Simple? By no means. The trou ble is that the Smith company has enough such metal on hand, already worked, and ready to be fabricated into lipstick containers, to run it un til say June 1. Whereas the Jones company, its strongest competitor, has enough to run it only until Feb ruary 1. To permit this situation to exist would give the Smith com pany an unfair advantage over the Jones company. If this produces a headache with respect to copper, it is a thousand times worse with respect to steel. The government has said flatly that no more copper after January 1 shall be used for non-defense pur poses—except such copper as is al ready made unfit for defense use (economically) as described. But there is no such drastic deci sion about steel. As a matter of fact there will be some steel left over, despite the pessimistic predic tions of many New Dealers, even if defense use of steel exceeds the present most optimistic forecasts— not enough steel to go around, of course, but SOME. What to do about that SOME! Under the old law of supply and de mand; if the government kept its hands off, it would be simple. The price of steel would skyrocket. The buyers willing to pay the highest prices would get it all. Every user of steel who could use substitutes would do ft anyhow, to save money for his concern. So the surplus steel (that is, surplus above de fense needs) would go only into uses for which it was very necessary. But that might result in hardship on the financially less fortunate consumers. The price of steel in civilian goods would be boosted out of all proportion to the real value of steel. Trouble? You said it. * • • Reorganization Of 1Super* SPAB? Don Nelson’s SPAB is likely to be revamped in the near future. Just yvhat form the new super-super body is to take no one knows. All that is known for certain is that President Roosevelt is giving all the usual signs which forerun one of his big reorganizations to end all reorganizations. Nelson is not the technical head of SPAB That honor goes to Vice President Henry A. Wallace. Nel son is not the man on SPAB who is closest to the President. That dis tinction without argument belongs to Harry Hopkins. But since Wallace is the heir ap parent to the •’Chief" and in all probability will be nominated for President by the Democrats in 1944 unless F.D.R. wants a fourth term (in which event nothing would help him anyhow) it would seem that Wallace’s only motive would be to have SPAB. and indeed everything involved in the administration, suc ceed. Failure of Roosevelt in his national defense program would be 1 a black eye for Wallace as well as for Roosevelt. It might easily re sult in knocking Wallace off the track he is now riding—a track that leads straight to the White House. SEWIN6 CIRCLE 1485-BMi m. U ERE’S good news for belles A on-a-budget who yearn for the smooth smartness of a two piece frock! Pattern No. 1485-B offers a streamline version—sleek, simple to make with a three but ton cardigan neck topper, a skirt with a front pleat and a dickey collar which gives a trim touch of white in a flattering line next to the face. 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