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WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK I I By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Feature*—WNU Service.) NEW YORK —Admiral Claude C. Bloch, commander of the naval district at Hawaii, has been known as the "Jack Dempsey of the Navy" because of V. S. Adm. Bloch his repeated Experienced Goal *nd vehe Keeper at Wieke, importance of "beating the enemy to the punch." He made a remark to that general effect when he was urging the thorough fortification of Guam, early last year. Things didn’t work out that way, with Japan letting loose the "punch,” behind diplomatic shadow boxing, but that couldn’t be charged up to the admiral. Any government adhering to the forms of interna tional law and order is at a disad vantage in the prevailing interna tional anarchy. But Washington can’t say that the ruddy, desk thumping old admiral, 42 years out of Annapolis, didn’t give it ample warning. He has long been a vigor ous advocate of widely based naval preparedness in the Pacific and readiness to strike at the first gong. He it a Kentuckian, at thor oughly schooled In our high-teat workouts of the last few decades as any man In the navy, en tered in all of them and repeat edly decorated. He won the specially meritorious Medal of the Spanish - American War, when, as a young ensign in the Battle of Santiago, he rescued Spaniards from Cervera’s burn ing ships. His other medals came from the Philippine and Cuban campaigns, the Boxer re bellion and the World war, the last being the Victory medal, and with it went the Navy Cross, for running transports through the blockaded section around France and England. He has been chief of the bureau of ordnance, a gunnery officer, com mander of many ships, a budget of ficer, judge advocate general, en gaged in training activities, and commandant of the Washington Navy yard. He became command er of the battle force, with the rank of admiral, in 1937. From 1928 to 1940, he was commander in chief of the U. S. fleet, and was assigned to command of the Hawaii district in the latter years. He's a naval officer’s officer, with a high repu tation for strategic and technical skill. _A_ THIS onlooker, meeting quite a few explorers in various parts of the world, has noted in them, al most invariably, a good sense of drama and No Showmanship an instinct In Makeup of This *°r ‘how "•*« ***"" Miss" Louise A. Boyd, Just now cited by the Washington Bureau of Standards for her scientific work on her last Arc tic expedition, is lacking in these attributes. She rounds out 17 years of Arctic exploring with never a tale of a close brush with death, and never anybody drawing lots to see who would shoot himself when they were down to the last kilo of pem mican. She does a lot to validate the strictly scientific assumptions of Arctic exploration and to disprove the tradition that women are gar rulous. When she popped off 29 polar bears in 1926. it was only by accident that the news leaked out through other members of her ex pedition. Her log is never like that of Henry Hudson which spotted up a lot of mermaids and sea demons around Spitsbergen. She Is back from her sixteenth trip up north on Capt. Bob Bart lett's stout little schooner, the Effle Morrisey. For 17 years sbe has been commuting up to the icebergs every summer farther north than any other white woman ever went. This writer frequently has seen the Imposing old Victorian Boyd home in San Rafael, Calif., be hind tail privet hedges, whence came the smart, comely young girl, to buck a frozen wilder ness, get decorations from two former governments, special and unique recognition from the National Geographic society, and have "Louise Boyd Land" spot ted up on government maps, where the De Geer glacier used to be. Ship news reporters find her un communicative, coming and going, and her reports go through official scientific channels. En route to the Far North, she usually arrives in New York with a car, chauffeur and maid. She quietly sidetracks silly questions about whether she pow ders her nose in a gale. This writer was once in some re mote regions of the Darien country. Later interviewing a gabby explorer who had just returned from there, he conceived a distrust for ground and-lofty travelers' tales which made Miss Boyd his favorite explorer. Ring in the New Year — Buffet Style (See Recipes Below) New Year Patterns Brand new ideas for a brand New Year! What better way to usher in the year than a table laden with something really new, provocative and colorful? So here’s the menu and here are the recipes each with a new slant that will put you as a hostess In the higher brackets for smart entertaining. Whether the buffet la planned for the eve be fore or the day itself, this menu is designed to give you as little last-minute bustling as pos sible. Just see that your table’s set properly and the food cooked be forehand. The combination will do its stuff. Two meats that lend themselves especially for good-looking platters are tongue and corned beef. Be cause of their color, flavor and tex ture they can’t be too highly rec ommended for a platter such as I’ve suggested. Here’s how you pre pare them: •Beef Tongue. 1 smoked tongue Cold water to cover 4 bay leaves 4 peppercorns 1 teaspoon whole cloves 1 onion Wash tongue and if salty let stand In cold water overnight. Place in kettle with seasonings and let sim mer slowly until tender, from 3 to 9 hours. Remove brine, pull off outer skin, cut off root. Let cool in brine. Serve thinly sliced, either hot or cold. •Corned Beef. 4 pounds corned beef Clove of garlic Paprika Wash the meat in cold water. Soak an hour in cold water if salty, then drain. Place in a kettle and cover with water. Cook slowly 3 to 9 hours. When thoroughly cooked, cool, rub with garlic and paprika. Heat thoroughly in oven before serv ing. Slice thin and serve on platter with beef tongue. Crisp and chewy cabbage done up as a cole slaw is a good accom paniment for the tongue and corned beef plat ter. To make your table really attractive, serve in a red cabbage scooped out and Ailed with the creamy mixture or cole slaw. *Cole Slaw. (Serves 8) 4 cups finely shredded cabbage Vi cup finely chopped green pepper Vi cup finely chopped celery 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons vinegar Vi cup sour cream or mayonnaise Combine vegetables, seasonings and sour cream or mayonnaise. Fill LYNN SAYS: If you're in the mood for reso lutions here are some pointers that will help you make this New Year a year for more delectable food, better meals, and more at tractive platters: Season food carefully to bring out its hidden possibilities. Rub roasts with garlic or onion, and salt before roasting. Melt but ter for vegetables and stir it throughout before serving. Hot foods should be served as hot as possible and cold foods as cold as possible. Foods should be good to look at because the eye takes them in first, so arrange platters neatly and use parsley or fruit or vege tables in garnishing their respec tive platters. Heavy meals call for light des so-ts, light meals for more filling desserts. Make use of contrast in texture, color and flavor when planning menus. You can stretch that food dol lar by planning two or three days’ meals in advance and thus save duplication of foods too often. THIS WEEK’S MENU New Year’* Buffet •Platter of Sliced Tongue and Corned Beef •Cole Slaw in Red Cabbage Assorted Bread or Rolls Celery Olives Pickles Jelly •Apricot-Strawberry Gelatin Mold •Fortune Cake Coffee Mints and Nuts •Recipes Given scooped out red cabbage and serve at once. Fruit molds lend tone to a buffet table besides giving the guests a sweeter type salad and thus satisfy ing their appetite for fruit. Here’s a truly delectable combination: •Apricot-Strawberry Gelatin Mold. (Serves 8) 2 packages strawberry-flavored gelatin 1 No. 2 can apricot halves 1 No. 2 can pineapple pieces 4 cups water (juice from fruit to make up part of this amount) Heat 2 cups water and pour over gelatin. Stir thoroughly, then add remaining water. Pour part of gel atin mixture over apricots laid at the bottom of a mold. Let jell. Mix pineapple with remaining gelatin mixture and pour over first layer in mold. Let jell until firm. Unmold and serve on crisp lettuce with sweet french dressing or mayon naise combined with whipped cream sweetened with honey. The dessert problem for this type of buffet is easily solved by a light, delicate cake frosted with chocolate and decorated with numerals to car ry out the theme of the New Year: •Fortune Cake. V4 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 2 cups cake flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 4 egg yolks Vt cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Cream shortening, add sugar, then beaten egg yolks. Whip until light and fluffy with Dover egg beat er. Add flavoring, then flour sifted with baking powder, alternating the adding of the flour with the milk. Beat well, place in greased and floured layer-cake pans. Bake in a moderate (350-degree) oven 35 to 40 minutes. Surprise item in this cake is its custard Ailing: 2Vi tablespoons flour V« cup sugar Pinch of salt 1 cup milk, scalded 1 slightly beaten egg V4 teaspoon vanilla Mix flour, sugar and salt. Stir in milk. Cook in double boiler until thick (about 15 minutes). Add hot mixture to egg slowly, then cook about 2 minutes longer. Cool, add vanilla and spread between layers of cake. You'll need a whizz of an icing to do justice to Fortune cake. Take 2 cups oi coniec tioners’ sugar and blend in 4 table spoons butter. Add 2 ounces un sweetened choco late which have been melted over hot water. Then mix enough hot milk into the icing to smooth it out, flavor with 1 teaspoon vanilla and spread cake. Team up the Fortune cake with a really good cup of coffee and you’ll have a perfect close to the buffet supper. Use one well-rounded ta blespoon of drip grind decaffeinated coffee for each cup of boiling wa ter. Pre-heat drip coffee pot. Put coffee in upper compartment of pot. Pour fresh, briskly boiling water over it. Cover and let stand in a warm place until all the water has dripped through once. Remove up per compartment and cover pot. Serve. Setting the Table. The table is the high note of any buffet, so if you want yours to be the topic of conversation do it this way: Set the two largest platters (your nicest and most important, the meat platter and the salad molds) at either end. Have plates, silverware and napkins off to one side and rolls, butter, and relishes on the other side. Plates of nuts and mints may be near a center piece of two candelabra with ever green and silver bells at their base, j (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) I NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD i Observers Say Stalin Underestimates Value Of Offensive in North Africa . . . U. S. Has a Check on Nazi Activity. (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) WASHINGTON. — Joseph Stalin is reliably reported to have told high American officials that he would not consider a British campaign in North Africa as complying with his demand for the British to open a “Second front” to take the pressure off Russia. This statement by the Red Dicta tor was made more than a week be fore the British launched their new drive in Libya. Military experts here are almost unanimous in their appraisal of the situation. They admit that the re newal of fighting in Africa was not anything like as much of a diversion in helping Russia as would the land ing of a British expeditionary force in continental Europe. The point here is that all agree if such an expeditionary force should be landed in Norway, or anywhere else in continental Europe, the Ger mans would withdraw as many divi sions as necessary from the eastern front for the purpose of annihilating the British. There is also agreement that the British force so landed WOULD be annihilated. There are some experts who believe Germany would be able to crush any expeditionary force Britain would be able to land in con tinental Europe without relaxing her war effort against Russia. If this point is right, then Britain would make a terrible sacrifice with out accomplishing anything. Worse than that there would be not only the loss of British lives, and military supplies, most of which had already run the submarine gauntlet in the Atlantic, but the resulting prestige of the Germans would have a very bad effect in other quarters. Defeat in Africa Worries U. S. and Britain The British—and our government agrees—are worried about the effect of such a British defeat on the French in Africa. There is plenty of understanding among these military experts for Stalin’s attitude. In fact, there is great sympathy as well. But there is virtual unanimity that the price of such help for the Reds is too high, especially as there is no certainty that the goods for which the price would be paid would be delivered. But the really interesting point made by the experts is that Stalin is wrong in thinking that a North African offensive by the British is not a satisfactory substitute. In the opinion of these observers it is far more likely to prove of lasting value to Stalin than the sort of offensive he has been calling for. In the first place, it is pointed out, the repercussions from a defeat would not be nearly so disastrous. In the second place, win, lose or draw, the cost to the Germans of this North African campaign will be far greater than a campaign of twice the forces involved in conti nental Europe. The answer to this is that Ger many must send every soldier, ev ery tank and every gun for the North African campaign overseas. The British navy has been taking a terrific toll of the ships which form this line of supply. The toll may be expected to increase, rather than diminish. So the effectiveness of the British army in North Africa is not limited to the losses it can inflict on the enemy. It is augmented by forcing the enemy to expose itself to British naval attacks. U. S. Has a Check On Nazi Activity Those senators and representa tives who insisted that the United States break off relations with the Vichy government because of its "collaborations” with Adolf Hitler were just shouting words without having given much thought to the consequences of such an action. All they were asking was that Uncle Sam slap Marshal Petain on the wrist. Just how that would hurt Hitler is difficult to figure. If the action had any effect on the Petain government at all it would tend to drive them into a closer embrace with the Nazis. Actually it prob ably would not affect Vichy’s actions in the slightest degree. But it would deprive the United States government of what is at present an accurate check on Nazi moves all through Africa, including Dakar and everything else of mo ment. The point is that at present this government has some 300 of ficials scattered through what might now be called Vichy Africa. Their function is to see to the arrival, dis position and consumption of Amer ican supplies which have been go ing there. The last thing this government wants to do about these 300 men is to recall them. For the plain fact is these men have been reporting ev ery happening of any possible inter est. Thus our government has had accurate information with which to check all the wild reports that have been pouring in. I~ ' (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) The Greatest Scout CPEAK of a “great scout, guide ^ and Indian fighter” and the av erage American will think immedi ately of "Buffalo Bill” Cody. But old timers will tell you that there were probably a dozen men on the Western frontier who were Cody’s equals, or even his superiors, in any of those three roles. If you press them to name “the greatest of them all,” the chances are they’ll reply “Frank Grouard.” r FRANK GROUARD When Gen. George Crook start ed on his expedition against the hos tile Sioux and Cheyennes in the spring of 1876, Grouard went along as a scout and made himself so val uable to Crook that this famous In dian fighter once said, “I would sooner lose a third of my command than to lose Frank Grouard.” In the early ’90s he was living in Sheridan, Wyo., and there a young Dr. Frackelton fellow from Wis consin, who had gone west to practice dentist ry, met Grouard and a number of other famous frontier charac ters. This “ten derfoot” was Dr. Will Frackelton, and his recently published book, “Sagebrush Den tist,” (A. C. Mc Clurg and Com pany, Chicago), written in collabo ration with Herman Gastrell Seely, a Chicago newspaper man, is a nota ble addition to the literature of the Old West. In it, “Doc” Frackelton tells several hitherto-unpublished stories about this great scout. One of these is particularly inter esting because the incident involves both Grouard and “Buffalo Bill.” “Frank Grouard was as taciturn as Cody was loquacious. Grouard was modest, Cody liked the lime light, and there was no love lost be tween them. I suspect that Grouard resented the publicity given Buffalo Bill’s exploits, many of which were of doubtful authenticity, and the de ference paid him by some of the army officers,” writes Frackelton. “They met one night in the Sheri dan inn barroom and it was Cody who came off second best. Buffalo Bill was wearing his show clothes— beaded buckskin coat and jacket and enormous hat—and was swag geringly convivial. It required lit tle urging to have him tell his fa vorite story of the killing of the Cheyenne chief, Yellow Hand. He jumped on a stool, head thrown back and long hair falling about his shoul ders, while we gathered around. “Grouard walked in with quiet, catlike tread and asked for some cigars. Cody paused in the middle of his story. “ ‘Go on, go on,’ we shouted. “ ‘No,” said Cody a little thickly. 'Here is my old friend, Frank Grou ard. I’ll now buy the drinks.’ “Grouard was not a drinking man. Buffalo Bill grew more insistent. ‘Come on. Everybody belly up to the bar and drink with me.’ “Grouard shook his head. Infuri ated, Cody blustered: ‘Hey, you, bel ly up there! Can’t you hear?’ “Grouard stepped forward and the men faced each other. Cody, in his show clothes, weighed about 195 pounds and Grouard, in his incon spicuous civilians, about 220. They were of equal height but Grouard’s tremendous breadth of shoulder made him seem the shorter. “Grouard’s eyes sent cold chills down my spine. Quietly, and in that deep, determined voice of his he said: 'You are nothing but a picture book scout and a picture book show man. That’s all you ever were and that’s all you ever will be.’ "Then Grouard’s voice dropped into a line of personal profanity, very emphatic but too low for us to hear. Cody straightened up, and for a moment it looked like a fight. Grouard eyed him, then walked over got his cigars and left the hotel.” While living in Sheridan Grouard met Joe de Barthe, correspondent of the New York Sun, who urged him to tell the story of his life. "What good’ll that do?” asked Grouard, “People won't believe it.” But de Barthe was insistent and the scout finally consented to dictate it to the newspaper man. The result was the volume “Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard,” first published in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1894. It is now one of the rarities of Western Amer icana and a first edition of it—if you can find one—sells for anywhere from $35 to $50 a copyl Pattern 7115. LJERE’S a lovely wall hanging that’s fascinating to em broider in soft colors. All the stitches are very easy. 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