WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
fCnuKvtKUted Features—WSU Service i
VJEW YORK.—Comments IMS and
* ' war correspondents are now re
calling the famous Memorial to the
Emperor."* supposedly written by
Baron Gi
Jap 'Mein Kampf' ichi Tanaka
Recoiled;Revealed in 111", in
Aggrettien Stept wMe^ifthe
document
was not a forgery, Japanese plans
for world conquest were formulated
much in the manner of Adolf Hit
ler's blue print for homicide in
* Mein Kampf ”
•
Baron Tanaka died September 29.
1929. a few weeks after the fall of
his cabinet, his premiership having
lasted about two years.
This department is supposed to
deal only with the living, but breaks
pace today to note the possibly his
toric significance of the baron and
his document— and the life story of
the suave little man who died of
high blood pressure, at 96. after
many years of deep absorption in
"sword romance.” the Japanese
equivalent of the blood and thunder
pulp thrillers of our country.
History may give him a nod
In view mt the fact that his d•co
rneal ticked Ot the later steps
mt Japaaesc aggression aa Beat
ty as a peel-player railing his
shets. The Japanese repeatedly
haw deaeaaced it as a fergery.
Whatever it was. it jumped the
deck and leid "the shape et
things to came.”
The first reference to the docu
ment in this country, so far as this
reporter could discover, was in pub
lished quotations from the Russian
newspaper. Pravda. of November S,
1831. Pravda did not reveal how it
had obtained its copy of the "Me
morial.” but it flared it out as “a
startling revelation of the Japanese
carefully prepared plan for world
conquest”
“Japan's aggressive tendencies
will not end m China.” said the
Pravda article. "She has designs
on the Philippines, the Malayan ar
chipelago. Guam. Tahiti, Samoa and
Australia. It presages a fight fbr a
new division of the world, for it
is inseparably linked with conflict
among imperialist nations for con
trol of the Pacific.”
The newspaper then quoted from
the document:
"If we intend t* gain control
over China, we mast first crash
the Called States. To rapture
China, we mast also crash Man
churia aad Mongolia. In order
to conquer the world, we most
test conquer China. If we suc
ceed in conquering China, the
rest of the Asiatic countries and
the South Sea countries will
fear as and surrender to ns."
For understandable reasons, the
Pravda story got scant attention in
the Ameri
Press Discredited can press,
Tanaka Memorial; in view of
Japs March On / man* Previ*
ous propa
ganda stories issuing from this
source and was. for the most part
editorially dismissed as an effort to
"cause dissension among friendly
capitalistic nations."
But. American correspondents,
digging into the story in the Far
East, discovered that, in 1929. the
"Memorial" had been examined by
members of the American Council
of the Institute of Pacific Relations,
in Mukden. It was submitted to
them by members of the entourage
of the Chinese Marshal Chang
Hsueh-liang. One of this delegation
was reported to have said:
“We pledge the fall authen
ticity of this document and we
plead with you to understand
that Japan has begun a pro
gram of world aggression which
inevitably must involve the
United States.”
So far as we can learn, news of
this incident was not published in
this country until after the Pravda
story. This, however, is not cer
tain. It may have appeared in some
American newspapers. This writer
remembers a long article in a Brit
ish newspaper of five or six years
ago, the Manchester guardian, if
memory serves, in which was cited
documentary evidence of the validity
of the document and pleaded for a re
shaping of British policy in the Far
East and the strengthening of the
naval base at Singapore.
On April 23, 1940, Rear Ad
miral J. K. Taussig, retired, ap
peared before the senate com
mittee on naval affairs and in
sisted on the validity of the Ta
naka Memorial. He begged for
a consideration of Japanese re
lations in this light, but the
navy, however, repudiated his
testimony. Pierre Van Paassen,
in his recently published book,
“This Day Alone,” reviews the
history of the document, defends
its authenticity and launches in
dignation against Uie civilised
world for failing to heed it.
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Invite the Club—Serve Banana-Apple Rings
(See Recipes Below)
Dessert Parties
■'Come over for dessert" has be
come one of the most popular ways
of entertaining at
luncheon or afler
. noon meetings of
' bridge or sew
ing clubs. Your
guests will take
I a light snack at
home and come
over to your home
for dessert only.
Easy? Yes. and a
very successful way of starting out
your afternoon. So. take out your
best recipes for dessert and let’s go:
Whatever you have must be at
tractive, so bring out your nicest
dessert plates and doilies. First idea
on our list today are these broiled
Banana-Apple Rings which will
polka-dot your table in dessert per
fection:
'Broiled Banana-Apple Rings.
(Serves 6)
, 1 cup sugar
H cup water
2 apples, unpeeled
3 firm bananas
Melted butter
Salt
Cinnamon
Bring sugar and water to a boil
and cook until sugar is dissolved.
Core apples and cut crosswise into
three thick slices. Add to syrup and
cook until tender, but firm. Remove
from syrup and place on a broiler
rack or pan Cover apple slices
with overlapping slices of bananas
which have been peeled and sliced
thin. Brush with butter and sprinkle
with salt and cinnamon Broil about
10 minutes or until bananas are
brown and tender, easily pierced
with a fork. Serve hot with sweet
ened, whipped cream.
To make your dessert party a dou
ble success, serve:
Banana Oatmeal Cookies.
(Makes 34 dozen)
14 cups sifted flour
4 teaspoon soda
4 teaspoon nutmeg
4 teaspoon cinnamon
4 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup mashed bananas (2 or 3
bananas'
14 cup rolled oats
4 cup chopped nutmeats
Sift together flour, soda, salt and
spices. Add sugar gradually to short
i
*rs
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ening and cream
well. Add egg
and beat well.
Add bananas,
rolled oats and
nutmeats and mix
thoroughly Add
flour mixture and
blend. Drop by
teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased
cookie sheet about 1*4 inches apart.
Bake fh a moderately hot oven about
15 minutes. Remove from pans at
once.
Simply elegant will be your guests'
or family's verdict when you serve
LYNN SAYS:
When planning your luncheon
dessert parties, be sure to use
this season’s rich color schemes
on your tables and favors and
placecards. White with silver,
gold, blue, red are tops right now.
If you like three color combi
nations. there’s green, white and
gold, blue, white and gold, or
white, red and green.
For an elaborate color scheme
use the rich tones of violet, em
erald, gold, blue and red. This
is especially good in a center
piece.
Bridge placecards may be
made out of paper chrysanthe
mums in your favorite color with
the card tilting out of the flower.
The white cards may also be dec
orated with painted flowers, or
candy-shaped flowers pasted in
the corner. Evergreen, holly,
mistletoe, bright berries, jjine
cones, used alone or with a sil
ver ornament such as a bell on
the place card are sure to bring
delighted murmurs from your
bridge guests.
THIS WEEK’S MENU
Tomato-Pea Soup
Breaded Veal Cutlets
Riced Potatoes
Broccoli
Molded Gingerale Salad
•Broiled Banana-Apple Rings
Cookies Beverage
•Recipe Given
an ambrosial concoction so easy to
make, it's no trick at alL Here's a
dessert that proves you don’t have
to spend hours of cooking and bak
ing to get a first-rate dessert:
Krispie Cream Roll.
(Serves 10)
1V4 cups whipping cream
8 marshmallows
V4 cup honey
Vi cup chopped dates
Va cup chopped nutmeats
3 Vi cups oven-popped rice cerea’
Whip cream until stiff, reserving
V cup. Cut marshmallows into
small pieces, adding them to cream.
Add honey, dates and nutmeats.
Roll rice cereal into fine crumbs
and add 1 cup of crumbs to cream
mixture. Blend welL Spread re
maining crumbs evenly on a piece
of waxed paper and place cream
mixture on top. Mold into a roll
and chill for several hours. Slice
and serve garnished with remain
ing whipped cream, chopped nut
meats or fruit slices or berries.
No list of dessert tempters for
parties is complete without super
smooth, delecta
ble ice-box cake.
Made with or
ange flavoring
the ice-box cake
can be truly pro
vocative in both
flavor and ap
pearance and still
be easy on the waistlines of your
diet-conscious friends:
Orange Ice-Box Cake.
(Serves 8)
1 tablespoon gelatine
3 tablespoons cold water
2 cups milk or 1 cup evaporated
milk diluted with 1 cup water
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
^ cup orange juice
1 teaspoon grated orange rind
2 dozen lady fingers
Soak gelatine in cold water. Scald
the milk in a double boiler, mix
cornstarch and sugar, and add to
hot milk. Add the eggs slightly beat
en. combined with cold milk. Cook
several minutes, stirring constantly.
Remove from fire and add gelatine.
Add orange rind and juice. Line a
mold with lady fingers, then fill with
alternate layers of the cooked mix
ture and lady fingers. Have a layer
of lady fingers on top. Chill in re
frigerator overnight. Serve with
whipped cream, garnished with or
ange sections.
Piquant peppermint adds a nev
er-to-be-forgotten flavor to choco
late, and served in quaint tarts,
here’s a dessert that will mark you
as a leader in your crowd:
Chocolate Mint Tarts.
(Serves 6)
2 squares unsweetened chocolate
1 cup evaporated milk diluted
with 1 cup water
cup sugar
5 tablespoons flour
<4 teaspoon salt
2 egg yolks
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
% cup chopped nuts
6 baked tart shells
Sweetened whipped cream
cup crushed peppermint candy
Add chocolate to diluted milk in
double boiler and heat until choco
late melts. Beat with rotary beater
until chocolate is blended with milk.
Combine sugar, flour and salt and
add gradually to chocolate mixture.
Cook until thick and smooth, about
15 minutes. Beat yolks and add to
cooked mixture gradually. Cook two
minutes longer. Remove from fire,
add butter, vanilla and nuts. When
cool, pour into tart shells. Top with
whipped cream, mixed lightly with
the crushed candy,
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NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Rtvttwtd by
CARTER FIELD
Japs Have Exceeded
Germans in Inflicting
A aval Losses ... IT ill
ISazis Use Mass Plane
Attacks on British Fleet?
iBell Syndicate—WM Service.)
WASHINGTON —Naturally there
was grim satisfaction in Berlin,
especially at the offices of the ad
miralty. over the naval losses suf
fered by the United States and Brit
ain in the actions at Pearl Harbor
and near Singapore. But there must
have been also dismay over what
must have seemed lost opportuni
ties to the German admirals.
For the Germans have been un
able to do nearly as much damage
to the British navy as have the
Japs to the British and U. S. com
bined fleets. In a few days the
Japs have done more to whittle
down the superiority of the U. S.
British fleets than the Germans
have done in more than two years'
At the outset of the war, it will
be remembered, a German sub
managed to get inside Scapa Flow
and sank the British battleship Roy
al Oak. This was an old battle
ship, but a battle wagon is a battle
wagon when it comes to a real sea
battle. Within a tew weeks the
Germans sank one of Britain’s
crack aircraft carriers.
That was quite a start on the
whittling down process, always re
membering that whatever may have
been the ideas of the German army,
the plan of the navy was to get
the British fleet down to a size
which would justify the risk of a
major naval battle. This is not a
new idea. It has been told in these
dispatches before, right after the
bombing of the Schamhorst and the
Gneisenau by the R.A.F. at Brest
was claimed by the British to have j
put those old battleships out of com
mission for the remainder of the
war.
The idea is based on several talks
the writer had with high German
naval officers several years prior
to the outbreak of this w'ar. The
Germans claimed, and with some
logic, that their ships would shoot
better than the British, not because
their marksmen were any better,
man for man, but because their op
tical glass was better.
Vital in Big Battle
In a big battle between fleets, of
course, this is vital, since the dis
tance between them normally would
be such as to make personal marks
manship almost unimportant. The
men working the guns probably nev
er see the ships they are trying to
sink.
Moreover this German brag about j
their better optical glass seems to
have been justified both at Jutland
and Dogger Bank in the last war.
However, since those earlier suc
cesses—the Royal Oak and the air
craft carrier — the Germans have
paid virtually ship for ship for their
attempted whittling down of the
British fleet. In the case of the
Hood and the Bismarck the Germans
suffered a distinct loss. The Hood
was a battle cruiser, not a battle
ship, and was a bit on the old side,
whereas the Bismarck was beyond
doubt as she demonstrated in her
last fight, a stronger battleship than
any single ship in the British fleet.
Naval experts admit now that she
was better, and therefore the Tir
pitz is probably better, than even
the latest U. S. battleship, the North
Carolina.
What the Germans have been
building meanwhile is not known.
But the British have been busy,
and so has the United States.
• • •
Did the Nazis
Miss a Bet?
What the German admiralty is
really sick about since the Japanese
destruction of U. S. and British cap
ital ships at the outbreak of the Pa
cific war, is that they did not at
tempt the same sort of air blitz on
the British navy, before the British
admiralty learned its first bitter les
son at Scapa Flow.
They must be thinking, that if in
stead of sending one Nazi U-boat on
a "suicide” raid into Scapa Flow—
the one which sank the Royal Oak
and escaped—they had sent several
subs and several hundred bombers,
they might have so smashed the
British grand fleet that they could
have risked a big sea battle in that
first winter of the war.
Interesting in this connection is
the belief by experts here that the
Japanese naval operations in the
Pacific were planned by the Ger
mans. Indeed our experts believe
the planes which did so much dam
age at Pearl Harbor and Hickam
field were not Japanese planes at
all. but four Nazi bomber planes.
Further, it is not believed these big
planes were brought by carrier, as
has been generally assumed, but
that they were flown from the Mar
shall islands.
But naval knowledge has in
creased enormously in the last little
while. It was the argument of the
old admirals, in our navy and the
British particularly, that battleships
could not be sunk by airplanes. We
know now that it is easier, as a
matter of fact, to sink a battleship
by airplanes than by gunfire!
-Till-: -
By VIRGINIA VALE
IKekswd by Western Newspaper Union.)
THANKS to the war, Errol
Flynn lost his chance to
be Prince Charming at a huge
debutante party in New York.
Picture the scene as it was
planned. According to an
nouncements, he was to be
seated in a silver coach, which at
midnight would rise from the or
chestra pit But the debutante can
celled the party, feeling that it was
not fitting to go through with it in
war time.
-*
Hollywood’s station wagon bat
talion, formed a few weeks ago to
meet emergencies in time of w’ar, is
now being put through its paces, ac
cording to the King's men, the
quartet of the Fibber McGee and
Molly program. They are listed
among the 200 members of the bat
talion.
-*- •
Ginger Rogers will star in “The
Major and the Minor,” a romantic
comedy, as her first picture under
her recently signed agreement with
Paramount It ought to be a swell
GINGER ROGERS
picture; its authors wrote “Hold
Back the Dawn," “Ninotchka” and
"Ball of Fire.”
Incidentally, Ginger has spent six
years attempting to gain six pounds,
and has finally achieved that goal.
-*
With practically all the other girls
In Hollywood going in for very short
hair, Claudette Colbert, who has
worn hers fairly short, will have the
longest bob she’s ever worn in “The
Palm Beach Story.” Her hair will
fall to her shoulders, but she’ll keep
her famous bangs. It’s a Preston
Sturges picture, this new one, and
Joel MvCrea plays opposite her.
-*
Once again Director Norman
Taurog is looking for a baby. He's
the man who, eight years ago, con
ducted the search for an infant
who could mimic Maurice Cheva
lier’s out-thrust lower lip—a search
that brought Baby Le Roy to the
screen. Later he was responsible
for the casting of Jackie Cooper in
“Skippy.” Now he seeks a year
old child who resembles Ray Mil
land, for “Mr. and Mrs. Cugat.”
-*
As soon as the first word of
Japan’s attack on Hawaii reached
the United States the March of Time
began preparing as its next release
a comprehensive film story of how
this country, in the last war, came
through to final victory. Titled “Our
America at War,” it ends by show
ing that, as America won the last
war through co-ordinated effort, so
she will win this one.
-*
One night not so long ago Mickey
Rooney was called to the telephone.
It was Carmen Miranda — she’d
heard that he was going to do an
impersonation of her in “Babes on
Broadway.” To make sure that it
would be a good one, she arranged
to coach him, and the result is the
very funny burlesque of her that he
does in the picture.
Cary Grant's main idea, when he
finished working in “Suspicion,”
with Joan Fontaine, was to catch
up on sleep. Said he hadn’t had a
day or evening to himself since he
started work in “My Favorite
Wife,” more than a year ago; “Sus
picion” was his fifth picture in a
row without a good long vacation.
Maybe all those extra-curricular
activities that we heard about were
just rumors.
-*
Joan Blaine, who soon starts
doubling between two air serials for
a total of three broadcasts a day,
vastly prefers radio to any other
branch of show business. “Stage
and film stars are so visibly beau
tiful,” says she. “Their waists are
thin, their eyelashes sweep alarm
ingly. Their slips never show. But
—the radio actress is just folks to
her audience.”
-*
ODDS AMD ENDS—Paula fTinslow
was brought in to do Shirley Temple’s
screams in the little star’s first radio
series: the first time she yelled Shirley
herself jumped in alarm . . . Two young
players, Anne Rutherford and Robert
Sterling, get breaks in Metro's “Just
Between I’s”—they have leading roles
. . . Kate Smith now does her mid-day
broadcasts from the CBS newsroom . . .
Robert Montgomery got home from
England, for a vacation, just in time to
be called into service here . . . John
Scott Trotter is making the most of his
flair for good food, he’s preparing a
cook book, which he ought to dedicate
to Bing Crosby.
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It’s not much good being a “go- •
getter” if you don’t know where
you are going.
The only thing that anger can make
better is the arch in a cat’s back.
Make the best you can of the
worst you get.
To remove finger marks from
washable wallpaper, rub gently
with a soft cloth dipped in warm
wrater. Wipe off quickly and then
dry with a clean soft cloth.
• • •
Try dipping the knife in boiling
water before cutting cake or pie.
• • •
Don’t heat soup too quickly and
never allow it to boil.
• • *
If, when you stand in front of
the sink, you can lay the palms
of your hands on the sink bottom
without bending your elbows, then
the sink is the right height.
* * •
Grapefruit and oranges will peel
more easily if you soak them three
minutes in boiling water to cover.
That will make the membrane
come off along with the skin. Then
chill the fruit for use in salads,
cocktails, or desserts.
* • •
The white part of orange and
lemon rinds is usually bitter. So
when grating use only the outside
yellow part.
If doors and drawers swell so
much that they won’t close, sand- *
paper or plane the edges, and then
varnish the surface to prevent fur
ther swelling or shrinking.
• * •
When spreading crackers with
cheese, mix a little butter with the
cheese, creaming it with a fork.
The mixture will spread more eas
ily on the crackers and will have
a better flavor.
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