Sugar Substitutes
Come Into Limelight
After the Holidays
Pears and other (rult may be
■tewed or baked with very little ad
ditional sugar because the fruit is so
■weet In itself. Fruit desserts are
kind to low-on-sugar budgets.
Sugar-Shy Sweets
Have the holidays exhausted your
supply of sugar and sweets? Today's
collection of reci
pes is especially
planned for the
low sugar budget,
for strange though
it may seem,
I there are many
| foods which can
be fixed with a minimum ol sugar.
Try packaged mixes, dried fruits,
candied fruits, and the sugar sub
stitutes if the sugar canister is get
ting empty. There are many pack
aged fillings which will relieve sugar
from being used in pie and cake
fillings, and these come in a variety
of flavors.
Substitute as many of the fresh
fruits for dessert as possible, and if
they are baked, sweeten with maple
or corn syrup. If your favorite
cookie recipes call for one cup of
sugar, use 3* of a cup They will be
Just as gowl. if a little less sweet.
Marble Molasses Cake.
$4 t up butter or substitute
% rup sugar
2 eggs beaten
2 cups sifted cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
y4 teaspoon salt
% cup milk
2 teaspoons allspice
3 tablespoons molasses
Have all ingredients at room tem
perature. Measure out flour, sugar,
■alt and butter in bowl. Beat for 2
minutes. Add eggs and milk and
beat for another two minutes. Take
out one-third of batter and mix with
molasses and allspice. Drop by
spoonfuls into greased loaf pan, al
ternating light and dark mixture
Bake in a moderate oven for 1 hour.
Serve plain or frosted.
Angel Cake.
m cups light corn syrup
5 egg whites
i 5 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla
i 1 teaspoon baking powder
I 1 cup sifted flour
1 1 tablespoon lemon Juice
$4 teaspoon salt
Boil syrup until it forms a soft
ball when tested in cold water.
Beat egg whites
stiff but not dry,
pour syrup over
them slowly, con
tinue beating.
Add the lemon
juice and vanilla.
Beat this mixture
until it holdi its
shape. Fold in
egg yolks, beaten
until thick and lemon-colored. Fold
in sifted dry Ingredients. Bake in
large ungreased tube pan in a slow
oven (300 deg.) until well browned
and done, about minutes. Invert
until cake loosens. Ice with following:
Lynn Says:
Sugar-Savers: When stewing
fresh or dried fruits or making
fruit sauces, add sugar or syrup
just a few minutes before cooking
is finished. Don’t forget to add a
pinch of salt to the fruit while it
cooks. Both these little tricks will
help make the fruit seem sweeter
without using up a great deal of
sugar.
Dried fruits are rich in sweeten
ing and may be made into fruit
whips without any sugar Simply
stew the fruit, cook and put
through a sieve. Beat two egg
whites until stiff and use cup
of dark corn syrup beaten into
them The amount of fruit puree
required for this amount of egg
white-syrup mixture is \ cup
Since powdered sugar is more
readily obtained than the granu
lated type, use it in icings Pow
dered sugar is especially good
when mixed in the proportion of
one cup to a three-ounce package
of cream cheese and flavored
with orange juice.
Lynn Chamber*’
Point-Saving Menu
Calves’ Liver Baked
in Sour Cream
Buttered Spinach Fried Potatoes
Apple-Cranberry Salad
Rolls Jelly
•Ginger Pudding
•Recipe given.
Sugarless Icing.
1 egg white, unbeaten
\k cup light corn syrup
teaspoon salt
V4 teaspoon vanilla
Combine all ingredients in top of
double boiler. Beat with a rotary
beater until thick enough to stand
in peaks. Spread on cake.
A delightful spicy pudding can
easily be made from sugar substi
tutes, and these are guaranteed to
satisfy the family:
•Ginger Pudding.
(Serves 6)
1 cup hot coffee
2 tablespoons shortening
1 cup molasses
1 well-beaten egg
% cup sugar
2 cups flour
H teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon soda
Vi teaspoon cinnamon
% teaspoon each cloves, nutmeg,
ginger
Pour coffee over shortening and
stir until melted.
Add molasses and
mix thoroughly.
Add egg and beat.
Add sifted dry in
gredients, mix un
til smooth. Foui
into wax - linec
square pan and
bake in moderate
oven (350 deg.)
tor .«) rnmuies. hpreact wun me
following:
Orange Topping.
/£ cup sugar
2 tablespoons grated orange rind
2 tablespoons orange juice
Mix all ingredients and sprinkle
on top of pudding. Return to oven
which has had heat turned o(T, for
about 10 minutes.
Orange Fig Whip.
(Serves 6)
1 cup evaporated milk
1 cup broken flg-Hlled cookies
1 cup orange sections
H cup broken nutmcats
Whip milk and fold in cookies Add
orange sections and nut meats then
chill thoroughly. Pile lightly Into
sherbert glasses and serve.
Use an unbaked crumb filling for
pie to save fat. Filling can be made
of prepared pudding mixes to save
sugar.
Cookies, too, may be made with
a pleasing combination of a sugar
substitute and only a small amount
of sugar:
Peanut Cookies.
1 cup shortening
14 cup sugar
cup honey
1% cup sifted flour
% teaspoon salt
14 teaspoon baking powder
14 teaspoon soda
14 cup milk
2 cups quick-cooking oats
1 cup chopped seedless raisins
1 cup chopped peanuts
Cream shortening, add sugar and
honey. Beat and add sifted dry in
gredients, alternately with milk
Add oats, raisins and nuts Drop by
spoonfuls onto a greased cookie
sheet and bake for IS minutes in a
preheated (375 degree) moderate
oven.
Pecan Crispies.
1 cup shortening
114 cup sifted Hour
H cup confectioners’ sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups pecans, chopped
Cream shortening, add sugar and
vanilla Add pecans and flour Make
rolls about 2V4 inches long and 14
inch wide. Place on cookie sheet and
bake 15 to 20 minutes at 325 degrees
When baked, roll in powdered sugar
and cool on wire rack.
Cel the most from your meat! Cel
youi meal roasting chart from Miss
l.ynn Chambers />» writing to her in
care of Western Srwspaper I'nion, 210
South [tesplnines Street, Chicago 6, III
Clense send a stamped, self addressed
envelope for your reply.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
GOD IS MY
*, CO-PILOT
*Col. Robert L.Scott
w.N.g. release
The itory that far: After graduating
from Weil Point, Robert Scott wins hi*
wing* at Kelly Field and takes up combat
flying. He has been an Instructor for
four years when the war breaks out, and
Is told he Is now too old for combat flytng.
He appeals to several Generals and Is
Anally offered an opportunity to get into
the fight. After flying a bomber to India
he Is made a ferry pilot but this doe# not
suit him. He talks Gen. Chennault Into
giving him a Klttyhawk for combat fly
ing, and soon Is flying the skies over
Burma, becoming known as the "on#
man air force." I.ater he Is made C.O.
of the 23rd Fighter Group, but he still
keeps knocking Jap planes out of the
skies.
CHAPTER XXVI
We figured that some Important
announcement was about to be made,
and out there in the hostel area
everything was quiet. The amber
liquid was divided among some forty
men, and each of us got a few
drops in a Chinese teacup—but it
was enough for the ceremony.
The General grinned at us and
said, “We’ve got the Japs worried
now, we've hit everywhere except
what he thought we'd attack. To
morrow is the Day." We could hard
ly keep from cheering. But we held
up our “brimming cups” and just
said, "To you, Cc-neral." The drops
never tasted better.
That night, after the announce
ment, we closed the post and kept
all men from going into town. This
would cause talk in the right places.
Colonel Cooper went into Kweilin
and discreetly passed out the news
that we were ready for the main
attack. Somehow he arranged for
just the right information to begin
its round-about journey to the Jap
anese.
The seed had now been sown.
On November 27 the largest force
of bombers we had ever used in Chi
na, escorted by the largest force of
fighters, rolled down the runway at
Kweilin. There were fourteen bomb
ers, with twenty-two P-40's for es
cort. We had also left a strong
force on the ground at Kweilin, just
in case the Jap tried something
while we were away. I led the
headquarters section of the fighter
escort and made up the reserve. My
position in the escort would be three
thousand feet above the bombers.
Down below me a thousand feet was
Johnny Alison with his flight of
eight, on the right flank of Morgan’s
bombers. Colonel Bruce Holloway
had the flight on the left flank, an
other thousand feet lower. Colonel
Cooper was riding in the lead bomb
er as intelligence officer, and that
day was going to demonstrate the
teamwork that he had striven for,
between the fighters and the bomb
ers.
Cooper had been so anxious to ac
company our raids that he seemed
keenly disappointed whenever other
duties interfered. He was threaten
ing today to take over one of the tur
rets in the lead bomber and shoot
down the first Jap. I joked with
Coop on the way to our fighters that
morning, and told him that we in the
fighters were so glad to have him
along that we were going to let one
Jap through, just so he could shoot it
down and get the pilot’s ears for his
little boy. We laughed as we sep
arated.
The large formation—large for us
In China—assembled over the air
drome and took a course North in
the direction of Hankow. We want
ed reports from other spies in Kwei
lin to get started, for this mission
was planned mainly to get the Jap
Air Force into the air where we
could get at it. We usually evaded
towns as we began our attacks, but
today we went low over Kweilin,
and then to the North. When we
were beyond the prying and ready
ears of any spies, we turned to a
direct heading for Hongkong.
Now we climbed above high over
cast to twenty-thousand feet, and
settled down for the three hundred
miles ahead. In fifty-five minutes
the clouds began to break and scat
ter, and we approached enemy ter
ritory with a cloudless sky and per
fect visibility. Over to the right
now I caught the glint of the sun on
the Junction of the three rivers that
meet near Canton In a figure like a
trident. Far ahead I saw the hills
of Hongkong Island and the ever
present fog banks out in the Pacific.
We crossed the East River that
led down to Canton, and the bomb
ers turned ninety degrees to the
right, away from Hongkong—and we
swept towards Canton. For again
we were going where the enemy
were not expecting us. The Gen
eral was about to outguess the Japa
nese as always
I could imagine the small aerial
screen over Hongkong watching and
waiting, while on the ground at Kai
Tak in Kowloon, on Sanchau Island,
at Tien Ho and White Cloud in Can
ton. the enemy Zeros were waiting
to take off after we had passed Can
ton, to come and get us over Hong
kong or to intercept us on the way
home. We bored in towards our tar
gets—shipping on the East River at
Canton and at Whangpoo Docks We
had special reports that two freight
ers were unloading new Zeros and
spare airplane engines at Canton
that morning.
Just South of Tien Ho airdrome,
we split the bomber formation, and
one of the fighter echelons went with
each of the three bomber flights,
each with an assigned target. My
flight stayed with the lead bomber
formation, and I saw our target, an
8,000-ton freighter surrounded by
many lighters, there in the river.
The smoke from the single stack
was lazily going straight up. Mor
gan’s bombardier was bending
tensely over his bomb-sight now,
keeping the cross-hairs on the tar
get. I knew the A.F C.E. was fly
ing the lead bomber as we went on
the straight bombing run towards
our target.
I saw the string of bombs bracket
the freighter perfectly, and later
photos showed four direct hits from
the first flight. The lighters around
the doomed vessel were blown high
and in all directions. Down to our
left, Holloway, escorting the other
flight whose target was a freighter,
saw the vessel hit, then saw the
smoke. Alison had his fighter force
with the third flight; they had al
ready bombed the docks and were
fighting Zeros from getting to the
bombers.
Then, under the lead flight of
bombers, I saw the enemy fighters
coming up and I knew we had them.
All the enemy planes were below
us, climbing steeply for the bellies
of the bombers. They had waited
on the ground too long, had waited
for us to pass Canton and go on to
Hongkong. Now we had every ad
vantage. General Chennault had
foxed them again, and I had an idea
that we were in for a profitable day.
I called directions to the Group as
the bombers closed up and I started
down. Alison was even now shoot
The Flying Tiger of the AVG
Jumps through the Chinese Sun and
tears Jap Sag.
ing down Zeros around the last for
mation of bombers. Holloway called
to one of his elements to take the
climbing Jap ships and return to
formation. We were fighting this
battle like a business, and we were
going to keep together until every
bomber was safely on the way home
to lunch at Kweilin.
About four thousana feet under
the l«IRding three bombers I could
see the first of the steeply climbing
Japs. As I dove closer I could even
see the white smoke rings that
formed in front of his wings, and I
knew from experience that he was
firing his cannon at the bottom of
the bombers as he climbed. The Jap
carries in his wings smaller guns
that have tracers: he gets these on
his target, then shoots his cannon.
As I took this first enemy ship, I
had one moment of panic: it seemed
very close to Morgan’s lead ship—
maybe I couldn't get to it in time.
Then my dive took me right up
above the Zero, between him and
the bomber. I held my fire until
the last two hundred yards, and
shot the Zero down with a two-sec
ond burst. It exploded within a
hundred yards of the ship in which
Colonel Cooper was—he confirmed
it for me later. But as I pulled up
and looked for the next enemy ship,
I recalled that I had almost made
my joking threat too good. For the
Jap had got too close to the bomber
in which the Chief of Sta fT was rid
ing.
My wing man stayed with me and
we fired on the second Zero together.
I could see his tracers coming from
my right I closed in with a full
deflection shot and held a burst
ahead of the next enemy ship. He
climbed on up towards the bomb
ers and flew right through my
tracers. His ship turned in a slow,
almost too deliberate half-loop,
stalled out, then dove straight down.
At first I thought that I had fired too
far in front of him and he'd turned
to evade the fire; then, as I watched
the speeding ship go straight into the
hills between Tien Ho field and
White Cloud, I knew I had shot the
pilot. The ship did not burn until
it crashed.
I fired at six Japanese fighters so
fast that I didn't see what happened
to any of them. You get a snap
shot and then the Zero is gone,
rolling over, or you're turning for
another one, or you're getting your
nose down to make sure that you
never lose your speed and too much
altitude when you’re fighting those
highly maneuverable ships.
One other I saw trailing smoke as
he rolled over, but I didn’t get to
see him catch fire or crash. The
bombers had outrun our dog-fight
and were going down-hill fast for
Kweilin. I heard Morgan call that
chow was on. and I knew he con
sidered his bombers safe. 1 called
and told Captain Goss to escort the
bombers to base.
The others of us broke away look
ing for straggling Japs. I took my
flight over towards White Cloud air
drome, where ack-ack was so heavy
that it was just about making the sky
black. I guess I must have thought
of Lieutenant Daniels—for I dove 1
hadn’t heard a single P-40 call for
help; so I was fairly confident that
we had won the battle. My wing
man must have got lost in my dive.
From the altitude at which I had
started my dive I couldn’t see what
was on White Cloud field, but as I
pulled half out of the four-hundred
mile-an-hour dive over the hills
South of the airdrome, I saw an air
plane. It was a big ship, which I
soon saw had three engines. The
door was open, and I think men
were hurrying to get in or out. Two
cars were driving away from the
ship. Even at my speed I tried a
burst at the tri-motored Junkers 52,
but I saw the tracers go short, and
when I got closer I coud see the
dust far to the left of the target. My
speed was so great that I couldn't
hold enough pressure on the rudder
steadily for accurate shooting. But
I must have gotten a few tracers
in, for as I swept low over the ship
it seemed that dust was churned up
all about.
Turning low. i came back for a
better shot. The ack-ack was so
thick that I nearly forgot and turned
back. After all, that which I could
see had already exploded, and if I
wasn’t hit yet I was as well off one
place as another. My burst caught
the engines of the transport, which
I could see now were running. Uni
formed passengers were jumping
out of the door. I turned steeply and
fired on the door, then into the
fuselage. The ship was smoking,
and the engines had either been shot
up or had been cut off, for they had
stopped.
My engine missed several times,
as it had done from some poor gaso
line earlier in the flight, and I de
cided to let well enough alone and
get away from White Cloud. Keep
ing just about down in the rice. I
went straight North to the river.
With the engine missing every now
and then, 1 spent a miserable few
minutes that seemed like a year
until I got out of Jap territory.
I landed at Kweilin, and while I
counted the holes in my plane I
watched for the last of the fighters
to come in—half trying to count the
twenty-seven holes from the ground
fire around White Cloud and half
trying to sweat all the twenty-two
fighters back. All the bombers were
in and were being serviced and
bombed up again. Eighteen fight
ers finally came in, and we worried
until we got word that the other
four were at another field and would
be back later in the afternoon.
We made our reports to the Gen
eral and we knew he was pleased.
Out of 45 Zeros that had come up
for us over Canton we had shot
down 29 that were confirmed. Ali
son had stayed back there for twen
ty-five minutes and definitely had
seen that the two freighters loaded
with Zeros and engines had been
sunk. The nature of the cargo was
eventually confirmed. Three weeks
later we dive-bombed the salvage
parties that were diligently trying
to raise the sunken freighters. Evi
dently there had been something
very valuable to the Japanese on
the two big vessels.
We went on back to Kunming.
Sometimes I wonder if the Jap ever
did find out where General Chen
nault was going. Years after may
be they'd still be flying that patrol
over Hongkong, waiting for the at
tack that we were supposed to make.
As we carried out the long mis
sions into Burma in the days that
followed, I thought about how the
spirit of our air warfare had changed
from what I had heard about and
read of the last World War in the
air. There had been an element of
knighthood depicted in that first
struggle in the skies. Now I thought
I knew why.
Back there the pilots had been
carefully hand-picked. They were
the adventurous, devil-may-care hot
bloods, like those boys who had been
the Confederate cavalry tn the War
Between the States. More than like
ly when they fired at another pilot
and then saw that their victim'#
guns were “jammed,” they may
have “saluted" and dived away, un
willing to destroy the helpless ene
my. But this was a different type
of war, against a race of fanatics,
who had been repressed for so long
in their warped minds that they
were barbaric madmen.
From what I had already seen, I
knew that the Japanese soldier and
the Japanese war machine were not
out merely to beat us in war—they
were out to EXTERMINATE US.
even to the extent of killing our pi
lots whom they captured as prison
ers. And we knew that this had
been done even in April of 1942. We
learned of it again after the Hong
kong raid They would never give
up—they had gone all-out in a war to
the bitter end. There was no ro
mance about it. We knew that if
we were shot down and were not
killed in the crash, or if we were
captured, we would most certainly
be tortured and executed. That’s
why all of us never considered the
element of capture. Get out of the
crash-landing shooting, we always
said.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS
Attractive All-Occasion Play Suit
Play Sets for Brother and Sister
I
8725
1*5 yrs.
i
8732
/IM8
Jerkin Suit
IDEAL for any occasion, this
1 two-piece jerkin suit is tops
with the teen-age crowd. The
well-fitting jacket can be collar
less, if you like, and is smart too
with long or short sleeves. A
change of blouses gives you many
attractive costumes.
* * •
Pattern No. 8732 comes in sizes 11. 12,
13. 14. 16 and 18. Size 12. without sleeves,
requires 3*,i yards of 35 or 39-mch ma
terial; short sleeves, 33,« yards.
Girl and Boy Play Suits
DLAY togs for boy or girl—little
1 tots will love this practical set
made in corduroy with bright flow
er applique. Sister’s dress has
pert puffed sleeves—and she may
have overalls just like brother’s!
Use pretty scraps for the applique.
* * *
Pattern No. 8725 comes In sizes 1, 2. 3,
4 and 5 years. Size 2, dress, requires
yards of 35 or 39-inch material; panties,
■,2 yard; overalls, l*/2 yards.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions, slightly more time
is required in filling orders for a few ol
the most popular pattern numbers.
Send your order to;
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT.
530 South Wells St. Chicago
Enclose 25 cents in coins for each
pattern desired.
Pattern No.Size.
Name.
Address.
Pin perfume-soaked dabs of cot
ton to the hems of garments to
lend a subtle fragrance to body
and clothes.
—•—
Because of the residue of animal
fats, which pelts naturally have,
some perfumes suffer unpleasant
distortions when applied to furs.
So, it’s a good idea to test out the
compatibility of your muskrat or
mink with your own perfume be
fore you whoosh on a lot of the
fragrance.
—•—
As far as possible all windows
in a house should have a similar
appearance from the outside; if
the draperies hang straight, sheer
curtains used with them should
also hang straight.
Soft, figure-acknowledging jer
seys and crepes are favorites this
year. They should be laid away
when not in use and not hung from
hangers or hooks, because even
their own weight will distort them.
— • —
If you have difficulty driving a
finishing nail into hardwood with
out bending the nail, drive the nail
through a bottle cork, then through
into the wood. After nail has
started well into the wood, pull the
cork off and finish driving the
nail.
—•—
Defrost refrigerator when ice
coats coils as much as one-quarter
! of an inch and, while the box is
being de-iced, clean the shelves,
hydrator, walls, trays, ice com
partment, drain pipes—with hot
water mixed with a handful of
baking soda. To clean outside of
box and remove all stains, use
soapy hot water and, where need
ed, a gentle scouring powder. Give
box an airing before turning on
current. Refill trays with fresh
water and mop these dry before
returning to ice compartment.
Use a curling iron to stretch the
fingers of washable kid gloves.
—•—
Bacon fat and salt pork drip
pings add to the flavor of kale,
turnips and legumes.
—•—
When ripping clothing with a
two-edged razor blade, cut a sift
in a cork and put it on one side
of the blade to protect your hands
from being cut.
How Sluggish Folks
Get Happy Relief
WHEN CONSTIPATION makes you feel
punk ss the dickens, brings on stomach
upset, sour taste, gassy discomfort, take
Dr. Caldwell’s famous medicine to quickly
pull the trigger on lazy “innards”, and
help you feel bright and chipper again.
OR. CALDWELL’S is the wonderful senna
laxative contained in good old Syrup Pep*
sin to make it so easy to take.
MANY DOCTORS use pepsin preparation*
in prescriptions to make the medicine more
palatable and agreeable to take. So be sure
your laxative is contained in Syrup Pepsin.
INSIST ON DR.CALDWELL’S—the favorite
of millions for 50 years, and feel that whole
some relief from constipation. Even finicky
children love it.
CAUTIONi Use only as directed.
DR. COWELL’S
SENNA LAXATIVE ,
“"“"i”SYRUP PEPSIN
do VoT^IiwFT1™
We hare limited war-time auota of our patented, guaranteed, “ZIP-HONE
KITS." For all standard double-edge safety razor blades.
Incredibly lengthens blade life. Better shaves. Takes but a moment. Pay* for
itself over and over. Simple, practical, positive semi-automatic. j
“ZIP-HONE-KIT" sharpen* and strops BARBER METHOD. Sent postpaid
anywherein U .S. A .and to service men and women overseas upon receipt of only
$1.2) in money-order or check. Or C. O.D.in U. S. A.for $1.2) plus small postal
collection charge. (No overseas C.O. D. shipments.)
Print names and addresses plainly. (No cash or stamps please.)
SPECIAL LIMITED OFFER. )% discount on orders for five or more kits. Buy this way
for ser»:':e friends. National Bank references.
ZIP-HONE CO., P. O. Box 767, San Jose, California
We’re glad that in spite of war shortages
you can still get Smith Bros. Cough Drops.
We’ll be gladder still when Victory lets us
make all everybody needs. Smith Bros.—
Black or Menthol—still 5<.
SMITH BROS. COUGH DROPS
BLACK OR MENTHOL—5£
SHOT mar*