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HOUSEHOLD mtMos .WA ### Chowder Comes to the Dinner Table! (See Recipes Below) Soup Suggestions There'* a lively Interest in soup these days, and rightly so, for a ter weather. Soups are good for filling in that gap before the main dish is brought to the table to satisfy the hungry. If they are substantial enough, that is, if they are creamed soups, or the thicker type of vegetable and meat combinations, no main dish U required. And, if there are any dieting members in the family, there are enough of the lighter types of •oupg which not only satisfy, but are low in caloric value. First, there are the substantial lentil soups which have much nour ishment: soup that's rich enough can take the place of a meat dish at a meal and still sat isfy even appe tites made keenest by blustery win Bean Soup. 1H pounds pork shoulder or ham t tablespoons onion, chopped 1 pound navy beans 1 teaspoon salt K teaspoon white pepper Soak the beans in water over night. In the morning, parboil them. Cover the meat with wa ter, then add beans, onions, salt and pepper. Cook 2V4 to S hours. Serve with dumplings, if desired. Yellow Split Pea Soup. S pounds smoked brisket of beef •r scraps of dried beef, sausage or bam bone S cups yellow split peas S quarts cold water M cup celery, diced 1 small onion, cut fine t tablespoons butter or substitute 1 teaspoon sugar t teaspoons salt % teaspoon white pepper S tablespoons flour Pick over and wash peas. Soak them in cold water overnight, then drain and place in a saucepot with meat. Add cold water and let sim mer gently for about 4 hours. Add celery during last part of cooking. Remove meat when tender Skim fat off the top of the soup. Heat 2 tablespoons of butter in frying pan, add the onions and brown. Blend in flour and gradually add soup, stir ring constantly. Season to taste and serve with smoked meat, adding croutons. Clam Chowder. 1 quart clams 4 cupa potatoes diced 2 inch square fat, salt pork 1 onion, diced 1 teaspoon salt H teaspoon pepper 4 teaspoons butter 4 cups milk I soda crackers, rolled Pick over clams, drain and cut pork in small pieces. Fry out in skillet Add onion and fry S min utes. Add pota- / toes, clam liquid \ and enough water to cover. Cook until nearly ten der, then add but ter. milk and seasoning. When po tatoes are done and milk is very hot. add clams and cook for 3 minutes Lynn Says: Soups for Meals: If there is any water left after vegetables are cooked, this should be saved and used for soup stock A few extra vegetables may be added to give stronger flavor. When milk is added to soups. It’s richness and nutritive value Is increased. Serve big helpings of salad when soup is the main dish and have a really nutritious meal Soups may be garnished with toasted croutons, whipped cream or egg white or sprinklings of grated cheese, paprika, and pars ley. Lynn Chambers’ Point-Saving Menu , 'Vegetable Chowder Buttered Rye Toast Jellied Grapefruit Salad Fudge Pudding Beverage •Recipe given. •Vegetable Chowder. (Serve* 6) % cup butter 3 medium onion*, peeled and chopped Z slice* green pepper, chopped tine ZM cups green bean* 3 medium carrot*, scraped and sliced thin 5 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed 3 cups boiling water 4 cups milk 3 teaspoons salt Black pepper to suit taste 6 ounces <4 cup* grated Ameri can cheese Seasoning Balt Melt butter in soup kettle. Add onions and green pepper and sim mer 2 to 3 minutes in boiling water. Wash beans and slice thin. Pre pare carrots and potatoes. Add beans and boiling water to butter and onion mixture, and cook uncov ered for 15 minutes, or until all vege tables are tender. By this time most of the water will have evaporated. Add milk to the chowder, stirring carefully; heat Just to boiling. Add salt, pepper and grated cheese. Remove immediately from Are and stir until cheese is melted. Serve piping hot with a sprinkling of sea soning salt on each serving. Unusual soups are good to have In any cook's repertoire should you want to do something different for the company or family occasionally. Chicken Meringue Soup. (Serves 6) 1 quart chicken stock 1 carrot, sliced 3 onion slices 1 sprig parsley 2 tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca 2 cups hot milk 2 beaten egg yolks H cup cream H teaspoon salt 2 egg whites Heat chicken stock and vegetables for 15 minutes; strain and add tapi oca; place over < hot water and cook until tapioca i is transparent. \ Add milk, then ' egg yolks com bined with cream. ~ Cook stirring con stantly until thickened. Add salt to egg whites and beat until stiff. Serve soup in individual dishes topped with egg while sprinkled with paprika or chopped parsley. Liver-Ball Soup. (Serves 6 to 8) 2 pounds beef brisket 2 teaspoons salt It teaspoon pepper I bay leaf I cup coarsely chopped celery Ut cups canned tomatoes I cup slieed carrots Cover meat with cold water and add seasonings. Simmer 1 hour j Add vegetables and simmer m hours. Force vegetables through i colander and add to meat stock. Re j heat and add liver balls Simmer 15 minutes. Liver balls: Combine Vi pound calves’ liver, % cup dry bread crumbs. Vi cup finely chopped pars ley, Vi teaspoon celery seed, V« tea spoon salt, dash of pepper, 2 table spoons flour, 1 beaten egg and Vi teaspoon onion juice; mix well and chill thoroughly. Form into 1-inch balls. Cel the most from your meat! Get your meat roustina churl from Miss l.ynn Chambers b> writing to her in care of Western Xews/mper I'nion, 210 South Despluines Street, Chicago 6, III. I'leuse tend a slumped, self addressed envelope for your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Union. GOD IS MY i «, CO-PILOT * Col. Robert L.Scotf WNU. RELEASE The story thus far: After graduating from West Point, Robert Scott wins bis wings at Kelly Field and takes np combat flying. He bat been an Instructor for four years when tbe war breaks out, and Is told be It now too old for combat flying. He appeals to several Generals and is Anally offered an opportunity to get Into tbe Aght. He flies a bomber to India, but Is made a ferry pilot and this does not suit him. He visits Gen. Chen nault, gets a Klttyhawk, and soon la flying the skies over Burma, known as the “one man air force.” Later he It made C.O. of the Z3rd Fighter Group, but he still keeps on knocking down Jap planet. He goes out on bis greatest mis sion, over Hongkong. CHAPTER XXV Pilots waiting for the order to go into the air. Sitting at the crude table, waiting for the chow wagon or for an alert. Listening with Keen ears for the Jingle of the telephone. Playing gin rummy or poker, but hearing everything that was going on. A player would be dealing the deck, and in the middle of the rou tine of dropping a card here, and one there, the phone would ring. The card would stop in the air, poised over the table while we all heard the Chinese interpreters pick up the magneto phone and utter the famil iar "Wey—wey,” as they say "hel lo.” The card would remain there over the table, undealt throughout the telephone conversation—until the player realized what he was do ing. Then he'd go hesitatingly on. Perhaps the call was one of the hundreds that meant nothing; only the Chinese really knew, and we could only wait and find out. Then again, the receiver of the telephone might drop back Into place and the Interpreter would say something to another Chinese. This second one would go to the plotting-board, look at the marked co-ordinates, and qui etly put a little red flag down over a certain city towards Japanese ter ritory. Even then, with one warn ing only, the game could go on for a long time in confidence. Perhaps the Squadron command er or the officer who was on the alert that day would move out of the game and start looking the map and the flags over, sizing up the situation. As the picture formed and it became apparent that this was a real attack he'd just go over and tell the card-game about it Or maybe two or three men would be gin to get helmets out. The game would silently break up, with cards and CN left where they were. Hel mets and gloves would be put on. Men who were pretending to be sleeping in the bags on the floor would be awakened. And the tension dropped off like > cloak. It wasn’t the actual combat these fighter pilots feared, (or we all wanted combat more than anything else; It was the damnable uncer tainty—the ringing of a telephone, an ominous sound that most of the time meant nothing. When men went out of the door to get into their ships and take off there was no handing to friends on the ground of last letters to take care of, no entrusting of rings and watches to room-mates. For fighter pilots don't think of not coming back. They are invincible, or think they are. and they have to be that way. Down in our hearts we may figure that some accident will get us some day, when we are old and gray, when our beards get in the way of the controls, or we get to where we don't see well or react fast—but we know that no enemy fighter is good enough to shoot us down. If that happens it's Just an accident. These thoughts are the "chips" that we carry on our shoulders, and they have to be there—arrogant, ego tistical chips mellowed by flying technique and experience and forti fled by the motto, “Attack!’' Never be on the defensive. Shoot the ene my down before he can shoot you down. You are better than he is. but don't give him a chance. He may get in a lucky shot but you're Invincible. Move towards any dot in the sky that remotely resembles an airplane. Move to attack, with switches on and the sight ready. If it's not a ship or if it's a friendly one you’ll be ready anyway, and your arrogant luck will last a lot longer. The worry comes before you get to take off for combat—wondering whether or not you’ll do the right thing out of habit After you’re in the air it’s all the fun of flying and doing the greatest Job in the world. You are up there, pitying all earth bound creatures who are not privi leged to breathe this purer air on high. Your training makes you do the combat work that is ahead with out thinking about the movements. Months and years of training . . hours of waiting on the ground . . high-powered engines pulling you up and up to the attack—and then in a few fleeting seconds the combat is over, your ship is all that's in the sky, and you’re on the way home again to base, whistling and think ing how easy it was and what a great and glorious life it really is. You're wondering if you can pick those cards up and finish the game and take your CN back from Ajax or Johnny or Mack. You might be thinking how good that sleeping bag is going to feel, or wondering wheth er the transports that can '.and on the field, now that the air raid alert is over, have brought you any mail . . . “Dog-gone, wonder it that woman Is writing me?” Maybe they’ve even made tome mistake back over there In the States and have sent some new planes out here, and we’re going to get the best in the world, planes that go a hundred miles an hour faster and climb 4,500 feet a minute to fifty thousand feet. But there’s your crew-chief now, waving you tn —and he’s looking at the patches you’ve shot from the blast tubes of your guns and knows you’ve fired at the enemy. Or maybe your "vic tory roll" warned him anyway . . . Who knows? Day after day. through the early part of November, we actually prayed that the weather East would clear, so that we could stop our small, piddling attacks on Burma apd go back to Hongkong. I knew that General Chennault and Colonel Cooper were planning a big one for the next time, for now we had the largest force of fighters we had ever seen in China. New P-40's had been arriving in tfViall numbers, but steadily. The Group was actually being built up to strength at last. With the first breaks in the heavy winter clouds, Bert Carleton was sent with his transport and our ground personnel to Kweilin. Avia tion fuel and bombs were placed ready for instant use, and I could feel the tension in the air again. From the daily reports on the air warning net it could be seen that the Japanese had maintained a con stant aerial patrol over Hongkong and vicinity since our last attack. With the first break in the clouds we sent observation planes over with A (roup of fighter pilots on the alert at Kunming. a top-cover of several fighters, but the Jap would not come up to fight the shark-mouthed planes. His In structions appear to have been: Walt for the American bombers. On November 21, the ground crews got to Kweilin. Instead of keeping them in the hostel that first night to insure that information would not leak out to the enemy, we sent them to town, first casually remarking that we were here now for the second attack on Hongkong. Early next morning our twelve bombers slipped into Kweilin, with Colonel (promoted since the last at tack) Butch Morgan in the lead ship. The strengthened fighter force of between thirty and forty planes infiltrated for reservice—some went to Kweilin, others scattered to the surrounding emergency fields for better protection of the bombers. As soon as I landed I ran up to the cave and the General took me in and showed me the plotting-board. The little red flags indicated increased vigilance at Hongkong. Then I got my orders: “Strike Hongay.” In an hour the bombers were off to bomb the coal mines and docks of that Indo-Chinse port North of Haiphong. Morgan sank a 12.000-ton ship that was reported to have been an air craft carrier. The fighter escort strafed ferry boats, small surface craft, and looked for Jap fighters trying to intercept. But none came. That night the enemy sent up a flight of three bombers to each of our fields, looking for our forces. But we were so scattered that their luck was bad. Night fighters from all stations took off, but those under Maj. Harry Pike at Kweilin made perfect contact. The entire Japa nese formation of three bombers was shot down over the field. Pike. Lom bard. and Griffin each added an en emy ship to their scores, but Lom bard was shot down in flames when the Jap gunners blew up his belly tank. Lombard had made the tac tical error of pulling up over the bombers after delivering fire that shot one down. We had given him up for lost when he walked in car rying his chute—and begging for an other ship. At dawr. 'he next day, November 23, I led the group to escort Mor gan to Sanchau Island with twelve bombers. We had noted that the Japs were strengthening the air patrol over Hongkong even more. The General had smiled and said, "We're making them waste a ter rible amount of gasoline.'* We saw Morgan's bombs »ake out two of the three hangars on the Is land field, and we went down to strafe and watch for interceptors taking off. Some of the night got three, but my plane was hit by the ack-ack. and when the oil pressure began Immediately to fail. I started for the mainland and home With the oil pressure slowly going from seventy to fifty and Anally to noth ing. I sweated out my return to Kweilin and Just made it by men-* tally lifting the ship onto the strip between the jagged stalagmites that seemed to guard our Aeld. That afternoon I led sixteen Aght ers to escort our twelve bombers to Canton. Capt. Brick Holstrom, who had participated in the raid on Tokyo the preceding April, led the bombers. As the Aghters kept the new tactical "squirrel cage” about his formation he deliberately cir cled to the South of Tien Ho air drome and covered the target area perfectly with his long string of bombs. The anti-aircraft was heavy and increased as we went on North over White Cloud Aeld. I looked back at the results at Tien Ho and felt a surge of pride at that per fect bombing from fourteen thou sand feet. This was teamwork, I knew now. with bombers and Aght ers properly proportioned. All of us were mad because the Japs wouldn’t come up. The bomber crews had reported them taking off from both Aelds and keeping low. but heading in all directions. The accurate bombing must have de stroyed many of them on the ground, for we had made a feint of continu ing on South to Hongkong. I sent one ship home with each bomber. The rest of us hung back and tried to tempt the enemy Zeros to come up; but they had evidently received their orders. Next morning Lieut. Pat Daniels got up begging the General to let him lead a dive-bombing attack on an aircraft assembly plant in Can ton. His plan was good, and the mission was made ready. All of us went down to the alert shack and watched the ground crew load ing the little yellow fragmentation bombs under the wings of six P-40E’s. A short time later they were off, with Daniels waiting to blow up the factory, and all set with his movie camera to take pictures automatically as he dove the bombs into the target. Three hours later only five of the six returned. Pat Daniels was missing in action. His wing man had seen his leader lose part of his wing in an explosion on the way in with the bombs. Anti-aircraft could have done it, but most of us agreed from the description that Daniels* bombs might have hit his own pro peller. At the tremendous speed that a fast fighter-ship builds up In a long and nearly vertical dive, pres sures are also built up from the in creased speed. This torque ne cessitates so much compensating pressure on the rudder that one must actually stand on the rudder control. While doing this, Pat might have relaxed pressure Just as he reached down to pull the bomb re lease; this would have allowed the speeding plane to "yaw” or skid, and the bombs could have struck the arc of the prop. The only note oi encouragement was that a chute had been seen when the fighters left the target. Lieut Patrick Daniels was one of our best and most aggressive pilots, and we missed him immediately —and hoped for the best That same night. Johnny Alison led eight ships in a fighter sweep and dive-bombing attack on the docks at Hankow, over four hundred miles to the North. In the river harbor, with the sky criss-crossed by tracers from the ground, Johnny dropped his bombs on the hangars and on a large freighter. Then for ten minutes he strafed the enemy vessel and badly disabled it. Cap tain Hampshire dove and shot the searchlights out until he was out of ammunition. The night attack so deep into enemy territory was a daring one and did much to confuse the Japs further. Johnny’s ships were rather badly shot up from the ground-fire, and he was lucky to get them all back to base safely. But it was such missions as these which built up the circumstances that would assure the success of the big attack the General was plan ning. next aay, wun eigmecn ngniers, we escorted the bombers to raid Sienning, an occupied town near Hankow. We kept the circling move ment all around our B-25’s and tried to give them an added feeling of security by our presence. Through heavy anti-aircraft fire. Morgan led the attack in and didn’t waste a bomb. We left the warehouses in flames, and there was much less ack-ack coming up towards us than when we first approached. Arriving back at our advanced base, we refueled and bombed up again. Then we made the second raid of the day towards Hankow, over the town of Yoyang. Once again Morgan blasted the target, with black bursts of anti-aircraft fire bouncing around the formation. But there was no interception, and now we were feeling blue. We couldn’t destroy the Jap Air Force If they were going to try to save their airplanes. We spent the next day. Thanks giving, working on the airplanes and resting We had flown seven missions in four days, and both men and ma chines were tired and in need of re pair We had a special dinner that night, but remained extra vigilant against a surprise by the Jap. On that Thanksgiving evening, as we were grouped around the Gen- | eral, he brought out a bottle ot Scotch some one had given him. (TO BE CONTINUED) I SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK Amusing and Practical Dishcloth 5809 Gay Dishcloth F JSE red and white crochet thread for this practical and lovely dishcloth that looks like a small dancer’s frock. It’s 10 inches in all and has “shoulderstraps” to hang by your sink. They make gay and unusual gifts. O- N O- O- N (V. (V <v (v. <v. <v. tv. <v, (v. (V. (V. (V. D* N <V- D* O- (V. fv. (v. (V- (V. (V. (V. 1. The crew of Columbus’ fleet was composed of what type of people? 2. Where is the greatest molyb denum mine in the world situ ated? 3. 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