Serve Cake for Your Sunday Best
(See Recipes Below)
Distinctive Cakes
Homemakers will approach the
task of deciding desserts more light
heartedly when
there’s a luscious
cake stored
away in the mys
terious recesses
of the cupboard.
Besides, it's an
elegant idea to
have cakes on hand in case un
expected guests drop in.
Then, too, those of you who want
to raise money for your church or
Club group might want to haye a
sale of home-baked goods. Cakes,
of course, will bring handsome prof
its if the cakes are light and
feathery, and frosted beautifully.
When making a cake, try using
a cake or pastry flour. These flours,
made of soft wheat, contain less
gluten than all-purpose flour, and
will give cake a better, softer tex
ture. Follow the methods given,
either that of creaming the shorten
ing and sugar, or using the one
bowl method. Recipes must be test
ed for each type of method, and it
Is best to use the directions as
they are given here.
All the cake recipes have been
tested for freshness. You’ll find they
keep exceedingly well when covered
or kept in a cake tin.
From the south comes this yum
my cake with the unusual flavor of
pecans in its base:
Pecan Cake.
I cups pecans, flnely ground
« eggs
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon flour
H teaspoon salt
t teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
Beat the egg yolks until light, add
sugar gradually. Add nuts to the
flour which has been sifted with
salt and baking powder. Stir in
stiffly-beaten egg whites and flavor
ing. Pour into two eight-inch pans
which have been well greased and
lined with greased waxed paper.
Bake in a moderate oven (350 de
grees) for 35 to 40 minutes. Top light
ly with sweetened whipped cream
and fresh fruit. Bananas, pineapple,
raspberries and strawberries are a
treat!
If you want a cake with a melt
ln-your-mouth quality try a spice
cane muue wim
sour cream and a
flne combination
of spices. There’s
interesting tex
ture and flavor
given from the
mashed bananas
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Spice Cake.
H cup butter or shortening
IH cups brown sugar
4 egfm
5 bananas, mashed fine
LYNN SAYS
When You Buy, Take Care: If
you are selecting poultry, see that
the bird is plump, Arm and well
rounded. The skin should be
smooth and without discoloration.
Clear, even yellow-white color is
best. Avoid birds that look ex
tremely blue or gray. Look for
a flexible breast bone, smooth feet
and claws for roasting, broiling or
frying purposes.
In buying fish, be sure that the
flesh is firmly attached to the
' backbone. This flesh should
, show no mark when pressed with
the thumb. There will be little
fishy smell if the fish is really
fresh. The eyes should be clear
and bulging, not sunken.
Vegetables should be firm, full
bodied and fresh appearing.
Guard against wilted, shriveled
tops, and bruises. Any vegeta
bles which are in the pod should
be moist, not dry.
Look for fruits that are es fresh
as possible—firm and full-bodied,
(t is best to buy by weight rath
er than by bunches or the dozen.
LYNN CHAMBERS’
MEND IDEAS
Macaroni-Cheese Loaf
Tossed Carrot Salad Green Peas
Whole Wheat Bread
Jam or Jelly
Ice Cream with
Butterscotch Sauce
Beverage
1 cup sour milk
2 teaspoons cinnamon
% teaspoon each, nutmeg, allspice,
cloves
2% cups cake flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
Cream together the butter and su
gar, add beaten egg yolks and
bananas. Sift dry ingredients and
add alternately with the milk. Fold
in stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake
in layer cake pans or large oblong
pan.
Marshmallow Icing.
Combine 2 unbeaten egg whites
with lt4 cups granulated sugar. Add
1% teaspoons corn syrup and 5 ta
blespoons water. Cook rapidly over
boiling water for seven minutes,
beating constantly with a rotary
beater. Then add 8 marshmallows
which have been softened over hot
water. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla ex
tract and beat until icing stands in
peaks. Spread on cooled cake and
dot primly with bits of maraschino
or candied cherries.
If you want to save time and
energy, you will
want to use this
frosty lemon cake
right away. It’s
made in one bowl
and requires
only accurate
measurements
and a specified
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Frosty Lemon Cake.
2 cups sifted cake Hour
1% cups sugar
394 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
94 cup shortening
1 cup milk
194 teaspoons vanilla
3 egg whites, unbeaten
Put dry ingredients—flour, sugar,
baking powder, salt and shortening
—in one large bowl. Add about %
of the milk, then vanilla and beat
until smooth. Add remaining milk
and egg whites before 100 strokes
have been completed. Scrape bowl
and spoon often during mixing. The
batter will be quite thin, but very
smooth. Bake in two greased 8-inch
cake tins in a moderate oven (350
degrees) 30 to 35 minutes. Spread
lemon filling between the layers and
dust with powdered sugar.
Lemon Filling.
94 cup sugar
3 tablespoons flour
A teaspoon salt
% cup lemon juice
Crated rind of 1 lemon
Vt cup water
3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
Mix sugar, flour, salt together.
Add lemon juice and rind and mix
well. Add water and egg yolks.
Blend carefully. Place over hot wa
ter and cook until smooth and
thick, stirring constantly (about 13
minutes). Cool and spread between
cake layers.
Chocolate Cake Filling.
1 square unsweetened chocolate
94 cup milk
6 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons flour
94 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
94 cep cream, whipped
Add chocolate to milk in double
boiler. When chocolate is melted,
beat with a rotary egg beater until
well blended. Combine sugar, floe,
and salt and add gradually to choco
late mixture. Cook until thickened,
stirring constantly. Then cook five
minutes, stirring occasionally. Add
butter and vanilla Chill thoroughly,
then fold in whipped cream.
Note: 94 cup chopped walnut
meats may be added to the above
filling.
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REPORT ON THE
RUSSIANS.
W. L.
White
INSTALLMENT EIGHT
Considering only military effec
tives, the miracle is that any Ger
man soldier was able to set foot on
Russian soil. They were able to
penetrate to the suburbs of Moscow
and Leningrad and range as far as
the Caucasus (1,500 miles from Ber
lin) not only because of Russia’s
technical poverty and the disorgan
ized state of her industrial develop
ment, but also because at the time
the Red Army lacked experienced
officers. Her initial air force, for in
stance, could not compare in quality
with that of the Germans. Much of
it was smashed in the first few
weeks of fighting.
If the Russian air force is primi
tive, this is no reflection on the
skill of Russian pilots, who rank
among the world’s best. But Rus
sia lacks the skill to turn out good
planes. Of all branches of any air
force, long-range bombers such as
the British Lancaster and the Amer
ican Fortress and Liberator require
the highest degree of industrial skill
for production and operation in
large numbers. They are almost
totally absent in the Red Air Force.
Russian pilots ranked among
world's best.
The men who plan the Red Air
Force have skillfully designed it
around the country’s many short
ages; they have concentrated on
production of the Stormovik. a slow,
low altitude strafing plane. Since
this efficient little tank buster usu
ally operates at treetop level, the
Soviet fighters which protect it have
no need for high altitude equip
ment.
Of the 10,000 planes which Amer
ica has delivered to the Soviet Union
the Russians like best the Bell Aira
cobra, which is a light, low altitude,
ground co-operation plane, similar in
function to the Stormovik. It is
standard Red Air Force procedure
Immediately to remove all high al
titude flying equipment from most
American planes, replacing the
weight with extra ammunition.
Lacking night fighters and radar,
Soviet targets within range of the
Luftwaffe are particularly vulnera
ble to night bombing, and the stand
ard Russian method of defense is
ground fire from anti-aircraft bat
teries, such as was used to protect
Moscow. However, lacking radar to
guide their fire, the gunners can
shoot only at the sound, which is a
rough indication not of where the
bomber is, but where it was sev
eral seconds ago. Therefore, to be
effective, batteries must be massed
about the target, vomiting continu
ous fountains of fire during a raid,
an expensive procedure.
Katyn Forest is near Smolensk and
is the grave of some 10,000 Poles,
mostly officers, who were shot in
the back of the head. Whether this
slaughter of helpless war prisoners
was done by Russians or Germans,
there is violent disagrsement and
evidence both ways.
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the case, a little history is neces
sary. When in 1939, the Germans
and Russians divided Poland, the
Russian share of the loot included
more than 180,000 prisoners of war,
of whom 10,000 were officers. A few
were generals. The most distin
guished of these, including General
Anders, were confined to Moscow's
Lubianka prison. The rest of the
10,000 officers were sent to three
prison camps in the Russian towns
of Starobielsk, Kozielsk, and Osta
szkov. These camps housed twelve
Polish generals, sixty-nine colonels,
seventy-two lieutenant colonels and
in all 5,131 regular army officers
and 4,096 reserve officers. Few of
the last had been captured in com
bat. Most of them had not yet been
called up for duty, but, when Rus
sia occupied her half of Poland,
obeyed the Soviet summons to as
semble.
The Polish officers were reason
ably well treated at the three camps
until April, 1940, when the Soviets
began evacuating them, telling the
men they might be sent back to
their homes. They left in groups
of from twenty to sixty every few
days during April and early May.
What became of them after that, the
Poles have a few clues. Most of
the 10,000 vanished from the earth
except for 400 who were finally tak
en to a camp at Gryazovets.
On June 22, 1941, Hitler attacked
Russia. The Polish government in
London immediately offered the
hand of friendship to the Soviets,
suggesting the formation from pris
oners of war in Russian hands, of
a Polish army. The Soviets accept
ed. General Anders was released
from his prison cell, installed in a
comfortable hotel room with apolo
gies, and with Soviet co-operation
began forming his army.
Poles, released from prison
camps all over the Soviet Union,
began flocking to his headquarters,
but there were almost no officers.
General Anders was at first not
alarmed, believing that they prob
ably had been transferred to some
far-away Arctic labor camp and
presently would turn up. But as
months went by and not one addi
tional officer reported he became
concerned.
November of 1941, Polish Ambas
sador Kot interviewed Stalin on this
perplexing problem. The Marshal
appeared genuinely astonished.
In Kot’s presence, he rang up the
NKVD and said the prisoners who
had been in those three camps
should be released at once.
A month passed, during which the
Poles were collecting, from the 400
survivors of the three camps, a list
of the names of their missing broth
er officers. On December 4, when
Stalin received Generals Sikorski
and Anders, they took with them an
incomplete list of 4,500 names. This
time Stalin expressed no surprise or
indignation. The Poles felt he an
swered evasively, suggesting that
the 10,000 officers might have re
turned to German occupied Poland
or fled over the Manchurian border.
Knowing how closely the NKVD su
pervises all travel in Russia, It was
difficult for the two Polish generals
to believe such a large number of
officers could have accomplished
this journey undetected. Picking up
his telephone. Stalin called General
Pamfilov at NKVD headquarters,
again issuing orders to release all
Poles who had ever been in the three
camps.
More time passed but not an of
ficer turned up.
A really disturbing rumor began
to circulate. A few months before
the German attack on Russia, the
NKVD assembled several Polish
staff officers, including a Colonel
Berling, and suggested to them that
possibly a Polish army might be or
ganized to fight the Germans. At a
conference with Russian NKVD of
ficials, Beria and Merkulov, Colo
nel Berling agreed, provided it was
organized ‘irrespective of political
creeds,” and then added that, at
the three officers’ prison camps,
“we have excellent army cadres.”
Whereupon, Merkulov answered
quickly, with some embarrassment,
“No, not these men. We have made
a great blunder in connection with
them.” Only rumors, perhaps, but
they disturbed the Poles.
Then on April 13, 1943, the Ger
man radio announced that in Katyn
Forest, near Smolensk, which they
then held, they had discovered mass
graves of about 10,000 Polish of
ficers, each killed with a bullet
through the back of his head. They
said Russian peasants in the vicin
ity told them these prisoners of war
were murdered by the NKVD in the
spring of 1940, giving dates corre
sponding closely to the time the
prison camps had been evacuated.
The Germans also claimed that let
ters and papers found in the cloth
ing, as well as the condition of the
bodies, indicated that the men had
been murdered in the spring of
1940.
Names announced over the Ger
man radio corresponded with those
of Polish officers missing from the
three camps.
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the German charges in a bitter
broadcast saying "These German
lies reveal the fate of Polish officers
whom the Germans employed in
construction work in that region.”
Russian news agency, Tass, issued
a communique explaining that these
Polish prisoners, who had been em
ployed by the Russians on construc
tion work west of Smolensk, had
been captured by the Germans dur
ing the Soviet retreat in the summer
of 1941.
This explanation did not satisfy
all Poles. Their officers had been
evacuated in April, 1940. Ever since
the Russo-German break in June of
1941, the Polish government had
been trying to get from the Rus
sians some hint as to where they
had been taken. Only after this Ger
man broadcast do they learn from
the Soviet government that the of
ficers had been taken to the Katyn
Forest region, with the additional
statement that in 1941 they were cap
tured and murdered by the Ger
mans.
On April 26, the Soviet govern
ment broke off relations with the
Polish government in London, and
set up in Moscow her own “Union
of Polish Patriots” which, accord
ing to the London Polish govern
ment, was made up of Polish Com
1 munists unknown to the people of
Poland.
The Red Army reoccupled Katyn,
and on January 22, 1944, issued a
communique saying that a Soviet in
vestigating commission had been
called to settle, once and for all,
the Katyn Forest dispute.
The Russian Commission was a
100 per cent Soviet picnic. Their
experts — distinguished Russian
academicians—determined that the
Germans, following their occupation
of Smolensk, had carried out the
mass shootings in the autumn of
1941, and in 1943, "calculating to set
Russians and Poles at loggerheads,
tried to ascribe this crime to the
Soviet government.” The Russians
charged that in the spring of 1943 the
Germans had even brougtft to Katyn
Forest, Polish bodies from other dis
tricts, and had used 500 Russian
prisoners of war in the work of re
moving from the Polish bodies all
documents which would incriminate
the Nazis and substituting docu
ments which would tend to incrim
inate the Russians, after which the
Germans had shot the Soviet war
prisoners.
The evidence of German guilt,
gathered by the Soviet Commission
answers all questions but this one:
if the Polish officers were still alive
in the summer of 1941 and could
be captured by the Germans, why
were the Poles not told this at once?
Why were important Polish govern
ment officials allowed to go wild
goose-chasing all over the Soviet
Union for nearly two years in
search of their army’s officers, when
the Russians knew the men were
already in German hands?
An observant reporter noticed that
one Polish body was clad in long,
heavy underwear, and mentioned it
to the Soviet doctor in charge. The
doctor remarked that most of the
bodies wore either heavy under
wear, or overcoats, or both.
That pointed to the theory that
these Poles must have been shot
during April, 1940, as the Germans
claimed, rather than in August and
September, 1941, after the Germans
moved in, as the Soviet government
was contending.
When this point was raised with
the Soviet conducting officers, there
was considerable confusion and the
Russians finally argued that the cli
mate of Poland is uncertain, so
that fur overcoats and long under
wear might be worn in September.
If a reporter would write “I AM
NOT A MEDICAL EXPERT BUT
DOCTORS SAY the condition of
these bodies proves they were mur
dered by the Germans,” the cen
sorship would strike out the qualify
ing phrase (capitalized), leaving
only the bare charge.
Also stricken out were all phrases
indicating any doubt in the corre
spondents’ minds—such words as
“in my opinion,” “probably,” or
“evidence we were shown would
tend to prove," with the result that
the stories as received in America
were as firmly damning of the Ger
mans as Pravda’s editorials.
In 1939, when the Anglo-French
Military Mission was in Moscow try
ing to negotiate an alliance with the
Soviet Union one of the Soviet de
Russians improved the technique
of paratroops that they created.
mands was the right, under certain
circumstances, to occupy the three
Baltic States.
The British demurred. When I
was in London in February of 1940,
an intelligent young man in their
foreign office gave me their posi- j
tion.
“Here we are,” he said, “suppos
edly defending the rights of small
European nations. We could hardly
start by delivering three of them to
the Russians as a price for their al
liance. We have to consider opinion
in the States. What would you peo
ple have said to that?”
“They would have been in favor
of almost anything you had to do
to win the war without their having
to get in,” 1 said, and I still think
I was right.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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New York City Buries Its
Paupers in Big Trenches
New York City buries weekly an
average of 200 bodies of paupers,
unknowns and still-born babies in
its potter’s field on Hart’s island,
says Collier’s. As about 65 of them
a year are later sought by rela
tives or friends for reburial in a
private cemetery, the city main
tains a descriptive record of all
bodies and a numbering system so
they can be readily located and
exhumed.
They are buried in large
trenches, each of which contains
the coffins of 200 adults or 6,000
infants.
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