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thursday mat 37lh ims the acton free press toemixincbowi mucmamb lbb fav- otitc is in semon mow hello hornemakecs our chilly spring weather haa retarded rhubarb growth so perhapa you havent uaed your sugar dividend yet the extra pound of sugar for use with rhubarb u secured with blue coupon no 1 spare d in ration book no 2 which expires may 31st along with the amount you can save out of your weekjyration this extra pound of sugar will help you to eerve the family lt favorite rhubarb dishes for quite a while after june first of course canning sugar will be avail able to those who sent in their appli cations rhubarb is grand for pies and des serts as well as preserves do plant one or two roots if you have the apace its n hardy perennial and easy to grow its not only convenient and economical to have your rhubarb and other garden products right at your kitchen door but a timesaver as cell you dont need to spend time searching for different roods to get variety into your menus just learn to serve the foods you have at hand in different ways good wartime psy chology tool of course you know that freshly picked fruits and veget able have finer flavor and re richer in vitamins 4 cups cut rhubarb 14 cup susr or u cup honey wash and cut rhubarb into inch lengths place in upper part of double holler cover and cook with sugar do not stir 2 cups flour tap soda 1 cup thick sour milk 1 tsp salt 2 lb ahortenlng cut ahortenlng into measured flour soda and salt add liquid gradually mixing with a fork to a soft dough owing to the difference in sour milk it is not always possible to determine the exact amount of liquid turn dough on lightly floured board and pat out cut into circles and bake in electric oven at 450 degrees for 10 minutes split and serve with thick rhubarb sauce between and on top sauce 6 cup of cut washed rhu barb in saucepan placed on electric element turned low for 5 minutes then to high and add about cup of sugar cook only a few minutes stirring frequently 2 cups thick rhubarb sauce 2 eggs separated 1 tsp grated orange rind cup fine sugar combine the rhubarb sauce egg yolks and orange peel cook in top of double boiler stirring constantly until thickened pour into tart shells beat the egg whites till stiff and add sugar gradually beating until mix ture stands in peaks place a spoon ful in each tart and bake in electric oven 350 decrees about 12 to is minutes or until delicately browned makes 8 tarts ot fairly large size to can rhubarb wash nhd trim slender stalks do not remove skin cut into inch pieces use 1 cup of sugar to each quart jar or cup to a pint put a thin layer of sugar in the bottom of jar thon alternate layers of rhu barb and sugar with a layer of sugar on top pack very tightly using a wooden spoon or masher partially sea and process in boiler gently boil ing in electric element 23 minutes to can rhubarb sauce add enough water to rhubarb to prevent burning cook until sort add i cup suffar to 1 quart rhubarb till sterilized jam seal tightly take a tip 1 to prevent rhubarb pies from balling over use strips of wet cheese cloth or butter- wrapping cut in 2inch widths press the one edge to rim of pie and let other side fall over fluted pie crust overlap well k 2 other variations of rhubarb des serts upsidedown cake rhubarb bett rhubarb steamed pudding deep rhubarb pie rhubarb sponge the question box mrs c n asks my sealers are not air tight although i have used new rubber and metal rings they leak when turned upside down answer testing sealers by filling them whh water is not always a true teat if your fruit has kept in these jars before and they are not chipped or cracked we believe they should be satisfactory if you use new ring some jars are off level and it has been suggested that two rubber rings might help it la important to use force to seal the jars anne allan invites you to writ to her car of taw acton fan pa send in your questions on homeroak- inf problems and watch this column for replies board membis mary mccallum sutherland is the most recent addition to the board of governor of the cbc she repre sents british columbia born in mani toba mrs sutherland has devoted the greater part of her life to hoclnl po litical and economic problem in 1920 she was appointed assistant sec retary ot the canadian council of ag riculture in winnipeg and in 1336 became a member of the dominion council of health with her family ihe has resided in revclstoke since 1938 where her keen enthusiasm and nevertiring effort in a power in the district womens heads in old london going bizarre ilau more exotic titan ever and are anything from a plaited basket to kitchen mean cloth bv barbara wace london cp hats practically the only couponfree article of cloth ing left in britain are more exotic than ever this spring englishwomen who must hoard thejr present cloth ing coupons to last until september could and did let themselves go on hats those who could not afford the high prices in the shops made their own hats one woman was seen walk ing down the street with a small square plaited basket clapped on the back of her head such as is used for watercress or fruit a jaunty scar let ribbon was used to trim it an other off for the weekend from a railway terminus in london had a smart turban of hriftht yellow dust ing clothes to set off hrtr severe all- theyearround suit linoleum and pieces of bright carpet trimmings have been twiitted together into fah- tustlc shncs just m bag dear a favorite way to beat the hat profiteer is to take a bright colored mesh cloth such as is used in most kitchens and make it into a snood these cost the equivalent of ten dollars in the expensive hat stores and the dish cloth a mere 25 cents colored scarfs tied under the chin peasantfashion are as popular here as they are in canada in spite of prices being from two to four tlmeu as high as before the war most of the hat shops were sold out half way through the spring sea son and although there were plenty for everybody who wished or could afford to buy an easter bonnet mil liners are pessimistic for the future llaueas debs debutantes have gone bareheaded in the ismaruitt restaurants in lon don for a long time and the fashion has to some extent extended to older women but a bow or a flower in the hair will probably still prove to bo the last means of selfexpression left to coupon circumscribed britons it is not yet known what sifts can adian men stationed in the british isles will be taking to their wives and sweethearts on their return to canada limited as they are by the 100s luxury tax and rationing one particularly courageous officer has sent h wife a hat by a friend re turning by bomber lie stuck how ever to the conventional dobbs type model and did not risk one of the newer confections blood fob apvica cairo cp blood given by lon doners helped to save the lives of men of the first and eighth armies in north africa two thousand bot tles of dried plasma were turned over to army authorities in one day the blood was given by 6000 men and wo menmany of them war warkers prices of twentyseven persons charged with breaches of price regulations during the past week 25 were con victed and flnesranged from 500 down two cases were dismissed twentyone cases were in quebec province four in ontario and one each in manitoba and alberta chronicles ol j ginger farm for the last ten minutes i have been vbdting with the c no i dont mean feeding them just sit ting there watching them really fascinating pastime if one has the time for u my little biddies are ten days old now and they have just begun to realize what their little wings are for at first they used to run from one hopper to another but now they use both wings and feet- or maybe they just stand where they are and spread their wings sometimes they look tentatively at the top of the water fountain or perhaps the hood of the brooder stove but their wing are not yet strong enough for any thing more than a futile attempt to fly on top of either in another week it will be a different story well friend to change the subject how do you like the idea of a pos sible ten pounds of sugar per person for canning rather a shock isnt it but of course you are not grumb ling about it are yout after all ten pounds of sugar is better than hone at all and probably such a drastic cut may hot be necessary another year this war wont last for ever you know and once the submarine menace is at an end we shall get our sugar again in the meantime we shall survive a supply of fruit and jam isnt a matter of life and death at least hot to civilians but it may be to the merchant marines to the men who bring cargoes of sugar from the west indies to supplement can adas sugar supply so that we may en- joy our tea and marmalade for breakfast preserves lose much of their sweetness if we stop to think that bringing the sugar to make those preserves may quite possibly have been the means of many bravo men losing their lives by enemy action at sea if you and i had a husband or son in the merchant service we prob ably would not be so anxious about setting sugar for canning so dont you think we should be very thankful for whatever we get supposing it lit only ten pounds incidentally it may be all we shall need if what i hear is true they say that frost has reduced crop prospects for raspber ries and peaches to almost nil but strawberries are expected to be good wet weather has also changed the farm help situation quite a bit we have heard plenty about the farm labor shortage but now we are begin ning to hear of a shortage of farm work of farmers who cannot now af ford to keep the help they had hired for the season yes it has actually come to that in some cases after all it is a logical sequence to the weather w have hod isnt it if fruit buds get frostbitten there cant be the fruit to pick that was antici pated and if only light spring crops are sown then less help will be re quired to harvest them so maybe we have just been trying to cross our bridges all this while however we dont seem to have run out of work nt ginger farm part ner still has his twentyfive head of cattle in the barn and does that mean work but partner says work or no work the cows will just stay in the barn until the mud dries up if it ever does fortunately we have plenty of feed so wo dont need to turn out until the pasture is fit and our water system that gave us so much trouble last year and also during the win tor is now a blessing in disguise the water runs into n trough in the barnyard so the cows dont have to go ploughing through the mud to get a drink ahd that means so much to both man and beast the cows keep so much cleaner and they dont get tired out wallowing through the mud and partner doesnt get tired out trying to keep them clean of course we havent done any war 25 years ago twentyfourth of may it begins to look as if the time will come for son bob to return to camp even now without helping with the tractor right now we are keeping him busy in between other jobs as a oneman demolition squad that is to say he is wrecking the old henhouse and is there ever a mess i have been out nearly all the afternoon picking up shingles and burning rubbish we also have a man at work building a brooder house and so we manage to keep busy wet weather notwithstand ing the trains are whining robins are singing and so help me its raining again merging vn india new delhi cp several of the smaller indian states are to be merg ed with larger adjoining areas under a decision taken by the viceroy ad thrsamfc apsej pe- by il il gordon caaaiiaia ptea staff writer a withering artillery bombardment along the historic cbemln des dames from reims to solssons early in the morning of may 27 1918 marked the beginning of a german offensive that was to drive allied troops bark to the river mame and threaten the defences of paris for the second time in the first great war caught by surprise french and british defenders were thrown back along a 40mlle front and for four days the allied situation was critical but the germans were astonished at their success in what had been start ed really as a diversion in attempt ing to carry the attack too far the drive gradually lost momentum and helped by fresh united states forces the british and french stabilized posi tions allies leases liratvy the battle proved costly for the allies tlte germans captured r prisoners but this was quickly made up by american reinforcements the line of the advance liecamo a vulner able sacklike bulge that was obliter ated in the allies victory offensive later in the summer the attack on the cbemln des dames was launched a month after the greatest german spring offensive to the north had been halted by the stubborn resistance of the british army military experts have held that the surprise element should not have been a factor a the french high command had been warned of german preparations in the area expecting another blow on the british front the french let the warnings go unheeded until it was too late as a matter of fact ger man strategy at the chemln des dames was aimed at drawing re serves from the north and following it up by a final and decisive blow at the british front in the ifazebrouck area west of yprcs uriusm keeuperatlas four french and four british di visions the latter sent to the french front to rest after the battle of lys held the front between solssons and reims when the enemy swept for ward through the mist at 430 am on may 27 in the preparatory ar tillery bombardment the germans used 3710 guns for more than three hours although the british divisions held their secondary positions throughout the day they were finally forced to retreat with the french to the alsne for three days tho germans ad vanced ot tho rate of 10 miles a day sweeping across the heights of the chemln des dames they captured solssons may 29 and tho following day the apex of the salient they had made reached the marne between chateau thierry and dormnns at this stago tho pace slackened and although the germans crossed the mnrno weeks later a counterat tack restored tho allied position and tho big enemy bulgo in tho area was virtually wiped out by the end of july to pay bonus clips of wool in order to promote the produc tion of clean marketable wool and discourage the marketing of reject wools tho dominion department of agriculture has offered to cooperate with the provinces in the payment of n bonus of 4 cents per pound on all clips of wool marketed in 1941 in the post a largo amount of can adiangrown wool has been unsutt able for manufacture due to the ex cessive amount of foreign material such as seeds chaff straw and burrs wool of such nature must bo car bonized in order to free it of the ma terial mentioned the process o car bonizing and the extra freight haul adds to the cost of manufacture also the tensile strength of wool fibre which has been carbonized is greatly impaired it is to avoid the market ing of clips which carry an excessive amount of seed chaff straw and burrs and of shipments tied with i twine that a bonus clean clips of wool the wool must be dry and in good condition not damp wet or musty and the hairy and black and gray leg and face clip pings must be kept separate and not rolled with the fleece captive crocodile eggs townsville australia cpa crocodile in a private zoo built a nest on a tiny island in a lagoon and laid 78 eggs unprecedented because crocodiles in captivity do not lay at all you roll tnm blfr wrfkl 0gdens cgafrre tobacco theres army too at new air base ptjasjuve dsyin tenia and doe- outa uacj la winter but things different now bt john davrtllnee goose airport labrador cp canadas new army is tough take it from the experts in this new can adian air base that has just emerged from military secrecy spotted around this giant airport in the labrador wilderness are the dugln tents and oldstyle dugouts which housed the army defence through the winter only a few weeks ago was permanent accommodation made available to the last group of soldiers but the tents and dugouts that they made themselves had become home said the toronto officer who commands the army force here some of ihem didnt want to move out h 0 the canadian soldiers reached the base early last summer no per manent housing was available for them they set up their tents in whatever section of the base area which was their particular duty to defend they dug la as winter henred and there still was no sign of army buildings the troops began to dig themselves in some were content with dropping their tents into tlte ground others prepared dugouts roofed with boards or metal in thu makeshift accommodation they spent the cold season there was little complaining on christmas eve the infantry officers on duty here moved into their new mess build ing ttie men moved under wood in groups throughout the winter now permanent housing has been provided for the entire defence force how to make your meat rations go farther 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excellency ihe coventor ceneral in council has declared lhat labour supply for roal mines ranks us a national emergency further in order io provide man power for coal ihe governor in council has issued an order in council aimed at swelling ihe flow of coal from mine io f i repot ill in order is of vital interest io everyone in canada every canudian should read and study its provisions la see whether l demands any action on his purl jft no coal mink worker war leave w employment at a roal mine wllboaf evrlhv employer regardless of his in1hihtry tuul advue ms employ of ibese rrgulallon and bit raunt aaaut in discovering whether any of hi rntployee have bad previ ous esperleoee a real mine workers kvkrv employee regardless ol his industry who bs had prviol experience a rosl mine worker kuuat report ibsl fsel io hi employer nol later iban tuesday may zslb 1911 3 a oal mine worker ror these illlllosrh is anyone who klnee january 11 1935 has worked under provincial certificate- or license in or around a roal mine or who since the same dale ha been em ployed for a total of al lea 24 months in the production of roal except at title work 4evihi emimylh not a coal mink operator musl report in writing to a selective service officer not later than tuesday june 1st 1943 full detail on any of hi employees who are eseoal mine worker 5 selective service ortickrs are authorized to require exroal mine workers to report for interview and to accept work al a roal mine selective service ofrrlcehs may require any man in any em ployment if subject to mobilisation reanlalloata hat rejected for military training and certain others ekcuaed from military training- to accept em ployment al a coal mine no oal mine operator may terminate the services of say coal mine worker without written permission from selective service officer such it ike a6lssc of tkm mmtm mi mmy empioymimni mmd ssfsesla rsyf aire mctlom on your pmwt yom met imimmdtmlmly smvmrm panafffas frwf tkm copmrmmmnt rmuma on csmshis to mmkm prommcu this is m eras written permission front service officer selective i io ii 12 13 14 every excoal mine worfttfrh relurnlns to the industry under the reaulatlon will be paid wsgts al use established rate for lb job at which he i placed i and ihe covernmenl will pay w of 40 rent an hour 8 hours a day and 4fl hour a week to any excoal mine worker required to leave hi present employment under ibeset provisions bul not placed im mediately at coal mlnlns a hoard al mfwanck of not more than s750 week may be paid an excoal mine worker now relurplna in a roal mine if required io live away from the residence of m dependent present and rdture coal mine wokkths will be sranled postpone ment from military tralnlnaj to rebruary l 1944 by virtue of their occupation and no roal mine worker will be accepted for voluntary enlist menl in the armed force of canada prior to february lt 1944 except under permit to enllal from a selective service officer no employer in canada ex cept a coal mine operator may solid for employment or hire any exeoal mine wofher recardless of any dominion or provincial law male al least 16 years old may he as eoal mine workers and fct v mom al least 18 years old but be ssm- ployed as carfare coal mine worst era war emergency training classes will be available for trals0s mem as roal mine workers- raa fmil atafaus ssrslea oflem if era mratrsf in km proa for tkm cmopmrmiion of y if wfpjfflm3bsr l 3di0ia humpubey mitchell mimuur ml tt a