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--i3 Clean Up Garden To Check Insects Burn Plant Remains and Keep Weeds Under Control nr During the summer o 1942 many species of insects have been present In outbreak form in wide- % ' ly separated districts of eastern Canada, 'A large per-entage of ' these were . Insects which hiber- k pate beneath trash in tho gardens, or on weeds or cultivated nlants which are frequently illowed to stand all winter either 1 the gar- dois" or In nearby wasfe land. Bome of the insects which were wesponsible for important! crop Josses this year are the tarnished plant bug, cutworms, the Imported cabbage worm, the squash bug, onion thrips, the cucumber neetle, the Euro.ean corn borer, ana bhor- ing caterpillars of one species or another. These insects could have been greatly reduced if more care had been practised by growers last autumn in cleaning up nlant yemains as soon as the crop had been removed, in digging up and I destror'ng weed growth and in burning over waste land in the autumn or early spring. Garden Sanitation Many insects leave the plants upon which they are [eeding as soon as the plants lose their suc- culence, and either migrate to other crops or go Into hibernation beneath available trash or lebris Jying nearby. Accordingly, the gathering Op and burning of plants as soon as harvesting of the crop has beon completed, Is Important and should not be neglected, Do not allow them to lie abou the garden until freeze-up, as by that time many of the Insccts will of hibernation, Now is the time to plan what % will be done in the garden this J autumn. In doing this, be sure A that ample time is set aside for carrying" out that most important glep, garden sanitation, Do uot for- get to clean up and burn all plants, Keep weeds under control right up until the snow flies, even though ~. 4 i - the last crop has been removed Eo weeks before. DBurn-over nearby on waste lands when grasses and ok weeds are still dry. Cleaning up ' the garden will contribute more 4H than any other single factor in 4 bringing about a reduction in in- soct population, whica ir turn will bo reflected in increased crop yields next year. - Hens Have Evils : . Comfort Of Home To keep his chickens cheerful, increase his business, and do all he can in the "Food for Freedom' campaign, farmer Earl Geiger in Towa has built a five-storey poul- try "hotel." * It has insulated walls, elevator and other accouterments calcu- Iated to bring cheer to Mr. Gei- ger's 1,200 laying leghorng, and to _enlist their all-out effort in helping win the war. There are four upstairs "apart- ments" for the chickens. The ground floor-Mr. Geiger plans to use as lambing quarters for his 200 western ewes... Two of the apartments are above. the caves : with dormer windows cut into each side of the hip roof. Native lumber was used for dimension - picces in building the three floors and ceilings. Water is piped from a pressure system, ~~ While corn is usually referred to in Towa as the state's number one business, the poultry industry in Towa is called the "mortgage lifter," and this Hawkeye State leads in the production of hens and eggs. - Galapagos Islands Occupied By U. S. United States forces have occu. pied the Galapagos Islands and Santa Elena on the Ecuador Coast to bolster hemisphere defence and establish a Pacific bastion against an enemy attack on the Panama Canal, ) The American forces established an advance base, with Ecuador's approval, in the vitally important Ecuadorean islands 600 miles off the coast and._1,010 miles. _south- have escaped to some safe plpce "sub-zero night. -- gerviee, running water, cafeteria, Says Mrs. Josep! friends." Instead of waiting until you suffer and then dosing yourself with NOW WE RECOMMEND - ALL-BRAN TO ALL OUR FRIENDS 1 Pare, Montreal, Quebec: "I find KELLOGG'S ALL- BRAN much more satisfactory than ills or powders, Nearly all our amily suffered from constipation. Our friends suggested pills and powders, but relief was only tem- porary. Now we eat ALL-BRAN regularly and recommend it to our harsh purgatives, try ALL-BRAN'S "Hetter Way" to correct the cause of constipation due to the lack of the right kind of "bulk" in the diet. Eat it daily and drink plenty of water, but remember, ALL-BRAN doesn't work like a cathartic; it takes time. ALL-BRAN is sold at your grocer's in two convenient size packages; at restaurants in indi- vidual serving packages. Made by Kellogg's in London, Canada. , '® SERIAL STORY MURDER IN FERRY COMMAND BY A. W. O'BRIEN THE STORY: Clyde Dawson, Canadian Intelligence Depart- ment, hasn't many clewe to work on in tracking fifth columnists operating against the R. A, F. Bomber Ferry Command. One of the spies, Lemoy Statler, has been hanged for murder. He left Daw- son a snapshot of a girl who looks like a famous film actress, and a cryptic note about a broken "reunion date." Then, after post- mortem examination, Dawson cleverly deduces that Statler was, a hockey and baseball player-- probably a college athlete. * * * A GHOULISH GIFT 7 CHAPTER HI The sleeping car was uncom- fortably overheated as the New- foundland train sped through the It was plowing into a raging blizzard in the heart of the Topsails section of the 547- mile trail from St. John's to Port aux-Basques, sailing point for the Cabot Strait crossing to Canada. Unable to sleep, Dawson found himself cursing the ill luck that made him miss the weckly boat sailing from: St. John's to Halifax and ihe continued stretch of bad weather that had grounded all Royal Air Force Ferry Command planes bound for Montreal from the secret airport "Somewhere in Newfoundland." It was taking him days to- make the trip he could fly in hours. r But it had to be the train--the * Intelligence Department at Ot- - tawa had done some fast work on his "beefsteak clew" and the hunt now pointed to Chicago. It wns nine days since he and the American sergeant had drawn conclusions from the body of the Lkanged Lemoy Statler. But Ot- tawa had cvidently rattled off the circulars in record time and air DIRNDL-TYPE JUMPER bh) east of the Pacific entrance to Panama, At the same time they wero eonceded by Ecuador, in the in- terest of Pan-American defence, a base at Santa Elena, the wes- ternmost point on the Ecuadorean Coast at the northwest corner of the South: American Continent. This will permit easy plane and -transport communication between the mainland and the islands, . Thus the United States now me has off the Pacific Coast a base 3 of potentially great < which corresponds exactly ; those Great: Britain, the. Nether- + Jands West Indies and other gov- to Jantic side of the Panama .Canal, There are 12 large and hun- dreds of small islands in the group, The largest, on which it : 'was assumed the main United : States forces would be based, is Albemarle, about 76 miles long. strength - ~~ gwmients granted it off the At. By Anne Adams A school "belle" special--this young dirndl-jumper made from simple Anne Adams Pattern 4113, The back buttoning extends be- low the waistline to let you easily in and out. The smart, useful blouse may have short or long sleeves, Pattern 4118 is available in junior miss sizes 11, 13, 16, 17. Size 18, jumper, takes 1% "yards 64-inch; blouse 1% yards 8b" inch. coins (stamps cannot be accept- ed) for this Anne Adams pattern to Room 421, 78 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Write * plainly size, name, address and - style number, als FLA Id "1 Dawsons bertht------ fsnd twenty cents (20¢) im mailed them special delivery to the various universities. That afternoon a cable had ar- rived from Ottawa informing him vhat the State University, located . just outside Chicago, had wired that it was believed the man whose identity the department sought had been a' star athlete there prior to graduation in 1929, It was suggested that an investi- - gator be sent for further details. Dawson decided to try another cigarette. He got into his dressing gown and slippers in the cramped quarters and weaved his way down the bumping aisle between green-curtained berths to the small combination washing and smoking compartment at the end. It was deserted. . * . Blinking at his watch, Clyde saw it was after two o'clock and he yawned expansively. In an old newspaper he re-read editorial comment on the entry of the United States into the war after Pearl Harbor and the sinking of two British battleships in the Pacific. The swinging door separating the smoking compartment from the rest of the car mpved inward with a cold draught evidently caused by the door at the far end of the car being opened. Dawson hoped that it was the conductor--he'd have a 'talk about the heating system. But fully a minute passed and nobody ap- peared. The door into the car had opened, there was no doubt about it. Impatiently he stood up and looked through the glass down the aisle. Suddenly Dawson was on the alert. Down near the end of the car a muffled man was pulling apart the curtains of a lower berth in stealthy fashion--and it was 'In the feeble night lighting of the car it "was impaossible to seo any of the man's facial features. Besides his coat collar was turned up. He was now reaching into the berth. . . . Dawson whipped open the swinging door. For a split second he caught a flash of white face as the figure hurriedly withdrew from the empty berth and took a quick look _ toward the smoking compartment before wheeling and rushing out. . * * Dawson was yards behind and the chase was difficult due to the motion of the train. Between two cars he lost one-of his slip- pers on the snowy platform but kept going on one bare foot. Abruptly he halted three cars be- yond his own. The man had van- ished---cither he had hopped into a berth Dawson already passed or was in a berth still further back. The car porters would be having forty winks up front in the dining car converted into a crew sleeper at night. There would be nobody to tell him if a man had just rushed through any one car. Ob- viously, the unknown intruder had chosen his time with that in mind. Returning to his car, Dawson went directly to the berth he had occupied and switched on the light, He whistled softly through - the manotonous clickety-click of the wheels. His pillow was badly slashed by --what must--have--been--a---sharp-- knife! "Now what in hell was that for?" Dawson muttered to him- self, It all seemed so melodramatie-- like the familiar detective stories where the sleuth's life is threat- ened nightly, After all, what good would it do to kill him--an- | other investigator 'would take tp the trail. But that slashed pillow where his head had been resting only a short time before could not be ighored. Somebody on the train had murder in his heart-- with Dawson as the vietim. . . The next day he kept strictly to "himself aboard -the- train, This he-_ havior was prompted by thinking things over during the early morn- ing * hours following the knife" slashing episode. He fealized that i In the dim light he hadn't seen anything that might prove a clew to the would-be killer's idestity. If he acted like a person looking for somebody the following day it would only serve to put Mr. X on his guard. There was only one thing to do, Act indifferently in the hope that it would invite the killer to try again, Next time Dawson would be waiting with open arms. However, nothing unusual hap- pened during the long day as the Overland Express puffed through the bleak-country, It was running four hours late as a result of the long fight against the blizzard. Port - aux - Basques, a lonesome little fishing village now -ten times busier than in pre.war days, was reached shortly before midnight, The train pulled in "directly onto the wharf beside which a fleet of fishing boats, their sailless masts towering forlornly above the tops of the cars, rested at anchor, Down the wharf, waiting for the passenger and cargo load from the train, was the ice-breaker Cari- bou, a sturdy veteran of many rugged battles on the turbulent Cabot Strait. * a * The railway company wv re- served a cabin for Dawsod and he went to it after hurriedly re: porting to the purser, It had four bunks, two at right angles and two parallel to the door. He nod- ned approvingly at the lay-out, then stepped out on deck. There was a dark corner directly above the deck onto which the gang- plank led and he wantea to study the passengers as they came aboard in single file. It took less than half an hour and Dawson found grim humor in the fact that one of those passen- gers was apparently boarding the boat to murder him yet he could only guess at which one or ones it could be. But imprinting mental pictures of them all might come -in handy later on. - About 1.30, Dawson wandered into the corner of the lounge where the purser was completing his endless forms for the com- pany"s records and the Canadian immigration authorities. A group of American and Canadian sol- diers homeward bound on leave had started a poker game while another was blowing lazy tunes out of a mouth organ. "Pardon me, Mr. Purser," said Dawson, "I was expecting to meet up with some old friends tonight --has anybody asked for the -- whereabouts of my cabin?' He gave his name, . The purser shook his head. "No sir---nobody has asked for you. But it might not have been necessary--your pal or pals could have seen your name on this big sheet and noticed the cabin num- ber beside it." Dawson nodded. "Uh-huh, that's probably what happened." Mr, X would hardly have done anything so risky as to ask for his victim's cabin number, Pursers have good memories, ; With every sense alert, the In- vestigator lighted his pipe, walk- ing slowly and deliberately down the passageway towards his cabin, The. Caribou had cast off and was already grinding into the ice with strong, tireless lunges. From a ncarby cabin came sounds of some poor landlubber in distress after the first few rolls. At his cabin door, Dawson paused, opened it just enough to switch on the cabin light and pushed the door, meanwhile bend- ing down to pick up his lighter which he had purposely dropped. With one fast movement of his ~ head, his eyes swept through the interior of the cabin and up and down the passageway ... nobody anywhere. } Inside the cabin, Dawson shoved -a small suit case beneath the | blankets of the lower bunk paral- lel to the door. It wasn't enough to form the shape of a sleeping man and he picked up the blanket rolled at the bottom of the other lower berth. As he: did so, a package dropped onto the cabin floor. Quickly he-picked it up and read his name printed in bold, block ink letters. Gingerly Dawson unwrapped it and found a cardboard box. He lifted the lid and looked at the contents , , . a sudden nausea rushing over him. . It was a human hand--hacked off at the wrist. But what left PURE BA. TABLE TALKS SADIE B. CHAMBERS C oRevbee And Relishes This week as 1 was taking a final résumé of my garden [found some lovely fresh mint fresher and, crisper than many "times in the spring, no doubt on account , of the récent rains.' I decided to make these three- things and thought maybe you would like them too. Mint Jelly 1 cup fresh mint leaves 'and stems firmly packed 1 cup cider or mal vinegar (diluted) 1 cup water 6% cups sugar (two cups of corn syrup or 1% cups honey) 1 cup commercial pectin Green coloring Wash mint. Do not remove leaves from stems, Place in kettle and press down "with potato masher, a wooden one if you have it, Add the vinegar, the sweet- ening and the water and bring to a boil over a hot fire. Add enough green color to give the desired shade. As soon as mix- ture is boiling add pectin, stirring constantly and bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard for %a minute. Remove from fire. Skim and pour through the sieve to re- move all trace of mint leaves. Pour into sterilized glasses and seal, Mint Fruit Relish b cups or two lbs. of prepared water melon rind teaspoon salt medium sized oranges cups sugar 16 cup vinegar 234 cups water ERR Substituting <»for sugar use honey or corn syrup. Try three cupfuls. Taste, if not sweet enough for in- dividual taste add more 35 cup finely chopped mint leaves 1 small can crushed pineapple Remove green skin and all pink flesh from rind of firm but not overripe watermelon. Put rind through food chopper, using course knives. Drain and weigh or measure. Cover with water, add salt and let stand over night. Drain, scrub oranges cut into eighths; remove sceds and 'all course membrane. Cut crosswise into very thin slices. Cover water- melon rind and oranges with fresh water. Bring to a boil and sim- mer. Cook for 45 minutes or until tender. Drain; mix sweet- ening, vinegar and water in large kettle; bring to a boil stirring until - sugar is dissolved. Boil rapidly until syrup is thick, Add fruit mixture and mint tied in a cheesecloth bag. Bring slowly to boil for 40.minutes_ or until fruit -and-rind-arc- clear: Remove mint bag and skim. Minted Pear Preserves 8 cups preparcd pears : cup water 5% cups sugar 1 tablespoon lemon juice 2 tablespoons finely chopped mint leaves firmly packed Wash and prepare about 4% lbs. firm ripe péars, Cut into quarters, remove cores and cut crosswise into thin slices, Weigh or measure into large preserving kettle. Add water, bring to a boil and simmer covered about 20 minutes or until tender, stir- ring constantly. Add sugar, salt --and-lemon juice.. Mix- carefully, cook slowly or until mixture boils, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Boil rapidly for about twenty minutes or until fruit is clear and syrup is somewhat thick, stirring frequently to prevent scorching. Skim, Add mint and rcheat just to boiling. Pour into hot sterile jars or glasses and seal at once, Grape Conserve b lbs. grapes ' 5 Ibs, sugar 1 1b. raisins 3 oranges Separate 'skins and pulps of grapes, Cook pulp and run through colander, to remove sceds, Cut rind of oranges into small pieces. Cook together until thick, then add a cup of nuts, Miss Chambers welcomes personal letters from Interested readers. She (uisp and T5701! Satisfy those active appetites with good steaming-hot soup Christie's Premium Soda and a generous plateful of Crackers) They're always * dependably freih and so crisp and tasty, At your grocer's, ealted or plain, Get the econ- * omical 2-pound package. Serve with soups, salads, spreads-- food or beverage. / Christie's [£2 PREMIUM St BSlie o MIUA { RADA Chri "RERS Hp SODA CRACKERS Teach Economy Of Electric Power Ontario Wowen Will Be Ask- ed To Stagger Ironing Days Housewives in -Qntario will 'be urged to stagger {their ironing days this fall and winter, W. kL. Houck, vice-chairman of 'the Ont- ario Hydro-Electric Power Com- mission. said recently. "We are going to conduct an educational campaign to teach housewives how to conserve elec- tric power," he said. "November and December are the two worst months of the year. Tuesday is the worst day. That is the day the housewives do the ironing. - We are going to try to get them to do their ironing on other -days of the week." Mr. Houck said that before the * end of this month the Hydro- Electric Power Commission will Industrial history Is made as fair sex invades Canadian Na- tional Railways yards. The rail- ways employed a few women dur- _ing' the last war, but a much larger program is planned now, as the National System prepares to meet the increasing war-time traffic demands that will be made upon it. "Our only requirement is that women must be willing to "work and have the intelligence to do a good job," declared E. R. Battley, General Superintendent of Motive Power and Car Equip- ment, Central Region. Women are cleaning everything in the yards tives, in addition to handling food- stuffs in the Commissary Stores for Canadian National dining . cars. At present women are em- ployed - at Toronto, Montreal, Windsor and Sarnia in similar capacities, and they will be en- gaged at other points across the system as the necessity demands, Experience has proved they are dependable workers, who do a splendid job of work, ' / -from --ashtrays--to- giant- locomo-- ask that advertising lighting be absolutely curtailed. Theatres, he said, will be allowed enough lights in front to permit the public to see what pictures are being dis- played and to find its way in and out: of the theatres. Housewives will be asked to have more oven dinners to cut down on use of elements, and to turn off radios when they are in other parts of the house. "These things may seem small," he said, "but the system serves 600,000 urban and 180,000 rural homes. A little saved in eachdiomo will add up to a large total. "There is going to be a power shortage of from 200,000 to 300,- -000 horsepower this fall," Mr, Houck said. Housewives Have War Organization Housewives are mobilizing in the British war effort through a nation-wide good-neighbor scheme, Like the women in the forces, or the members of the Land Army, housewives have their own organization. Cards in the windows of more than three-quarters of a million houses in city streets and coun- try lanes indicate the residences of members of the Housewives Section of*the Women's Voluntary Service. Here are the women who, though they cannot do a wholetime job in factory or work- shop, have been trained through A.R.P. lectures, cookery and nurs- ing, and other demonstrations to give efficient service to their neighbors in any emergency. Wherever the wheels of Britain's war machine can be oiled to pre- vent friction upon the individual, right there, it seems, is a mem- necessary comfort and help. From this organization, for in- stance, come the Sister Susies of World War II. No longer does Tommy Atkins have to spend hard- earned pennies in postage stamps to send his socks home to Mother, They are now mended at W.V.S, work parties or in the homes of Samba of the Housewives' Sec- tion, Canada Exports Machine Tools ent on the United States and Great Britain for machine tools, now is exporting some tools to those countries and has stepped up her production some 800 per cent since the outbreak of war, munitions and supply officials said last week. ~ Before the war Canada made hardly any machine tools and even now the production meets little moré than one-fifth of wartime industry's demands in this eoun- tr. But four general types- are being made in a wide range of sizes. Almost half Canada's ma- chine tool output goes to help war industries in the United States. 7 --his~stomach--fceling troubled--was the horrible realization that he ~recognized that hand beyond any shadow of doubt. The one badly twisted "base< ball" knuckle and the partially .i%isted one told" Dawson that hand had belonged to the hanged Lemoy Statler! ; (Continued Next Week)" Gift To RAF. In less than a year, people of . The Netherlands have presented to the R.AF, 96 fighters, 32 bombers and a number of night fighters, One fighter has de- stroyed at least 30 enemy air¢raft, ISSUE 39--'42 © girls)" is to--receive on toplcw for her column, and | vn ready to liatem to your tipet peeves" Requests for recipes or ddresa Jour letters to "Mixa Sadle IN. Cham. | ; 78 Went Adelalde Street, To. ronto," Send atamped self-nddressed envelope If you wish a reply. 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