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He said unless the de-industriali- zation program is carried out ef- fectively Germany could begin making war machines in five or ten years after rebuilding such parts of her 'economy as housing and. bridges. Mr. Bernstein earlier told a Senate military subcommittee that arrangements were made between I. G Farben and the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey in 1939 designed, he said, to hide true cwnership of certain worldwide patents and prevent their seizure" in Britain: and in the United States if we went to war, How Can I? By Anne Ashley Q. How can I remove mud from clothing? A. If brushing does not remove the spots, rub with a raw potato. This method seldom fails. Q. How can I prevent custard from curdling? ~ A. Place the custard cups in a pan half filled with cold water in- ~stead of hot water. The custard will heat more gradually, will be firm, and without a drop of whey. Q. How can I keep cut flowers? A. Cut flowers will keep for a long time if a small quantity of camphor, or charcoal, is dissolved in the vase or receptacle. Q. How can I reduce the tannic acid in coffee to a minimum? A. Grind the coffee very fine, put in a linen cloth, and pour boiling water over it, Q. How can I prevent the cake from sticking to the tins? " A. Grease the cake tins with lard, as butter will cause the cakes to stick, and scorches easily. Use fresh lard and the cakes will not pick up any taste from the lard. - Britain's Largest Battleship Soon To Be Launched Launched Soon ----Britain's * largest battleship the 60,000-ton H. M. S. Vanguard, is scheduled 'to leave John Brown's fitting-out basin at Clydebank in March! The 5,000 men and women engaged in fitting her out have made another shipbuilding record by preforming in one year what would normally have bee ccom- plishéd in two and a half-¥érs. Almost every district in Britain manufactured a part for the mighty warship. Not long ago the finishing touches were being put to her 600 miles of electric cables, 1,016 tele- phones, 1,000 loud speakers, and ra- dar equipment, The amenities include a school, a cinema, a. church, a brewery, a newspaper office, and a shop. Facil- ities will be available for the manu- facture of about one ton of ice cream daily for the crew. There is work for many months ahead in the construction of new tonnage at Clydebank, The keel of a 12,000 Cunarder was laid down i recently. : 5 : As soon as space is available a new 30,000-ton Cunarder will | be started next year. Britain Completes "Operation Stork" The reputation for adaptability and good nature of the British . soldier hag been borne out by the variety of unusual tasks tackled since the end of the war to help the civilian populations in Euro- pean areas, . 'Operation Stork" deals with the temporary evacuation of German children. Some weeks ago the fost convoy set out from Berlin bearing thirteen hundred children and two hundred and fifty adults. "Every day for a fortnight the "Stork" convoy assembled in Ber- fin and was driven by British sol- diers to Helmstedt where the chil- dren spent the night and then en- trained for various reception cen- ters, On arrival, after a hot meal, they met their foster parents, The Operation is now completed, with - twenty-one thousand children and sixteen thousand adults settled in- to country districts for the winter away from the dangers of Berlin epidemics. : : -------------- Russia expects to get $160,000, 000 worth of oil products from Rumania as part of a war reparations bill. Various forms of face masks and goggles have been issued to members of the force which will make up Exercise Musk-ox, the joint army-air force Arctic expedition, Left in the picture are. ordinary plexiglass goggles, as supplied to air-force personnel, These are used as eye protection, The second man in the picture is wearing a canvas face mask, under which is a breather mask similar to that on the extreme right. Third, is a chamois face-mask issued for patrol work to enable the trek- ker to keep his face warm. Cut into the face are two narrow slits about the size of a pencil point for eye. pieces. The last face-piece is goggles, anti-dust, which have a nose breather on them that filt- ers the cold air. Cold air has a nasty habit of freezing the lungs. The eye-pieces are also replace- able. A quick push removes them and either one of four types of lenses can be quickly jnserted--a polaroid for anti-glare, an orange color for horizon and sky separation. in haze, an all-around filter to from town--all I want." 1} $340,000,000 stop undue snow reflections, and a normal clear one. ARK LIGHTNING 7/ HELEN TOPPING MILLER CHAPTER XIII Gary thought even less of the idea when at night Bill appeared, shaven and spruce, all dressed up in gray slacks and a snappy plaid coat, They'd been having a nice, quiet game of three-handed rummy when Bill arrived. And in four minutes by Gary's watch, the radio was going and Bill and Adelaide were dancing jn the hall, while Mrs. Mason pat and beaméd and murmured how much she liked boys and wasn't Gary pleased to see his old college friend again? "Oh, yes," 'grumbled Gary, "Bill's all right. Hell get along." "You'll get along, too, Gary. Now, you go straight out and make Adelaide dance with you. I'll get Bill out in the kitchen and make him squeeze lemons." 'But Adelaide was out "of breath, she protested--and why not every- body go and help squeeze lemons? Harvey came tramping in at eleven o'clock, . all aglow, pleased with himself. He banged Gary vi- gorously on the back, "Well, old croaker, I nailed "em to the cross! I'm getting my water "But you have to lay your own pipe?" "Sure--what's a little pipe? Lay it on top of the ground--won't take long, Got to have water to drill a well, haven't we?" ; * * * The dance was not a conspicu- ous success for Gary. He had, at the last minute, rashly spent most of his money for a white suit and some shoes; he had escorted Ade- laide--looking crisp and smart and altogether adorable in a pale yellow dance frock and little gold slippers. "You look like a daffodil," he ad- mired her, "Well, thank goodness for a dis- cerning man," she sighed, spread- ing her wide fluff of skirt carefully. "Dad just told me I looked like fifty pounds of butter." There was a little too much of Bill at the dance. Gary danced with Adelaide once, rather awkwardly because of his lame arm, and Bill .cut in before they had gone twice around the floor. After- a while Gary went back and leaned against the wall, and presently Adelaide swooped [upon him and' slid, her arm through his. "Where .on carth have you been " she demanded. "You are the most elusive date I ever had. Come along and dance, Sourpuss." So he danced with her, and Bill cut in immediately, whereupon Gary found his aloof post again and parked there for 'what seemed hours. Adelaide and Bill had dis- appeared, and the band was plow- ing through "Good Night, Ladies," when they came back, °° She was airy and difficult all the way home and Gary said very lit- tle. until they were atthe door. Then Gary gaid, "Thanks very much for a pleasant evening." Harvey was morose at breakfast, growling about the rain and the delays. "There won't be any delays," Gary assured him. "I'll keep the gang working." ° : Then came a morning, when the drizzle slacked a little, and Harvey announced that the drillers would move on that day. : ' "Pretty muddy out there yet, to move heavy machinery in," Gary reminded him. ot "Hickey says he can make it." "Hickey!" Gary explained. "You didn't hire Hickey?" "Sure, I hired him. Got the best price out of him." "But--his outfit's in bad shape! that's why he made you a low price --Dbecause his stuff is no good." Did you take a look at Hickey's bits? Theyy hadn't been sharpened in months when I saw them." "He'll have 'em sharpened -- I saw to that." Gary, went out heavily, Hickey would mbve on the job and, unless extraordinary luck was with them, grief would move on with him. It " began that afternoon, when the first of the tremendous trucks appeared. In the middle of the pasture, the truck bogged 'down in the black earth and there it stayed for two days, while a dozen men sweéated and shoveled and swore, trying to get it out. But not until a wind blew and the soil dried would it stir-- and by that time three other heavi- ly loaded trucks had piled up be- hind it--with the lifting hoist at the tail end of the procession. Adelaide climbed to the top of a fence post and sat there, with a raincoat buttoned to her chin, thrilled and gloating. "This is fun," she told Gary. "And look--he's printed everything, Bright buel It looks better now, doesn't it?" "Depends," frowned Gary, "on what's under the paint." "You're bound to be a gloom, aren't - you, darling?" I'm a petroleum engineer--I hope. Where's your blond friend, Bill" : "Oh, but he's your friend--don't you remember? He's in Houston new." 3 "Had a letter from him, did you?" 'Gary was being nasty and enjoying it. "No, it wasn't a letter. It was a telegram. Look savage some more --I like to shiver." J "I've plenty to be savage about." "Mother signed some papers," Adelaide said. "I- don't know what they were. but Dad was mad, and when Mother tried to talk to him he told her to shut up." Gary walked away, thoughtful and uneasy. So Harvey Mason was mortgaging something--he'd had to undoubtedly, because an oil well. was a cash proposition. But at last, on Saturday, the great casing went down -and gray cament poured "ip, in a rolling stream, and Gary helped Adelaide up to the derrick and held her . while she looked down, "When they get enough concrete down there, they'll put this wooden block on top of it. And then they- Il force water down there under enormous pressure till it drives the block down and the cement up, be- hind the pipe till it seals the sides of the well. Monday they'll start drilling," Gary said. The great boilers roared, and the hot oil smoke from the burners rode the north wind and seeped in- to the house, and Mona Lee sniffed it unhappily. "You can even tasté it in the coffee," she complained. "Tastes like money to me," Har- vey said, He was more affable now that the slush pit was dug. Roughnecky wit steel tongs per- ched precariotigly high in the der- rick, and when a length of drill pipe came riding up, they grappled and held it, screwing it on to the length that had gone down before. Then the black kelly joint rode up and was coupled to thé pipe-- and the whole went down, the swivel clanked into place again, the rotary turned as the draw gear grunted ang whined--and deeper and deeper into the earth sank the hungry bits, At the top of the derrick the crown block, with its great pulleys, spun and hummed as the heavy cables slashed and tightened. His boots spae wlhsidth mud and grease, Harvey stood fascinated, as long as the rotary turned and drill was going down, but when the roar of the gears ceased and the clank- ing of chains began and the pipe came up slowly, slobbering mud and water, anxiety tightened his face. "Something wrong?" "Nope--just changing bits. Want to see what they're getting out. now? Don't come too close, you'll get all muddy." He crouched over the slush pit and brought up a handful of gray, dripping debris in his palm. "Feel that? That's rock--'caprock,' oil men call it. Down below they'll hit chalk, perhaps--limestone, may- be. Then, if we're lucky, there will be yelowish rock with. streaks of sand and oil in it--and then we're down. Hickey's going to change bits now. Have to keep grinding them all the time." "Poor old earth] I wonder if it hurts." = "No groans yet. But sometimes the earth hates the drill.and blows it out--and then for weeks you live with trouble. You get a blowout on a well--a crater at the top and the . sides cave in and the gas roars out like something out of hell. I've seen one blowout." "How do they know the drills going straight down? Suppose it wobbléd around and went crooked and maybe ended up away over on : old man Harper's place." "Not likely--not that much. But a variation of a quarter-inch here at the surface can widen till it gets pretty big at the bottom of the three-thousand-foot "hole. I've seen wells put down that hit the casing on other wells, three hundred feet away." : "I wish we could get cver on Harper's place -- I wish we'd bore straight through his house -- the mean old thing!" ; "Seen your sister lately?" "They were coming out Sunday --and then Dad was still angry so Mother phoned Grace not to come, She didn't want Dad and Oliver to get into a fight! She knocked on the fence postwith her clenched knuckles. "I'm stiff. Help me down. . I think I'm tired of this oil well. I think I need a maple .fudge sun- dae. Let's get this mud off and go to town." "Can't do it. I'm a workingman, . Your father expects me to stay around. When anything happens. it happens quick, on a job like this. Good-by, idle woman," "Good-by, Mud-dauber. Let me know when you get oil, will you?" "I won't need to let you know, ™ You'll hear the gang yell all the way to town." Seven hundred feet, and still Hickey's draw gear groaned, and the cables, held, and the rotary turned, Hickey grinned his tooth- less, malicious grin whenever Gary was around. But Mason had ani nounced that Gary Tallman was his field superintendent, and there was nothing for Hickey to do but' listen when Gary spoke. (To be continued) UNRRA has provided 1,300, 904,960 pounds of food, mostly to Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania, - Czechoslovakia, and Poland, © "McGinty," re TABLE TALKS.. One Crust Pies "Most - people like most pies". When the crust is tender and flaky and the Alling: luscious and fruity cor rich and creamy, pie is the first choice of deserts, The home economists of the "Consumer Section, Dominion De- partment of Agriculture say that we can still -enjoy pie for dessert while keeping the fat supply in mind, if one crust pies are served, - Deep Dish Plum Pie "1 quart fruit (canned without sugar) 1/8 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup sugar 1/4 cup flour 1 teaspoon almond extract 1 tablespoon fat Pastry ; Drain fruit, heat syrup to boil- ing. Mix salt, sugar and flour. Stir slowly 'into boiling syrup. Place drained fruit in a deep baking dish, Pour thickened syrup over fruit, Dot with fat. Roll out plain pas- try to 1/8-inch thickness, Make several slits in the centre. Fit pastry over the fruit, press down well over the edges of the baking dish, Cut and flute the edges, Bake 30 minutes in a hot oven, 425 deg. F. Six servings. Raisin Pumpkin Pie 14 cup raisins 3 1 3/4 cups cooked pumpkin 2 eggs 14 cup sugar 14 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons cinnamon 14 teaspoon ginger 2 tablespoons molasses 1 cup milk Pastry Wash and chop raisins, combine with pumpkin. Add sugar, salt, spices and molasses to eggs. Beat well, add to pumpkin, Then add milk, blend thoroughly, Line a 9 inch pie pan with pastry. Pour in filling. Bake in a hot oven, 425 deg. F, for 10 minutes. Lower the heat. "to 350 deg. F and continue baking "30 minutes, or until fill- ing is set, Modern Etiquette By Roberta Lee 1. Would it be good manners for a girl to ask her dinner partner for a cigarette? 2, What would be a suitable | phrase for a wife to use when in- troducing her husband to another woman? ; 3. Is it obligatory to tip a servant in a home where one has spent a single night? 4. What would be the best way to go about making up the list to whom wedding invitations are to be sent? 5. Are salted nuts and bonbons' included among the regular dinner courses? - 6. Whom should one" select to act as a chapéron? ANSWERS '1. Yes, if her dinner partner is forgetful enough not to offer her a cigarette without this_reminder. 2. "Mrs. Barns, may I introduce my husband 'to you?" 3. It is custom-' ary t6 do so if the servant has done some special service, 4, The prefer- able way is for the bride and the bridegroom to make up this list to- gether, consulting the parents of both families. 5. No; the nuts and bonbons are passed from time to time. 6. Any married woman. - Meet Mr. McGinty The Wonder Sheep wonder sheep of Australia's Yass River area, has produced- more than 220 Ibs, of wool in the past ten years. Despite his age--more than 11 years--""McGinty" 'this year shore 1214 1b, In his first four years his clip totalled 108 lbs. In 1038, his wool scaled 28%5 lbs.--a world re- cord. An expert shearer took 38}: minutes to shear him. Weight of fleece from a wether such as "Mec- Ginty" averages from 10 lbs. to 14 Ibs. varying with the type of sheep and seasonal conditions. "Mc- Ginty" was almost dead when picked up as a lamb, He was first reared as a pet by his owner, J, C. Carey. : CHE CAEP "8 foot, scabies, pimples an =or Money Back F ef from itching u or quick relief from ftchin Caused by caer lin, medicated, liq less. Soo Fotenss Tichi < 8, COM an por 3nd Ono of the best home ways to help i your blood lacks ron! You girls and women who suffér 80 from simple anemia that you're pale, weak, 'dragged out' tr3his 1ua¥ be due to lack of iron in blood, So | try Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound TABLETS with added iron -- one of the best home ways to help build up red blood --in such cases, Pinkham's Tablets are one of the most effec- tive iron tonics you can buy! : : BUILD UP | RED of GINGER F With you who read, Christmas 1t now a thing of the past, but with us. as I write, it is very much a thing of the present. For this is Christmas Day--the tag end it is true; but Christmas day neverthe- "less. Ferhaps you may wonder at my writing on this day of days, but you see, tomorrow, for many peo- rle, it is business as usual, and it weekly papers are to come out on schedule it is up to those who con- tribute to do their little bit. But back to Christmas: At one time during the day, when we were happy with our own family around us. I wondered how all the rest ot the folk were spending Christ- mag Day--folk who are friends of this column particularly--and 1 did hope that everyone everywhere was having just as happy a Christ- mas as we were in our own quiet way. Our homecomers arrived by car late Christmas Eve, It was well they did for the driving would have been very' bad Christmas morning. They came in laden with parcels, gay with coloured wrap- pings, tags and ribbons, and those same percels were soon carefully distributed around the Christmas tree. We teased each other with time-honoured family phrases--"I know something you don't know" . "Yes, and 1 know something YOU don't know!" The next help laughing when I suddenly re- membered how time reverses things, When the children were small it was they who were up 'early; they who crouched around on the floor around the Christmas tree, reading the name tags, feeling the parcels, trying to guess by their size and shape what wonder- fui surprises would be found in- side. Now it was I who did the crouching -and guessing! Partner "and son Bob were of course, out ' at the barn milking, Daughter and friend Bert were not up yet so [ had the floor to myself. I am tel- ling you I was really curious. But I didn't peak and when we were all together I wouldn't let anyone else peak either. The morning's work had to be done first, no mat- ter what. Then there was dinner-- which really wasn't much of a chore at all, because I had cooked the turkey and all the trimmings the day before so it had only to be pepped into the oven and heated up again. No one knew after the first course how they were going to find room for Christmas pud- ding but we managed it somehow. And then came the tree--yes, even hefore the washing of dishes, Not one of us could wait any long- er. Not that we were looking for anything big but you know what pleasure there is in this inter- change of family gifts. Who else " knows one's needs and fancies so well as the members of one's own family? Certainly there was a ring of sincerity in our voices as each one of us said--"That is exactly what I wanted!" In fact I was so fortunate in one of my gifts that I hardly knew how to tear myself away from it at all. It was from Fartner--a copy of - Nellie Me- Ciung's latest book--'"The Stream Runs Fast", He had heard me say, after reading a review of the book, that 1 wanted to get a copy, so the news was relayed to Daughter. It was my good fortune a few ' KIDNEY ACIDS Rob yourRest.. Many people. never seem to get a night's rest. They turn and tose blue 4. on 'nerves'--when it may be their kidneys, Healthy kidneys filter poisons and excess acids from the blood. If they fail and impurities stay in the system--disturbed vest often follows. If you don't rest well Ear KE Bl s 80 you can rest better--and f better, 136 Modern Weir Relleves Wau - ( Ponetratos V/stimulates d dun Into branchial the chest and back medicinal vapors, Jurfsera ite ct Warming, relief--grand A Vicke ves when you rub good and back at. bette: 1 po etrating St nmlating action on for In- vites restful often SOrhing most the cold wonder most mothers use ret \fic it tonig te v. : ome=pro APORU od J ~a morning I couldn't * years ago, to meet Mrs, McClung, "and I not only like to read books written by authors whom 1 have met, but I like to own them too. And Mrs, McClung is ope of: the "niost lovable of persons." So, when Daughter said, "Now you just sit down, Mother--We'll do the dish- es "well, I just sat down, all among the paper wrappings and gift boxes, and waded right into "The Stream Runs Fast". y I forgot about the wind and t meet; I forgot, for awhile, to wor ry about how our Torontonian were to get home on slippery- roads. 1 was back with Nellie Mc~ Clung, reliving with her some of her early experiences which had Leen so similar to our own out there on the Saskatchewan. prai- r'e. But I had to ¢ome back to re- 2lity ecause Partner announcel about six O'clock that he didn't want to hurry anyone away but he really thought it would be wiser if they made an early start as the weather was bad, so there was a general hurrying * and scurrying, things gathered hastily - together, and in half-an-hour they were away, starting on what we hope wag a safe journey back to the city. And thus ended our Christmas Day--our first peacetime Christ- mas in six years. 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