Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1942 — Page 17

Some ‘Budget Extenders’ Appearing |

At the Grocery Store This Week-End

WEEK-END SHOPPING NOTES: Get tomatoes: for delicious fresh cocktails, made by washing and chopping the red-ripe vegetables, g the pulp through a fine sieve to extract the juice, and adding a aan of raw onion juice or fresh lemon juice for “zip.”

“vegetables coming in are large

Muantities of green beans, Swe

Im, beets, carrots, ‘peppers.

supply of good quality ‘stringless green beans is increasing . dand the quality is much better, the Extension service reports, than it a week ago. The supply of bly grown sweet corn has inreased some during the past wéek “s—price and quality remaining about the same. Locally grown cantaloupes are arriving now and the supply for this week-end will be fairly heavy. The bulk of these are the Honeyrock variety. A few high quality Tip-Top melons are coming in. The increased supply has resulted in a considerable decrease in price dur

ing the past two or three days, the:

service advises.

Salad Vegetables A LARGE SUPPLY of water-

felons is reaching Indianapolis

now from the southern Indiana section. These are of good quality

and there is an assortment of .sizes and shapes to be had. For those summer specials—fresh |,

vegetable salads—there is a plenti-

{“#ul supply of green peppers, carrots,

cabbage and beets. The best buy dn carrots is the topped ones

.coming on the market. These, if

they are fresh and crisp, will be

of as good quality as bunched

carrots and the homemaker, in buying them, not only makes a

saving for herself, but saves the

grower the extra expense of bunching and hauling the bunched variety. Fresh apples, peaches, pears, plums and grapes are the homegrown fruits to be found this week. The supply of apples is increasing and they are a “best buy” at this time.

Peaches, Grapes, Pears DUE TO LIGHTER shipments of

“peaches this week, the market has

advanced in price, limiting peach

use for the most part to desserts

or “out of hand” eating. Locally grown Elbertas and some Michigan Elbertas will begin arriving next week and the supply should be heavier than it has been the past week. Home-grown grapes appeared this week. The supply is still light but

+ will soon be increasing sufficiently

“heavy at any time this season.

‘ Wheat “enriched toast, jam, coffee, milk,

"potato salad, relishes,

Today's Recipe

to warrant home canning of the : fruit or juice. A light supply of Michigan Bartlett pears is being received at

“this time. However, the supply of

pears is not expected to be very

. 8% =

Good Meals for - Good Morale .

BREAKFAST: Grapes, dry wholecereal, bacon and eggs,

DINNER: Summer-style pot roast,

“buttered new carrots with chopped

‘parsley, mashed potatoes, lettuce, cucumber and tomato salad, peach

.Bce cream, cookies, coffee, milk,

SUPPER: Sliced cold pot roast, rye bread, stewed fruit, sponge cake, tea, milk.

POT ROAST (Serves 6 to 8) Three lbs. chuck of beef, salt, per, 1-2 cup flour, 1 cup water. pe meat with cloth. Season to

' taste; rub flour into meat until all

has been used. Place meat in large “Kettle; pour in water and cover tightly. Bring to simmer, and con-

“tinue to cook at simmer stage for|

about 2% to 3 hours. Add more “water if needed. If meat is kept at very low simmer, more water will not

¥'be needed.

Tomatoes, the agricultural extension service points out, are still the buy among fresh vegetables in the local market.

Other

~ We, the Women—

Tough Problem, Yes, but It’s a « Tough World

By RUTH MILLETT

THERE is probably no group of young men in America today faced

than young men who have wives and one or more small children to whom they feel an obligation but who because

also feel that they should be in this fight.

wives could get good jobs if they went into the army — which would take care of the financial prob-

+ would mean Ruth Millett that the chileither have to be left all day with a hired girl—perhaps none too intelligent in her handling of children—or sent away to live with grandparents, to whom their care is almost sure to be something of a burden. Also, there is the ever-present concern that if they go into the army they might not return or might eome back unable to support a family, which would mean that their wives would be left to provide for the children.

YET, IF THEY are thoughtful men, they are bound to know that whether their children grow up in a democratic world where they will have a chance or whether they have to live. menaced by injustice, hardship, and terror depends on the outcome of this war. Realizing that, it is hard for their fathers to know that they are doing nothing much to help win the war, spending their time as many of them are on jobs that lock pretty unimportant and could either go undone for the duration or be taken over by a woman, an older man, or one not physically fit for military service. No one can advise these men what to do. Each has to make his own decision. Neither decision, to stay at home or volunteer for service, will seem wholly right. All that these men can do is choose the way that seems to them to be the better way. Even their wives can’t help them, except by saying, “Whatever you decide is all right with me.”

War Mothers’ Group To Be Entertained

Members of the Marion County chapter, American War Mothers, whose birthdays occur in July and August will entertain the chapter at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday in the World War Memorial building: Mrs. Bertha Didway will provide music and refreshments will be served. The hostesses will be Mesdames Zella Ryan, John Cochran, Mary Gifford, William M. Swain, Emma Strobel, Augusta Siersdale, Ella Thomas, Ben Wheat, Alice Hostett-

and Elizabeth Burton.

Picnic Sunday

The annual picnic of former residents of Fairmount will be held Sunday at table 17 in Garfield park. The basket dinner will be

at noon.

with a tougher personal problem |

they are young and . able-bodied |

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Instruction. By ROBERT RUARK Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—A let-

{tor oarme tates te. masts onal

institute here the other day. It

was post-marked Midway island. The letter said:

soon.” Another letter, Pearl Harbor: “In the raid of Dec. 7 I lost my complete course and I would like to know if another set of textbooks can be sent me.”

rine outpost: “I'm not letting the Japs upset my study plans. I can take Care. of Both Nips and. arith metic.” Free to Marines :

Wass cole anid go, Wht they

don’t interrupt the marine corps

correspondence school. Today 6000 marines, scattered all over the globe, mail regular assignments to Washington and sometimes, in a lull of gunfire, wonder what they made on that engineering exam. The school, under the supervision of Col. John Potts and administered by Master Technical Sergeant D. M. Hyde, was the first service correspondence school. If

. |operates in conjunction with the

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In New York

NEW YORK, Aug. 21 —Margie

dancer at the age of two. Most of in theaters and hotel rooms. “But in 1933 we settled down told me. “Every. afternoon I sang on the Seroco program over sta-

I went back several times to play theaters there. The Lyric theater in Indianapolis was always a stopping point.” I saw Margie and her mother at their apartment in Carnegie Plaza, 162 W. 56th st. Offstage Margie looks like a freshman coed. Today she wore a crisp lavender plaid schoolgirl frock and spectator pumps. Her brown hair was curled

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anything by being on the stage all my life,” she said in reply to my question. “To the contrary, I've gained a lot. While on tour-I studied at the Children’s Professional

school. My lessons were done between shows and sent in by mail.” After 15 years in show business Margie has learned to take calamities in her stride. This winter she sang with a Latin band in Florida. During the afternoon rehearsal she gave directions which apparently they understood. But that evening they gave out such wild rhythms that she couldn't keep up with them. “It’s a little too fast,” she whispered to the leader. Hearing the word “fast” he immediately began to speed up the tempo. Afterward Margie discovered that the musicians didn't speak English. From then on she kept an interpreter with her to give directions.

“MUSICAL COMEDY is my major interest,” Margie told me. “In a couple of years I'd like to play

put over a song. I-don’t want to

marry until I've been successful in

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softly about her heart shaped Tace.|

“NO I DON'T THINK I've missed

Ethel Merman roles. She can really

by Helen Worden

Knapp, currently featured in Mike

Todd’s Star and Garter, says that Indiana is the only real home she’s ever known. Now 17, Margie made her stage debut as a Charleston

her life Since then has been spent

in Evansville for three years,” she

: Miss Knapp my career. Then I might be able to combine the two.” ‘Margie started. having dates a year, ago: You'll usually -find her where there’s a rhumba band. She prefers boys who are interested in sports. “Margie likes boys who are tall, good looking and good dancers,” said her mother, laughing. “Aside from that she’s not particular.” Mrs. Knapp doesn’t look . old enough to be Margie’s mother. She explained that she was only 15 when her daughter was born. Today she wore a becoming white print dress and spectator pumps. There is a single streak of White in. her thick, red hair.

Beauty— on

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‘Re-Do’ Nose

By ALICIA HART : Times Special Writer IT'S SURPRISING to discover, as I do from the mailbox, that many, many women don’t like their own noses. Maybe one reason for it is that pre-war standards of| American beauty were pretty conventional—that is, yowre.conventionally pretty, with a perfectly proportioned face, or you're not

So don’t take your nose “faults” 80 seriously. ur ra if you still feel self-con-

scious about them, try some. of the

suggestions Perc Westmore, Holly-

International Correspondence school and has been going since 1921. Courses are free to all marines.

Study War Sciences

Time was when marines could study architecture, agriculture and poultry-keeping by mail, but the courses were abolished when war began to brea athe on the nation’s neck. Now the/ men study courses more closely allied to war and their professional batterment. Aviation, ranging from mechanics to engineering, is the most popular single subject. Radio is next, Spanish follows, and practical telephony is fourth. All are outweighed by mass preparation for commissions, and by general high school subjects. The marine school co-operates with high schools on final award of diplomas, after a student has finished his prescribed courses. And many a marine officer of today came up from the ranks a-riding on one of Sergt. Hyde's prep courses. ; Enrollment Drags

The school offers an amazing array of technical subjects. Radio, civil engineering, refrigeration, machine shop and factory engineering, accountancy, auto and marine engineering, and languages are covered fully, in addition to the ones already mentioned. Enrollment has dropped since Pearl Harbor, and the instructor staff has been cut in half, but it still takes 68 men to handle the flood of completed lessons that roll in every month. According to Sergt. Hyde, the quality of both teacher and pupil has| improved since war began. “They seem to be a lot better educated now,” he says. “There are less men interested in high school completion courses, and more in advanced stuff. The instructors are of a higher caliber for the same reason.” i All Are Marines The instructors are all enlisted marines. They get no more comtion for their work than they get ‘in regular-line jobs. The school recruits its ‘teachers from the reception center at Parris Island. Also improved by the war has been the staff of The Leatherneck, the monthly magazine that is put out under the wing of the institute. Its editor, Lieut. Walter Hitesman, is a former Baton Rouge, La., reporter, ‘and he has a staff of 17. The Leatherneck has a circulation of 55,000. It’s printed on slick paper, and its advertising is handled by New York bureaus. Subscription is $2.50 a year, and there’s plenty of surplus in the strong-box against a future rainy day.

Casualties Cut Classes

Just. after Pearl |Harbor, The Leatherneck got busy on an amazingly detailed series, profusely illustrated, on axis military rank, terminology, insignia and uniform—a series so good that other branches of the armed forces are having it reproduced in pamphlet form for general distribution. ' It was a reporting job that kept Lieut. Hitesman’s slim staff burrowing into embassies and the library of congress until they nearly dropped. But getting back to the correspondence school—war has introduced one grim method of cutting classes. Lately coming back unopened to the institute. Stamped across the under late-December datelines, simple words: Missing in Action.

tional association of the Lively

branch of the Y. W. C. A. Sn. Aug 29 and various meetings

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this time from|

And from another, nameless ma-.

: An American sniper suit, plus camouflage markings on hands dnd

face, makes this soldier blend perfectly with foliage and many types

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ARMY COMMISSIONS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (U. PJ). ~The war department’s first report to congress on the number of civilians commissioned in the United States army revealed today that 18,967 men were given commissions ranking from second lieutenants to colonels in June and July. Of the total, slightly cver 10,000—

approximately 13 per cent—were|

doctors or others in the medical profession, a letter to congress from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said. The following breakdown was submitted with Secretary Stimson’s letter: Eight colonels, 37 lieutenant colonels, 636 majors, 3051 -captains, 7483 first lieutenants, and 7752-sec-ond lieutenants. A provision of the recently passed service men’s pay increase bill—inserted by a congressional bloc which charged that war department officials were “taking care of their friends” in awarding commissions— requires a report to congress every 60 days on new commissions.

ARRIUS COURT TO PICNIC The Arrius court 5 of the Ben Hur Life association will nave its annual picnic Sunday in Garfield park. Games and contests will begin at 2 p. m. and a basket supper will be served at 5 p. m.

POCAHONTAS SETS PARTY Pocahontas council 350 will sponsor a covered dish dinner and card party at 5:30 p. m. Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Love, 1626 Brookside ave.

OPTIMISTS TO GOLF

Members of the Optimist club will tee off between noon and 3 p. m. Wednesday for their August golf tournament at the Woodstock club. Dinner. will be at 6:30 p. m. followed by a program beginning at 8:30 ,p.. m. Reservations for the event should be made with Frank Huse.

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Makes Claim New Material Has Varied Purposes, But Not for Tires.

WILMINGTON, Del, Aug. 31 (U.

||P.) —A new plastic designed to re |place rubber in many ‘manufae-

nounced ‘ by the Hercules Powder

Base of the new material was said to be ethyl cellulose, a cotton product, now in production at the company’s Hopewell, Va.; plant. The new plastic, the company said, could be used instead of rubber in hospital sheeting, gun eovers, tents, garden hose, Mason jar rings, surgical tape, Tubber gloves, electrical tape and insulations, impreg-: nated fabrics, footwear and other articles. Gas resistant, it could be used for grees below zero, it could be used 1s electrical wire insulation in high altitude bombers. : L. N. Bent, Hercules vice president, said the plastic could not be used for tires or inner tubes. Raw materials used in the manufacture of ethyl cellulose are cotton linters or wood pulp, common salt and alcohol from natural gas or fermented farm products. : The plastic materidl, Mr. Bent said, was inferior to natural rubber in resiliency, is not as elastic and tears more easily. It can, however,

be made fireproof.

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better able to meet War production requirements.

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NATIONAL REUNION OF| - LIVELY FAMILY HERE: The annual reunion of the na-|

family will be held here Aug. 29-| 8 30, with hencquariers at the sentral

Registration will. be held at 10}

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