WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON J] EW YORK. — This department flushes a swarm of rumors about drastic changes in our naval building plans, said to have been in- British Disasters 9uctd by new problems of de- Bring Check on fense against lanes and subs Our Naval Plans Pe disclosed by British disasters. So far as we can learn, there are impending some possible changes in personnel, and a general check and overhauling of work on new ships to date, but nothing revolutionary. It is indicated that there will be in- tensive studies and training in co- ordination of ships, planes and sub- marines, At the highest peak of Ameri: can naval construction in peace- time history, Rear Admiral Al- exander Hamilton Van Keuren is made chief of the bureau of construction and repair. That puts him right in the wheel house of the navy efficiency drive, as this is the acid-testing bureau for fighting ships, and it bears the responsibility for their being sound and fit, structurally and in design. Defecis have been found, and are being reme- died in several 10,000-ton cruis- ers. Admiral Van Keuren, a navy tech- nician for 36 years, is one of the most highly rated spec ts In na- val construction. He smokes a drop- stem pipe, carries on easily formally, and marshals engineering data with a precise mastery of tail. His 1S pos b that of industrial m and in- ar de - previot een IBCT the i. He is a armor or pi thy DE y./ of Mich olis in 1803 bureau, Rear Bose, bec new model basin at AJ. GEN. — M HIS, ass DANIEL VAN VOOR- command in igned to the su Panama Canal Zone, is an officer up from the ranks Our Gold Guard ¥'° has been Now Gets Canal Zone to Watch years ago igan, gre 5 predecesso Admiral preme the entrusted with many critics mport ignmen ship of the 000,000,000 gol reserve, Knox, Ky. The fact of his se is evidence of the cru tance of the c¢ defenses, eyes of the hi; in the nal 1 command. From Zanesville, Ohio, he en- listed in the Tenth Pennsylvania infantry in 1898 and won a com- mission as second lieutenant in the Philippine insurrection. He ds the army specialist in mech- anized defense and attack, and just now the canal is a concen- tration of swift mechanization. In the World war, he was chief- of staff at Brest, and holds the Distinguished Service medal, the Navy Cross, the Silver Star and the Legion of Honor decora- tions, ames mn N HIS new book, “The Defense of Britain,’”” Capt. Liddell Hart, the British military expert, says, ‘Our chief risk of losing a war lies in try- TN ing to win the Britain’s Danger war.” His gene Is in Trying to eral finding is . that modern Win, Says Hart _ aannot be supported in the style to which it has been accustomed, and observes that “War will only be ended when the power-lusting nations recognize its futility. The growing power of modern defense is bringing that prospect in sight.” In his preceding book, ‘Europe in Arms,” published in August, 1937, he thought there was hope of ending war in the limitations of the mili- tary mind. Fat-headed generals would cling to gaudy mass attack and make war so stupid and ridicu- lous that anybody surviving would just forget it. But the trouble with a war expert is that you can’t bottle him up, and other nations in the past have used him as a military consultant. In the World war, a stripling just out of Cambridge, a captain and a war correspondent, he gave the generals a lacing to the limit of the censorship, and, al- though they growled menacing ly, they took him into their counsels. He invented a lot of new trick plans, including the “indirect approach’ and the “ex- panding torrent” system, and his reputation was well on its way before the war ended. He has scolded many of the main panjandrums of the big war, in the post-war years, apparently with public approval, judging from the sale of his books. He was a war buddy of Lawrence of Arabia and ingisted that this human cryptogram knew more about war than all the generals put together. Consolidated Features—~WNU Service.) THE CENTRE REPORTER, Let’s All Have Tea There's some ethiDg so social about serving tea! drop in for a bit laxation, con of rest versation flourishes, hosp itality. and most gracious ways of enter- taining — wheth- er you invite one may be a cozy, informal with only a few “handpicked friends invited, and butter sandwiches, of perfect] ments. Or, you may plan a much larger, more elaborate tea as a means of entertaining the Parent- Teacher association, th club, or perhaps the Women's aux- fliary of your husband's lodge. Formal or informal, large or small, you'll find that beforehand preparations and carefully laid plans help to make this kind of en- tertaining easy. Admit the limita- tions of your budget, your equip- ment, your time and strength, and don't plan more than you can carry out comfortably and sensibly. Re- member that a cup of tea and a slice of bread and butter can make a party if the tea is perfectly made, the bread thin, service dainty and attractive Keep sandwiches, and cook es small your inv number " guests, bake your favor ite cakes in jelly roll pans, frost, and cut into small, diagonal pieces. Ginger Cream Cakes, To make these clever little cakes, use the thin gingersnap or cookie ordinarily sold on the market. Al- low from three to five to a serv- ing. Put together with sweetened whipped cream in the same man- ner as in frosting a miniature layer cake. Cover the top and sides gen- erously with the cream, and chill thoroughly. Ground candied ginger may be sprinkled sparingly over the tops. One cup of whipping cream will make six cakes. Orange Ice Cream. 1 tablespoon granulated gelatin 1% cup cold water 1% cups sugar 115 cups boiling water 1% cups orange juice 24 cup lemon juice 2 tablespoons orange rind (grated) 2 cups coffee cream 14 teaspoon salt 2 eggs (beaten separately) Soak the gelatin in the cold water for five minutes. Dissolve sugar in boiling water and add to the gelatin, stirring until dissolved. Add the orange juice, orange rind, lemon juice, coffee cream, salt, and beaten egg yolks. Fold in egg whites and pour mixture into freezing container of ice cream freezer. Assemble and cover. Then pack mixture of crushed ice and rock salt (use three parts ice to one part salt, by volume) around the freezing container. Turn crank slowly but steadily. When mixture becomes too stiff to turn, remove cover carefully, take out dasher, and pack down evenly with a spoon. Cover ice cream with wax paper and replace cover. Repack. Cover and allow to harden at least one hour before serving. One-Two-Three-Four Cakes, ary dio Tv eniucingly 1 cup margarine 2 cups sugar 4 eggs (separated) 3 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 14 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 2 teaspoons flavoring Cream the margarine thoroughly, Add sugar gradually and cream together until light and fluffy, Add Sift flour measure, add baking powder salt, and sift together three times. Add flour, alternately with milk, a small amount at a time. eat after each addition until Add flavoring. Fold in beaten egg whites. lake in well greased muffin pans in ven (375 degrees) Frost as de- egg yolks, and beat well, once, and sti IY for about 20 mint sired. Brown Bread Peanut Sandwiches Slice Boston Brown bread very thin, spread with creamed butter, sprinkle generously with finely chopped salted peanuts. Parsley Sandwiches. Slice day- read %-inch thick. Cut into rounds with a doughnut cutter, side, and spread parsley butter, To nake utter, cream butter, add lemo juice to taste, and finely minced parsley. Banana Nut Bread. 14 cup butter 12 cup sugar 2 eggs 2 cups gener: 14 teaspoon se 15 teaspoon 2 teaspoons ites, toast baking powder c up chopped hut meats wheat br Cream butter and add sugar slow. ly, beating constantly, Add eggs— one at a time beating thorough- Mix and sift flour, soda, and baking powder. Add nut meats and wheat bran to this mix- Combine bananas and sour cream. Add flour mixture alternate ly with banana mixture-—-beating thoroughly after each addition. Bake in well-greased loaf pan in a mod- erate oven (350 degrees) about 1% hours. Note: This bread is really better it sliced the second day. Delicious for sandwiches with butter or with unflavored cream cheese for fll ing. ture. Reception Cakes, (Makes 90 two-inch cakes) cups shortening (part butter for flavor) cups sugar egg yolks cups cake flour teaspoons baking powder teaspoon salt cups milk tablespoons orange or extract 1. Cream the shortening; add sugar very slowly, beating well after each addition. 2. Beat the egg yolks until very thick, and add gradually to the creamed mixture. 3. Sift dry ingredients together, and add alternately with the milk and extract. 4. Pour the batter into large jelly roll pans, which have been greased and lined with wax paper. 1% lemon degrees) for 30 minutes, cut into diamonds. Send for Your Copy of ‘Easy Entertaining.’ In her cookbook, taining,’ Eleanor Howe gives you suggestions for a Halloween menu, as well as countless other holiday meals, children’s parties, ‘‘teen- age’’ parties, picnics, and a wedding reception--you'll find ideas for all these and other social occasions. Send ten cents in coin to “Easy Entertaining,”” care of Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Ave., Chi- cago, Ill, and get your copy of this book now, (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Cool, and Burglar-Proof Ordinary window latches can be burglar-proofed by boring a hole in the turning part of the catch. A small padlock locked in the hole will not allow the catch to be opened, CENTRE HALL, PA. DOL LAR MAKE RS Ask Questions To Get Ahead In the World By G JORGE T. EAGER little we use our opportunities to ab- in our work,” said a business man in discussing the success of John Graham, the president of an important bank. ‘IT remember when John started at the mail desk as a boy just 30 years ago. hadn't been there three months before he know more about postal regulations than our lawyers, seemed to be friends with everybody at the post office, could tell you in a min- ute just when you had to mail a let. ter so as to have it in Buffalo next morning. Any one with any question about the mail soon found {it easier to say “Get Johnny" than to bother to look it up. As he was promoted from one department to another it was still the same story. “People say he is formed banker in th The reason is that he never stops ask- ing questic.us. I've gotten in a taxi with him and before long he has found out how much a driver 1 a day, what share the com gets, whether the com to its employees, how will last and 80 on. the head of that taxi company be asking for a loan and wonders learned the best is section. in- any where John Graham ever so much about his business. “In one way or another the aver- age business man comes in contact with at least 50 people a week. Most of us never think of asking them questi Jut think of the information a man like John accumulates stores away each week." No wor says "Get a tough ‘ 4% sOivea. PUBLIC TREND IS IMPORTANT ons, anc OE Ao ie bl Wier 18 whol A GREAT 4 turing textile manufac- business that Star Dust * Peak Performance * Wanting to Stay? % Dangerous Subject tee By Virginia Vale — HERE'S that must be admitted about Bette Davis; she’s not afraid to stick her chin out. She'll ask for anything that she thinks she deserves. If she gets it, fine; if she doesn’t, she proves that she’s a good loser. She wants to do a play that she saw last summer in Provincetown— | at least, at the moment of writing she wants to do it. She persuaded Warner Brothers to buy it. They're willing to let her do the movie sion, after it had been produced on the New York stage h names that something in the legiti- mate theater, one thing Ver. mean haracteristic her own ability, she they won't let her 1’ } y “ Washington, Gor s to v on every cou y y 5 LPs autre; dered liquidated by a judge. Thirty years ago it was a leader in its field, a power in the industrial world. Today it is nothing but an assortment of buildings and machinery to be sold to the highest bidder. As a rule the cause of the failure of many a business is the inability of its manage- ment to sense public trends, to study the speed with which they develop and then quickly adapt products to these trends, A large manufacturer of umbrel- las foresaw the adverse effect of closed automobiles on umbrella sales. Sensing the great future growth of avia- tion the company quickly dropped out of the um- brella business, and devoted its entire efforts to the manufacture of parachutes. Today it is & go- ing business, When the auto mobile business was in its infancy the United States was dotted with wagon and carriage manufacturers, many of them large and well financed. Out of all of bility of becoming an automobile manufacturer. by the wayside. small incidents. One of the finan- cial powers in the aviation business was asked why he had dared risk so much capital in the industry in st discarding fire engines and trains the aviation business had a great future.” {Bell Syndicate-~WNU Service.) Gas Masks Developed For Horses and Mules PARIS.—-A gas mask has been invented for horses and mules, providing them with the same protection now available to hu- man beings, cats and dogs. The inventor, M. Loyer, start- ed with gas masks for cats and dogs and worked up to masks for horses and shes as latter were especially des to be quickly adjustable on fright. ening their beneficiaries. They serve also as blinders. f you value your life, don't ever mention model planes to anybody connected with the sc heening yf the “Tailspin Tommy" comic strip. The other day they were usi sing 10 of the y planes during the filming of the picture, called “Danger Flight.” Danger was the right word. They were shooting an important | scene, in which a midget plane is used to warn “Tailspin Tommy" of | impending danger. Every time the plane was turned loose it headed for {the top of the stage and became entangled in the rafters and lights. {| Then the crew had to stop work and | disentangle it. Half a day's shooting | was lost in all. | Those 10 small planes were worse 'than the battalion of transport planes used in the film. They flew into houses, broke windows, got lost in trees, hit the wrong people or disappeared completely. “Danger Flight" is the story of a boy who saved many lives because he had learned about flying from model airplanes. John Trent, who plays the lead, is a real pilot and knows all about big planes. ssf All the members of Jack Benny's radio show troupe, with the excep- tion of Mary Livingstone, are facing the cameras at Paramount | “Buck Benny Rides Again.” Andy Devine will be in character, but Don Wilson plays a straight role. The two men who turn out Benny's radio scripts got a break--they wrote the script for the picture, and get screen credit for it, At first it was announced that Nel- son Eddy was leaving that radio program because he hadn't time for lit. Now it develops that his spon- sors feel that his salary is just a bit too high, and that other mem- bers of the cast heartily agree with them. Six thousand five hundred dollars a week does seem a mite high for the once-a-week efforts of the blond baritone. ifn ODDS AND ENDS — They've given Dinah Shore a new spot on the nights, opposite Jack Benny: body has to *buck’ Benny, it mi bok" quoth she... 4 | in India bak Bennay Venuta, asking if she'd like was on the verge of «ee Three-Piece Knit Suit Pattern 6312 Mother or big three-piecer. inette stitcl to ie] Webster, Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomulsion relieves prom of the bronchial mucous me No matter how many medicines you have tried, tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of mulsion with the understanding that you are to like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis Learning and Thought Learning without thought is la- bor lost; thought without learning is perilous. —Confucius. OR SPREAD ON LEAD Riches Trickle Away Beware of little expenses: a small leak will sink a great ship.— Franklin, EA-CUP THAT FIGHTS CONSTIPATION Garfield Tea is not a “cure-all,” but you want relief from tem CONSTI PATION without poriy drugs, try a cup tonight of this fra« grant, 10-herb tea. Acts and mildly. Pleasant to the taste. 25¢-10¢ at agave. .
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