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BARTENDERS . agreed that Tom & Jerry weather is here—but yire not in agreement as to how the traditional Christmas nip should be made. After much wear and tear on bar stools I have learned that even though “it ain't Christmas unless you have a Tom & Jerry” many establishments won't be making them, ‘ Otto H. Wise, bartender with half a century of experience has dusted off his Tom & Jerry bowl at the Saratoga Bar. . “Noses and ears have turned red enough from the cold. It's time,” he said. : Here's his recipe: Separate the whites from the yolks of two dozen eggs and beat each until stiff. Add powdered sugar to the yolks until the bat.er is stiff, Fold the two and beat again. Put about a tablespoonful of the mix into a cup, pour a half jigger of Jamaica rum and a half jigger of good whisky and then add boiling hot water—stirring as you add it. Top it off with a dash of nutmeg. Richard Stegemeier, owner of Stegemeier’s Restau. rant and Tap Room, hasn't had Tom & Jerry for four years and won't make any this year, “Business is too rushing for Tom & Jerry making,” Mr, Stegemeier said. In the Cascade bar of the Columbia club I was fortunate. The air was nippy, the customers were asking for Tom & Jerries, so George Marshall and Emil Vermo, bartenders, decided to make up their first batch of the year,

A BOWL OF GOOD .CHEER—Emil Vermo dishes up, the traditional Tom & Jerry at the Columbia club.

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MR. MARSHALL and Mr, Vermo agree on the

recipe they give to the chef. Mr, Marshall, after completing his 41st year as a bartender, thinks it's pretty good. For eight people he takes a dozen eggs, separates them; adds a pound of confectionary.sugar to the

whites, another pound to the yellows and beats until]

stiff. He folds the batter together. Then he adds four ounces of rum to a quart of good bourbon and shakes it. He puts a ladle of batter into a cup, a jigger of the rum and bourbon mix, boiling hot water and stirs and finally adds the nutmeg. “A fine Christmas and cold weather drink,” Mr. Marshall said,” “but you have to be careful. They sneak up on you.”

St. Elmo restaurant, an Indianapolis landmark on|

Illinois st. for 42 years, “may go into it” this year. Emery Deputy, who has tended bar for 35 years, most of them at St. Elmo, has a recipe that conforms with the above except that he puts straight whisky in his, At Max Patton's restaurant, 213 N. Illinois st., “Daddy” Patton has had Tom & Jerries since the first of the week. : : “When the temperature dipped—that’s when we began to sell them,” Mr, Patton said.

Story Behind ‘Tom & Jerry’

MOST OF THE hotel bars are passing up Tom & Jerries, At the Lincoln bar I got a story which is supposed to be true about how Tom & Jerries originated, Bert Morehead, traveling salesman from West Orange, N. J.,, well known in these parts, claims an Irishman invented it about 300 years ago. In the course of the conversation the whole bar Joined in but the story still goes on most points. Well, this Irishman had two goats—Tom and Jerry, He was cold one afternoon just before Christmas. He happened to have a flask of Irish whisky. He took a cup and got a couple of squirts of milk from Tom and a couple from Jerry. A dash of the Irish whisky and some pepper on top gave frozen Patrick the life he needed, ’ “That's how Tom & Jerries were first made,” Mr, Morehead concluded, “but for a real recipe see Tom

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Murray over there at that table, If he can't give you a good recipe no one can.” : It might be well to mention Mr. Morehead is Irish to the core—he even gave out with an Irish ballad and Mr. Murray is a native of Glasgow, Scotland. Mr. Murray ended the discussion about Tom &:| Jerries. His recipe is simple and he claims he has tremendous success with it. | Speaking with a Scottish accent Mr. Murray gave | me the straight dope. i “Why, 26 years ago when I left Scotland they. didn’t make as fine a Tom & Jerry as I make now. | First thing I do is get a can of Tom & Jerry mix. I heat milk to the boiling point, put it into a cup, add a teaspoonful of the mix, add one ounce of brandy and half ounce of rum. Then I stir until it is foaming. I add my nutmeg and start in.” : Mr. Murray's concoction is pretty good.

1 946 Memories

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The wrap-up season has The economists are wrapping up 19468 for the financial pages; the political experts are producing their yearend reviews. The sports writers, the book editors, and the international pundits are producing essays about the charley horses, the sexy novels and the diplomatic insults of 1946. Everybody's doing it. There's no law against it, and with no further preamble I present my own size-up of the year as I—groggily—remember it. . Having twice atomized the same lagoon in the South Pacific, the government authorized building at

plant. A resident of Olympia, Wash, invented an automatic oyster opener.

To Pole Without Skis

THE NAVY STARTED the greatest expedition yet to the South Pole, and when half way there with 5000 men, fur coats, hot coffee, and goggles to ward off sun blindness, discovered it had forgotten its skis. The price of hamburger rose to $1.25 in the capital; housewives signed pledges to turn vegetarian; the value of hamburger skidded. So did the value of mink coats, by 25 per cent. { There was an election; results were indicated by

Smithsonian institution said a prattling pup was a| liar on its face, : . Lo . The capitol cops, solidly Democratic for 16 years, began hunting other jobs; the Republican high command simultaneously began hunting Republicans with ambitions to be cops. Senator (The Man) Bilbo spent an unhappy month with his mouth taped shut because of an operation. John L. Lewis called a coal strike; then he called it off, misquoting Shakespeare in the doing. The government sold a battleship for junk.

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Toys for Berman Children Delayed

Ex-Pows’ Gifts Are Caught in ‘Red Tape’

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec.20 (U.P.).— The children of Bad Nauheim, Germany, for. whom Atlanta's Barbed Wire club planned a merry Christmas, must be disappointed. Club members, grateful for small favors sneaked to them by German children - during wartime internment, collected 3000 toys to send to Bad Nauheim. But now, with shipping delayed and stymied everywhere, the toys have not even left Atlanta. Government priority is unavailable, The idea started when Maj. Bill Nichols of Atlanta, wrote the Ate lanta Journal and asked for a shipment of toys for the German youngsters. He is stationed in Bad Nauheim and said he'd play Sania Claus if the toys reached him in time, Toys Rolled in Ex-POW Horace Wood saw the appeal and the Barbed Wire club, which he heads, took over the job of collecting toys. The response as immediate and toys rolled in. 00d got letters from all over the country, Only a few were critical,

THE Messrs. Paul Porter and John Small retired when the OPA and the CPA were strained from the

the coldest, snowiest winters yet. The cotton market collapsed. Vultures found a roosting place on the roof of one of the swankiest apartment houses in Washington. The senators overhauled thelr underground trolley. The agriculture department issued a definitive treatise on how {> crack nuts without also cracking knuckles. The federal narcotics bureau discovered nobody thought to remove the cocaine from a load of life rafts on surplus sale. A consignment of girdles for WACs turned out to be worthless; they'd lost their snap when the government got around to selling them. Nickel candy bars went to six cents. Postmaster

caviar canapes at Republican national headquarters; .. General Robert Hannegan placed talking mail boxes

pretzels at the Democratic sanctum. The Capital Transit Co. experimented with pink street cars in a vain hope to soothe the straphangers. A talking dog turned up in London, but scientists interviewed at the

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Science

THE 200TH ELECTRON microscope has just been completed at the R. C. A.-Victor plant in Camden, N. J, and turned over to Northwestern university, The company completed its first electron microscope

in-1941-after-12 months of work on-it. That ‘initial instrument went into the laboratories of the Américan Cyanamid Co. As readers know, the electron microscope makes use of a beam of electrons instead of light waves, Like the atomic bomb, the electron microscope is’ ma« terial proof that the new theories of the world of physics are not merely philosophical or mathematical tricks. Mauny physicists themselves, for years after Mr, Einstein announced his equation for the conversion of matter into energy, continued to regard it as a clever mathematical fiction which had no, bearing on the world of actual phenomena. The atomic bomb showed them how wrong they were. The great Newton believed that light consisted of little bullets or corpuscles and that view continued until 1873 when' James Clerk Maxwell announced his

famous theory that light consisted of electromagnetic waves.

Einstein View

THE WAVE THEORY of light held the center of the stage until 1905 when Mr. Einstein, on ‘basis of the work of Mag Planck's study of the behavior of radiation, took the world of physics back fo the Newtonian idea that light consisted of little ullets,

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By David Dietz

It is interesting to note that Mr. Einstein set forth this view in one of four papers which he published in the year 1905. The others included the. one on the conversion of matter inte energy, the special theory of relativity and the mathematical explanation of the “Brownian movement. (The Brownian movement is the vibration of tiny particles suspended in liquids. It is due to molecular bombardment and is one of the best proofs of the molecular theory.) All in all 1905 was not a dull year in the life of Prof. Al- | bert Einstein.

Reverse Theory

MR. EINSTEIN'S idea’ of the nature of light, however,"was more sophisticated than Newton's since his corpuscles were-bullets or packets of energy. They are now called photons. They are also known as quanta and the theory in general as the quantum theory. In 1925, Louis de Broglie, the French physicist, ' seeking to explain the behavior of electrons within the atom came up with the reverse of the quantum theory. His suggestion was that electrons were likewise both particles and waves. This suggestion, which affected many physicists in much the same way that Einstein's equations of 1905 had done 20 years before, was proven to be no mere fiction when two American physicists, Davisson and Germer, showed that when a stream of electrons was reflected from a crystal onto a photographic plate, it

formed diffraction patterns just as does light. From this discovery to the electron microscope was a difficult but logical step.

We, the Women

By Ruth Millett

IN HIS PROVOCATIVE new book “How Good Is Your Taste?” Sanford Gerard, artist and art director, describes as his favorite Afmericans those people who, uve forever laying things aside for something “better,” who “want to advance faster than is good for them,” who never stop worrying about their taste. That would seem to put Mr. Gerard's stamp of approval on a certain type of woman who is becoming

more and more common in small towns and cities throughout the country,

Interested in Decorating

SHE IS FAR more interested in house-decorating than in home-making. That is, she is more concerned with finding a chair that is exactly the right chartreuse than she is with finding one that is exactly right for her husband to sit in when he is reading the funnies or listening to the radio.

She wears herself out and keeps her husband forever paying bills because having each room in her home reproduce a certain picture in her mind (usually one she has borrowed) is so important to her,

Picture Never Quite Right

BUT BECAUSE she is constantly improving her taste, the picture is never quite right and she is never completely happy with it. The table she couldn’t live without last year is now “not quite right, somehow”—and she really niust do something about it. And so it goes, year after year. You don’t even have to see such a woman's house to recognize her, For if she walks into yours she is obviously more interested in your house than in your Hospitality, : You can have her, Mr. Gerard. To other women she is “Mrs. Jones"—pace-settér—and trying to keep up with her is a Yerrible headache, “

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ithe others warm with praise.

Mr. Woods and other POW'’s here

matches, morsels of food scrounged here and there, Journal columnist Morgan Blake, who published Major Nichols’ appeal, had to tell Nichols this week —via trans-ocean telephone, that Santa would be late. Mr. Wood and Joe Burton, another Barbed Wire clubber, plan to ask Senator Richard B. Russell, (D. Ga.) to seek a special shipping priority so that the toys may reach Bad Nauheim by, say, Washington's birthday.

School 78 Mother To Sing on Circle

Mothers of pupils at school 78, forming a chorus, will sing at noon tomorrow in a continuance of Christmas programs being held on Monument circle, Beatrice Kerr will direct the group. The Boys’ chorus, Charles Daughterty directing, and the Ogden girls’ choir, Mrs. Russell Barton directing, also will participate in the noon-time activities. At 5 p. m.,, the Teen chorus, W. PF. Moon directing, and the Lizton high school chorus, Pauline Roes directing, will sing. At 7:30 p. m.,, Miss Eileen Poston directing, the Christmas prayer in plastic movement will be given. The Technical high school choir, J. Russell Paxton directing, will sing,

Altenheim Schedules Christmas Party

The annual Christmas party. for residents of the Altenheim, 2007 N. Capitol ave, will be held at 3:30 p. m. Sunday. Adolph society president, will speak. Music will be furnished by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Koehrn, Miss Laura

Grimm, Frank Scharfe, Mrs. War- | |

SECOND SECTION

Circle Displays Symbol

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TRANSFORMED MONUMENT—This giant wreath encircling a greeting of Merry Christmas is located on the south side of the Soldiers

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1946

CHILD'S DELIGHT—Johnny Kiefer, Yoyear-old-son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Kiefer, 619 S. Roena st., looks upon the Circle display of

Santa's reindeers.

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HILD WAS BORN—This carefully simulated nativity scene is stopping many passers-by on the east side of the monument, Strategically placed spotlights illuminate

Movement in Germany

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (U. P.).—|fore congress to set up a permanent

{Col. Westray Battle Boyce, comjmander of the Women's Army |Corps, said today the WACs are carrying on a youth program in Germany, They are teaching democracy to young German girls left homeless by the war, Mrs, Boyce told a news conferfence on her return from a six-week [tour of Europe that “right thinking” German women are supporting the WAC program. “They realize the need for a proigram .of- education for young Ger‘man girls,” Mrs. Boyce said. | “There's a great need to train girls {living alone, away from friends and | family.” The WACs In Germany are teaching these girls useful and construc tive occupations, she said. They are providing hobby shops and starting an athletic program, 1950 Enlisted Women Mrs. Boyce said 18 WAC detachments are stationed in 16 locations in Germany and Austria. They total 250 officers and 1950 enlisted women. She said the WAC force of 100,000 on V-E day had shrunk to 11,115 by last Nov. 1. No recruits have been taken since the war ended. Twelve hundred WACs area on duty at Yokohama and Tokyo, 153 in Panama, and 150 in the Mediterranean theater, she said. They do stenographic and clerical work and some have executive positions, Mrs. Boyce said legislation is be-

[Women's Army Corps of regulars and reserves. The regulars would not exceed 2 per cent of regular army strength but there would be no ceiling on reserves. She said the war department intends to maintain the present WAC strength: in. Europe, with some possibility that it may be increased. She said 85 per cent of the WACs on duty in the U, 8. are asking for duty in Europe. ;

‘Sorority to Sponsor Party for Orphans

Twenty-four pre-school age children of the Childrens’ Guaidian home will be guests at a Christmas party sponsored by the Beta Eta chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority Sunday afternoon in the Guardian home. Chapter members have worked for the past year filling bean bags and making dolls and animals to be distributed Sunday. Miss Jean Little, president, and Mrs. George Shaffer, sponsor, will be in charge of the

party. [Exchange to Fefe 50

Fifty boys and girls from the Wheeler City mission will be feted at the Exchange Club's annual Christmas party at noon today in the Claypool. The Rev. Marcus W. Johnson of the First Congregational church will speak and gifts will be distributed,

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ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20 (U. P)—

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WACs Carry Out Youth Soviet Uranium

Schenectady, N. Y, the world’s first atomic power soup. The Old Farmer's Almanac predicted one of [remembered how German Kids | {sneaked them cigarets,

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| Czechoslovakia's Ore

Supply Called Slight

By WILLIAM McGAFFIN

Times Foreign - Correspondent

—Fears expressed in the western world about Russia's getting uranfum from Czechoslovakia

groundless. The Soviets are digging uranium

producing ore in this country but actually there is not enough uranium in all Czechoslovakia, according to best geological estimates; to furnish more than the amount required for a few laboratory tests. These facts have been revealed to .the writer by information obtained from inside sources. Pitch blende is being mined at Jachymov in the Sudetan moun-

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tains of Czechoslovakia, just below

the German frontier. Some purely exploratory mining also has been started in the same general area, at Johannbeorgenstadt, just inside Germany. Jachymov, or Joachimstal, is only a short drive north of Karlsbad. In February of this year the Russians leased several of the largest hotels and villas there, Russia announced it planned to use the health resort as a convalescent and rest center for Red army occupation forces. Couldn't Keep Secret But the U. 8. 8. R. had an additional, motive, It hoped to use the health resort as a front to cover its secret hunt for uranium in the area. It was hoped that Russian

“rest” without attracting undue attention. But the Russians couldn't keep their secret. That uraniufh exists in Czechoslovakia has never been a secret. A big hunk of the black, petrified, tarlike ore is on exhibit at the na-. tional museum.

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In pre-atomic days some pitch-

|blende was mined at Jachymov, for

radium treatment of cancer, The Russians are directing the digging at Jachymov. There are no Russian miners employed on the project. It is being carried on by German prisoners and a small group

of Czech specialists.

The number of persons employed and monthly output of the mine cannot be divulged, but the writer is permitted to say that both figures are small—encouragingly so. The pitchblende is shipped to Dresden, Germany, for processing. Literally trainloads of the ore are required to produce a small quantity of uranium.

De Gaulle Waits France's Call

Odds Are Even He'll Return to Power

By PAUL GHALI Times Foreign Correspondent PARIS, Dec. 20—Bets are even among political observers here today on Gen. Charles de Gaulle'’s chances of returning to the pilots wheel of France's ship of state. His name is daily becoming more closely knit with : antl - Communism § and parliamentary £ discipline, Only momentarfly postponed by the almost unanimous

cabinet by the national astembly vote this week, a government crisis still. looms. Over Gen. de Gaulle’s adversaries hangs the specter of an SOS to the general to “put the house in order” if inter-party differences cannot be quickly resolved. Expect Plea for Ald Gen. de Gaulle is described, by the few friends who have visited him in his country retreat recently, as thoroughly pessimistic about the

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whole political picture. He is said {to feel there can be no solution while France is ruled by parties ine stead of the government. Apparently convinced that even[tually his fellow countrymen will appeal to him, the gegeral is reports edly engaged at the moment upon two tasks: ONE: A new constitution assuring France a strong executive. TWO: A wide plan of social ree form, Insist Parliament Vote

Both Gen. de Gaulle and his Communist adversaries are bent up on according the nation’s wishes the widest respect. Indeed, the general will not, his friends insist, accept the reins of authority unless obtained through parliamentary vote,

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feud simmers on, meanwhile. And the general conviction grows that the boiling point will have been reached when the anti-Communists \demand the presence of Gen. de Gaulle to insure their permanent victory. Copyright, 1046, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dajly News, Ine,

Foundrymen Name

Two Local Men Two Indianapolis men have ree ceived appointments in the Amerie can Foundrymen's association, C. PF. Lauenstein, chief metals lurgist at the Indianapolis foundry of Link-Belt Co, has been named to the malleable division round table committee, and Temple W, Wilson, assistant foreman, Langse * enkamp & Wheeler Brass Works, Inc, has been elected to membere ship in the Central Indiana chapter,

Golden Rule O. E. S.

Elects Mrs.” Hume

Newly elected officers of the Past Matrons and - Patrons of Golden Rule chapter, 413 O. E. 8, include Mrs. Grace Hume, president; Miss ‘Ruth Cochrane, vice president and Mrs. Minnie Boemler, secretary treasurer, Mrs, Viola Lindholm, matrcn of Golden Rule chapter, was initiated into the association. Mrs, Alice Goodnight, is retiring presidens.

Tech High Class to Air

Christmas Sketch

Members of the radio expression class taught .by Mrs, Ressie Fix at Technical high school will give a Christmas sketch tomorrow at 11:18 a. m, over WISH. Mrs. Fix will direct the sketch of which she is the author. The broadcast will be given as the rege ular “Children and Religion” pros gram sponsored by the Indianapolis Church federation. a ;

SOYBEANS AID AIRPORT MURPHYSBORO, Ill, Dec. 20 x

.).—The Murdale airport : that of its $1500 return the past year on a $5000 1

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investment, $200 was profit on a crop of soybeans planted between runways.

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