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Inside Indianapolis By. Ed: Sool

] ARE LOOKING up for the city’s “little businessmen” —especially with Christmas so close, 2 “Yes sir, tips are pretty good,” Jimmy Gough, 16-year-old Western Union messenger said. “I got a 40-cent one this morning.” - Another of the “bicycle boys” Jesse Adams sub# stantiated his buddy's remark about tipping but also made it clear that riding a bicycle in heavy traffic and sharp weather isn't “exactly fun.” Pickups and deliveries come in pretty fast and the boys don't have much time to take it easy. Hectic Christmas shopping is a boon to Shelby Capps who i$ in business for himself selling shopping* bags around town, 3 ~~ When I. talked to him late in the afternoon at his favorite corner in front of L. 8. Ayres & Co., he had’ sold 250 bags at 10c each with a profit of 5c each, He had earned $12.50 so far—plus tips. :

Service With Commodity

IE SHOPPER WHO had ‘bought a bag an hour earller came to him for another, She evidently bought more than she bargained for. Another had so many bundles in her arms she couldn't get to her purse and couldn't set the bundles down without upsetting the smaller packages on top. But service goes along with the commodity. Shelby took one bag, opened it, placed as many packages as he could in if, set it on the sidewalk and proceeded to fill another. ke Shelby has been selling shopping bags for seven years! Usually he has two of his friends downtown selling but apparently they are not as enterprizing as he because they had decided it was too cold and . ” gone home, : Shine Boys Keep on the Jump Getting a shine at the Terminal station, I ran into

more young businessmen who appreciate brisk Christ- BEFORE HE STARTED on my beaten-up brogans mas trade. . he told me “A shine is the life of the shoe.” I winced Walter Winters, 19, is manager of the shoe shine because it was later than he thought for my shoes. stand during the day, or until his aunt, the owner, No shine should take longer: than three minutes, gets there. * he sajd.” He didn't go over that time on mine, His 17-year-old buddy, Fred Anderson, also puts With six' chairs in the shop nearly always filled the shine on “that lasts” ‘It's no exaggeration to say the two young businessmen keep on the jump. | those boys take.pride in their work. Walter asserts Who said the youth of America is going to the | there's an art to shoe shining. dogs? No pun intended.

SHOPPING BAG LADY 7—Shelby Capps has

come to the rescue of many a shopper.

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SECOND. SECTION

Nazis and Japs. out claims against nearly $500,000,~

property royalty and copyright in-

nationals emy countries.

This includes § property of persecuted as well as t he persecutors. Persecutees will get it back. How much of i all this came to Mr. Leach | the United States from persons who

U.S. Starts to Release $13 Billion Frozen as World War Il Began

"Millions Sent fo America for Safety ‘May Never Be Claimed by Relatives

By PAUL R. LEACH Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.~Millions of dollars ‘in wealth sent to America for safety by victims of war persecution may never be claimed. Billions more are returned to survivors or heirs. The federal treasury has just begun to release nearly $13,000,000,000 in deposits, securities and property of foreign governments and ‘nationals. They were frozen in 1940 and 1941 In addition, thej——— | alien property custodian is sorting

Navy Plans For 3d Polar Sortie in Year

to save them from the

Frozen Secrets—

Research Becomes Round-Calendar Duty

{are now dead or have no heirs— | {how much will be restored to heirs { here or abroad may not be known

By JIM G. LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ABOARD MT. OLYMPUS EN

Science

i which is then distilled to separate the oxygen. from

No More Suckers?

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By Frederick C. Othman |

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—My poor bride gets no i black lace nightgown this Christmas, either. Last year there weren't any such fémale monkeyshines on sale in all Washington. This season there

running gear and polished brass trimmings. Imported from Germany, the clerk said, by arrangement with the U. 8. army. Price, $110. I poked my head in the door of two specialty shops, both of which had big signs: Nylons. Each | were plenty. I found one black gown for $6.95, but place was nearly empty.* - the lady said it wasn't guaranteed. She did not Only line of customers on the sidewalk’ (to remind | recommend it. She said she doubted if it would last. a fellow of wartime Washington) was in front of a| The second washing, Blooie for sure. Why she was candy shop where chocolates were 80 cents a pound. | expected to sell such cheesecloth she said she did Another store, where bon-bons nestle on pure white | not know. > A block and a half down F st, where federal stenographer 4nd diplomat’'s wife jostle for geegaws, I looked at another midnight gown, $49.50. 1 asked, would it wear? This lady didn't exactly sneer. She said it was too beautiful for wearing purposes. I got out of there. What I'm trying to say in my own awkward way (you, too, sir, would feel awkward if you'd been shopping for nightgowns) is that strange things seem, to be happening here this Christmas shepping season. It may be that the government clerks are worrying+about their jobs. Perhaps they're simply tired of getting stung. makings.

No Cards, Receptionists I trudged down F st. and back up G st., all the

A GENT in a 13th st. doorway was doing a good way to 14th st, without ever getting my bride her business in giant balloons—15 cents. In the capital's gift. At this corner I had an inspiration, but found biggest radio department, jammed with radios big I was not alone. In line up at the desk in the marble and little, phonographs, and television sets, was a lobby. I eventually worked my way to the beautiful large sign which said: “Please take a card from the brunet, who gave me a big smile and said what receptionist and wait your turn for a salesman.” size? I ordered the $50 job and she said: “Yes sir, Haw. that will be $37.50.” There were no cards. No receptionist. Nor So Mrs. O. gets a handsome engraving off our tree customers, either. A record tootled about the “Silent this Christmas. I hope she likes it, though I would Night” over and over again; the idle salesmen looked like to suggest to John Snyder that we've got a peace unhappy. I priced a television widget; $1100, plus tax. on. War savings bonds, indeed. This is’ Christmas The toy department seemed busy. The trickiest 1946, John. electric train I ever saw was chuffing around the track. It was a beauty with two' headlights, red

enter. Neither did anybody else.

Plenty of Bargain Sales

HERE AND THERE, to the goggle-eyed amazement of Washingtonians, were bargain sales before Christmas. Electric heaters, 40 per cent off. Mantel

The liquor dealers were having their own troubles making up their minds. Scotch $799 at one store; the sdme brand, $11.50 around the corner, the next block. Bourbon prices varied as much and this year it paid dividends to shop for eggnog

Peace on earth and good will and stuff?

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By David Dietz |

i WARTIME ADVANCES in the production of feet of oxygen in 1939, according to Little. Its value] oxygen are expected to have important effect upon Was $24 million. Production increased greatly during many industries, particularly the steel industry, en- world war II because of the increased activity mn : shipbuilding and other industries consuming metals. | gineers of Arthur D. Little, Inc, Cambridge, Mass, The present improvements in oxygen production | report: began as the result of a demand on the part of the! The word, production, does not describe the in- army air forces for a small portable oxygen generator | dustry exactly since the atmosphere is the source of that could be taken directly into the field, This was commercial oxygen. ’ needed in order to have oxygen available at bases to The job is to separate the oxygen from the other which the heavy steel cylinders could not be shipped constituents of the air. conveniently, { The ugual method or producing oxygen has been to compress air to a pressure of about 3000 pounds per square inch. Chemical methods -are then used to remove the carbon dioxide and the water vapor. This leaves a mixture which is roughly one-fifth oxygen and fourfifths nitrogen. (Certain inert gases like helium and ou argon are also present of course.)

150-Pound Generators

THE FIRST improvement came about in the heat! exchanger which was so designed as to use the cold, waste nitrogen to cool the incoming air and to freeze t the ater vapor and carbon dioxide. The second improvement was & new pump which | The compressed air is then cooled in a heat ex- increases the pressure of the liquid oxygen so that it changer and allowed to escape through a tiny open- can be piped at high pressure directly into cylinders. | ing. This sudden expansion turns it into liquid air The third and most important improvement is the development of a so-called low-pressure cycle, makthe nitrogen. Finally, the oxygen’ is compressed and run into pre steel cylinders. I imagine that most readers have seen these cylinders of oxygen.

Output Increased Greatly

THESE CYLINDERS are heavy and expensive to ship and for this reason oxygen plants have been located in each industrial center to keep down the expense of getting the gas to the users. Shortly before world war II a method was developed ‘for shipping liquid oxygen to large users in insulated tank cars and tank trucks, > This avoided the use of expensive cylinders and One of the largest of the new plants is a huge made it possible to ship oxygen over long distances. one at Brownsville, Texas, which was built to supply An important use of oxygen today is the clearing oxygen for reaction with natural gas in the jnanuup of the surface of ‘steel before rolling. This avoids tacture of synthetic gasoline. imperfections in the finished article. Oxygen is also Its daily output of 40 million cubic feet almost used for both welding and cutting in oxy-acetylene equals the daily production of all the oxygen plants flame. existing in the United States in 1043, according to The United States produced 4,600,000,000 cubic thie Little engineers.

ssure of only 90 pounds instead of 3000 pounds. | In this process the air is first cooled and then | compressed to the pressure indicated. It is “then expandéd and liquified by passing it through a tur-|

scientist, Dr. Peter Kapitza. The oxygen is then separated from the liquid air by a process of fractional distillgtion. This new process makes it possible to build portable generators weighing less than 150 pounds which can be carried in airplanes. Strangely enough, it also lends itself to plants of far greater size than any of the prewar plants,

By Ruth Millett

We, the Women GETTING “an early start on Christmas may save eve, when every branch will wear a bauble—if there |

the sanity of sales clerks, give grown-up shoppers a are any left by then. nice feeling of satisfaction at for once getting some- Junior looks them over every day—and every day thing done ahead of time, and ease the feet and backs 8 lew erazh ang, splinter, of mail-carriers—but it’s tough on the kids. Santa's Too Slow Christmas started for Jundor when the stores put xe . out their Christmas merchandise, T = AND THE packages have been arriving for weeks, ndise, before Thanksgiv- oot them bearing stern “Do Not Open Until Dec,

ing. p With 86 many 25” stickers, They're driving Junior crazy. many, weeks in which to make up his All those exciting packages--and all to be saved for

radios marked down, Fur coats, reduced 25 per cent.

Remember?

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for several years. ‘Secret Transfers .

As the assets and ownership claims are sifted and cleared, that tremendous story will begin to be told. Then also will the truth begin to come out about secret transfers to American safety of funds stolen from victims by war criminals who | have been or will be executed or imprisoned. There have been many tales that

others had clandestine funds on tap here. Treasury officials admit this could be true, but they have no evidence of it so far.

Of the $13 billion of assets frozen

$8.20 in in June, 1941, more than $8 billion

was owned by nationals of European countrids, or their governiments, enemy as well as German | oecuptea. The rest was credited to African and Asian countries, OF this, $2,578,000,000 was owned

“1—I¢ is probable that the navy will

velvet and retail at $2 and up a pound, I did not|Hitler, Goering, Ribbentrop and were under command. of Rear -

Such {Cruzen, then a captain, last July {transfers are more likely to have took a six-ship convoy out of Bos{gone to neutral countries, they sug- | ton up the North Atlantic coast

‘Owned by Naijonals

ROUTE TO SOUTH POLE, Det. 23.

follow its current Antarctic explorations with another trip into the Arctic, which , would be its- third Polar sortie in a year. If another Arctic expedition develops it will mean that the navy is carrying on Polar research on a ‘round-the-calendar basis, seeking the release of frozen secrets and getting thousands of men accustomed to such climates. Last summer's Arctic maneuvess,

miral Richard H. Cruzen of Gallatin, Mo., who is in tactical command of this expedition. Adm.

to Greenland and northwest Canada. Weather Information Vital A weather station was established in Greenland, and several magnetic

accurately labeled.

Are Found on

CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—The bobby hot mamma and the flapper.

herself, - Mrs. Evelyn Millis Duvall, executive secretary of the National Conference on Family Relations, said the girls who gave their hearts and vocal cords to Frank Sinatra, during the war are beginning to

boy friends. “That - variety of youngster definitely is on the. wane,” Mrs. Duvall]

observation stations in northwest Canada. Navy ships penetrated as far north as 550 miles from the pole. Capt. Cruzen returned to . the . B. in September, when he re-

by 200,000 individuals, 84,000 of |.eived orders to leave immedia whom were residents of Germany. for the Antarctic. tely

Every enemy or occupied ‘coun-

If another Arctic expadition is

try was affected by the freeze Or-| .,iomplated it probably will leave

{der except for Germany, Austria

*within a month after our return

|Poland, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Italy ' {home next spring. Accurate weather

Rumania and Japan, the treaswry information from northwest Can-

!is now freezing those assets. As a

ada is held vitally important to

{liberated government certifies that |, defense of both the United

interest, they are released. During the war, property of axis

deposits or property have no enemy giotec and Canada.

Clothing Needs Studied

countries or axis nationals was| Meanwhile aboard this ship, cold[confiscated afd managed by the [Weather clothing is being issued

federal alien property custodian.

in anticipation of our arrival on

This process will account for a |New Year's eve at the ice pack

large bulk of the frozen funds. it will not immediately disclose] funds of & man and his family who disappeared in Nazi concentration

5. Have Wealth Smuggled This man, for example, seeing |

trouble coming, might have had | some or all of his movable wealth | smuggled past vigilant Nazis in Switzerland or France. Instructions would . have been given

But | Which separates the Pacific ocean

and Ross sea. The problem of providing 4000 men with proper clothing for sur-

{vival on the Ross ice shelf is vastly

different from that faced by our previous Antarctic expedition. Adm. Byrd on his first Polar expedition found reindeer skin offered twice the warmth of wool

to | parkas at half the weight. But to {provide reindeer-skin parkas for 14000 men is out of the question.

have its value deposited for him in| Thus it is necessary to find a

a New York or Chicago bank. The deposit might made in the name of a relative in| this country. If this relative non-enemy he probably will cover it upon legal proof of his right. That could take a long time, considering European as well as American inheritarice procedures. But if the deposit were made in the name of the owner himself— and that owner is now dead and

is | re-|

swer as to what becomes of it. Aid Displaced Persons

| substitute—one available have been ficient quantity to meet the de-

mands of the army and navy if it ever fights in Polar regions. The navy is seeking to develop

{clothing not only to provide protection against ‘the : weather but {light enough to permit men to don | enough dressed in a plain business

it with sufficient speed to answer

jany emergency calls.

Call for Parcels Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker

who has received a notice to call

: {livery may appear at the registry It might go back to the Swiss section, west lobby of main post|of Santa Claus is splendid for in-

!fer. It could then go into the genleral fund of the inter governmental | refugee committee to help displaced persons. It might go into the treasury of

the United States or to the state in’

which the bank is located. In most states a bank account that has lain dormant for seven years without claim, the bank unable to | locate the depositor, reverts to the | state.

| Claims Analyzed

| Experts of the alien property cus- | todian’s office have. just begun analyzing the first batch of 1000 datas for return of seized German {property to persecutees. Victims of the Nazis as well as Nazis themselves were all regarded as German nationals in the seizure. The largest amounts of frozen assets were to the credit of the

| France. released already. The most intereging figure in all the frozen $13 lion is almost $200 million which was owned by German nationals; Within that total lie some of the funds of persecuted persons.

United Kingdom, Switzerland and | Most of these have been |

However, wealth of the perse- |

bine of the type first designed by the Russian or French bank making the trans- office, between 7:30 a. m. and 8 p.

m. daily,

in suf-|

said. “During the war, the bobby | soxers reflected the general unrest’ of our society. Now that things are settling back to normal, they are’ reflecting that trend.” Antics Brought” Attention Mys. Duvall said bobby soxers

wanféd ‘atterition. Their parents

the verge of it; and the girls were left out of the pict ‘e, she said.

with their antics and they loved it, but now fhey are going to settle, down with the rest of us,” she said. Swing band leader Glen Gray agn that boby soxers were growing up. |

With Pop in the Role,

By ROBERT

make like Santa Claus. own children,

Eliasberg, father of four and grand head of the family—in the eyes)

suit, | An Emotional Loss “When father comes out al decked up as Santa then it's simply | too much for a tiny tot's nerves,”

ing it possible to produce oxygen with an initial has no heirs—there's no clear an-|znnounced today that any person |Mr. Eliasberg added. “I know what

I'm saying. To-my children, I did

|for a parcel which failed® of de- | it myself."

Mr. Eliasberg said that the idea

| fant morale, and that it wasn't the! sight of old St. Nick bobbing around |

SILLY NOTIONS

By Palumbo

| plained, “he is apt to confuse his

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acted the way they did because they, National

| burglarized [Clark couldn't describe the stolen charge $2 cover in Washihgton, $3 | articles to police,

MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1946 Did Hitler Have Funds in U. $.? San DEI, ee

BEHIND THE SCENES—AIl that glitters on gift-laden Christmas counters looks the same when it leaves the delivery rooms of downtown stores. welter of packages at L. Strauss & Co., is an employee customers never see. It is part of Miss Barbara Meyer's job to see that packages are securely wrapped and

Screaming Bobby Soxers

Way Out

Prediction by Sociologist Supported by Band Leader and ‘Reforming’ Sinatra Fan

By CLAIRE COX United Press Staff Correspondent

soxer is going the way of the red

It won't be long before the screaming, jitter-bugging teen-agers will be just a memory, a sociologist said today. The prediction got support, too, his clothes torn to shreds by bobby soxers—and one of the bobby soxers

from a band leader who has had

voices, but regardless of the reason, they are at last beginning to keep quiet,” he said. » Mr. Gray said screaming young girls had been bothering him for

coats, grabbing his handkerchiefs and leaving him black-and-blue. Bobby Soxer Speaks He said now they probably are exhausted from their activities. “Hot swing- music is on its way to the dustiest shelf of the music cabinet” he said, “and along with it is going the bobby soxer.”

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Here, amid the

Costly Hics—

New Year's Eve Celebrators

To Spend Less

Free, Easy Spender Figment of Past

By MARC J. PARSONS NEA Staff Correspofident NEW YORK, Dec. 23. — New {Year's eve celebrators are going to | total their own checks and count | thetr change this year.

give them back to their teen-age 15 years, tearing buttons off his| ne free and easter spender will

{be a figment of the lush past, At least that's what many of New York's night belt experts believe. “It looks like the boys will be spending from a budget this year,” one night club publicity man says. The crowds will be out as usual, | But theyll be a little more sober, {a little more careful of what they

Betsy Weer, 16, president of the spend and what they get for their

frantic years of chasing Frankie.

Association. of Frank Sinatra Fan clubs afd’ the nation's] were concerned with the war; the number one screamer, said she was about the same as last year, deboys were either in service or on glad to be settling down after four spite removal of OFA ceilings, and

money.

Fixed prices “ure goMig to be

the customers probably will pay the

The activity was such a strain on fixed charges without squawking.

ous breakdown. “We fans are reforming,” Betsy said. “We've decided not to be so rowdyish. Too much of us must be boring. “But it's really been a lot of fun.

“Maybe they are just losing their I sort of hate to see us go.”

Psychiatrist Warns Dads Not to Make Like a Santa

Says Let Children Think of St. Nick;

Tot Is Confused RICHARDS

United Press Staff Correspondent | NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Whatever you do come Christmas, pop, don’t|

father of one, who claims that the

a child the jitters. It's the combination of seeing his old man and Santa wrapped in the same bundle ‘that throws him for an emotional loss, “Let him think of Santa without seeing him,” Mr. Elasberg said, “and that is fine. That is one thing. But let him see his daddy all dressed in red, and that it definitely bad.” A Heavy Burden The psychiatrist pointed out that

=== the child immediately sees some-, | thing that belongs to his father, but| ceparate parties, not including the

also something that belongs to a mysterious apparition, “Consequently,” Mr. Eliasberg ex-

father with a ghost—and the ghost with his father.” “1 want te repeat,” Mr. Eliasberg said, “that I don't object to the idea of Santa Claus. FI do not object to

[ the child seeing a Santa, just so]

long as it is no one close to him.” This added burden is just too much for junior. Ordinary. grown-

| ps are plenty tough enough.

Christmas Presents

Stolen From Car

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23 (U. P), —Robert L. Clark's automobile was last night, but Mr.

Mr. Clark explained that eight packages taken from the parked automobile were presents which he didn’t intend to open until Christmas.

Apprentices Ex-G. I.’s WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (U, P).

cuted may turn up from any of, the other countries. The movement | of government and personal dollar | deposits, securities and real prop-

mind as to what he wants for Christmas, he!has wiih changed his list a dozen times. a day that seems as-if it will néver, never come. “How many more days until Christmas?” he asks, Hard on Decorations then invariably remarks, “But ‘that’s an awful lot.” Hurry up, Santa. In an age when kids are used to [erty from uneasy Europe to AmerAND HIS visit to Santa was so early that he speed, you've become an awful slowpoke. ica began In 1933 with the rise of n't sure he remembered to ask for several impor- “How many more WAITING days till Christmas?” | Hitler, ant items on the current list. That's what Junior wants to know. | He has had his Christmas tree for weeks, waiting “Isn't there a single package n the back porch for the magic hour of Christmas right now'2” .

that reads ‘Open $9 billion in 1939, and to $13 billion | ‘ ~~ in 1041, J

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It grew from $5 billion' in 1933 0] "MY BEST PIPE /MY GOOD WHISKEY !=THIS TALK OF MAN'S BEST FRIEND HAS GONE TO HIS HEAD." . A hd upward trend in recent months. i

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| lof new apprentices in

Veterans made up 90 per cent of the apprentices who entered the | building trades during November, a [labor department report said today. | The report said the:overall number the con- | | struction crafts rose 2.7 per cent ' lduring November to continue the

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“Iie girls finally got attention her, she said, that she had a nerv- It will be on the extras like whisky

fand champagne, where the retrenching will be done.

$50 At Better Places

That doesn't mean New Year's leve will come cheaply. It will take upwards of $50 to get you in and out of most of the better spots, Billy Rose is charging $12.50, $13 and $20 per person for supper, show and favors in what he calis his “Technicolor Trap.” The price doesn’t include government tax of about 20 per cent, and varies ace cording to how many pillars you have to look around to see the lovelies, Drinks, at 80 to 90 cents each, are extra, 50 a couple at the ringside probably will spend $80, with tips, for their harigover, : That's a little higher than the average supper and show price,

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Don’t hide behind false whiskers, or a pillow belly, and deceive your| which will run around $15 in the

| Broadway belt. In the swankier

This somber warning came today direct from psychiatrist Wladimir | and less-boisterous East side joints)

| where price is less of a consideration {than who sees who with whom, sup=

of kis small fry—is overwhelming in front of the fireplace that gives per cost will average about $25.

300 Champagne Corks You can get by even more cheap= ly if you pick your spot carefully, The 400 club, New York's biggest

night spot, expects a jam of be- .

tween 1200 and 1400 at $7.50 a head, | But even as far down the cafe society scale 4s Sammy's Bowery | Follies, the price is expected to be {$2 a head, cover (nothing included but “continuous entertainment”) and drinks, even bottled beer, at 61 cents each. The Waldorf-Astoria plans five

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private ones its guests may stage, and already is sold out in several lof them. " | Prices range from $5 minimum in {Peacock Alley to $15 each in the 'Bert and Wedgwood rooms for supe |per and the show. The average checks at the last two are expected to be about. $60-§70 per couple, The Waldorf expects to pop over 3000 champagne corks that night.

Rely on Whisky Other hotels will charge between $10 and $15, tax extra, for supper and show, Throughputs. the country, hotel prices in general are about the [same as last year. The Statler "hotels, which have announced a { hold - the « price « line policy, will

{in St. Louis. Among other mem- | bers of the chain, supper and danc= ing (including tax -- even an old age tax in Boston) will vary from $840 in Buffalo to $11.60 at the Pennsylvania in New York city, Despite the Waldorf’'s bubbling expectations and an estimate by Leon and Eddie's that it will serve more champagne that night than it has in the past six months, New Year's eve revelers will rely on whisky for their exuberance. There will be plenty of Scotch available at the bars.

Most night spots are Rape to Jump their usual two and three

night blast,

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nightly shows into one big mid-

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