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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola-

HAMMOND, Dec. 26—When do mothers rest? When do they feel they have done. enough for their families? I'm in the quiet of my room at home and just about ‘half angry with myself. It all began Christmas Eve after supper when my mother announced everyone was to go into the living room becausé she was going to clear the table.

She doesn’t stand for much back talke once she has her

mind made up and that’s most of the time. My sister-in-law is the only one who can get away with puttering around the kitchen once Ma ‘says, “oH” Bernice took some dishes to the kitchen, John and Pa and the kids waddled to the living room to collapse. I. grabbed a platter that once was piled high with pirogi (dumplings, some of which are filled with sweetened and flavored cottage cheese, plums, some with chopped and seasoned cabbage, boiled and finally browned with butter) and thought I'd help.

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AFTER ALL, Ma had worked all day Monday to get the traditional old country Christmas

Eve supper on the table. It's no small task to”

make about 100 piroshki (tiny triangular shaped dumplings with ground mushrooms and onions and stuff) and the borscht they. flavor, the nalesniki (finely rolled dough with prune butter), the plum pudding that I can’t even describe in English, sauerkraut and yellow peas, fish, pirogi, five different kinds of cookies and cakes. You feel a little guilty when you think of the Christmas nipping you did while the last of the dinner was being prepared. But that’s what the

"men at our house have always done.

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THE THING that burns me up the most is that during the dinner Ma won't sit still. She makes everyone start helping themselves while she has a last bit of work to do. Her plate is always filled last. : “Don’t worry about me. Eat.and be quiet, the food will get cold,” she'll say. You can’t argue back because you have just burned your tongue.

It Hap ppened Last Night

By Earl Wils

NEW YORK, Dec. 26—Here we go again— my ‘Sixth Annual Earl-American Team-—chosen in '51, the year when it was the fashion to take

a bribe instead of a bride.

Frankie took Ava, and Lex Barker took Arlene Dahl, in the rockiest romances of the year. But the Men of the Year were Ike, the Silent Knight, for keeping his mouth shut, and Leo Durocher, the Dodger: killer. ANIMALS OF THE YEAR: Rhubarb, the cat; the mule; Mrs. Caudle’s minks, and some Income Tax Dept. skunks. BIGGEST OUT: Gen. MacArthur's. Biggest In: Halley's. Biggest shock: Cribbing at West Point.

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GREATEST SEXCITEMENT: Rita and Aly; Billy Rose, Eleanor Holm and Joyce Mathews.

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FIGHTER OF THE YEAR: Franchot Tone.

Best arena: El Morocco. CATCHPHRASE: “I refuse to answer on the ground that it might ‘incriminate me” (Frank Costello). YEAR'S OUTSTANDING FIGURES: Kathy

Barr’s (you can whistle at it at the Gilded Cage), Marilyn Monroe's ‘and Barbara Nichols’. New long hair artist: Violinist Michael Rabin. Most popular-- government official: Price Stabilizer Mike DiSalle. Hollywood's biggest shot: Walter Wanger.

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BIG POP SONG: “Because of You,” by Arthur Hammerstein (Oscar's uncle) and Dudley Wilkinson—which, for a decade, nobody liked enough to publish. New singers: Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett. All-around record sellers: Les Paul and Mary Ford. Dance band: Billy May.

VACATION OF THE YEAR: Harry Gross’ one day at Atlantic City. NEW B'WAY STARS: Dolores Gray, Yul Brynner. Top new TV stars: Kefauver, Halley, Costello's hands, Jackie Gleason, Herb Shriner, Steve Allen, Red Skelton, Hal Block. Cafe star:

Jack Carter,

BEST GUESTS: Liz and Philip. (They didn’t dawdle but knew when to go home.)

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BEST DRESSED: Lili St. Cyr. Greatest comeback: Vaudeville. Showwoman of the year: Judy Garland. Showmen of the decade: Martin and

‘Mother Spends kK Busy, Christmas :

When abe does sit down it's always on the “edge of her chair at the side of the table nearest the kitchen door. ‘Maybe she'll forget to put a serving spoon in one of the dishes. She'll go out and get it. LR IT DOESN'T make any difference whether it's .Christmas, Thanksgiving or Easter, or ‘a picnic, it's always the same. How many times have I seen . Ronnie raise his little head because his glass of milk is empty and, before Bernice can move, Ma_.is filling his glass. Why? Monday night, for example. I was fairly bursting with Christmas feeling and I Just mentioned how good the wine tasted. “I'll get you some’ more,” my mother said, smiling and happy that the wine was good. Each course, and there are many, brings a little argument. Should you happen to clean your

plate off first, you have to have another helping -

of the same. If you're last, Ma wants to know if you're feeling well, if there is anything wrong with the food.. - oF ob I'LL. NEVER forget the time we had a Christmas Eve dinner in July for my brother Stan who was a Marine and made the inyasion of Guadalcanal. He wrote from a hospital in New Zealand that he thought about us and Christmas Eve dinner and hoped we thought about him.

That hot July day when Stan came home, we |

had a Christmas Eve dinner. I don’t recall when I've seen my .Ipother. any happier. She ran around the kitchen and table so excited that it wasn't until the dishes were cleared that she remembered she didn’t have anything to eat.

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I'VE ARGUED with her before. She argues it's. her family, her home and she will do it her way. “After I'm gone, you can have your dinners your way,” she will say and it’s as if someone kicked ‘you in the pit of the stomach. Sitting here in the room, looking at the bed where a -gouple of times Iewas # pretty sick little

guy and Ma would sit by the hour, I glon’t really

want dinner my way. doggone it, any .fun. I think I'll go out and tell her this Christmas was the best ever.

Ma can have her way, but I don't understand how she can have

Time Again for the Earl-American Team

Lewis. Best convention: Shriners’, in NYC. Most

retiring personality: Joe DiMaggio. he bh oN MOST QUICKLY FORGOTTEN MUSTACHE: Sinatra's. Forgotten woman: Mistinguette, Man

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BEST MOVIES: “Death of a Salesman” (Fredric March);"“A Place in the Sun” (Liz Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters). New movie whizzes: Horace McMahon, Denise Darcel, Debbie Reynolds. Best Book: “The Caine Mutiny” (Herman Wouk). Best Theater Import: Audrey Hepburn. Greatest I.oss: Harold Ross.

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FIST APPEAL: Tom Neal. Awww, now, quit!

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THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Guy Lombardo returned to the Roosevelt bandstand after a week’s absence due to the auto . accident The Duke & Duchess of Windsor were out on the town, dining at 21, then watching and visiting Judy Garland at the Palace. Taffy Tuttle contributes to fractured Yiddish at Major's Cabin by calling her darling boy friend ‘“meshuggeh” . . . Attorney ger, friend of both the alter Wangers and Jennings Lang, flew to Misa Blair L. A. hoping to quiet some of the shooting scandal , . . Sir Cedric Hardwick's wife, Lady Hardwick (formerly Mary Scott of Pasadena, will be guest reporter on “What's the Story?” next week . . Marily Blair tap dances at the Casa Seville. Newlywed Otto Preminger enlivens “Modern Primitive” rehearsals by telling Mervyn Vye (who'll wed Robin Mortimer) of the glories of marriage . . . Today's Bravos: “The Galloping Major” film . . . A B'way producer is bankrupt after touring with a show . . . Claudette Colbert’s trying to break it to her husband that she'll go to England for several months to make a picture for Alexander Korda. oe oo o> WISH I'D SAID THAT: “The difference between wrestling and dancing is that some holds are barred in wrestling”—EImer Leterman,

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EARL’'S PEARLS . . . Henny Youngman mentions at the Paramount that a conscientious husband is one who tells his wife everything he did that he suspects she's already found out. $e in MARGARET PHELAN philosophizes that a man can never tell about a woman—and he'd better be darn sure he doesn’t . . . That's Earl,

brother.

Best Columnist:

CAROLS FOR PATIENTS—Two youngsters in wheel chairs listen thoughtfully in' New York to the Bethune-Cookman College Choir, of Daytona Beach, Fla, Sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers, 24 mixed voices sang carols for more than 100 hospitalized children.

HALF-PINT HARMONY — Four men of the world, singing in that old barber Shor téadition, are shown with their false mustachios and celluloid .collars at a harmony concert presented by New York's Children’s Aid Society. Since each singer is five years old, they are no doubt singing tunes they recall from ‘way back in air younger days.

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ie Indianapolis Times

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1051

Culinary Pot Shots—

Try ‘White Sauce For Black Moods’

Third of a Series

By HENRY BUTLER IF YOU'VE been gazing at T-bones like a moon-calf at

engagement rings, a good-essay topic for. you is “White %

Sauce for Black Moods."

garment that can shape amor- * phous leftovers in{o a- really “tempting dish. It can start some out-of-this-world soups. It can give you short-order chicken kings and seafood newburgs that, when the guests dunk their dentures, will transform you psychically from gloomy scullery wench to radiant ueen of cuisine. Your favorite cookbook will give you procedures and measJArements for the light, medium and heavy grades. We don’t have to discuss those things here, but there are some poifits to emphasize. . » - ” ONE IS USING canned concentrated créam soups for quick white sauce. The most versatile is mushroom. Slosh it out of the tin into a saucepan over moderate flame. Stir until it ..byrbles like a Yellowstone mud geyser. Add about 4 to 5 cup of milk gradually, stirring like crazy. In this short cut, as in all white sauce deals, it's handier to use the top of your double boiler over open flame while you're doing the blending and stirring. Meanwhile, heat water

, in the lower part of the boiler,

so you can keep the sauce hot without fear of scorching.

INDO-CHINA . .

By JIM LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer HANOI, Indo-China, Dec. 26 —The French can hold IndoChina, unless the Chinese Communists throw some armies into the war. They already have intervened by giving supplies and wgapons to th ePindo, oe mo China Commu- 3 nists. But that's a big question— what the Chinese Reds intend to do. The Korean armistice talks are a fretful problem here. If the fighting ends in Korea, : Indo-China may be in for serious trouble Red China could conquer Indo-China. But unless Red China puts some armies in the field, the French and the Viet Namese can repel thé Communist Viet Minh. That doesn’t mean they can control all of Indo-China. They can’t and they know they can't. Gen, Jean de Lattre de Tagsigny has achieved wonders in turn-

Mr. Lucas

White satice is, to speak poetically, the foundation

Rule: Don't use the cannedsoup deal for anything already very salty, like fish or diced ham, ‘since the concentrated soup carries plenty of salt. OK, you got ydur sauce. What's on your shelves? Crabmeat? Swell, only saute separately a small onion, half a chopped green pepper, a smidgen of garlic, pinches of oregano, marjoram, celery seed and maybe a few dashes of curry powder in. butter without ever allowing anything to get scorched or even tanned. Hard-cooked egg or eggs will help increase quantity. So will canned mushrooms,. preferably

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WHEN YOU'VE got all the ingredients nicely embalmed in

the white sauce on the double- . {

boiler, add a jigger of sherry shortly before serving (on toast, on that -fast-cooking rice, on noodles, etc., etc.). . If your guests have good choppers, frozen lobster-tail makes wonderful newburg gdo, with plenty of paprika, curry powder, sherry and the “woiks.” The LT needs pre-cooking, for which again consult your favorite cookbook.

No. 3—

ing this into a holy war against Communism. “It isn’t a war for French imperialism,” he says, “but a war against Communist imperialism.” But the men who fight that war inevitably ask the question soldiers always ask: When will it end? And they can’t find the answer.

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THE COMMUNISTS have succeeded in converting IndoChina from an asset into a liability. The Viet Namese economy—while not destroyed —is badly crippled. There's no hunger here, but there's no outside trade on which Indo-China always had depended. The important rubber exports are gone. Indo-Chinese coal mines -—a major supplier of foreign exchange—either have been destroyed by Communists or

are in a no-man’s land where:

they can’t be worked. But things are tough on the other side, too. Gen. de Lattre’'s tactics have denied the Reds the victory they confidently expected several ‘months ago. He calls it “mobile defense,” but it amounts almost to a limited offensive. It uses (1)

Canned chicken, left-over ditto or turkey, or even the chopped ham the GIs despised, if .diced and mingled with not

What Are The Chinese

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third of a series of four articles about war in IndoChina and the strength of the anti-Communist forces in that area, by ScrippsHoward staff writer, Jim G. Lucas.

fast-moving ground forces, including tanks and armored cars; (2) swift naval craft able to go up the most inaccessible jungle streams and strike where least expected; and (3) welltrained parachutists,

WTH THIS force, Gen. de Lattre has been able to keep the Reds off balance, and control the Red River Delta area of 350 square miles, the rice bowl of Indo-China. The Reds haven't been able to dent de Lattre’'s lines. Indeed—strengthened every day by more American arms and equipment — the General has been pushing his lines farther out, Gen. de Lattre struck his heaviest blow with the capture of Hoa Binh, 50 miles from Hanoi, last month. Hoa Binh controlled ‘the route the Reds used to supply arms to their

“They laughed when he tried this one."

over-salty sauce, all are possibilities. Keep your herbs and sherry bottle handy, with the proviso that the cook must not

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drink out of the cooking-sherry bottle, “Let her have her own, - Another use for white sauce

{5 in meat loaf made out of left

overs. Case history: Remains of a rolled breast of veal roast (darn good buy, it was, at City Market) went through fine grinder accompanied by slivers of carrot, celery, green pepper,

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READY WAS mushroomssoup white sauce, well laced with oregano, monosodium glutamate, marjoram, paprika, pepper, squirts, of soy sauce and the “woiks.” When said solution was half cool, two beaten eggs went into it, offering no further resistance. ‘Sauce meets hash. Sauce loves hash, They mingle, with some help from you. Add cracker meal if mess seems too wet. Add’ sherry if it seems too dry. Put final result into greased loaf pan (glass is best; you can see what's cookin’) and top with varnish of chili sauce and horseradish. Bake at 300. for about an hour.. They all laughed when I started to cook this one. They remained to pray for mere. P. 8.: For quantities and measurements, always consult your cookbook. But learn from experience to change things here and there and add new ideas, Tomorrow: “Cut the Cost.”

Reds Planning?

southern forces and to bring rice back to the northern troops. Without it, they have no communication with their southern forces. Severity of this blow can’t be overestimated. Red troops in the trans Bassac Delta are runing short of ammunition and can't get more. Troops in the north are without rice. The mountains produce ne foodfoodstuffs and Red China is unable to supply much.

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BUT IT goes even deeper still. The Chinese Reds desperately need rice, too. Their own harvest failed—as usual—and they had counted on the Trans Bassac Delta to help tide them over, The Chinese are angry with Hi Chi Minh for losing Hoa Binh. A crisis betweén the two Red allies may be in the making. “No other commander in modern history has been able to do what Gen. de Lattre has done,” Brig. Gen. Francis Brink, head of the American Advisory Group here told me.

He couldn't have done it, of course, without American equipment. The amounts we've contributed are secret, but include B-26 light bombers, navy fight-

ers and Privateer patrol craft, C-47 transports, Sherman .and Chaffee tanks, light and heavy artillery, trucks and other motor transport, and large .quantities of ammunition. Gen. Brink doesn’t need to concern himself with training. The French handle that quite capably. As a result, Gen. Brink acts mainly as a clearing house between the French and the U. 8. Defense Department.

° LIAISON between the two seems to be extremely good. Gen. Brink was Lord Louis, Mountbatten’s chief of opeiration’s for a time during World War II and knows this area. Most of his staff men are familiar with southeast Asia. They have a healthy respect for French soldiers, express confi- . dence in the Viet Namese and are Gen, de Lattre's most fervent admirers. ‘

Gen. Brink spends much of his time prodding Washington and explaining to the impatient French why certain deliveries can’t be made immediately, inspecting shipments on arrival, and checking to see that the equipment is properly used in the field.

Anger At Washington Found On Rise Over Taxes, Corruption And Korea

By CHARLES LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer (The first of three articles) CHICAGO, Dec. 26—An east coast-to-the prairies check of public opinion discloses widespread and growing dissatisfaction with Washington on three counts: Government corruption— High taxes— A Korean war policy regarded widely as bungling, inept and timid. Resentment, frequently expressed in bitter and angry terms, often is directed at President Truman personally. A few defend him and say he is doing his best. Many more condemn even that best as far from adequate. Truman jokes, often obscene and meant to ridicule the President, are as current in some states as the Ford car jokes of a' generation: ago. Sometimes people blame the President and ‘Congress indiscriminately. Often they make no distinction between Democrats and Republicans, saying conditions would be no better with a change of party. In Wabash, Ind., a waitress said: “Nine out of 10 criticize Washington. They didn’t get excited about mink coats and freezers — they say they'd get them, too, if they could. But they're upset about these tax scandals.” In the Chicago Stockyards a cattleman said: “Sometimes I wonder if there's a single sane man in Washington, I guess it never was so bad, Seems if they're not crooked when they go into office, they will be soon. Learn fast, don’t they?” A Cleveland railroader: “With all respect to Mr. Truman, 1 don’t ‘think he’s up to the: job. I- voted for him in ’48 but 't again. There's no discipline down in Washington. I'll scratch like hell for tax money if the money is being spent right, but it isn't. They're going overboayd.” : » " ~ . “A GARY STEEL WORKER: “If I had my say I'd be dropping bombs from here to Moscow. Atomics, too. We're in war and we aren't in war, What's it all about?” A Pennsylvania businessman bi

“Truman would be beaten today.” In most areas people are highly conscious of the RFC influence peddling and the tax scandals. But dissatisfaction with the way the war is being run is at least as great a source of feeling against Washington.

Although government corruption has made an impact on people, there are some signs that many are almost innured to wrongdoing in public office.

Now and then someone dismisses the tax inquiry disclosures as merely a Republican attempt to make a Democratic administration look bad. Now and then they are dismissed as “newspaper talk”—and there is some mistrust of many newspapers for bias. some say’ the scandals are here today, gone tomorrowand there is enough of this to suggest that corruption alone may not be a stout enough issue to give the Republicans victory next year. » » » BUT IN the Midwest a very substantial section of the public still believe the U. 8. shouldn't be in Korea at all, There are unmistakable signs that in this area, the war is widely unpopular. ‘Here and elsewhere many people put their veiws about as follows: :

“Mr. Truman calls it a police action, but it looks like a war to me. Whatever it is, we're not fighting it the way this country has fought wars in the past. Let's fight it to win, or else get out. “Our military people put out a statement one week, take it back the next. And look at the stalling in these truce talks, month after month.” In widely separated areas there is this comment: “If something isn’t done about this war, Truman won't have a prayer if he runs again.” - ' There's still a lot of money loose in the country, and many people remember the deprassion and wonder about making any change that might affect “good {imes."” But high prices and the new,

higher taxes are whittling down

the paycheck that once seemed so big, and people are increasingly conscious of this.

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IN WABASH, Ind, Frank Daugherty, owner ,of a grain and feed mill serving the rich

brought out a price card froms the depression.

It showed that wheat, now $2.42 a bushel, was 41 cents then; corn now $1.77 was 21% cents, and oats now 97 cents Was 121% cents. His assistant recalled that once they bought 1000 bushels of oats for $100— 10 cents a bushel. . A farmer pointed out that these prices mean that a bushel of corn that bought a couple loaves of bread in the early 1930s now buys eight or nine loaves. Yet times aren't as lush as

they were. In the stockyards, this reporter saw a load of fine, fat Herefords sell for $32.75 a hundred pounds. There had been a peak around $40 a few ‘weeks ago, Cattle farmers grumble,

And men whose - businesges require calls on farmers report uneasiness despite almost:“a decade of prosperity for them. There's much feeling the prosperity is synthetic and is mortgaging the future. » » - IN CHICAGO, a worker in a plant making coal-mine locomotives voiced a similar doubt.: “We: shipped five units to Turkey the other day. That

gives us work in our shop, sure. But this country is paying for

those engines. Isn’t all this going to catch up with us some day?” Politically, it is easier to discern feelings “against” than for anybody. Against Truman.

‘Against Taft. Yes, and against

Eisenhower, with a rather sizable percentage of those ques- ~ ioned saying they're not keen a military man for President, There is no claim these findings are conclusive. They could change in two or three months, But they are an account today of one reporter's questioning in a half-dozen states. They may suggest some trends.

NEXT: What workers are are saying about President Truman, ‘

GETTING A NEW WALL-A- Workinan. in Rome, Italy, prepares a foundation for the new wall to be built around the city’s Tiber Island. As a result of the floods in Northern Italy, the little spot of land was threatened with erosive extinction. The 500-odd inhabitants of the tiny island applied

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