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Evening star., 1951-11-22
CANADIAN WHITE FRUIT CAKE.
ALMOND FROSTING.
NUT FLOWERS.

ICANADlAN WHITE FRUIT CAKE.
ALMOND FROSTTNG.
NUT FLOWERS.
(From Mrs. D. r. X, WGShingtonJ
My friends have tried this and
say it's grand for the holidays. It
comes from the McCall's issue Of
good things to eat for Christmas.
I'm making one also.
Canadian White Fruit Cake:
One and half pounds blanched
almonds, " pound candied citron,
Ia pound candied pineapple, "a
pound candied cherries, " pound
golden raisins, cups sifted all
purpose -four, 6 eggs, separated;
liz cups butter or margarine. 2
cups sugar. y cup milk, " cup
brandy, / teaspoon almond ex-
tract and ! teaspoon cream OF
tartar.
Line q 10-inch tube pan with
well-greased brown paper. Using
a very sharp knife cut almonds
across in three pieces (they should
be coarse. Cut citron and pine
apple up in thin strips and cher
|rieS in half. Mix in a large bowl
with the raisins. Sift and meas
ure flour. Mix about " cup in
with fruit and nuts. Separate
eggs and cream butter or marga-
rine with your hand until soft.
Then work in sugar gradually until
mixture is light and fluffy. Beat
egg yolks with a fork. Then add
gradually to butter or margarine
mixture, mixing well after each
addition. Combine milk. brandy
and almond extract. Add to but
ter mixture alternately with flour.
Put the oven at 275 degrees or
very slow. Beat egg whites until
foamy, then add cream of tartar.
Continue beating until whites are
stiff enough to hold their shape
but not stiff enough to cling to
the bowl when tipped. Pour but
ter or margarine mixture over
fruit and nuts and mix very well
with both hands. Mix or fold in
beaten egg whites. Pour into the
pan and bake 3 hours. This makes
a 5E2-pound cake.
Almond Paste Frosting: Blanch
or skin l pound Of almonds and
put through food chopper using
a medium blade. Mix In l pound
confectioners' sugar sifted very
well. Beat 8 egg whites slightly.
Then mix them in. Finally add l
teaspoon almond extract. Because
this makes heavy stiff paste you
have to place it on the cake and
work it into a smooth, even layer
with your hands. This is for the
top and the sides are left deli
cate brown making a very nice
contrast. To make the top pure
white. mix up enough confection-
ers' sugar frosting (any cookbook
TO cover paste. Decorate with
Brazil nut flowers and angelica or
candied citron leaves.
Brazil Nut Flowers: Cover
shelled Brazil nuts with cold water
and bring to boil Simmer for
about 3 minutes. Drain, slice into
thin petals with a sharp knife.
While frosting is still soft. stick
S candied cherries on top Of cake,
then tuck in 5 Brazil nut leaves
under each cherry. For leaves cut
angelica or citron in long slivers,
using 3 to each flower. This is
quite a detailed recipe but it's so
good. You may omit frosting and
brush warm honey on the cake in
a very thin coat. Decorate and
brush on more honey. Wrap cake
in waxed paper and store in air.
tight container. For gift giving.
bake in well-lined coffee cans and
small loaf pans of any size or
shape that would wrap nicely.
COOKIE RECIPES?
i From Mrs. M. K, Washington
would like cookie recipes using
gluten -four and dietectic baking
4 powder for a diahetic
Evening star., 1951-11-22
Readers Clearing House

Capri. (We are on the next bay
west Of Naples.) The place is very
modern looking, with glass win-
dows and doors, floor to ceiling on
bay side and opening onto a bal
cony. There are two bedrooms,
good-sized kitchen foyer and a
couple of other halls.
There are tile floors and glass
shelves sticking out of strange
places in the walls. We had to
provide light fixtures, towel racks,
etc. There were no closets so we
ordered two wardrobes. two chests
of drawers, desk, dining room
tables, and the landlord left some
stuff here, two chairs and a couch.
It is dustier than Fort Sill (Okla-
homa> and also the stuff between
the tiles is soft and makes dust.
The yard is inclosed by walls
and gates. with flower beds. grass.
palm trees and just dirt in the
front yard, which is the way they
all are. The kitchen has a wash
tub, sink and mop sink, with hot
water in the regular sink only.
Today Is the first day we haven't
had sunshine. 1t is windy and
rainy and drafty and there are
no heaters yet. We all agree that
Naples is fine place for tourists
but something else to settle down.
Housing is very hard to fine.
The stores have everything,
some better than ours, but not well
organized. I got plastic for shower
curtains in a good department
store, but of course had to go to
another part Of the city for hooks.
There are beautiful hotels and
restaurants. 1t is very strange
place, but we will be very COM
Portable when we get fixed up,
the household goods arrive and
we get a commissary."
The person who requested this
information may write me through
RCH II she would like any fur
ther help.
Several days ago. some one asked
for information on the Philip
pines. I cannot give up-to-date
information on appliances. but as
for furniture and car-both are
best left at home. Overstuffed
furniture will mildew, veneered
furniture buckles and cars rust
and deteriorate rapidly. An old
low-priced secondhand car might
be taken If you feel you must have
transportation. However, many
people do take good cars. so it is
pretty much a matter of personal
choice. Every one buys veJuca
furniture over there and it is
lovely and far less expensive than
here.
POMANDER BALLS.
(From Mrs. A. B. o., SilUer
Spring.
Some one asked for details for
making "pomander" balls (sweet
scented balls for linen closets
bureau drawers, closets, etc.. and
so I am sending directions and
hope the right reader will see them
as I have mislaid the paper and
do not know the initials. You will
need small thin-skinned oranges,
whole cloves, powdered orris root
and ground cinnamon. Stick
whole cloves into skin OF the
oranges until the rind is complete
ly covered. Then, roll the orange
in a mixture of equal parts OF
orris root and ground cinnamon.
Pat in as much Of the powdered
mixture as will adhere to the
orange. Wrap the pomander in
tissue paper or other soft paper
and keep it so for several weeks.
Remove the paper. shake of any
loose powder and the pomander is
ready for use in bureau drawers.
linen closets, etc. To use in a
closet tie with a piece OF ribbon
ending in a loop. Pomanders will
keep their fragrance for years.
Evening star., 1951-11-22
FIREPLACE CURTAINS.
SODA CAKES?

tFTOW WTS. II. w. D., AfHHyLOH'b
BY all means the metal fire.
place pull curtains are nice. We
would have no other kind for ap-
pearance Especially in a small
room, ease and safety as there
Is no danger Of sparks over the
top. They are easy to install and
cannot be knocked over.
Now a request. does any one
have a recipe for an old-fash-
ioned one-egg soda cake? My
thanks to any one who can give
me this.
POINSETTIA.
fFrom Mrs. C. E. w.. HyattsDilleJ
Mrs. A. R., Washington. To
make a poinsettia plant bloom in
the house, the number Of hours Of
daylight, sunlight or artificial light
1t receives in each "a hours must
be reduced. The terminal buds Of
fall or winter blooming flowers
such as chrysanthemums and
poinsettias do not stop growing
and mature into blossoms until
the hours of daylight decrease.
In warm climates. the poinsettia
blooms outdoors at Christmas be-
cause it is not exposed to artificial
light after sundown. This is true
also of plants in a greenhouse,
but most Of us keep our poinSet-
tias in rooms lighted all evening
and far into the night.
Put your plant in a closet after
the sun goes down and do not ex-
pose it to any light until morning.
Or black cloth. heavy enough to
shut out light may be put over the
plant provided the weight is sup
ported by a stick or framework.
so as not to crush the leaves. 1t
is probably too late for your plant
to bloom at Christmas this year
but it may later. If it does not.
cut it back when all the leaves
fall. water it only occasionally
and put it in a dim, cool place
until next spring, when you may
resume watering it and put it out
doors for the summer. Next fall
bring it inside and start the light
reducing treatment.
Y
CANDLE QUERY?
From Mrs. I. c., WdshingtonJ
Can any one tell me how to color
and perfume candles? would like
to make some for Christmas. using
wax saved from candles that have
been burned down.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Marine, Army Generals
Laud u. 5. Combat Ability
BY the Assoeioted Press

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 8. -
The commandant of the Marine
Corps and one of the Army's top
| fighting generals paint a bright
picture of American combat ability
in Korea.
Gen. Clifton B. Gates, the Mar
ines highest ranking officer, said
yesterday the First Marine Divi-
sion is in "the best possible
shape"
Gen. Gates, just returned from
IA front line inspection in Korea,
said morale. combat efficiency and
discipline among the Leathernecks
is at a peak.
Mai. Gen. Robert H. Soule. out
going commander of the Third
Infantry Division, arrived home
with this report:
THE Chinese still have hordes
of men. But we have hurt his
best troops in many spots. And
our men are no longer awed by
mere numbers"
He said he doubted the Chinese
Communists will be able to mount
another major offensive against
U. N.
Gen. Soule. 81. cook the Third
Infantry to Korea in October,
1850. shortly after the Chinese
Communists released him from
house arrest in Nanking where he
had been American military
Evening star., 1951-11-04
-Four Children Die in Fire
From Exploding Oil Stove
By the Associeted Press

SOMERS, Conn. Nov. 3.-Foul
children perished when an oil
stove exploded and turned a one
room dwelling into an inferno here
late today.
Their father. Lloyd Miller, was
in nearby Hazardville at the time
He had gone to purchase a Goa.
stove to replace the oil burner.
Their mother had gone to speak
to a neighbof in a trailer camp
next TO her home when she heard
the explosion.
In the ruins of the cottage
Somers firemen found the body
of one-month-old Frank on a
bed. The bodies of Verlin. 18
months; Roger, 3, and Gerald, 4,
were huddled in back of a door
which they apparently were try
ing to reach.
Hearing the explosion, Mrs.
Miller rushed back to her cottage
only to find it in flames. Frantic
ally she tried to enter. but was re-
strained by neighbors. She suf-
fered burns about the arms and
face.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Korea Veteran Confessed
Slayer Of ;, Ruled Insane
by shs Asseeiased Press

WnKES-BARRE, Pa, Nov. 8,
Charles Edmund Rovinsky, 23-
'year-old Korean war veteran and
confessed slayer of three relatives,
was committed to Farview State
Hospital today as insane and OF
criminal tendencies"
Rovinsky was committed by Lu-
Zerne County Judge Frank L. Pin
ola after hearing the final report
Iof three court-appointed psychia-
trists.
Judge Pinola ruled Rovinsky
will not stand trial for the triple
murder Of his wife. father-in-law
and brother-in-law last March IA
at nearby Ashley.
He added. however. that should
Rovinsky be pronounced sane al
some future date. he would be
brought to trial and II he should
plead insanity, defense counsel
would be required to prove Rovin-
sky was mentally Ill at the time OF
the murders.
Rovinsky. a Navy veteran. ad-
Imitted shooting his wife, Martha,
l22. and the other two relatives
while they were driving away
from his home following dispute
between Rovinsky and his wife.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Freak Radar Behavior
Studied in South Africa

PRETORIA. Nov. 3 Mana
Kemnews) .-Radar's most COM
plicated problem - why freak
ranges. greatly beyond the nor
NAL range of a radar set, can be
achieved-may be solved by two
young South Africans who have
set up their own little radar sta
ton on Durban's bluff.
They are two young men study
ing for engineering degrees, Lorli-
mer Browne, 26. and Peter Ash
well. %. Their experiments are
made in a shack which has been
invaded by three deadly black
mamba snakes.
Radar normally operates as fal
as the curvature of the earth al
lows the "eye" to see, but. under
certain conditions, the rays bend
and follow the curvature of the
earth. thus greatly increasing the
range. Freak ranges up to 1.50C
miles have been recorded in the
Indian Ocean.
The two young engineers picked
Iup from the Admiralty a $4,000
radar set for 5000. Until then
they had improvised their equip
ment.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Cigar, Feelings Crushed;
Man Sues for $4,000
Bv the Associcted Press

SAN RAFAEL. Calf, Nov. s.
w. o. Weissich, 80, is asking
$4,000 from Pacific Greyhound
lines for loss of a cigar.
In a damage suit filed here, Mr..
Weissich says he boarded a Pacific
Greyhound bus October 25, hold
ing an unlighted cigar in one hand.
The woman bus driver, his COM
iplaint continues, seized the cigar
and smashed it against the bus
steering wheel.
Further. the complaint adds,
the driver, named only as a Jane
Doe Burns" told him in IAN in
solent. insulting and loud voice"
that the cigar would be returned
when the bus reached San Fran
cisco.
Mfr. Weissich asks $4,000 dam
ages and an additional $1,000 for
his Humiliation and embarrass-
ment."
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Gore Says Air Force Sells
Critical Items as Surplus
by the Assoeicted Press

NASHVILLE. Tenn. Nov. g.
Representative Albert Gore. Dem.
ocrat. of Tennessee said tonight
he has asked Jess Larson. heao
of the General Services Admin.
istration to call off a sale of sur
plus items November IA at Kirt-
land Air Force Base, N. Mex.
Mr.. Gore said he stopped at the
base on his return to WASHINGTON
from the atomic tests in Nevada
While looking over the items to
be sold, he said he saw many
things which are on the critical
list"
For the Government to sell al
surplus bargain prices with one
hand that which it buys at higher
prices with the other hand, ap-
pears to me to be inexcusable
waste" he declared.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Teaching of Letters
Declared BGghted
By Pedonts, Cynics
snssial pi,nateh 10 The star

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Nov.
"a librarian has charged that
popular interest in poetry and
criticism is being destroyed by
poets and critics who write in a
jargon that cannot be understood,
even by members of their own
cults.
Louis B. Wright, director of the
Folger Shakespeare Library, WASH
ington, speaking yesterday at the
University of Virginia before the
Virginia Humanities Conference
said that college teaching of Eng
lish literature has suffered from
the twin blights of pedantry and
a kind of cynicism born of super
ficiality."
"The pedant heaps up a pile OF
dry bones and makes literature
appear as dead as a dinosaur. and
quite as repellent. he said. 1.-THE
cynic, frequently a brash young
teacher, SCOTS at any spiritual
values in his subject and reduces
literary study to tepid estheticism
Tor veiled propaganda for some
half baked ism"
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Elderly BIacksburg Man
Killed by Hit-Run Driver
BY tho Asseciotsd Press

CHRISTIANsBURG, Va, Nov
3.-An elderly man was killed to.
night by a hit-and-run driver or
the Christiansburg Blacksbure
highway.
The victim was identified BY
Commonwealth's Attorney Julius
Goodman as Leonard McHahon
about go, of Blacksburg.
The commonwealth's attorney
who is working with Montgomery
County authorities and state
police. said they had some clues
Mr.. McMahon's body was found
beside the three-lane highway by
a passing motorist. He was killed
between $3.50 and 9 o'clock.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
BIoodhounds Out Of Hunt
For GeoIogisf in Utah
BY the Associa.sd Press

VERNAL. Utah. Nov. Blood
hounds were called off yesterday
In the search for John (Red)
Young, Vernal geologist who dis
appeared week ago after walking
away from his hunting camp.
The dogs were used in a futile
attempt to follow week old tracks
which led north from a camp site
used by the 23-year-old geologist
and a hunting companion. Mr..
Young apparently lost his way
while attempting to circle camp
and drive a deer toward another
hunter. The missing man was un-
armed and carried no food.
Low temperatures and snow
today hampered the search in the
8,000-foot Book Cliff Mountains,
80 miles south of Vernal.
Joining the search was L. M.
Young of-New Kensington, Pa,
the missing mans father. and DR..
IT. j. O'Connell, Gulf Oil Co.
official from Pittsburgh. Pa.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Richard Chadwick Dies,
Channel Swimmers S Father
by the Assoeioisd Press

SAN DIEGO. Calf. Nov. s.
Richard Chadwick. ST.. SO. father
of Florence Chadwick. two-way
Iconqueror of the English Channel
died at his home here today. He
had been under a physicians care
for a heart ailment.
Mr.. Chadwick. q retired San
Diego police sergeant. accom-
panied his daughter In August
1850, when she broke the women's
record on the France TO- England
swim. He returned with her again
this year to help her train for her
second record breaking swim from
England to France.
In addition to his daughter, he
is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Mary Chadwick. and a son, Rich
ard Chadwick. jr.. a San Diego
policeman.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Albino Monkey 10 Cheer
Wounded Korea Veteran
by the Asseeiossd Press

BROWNSVILLE. Tex, Nov. 3
"A rare albino monkey will leave
here tomorrow for Norman, Okla.
to cheer a wounded Korean wal
veteran.
Corpl. Melvin Hough, "a. wrote
his mother he wanted a monkey
something small and alive to keer
him company during the dreary
months he faces in bed.
Its going to be a long time
Mom," he wrote Mrs. H. l.. Hougt
from a Maryland hospital last
week.
She phoned Pauline King. man.
ager of Brownsville's Snake King
Zoo, The ZOO had two tiny mon
keys, the albino and an ordinary
Brazilian marmoset.
The latter was sent but wa.
killed In a minor train accident
which crushed his cage.
Mrs. Hough called again to say
that her son was due soon anc
she was desperate.
Reluctantly. the ZOO manager
agreed to send the albino, tn.
eighth one she's seen in 20 year.
of animal business. They are cap.
tured only once every two OF
three years in the Brazilian jungle
Miss King said.
Corpl. Hough comes home to.
morrow. He'll have what he askee
fora television set and his bee
beside a picture window whert
ne can watch the birds skip ovel
the snow.
He'll also have a furry half.
pound little fellow to try to make
him happy.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Wage Incentive Plan
In Steel Is Reported
= ny the Assoeia,ed Press

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 3. - The
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph said
tonight that Jones & Laughlir
Steel Corp. and the CIO-U United
Steelworkers have worked out a
new wage incentive schedule
which would allow production
workers to earn more than 35 per
cent above their standard hourly
rate.
The Sun -Telegraph's story said !:
The agreement already has been
approved by the Wage Stabiliza-
ton Board.
1t is separate from pending
wage negotiations.
Earnings over the standard
hourly rate are expected to aver
age Is to 20 per cent.
The new plan replaces work
load" incentive system in effect
in 1949 which applied to only TOO
employees. The new method is ex-
pected to affect $4,000 employees.
No official of J&L, the Steel
workers or the WSB could be
reached tonight for comment.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Women Voters Plan Series
OF Alexandra Meeiinqs

The six units Of the Alexandria
League Of Women Voters will meet
tomorrow at various times and
places to discuss Mental Health
in Virginia"
The schedule is as follows: Ar
landria, 920 Manor road. 8:15 pm;
Beverly Hills. 222 Virginia avenue
1880 pm: downtown Alexandria
Alb Jefferson street. 8:15 pm;
Mount Ida Monticello. 401 Argyle
drive, S:l5 pm; Rosemont, 300
North View terrace, 1870 pm.
and Parkfairfax. $3.50 Martha
Gusts drive, 8:l5 pm.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
Arlington Boord to Name
Rent Control Advisers

The Arlington County Board will
hold a special meeting at 8 pm
Thursday to appoint a citizens
advisory committee on rent con.
troll.
The committee is to help decide
the scope of a professional hous.
ing survey to determine whether
the county needs rent control,
again. Two firms were inter-
viewed by the County Board yes
terday, but no final action wa.
| taken.
Evening star., 1951-11-04
|Aid 10 Underground
Behind Iron Curtain
Faces u. n. CHALLENGE
by the Asseeiatsd Press

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y, Nov.
3.-The United States has ap-
|propriated 500 million to aid the
Iron Curtain underground and
those who escape to the west. the
United Nations may soon ponder
10 proposed code which might out
law such aid.
The American appropriation
was made In a section Of the
Mutual Security Act of 1851. The
section. sponsored by Representa-
tive Kersten. Republican, of Wis
consin. provides that out of the
total Sc billion foreign military
and economic aid program. a sum
mot to exceed 500 million may
be, used:
"For any selected persons who
are residing in or escapes from
the Soviet Union, Poland. Czech
oslovakia. Hungary. Romania,
Bulgaria, Albania, Lithuania, Lat
via, EStonia, or the Communist
dominated or Communist occupied
areas of Germany and Austria,
and any other countries absorbed
by the Soviet Union either to
form such persons into elements
Of the military forces supporting
the North Atlantic Treaty Organi-
zation or for other purposes. when
lit is similarly determined by the
President that such assistance
will contribute to the defense Of
the North Atlantic area and to
the security Of the United States" "
New Code Sent to Paris.
However, a new draft U. N.
Code of Offenses Against Peace
and Security Of Mankind has been
sent to the General Assembly
soon convening in Paris, by the
International Law Commission
One section Of this draft would
outlaw "the undertaking or en-
couragement, by the authorities
of a state. Of terrorist activities in
another state, of organized ac-
tivities calculated to carry out ter
rorist acts in another state"
Mr.. Kersten. IN an extension of
his remarks in the House in the
Congressional Record of October
20. quotes a letter he wrote to
Ambassador Warren r. Austin,
United States delegate to the U. N,
| in which he criticized the draft
code. Mr.. Kersten said the code
might prevent groups in this
country. as well as our Govern
ment, from assisting in the liberia
ton Of the Eastern European
countries and other countries en-
shaved by the Communist tyr
amy"
Mr.. Austin replied that an Eat
tempt to restore a peoples free
dom does not seem to merit the
characterization Of terrorist to
such an activity" Mr.. Kersten re-
piled that "one Of the main OBJ
jectives Of a real liberation move
ment is to. strike terror into the
hearts OF the Communist tyrants.'
He added that liberation will not
be achieved merely by propaganda
and parliamentary maneuvers; II
will require strong action at the
proper time"
| Meanwhile. 1t appeared that the
American delegation to the U. N
would favor a plan for delaying
action on the draft code pending
further study and probably modi-
fication.
Evening star., 1951-11-04

d / S t / ngulShed
military student
at Virg in / a
Military Insti-
tute.
He Is among
81 VMI seniors
W ho received
the h onor
which makes
them eligible fol
commissions al
second lieuten.
ants in the reg.
ular Army upor
gradu a t / o r