The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 23, 1950, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition b SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition —_— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL TIIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,691 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — e e e Bloody Red Offensive Looms on Korean Front PR—FE JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1950 WALKER IS KILLED ON WAR FRONT Commande;Eghth Army Dies when Jeep Crashes Headon Into Truck By WILLIAM J. WAUGH SEOUL, Dec. 23—P—Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, U.S. Eighth Army commander, was killed almost instantly in a head-on collision of his jeep and a truck. Walker, a fighting protege of the late George S. Patton, Jr., died while enroute to the western Korea front where his forces are bracing against a threatening new Chinese Red attack. General MacArthur immediately announced the selection of Lt. Gen Matthew B. Ridgeway, the U. S Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Ad- ministration as the new Eighth Army commander. Ridgeway, now in Washington was a pioneer of airborne operation: in World War II. He planned the first large U.S. airborne assault the 1943 attack on Sicily, jumped with his men in the Nor- mandy campaign. He commanded the 82nd Airborne Infantry Division and the 18th Air- borne Corps. Conflicting Versions There were some conflicting ver- sions of the fatal jeep smashup and the moment of Walker's death. The first official army version was given out to his stunned staff of- ficers who were called into what some thought would be a routine briefing or a hearing of the Gen- eral’s Christmas message to his troops. The staff was called to order by Maj. Gen. Leven C. Allen who told the officers: “I have a shocking statement to make. General Walker was virtually instantly killed at 11 this morning when his jeep collided head-on with a truck.” Combat Son Meet Several high ranking officers met his son, Captain Sam Sims Walker, 25, when he reached Seoul. One anc (Continued on Page Twe) The Washington Merry - Go - Round Copyright, 100, by Bell Synaicate, Inc.} By DREW PEARSON (Ed. Note—Drew Pearson’s col- umn today takes the form of a letter to his daughter, Mrs. Geo- rge L. Arnold of Los Angeles). WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 '50 Dear Daughter: Well, you have made your father a grandpa again It begins to make me feel a little old. Of course, we are only as old as we feel, but today I confess to feeling quite a little older and a bit discouraged—discouraged over the state of the world. It is not a very promising world for my new grandson to face. We who preceded him and who were supposed to have built a better world have failed. The only encouraging thing is that there will be twenty years or so before he has to face the tangled skein of world destiny, and perhaps by that time we can un- tangle some of our tragic mistakes. One of the mistakes we are making today is intolerance, disun- ity and a quickness to judge that plays squarely into Moscow’s hands. It is a new sixth colmun. We go from one extreme to another in this country, like an animated shuttle- cock. It reminds me of the way we painted yellow stripes on the house W“\-Cr'mnued on Page Four) ce: Rose Queen gnd Royal Court o Queen Eleanor Payne, who will preside over Pasadena’s New Year’s Day festivities and the six Prin- |home,” he S.id with obvious feel- ses forming her Royal Court, as they pose in formal gowns, at Pasadena, Calif. Nancy June Robinson, Queen Eleanor, and Laurie Engdahel. Back row: June Roan. Billie Joe Hudnall, | Mr. Truman spent the night here| Norma Dragaset and Betsy Josi. M Wirephoto. PRESIDENT HOLDSHOPE | SAFE WORLD INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Dec. 23— A—President Truman, home for Christmas, holds out hope of “a world that is safe for you and| myself, and everybody else to live in.” He says the American people are “in excellent shape” to meet the challenge of World-Communism, as the nation has met every crisis since Washington’s time. “All we need now is time and | that is what we are fighting for,” the President told a hometown audience of Masons, mostly old friends and lodge brothers, last night. He unexpectedly spoke out on the world crisis at a dress-suit banquet after flying out of a Washington snowstorm into what he plainly re- garded as an atmosphere of good- will and unity quite different from the Washington sharpshooting he is accustomed to. “There i¢ nothing like coming Left to right, frent: |ing. in his hometown where some 75| youngsters waiting outside the tem- | GIANT LIGHTED TREE WINS FIRST PRIZE FOR ED DICK Ed Dick’s carefully done sp iighted trce on Evergreen Drive on first prize in the dences in the judging last night. He gets a lovely floor lamp donat- | ed by the Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. | | clever Eugene Wood's Santa painted on red oil cloth on the| door of his residence at 615 Basin | Road draws second prize, a table | lamp given by the Parson’s Electric A Santa mask with a cotton tting beard grins at passers by |while a filled pack rests beside | the door. Five-foot candle sticks with burning flames blazed beside Lk y. the Third prize, an auto spotlight donated by the Cowling Motor Co., goes to John Maurstad on Seventh Street. Two beautifully decorated Christmas trees were on each side of the entrance. They were fully ornamented with packages beneath. | Grétnery over the door provides background for a Merry Christmas i sign. Honorable Mentions Honorable mention goes to a doz- | en others. Adam J. Marshall on | Glacier Highway for a tiny de- | corated tree and “Seasons Greet- | ings,” lighted up by blue spot- lights, were on lattice work fences flanking the sides of the house. Dr. Clayton Policy’s brightly de- corated archway over the gate car- ries evergreen branches and bright lights and a streamer up the stair| railing and over the doorway. Earl Hunter has an attractive door border of lights and two small lighted evergreen trees on either side. The Reck Apartments has a large display of lights in a rectangular shape and centered with a large blue star. It can be seen from afar, Jack Clark’s outside trees with lights and trinkets and lights around the door were gay and bright. His residence is at 718 Fourth Street. The Day Apartments on Seventh Siregt has two lighted outside tree: Walter Stutte and James Orme's high tree on Tenth Street is bril- liantly lighted almost:to the bot- Lzom. outdoor | nristmas decorations contest for | Candles For Decoration | Three electric candles in a win- | dow box bed of greenery and the box bordered with lights were at| Sid Thompson’s Tenth Street resi- ence, Harry Stonehouse’s home at 518 Twelith Street was blaze of | colored lights with borders around | the door and two large front win- dows. | Ernie Parsons has a large yard tree that is thickly and colorfully lighted. The Home Hotel, owned by \John Kiennedy on Gastineau Avenue, | has a large natural tree with many | tes showing on the Channel| and can be seen from all southern part of town. | A large tree in the yard at the, Olav Lillegraven yard was nicely ! lighted and. attractive on Calhoun Avenue, Many Decorations There were many more outdoor decorations this year than before. Most homes had inside decorations, an electric candle and wreath or sta A especially attractive outdoor display is that of Leslie R. Hogins. A porch fireplace has a simulated fire created by a red spotlight thrown on a red silk hapdkerchief that waved like a natural flame from a draft. Above it were small cut logs. Above the fireplace were filled children’s stockings and be- side it was a completely decorated | Christmas . tree, Colored lights showed softly through glass bricks to spell out “Merry Christmas” on the north side of the house. The porcf was also bordered with lights and evergreen branches. Arnot Hendrickson's red and white outside border lights of a huge window on Evergreen Avenue can be seen from all over norih | Juneau. Mayer's Light Stolem Mayor Waino Hendrickson’s yard | tree had one string of lights on| its top with a sign below “Please | Return Lights” written for the, | mean thief who stole the other four strings a few days ago and the judges give him special mention. There is an attractive window with a small Christmas tree, nicely lighted at W. A. Boddy’s resi- | dence at 933 Tenth Street. Ed Skaret at 837 Tenth St. has | attractive border lights around his porch, Thomas McIvor of the U. 8. Coast Guard at 181 Behrends Ave. participated with some bright porch lights. Even | Booker T. Chandler who| ued on Page Six) l porary White House lured him,| coatless, to his first impromptu| speech of the day. | “I hope you all get everything you want for Christmas,” the Presi- dent safd. [ That sounded at the time like just | a well-meaning wish of a well-| known fond father, but the Presi- dent developed it a few hours later in the swank dining room of a Kansas City hotel amid red Christ- | mas candles and silver candelabra. He started by disagreeing in a| friendly fashion with Roy Roberts, | | President of the Kansas City Star. | Roberts had called for unity of all | WRECKAGE OF PLANE CRASH IS LOCATED (P Airliner with 18 Aboard Hits Peak in B. C.- Five Persons Sighted FROM PELICAN Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Soule of Pelican are at the Baranof Hotel. . o o o ® o o o e WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning At Juneau—Maximum, 38; minimum, 31. At Airport—Maximum, 36; minimum, 28, outlook. “I think it is the confusers who | VANCOUVER, B.C., Dec. 23— | 8T confused, Roy, not the country | A Canadian Pacific Airl DC-3 | or the people,” the President said. | which disappeared yesterd with | T S 18 passengers and crew members 4 aboard was found today high on OPE" HOUSE DE(' 21 5500 foot Mt. Okanagan 20 miles | rortn ot peniicon. 56 e . AT MINFIELD HOME sons were sighted around the wreck- | T 228 | Oven house will be held at the The airliner was located before Minfield Home on Lena Point dawn by a Royal Canadian Air | Wednesday, December 27, between| Force search plane which spotted | the hours of 1 to 4 pm. and 7 to a signal fire near the snow-covered |9 Pm., it was made known today. summit of the peak, on a dirnctl"“ friends of the Home are invited aerial approach to Penticton’s air- by Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Nickel, port. | who own and operate the home for The twin-engined plane vanished | children and who will be hosts for shortly after taking off from Van- |the occasion. couver for Calgary. It was to have | made its first stop at Penticton. | A ground party, includinz C.P.A. search directors and R.CM.P. offi- | cers headed for the area from Pen- | ticton. | FROM WHITEHORSE It will take the party hours to| Norman Nissen of Whitchorse is reach the scene, through heavily |5tOPPIng at the Baranof Hotel. wooded and snowbound countryside. i The DC-3 aircraft carried 15 pas- | sengers, bound for British Columbia centers and Alberta for the Christ- mas holidays, and a crew of three. | The big twin-engined plane | swallowed up by the treacherous wilderness near Penticton, about 180 miles east of here. Ten of the 15 passengers were women. The ideal Christmas fir, because of its tendency its needles longer. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Freighter Palisan: arrive Monday at 1 o FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Cloudy with snow or rain to- night. 'Lowest temperature near 32, Mostly cloudy Sun- day with an occasional rain | shower. Highest afternoon | ® temperature near 37 scheduled to|® PRECIPITATION 1 | ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today Denali from Seattlc scheduled to|® City of Juneau — Trace; arrive 5 p.m. Monday |® since Dee. 1 — 3.06 inches; Princess Norah scheduled to sail |® since July 1—36.30 inches. from Vancouver December 30. 1‘ At Airport — 001 inches; Baranof from west scheduled to @ since Dee. 1 — 222 inches; arrive at 1:30 p.n. Sunday, south- e since July 12534 inches. bound. 1..-000-0" is the | to hold TO ONE AND ALL | fro T8 E ELMER FRIEND KAY KENNEDY DOROTHY PEGUES PRESTON SANDBO JACK LUND JOHN SWET WALTER SMITH KEN WALLER HOWARD DON SAYRE - AGNES Difficult fo Choose in qu Any three of the top dozen could have been selected as prize win-i ners in the Chamber of Commerce | contest for Christmas decorations in | | Americans, who, he said are pre-| juneaws business district except | Streamers of tinsel, garlands of | sently confused about the world gop first prize which all three judges | Breens and a rlighted Christmas voted should go to R. W. Cowling Company for its large window dis- | play at Front and Main Streets. Second prize was won by Juneau Florists and third by Mrs. J. C. Hayes for the Hayes Shop window. | The prize-winning - windows? | Through Cowling’s window covered | with cut-out snow-flakes, is Santa’s work shop with three merry elves‘ helping pack Santa’s bag of Christ- | mas toys, with a forest of green jack | pine surrounding the snowy scene. In Cowling’s corner window s a silvered tree, lighted and beauti- fully decorated. This is the window that won the $35 first prize. The winter scene with a ginger- | bread house and g gumdrop tree, and Santa and his reindeer riding through the wintry night won a second prize of $20 for the Ju-| neau Florists. Mrs. Nancy Cameron decorated the window. Against a blue background, cut- ofit figures of the three wise men, a nativity scene with white fignres and a group of caroling angels and | Christmas candles won the third | prize of $10 for Mrs. Hayes. i Listed for honorable were: | Stevens window, with its snow | covered mountain and dozen of sporting skiers racing down a ski trail to a ski shelter log ,cabin of | red-and-white stick candy. It is a very gay window and the little skiers | made of cranberries and gumdrops are attracting much attention. \ Alaska Electric Light and Power] | | mention | Company’s window has a tall lighted Christmas tree and two cocker pup- pies in a pen. Vic Power's window has a message “May peace and hope of Christmas make bright the coming year” flanked with Christmas trees. Health Center Window ! The Juneau Health Center win-| dow featuring TB stamps as Christ- | mas tree decorations, with a family circle in miniature under the tree.: Alaska Coastal's Santa in hlsl sleigh, winging through clouds with nfown Area’ REDS MASS, READY FOR ATTACKING More Chinese Commies Enter Conflict from Man- | churia - New Chief { (By the Associated Press) The US. Eighth Army in Korea, its masterful fighting commander dead, looked today for the unleash- ing of a bloody Christmas offensive by menacing masses of Chinese Communists. Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, who had earned the nicknames of the “Shoestring General” and the “Bulldog” by his rugged defense of |the Pusan perimeter and his skill- | full escape from the Chinese trap |in North Korea, ‘was killed in a | jeep accident, m MPIRE ART BRINGDALE ART STEPHENS KEN JUNGE BOYD SAVAGE (;]IifiRQFIR\{{?)NSON | The 61-year-old Texan, an under- i |study of Gen. George S. Patton DOROTHY MANTHEY } |yhen he led the Third Armys HELEN MONSEN inrmnred “Ghost Corps” in Europe, was on his way to the central {ront WEED |to decorate the British 27th Com- | monwealth Brigade when his jecp |ran headon into a truck. Patton, | too, died in an automobile accident, a-gnggglgngyg% in Germany five years ago. | Ridgeway Named Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway, famous commander of the 82nd Air- borne Division and 18th Airborne Corps in Europe and U. S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff, took over command of the Eighth Army at the critical juncture. Chinese Communists may already have crossed the 38th parallel on the right wing of the Eighth Army. | Peiping, in rejecting a UN. bid for | a cease-fire, yesterday declared that the old boundary between North and South Korea had been wiped out. KIEFER Alaska Coastal planes in lieu of hl\‘ reindeer. The Capitol Theatre’s tremen- dous lighted wreath high over its marquee was listed for honorable mention. ‘The Juneau Bakery's window with whole village of gingerbread houses, a lighted church nnd a Christmas tree. Lots of Christmas Trees Thomas Hardware's window with tree. Leota’s white tree with blue deco- rations and a blue spot light show- ing it off, in one window and Santa Claus and candles making her other window Christmasy are effective. Two lighted Christmas trees in the Mug-Up Cafe, a nativity scene beneath a large star of Bethlehem, placed this window on Third on the honor role. Farwest Cab Company had beautifully lighted tree, Chri~’.nas streamers, icicles and svowflakes in its window. Jack Burford’s Santa Claus and sleigh, Christmas tree and carolers and candy canes won him honorable mention, by The little family in a miniatuve living room beneath a Christmas tree won honors for Jacobson's Up- holstery on South Franklin. Enemy Offensive Gen. Douglas MacArthur said “continued aggressive probing ac- tions, the presence of artillery with the Chinese columns and the ac- celerated reinforcement and re- supply are all indicative of an in pending enemy offensive for which sufficient mass now is available.” He .ud four more Chinese Army ~_ps, 64000 or more men, had crossed into Korea from Manchuria. The latest probings were near Chongye, a village two miles south of the parallel. But it was not clear whether the actual encounter was south of that old border. Commie Artillery For the first time Communist artillery shells—five of them—burst in the crowded Hungnam beach- head in northeast Korea. There was !no other news from that toehold, where artillery and air forces still maintained a ‘curtain of fire. The best news for the world—if it convinces Russia that her MIG-15 jet fighters are not yet any match for United States Sabre jets—was in the biegest jet battle of the war. Eight US. Sabres challenged 15 to 25 of the Russian-made jets just on the Korean side of the border rear the mouth of the Yalu river and shot down six of the enemy with no loss or dariage of their own. A seventh enemy jet was crippled in the 20-minute battle. SANTA FLIES AWAY ON CANDY STICK AT BARANOF If there were prizes for the best | Christmas decorated bars, the Bar- anof Bubble Bar would come in for serious consideration. An interested audience watched Rie Mounier do three panels of Santa Clauses the other evening. In the first twinkle-eyed Santa welcomes the customers; in the second, he wel- comes the town; and in the third he is taking off astride a large pep- permint candy cane, a bit bleary- |eyed but still gay with a glass of \beer in hand, A Walk Thru Town y Now let’s walk through the down-~ town streets with judges Dr. John Clements, J. P. Christensen and Helen Monsen and check up on the rest of the town’s decorations First, the blue lighted tree top of the Bararof marquee. op ¥ {Continued on Page Slx) ¥ LAST SHOPPING DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS