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Bloody Red Offensive Looms on Korean Front
WALKER IS
KILLED ON
WAR FRONT
Commander Eighth Army
Dies when Jeep Crashes
Headon into Truck
By WILLIAM J. WAUGH
SEOUL, Dec. 23—uTt—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 thf
first large U.S. airborne assault
the 1943 attack on Sicily, anc
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 w'ho 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
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i
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
Copyright, liac, by Bell Synolckte. Inc. I
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 wre 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
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Ross Queen and Royal (curl
Queen Eleanor Payne, who will preside over Pasadena’s New Year's Day festivities and the six Prin
cesses forming her Koval Court, as they pose in formal gowns, at Pasadena, Calif. Left to right, front:
Nancy June Robinson, Queen Eleanor, and Laurie Engdahel, Back row: June Roan. Billie Joe Hudnall,
Norma Dragaset and Betsy Josi. iJP) Wirephoto.
GIANT LIGHTED
TREE WINS FIRST
PRIZE FOR ED DICK
Ed Dick's carefully done spirally
iighted tree on Evergreen Drive
won first prize in the outdoor
Jhristmas decorations contest for
residences in the judging last night.
He gets a lovely floor lamp donat
ed by the Alaska Electric Light and
Power Co.
Eugene Wood’s clever 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
Co. A Santa mask with a cotton
catting beard grins at passers by
while a filled pack rests beside
the door. Five-foot candle sticks
with burning flames blazed beside
the walkway.
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 Deneath.
Greenery over the door provides
background for a Merry Christmas
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 staT. It can be seen from afar.
Jack Clark's outside trees with
ligl ts and trinkets and lights
around the door were gay and
bright. His residence is at 718
Fourth Street.
The Day Apartments on Seventh
Evrftft has two lighted outside
trees.
Walter Stutte and James Orme’s
high tree on Tenth Street is bril
liantly lighted almost to the bot
tom.
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
Twelfth Street was a blaze ol I
colored lights with borders around
the door and two large front win- j
, dows.
Ernie Parsons has a large yard
| tree that is thickly and colorfully
I lighted.
The Home Hotel, owned by .John
Kennedy on Gastineau Avenue,
has a large natural tree with many
iightes showing on the Channel ■
side and can be seen from all
over the southern part of town, i
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
stars.
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 handkerchief
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
porefl 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 north
Juneau.
Mayer's Light Stolen
Mayor VVaino Hendrickson's yard
tree had one string of lights on
its tep 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
rox with a small Christmas tree,
nicely lighted at W. A. Boddy's resi
dence at 933 Tenfh Street.
Ed Skaret at 837 Tenth St. has
attractive border lights around his
porch.
Thomas Mclvor of the U. 9.
Coast Guard at 181 Behrends Ave.
participated with some bright porch
lights.
Even Booker T. Chandler who
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WRECKAGE OF
PLANE CRASH
IS LOCATED
CP Airliner with 18 Aboard
Hits Peak in B. C
Five Persons Sighted
VANCOUVER, B.C., Dec. 23—itfl—
A Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-3
which disappeared yesterday with
13 passengers and crew members
aboard was found today high on
5,500 foot Mt. Okanagan 20 miles
north of Penticton, B.C. Five per
sons were sighted around the wTeck
age.
The airliner was located before
daw'n by a Royal Canadian Air
Force search plane which spotted
a signal fire near the snow-covered
summit of the peak, on a direct
aerial approach to Penticton’s air
port.
The twin-engined plane vanished
shortly after taking off from Van
couver for Calgary. It was to have
made its first stop at Penticton.
A ground party, including C.P.A.
search directors and R.C.M.P. offi
cers headed for the area from Pen
ticton.
It will take the party hours to
reach the scene, through heavily
wooded and snowbound countryside.
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 was
swallowed up by the treacherous
wilderness near Penticton, about 180
miles east of here.
Ten of the 15 passengers were
women.
The ideal Christmas tree is the
fir, because of its tendency to hold
its needles longer.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Freighter Palisana scheduled to
arrive Monday at 1 a m.
Denali from Seattle scheduled to
arrive 5 p.m. Monday.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver December 30.
Baranof from west scheduled to
arrive at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, south
bound.
t
PRESIDENT
HOLDSHOPE
SAFE WORLD
INDEPENDENCE, Mo„ Dec. 23—
/P)—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
| home,” he s, id with obvious feel
: mg.
Mr. Truman spent the night here
in his hometown where some 75
: youngsters waiting outside the tem
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 said.
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,
j President of the Kansas City Star.
Roberts had called for unity of all
Americans, who, he said are pre
sently confused about the world
outlook.
“I think it is the confusers who
are confused. Roy, not the country
or the people,” the President said.
OPEN HOUSE DEC. 27
AT MINFIELD HOME
Onen house will be held at the
Minfield Home on Lena Point
Wednesday, December 27, between
the hours of 1 to 4 p.m. and 7 to
9 p.m., it was made known today.
1 All friends of the Home are invited
! by Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Nickel,
! who own and operate the home for
children and who will be hosts for
the occasion.
FROM PELICAN
Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Soule of
Pelican are at the Baranof Hotel.
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FROM WHITEHORSE
Norman Nissen of Whitehorse is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
•
• WEATHER REPORT
• Temperatures tor 24-Hour Period
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
• At Juneau—Maximum, 38;
• minimum, 31.
• At Airport—Maximum, 36;
• minimum, 28.
•
• 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.
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m today
• City of Juneau — Trace;
• since Dec. 1 — 3.06 inches;
• since July 1—36.30 inches.
• At Airport — 0.01 inches;
• since Dec. 1 _ 2.22 inches;
• since July 1—25.34 inches.
• •••*««•••
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from i
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ELMER FRIEND
KAY KENNEDY
DOROTHY PEGUES
PRESTON SANDRO
JACK LUND
JOHN SWET
WALTER SMITH
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Xmas Prize Winners
Difficult to Choose
in Downtown Area
_ !
Any three of the top dozen could ,
: have been selected as prize wln
; ners in the Chamber of Commerce j
contest for Christmas decorations in |
: Juneau’s business district—except
, for first prize which all three Judges
; voted should go to R. W. Cowling
J 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' is a
silvered tree, lighted and beauti
fully decorated. This is the window
that won the $3.1 first prize.
The winter scene with a ginger
bread house and q 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 figures
and a group of caroling angels and I
Christmas candles won the third
prize of $10 for Mrs. Hayes.
Listed for honorable mention |
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 guy window and the little skiers
made of cranberries and gumdrops
are attracting much attention.
Alaska Electric Light and Power
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 his
sleigh, winging through clouds with
Alaska Coastal planes In lieu of liis
reindeer.
The Capitol Theatre's tremen
dous lighted wreath high over its
marquee was listed for honorable
mention.
The Juneau Bakery's window with
a whole village of gingerbread
houses, a lighted church and a
Christmas tree.
Lots of Christmas Trees
Thomas Hardware’s window with
streamers of tinsel, garlands of
greens and a lighted Christmas
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 un
the honor role.
Farwest Cab Company had •*
beautifully lighted tree, ChrK.uas
streamers, icicles and s'.owflakes
in its window.
Jack Burford’s Santa Claus and
, leigh, Christmas tree and carolers
and candy canes won him honorable
mention.
The little family in a miniature
living room beneath a Christmas
tree won honors for Jacobson's Up
holstery on South Franklin.
A Walk Thru Town
Now let’s walk through the down
town streets with judges Dr. John
Clements, J. F. Christensen and
Helen Monsen and check up on the
rest of the town’s decorations
F'irst, the blue lighted tree op
top of the Barailof marquee.
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LAST SHOPPING 0AY
tiroxr CHRISTMAS
REDS MASS,
READY FOR
ATTACKING
More Chinese Commies
Enter Conflict from Man
churia - New Chief
(By the Associated Press)
The U.S. Eighth Army m 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.
The 61-year-old Texan, an under -
! study of Gen. George S. Patton
: when he led the Third Army's
I armored "Ghost Corps” in Europe,
was on his way to the central front
'to decorate the British 27th Com
monwealth Brigade when his jeep
ran headon into a truck Patton,
too, died in an automobile accident,
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,
j Peiping, in rejecting a U.N. bid for
a cease-fire, yesterday declared that
the old boundary between North
and South Korea had been wiped
out.
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 im
pending enemy offensive for which
sufficient mass now is available.”
He .id four rhore Chinese Army
'~-.ps, 64,OOfl or more men. had
crossed into Korea from Manchtir’a
The latest probings w'ere near
Chongye, a village two miles south
of the parallel. But lt was not clear
whether the actual encounter was
south of that old border.
t ommir 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 il
convinces Russia that her MIG-13
jet fighters are not yet any match 1
for United States Sabre jets—was
in the biggest jet battle of the war
Eight U.S. Sabres challenged 13
to 25 of the Russian-made jets just
I 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 damage of their own.
A scventli enemy jet was crippled
in the 20-minute battle.
SANTA FLIES AWAY ON
CANDY STICK AT BARANOF
If there were prizes for the be1'1
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 a
twinkle-eyed Santa welcomes the
customers; in the second, he wel
comes the town; and in the th'rd
he is taking off astride a large pep
permint candy cane, a bit blearv
eyed but still gay with a glass of
i beer in hand.