THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
_ UALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
■VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,666
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1950
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MacArfhur Dares Jets, Other
Aircraft, Flies Over Enemy
Territory; Thumbs Nose
Warren Hager Shot
By Wife, Who Then
Takes Her Own Life
KETCHIKAN, Alaska. Nov. 24—(,P)
—A Ketchikan night club manager
was injured seriously and his wife
killed in a double shooting late
Wednesday.
Fred Bryant, Deputy U. S. Mar
shal, said he was told by the
wounded man, Warren L. Hager,
that he was shot by his wife, Ruth.
The woman’s body was found lying
icrcss a bed at the Sunset Manor
Club, which Hager managed. She
aad been shot through the heart.
Hager’s physician, Dr. Louis Sala
zar, described the wounded man's
pondition as “satisfactory” last
light. The doctor said he had op
prated on a perforated intestine
which appeared to result from a
22 calibre bullet.
Hager was brought to the hos
pital shortly after 4 p.m. when fire
men and Dr. Salazar went to the
Wub in response to a call for a
ioctor and ambulance.
The Deputy Marshal said the
woman’s wound appeared to be self
nflieted but coroner Val Jolicouer
Withheld comment pending an in
juest.
The Hagers are wellknown in
Juneau when he was former owner
)f the Top Hat Bar on South
J’ranklin, swapping his interest sev
eral months ago with Howard Bry
int, in business in Ketchikan.
WADE, ANS DIRECTOR,
TO WASHINGTON ON
REPLACING HOSPITAL
Hugh J. Wade, Alaska Native
Service area director, leaves this
iftemoon for Washington, D.C.
While there, he will discuss the
problem of replacing the Bethel
NS hospital that was destroyed
py fire Tuesday.
Delegate Bob Bartlett is prepar
ing an emergency bill to be pre
sented at the special session of Con
gress to get an appropriation for
rebuilding the destroyed hospital.
Wade is also to attend a Children
and Youth Conference while in
Washington.
He meets with Dr. James Ryan,
Commissioner of Education for
Alaska, in Washington to discuss
educational problems as they are
related to the Territorial Depart
ment of Education and the Alaska
Native Service.
Wade hopes to obtain a medical
director for the Alaska Native Serv
ice while in Washington.
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STEAMER MOVEMENTS
/ _
Princess Louise from Vancouver
due tomorrow afternoon or evening.
Denali scheduled to sail from Se
attle 5 p.m. today.
Baranof from west delayed and
so will not arrive until Monday.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
copyright. 1M0, by Bell Bynaleate, Ine.l
By DREW PEARSON
ELLIS ISLAND, N. Y—Thanks
giving began as a day on which
a group of English immigrants
gave thanks for being able to
weather the rigors of one year on
a new continent.
Now, three centuries later, immi
grants are still arriving in small
numbers in this country; only on
Thanksgiving Day the latest arri
vals had little to be thankful for.
For the Statue of Liberty which
once welcomed new arrivals like a
beacon of hope in New York’s clut
tered harbor, stands with its back
turned, both actually and figura
tively, on Ellis Island.
This austre island has been
■Soing a brisk business since the
McCarran Communist control law
went into effect. And Thanksgiv
ing Day was anything but that for
those who came seeking the land of
promise, but found themselves
shunted behind the red brick walls
and high wire fences here along
with stowaways and undesirable al
iens.
Immigrants come along only in a
trickle now—about 1,000 a month,
'compared with a million or so a
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By RELMAN “PAT” MORIN
(Veteran A.P. Correspondent)
TOKYO, Nov. 24—(fl)—General
MacArthur’s amazing flight today
to the Yalu river, 60 mifes behind
enemy lines and over known Red
fighter nests, was not a spur-of
the-moment caprice.
He said he had been considering
it for some time.
He is the first supereme com
mander in history to calmly fly far
into enemy territory and examine
the objectives of the offensive. He
cooly circled the areas where the
Chinese Communists have been the
most sensitive to the approach of
any aircraft.
The flight was made in an un
armed private plane in brilliant
sunlight shortly after 2 p.m.
“That,” said Maj. Gen. Courtney
Whitney, one of MacArthur's aides, j
"is what I would call thumbing
your nose at the Chinese.”
“That,” a correspondent replied,
“is what I would call pushing your
luck a little.”
MacArthur apparently is com
pletely fearless. Or else he has such
complete confidence in his own
lucky star that it never occurred to
him that to take a Constellation
over a hive of 600-mile-an-hour
jets might be immensely dangerous.
This is the way it felt and looked.
We had spent four icy hours
touring the front.
The wind was a cold, keen-edged
sabre that searched out the smallest
opening in your clothes and stabbed
through to the flesh.
The “Scap,” MacArthur’s own
plane, was a beautiful sight, a big
silver stove, when the jeeps jolted
back over frozen roads to the air
field at Sinanju.
MacArthur’s chair is in the after
part of the plane. It swivels around
like parlor chairs in the new pull
mans.
“We are going to reconnoitre the
Yalu river,” Whitney said, “and the
Suiho Dam and anything else that
looks interesting.”
The correspondents stopped writ
ing. One gulped, cleared his throat
and said:
“I wonder if this trip is really
necessary.”
HYAK HUNTING PARTY
REPORTS FAIR GAME
Storms made their hunting trip
longer than planned for a group
aboard Sim MacKinnon’s Hyak,
returned the first of the week from
Rocky Pass.
The Hyak was delayed five days
at Kake, then arrived as near Ju
neau as Taku Harbor and was held
up for three more days. Eight boats
kept the Hyak company storm
bound at Taku. ‘
Aboard the Hyak were Minard
Mill, Minard (Skeet) Mill, Jr., Jam
es Orme, Joe Johnston, Percy Rey
nolds, Skip MacKinnon and Capt.
MacKinnon.
“Hunting? Just fair.”
FORESTER ENDS DUTY
PLANS TRIP TO S. A.
Craig Silvemale, recent gradu
ate forester, is leaving Juneau
Tuesday for the states and with
three friends will take off early
this winter on a long planned trip
to South America. Just what the
young adventurers will do when
they reach the southern continent
they have not yet determined but
have a number of prospects In
view.
Silvemale spent his first season
m Alaska last summer and was
project forester for timber sales in
the Hood Bay area for the U. S.
Forest Service.
CROFTON FAMILY HET.!'
—
R. J. Crofton, highway cost re-1
search engineer with the Alaska'
Road Commission here since the j
first of the month, has been joined I
by Mrs. Crofton and their 2-year-old
daughter, Amber Louise. They are
living at the Baranof Hotel. Prior
to coming to Alaska, Crofton was
with Arthur Young and Co., certi
fied public accouhtants in Seattle.
He is originally from Pasadena,
Calif.
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POSTMASTER HOME j
AFTER VACATION TRIP
Mrs. Crystal Jenne. Juneau Post
master, returned Wednesday in time
for Thanksgiving Day with her
family, after a vacation trip to
the states. She visited chiefly in
and around Seattle.
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ANCHORAGE
BATTERED,
HIGH WIND
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 24—
(jW — Steady high winds downed
power lines, shattered showroom
plate glass windows and plunged
this city into a temporary black
out last night. Shingles and roof
ing paper littered the streets.
The violent blow, moving north
northeast along icy Knik Arm off
Cook Inlet, averaged 45 mph with
recorded gusts as strong as 70 and
even 85 mph.
The Weather Bureau forecast
diminishing winds for today.
Property Damage Heavy
Property damage from the day
long pounding was heavy. Police
were called out to guard stores
where broken windows brought a
threat of looting. Firemen dis
mantled signs which endangered
pedestrians and parked cars.
At Merrill Field, the city’s pri
vate airport, planes were up-ended
and torn from moorings. Two un
occupied craft crashed on the run
way only to be swept aside by a
heavy wind gust a few moments
later.
Real Blackout
The power blackout left hotels,
radio stations and police depart
ment upon auxiliary power facili
ties. Taxis were left to shift for
themselves without any centrally
located radio call system.
One fire was reported sweeping
through forest land on the Palmer
highway near the Knig river bridge.
Telephonic communication with
Palmer, at the north end of the
Knik Arm, was destroyed by a sim
ilar, but weaker, storm last week.
How hard the community was hit by
the latest blow was undetermined.
The storm also swept over the
Kenai Peninsula to the south where
gusts of 70 mph were recorded, and
with lesser strength at Kodiak.
FAIRBANKS' OLDEST
SETTLER PASSES ON
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 24—UP)
—John J. Buckley, 70, one of Fair
banks’ oldest settlers and best
known pioneers, died Wednesday.
Buckley had been a deputy U.S.
Marshal for the past 30 years and
Chief Deputy since 1936.
He came to Alaska in 1896 and
went to Circle. Eight years later he
became one of the founders of
Fairbanks. His name has been
linked with such Yukon trailblazers
as James Wickersham, Tom Mark
ham, John McGinn and Leroy To
zier.
Buckley was active in Masonic
affairs. He was a member of Law
son Consistory, Seattle, and had
just finished his third term as
District Deputy of the Grand Mas
ter of the Grand Lodge for Wash
ington and Alaska. At the time of
his death he also was treasurer of
the Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo num
ber 4.
He is survived by the widow here,
a daughter. Mrs. Katherine Edlund,
and a son, Richard. Seattle.
JOBLESS CLAIMANT
JAILED FOR FRAUD
David C. Kydd, stenographer, age
41, was sentenced in U. S. Com
missioner’s Court Wednesday on
three counts of filing fraudulent
claims for unemployment insurance.
He was fined $50 on • each of the
three counts and sentenced to thirty
days in jail on each count, the
terms to run concurrently.
Kydd pleaded guilty to charges
brought by the Employment Secur
ity Commission that he had falsi
fied statements in which he alleged
that he was unemployed whereas
he was employed full time, on two
occasions; and to falsifying a state
ment as to his earnings in order
to draw partial benefits, the basis
for the third count.
Stanley Baskin, assistant district
attorney, prosecuted the case for
the Employment Security Com
mission of Alaska.
JOE GREEN HAS STROKE
Joseph A. Green, well known
former Alaska legislator, suffered
a slight stroke last Monday at the
Orpheum Rooms where he is living
and was taken to St. Ann’s hospital
Wednesday. Dr. John Clements, his
physician, said today that he was in
fair condition and resting easily.
AT THE GASTINEAU
Dale Strohecker, from the U.S.
Coast Guard Base at Ketchikan
is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel.
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Communist
China Nine
At UN Today
LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 24—(/PI—A
nine-member Chinese Communist
delegation will make its first visit to
Lake Success late today to present
credentials to U.N. Secretary-Gen
eral Trygve Lie. The delegation ar
rived earlier in the day at Idle
wild International Airport.
Russia asked that the Chinese
Reds be invited to participate at
once in the political committee's
debate on Formosa. The committee
debated the question throughout its
morning session but reached no de
cision. It was expected to reach a
vote this afternoon.
The General Assembly's 60-nation
political committee now is consid
ering Russian charges of American
aggression against China. The
charges grew out of President Tru
man’s order sending the U.S. Sev
enth fleet into Formosa Strait to
prevent a spreading of the Korean
war.
soviet uepuiy foreign Minister
Jacob A. Malik made the request
that the Chinese Reds participate
in the committee's proceedings.
Nationalist China’s T. F. Tsiang
expressed vigorous opposition. U.S.
• Delegate John Foster Dulles said:
“I have no desire to speak on this
question.”
Tsiang said: “This (Red) regime
has not the legal competence to
offer a complaint on the part of
my country. This is a propaganda
trick.”
Several Latin American delega
tions opposed the Soviet proposal.
ASK GERMAN
COOPERATION
FOR FREEDOM
(By the Associated Press)
The United States reactivated its
Seventh Army in Europe today and
U.S. High Commissioner John J.
McCloy called on Germans to face
up to the task of defending Euro
pean freedom.
The Seventh Army, which landed
in Southern France in 1944 and
fought to Southern Germany, is the
only U.S. Army to be organized in
Europe since demobilization after
the Second World War.
Its reactivation provides the
framework for American reinforce
ments promised for the defense of
Western Europe.
Commissioner McCloy’s appeal to,
the Germans was in an address at1
Kiel University.
“No one can preserve your free
I aoms lor you, ne told German stu
dents. He reminded them that many
American students are being forced
to interrupt their studies and ca
reers to enter military service and
expressed confidence that ‘‘young
Germany will meet the test.”
At the same time West German
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
blamed German indecision on mak
ing a contribution to western de
fense on the indecision of the west
ern powers. His view was given to
French High Commissioner Andre
Francois-Poncet at Bonn.
Adenauer openly advocates the
arming of German troops to serve
in a West European army.
PACIFIC NORTHERN
BRINGS 4; TAKES 2
Pacific Northern Airlines flights
were on schedule yesterday. Arriv
ing here were Joan Lingo, A. L.
Zumwalt, M. Sanford and Ken
Bowman.
W. E. Hutchinson and Mrs. Don
Prow departed for Anchorage.
Going to Anchorage Wednesday
were Mrs. L. Williamson, Capt. R
S. Thompson, Karl Brunstad, Mr.
and Mrs. Ole Granell and Wendell
Matthews.
Father Lorente and John Wil
liams went to Yakutat.
LEADBETTER TO OHIO
George Leadbetter who has been
in Juneau since last summer, left
Wednesday on the Pan American
clipper on his way to his home in
Huron, Ohio, and to his duties with
the Ohio Department of Health He
and Mrs. Leadbetter (Dr. Bernita
Block) enjoyed a vacation here in
the summer and Leadbetter re
mained after his wife returned to
Ohio, to take care of their property
i interests on the Fritz Cove road.
77 KILLED IN
LONG ISLAND
TRAIN CRASH
! NEW YORK, Nov. 24—UFl—Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey said today that
preliminary evidence indicates “a
human failure” was the cause ol
the Thanksgiving Eve Long Island
railroad wreck which took 77 lives.
Dewey, who cut short a Florida
vacation to lead one of the investi
gations of the wreck started today,
made his statement after a meet
ing with the State Public Service
Commission.
As the Governor spoke there were
demands for quick action by na
tional, state and city officials to
put an end to the carnage on the
Long Island. It was the second
major distaster in a year in the
railroad.
Dewey said commission findings
showed the express which plowed
into the rear of a stalled train
had passed through one warning
signal and one stop signal at full
speed of between 60 and 65 miles
per hour.
The warning signal was a mile
and a half from the scene of the
accident.
“Whatever the causes, human or
mechanical, the siuation on the
Long Island Railroad is utterly in
tolerable,” Dewey said.
■ One hundred ten people have
I died in the two Long Island wrecks
j this year.
In the latest disaster one elec
I trie train plowed into the rear of
another, which was stalled about
| ten miles from Times Square. With
a deafening roar and a blinding
flash from the third rail, the front
and rear cars of the two 12-car
trains telescoped.
Death and terror struck the 2,
100 passengers, many them crowded
In the aisles. ,
Vast rescue forces were on the
scene minutes after the crash.
But It took nine hours to get the
last mangled body out of the sick
ening death trap of twisted steel.
The motorman of the second
train was killed.
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ALASKA COASTAL HAS
55 ON WED. FLIGHTS;
NO FLIGHTS THURSDAY
Alaska Coastal Airlines flights
Wednesday carried a total of 55
passengers with 11 on interport with
13 arriving and 21 departing.
Departing for Sitka were: Lil
lian Zettel, Johnny Charles, Antoin
ete Nan Eng, Bob Fredericks, Phil
lips Sampson, Paul Pavella, Joan
Jimmy, Joe Anycinah, Larrie Was
silie, Auva Essholt, Eleanor Johnson
Edna Andrew, Bertham Simeon',
Fritz Pillusha, Andrew Charles,
Evelyn Stewart Mr. and Mrs. J. N.
Thompson, H. V. Davis, Della Ro
mero, Fannie Jim, Mary Lund, Jen
ny Wassilie, Hazel Lindstrom, Ken
neth Albright, Eveleyn Perkins, E.
C. Tibbets.
For Petersburg: Jack Cox; for
Ketchikan: Tom Cummings, E. L.
Hughes; for Taku Harbor: Hans
Nesrug.
Arriving from Hoonah were: Mar
tin Holm, Jim Richardson, Don!
Williams; from Ketchikan; Rev.
Armstrong; from Tenakee: James
Paddock; from E'itka: B. Stevenson,
Bishop Gordon, Jerry Beason, Wil
liam Smith, A1 Willard; from Chi
chagof ; Howard Hayes.
Frorp Fish Bay; James Nellsen,
William Farris.
STOCKQUOTATibNS
NEW YORK, Nov. 24 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
101, American Tel. and Tel. 151%,
Anaconda 39%, Douglas Aircraft 86,
General Electric 49%, General Mo
tors 48%, Goodyear 60%, Kennecott
741 _•, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%,
Standard Oil of Cal. 82%, 20th
Century Fox 21%, U.S. Steel 41, Ca
nadian Exchange 96.12%, Pound
$2.80%.
Sales today were 2,620,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 235.47, rails 71.06, utilities
40.70.
HEAVY SELLING
NEW YORK, Nov. 24—0P1—The
Stock Market plowed through heavy
selling today to establish a new 20
year high.
Final prices were up a few cents
to around $1 a share.
Largest gains were scored dur
ing an opening burst of demand.
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ELKS ATTENTION
Ladies Night, Saturday Nov. 25.!
Dancing starts at 10 o’clock. For
Elks and their ladies only. 666-21
Seek Improve
Setup Alaska
Armed Force
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24— 141 —;
[ Senator Hunt (D-Wyo) said today,
he hopes to find some method of
“whittling away some of the ter
rific cost of defense efforts" in
Alaska.
Hunt, chairman of a three-man
investigating group, added that
housing for the increased military
forces in Alaska is "woefully inad
equate" and that some new system
of overall coordination or planning
appears to be necessary.
With Senators Morse (R-Orei
and Saltonstall (R-Masst, Hunt
made an inspection trip to Alaska
recently for the Armed Services
preparedness subcommittee. Their
formal report is expected about
the first of the year.
"Watchdog” Committee
1 The subcommittee, headed by
Senator Lyndon Johnson tD-Tex)
is acting as a "watchdog" over the
entire multi-billion dollar defense
program. It already has sharply
criticized government rubber and
alcohol programs and the disposal
of World War II surplus.
Hunt and his colleagues flew to
Alaska with committee experts to
examine the multi-million dollar
defense efforts underway in this
U.S. territory nearest Soviet Rus
sia.
“Considering living conditions and
the climate, we found the morale
of our fighting forces very high,"
Hunt said. “We also found out that
unification of the Armed Services
appeared to be working very well.”
Agencies Need Coordinator
He reported fair progress on con
struction and operation of a huge
radar net. On the other hand, Hunt
said there appeared to "be need of
a coordinator for all the govern
ment agencies on the military con
struction programs underway.”
Some careful advance planning
among all interests early in Janu
ary or February of each year prob
ably could speed up defense pro
jects and reduce costs, he added.
“Strikes, high costs of materials
and labor and material shortages
have delayed some projects beyond
the short season when work can be
done,” he said.
“Rents Terrific”
“Transportation by the Alaska
Steamship Company also has been
very, very costly.”
As a result, Hunt said, military
personnel often is quartered through
the frigid winters in temporary
metal and canvas housing! left
over from World War II.
Many officers and men are forced
to rent quarters,” he said. “The
rents are terrific and the accom
modations they get are terrible."
MURRAY ELECTED
CIO PRESIDENT
FOR 11TH TERM
CHICAGO, Nov. 24 — W) — Philip
Murray was reelected to his 11th
term as CIO President by acclama
tion today.
The action sent Murray into his
second decade as head of the na
tion’s second largest labor organiza
tion, claiming some 6,000,000 mem
bers.
A long and noisy demonstration
followed Murray's nomination by
President Jacob Potofsky of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers.
The election of officers was a
windup feature of the CIO’s 12th
national convention.
BARLOW-YON MINDEN
WEDDING IS EVENT
THANKSGIVING DAY
Thanksgiving Day was chosen for
their wedding day by Ivy Doris
Barlow and James B. Von Minden
who were married at one o’clock
yesterday afternoon in the Juneau
Hotel by Judge Gordon Gray, U.S.
Commissioner.
Attendants for the couple were
Joann Jean Talkington and P. W.
Talkington and Francille Godwin.
Following the marriage ceremony
friends attended a reception at
the home of the bride in the Ellln
bren apartments.
The' bridal couple and Mr. and
Mrs. Talkington later enjoyed a
dinner at Mike’s in Douglas.
Mrs. Von Minden is a member of
the staff of the California Grocery
and Mr. Von Minden is a driver for
the Glacier Cab Company. They
w ill make their home in the Ellin
yen Apartments.
GENERAL ASSAULT TO
END KOREAN WAR IS
MacARTHUR'S ORDERS
ALUMNI WINS ANNUAL
TUSSLE 37-35; FIRST
LEAGUE GAME NOV. 28
The Juneau High School cagers
lost the first game of the season
Wednesday night against the
Alumni by one free throw with the
final score at 37 to 36.
The Alumni broke the ice with
Tom Powers’ basket near the end
of the second of play. Scoring see
sawed during the entire game. Dur
ing the third quarter, Juneau High
worked a five point lead that was
closed by the end of the period.
Score at the end of the period was
Juneau High 26, Alumni 25. Each
team scored 12 points in this quar
ter.
The high school team was less ex
perienced than the alumnis who
have been playing the game for a
longer time. Overall, both teams
missed scoring chances with the
high school missing the rebounds.
The high school team showed a ten
dency of getting in a corner with
out being able to work out.
In the closing seconds of the
last quarter, Denny Merritt of the
Alumnis was fouled with his single
gift shot winning the game. Other
than the five point lead the high
school team had in the third quar
ter, neither team had more than a
two or three point gain at any time.
Herbie Martin and Elton Eng
strom, Jr., of the high school team
showed up as stars with Dudley
Smithberg starring for the Alumnis.
The high school band, cheer lead
ers and song leaders made theli
first appearance of the year.
In the preliminary game, thu
sophomore-junior team won over
the freshman team 24 to 21.
The first league game of the sea
son for the Gastineau Channel
League is scheduled for Tuesday,
November 28, in the Juneau High
School gymnasium. It will be a
double header with Juneau High vs
Arctics and Columbia Lumber vs
Imperials. First game time is 7:30.
Summary of Wednesday’s Game
Juneau High fg ft tp
Ninns . 3 17
Carlson . 2 15
Graves . 2 0 4
MacKinnon . 10 2
Wade . 10 2
Treffors . 0 0 0
Martin . 5 0 10
Engstrom . 3 0 6
Forrest . 0 0 0
Pegues . 0 0 0
Totals . 17 2 36
Alumni fg ft tp
Merritt . 113
Pasquan . 2 2 6
Rude . 2 15
Wilbur . 0 0 0
Forrest . 0 0 0
Hogins . 2 0 4
Powers . 2 15
Moore . 10 2
Smithburg . 4 0 8
Larson . 2 0 4
Totals . 16 5 37
• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 28; •
• minimum, 16. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 25; •
• minimum, 17. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) 9
• Mostly cloudy with occa- •
• slonal light snow tonight and •
• Saturday. Low temperature •
• tonight near 22. High Satur- •
• day about 26 degrees. CVca- •
• sional gusty northeasterly •
• winds. •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today •
• City of Juneau—0.10 Inches; •
• since Nov. 1 — 4.09 inches; •
• since July 1—33.12 Inches. •
• At Airport — 0.06 inches; •
• since Nov. 1 — 2.01 inches; •
• since July 1—23.06 Inches. •
• •••••••••a
BISHOP GORDON HERE
ENROCTE TO WRANGELL
Bishop William J. Gordon came
In to Juneau Wednesday from Sitka
by Alaska Coastal Airlines and left!
the same day for Wrangell. He is
making a visit to the Episcopal
churches in Southeast Alaska and
will go from Wrangell to Peters
burg. From the latter city Bishop
jordon will go Ketchikan and fly
ay Pan American Airways from An
nette Island direct to Fairbanks, his
headquarters.
(By the Associated Press)
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's United
Nations forces launched a general
assault today aimed at ending the
Korean war before Christmas.
Three Allied corps Jumped off in
freezing weather along an 80-mile
northwestern front. The first
thrusts carried up to eight miles.
This is one arm of a giant nut
cracker which MacArthur ordered,
to finish this off as quickly as
possible."
The other arm is in the northeast
where the South Korean Capital
Division smashed through "light in
effectual resistance" to within seven
miles of Chongjin, the last big Ko
rean city south of the Soviet fron
tier.
MacArthur at Front
MacArthur flew to the front to
see the offensive get off to a good
start. He said: “I hope to keep my
promise to the GI’s to have them
home by Christmas." He added:
"Tell the boys when they reach
the Yalu they are going home.”
That was the stuff the troops were
waiting for. They plowed ahead on
all fronts.
Western Offensive
In a special communique an
nouncing the western offensive.
MacArthur declared: "If successful,
this should for all practical pur
poses end the war, restore peace and
unity to Korea, enable the prompt
withdrawal of United Nations mili
tary forces, and permit the com
plete assumption by the Korean
people and nation of full sovereignty
and international equality.”
The US. Second and 25th Divi
sions and a Turkish Brigade imme
diately moved up to take over a
25-mlle sector in the middle of the
northwest line.
Northwest Push
The big northwest push began 48
to 60 miles south of the border.
The South Korean First Division
plowed ahead on the Taechon front,
reaching within seven miles of that
important Communist base.
The Allied offensive, accompanied
by strong air support, met only
weak opposition at first.
MacArthur said new Red armies
had Joined an estimated 100,000 Ko
reans in the fighting. The U.S.
Seventh Marine Regiment ran into
a fresh division of Chinese Reds—
the 89th—on the north-central
front. Previously the regiment had
been lightly opposed in its march
to envelop the Changjln reservoir.
The all-out push to end the war
:ame as activity stepped up on the
diplomatic front and following a
strange battlefront lull during
which Tokyo was astir with peace
rumors.
SOME CONFUSION
BUT JUNEAU ENJOYS
THANKSGIVING DAY
Juneau awakened yesterday morn
ing to find a mantle of snow over
the city and countryside for an un
expected white Thanksgiving Day.
The new snow was a delight to the
youngsters but the gusty winds
which came along in mid-morning
were not so welcome.
To add to the confusion the power
on the Alaska-Juneau line was
turned off for 45 minutes at 10
o’clock in the morning. Salt spray
on the insulators was the cause of
the trouble and the power off order
was necessary while workmen re
paired the damage, A-J officials
explained today.
For a little while housewives
looked over their pantries somewhat
frantically to determine what they
could do with sandwiches in place
of the turkeys already in or ready
for ovens.
However, all turned out well and
families got away in time for church
services and all churches had a good
attendance.
The church services and dinner
parties for families and their friends
were the events of the day with
visiting and quiet entertainment in
the homes.
ON CALIFORNIA VISIT
Irv Curtis, Juneau public account
ant. Mrs. Curtis and their young
son, Mark, are on their way to.
California on a visit. They left Ju
neau Wednesday by Pan American
Airways and will go to Tulare in the
central part of the southern state,
to visit with Mrs. Curtis’ parents.
Mr. Curtis plans to return about
December 1 and his wife and son
will remain in Tulare for several
weeks.