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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-23

 HOLDS HOPE
 SAFE WORLD

INDEPENDENCE, Mo, Dec. 23-- R-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 dress-suit banquet after flying out of 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 is nothing like coming home" he Said with obvious feel ing.
 MT. Truman spent the night here in his hometown where some 75 youngsters waiting outside the tenn porary White House lured him, coatless, to his first impromptu speech of the day.
 q 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 we'll known fond father, but the Presi- dent developed it 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 Americans, who, he said are pre- sently confused about the world outlook
 q think it is the confusers who are confused, Roy, not the country or the people," the President said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-23
The W ashington Merry to Round
Copyright, l8so, by Bell Syndicate. Incl
 By DREW PEARSON
(Ed. NOte-Drew PearsOn's col umn today takes the form of letter to his daughter, Mrs. Geo. rge L. Arnold of Los Angeles).
WASHINGTON, Dec. IA '5'

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 '5o Dear Daughter:
 Well, you have made your father a grandpa again
 It begins to make me feel little old. Of course, we are only as old as we feel, but today I confess to feeling quite little older and a bit discouraged-disc 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
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WALKER IS KILLED ON
 WAR FRONT
Commander Eighth Army Dies when Jeep Crashes
 Headon Into Truck
By WILLIAM J. WAUGH

SEOUL, Dec. 23-IR-Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, US. Eighth Army commander, was killed almost instantly in a head-on collision of his jeep and a truck.
 Walker, fighting protege of the late George s. Patton, Jr., died while enroute to the western Korea front where his forces are bracine against a threatening new Chinese Red attack.
 General Macarthur immediately announced the selection of It. 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 operations in World War II. He planned the first large US. airborne assault the 1943 attack on Sicily, ane 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 yer sions of the fatal jeep smashup and the moment of Walkers death.
 The first official army version was given out to his stunned staff of- ficers who were called into what some thought would be routine briefing or a hearing of the Gen. erals Christmas message to his troops.
 The staff was called to order by Maj. Gen. Leven c. Allen who told the officers:
 q have a shocking statement tc make. General Walker was virtually instantly killed at Il this morning when his jeep collided head-on witf a truck"
 Combat Son Meet
 Several high ranking officers mei his son, Captain Sam Sims Walker 25, when he reached Seoul. Ont
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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. q twinkle-eyed Santa welcomes the customers. in the second, he well comes the town; and in the third he is taking off astride a large pep permint candy cane, q bit bleary- eyed but still gay with a glass Of beer in hand.
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WRECkAGE OF PLANE CRASH ISL.0(ATED
CP AirIiner with 18Aboard His Peak in B. c.
 Five Persons Sighted

VANCOUVER, B.C.. Dec. 23-iR- 4 Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-3 which disappeared yesterday with l8 passengers and crew members aboard was found today high on $500 foot Mt. Ckanagan 20 miles north of Penticton, B.C. Five per- sons were sighted around the wreck age.
 The airliner was located before dawn 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 it's first stop at Penticton.
 A ground party, including C.P.A search directors and R.C.MP 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 18( miles east of here.
 Ten of the IS passengers were women.
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REDS MASS, READY FOR
 ATTACKING
More Chinese Commies Enter Conflict from Man.
 lhuria = New Chief
(By the Associated Press,

The US. Eighth Army in Korea, it's masterful fighting commander dead, looked today for the unleash ing of bloody Christmas offensive by menacing masses of Chinese Communists.
 It. 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 ill jeep accident.
 The 61-year-old Texan. an under study of Gen. George s. Patton when he led the Third Arnly's 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
 It. 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 JUN. 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 &C., celerated reinforcement and re- supply are all indicative of an irn- pending enemy offensive for which sufficient mass now is available"
 He .id four more Chinese Army LT>lps. 64.000 or more men, had crossed into Korea from Manchuria
 The latest probings were near Chongye. 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 biggest jet battle of the war
 Eight US. Sabres challenged Is to 25 of the Russian-made jets just on the Korean side of the border near the mouth of the Yalu river and shot down six of the enemy with no loss or damage of their own A seventh enemy jet was crippled in the 20-minute battle.
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OPEN HOUSE DEC. 27
 AT WINFIELD HOME

Open house will be held at the Winfield Home on Lena Point Wednesday, December 27, between the hours of l to 4 pm. and to 9 pm., it was made known today. All friends of the Home are invited by MT. and Mrs. Peter J. Nickel, who own and operate the home for children and who will be hosts for the occasion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-23
GIANT LIGHTED
 TREE VEINS FIRST
 PRIZE FOR ED DICK

Ed Dicks carefully done spirally lighted tree on Evergreen Drive won first prize in the outdoor Christmas 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 Woods 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 Parsons Electric Co. A Santa mask with cotton batting beard grins at passers by while 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 Bowling 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. 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 Polley's brightly de- corated archway over the gate car ries evergreen branches and bright lights and 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 Beck Apartments has a large display of lights in rectangular shape and centered with a large blue star It can be seen from afar
 Jack Clark's outside trees with ligIts and trinkets and lights around the door were gay and bright. His residence is at 71S Fourth Street.
 The Day Apartments on Seventh Street. has two lighted outside l trees.
 Walter Stutte and James Ormes high tree on Tenth Street is bril- liantly lighted almost to the bot tom.
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STEAMER kOvEMENTS

Freighter Palisana scheduled to arrive Monday at 1 am.
 Denali from Seattle scheduled to arrive 5 pm. Monday
 Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver December 30.
 Baranof from west scheduled to arrive at 1:30 pm Sunday. south bound.
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Candles For Decoration

Three electric candles in a win dow box bed of greenery and the box bordered with lights were at Sid Thompsons Tenth Street resi- ence.
 Harry Stonehouses home at 51S Twelfth Street was blaze of colored lights with borders around the doo- and two large front Win dows.
 Ernie Parsons has large yard tree that is thickly and colorfully lighted.
 The Home Hotel, owned by John Kiennedy on Gastineau Avenue, has large natural tree with many lightes showing on the Channel side and can be seen from all over the 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, all electric candle and wreath or stars.
 A especially attractive outdoor display is that of Leslie R. Hogins. A porch fireplace has simulated fire created by a red spotlight thrown on a red silk handkerchief that waved like natural flame from a draft. Above it were small cut logs. Above the fireplace were filled children's stockings and be- side it was completely decorated Christmas tree. Colored lights showed softly through glass bricks to spell out Merry Christmas" on the north side of the house. The porch 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.
 Mayors Light Stolen
 Mayor Waino Hendrickson's yard tree had one string of lights on it's top with a sign below Please Return Lights" written for the mean thief who stole the other four strings 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 Tenth Street.
 Ed Skaret at 837 Tenth St. has attractive border lights around his porch.
 Thomas McIvor of the U. s. Coast Guard at 181 Behrends Ave. participated with some bright porch lights.
 Even Booker T. Chandler who
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The ideal Christmas tree is the fir, because of its tendency to hold its needles longer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-23
FROM PELICAN

MT. and Mrs. M. w. Soule of Pelican are at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-23

FROM WHITEHORSE Norman Nissen of Whitehorse is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
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M s s s @ z & z

Alaska Coastal planes in lieu of his reindeer.
 The Capitol Theatres tremen- dous lighted wreath high over it's marquee was listed for honorable mention.
 The Juneau Bakery's window with whole village of gingerbread houses. a lighted church and Christmas tree.
 Lots of Christmas Trees
 Thomas Hardware's window with streamers of tinsel, garlands of greens and a F 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, nativity scene beneath large star of Bethlehem. placed this window on Third on 1 the honor role.
 Farwest Cab Company had Q l beautifully lighted tree, Chris' .nas streamers, icicles and s'-owflakes in it's window.
 Jack Burfords Santa Claus and sleigh, Christmas tree and carolers and candy canes won him honorable mention.
 The little family in miniature living room beneath Christmas tree won honors for Jacobson's Up- holstery on South Franklin.
 t A Walk Thru Town
 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 towns decorations.
 First, the blue lighted tree on top of the Barahof marquee. -------------------
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-23
WEATHER REPORT

WEA nEh hEiOhl } Temperatures for 24-Hour Period } ending $40 o'clock this morning At Juneau-Maximum, 38; minimum, 31. At Airport-Maximum, 36; minimum, 28. F O R E c A S T Duncan and Vicinity } Cloudy with snow or rain to- night. Lowest temperature } near 32. Mostly cloudy Sum- } day with an occasional rain } shower. Highest afternoon temperature near 37. P R E CIPIT TION tPast 24 hours ending 7:3o am. today City of Juneau Trace; since Dec. 1 - 3O6 inches; since July 1-36.30 inches. At Airport = 0.01 inches; since Dec. = 222 inches; } since July 1-25.34 inches.
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-30
Rockville Post
American Legion
To Dance Dec. 9

All you guys and gals" who
like TO dance-take note. Here is
your chance to kick up your heels
and start the approaching Christ
mas festivities with a bang!
Clyde Washburn, chairman of
the committee on arrangements,
has announced that the Rockville
American Legion Post No. sc will
hold dance at the Bethesda Wom-
ans Club on Saturday, December
8, beginning at $3.50. There will be
a door prize for some lucky
dancer, and refreshments will be
served. Phil Loria and his orches-
ira will furnish the music and adj
mission will be $1.80 including tax.
A group of young World War
II veterans, anxious to reactiyate
the Rockville Post have outlined a
splendid program of activities for
the group. Any veteran who is in
terested in becoming a member is
invited to attend the meetings and
in the work of the post.
r. G. Slater is post commander
and Theodore Norcross is adjutant.
The next meeting of the post will
be held on Thursday, December 7,
at which time new officers will
be elected.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-30

ell members. Mrs. Dorothy Him
stead, member of the retiring Coun-
Gil, wore a corsage of yellow rose
buds, the gift of her fellow Council
men.
Following adjournment for lunch
the governing body met and elected
J. Louis Monarch, Silver Spring
attorney, president; Lathrop E.
Smith, farmer and civic leader,
vice president; Mrs. Kathryn Law
lor, also an attorney, secretary.
Other members Of the new Coun-
Gil are; Grover Walker, prominent
Gaithersburg dairyman; Mrs. Stel-
la Werner, radio commentator and
newspaper columnist; George F..
Nesbitt, Sandy Spring insurance
executive and bank director; and
Harold F. Hammond, manager of
Transportation for the us. Cham
Der of Commerce. Mr.. Hammond
is the only member of the former
Council 10 run for a second term.
He was appointed several months
ago to take the place of DR.. Lewis
Merriam of Kensington, who re-
signed. With the exception of Mrs.
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-30
Christmas Seals Now
On Sale Thru County;
Program On WGAY

christmas Seal headquarters is
beehive of activity, according
to William F. Carl, Christmas Seal
Chairman for Montgomery County,
where he said about $12,7O0 had
been taken in during the first
week and half of the annual
Christmas Seal Sale.
Mrs. African l. Mooradian, newly
employed in the occupational ther-
apy program of the tuberculosis
Association for homebound tuber-
culosis patients, will explain this
developing Christmas Seal service
TO the listeners of WGAY on Fri
day at 1900 noon over Ernie Tan
mems Community Reporter pro-
gram.
Sunday, December 3, has been
proclaimed christmas Seal Sun
day" by Governor William Pres
ton Lane, Jr., and~ the clergy Of
Montgomery County have been
asked to observe this occasion.
Christmas Seal Day will be observ-
ed in many Montgomery County
schools on Thursday, December Z,
when commemorative double bar
red cross" pins will be distributed.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-30
New County Council Elects
Silver Spring Man Leader

Amid the usual fanfare of bou-
quets, posing for pictures, flash
ing of bulbs, greetings from well
wishers and knowing smiles from
members of the retiring Council,
the County Council elected in No
vember to serve as the second one
under the Charter form of govern
ment, was this week sworn in by
Clayton X. Watkins, Clerk of the
Circuit Court.
About seventy persons crowded
into the Clerks Office on the Sec
ond floor of the Courthouse in Rock
vile just before noon on Tuesday
to see the county heads receive
their commissions which had been
signed by Gov. Lane and speeded TO
Rockville on Monday from Balti-
more. The oath administered was
the age-old one in which the "do
you believe in God?" is emphasized.
There was huge basket Of flowers
from the Charter Committee, two
baskets of blossoms from their
Democratic friends for the two
Democratic members Of the Coun-
ell, orchid corsages for the ladies,
and boutonniere for the male Coun-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-30

The giant flashes of Tightening
are thought to have caused an ex-
plosion at the Bethesda power
sub-station which BACKED out the
homes of thousands of residents in
the Gaithersburg- Norbeck- Rock
vile area as well as the lower end
of the county. From $50 Saturday
morning until nearly in the after
noon the homes were without heat,
light or cooking facilities while
Emergency crews fought the win
tiers icyEblasts to bring electricity
sb& Z; int5sthe. area. Then just when
residents had put away their
efndles and gotten comfortably
warm - the lights went out
again. This time the power was
shut off fof a patching job to make
sure of more reliable power than
the makeship arrangements of the
earlier part of the day.
In the Court House most offices
were closed. A small amount of
heat was maintained by hand fir
ing, but the office machines were
without power.l All gas stations
in the town of Rockville were af-
fected by the power failure as the
gasoline pumps are run by electric
ity. However at Viers Mill Station
motorists flocked from Bethesda
and Rockville to buy gasoline. The
area there was not affected by the
blackout.
A portable power generator,
manned by Robert Dronenburg, fed
current to auxiliary batteries of
the C. & P. Telephone Co., Rock
vile, during the period of electric
current failure for several hours
on Saturday. Mr.. Dronenburg
stood by with the portable unit on
Sunday when the current failed
again. The generator was furn-
ished by Rockville Motor Com
pany.
The 100000 Potomac Electric
Power Co. Satisfaction in Bethesda
was blasted by an explosion early
Saturday morning, causing one Of
the most extensive power Interrupt
tions in the company's recent his
tory. The main force of the blast
tore out large top section of the
16-inch brick wall at the rear,
hurting bricks and glass more than
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-30
Xmas In The Air!

BY the first of the week resi-
dents of Rockville, and those
passing through the town, won't
stand a chance of forgetting
that Santa is breathing down
their necks," for by that time
December in Rockville" will
be at it's height. Streets will be
lined with glittering lights; the
huge tree on the Courthouse
lawn is awaiting the click of
switch; the beautiful new Ford
to be awarded lucky person,
is perched on the lawn of the
old Courthouse wearing a most
luizzical expressions; local mer-
chants are offering a complete
line of Christmas merchandise,
as well as Opportunity Days"
in which customers may take
advantage of additional savings.
And it looks like snow!
Christmas is in the air!
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-30
Retiring Council
Clears Roster
For Incoming

In its last actions before turn
ing the government of the County
over TO its successors, the first
County Council to be elected under
the charter form of government
approved appointments of Thomas
h. Hardesty, Jr., Bethesda, to the
police force and Glenys Adee
Weakley, Silver Spring, as a po-
licewoman to guard school cross
ings.
Frederick P. Lee, president,
thanked the other council members
for their "faithfulness and devo-
tion to their jobs"
"All your decisions" he said,
"have been non-political and per-
fectly unselfsh, guided only by
sense of what was in the public
interest"
He and the other council men,
bers then adjourned to complete
their twenty-five months of service
and accompanied the new council
members to Mr.. Watkins office for
the swearing-in ceremonies. The
new council will serve four years.
Members of the first council be-
sides Mr.. Lee we're: Mrs. Dorothy
Himstead, Augustus W. Selby, P.
G. Lyon, Douglas Bradshaw, Har-
old F. Hammond, and Thomas C.
Kelley.