Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 1

INDEX A a A A WEATtlER Today Mild Bailing Favorable Yesterday's High 66 Low SI Sunrise 7:16 am Set 1:46 pm lliNinrlw 4:56 pm Set 6:53 am High Tide 4:15 in Iow 8:27 am VOLUME NUMBER 287 PaSIMi avan Mara IT Ma Cajrfiawa eusurtu CORPUS CHRIST! TEXAS SATURDAY MORNING DEC 23 1950 han a mol 'aaa m-i-rui al fca i-t affira al Corpus CbrlaU Ttaa aadar Iha Ad al March I IITI Twrnty-Four Tagra TRICE FIVE CENTS COST OF LIVING INDEX RISES TO RECORD HIGH Gen Walker Killed In Jeep Accident Freezes Pay of Million Auto Workers Full Study of Price-Profit Stains Planned WASHINGTON Dec 22 The government froze the wages of more than 1 million workers in the automobile industry today until March 1 1931 pending a -full dress study of the industry's wage-prire-profit situation The ordir was issued by Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine just six days after he ordered auto companies to roll back prices on their 1951 models to the Dec 1 level It camel shortly after Chrysler Corp notified thp government it following lh lead of General Mn- WASHINGTON Dee 22 (AP)-The cost of living rose another 05 percent to a new alllime high between Oct 15 and Nov 15 the Bureau of Labor Statistics re ported today The cost of living index reached 1756 percent of the 1935-39 average on Nov 15 That was 32 percent higher than the index of last June prior to the Korean fighting and 42 percent above a year ago It was 317 percent higher than June 1946 when OPA price controls were lifted The prospect of further rises in the index arose during the day as the bureau reported that wholesale prices set a new high record during the week ended Dec 19 for the fourth week in a row The index of wholesale prices rose to 1747 percent of the 1926 average 113 percent above the May 21-Junc 24svrragc and 12 percent above the levels of Dec 5 FRIENDS IX REITON 1IA1) JUST sent general yuih greetings irnTON Dec S2 API-Only lortay friends of Lt On Walton II Walker's home tuwn M-iit him a greeting Tin- news id In death in a Jeep accident in Korea struck llirm like it lilmv Tticv tit-l him thi-ir ilimmhu nod pniycrs were with him aiii said IiiiI llic rtri-oiiiilisliiiii'iits and sacrifices Of yoin If mil ncii iiap In to tin- world a new lioie for ill 4 Wilkrr HI whs Imiiii iii itc-imi Ills uiotlicr Mi Walker imw inoie tlun HI) live liri'C Gen Ridgway Is Named Bill Army Commander TOKYO Saturday Dec 23 (AD-Lt Gen Walton 11 Walker commander of llu IJ Eighth Army in Korea was killed today in the collision of Ids jeep and a truck while lie -i on his way to the front The li-acic death id the brilliant 61-year-old general ranie al a lime when Chinese Communist hordes massed at the Parallel for a hig offensive against lus Eighih Army The aceidenl was similar to that of tin late Gen George paltnn from whom Walker learned lank tactics (Sen ration' died of car wreck iitjunes in lier-nany MurArthtir Shucked Gen IVniglsa Mac Arthur said was "prafuimrily shocked'' and dlMt'liued he Just had recommend-ed Walker fur promotion to the rank of full general This was in recognition of his brilliance In: Holding the rusan beachhead In the early daya war 3 Directing the offensive which Korea crushed Uie North Korean Arinyl A Eighth Army briefing Chinese For TOKYO Satin day per 33 of tlw Koiean' A lug Chinese rnnimiimst drive on Seoul appeared imminent today In Korea Reds Massing Drive on Seoul iP-iany large altacks Kit'lay Cwncr-I For Ihe second lime tn not quit based planes mauled 13 enemy sx months North Korean Red troop cwurnlialNwn ''with sn eili- tnuis were smith of Um Ullh mated several hundred i-sMinllies" sllel and difting Inward Seoul ieiiltiiig Gen Mae Arthur's headipwrleni But every new report Indirated Friday suggested "that I ho a Iha Chinese weie getting Into post--era wei Chines Communist tlon on the western front for lh forces hut his censorship division same type of sledge-hammer of-would not pass a story ssying Chi-fenslve which forced Ihe oulnum-mes soldiers hHi crossed Ilia old he red It 8 Eight Army to re-jlsiundary between North and South treat more than 130 miles begin- Korea 27 Turn In Page 13 Column 3 all the wayiollner SHid Unties Ifed Troops border isnd artillery weie repmtrd by skillful maneu-South Korean amin-e to he Eighth Army mg along th 38th parallel only 38 by Chinese miles nuith id the Republic's and pulled ilal th 38th I'ar-j Earlier Oen Dmiglaa MaeAr- nmg Nov and sent one UN unit to the Manchtinsn (3) A painful Init mass-ver by which the avoided a death trap cap-hordes in Novenher back 120 nulea lo 9f1- thur's headquarters said the Chin- MacArthur' headquarters an-Me were moving steadily smith notmred lh trsglc accidental WRri miliraling an "intention to death of the Korean Army leader repent their late November otfen-after th widow who In Toko- VIVP tri and Ford by yielding to Uie order Valentine's order specified that tin auto company may pay wages higher than tho provided for In tlia existing eontrarts But thia left tho door open foe wage Inereane tamed on the Bureau of Ijibor Sta-tudlca coal of living Index Cut Kalne Dee The aulo workeia got their last raise under the an-r ailed "escalator rUuaea" on Dee 1 It waa based on the Index for Ort IS and ammmted to threa rents an hour Their next raise te due March 1 if tha index continues to rise If it should fall they would tako a cut Besides union members the frees applied to exerutivea and salaried workers who are not covered by wag contracts but have rerelved bonuses when members of the CIO United Auto Workers were given wage Increases Tha wage fraese waa inevitable ainre tha Defense Production Act provides that wages must be fro-an In any Industry whoa prices arc fmren first Control It meant that tha automobile In dnstry became tha fir at to he brought under complete wage-price rontrol But It was expected that basle Industries Including steal and imnferroua producers also would bo put under wage-p i a ceilings Valentino said petitions for ehsngea In tha wage regulation may ha filed with his office Ils had sent the samo notice to the auto makers when ha frosc their prices Besides Iha auto wags order th government is studying contrail either mandatory or voluntary-over meat crude oil and scrap steel Another sweeping proposal In th drafting stag would Impose voluntary wags controls over all non-farm workers fife 0 Chrysler Awarded $160 Million Tank Contract by Army 5 A hnma had been notified Chrlslmna Greelln Walker's last public statement waa a message of Christmas greeting tn hla men Th Christmas wish of th fighting commander of th Eighth Army wer released by head-quartern Just aa news of Walkers untimely death wa reported MacArthur' headquarters announced Walker waa killed when hla Jeep was hit by a truck Walker was on hi way to the front line Ridgway Named gurresaor MacArthur' headquarter an-nminred lt Gen Matthew North Knrnan npearheada already were attacking lh CN de fen I in position south of the parallel Ill Air Force Victory Th A Air Force which has been daily attacking troop concentrations and supply linen scored its biggest air victory of th war Friday far to th north Eight tr Ruhr Jets destroyed six itussian-mad MUMS Jala in a fight wilh 13 to 23 MIGs Tli Jets ronaidered th world's fastest operational fighters reported no Ioann In lh fight which raged from tree-lop level to six mdra VJ? AC1IFSON AT Secretary of State Dean Acheson at the Capitol for closed ference Secretary of staff and Knowland (AP Wirephoto) DETROIT Dec 21 Chrysler Corp today was awarded the biggest tank building contract since V-J Day as the auto industry geared to'resume its wartime "arsenal of democracy" role Chrysler top World War II tank producer received a million "preliminary" order to make medium tanks al a giant new arsenal to be constructed at Newark Del ACHESON REPORT Only hours earlier General Mo-1 sion at Pontiac Mich announced rcrriptl) truck and coach division Ridgway lias born appointed new piar near tli northwest Korean commanding general of th border cly of Smuiju Eighth Army succeeding Walker Chine believed to hav Ridgway bow serving In th committed on million men to the offir of th deputy chief of staff Korean fronts appear lo hava turn-formerly was commanding general over to North Koieana the task of th R2nd Airborne Division of asaalilting th email UN bench-During World War II he was head around llimgnain in north commanding general of th 18th east Koraa Two altarka Airhoma Corps (n Europe Ha I a gradual of the Mditary Academy class of 1917 Friday wer repulsed Krparfs Indlcal Attack A naval aiimmary today said To Keep Dumroscli Die al 88 of a (I million contract to turn I out vehicle" tlia GM division will mak S'i-ton trucks Tin rapid-fire defense orders Is-befui sued by the Ordnance fiepsrt-dswn merit's Detroit Arsenal tank and Isulonintlva center brought total dr fens onlers to motor vehicle heavy cruisers destroyers and ra-! producers to nuna titan a half-ptd-flrlng rocket ships prevented lull im dollnra Civil Defense Bill Passed By Senate WASHINGTON Dc 22 A rlvil drfens bill drawing th pattern for cooperaUvo effort by atatea town and citizen In th event of enemy attack cleared th Senate today by a vole vote In cans of a bombing or evidence of an Imminent assault th administrator of th contemplated 31 billion program could awing Ills decorations Include two Distinguished Service Crosses two Turn to Pug It f'oliimn Sth North Koreans from mmuiMng Partly Cloudy Mild Forecast Today's mild clmidy to partly cloudy weather should Ideal for last-minuta Christmas shoppers tha federal forecaster Mid last night highest temperature should be To tonight' low 37 and tomorrow's high 72 Railing will ba favorabi too Forces Abroad WASHINGTON Dec 22 (AP) Secretary of State Achcson caid today President Truman's top advisory council has rejected as "catastrophic" any policy of pulling American defenses back to the Western Hemisphere This was reply to former President Herbert 1 1- LaHaJaaiii Mllfltf lliaf fltA! in brnadeast Wednesday nicht that the HOME FOR CHRISTMAS NEW YORK Dee 22 (AP)-Wst-irr Damrosch 88 noted conduc tor and composer died tonight A heart attack ended his life Its was alone In hla threa-story brownstnnn horn east of Central Park except for some of tha household help Tli white-haired German-bom musician retired In 1926 but came bark a year later to begin a new carepr of bringing music to school and homes vu radio He quit for good in 1347 with Ent lira Other Today'a orders followed within 'wo weeks announcement that 'itilrk would make tank drive in Flint Mich and Kamer-Kraser was irgotiating tor an Air Force con-'rset tn make cargo planes al Wil-ow Run PrevlmiNly Cadillac received a "imtrart to build light tanka at a Cleveland plant and Font got orders to mass B-38 bomber engines at the former Tucker plant 'n Truman Says Ready for Crisis East lo southeasterly winds of 10 lirtf(V a nt0 clon wtraordmary to 20 miles an hour will blow But! Hoo'er who urged in inrlikllng the right to aeiz bring no rain in I United States make this hemisphere into a Gibraltar with defense lines extending from Bri- private property Industry officials eoncemed11'" humoroiw quip that he might Inti A aiklMaliaab IdlAM later KANRAR CITY Dec 22 at President Truman said tonight the by a He rnulil designate critics! target areas In whirh ths federal and stata governments could share tha expense of building bomb shelter House Hill The IIihim has passed rlvtl defense legislation of He own differing from the Renat bill In several particulars Tha House however has no business scheduled Christ-mu week so final action on a compromise will not he possible before an unusual holiday session set for New Year's Day Leaden however wera hopeful $33 Billion Profits Tax Passed by Senate WARHINGTON Dee 22 (AP)- Tha Renat acted promptly after A new 38 billion tax on corpora-1 a House-Brnat confcrenca commit-ttons Imposing a 77 percent tc had agreed unanimously on cess profits" tax paased tha Ren- final terms of Iha legislation lo by a voles vota today Besides providing money for At tha current level of national guna and ammunition tha bill la torom It would boost tha gov- Intended to curb "profiteering" eminent' tax taka to tha hlgheatlaklm off profit stem-dollar level In history Aimed at'mlng from defense spending and tain to Japan Hoover also declared this country should send no more troop or dollars to Europa until Western European countries themselves hava built huge smile as a dam against th Red without mentioning Hoover by name Acheson told a new conference that uch a policy would mean the "quick conquest" of all Europe and Asia by Russia' Red armies Rejected Walt Fellcy have rejected any policy of sitting quivering in a storm cellar waiting for whatever fate other may devise for he said emphatically He Mid the National Berurity Council had considered tha Me of try comeback Pamrowh came to tho United States with hla father also a musician in 1871 and first gained attention Id years later aa conductor of th Newark llarmonlo Society At the aga of 23 In 1888 ho became manager of th Metropolitan Opera Co poet held by hla fatJier Leopold who diod audit! nly Damrosch ones Mid In on Interview that his radio work In bio later Ilfs gsvo him tho greatest satisfaction of his tarear Mora than 7 million school children and adults listened regularly to them a Masonic dinner attended number of political leaders 'trarts since the Korean war be' American people "are in excellent from both parties illrvcd that the GM and Chrysler shape" to meet the world crisis I jt expressed disagreement with announcements would start a new and predicted that th crlsle will Roy Roberta prealdmt of th Kan- ln0? "lMd- '-ov 'SlTKWl CMM commanding officer of the Detroit Arsenal sanl ths Chrysler dc rcgaiiled as only a preliminary contract to pave the way for a of ranks In th Interest of nat- output Ihe future" tonal unity I iqiryaer in World War II built "It is my opinion that tha conn-lh Detroit Arsenal which now is try Is not confused" Mr Trttman operated by the Ordnance Depart-sold "Th country has been am-lment as the only place In the Haply advised aa to what Is going on I tlln where tanka are rolling off I think It Is the eonf users Roy 1 that are confused not tha country or the Without Identifying th "con-fusers'' the President ronllntied: I'Chriatmaa spoke extemporaneous Ends Gty Hike Request The Chrysler Corp will start Turn to Page 11 Column's Turn to Page 12 Cnliima tha Inflation spiral It dees: 77 percent tax on Phone Hearing Studies Rate A 12-hour public hearing on'stantlate a contention that when flouthweitern Bell Telephone Com-1 the telephone company asked and pany'a request for a local rate'gnt its last rat boost hare in rolroactiva to Ju withdrawing to tha Western llcml- P1 sphere several times tha last that exceed R8time "quite recently" and always corporation's average! farted unanimously Th eoun- helping the nation to prepara to resist Communist aggression tha enmpromlM MU puts the annual lax load at l3 billion or more a year-well above the record 843 World Final congressional action can-' not come before Jan 1 because by tha tlma tha Renata approved! War XI eacasa compromise House had 181 percent to hold down Hers la what Imposes a "exreaa profits'' m-iiAiITV I 1W0 tllion collected In 1B45 during nu as earnings Iforld War XI percent of a profits tor tne from 1348 through i promise ui House nsa uB peremt uiree dcbi years a compose) 1349 The Work! Vra president id of the President secretaries of de-wufcnse and state and th chairman lof th National Becurtty Resources profita levy adjourned over Christmas wtthl I Boosto the top tax Board only token scsalona Mheduled next on corporation profits from 43 per Acheson was reported to have week Turn to Pago It Coliim 1) Turn to Pago 11 Cotama Home for Aged Burns 10 Die AMARILLO Dec 22 Ten aged and bedfast pa tients burned to death today at the Walker Convalescent Home nthc worst (ire tragedy in the Panhandle's history Hours after the blaze first swept through the old Army family barracks that housed them rescue workers toiled in dark Inesa to dig out their bodies Flames still flickered in thB American all ths to has Jan 1 to need ws earn to BI-lIES IN CITY HALL ELEVATOR The American people understand ths situation Tho penpl art willing lo maka sacrifices that ars necessary meet th situation with which aro tha situation which been accumulating sines 134S on a gradual basis "Wt ars In excellent ship meet that situation All now Is tlm and that is what ars fighting Gay Spirit Earlier today Mr Truman bom to nearby Independence spend Christmas at his hearth Sti'BLffSfftS Injured Thirty-seven patient wera hRht Jo put out th fir and r0-saved Most wer taken to SL An- family horn on Delaware Strsel In festive ChriilmM trappings 1333 tha next year return on Investment exceeded tha amount th company had predicted on tho basis of ths rata hike ha asked Perry "tho company's rate of return on Investment prediction was 38 percent too high wasn't it?" Perry quickly countered that tho elament of error always must be taken Into arcount that tho pro-d'ctlnn under advera economic condition could have been too low Aka Refund William then nuked If Routh-western Bell got Its requested rat Turn to Pag 18 Cirinmn AH Day Juan Took Yule Cheer Up and Down But He Got None increase ended at 1:30 yesterday City Council took tho iaeuo under advisement Marked by court-Uko presentation of testimony by a battery of telephone company experts and croM-examinatton by Houston rat expert Clinton Owsley and City MMager Collier for the city tha hearing took an unusual twist In Its waning momenta Th got a crack at th telephone company witnesses The public In thia Instance cam forward tn th form of local attorn vs Ed Williams Jack Pedigo Wiliam Rhlreman and Jack Blackmon with ladlgo and WlUlama crow-examining phone company witness! Rhlreman directed hie comment et City Council urging It member to try to find Bell' "taking" prlr when granting th company rat Increasn rather than give them their higher "aaking'' price Hava led Beast High Williams and Pedigo rose-examined Henry Perry of Dallas chief supervising accountant and Elgar of DsIIm rat engineer both of Routhweetam Bell In questioning Perry Wiliams ttamptad to daeslop fasts to Th weather was not sugReatlv of tha usual Missouri yuls season Thera waa nans of th mow through which th thony's Hospital her for obeerva tiim and temporary car Three of th ten who died trap ped In th barrack wars Hind Torrrsola'0 Willow Freni Without Bail NEW YORK Dm 28 (AP)- plan took off at I o'elnek tht only four persons managed to at Now Juan doe not appreciate such tatomentalt la not hla fault the elevator rises aa slowly aa rain clouds Rather and descends Ilka a plump woman onto an an-tiqua chair City hall wa not rid of all tho men in doubts breasted sulls before crowd of women and children pressed to tha elovator door lie of pol policemen they were By JOHN ANDERSON Juan Ftora la not a sullen man but th Chrlslmu spirit wu not in him yosterday Hardly had ho gono to work guiding tho city hall elovator up and down when all tho pcoplo on tho second Root left tho publle hearing They wanted to go out on tha atroet They busied insistently when tha afternoon from Washington The Mrs Carmine Torrasnls widow of' lawn at Ut IJttl Whit House Grtadllo Tomanta Puerto Rican wss brown Th temperature wu gunman slain In ths Nov 1 at- Riviera near sn degrees Mr Taylor 87 of Amarillo th visitor who wu bumod about tho facs hands and arm told how she groped to aaloty through flames and amok "I was In ths room with my stepmother (Mrs Vinson) said mw sums smoko coming out of th air vent tried to get my stepmother nit hut fainted and ton when I -egained eonartouancM tha mam ws fidl of smoko and II aaomod Iks Um building SflaaMb I IWt ilong th wall to find a wry IBs to Pag Cal ha does not want them to ahake th safety gato across th olova tor or grab hla stool from under him or Jostls him In tho bock And that Is what those children did Moreover aa they went to th second floor their daddies ramo from lh third to meat them One again mid at Uio angry buulngs Juan hoard derogatory statement about th elevator Aye on at least one occasion there was mentioned doubts about lh vehicle's ancestry Meanwhile there wen gtil gif Ihri to raaa li (Mm I At dusk som 75 rhlldren gathered outside ths Iran railing al ths Truman home They hailn't been tempt on President Truman's Ilf was freed without hail today Rho had been held tor days cap Ut building Other Flea Tho (tame swept from th big barracks along a covered msmr-way to soother dormitory But patients hers had time to tie Th home Is In th unincorporated suburb of rieasanl Valley northeast of her Xeirk of water mains hampered ths hundreds who throw thmsutvos tote tho dogged elevator lumbered downward and' going to a party In tha Mmo place first In 180000 hall and Uwn In there long when th President 12000 os a auopectcd member of walked out of ths houM and down a conspiracy against tha Proat- to tho tone wbenca eama th men Even then Juan wu not too perturbed for ho doe not dlallko youaptara Yot on tho other hand back to pick them up Tho more Impatient ones Mid "Lot's walk downstair It'a faster than that Tan to Pago 18.