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Santa Rosa lEMOCIUT SANTA ROSA Overcast night and i JnlJCi morning with ff ftial Bsitue afternoon today afd torncmiN change in temieAturl, Fair With Fog In Ukiah Today UKI AH Generally fair today and tomorrow except "for fog and low clouds night and morning. Little change in temperature. Temperatures (past 24 hours up to 5 p. high, 63, low, 38; Rain in inches (past 24 hours up to 5 p. none; seasonal total, 21.64; seasonal total this date last year, 5.17.

84TH YEARNO. 502 SECTIONS 24 PAGES Temperatures (past 24 nours up to 5 p. Jewi 44i8ainTin inches (past 24 (hours uplto none; seasonal ttftl? 20i05l normals 8.48; seasonal total this datei last Tyenrj. 5.07. n9tnR smf-'f The Redwood Empire's Leading Newspaper SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA The City Designed for Living FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1950 tl.W PER MONTH 10c PER COPY SUNDAY' fift Iffls ll TOKYO, Friday, Dec.

22 (UP) U. S. Navy rocket ships blasted Chinese Communists on the rim of the Hungnam beachhead for the first time yesterday, helping prevent the 3 enemy divisions massed in the area from making an assault, it was announced today. General headquarters, announcing the rapid firing rocket ships had joined the beachhead defenses for the first time, said the rockets, the heavy naval gunfire from ships standing offshore and powerful air support again balked Communist efforts to attack. UNITED PRESS Staff Correspondent Jack Burby, in a beach "They've had plenty of time to punch around and find our weak spots," one regimental officer said.

"I can't, help feeling that they are getting set to jump off all around us." THE NAVY disclosed meanwhile that a 10th nation Colombia had joined in the Korean naval actions with arrival of a frigate. Most of the vessels massed off the Hungnam beachhead are American, however. General headquarters said sea and air bombardment had made a no man's land of the area, around the beachhead through which the Communists have not dared attack in strength. if' -XLv i Y3 toured the Hollywood, ceremony. with the Salvation Army, phone 3721, Maj.

William Mepham said. THE STORY of the Christ child, to be told in churches throughout the Empire Sunday and Monday, was in the hearts of many as they went about their worldly tasks. --l L55f A K' A 4 JOYCE CAMERON (left), Fetaluma's Egg Bowl Queen, aid movie star Rhonda Fleming, on the set of Universal-International's "Little Egypt." Miss Cameron U.S. Mobilization Proceeds Slowly 'And Thou Canst Save In Despair SCENTS it ft -V studios on a 3-day trip to won during the Egg Bowl In the churches, special music and services commemorating the birth of Christ will be heard. Pastors are laying special emphasis on Christmas Eve services.

(Details of church services may be found on pages 14, 15 (Continued on Page Col. 6) In June, she listed her occupation with Secretary of State Frank M. Jordan as "chairman and education director of the Communist Party of San Diego." She listed "the Communist Party of San Diego" in the space where it requested the name of her employer. She listed among her qualifications for office, Ten years training as a Communist, learning to organize, work with others and respect their abilities, using as a guide, a scientific Marxist approach to community, problems." Miss Doyle, who was called before the House Committee today in connection with inquiries into the "scientist atomic spy case, received a husky 376,626 votes, June 6. Winners 1 mpue Scurries to eady for Holiday Bernadette Doyle's Record Makes Affiliation Clear By ARTHUR VOLKERTS The nation moved ponderous ly toward total mobilization yesterday, hampered by disagreement between isolationists and internationalists and the approach of the Christmas holiday.

In spite of the bickering Accident Victim Succumbs Br Staff Correspondent SONOMA, Dec. 21 Kathryn Chase, 20, of Martinez, died tonight at Sonoma Valley Community Hospital of injuries suf-fertd in a head-on traffic collision late Tuesday night on Black Point cut-off. Miss Chase suffered head and internal injuries and multiple fractures in the accident which occurred in a dense fog one-tenth of a mile east of Petaluma Creek. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Elma Chase of Martinez; 2 sisters, Mrs.

John Pagliero of Martinez, and Mrs. David Lewis of Camp Douglas, and 4 brothers, Roger Chase of Martinez, Byron Chase of the U.S. Army, and Walter NChase and George Chase, both of Camp Douglas, Wis. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Brunscher and Connolly Mortuary in Martinez. Miss Chase's body will be sent to Wisconsin for burial.

Red China Won't Talk LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Dec. 21 (UP) The United Nations cease-fire team sent a 3rd cable to the Chinese Communist government today pressing its previous unanswered bids for formal talks on halting the war in Korea. Secretary-General Trygve Lie told a news conference he hoped the cease-fire group would succeed in stopping the Korean conflict and said it would not be the fault if they OAKLAND, Dec. 21 (UP) Concert singer Berthe Andre sang Ave Maria in public for the last time today. She is dying of cancer.

Hundreds of friends and admirers packed the Rotunda of Oakland City Hall to give ovation to the courageous woman More Aid For Europe Is Indicated WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UP) President Truman said today the Atlantic Pact nations have shown they "mean business" about setting up a common de- fense, and asserted the protection of western Europe is "vital" to U.S. security. His statement, issued after conferring with Secretary of State Dean Acheson amounted to rejection of former President Herbert Hoover's demand that no more American troops and money be sent to Europe until pact nations show their will and ability to resist aggression. The President did not refer to Mr.

Hoover's "wait-and-see" proposal. But he said that soldiers of pact nations in Europe presumably including U.S. troops will be training together "within the next few weeks." "LET THERE be no mistake," Mr. Truman said, "the unity of the nations of western Europe and of the North Atlantic area is vital to their security and ours." Acheson scheduled a news conference for 4 p.m. E.S.T.

tomorrow at which he will be asked his views on the former Republican President's "Western Hemisphere Gibraltar" plan. There were strong indications he will turn down Mr. Hoover's ideas and commit the administration instead to speeding up its plans to send more troops to Europe. The secretary, who returned early this morning from Atlantic Pact meetings in Brussels, Belgium, will report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at 2 p.m. tomorrow.

Acheson will make his report to the nation by means of his news conference. He does not plan to make a radio address. head dispatch dated late Thursday, said the day was the most peaceful the embattled G.I.s have spent in a week. Burby reported enemy troops on the windswept hills around Hungnam were relatively inactive as Air Force B-26 light bombers joined the Marine and Navy planes in battering the Communist troops. "A few sharp carbine cracks could be heard and artillery continued to spray toward enemy positions," he said.

"But outside that there was almost total silence except for the wind which whipped up again today in advance of an expected storm from the Siberian plains." within and without the government, these things were accomplished: 1. Charles Wilson, former president of General Electric, was sworn in as mobilization chief in a White House ceremony. President Truman welcomed him with the sober statement that Mr. Wilson's job "would be a hard row to hoe." Later Mr. Wilson predicted that 50 to 100 per cent more war material would roll off U.

S. production lines in 1951 "than in the first big year after Pearl Harbor." He was testifying before a Senate-House committee. 2. The railroads and 4 big unions agreed on a 3-year pact settling a long wage dispute. The White House announced the agreement after a night-long 26-hour conference.

The agreement raises wages of 300,000 engineers, conductors and trainmen, retroactive to Oct. 1 and calls for future adjustments as living costs rise or fall. This could set the pattern for the government's wage policy under the mobilization program. 3. The Wage Stabilization Board unanimously recommended that the government stabilize dages in the auto industry.

Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine also announced he was studying a way to keep meat prices down. He indicated the auto wage order would be issued soon. It would affect auto workers. 4. Also in the auto industry, General Motors yielded to a government price rollback and lifted its ban on sale of new model Chevrolet, Pontiac and Cadillac automobiles.

It agreed to sell them at 1950 model prices. GM had slapped an embargo on the cp" last Monday in protest to "overnment order freezing i. prices at the Dec. 1 level. 5.

Working at top speed, the Senate voted $20,000,000,000 in new defense funds and approved $1,600,000,000 for military construction. But House leaders decided to postpone until Jan. 1 a vote on the controversial bill granting new emergency powers to President Truman. THE RAILROAD agreement. worked out under pressure of the (Continued on Pare 2, Col.

3) nation remained blanketed in a cold spell yesterday, weather in Santa Rosa and the Redwood Empire was relatively mild and was expected to remain so today. It probably will be cloudy, however. THIS TEAR'S first-day-of- winter-weather will probably be warmer than last year's Dec. 22, -when at the coldest point of the day the thermometer dropped to 26 degrees. Highest temperature registered on that day last year was 56 degrees.

The warmest temperature yesterday in Sania Rosa was 53 degrees, and the coldest 44. Last year on Dec. 21, highest mercury reading was 53, and the lowest 25. Rainfall appeared yesterday to have reached a temporary standstill, after a downpour so far this season of 20.05 inches, compared to the normal rainfall of 8.48 Inches. FEW OF THE line troops rot very far from their machine guns or foxholes and the out- posts kept constant watch across the barbed wire toward the hills and plains, he said.

American defenders already had blown up the last bridge into the beachhead and slaughtered a band of Communists trying to wedge into the half-moon shaped perimeter. Staff officers at Hungnam "were expecting the worst while hoping for the best," Burby said. "Others felt that artillery and air were hurting the Chinese and North Koreans so badly they were unable to get together a solid assault." It You Hear A Siren, Call 1071 or 1066 If you hear a siren blast at noon or 6 p. m. today, don't worry that it's an air raid, fire or other disaster.

It will be the Roseland Fire Department trying out a siren at the fire department on Bur-bank Ave. The siren will be blown at noon and 6 p. m. for the next 5 or 6 days, Capt. John Guaspari said.

Purpose will be to determine the distance at which it can be heard, so that it can be used if necessary, in the future, for the aforementioned purposes. Mr. Guaspari asks those who hear the siren to phone the fire J071 or 1066, and report their address. If the siren is not loud enough to be heard throughout the Roseland Fire District and the Corby tract, it will be turned in for a louder model, Capt. Guaspari said.

Absentees Slow Vital Legislation WASHINGTON, Dec.21 (UP) The Senate today rushed through an urgent war powers bill sought by President Truman but the house was forced to delay action until Jan. 1 because many of its members already had gone home for Christmas. The bill passed by the Senate provides for emergency renegotiation of defense contracts, to speed the military production program. It was approved by voice vote. The House had been scheduled to act today on both that bill and a companion piece of war powers legislation authorizing the President to reshuffle executive agencies for defense purposes.

BUT IT TOOK a 3-hour quorum call one of the longest in the chamber's history to round up a bare majority of 216 members so the House could do business. And long before the necessary figure was obtained, House leaders had agreed to wait until Jan. 1 to take up the war powers bills. Rep. Celler N.Y.) angrily accused Republicans of "stalling," and he told newsmen: "They are acting as though they were in the middle of a political campaign instead of a national emergency." No Decision on Air Academy Site WASHINGTON, Dec.

21 (AP) The Air Force academy site selection board reported today after meeting with Secretary Finletter that it had come to no decision on a location for the proposed new service school or on the next step to be taken. The board completed a tour of 29 proposed sites this week. Meanwhile, however, the House Armed Services Committee has stated that it intends to take no further action on legis- lation which would authorize an Air Force academy because of the general military situation. The Air Force was given an appropriation to select a school site but it does not yet have congressional authority to build the academy. A pooled dispatch from 8th Army headquarters said tank-supported North Korean Communists gained 2,000 to 3,000 yards against South Korean forces in the only "enemy action" along the United Nations front in northwest Korea.

The attacks occurred north of Chunchon, along the 38th Parallel, and were carried out by 3 enemy battalions upwards of 3,000 men. A briefing officer said at last reports the attack was contained. The briefing officer said the Communists were reported to be dressed in "American-type coats" and using M-l rifles. who wanted to end her 25 years of musical life in the Bay Area with one last appearance at the city's annual Christmas choral series. Mrs.

Andre said trjat her performance was her only means of showing thanks for bountiful life and career and among friends and patrons she had endeared through her voice. PHYSICIANS had told the 57-year-old singer 3 weeks ago that she has possibly a few months, but certainly no more than a year, to live because of incurable cancer. Her reaction was an immediate letter to the editor of her local newspaper asking ulf ilimenf of a stranger request," one last "Christmas song in the memory of happy singing days I have enjoyed in Oakland." An overflow throng turned out and when the hall was filled hundreds of others stood outside to hear Mrs. Andre by loudspeaker. They applauded warmly as she arrived at the City Hall by auto from her Woodside home, 30 miles away.

She responded with a beaming smile and made her way to the stage. A hush fell over the audience as Mrs. Andre, singing Schubert's version of the traditional Christmas song to the accompaniment of a chorus, intoned: LISTEN to a maiden's prayer, for Thou canst hear tho' from the wild; and Thou canst save amidst despair Her face was wan but her voice was stringent as the song was ended with: mother, hear a suppliant child; Ave Maria, Ave Maria." Her spell over the audience was broken with a thunderous ovation as her lifelong friend, Mrs. Louise Traynor, came forward with a bouquet of American Beauty red roses. Stores Open Until 9 p.m.

Don't delay. Only 2 days remain to wind up that Christmas shopping. conditions can be improved. It listed a dozen recommendations. Among them: 1.

Create a permanent state board to look after the farm labor problem in all aspects health, housing, work conditions, etc. 2. Crack down on unscrupulous labor contractors who abuse the farm workers. 3. Set up easy loan systems to help the migrants buy homes of their own.

4. Tighten up state housing regulations for labor camps so that higher standards of sanitation, health and water supply are attained. THE COMMITTEE, which began its study 9 months ago at the request of the governor, represented a cross section of all elements interested in the farm labor problem including labor unions, farm operators, civic, educational, health and religious leaders. J. Earl Coke, agricultural ex-( Con tinned en Page 2, CeL 2) SACRAMENTO, Dec.

21 (UP) Bernadette Doyle, San Diego, who refused to tell a Congressional Committee in Washington today whether she is a Communist made no bones about her affiliations here this June. The grey-haired woman ran for state superintendent of public instruction in the California primary election. Although the office is non-partisan under California's election system, Miss Doyle stated I have done educational, organizational and political work for the Communist Party for the past nine years." MISS DOTLE told the House Un-American Activities Committee today she is an "organizer" but refused to say for what group. Fourth Week It was the day before the day before Christmas Eve and all through the Redwood Empire there was a great stirring. In hundreds of homes mysterious gifts were being brought from hiding and outfitted in holiday trim to be piled beneath ornamented Christmas trees.

-ln" stores" and offices Monday-through Friday workers were watching clocks and waiting for the end of the day to mark the start of a 3-day holiday week end. Santa Rosa department store clerks, with muted enthusiasm, were awaiting last-minute Christmas gift seekers to pour forth for their last chance at night-time (until 9 o'clock today) shopping, ending another buying period when cash registers rang up what will probably be new record for purchases. POST OFFICE workers were girding themselves for the last 2 days of Christmas card mailing and anticipating the Christmas holiday when the postal windows will be idle. (The main post office and the Lea will be open from 8 a. m.

to 6 p. m. through tomorrow and will resume regular hours Tuesday.) For some postmen, the holiday won't begin officially until noon Sunday. That morning they will make one delivery of Christmas cards in residential areas, to avoid having a large number of cards left in the post office over the holiday. And if a special delivery letter arrives in Santa Rosa for you on Christmas day, it will be delivered.

In the homes of needy families throughout the Empire, the spirit of Christmas has spread a holiday aura, too. Christmas dinner and Christmas gifts are being distributed to approximately 200 families in Sonoma County by welfare and service groups. First to distribute holiday baskets and toys were the Santa Rosa Elks, who took them to about 100 families Sunday. Forty-five turkeys are to be given today and tomorrow to larger needy families, by the Salvation Army. Distribution of about 65 Christmas dinner checks was started Tuesday by the Army.

Today the Santa Rosa Welfare League will provide 20 families with baskets, containing Christmas dinner, and toys. The Santa Rosa American Legion Post will distribute 10 baskets Sunday. Needy families who may be overlooked by the various organizations may get in touch Christmas ii Churches of Redwood Empire Complete details of Sunday and Monday Christmas services in Redwood Empire churches will he found on Pages 14, 15 and 24 of today's Press Democrat. in the Classitied Ad "MYSTERY CHRISTMAS CAROL CONTEST" It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" Farm Labor Group Seeks Home Loans to Migrants Winter Started at 2:14 Today SACRAMENTO, Dec. 21 (AP) The migratory farm labor problem of California's Central Valley will remain unsolved until year 'round jobs are provided, a special state commission concluded today.

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