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pulling back to regroup. They ap
peared to be quitting the Waegwan
area. 12 miles northwest of Taegu.
Infcne 72-hour period 3,500 casual
ties were inflicted on the Commun
ists in the bloody mountain battle
field, headquarters said.
Collins Makes Inspection
Gen. J. bawton Collins, U. S.
Army Chief of Staff, visited the
northwest front above Taegu Wed
nesday, leaving only 15 minutes be
fore a hot enemy action blazed
there. Adm. Forrest P. Sherman,
who flew to Korea in another plane,
visited Eighth Army headquarters.
The Army chief expressed satis
faction with the way the war has
been going and said he found mor
ale high among Americans and
South Koreans. Sherman, on his
return to Tokyo, said he believed the
Russians have been supplying the
North Koreans every since the out
break of fighting, adding that “no
body believes the North Koreans
are manufacturing their ow'n war
materiel.”
Sherman told the ship’s company
on a U. S. 7th Fleet aircraft carrier
that U. S. warships hammering the
North Koreans on the coasts are
only the advance guard “until more
help can come.”
American destroyers yesterday
made their second bombardment of
Chongji on the North Korean east
coast, starting fires which could
be seen for 10 miles.
300 Reds Killed By Air
U. S. Marine airmen said they
killed 300 North Korean soldiers in
a rocket and strafing attack on
troop concentrations north of Tae
gu.
B-29s again hit traffic facilities
of the North Koreans in the rear,
mangling rail lines along the east
coast and hitting the main west
ern railroad running tow'ard the
battlefront. The superforts also
smashed at one of the largest chem
ical plants in East Asia at Konan
in North Korea, dropping 290 thou
sand-pound bombs. They met no
opposition in the air.
The southern and eastern battle
fronts were relatively unchanged.
In the south U. S. 25th Infantry
Division troops renewed an attack
to win positions on a dominating
ridge at the outer approaches to Pu
! san, main U. S. harbor on the south
east coast. Advance units of two
Red divisions rained heavy mortar
and small arms fire on the 25th
1 Infantrymen, possibly in advance of
a fresh Red attempt to break
through in the south.
On the eastern front, South Kor
ean troops moved north from the
Pohang-Kigye area against stiff but
localized resistance.
The Naktong River bridgehead of
the Communists southwest of Taegu
still was being contained by U. S.
' 25th Division troops.
Off the southwest coast, South
, Korean marines landed on the is
| land of Uido.
i On the diplomatic front, Russia’s
1 Jakob A. Malik was expected to
continue his stalling tactics in the
United Nations Security Council,
now' heading into its fourth and
final week under his presidency. It
meets again tomorrow on'the Kor
ean question, probably once again
to hear the propaganda for which
the Soviet delegate for three weeks
has used the Council as a forum.
Pacific Northern
Brings Eighteen
And Takes Seven Out
Eighteen passengers arrived in
Juneau yesterday via Pacific North
ern Airlines from Anchorage and
way points. They were: Dr. D. V.
Trueblood, M. Wirshlng, A. K. Nee
ley, Dr. Grace E. Field, George Tap
ley, Thomas Bennett, Mr. Rivenes,
Col. J. D. Alexander, Jack Hender
son, John Reamer, Walter Zobrist,
Elsie Ezi, J. L. Houston, Dr. J. T.
Googe, Dr. F. Maresh, V. Peterson,
A Manus and Bob Sepen.
Going from Juneau to Anchorage
were: Albert White, Q. Avey,! Neil
Fritchman, Norman Jorgenson, Lt.
S. Putzke, Commander W. Goff'and
Tord Astrom.
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JAMES WKKERSHAM
Citizen of Alaska
By: HENRY RODEN
On March 19, 1949 the Governor of
Alaska signed a measure passed
by the Territorial Legislature des
ignating Aug. 24th as "Wickersham
Day” in recognition of the valu
able services rendered the Terri
tory by James Wickersham, as dele
gate, judge and citizen of Alaska.
It was fitting to designate a day
in the year on which the people of
the Territory might remember the
man who may properly be named
"Alaska’s Foremost Citizen of the
first half of the Twentieth Century.”
It is slightly over fifty years to
the day since James Wickersham
first set foot on Alaska soil. Many
things have come to pass during
I that period of time in many of
which he played an important role.
Born in Illinois in 1857 he was ad
mitted to the Bar of that State in
1880. He came west in 1883 and es
tablished himself in Tacoma. As a
courageous and energetic young
lawyer he became City Attorney for
that city and represented it, with
success, in a long list of important
lawsuits. The successful termination
of this litigation contributed greatly
to his election to the Legislature of
! the State of Washington in 1898.
In 1900, upon the recommendation
of Senator Foster from that -State,
President McKinley appointed him
District Judge for the Third Judicial
Division of Alaska. In the summer
of that year, he and his family
established their home at Eagle,
official headquarters for the court
of that division.
Eagle was then one of the larger
settlements on the Yukon River and
was surpassed in size only by Ram
part and Circle City. There was
hardly sufficient litigation in the
entire division to justify the es
tablishment of a court regime and
Judge Wickersham suggested to the
Attorney General of the United
States that he be assigned to as
sist other judges in the Territory
where work was more plentiful.
It was the time when the notor
ious Judge Noyes and his henchman
McKenzie were running things with
a high hand in the Nome region.
Many complaints have been filed
with the Department of Justice and
Judge Wickersham was directed to
proceed to Nome to clean up the
mess. This was a task for a man of
his vigor, ability and love of work.
He arrived in Nome in the fall of
1901 and in the course of a year
cleared the calendar and restablish
-ed.the confidence of the people of
the Second Division in the integrity
of the courts of the United States.
He returned to Eagle and held
regular terms of court there at
Circle and Rampart. His spare time
was devoted to an intensive study
of the early history of Alaska. That
was his hobby and it remained with
him to his last days.
When the rich discoveries of gold
in the Tanana Valley became known
in 1903, he moved the judicial head
quarters from Eagle to Fairbanks
and began to disentagle the hund
reds of controversies which arose
among miners. Those were long and
arduous days. But work held no
fear for him.
It was not long until the steadily
increasing number of unsuccessful
litigants, and their attorneys, be
gan to spread unjustified stories of
partiality and venality about him,
with the result that two exhustive
Investigations were ordered by the
Department of Justice. These were
made by competent men and re
sulted in a clean bill of health for
the Judge. It was then that Presi
dent Theodore Roosevelt announced
that he would reappoint him Dis
trict Judge as long as he was Pre
sident and Wickersham desired to
hold the position, a promise made
good by the President up to the time
he tendered his resignation in Dec
ember 1907. He resigned, practiced
law for a short time and then start
ed on a campaign over the entire
‘Territory for the office of Delegate
to Congress.
In August 1908 he was elected
Alaska’s third Delegate to Congress
by an overwhelming majority. He
was reelected for five succesive
terms at the end of which he de
clined further nomination.
During his incumbency in the Of
fice of Delegate, the most important
legislation passed by Congress for
Alaska was enacted on Aug. 24, 1912
(Wickersham’s birthday annivers
ary). President Taft signed the Al
aska Home Rule Bill, fathered by
Delegate Wickersham. It declared
Alaska an organized Territory of
the United States, provided for the
election of a local legislaure and a
commission to study the feasibility
of construction a railroad from tide
water to the Interior.
No sooner had this commission
made its report when he introduced
the Alaska Railroad Bill; this mea
sure attracted wide attention and
Wickersham was afforded the court
esy of addressing both Houses of
Congress at a joint session when the
measure was under consideration.
In the spring of 1914, President
Wilson approved passage of this
bill.
In passing it may be mentioned
here that it was James Wickersham
who, in 1916, introduced the first
Statehood bill in Congress. He was
responsible for the passage of the
3111 creating the Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Mines, now
ohe University of Alaska, of which
lie laid the cornerstone on July 4,
1915.
Indefatigable worker as he was,
he prepared a bibliography of every
piece of literature printed in
any language having reference to
Alaska between 1724 and 1924. With
endless,toil and at considerble ex
pense he collected numerous books,
maps .documents and writings of all
kinds, having many of them trans
lated from Russian, Spanish and
French into English, dealing with,
discovery and development of Alas
ka: these are now preserved in the
Wickersham Memorial Library hous
ed in the Federal Building at Ju
neau*
Wickersham was an outstanding
personality in many ways. Of great
personal charm, a gifted speaker, a
polished and experienced gentle
man, he was a formidable opponent
on the platform when he met his ad
versary.
He loved encounters and there
are many stories about the manner
in which he would beguile his op
ponent and then destroy his argu
ment, to the great delight of the
audience thus became generally
known as “Our Fighting Jim,” a
cognomen he never objected to.
After serving six terms as Dele
gate, he retired from the political
arena with the pronouncment, so
charcateristic of him, that while re
tiring he would keep his powder
dry. He did so until the fall of 1930
when, at the urgent solicitations of
hundreds of his old supporters, he
became again a candidate and was
elected for the seventh and last
time. At the expiration of this term
he gave up politics for good and up
to the end, which came on October
24, 1939, he devoted his time to
writing numerous articles on Alaska
' subjects.
As one who knew him and his
family well, who came in daily con
tact with him over a number of
years and who enjoyed his friend
ship and company in the hours of
his great triumph and who also saw
him in temporary defeat, I would
say that James Wickersham was, at
all times, an outstanding personal
ity; an able lawyer, a capable Dele
gate and above all an honest and up
right judge. No wonder he was ad
mired by the great majority of the
residents of this Territory. From the
time he cleaned the judicial stables
at Nome up to the end, he was the
idol of thousands of Alaskans. He
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FLORIDA QUEEN —
Gladys Eneman, 20, is enthroned
as queen of the first inter
national beauty pageant of 1950
. at the Hotel Biltmore terrace.
Palm Beach. Florida.
was the darling of the electorate
for years and years and I now nom
inate him as Alaska’s Foremast Cit
izen of the first half of the Twen
tieth Century.
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JERRY WILLIAMS FAMILY
HOMEBOUND BY HIGHWAY
The occasional postcards sent his
office by J. Gerald Williams, Ter
ritorial Attorney General, are post
marked nearer and nearer to Ju
neau.
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fore they are closer, as the Williams
family, returning from the states
by the Alaska Highway, will go to
Fairbanks and Anchorage before
they come home.
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the end of next week.
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