THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’
VQL. LXXV., NO. 11,613
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1950
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
MARINES ARE BATTLING WITH BAYONETS
SUBVERSIVES
BILL IS VETOED
BY PRESIDENT
5,500-Word Message Sen
fo House by Truman
House to Override
BULLETIN — WASHINGTON,
Sept. 22—4PI—The House over
rode overwhelmingly President
Truman's veto of the anti-subver
sive bill and sped the measure to
the Senate which is set to follow
suit and enact the law over the
veto.
There was no debate in the
House. Voting started almost im
mediately after a clerk had fin
inshed reading the President’s
message.
The roll call vote was 286 to
48. This was 63 more than the
two-thirds required to upset a
veto.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 — (jT» —
President Truman today vetoed the
bill to curb subversives.
The President sent a long veto
message to the House, which was
waiting to override him on the issue.
He called the bill a measure
which would “give aid and comfort
to those who would destroy us.”
Further, he said, it would help
Communists instead of hurting
them and "weaken our existing in
ternal security measures.”
The President sent up his veto
message in unusual form. It was
double-spaced with a one-line let
ter attached asking that “every
member of the Congress” read and
consider the message “very care
fully" before balloting on passage
of the bill over his veto.
But, regardless of the seven points
he raised against the legislation in
a 5,500-word message, Congress was
ready to make the bill a law.
Requirements
Among other things, it would re
* quire Communists and leaders of
Communist front organizations to
register with the Justice Depart
ment. It would let the government
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The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
•Copyright. 18JO. by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
J^ASHINGTON—The 81st Con
gress, despite much constructive
legislation, will probably be known
as the Congress which increased the
workingman’s taxes by as much as
20 per cent while refusing to tax
the war profits of big corporations.
The most important debate on
this was not in public but in the
closed-door session of the Senate
and House conferees where House
members battled savagely to gain a
few concessions fer little taxpayers.
One of the battlers was Democratic
Congressman John Dingell of De
troit who at one point demanded:
‘‘While we are making all these
concessions to upper-bracket tax
payers and war profiteers, we
should at least repeal some of the
excise taxes on working people.
“Instead of plugging loopholes to
benefit the oil industry and stock
market speculators, you are making
the loopholes bigger—and more of
them,” Dingell angrily chided the
Senators. “As long as you are in
the mood to throw away money,
why not make some concessions
to the working girl and the man
with four or five kids?”
However, the Michigan Demo
crat’s demands that the excise on
baby powder and oil, etc., be lifted
fell on deaf ears.. Finally, Dingell
turned to GOP Sen. Eugene Milli
kin of Colorado, a stanch defender
of tax benefits to t big bracketeers,
and half jokingly asserted:
‘Gene, if you don’t support me
on this—woe to you when you go
back to Colorado to campaign this
year.”
Miillikin chuckled, but said noth
ing.
Gen. Bradley Rebuffed
Dingell then hurled into the
teeth of the Senators a letter Gen.
Omar Bradley had written Congress,
urging that the excise tax on G. I.
watches be rescinded.
"I want to see how much faith
you have in General Bradley—how
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Enemy Surrenders at Inchon
North Korean soldiers, hands held high in surrender, are examined
by Un invading soldiers at Inchon, South Korea. This U. S. Army
photo was made by Cpl. Danfle (first name not available) of Cin
cinnati, O. 17. S. Army photo via radio and (IPl Wirephoto.
LOTTIE SPICKETT
DIES SUDDENLY,
ST. ANN'SHOSPITAL
Illness Ends Career of
Prominent Pioneer
Woman of This City
Juneau was saddened and shock
ed today to learn of the death of
I Mrs. Josephine C. Spickett, prom
j inent and beloved pioneer resident,
at 8:00 o’clock last night, following
j an emergency appendectomy at 4
! o’clock that same afternoon in St.
! Ann’s hospital. Cause of her death
I was given as a pulmonary embolus
j following a post operative blood
: transfusion.
| Mrs. Spickett had felt in good
| health until she was taken sudden
j ly ill Wednesday morning. She was
! taken to the hospital and an op
: eration deemed advisable on a diag
| ncsis of a ruptured, gangrous
j appendix. Her physician, Dr. J. O.
! Rude, said she rallied splendidly
i from the operation.
83 Years Tomorrow
Born in Santa Clara, California,
September 23, 1867, Josephine Carl
lotta Clark Spickett would have
been 83 years of age tomorrow. She
I was a member of a pioneer Calif
j ornia family, her father having
come from New York to the west
ern state in the gold rush of 1849.
Her mother, who was a native of
: England, joined her husband in
i California in 1852.
| Mrs. Spickett was reared on her
I father's ranch in Yuba County,
; California, and following her formal
! education in a private school she
! went to Stockton where she at
i tended business college. On her
| graduation from this school she
| was employed in a business office in
i Sacramento.
lo Aiasaa in lovi
It was in Sacramento she was
married to John T. Spickett, Dec
ember 24, 1896. Mr. Spickett, who
was in the theatre business, was
engaged to bring a troupe of per
formers to Alaska and Mrs. Spick
ett came with him to Juneau in the
fall of 1897.
Here Mr. Spickett's troupe per
formed at the famous Louvre thea
tre and on completion of the en
gagement the Spicketts found they
had grown to love Alaska and de- |
cided to make their home here.
During the time Mr. Spickett had
his troupe at the Louvre, Mrs.
Spickett had held the position of
office manager for the S. Blum
store.
It was at this time the Spicketts
were joined in Juneau by Mrs.
Spickett’s mother, and her two
sisters, Lily, now Mrs. Charles
Hooker, and Laura, now Mrs. J.
Whitnack and the latter’s infant
daughter, Georgia. The family were
residents here for many years.
The Spicketts purchased the old
Franklin Hotel at the corner of
Front and Main S'treeets and while
Mr. Spickett managed the hotel,
Mrs. Spickett was a member of the
office staff of the B. M. Behrends
store, a position she held for ten
years.
Owned Theatres
In 1913 Mr. Spickett was appoint
tContinued on Page Two)
•MISS GERMANY'
-—Suzanne Erichson, 24, a Berlin
nodel, was chosen “Miss Ger
many 1950,” at Baden-Baden,
for competition in annual "Miss
Europe” contest at San Marino.
JUNEAU BADMINTON
CLUB SEASON GETS
START; 35 ARE OUT
The Juneau Badminton Club held
their first meeting of the 1950-51
season last Monday night. The turn
out of members, both old and new,
totaled about‘35 in all. A good night
of exercise was had by everyone. A
few aches and pains, along with
sore muscles and stiff joints will be
worked out at the* next regular
session.
The club's next regular meeting
will be held Monday night, Septem
ber 25, at 7 o’clock in the Juneau
High School Gym. Anyone wishing
to join the club is cordially invited
to attend. Each member is required
to have their own badminton racket.
No member will be permitted to
play unless wearing tennis shoes on
the floor.
•
• WEATHER REPORT
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
• In Juneau—Maximum, 66;
• minimum, 47.
• At Airport—Maximum, 64;
• minimum, 50.
•
• FORECAST
• (Juneau and Vicinity)
• Cloudy with rain and south
• easterly winds as high as 25
• miles per hour tonight.
• Mostly cloudy with showers
• and decreasing southeasterly
• winds Saturday. Lowest tem
• perature tonight 48 degrees
• and highest Saturday 56.
•
• precipitation
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
• City of Juneau—1.72 inches;
• since Sept. 1 — 8.75 inches;
• since July 1—19.81 inches.
• At Airport — 1.74 inches;
• since Sept. 1 — 6.53 inches*
• since July 1—18.53 inches.
TAXBOOSTING
BILL PASSES
HOUSE 328-7
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 — -
The House shouted overwhelming
! approval today of a “first install
I ment” tax-boosting bill to help paj
for the costs of arming againsi
' Communist aggression. Quick Sen
ate passage was expected to pul
j it on President Truman’s desk bj
! nightfall.
A roll call vote of 328 to 7 sped
the bill through the House.
Mr. Truman already has expressed
i himself as well pleased with the
measure, and is expected to sign it
immediately, even though it’s esti
mated annual revenue of $4,700,
000,000 falls short of the $5,000,
! 000,000 he asked two months ago.
Shortly before the vote was
! taken, it was announced in the
i House that Chairman Doughton
(D-NC) has called the Ways and
Means Committee to meet tomorrow.
The plan is to map out procedure
| for bringing out a multi-billion dol
lar excess profits tax on which
! Congress can vote when it comes
back in November.
Democrats and Republicans alike
j went on record, in closing debate,
[ as favoring passage of such a tax
i then.
SOLONS PASS
$17 BILLION
DEFENSE BILL
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22—GP—
Trie Senate today passed and sent
j to the White House the $17,000,
i 000,000 emergency defense bill.
Senate approval by voice vote
came after it scuttled a ban pro
posed by Senator Wherry (R-Nebi
! to stop U. S. economic aid to coun
tries which ship war-po'ential goods
' to Communist nations.
Instead, the Senate adopted a
i House provision giving the National
! Secruity Council—headed by Presi
i dent Truman—discretionary author
I ity to half American dollar-help to
! any country whose trade with Rus
sia was found to be “contrary to the
security interests of the United
States.’’
The action was a victory for Mr.
Truman, who had protested that
the more stringent ban approved
by the Senate last week would
weaken the free nations more than
it would weaken the Soviet bloc."
The Senate adopted the House
provision by voice vote after reject
ing 39 to 28, a proposal by Senator
Wherry to modify the Senate
amendment, which he also had
sponsored.
ADVANCE WORK
GOING FORWARD
EKLUTNA PROJECT
I Action is being rushed on the
I $20,365,400 Eklutna project, Joseph
! Morgan, Chief of the Investigations
Division of the Bureau of Recla
mation, said today upon his return
from a 10-day trip to Anchorage and
Palmer.
“Four drilling crews have moved
in, equipment and additional crews
are being moved in over the Alaska
Highway right now, all rolling
equipment has been purchased both
j in Alaska and in the States,” he
I said. The crews are coming from
j all parts of the West, who ever
' available.
I Photogramatry pictures are now
j being flown by the Ryall Engineer
j ing Company of Little Rock, Ark.
These aerial reconnaissance survey
pictures are accurate within 20 feet
when flown at 12,000 feet altitude.
Morgan explained, and save much
time and money in survey work.
A nine-foot diameter tunnel is
to be opened through Goat Moun
tain from Eklutna Lake to the Knik
River. Drilling crews are getting
data on the nature of the rock
through which the tunnel will
Specifications on the project will be
made up as soon as possible.
Donald T. Bogi, CAA man from
Anchorage is stopping at the Hotel
Juneau.
Seoul's Over that Way
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U. S. Marines look through field glasses in the direction of Seoul which lies behind the far ridge at
upper left. In foreground is the Han Valley and Han River as seen from a ridge northeast of Kimpo
airfield now in Allied hands. Marines have crossed the Han River in their advance on Seoul, ancient
capital of Korea. UP) Wirephoto via radio from Tokyo.
U. S. FORCES
TO DEFEND
ALL ALASKA
General Kepner Says Ter
ritory Part of World
wide Defense Plan
I ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 22—
I (#)—The Armed Forces are going to
defend all points In Alaska In the
| event of an attack, Lt. Gen. Wil
liam Kepner told a Rotary Club
audience in his first local speaking
j appearance yesterday.
Although he did not mention it
| by name, Alaska's commander ap
parently was refuting claims that
I Nome, on the Bering Sea, would
i be abandoned to the enemy.
Nome's Marks Air Force base has
| been inactivated, but an announce
ment Wednesday told Nomeites a
crew would be maintained there for
regular winter schedule landings
and for "emergencies.”
“I do not believe an enemy would
, be foolish enough to occupy an
isolated position where no real tac
tical advantage results, though he
might conceivably do so for psy
chological reasons,” the General
said.
“Worldwide Plan”
WC UallliUlr UVCUUU& U1C WU1IU
wide plan for defense, of which
Alaska is a pait. In planning strar
tegic warfare the importance of
Alaska has not been overlooked. A
portion of the overall defense of
the United States has been given
this command.
“Three years ago the Joint Chiefs
of Staff established a unified com
mand for this territory and devel
oped complete plans for its de
fense.
“Alaska has great potentialities
as an advance base for the opera
tion of aircraft going in either di
rection.
“The distance from Moscow to
Fairbanks is the same as from
Fairbanks to Mexico City.
“My job is to see that it stays
in the right hands and to defend
Alaska. And that means—all of
Alaska. This I will do with the
troops and equipment I have at my
disposal according to my best capa
bilities.
“No Pushover”
“We are no pushover right now.
Anybody who thinks he can" walk
in and take over the territory is
in for a rude awakening.
“This force assembled for the
defense of Alaska is well trained,
very compact and capable. We will
detect, intercept, and destroy any
one who attempts to invade this
territory or fly over it.
PENROD GOES NORTH
Max *Penrod, Alaska Native Ser
vice educationist has left on PNA
for Anchorage and Nome, where he
will join Martin Holm, education
specialist traveling on the North
Star. They will visit ANS schools
in the Nome and Anchorage areas
for ten days.
Army Lieutenant Faces
Death; Wife Takes Her
Her Appeal to President
I Six-year-old Rose Marie McCor
! mick prays at Collingdale, Pa., (or
her dead father after she received
a letter from her father, Pfc.
John J. McCormick, 28, infantry
man in Korea, three days after
the child's mother was notified
that McCormick had been killed
in action. He wrote to Rose Marie
and her three-year-old sister Joan
that there "are a lot of bad men
in the world and if they were al
lowed to do what they wanted to
do, little girls like you wouldn't
be allowed to go to church on
Sunday or be able to go to the
school you wanted to.” ‘.If) Wire
photo.
REYNOLDS ON BUSINESS
Percy Reynolds, proprietor of
Percy’s Cafe, left Wednesday via
Pan American Airways clipper for
Seattle on a business trip. He ex
pects to return in a week or 10
days.
LONG OUT TO SCHOOL
After a summer working at the
Hawk Inlet cannery, Bill Long vis
ited briefly with his sister, Mrs.
Eleanor McKinnon in Juneau early
this week and left Wednesday for
Pullman, Wash., to enroll in his
senior vear at Washington State
College.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Sept. 22 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2S, American Can
99 s. Anaconda 357*, Curtiss
Wright 9 V International Harvester
31, Kennecott 65’ -. New York Cen
tral 16 i, Northern Pacific 247»,
U.S. Steel 39U, Pound $2.80Vi.
Sales today were 2,510.000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 226.G4, rails 67.90, utilities i
39 86. j
i J
YORK, Pa., Sept. 32 — UP! — An
Army Lieutenant's wife said today
she has petitioned President Tru
man to set aside a court martial
death sentence imposed on her hus
band for disobeying battle orders
in Korea.
The nature of the orders was not
disclosed.
Mrs. Kay Gilbert, mother of two
and expecting a third child, turned
her appeal over to Rep. James F.
Lind (D-Pa). The Gilberts are
Negroes. Mrs. Gilbert returned from
Japan after the start of the Korean
war.
She quoted an August 5 letter
from her husband, First Lieutenant
Leon A. Gilbert, 32, attached to the
25th Division, as saying:
“I am now under arrest for not
carrying out an order which would
have led me and 12 other men to
certain death.
‘‘I am in the most serious trouble
that a man in Korea or any place
for that matter may be in. . .
"If it would not have been for
you and the children, I would have
gone willingly but a man seems to
place his family above all in these
matters.
“I was wondering how you would
do without me and how you would
support the kids and knowing you
are with child the situation became
out of control and I made the de
cision that may cost me my freedom
for years.”
In a later letter, Lieut. Gilbert
told his wife he had been sentenced
to death Sept. 6 and would be
executed within a month.
•Go to the President himself,”
Gilbert urged his wife, adding:
“This is really the worst that
could happen, so please do every
thing in any one’s power to at
least get my sentence cut down."
Mrs. Gilbert contacted two York
attorneys. They appealed to Rep.
Lind.
Lind went to the White House.
He also consulted with Defense De
partment officials at the Pentagon.
PAA TO PURCHSE
18 DOUGLAS DC-6BS
SEATTLE, Sept. 22 — (ft — Pan
American World Airways today an
nounced the purchase of a fleet of
18 four engined Douglas DC-6B’s
at the cost of approximately $21,
000,000. Delivery will begin next fall.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Denali scheduled to sail from Se
attle tomorrow.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver. September 27.
Alaska from west scheduled south
bound sometime Monday.
SUBURBSOF
SEOUL NOW
HOT PLACE
•
Marines Face 10,000 Red
Korean Defense Troops
-Gains Are Reported
(By the Associated Press)
U.S. Marines battled with bayo
nets into the outskirts of South Ko
rea's capital city. Seoul, today, and
in the southern battle area U.S.
First Cavalry Division troops
punched out a spectacular 20-mlle
advance.
The advance from the southern
beachhead area north of Taegu
placed the U.S. troops within 100
air miles of Suwon, Important road
city south of embattled Seoul which
American Seventh Infantry troops
have entered without opposition.
The American command said the
Reds were in full rout north of
Taegu.
Hand to Hand Combat
• The 10th Allied Corps pushed
ahead by inches against 10,000 Red
troops in Seoul’s outskirts, often in
hand to hand combat. U.S. Marines,
In bayonet and flamethrower
charges, cut a wide swath through
suburban Yongdungpo, west of
Seoul, and other Marines sliced the
rail and road lines north of the
| capital to ward off Red reinforce
ments.
Fifteen miles to the south, the
Seventh Infantry was taking over
Suwon and threatening to squeeze
the Reds fleeing from the South in
a vast plRWI* Mum WaullMMi flaw
now was moving up swiftly.
MaJ. Oen. Hobart R. Oay, U.8.
| First Cavalry Division Commander,
! said it "la a great day” north of
I Taegu for his troops,. The break
through there was dnly 15 miles
from Sangju, key road and rail hub
85 miles from Suwon on the direct
route.
Klgye Recaptured
On the east front. South Korean
troops recaptured Klgye, 10 miles
northwest of Pohang port, and
plunged ahead another mile and
a half in an attempt to push the
enemy against the Sea of Japan.
The South Korean Third Division
drove 11 miles north of Pohang to
a point a mile from Chongha.
Southwest of Taegu, the US. Sec
ond Division drove west from one
of its Naktong river bridgeheads
and captured Chogye, six miles
west of the river. Another Second
Division column hit out southwest
to the outskirts of Sinban, eight
; miles southeast of Chogye and re
cently the headquarters of two Red
Divisions. On the southern front
U S. 25th Division armored forces
pushed toward Cbinju. slowed by a
thickly sown minefield. Chinju was
the main Red southern base.
Mystery rana i^oiuum
The whereabouts of a tank-led
mystery column which had been re
ported moving south from the Man
churian border to the Seoul area
still remained a mystery. The 10th
Corps had no new reports of it to
day, although yesterday it was be
lieved the column had crossed the
38th parallel.
But whether this reinforcing Red
column arrived or not, the battle
for Seoul was shaping up into one
of the fiercest of the war. Fighting
j in its suburbs was hand to hand
! and Marine casualties were reported
i 'relatively heavy." Tank-led Ma
rines who crossed the Han Wednes
day split Into two columns for the
I attack into the outskirts from the
southeast and from the north. Some
j 18,000 Red troops are in the city
I proper. Uncertainty as to the city
J limits led to a premature report
! Thursday that the Marines had en
tered the capital.
But to the south there was no op
position to Seventh Infantry troops
entering 8uwon, where there is a
good airfield which can handle big
planes.
Allied warplanes Thursday flew
663 flights in support of ground
troops. Pilots reported 17 Red tanks
destroyed and 950 Red troops killed
by the planes. Much other Red
equipment was chewed up.
FROM HAINES
Robert McLaughlin of Haines is
registered at the Gastineau Hotel.
SEATTLE VISITORS
H. K. L. Johnson and R. M. Ar
wine of Seattle are staying at the
Baranof Hotel,