The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 24, 1950, Page 2

PAGE TWO S e See the newest styles | for boys and girls .. definitely a “new ¢ ™ look” in shoes for youngsters, too. bsther-Bi Shoes | FOR BOYS AND GIRLS 00 ced ) "'(:“\:‘ L [T Sizes 812 to 3 R M Behrends, Co QUALITY SINCE 1887 PUSAN PORT 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. 8. 25th Infantry! Division troops renewed an attack to win positions on a dominatmg‘ ridge at the outer approaches to Pu- san, main U, S. harbor on the south- | THREATENED iRed divisions rained heavy mortar | and small arms fire on the 25th| 3 Infantrymen, possibly in advance of pulling back to regroup. They ap-|, fresh Red attempt to break peared to be quitting the Waegwan | yyough in the south. area, 12 miles northwest of Taegu.| (op the eastern front, South Kor- Infbne 72-hour period 8,500 casual- | ean troops moved north from the ties were inflicted on the Commul-{ pohang_Kigye area against stiff but ists in the bloody mountain battle- | 150a1i7ed resistance., field, headguarters said. The Naktong River bridgehead of the Communists southwest of Taegu still was being contained by U. S. (Continued from Page 1) Collins Makes Inspection Gen. J. Lawtoh Collins, U. S. - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU. ALASKA JAMES WICKERSHAM 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 Foremast 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 durihg 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 i to his election to the Legislature of the State of Washington in 1898. : In 1800, upon the recornmendatiorn! 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 xfs.mlly 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- jous 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 4 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- ied 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 | 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 i 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 | bill creating the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, now vhe University of Alaska, of which he laid the cornerstone on July 4, 1915, # Indéfatigable worker as he Wwis,: he prepared a bibliography of every ‘iece 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. ) Army Chief of Staff, visited the northwest front above Taegu Wed-} nesday, leaving only 15 minutes be-{ 25th Division troops. of the early history of Alaska. That Off the southwest coast, South | P ¥ i was his hobby and it remained with Korean marines landed on the is- him to his last days. fore a hot enemy action blaud‘m"d of Uldo. i there. Adm. Forrest P. Sherman,| O the diplomatic front, Russia’s who flew to Korea in another plane, | J8kob A. Malik was expected to visited Eighth Army headquarters. | coqunue his_ stalling tactics in the The Army chief expressed Sauh_!umted Natmm‘ Security Council, faction with the way the war has|POW heading into its fourth and been going and said he found mor- final week under his pres_idency. It ale high among Americans and :Meets again tomorrow onthe Kor- South Koreans. Sherman, on his 4R question, probably once again return to Tokyo, said he believed the | 10 hear the propaganda for which Russians have been supplying the the Soviet delegate for three weeks North Koreans every since the out- | Nas used the Council as a forum. break of fighting, adding that “no- body believes the North Koreans | are manufacturing their own »\arpa(ifi( "o"hm materiel.” | . . Sherman told the ship’s company B"ng‘ Elgh'm on a U. S. Tth Fleet aircraft carrier | that U. 5. warships hammering te | AN Takes Seven Out North Koreans on the coasts are only the advance guard “until more | help can come.” | Juneau yesterday via Pacific North- American destroyers yesterday | ern Airlines from Anchorage and made their second bombardment of | way points. They were: Dr. D. V. Chongji on the North Korean east| Trueblood, M. Wirshing, A. K. fiee: coast, starting fires which -could | ley, Dr. Grace E. Field, (.Beérge. Tap- be seen for 10 miles. | ley, Thomas Bennett, Mr. Rivenes, 300 Reds Killed By Air | Col. J. D. Alexander, Jack Hender- U, S. Marine airmen said they|son, John Reamer, Walter Zobrist killed 300 North Korean soldiers in | Elsie Ezi, J, L. Houston, Dr. J. T.| a rocket and strafing attack on| Googe, Dr. F. Maresh, V. Peterson, troop concentrations north of Tae- } A Manus and Bob se'perh : Bu. Going frol B-29s again hit traffic facx]ities‘twere: gA]berT \.J]vl;:iug) :3:;‘0::2] of the North Koreans in the rear,$ Fritchman, Normnn‘ JO’I’ZEDSO;I Lt. mangling rail lines along the east|S. Putzke, Commander W. Go!r"and. coast and hitting the main west- | Tord Astrom., 4 ern railroad running toward lhei battlefront. The superforts also| Sewin, smashed at one of the largest chem- L Wh‘lun:::il::. M:i;:};n:}e::&m' Eighteen passengers arrived in \* e ADDS FLAVOR RICHNESS TO FAVORED RECIPES! 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. 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 It was not long until the steadily | he gave up politics for good and up 1 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 to the end, which came on Oct.oheri 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 rin 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! 1 | I RADIO LOG Alaska Bruadcasting Co. KINY CBS — NBC DIAL 1460—>UNEAU THURSDAY EVENING 6:00—News. | 6:15—Musle. 6:20—Sports. 6:30—Billboard of Air. | 6:45—Local News. 7:00—Teen Age Quiz. 7:30—ARTHUR GCDFREY-CBS 8:00—Forecasts. 8:05—Music for Listening, 8:30—UNIV. 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All programs subject to change due to conditions beyond our con- ol FLORIDA QUEEN~-— Gladys Engman, 20, is enthroried as queen of the first inter- mational 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. R A welcofiwe host to workers... in offices and shops refresh at the familiar red cooler e ;2 sk for i cither way.. . both G trade-marks mean the same thing. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORTY OF THE COCA-COM COMPANY BY JUNEAU COLD STORAGE oourm © 1950, The Cosa-Cola Company JERRY WILLIAMS FAMILY ¢ HOMEBOUND BY HIGHWAY Y our Deposits The occasional postcards sent his p office by J. Gerald Williams, Ter- / ritorial Attorney General, are post- marked nearer and nearer to Ju- neau. 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