The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 22, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’ VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,613 MARINES ARE B nders at | SUBVERSIVES BILL IS VETOED BY PRESIDENT 5,500-Word_Message Sent|. to House by Truman- House fo Override RO BULLETIN — WASHINGTON, Sept. 22—(P—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 —_— JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Enem T 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 — (® —} 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. North Korean soldiers, hands held by Un invading soldiers at Inchon, nchon il HOUSE 328-7 | approval today of a “first install- TAX-BOOSTING 'BILL PASSES . i WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 — (B — | | The House shouted overwhelming | photo was made by Cpl. Danfle (first name not available) of Cin- | cinnati, 0. U. S. Army photo via radio and (® Wirephoto. ment” tax-boosting bill to help pay | for the costs of arming agamst! | Communist aggression. Quick Sen- | | ate passage was expected to put! {it on President Truman's desk by nightfall. | A roll call vote of 328 to 7 sped | the bill through the House. { Mr. Truman already has expressed | [ himself as well pleased with the | | measure, and is expected to sign it immediately, even though it's estis mated annual revenue of $4,700,- 000,000 falls short of the $5,000,~ .. | 000,000 he asked two months ago. | 3 Shortly before the vote was g taken, it was announced in the | House that Chairman Doughton | high in surrender, are examined | (D-NC) has called the Ways and | , South Korea. This U. 8. Army |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 LOTTIE SPICKETT | DIES SUDDENLY, ST. ANN'S HOSPITAL IlIness Ends Career of Prominent Pioneer Woman of ThisCity Juneau was saddened and shock- ed today to learn of the death of K ’Mrs. Josephine C, Spickett, prom- But, regardless of the seven points | he raised against the legislation in a 5,500-word message, Congress was | inent and beloved pioneer resident, at 8:00 o'clock last night, following an emergency appendectomy at 4 | Congress can vote when it comes | back in November. Democrats and Republicans alike { went on record, in closing debate, { ' as favoring passage of such a tax| | | then. | SOLONS PASS $17 BILLION DEFENSEBILL WASHINGTON, Sept. 22—(P— The Senate today passed and sent {to the White House the $17,000,- | .5.F0 N upper left. airfield now in Allied hands. capital of Korea. (# Wirephoto via RCES TO DEFEND ALl AlASl(AI General Ke}fir Says Ter-) ritory Part of World- wide Defense Plan ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 22—, U. S. Marines look through field glasses in the direction of Seoul which lies behind the far ridge at In foreground is the Han Valley and Han River as seen from a ridge northeast of Kimpo Marines have crossed the Han River in their advance on Seoul, ancient ready to make the bill a law. {o'clock that same afternoon in St. Requirements | Ann’s hospital. Cause of her death Among other things, it would re- |was given as a pulmonary embolus ¥ " |following a post operative blood quire Communists and leaders o“transrusion Communist front organizations to | S reuiater with the Justice Depart. | Ms. Spickett had felt in good health until she was taken sudden- ment. It would let overnment | s W we s ly ill Wednesday morning. She was {taken to the hospital and an op- |eration deemed advisable on a diag- nesis of a ruptured, gangrous | appendix. Her physician, Dr. J, O. Al et S i e See (Continued on Page Two) The Washington| s > Merry - Go - Round | (Copyright, 1030, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) | By DREW PEARSON 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 asE 20 per cent while refusing to tax| the war profits of big corporations. | The most: important debate on‘I 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 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 was a member of a pioneer Calif- 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 California in 1852. Mrs, Spickett was reared on her father’s rancH in Yuba County, California, and following her formal education in a private school she went to Stockton where she at- tended business college. On her graduation from this school she was employed in a business office in Sacramento. To Alaska in 1897 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~ R *MISS CERMANY'® ~Suzanne Erichson, 24, a Berlin model, was chosen “Miss Ger- many - 1950,” at Baden-Baden. for competition in annual “Miss Europe” contest at San Marino. i 3 i e 4 i i JUNEAU BADMINTON (LUB 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 pérmitted to! play unless wearing tennis shoes on the floor. | 000,000 emergency defense bill. | ESenate approval by voice vote icame after it scuttled a ban pro- posed by Senator Wherry (R-Neb) to stop U. 8. economic aid to coun- tries which ship war-potential goods ! to Communist nations. { Instead, the Senate adopted | House provision giving the Nation: | Secruity Council—headed by Pr a al i- 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 1Wherry to modify the Senate amendment, which he also had | sponsored. 'ADVANCE WORK GOING FORWARD EKLUTNA PROJECT Action is being rushed on the $20,365,400 Eklutna project, Joseph Morgan, Chief of the Investigations Division of the Bureau of Recla- mation, said today upon his retur from a 10-day trip to Anchorage and Palmer. | dent Truman—discretionary author- | ity to half American dollar<help to | ' might conceivably do so for psy- “Four drilling crews have moved | (A—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 ;nppearance yesterday. : by name, Alaska’s commander ap- | parently was refuting claims that | Nome, on the Bering Sea, would 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| jand 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 chological the General said. reasons,” “Worldwide Plan” “We cannot overlook the world- wide plan for defense, of which Alaska is a part. In planning stra- tegic warfare the importance of| Alaska has not been overlooked. A pertion 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- | -ense. “Alaska has great potentialities as an advance base for the opera- tion of aircraft going in either di- rection, “The distance from Moscow tol Fairbanks is the same as from | Fairbanks to Mexico City. ’ ATTLING WITH BAY Seou’s Over fhat Way _ radio from Tokyo. Army Lieufenant Faces b Death; Wife Takes Her Her Appeal fo President PRAYS Although he did not mention it |’ Six-year-old Rose Marie MecCor- mick prays at Collingdale, Pa., for 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.” () 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 YORK, Pa., Sept. 22 — (M ~ An Army Lieutenant’s wife said today she has petitioned President Tru- man to set asiGe 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 iand expecting a third child, turned her appeal over to Rep. James F. Lind (D-Pa). The Gilberts are i 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 suppert 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. PRICE TEN CENTS ONETS SUBURBS OF SEOUL NOW HOT PLACE Marines Face 10,000-Rg Korean Defense Troops -Gains Are Reported (By the Assoclated 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-mile advance. The advance from the southern beachhead area north of Taegu placed the U.8. 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 Alliled Corps pushed .|ahead by inches against 10,000 Red troops. in Seoul’s outskirts, often in hand to hand combat. U.S. Marines, in baypnet 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 fl from the th in now was moving up swiftly. Maj. Gen. Hobart R. Gay, US. First Cavalry Division Commander, said it “Is a great day” north of 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, Kigye Recaptured On the east front, South Korean troops recaptured Kigye, 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 U.S. Sec- ond Djvision 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 Chinju, slowed by a thickly sown minefield. Chinju was the main Red southern base. Mystery Tank Column The whereabouts of a tank-led mystery column which had been re- ported moving south from the Man- churian border to the Sequl area still remained a mystery. The 10th Corps had no new reports of it to- day, although yesterday it was be- lleved 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 flercest of the war. Fighting in its suburbs was hand to hand and Marine casualties were reported “relatively heavy.” Tank-led Ma- rines who crossed the Han Wednes- | “My job is 'to see that it stays {in the right hands and to defcnd‘ |Alaska. And that means—all or‘ |Alaska. This I will do with Lhe‘ | troops 'and equipment I have at my | i day split into two columns for the attack into the outskirts from the | souitheast and from the north. Some 18,000 Red troops are in the city proper. Uncertainty as to the city 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. He also consulted with Defense De- partment officials at the Pentagon. in, equipment and additional crew are being moved in over the Alaska Highway right now, all rollin | equipment has been purchased bot! the mood to throw away money, why not make some concessions to the working girl and the man with four or five kids?” WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Perfod ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 66; LONG OUT TO SCHOOL After a summer working at the However, the Michigan Demo~i 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 big bracketeers, and half jokingly asserted: ‘Gene, if you don’t support me on this—woe to you when you g0 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. g “I want to see how much faith you have in General Bradley—how During the time Mr. Spickett had his troupe at the Louvre, Mrs. Spickett had held the position of office manager for the S. BlumA 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 Streeets 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- (Continued on Page Four) (*Coniiiflfiedi on Jéaigew’f‘v}o) i minimum, 47. At Airport—Maximum, 64; minimum, 50. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) 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. ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 in Alaska and in the States,” he said. The crews are coming fr lall parts of the West, whereser available. Photogramatry pictures are n | being flown by the Ryall Enginc ing Company of Little Rock, Ak These aerial reconnaissance surve when flown at 12,000 feet altitud Morgan explained, and save muc! time and money in survey work | A nine-foot diameter tunnel {to be opened through Goat Mou tain from Eklutna Lake to the K River. Drilling crews are getiin? data on the nature of the rock through which the tunnel will imade up as soon as possible | Donald T. Bogi, CAA man [0t Anchorage is stopping at the Hot Juneau. I pictures are accurate within 20 feet | | disposal according to my best capa- bilities. I | “No Pushover” | | “We are no pushover right now. ' | Anybody who thinks he can’ walk | Pullma |in and take over the territory is| in for a rude awakening. | “This force assembled for the| | defense of Alaska is well I.l'mned.! | 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-| will join Martin Holm, education | specialist traveling on the North| Star. They will visit ANS schools | in the Nome and Anchorage ar (for ten days. e O Hawk Inlet cannery, Bill Long vis- ited briefly with his sister, Mrs. Eleanor McKinnon in Juneau early this week and left Wednesday for n, 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 2%, American Can 99%, Anaconda 35%, Curtiss- Wright 9%, International Harvester .| vice educationist has left on PNA 31, Kennecott 65'%, New York Ce{x- Specifications on the project will b¢ for Anchorage and Nome, where he !tral 16%, Northern Pacific 247, U.S. Steel 39%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 2,510,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 226.64, rails 67.90, utilities 39.86. PAA T0 PURCHSE 18 DOUGLAS DC-6BS SEATTLE, Sept. 22 — (# — 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- 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 Suwon, 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 | bound sometime Monday, Baranof Hotel,