The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1932, Page 12

8 > | By C. E. BUTTERFIELD { ADIO was Jim-| my's 1 eblood or at least he though so As Jimmy was long past the e parating man- hood from teens, one | say ne have known bet- ter, Mrs. Jimmy emphatically was not a radio fan she had to n whether she liked to or 1my always the i on when he was ho: H ad been bit by the radio E t the time that KDKA, pioncer broadcasting station,”| The bite seemed incurable.’ v had a fairly good laboratory | he spent hours that his wife! hould have been devoted| and the children. ke the wife see radio| t was Jimmy's t | h Christmas near, Mrs. Jim became more insistent than in her demands that he do| part for the good of the home.| Jimmy,” she asserted, “don't| you know I tired of sitting, her: night after night while you| are down in the basement monkey- his ing around.” “Bi Hi — was as far as Jin iption got “If it doesn't stop, I'm going, home to mother.” ‘ ultimatum, Jimmy| ynstairs to the radio he, i second only to his family. been working all summe he believed would be ter. But it just wouldn it should ited so much to show i He had not said rd to anybody about it cept of a big had you say, “If it doe are made.” Scattered on the ben pet. He started it up little, then sat back with a driver in his hand. Would he never discover that last simple conne ticn to Iift his radio above others? “Dzmn!” he shouted as his pent- up feelings burst. His right arm flashed up. The crewdriver crashed into the mesh of w . The receiver kept right on play-’ ing. It was tuned to a local station.| The music seemed clearer and more distinct, | Jimmy perked up. His fingers nursed the dials. A point away from the local another station was peunding in. “KNX, Los Angeles,” the announcer said. The screwdriver had supplied the missing link! | Days of negotiations with his en- gineer friend ended in the sale cf the invention the day before Christ- mas. Although her ultimatum had seemed to be the last word, Mis. Jimmy was still in charge of the household. Jimmy knew she reaily hadn't meant what she said. He was up early Christmas morn- ing and dived into the basement fo tinker a'little befors the family arose. | The first thing he knew, two healthy arms were around his neck, in one hand a torn envelope, in the other a check for $10,000, with a statement about royalty. “Oh, Jimmy! You, you, you—ra-, dio, radio, radio—"his wife gasped. An explanation was in order, and this was Mrs. Jimmy's re- sponse: | “Dear, what wire can I hold to help you?” th as his | RAR AR RRR IR RTERTI RGN A Pipe for Santa SR HAE IS RERATR A TR ERTS I The Gus Sumnick family of Waterloo, Neb., is busy studying maps of routes to Washington, for t 11 boys and girls are going next summer. when he visited their farm on his campaign. while their hosts-to-be are shown lower right. He| around. By HUGH FOGARTY WATERLOO, Neb, Dec. 17. oad maps will ding matter for the 13 Sum- a|nicks when snow drifts choke the gravel Franklin ald | his party during a gay campaign radio com-| Gov. you interlude—a visit to the Sumnick| | farm. For the current family slogan is|with a genuine Nebraska “Howdy!" to Washington,” group will be as busy as bees on On IRE, SUNDAY, DEC. 18, MRS, JIMMY It’s Going to Be a Busy Wilfter for the 13 ..Slfmm:('ks; They’re Planning for that Visit with the Roosevelts THE DAILY ALASKA EMP R T T IR ETI————. 1932, ! B e e e e | “They just take care of them- e “Sure,” agrees Gus. “If you have one or two you've got to keep a lot of them you don't have to do that. If one of ours does anything wrong, you ought to hear the others light into him. We don’t have to worry.” And the Sumnicks don’t need to| worry. They have so much fun at| home that none has married, all except the two youngest have been | graduated from Waterloo High School, some have gone through college, and all are willing helpers | about the farm. Sumnick was born in Germany, | but came to the United States watching them all the time. With | 'The Man of the Hour | when he was 19. He has been a | Democrat since the day he landed| in Nebraska to work for an uncle} |as a hired man. | | Thrifty ways and nard work paid | him well, for since his marriage in| | 1895 he has seen his original 160 |acres grow to 1,200, with the total | | almost free of debt. | And they're making plans this winter. They were invited to visit the White House by Franklin D. Roosevelt, now President-Elect, Gus and Mrs. In center Sumnick shakes hands with Mr. Roosevelt as members of his family crowd | | The visit of the Roosevelt party | last September was about as high | |an honor as Gus could imagine.| | Hazel, whose doughnuts are about the best in Douglas County, an'}‘ |Helen, a prize cake baker, pitched | |in with the rest of the women | folks and a number 6f neighbor| !\\cmen several days before the | | visit to prepare the 40 chickens {and the mountain of food fed the | | party. “Wasn't it grand,” was Gus's comment after the affair was over.| The trip to the White House| won't be all just fun for this suc-, cessful Nebraska family. His 46 years on the land have endowed him with a knowledge of farm problems, and he has definite ideas for their solution that he would like to impart to his friend, the | President. i | Gus feels certain that he will find an attentive listener, for whil> greeting the Roosevelts at the farm he found them both able “to use 1plam farm talk with us.” s where father, mother and the Sumnick are shown upper left, certain— | time as my guest.” provide whea | ample | gome time next summer, |and their 11 strapping sons and|out. lanes traversed by D. Roosevelt and|pice Hagel Gus, Jr. Wiliam, of here. | John, Leo, Francis and Jack«wnl: Then, too, | march into the White House to|time to get their wardrobes and the “Visit Us,” Says Roosevelt Pipe May Prove Troublesome 1,200 acres| Roosevelt had finished a chicken dinner cooked on the Sumnicks's contention in the Presidential nominee invited the | Gus has announced one thing as“lamxly to “visit Washington some| greeted the Roosevelts on the farm. planting is finished, he and mother |he made until Rose’s school let the girls must have in | Quette. | salute the President and his wif2|shape, the boys will have to be fit- | nibited proudly a photograph of ted out with new suits and Gus|Dimelf taken : | himself will have to lay in a supply | table was his coffes cup and in The White House trip was the|of cigars to cut up and smoke in|!he cup—sticking up plainly—was snowed-in winter days making plans | future President's idea, and Gus|his old pipe. | to return the Roosevelt social call.|accepted avidly. After he and Mrs. work on the owned by 66-year-old Gus Sumnick has been.too heavy to permit plan- ning actual details of the trip. But That pipe may prove a bone of S family circle. big kitchen range the Democratic| Gus may want to smoke it in the White House as he did when he Ghristmas Grreetings Merry Christmas We should be exceedingly happy if we could shake by the hand this morning and person- ally wish you a very merry Christmas — but when we count our friends, we find the day would not be long enough. So here are our Yule- tide Greetings and Sincere Wishes that the Christmas Holidays and New: Year may bring vou happiness in abundance. = [ Peerless Bakery HENRY MEIER, Proprietor | The girls, Gus's severest critics, Of course the auto trip can not may veto the idea. ;| Before Sumnick left the farm on She teaches a half mile down | a trip to his native Germany three daughters—Helen, Marie, Kathryn, | the road from the farm home south vyears ago the girls cautioned him | about leaving his spoon in his cof- | fes cup and other breaches of eti- When he returned, he ex- over there. On a SEASON'S G the spoon. Sumnick confesses that { brought a lecture from the girls. | But he doesn’t mind them. Pe- riodic “lectures” are all a part of keeping a big family happy, he says. 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