The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 12, 1940, Page 2

That Willkie Boy's Pranks Disturbed * Oldsters Back Home in Indiana, But Jusl Ihe Same Youngs!er Wenl Places Vi (This is the second of three articles about the G.O.P. stan- dard bearer.) By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer “So you're the joing to marry?” girl Wendeil's Wendell Willkie's mother said in 1917, when the man who has just stampeded the Re- publican party was on the trail of his bride-to-be. Mrs. Willkie was talking to Edith Wilk, spunky, fair-haired, blue-eyed girl from Rushville, Ind. a few miles from Elwood, the Willkie home town | Edith Wilk stammered, blushed “Oh, no, no,” she protested. “It must be a mistake. I've just met him. And—well, I never heard any- thing about it.” “No mistake,” laughed Mrs, wil Wendell's got it all set-| tled. Fi®'s told me he had met the girl he was going to marry. He| said it would be so easy, because your name is already Wilk.” Pranks and Prospects This was Edith Wilks' introduic- tion to life with that man-always-| in-a-hurry who, then, never seemed to know where he was going. Later on, in 1918, after Wendell had volunteered and before he went to France with the field ar- tillery, ‘she went to training camp to visit her fiance. Her aunt went along as a chaperone and it was It Enlisted dayv after U. S. declared war on Germany; served overseas :,}ffda"m who came away Starty-| .o cantain in 325th Field Artiller “He's—why he's going going to| LR BT be a great man,” sald aunty. The camps, tent hotels, and industrial Willkies were married before|plants, “Win” went to Frunce | After college came a lean “Win” Willkie ha way with|son or to as history teacher people, only in his youth he was|Coffeyville, Kansas. Still kt'(-x iy always messing up his promising|aware of his father's losses in the| future with escapades that mude | Elwood gas collapse, he decided | even good friends despair. There to make money, and thus make at the time when as college| himself free. So he returned to pranksters, he and his mo'mr‘Bloominston and law school. took on the entire police force of Then came his marriage and war Bloomington, Ind., with, their bare | €xperience. Home from France, the|publican from Alaska. fists—and landed in jail, Enjoyed Convention Chased From Germany | him. Although his delegation was not All biographers of Wendell! - Should he or should he not, turn | seated at the convention, Robert- Willkie tell you of the Willkie oD that personal magnetism of his!son says he enjoyed the session family ‘beginnings. Al four of 2nd run for Congress? | greatly, nevertheless. He sald toddy Willkie's Protestant grandparents| “¥ou should not,” lectured Fis ani | he is still “absolately confident our were chased out of Germany whea|C. Dailey, Indl 1apolis lawyer, not being seated was ‘due to a the Demiocrate los, the revolution| “But what—?" queried Willkie. 'misconstruction of the . rules. On of 1848, | “Leave that to me,” said Dailey. |the inerits of the comtest 1 am Willkie's father settled ,in 1885 He Didn't Get Away equally satisfied we were entitled in Elwood, Ind. There were rearcd | Willkie did, His decision to abide to be seated.” the six children of the present|by the Dailey counsel was the turn-| Robertson flew from Seattle o Willkie - generation — four boys|ig point in his life Dailey got New York. He said that it was ‘a (every one a success in the accept-| ed American sense) and two girls| (ditto) . Elwood' early gave up any thought of adjusting the Willkies to conventional small-town life and more or less accustomed itsell to the Willkies. By the time Win was 10, the mothers of the town had grown used to having the noses of their children bloodied hy one of those! Willkie kids; had quit stopping at the gate to gawk at all eight of | the Willkkie clan immersed deep and satisfied in their own per- formance of some Shakespearian play in the sideyard of theiv | home. The elder Willkie ascended and descended with the Elwood gas boom, but with his wife—the first woman admitted to the bar of In- diana—he hung out a shingle and managed to educaté the children, while cleaning up the town's or- ganized vice. | Slow to Decide | But the father believed chil- dren should - ‘work to find their own niche. The children did. but Win was slow making up his b <34 Mmh' " Universit Be entered ersity at bflm-’e whethier it was he was for,| t 1 sessions, warm w:n. learned i w‘w a_devastating game 9!1 or 50 4 his way in harvest ' hotel kitchens, mining land for ‘gn’al decision was in front ol Willkie a job as a lawyer with the Firestone Tire and Rubber Com- pany in Akron Ohio, There he cut a_ wide swath attired in his big, black Bill Borah hat, he argued for big gorporations in courtrooms, human liberties off duty By now he was an aclive Democrat, in politiecs. In a short few ye he was a lawyer in a most successful firm, and the eyes of one of the country’s biggest util- and; on. ity magnates were on him “Don’t let him get away Irom us,” pleaded B. C. Cobb, the Com- monealth & Southern executive, with his Ohio friends. And so the star of Wendell Willkie rose in the financial heav-| in éns, carried him to New York 1930 and to the fight of his up to now: his defense of his own utility system against the New Dcal TVA in the Tennessee Valley Ln\qtkl kie and what Is cock-oyed law. — e — FARGHERS GO SOUTH AFTER JUMEAU VISIT G. Fargher, wife and two children, left. for their home in Vancouver {aboard the Princess Charlotte. The Vancpuver Farghers have been v u.- ing the J. J. Farghers here fo the past se\eral weeks. - 1y & classified ad in The Empire. | ¢ he !experience (quite by accident) lalong one of the ‘nafrow one-way | turned off ty | front of the | bertson. [ that he had some difficulty in con- DIDN'T KNOW "‘ Escoried ai Phlladelphla by Brass Band, Mobbed | for Autograph l{ If you want to know how it féels| to be escorted around town by a| brass band and to be mobbed by jautograph hunters—ask R.'E. Ro- bertson The attorney “had that in Philadelphia two weeks ago when he attended the Republican Nation-| al Convention Robertson " tells it this way: With Cash Cole of Juneau dnd | Jack Clawson of Cérdova, he was ! riding with Philadelphia friends Juneau streets in ‘the City of Brothefly Love when their car was' slowed by a traffic jam ahead. Afterau-| in front of therh had into various the Alaskans [ound ! right behind one of the convention | bands, which turned down the street for which the travel- | were heading and stopped in hotel at which Ro- and Clawson were tomobiles themsewves ers I Cole staying Sugh Is Fame By this time a crowd had lined |the curbs to cheer and applaud Un' Alaskans' car, which they tdok i to be that of one of the prihcipal Republican candidates. When Robertson got out he was almost knocked off his feet by au- tograph seekers. He says he doesn’t know . who they took him for, but vincing them he was just & Re- real thrill te come down out of the clouds and circle the tall Man* hattan buildings before landing at LaGuardia Field. In New York' he met Jim Gaffney, formerly of Nome, now a Gotham hotel mana- ger. In Chicago he saw Carl Druetzéy, lawyer and mining man who niakes frequent trips to the ‘Territory, and Max Humpheries, formérly of 'Ju- nheau. Valley Forge Robertson - spoke “of ' ‘the ~great emotion which ovércame him on a visit to Valley Forge when he ‘saw |the headquarters where General Washington and his ragged army {had spent that terrible winter whert they were fighting Tor the riation's independence. On his way home, Réobertson stopped in Westérn Iowa to visil bis . mother,. He returned here on tlie ‘steamel Columba ¢his week. Fs W- " JAMfSON RITES 10 BE MELD SATURBAY Sl | and | the regulations for 1940 | shotwing for | plants in o[x‘latmn s0 early in the | Morke; sidestreets, | <| hoes, CHANGE OF TIME CONFUSES THEM Saving Alibi Is Now 01d Story between Juneau meridian time ‘has the apprehending of commercial fishermen to Acting Alaska Agent Clarence Olson of the Bureau of Fisheries who returned this week from a patrol on the vessel Brant. Although it is not the intention of the Bureau to arrest fishermen on mere technicalities, Olson said, ate cl ly that 135th meridian time shou'd Confusion timé 135th sulted in number of according | dpply. That is the time standard on which Juneau operated before the recent change. Fishermen ar- ch technicalitics with a warn- rested so far on s have been released | ing Olson said the Sitka seiner Helen |'H was fined $240 and forfeited $116 |:worth ~of salmon for « fishing in 4 restricted area in Long 3 Tenakee Inlet. A trial was held be- fore 'U. S. Commissioner Robett | Brown at Hoonah best Olson reported one ‘of the chum runs on record in Tena | fnlet and said Tcy Strait ‘was ex- porwmmu a ver, tisfactory chum B TR sd!mrtm BSH - PACK OF 75,000 CASES REPORTED ‘Good Runs of Chums v dem in ley Straif and Wgstern Districts Sotifheast Alaska “canneries hic up''to July 6 packed 74,869 cases o1 “salmon, considered = a, good the small number of season. In the Icy Strait district, where lithe season has been ‘open since Ullne 20, the pack amounts to 32-|Amundsen; | 646, Six‘ canneries in the Western dfstrict’ have packed 21,098 cases lantl two in the Eastern gistrict 6,- 688" cases since July 5. Wrangell canneries, packing fish from the ‘Stikine district where the season beghn Juné 26, have put up, 6,310 cases. The pack has béen as follows in Southeast Alaska: Yakutat—8256 reds, six pink: 27 total. Icy Strait—4,802 reds, 362 kings. 3967 pifks, 22,282 chums, 633 co-| hoeés, 32,046 total. Western—1,1677 reds, 589 pinks, 16,816 chums, 21,098 total. Eastern—842 reds, pinks, 465 kings, four kings,| 2,522 co- 32 kings, 575 5,225 chums, 14 cohoes, 031. Nrangell—4,655 reds, 12 pinks, 1,619 chums, 24 cohoes, 6,310 total. Totals—19,7722 reds, 863 Kkings, 5,149 pinks, 45942 chums, 3,183 co- foes, }4{3@] jpiel, ; Morgan Yachl Actor Frank Morgan arrived in Juneau late this afternoon aboard his yacht Dolphin and tied:at the | Ferry Float. Morgan and his party have been | fishing Southeast Alaska waters for the past_several weeks. : Repom from Sitka say Morgan reported his early disappointments at_Alaska fishing have been turned into a problem of “how to keep them fromt jumping into the boat.” - e l STOCK QUOTATIONS . NEW YORK, luly 12, — Closing guotation of Alaska ‘Juneéiu mine stock today is 4%, American Can 945, "Anaconda 19%, Bethlehem Steel 752, Commonwealth * ‘and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 7%, General Motors 43'%, Kennecott 24%, New York Central 11%, Nerth- ern Pacific 6', United States Steel 51'z, Pound $3.68. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, innes averages: Industrials, 121.63; ails, 25.98; utilities, 2259, > Mrs. Dudley to ! Visit in Cify Mrs, M. J. Dudley, mother of Mrs. Funeral serv;ces for l. '1‘ son, a member-of the crew of jg; steamer North Sea who passed 9“)‘ here June 10, will be held to: afternoon at 1:30 oclpck from tha hape] of the' Charles’ i Carter ortiiaty." | The American Legion rfl,uqkewfll |be used ‘and, interment : wail \Evergreen Cemetery, Warren Eveland, arrived here . last Ievgnmg on the Motorship North- ‘A resident of Houlton, Maine, Mrs. Dudley has been visiting Mrs, Eveland’s sistey in Virginia, .She will spend some time in Juneau be- fore ret.umlna §out.h * Emplie classifieds bring resulta: oIanrsW-t:};ed Daylighl',‘ 6,699 Arrives Here fr e Doing their bit to aid the Red Cross drive for funds the Civitan Club of Miami, Fla., stages a bread and water luncheon, turning the money over to the orgsmzauon William Parker, originator nf the idea, pours a glass of w:tcr for John B, Keena, club president, as the latter rcaches portion of bread. INSTALLATION SERVICES HE'D We IMrr erx\lC(& for the Territorial for his | Department of Public Welfare, was on leave, Twe weeks ago she saw Dr. Mar- | cia Hays off from New York for her| DEPARTM OF coum:n THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 0 pan., July Occasional light rain with not much change in temperature toni and Saturday; gentle to moderate southerly winds. Minimt temperature tonight 50 degrees. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Intermittent light rain and not much change in temperature tonight and Saturday; gentie to mod- erate south and Southeasterly winds, Forccast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaskn: Moderate variable winds, mostly southerly, from Dixon Entranie lo Sitka; and moderate southeasterly from Sitka to Kodiak LOCAL DATA Time Barometer ‘lemp. Humidity Wingd Veloeity Wenther 4:30 p.m. yest'y 30.00 68 53 SSE 9 Cloudy 4:30 am. today 30.04 58 84 SE 5 Rain Ncon today 30.13 56 95 s 2 Rain RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 3:30a.m. Precip. 3:30a.m. Station 12 hours | temp. temp, 24 hours Weather Barrow | 38 38 [ r Fairbanks 56 0 y Nome | 50 .03 y Dawson | 47 0 w Anchorage | 48 0 Clear Bethel | 9 03 Cloudy St. Paul 42 .36 Rain Dutch Harbor | 46 01 Ra ‘Wosnesenski | 438 P Cloudy Cordova 52 0 Clou Juneau ki 55 T Rain Sitka - 65 57 09 Rain Ketchikan 68 | 56 05 Cloudy Princé Rupert .. 64 | 52 38 Prince George .. 80 | 50 0 Seattle 82 | 58 58 0 Portland 88 | 62 62 0 San Pranciseo . 67 56 58 T WEATHER SYNOPSIS gy B L L N The weather chart this mornin; showed a minor disturbance con- lAS ENI S“‘-\ was ;“”&"'(‘V ‘”I‘”'"‘I ”’( l“l](l‘ tered off the colist of Washington and another situated in the Guli H“‘u‘l"“ r“ ; '11_‘“‘“ 14 Child) of Alaska; and a more ntense disturbance centered in the Bering un“\ 0f “:;1 ,unlmtut De pau- Sea. ' Gondidetdble cloudy’ weather p evailed over most of Alaska and George Jorgenson IS New | i O‘Jfl ¥4 _.l ; i; light rain and low clouds were reported this morning along most of | the Juneau Seattle Airways. Head for Odd Fel. &Elh sea Now | Junyeau, July 13.—Sunrise 4:13 am., sunset 9:57 p.m. lows LOdge ( TEONGAL By T ) 4 (Official Publication) tory of Alaska, First Judicial Di- - TR | | REPORT OF THE RINANCIAL Vision. ss. The officers of silver Bow Lodge uneau oun CONDITION 1, O.'W. Tupper, Cashier of the No. A 2, ‘IO?P . were installed Jas ‘ of the. above named bank, do solemnly evening by District Deputy Grand vear tha e foregoing me Master, Chas. W. Carter, assisted by - | « FIRST BANK OF SITRA |{riit (U, 1 (e oviedso H. V. Ca Ed ChristensenJohn| SEATTL July 12. Steamer | located at Sitka, Territory of Alaska, | and belief. Reck, James Larsen and Hans Lo- |Nor(h Sea sailed at 11:30 o'cleck this fat the close of business on the 30th S b ken forenoon with 297 passengers aboard | day of June, 1940. | Notortal Sealy A i Officers installed were: Past including the following booked for RESOURCES | (CORRECT—_ATTEST) sozh | Grand, F. S. Laughlin;Ncble Grand, Jutigau; thas and discounts $ 5485845 | P. S. GANTY George Jorgenson; Vice Grand, Mrs. Marian Schoettler, Mrs. .1y oais on real estate 42,434.70 THOMAS TILEON Hagerup; Recording Secretary, Clif- M. Winans, Jens Peterson, Mrs . g i s o 3 : ; 5 | Overdrafts 488.61 Directors or Partners. ten, K. Tisdale; Warden, Forrest John Hermle and children, . Mrs. ‘O'hcr Bonds and war- | Ea Fernessy: Conductor. Henry A. Jon- | Hawiey ‘Steifing, Mrs. H. L. Prite} e 5 @ S Subscribed and sworn to before kins; Chaplain, S. J. Paul; RS.N.G,'and son, Mrs. Mary Alexander, Hé;xkh.xv e e 5,000. | me this 6th day “f July, | )40, Don' W. Skuse; LSNG. Bernt Ralph Alexander, J. R. Friday, puo'go o iy i RS.V.G., Ralph Mortenson; JamesiA. Beck; T. E. Starzynski, H.| 00 - il s 10a0tn | Notary Public in and for the Terri- LSV.G, Vernon Snoddy; R. S. 8., O. Sandes, . C]” k‘f’“‘ b i tory of Alaska. My commission ex Hans Loken; L. S. S, J. A. Mc [raamagon. CHiek hanks pires Oct. 29, 1943, Laughlin; Inside Guardian, Peds S bl R e o : grdiag, # % § Cash on hand > T = ‘ Outside Guardian, Bert bmiiisy S . — S e P.xpens_c.s in excess of S N Following the ceremony of Tn-| szs“ EA(H FOR T FEnt stallation a luncheon was served un- ‘ e N ; TOTAL $330,504.02 d;lu‘:ln dircction of Mrs. T. Ha- | "F'SH leATB" AR e | i L " 7 i | Capital stock paid in $ 25.000.00 T p g : TR [Surplus fund 5,000.00 respassin NEW ELECTRAS Captured Seiner Surf Is o o 0000 = | | Due to other banks 20/000.00 OB 1 dp ure einer Jurt Is Demand deposits 211,028.89 ('l‘()R‘('E BRO Towed Here by Caflnefy Time deposits 68,787.32 FARM FOR INTERIOR PANAIR ROUTE Tender Fairweather (R Four youths arrested yesterday 1ear Angoon as fish pirates were |Crosson Says Late Model ::vaicned betore u. 5. Comumissioner Felix G today on charges of grand larceny and, held in lieu of $2500 | bail each. i The prisoners are Robert A. Hullt, — ! James A. Simmons, Courtney H. Ly~ ; Two new Lockheed Electras will and J. Francis Mills, all of Ket- | be delivered to Pacific Alaska Air- |chikan. Hullt was master of the ways in the next few weeks for|alleged pirate boat Surf, which is | service over the Juneau Interior owned by his father, Alford J. run, according to General Manager Hullt of Ketehikan. of PAA Joe Crosson, who came in| Meanwhile, the Surf was towed from Seattle last night on the Al- hére by the cannery tender Fair- aska Clipper. | weather, arriving at Femmer’s dock Crosson said plans at 11 ("LIOCL last nlghl Douglas planes are PR | Ships fo Be Delivered Here Soon for PAA for being held enlargement ln:‘gcr in ! of |abeyance pending ficia taciites iBA[I_ GAME IS are the latest development in Elec- | S(HED“[ED FOR tras. They will be powered with! | twin 550 horse power Pratt-Whitney | i(n;..'incx as compared with the 450/ The first of the new ships will be Vi delivered in Seattle, July 25, and| It's like an old song—"if it doesn’t | the other about August 15. rain”—but that again is the sched- Crosson will fly north to Fair- ule for tonight’s game in Firemen's g0 b\(l& to Sealtle for a few days.| FEIks, five in a row winners in ; B D S — the past two weeks, are slated to 1 ‘I b Ai | 20 up against the Moose, with Ram- fave y Alr | sey probably 'pitching for, the Elks, Ends for T ees Legion Auxiliary A six weeks’ Lrjp on which she| B b T traveled excluslvely by airplane | ar e(ue omorrow from Vancouver, B. C. to San Fran-| Annguncénienit was made that cars cisco, Chicago, New York, Connec here | barbecue will leave the Dugout to- vesterday for Miss Deborah Pentz;morrow evening gt 6 o'clock if the when she arrived home on the Al-|weather permits;- -If rainy .weather hska. Clipper, prevails the The new Lockheeds, Model horse power engines now in use. IONIGHII pARK | banks, return here Monday and then | Park. ‘.'m(l Johnson ‘for the 'Moose Deborah Pentz |for the American Legion Auxiliary cut and Washington ended i Miss Pentz, Supervisor ;of Child|be held ins the Bugoug MAY WE TOOT We have done no advertising lately on WELDING For the simple reason that FRANK PLISKA Is 50 good he is kept busy night and day “HIS’ satisfied customers advertise for him. icia & AHLERS Co. barbecue dinner will Cashier’s and certified checks Dynamite Blasting Everyday! Be Careful! TOTAL $330,504.02 United States of America, Terri- GENERAL ELECTRIC [ ] Al TjVA'EOK gives Long Life to clothes, ® PERMADRIYE MECHANISM gives Long Life to washer. ® RUBBER-MOUNTED G-E MOTOR is quiet, efficient. @ PORCELAIN-ENAMEL. TUB is handsome, easy to clean. o ONE-CONTROL WRINGER . . . stops and reverses rolls, . applies and.teloases pressure, automatically filts drainboard, . PERMANENI’ UBRICATION. ® QUIET WASHING OPERATION ® GUARANTEED BY GENERAL ELECTR’C. Quick-emptying pump at slight $5 Dowii, $5 per Mo, #2 1 spiey El