Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1940 — Page 21
FRIDAY, APRIL 19,
1940 .
e Indianapolis
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond | |
3 BRADENTON, Fa, April 19.—The manager of the “Bradenton trailer camp is quite a personality. In fact, “he has to be, to run a trailer camp. He is Bobby Brollier, known to a good many thousand people in Jevery state before he ever began wet-nursing trailer
inhabitants. For Bobby has been on the road in‘ show business for 40 years. He was a Scotch singer with Roy Smith's troupes of Royal Scotch Highlanders. He is the only man Harry Lauder ever gave permission to sing his songs. After show business began going to pot so badly, Bobby wound up with a little farm outside of Bradenton, raising chickens. The last few years he has gone on the road only in summer, and then as a stage scenery supervisor, not as ‘an entertainer. He made enough with that and his : “chickens to carry him through the winters, * _ ‘But. he had trailered all over America himself, and the new trailer park started ‘here in 1936 took his eye. So, after the first season, Bradenton gave him the job ‘of managing it.
Bobby literally works 18 hours a day—from 6 a.m, “to midnight. So does his wife. He is head over heels =n love with the. Job. He loves trailers, and trailer He is neighborly and accommodating. He knows
“'€very one of his 700 tenants by name. Last year he
didn’t go on the road at all—his first miss in 40 years. He never expects to go again. Except he would like to live in a trailer. He's surrounded by 700 of them, but he has to live in an apartment up over the park’s store bullding. : : s Central Work Sites
" Bobby is, in reality, the city manager of a comHunts of 1500 people. As we walked around, I couldn't help but think how much it resembles these new government migrant camps. -- People who camp for the winter in a trailer park
Philippines
WASHINGTON, April 19.—Face to face with the fact “that the Philippines are directly in the track of Japan's now ‘officially avowed ambition” to expand
southward, President’ Manuel Quezon is said to be secking 8 ig, from the United States to transform the commonwealth into an - American dominion. ... In a letter from Salvador Araneta, one of the foremost lawyers of Manila and close friend of President Quezon, appears the following: “Considering that Manuel Quezon is the president of our government, the leader of our people and above all, the father of our nation, he could not very well ask something unless he first receives reasonable assurance from Washington that the ‘same would be acceptable. “Not having received any- such assurance from Wa he has been very careful not to make 4t appear that he is asking for a dominion status. This consideration should be given proper weight by our friends on the other side of the Pacific.” These remarks are from a speech radioed throughout the islands. in which Mr. Araneta said, in effect, that President Quezon is ready to re-examine the question. of independence. In this stand, Mr. Araneta added, the President “has the unanimous support of
the people, of the Philippines.”
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nc $Y. Ta Claim. Re-eamination Won
_ Re-examination of the independence question, Mr. Araneta said, is definitely on the march. In fact, he said, re-examination has been won, “at least the-
. oretically,” in the Philippines.
This was doubtless inspired by President Quezon’s recent pronouncement that in theory he is in favor of re-examination, but that, as a matter of fact, he is against it because he does not believe the United States would be willing fo grant the minimum
By Ernie Pyle
have to do their clothes-washing, their nating, thelr ironing, their playing, in a central place. The Bradenton camp has two big work centers. It furnishes its tenants with 14 zinc-lined, wash vats in a row, where women wash in community, as they do at the rivers in Mexico. There are two electric machines for the “wealthy,”
to be had by dropping a coin in the meter, There are|.
ironing boards for all. There are two toilet centers. private boothed showers, and there is always hot water. No solicitors are allowed in the park, and no salesmen. People who have lived in other parks say this one thing alone makes life worth while here. The way people. fix up their little trailer homes is touching. - Nearly every one has a canvas stretched out from the car roof, making a porch for sitting. They put out flower pots, and gay summer chairs, and tables with magazines. They eat outdoors when the weather is nice.
The Social Sido
The social side of life is well looked after. The ubiquitous shuffle-board courts are here—nine of them in fact. There are five horseshoe courts, dance hall with free orchestra, and a card room. The high point of each winter is the trailer show. Then manufacturers bring in their finest, and the connoiseurs gather both critically and longingly around, and the poking and the discussing and the inquiring is long and learned. The lengths people will go with trailers is almost shocking. I visited in one that cost $4100, and the owner stayed at the factory while it was being built, as though it were a yacht. It has fluorescent lights, shower and toilet, circulating oil heater for winter, air-conditioning for summer, its own power plant, Venetian blinds, and even
* a telephone between davenport arm and the driver's
seat ahead. You could build a house for what it cost. Personally I wouldn’t give you two slugs for life in a trailer. Yet none of us has the power to see himself a few years hence. A fellow never knows when some great fundamental slippage in viewpoint” may throw him to his knees. I think Ill can up a few quarts of stuff this summer anyhow, just in case.
‘By William Philip Simms
terms necessary to: keep the Philippines under the American flag.© These terms apparently \ call for economic autonomy in the foreign field. While he does not see eye to eye with the President in his major conclusion nor in some of his minor considerations, Mr. Araneta said, “I am" happy to say that as to his major premises we find ourselves on common ground. They are the following: “1. In the next 25 years we shall not be in a position to defend our country against a major invasion. “2. Conquest is a potential danger which may. orf may not come. “3. There is no danger that any foreign power will try to attack or conquer the Philippines as long as the American flag stays there. “4. There is one thing in the fight of the Filipino people for freedom which we may never Penounce, and that is the substance of freedom. t EJ 2
‘The Substance of Freedom’
“5. There is a solution to the Philippine question better than complete and absolute independence in 1946, and . ; “6. We can find no greater nation with which to live than the United States.” : President Quezon himself had plainly stated, said Mr. Araneta, what constituted that “substance of freedom” which the Filipinos would never renounce, but which, if granted, would offer a solution “better than complete independence.” And that was dominion status, like that of Canada, “even without the autonomy on foreign affairs enjoyed by Canada.” Apparently President Quezon would ask for economic, though not political, autonomy in foreign affairs. Washington, however, does not seem to be able to distinguish clearly between them. And events in Europe make the distinction less clear every day. Small nations which fail to live up to their trade agreements with Germany, to cite but one example, are threatened with invasion forthwith. The United States, therefore, political consequences of Philippine trade treaties unless it has a voice in making them.
(Mr. Anton Scherrer was unable to write a column today because of illness.)
. Washington
WARRINGTON, April 19.—Republicans put their __hest foot forward, for a change, when they selected - for convention keynoter Governor Harold E. Stassen "of Minnesota and for permanent chairman Rep. agepn, Martin of Massachusetts, the Minority Leader of the House. They are two of my favorite Republicans. Each is perfectly fitted to the part for ‘which he has been cast. The Republicans could have done much worse, and almost always have. The keynoter or temporary chairman and: the permanent chairman are the two most conspicuous figures in the convention and have 3a large part in determining the first impression made upon the public in the earlier convention sessions before the ‘nominating fight develops. Governor Stassen, a young, vigorous, new figure, with a large frame and a smiling, open face, inclined
' toward a moderate liberal course, and immensely
popular in Minnesota after a year in office, is exactly the personality to dramatize the rejuvenation which the Bepublicans think they are undergoing. ss = ®
The Stassen Selection
Last Saturday Governor Stassen was 33 years old
and he is foo young to run for President, but he is
one of the Governors of whom the party can be justly ‘which is more than can be said for some of the Republican Governors. other — in a state which was long held by the Parmer-Laborites and dominated by left-wing majorities, Stassen has made an adjustment on a moderate bagis: toward: the middle of” the road. He has given
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My Day
_ WASHINGTON, Thursday.—Life has been lived
Father rapidly .gince my return. I suddenly realized today that I: had forgotten to mention the riot of daffodils ini ‘the garden between the White House and the president's ¢ s office. The magnolia trees are out-and = the grass is beautifully green : and, though .we haven't séen . much sun, sping is really: here. “ “The President, if nothing un- + toward happens, hopes to jours + ney to Warm Springs, Ga.; to- ' ‘night where the air will be even
balmier. He had intended to take
this trip while I was away, but these days one can never tell from day to day what one may be doing. Now he hopes for a few days in Georgia to catch up ei on many of his interests there 4 and to have a little rest, but I al have o stay around here and fulfill ‘a number of engagements which have been made. I shall, howSeer, hn have time to go to Hyde Park and, though they me it is still winter there, I am going to think tt the garden. trip to Philadelphia was rather a satisfactory rience. On the train I drew all the checks for which have been piling up on my desk and reme.that 1 must ZSomeuIme. have : little writ=
By Raymond Clapper
the impression of competence and open-mindedness which is exactly what the Republican Party needs on a national basis. Inasmuch as the Republicans can
‘return to power only with the help of votes which
went to Mr. Rooosevelt in 1932 and 1936, Governor Stassen personifies the kind of leadership which the party must have this year to win. Hence his selection
‘as convention keynoler was a perfect one.
The only question is whether the party can live up to him. As permanent chairman, Rep. Martin should be a help to the party. He is a competent parliamentarian and all factions have confidence in his fairness even though he is closely allied with Governor Landon of Kansas and is regarded as not in the Old Guard group. They know he won't cut any corners on them. f J 2 ” .
Martin a Progressive
Washington newspaper correspondents a year ago voted Rep. Manin the ablest member of the House because of his skillful leadership of the minority. He made the Republicans something more than a handful of bellowing critics and mobilized them into a compact, hard-hitting, well-disciplined group of opposition shock troops. Rep. Martin has a reputation as a progressive although this comes mostly from the fact that he represents a labor district and has supported such measures as the Wages and Hours Act and Social Security. Generally speaking, he has, naturally, voted with the Republican minority which he led. His voting record goes down the track on many measures with the most conservative Republicans. But he knows his politics, and was re-elected in 1932 and 1936 when his district went to Roosevelt in landslides. Whatever elsé the Philadelphia convention may do, Republicans won't have to apologize for the tem-
porary and permanent chairmen who start it off.
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By Eleanor Roosevelt
ing session. The luncheon was pleasant, for I saw a number of people whom I enjoyed seeing again. Then I went in for a minute to greet the Philadelphia Motion Picture Preview Study Group at their luncheon. I spent a half hour afterward with Mrs. Curtin Winsor and her two children. My grandson, Bill, is getting to be a big boy and in a year plans to take his little brother riding. * On the way back on the train, I started to read the manuscript of a book I hope I can finisi within the next few days.” I was home in plenty of time to prepare for dinner. I went down this morning with Mrs. Morgenthau] and Miss Hickok to see a preview of a “March of Time” movie. On the whole it is good. It deals with the situation of youth, which is perhaps the most difficult problem to show accurately, because it must run the gamut from complete despair to ever renewed hope. : "We then visited the Unemployment Compensation Bureau and the minimum wage and hour offices of the District of Columbia for the Democratic Digest. There is no District of Columbia labor department and it seems to be sadly needed. Sometimes I should like to be able to report that something I had seen in the district was absolutely perfect! Alas, I can not do so yet, for there ‘is a” woeful lack of safety for workers in local industries, evidenced by the fact that the accident rates are much higher than for
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1. Wendell L. Willkie . . . from Elwood to the White House? 2. The young Willkie, as I. Us campus “radical” in 1916.
- 3. The Elwood residence where .
Mr. Willkie was reared. By Lowell Nussbaum
HENEVER the conversation drifts around to running a businessman for President, the name of Indiana’s Wendell Wilkie is sure to pop up. And it doesn’t ‘matter whether it’s a Republican or Democratic crowd doing the talking, for the former small-town Hoosier currently is being boomed for both major party nominations. Alfred E. Smith of New York, for instance, thinks Mr. Willkie would make a good Democratic
nominee, while Will G. Irwin, G. O. P. National Committeeman
t -from Indiana, has boosted him as
a Republican candidate. This slightly confusing situation results, most likely, from the fact no one—including Mr. Willkie, himself, is sure of the Willkie politics. Described most frequently as an “independent Democrat,” Mr.’ Willkie doesn’t like to be branded’ as either Republican or Democrat, New Dealer or anti-New Dealer. As the leading antagonist of the New Deal power and business policies in the last- six or seven years, the aggressive, resourceful
. Hoosier has stirred the admira-
tion and hopes of businessmen and investors throughout the country.’ And they don’t give a hoot about his politics. They, like Al
businessman to unscramble the tax and business situation the country’s in.” 2 8 =»
R. WILLKIE, who rose in a few short years from a struggling young lawyer at Elwood, Ind., to the presidency of ‘Commonwealth & Southern, a billion-dollar utility holding company, hasn’t any illusions that he will be nominated for the Presidency, he told The Indianapolis
| Times today.
In fact, he’s more interested in business recovery than going to the White House. But he doesn’t go through the pretense of saying he wouldn't accept the nomination on a platform in which he believed. {
+*I think any man of my age;
in good health, with no private scandals, and with a natural interest in public affairs, who said otherwise would be telling an untruth,” he explains.
EXPECT ROAD 31 DECISION SOON,
Remonstrances Against Changing Highway Are Studied.
The State Highway Commission
announced today that it would de-
cide next week on whether or not Road 31 between Greenwood and Indianapolis would be relocated. Several remonstrances have been filed with the commission against any proposed relocation of the traffic artery. Edgewood, Southport and Greenwood residents maintain that the proposed change would isolate their cities from Road 31 and persons living on S. East St. object to having that street become part of Road 31. The latter point out that the high school which serves the area is near!: S. East St., and pupils would be endangered if the route was changed.
TRAFFIC ON INDIANA ROADS UP OVER '39
Traffic on Indiana highways: increased 4 per cent during the first three months of 1940 compared to the same period last year, Highway Commission Chairman T. A ‘Dicus said today. Vehicles are counted by means of an “electric-eye” device that records ‘each object which breaks an electric beam. During January, when snow and ice covered the highways most of the time, traffic showed a drop of 3.5 per cent but February showed
traffic was up 7.6 per cent. Eighteen counteds are now in operation along the state's main highways. Use of the recorders to show variations in the traffic fiow is part of a research program being conducted by the State Highway Department and the U. S. Pub.
other similar occupations throughout ‘the, country,
Smith, see in him a “shrewd, gble =~. = #. %
a gain of 8.2 per cent and March
He wouldn't, however, to occupy any office, public or private, “go
through the process of permitting : people to raise money to advocate
my candidacy, attempt to corral delegates by trading away Federal judgeships and other Federal positions, or make political two‘way statements.” He has had dozens of people of-
fer to. raise money in substantial sums and to corral delegates, with
- plenty of advice on how to make
adroit political statements, but the answer to all such suggestions has been “no.” © Mr. Willkie, however, is “enorm-’ ously interested in the adoption of certain ideas. If I can play a part in securing the public .acceptance of those ideas which I naturally think are sound, then I am not greatly concerned as to who administers the government in the carrying out of those ideas. » : ag » - EARED a Democrat, he always voted independently and at present is registered a Republican “because I want to vote in the Republican Primary which selects the delegates to the next national convention.” Opposing certain of Mr. Roosevelt’s policies, and believing that the President will dominate the making of the Democratic platform and the nomination of the next Democratic candidate, he feels the only effective opposition to his program must come through the Republican Party. Mr. Willkie thinks “all this pufe party partisan talk” is nonsense, that the important thing should be what one believes, not his particular party affiliations. ‘Mr. Willkie’s long and spec‘tacular feud with TVA over Gov‘ernment competition in the utility field spotlighted him as the outstanding spokesman of conservative business and private
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‘Willkie—Another Hoosier in in the News
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ownership forces in their resist ance to the New Deal. It also revealed him as one of
the country’s most able men in a
knock-down, drag-out battle of words. During that feud, which culmi‘nated last summer in the Government buying his corporation’s
- holdings in Tennessee, Mr. Will-
kie manhandled some of the New Deal’s best orators, including the formidable Attorney General Robert H. - Frankfurter. 2 ~ 2 ; E 6 foot, 1 inch, 210-pound: Hoosier doesn’t resemble the popular conception of the head of a billion-dollar corporation.
Careless in his dress (his sec-
retary has to force him to buy a
new suit now ‘and then), he insists he prefers to look "like an Indiana farmer.” And that's just what he is in his ' spare moments. In recent years, he ‘has purchased several farms in Rush County, Indiana, where he raises corn, feeds about 1000 hogs, and admits he makes a little money.
He scatters ashes on the rug
when he smokes, slouches in a chair with his knees over the arm, or his feet on a desk, and loves an argument. He's an inveterate reader and always is surrounded with books, whether at his office, in his relatively modest New ‘York apartment or traveling by train, He never has owned an automobile becausé he is “too absentminded to drive.” Although his $75,000 a year sal- ° ary is only about half that usually paid heads of billion-doliar corporations, he has refused all offers of pay raises or bonuses. : His grandparents were refugees from German autocracy, emigrating to the U. S. after: the failure of the German revolutionary movement of 1848; His father and mother taught school together and later prac- .
.ticed law together, his mother be-
ing the first woman admitted to the bar. in Indiana. His grandmother was a preacher, one of the first women ordained in the Presbyterian Church in this country. An aunt was a physician. : 2 8 =» R. WILLKIE—his grandpar-
ents spelled it Willcke—was born Feb. 18, 1892, in Elwood, and
Mathematics Teachers Meet At War Memorial Tomorrow|
The infallible solution to every mathematical problem i short of squaring a circle should be available at the Indiana World War Memorial tomorrow. i The occasion will be the gathering of more than 200 mathematics teachers from the grades through college for the fifth annual meetirg of the :Indiana Council of Mathematics Teachers. The meeting's purpose is to solve the problems arising in the teaching of mathematics and to exchange ideas on methods and curriculum. However, one problem of numbers confronting the teachers is .how many of them should comprise a purely discussion group. When Walter H. Carnahan, Shortridge High School mathematics department head, founded the Council five years ago, it was with the idea that everyone would have apportunity to speak his piece. But as the Council membership rose from ‘an original 20 to’ its present size, that has become impossible. Mr. Carnahan believes 75
is the numerical limit of a discus-|q4q
sion group and the Council will consider splitting into three or four sectional organizations. Last year’s convention produced a new method of determining the value of pi and while it never was accepted, Council officials will not be surprised at anything that might be presented. : The set program of speeches will include a report by Dr. K.'P. Williams, of Indiana University, chair-
‘man of the joint commission ‘of
the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the National Association of Mathematics: It will contain their recommenda~tions ‘on how extensive mathematics courses should be. Some educators have recommended that mathematics not: be compulsory after the grades. Other speakers listed include Mars
‘Margaret Nordman,
School; J. Kettery,. Tech High; | D. R. Shreve and Dr. A. K. Ke r of Purdue ' University; - Wallet Gingery, Washington High Sc principal; Wilson Thornton, Central High School, South Bend; L. H. Whitcraft, Ball. Sate eachers College; Stanley F. Sche: - 'Goshen
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Michael, University High - School, Bloomington. Ten topics of general interest to. the teachers have been suggested for open discussion. Current Council! officers are Frank A. Ross, Rockport, president; Enoch D. Burton, Shortridge, vice president, and Miss Dorothy, Rucker, Bloomington, urer. The Council has no dues and is termed by its founder as “a friendly organization for interested teachers who pay their own freight to
| attend mesungs »
Y! ASKS PRESIDENT T0 ENTER DISPLAY
President Roosevelt: has been asked to show a portion of his stamp collection at the ¥. M. C. A. Hobby = Show Thursday through Saturday at the Central “Y,” Parker P. Jordan, “Y,” secretary, said to-
y. rs ; Mr. Jordan sent a wire to the President Wednesday and was awaiting ‘a reply today. The show will be sponsored by the “Y” Men's Club. . Exhibits will be judged and prizes awarded by judges, who will be announced early next week. The deadline for registration. of exhibits is tomorrow - and Arthur Williams, general committee chairman, said a number of late registrations were expected tomorrow. The show will be open to the public from 7 p. m. to 10 p.m. ursday and Friday and from 2 p. m. to 10 p. m. Saturday.
5 TALKS ARRANGED BY CHURCH LEADER Dr. Sam Higginbottom, of “Allahabad, India, Moderator of the General Assembly of -the Presbyterian Church in the United States hool | Will speak in five different Indiana towns, April 22-26.
His schedule is: April 22, Huntington; April 23, Lafayette; April
24; Vincennes; April 25, North Ver-
Jackson, ang even Felix
‘intimate friends,
secretary-treas- | ‘bonded . indebtedness of Marion]
grew up there during the dying days of the great natural gas boom. His father, Herman PF. Willkie, an able trial lawyer, lost a modest fortune in the panic of 1893, but managed to send all six of his children—four boys and two girls —to Indiana University. At I, U., the tall, slender, booming-voiced Wendell was viewed askance, as a campus radical with socialistic ideas. One of these ideas was that inheritance should be abolished as unfair to those who inherit nothing. He held fraternities in fine scorn, and stood them off until his senior year when he shocked the campus by joining the fra-
. ternity of his classmate, Paul V.
McNutt. But he didn’t join the fraternity because of the McNutt influence,
- as has-been popularly believed.
Rather, it was because of his affection for a young lady soror-
- ity member who felt embarrassed * in having a “fellow” who was a
non-fraternity ‘man. Incidentally, whether or not he
. himself ‘should become a candi-
date, Mr. Willkie is ‘not a supporter of the McNutt candidacy. For one. thing, he has explained, He and Mr. McNutt never were merely “good acquaintances.” For another, as an executive officer in the utility industry, Mr. Willkie has eschewed any relationship with organized politics. And finally, “I could not vote for Paul if he were nominated for
‘the reason that it is perfectly ap- > parent from his public declara-
tions with reference to Roosevelt, that he intends, if nominated, to run on a New Deal platform. I do not believe in the New Deal philosophy, not because of its liberality but. because I do not
: think it liberal at all.”
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iE AFTER winning his law degree,
young = Willkie joined his father’s office. The first case he helped prepare resulted in djssolution of an injunction forbidding a labor union to picket. The day the U. S. entered the war, he pushed aside his law books
. and enlisted.
The Army's principal imprint on him was in his name. As an infant, he had been christened Louis Wendell Willkie. An Army clerk’s error transposed the first and second names. Rather than fight ‘Army red tape to get it. changed, he let it stand and on writes it that way.
DEBT IN COUNTY NEARS RECORD
Pending Poor Relief Issue, _ Will Boost Total to $8, 389,630.
A i record for the size of the
County ‘will be set shortly with the issuance of the proposed and ap-
proved $550,000 poor relief bond issue
{for Center and Wayne Townships. - This was revealed today by Chief County Auditor Fabian Biemer, who reported that the total bonded indebtedness of the County to date, excluding’ the preposed new issue,
is $7,736,360 within $4,000,000 of}
the County’s bonding limit of ap-
proximately $12,000,000. The bonding
limit of governmental tax districts is 2 per cent of the total assessed property valuation which’ in Marion County - is approximately = $600,~ 000,000. The proposed new issue for poor relief approved by the County Council two weeks ago will push the out-
standing indebtedness of the County!
to $8,389,630. The proposed poor relief issue will be the first bond
|transaction by the County this
year, 2 Last year the County sold bonds in the amount of $599,400, $526,000 of which was for poor relief. In
1538 bonds in the amount of $1,-
4175, ,000 were issued, all of which went for poor relief. ‘The outstanding bonds for the County do not include previous issues for the Marion County Welfare Department in the amount of $175,000, of which $143,000 is still
outstanding, and County unit road|
bonds in the amount of $89,550. Welfare and road bonds were issued yal tax district .transa¢ons,
‘Mr. Biemer said each issue in the past three years has pushed the County’s bon indebtedness to a new record. The major reason for the continuing increase in the bond shligations hag been Poor 3 relief, he
Sent to France with the 335th Field Artillery ‘in 1918, he ree mained abroad for a time after the Armistice building up a thrive ing but unpaid practice defending soldiers before courts martial. Back home again, he was ap» proached by a Democratic politie cal leader to run for Congress, but a friend, Frank C. Dailey, In» dianapolis attorney, advised against a political career. i So he went to Akron, joined the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. legal ' department, then two years later , went into the law firm of Mather '& Nesbitt, at Akron, which had several utility clients. Even while he was ‘becoming ong of the leading members of the Ohio bar, he continued to wear . his old Army overcoat, with a lofty disdain for the opinion of the fastidious.
2 2 » E never turned down an ope portunity for a debate, with his first choice the negative side of the Ku Klux Klan question: In 1924, he was a delegate to the Democratic National convene tion, supporting Al Smith against _ William Gibbs McAdoo because of the latter’s Klan support. . In 1929, B. C. Cobb, president of Commonwealth & Southern, lured him to New York as counsel for the utility. When, at the depth of the depression Mr. Cobb resigned, Mr, Willkie was drafted for the post, and has continued to fill it with: distinction ever snce. He immediately began a whirl. wind campaign to revive the business of the corporation’s subsidiary utility companies scattered over 11 states. Instead of retrenching like most other business heads, he hired half a hundred new salesmen, liberalized credit tems and boosted sales of new electrical appliances, which resulted in nearly doubling the corporation’s electric sales. Mr. Willkie, who is scheduled. to address the Indiana Bankers As -sociation here next month, is mar~ ried and has one son, Philip, a senior at Princeton. It was while he was in the Army that he persuaded his wife, the former Edith Wilk, to change her name from Wilk to Willkie. No glamour boy, no streamlined political candidate, Wendell Will= ‘kie is, however, a hard, tough, up-to-the-minute businessman who knows what he thinks and isn't afraid to say it for the whole World to hear. }
RAFTERY ESTATE : FILED IN PROBATE
Patrick Raftery, Government meat inspector, who died April 13, left an estate valued at approximately $50,000, according to lefters of administration filed in Probate. Court today. \ ‘Mr. Raftery left no will, but ace
{cording t» the administrative let
ters the estate consisted solely of personal property. Willi S. O'Connor was named adminjstrator, ‘Nearest relatives are three\sisters, Mother Stanislaus, Sister M Mrs. May Leonard, all living land.
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