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THE LONGEST VOYAGE
(Juneau Daily Empire)
Probably without parallel in
the long history of the sea is the
saga now being written by the
Office of Indian Affairs ship
North Star. This little vessel,
which was in Juneau for # few
hours November 16, is hurrying
toward a date in the vicinity of
the South Pole. A few weeks ago
it was in the vicinity of the
North Pole.
The North Star within a little
over a year will have traveled
from Arctic America to Little
America in the Antarctic and re
turn. not just once but two
round trips. We doubt very much
whether this has ever been done
before. Certainly the North Star
and its officers and men deserve
a unique place in the history of
navigation for their long voyage.
Although it hasn’t had nearly
the publicity of the barkentine
Bear, which is owned by Admir
al Byrd, the North Star is real
ly the backbone of the Byrd Ant
arctic expedition. This little Al
aska ship, which he have seen in
our port many times, is doing
the hard work for the Byrd par
ty. And when it comes back
from the Antarctic for a few
months it does not enjoy the
rest and repose which it merits
after its labors, but returns at
once- to business as usual, freight
ing to the remote stations along
the Alaskan coast.
The Bear too has seen service
in Alaska. It is the same Bear
which visited these waters many
times as the revenue cutter Bear.
But the doughty little North
Star is the ship which is making
history in connection with the
exploration of a new continent.
H s off to our Alaska vessel and
Alaska seamen.
FORT RICHARDSON
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Naming the Army’s main de
fense bas,; in Alaska after Brig
ad: r General Wilds P. Richard
son is a move that will be ap
plauded throughout the North.
F r. Richardson means ever so
much more to us than Elmen
dorl Field, though we have no
doubt that Capt. Hugh Elmen
d-erf of New York, who was kill
id in an airplane accident at
Wright Fieid in 1933. was a very
fine officer and gentleman.
But “Colonel Dick” Richard
son was of the North, just as
(Fort Richardson is. He was a
Lieutenant of Infantry at Chil
koot Barracks before he was pro
moted to Major and made Presi
dent of the Alaska Road Com
mir-ion in 1905. Unde r his direc
tion she Valdez Trail was devel
oped into Alaska's greatest high
way inking the heart of the
Territory with its outer peri
meter. All the heavy work on
the Richardson Highway was
done with “Colonel Dick" in
charge. He did not leave Alaska
until 1917 when he went into ac
live service in the World War
and achieved further fame and
his rank, as Brigadier Gi neral
wh, n he led the famous Ameri
can expeditionary force in Rus
sia. Richardson d ed in 1929.
Colonel Richardson was an im
mensely popular man in Alaska
and the War Department should
know it pleases us a’l a great
deal to hear they have named
their tg?e at Anchor ige in his
honor.
Among all his old frends in A1
aska none is more pleased at the
news than the Empire’s owner
and former editor, John W. Troy,
who for many years counted
Dick Richardson among his clos
est friends
— Juneau Daily Empire
Dutch Harbor
Rase Now Has
Guns Is Report
Uncle Sam's Navy engineers
are “going to town" at Dutch Har
bor, according to Capt. S. T. L.
Whitlam. veteran skipper of the
Office of Indian Affairs supply
ship North Star which docked
at Juneau November 16 on its1
way south.
“The Navy has already fortifi
ed the harbor,” Capt. Whitlam
said, "and they have six big guns
already mounted and command
ing the entrance to the bay. They
look like six inchers. A Russian
ship put in there a while ago
with an engine trouble excuse,
but they were given orders to
leave quickly when Navy engin
eers found the engines in good
working order.”
The Greek freighter which re
cently sought shelter at Dutch
Harbor was still there when the
North Star left, Captain Whit
lam declared.
“It looks like it will be a big
base,” Whitlam said. “They’re
putting in quite a fu l depot, and
a lot of other buildings. In fact,
they don’t have enough housing
now to handle the people there.”
From Juneau the North Star
went to Wrangell Institute to un
load reindeer and thsn headed
for Seattle to outfit for the Ant
arctic cruise to take off mem
bers of Admiral Richard Byrd’s
expedition.
Silent •reminder of the recent
Little American trip of the North
Star is the vessel’s new mascot
—“Little Hoiman.”
Hoiman is a stuffed penguin
from the Antarctic and sits in a
glass case in the social hall.
Passengers going through on
the North Star were Mrs. J. H.
S. Morison, wife of the Second
Division Judg?; Mrs. Clifford L.
King, wife of the Office of Indian
Affairs teacher at Point Hope,
and a Mr. Sherwood of the Al
aska Railroad and his daughter.
A. E. McKenzie of the Nome
Weather Bureau Office disem
barked.
Pas?, ngers from Juneau to
Seattle are Gordon Peterson. Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Smith, Mr. and
Mrs. John Brillh3rt and twins.
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The
Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON—There is now
every indication that the Japan-1
ese, cooperating carefully with
the Axis powers, waited until the
very . ve of the Presidential el
ection to launch the long contem
plated move on Singapore and
the Dutch East Indies.
Japanese troops actually began
to withdraw from extended po
sition in the interior of China
about two days before th,; elec
tions. Japanese transports tied
up in the southernmost port of
Nagasaki and in Formosa about
five days before elect'ons. Every
thing points to a coolly caleulat
ed plan to take advantage of the
indecision of the Am rican el
ection period to drive on a vital
part of the Pacific in which the
U. S. has maintained consider-1
able interest.
Japanese warships have been
• enabling in the wat, rs of
French Indo-China and it looks
as if a temporary non-aggression
pact has been patched up be
tween Russia and Japan which
wi'l last long enough so the Jap
anese won’t have to worry about
an attack in Manchuria at least
for the time being. All of this ap
parently was timed to coincide
not only with the election after
math but also the moment when
Nazi-lFascists forces would be
putting their pressure on the
British in the M, deterranean.
Meanwhile, the whereabouts
of the U. S. Scou'.ing Fleet in the
Pacific remains a mystery. It is
not at its usual base—Hawaii—
and Noval authorities refuse to
reveal its location. It se^ms
doubtful, however that the Scout
ing Fleet would be in the direct
path of the Japanese naval thrust
; ward Singapore, for the rea
san that it would not be sufficient
to cop,? with a large Japanese
force. Probably it is on the out
skirts of the South Pacific.
NATIONAL UNITY
The first problem President
Roosevelt took under considera
tion immediately after election
was how to bring Republican
forces into the Gov rnment in or
der to effect greater national un
ity and heal election wounds.
Last winter, Roosevelt invited
Frank Knox, vice presidential
running-mate of Landon’s, into
the Cabinet as Secretary of the
Navy; and Henry L. Stimson,
who had a long record in Repub
lican Cabinets, as his Secretary
of War. Roosevelt would like to
do something like this today in
order to give representation to
the opposition party at a time of
national emergency.
One suggestion made along this
line is appointment of Senator
McNary, defeated for Vice Presi
dent, as Secretary of Agricul
ture. McNary and Roosevlet have
bo n excellent, personal friends
for many years and Roosevelt
frequently has called in the Re
publican Senate leader for ad
vice. McNary also has been a
leadin' of the farm bloc and was
an author of th,? famous McNary
Haugen farm bill.
Also discussed within the in
ner circle has been whether
Roosevelt should offer an Admin
istration post to Wendell Willkie
—p ssibly the job of Coordinat
or of National Defense.
How ver, close advisers warn
Mr. Roosevelt that Willkie is tern
permental, difficult to work with
and has never experienced the
political give and take of public
ofice. Therefore it s.iems more
like y that Senator McNary ra
ther than Willkie would be invit
cd into the official family if any
Republican is to be included, At
any rtae Roosevelt is almost cer
tain to invite R.publicans in for
sei ies of conferences of some
kind aiming toward greater pol
itical cooperation.
CAMPAIGN WIVES
Wives played a unique role in
the campaign just concluded —
Mrs. Willkie, Mrs. Roosevelt, and
several other important political
ladies, among them Mrs. Farley.
Mrs. Willkie, of course, was
constantly at her husband’s side.
Mrs. Roosevelt was not.
Probably one reason for this
was the fact that privately Mrs.
Roosevelt never wanted her hus
band to run for a third term.
She felt that a third term would
be full of headaches, that no
President could weather the next
four years without a terrific toll
upon his health, and that her
husband would be sure to step
out of offic? at the end of 12
years a far less popular man
than he is today.
Before the Chicago Conven
tion therefore she did not lift a
finger for the President's nomin
ation, but tried to discourage it.
After the nomination, naturally
she was 100 percent for her hus
band. and her absence from the
politcal arena did not mean that
she would not have been on the
job had she been needed.
In previous campaign years,
on,? lady from the Roosevelt fam
ilv always has accompanied the
President, sometimes Mrs. Roose
velt, sometimes Betsy, the div
orced wife of Jimmy Roosevelt,
and sometimes his daughter,
Mrs. Anna Bo ttiger. This year
Roosevelt’s trips were supposed
to be for defense inspection,
until near the end. so no ladies
were present.
Mrs. Roosevlt continued with
her own busy life and kept out
of sight as much as possible. She
had no effect whatever upon the
election. But Mrs. Willkie was a
tremendous asset to her husband
undoubtedly won votes for him.
With her husband bidding for
the biggest job of his life, Mrs.
Willkie came to his support. Her
demure charm and the unflinch
irg manner in which she faced
br.rages of eggs and vegetables,,
h lped increase the large pop- '
, ular vote rol.ed up by -her hus
band.
BESS FARLEY
Another lady who played a ba
hind-thi -scenes role in this elec
tion was Mrs. James A. Farley.
Her nfluence was felt more in
the pre-nomination days, but at
a 1 times it was potent.
Jim Farley is one of the great- !
est family men in the United
Slat- s. He adores his three child
ren, and there isn’t anything in J
the world he wouldn’t do for j
Bess, his wife. She was one of j
the chief reasons why Jim got j
out of the Cabinet and turned his
extraordinary genius to a busi-1
ness care r.
It was on March fourth, at the
Cabinet dinner, that Bess Farley
really boiled over against Frank
lin Roosevelt. Just a few days
before Ernest Lindsay had pub
1 lished his article stating that
Roosevolt opposed Jim Farley
as his successor because of the
political handicaps in the path
of any Catholic candidate. So to,
| her partner at the dinner, Bessj
Farley let off steam against
Rooseve t to such an extent that
fTorts were immediately taken
by various Cabinet members to!
patch up a peace between Roose
velt and the Postmaster General.
What Mrs. Farley said at that
lime was that if Jim could not
get the nomination, he would at
1, ast control the convention, and
he would see to it that Roose
velt would not b? renominated.
It will be recalled that Mrs.
Farley went out to Chicago at
the start of the convention, and,
it was about this time that Jim’s
opposition to the Presid nt stiff-'
I ened.
In the recent campaign, it got
around that Bess Farley was
wearing a Willkie button. This l
was incorrect. However, she (
made no effort at dinner parties
to conceal her views, and if Jim
had folloed them he never would
have pitched in to carry New
York State for Roosevelt in the
energetic way he did.
ROOSEVELT CHILDREN
Among the Roosevelt children,
^feetsy Cushing Roosevelt, ex-,
wife of Jimmy, was a staunch
supporter of the President who
has always been extremely fond
of her. Howev r, Elliott’s ex-wife
now Mrs. Curtin Winsor, contrib
uted $5,000 to defeat her former
father-in-law.
Probably the best campaigning
among the Roosevelt children
was done by Franklin Jr., whose!
wife is Ethel duPont, daughter of j
Eug, ne duPont. The far-flung du
Pont family contributed around
$50,000 to the Willkie campaign,
but Tthel remained loyal to her
in-laws.
Franklin’s speeches were of a
rather naive, amateurish nature,
but they endean d him tremen
dously to his father. Franklin
would start his speeches in most
formal vein, carefully referring
to his father as “the President.”
But when heckled from the side
he usually forgot his dignity and
sometimes shouted, “my old
man’s a great guy.”
Young Philip Willkie on the
other hand, kept strictly out of
politics and stuck to his knitting
as a graduate student at Har
vard. This may have been be
i caus? the elder Willkie focussed
; some unfortunate attention upon
; his son last June when he called
up Princeton authorities on the
ong distance telephone and be
rated them for 40 minutes be
cause Philip had failed to grad
uate from the University.
This was just about the time
of Willkie’s nomination and he
insinuated that Princeton had
flunked his son in order to em-,
barras him politically. Willkie’s
complaint was made to Professor
Raymond J. Sontag head of the!
history department, whoa? secre:
tary took down Willkie’s conver
sation on an extension telephone.,
The transcript still is in the files j
at Princeton, where professors 1
who have read it describe it as a
“colorful document.”
NOTE—-Young Willkie actual
ly made an excellent record at
Princeton but his final thesis on
“Commonwealth and Southern”
was ratel poor by three differ
ent n aders who marked it. At
that time, however Philip was1
running the Daily Princetonian >
with eminent success having!
made more money for the paper
than ever before.
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