Eodiak Mirror
"&(e'ws of (Ame ‘tea's Last ’frontier
Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska
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Entered in the Postoffiee it Kodiak. Alaska as Second
Class matter under act of Ions;ress of March 3, 1878.
KODIAK PUBLISHING COMPANY
William H, Lamme Editor and Publisher
Lillian E. Lamme, Associate Editor
Obituary
Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
thirty-first President of the Unit
ed States, was born on rhe fami
ly estate in Hyde Park, N. Y.,
on Jan. 30, 1882, son of James
Roosevelt, who died Dec. 8,19(4),
and of the latter’s wife, Sara Del
auo, who died Sept 7, 1941 He
was a direct descendant in the
8th generation of Claes Martens
»an van Rosenvelt, or Roosevelt,
who arrived in New Amsterdam
about 1649 from somewhere in
Holland and married Jannetje
Samuels.
He was devoted to sports and
early learned to hunt to hounds,
shoot, play polo and tennis and
manage boats His European tra
vel began at 3 and he learned to
speak German and French fluent
ly. Passing through Groton
School he entered Harvard in
1900 and on graduation went to
Columbia University l aw School
in 1904. In March, 1905, he mar
ried Anna Eleanor Roosevelt of
New York, a 6th cousin, the
wedding being attended by Pres
ident Theodore Roosevelt, who
was uncle of the bride and 5th
cousin of the groom. In 1907
Rooseve't was admitted to the
bar and began practise in New
York City. In 1910 he was elect
ed State Senator. In 1912 he was
reelected and with the incoming
Wilson administration he accept
ed the Assistant Secretaryship of
the Navy
He spent, the years 1913-1921
in the Navy Department. Dur
ing the war he gave much atten
tion to the submarine problem
In 1918 he had charge of inspec
tion of American naval forces in
European waters and after the
Armistice took charge of demob,
ilization in Europe and helped
dispose of naval supplies stored
there. He returned to the U S
ou the same ship with Wilson
and began speaking for the
League of Nations. The following
A A
year he received the Democratic
nomination for Vice-President
but was defeated and returned
to Law practise.
In August, 1921, he wasstrick
en with infantile paralysis affect
ing the muscles of his legs and
lower abdomen. By careful exer
cises and treatments at Warm
Springs, Ga., he gradually recov
ered and later established the
Warm Springs Foundation.
In 1928, although insisting he
needed 2 more years of private
life to build up his health, he ac
cepted the nomination as candi
date for governor of New York :
and won. He accepted the presi
dential nomination in 1932 and
defeated Herbert Hoover,
j He took office March 4, 1933,
in the greatest peacetime crisis
the country had ever had. He at
;once closed hanks, embargoed
| gold and then sent a rapid suc
! cession of hills to 73rd Congress.
I His emergency measures includ
ed reopening the banks, creating
Federal grants, creating the Civ
ilian Conservation Corps, stop
ping foreclosures, reforming
handling of investments and sec
urities, and beginning a series of
public works. On top of this he
! created a farm relief law, estab
lished the Tennessee Valley Au
thority, obtained pussage of the I
National Recovery Act (NRA)J
abandoned the gold standard
and revalued the dollar,
Roosevelt was renominated by
acclamation in 1936 and went on
to defeat Alfred M. Landon, gov
ernor of Kansas. The controver
sial third-term issu? arose when
he was drafted to run again in
1940 but. lie defeated the late
Wendell Wilkie, and in 1944 af
ter 3 years of war-time adminis
tration he was again elected,,
this time over Thomas R. Dew
ey. He was inaugurated last Jan
20 just 10 days before his 63rd
birthday.
The President is survived by
5 children and 13 grandchildren
"IT IS EASIER"
To dig down for War Bonds on
the Home Front than to dig in
on the War Front.
Support the Seventh Loan Drive
by . . .
BUYING MORE BONDS
rhe children are James, Elliott,
Franklin D., Jr , J >hn A. and
\nna Eleanor Boettiger.
A 12-acre site and building on
Elvde Park was deeded by
Roosevelt to the Government in
1939 as a place to house his more
han 6 million documents and
nanuscripts accumulated from
iis various offices.
A $300 000 life insurance poli
cy on the President was sold in
L933 by an English company to
a New York Stock Exchange
Brin.
New First Lady
Washington (A*)—Retiring
Bess Wallace Truman took over
the prodigious job as First Lady
from active Eleanor Roosevelt,
who became an ordinary citizen
again.
The new President’s wife has
been her husband’s advisor and
aide through his rise from a
Kansas City haberdasher
through local offices to the Sen
ate, Vice-Presidency to Chief of
the nation. In recent years the
new President has entrusted
much of his secretarial work to
her. The much-traveled Mis.
Roosevelt has been the most
active President’s wife in U. S.
history and her influence on her
husband was great. Perhaps no
less, but perhaps less in the fore
front., will be the influence of
the new mistress of the White
House.
President Truman, then Sen
ator, made her position clear
some years ago when under pol
itical fire. Criticized for employ
ing his wife as a Senate clerk on
public funds, he said: “I need
her there, that’s the reason I’ve
got her there. I never make a
report or deliver a speech with
out her editing it.”
Alaska Airlines
OUTGOING
Edith Burdette
INCOMING
Catherine P. Azega, M. C.
Edmonds, Dorothy K. Whitney,
Bailey Covey, Carl Andresen.
A daughter, Ruth Alice,
weight 7 pounds 12 ounces, was
born to Sgt. and Mrs. Peter Ol
son at the GM hospital April
12. Sgt Olson is stationed at
Whittier.
Mr. an 1 Mrs. Julian Morrison
are the parents of a daughter,
Susan C 'lleen, weight 8 pounds
9 and a hair ounces, born Sun.
day, April 8, at the Griffin Mem
orial hospital.
Mrs Mabel Fenner (see story
pane 10) received word yesterday
the OP-i mnterence at Juneau
s poatp'.n.
La rid Office
Man Coming
Many of the que-stions con
cerning g anMng of deeds to pro
perty in Kodiak will be answered
with the arrival of a lepiesenta
tive of ti e townaite trustee in
Kodiak t he latter part of April.
George Parks, townsite trustee,
Juneau, wired the information j
and said the representative would
bring application blanks and in
structions for their preparation.
Climbs Pillar
On 83rd Birthday
R. N. Thorsheim, father of
Bryan Thorsheim, local barber,
Saturday climbed Pillar Moun
tain that overlooks Kodiak.
Plenty of people have climbed
the steep 1486-ft. hill, but few
can tell of doiug it on their 83rd
birthday, as Mr. Thorsheim can.
For Saturday was his 83rd birth
day and it was the 4th time he
had made the ascent.
He said he left town about 10
am and got back about noon.
He lost the trail on the way
down because of snow patches
and got some scratches on his
hands from the wild rose bushes.
He’s got proof of his trip, too.
He took along a camera and
took a picture of the rock mon
ument atop the hill.
John Gibbons left for Anchor
age on a 10-day business trip.
Eatl Butler left on his boat the
“Salmon Bank” for Latouche,
via Port Williams and Iron Creek
and will engage in fishing there.
His crew consists of Carl Lager
berg, Eric Graner and Sam Po
lack.
Mrs. Louise Gregoroff luckily
escaped with only a split lip in
an accident that occurred at her
home Friday while chopping
wood. The double-bitted axe
she was using had just been
sharpened and was on a board
when she dropped another heavy
board on it. The axe flew toward
her but she saw it coming and
ducked hack but it struck her
face and cut her lip enough to
require 3 stitches.
There will be sewing at the
GM hospital next Thursday at
2 pm. All women are invited to
attend
Mrs. Allis McCloskey. who has
been visiting her son-in-law Opl.
Gus George, left by boat this
week for Portland, Ore.
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2 Properties
Cfoa ge Hands
Ues*ate
Tvv f the largest real
trans; ons in some time
records I in Kodiak this week ^
M's ICleanor Dooley, for(n^
ly erm loyed in local restaurant'
and who recently returned l,er8
Fairbanks, purchased th
from
11-unil; Taylor apartments
Brock vn avenue from \V
on
arren
A. Taylor, attorney. The Sale
did not include the office 0f
Taylor & Seltzer. The price w
reported to be $18,000.
Frank lrick, owner of dje
Club Unique, received a Wjre
yesterday from W. A. Schultz
confirming his purchase of the
Ship’s Tavern building and 3
apartments. The Ship’s bar j9
operated by J. H. Pierce on a
lease. The purchase price
St 15.000. Mr. Irick said.
was
A criminal complaint charging
trespassing was filed last Satur
day in the U. S. Commissioner’s
court by Olof Olson against
Dale Barton, following an argu.
ment involving a dog belonging
to Frances Falconer. The tral
was held Monday and Barton
was fined $50 but the fine was
suspended He pled not guilty
to the charge.
Testimony indicated the dog
had wandered onto Olson’s pro
perty and that he attempted to
drive it away and that Barton
appeared and the two men got
in an argument over hitting the
dog. Olson claimed he told Bar
ton three times to get off his
property and that he refused.
A meeting of the Kodiak
Sportsmen’s Club will be held
next Monday evening at 7:30 at
the Red Cross Center, Charles
Nettle, president, announced
this week. As the meeting is
held in town expressly so town
members can conveniently at
tend it is hoped there will be a
good local turnout.
Classifieds
FOR SALE—Purse seine boat
“Starfish”, 30 ft with 9 ft, 6
in. beam—50 HP Kermuth
eng. Incl. seine & skiff See Al
Nixon
FOR RENT—Modern furnished
houses, hot & cold water, show
er, etc. Pleasant neighboi hood
See 8.H Rears. Mission rd. 4 21
FOR RENT—3 room mod. furn.
apt downtown. See Mrs. Mar'
rv Howe, lieach Rd. next to
Morrison’s. ^
FOR SAFE—International sta
tion jragon, good rubber, >nC •
taxi business lie $1500. See A
Nixon. ^
FOR SALE or RENT—Mod-9
room home, sewer, elec., wateb
partly furnished inch 4 bed8>
For cash or your own terms'
reason. Will sell with or wit
out 2-room home, now ren *
on same nroperty. Latter a
for sale separately. ..
See A1 Nixon or Taylor & '^
zer, attorneys. __
FOR RENT—Apartment.
Jack Allman.