The Bismarck Tribune

Romance of Uncle Sam's New Boss of the Navy Started
In Jamestown, North Dakota; History of Wilbur Is Told
UPPER LEFT. MRS. WILBUR.
UPPER RIGHT. THE NEW SECRETARY OF NAVY. IN
INSETS
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, THE WILBUR CHILDREN, LYMAN, EDNA, PAUL AND LEONARD.
BY A. H. FREDERICK
NEA Service Writer
San Francisco, March 25. - The middies used to call him "Magic."
Annapolis---most of them rear admirals today---and among his old cronies ad- at DISTRICT COMES TO TALK OVER mirals today---Curtis D. Wilbur still wears that monicker.
The name has meant considerable to him.
Something almost magic finally has sent him back to the life he's always loved.
"Magic", the mathematics shark at the naval academy and left tackle on the Navy eleven in the 80's, is re- turning to the service, not as a green ensign, but as the navy's boss.
"My earliest dreams," he says, "were of a sailor's life. But who could have guessed my career as a LAWYER AND JUDGE
Wilbur left the navy four months after his graduation from Annapolis.
His father was a lawyer and wanted his son to be a lawyer, too.
For a year he taught school in Los Angeles, studying law at night. In 1890 he was admitted to the bar
Nine years later he became district attorney. And another four years saw him elected superior judge.
He inaugurated the first juvenile court in Los Angeles and drafted California's juvenile laws.
Followed his transfer to the criminal courts. The same thoroughness marked his work there.
Verdict and sentence did not close a case for him. He made frequent visits to "his boys" at San Quentin penitentiary. More than one ex-convict owes a fresh start in the world to Curtis D. Wilbur, the judge who sentenced him.
Wilbur was named a supreme court justice in 1919. Four years later he was chosen chief justice.
The year before he entered the district attorney's office, Judge Wilbur married Miss Olive Doolittle. The wedding was the culmination of a romance begun in the high school at Jamestown, N. D.
AT "C. E." CONVENTION
Wilbur's departure for Annapolis and Miss Doolittle's matriculation at a boarding school in Faribault, Minn., interrupted their courtship---save for frequent letters.
It was renewed when Miss Doolittle came to San Francisco to attend a Christian Endeavor convention.
Wilbur met her at the depot.
The Wilburs have four children. They are Edna May, a teacher in the Chico (Calif.) high school; Lyman D., a civil engineer at Redwood, Calif., Paul Curtis, a senior at the University of California, and Leonard, 17, in high school here.
Judge Wilbur's chief hobby is his home. He's never passed the responsibility in rearing his children to his wife.
Wilbur likes camping trips, hikes, radio and the movies now and then. But he's never played golf.
TEACHES BIBLE
Until recently the Wilburs found much pleasure in their auto---"the same car we've had for seven years," Mrs. Wilbur explained. Now one of the boys away from home is using it.
The judge is a regular church-goer. He also teaches a Bible class.
Mrs. Wilbur is president of the (Continued on page 3)
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parent-teacher's association of the school her youngest boy attends. She's a director of the Board of Missions of the Pacific, a director of the Y. W. C. A., and a member of the Y. M. C. A.'s Mothers' Club.

Her household duties, however, occupy most of her attention.

"Yes, I do my own housework," she confesses.

"The children, of course, help me a great deal.

"In Washington, though, I suppose I'll have to get somebody to help me."

Mrs. Wilbur says the judge leaves all the home financing to her.

"We've had to be careful," she says, "for it's no easy matter to do as we've done and put four children through college on $6000 a year."

The judge is an author, too. He's