Bendetsen, with a Stanford law degree, a reserve lieutenancy and an interest in radio and aviation, was practicing law in his Aberdeen, Wash, hometown in 1939 when the Judge .
Commissioner Enright, it will be remembered, was hiding his light under a lieutenancy when Mayor John F Hylan brought it forth to blaze into the dark byways of criminality.
His education was polished off with four years in the Kentucky Legislature and a War-time first lieutenancy in the Army.