Vernonia eagle., May 13, 1938, Page 2, Image 2

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VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
A Run in Your Hose?
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
FRIDA Y.MAY 13, 1938
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Cheer up. Miss and Mrs. Amer­
ica! Science is working day
night to find why stockings wear
out, and what to do about it. Staff
members of the Pittsburgh Test­
ing Laboratory, who test every­
thing from hosiery to steel, know
more about it than most women.
NT EW YORK.—Two or three years
’ ago, I was one of a group of
newspaper men arguing about who
was the best reporter who ever
worked around
Roy Burton
here. One old-tim­
Knew How to er was holding out
Fan Up Story for R°y Burton,
v.
whom
’ h c ~. h
he
; had
known on the Brooklyn Eagle in the
nineties. Burton, he said, was the
best leg-man and digger, the most
fearless, and the most gifted in
fanning up a story out of nothing
at all. He knew make-up, too, said
the oldster.
The diligent reporter has been
duly rewarded. He is the Sir Pom­
eroy Burton whose magnificent
French chateau the duke and
duchess of Windsor were looking
1—Gov. Philip LaFollette, announcing the formation of a new third party, the “National Progressive
over recently.
Party of America,” is campaigning to organize the Middle West. 2—Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler of Germany
With the Northcliffe papers in
and Premier Mussolini who met in Rome on the occasion of Hitler’s triumphal visit to Italy. 3—Brig. Gen.
London, he became a multi-million­
Barton K. Yount, named assistant to the chief of the United States air corps for a term of four years by
aire, as he transformed British jour­
President Roosevelt.
nalism with daring American tech­
niques. He became a British citizen
URGES DEFENSE
in 1914 and was knighted in 1923.
In addition to his vast newspaper
interests, he is a magnate of elec­
tric power and utilities.
He was a printer’s devil on his
father's newspaper in Youngstown,
“Test walkers” recently worked Ohio, and, at the age of twelve, was
for the laboratory. In the morning knocking about country printshops in
Ohio on the same job. He became
they were dispatched by A. R.
a compositor on the Brooklyn Eagle.
Ellis, laboratory president. Each
Hearing of a vacancy on the news
night their shoes were removed
and the stockings examined. Ex­ staff, he persuaded the city editor
perts washed each pair in its own to give him a try at reporting.
He hired evening clothes to cover
private beaker every night, then
a society function. There, Colonel
examined them for the first sign
Hester, owner of
of wear.
Boss Liked
the Eagle, was
Youth in
tremendously im­
pressed with the
Hired Tails
personable young
man with whom he was talking, and
thought he had met him some­
where. Young Burton did not re­
mind the colonel that he had seed
With war scares bobbing up all
the young man in a printer's apron
over the world, the United States
a few days before.
must be assured a plentiful supply
He became city editor and man­
of “strategic minerals,” Dr. John
aging editor of the Eagle, held im­
W. Finch, director of the bureau of
portant executive positions with the
mines, announced in a memoran­
World and the New York Journal
dum to the press. He urges a tariff
and was taken to England by Lord
protection and stock-piling program
Northcliffe in 1904. Ten years later,
George Bernard Shaw, left, chatting with Joseph P. Kennedy, Ameri­ to solve defense problems with re­
he owned all but a few of the Daily can ambassador to London, following a ceremony which took.place at Ken­ spect to .manganese tNo. 1 “stra­
Mail shares not owned by Lord sington, London, recently in which the famous Irish dramatist received the tegic mineral”), nickel, chromium,
Northcliffe.
aluminum and other metals.
deeds of the national theater on behalf of the executive committee.
In the World war, he virtually
headed the organization of British
propaganda, and many of the most “Baby” Senator
damaging anti-German stories were
attributed to him.
His enemies Reduces Weight
charged that he had “debauched
In deference to his waistline, Sen.
British journalism with degrading
Rush Holt of West Virginia, “baby”
American sensationalism.”
member of the United States senate.
His friends insisted he had en-
livened and regenerated it.
He
makes an occa­
Sir Fomercy
sional trip to
Visits U. S.
America with a
staff of valets and
With Valets
secretaries, suave
dressy and still fit and impressive
at seventy-two, with more than a
touch of British accent.
Over here, he always hated the
name Pomeroy and shortened it to
1 Roy, but picked it up again in Eng­
land.
He had been named for
“Brick” Pomeroy, the cyclonic jour­
nalistic disturber of the latter half
of the last century, and he held
Mr. Pomeroy in low esteem. Pom­
eroy was almost, but not quite, a
winner.
From a Wisconsin crossroads, he
rammed around the country in
newspaper and financial brawls,
Members of the University of California baseball team will help ad­
and, in his old age, just through
vertise the 1939 San Francisco World’s fair on its barnstornrng trip
beer animal spirits, started plug­ Keeps a ping pong table in his of­ throughout the United States. On the sleeve of each player will be
ging a tunnel through the Rocky fice, where he indulges in this exer­ sewed an emblem featuring the exposition. Lois Sherman is seen sewing
mountains, at Georgetown, Colo.
cise between sessions. Here you see the emblem on Sam Chapman's sleeve. The trip takes the team to the
campuses of 22 leading universities and colleges.
He was flattened by the ’93 de- j the senator in a bit of fast play.
pression and died soon after, with
nothing to show for his life’s work |
but a hole in the ground. Then it
was discovered that the tunnel had
gouged into fabulous mineral wealth
in Kelso mountain. Eight years ago.
the tunnel went on through the |
mountain, as the Moffatt tunnel.
• « •
Irish Wit vs. Yank Diplomacy
Some startling
facts were discov­
ered about the
wearing qualities
of various kinds
of
stockings.
Housewives,
clerks and stenog­
raphers get more
runs in their hose
than waitresses.
But waitresses
wear more holes
in their stockings
than stenogra­
phers. More hos­
iery failures ap­
pear first on the
legs than in any
other part of the
stocking.
The “test walkers” came from
every "walk” of life. They wore
hundreds of pairs of hose, pur­
chased in 50 different cities. Much
interest was shown in wear by worn
en in various occupations.
Ball Players Advertise Fair
Ireland’s New President at Home
Contrasted to the stenographer, the waitress is thoroughly tired when
evening comes. She's more apt to flop wearily on the bed and leave
dancing for Saturday night.
Officials of the laboratory
claim that savings of 30 per
cent are possible through
development of improved
products. This means, they
say; that American women
who now spend approxi­
mately $350,000,000 for hos­
iery every year might tuck
$118,000,000 back in their
purses by purchasing the
right kind of stockings.
I> EPORTING the return of Poult-
* ' ney Bigelow from a visit to his
nd. the former kaiser, and his
fervent approval of dictators, has
become a matter
F.Ir. Bigelow
of annual routine.
Has a Yen
It is an old story,
but the freshness
'or Fuehrers
and vehemence of
Mr. Bigelow's disgust with democ-
racy anc enthusiasm for fuehrers
alw
makes it interesting.
He is the patriarch of Malden-on-
thc-Hudson. with relatives and de­
scendants. down to great-grandchil­
dren. all up and down the river. He
will be eight.v-three years old on
September 10. His father. John Bige­
low. was American minister to
France under Abraham Lincoln.
He hunted birds eggs with the
liser, forming a lifetime friend-
ip, broken only by the war, which
i charged the kaiser with having
arted. He recanted afterward and
e two old men meet annually to
Dr. Douglas Hyde, new president of Eire (Irish Free State), shown seated among his grandchild.en at
lute “Der Tag" when only the all-
the home of his daughter. Mrs. J. Sealy, at Donnybrook, Ireland. Dr. Hyde, a noted Irish scholar, is a
ise and all-just shall rule again.
£ Consolidated News Features.
Protestant and the son of a Protestant clergyman.
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