Show WHO'S NEWS I THIS I WEEK I By LEMUEL F. F PARTON NEW EW YORK Two YORK Two or three years N ago I was one of a group of I newspaper men arguing about who was the best reporter who ever evern everI worked a around r o 0 u n d I n D Roy Koy Burton here One tim old I Knew How to er cr was holding out outI I Fan Up Story for Roy Burton whom he had I known on the Brooklyn Eagle in the I nineties Burton he said was the best man leg-man and digger the most fearless and the most gifted in fanning up a story out of nothing at all He knew up make-up too said the oldster The diligent reporter has been duly rewarded He is the Sir Pomeroy Pomeroy Pomeroy Pom- Pom eroy Burton whose magnificent French chateau the duke and duchess of Windsor were were- looking over recently With the Northcliffe papers in London he lie became a multi million multimillionaire aire as he transformed British journalism journalism journalism jour jour- with daring American tech tech- lie He became a British citizen in 1914 and was knighted in 1923 In addition to his vast newspaper interests he lie is a magnate of electric electric electric elec elec- power and utilities He was a printers printer's devil on his fath fathers father's rs r's newspaper in Youngstown Ohio and at the age of twelve was knocking about country in Ohio on the same job He became a compositor on the Brooklyn Eagle Hearing of a vacancy on the news staff he persuaded the city editor to give him a try at reporting He hired evening clothes to cover a society function There Colonel Hester owner of j D r rL L Boss Liked the Eagle was Youth in tremendously im- im Hired Tails pressed with the personable young man with whom he was talking and thought he had met him some some- where Young Burton did not remind remind remind re re- re- re mind the colonel that he had seen the young man in a printers printer's apron a few days before He became city editor and managing managing managing man man- aging editor of the Eagle held important important important im im- im- im executive positions with the World and the New York Journal and was taken to England by Lord Northcliffe in 1904 Ten years later he owned all but a few of the Daily Mail shares not owned by Lord Northcliffe In the World war sear lie he virtually headed beaded the organization of British propaganda and many of the most damaging German anti-German stories were attributed to him His enemies charged that he had debauched British journalism with degrading American sensationalism His friends insisted he had enlivened enlivened enlivened en en- livened and regenerated it He Heir c. c makes an occa- occa S Sir ir Pomeroy trip rip t p j p to Visits U. U S. S America with a With Valets stan stall of valets and secretaries suave I dressy and still fit and impressive at two seventy-two with more than a touch of British accent Over here he always hated the name Pomeroy and shortened it to Roy but picked it up again in Eng Eng- land He had been named for forBrick forBrick Brick Pomeroy the cyclonic journalistic journalistic journalistic jour jour- disturber of the latter half of the last century and he held Mr Pomeroy in low esteem Pomeroy Pomeroy Pomeroy Pom Pom- eroy was almost but not quite a winner From a Wisconsin crossroads he rammed around the country in newspaper and financial brawls and in his old age just dust through sheer animal spirits started plugging plugging plugging plug plug- ging a a a. tunnel through the Rocky mountains at Georgetown Colo He was flattened by the 93 depression depression depression de de- de- de and died soon after with nothing to for his lifes 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 T R the return of Poultney Poultney Poultney ney Bigelow from a visit to his friend friend- the former kaiser and his fervent approval of dictators has M Mr M r. r B. B Bigelow P rge I ow M become a matter of annual routine Has a Yen It is an old story for but the freshness and vehemence of Mr Bigelow's disgust with democracy democracy democracy racy and enthusiasm for always makes it interesting He lie is the patriarch of on Malden-on- the-Hudson the with relatives and anti descendants de- de 1 In cl do wn t t rn d 1 ul- ul u o 6 geed gran ull c dren all up and down the river lIe He will be three eighty-three years ears old on September 10 His Iris father John Bigelow Bigelow Bige Bige- igelow ige- ige low was American minister to France Fiance under Abraham Lincoln He hunted birds eggs with the Iaiser forming a lifetime friendship friendship friendship friend friend- ship broken only by the war which he ch charged the kaiser with having haying started He recanted afterward and the two old men meet annually to salute Der Del Tag when only the all all- wise and just all all an shall rule again m Consolidated News Features Service |