Show NEWS ht THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON NEW nago EW YORK two or three years ago I 1 was one of a group of newspaper men arguing about who was the best reporter who ever worked a around r 0 u n d koy roy barton burton here one old tim knew how to er was holding out fan up story for roy burton 0 whom 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 over recently with the northcliffe papers in london he became a multi million aire as he be transformed british journalism with daring american tech hiques he ile became a british citizen in 1914 and was knighted in 1923 in addition to his lus vast newspaper interests he is a magnate of elec trie power and utilities he was a printer printers s devil on his father s newspaper in youngstown ohio and at the age of twelve was knocking about country print shops 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 boss lifted liked the e eagle was youth in tremendously im hired tails pressed with the 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 seen the young man in a printer printers s apron a few days before he became city editor and man aging editor of the eagle held im in 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 he virtually headed the organization of british propaganda and many of the most damaging anti german stories were attributed to him his enemies charged that he had I 1 debauched british journalism with degrading american sensationalism 11 his friends insisted he had en livened and regenerated it he r makes an occa sir pomeroy dional t r rip I 1 p to visits U I 1 5 S america with a with valets staff of valets and 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 roy but picked it up again in eng land he had been named for brick pomeroy the cyclonic jour na listic 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 winne r from a wisconsin crossroads h he e rammed around the country in newspaper and financial brawls and in his old age just through sheer animal spirits started plug ging a tunnel through the rocky mountains at georgetown colo he was flattened by the 93 de 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 a a a R the return of lv ney bigelow from a visit to his friend the former kaiser and his fervent approval of dictators has become matter n i a mr bigelow of annual routine has a yen it is an old story for Fuehr ers but the freshness and vehemence of mr Bige bigelow lows s disgust with damoc racy and enthusiasm for fuehr ers always makes it interesting he ile is the patriarch of maiden malden on the hudson with relatives and de ants down to great grandchild grand chil dren all up and down the river he ile will be eighty 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 k kaiser alser forming a lifetime friend ship broken only by the war which he charged the kaiser with having started he recanted afterward and the two old men meet annually to salute der tag when only the all wise and all just shall rule again 0 consol dated news features service |