Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON E YORK two or three years N NEW go ago I 1 was one ot of a group of newspaper men ar arguing guing about who was the best reporter report er who ever worked d around roy burton barton here one old tini tim knew how to er was holding out fan up story for roy burton whom he ha had d known on the brooklyn E eagle agle in the nineties burton he said was the best legman leg man and digger the most fearless and the most gifted in fanning up a story ou out t of nothing at all he knew makeup make up too said the oldster the diligent reporter has been duly rewarded he is the sir pomeroy burton whose magnificent french chateau the duke and duchess of windsor were looking over recently with the northcliffe papers I 1 in n london he became a multimillion multi million aire as he transformed british journalism with daring american techniques lie he became a british citizen in 1914 and was knighted in 1923 in addition to his vast newspaper interests he be is a magnate of electric power and utilities he was a printers devil on his fathers 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 0 IL I L j boss liked the e eagle was youth in in tremendously im hired tails pressed with the personable young man with whom he was talking and thought he had met him somewhere young burton did not remind the colonel that he had seen the young man in a printers apron a few days before he became city editor and managing editor of the eagle held important 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 North northcliffe cUffe in the world war he virtually headed beaded the organization of british propaganda and many of the most damaging anti german stories were attributed to him nis his enemies benemie s charged that he had debauched british journalism with degrading american sensationalism his friends insisted he had e enlivened n and regenerated it he c makes an occa sr sir pomeroy dional t r I 1 p to visits U S america with a with valets staff of valets and secretaries suave dr dressy e assy 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 england he had been named for brick pomeroy the cyclonic journalistic na listic disturber of the latter half of the last century and he held mr pomeroy in low esteem pomeroy was almost but not quite a winner winner from a wisconsin crossroads he rammed around the country in newspaper and financial brawls and in Ws his old age just through sheer animal spirits started plugging a tunnel through the rocky mountains at georgetown coo colo he was flattened by the 93 depression and died soon after with nothing to show for his lifes work I 1 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 R t the return of lv ney bigelow from a visit to his friend the former kaiser and lif his fervent approval of dictators has b become acome a matter matte mr M bigelow R 1 K of annual Tou routine tine has a yen it is an old story for Fuehr ers but the freshness and vehemence of mr Bige lows disgust with democracy and enthusiasm for fuehr ers always makes it interesting ile he is the patriarch of aladden on the hudson with relatives and descendants ants down to great grandchild dren all up and down the river ile he will be eighty three years old on september 10 his father john bigelow was american minister too to france under abraham lincoln he hunted birds eggs with the kaiser 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 au all just shall rule again 0 consolidated news features service |