Show WHO'S r NEWS THIS Y WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON NEW EW YORK Two Two or three years 1 N ago I was one of a group of at newspaper men arguing about who was the best reporter who ever worked a around r 0 u n d Roy Hurt Burton on here bere One Ono tim old Knew How to er was vas holding out Fan Up Story for foru Roy Rey Burton Buton whom he had known on the Brooklyn Eagle Eagle- in the nineties Burton he said was the best man leg and digger the e most fearless and the most gifted gilted in fanning up a story out of nothing at all He knew w up make-up too said the oldster The diligent reporter has been duly rewarded He is the Sir Pomeroy Pomeroy Pom Porn 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 multimillionaire multimillionaire multi million 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 I interests he Is a magnate of electric electric electric elec elec- power and utilities He was a printers printer's devil on his fathers father's 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 Do society function There Colonel Hester owner of floss Boss Boss Liked the Eagle was Youth in in tremendously im- im Hired Tails pressed Passed 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- 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 cliffe In the World war he virtually headed the organization of British propaganda and many of the most damaging German anti-German stories were i attributed to him His Dis 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 makes an occa- occa SIr Pomeroy t trip rIp r i p to Visits U. U S. S America with a With Valets staff of f valets and secretaries suave dressy and still fit and impressive at two seventy 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 f for forBrick forBrick or Brick Pomeroy the cyclonic journalistic journalistic journalistic jour jour- disturber of the latter half of the last century and he held Mr Pomeroy in hi low esteem Pomeroy Pomeroy Pom- Pom eroy croy was vas almost but not quite a winner From a Wisconsin crossroads he rammed around the country in newspaper and financial brawls bran Is and in his old age just through sheer animal spirits started plugging plugging plugging plug plug- ging a tunnel through the Rocky mountains at Georgetown Colo He was flattened by the 93 83 de des depression depression and died soon after with nothing to show for his lifes life's work but a hole in the Ule 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 p REPORTING the return of Poultney Poultney Poultney ney BIgelow from a visit to his friend the former kaiser and his fervent approval of dictators has become a matter Mr BIgelow 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 Be Is the patriarch of on Malden the thc with relatives and descendants descendants descendants de de- de- de down to great dren all up and down the river Dewill He De will be three eighty-three years old on September 10 His Dis father John BIgelow Bigelow BIge Bige- low was American minister to France under Abraham Lincoln He hunted birds eggs with the kaiser forming a l lifetime friendship friend ship broken only by the war which he charged the Ule kaiser with having started He recanted afterward and the two old men meet annually to salute Der Tag when only the Ule all all- wise and just all shall rule again D CD Consolidated News Features Service |