| Show chrs NEWS NEW S W THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated resi feature tures service bervice EW YORK when young red i played guard on the university of oklahoma football team in 1915 he was scaled down to a mere game of politics pounds but Is another story in i n spite s p 11 e of 0 t for football star that man aged to root through the line like a hightow ered snow shovel sometimes he stop when the whistle blew and they had a hard time to keep him inside the state slate lines today as gov leon C phillips of oklahoma ho he weighs in at and Is even more abandoned in his bootin guard play piny ile he orders out the national guard to repulse the invasion of the federals trying to build a n dam on the grand river in his state this one of his many scrimmages Is part of his waxing battle tor for state rights against what he considers the illegal encroachment of the federal government lie ho Is an apostate new dealer having defeated the similarly belligerent alfalfa bill murray on the issue of new deal adherence in the 1938 1038 democratic primary now lie he has switched teams with a big cigar protruding from hl his 9 lips at a cocky angle biting it to shreds when he gets steamed up he says the new deal Is a social service outfit and social workers are sorority sisters like the fiery and of the oklahoma cowboy song hes aarin to go and he sends word to the war department that he wont let any invader set toot foot on oklahoma soil ho he started to be a preacher but switched to the law born SO ye years ars ago in grant county missouri along the covered wagon trail he was taken to oklahoma at the age of two and grew up in the cheyenne and arapaho indian country lie he attended epworth one year studying presumably militant christianity and then entered the law school of the university of oklahoma his V fame me as red phillips the bone crushing man eating football player tyer gave him a fast r running un ning start in politics a and nd he soon landed in the state legislature lie he made his campaign tor for the governorship er on an economy platform sweeping the state the citizens still know him a as s red and the yea redl red I 1 yell of his college days serves tor for his political campaigns 0 WHEN HEN I 1 knew death valley scotty and his dog goldbug around goldfield rhyolite and windy gap there was a story that tho the dog had all A Sc scotty ottys s cash made a great Is loaned to him tuss fuss over a by chicago man stranger at Casey and a theory that this stranger must have been SC scottye scottys Scott OttYS ya mysterious backer the visitor however was just passing through and was never identified and scotty even in moments of abandon in tex place continued to insist that he had a chimney or blowout blow out of gold nuggets samples ot of which he carried in his overalls pocket it was not until years later that the man who financed the death valley scotty saga just tor for his own amu amusement se it would seem was A M johnson the head of a big insurance firm in chicago As scotty and his backer roun round d out 40 years of a beautiful friendship scotty informs the federal tax collectors that he has in gold certificates burled buried somewhere in the panamint mountains and that the source of his mysterious lou wealth has unfailingly been mr johnson from the same source came the spanish castle which scotty built in the heart of death valley several years ago according to his previous admissions the unique partnership opened with a 2500 grubstake ile he not only wrote a check but followed scotty to death valley the first mine pan out but mr john joh n soil was having tun fun they fought bandits got clubby with the pluto plute indians and rooted around in old prospect holes thereafter came scottys scottye Sc ottys famous train ride and the deepening mystery of his treasure cache they kept their secret until along about 1930 the pooch goldbug d and scottys scottye Sc ottys extraordinarily intelligent white mule both died of old age but the original partnership still goes on mr johnson now 68 years old is cut somewhat on the same lines as henry ford but with an achilles heel of romance he was born and grew up in a small town in ohio went to cornell university did a jolt of railroading in arkansas Ark anaus and engaged in mining lead and zinc near joplin mo in chicago he augmented an inherited fortune in the insurance business ile he belongs to a string of good clubs in chicago Is a sagacious and conservative serva tive ive citizen and from all be accounts has bankrolled bank rolled scotty jua for the tun fun of it |
