Show HOIS NEWS THIS W EEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated rea features creatures tures service EW YORK when young red N NEW phillips played guard on the university of oklahoma football team in 1915 he was scaled down to a mere game of politics pounds but la Is another story in i n spite s p 11 e of 0 that man i an for football star aged to root through the line like a high pow ered snow shovel sometimes he stop when the whistle blew and they had a hard time to keep him inside the state lines today os as gov leon C phillips of oklahoma he weighs in at and Is even more abandoned in his roccin bootin guard play lie he orders out the national guard to repulse the invasion of the federals trying to build a 1000 dam on the G rand grand river in his state k this one of his many scrimmages magesis is part of his waxing battle for state rights against what he considers the illegal encroachment of the federal gover government ament he is an apostate new dealer having defeated the similarly belligerent alfalfa bill murray on the issue of new deal adherence in the 1938 democratic primary now he has switched teams with a big cigar protruding from his 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 ho he wont let any invader set foot on oklahoma soll soil he started to be a preacher but switched switch ed to the law born 50 years 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 he attended epworth unWe rity one year studying presumably militant christianity and then entered the law school of the university of oklahoma his lame fame as aa red the bone crushing man eating irig football player gave him blin a last running start in politics and he soon landed in the state legislature he made his campaign tor for the governorship er on an economy platform sweeping the state the citizens still know him as red and the yea redl yell of his college days serves for his political campaigns HEN I 1 knew death valley WHEN WScott scotty yand and his dog goldbug around goldfield rhyolite and windy gap there was at a story that I 1 the dog had all Sc scottye scottys ottys cash made 1 a great Is Loaned 9 to him fuss over a by 6 chicago man stronger at casays Casey hotel and a theory that this strai stranger iger must have been scottys scottye Sc ottys mysterious back er 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 mat he be had a chimney or blowout blow out of gold pug nuggets gets samples of which be carried in his overalls pocket it was not until years later th that atthe the man who financed the death valley scotty saga just tor for his own amusement atwould it would seem was A M johnson the head of a big insurance firm in chicago As scotty and his backer round out 40 years ot of a beautiful friendship scotty informs the federal tax collectors that he has in gold certificates burled somewhere in the panamint mountains and that the source of bisi mysterious wealth has unfailingly been mr johnson jo 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 lie he not only wrote a check but followed scotty to death valley the first mine pan out but mr johnson was having fun they fought bandits got clubby with the 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 gold bug and scottys scottye Sc ottys extraordinarily intelligent white mule mula both died of old age but the original partnership I 1 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 loll jolt of railroading in arkansas and engaged in mining lead and zinc near joplin mo in chicago ile he augmented an inherited iten in the tha insurance business ile he belongs to a string of good clubs in chicago is a sagacious and conservative serva tive citizen and from all accounts has bankrolled bank rolled scotty just tor for the fun of it 11 i aai 1 1 |