Show NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton modern alo dern damon and pythias nty EW YORK TORK kid mccoy at six i ty five is twenty years older than harry bennett tint but tor for many years has been a damon and pythias friendship bennett commander ot of henry fords militant home guard against labor unions learned about fighting from mccoy ile he was a sailor when ford bought some wooden boats from the government they threw in bennett along with boats and ford found it a good bargain he became a personnel officer at the dearborn plant becoming e in time as the years year s slipped off the conveyor belt the head of the ford protective organization in 1932 mccoy finished a confinement of seven years for having shot his sweetheart by this time bennett had a yacht and a castle on the huron for old times sake he gave his friend a 6 a day job and I 1 a gold badge explaining plausibly it seemed that his organization included a limited number of former convicts and that there was no reason why it if they behaved themselves and did their work mccoy helping expand and direct the service men now enters a serene old age fit and vigorous younger than his years doing the work he likes best bennett was sailor reese in the years when he was a lightweight boxer in the navy it was in 1896 that mccoy became world welterweight champion by defeating tommy ryan it was years later that the young sailor entered his new york gymnasium and told him of his ambitions as a boxer mccoy trained reese without charge it has been frequently on record in the newspapers that reese keese became lightweight champion of the navy however this writer scouting information among such lightweight navy champs of twenty five years ago as sam robideau joe fisher and paddy mills has been unable to pick up his trail where sailor reese knocked oc k 0 off over and harry bennett took over i is s equally elusive A curtain is draa drawn over the beginnings of this particular alger story the story of a boy who makes good by watching a clock to see that the other lads punch it current news reports reveal ben nett and mccoy as working in in a deep inaccessible basement of the administration building deploying an army of college athletes former prizefighters prize fighters and ex convicts both ready to wade in with the hired men as emergency stampers swampers swam pers pez if need be bennett is small agile muscular and given to direct action for pastime he practices pistol shooting reads mystery stories and goes hunting the troublesome the story of the canadian douk hobora might make a good study for robert allison parker author of the recently published father divine and a specialist in messianic psychology they remain shaggy nude and obdurate with their leader peter II 11 again having jail troubles in british columbia ile he is the head of an organization supposedly owning about worth of property but the court confirms his jail sentence for vagrancy his huge barrel cheated father with whiskers like a ons fetlocks fet locks was killed in a train wreck in 1924 and peter II 11 came over in 1927 to head the sect the russians having jailed him for heresy and released him on the condition that he leave the country lie is big and bewhiskered and commanding like his lather father but parades in the nude and ot other her eccentricities had brought the law on the and he has d done bonef little but fight off writs and processes ile he was saved from deportation from canada by a halifax judge in 1933 the or spirit wres alers I 1 as they comet sometimes im es c call all themselves are a strange hol holdout hold d out t in the modern lock step catch step if they are just allowed to shea shed their clothes 0 0 0 youth on the bench nine years out of college charles becomes a justice of the supreme court of new york at the age of thirty three ile he is the son of a stonecutter stone cutter in barre vt he dickered for an old ford traveled and sold maps to get through high school 1 and tended furnaces and waited on table to get through harvard ile he finished law school in 1928 several of his nine years were put in at the universities of rome and lyons and at the league of nations then he got a job in the illustrious john W davis law office and became general counsel for the democratic committee in 1932 A year later governor lehman made him his legal adviser he is short sturdy dark galvanic of italian atalia parentage and boiling over with energy a 0 consolidated abed news restart feature service |