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education by playing professional base ball.
and was recognized as one Of the best pitchers
In the Middle West. He was admitted to the
bar when he was 81.
Cannon represented "Shoeless" Joe Jackson
and the other Chicago "blacksocks" in the 1913
world series scandal and was legal advisor 10
the base ball players Of the American and Ma
tional Leagues. He started union for base
ball players in 1922. He won verdict OF
$4,000 for "Shoeless" Joe jackson against
Charles Comskey.
He was also legal advisor to Jack Dempsey
for 10 years and successfully defeated q series
of actions by John (The Barber) Risler, who
claimed Dempsey had made contract for
Risler to manage" him.
Cannon succeeds Representative John G.
Schafer, formerly railroad fireman
One of the former newsboys is the new blind
Representative Matthew A. Dunn, Democrat, OF
Pennsylvania. At the age of IL an accident
caused him to lose the sight in his left eye.
When he reached the age of 20. while an IN
mate of the Newsboys Home in Pittsburgh. ne
lost the vision of his other eye while wrestling
He was educated in schools for the blind ana
has since been a news dealer and insurance
broker. He served two terms in the state Leg
islature
From newsboy to Congress is also the Oliver
Optic like story of William r. Thorn. Along
the way he was a home town newspaper re-
porter secretary to member Of Congress j.
Whitacre-and a press association representa-
tive in the Capitol press galleries while taxing
his law course at Georgetown University
AS an aftermath of the march Of the unem-
ployed there comes to Congress Henry Ellen
bogen Democrat, of Pennsylvania. He was
born in Austria in 1900 and attended the Uni
versity of Vienna. Emigrating to the United
States when he was 81 he entered Duqueune
University graduating three years later ana
passed the State bar examinations with the
highest mark ever attained by any student, out
had to wait two years to get his final citizen
ship papers before being admitted to practice
With Rev. James R. Cox, he organized the
unemployed march of $4,000 men from Pitts
burgh to Washington in an orderly and peace
full manner. He presented the petition Of these
marchers to President Hoover, Speaker Garner
and Vice President Curtis.
At that time he told the sitting members
from Allegheny County that unless they would
work for the unemployed he would oppose them
in the election. Representative Clyde keny
was the only one who responded. So Ellen
bogen defeated one Of them and he and Father
Cox we're successful in having the others re-
tired.
This same vigorous young man, after organ
izing a campaign in Allegheny County for aboli-
ton OF the coal and iron police system, boarded
a special plane with Father Cox to fly to Har-
risburg to attend hearing before = legislative
committee. The plane got lost and carried
them over Chesapeake Bay. They luckily
landed on Kent Island.
There is one new member from Oklahoma
E. w. Marland, Democrat, who has made
gift to that State of a heroic statue OF THE
Pioneer Woman" erected on the Cherokee
Strip where she finished her last task Of set
Ting the land formerly occupied by Indians
and evolving a civilization of the West-the
IN, oil
He entered the petroleum oil business IN
1895 and was actively engaged in it as pro-
Queer refiner and marketer until 1929. He
organized what is now the Continental Oil Co,
with subsidiaries in many States, Canada
Mexico and Europe.
Einar Hoidale, the only Democrat elected
from Minnesota, typifies the pioneer. He was
born in Tromso, Norway, "city Of the midnight
sum- where his father held an important gov
eminent position and his mother had lived IN
an atmosphere Of culture and refinement
When Einar was years old the father brought
the family to live on wide prairie in lovely
tar-papered shack, 20 miles from the nearest
railroad station. where the village of Dawson
now stands. During the bitter Winter they
burned twisted hay to keep from freezing.
Their flour for bread was whole wheat ground
In an old-fashioned coffee mill. At the age OF
10 he herded cattle for dollar a week. The
next year he earned SIP week blowing from
dawn to dark. When he was IL he went from
farm to farm with q threshing crew. He
shoveled snow in the biting cold on railroad
section to break blockade for $1.1o per day.
At the age Of 20 he was publishing in his home
village the Western Guard, with initial CAPT.
tai of $25
| JERES sample Of the "just plain, plugging
- American business man with q hobby to
balance the budget" Philip A. Goodwin, Re-
publican, of Coxsockie, N. r., spent Is years In
the steel bridge building business, II years ago
of Il