Carbon County news., 1937-07-02
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than Harry Bennett, but for many
years theirs has been p Damon
and Pythias friendship. Bennett,
commander Of Henry Ford's mill,
tant home guard against labor
unions, learned about fighting from
Mccoy. He was q sailor when Ford
bought some wooden boats from the
government. ~
They threw in Bennett, along with
boats, and Ford found 1t a good
bargain. He became a personnel
officer at the Dearborn plant, be-
coming, In time, as the years
slipped off the conveyor belt, the
head Of the Ford protective" or
ganization.
In 1882, Mccoy finished a confne-
ment Of seven years for having shot
his sweetheart, BY this time, Ben
nett had a yacht and castle on
the Huron. For old times sake, he
gave his friend a $6-a-day job and
gold badge, explaining, plausibly
it seemed, that his organization in
cluded limited number Of former
convicts, and that there was no rea-
son why it shouldn't if they behaved
themselves and did their work. Nc
Coy, helping expand and direct the
Service men," now enters serene
old age, fit and vigorous, younger
than his years, doing the work he
likes, best.
Bennett was ''SaiIOr Reese in the
years when he was a lightweight
boxer in the navy. It was in 1896
that Mccoy became world welter-
weight champion, by defeating
Tommy Ryan. II 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
became lightweight champion Of the
navy. However, this writer, scout
ing information among such light
weight 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 off
and Harry Bennett took over is
equally elusive. A curtain is drawn
over the beginnings of this partic-
ular Alger story-the story Of boy
who makes good by watching a
c1ock-to see that the other lads
punch it.
Current news reports reveal Ben
nett and Mccoy as working In a
deep, inaccessible basement Of the
Administration building, deploying
an army Of college athletes, former
prizeighters and ex-cOnvicts, !" both
ready to wade In with the hired
men as emergency sWampers If
need be.
Bennett is small, agile, muscular
and given to direct action. For pas
time, he practices pistol shooting,
reads mystery stories and goes
hunting.
The Troublesome DOukhobOrs.
The story Of the Canadian DOuh-
hobors might make q good study |
Tor Robert Allison Parker, author
Df the recently published s'Father
Divine" and q specialist In Mes
Sianic psychology. They remain
shaggy, nude and Obdurate, with |
heir leader, Peter Verigin II, again |
having Jail troubles in British CO.
umbia. e..
He is the head Of an organization
owning about $40, 900, 900
worth Of property, but the court
confirms his jail sentence for vag-
'ancy. His huge, barre1-chested
.ather, with whiskers like a percher-
ms uncurried fetlocks, was killed
n a train wreck in 1924, and Peter
I came over in 1927 to head the
Iect, the Russians having jailed him
or heresy and released him on
he condition that he leave the
:ountry. I
He is big and bewhiskered and
commanding, like his father, but
Darades in the nude, and other -ec-
,entricities had brought the law on
he DOuIxhobors, and he has done
little but fight of Writs and proc
,sses. He was saved from depOrta-
ion by a Halifax Judge in
93S.
The Doukhobors, or spirit wres-
lers," as they sometimes call them
elves, are a strange hold-out in
he modern 1ock-step. They'll catch
'tep, if they are just allowed to
he'd their clothes.