Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-07-08

WHO'S Me-
THIS WEEK
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ByLemuel F. P;
Modern Damon and

NJ EW YORK.-Kid Nc
~ ty-five, is twenty
than Harry Bennett, bu
years theirs has been
and Pythias friendship
commander of Henry f
tant home guard aga
unions, learned about fig
Mccoy. He was a sailor
bought some wooden boat
government.
They threw in Bennett,
boats, and Ford found
bargain. He became
officer at the Dearborn
coming, in time, as Il
slipped off the conveyor
head of the Ford "protec
ganization.
In 1882, Mccoy finished a
ment of seven years for hay
his sweetheart. By this TIM
nett had yacht and cd
the Huron. For old times s.
gave his friend a $6-a-day j
a gold badge, explaining, phi
it seemed, that his organizat
cluded a limited number of I
convicts, and that there was n
son why it shouldn't if they be
themselves and did their worl
Coy, helping expand and dire
"service men," now enters a
old age, fit and vigorous, you
than his years, doing the wo1
likes best.
Bennett was "Sailor Reese"
years when he was a lightw
boxer in the navy. 1t was in
that Mccoy became world WI
weight champion, by defe
Tommy Ryan. 1t was years
that the young sailor entered
New York gymnasium and told
of his ambitions as a boxer.
Mccoy trained Reese, W.
charge. 1t has been frequent
record in the newspapers that
became lightweight champion
navy. However, this writer, !
ing information among such
weight navy champs of twent]
years ago as Sam Robideau
Fisher and Paddy Mills, has
unable to pick up his trail.
Where Sailor Reese knocke
and Harry Bennett took ov
equally elusive. A curtain is d
over the beginnings of this d
ular Alger story-the story of
who makes good by watch
clock-to see that the other
punch it.
Current news reports revea
nett and Mccoy as working
deep, inaccessible basement.
Administration building, de- g
an army Of college athletes, f6i
prizefighters and ex-convicts,"
ready to wade in with the
men as emergency swamper
need be.
Bennett is small, agile, muse
and given to direct action. For
time, he practices pistol shoe
reads mystery stories and
hunting.
The Troublesome DOukhobOr
The story of the Canadian d
hobors might make a good S
for Robert Allison Parker, au
of the recently published "Fa
Divine" and a specialist in
sianic psychology. They re'r
shaggy, nude and obdurate,.
their leader, Peter Verigin III, a
having Jail troubles in British
lumbia.
He is the head of an organize
supposedly owning about $1,000
worth of property, but the c
confirms his Jail sentence for
rancy. His huge, barrelche
father, with whiskers like a pere
on's uncurried fetlocks, was k
in a train wreck in 1924, and F
II came over in 1927 to head
sect, the Russians having jailed
for heresy and released him
the condition that he leave
country.
He is big and bewhiskered
commanding, like his father,
parades in the nude and other
centricities had brought the Law
the DOukhObOrs, and he has
little but fight off writs and 7
esses. He was saved from dept
ton from Canada by a Halifax il
in 1888.
The Doukhobors, or spirit "
tiers" as they sometimes call tt
selves, are a strange hold-ou
the modern lock-step. They'll c
step, if they are just allowed
shed their clothes.
Youth on the Bench.
Nine years out Of college, Cha
POletti becomes a justice of the
preme court Of New York, at
age Of thirty-three. He is the
of a stone-cutter in Barre, VT.
dickered for an old Ford, trav
and sold maps to get through
school, and tended furnaces
xrro tod nm fohla 70 naA ILL.,