Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-19
WHO'S
NEWS /
THIS "
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

worked a n d
Noy burton here. One old-tim-
kneLD H0ID to err was holding out
Fan n, Story for Roy Burton,
III m h h d
known on the Brooklyn Eagle in the
nineties. Burton, he said, was the
best leg-man and digger, the most
fearless, and the most gifted in
tanning up a story out of nothing
at all. He knew makeup, too, said
the oldster.
The diligent reporter has been
duly rewarded. He is the Sir Pom
eroy Burton whose magnificent
French chateau the duke and
duchess of Windsor were looking
over recently.
With the NOrthcliffe papers in
London, he became a multi-million-
aire, as he transformed British jour-
nalism with daring American tech
niques. He became British citizen
in 1914 and was knighted in 1923.
In addition to his vast newspaper
interests, he is magnate Of cleo
trio power and utilities.
He was a printers devil on his
fathers newspaper in Youngstown,
Ohio, and, at the age of twelve, was
knocking about country printshops in
Ohio on the same job. He became
a compositor on the Brooklyn Eagle.
Hearing of a vacancy on the news
staff, he persuaded the city editor
to give him a try at reporting.
He hired evening clothes to cover
a society function. There, Colonel
,.l Hester, owner of
boss AlReo the Eagle, was
Youth in tremendously i'm
Hired TniIs pressed with the
personable young
man with whom he was talking, and
thought he had met him some
where. Young Burton did not re-
mind the colonel that he had seen
the young man in printers apron
few days before.
He became city editor and man.
aging editor of the Eagle, held i'm
rortant executive positions with the
World and the New York Journal
and was taken to England by Lord
Northcliffe in 1904 Ten years LATER,
he owned all but few of the Daily.
Mail shares not owned by Lord
Northcliffe: 2. r'
In the World war, he virtually
headed the organization of British
rrora ganda, and many of the most
damaging anti-German stories were
attributed to him. His enemies
charged that he had "debauched
British journalism with degrading
American sensationalism."
His friends insisted he had en-
hvened and regenerated it. He
g.. S. makes an occa-
~ o'Hs'oy sional tri p to
Visits u. ). America with
With Wallets staff of Wallets and
secretaries, suave,
dressy and still fit and impressive
at seventy-two, with more than
touch of British accent.
Over here, he always hated the
name Pomeroy and shortened it to
Roy, but picked it up again in Eng
land. He had been named for
Brick Pomeroy, the cyclonic jour
nalistic disturber of the latter half
of the last century, and he held
Mr.. Pomeroy in low esteem. Pom
eroy was almost, but not quite,
winner.
From a Wisconsin crossroads, he
rammed around the country in
newspaper and financial brawls,
and, in his old age, just through
sheer animal spirits, started plug
ging a tunnel through the Rocky
mountains, at Georgetown, Colo.
He was fattened by the SO de-
preston and died soon after, with
nothing to show for his LIES work
but hole in the ground. Then it
was discovered that the tunnel had
gouged into fabulous mineral wealth
in Kelso mountain. Eight years ago,
the tunnel went on through the
mountain, as the Moffatt tunnel.
p EPORTING the return of Poult-
~ ney Bigelow from a visit to his
friend, the former kaiser, and his
fervent approval of dictators, has
n~ p.y become a matter
'o of annual routine.
Has a Yen 1t is an old story,
FOR Fuehrers but the freshness
and vehemence of
Mr.. Bigelow's disgust with democ-
racy and enthusiasm for fuehrers
always makes it interesting.
He is the patriarch of Malden-on-
the-Hudson, with relatives and de-
scendants, down to great-grandchil-
dren, all up and down the river. He
will be eighty-three years old on
September 10. His father, John Bige-
low, was American minister to
France under Abraham Lincoln.
He hunted birds eggs with the
kaiser, forming a lifetime friend
ship, broken only by the war, which
he charged the kaiser with having
started. He recanted afterward and
the two old men meet annually to
salute "Der Tag" when only the all
wise and adjust shall rule again.
M