The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-28

! zation while retaining his fedora
seat.
Jumped Into Fight
The conservative party, In power
for % years, finally called an cleo
ton in 1884. Hepburn resigned his
federal seat and as he phrased it
Jumped into the fight with both
feet"
He conducted whirlwind cam
paign and after the election the lib
erals held 70 per cent of the Ontario
legislature seats, a sweeping victory
for the 38-year -old premier elect
The conservatives prior to the cleo
ton had held rs per cent Of the
house seats.
Fights C. I. o. Union
In April, 1887, the United Auto
mobile Workers Union, a G. I. O.
affiliate, called strike at the Osha-
wa, Ont, plants Of General Motors
Corp. of Canada, and Hepburn went
to action. Terming the c. I. o. Or
ganizers directing the strike as "a
bunch Of foreign agitators," Hep
burn sought Royal Canadian
Mounted Police detachment from the
federal government, meantime
threatening ito send an army tc
Oshawa" If strike violence broke out
He also ordered provincial police tc
enlist special emergency squad OF
volunteers, who were drilled on the
legislature grounds and promptly
branded "Hepburn's Hussars."
Aided in Settlement
Despite his fury at c. I. o. activity
Hepburn aided In negotiating the
strike settlement, but refused to dis
cuss the subject until all G. I. o. Or
ganizers had withdrawn.
Shortly after the strike settlement
Hepburn called an election, based
almost solely on his c. I. o. stand. He
met little organized opposition and
was swept back into power.
Hepburn is married and has two
adopted children, boy and a girl
He lives on farm outside St
Thomas and prides himself on his
ability to raise "the finest onions in
the county"
Career OF Smith
New York, July 28-(UP)-Ber-
nard E. Smith, missing near juneau
Alaska, is known on Wall Street
as "sell 'em Ben" who made $10,-
100000 on the bear side of the mar
ket during 80 days of the 1929
crash, and whose greatest obses-
sion is gold.
Although his recent activities had
been linked with oil, and he had
been reported trying to negotiate
for some of the product of the wells
Mexico appropriated from Amer
lean and British oil companies, gold
had been his love since the United
States abandoned the gold stand
ard. 1t was understood here that
some gold mining enterprise had
taken him toward Juneau on his
present trip.
He bought Alaska Juneau gold
stock IN 1927, two years after he
had made his first trip there by
airplane to look at a mine. He re-
turned from Alaska Juggling a solid
brick Of gold, worth $4,000. And
1t took some persuasion to keen
him from hanging it up for exhi-
bition at the exchange. He once
suggested that the government cure
the depression by putting idle men
to work prospecting for gold In the
southwest.
Disappears For Weeks
Among his other idiosyncrasies
has been a habit of disappearing
Tor weeks at time on mysterious
missions to distant places, and the
pet elephant which he keeps on his
country estate at New Bedford.
Mass. ~
ne grew up a poor boy, on the
sidewalks Of New York, q few wears
later than his contemporary Alfred
y. smith, and at the age of so he
stu retained trace of the accent
OF an East Side newsboy.
In 1882, when the U. 8. Senate
banking and currency committee
investigated the 1929 market crash.
Smith was questioned for hours In
an attempt to force an admission
tnat ne was a bear raider" He
SAID ne wasn't. that he was "a big
Snort operator" His friends ex-
planned that he was merely re
sourceful." and that bear trading
was as important to stable mar
ket as bull trading.
the committee also learned that
once Smith was In a pool with Per-
-cy Rockefeller and John j. Raskob,
ana that they lost money on a bull
His interest In gold. he once