Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-03-10
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK

By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NJ Ew ,YORK.-Is the "czar" on
- his way out? Before and since
the elevation of Judge Lands and
VIII Hays we have hired benevolent
Impartial Ump i au,esra as s.res N
Pushins Car and confusion.
Into Discard? but now the New
York city hotel
industry hires, instead, an ''impar-
tial chairman" with labor concur
ring, as he will represent both en-
ployers and labor. Is this prece-
dent, or is the title just a euphe-
mism for GEAR?
Granite-faced, tight-lipped Ed
ward p. Mulrooney gets the umpir-
ing job. at SIS, 900 a year. He also
is now entitled to his 5000 yearly
pension, as former police commits
sioner, withheld while he held pub
lie Office. In 1893, he became chair
man Of the state alcoholic beverage
control board, and later state COM
missioner of correction, from which
office he viii resign to accept the
hotel post. r .st.Sssas.
He started pounding . beat
h West street forty eight years
ago, when Theodore Roosevelt
was police commissioner. He
arst hit the headlines By reseu-
ing women and children In .
small boat when the Sloeum
burned. As . ''waterfront lat.
foot" he was known ~ q ''cop,s
cop" always having his mind
On his work.
He became police commissioner
In 1880. He gave his men orders
to shoot to kill, and set shotgun
squads patrolling the city. He
roughed up the racketeers a lot.
NJ WS reports from Havana are
that, when Colonel Fulgencio
Batista. Cuba's strong man, visited
Mexico. he was regarded by some
Cuban Business tive 80 SUPPORTERS uUs@tez,
FroWns on Left as having gone
Turn of Batissa over. over to the
the tracks" There was particular
displeasure over his fraternizine
with President Cardenas of Mexico,
and business representation at his
welcome-home ceremonies was con-
spicuously lacking. He told the
crowd Of cheering workers that
IF capital does not wish to respect
the desires and rights of the people,
the resulting confusion will work
against its own aspirations"
This is one Of several recent
signs that the one-time cane
rustler, barber, buck private
and stenographer who now runs
Cuba is veering left, after
wide swing to the right. Soon
after his seizure Of power, with
the downfall Of Machado in
August, 1888, he treasured the
claw and order" elements, and
left-wingers have been pastine
him as the "Hitler Of Cuba"
He made peace with foreign and
native industrialists, and, from
all accounts, they are jolted con-
siderably by his getting chubby
with Cardenas. the 'Expropria-
tor" He is circulating much
more than he used to, and there
Is talk that he aspires to be the
Napoleon Of the Caribbean"
His hole-card is the army, which
he commands efficiently as chief
of staff. A big, reticent, swarthy
man, 81 years old, he says little
and keeps a sharp, wary eye on his
soldiers.
"ITH a bullet in his shoulder
" and one heel shot away, DR..
Oswaldo Aranha, foreign minister
of Brazil. is an effective emissary
49, OF peace in the
Ardnhd 4 hunks western hemi.
II Time to StosO sphere. and the
Shooting Irons white hope of
partment, as he visits this country,
He was the leader of five revolu-
tons in. eight years, including the
one which established Dr.. Getulio
Vargas, present president of Brazil.
His present mission Is mainly
financial. Il is possible that 4
central bank Of Brazil will grow
out Of It, with the United States
supplying $50. o00. 900 capital. He
Il - years old, the SON Of a
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