The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-27
WHO'S
NEWS
!. THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK. - Mushing along
~ with Jim Titus, an old desert
rat, about twenty miles southeast
of Tonopah, many years ago, this
Case-Hardencd alarmed bv the
Diplomat, Ticket ppro a h of
on Key Pittn,an what seemed to
sandstone. Old Jim, who seemed
to know everything, treasured me.
cts that young Teller Key Pitt
man. He's runnin' around in that
big rattletrap automobile of his
tryin' to get up a telephone COM
pany. Just kickin' up dust-that's
about all. No peace for anybody
around here"
Mr.. Pittman roared on through
the crossword, to set up his new
telephone company, sluice a tidy lit
tie fortune out of that and sundry
mining ventures, and to become
chairman of the foreign relations
committee of the United States SEN
ate. He backs up the President.
"Why shoot a man when you
can starve him to death?" says
Mr.. Pittman, indorsing the hint
of financial sanctions" against
world outlawry in the Presi-
dents address. He readies his
committee for action.
In Nome, Alaska, Mr.. Pittman
was a charter member of the
Ornery Mems club, organized at
Tex Richards bar. Years later, Ole
Elliott, Tex Richards partner, re-
organized the club in Tex's northern
saloon in Goldfield. l believe Mr..
Pittman's affiliations were with the
Montezuma club, down the street,
but he was highly esteemed alum
nus of the Alaska chapter and he
found enthusiastic ''sourdough"
backing in his financial and political
enterprises. Since 1913, Nevada has
been sending him regularly to the
senate.
He has been steadily against
Japan-that is, against strong
arm Japanese trade and mill
tary aggressiOn-and quite as
fervently for silver. Well up in
the headlines today is the
conjecture that the Presidents
new trade and credit militancy
will move first in the direction
of Japan.
Born in Mississippi, educated in
Tennessee, practicing law in Seattle,
Mr.. Pittman landed in Dawson,
Alaska, with a Canadian dime in
his pocket. He manned unilateral
bucksaw for few months before he
was appointed district attorney.
Jack London and Rex Beach found
in him rich pay streak of copy.
THE son of Buffalo dock work.
L er, one of nine children, who had
seen labor wars in his youth and
through his lifetime, has sought
Priests Fight them. was infiu-
on Strikes Gets entail in bring
Eve of Nation ing about the
truce in the New
York taxicab strike. He is the Rev.
Father John Peter Boland, chair
man of the unique New York State
Labor Relations board since June,
1887. During his incumbency, New
York has attracted the attention of
the nation in its industrial media
ton.
''Stop them before they get
started is his formula, as he
quotes the pope's encyclical, adj
vising priests to ego to the
w0rkingman." When he was APP
pointed to his present post, he
retired from his parishes of St.
Lucy and st. COLUMBIA, with the
blessing of his bishop, the Rev.
John A. Duffy of Buffalo. He
became profoundly interested in
techniques of labor mediation
while studying for the priest
hood in Rome. He urges regu-
lar meetings between employers
and employees and continuous
and constructive effort, rather
than emergency action when
trouble comes.
w HEN the young German i'm
W migrant, Max J. Kramer,
landed in New York and slept on a
park bench. he had no. Don't Dis
Opportunities Hence a police
oCop, Knocked man Weakened
W.fb N;Obfsf;ck him by whack-
ing his feet with
a nightstick. 1t was really oppor-
tunity knocking. The policeman.
who happened to speak German,
steered him into a carpenters job,
and, before long, he was buying and
Z Hiding hotels with the facility of a
child handling building blocks. That
was the only time he ever slept out.
Last May, his wife, Maria
Kramer, bought the 30-story
Hotel Lincoln for $7,0OO,OO0
cash, tooling it over into the
black In less than six months.