Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-13
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IF YOU a certain service station in Tulsa,
oklahoma find your gasoline tank filled and your
windshield wiped by darl-slkihned stained and
somewhat plump young Indian who TO be only
the SS-a-week flunles. look your at
him. He's got more money than yea44- evef-h ave.
He may work hart for his So day But he can, if
he spend four times that much every day in the
week and every week in the year without working
This young Indian S Willie Taylor. 24-yearold nephew
Of the chief of the Oklahoma seminoles And he has
fortune estimated at more than $S000Oo0 He is in fact
Of the richest Indians in the country.
Tusans snorted little and shook their heads in be-
Vsidesesst- +eaE4Qhep they heard that Willie
Taylor his week allowance actually had started
1T won't last was the unanimous comment He's
doing it stunt to get publicity" But has
And l intend for it to keep lasting" Taylor says
slowly seriously I've this job weeks
work from $50 m. to m Iwash and grease cars
I work hard"
The young Indians boss John Chronister agrees
Il didn't have the faintest idea who he was when emu
ployed him." said Chronister But he sticks the job,
hired because his application blank neatly filled
and he seemed intent doing his best
Willie insists that his taking job is stunt"
serious" he says, wealthy Indians lazy.
They don't have work l want to show my tribe that
hard hurts nobody would like to be leader of
my tribe. and 10 show them that can manage my own
affairs"
That last sentence is important for Willie is not the
manager Of his own affairs except for his S75a-week
allowance his S1sa-week salary Litigation begun in
a Seminole County eight years ago has put his
wealth under the thumb Of the United states Indian De-
PaItneht An administrator keeps DOCKS on winner cost
O living
The crx of the whole situation is that several of the
tgants against Willie would like to him declared in
competent He has fought off several attempts already
and there will be others So
Il make out my monthly reports Of expenditures
for the United States probate attorney" Willie smiles
quietly Il prove serious by getting job. And
Anow ! won't be declared incompetent long
tinue to prove where stand"
s behind the constant legal assaults on Wlies
fo'tuney ~ ~ ~ s' - - -
oh" Willie shrugs some of my relatives At least
they say they're my relatives"
While left orphan and his uncle and aunt Glib
and Judy Taylor took him into their home They
just like parents to me" he says
The Taylors and George Jones another uncle who
chief the Semnoles ali had central eastern
Oklahoma. The land gave them lazy living.
It in 1926. that oil discovered and around
Seminole There followed one Of the widest booms in Okla
homas wild history Land prices SCARED to fabulous heights
Most Of Whites relations sold all sizable parts of their
farms, granted lease rights at low figures
FFrir-s fault minor during ait
the excitement. but he's glad OF it He might have
sold some Of bus property too.
is oil wells his land began spouting black
gold purse which the Government held the strings
TIRE purse grew heavier heavier estimates nd-
cate IL holds approximately So 100000 II may more
The Government won't say But it is growing now
Oh stl is being produced And the interest the money
being put back into principal Willie gets $4,000 year
from it. But his true income is probably ten twenty
times that figure
No sooner was OIL struck than Willie went on a splurge
education lie attended Bacone Indian School Indian
school in Arizona military academy in Missouri
another military academy Kentucky.
Despite his millions William Taylor doesn't aspire to
the title Of worlds richest Indian" lie recalls only too
wei The noorey and pain that accompanied that title
t4lt.lTed late Jackson Barnett a Seminole A
white woman married Barnett hauled him off TO Holly
wood installed him in huge mansion and made his life
constant q parties and lawsuits Barnett
didn't have much fun Willie
Willie doesn't have any desire for grandeur He
lives modest apartment He doesn't drink and
only moderately package Of cgarets lasts four days
Willie dresses neatly insists his accessories
Inatchl doesn't 10Eanon hat although he
prefers VIC frTru semi c5tCTTl tFrC # fCadEedT
j get al SORTS Of letters calls from0wouen" WINE
admits some of them don't say very things have