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The
Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON —Big business
members of the Commerce De
partment's Business Advisory
Board got the surprise of their
lives at the banquet they gave
to new Commerce Secretary
Jesse Jones.
The towering, multi-million
aire Texan has not been noted
for his New Dealism. As RPC
boss, sometimes he bluntly op
posed the White House and his
elevation to the Cabinet met
with dour mutters in certain in
ner Administration quarters.
So when Jones rose to address
his business hosts, they leaned
back in comfortable anticipation
of soothing remarks. A few min
utes later they were sitting bolt
upright in startled astonishment.
‘These United States,” said the
new Secretary of Com mere?,
“have been good to us. We have
made money, we have nice hom
es, wear good clothes, have fine
cars and can afford banquets
like this one. We can look back
50 years, when most of us start
ed, and chart the courses we fol
Jowed. But we can’t look ahead
that far and where we are
going.
-rBut there are some things we
do know about the future. One
of them is that the days of mak
ing great fortunes are over. That
is finished. Another is that the
upper third, you and I, have got
to have a more public-minded
viewpoint. We must realize that
the welfare and well-being of the
lower third is our problem. We
are not living in a world by our
selves. We are as much a part
of society as the fellow on the
Other side of the tracks.
“His problems are our prob
lems and unless something is
'done about them, the world we
know and want to preserve won’t
last very long. We business men
can’t afford to be blind, or ob
structive or stupid. You can’t
turn the clock back. Remember
that.”
Equally unexpected was the re
action to thu Jones talk. His
business hosts applauded vigor
ously.
NOTE—Lone guest not in din
ner clothes was Averill Harri
man, director of numerous cor
porations and railroads and form
er head of the Advisory Board.
Ilarriman’s old friend Defense
Commissioner Sidney Hillman
joshingly started a subscription
fund to buy him a dinner jacket.
ARMY UNIFORMS
Young men who want to be of
ficers in the new Army are find
ing that the greatest obstacle is
the cost of getting dressed. The
Army does not provide uniforms
for its officers, and the cost at a
tailor shop is enough to send
them back home as conscientous
objectors.
For an officer called in from
Reservts, here is the list of mini
mum requirements. It does not
include the “special evening
dress” which would add another
$105 to the total.
Olive drab blouse (coat) with
“pink” slacks.$ 60.00
Overcoat . 58.00
Garrison cap . 8.50
Campaign cap . 3.00
Sam Brown:, belt. 10.50
Puttees . 10.50
Field Boots . 18.50
Six shirts at $3 $18.00
Breeches . $25.00
Total . $212.00
This also does not include a
$16 sabre, which has now been
made optional. And it includes
only one suit of blouse-and
slacks, whereas thrre or four ac
tuary are required.
The Quartermaster Corps of
the Army estimates that $250
would be required to purchase a
“modest outlay for a young offic
er.
Buy them by the bundle, Use
them for starting fires. For Sale
it The Nome Nugget.
Just after this picture was taken, Frank Conley described as the
ringleader in the Arkansas prison break in which 36 convicts es- j
caped after killing a guard died from bullet wounds received as he ;
attempted to “fight it out’’ w'ith a posse near Columbia, La. Police-1
man “Cuz” Rogers kneeling left wras credited with firing the shot i
which brought Conley down.
I
AP — The Story
Of News Out
standing Book
Against all the excitement and
romance of men and events of
the past hundred years, a story
unique in the whole panoramic
history of headlines reached the
public today between the covers
of a strikingly illustrated book.
The title of the work is AP —
THE STORY OF NEWS and in
I dramatic sweep it rcounts for
i the first time the actual first
' hand experiences of a procession
I of reporters from the beginning
I of news gathering to the rise of
jthe present-day Associated Press
' as the world’s oldest and largest
■ news association of which The
Nome Nugget is a member.
The author is Oliver Gramling,
a newspaperman since he obtain
ed his first job as a $5-a-week
rrporter at the age of 15. He was
assisted by William A. Kinney
now of the staff of The AP.
The Illustrations are by Henry
C. Barrow whose editorial page
cartoons appear daily in scores
of papers over the country.
The story begins with the or
igin of systematic news gather
ing in Boston harbor in 1811. Om
inous events were shaping the
destiny of the recently born Unit
ed States. The War of 1812 was
in the offing yet the people had
no way of obtaining fresh news.
Neither the telegraph, the wire
i less nor the telephone had been
i invented and public information
I traveled only by word of mouth.
The tavern or the coffee house,
rather than the so-called news
papers of the day was the best
place tq find out what was go
ing on and Boston was the trad
ing center of the New World.
Into this setting appeared a
young Bostonian, Samuel Topliff
who went into the harbor by row
I boat to obtain news from the
| incoming schooners. He gathered
: what information he could
| wheedle from the merchantmen
of the world and recorded it in a
, news book at Boston’s famed Ex
| change Coffee House where mer
j chants and patrons came to read.
This enterprise marked the
real beginning of news gathering
! and out of Topliff’s efforts came
the newspaper practice of obtain
ing and printing daily news.
The first phase of AP — THE
STORY OF NEWS deals with
these pioneering efforts, the bat
tles between competing news
men and the eventual founding
of the first news gathering asso
ciation — The Associated Press
—in 1848. From that meager be
ginning the practice of gathering
news grew until the AP, as it is
familiarly known today spends
$11,000,000 annually to obtain the
intelligence of the world for the
newspapers it serves. It is from
this source that The Nugget re
ceives the bulk of the world
news which it publishes for its
readers.
AP —THE STORY OF NEWS
however is more than a recital
of the evolution of one news or
ganization. Great names in news
paper history fill the pages of
the book which is primarily con
cerned with recounting the first
hand experiences of reporters on
the scene of world events from
1812 to the present day.
The book tells of the high-col
lared reporters who covered the
Civil War; of Lawrence Gobright
who wrote the story of Lincoln’s
assassination; of Mark Kellog
, who trotted to d ath beside Cus
: ter; of the men who covered the
famous Johnstown flood; of Kiri
loff who strapped himself on a
horse after being shot in the lung
, and rode across the strewn battle
| fi Ids to report the Russo-Japan
| ese war; of the men who cover
'ed the first World War and of
! those now on assignment in the
| war-torn areas of Europe and the
Far East.
AP — THE STORY OF THE
NEWS also relates the develop
ment of communications systems
by which the news is sped as
well as the perfection of the
“modern miracle” of newspaper
science by which a mechanism
called Wirephoto speeds news
pictures across continents within
minutes after they are snapped
to be printed side by side with
the stories they illustrate.
The book now available in stor
es throughout the country was
published by Farrar & Rinehart.
It contains 508 pages and 32 full
page illustrations. Advance re
views have termed it “the out
standing non-fiction book of the
year.”
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Distraught by their experiences of being held as hostages by pri- i
soners who escaped from Cummins Prison farm in Arkansas, Gladys j
Diamond, 15 (left) and Voncelle Williams, 16 (right) are shown
after they had been released. Miss Williams said she and Miss
Diamond and another girl held by five escaped convicts were not
mistreated by their captors but were forced to tramp through the.
woods with them ;while posses sought them. State Superintendent
of Police Steve Alford is at the left of the girls. Thirty-six convicts
escaped from the prison farm. Three of the convicts who kidnaped
the girls surrendered. At least 17 convicts were recaptured and
and two of them killed.
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