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BENNY THE BUM AIDED PHIL
ADELPHIA GETTING G. O. P.
CONVENTION
By Preston Grover
WASHINGTON Please excuse
if we point out that in bidding
for the Republican national con
vention, Philadelphia offered not
only $150,000 and the Liberty
Bell, but also Benny the Bum.
Benny the Bum is a versatile
man who once fought valiantly
but not too well in the prize ring.
Now he runs Philadelphia’s prin
cipal night club. Democrats from
the not-too-straight-laced parts of
the country assembled nightly
and convivially at Benny the
Bum's during the 1936 conven
tion.
Benny’s food and entertain
ment relieved the tension. As
anyone will remember, there
were w’hole days of extreme ten-:
sion at Philadelphia when dele
gates stood irresolutely about i
wondering whether President F.
D. Roosevelt ever would get the,
nomination. Benny profited hand
somely w’hile the Democrats made !
up their minds about nominating j
the President and he is an admir-1
able spot to profit once again if;
the Republicans should be in!
doubt as to whom to name in)
1940.
An Institution
Benny has long been an institu
tion in Philadelphia. The stories
about him would fill a book. It
is related that one time former
Governor Earle of Pennsylvania
was chatting with Benny the
Bum when up came the subject!
of motion pictures. Benny com
plained of fraud.
“You can’t never tell what
these pictures is going to be ab
out any more”, complained Ben-j
ny to the Governor. “Just thej
other night here I was going to
a picture show and it was sup-)
posed to be about sheep up on I
"'the Canadian Boundary. But in
side do I get a show about sheep? I
Naw. It’s about fightin’ on ships!
down in them South Sea islands, j
But how was I going to tell that |
when outside everything says it;
is “Mutton on the Boundary”.
Of course Benny does not sign;
his name Benny the Bum. He us
to get mighty wrought up
when people called him that. That
was before somebody persuaded j
him that Benny the Bum was a
better name for a night club own
er than Benny Fogelman. Now
he has a big sign in front of his
place on 15th street explaining to
folks that this is the famous spot
belonging to Benny the Bum. j
If you doubt that Benny means'
to keep the place respectable
you only have to remember that
Benny personally threw out a
spot of company he thought was
too noisy. And when some of
their friends in the orchestra
protested he threw them out, too.
Naturally it brought Benny up,
before the police to explain and
he did.
“Judge” says Benny, "they was
lousin’ up me place.”
Asked To Kick In
Benny has a son in Princeton,
for which the choice of school
he credits Senator Guffey.
"That’s where Joe Guffey went
and the best is none too good for
my boy.’
The late Heywood Broun once
wrote a piece about Benny the
Bum and Benny was so pleased
he enlarged it to wall-panel size
and hung it up.
Because Benny is likely to make j
some money out of any conven
tion that happens to drop in on
Philadelphia he doubtless was
asked to kick liberally into the
kitty that was offered to the Re
publicans.
His money and much oratory
were spent trying to get the
Democrats to go “back to Phila
drlphia but they chose Chicago
instead. Charles Greatlow', anoth
er fam<M.i Philadelphian, now in
the city government, forgot to
mention Benny the Bum among
the attractions of Philadelphia,
; although he made a great speech.
Just now the only part we can
1 recall of Mr. Greatlows oratory
as he laid the terms before the
committee is this: “All we can
do is to hit the nail on the head
and give it time to digest.”
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DIES PITS FORGERY UP TO
PROSECUTOR
WASHINGTON March 16, </P)
—Representative Dies, chairman
of the committee investigating
un-American activities, stated to
day that he had transmitted to
David A. Pine, Federal District
Attorney here, all the “testimony
facts and exhibits” relating to
the alleged forging of letters pur
porting to show that he. Mr.
Dies, entered into an arrange
ment with William Dudley Pell
ey, head of the.Silver Shirts. Mr.
Dies said the entire committee
approved the move.
The District Attorney has been
asked to consult the Federal
grand jury so that "appropriate
action may be taken”, Mr. Dies
said. The chairman asked Mr. |
Pine to determine also whether;
the asserted forgery and subse-|
quent use of the letters in ques- j
tion constituted a violation of the |
criminal statute forbidding intim
idation of a Congressional com
mittee.
At the same time, Robert H.
Jackson, Attorney General, made
public a letter to Representative
Starnes of Alabama, vice-chair
man of the committee, in which
he agreed to turn over to thej
committee, for its confidential
use, the record of the investiga
tion of Mr. Pelley by the Feder
al Bureau of Investigation. Mr.
Starnes had requested this during
the period when Mr. Dies was
absent from Washington because
of illness.
The letters to which Mr. Dies
referred were inserted in the
Congressional Record on Jan. 22
by Representative Hook of Mich
igan. Their publication aroused
stormy controversy which lasted
until Feb. 6 when Mr. Hook ap
ologized to the House for putt
ing them into the Record and
said he was convinced that they
were forgeries.
They purported to represent
correspondence between Mr. Pel
ley and David D. Mayne his
Washington representative, in
which it was set forth that an
arrangement had been reached
with Mr. Dies whereby the Sil
ver Shirts leader, whom the com
mittee had been hunting for some
time, would not be put on the
witness stand.
Representative Dies proposed
that his committee conduct its
hearings behind closed doors un
til after the November election.
“I want to try my best to keep ]
the committee work out of poli
tics and want to avoid a charge
that some one might make that
we were trying to influence a
Presidential election," the chair
man told reporters.
Write to your friends and rela- !
cives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour- j
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
kick out of it.
. M--r : AaL ' • . J
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Wife Recalls
Racing Days Of
Fred Ayer
With the Fairbanks Dogs Der
by and the Nome Cheechacco
! race just run Fred Ayer is “Fit
To Be Tied" with waves of Fleet
foot canine nostalgia of former
days when he ran with Leonhard
Seppala, “Scotty” Allen and oth
J ers, guiding his four-footed “Fly
1 ers” over the silver trails in the
! All Alaska Sweepstakes, from
Nome to Candle (408) miles,
J hn Borden Marathon to Cape
Nome and return, (26 miiles-385
yds.) and the Solomon Derby to
Solomon and return (66 miles).
Fred ran twice in the All Al
aska Swepstakes and came in
third. He was more fortunate,
however in the other races. He
ran in the Solomon Derby in 1913
with 7 dogs beating John John
son (18 dogs) by two minutes.
Fred Ayer won every race in this
Derby for a number of years
thereafter. The top prize for this
Derby was $500. Fred also won
the record race in this derby
(time; 5 hrs.-33 min.-33 sec.)
which has never been broken.
Leonhard Seppala and "Scotty”
Allen entered and ran against
Fred in both the Solomon Derby
and the Borden Marathon Race;
; Fred beating them both in each
j race. The last Solomon Derby
1 Fred participated in, the other
I dr .vers argued it was useless to
run against Seppala and Ayer, as
they had a cinch.
Someone suggested the others
pick dogs from three racing
teams combine them in one team
and run against them. This they
did. Selecting the best from Har
ry Riley, Percy Blatchford and
Russ Downing’s teams. Percy
Blatchford entered the “picked”
team and ran against Fred and |
Seppala, again Fred Ayer won.
Then in the Borden Marathon
Race a few years later, Fred won
three times, winning a small sil
ver cup each time and receiving
| for the final grand trophy, a huge 1
'silver cup standing 26 inches
[high. Leonhard Seppala compet-j
ed in the Borden race of another
year and won the coveted cup,
also.
Fred Ayer’s dogs were a cross j
between thoroughbred Beagle
and Alaska dog; Beagle for speed
and the Alaska dog for fur. These
dogs were born racing dogs. Fred j
said it took six men to hold them
before the race started. Once in !
a Solomon Derby, “Scotty” Allen
remarked after reaching Nome,
that “Fred Ayer’s Flyers” passed
me like I was standing still.” No
doubt Seppala and Allen still re
member the thrills experienced
in those days of yesteryear.
Ann S. Ayer,
Steel Creek, Alaska.
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NOTICE TO VOTERS
The Poll Book for the Registra
tion of voters for the forthcom
ing Municipal and School Board
Election will close on Saturday,
day, March 23, 1940.
M. J. Walsh, City Clerk
U. S. MORAL EMARGO
IS NOT ENDED
WASHINGTON, March 16 —'
State Secretary Cordell Hull said!
! the government’s policy of a mor
al embargo against Russia im
posed by President Roosevelt and;
the State department after the
Soviet invasion of Finland is not
ended with the end of the Russo
1 Finnish war.
Even before his press confer
| ence it was apparent the United
States would continue to regard
Russia warily and that no move
would be made to lift the embar
| go because officials are not sure
Russia will not move again ag
ainst Finland or that Russia
might not move against other na
tions in the Balkans or in the
near east or that some materials
! might get through to Germany.
Roosevelt laid down an embar
go on shipment of airplanes and
i parts to Russia early in Decem
j ber. Later the State department
| announced the embargo would in
elude materials going into their
manufacture such as molybden
um and aluminum and plans for
the manufactre of aviation gaso
i line.
Wien Airlines
Activities
—
Frank Whaley returned to
Nome yesterday morning with
Margaret Scott, Connie Mazen
and freight.
Yesterday afternoon a flight
was made to Taylor and Deering
with freight and two passengers
Murphy Johnson, Nome to Tay
■ lor and Mrs. John Cross Deering
to Nome.
This morning Pilot Whaley
made a trip to Efim, White Moun
tain and Council with freight and
I Mrs. Charles for Elim.
Immediatey upon returning to
Nome Whaley left for Pilgrim
Springs, Igloo and Teller with
freight and Lorene Hagen for Ig
! loo.
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Mirow Air Service,
Activities
Fred Chambers made a flight
to American Creek with freight.
Arriving with Pilot Sasseen
Thursday from Anchorage were
Ross J. Kinney. George Condell,
and Tony Johanson, mechanic for
Mirow Air Service.
Pilot Sasseen will arrive from
Anchorage this afternoon with
passengers and will return to
morrow.
Saturday Jack Jefford flew the
Reindeer Acquisition Unit to Kan |
akanak and lower Yukon River,
points and will return Thursday.
GLAMOROUS STAR
MAXINE ELLIOTT DIES
CANNES, France. Mar. (Ah —
Maxine Elliott, 67, actress, died >
at her villa “cote d’azure” here. |
Of all the glamarous stars of'
the stage Maxine Elliott was one
of the few who could say that
she had the perfect career.
She was starred in many trium
phant roles, ranging from Shakes
i peare to the modern drama. She
I was acclaimed by critics for her
beauty, charm and talent. A
Broadway theatre was named for
her. She was the toast of Euro
pean royalty. And she quit the
stage while she was at the height
of her career, to become one of
the outstanding international host
esses of the European “gold
coast’’ on the French Riviera.
Miss Elliott was bom in Rock
land, Me., on Feb. 5, 1873, the
daughter of Thomas and Ade
laide Dermott. Her father was a
salty New England sea captain
and as a girl she went with him
on several sailing voyages to
South America and Spain.
She attended Notre Dame Aca
demy at Roxbury, Mass., and it
was there that she started study
ing to become an actress, chang
ing her name to Maxine Elliott
at the suggestion of her dramat
ic teacher. Her younger sister
followed this example and be
came a successful actress as Ger
trude Elliott.
Her travels carried her to San
I Francisco in 1898 and there she
met and married Nat Goodwin,
actor. They were divorced in IS
OS. She never married again.
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PLEDGED TO U. S. BY JAPS
TOKYO, Mar. 16 (#>)—'The Jap
anese newspaper Esma Shimbun
said tonight that supplies in a
South China province were be
ing pledged as collateral for a
new $20,000,000 loan to China by
the United States. The paper said
other nations seeking Chinese
raw materials were shocked by
the deal involving the tin mines.
The newspaper also accused the
United States of making great ef
forts to check what was called
the Japanese invasion.
ICKES BOUND WEST TO
PLAY A NEW ROLE
CHEYENNE, March 15 — In
terior Secretary Harold Ickes
bound for the west and to San
Franoisco told reporters that
President Roosevelt has not yet
decided whether to seek a third
term.
“You’ve got to meet these prob
lems when the time comes,” he
said, adding that he long has ad
vocated a third term.
It is reported that the purpose
of Ickes’ trip is to bring peace
among warring third term fac
tions of California Democrats.
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