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...Navy. His job was described as "physical instructor." Felix, Count von Luckner, famed "Sea Devil," mariner since he was 13, Wartime scourge of Allied shipping, went yachting on Lake Superior, was seasick. He said it was the first time. "The short, choppy swells got me." Real estate men of Pawhuska, Okla. said that Col. Zack Miller, smart publicist, was negotiating for sale of his bankrupt "101 Ranch" and Wild West show to Alphonse Capone & family; that the Capones planned to lease 40-acre tracts of the 17,000-acre ranch to a colony of Italian farmers. The show, they said...
Died. Tom Bacon Rind, 84, onetime Chief of the Osage Indians; of cancer and pneumonia; in Pawhuska, Okla. Towering 6 ft. 4 in., he adhered strictly to the old-time tribal customs, deplored the "civilization" of his oilrich braves. Annually for 25 years he junketed to Washington to be greeted, photographed...
Died, Major Laban K. Miles, 87, uncle of President Herbert Hoover, onetime (1878-95) U. S. agent for the Osage Indians; after long illness; in Pawhuska, Okla. Known to the Indians as "White Father," he lived on the Osage Reservation for 53 years, advised, aided them in their local government. Young "Bert" Hoover lived in his home for a year at the age of 9, and at 14 after his father's death...
Reelected. Fred Lookout, Progressive, to be Chief of the Osage Indians, by 163 out of 397 oilrich Oklahoma braves who in expensive motors went to Pawhuska, voted against onetime Chief Tom Bacon Rind, Conservative, and Paul Red Eagle, Independent candidate...
Persons who have read the Hoover biography by his college-mate, Will Irwin*,know that Mr. Hoover was subject to croup when young and laid out for dead not long after his first birthday. Returning to life, he played vigorously with other small Midwesterners, including Osage pa-poosesf at Pawhuska, Okla., where his Uncle Laban Miles lived. Herbert trapped rabbits, learned to fish, read the Youth's Companion and Robinson Crusoe (secretly, for Quakers are strict) and when he was 11 went to live with another uncle, Dr. John Minthorn, in Newberg, Ore. His father and mother had died...