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Dominating character in Green Hell is Alexander Siemel. Duguid paints a respectful portrait of him, gives some account of his early life. A Russian, Siemel worked as a printer on a Buenos Aires newspaper, left town when he fell in love with his best friend's wife. He worked in the forests as a woodcutter among the Indians, liked it so much he decided to stay. He learned jaguar-hunting from an Indian spearman, turned hunter himself. He has bayonetted many a "tiger" after cornering it with his dogs. He told Duguid a grim story: Siemel's brother...
Days and nights passed. The striking weavers starved in their warehouse, the Amalgamated Printer sat on his chimney. Chimney Sitter Tanabe's 129 hour record was passed. Still the hardhearted owners of Japan Dyeing & Weaving Works did not relent. The strikers had forgotten that the real reason Chimney Sitter Tanabe won his case in November was that the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, was scheduled to pass beneath that particular chimney. It is illegal, it is sacrilege for any Japanese to look down on the Son of Heaven...
Emperor Hirohito showed no desire to go anywhere near the Weaving Works last week. Three score of the self starved strikers dropped from exhaustion, were carried to a hospital. Hunger striking was not in the contract of the chimney sitting printer. Sympathizers threw him rice balls, hard boiled eggs and apples. Then he was provided with a rope and a bucket, hauled up plentiful nutriment hand over hand...
...hours the weavers in the barn modified their hunger strike, announced that they would eat bean soup, but nothing else. Cauldrons of bean soup were rushed to their aid. A reporter of the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun scaled the chimney sitter's stack, asked his name. This the sitting printer refused to give. Said he, his spectacles flashing in the setting...
Dean Williams was 15 when he quit school to take a job as printer's devil on the Boonville (Mo.) Topic at 70 cents a week. In 1908 he persuaded the University to let him set up an experimental school. He has been its dean ever since, "the university president who never went to college...