New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1927, Page 11

iller, In Line For Gary’s Job, Called ““Czar”’ Witha Human Side The New York Stock Exchange is proverbially skittish. Let a day's course of events deviate from the pormal path ever so slightly, the stock market is apt to respond with 2 gyrating succession of falling price quotations. Yet when Judge Elbert S. Gary, chairman of the board of the United States Steel Corporation, died sud- denly, the market remained firm U. 8. Steel common dropped five- eighths of a point; then, before the day was over, it rallied and even went up a trifle. There probably are several rea. sons why death of one of the na tion’s industrialists failed to disturb the market. One of them, undoubt- edly, is Judge Nathan L. Miller. Judge Miller, it is gencrally ex- pected, will succeed Judge Gary as arbiter of the great steel combine.| The behavior of the market on the day of Judge Gary's death gives a bint to his character and reputation. NO RESTRICTIONS. put off buying that new Living Room Suite any longel". | paid Has Notable Record Little known to the public at large, Judge Miller is both well and favorably known in the financial world. e is known as an able cor- poration lawyer, a man who h played the political game shrewdly and honor cial adviser who is emi and con- His life sto that of Judg Like Judge Judge Miller was born on a farm and knew the long, hard work of a farmer’s boy n his youth. Like Judge Gary, e left the farm and turned to the : ing zgling, poorly- town attorney. Judge G ¢ served for a time on the judic nch of his home state. Yet the similarity is not cor Miller, for example, mixed in poli- tics more than Judge Gary ever did Hills connection with the steel in- We are placing on sale Suite Like | in our large NEW DRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1927. dustry came comparatively late in his career; Jydge Gary grew up with it. Nathan L. Miller was born in a oross roads village in Cortland coun- ty, N. Y, in 1868. His boyhood was spent as the boyhood of most far- mers' boys of that generation were spent—in long days of toil, with no luxuries. He had the ordinary schooling of his day—approximately three months a year—and he had no time to learn any sport except box- ing. This, it should be stated, was forced upon him. As a boy he was undersized, and had to learn to de- fend himself from the town bullies. He learned so well that by the time he had reachgd his 'teens his associates had learned to respect his abilities. Became a Republican When young Nathan was 16 two things happened to him; he de- clded to enter the law as a profes- sion, and he became a republican. crat, who was almost ready to fight | when Samuel Tilden was defeated by Rutherford B. Hayes, the boy was captivated by the glittering fig- ure; of James G. Blaine, and his ad- miration led him into the republi- can camp—to his father's great dis- gust. He has been a republican ever since. Becoming a republican in a rock- ribbed democratic family was easier however, than becoming a lawyer. Young Miller had little money; a | college education was out of the | question. So he became a country | school teacher working in a lawyer's office in the evenings and painfully digesting facts about law in his spare moments, His legal education had pro- gressed for perhaps two years when he entered politics. There was a re- publican county rally, and the | speaker of the occasion failed to ar- | rive. Someone suggested to the com- | mittee in charge that the young | school teacher could make a good speech. Miller was pressed into ser- vice, and although he had a scant | hour to prepare his remarks he | spoke so well that he won a regular {place for himselt as a campaign speaker. Married School Teacher | Tn 1593, when he was 25, he took his first step upward, winning the | position of county school commis- sioner, at $1200 a year. In his tours of inspection of the county’s schools e made the acquaintance of Miss akb Marathon Academy. After a time Miss Devern became Mrs. Na- [ than Milter. | Miller was admitted to the bar the same year he became school commissioner. In a few years he had developed his practice so that he | was considered the county's out- anding attorney. his ability as a stump speaker, he | became county republican | 1593, and in 1901 was elected Cort- land corporation counsel. And in 1903, so favorably w: he known to leaders of the New York republican { party, he was made an associate jus- jnrf: of the state supreme court. committee BE EXTENDED TO YOU. For Saturday Only! EVERY Living Room stock at unbelieveable — defying competition. these Suites in 23 different styles will be available. Born the son of a die-hard Demo- | seth Devern, who taught in the | Due to this and| irman of the Courtland | in | prices PRICES are SO LOW — that you need not Judge Miller remained on the bench for 12 years, graduating to the court of appeals in 1913. In 1915 he retired to re-enter private practice, pleading that he could not | support his family—he had seven danghters—on a jurist's salary. On his resignation he moved to| Syracuse, where he became counsel | for a large corporation at $50,000 a year. In 1920 the republican par- ty drafted him for governor. He served two years, suffering defeat by Al Smith In 1922. Then he re-en- tered private practice, moving to New York City and entering an al- lfance with the steel industry that grew closer and closer as the years went by. Known as “Czar” i Judge Miller has the reputation of being a “czar,” of riding over sug- gestions of his subordinates and of insisting on following his own ideas | regardless of opposition. Those who knew him best, however, say that these reports are wrong; that he is a capable, firm exscutive but that| he has a markedly “human” side, | however little general public may | sec of it. | And, although he is very conserv- ative in his views on business and polities. he could not be classed as a reactionary—not, at least, by his own definition. “A reactionary,”” he said, ‘is a man living in the past, a man who is looking backward instead of for- ward. I belleve in looking ahead—al- though T also believe in using the light of past experience as a guide. Paroled Prisoner Is Shot in Rooming House | Loufsville, Ky., Aug. 19 (#—David S. Hudeon, 79, paroled in 1922 from life imprisonment for a murder in Loulsville in 1910, was shot and killed last night as he lay on a bed in his rooming house in New Albany, Indiana. Constable William Welton, 26, New Albany, was held without bond on a murder charge while po- lice searched today for the owner of a .38 caliber pistol from which a bullet had been fired into Hud- son’s body along with two .45 caliber bullets, sald to be from Welton's gun. Hudson's death ended a day in which he escaped from a bed in a I, returned to his rooming barricaded himeelt in lis room with a shotgun, defied police and threatened to 1 a woman nurse. rding to Mrs. Eva Emily. prictor of the rooming house where Hudson was killed, he had been ill for five months. Wednesday he was taken to the hospital, ehe said, vesterday he returned to his room pite her protes lice after he barricaded himself and threatened to shoot any person who entered the room. Mrs. Betty Clahm, o nurse who had attended him, was allowed to go into the room, but Hudson later put her out and threatened tp kill her if she came back. 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