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Latest example is the Topeka (Kans.) Daily Capital (a.m.; circ. 50,000) and State Journal (p.m.; circ. 24,000), sharp rivals for over 50 years. Last week the State Journal vacated its big white building at Topeka's chief intersection (which will be rented as office space), moved into the Capital building opposite the Kansas State House. A new, non-profit-making company-the Topeka Newspaper Printing Co., Inc.-will print both papers, handle joint circulation and advertising, thus ending an ad war that has sizzled for a generation...
Chicago's busiest muckraker is the Rev. Elmer Williams (Methodist), 67, husky, hot-tempered publisher of Lightnin' (average circ. 2,500), a lively, often accurate little sheet which for years has lambasted the Chicago Tribune, gangsters, labor racketeers, politicians. But not until last week was Crusader Williams sued for libel. A State's Attorney's investigator and two furriers sued because Lightnin' called them fur racketeers. Acquitted in 20 minutes flat, Gadfly Williams told the Court: "I am not a reformer, I am an informer...
...isolationist press last week lost a major effective: the Willkie-Republican Detroit Free Press, Michigan's biggest morning newspaper (circ...
Said a solemn statement, published last week in the Communist Daily Worker (circ. 48,601) over the signatures of Chairman William Zebulon Foster and Secretary Earl Browder of the Communist Party: "As of today's issue ... the Daily Worker . . . ceases to be the official central organ of the Communist Party. We believe . . . that the Daily Worker merits and should receive the ... continued . . . support of all American progressives . . . including of course the Communist Party...
...newspaper chains, but seems to be acquiring one. In 1933 he inherited the Akron Beacon-Journal from his father. In 1937 he bought the Miami Herald. Last week John Shively Knight acquired his third going paper, the log-year-old Detroit Free Press, Michigan's biggest morning newspaper (circ. 296,-047). The purchase price, though known to be over $3,000,000, remained secret...