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...paid storage charges of more than $382,000 in 20 months to Kansas City's Mid-West Storage & Realty Co., even though the company rented the buildings from the Government at Camp Crowder, Mo. for only $11,270 a year. V. M. Harris Grain Co., also at Camp Crowder, got $290,335 for a surplus Army warehouse it rented from the Government for $16,713. (Sidney Smith, head of the CCC's Kansas City storage-claims office, was suspended for approving $84,000 worth of storage fees after shortages were discovered in the Harris Co.'s elevators...
...some Clay County businessmen, reporting both sides made the Sentinel prolabor. Friends of Crowder began stopping him on the street and hinting at reprisals (e.g., advertising cancellations) if he did not "lay off"; his telephone rang with anonymous threats. Advertisers organized a boycott of the Sentinel; 100 subscriptions were canceled. Only then did the Sentinel take a firm stand in the strike. Wrote angry Editor Crowder: "The City Council is bucking the line of human progress at the expense of all the people . . ." To offset the canceled subscriptions, 300 C.I.O. and A.F.L. union members marched in a body...
That was too much for six Flora businessmen. They organized a syndicate to buy up the mortgage on Crowder's newspaper plant. When Crowder went to the bank with $800 in back payments, he learned that his mortgage had been sold for $8,500 to "my worst enemies." The syndicate, headed by Oilman E. D. Given, promptly slapped a judgment on Crowder's property, and the sheriff tried to seize the press...
...Strings. Refusing to surrender it, Crowder raised a loud editorial cry of "suppression." Agreed the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The tactics of dictatorship . . . What is being done to the Sentinel will be resented wherever there is a decent respect for freedom of speech and press." Flora union members and other citizens chipped in $3,000 to a "Save the Sentinel" fund. But Crowder needed $5,000 more...
Last week he got it-with good measure. From Washington, President Dan W. Tracy of the Electrical Workers wired Crowder an offer of $8,000. Said Tracy: "There are no strings attached to this offer . . . Truthful and undistorted coverage . . . is all that we ask and [all] we are entitled to." Replied Editor Crowder, accepting the loan: "Your [offer is] a declaration of emancipation of all the rural press...