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...Franklin Roosevelt's special train rolled into Bismarck, N. Dak. in the course of its travels through the drought area, it also rolled into a story which brought nationwide attention to a smalltown newspaper. Aboard the Presidential Pullmans were placed scores of copies of the Fargo (N. Dak.) Forum, whose front page displayed a strange yarn. Because a corps of the nation's nimblest newshawks were also on the train, Republican editors throughout the land were soon rubbing their hands over a dispatch which, on quick reading, seemed to convict the New Deal's cherished Resettlement Administration...
Editor Page was more amused than angry. The Forum, however, having paid $75 for the piece, which it had not yet printed, was boiling. When investigation showed that the yarn was highly inaccurate, had appeared in print week before in the Sunday Worker, Editor Leach bleated to the National Publishers Association. That organization's warning broadside uncovered the news that Brown had worked his swindle on two other magazines: Scribner's, for $125; North American Review, for $75. Neither had yet published the story. In each case Brown got his money quickly by saying he had to catch...
...Forum queried the Ketchikan Chronicle, got the following reply: ". . . Brown never saw Matanuska. He never worked for the Chronicle. He spent two or three weeks in Ketchikan, most of which time he was in jail. He has a record of petty thefts. He owes bills in Ketchikan. . . . I have written dozens of letters giving substantially the same information...
Last fortnight Pledge Brown turned up again when a telephone operator at Manhattan's Hotel President complained that he had stolen her typewriter. Jailing him on her charges backed by the Forum and Scribner's, police found 22?, a complimentary letter from each magazine in his pocket...
...Forum's Editor Leach, Review of Reviews' Editor Page and their confreres of Scribner's, the Sunday Worker and North American Review had been alert followers of U. S. Governmental doings, they would never have been taken in by Pledge Brown at all. Last May Alaska's Delegate to Congress Anthony Joseph Dimond filled more than four pages of the Congressional Record with an expose of Brown's career. After leaving Alaska, where he was arrested for stealing a woman's purse, this extraordinary opportunist, whose full name, according to Delegate Dimond, is Wilbur...