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...fight between the Wichita, Kans., Eagle and the Wichita Beacon which started five years ago when the thick-skinned Brothers Levand-Max, Louis and John-bought the Beacon from Senator Henry Justin Allen, last summer became Wichita's best newsstory. Last week the thin-skinned Brothers Murdock-Victor and Marcellus-who own the Eagle were under the impression that the Levands had suffered a stunning defeat. Eagle headlines happily screamed the news that the two liveliest Levands, Max and Louis, had been indicted on five counts, for misleading advertising...
...Eagle's front page, the accusations against the Levands were based on a scheme for attracting advertisers which they had developed last summer: an "emblem of quality" bearing the signature of Wichita's director of public welfare, Dr. R. E. Hobbs, and used in advertisements in the Beacon. Dr. Hobbs declared that his signature had been used without permission. Earlier in the week, the same grand jury had indicted the Beacon's principal advertiser. Allen W. Hinkel Co., Wichita department store, for misleading advertising in the Beacon...
...fire which destroyed the Adams Wood and Coal Co. at 277 Beacon Street, Somerville yesterday afternoon emitted dense clouds of smoke which attracted scores of Harvard students to the scene of the blaze and so interested the Business School professors that several classes were summarily dismissed. Several of the students assisted the firemen in handling the many hose lines used by engines from four cities...
...conditions, and produced governmental revolutions everywhere - that fact, stern and forbidding as it is, should not be permitted to drive us away from those basic realities that underlie our Government, the operation of which is responsible for the marvelous growth of this republic and that still must constitute the beacon light to lead us on to greater heights of industry, prosperity and liberty. ... I believe the Republican Party should reaffirm its determination to stand by the Constitution...
Died. Charles Landon Knight, 66, retired editor-publisher of the Akron Beacon Journal, called the ''last of Ohio's great personal journalists," onetime (1921-23) member of Congress, onetime editor of Woman's Home Companion; after long illness; in Akron...