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HEAD OF FARM BOARD ANSWERS BEACON DEMAND cried the Levands when Chairman Legge wrote in a letter to Governor Clyde Reed of Kansas: "Still another peculiar angle is brought up by your friends, Max and Louis . . . acting as if they thought they were the State of Kansas...
...years ago the Levands found in Wichita a stage admirably set for their talents by the ancient bitterness between Senator Allen's Beacon (an evening paper) and the morning Eagle published by the brothers Victor and Marcellus Murdock. For years the Brothers Murdock had eyed the profitable afternoon field. On March 28, 1927 they sprung a surprise. An Evening Eagle, with bigger headines, blacker type and more pictures than Wichita had ever seen, burst upon the city unan- nounced. A crew of newsmen had been housed in a hotel where the first issue was prepared in dead secrecy...
...their Kansas City Post, where he remained 16 years. When the Kansas City Post was sold, Brother Max bought the Casper, Wyo. Herald, sent its circulation and advertising skyward, sold out, repeated the process with the St. Joseph, Mo. Gazette. When Henry Justin Allen wanted to sell his Wichita Beacon, Broth ers Louis and John joined Brother Max in buying 65% control for about...
...Levands' Beacon soon jolted Wichita like a battering ram. It sprouted all the loud, flamboyant labels of the Denver Post. It applied all the high-pressure business technique of the adroit and powerful Bonfils & Tammen. The Brothers Murdock at first affected to ignore the newcomers but rural Kansas editors have found that an almost certain way of getting themselves quoted in the Murdocks' Eagles is to take a crack at the (to them) unspeakable Levands. Some of these cracks, which the Brothers Levand say are "inspired" by the Brothers Murdock, are too much for even the Mur docks to reprint...
...Henry J. Allen . . . has 'sold himself down the river.' [The Beacon] has fallen into the hands of a young man with a Yiddish name, given and family, who came out of the sticks with a million and a half and picked it up. . . . The new pub lisher is filling the paper with pictures and complimentary references to himself. He seems to be quite a guy and frankly admits it. But we doubt if he ever learns to speak the Kansas language as Henry speaks...