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Governor Ross Shaw Sterling of Texas, who reputedly has lost in deflated real estate large wads of the fortune he made from oil, last week lost his newspaper, the Houston Post-Dispatch, to an insurance man named J. E. Josey. The surrender of the newspaper, heavily burdened by notes, was not a surprise; but, to many, its acquisition by Mr. Josey...
Last October Governor Sterling placed his affairs in the hands of a friendly trusteeship headed by his good friend Banker Jesse Holman Jones. The trustees, who loaned Governor Sterling $800,000, found one of his properties could be sold immediately-the Post-Dispatch, only morning paper in the city, which the Governor established in 1924 by merging his newly acquired Dispatch with the old, moribund Post...
...Scripps-Howard Press and the Chronicle (published by Banker Jones) reported the sale; but not the Post-Dispatch...
...mentioned that Boy Scouts on an occasion several weeks ago followed Al Capone from the field at the Northwestern-Nebraska football game where he was reported to have been booed by the Scouts. Since this original item was published which doubtless arose from a United Press news dispatch, we have made careful inquiry. The sum of the evidence from responsible Scout officials in Chicago and Evanston is to the effect that the Boy Scouts were seated on the opposite side of the Field from Capone; they were there as guests of Northwestern and did not participate...
...least one good reason the Post-Dispatch did not try to press its advantage on the story to the point of sewing it up like the Kelley story, as a P-D scoop. The reason: Reporter Rogers found Dr. Kelley with such dispatch and apparent ease that a strong suspicion was voiced by opposition papers that he had withheld important information from the police, who never caught the kidnapers. In the Berg case it was understood Reporter Rogers' editors instructed him "not to get mixed up in it." In the Post-Dispatch's report of Rogers' visit to Lawyer Richards...