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Last week Huey's feud against "lyin' newspapers" (still carried on by Brother Earl Kemp Long, now running to succeed himself as Governor) exploded in a court order for contempt proceedings against the New Orleans Item-the same Item that once offered Huey a job. Marshall Ballard's paper got in trouble when it used some ugly words in connection with some of Long's followers. But the Item was only saying openly what other New Orleans papers have said by implication for years...
...New Orleans' oldest daily newspaper (founded 1837) is the morning Times-Picayune, and no competitor has ever seriously challenged its dominance. The Picayune* sent George Wilkins Kendall, reputedly the first U. S. war correspondent, to Vera Cruz in 1847, published the peace treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo before the President of the U. S. even saw it. Before there was a telegraph, the Picayune used to set up stories in type on steamers bound from Mobile to New Orleans, send them galloping through the streets to press by team and wagon...
...Item brought out a morning edition called the Tribune. Founded to help Publisher Thomson fight the Times-Picayune, the Tribune gave New Orleans its fourth daily (third was the Item's afternoon rival, the States) and made it one of the hottest competitive newspaper towns in the country. Within six years the Tribune was close behind the States in circulation, the Item and Tribune together outsold the Times-Picayune...
...circulation was down to 28,614, less than when it started before Huey's rise to power. The Item (64,894) and the States (46,818) were approximately where they stood in 1924. But the Times-Picayune had risen from 78,571 to 111,529, was still New Orleans' favorite newspaper...
Frost. It was a States reporter who last June unearthed the scandal in Louisiana's administration that sent President James Monroe Smith of Louisiana State University to prison, and so far has brought four other convictions in New Orleans alone on charges of fraud. One day Reporter Meigs Frost (who once got honorable mention for a Pulitzer Prize) heard that WPA materials from the University's carpentry shops were going into a private home at Metairie, a rich New Orleans suburb in adjoining Jefferson Parish...