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...STUART-John W. Thomason-Scribners...
...STUART. By John W. Thomason Jr. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1930. Price...
Having learned three weeks ago that Samuel Emory Thomason's Chicago Journal had been purchased by Walter Ansel Strong's Daily News, news-prophets set about to predict that the Journal would be turned into a tabloid (TIME, Aug. 12). Paying little attention to Strong denials, persistent Hearst-Colyumist Arthur Brisbane put one ear to the ground and wrote: "The Chicago Journal, giving a partial imitation of Alice's Cheshire Cat, will shrink from John Eastman's full size to a tabloid.* The Chicago Daily News, promoting this metamorphosis, should read La Fontaine's fable...
...Journal was officially folded into the Daily News and made a part of it. Henceforth subscribers of the two newspapers will be served by one full-sized daily, The Chicago Daily News and Chicago Daily Journal. The facts behind the tabloid rumor proved to be as follows: Publisher Thomason of the defunct Journal, retaining those members of his staff who were not taken over to the Daily News in the consolidation, will issue soon an afternoon tabloid newspaper, known as the Daily Times. Copiously illustrated, wholly independent of the Daily News & Journal, it will be served by Associated Press wire...
Oklahoma officers arrested Thomason's "friends," lodged them in jail without bail on a charge of murder. Thomason himself "disappeared" for a day or so, only to give himself up, to explain that he had been "across the road" when the fatal shooting took place and knew nothing about...