Abstract
A verdict of guilty was returned against the Kansas City Star and its advertising director after a trial on an indictment charging violation of anti-trust laws in relations with advertisers. Publisher Roy Roberts was dropped from the suit shortly before the start of the trial hearings. Second Jelke trial was held in New York with press representatives in attendance during the quarter. Also in the field of courts and the press, Walter Winchell and the Hearst interests publicly apologized to the N. Y. Post for Communist-sympathy remarks as part of settlement of a million dollar libel suit.
In the management field, the Brooklyn Eagle announced suspension of the newspaper after 47 days of a strike by Newspaper Guild. Efforts to find a new publisher were being made at the end of the period. The Toronto Globe-Mail was sold to a Montreal industrialist as part of an estate settlement but was announced as continuing under the same editor and policies.
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