Show THE OGDEN 2A OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINE- R UTAH SUNDAY MORNING JULY 20 1958 BOOZERS AND HARD WORKERS A A I Twenties I ameer HI Of News day ey trip to lowar They found the vault already opened A garage mechanic using an acetylene torch had cut away "' the lock The hanless easher? Oh he did not die He wasn't in the vault 200-mii- (Editor' Note: In the Chicago heyday the reporter oftea f antic iaurnalism was as colorful as the personage he was reporter writing about Here a Chicago on— reminisces about the tricks of-- and the newspaper trade during the twenties - ') ' YOU CAN ENJOY LOVELY CARPET ISM YOUR HOME YOU NEED MAKE FOR AS LITTLE AS $250 WEEKLY NO PAYMENTS UNTIL JANUARY 1959! life-savin- e g " - By EARL AYKROID CHICAGO ( AP) — In Chicago 1920s during the He was missing — and so was about $10000 of the bank's mon prohibition gang wars and politics provided a lively backdrop for professional newspaper horseplay that will be remembered by some long after Al Capone Texas Guinan Peggy Hopkins Joyce and other front page figures have been forgotten were a Chicago reporters lot They boozy the spent a lot of time gettingmore even news They spent keeping their rivals from getting ey- - t " hard-workin- I 0 g J x it How they'd stack up against the current crop of polite e-trained reporters who are always looking for "the significance of the news" is something to debate But for liveliness give me guys like Frank Hagen— the "cornerstone editor" of the old Herald and Examiner — or Sam Hall who blissfully slept off a drink in a coffin while his newspaper cronies conducted a wake in his memory in a downtown funeral colleg- £ A-- c H t v? AS- - -- I Af "' V Shirley MacLaine obviously was influenced by a recent trip to Japan Her silk lounging outfit and home decorations have taken on a Far Eastern touch (AP Photo) HOLLYWOOD chapel WIDE ACCLAIM "The Front Page" a play written by two former newsmen who knew the era well Ben Hecht cor--r — the - Warn known as and Charles Macarthur won wide o-tren acclaim for its portrayal of the nerstone editor" s ChiThe thing went on for months of twenties the cago reporters to make "The and Hagen who had Admittedly exaggerated verFront Page " nevertheless was speeches and write windy a pretty accurate record of the sions after each ceremony grew weary of the chore people and the times Came a day when he got away Many of the play's real life enough counterparts actually inhabited from cornerstones long two of of murder cover the now defunct to the newsroom of the musclemen I Al where Herald and Examiner Capone's After telephoning the city desk spent several years as a young with details of the double killing reporter The Examiner owned by Wil- Hagen clutching several copies liam Randolph Hearst was a of the Examiner went to the madhouse Managing editors and county morgue where the bodies succeeded each other were taken for post mortem excity editors e mail clerks On aminations like part-timA thoroughly toughened newsseveral occasions while I was as man as had the there Hagen remained in the many paper three managing editors at one autopsy room while the doctor time performed their grisly task When it was all over and the Among its more noteworthy sealed Hagen telephoned an coffins was easyHagen reporters man Examiner little the mild mannered going "This is your cornerstone edwho seldom lost his sense of humor itor" he cherfully told the city copies Somebody decided it would be editor "I have a good idea for the Examiner to of your G-- D— paper where they have copies of the paper tucked won't show up until the day of away In newly laid cornerstones judgment" for the edification of future genPRESS AGENT erations After that Hagen resigned and PROJECT HEAD became a press agent Examiner editors permitted There was a lot of building goon at the time and Hagen nothing to be impossible They'd ing was selected to head the project undertake anything to put one Among his follow reporters Ha' over on their very aggressive and tough-as-nall- gin-swiggi- Xs ' just-place- d i more polished rivals on the Chi cago Tribune Th naner- - solved at least one murder case in my time major rioliverins? the killer and a there to authorities confession signed its for detail last leaving nothing after draining the story 01 onnosition th Sam Hall a member of the Examiner sports staff in the twenties went on the wagon per manently after surviving his own wake in another example of madcap Chicago horseplay A short heaw set fellow with unquenchable thirst Hall stag the newsroom one gered nieht and fell asleep in a chair Repeated efforts to arouse him failed After the final edition had been run off a half dozen of Hall's ssociates lugged nis sleeping form to Louie Cohen's fu neral parlor on South Clark Street Hall slept through it all Occnusc of ilcIiablG'o tremendous carpet volume you art always sure of top value — but you'll get even greater July Clear Away! savings now — during our Pre-Holid- ay Wk A mwnmLLmmmmmSSlmSlm best-wearin- FRIEND OF PRESS Cohen a friend of the press fell in with the idea He carted out a coffin in which the snoring Hall was deposited to sleep off his binge Ferns were placed behind the coffin and lighted can dles set at each end to give the gag a realistic effect After a few drinks from hip flasks and some kind words for enough for your heaviest traffic areas such as hall- door- - ways foyers ways THICK HIGH LOOP PILE! the "dearly departed" Hall's friends including Cohen closed up the place and left Hall alone When Cohen returned the following morning he found the door open Hall was gone The establishment's porter — a man who had worked for Cohen for years and was used to corpses — also had been dropped as though in haste The porter evI er returned To the day of his death pall refused to tell what happened But he went on the wagon So went the twenties a glorious period that newspapermen will talk about as long as there are any left who remember the state-controll- at hep In I" ESPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR HARD IJSE! g Everyone knows wool is nature's 100 RX is fiber carpet engineered of wool but reinforced with sturdy carpet 30 super-toug- h Nylon RX 100 fresh stays looking under the it's tough hardest use The newspaper organized re lief trains on the slightest pretext Once it arranged a train loaded with supplies and scores of doctors and nurses to aid victims of a hurricane in Florida some 1500 miles away On another occasion the editors persuaded a railroad presi- times dent to set up a special train to save the life of a bank cashier reported to be accidentally locked Passes Exams At 75 in a vault in a small Iowa town The timelock reports said was REUTERS set for the following day Only ROME — The oldest successful hours stood between the hapless candidate in this year's Italian cashier and death by suffocation school examinations was WARDEN AGREED Lugi Ver dolini exam which The he war The Examiner talked the dewas "with brilliance" passed den at nearby Joilet penitentiary into lending an expert safe crack signed for er It took a lot of persuasion but the warden eventually agreed Gas Furnacos sending along some tough guards to make sure the convict didn't Month ' also free himself $1250complete per installation) (average The train consisting of a loco motive and one passenger car HOLBROOK CO picked up the convict and his 725 W Riverdfale IX guards at Joilet and began the 12-c- ar 5 IVSM Size of JVour Room Cost 12x9 66ST 12xl2 l4256 T2xl36 16038 12xl5 7820 12x18 squaro foot TACKLESS INSTALLATION HEAVY PADDING INCLUDES WITH 100 100 Completely Installed by Experts With Heavy De Luxe 57 1959! 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