Presidential Presses

It was not much more than a year ago (TIME, Feb. 25, Mar. 3, 1924, THE CONGRESS) when Banker Frank A. Vanderlip startled the country with hints of scandal when he spoke of the "strange" circumstance of two "unknown" young men acquiring ownership of The Marion Star from President Harding. The two "unknowns," Roy D. Moore and Louis H. Brush, sued him for libel. The case was recently settled out of court.

Messrs. Moore and Brush have been busily collecting a string of Ohio newspapers. They own, besides The Marion Star, the East Liverpool Tribune & Review and the Salem News.

Last week, they added another historic paper to their collection. They purchased The Steubenville Herald-Star. The Herald part of it was started as a weekly in 1806, and eight years later was bought by James Wilson, grandfather of Woodrow Wilson. He ran it for 24 years, and his son Robert Wilson ran it for seven years more. In 1896, it was amalgamated with the Evening Star (founded 1889). Now the Wilson paper and the Harding paper are both the property of "two unknown young men."