Phoned In

Taking down stories over the telephone, coordinating them, revamping them, the rewrite man softly cursing the reporter for not getting more and better facts, is routine in every newspaper office. But last week the New York Telegram received a story by telephone which occasioned no cursing, which no one dared rewrite.

It began: "After one of the most unsuccessful trips to Europe on record, Louis Salazacheck, 20, of 52 Jefferson St., New York, tonight warned all would-be stowaways to stay away from the United

States Lines." It went on to tell, in. seven more paragraphs, how Stowaway Salaza-check had been discovered aboard the Leviathan on her last eastern trip, clapped into Bargate Prison for two and one-half days, and shipped back again on the Leviathan.

As an inspiration for cub reporters it was not, perhaps, the greatest newspaper story ever written. But cub reporters on the Telegram and all other Scripps-Howard newspapers read it with special attention because it had been dictated by the big boss himself, Roy W. Howard.

As a piece of news to startle the Telegram's readers it was not, perhaps, the scoop-of-the-year. Yet the Telegram's editor made haste to front-page it because he could truthfully call it "the first news story ever telephoned to a newspaper from a ship at sea."

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