Boner of the Week

"This was the scene as convicted kidnappers of Charles F. Urschel were sentenced in Oklahoma City. Left to right: Albert Bates (in white shirt), Harvey Bailey, Armon Shannon, R. G. Shannon, and Mrs. R. G. Shannon; all received life sentences except Armon Shannon who received a ten-year suspended sentence."

Above this caption and under a headline GET LIFE IN URSCHEL KIDNAPPING the sedate, careful Indianapolis News last week printed a photograph of five men whose solemn expressions supplied the only possible excuse for mistaking them for convicted kidnappers. They were Steel Tycoons Myron C. Taylor. George M. Laughlin, Ernest T. Weir, Eugene G. Grace and Lawyer Nathan L. Miller, representing the American Iron & Steel Institute. The scene was not Oklahoma City but the steps of the White House, where the five had been photographed after a conference with the President.

Editors of the News failed to find out who was responsible for the slip, which ran through one edition.

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