Printers' Exit

In Birmingham, Ala., where the city's three daily newspapers have been closed for three weeks by a printers' strike, people began to worry in earnest. One by one the striking printers were taking jobs elsewhere; by week's end 45 of them had drawn traveler's cards from the union and left town.

Meanwhile the radio, helped out by the pooled reporters of the morning Age-Herald, the evening News and Post, did its best to keep people informed. Station WAPI set up an I.N.S. news ticker in a window of Blach's department store, divided two windows into sections marked Local News, State News, National News, War News, Markets, Sports, Weather, Demobilization, etc. The crowds that gathered to read the latest stories as they were pasted up, all but blocked traffic past the store.

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