Press: Indian-Giving Judge

The promotion men who write virile advertisements ("Little Dramas in the Life of a Great Newspaper System") depicting the exploits of Scripps-Howard newspapers, had cause for rejoicing last week. Their chain's Columbus, Ohio Citizen had performed exactly the sort of feat on which Scripps-Howard prides itself most highly: ousted a probate judge for "gross immorality, moral turpitude and misconduct in office."

The Columbus judge, Homer Z. Bostwick, 55 and married, had given a $2,300 diamond ring, an automobile and other presents to one Opal Walker, 24. When Opal Walker married another man,...

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