Crime to Rescue Paralyzed Papers

At an emergency meeting of the full board, the CRIMSON last night voted to increase its press run, sending over two million copies of each issue to New York City. Paralyzed by a photoengravers' strike, six New York newspapers have temporarily shut down, leaving the metropolis without adequate coverage.

The first carload of papers was sent off last night on a non-stop train bedecked with signs saying, "Crime for New York" and "Educate the New Yorkers." Francis M. V. Cahouet '54, CRIMSON Business Manager, is handling the problem of distribution. "We couldn't decide on a place for the hand out." Cahouet said, "but we finally picked Tammany Hall." Other copies will be sold in only the finer hotels around Pell and Mott streets.

Besides the daily copies, the CRIMSON has dispatched four of its top photoengravers and line typist J. Lewis Erlandson to aid those papers hit by the strike. Erlandson, shown at the right, before his departure, said, "We have a duty to these benighted people. We will discharge it."

CRIMSON Managing Editor George S. Abrams '54 asked readers to bear with the paper during this period. "We may have to run reviews by Brooks Atkinson and national columns by James Renton," Abrams said. "There will be complaints, of course, but I hope no one will cancel his subscription."

Though copies will continue to sell at the regular price, early reports indicate that scalping has already begun for choice copies.