The Press: Magee Transferred

There is a new citizen in Oklahoma City. He has been twice sentenced to prison. He shot a man. Despite these facts, he will undoubtedly become an Oklahoma City leader.

Two years ago a hotel employe in East Las Vegas, N. M., tried to separate two fighting men. One of the fighters shot; hit the peacemaker, by mistake, in the throat. The shooter was Carl C. Magee, Scripps Howard newspaper editor, his opponent David D. Leahy, a former judge who had thrice sentenced Magee to prison—once for libel and twice for contempt of court. The libel was published in Magee’s Albuquerque newspaper in exposures of state government corruption. Two pardons and a habeas corpus proceedings kept Mr. Magee at large. Magee’s testimony of recent prosperity of Albert Bacon Fall was important evidence in the Teapot Dome scandal. Editor Magee is a fighting man, a bitter enemy of municipal, state or national corruption; calling a spade a spade and saying it with headlines. He is the new editor of the Oklahoma City News, Scripps Howard paper.