Chicago Tribune seeks Wisconsin subsidiary
Chicago, Illinois (UP) –
The Chicago Tribune announced today that it had applied to the War Production Board for newsprint necessary to start a morning newspaper in Milwaukee.
The announcement said the step was taken in recognition of the defeat of Wendell Willkie in the Wisconsin primary election last week.
In its application, the Tribune said:
The recent Wisconsin primaries have demonstrated that the people of that state, through their repudiation of policies of many of the Wisconsin newspapers, are dissatisfied with the service they are receiving from Wisconsin newspapers.
After Mr. Willkie’s defeat in Wisconsin, the Tribune said editorially that the issue in Wisconsin had been “Tribune policies against Willkie policies.”