■ U.ME L1 Isissippi Overruns More fcwns And Inundates More land On Wild Dash To Sea tei ' IpiUO IS AREA ■ L. Miss., and Ar ■ fjtv and Marked ■ Ark..' l atest Town ■ Visited by Floods. ■ rising It SOME POINTS ■ t Flood Is Moving Lard and Much of ■and Below New Or ■ fe Under Water. ■ vpr'l - Follow ■iiar frKikish courses, flood ■ m t i, o ..Mississippi anil its ■ ( , V rrr:in more towns today and Arkansas, ■additional thousands home- to the already stag- K of property damage. ■ a! sports of deaths filter ■ f,om the vast inundated ■but careful checks of the ■ the known dead at a little ■ pHlwas the estimated death ■a. in Mississippi, and Ar ■ and Mark Tree in Arkan ■thu latest towns to be visit- H waters. Tiwir combined ■ is about 0.000. but each ■e quota of refugees and the ■rat of the flood waters had ■serioii' situation for the ■orities to combat. ■iissipp' town which is about! Hau ,»f (ireenville. was over-| ■diNtd waters rushing down ■annini: crevasse in the levee ■ handing, which caused the H the rich delta land*. ■l water is moving on to ■ar a rapid rate, and the today that it was ■g Helling Fork, 43 miles ■hrwiville. A number of ■ and villages were flooded ■ but it was assumed that Hants bad heeded the urgent Hrnt them yesterday by of- Htv the levees. ■ ft-etn the U : g Lake district Hading upon Marked Tree, Hlarm was felt there, as ob- Hd the flood would not become Hh to step automobile traffic. H New Orleans a vast terri- Heing flooded by waters rush- Hh a break in the levee at Hntation, caused by the Hspeotoi- ramming the dyke. H> of a section about 30 Hps was under way. Hers in northern Louisiana ■ spreading, forcing many of Htants of that section to Hid. or nearby cities and Hrh it appeared would be ■ the floods. ■along the Mississippi were - Hll today except that weak H developed around Helena, ■ above Vicksburg. Large Hneu were at work ctrength- H- ami the engineers were Hat they would hold. Hjrse reports of new and po ■aster areas were coming to H*“i' office here, rapid steps H taken for extending the ■ throughout the more than Hare miles of flooded terri-i Hh * H j ierp from Washington asj ■ representative of Presi- H' Secretary Hoover and ■rwral Jadwin. chief of the ■ro-is, went into conference m M. Raker, director of Red ■,‘. to outline a pro • loiter, the Commerce Ht " U Jadwin and dames L. ■! !l * Chairman of ■rosS’ left for Vicksburg on hr ( hisoa, to make a per-1 H Py of ,lIP situation in that ■ 1 f J IP d ° 0( l was moving ■ n the river today from i ■ lp weather bureau an- Hfm th r riv,T above this ■ . indefinitely with slow ■>ll> K 't Ul<> * )V Wednesday, i ■ll T‘ r will ri « p . the Hr r n ' a{ '* l ' n s a stage Hk ii! f, T r * >v Wednesday B record, high ’ H mem was also made that K- fwJ H ’ atM ‘, ns of a sta «e Hsuaee , "'j 1 1 1P Francis Hi tv Ul< to 21 feet at Kim v the middle ■fiflnvs *' Thpse lo ° wou,d , H tr Hcaehps Memphis. Hos(v nn " April 25 (A>)— H h ;;; m r: ( :.n-tbert hoo V . Hnt ri, ,llis morning ■j n , s Personal rep- Lflocf < l . rf “ f ' , i , m of relief ■ s ' ll '"'ken Mississippi H - accompanied by ■ino- r< a,,Win - ehief 0 f the. H** ■?* mM L ■t.W s 11,11 ' bairumn of B*:th r'e!'! npJ to 20 in to con- H' * f , r!( ■ Pnr r, ffii'ial« and un. t-" arran ke a pro- I" '>— President'' ’ . .<# • today for New \\ he will deliv er an addres; ~ight before a meet ing of the l‘nited Press Associa tions. The Presidential party included Mrs. Coolidge. Edward T. Clark, personal secretary of the Presi dent: Col. S. A. Cheney, and Capt. Wilson Brown, military and naval l aides, and Major James F. Coupal. the president’s physician. 10 to 25 CALLS DAILY GRIST ON NEW YORK-LONDON LINE Trans-Oceanic Telephone Service Set tles Down to Normal Basis. By JAMES L. KILOALI.EX (International News Service Staff Correspondent) New York. April 25. —Trans-oceanic telephone service has settled down to a normal, routine basis which is grad ually being developed, an official of the American Telephone and Tele graph Company said today. New York to London call* are be ing made at the rate of from ten to twenty-five each day. Other zone points, such as Kansas City, New Orleans. Minneapolis, San Francisco and Cleveland are doing a “normal” although not heavy busi ness. No longer are “curiosity calls” be ing put through. The calls now be ing made have to do with actual busi ness or arc social in nature. A daily business between cotton ex changee in New Orleans and Birming ham, Eng., is being done in “satis factory volume.” The telephone people are striving to eliminate static and report progress in this direction. Os course a great deal depends upon the atmospheric conditions on the day the call is put in. Officials of the company were re luctant to discuss the i»ossibility of any immediate decrease in rates, say ing they are concentrating their at tention on improving the service. The present rate from New York to Lon don is .$75 for three minutes ami $25 j for each additional minute. West ward in the United States the price j mounts in $3 steps until the Pacific Coast is reached where the rate is SB7 for the first three minutes and s2l) for each additional minute. With the spring travef season on there has been a noticeable increase in calls from this country to ports such as Southampton and Liverpool. The service was inaugurated on reached a stable bnsis about the first of April. Recently one hour was added to the daily service period between New York and London. Heretofore calls between New York and London had been made between B:3© a. m. and 1 p. m. On April 10th the service was started at 7:3(), closing at 1 o’clock. The telephone company is also working hard to develop commercial possibilities for Television, “seeing over the telephone,” a demonstration of which was made not long ago when persons in New York saw nni talked with persons in Washington. Officials of the company say that the first, commercial use to which Television will be put probably will, be the broadcasting of prize fights. It is belioxl that some time in the future it will be practical to exhibit, for example, in a Chicago or San Francisco theatre or hall, a champion ship fight as it takes place in New York. There is, however, the possibility that inauguration of such a service might result in legal difficulties as in some cases transmission of the fight pictures over the telephone might vio late interstate laws with reference to the traffic in fight films. The work of development of Tele vision is largely under the direction of Dr. Herbert E. Ives. There is some talk of the company ultimately establishing “television stations” in a few leading cities of the country, and gradually extending the list. Dr. Ives said the company thought there must be “plenty of people willing to pay for the privilege of seeing the person they talk to,” and that the general reason behind the television research now under way was the cor poration’s policy “of doing everything possible to further communication be tween the people.” WAKEN SCHNEIDER IS FIRST WITNESS CALLED First to Take Stand in the Snyder— Gray Murder Trial. New York, April 25.—UP)—War ren Schneider, ‘brother of the Queens Village art director for whose murder Mix. Ruth- Snyder and Henry Judd Gray are on trial, was called as the first witness today. His ap]>earance on the stand followed a half hour oipening statement by the state, and after defense counsel had waived right to opening statements at the time. Schneider, who has retained the original spelling of the family name, established the fact of his brother’s death, a necessary legal preliminary to the trial. He said he had indenti fied the body in the presence of a county medical examiner. Dr. H. W. Neail, medical examiner, also established the corpus delicti. Dr. Neail described the Snyder home in detail as he found it on March 20th, after the murder was discovered. J. A. Goodman has returned from Atlanta, where he attended a meeting of the Southern Gas Associa tion. The earliest woman's newspaper was “The Ladies’ Mercury,” published in England in 1093. PRESIDENT NOYES DESCRIBES HSUS OF NEWS AGENCY Tells Members of the Asso ciated Press Something of Early Struggles of the Now Famous Agency. NO PROFFTIS MADE BY A. P* This Was Thing Founders Had to Fight Hardest But Plan Won and Age** cy Has Had Big Growth* !* New York. April 25.— UP)— Frank 11. Noyes, president of the Associate*! Press, whs the principal speaker at the annual luncheon of its member# today. His address dealt with tftn history of the great effort to establish a nation-wide cooperative news gather-* fug organization operating without profit, its early struggles, its ultimate triumph, and the ideals and principle# that dominate it today. Beginning with the first attempt* in 1850. the s]>eakor traced the his tory of cooperative news gathering down to 181)3 when the final break took place betweeen a former eaatero organization, then called The United Press, which was proprietary and com mercial in character, and the old west ern Associated Press which was mu tual and not profit making, and which that year was reorganized under tfie present name of The Associated Pres# with Melville E. Stone as general manager. In speaking of the des- • perate struggle that followed between the two organizations, Mr. Stone said t “The issue was this: shall the news- I pa pel's of the United States be at the i mercy of a privately owned new* eol j lecfing and distributing organization—* ! at its mercy not only as concerns a j money tribute but, of much more im portance, at its mercy as to the new# received—whether it should be honest or perverted, impartial or biased, ", whether it should be influenced by the interests and the opinion* of its pw*k-'# ei's, and the pres* of f hr'UiflYtxl Statea ' and the people of the United States, be subject to the unrestrained will of individuals, or an individual, so far Jjew* was i rented. ’ This was a thrilling battle cry, said Mr. Noyes, and shortly the newspaper world resounded with it. The Asso ciated Press took the aggressive and enlarged its field, inviting newspaper# from the whole United States to join in the effort to establish the mtrfhai organization. “Do not understand that this ereed obtained instant acceptance.” said Mr. Noyes. “Indeed even today there kt ! distinct dissent both in principle and practice and within a few years tike head of what is generally regarded as the leading privately owned rtevr# distributing organization, in a con sidered public address, said; ‘Genef , ally speaking, the point of view of the reporters is only the < point of View of the paper.’ 'Elaborating thin, the speaker dwelt on the inevitablity and desirability of a reporter writing •of the day’s happenings with a ‘point of view.’ instancing that one news paper with capitalistic leaning# and another in sympathy with the rank, and file must, and should, represent these sympathies in their news treat ment* of events. This- speaker went' on to say: 'And how does this apply to the press association business? Jn*f as any other strictly newspaper pmp* osition applies to the press associa tion business —the same—only mote so’.” Mr. Noyes here interjected that the Associated Press is founded on a fa tally different basis. Fortunately, ike said, no reporter of the Aeseeiated Press can write to suit the point of view of that organization, “for it ha# no point of view of its owp and fto intelligence could define a composite point of view of its members.” In considerable detail Dr. Noyes de scribed the activities of Mr. Stone in building up an independent service of world-wide news, including the mak ing of contract* with the leading world agencies. He described also methods of financing the new organization through a guaranty fund and an as sessment plan. Next the fight was carried to the East and Mr. Noyes told of the cru sading done by his associates,and him self at a time when there was great intensity of feeling in newspnperdoaa. Victor F. Lawson, of Chicago, and Mr. Stone devoted all of their time to mak ing new converts to the cause of eo o|>erative news gathering, working, said Mr. Noyes, as they never would have worked for any private interest of their own. Continuing, Mr. Noyes said: “Each new convert secured became in turn a crusader himself and it wa# no uncommon occurrence for twelve or fifteen bu*y newspapermen to lay aside their work th try mass persua sion on some other newspaper man who had not yet decided in our favor. Day by day. month by month, year by Please Turn to Page Three WEATHER! Fair tonight. Tuesday increasing cloudiness, rising temperature. < NO. 86