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>nril 1027 DEATH FOR MRS. SNYDER AND GRAY? THESE MEN TO DECIDE , * **' **** m * mtmm mmmmmmrnmmmmmmmm P *> Jfl «. jS&fatlh, i f Wt'.. %? : '^W" k 5594- >/■>" -4 ik.' ! '' s 'fSwteSJlPs : Jim aAJy I '&,vi IW' ."•.. / Hl& ' Jr / v ' *»* V*.' ? 14diPnE m W I i\ i # vfv :.• XI li KSiiS 1. IS§Hi p d Vff r%| Is■ H, - I» B» <* Mil -J\ Vs - ,*i f mAf • ■taML-''—.■<• JBJ . f i er ’ s a nd Henry Judd Gray s hopes of escaping the death penalty for the murder of Mrs. Snyder’s husband, hese twelve men, the jury chosen after five days of strenuous examination. All believe in capital punishment, 1 ‘g (foreman), 33, publicity man; 2, Charles Meissner, 50, landscape gardener; 3, Alfred R. Kramer, 35, clerkj ue cr 63, retired saloon-keeper; 5, John Schneider, Jr., 30, florist; 6, John P. Connolly, 39, engineer; 7, Louii pjnlovmerit manager; 8, Everett J. Van Vrenken, 48, secretary; 9, Goorge Ziegler, 47, printer; 10, John Vam ; k . n,’Fred J. Grcb, 41, piano maker; 12 Philip McCabe, 36, electrical instructor. ißuchdashal and Van Vren pts- the others have wives. 1 (Intaenalktnt] l^avxraalA Flood At A Glance r the loss of crops, livestock, property - j i.. steadily mounting. ■ [ Another levee on the Red river in j southwestern Arkansas has given I | way. causing the inundation of an 1 i additional 20.000 acres and driving : j several hundred from their lionm-. Two more breaks in the Miseds ■j'ippi levees are threatened, one 30 jri 'e-i below Helena, Ark-, and the ■ i } ether eight miles above Vicksburg. ' i Backwater from streams in north- 1 j ern Louisiana is beginning to drive J people from their hornet in Con cordia parish and others will be driven out ,as the Arkansas river Hood waters move into that State. As the work of strengthening the dykes between Xew Orleans and Baton Rouge proceeds, other forces were set to work to prevent a ser-1 ious break below Xew Orleans where a tank steamer rammed the levee near Diamond, La. Evacuation of refugees to safe places continues with precautions taken to prevent further spread .of disease in the concentration camps, j Both say they married for love and . are very happy. This is Airs. Doyle’s third and Doyle's second matrimonial j venture. j Doyle makes "an excellent salary as a soda clerk.’’ Mrs. Doyle said, and ! “is able to support me handsomely.” She aided him in buying a $2,000 auto mobile as a wedding present. Al though Doyle boarded with Mrs. Ella by before the marriage, during which K) M|ii;irf mile- «r :l,ul Al ‘ ; ;1 :d by till* ;, kn.nvn m V vru slitt(‘i- and am | in relict' work i VtiuuU •' ot UK' L—tipjti Helm al»m' in:*r.M«aea i’i terville. live miles He. ..Mies-, were n>- rpiidy iiiarooiKsl in pitii district urgent aed to all others :t; o.«l in that area to je a renewed ap ,v the Mississippi fur mere boats to nxnieii. many ot without food or > or longer. spreading at a itional thousands f-1 homet's and 2. TAKES \V. «;. AS BRIDE Are Very Happy, i tov—Her Relatives Itreiiry-Two. a soda i married Thursday , sixty-seven. ;i well-' rsey City. This is the new Goodyear Tire, announced by its makers as “The Greatest nDu T* re in the World.” njXI *\A After tests and close' in nMSHI we are ready to ul)u Irdf/l U P that statement.. ||| Y j f ‘ KNOCK - OUT! m °w a champion when we see one. And this new £ All-Weather Tread Goodyear Balloon, brand-new 'model, is a knockout! on ger wear, for increased safety, better traction, more • e ’of-mind, and long slow wear —this is the tire you it. • e le in, see it, be tire-wise. Know why more people 0n G°odyear Tires than on any other kind.- rke&Wadsworth Co. The Old Reliable Hardware Store r j ( ] e on Goodyear Tires than on any other kind. time her love, at first, “motherly” and later ripening into “true love,” he still calls her “Mrs. Ellaby. Relatives of Airs. Ellaby attempted to’ prevent the marriage. On the license clerk's register she gave her age as fifty-one. The bride's son is a year older than her husband. j Flans For State Baraca Meeting Are Being Made. Alount Airy, April 24. —The State ; Baraca-Philathea convention to be held here June 2 to i» will be known !; , as the “Friendly Convention” accord ing to an afinounpeinent made today by C. W. Andrews, of this city who has plans for the convention in charge. He states that the theme ‘*Christian Friendliness” will run through the whole onvention and the convention ;song will be “What A Friend We Have iu Jesus.” A tentative program has been for j warded to Andrews, by Airs. X. Buck ! ner, of Asheville, the general secre tary. Goes to Sleep on Tracks; Is Killed. Franklin. X. C., April 24. —Dee Roberts, 16, of Topton, was Killed I about 10 o'clock Saturday night a | short distance from Topton by a Southern Railway train, according to the verdict reached late today by Ja Aiaeon County Coroner's jury. Roberts’ badly mangled body was found by some companions shortly after tlie train bad passed and at the time" there were some facts that pointed to murder. However further investigation apparently convinced the coroner's jury that the young man was killed after going to sleep on the track. ’ THE CONCORD TIMES PRESIDENT NOYES DESCRIBES TASKS OF NEWS AGENCY (Continued from Page One) year our membership grew aud the number of clients of the United Press dwindled. [“This process of accretion on the one side and attrition on the other . went on steadily and early in 18BG • various fruitless conferences between the opposing leaders took place, but the conflict continued until April 8. j. 1897, when by overwhelming vote by the directors of the United Press that concern threw up the sponge. “There followed a wild scramble to secure membership in the Associated Press and our officers and directors were very busy for a considerable time (in clearing away difficulties. They bad definitely adopted a policy that no reprisals were to be exacted and ex erted themselves strenuously to the end that no established newspapers should be left *outside the fold. In ; this effort ‘♦hey were extraordinarily successful, as any number here today can testify. ‘’For a short time, life in the As sociated Press was apparently tran quil and so far as we knew was tran quil, but a very large sized cloud was jiwst beyond the horizon. The Chi cago Inter-Ocean had been charged with violation of the bylaws—the sec tion in question having been upheld by the courts in several jurisdictions. “Persisting in the violation, the' Inter-Ocean was expelled, whereupon it sought reinstatement through the Illinois courts. The decisions of the lower court and of the appellate court were in favor of the Associated Press and the case was carried to the su preme court of the State. “On February 19, 1000, out of a clear sky came an astounding decision by the Illinois Supreme Court. Al though not mentioned in the plead ings. the Illinois corporation was de clared a common carrier—apparently principally on the ground that in the iriginal charter some one had entirely unnecessarily inserted a clause author zing the erection of telegraph lines —a procedure that had not even been con templated so far as any of us knew. The court held, however, that this po ential power, even though uneger •ised, made the organization a com mon carrier and that any applicant nust be ser veil. “For a time confusion reigned. 3uits were filed to compel the Asso ciated Presci of Illinois to render ser ice .to non-members. Counter suits vere threatened by members in other tates if their contract rights were nvaded. “A number of us believed that we •ould form an organization in another tate and under the protection of law reserve our essential rights. After • most exhaustive investigation and fter taking an enormous amount of egal advice from the leaders of the >ar throughout the country, we formed he present New York organization nd invited all members of the Illi \ois corporation to join with us in he new venture. “The response was practically unan-, mous and the New York membership orporation began operation on Sep-, ember 30, 1900. “During the years since that date here have been only a few events >f really great interest even to news iaper men. Several legal assaults lave beeu successfully repelled. For /ears Melville E. Stone insisted that m a proper presentation in the courts the open and avowed appropriation of iur news could be stopped and we won on his contention from the lower <?ourt to the Supreme Court of the United States and misappropriation of our property is now forbidden by injunction. “And now it is for us to consider whether all this- struggle, all this effort lias been and is worth While. Were the newspaper men of 1893 justified in believing that the thing of first, importance to them and the country was to guard the purity of their news supply through a cooperative organi- I zation in which members of every shade of opinion would necessarily be critics and censors and any par tisanship or bias shown iu the report sure of stern rebuke? Were they right in insisting that newspaper men, members of the organization, from ev ery section of the country should be directors, trustees for our common in terests? “Have your directors—and in the passage of years I have served with over seventy of them—been justified in so construing their obligations to you, that to attend the metings of the board and the executive committee consumes from one to two months of each of their years? “Has your news report been a fair and honest one and has it been a true one when decent allowance is made for the occasional human error? “And, nfost important of all these questions, were we right in 1895 and j have we been right in the years jsinee then in our conviction that a domi nant privately owned news gathering and distributing agency would be a menace beyoud words to the welfare and safety of and people? Leav ing nside the question of*a bad man, of a sinister control, would we today give any man, the best man, unre stricted control of our life blood, our news supply, free to impose with long time contracts what money tribute he would, free to feed us news with what bias he desires, free to decide whether the news shall have a capitalistic bias lor a proletarian sympathy, free to favor in news treatment the republi can or the democratic side? "Would any member of the Asso-. ciated Press today regard it as trinka b!e that even if a majority of the members of the organization wished a report impregnated with bias in favor of or against any measure, or any party, or any church or any man that the Associated Press should or could furnish such a report? "I answer these questions for you. It is unthinkable and would call down on the general manager the riotous condemnation of every member of the Associated Press. And yet it was just such an unrestrained control that faced the newspapers in 1893, menac ing us all and bidding us be on our guard through all time.” After referring to the spread of the cooperative idea to Canada, Great Britain. Australia, Xew Zealand and Japan, where similar organizations ex ist, the speaker continued: "And now has the Associated Press succeeded as to gaining new members and retaining old ones? “Understanding that we do not measure our progress by growth in number of members, I may .say that the membership in 18f)3 was approxi mately 300 aud this had grown so that the present organization started in 1900 with something over 000 and the membership today is 1,222, not many more than at this time last year, but still a.little n»ore. “While making this steady growth from year to year, we have also from time to time lost minor newspapers to privately owned competitors usu ally because of some alluringly low price offer for news pervice, but these have been inconsequentol. "M hat is really significant, and enormously significant as I see it, is that so far as I can t remember, in more than thirty years, dever has any newspaper that you or I would regard as of any importance whatever left the Associated Press, save only those which have been recently bought, lock, stock and barrel, for the Scripps- Howard chain, the owners of which are also the owners of the United Press and who are not in sympathy with the cooperative spirit that re , quires members of the Associated Press to supply their local news to the other members and to them alone.” In concluding, Mr. Noyes said: “In thg work that I have been priv ileged by ..your confidence to do for it,’ f have found my greatest satis faction and pride and I hope that in the coming years you of a younger generation will regard the Associated Press in as vital an aspect as it has appeared to me.” MINERAL PRODUCERS LATE WITH REPORT Fewer Than One-fourth of Producers Have Submitted Data to the State. , * 1,1 “ Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, April 25.—Fewer than ohe fourt of the' mineral producers of North Carolina have reported to the Department of Conservation as re quired by act of the recent term of the General Assembly, according to records of the office of State Geolog ist H. .T. Bryson. The law requires that within 90 days after its ratification on March 9 every person, firm, or corporation “engaging in the manufacture or pro duction of any product from any nat ural resources, classified as mineral products,” shall notify the Depart ment of Conservation and Delevop ment of the products being produced. In case of a new enterprise, notice is required before beginning operations; or in ease of- discontinuing work to appraise the department of this ac tion. From letters for the reports have been mailed out by Geologist Bryson to a list of 326 known producers, and only 69 replies have been deceived. Os these reporting 66 are active opera tion and 14 are not working at this ' time. Producers of feddspar. mica, granite, and sand and gravel lead in number of those making the returns. Department officials believe that the compilation of these statistics will be a step forward in the development of the state’s mineral, resources. The law provides a penalty of a fine of not less than 5 per cent and not more than $25 for failure to comply with its terms. “Agricultural Review” Make Model. Raleigh, -April 25. —Xew Jersey State Department of Agriculture will model a publication after “Agricul tural Review,” a semi-monthly pub lication of the North Carolina State Department of Agriculture, it was stated in a letter from John'W. Fitz patrick, who asked for a complete file of the Review. The file was furnished by William H. Richardson, editor of, a the North Carolina publication who wrote Mr. Fitzpatrick offering to be of further assistance to him. “Agri cultural Review” has been issued twice a month since last August. It carries news of all the Divisions of the State Department of Agriculture, and also a list of farmers’ wants. To Dedicate Elon’s Science Build ing. Elon College, Apr. 25.—The Duke Science Building at Elon College, which was erected by B. N. Duke and his late brother J. B. Duke, will be formally dedicated on the an niversary of the birthday of B. N. Duke, Wednesday, April 27th. with the trustees of the Duke Endow ment, and many scientists present. The exercises* will begin at lO o’clock Wednesday morning in the Whitley Memorial Auditorium and will conclude with a luncheon served in the Y. W. C. A. hall after an in spection of the Science Building. -SNYDER AND GRAY LAWYERS IN CONFLICT i Lawyers for Judd Gray are in conflict with attorneys of Mrs. Ruth Snyder in the murder trial at Long Island City, N. Y., although Gray and Mrs. Snyder are being tried jointly for the) | murder of Mrs. Snyder’s husband. Gray is attempting to put the blame on his former sweet i heart, and Mrs. Snyder accuses Gray of plannning the whole thing, Sketch shows the stage Betting. At upper left is District Attorney Newcombe, the prosecutor. Upper right, the Snyde* attorneys, Dana Wallace (left) and Edgar Hazleton. Lower right, Gray ’s lawyers, Miller (left)} and Millard. I ILLINOIS STRUGGLES WITH FLOODS, TORNADO % ' J J ■■ ' * j * ' * , t \ >t , ' , . * * 31 % 'r'i / / , : ' -- r ' ' I'fg ¥% llinois has floods and tornado damage to cope with at the same time. Photos show what rising raters of Ohio and Missippi rivers did to Mounds, 111., and how one plant in De Kalb, ill,, §uf« ered from a di-SMftrwa TLp-sa views are tynical n£ r>j>ri<lifinng in wide areas. . MARINES READY TO BATTLE CHINA REDS United States Marines are now in such a formidable position in Shanghai that they are ready te enforce any demands made by Washington on the Cantonese government. Photo shows a stra tegic Shanghai corner defended by leathernecks, and Brigadier-General Smedley Butler, Marin® commander, a war map ol wtm* Xfiftdzitf Pfitofa itattmattanai fltirHi.l.— j PAGE THREE
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