4-Monday, April 25, 1927
LIFE OR DEATH FORMRS. SICKER AND GRAY? THESE MEN TO DECIDE
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I Mrs - Ruth Snyder ’ 8 and Henry Judd Gray’s hopes of escaping the death penalty for the murder of Mrs. Snyder’s husband
I “« P}™ ed to t“ese twelve men, the jury chosen after five days of strenuous examination. All believe in capital punishment.
■ }’'rT iam % (foreman), 38, publicity man; 2, Charles Meissner, 50, landscape gardener; 3, Alfred R. Kramer 35 clerkj
liL vl™'? 0 Ballwepr > 63 » retired saloon-keeper;'s, John Schneider, Jr., 30, florist; 6, John F. Connolly, 39, engineer -7 Louii
r ®*dashal, 41, employment manager; 8, Everett J. Van Vrenken, 48, secretary; 9, George Ziegler, 47, printer; 10, John Vani
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The Flood At A Glance
More than 0,000 square miles ot
fertile lands in Missiwiippi and Ar
kansas lmve been laid waste by the
great valley Hood.
At least 100 are known to be fiend
in the Hood area in seven stnteu and
Home officials engaged in relief work
said the minimum estimate ot the
dead in the Mississippi delta alone
was 200.
Fifteen negro women marooned in
n house at Winterville, live miles
north of Greenville. Miss., were re
ported drowned.
With 15,000 already marooned in
the Mississippi delta district urgent
warnings were issued to all others m
the wake of the flood in that area to
flee for their lives.
in the meantime a reuewed ap
peal was made by the Mississippi
state authorities for more bouts to
take out the marooned, many ot
whom have been without food or
water for 24 hours or longer.
jAVitrh the floods spreading at a
mtpid rate. additional thousands
lutve been rendered ■ homeless and
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Married for Love. Are Very Happy.
Jersey Couple Say—Her Relatives
Protested.
New York World.
James. Doyle, twenty-two, a soda
clerk of Newark, married Thursday
Mrs. NelUe-Elia'by.. sixty-seven, a well
to-do widow of Jersey City.
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the loss of crops, livestock, property
its steadily mounting.
Another levee pn the Red river in
southwestern Arkansas has given
way. causing the inundation of i»n
additional 20.000 acres and driving
several hundred from their homes.
Two mhre breaks' in the Missis
sippi levees are threatened, one 30
m’’e< below Helena, Ark., and the
other eight miles above Vicksburg.
Backwater from streams in north
ern Louisiana is beginning to drive
people from their homes in Con
cordia, parish and others will be
driven out ns the Arkansas river
flood waters move into that State.
As the work of strengthening the
dykes between New Orleans and
Baton Rouge proceeds, other forces
were set th work to prevent a ser
ious break below New 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.
Roth say they married for love and
are very happy. This is Mrs. Doyle’s
third and Doyle's second matrimonial
venture.
Doyle makes ”an*eicenent salary as
a soda clerk." Mrs v Doyle said, and
“is able to support me handsomely.”
She aided him in buyitig a '52,000 auto
mobile as a 'wedding present. Al
though Doyle boarded with Mrs. Ella
hy before the marriage, during which
time her love, at first “motherly” and
later ripening into “true love,” he
still calls her “Mrs. Ellaby.
Relatives of Mrs. Ellaby attempted
to prevent the marriage. On the
license clerk’s register she gnve her age
as fifty-one. The bride’s son is a
year older thun iter husband.
Plans For State Raraea Meeting Are
Being Made.
Mount Airy. April 24.—The State
Barnea-Philnthea convention to be
held here June 2 to 5 will be known
ns the "Friendly Convention" accord
ing to an announcement made today
by ('. W. Andrews, of this city who
j Ims plans for the convention in charge,
lie states that the theme "Christian
•Friendliness” will run through the
whole onvention and the convention
'song will be “What A Friend We Have
in Jesus.”
A tentative program has been for
warded to Andrews, by Mrs. N. Buck
ner, of Asheville, the general secre
tary.
Ones to Sleep on Tracks; Is Killed.
Franklin, N. C., April 24.—Dee
Roberts, 1(5. of Topton, was Killed
labour, 10 o’clock Saturday night a
I short distance from Topton by n
Southern Railway train. according
to the verdict reached late today by
In Macon County Coroner’s jury.
Roberts’ badly mangled body was
found by some companions shortly
after the train lout 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 DAILY TRIBUNE
PRESIDENT NOYES DESCRIBES
TASKS OF NEWS AGENCY
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year our membership grew and 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 181)0
various fruitless conferences between
the opposing leaders took place, but
the conflict continued until April 8.
1807, 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
'had 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 they were extraordinarily
successful, as any number here today
jCan testify.
“For a short time, life in the As
sociated Press was apparently trnn
jquu and so far ns we knew was tran
quil, but a large sized cloud was
just beyond the horizon. The Chi
cago Inter-Ocean had been charged
with violation of the bylaws—tile 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, 1900, 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
original charter some one had entirely
unnecessarily inserted a clause author
izing tlte erection of telegraph lines —a
procedure that had not even been con
templated so far ns any of us knew.
The court held, however, that this po
tential power, even though unexer
cised, made the organization a com
mon carrier and that any applicant
must be served.
"For a time confusion reigned.
Suits were filed to eomiTel the Asso
ciated Press of Illinois to render ser
vice to non-meipbers. Counter suits
were threatened by merawrs in other
ttates 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
ireserve our essential rights. After
i most exhaustive investigation and
tfter taking an enormous amount of
egal advice from the leaders of the
tar throughout the country v we formed
he present New York organization
md invited all members of the Illi
tois corporation to join, with us in
he new venture.
“Tlte response was practically unaii
mous and the New York membership
orporatioii began operation on Sep
ember 30, 1900.
“During the years since that date
here have been only a few events
pf really great interest even to news
miter men. Several legal assaults
tave been successfully repelled. For
years Melville E. Stone insisted that
on a proper presentation in the courts
the open and avowed appropriation of
our news could be stopped and we won
on his contention from the lower
court 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
has 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
zation in which members of every
shade of opinion would necessarily
be critics and censors and any par
tisanship or bias shown in the report
sure of stern rebuke? Were they
right in insisting that newspuper men.
members of the organization, from ev
ery section of the country should be
directors, trustees for our common in
terests?
“Hava your director* —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 ani\ 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, most important of all these
questions, were we right in 1890 and
| have we been right in the years since
then in’our conviction that a domi
nant privately owned news gathering
and distributing agency would he a
menace beyond words to the welfare
and safety of press and people? Leav
ing aside the question of a bad man,
of a sinister control, would.we today
give any man, the "best man. unre
stricted oontrol'of our life blood, our
news supply, free to impose with long
time contracts,what money tribute he
would, free to feed ns news with what
bias lie 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
ble 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?
“Ii 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 if was
just such an unrestrained control that
faced the newspapers in 18113. menae
•ng 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, New Zealand and
Japnn. where similar organizations ex
ist* the speaker continued:
“And now has the Associated Press
succeeded as to gaining new iqerabers
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 1893 was approxi
mately 300 and this had grown so that
the present organization started in
1900 with something over (500 and the
membership today is 1,222, not, many
•bore than at this-time last year, hut
still a little more.
“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 inconsequental.
“What is really significant, and
enormously significant as I see it, is
that so far as I can remember, in
more than thirty years, never lias
any newspaper that you or I would
regard as of any importance whatever
est the Associated Press, save only
those which have been recently bought,
’ock, stock and barrel, for the Scripps-
Howord 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:
“lit the work that I have been priv
ileged by your confidence to do for
it, >1 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 ns 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.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, April 25.—" Fewer (hail one
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. J. 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
raent of the products being produced.
In case of a new enterprise, notice is
required before beginning operations;
or in case 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 32(5 known producers, and
only C 9 replies have been received.
Df these reporting (5(5 are active opera
tion and J 4 are not working at this
time. Producers of feldspar, mica,
granite, and stand and gravel lead in
mimbet* 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. —New 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 tile
of the Review. The file was furnished
by William H. Richardson, editor of
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 Os all. the Divisions of the State
Department, of Agriculture, aud also
a list of farmers' wants.
To Dedicate Eton's Science Build
ing.
Elon College, Apr. 25.—The Duke
Science Building at E'.on 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.
Tlte exercises will begin at 10
o'clock Wednesday morning in the
Whitley Memorial Auditorium and
will conclude with a luncheon served
in the Y- W. O. A. hall after an in
spection o( the Science Building.
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Lawyers for Judd Gray are in conflict with attorneys of Mrs. Ruth Snyder in the murder trial -
ll at Long Island City, N. Y., although Gray and Mrs. Snyder are being tried jointly for tire; f
|imurder of Mrs. Snyder’s husband. Gray is attempting to put the blame on his former sweet- ;
U heart, and Mrs. Snyder accuses Gray of plannning the whole thing. Sketch shows the stage ,
setting. At upper left is District Attorney Newcombe, the prosecutor. Upper right, the Snyder :
attorneys, Dana Wallace (left) and Edgar Hazleton. Lower right, Gray ’s lawyers, (left); 1
and Millard-
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Hinois has floods and tornado damage to cope with at the same time. Photos show what rising
waters of Ohio and Missippi rivers did to Mounds, 111., and how one plant in De Kalb, 111., sun
£££d from .a disastrous tornado. These views are tmical n£ cehditians in wide . . j
MARINES READY TO BATTLE CHINA REDS
United States Marines are now in such a formidable position in Shanghai that they are ready t#
tegic Shanghai corner defended by leathernecks, and Brigadier-General Smedley Butler, Marin#
eommander. -studying a war map of the region, state. Jut action. >
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