Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1926, Page 4

Ty - oW - MELLETT MURDER JURY COMPLETED Ten Men and Two Women to . Try McDermott, Alleged .23 Slayer. 'THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1926. HISTORY OF ASSOCIATED PRESS IS ROMANCE OF CO-OPERATION, General M#nager Refutes Charges of Transmitting Inspired Government Propaganda Against Mexico. By the Associated Press. NEW YORIK, December 10.—Offi- By the Associated Press. COURTHOUSE, CANTON, December 10.—Twelve persons were chosen to try Patrick Eugene Me- Dermott for the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton publisher, hortyi after court conveyed this afternoon. | The jury is composed of ten men | and two women. The jury was sworn | in at 1:18 p.m. Alternate Jurors Named. i The court then proceeded with the| selection of the alternate juror to be chosen for emergency purposes. | Two preemptory challenges on tho| thirteenth juror » permitted by law nd defense. | composed of Norman! Ohio, | The jui Biery, farmer; Donald Auld. machinist:; Wiiliam Hoover, contractor, ¥rank B. Cleaver, department store manager: Marion Mong, farmer: Mrs. beth der, housewife; . nerode, | farmer: Mrs. Nellie Holeba house-{ wife: Bert H. Swi armer; Caleb | Whitaker, contracto Horace Fas: nacht, real estate man; Leo Litche-| walter, retired. Delay in selection of a jury has afforded the defense an opportunity to do some angling by which it mav prefit in presenting its case, accord ing to courtroom consensux. From pective jurors sev srtant tips have come to thr table, and the fight to save McDermott's life is being rearranged nccording During the fendant, Patrick Eugene McDermott, charged with killing Don R. Mellett Canton publisher, have come to his assistance. The defense, however, has been beaten in several legal skirmishes, | losing a motion for change of venue | and a motion for a three-day recess.| The latest defense move was the an- nouncement yesterday that it would call to the witness stand, Ora Slater, | Cincinnati detective, who has been | helping the State prepare its case. The defense will attempt to draw an | admission from Slater that he does not believe McDermott guilty. COLORED BANDITS ROB TWO OF $181 IN STORE. Patron of Delicatessen Is Pt‘{’ncipflll Loser—Warned Not to Make Outery. Two colored bandits held up{ Marshall White, proprietor of a deli- en store at 1801 Vermont ave- nd Robert Smith, colored, of | 1013 S street, a customer who hap- pened to be in the store, and escaped with nearly $200 in cash last night. When one of the bandits pointed a pistol at White he thought it was a joke, until the man snapped a cartridge out of the gun to con- vince him. White was relieved of pmer, of $17 cob Hamaty, ness, and di $6 and Smith. the cu The bandits ignored J a partner in the bu: appeared. Before warned leaving, however, they their victims not to make ! v for five minutes or a con- nie might “drop” one of | ASSAILED BY SLUGGER. William H. Mount Hit on Head by% Unidentified Negro. ! After he was slugged with a ham-, mer by identified negro this morning as he was sweeping the floor at Kirk in's furniture store, 1610 Seventh street, William Henry Mount, 72 years old, of 116 Oxford avenue, Del’ Ray. Va., was taken to Eme gency Hospital with a possible frac- ! tured skull. The cause of the assault is unknown an: rently there was | f no attempt 2 Mount = he negro entered the store shortly after 9 o'clock while | no one else was on the premises, ask- ing for work, for the second day int succession The next thing Mount remembers was try to rise from the floor and | feeling weak znd dizzy. The bloody hammer was the only clue to his as- gailant. He thinks that the man hit him from behind as he was bending AMUSEMENTS ATIONAL—Burton Holmes. Switzerland.” as presented by Burton Holmes at the ional The- esterday afternoon, was so * from his forme: near noeists plunged into | pids that tossed them high, | ve into the next seething torrent ahead, the journey pictured scenes of | in | from the vion feel its dange: Up in the snowy solitudes amazing en of the art of | men, v at hos > nonchalance of mortal who walks a well- pike | n and his | and | of William Tell story, perpetuated in canv: stone. gives proof of the e s people, while “loafing Jd that contrasts a medieval castle in the twelfth century, dwelt and ruled modern _ life where, hac Frederick F Timbing modern “whit clouds be- - of cotton. and Alpine Islands of one a sense of travel ver linings.” While Gotherd Pass, the | Bernard, honored in nst a background of glant | takes human shape in a great 1ks and their huge re patroling the “avalanche in their work of rescuing | adventurous explorers lost in the snow. The life of St. Moritz offers gay contrast to the esthetic life of | the hospice, in its fartheraway white | country, where amusements_included dances on ice by fur-clad frolickers and Winter sports on ice-rinks and #ki courses of the Engadine furnished carnivals and contests that called for daring adventure. The route after many curious and splendid review: of the realm of the snow king led to a | forest of “alabaster trees—battalions | of ghostly Christmas trees. with na- tives gliding on skis through a white forest; a world of silver silence”—and the journey closed in the very heart of “Nature's Switzerland." Mr. Holmes will present the “Great | World Cruise” next Thursday after- e crossing _the spirit | cials of life insurance companies listened yesterday to Kent Cooper, general manager of the Associated Press, tell the romantic story of the organization and daily work of the largest institution in the world that has nothing to sell and whose success s bullt entirely upon the co-operative efforts of its membership. Mr. Cooper also referred to comments on the Associated Press news report b those not familiar with its standards. Conditions existing in the news- paper publishing business more than a generation ago and the necessity which brought several huhdred news- papers together o carry on by co- operation one of the most important functions of their work were outlined. “Fulfilling its mission upon a co- operative and idealistic basis for 33 years,” said Mr. Cooper, “the story of the beginnings and the continued suc- cess of the Associated Press should tiruly be called ‘a romance of co-ppera- tion".” Operation Js Described. After describing the form of organi- zation and methods of operation of the network of wires which Thomas A. Edison once referred to as “Uncle n's arterfal system—a system that would never harden,” Mr. Cooper told of what might happen if it were not for this great co-operative endeavor. One may well pause to think of what one man, if the owner, could do to convert, even pervert, the thoughts of millions,” he said, “by coloring facts. By a twist here and a turn there, this one man’s will might be done. And if he did not do his work too crudely, a nation might be a tool in his hands. Again, T say this might be if one man were the owner. “But one man Is not the owner, and if an adventure in prophecy is war- ranted, one man never will be the owner. For it was to prevent one- man ownership that the Assoclated Pres of today was brought into being. There was a time in this coun- trv—a time when this business of news exchange was done in a small 1410 H ance or other office. way, and crudely, at that—but there was' a time when one or two men were in control. It was to end_that ownership that the Assoclated Press of today came forth. “Today the policy of unbiased news | in press association news dispatches | is a fixed one—so fixed that so long as this co-operative endeavor endures no competitor of the Assoclated Press would dare embark upon any policy antagonistic to this one. News Without Bias. “The policy of a press association transmitting news without bias is thus the American policy. It is woven into the fabric of the conscience of American newspaper making. The co- operative Associated Press put there. “No human activity of the magni- tude of the Associated Press should sescape criticism if it could. The As- sociated Press welcomes criticism. “The public, representing every walk of the soctal and business world, cannot be said to be trained to view anything in an altogether disinter- ested way. T know of no calling other than ours that trains itself to be partisan free. Therefore, the public is often led into speaking or thinking of the Associated Press news report critically, without aiways analyzing text of our dispatches. (PT‘On November 17 the Associated Press distributed a news dispatch re- porting the deep concern with which responsible officlals of the State De- partment regarded ‘the specter of a, Mexican fostered bolshevist hege- mony intervening between the United States and the Panama Canal ‘ At the same time it transmitted a statement by Secretary Kellogg in | Which he characterized the situation in Nicaragua as one ‘which has in- vited further interference from out side sources” The same dispatch re- counted the State Department's ad- Vices respecting shipment of arms| and ammunition from Mexico to Nica- ragua. “\With publication of the dispatch referred to the State Department FOR RENT Under Sub-Lease SPACE IN THE MARYLAND BUILDING The space referred to amounts to ap- proximately 370 square feet on the first floor, and would make an ideal real estate, insur- Address Box 227-V, Star Office. was publicly attacked as having in- St. N.W. dairymen who The Knowing Mother Special Pasteurized Milk—Sanivita Quernsey Milk Nursery Raw Milk Certified Milk Chocolate Milk Table Cream ‘Whipping Cream Buttermilk Always on Hand for Your Health N hand, watching the care in milking, feeding of cows, cleansing utensils, pride of the countryside——are the ones whose standards alone reach our ideal for @lhestrut Sarms. SPECIAL PASTEURIZED MILK' - OWHERE in the world is there more modern equipment for protecting the user of milk than this dairy pro- vides. You'll find your daily order unfail- ingly on hand—phone . make their farms the Will Have No Other spired propaganda directed against the present government of Mexico. Varfous accounts of a confldential conference between Assistant Secre- tary Olds and newspapermen were published in support of the attack. Cofncidentally the Assoclated Press was attacked on a charge of having 18nt itself to the dissemination of in- spired propaganda, and the various ccounts of Mr. Old's conversation With the newspaper correspondents were submitted in proof of this charge. “It is worthy of attention that the Associated Press dispatch in question did not contain the various state- ments attributed to Mr. Olds. It only reported that Government officials charged with the conduct of foreign relations ‘were concerned over their reports that communistic tendencies were being thrust into American- Mexican relations. “This came to the Associated Press in the usual course of newsgathering in Washington from sources which it has a right to expect are well in- formed and correctly represent the views of the Government. There was no reason to question the truth of the information transmitted and in- vestigation has developed none.” THREE DIE IN CHAIR FOR KILLING WOMAN Two Brothers and Companion Executed—One Heckled Chap- lain on Bible. * By the Associated Press. OSSINING, N. Y., December 10.— Three men, two of them brothers, were executed in the electric chalr at Sing Sing Prison last night for the killing of an aged woman who detected them in the robbery of a chain store in Brookiyn last February. The men were John Maxwell, 21; William Barszyouck, 28, and the lat- ter's brother, Casimir, 21. ‘Willam Barszyouck, in the death- house nearly nine months, had stead- fastly refused to recelve his mother, but relented yesterday and permitted her- to visit him. Wednesday he inter- rupted a religious service to heckle the prison chaplain about a passage in the Bible. The brothers passed their time last evening reading newspapers. Maxwell played checkers with Paul Hilton, “radio burglar,” who is await- ing execution for the killing of a New i York City patrolman. JOINT MANEUVERS . WILL NOT BE HELD War Department Announoes Tests Off New England Would Be “Impracticable.” By the Associatw] Press. BOSTON, December 10.—The War Department has found it “impractica- ble to hold the joint Army-Navy ma- neuvers planned for the southern New England coast next Summer, Maj. Gen. Preston Brown, command- ‘ng the corps area, was notified today. The department assigned no reason. but sald that one would be announced later. Elaborate plans had been laid for a problem of defense and attack in which hundreds of airplanes were expected to co-operate with the fleet and the coast defenses. The majority of the regular service personnel- in New England were to have participated. o SEEK UTILITIES SPACE. Plans for the temporary location of the personnel of the new Publid Ttil- itles Commission, to be created in a bill now awaiting the signature of President Coolidge, in a downtown of- fice building are being made by Dis- trict officials, it was learned today. An appropriation for the lease of suftable office space in one of the bulld- ings in the vicinity of the District Building probably will be inserted in the urgent deficlency appropriation bill, Despite a diligent search for space for the new commission in tha District Building, officials have been unable to find it. Every municipal activity is too cramped now, the officials said, to deprive it of office space. Suites in the Earle and Munsey buildings _are under consideration. Both buildings are close to the Dis- trict Building. R D SO Urges “Collegiate” Jail. CHICAGO, December 10 ().—"My idea of the proper conduct of a jail is to run it like a college,” sald Warden Edward J. Fogarty of the Cook Coun- tyJail in an address yesterday. “I let the men know they are here without any action on my part and I will take the best care of them while they are here.” ) FORTY D EGAT BANOUETSDRAIN Former Legion Head Honor- ed on Eve of Departure From Washington. Recital of memories and incidents of association in the World War, play- ing of war songs and portrayal of scenes along the battle front were fea- tures of the farewell banquet to Gen. James A. Drain, past national com- mander and past department com- mander of the American Legion, given in his_honor last night by the Forty and Eight at the Franklin Square Hotel. Gen. Drain leaves in a few days, after residing in this city for the past 35 vears, for Spokane, Wash., where he will make his future home. At the conclusion of the banquet Austin S. Imirle, chef de gare of the Grande Voiture, District of Columbla, made a brief address and introduced Past Grand Chef de Gare and Past National Vice Comdr. Watson B. Miller, who acted as toastmaster dur- ing the evening. Pershing Heads Guests. The guests were Gen. John J. Persh- ing. Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, com- mandant U. S. Marine Corps; Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, chief Chemical War- fare Service, U. 8. A. and depart- ment commander the American Le- glon; Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, di- rector U. S. Veterans' Bureau; Sena- tor David A. Reed, Pennsylvani Senator Daniel F. Steck and Senator David Steward, both of Towa; Repre- sentative Royal C. Johnson, South Dakota; Representative Lamar Jef- fers, Alabama; National Vice Comdr. John G. Sims, the American Legio: Dr. Stanley Rinehart, passe seus chief de Chemin de Fer, and Charles Mills, chef de Chamin de Fer. Gen. Pershing paid high tribute to Gen. Drain, referring to his long mili- tary career and his accomplishments as national commander of the Amer- ican Legion. Gen. Pershing referred to their boyhood days back in Ne- braska, when Gen. Drain was a bank clerk and he was a lieutenant and uni- versity instructor. He spoke of the enthusiasm Drain put into the Amer- ican Legion when he was elected to 7th & F Sts. the highest office in the organization. He concluded bv saying that “‘our loss in Washington would be the State of ‘Washington's gain.” Toastmaster Miller called on each of the other guests, who responded in similar vein. Presented With Walking Stick. The program concluded with the presentation by the toastmaster, on behalf of the Forty and Eight, of a walking stick to Gen. Drain. who ex- pressed appreciation for the testi- monial banquet and gift. He urged the local voiture to put forth its best efforts to make the Legion what it should be in the National Capital and help solve the many problems which may come up from time to time. He expressed regret at leaving so many of his loyal friends behind him, but sald he would make frequent trips East. The United States Army Band Or- chestra furnished musical selections, including popular war songs. flesziiiretnsnlOi st Nickel trimmings on the gas stove will look much brighter if washed with warm water in which two table- spoons of kerosene have been stirred. “TALKS” TO NORTHCLIFFE Secretary Says She Communicates ‘With Dead Publisher. 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