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April 21, 1927

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FOUR ARE QUALIFIED AS SNYDER JURORS; MORE SPEED LIKELY; Three More Talesmen Satisfy Searching Queries of All Sides on the Third Day. 157 IN RANKS OF REJECTED Landscape Gardener, Clerk and Plumber Are the New Jurymen -- Two Picked in 20 Minutes. JURY BY TOMORROW SEEN Mrs. Snyder's Counsel Issue Statement on Procedure -- Newcombe Sees Reflection on Talesmen. FOUR ARE QUALIFIED AS SNYDER JURORS

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3 more jurors selected; statement by Mrs Snyder's counsel on jury selection; rumor that deacons of Cavalry Baptist Church oppose J R Straton's writing up trial for newspaper

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MISTRIAL IMPENDS IN FORD LIBEL CASE; NEW CHARGES MADE; Detectives Swear "Kid" Miller Talked About "Thousands" to Woman Juror.

By From a Staff Correspondent of The New York Times

Ford counsel files application for mistrial, charging perjury on part of Mrs C Hoffman, jury member; her meetings with J ("Kid") Miller described by Ford detectives; she denies charges; Sapiro calls move a frame-up; Gallagher's statement

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YALE APPEAL GOES TO MILLIONS BY RADIO; Justice Taft Heads the Alumni Who Urge Support for a $20,000,000 Endowment. MEETINGS IN 200 CITIES $10,000,000 Pledged, Diners at Waldorf Are Told -- Graduates Gather in Foreign Lands. YALE APPEAL GOES TO MILLIONS BY RADIO

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Appeals for Yale Endowment Fund, at launching of drive in N Y C

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Coast Artillery Shows City It Is Safe From Air Enemy

By Special to The New York Times

62d Coast Artillery, at White Plains, N Y, destroys theoretical enemy air fleet

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Notable Births

1927Ahmed Arif, Turkish poet and author (died 1991)^[†]

Ahmed Arif was a Turkish-Kurdish poet.