Arizona republican., 1914-08-23
Now's the day, and now's the hour. See the front O battle lOur.
 Robert Burns.
When the Pope Died

The Associated Press and the United Press, the two principal news agencies of this country, engaged in controversy regarding the exact time of the death of Plus K The controversy grows of the claim by the United Press that it scored a beat by enabling the newspapers of it's associa- ton to print the story of the popas death 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon hours before it printed by the papers of the Associated Press. To this the Associated Press replies that the United Press papers printed the story of the death about two hours before it occurred and adduces sufficient proof that at 4:1s pm. in New York 1O:1S pm. in Rome the pope still alive At that hour the papal legate in this country received cabegram from the papa secretary saying that death might take place at any moment. It did occur, according to the Associated Press, at 1:20 Roman tme Ambassador Page telegraphed the department that the pope died about o'clock; the Reuter- agency in London gave the hour of death at 1920 and the Havas agency of Paris. 20 According the Central News Agency of London the hour 1885. This controversy may be regarded settled by the statement yesterday of the popes physician that death ensued at 1:l5 am.
 The United Press offers the explanation that there difference of time between the death of [. the pope and its announcement from the vatican That may be true the Associated Press admits and mentions the of the death of Leo XIII but the vatican did officially misstate the hour of death then.
 The United Press in the controversy commits the saying that it's dispatch announcing death of the pope sent in code. General Man ager Stone of the Associated Press having in mind the then existing censorship of cable messages, ad dressed the managers of the Commercial Cable com pany, the cable department of the Western Union and the French Gable company all of whom replied that no code messages were received could have been received
 In conclusion stated by the Associated Press:
 This business of announcing the death of a dis tinguished person before it actually occurs is not with the United Press people. Queen Victoria died on January 22, 1901, at 6:30 pm London time C:3i pm. New York tme). Before that hour dispatch from the United Press announcing the queens death printed When the charge was made that this reckless guess bold antici raton since the message sent before the queer had breathed her last, answer made that code word, "bergerac," had been used and that it mean dead" The claim also set up that while thu official announcement fixed the time of the queen! death at 6:30 pm, it actually occurred an hou earlier, and that message to that effect sen from Osborne House at 5:35 p.m to the Archbishop of Canterbury. An investigation resulted in al autograph letter the archbishop to the genera manager of the Associated Press assuring him tha he had received such message. So far h knew, far anyone else knew believed the hour of death officially given out-namely, 6:9 p.m-was correct Very soon this shown t be the fact
 On September IS, 1911, also. after M. Stolypir former Russian premier, had been wounded at KieN Russia, and had fingered for time and wa nearing his end the United Press announced hi death time before it actually occurred