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Show NEWSPAPERS TO TEST ORDER OF COURT JUDGE BAY ST. LOUIS; Miss., Mar. 4. (IT) Thy right of a Judge to prohibit pro-hibit publication of crime news was put to "a severe lest here today, when tlie trial of Jesse Favrc, accused of the murder of two government employes. em-ployes. Judge W. A. White has warned newspaper circulating In Hnncock county that news of the trlnl must not be printed, claiming that it might prejudice other juries likely to lie needed before the murder case Is disposed of. tin the other hand, the newspapers news-papers are determined to print the evldeuce. Press -association men. telegraph ojierators and star reporters report-ers from some of the larger dallies In the state were on hand to "cover" the trial. It is understood they have orders to print all the facts available. One New Orll'ann oiewiwiK-r in nih uounciug that it would print the news of the trial called upon all other papers lo do Likewise, calling It "a matter of plaint duty." Judge White has not indicated yet what steps he will take to compel oliedlcnce to his orders. He has been fiieudly toward ncwspnernien thus far, |