This front page from Washington's Evening Star carried three wire and cable stories alongside a running AP account of the fourth World Series game in St. Louis, where Babe Ruth's two home runs had the Yankees ahead of the Cardinals 2 to 1 in the third inning. From Chicago, the AP reported that Indiana publisher Thomas H. Adams had released a letter said to have been smuggled out of prison from former Klan leader D. C. Stephenson. In it Stephenson claimed he could prove political debts and deals worth nearly a million dollars, and he charged that he had been framed for murder. From New York, the paper reported that the defense had unexpectedly rested in the Daugherty-Miller conspiracy trial, after Mal S. Daugherty testified about Liberty bonds and bank accounts. A Berlin radio dispatch reported that Gen. von Seeckt had resigned as head of the German army after a former crown prince's son took part in army maneuvers.
JESS HAINES HURLS CARDINALS TO LEAD OVER YANKEE CREW
SIX BODIES OF MINE VICTIMS REMOVED BY RESCUE WORKERS
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page of October 6, 1926 had a state court story, a sports story and a disaster story. The Alabama Supreme Court unanimously overruled a motion by Chilton County citizens, backed by affidavits, asking it to order the attorney general to begin impeachment proceedings against Judge Lewis H. Reynolds. The paper said the ruling completely cleared him. An Associated Press report from St. Louis described Jesse Haines shutting out the Yankees on five hits and hitting a home run himself. His 4-0 win before a record crowd at Sportsman's Park put the Cardinals ahead two games to one in the World Series. From Rockwood, Tennessee, the AP reported that rescuers had recovered six bodies after an explosion in the Roane Iron Company's coal mine, where at least 28 men were thought to have died and hope for survivors was fading.
This partial reading of the London Evening Advertiser for 6 October 1926 sets national and imperial politics beside a local civic campaign. A staff despatch from Ottawa reported that eleven ministers in Mackenzie King's new cabinet would face by-elections on 9 November, with nominations a week earlier, and listed their seats. An Associated Press report from Southampton described Lord and Lady Byng landing in England after his term as governor general, and his laughing refusal to discuss his constitutional powers, which he said might come up again at the Imperial Conference. At home, the paper reported that London's Public Utilities Commission and civic groups were lining up behind a proposed dam at Springbank Park.
The Vossische Zeitung of 6 October 1926 led with a change at the head of Prussia's Interior Ministry: the official notice that Interior Minister Carl Severing had resigned for health reasons and that Berlin police chief Albert Grzesinski had replaced him, along with Minister-President Braun's warm letter of thanks and a call for a Reichsbanner torchlight farewell on the Gendarmenmarkt that evening. A long report gave the terms of Finance Minister Höpker-Aschoff's new property settlement with the Hohenzollerns, palace by palace and Morgen by Morgen, and said the governing parties were inclined to approve it. A short item reported that Defense Minister Gessler had briefed Hindenburg on the ex-Crown Prince's son taking part in Reichswehr maneuvers. A column on the reopening Landtag said the talks on restoring Prussia's Grand Coalition had stalled because the Center Party resented the German People's Party's 'tactic of silence' at its Cologne congress.
The Government Wants the Accords Ratified, but with Reservations
Le Figaro's front page of 6 October 1926 opened in a Mulhouse courtroom, where a special correspondent described the trial of seven defendants accused of sabotaging Armand Weinmann's factory at Illzach and called the case a crime against labour. Henri Vonoven's political column looked ahead to the Radical congress opening in Bordeaux on 14 October and argued that the Radical-Socialists still could not accept that the Cartel des gauches was finished. A finance-committee report said Poincaré wanted Parliament to debate the Washington and London war-debt accords quickly, with reservations added as recitals, because the Mellon-Bérenger text itself could not be amended.
English Miners Reject the Government's Mediation Proposals
The Consequences of Geneva and Thoiry for Germany
The Neue Freie Presse of 6 October 1926 opened with two foreign telegrams and a long interview. From Paris, its correspondent reported that a Radical-Socialist deputy had resigned as rapporteur for the Finance Ministry budget because he could not support Poincaré's plans, and that ratification of the Washington debt agreement was still stuck, prompting talk of a serious domestic crisis. From London came word that British miners still out had voted down the government's mediation proposal, although the paper stressed that a quarter had already gone back to work and no more than sixty percent had voted. The main piece was a conversation with Reichstag deputy Werner von Rheinbaben about Germany's first League of Nations session. He covered the shortage of German staff in the Geneva secretariat, the Franco-British dispute over what the League was for, enlargement of the Council, and the Briand–Stresemann meeting at Thoiry, which he described as a real financial deal tied to the Rhineland occupation.
L'Écho d'Alger's front page of 6 October 1926 led with Navy Minister Georges Leygues praising France's newest warships in an interview with Le Journal, arguing that the Great War had shown France needed light, fast units more than big capital ships. Beside it ran the official German version, issued by the Wolff agency, of a night-time scene in a Neustadt restaurant in which a French sergeant said he had been stabbed, although no knife was seen, and a Frenchman later asked that the matter be kept quiet. A short note on German press reaction to the Germersheim affair, read as fresh proof that the occupation should end, led into a report from Perugia, where Mussolini lectured on “Ancient Rome on the Sea” and reviewed some 50,000 Blackshirts and Umbrian union members. Only headings and opening paragraphs are legible.
This front page of L'Écho annamite was given over largely to the Cochinchina Colonial Council campaign. In the 2nd constituency (Saigon, Cholon, Tanan, Mytho), the outgoing councillors Truong Van Ben and Nguyen Phan Long reported on their four-year mandate, insisting they had kept an unprofitable and sometimes risky independence from the Administration rather than trade conscience for official favours. Bui Quang Chieu presented himself as a man who had quit 29 years of government service early to defend the Annamites, cited twenty years of campaigning in Indochina and France, and pointed to the enthusiastic reception of 24 March as his reward. A short wire item reported that a French non-commissioned officer had been stabbed in a café at Neustadt in the occupied Rhineland, with the German authorities cooperating and the reporting officer of the Landau court-martial asked to hear witnesses. This reading covers only the opening portions of the three items and leaves out the later paragraphs in small type.
The front page of 6 October 1926 led with a joint declaration from Koblenz in which the German Reich Commissioner for the occupied territories and the Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission urged restraint on both sides after incidents in garrison towns and promised that the courts would seek only the truth; a Havas report on a fresh case at Neustadt an der Haardt followed. A United Press dispatch from Rome quoted Mussolini's defiant balcony speech after his "mare nostrum" lecture, in which he scorned his opponents, shrugged off assassination attempts and cited membership figures to deny that Italy was a despotism. In a signed column the Prague jurist Heinrich Rauchberg explained a Salzburg draft by the League of Nations societies that would let minorities file complaints themselves, drop the unanimity rule in the League Council and leave the accused state's vote uncounted.
The Journal de Genève's front page of 6 October 1926 led with H. Wilson Harris's London report that the five-month British coal dispute was ending in a hunger-driven retreat by the miners. Harris blamed the miners, the owners and the government alike, and he expected the defeat to strengthen the case for nationalising the mines. Colonel Feyler attacked the Council of States for rejecting, by 22 votes to 14, Dollfus's motion for a more efficient army at no extra cost, and a short item from Berne reported a proposed ban on building new watch factories. The Paris correspondent played down French fears that Chamberlain's meeting with Mussolini at Livorno would produce an Anglo-Italian bloc, while noting that Locarno diplomacy was still unsettled.
Politika's front page of 6 October 1926 carried former prime minister Nikola Pašić's sharp denial of remarks attributed to him through Šuvaković of the Agrarian Reform ministry: he insisted he had said nothing about Svetozar Pribićević and could make no political statements until he reached Belgrade. A report from Avala described visiting Czechoslovak deputies hearing Klofáč's words on an unbroken shared spirit, laying a wreath on the Unknown Hero's grave and posing with peasants and soldiers. Short wires relayed an unconfirmed Budapest rumour of a Split free zone for Hungary and the arrival in Warsaw of the new envoy, Ljuba Nešić.
When can the grain insurance scheme be put into practice?
The National Theatre's gala performance, a beautiful and atmospheric evening yesterday.
Aftenposten's front page of 6 October 1926 led with an editorial on the first ruling of the Riksrett convened against the former Berge government. Representative Sanne had been voted off the court in a closed session, and the paper set this against 1883, when, it said, a Venstre majority overrode the Supreme Court justices and declared 11 of its own members competent to judge the Selmer ministry, even letting them vote in their own case. A news item quoted Agriculture Minister Bærøe: the Swiss-inspired grain insurance scheme might start by spring and must start by 1 July 1927 at the latest, once the Storting had voted the money. A fragmentary report described the National Theatre's gala evening, with the King, Queen, Crown Prince and the President cheered by the crowd outside.
The Leidsch Dagblad of 6 October 1926 combined small-town notices with foreign politics. Its city column recorded certificates of merit for a local perennial nursery, a townsman passing his police diploma, a M.U.L.O. teacher posted to the Dutch East Indies, a Catholic journalist named to his party's council, and the 3 October Association planning a social evening just after the Relief festivities. From Germany it reported the names floated to succeed Severing as Prussian interior minister, insisting he left only for his health, along with rumours of a Hohenzollern settlement and a demand that Germans abroad get the vote. From France it reported Poincaré's wish to recall parliament early to debate the 1927 budget and the ratification of the debt agreements.
This partial reading of Le Petit Matin for 6 October 1926 brings together short wire dispatches. One describes a pontifical high mass celebrated by Cardinal [?] Del Val beneath Giotto's frescoes in San Francesco. From Blois comes the case of Bishop Audollent, fined one franc for ordering a Eucharistic Congress procession at Villefranche-sur-Cher despite the mayor's ban; the left-wing deputy-mayor Georges Richard received the same fine by default. Rabat reports Resident General Steeg's arrival from Casablanca, and Warsaw carries an official Polish denial that the government would accept handing Danzig to Germany. From London, the paper predicts that British miners will reject the government's proposals in their district ballots yet return to work on district terms, with 171,419 already back.
This page of La Nación, dated 6 October 1926, followed the Argentine and Uruguayan football delegations as they travelled to Santiago for the South American Championship. The paper described a crowd and committees of young ladies with bouquets greeting the international train at Los Andes, a meal at the Hotel Suramericano, and a special carriage hired by the Federation and attached to the express. It reported that at 3 p.m. Chilean time, on Argentine territory, delegation heads, officials of the South American confederation's Permanent Office, journalists and players received warm embraces, and that a large crowd at Mapocho Station welcomed the visitors, naming players such as Andrade, Scarone and Bidoglio.
PROVINCIAL POLICE SAY THEY HAVE IDENTIFIED THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR RAY'S DEATH
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It Is an Old Gang
Crítica's front page of 6 October 1926 led with a crime story from the northern suburbs. The Buenos Aires provincial police said they had fully solved the robbery at a Vicente López chalet in which councillor Dr. Carlos A. Ray was killed. Citing its own informant and a police informer, the paper named the supposed gang leader as Francisco Alba, alias "Pibe Albarellos." It described a crew of four: two lookouts in the street, who fled at the first shots, and two men inside who climbed the wall as María Poey cried for help from the balcony. In its "Hoy" column the paper turned to Congress. It noted that the Chamber of Deputies had set up a seven-member committee to reform the Code of Military Justice, and it argued that the only real reform was to abolish that separate, unjust jurisdiction.
Poincaré will seek ratification of the war-debt agreements
The page was dominated by a long report from Perugia. After lecturing on ancient Rome’s sea power, Mussolini told a Blackshirt rally in Piazza dei Priori that nothing could be done against him or against Fascism, that opposition only hardened him, and that the Fascist regime was the truest ‘people’s State’ in history. The report then followed him to the Prefecture, where he told the local Militia legion he was about to take the Militia’s high command, to the art academy, where he called for a new ‘Fascist art’, and onto his special train to Rome. Beside it, a Rome dispatch relayed La Tribuna’s insistence that Italy’s new treaty with Yemen served only peaceful trade between Eritrea and Yemen, and a Paris dispatch reported Poincaré’s plan to seek quick ratification of the Washington and London war-debt agreements with reservations, followed by Le Figaro’s use of Italy’s 1914 neutrality in the war-guilt debate.