The Montgomery Advertiser
- Babe Ruth Leads Yanks to Victory in Fourth Scrap
- High Commander Resigns Position with German Army
- New Orleans Bank Pledges Resources in Cotton Crisis
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page for October 7, 1926 led with Alan J. Gould's AP account of Game Four of the World Series, in which Babe Ruth hit three home runs as the Yankees beat the Cardinals 10-5 before a record St. Louis crowd, tying the series at two games each and breaking seven series records. An AP dispatch from Germany reported that General von Seeckt had tendered his resignation as commander-in-chief of the Reichswehr after letting Prince Wilhelm, eldest son of the former crown prince, join army maneuvers without consulting Defense Minister Gessler, setting off republican protest. From New Orleans came word that the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank would put $60 million at the disposal of cotton growers in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, lending only through cooperatives or agricultural credit bodies so that another large crop would not be dumped in panic selling. A short item also reported a Nova Scotia schooner captain held on charges of trying to sink American Prohibition patrol boats.
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BABE RUTH LEADS YANKS TO VICTORY IN FOURTH SCRAP
Constructive Fearless Independent VOLUME XCVIII—NO. 280
BABE RUTH LEADS YANKS TO VICTORY IN FOURTH SCRAP
Murdering Maulers Pound Five Cardinal Flingers For 10-5 Victory, Deadlocking Series Games at Two-All
SULTAN'S THREE HOMERS SMASH MANY RECORDS
Fifth Game To Be Played in St. Louis Today, Then Back to Gotham
By ALAN J. GOULD
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 6.—(AP)—Babe Ruth led the Yankees out of the Missouri woods today with the greatest exhibition of home-run hitting any world's series has ever seen.
Three battering-ram blows from the Babe's mighty bludgeon cleared all barriers and set fire to a Yankee attack that crushed the Cardinals by a score of 10 to 5 in the fourth game of the world's championship baseball battle. As a result the series is deadlocked again, at two victories apiece, with the fifth game here tomorrow.
Today was a field day for Ruth, the greatest he has ever had in world's series competition and one of the most spectacular of his walloping career. His three terrific homers not only lifted the Yankees out of their hitting slump but figured in the shattering of seven world's series records.
Pitching Parade
Another record crowd for Sportsman's park, a jam that numbered 38,825 and broke yesterday's mark, came in the expectation of seeing the Cardinals continue their winning streak. Instead they saw Ruth lead an onslaught that started in the first inning and continued unabated through a hectic fray in which five Cardinal pitchers paraded to the mound. They saw a game of freak plays, filled with good and bad baseball, but most of all they saw the Babe at the peak of his glory.
At the finish, these Cardinal rooters had become so aroused that they yelled for Ruth to make a fourth homer when he came to bat in the eighth and booed Hallahan, St. Louis pitcher, when the latter walked the Yankee slugger.
Nothing like the Babe's clouting has ever been seen before in baseball's classic. His first two circuit wallops came in the first and third innings, each time off the first ball pitched by Flint Rhem. The young Cardinal righthander tried a fast curve in the opening frame and the Babe lofted it high over the upper deck of the right field stand. In the third inning, Rhem shifted to a slow ball of the variety that had been poison to Ruth previously in the series, but the Babe nailed it and drove it on a line far out over the roof of the right field bleachers.
No one was on base to benefit from either of these clouts, but Earl Combs (Continued on Page Nine)
ATTACK ON DRY VESSELS IS CHARGED TO CAPTAIN
Attempted To Send Patrol Boats To Bottom of Sea Is Claim.
BRIDGEWATER, N. S., Oct. 6—(AP)—Charged with attempting to send two units of the American dry fleet to the bottom about 75 miles off the American coast, Captain Norman Oxner of the Schooner Gaspe Fisherman was held today in $3,000 bail for trial next Tuesday.
Captain Oxner's vessel is a 75 foot Nova Scotia Windjammer with a gas-
HIGH COMMANDER RESIGNS POSITION WITH GERMAN ARMY
Montgon MONTGOMERY, ALA.
HIGH COMMANDER RESIGNS POSITION WITH GERMAN ARMY
Political Indiscretion by General Von Seeckt Brings About Result Sought by Allied Commission
PERMITTING YOUNG PRINCE PLACE IN RANKS IS FATAL
Participatio [?] [?] [?] [?] ilhelm in Ma-neuve [?] [?] gs Storm of [?] to President
[?], Oct. 6.—(AP)—What the [?] [?] itary control commission long [?] ught vainly to accomplish, Ma- [?] eneral Von Seeckt, himself, ap- [?] ently has brought about by political indiscretion—namely his removal from the highest active military position in the German Republic.
The general today tendered his resignation as Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr and it is believed that President Von Hindenberg will accept it.
Evidently without foreseeing the political possibilities that would be stirred up, General Von Seeckt permitted Prince Wilhelm, the eldest son of the former crown prince to participate in recent maneuvers of the Reischswehr. The prince served in the Potsdam Regiment where many of his ancestors had received their military training.
The general failed to confer with Minister of Defense Gessler in the matter and the latter, on learning of the participation of Prince Wilhelm in the maneuvers thereupon declined to make any defense for the Commander in Chief of the Reichswehr.
No sooner had news of Prince Wilhelm's presence at war games in Munsingen leaked out, however, than a strong protest arose in republican circles which reminded the Government that the former Crown Prince's return to Germany was made possible only on condition that he keep out of politics. Permitting his son to "intrude" in the Republican Army, it was felt constituted a gross violation of this pledge.
The Ministry of Defense, under this public pressure, felt impelled to investigate how Prince Wilhelm's presence at Munsingen was made possible.
Thereupon General Von Seeckt personally reported that he knew and per-
NEW ORLEANS BANK PLEDGES RESOURCES IN COTTON CRISIS
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NEW ORLEANS BANK PLEDGES RESOURCES IN COTTON CRISIS
Sixty Million Dollars Placed at Disposal of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana Co-operative Growers
MONEY IS AVAILABLE ONLY THROUGH ORGANIZATION
Long Time Loans of 65 Per Cent of Market Value Are Promised
NEW ORLEANS, LA., Oct. 6.—(AP)—Sixty million dollars, or the resources of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of New Orleans, is being offered cotton farmers of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, through co-operative marketing organizations and agricultural credit bodies to aid in the orderly marketing of the cotton crop, it was announced here tonight.
The offer was embodied in resolutions adopted by the directors of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank here today. While the resolutions apply only to three states in this district, it was explained that the three such banks in the south can make available to southern cotton farmers $150,000,000 for similar use.
The money can be obtained through the cotton growers associations which operate without capital but require some time to perfect, or through agricultural credit bodies which can be formed quickly and have borrowing power from the federal banks of ten times their capital stock.
T. E. Davis, president of the Farm Loan Bank here, said that the bank was anxious to serve in a large way if the growers would cooperate.
Marketing through cooperative effort, Alfred H. Stone, member of the board of directors of the bank and a director of the Staple Cotton association said, will result in the grower obtaining just what the cotton is worth, based on production and world needs without panicky selling.
Resolutions adopted by the board of directors said:
"The indicated production of another large cotton crop has created a serious situation in the affairs of the growers of the south.
"The problem which confronts them is one upon which is peculiarly dependent upon organized effort and management for its proper handling.
"The primary purpose for which the federal intermediate credit banking system was created is that of rendering financial assistance to organized groups of farmers. Therefore, be it resolved by the directors of the federal intermediate credit bank of New Orleans that we recognize in the existing crisis among the cotton growers of the territory such a situation as warrants the extending of the services of this bank and we hereby offer its resources and
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How Seeckt's resignation came about
The AP dispatch, written on the day Seeckt tendered his resignation, presented his fall as the self-inflicted result of one misstep: letting Prince Wilhelm, the former crown prince's eldest son, take part in Reichswehr maneuvers without consulting Defense Minister Gessler. It said only that Hindenburg was believed ready to accept. A chronology of the Weimar Republic, under 6 October 1926, records that Seeckt was forced to step down as head of the army command at the insistence of both Gessler and Hindenburg, and gives as the reason that the prince's participation in the maneuver had not first been approved by the defense minister and the Reich president. The same chronology adds a background the dispatch does not mention: relations between the Reich leadership and Seeckt had already deteriorated because of his open opposition to the government's Locarno policy. Seeckt's term as chief of the army command formally ended on 9 October 1926, so the acceptance the paper anticipated followed within days.
Why a Hohenzollern prince in the ranks mattered
The dispatch's note that the prince served in the Potsdam regiment where his ancestors had trained points to a deliberate feature of Seeckt's army. Seeckt was a monarchist who encouraged the retention of traditional links with the old Imperial Army, and he designated individual companies and squadrons of the new Reichswehr as the direct successors of particular regiments of Wilhelm II's army. The article reports that republicans saw the prince's presence as a gross violation of the pledge that had allowed the former crown prince to return home on condition that he stay out of politics. The article's opening line, that the Allied military control commission had long tried in vain to bring about Seeckt's removal, reflects his record under the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty limited the army to 100,000 men, only 4,000 of whom could be officers, and Seeckt undertook multiple programs to get around its military limitations, which helps explain why the Allied commission had long sought his removal.
What the Federal Intermediate Credit Banks offered cotton growers
The New Orleans bank making the $60 million offer belonged to the system of Federal Intermediate Credit Banks created in 1923. Business historian Jamieson G. Myles argues that this system failed to give cotton cooperative marketing associations the generic working capital they needed to coordinate production and distribution, because federal policy concentrated on financing trade. The resolution printed in the paper fits that design: the bank would lend only through cooperatives or agricultural credit bodies, and it justified the offer by saying the system existed to assist organized groups of farmers. The stakes were large because cotton was still the largest source of cash receipts of all U.S. crops in the 1920s, and the United States produced between 53% and 68% of the world's raw cotton supply from 1920 to 1928. Myles also notes that large cooperatives grew slowly and failed to limit overproduction in the 1920s because of collective action problems, while historian Lawrence Goodwyn held that the intermediate credit banks mainly served middle-class farmers. Those findings suggest the limits of the bankers' hope of orderly marketing through organization, as Alfred H. Stone described it: the credit reached only organized growers, and organization itself was slow to grow.
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BABE RUTH LEADS YANKS TO VICTORY IN FOURTH SCRAP
Constructive Fearless Independent VOLUME XCVIII-NO. 280 BABE RUTH LEADS YANKS TO VICTORY IN FOURTH SCRAP Murdering Maulers Pound Five Cardinal Flingers For 10-5 Victory, Deadlocking Series Games at Two-All SULTAN'S THREE HOMERS SMASH MANY RECORDS Fifth Game To Be Played in St. Louis Today, Then Back to Gotham By ALAN J. GOULD ST. LOUIS, Oct. 6. - (AP) - Babe Ruth led the Yankees out of the Missouri woods today with the greatest exhibition of home-run hitting any world's series has ever seen. Three battering-ram blows from the Babe's mighty bludgeon cleared all barriers and set fire to a Yankee attack that crushed the Cardinals by a score of 10 to 5 in the fourth game of the world's championship baseball battle. As a result the series is deadlocked again, at two victories apiece, with the fifth game here tomor-row. Today was a field day for Ruth, the greatest he has ever had in world's series competition and one of the most spectacular of his walloping career. His three terrific homers not only lifted the Yankees out of their hitting slump but figured in the shattering of seven world's series records. Pitching Parade Another record crowd for Sports-man's park, a jam that numbered 38, 825 and broke yesterday's mark, came in the expectation of seeing the Cardinals continue their winning streak. Instead they saw Ruth lead an onslaught that started in the first inning and continued unabated through a hectic fray in which five Cardinal pitchers paraded to the mound. They saw a game of freak plays, filled with good and bad baseball, but most of all they saw the Babe at the peak of his glory. At the finish, these Cardinal rooters had become so aroused that they yelled for Ruth to make a fourth homer when he came to bat in the eighth and booed Halla-han, St. Louis pitcher, when the lat-ter walked the Yankee slugger. Nothing like the Babe's clouting has ever been seen before in baseball's classic. His first two circuit wallops came in the first and third innings, each time off the first ball pitched by Flint Rhem. The young Cardinal righthander tried a fast curve in the opening frame and the Babe lofted it high over the upper deck of the right field stand. In the third inning, Rhem shifted to a slow ball of the variety that had been poison to Ruth pre-viously in the series, but the Babe nailed it and drove it on a line far out over the roof of the right field bleachers. No one was on base to benefit from either of these clouts, but Earl Combs (Continued on Page Nine) ATTACK ON DRY VESSELS IS CHARGED TO CAPTAIN Attempted To Send Patrol Boats To Bottom of Sea Is Claim. BRIDGEWATER, N. S., Oct. 6 - (AP) - Charged with attempting to send two units of the American dry fleet to the bottom about 75 miles off the American coast, Captain Norman Oxner of the Schooner Gaspe Fisherman was held today in $ 3, 000 bail for trial next Tuesday. Captain Oxner's vessel is a 75 foot Nova Scotia Windjammer with a gas -
HIGH COMMANDER RESIGNS POSITION WITH GERMAN ARMY
Montgon MONTGOMERY, ALA.. HIGH COMMANDER RESIGNS POSITION WITH GERMAN ARMY Political Indiscretion by General Von Seeckt Brings About Re-sult Sought by Allied Commission PERMITTING YOUNG PRINCE PLACE IN RANKS IS FATAL Participatio [?] [?] [?] [?] ilhelm in Ma-neuve [?] [?] gs Storm of [?] to President [?], Oct. 6. - (AP) - What the [?] [?] itary control commission long [?] ught vainly to accomplish, Ma - [?] eneral Von Seeckt, himself, ap - [?] ently has brought about by politi-cal indiscretion-namely his removal from the highest active military posi-tion in the German Republic. The general today tendered his resig-nation as Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr and it is believed that President Von Hindenberg will accept it. Evidently without foreseeing the po-litical possibilities that would be stir-red up, General Von Seeckt permitted Prince Wilhelm, the eldest son of the former crown prince to participate in recent maneuvers of the Reischswehr The prince served in the Potsdam Regi-ment where many of his ancestors had received their military training. The general failed to confer with Minister of Defense Gessler in the mat-ter and the latter, on learning of the participation of Prince Wilhelm in the maneuvers thereupon declined to make any defense for the Commander in Chief of the Reichswehr. No sooner had news of Prince Wil-helm's presence at war games in Mun-singen leaked out, however, than a strong protest arose in republican cir-cles which reminded the Government that the former Crown Prince's return to Germany was made possible only on condition that he keep out of poli-tics. Permitting his son to " intrude " in the Republican Army, it was felt con-stituted a gross violation of this pledge. The Ministry of Defense, under this public pressure, felt impelled to inves-tigate how Prince Wilhelm's presence at Munsingen was made possible. Thereupon General Von Seeckt per-sonally reported that he knew and per -
NEW ORLEANS BANK PLEDGES RESOURCES IN COTTON CRISIS
Constructive Fearless Independent 14 PAGES Price 5 Cents NEW ORLEANS BANK PLEDGES RESOURCES IN COTTON CRISIS Sixty Million Dollars Placed at Disposal of Alabama, Missis-sippi and Louisiana Co-operative Growers MONEY IS AVAILABLE ONLY THROUGH ORGANIZATION Long Time Loans of 65 Per Cent of Market Value Are Promised NEW ORLEANS, LA., Oct. 6. - (AP) - Sixty million dollars, or the resources of the Federal In-termediate Credit Bank of New Orleans, is being offered cotton farmers of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, through co-opera-tive marketing organizations and agricultural credit bodies to aid in the orderly marketing of the cotton crop, it was announced here tonight. The offer was embodied in resolu-tions adopted by the directors of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank here today. While the resolutions apply only to three states in this district, it was explained that the three such banks in the south can make available to southern cotton farmers $ 150, 000, 000 for similar use. The money can be obtained through the cotton growers associations which operate without capital but require some time to perfect, or through agri-cultural credit bodies which can be formed quickly and have borrowing power from the federal banks of ten times their capital stock. T. E. Davis, president of the Farm Loan Bank here, said that the bank was anxious to serve in a large way if the growers would cooperate. Marketing through cooperative ef-fort, Alfred H. Stone, member of the board of directors of the bank and a director of the Staple Cotton asocia-tion said, will result in the grower obtaining just what the cotton is worth, based on production and world needs without panicky selling. Resolutions adopted by the board of directors said: " The indicated production of another large cotton crop has created a seri-ous situation in the affairs of the growers of the south. " The problem which confronts them is one upon which is peculiarly de-pendent upon organized effort and management for its proper handling. " The primary purpose for which the federal intermediate credit banking system was created is that of render-ing financial assistance to organized groups of farmers. Therefore, be it resolved by the directors of the federal intermediate credit bank of New Orleans that we recognize in the existing crisis among the cotton growers of the territory such a situation as warrants the ex-tending of the services of this bank and we hereby offer its resources and
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