CARDS BEAT YANKS BY 10-2 SCORE AND FORCE A 7TH GAME
PUBLIC SENTIMENT SOUGHT ON CHANGE IN SCHOOL HOURS
The Sunday Star's front page of October 10, 1926, mixed a federal corruption trial, the World Series and street safety for Washington children. From New York, the Associated Press and a Star correspondent reported that the jury in the conspiracy trial of former Attorney General Harry Daugherty and former Alien Property Custodian Thomas Miller declared itself deadlocked after more than 25 hours. Judge Julian Mack sent the jurors back, explained to them what "conspiracy" means in law, and agreed to take a verdict even on a Sunday. Sports editor Denman Thompson described the Cardinals' 10-2 rout of the Yankees, which tied the Series at three games each, and set out each club's pitching choices for the deciding game. A third story explained a proposal to move the opening of elementary schools from 9 to 9:30 to avoid rush-hour traffic, introduced a Star ballot for parents, set out Superintendent Ballou's doubts about half-day classes, and announced a trial schoolboy safety patrol.
The Montgomery Advertiser of October 10, 1926 carried three front-page stories on China, Alabama farms and organized labor. An AP dispatch from Washington reported that Secretary Kellogg had told the American legation in Peking to propose an armistice so that civilians could leave besieged Wuchang, after graphic reports of suffering there, and that Consul-General Lockhart at Hankow would relay it. A local story said the Alabama Farm Bureau's plan to market cotton through the farmers' own organization was winning support and that the movement to hold cotton off the market was spreading, according to president Edward A. O'Neal. From Detroit, the American Federation of Labor voted unanimously for a national campaign to shorten working hours and days, restated its demand that wages rise with productivity, and outlined a drive to unionize the automobile industry.
The front page of 10 October 1926 was dominated by the change at the top of the army. An official notice named Lieutenant General Wilhelm Heye, until then commanding in East Prussia, as Chief of the Army Command in succession to Seeckt, and the paper praised his war record, his ministry experience and his political reticence. In a signed column, Georg Bernhard argued that Seeckt fell solely for letting a Hohenzollern prince serve with a Reichswehr regiment, rejected right-wing talk of foreign pressure, defended the outgoing Prussian interior minister Severing against his slanderers, and called for a law on princes in the army. Dispatches from Paris, New York and London reported a French approach to Washington over selling German railway bonds, which the paper tied to the Thoiry understanding between Briand and Stresemann. Shorter items covered confidential Anglo-German industrial talks at Romsey and a meeting between Schacht and the Czechoslovak central bank governor.
Le Figaro's front page of 10 October 1926 opened with P.-B. Gheusi's satirical essay likening the fashion for bobbed hair and knee-length skirts to the Radical party on its way to its Bordeaux congress. He predicted that the party would drop the Socialist alliance of the Cartel des gauches and perhaps even its contradictory “radical-socialist” name. Below it, an editorial signed Intérim attacked a plan to save fifty million by shortening post-office hours. Saint-Selve warned that the Chamber, faced with a current budget of 35 billion francs in 1,500 chapters, would miss the 31 December deadline for the 1927 budget and fall back on provisional twelfths. Alfred Mallet's foreign-affairs column described the first Pan-European Congress in Vienna, granted its idealism, then raised historical and political objections and suspected Paul Loebe and Count Coudenhove of aiming at the Austro-German frontier.
The Neue Freie Presse of 10 October 1926 printed an article under Henry Ford's name, datelined New York. In it Ford warned that two rising American "industries", selling and debt-making, could trouble a prosperous country, though he granted that honest debts were no wrong and that credit made modern life workable. The feuilleton opened with Anton Wildgans's autobiographical preface to his Wiener Gedichte, twelve illustrated poems. Wildgans defended the city child's claim to a homeland and placed his own childhood in the eighties and nineties of the last century in the Josefstadt, Vienna's eighth district. A STAFA department-store advertisement for an "Elysium" week gave away an Austrian razor blade with every purchase and urged readers to support domestic industry.
This front page of L'Écho d'Alger for 10 October 1926 paired a Paris report on the fight against high prices with a digest of metropolitan opinion. The retail price commission at the Paris Prefecture of Police summoned traders who had resold peppers and peaches far above cost, heard that 2,600,000 kilos of butter and 18 million eggs sat in cold storage, and received tallies of citations, warnings, penalties on street vendors and speculation cases. Henry de Jouvenel, quoted from Le Matin, argued that any Franco-German rapprochement should be paid for with German security guarantees in the East, toward Poland and Austria. Jacques Bainville and César Chabrun, quoted from L'Action française and L'Œuvre, attacked Washington's demand that France ratify its war-debt agreement without reservations; Chabrun proposed an arbitration procedure on France's capacity to pay.
The Prager Tagblatt of Sunday, 10 October 1926 led with the Soviet party struggle. Its Moscow report said the Politburo had censured Zinoviev and Trotsky, ordered an inquiry by the Central Control Commission and left sanctions to a plenum, while Pravda demanded a public recantation; in Leningrad party cells the Central Committee reportedly won 33,729 votes to the opposition's 320. From London came an interview with the new Soviet envoy Krassin, who offered to recognise the American debts if no European claims were mixed in, but insisted that Moscow could pay foreign debts only if it received credits, citing Belgium as a warning. From Berlin the paper reported that Lieutenant General Heye had succeeded the resigned General von Seeckt as head of the army command, and that Paris saw the cabinet's firmness as a sign of the republic's consolidation.
The front page of the Journal de Genève for 10 October 1926 carried an editorial signed W. M. on the fall of General von Seeckt. The writer argued that Seeckt's retirement was indispensable to civilian supremacy in Germany and to a sincere Franco-German détente, called it an inevitable consequence of Locarno, and read Stresemann's 'clever pretext' and Hindenburg's acceptance as pledges of good faith toward the Thoiry policy. A column from Bern reviewed the parliamentary week: the civil servants' statute had passed, but four salary disputes with the Council of States remained open. A report on the Ricken tunnel disaster relayed the experts' view that the train, at 252 tonnes against a 260-tonne limit, was not overloaded, noted that the limit would be cut to two hundred tonnes, and weighed whether carbon monoxide had overcome the driver.
On National Day, 10 October 1926, the Shanghai paper Shibao carried notices about the city's holiday sport. The Shanghai International Athletic Meet Committee announced that a meet of eight nations, among them China, the United States, Britain, France, Portugal and the Netherlands, would open that afternoon at the Zhonghua Sports Ground in the French Concession, with three ticket classes, separate gates for each class and a Western band. Two racing bodies advertised meetings on back-to-back days: the Chinese Jockey Club of Shanghai raced ten events at its Far Eastern Racecourse in Yinxiangxiang on National Day itself and offered members numbered sweepstake tickets, while the International Recreation Club set its Jiangwan races for the next afternoon. Around the athletic notice, fragments show a holiday gift offer that excluded foreign goods and an invitation to an insurance company's new building.
This partial reading of the Argentine daily Crítica for 10 October 1926 takes three Associated Press cables from a single page. One reported that a violent rainstorm had flooded almost all of Málaga: the overflowing Arroyo del Calvario swamped Calle Victoria, overturned vehicles and cut tram and railway lines, and a subheading noted one victim. A second announced that the "Argentine" bandleader Francisco Canaro would open at the El Mirador cabaret in New York after his success in Paris, with the first night open only by special invitation. A third described King Alfonso opening a government-organized National Orange Conference in Madrid, where Levante growers and exporters trading with Northern Europe were to seek ways of sustaining the orange industry and its exports.