SCHOOLBOY PATROL TO GUARD CHILDREN SUCCEEDS IN TEST
The Evening Star's front page of October 11, 1926, carried three stories reaching from a New York courtroom to a Washington street corner. In New York the jury in the conspiracy trial of Harry M. Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller, over the release of $7,000,000 in American Metal Co. shares, was discharged without a verdict after some 65 hours, as a minority juror told the judge of duress and vile language behind the jury-room door. The Supreme Court upheld the Wilson-era sale of seized German chemical and dye patents to the Chemical Foundation, defeating a recovery suit begun under Harding. And at the Thomson School, a week after 6-year-old Freddy Grosskurth died at the Gage School, nine boys with white Sam Browne belts and nickel badges tried out the capital's first schoolboy traffic patrol, while early returns from the Star's ballot showed parents overwhelmingly favoring a later school opening hour.
ALEXANDER CHECKS YANKS IN CRITICAL STAGE OF CONFLICT
SCHOOL BOND ISSUE ELECTION POLLS TO OPEN AT 8 O'CLOCK
FRENCH VETERANS OPPOSE PAYMENTS TO UNITED STATES
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page led with the Associated Press account of the deciding seventh game of the 1926 World Series. In it, the veteran Grover Cleveland Alexander came out of the bullpen to strike out Tony Lazzeri with the bases loaded, and St. Louis held on to beat the Yankees 3 to 2. Closer to home, the paper set out the city's vote that day on a one-million-dollar school bond for a new high school building and listed every polling place. Beneath it ran a short Jacksonville report of a young wife who stabbed her husband. From Paris came word that leaders of French war veterans had warned Premier Poincaré they would fight ratification of the war-debt agreements with Washington and London.
This partial reading of the London, Ontario evening paper covers three items. A provincial roundup listed a run of fatal and serious accidents across Ontario: people struck by trains and automobiles, cars overturning, a drowning from a rig at Cargill and two fatal gun accidents. A London cable relayed the Daily News report that Lord Oxford and Asquith was about to give up the Liberal leadership, citing his recent severe illness and a coming Friday speech expected to settle his position. A dispatch from Natal reported that a Friday-night explosion at the Durban Navigation colliery at Dannhauser had killed 118 men, the whole night staff of No. 2 shaft, while gas slowed the recovery of bodies.
This front page of the Vossische Zeitung for 11 October 1926 set foreign-policy optimism beside sharp party conflict at home. In a speech, the Reich Chancellor praised the growing ties between peoples and the peaceful settlement of disputes, and said opposition to the policy of understanding had grown quieter. He also defended the industrialist Paul Silverberg in the dispute over bringing the Social Democrats into shared responsibility, and rejected the German National demands recently set out by Count Westarp. In the Landtag, Communist deputies tried to block debate on the new settlement with the Hohenzollerns and greeted Finance Minister Höpker-Aschoff with chanted insults. A further report quoted criticism of the largest governing party for planning to help the settlement pass by abstaining. Another report described German National anger at the German People's Party's decision to back a Grand Coalition in Prussia in principle.
This Le Figaro front page led with politics and money. François Coty's signed column opened with a warning that every plot against France begins by lulling the nation's attention, and that its enemies go silent as soon as vigilant Frenchmen expose them. A news report described Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré receiving the leaders of the Union nationale des combattants, who brought resolutions on the inter-allied war debts and on Franco-German rapprochement; Poincaré told them that Washington was sending its bill but that France, as debtor, wanted first to have it out with its creditor. Henri Vonoven's political column mocked Paul Painlevé for travelling to Lille to justify his stance to his Republican Socialist party, just before the Radical ministers were due in Bordeaux to excuse their place in Poincaré's national union cabinet. This reading covers only the opening lines of each piece.
The Neue Freie Presse of 11 October 1926 previewed that day's cabinet meeting in Vienna, where the Finance Ministry was to present calculations for a permanent settlement of federal employees' pay; the leading idea was reportedly a linear percentage increase plus a separate payment twice a year. An editorial under the heading "Vienna and Graz" argued that Dr. Rintelen should have drawn the consequences from the "sad events" in Styria, warning that forcing him to stay would arm the opposition against the whole Christian Social Party, and reported that the four-seat Greater German group would join no coalition without guarantees of clean public life. Under a headline on the lira's further rise, the paper profiled the Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentili, Croce's former collaborator who became Mussolini's education minister in 1922.
L'Écho d'Alger of October 11, 1926 carried three political dispatches from mainland France, all turning on Raymond Poincaré's new government. In Lyon, Édouard Herriot told the Rhône federation of his Radical party that he scorned insinuations of self-interest over his entry into Poincaré's cabinet, and the congress voted him its confidence. War Minister Paul Painlevé, welcomed by the prefect of the Nord and senior officials, told a Republican-Socialist banquet that he had joined the cabinet to help avert a catastrophe when depositors were besieging the savings banks. The National Union of Veterans, speaking for 400,000 members, handed Poincaré a resolution against ratifying the Mellon-Bérenger and Caillaux-Churchill war-debt agreements, calling the debt, principal and interest included, unpayable and its amount disputable.
This front page of L'Écho annamite led with a sarcastic signed column by Van-Anh. It seized on the call in Léon Archimbaud's Revue du Pacifique, backed by a speech of Governor-General Varenne, for a status between “subject” and “citizen” for Annamites, and answered that wartime sacrifice, taxes, loans and gifts for the franc had long since earned citizenship, while “subjects” could still be jailed for holding opinions or meetings. Short wire items followed on Lord d'Abernon leaving Berlin and on French gold and finance. A correspondent in Annam described a plan by the president of the Annam chamber to found a thrice-weekly quốc ngữ paper in Tourane, with funds and a printer ready but government approval in doubt. The page also reported Chancellor Marx's Essen speech defending the Thoiry negotiations despite anti-French incidents in the occupied Rhineland.
The page opened with Guglielmo Ferrero’s signed column arguing that universal suffrage, once dreaded by the Church and by conservatives, had become the great conservative force of the modern world. He started from the Mexican bishops’ reported offer of a free plebiscite on the religious conflict, which the Calles government refused, and contrasted the compromise governments of Britain, France and Germany with the minority regimes that had seized power in Russia and Italy. Léonidas Paulidès saluted the Cypriot poet Jean Perdios, a former Geneva student who wrote a verse review single-handed, on the twentieth anniversary of his first book. The Rome correspondent described riding in the papal train with Cardinal Merry del Val, Pius XI’s legate to the St Francis celebrations at Assisi, which received Italian official honours for the first time since 1870.
Politika's front page of 11 October 1926 was dominated by the crisis Stjepan Radić had set off with an outburst at Zagreb railway station. The paper reported that the incident had put Prime Minister Nikola Uzunović's government in an extraordinarily painful position and briefly endangered the Radical–Radićist coalition, which, according to political circles, survived mainly because the Radicals did not know what would follow a break. The headline announced that Radić was coming to explain himself, while a second piece predicted he would try to escape with 'some trick' and noted displeasure at the conduct of Dr. Žanić and Dr. Bazala toward visiting Czechoslovak parliamentarians in Zagreb. A third report described a rain-soaked rally among Slovenes, where Radić opened by telling his audience that they had long known each other 'through the gaze of the soul'.
Aftenposten's front page of 11 October 1926, a week before Norway's referendum on the ban on spirits, opened with a sharp editorial likening prohibition to a bankrupt business kept alive by bill-kiting. It praised prohibitionists who had admitted failure and accused the rest of chasing trusting rural voters for fresh endorsements. A news report followed the Swedish manhunt for the 'sheriff murderers' Svensson and Madsen, with sightings near Askersund and Lerbäck, a suspected helper arrested after fire signals, and police dogs searching around Billingen. A third item previewed the national meeting of Norges kirkelige Landslag, where chairman Karl Vold said it was still an open question whether its district branches could field their own Storting lists.
The Leidsch Dagblad of 11 October 1926 reported grief in Katwijk aan Zee: after weeks of mild, summery autumn weather, a sudden south-westerly storm on Saturday had sunk the fishing vessel K.W. 152 with all hands, and the report dwelt on the fear among fishermen's wives and mothers. In Leiden, the Burgomaster and Aldermen refused a school head's request to run a Dalton Plan class, resting their refusal on advice from the school inspector, the local school committee and the heads of the public primary schools. The page also carried a report on a thank-you evening for those who had taken part in the 3 October festivities and a description of Topeka asphalt roads, praised as quiet, dust-free and cheap to maintain.
This partially legible Shibao page of 11 October 1926 carried war news from the Northern Expedition. Its Jiangxi dispatches reported Sun Chuanfang's Allied Army beating off a southern attack on Xiushui, Sun's return by warship to Nanjing while his generals held Jiujiang, and the move of his supply headquarters to Hukou after revolutionary troops near De'an threatened the Nanxun railway. A Beijing telegram said Wu Peifu, short of pay and arms, had for the first time sent an envoy through Tianjin to ask Fengtian for troops, following a fragmentary lament over refugees stranded in Hankou. A headline announced the revolutionary army's entry into Wuchang the day before, though the legible text beneath it concerns urgent railway work at Guangshui.
Yesterday's luncheon in honor of the heads of the foreign delegations
THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONGRESS MET IN EXTRAORDINARY SESSION LAST NIGHT
AT YESTERDAY'S TRAINING, THE BOLIVIAN TEAM LEFT A GOOD IMPRESSION
On 11 October 1926, the eve of the South American football championship in Santiago, La Nación reported on the build-up to the tournament. The Football Federation of Chile gave a luncheon at the Club Hípico for the heads of the visiting delegations. Foreign Minister Antonio Huneeus joined the gathering and presented the delegates to the President and the Cabinet, and the delegations invited the government to attend the matches. A report on the South American Congress listed match dates and referees, called the committees to meet and summoned referees and team captains to a briefing on the new laws of the game, and named the trophy donors, among them the Foreign Ministry. A training report praised Bolivia's forwards Méndez and Alborta after a 7–1 practice win and predicted that the team, though no colossus, would give Chile's players plenty to do.