GANGLAND IS SILENT AS OFFICERS PROBE MONDAY OUTBREAK
FARM BUREAU PLAN IS GIVEN APPROVAL AT COMMERCE MEET
FARMERS ASSURED OF FINANCIAL HELP TO HANDLE COTTON
The Montgomery Advertiser of October 13, 1926, led with an AP dispatch from Chicago: after machine-gun fire from a window opposite Holy Name Cathedral killed "Hymie" Weiss and Paddy Murray and wounded lawyer W. W. O'Brien and two others, the city's gangsters went into hiding and police were left without a clue, refusing even to confirm reports that they had questioned Al Capone. Cotton filled the rest of the front page excerpts. From Washington, President Coolidge's cotton committee, chaired by Eugene Meyer Jr. and including Mellon, Hoover and Jardine, promised the South credit and cooperation to market a record crop and judged the outlook better than in 1921. Closer to home, a commerce meeting approved Alabama Farm Bureau president O'Neal's resolution calling for 4,000,000 bales to be pulled off the market and for a Farm Bureau-run pool of up to two years for Alabama's share.
HEALTH, INDUSTRY TO GUIDE, HE SAYS; BUT MIND IS OPEN
The London Evening Advertiser of 13 October 1926 followed up on the fatal Canadian Pacific freight wreck near Kent Bridge on 18 September. It reported that the company's investigation was still unfinished, that dispatcher Duncan McIntyre and passenger-train engineer George R. Blanchard were still off duty, and that the telegraph operators at Chatham and Bothwell who had handled the train orders were at their posts. A special dispatch from Goderich described how mill worker George Randall suffocated in a bran bin at the Western Canada Flour Mills, with the inquest adjourned to 18 October. A Canadian Press report quoted Robert Forke, the new minister of immigration and colonization, telling a Manitoba Liberal banquet that he wanted immigrants who were healthy and willing to work, wherever they came from. Forke also urged large landholders to treat settlers fairly, because there was no longer any free land near the railways.
The Vossische Zeitung's front page of 13 October 1926 was dominated by a nine-hour sitting of the Prussian Landtag in which the settlement with the House of Hohenzollern passed its second reading amid Communist obstruction: objects thrown at the presidium, cheers for the International on the floor and for world revolution from the gallery, seven KPD deputies expelled and police called into the chamber. The report also carried the committee's case for the deal, including government figures of 93 rather than 181 million marks for the former royal house and an assurance that the ex-King would never use his right to live at Homburg castle. Alongside it, the paper followed the Centre Party's moves to have Minister President Otto Braun negotiate the entry of the German People's Party into a Prussian Grand Coalition, and printed a Dutch government statement denying that Wilhelm II was preparing to leave Doorn.
The “Pink Diamond” stolen from the Château de Chantilly
Le Figaro's front page of 13 October 1926 led with Lucien Romier's editorial on the eve of the Radical Party congress at Bordeaux. Romier asked whether the party's revival owed more to the Cartel alliance than to its own strength, argued that it lived between its Socialist partners and the government of the day, named M. Malvy as the likely successor to Herriot as party president, and said the real decisions would wait for the voting system chosen for the 1928 elections. Paul Hazard wrote from Rio de Janeiro about two young Brazilian writers who described a literary nationalism built on Brazilian speech, landscape and modern life, and who scorned their elders; Hazard set this against Ferdinand Denis's call a century earlier. A long news report reconstructed the overnight theft of the 'Grand Condé' pink diamond and other jewels from the Treasure Tower at Chantilly, with ladders across the moat, a drilled shutter and a Cellini piece left behind.
Reconciliation of Queen Marie with Ex-Crown Prince Carol.
Probable Government Crisis in Yugoslavia.
The Neue Freie Presse of 13 October 1926 led with an editorial welcoming the new Švehla cabinet in Czechoslovakia, which for the first time included two German ministers, the Agrarian leader Professor Spina and the Christian Social leader Professor Mayr-Harting. The Vienna paper hailed a possible end to years of Czech nationalist rule, but traced the shift to the grain-tariff fight that broke the all-Czech coalition and insisted that real change, not new faces, would decide. Two telegrams followed: from Paris, ex-Crown Prince Carol of Romania fell to his knees before Queen Marie at a station as she left for America; from Belgrade, Prime Minister Uzunović's cabinet faced possible resignation over Stjepan Radić's conduct toward Czech parliamentarians in Zagreb.
This front page of L'Écho d'Alger carried three foreign dispatches dated October 12. From London, citing the Morning Post's Washington correspondent, it reported that President Coolidge would reject any French reservation to the Mellon-Berenger war-debt agreement and would keep American bank credit blocked until France ratified, including the sale of German railway bonds and possible advances of up to $200 million. From Brussels it described calm Belgian communal elections in which the Catholic Party appeared to win, the Socialists lost ground in Hainaut and Liège, and the feared Communist advance failed; the correspondent credited the women's vote. From Berlin it relayed unconfirmed charges by the Welt am Abend that the former German Crown Prince had secretly removed art from Hohenzollern palaces and sold it to dealers.
Admission by the Eyedropper at the Indochinese University
To the Aid of Tonkin's Flood Victims
This front page of L'Écho Annamite opened with a thank-you letter from the Constitutionalist candidates, headed by Bui Quang Chieu and Nguyen Phan Long, to the Annamite voters of Cochinchina, who they said had sent their whole list to the Colonial Council by a near-unanimous vote. The signatories declared that critics could no longer dismiss them as a tiny minority and asked voters to stay in close contact for the struggle ahead. A column signed by a group of Annamite students attacked the new 19 August admission competition for the Indochinese University in Hanoi, charging that the Directorate of Public Instruction ignored the schools candidates had chosen, so that teachers who applied to the School of Pedagogy were assigned elsewhere. A correspondent's report on the Tonkin floods described thousands of people starving and began to denounce those who were profiting from the disaster.
The Prager Tagblatt of 13 October 1926 gave its front page to the entry of the first German ministers into a Czechoslovak cabinet. An editorial said that the appointment of Professors Franz Spina and Robert Mayr-Harting should have been a matter of course, but after eight 'unnatural' years it carried almost the weight of a historic event. A report from the Chamber followed the closing lines of the appointment decree. It described how the Bund der Landwirte's decision to join the government was already known by the morning and how the German Christian Socials reached the same decision before noon. A truncated subheading added that the Slovaks were still waiting for someone's return. A historical essay traced German–Czech relations since the upheaval that ended the Monarchy. It argued that the Czechs had been far better prepared for the new state and that Germans who claimed their share were answered with force.
The front page of 13 October 1926 led with a Vienna correspondent's report that Austria's Ramek–Rintelen cabinet was about to make way for a new government. He traced the crisis to the savings banks' central bank, to which the government had advanced more than 60 million schillings, and to a parliamentary inquiry that exposed franc speculation and fictitious accounts at the provincial banks of Lower Austria and Styria. An editorial attacked the Social Democrat Robert Grimm's bid to preside over the National Council, citing a fellow socialist's 1918 verdict on the general strike leader and Charles Naine's article “Double jeu?”. A third piece previewed the Mittelholzer–Gouzy–Heim seaplane flight from Zurich to the Cape and stressed its geological and ethnographic aims, from Wegener's drift theory to photographing Africa's peoples.
Politika's front page of 13 October 1926 was dominated by a cabinet crisis in Belgrade. The paper reported that the coalition of the Radical Party and Stjepan Radić's peasant party was in crisis and that Prime Minister Nikola Uzunović's government could resign at any moment, a dispute set off by Radić's conduct at Zagreb railway station and by an interpellation from Dr. Anđelinović. It described a council of ministers that met only intermittently while Uzunović consulted in his own office, news that he had gone to Topola and would certainly hand in the resignation, and the urgent summons of the Radical leader Nikola Pašić back to Belgrade.
Aftenposten's morning edition of 13 October 1926 led with a signed column by F. O. Thomassen, a parish priest in Aker. He had campaigned for prohibition at the previous referendum, but now argued from the Gospels that drunkenness must be overcome by inner conviction rather than law. In place of the ban he called for regulated sales of spirits, social protective work and stiffer penalties. A news report set out the government's new land bill, which relied on voluntary land provision and allowed compulsory transfer only of uncultivated, cultivable land, under limits that depended on the owner's residence. A third report described how Norges Bank's afternoon warning of a new exchange rate brought currency trading to a halt. It also traced the pound rate from 21.95 in June to the 22.20 held since 25 June and read the bank's weekly figures as evidence of heavy intervention buying.
The Leidsch Dagblad of 13 October 1926 led with the human cost of the North Sea storm for Katwijk-aan-Zee. The paper's management appealed to readers to send gifts, by giro or through the Amsterdamsche Bank, for the families of the logger KW 152, who had lost the income their fathers earned at sea. A separate report from Katwijk described how Jan Dijkhuizen, mate of the KW 134 "Katwijk II", was swept overboard by a breaking sea, while two shipmates washed off with him were thrown back on board. The page also reported on an Indies Week in Leiden, where a lecturer argued that the Volksraad of the Dutch East Indies had more than met expectations and developed faster than intended.
The New Statute of the Fascist Party Has Come into Force
At the Gare de Lyon, the Milan Express Rams 2 Cars of a Local Train
This page set a signed Paris political column beside a Milan dispatch and a Paris accident report. Marcel Huart's column argued that parties everywhere were in a latent crisis left by the war and would find their bearings only when Europe recovered its balance. He welcomed a possible metallurgical cartel as a safeguard of peace and dismissed fears about the Thoiry and Livorno meetings. The Milan dispatch set out the Fascist party's new forty-article statute, which abolished elected party posts and placed the party under hierarchies headed by Mussolini and the Grand Council he chaired. The Paris report described how a locomotive with a broken axle derailed at the entrance to the Gare de Lyon and struck a local train carrying many workers, leaving one dead and 25 injured.
Wuchang After Its Occupation by the Revolutionary Army
Shibao's page of 13 October 1926 followed the Northern Expedition at the moment Wuchang fell and the war with Sun Chuanfang in Jiangxi hung in the balance. A Jiangxi report said the Southern army had moved on the Nanchang front on Double Tenth, that Sun meant to direct the decisive battle himself, and, quoting prisoners, that Chiang Kai-shek's main force had suffered repeated losses. A Hankou correspondence traced how the Wuchang garrison's peace overtures were rebuffed while hunger and looting spread inside the city and Liu Yuchun had looters beheaded. A third report described the first days of occupation: captured weapons shipped to Hankou, Chen Mingshu taking up a Wuhan post, and a charitable relief committee beginning burials.
Headquarters of the Zhenwei Combined Third and Fourth Army Groups
Bound Volume of the World Daily Supplement
Living English Readers
This page of the Beijing World Daily for 13 October 1926 carried a notice from the Fengtian army's combined Third and Fourth Army Group headquarters. It said that quartering troops inside the city had been a temporary expedient and that they would move elsewhere now that order in the capital was returning. It also admitted that unruly soldiers might still harass residents and began to explain how victims should report harm. Beside it, an advertisement offered monthly bound volumes of the paper's literary supplement, about 120 pages and more than 150 pieces each, and listed poems, fiction, a short play and essays. An advertisement promoted Lawrence Faucett's Living English, a six-volume junior middle school course. It stressed the direct and oral methods, exercises for every skill and Craigie pronunciation marks. The reading covers only parts of these items.
His Excellency the President of the Republic Arrives
The Bolivians Open the Scoring
Music and Flags
La Nación's sports pages of 13 October 1926 covered the previous day's opening match of the South American Championship, Chile against Bolivia at the Ñuñoa stadium in Santiago. The readable passages describe a pre-match ceremony in which a bouquet tied with both nations' ribbons was handed to Arellano and the eleven pairs of players embraced, and the arrival of the President of the Republic with Foreign Minister Antonio Huneeus and senior officials of the foreign and war ministries. A running match report recounts how Aguilar, fed by Méndez after an Alborta corner, gave Bolivia the lead after four minutes, and praises the visitors' early play. A shorter note credits the police with managing traffic on Avenida Irarrázaval and the crowds, while flags of many nations decorated the cement grandstands.
THE YANKEE GOVERNMENT IS SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING RECOGNIZING THE SOVIET
HARRY WILLS'S ASPIRATIONS CAME TO AN ABRUPT AND PITIFUL END LAST NIGHT
SHARKEY, WILLS'S CONQUEROR, CHALLENGED GENE TUNNEY YESTERDAY, THE VERY SAME DAY
Crítica's front page gave heavy play to Associated Press cables from New York on the heavyweight bout fought at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, the previous night. The reports described Jack Sharkey, a former U.S. Navy sailor of Lithuanian descent, battering Harry Wills, closing his left eye and opening a deep cut above the right one, until referee Haley disqualified Wills in the 13th round for repeated fouls. Sharkey went straight from the ring to challenge champion Gene Tunney, Wills blamed his long inactivity, and the cable called the result Wills's first defeat by a white opponent in fifteen years. Another headline announced that Washington was seriously considering recognizing the Soviet government, but the legible text beneath it belongs to the boxing story.
Il Piccolo of Trieste led its 13 October 1926 front page with Finance Minister Count Volpi in Genoa. He had come for the Columbus and Marco Polo celebrations, and according to the headline he reaffirmed the road traced by Mussolini and issued a stern warning. The surviving text stops when he arrives at the Chamber of Commerce. A Rome item denounced defeatist political and stock-exchange rumours spread to cause panic. A report on the Battle for Grain cited eight years of harvest statistics, praised the Government and the itinerant agricultural chairs, and quoted a forecast that Italy would grow all the wheat it needed in about six years. From London came the first details of the fall of Wuchang. The paper said its 15,000 defenders had held out for 40 days before hardship and treachery forced a surrender, and the headline raised fears of a Red advance on Shanghai.