KENTUCKY STAGING REAL "HORSE RACE" IN SENATE CONTEST
INJUNCTION DENIED IN PAINTERS’ ROW
500 HUNT BANDITS WITH GAS BOMBS
The Evening Star's front page for October 16, 1926, covered a close Kentucky Senate fight, a labor ruling in Washington and a federal crackdown on mail bandits. G. Gould Lincoln reported that the Cantrill family and former Senator Stanley were rallying behind Judge Alben Barkley, and argued that 30 years of industrial growth had made Kentucky far from safely Democratic. A District Supreme Court justice refused the Barker Painting Co. an injunction against painters who demanded New York wages for work on the Mayflower Hotel, holding that collective wage demands made without threats were lawful. After the Elizabeth, N.J., mail robbery, Postmaster General New ordered the mails protected even if the armed forces had to guard them, and said he would ask Congress to make armed attacks on the mails a capital offense.
Accurate Canvass of Cotton Industry Is Relief Proposal
Magnetic Storm Hampers Service
Dramatic Decline in Stock Markets Shake Rail Shares
The Advertiser's front page led with an AP report from Memphis: the executive committee of the South-wide cotton relief movement planned the first systematic canvass of every cotton grower, organized down to county, beat and precinct, to collect growers' pledges on their honor to cut acreage. It enlisted pulpit, press, bankers and supply merchants, and was sending Oscar Johnston and B. W. Kilgore to Washington to confer with President Coolidge's commission under Eugene Meyer Jr. on financing the surplus crop. A New York dispatch described one of the sharpest stock-market breaks in months, with leading rail and industrial shares down 4 to 11 points and turnover above two million shares; it named the South's reduced cotton purchasing power among the bearish forces. A further headline reported that an aurora-driven magnetic storm had crippled telegraph and cable service.
Political Waters Undisturbed By Decision of Lord Asquith
STATE WITNESS SAYS HER ANIMALS KILLED
This page of the London, Ontario evening paper ran wire news from Britain and the United States. A New York Herald dispatch from London described a pitched battle at the Glyncymmer colliery near Port Talbot, South Wales, where 700 strikers tried to stop a few men from working and police charged them back up a mountainside; a dozen policemen, 30 miners and three women were seriously hurt, and women joined the resistance. A headline judged that Lord Asquith's decision had left British political waters calm, though the legible text beneath it concerns a bootleggers' war and a hotel fire at Kincardine. From Somerville, New Jersey, Jane Gibson, the 'pig woman' and state witness in the Hall-Mills murder case, complained that 73 of her pigs and half her chickens had been poisoned and that banks would no longer lend to her.
The front page of 16 October 1926 led with a long Vienna editorial on the final resignation of Chancellor Rudolf Ramek's cabinet and the return of Ignaz Seipel, with the civil servants' strike still unresolved. The writer called Ramek better than his reputation. It praised his patience in a sixteen-hour negotiation with officials and credited him with administrative reform, the end of League control and better relations with Germany and Czechoslovakia. It argued that the cabinet had depended on a tolerant Social Democratic opposition and on Seipel's work behind the scenes, and that both were lost after the school dispute and the Zentralbank collapse. Shorter telegrams reported a Social Democratic bill in the Reichstag to bar ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II from Germany, tied to Prussia's new property settlement with the Hohenzollerns. Another reported four political killings in three days between Communists and their opponents in a Warsaw workers' district.
The Prague German-language daily's front page of 16 October 1926 carried a column under David Lloyd George's byline headed 'The Imperial Conference'. The only line recorded under it, which on the page is the caption to a portrait of Asquith, says that Asquith is stepping down as leader of England's Liberal Party. The other items dealt with Austrian politics. A report on the 'Steirerbank morass' linked the bank's affairs to leading politicians and senior officials. Under the headline announcing the Ramek cabinet's resignation, a Vienna dispatch dated 15 October reported the Council of Ministers acting after the Central Postal Committee, the Committee of 25 and the Technical Union called the government's latest concessions insufficient. Fragments in the same column say that write-offs for prominent provincial officials were made only after 29 October 1925, and they mention Seipel next to a broken-off word for 'probable'.
The Journal de Genève's front page of 16 October 1926 set a Swiss domestic polemic beside two pieces of foreign correspondence. In a signed editorial, J. M. attacked the proposed federal wheat monopoly as the first step of a socialist plan. He argued that the socialists were trying to win piecemeal, by constitutional means and with some bourgeois support, what they had failed to seize by force in 1918, and he warned that one monopoly calls for another. In a letter from Belgium, Aug. V. analysed the municipal election results: ex-servicemen's, middle-class and Frontist councillors had almost disappeared, and proportional representation had helped the Communists win seats. He gave the Brussels vote totals for each party. A column introduced a compatriot's personal recollections of General von Seeckt. It said his resignation had become inevitable after he made the error of approving the former Crown Prince's son's participation in army manoeuvres.
Politika's front page of 16 October 1926 followed a cabinet crisis in Belgrade. One report said the Crown had still not decided on the government's submitted resignation, which the paper took as confirming that the question would wait until a new combination was ready, or until it was clear the existing one could survive with minor personal changes. It described Stjepan Radić arriving in Belgrade full of optimism, predicting a settlement within the day and a quick return to Zagreb, and meeting Prime Minister Uzunović. A second report caught Radić leaving his audience with the King at 12:40 in the company of P. Radić, sullen and terse: he said they had talked only about Geneva, would not reveal the King's questions, and flatly denied that he would give up the leadership.
Aftenposten marked the Rikshospital's centenary with a signed historical survey by the hospital's director, Dr. Sinding-Larsen. The opening section recalled that the Storting had decided in April 1816 to found a general hospital for 150 patients and a maternity institution for 30, both for treatment and for the practical training of doctors and midwives. A second, partly garbled section traced how the hospital in Akersgaten was pieced together from existing buildings: its own new wing on Grubbegaten was finished only in 1842, and additions such as a children's ward and the rented Sorgenfri for syphilitic men followed until 1854. A third part described how work on architect Schirmer's proposal began in 1866 while the building plans were disputed for nine years, just before Lister's antisepsis reached the Norwegian university clinic in the 1870s.
A MORE FLEXIBLE APPLICATION OF THE LABOUR ACT REQUESTED.
The front page of the Leidsch Dagblad for 16 October 1926 carried the second instalment of a public appeal to re-found the Leidsche Hout, Leiden's lost wooded park. Signed by N. C. de Gijselaar, A. G. Bosman and B. F. Krantz, the appeal credited the Leiden citizen D. J. J. de Koster with starting the plan through a gift of f 11,500 to the municipality more than a year earlier. It reported that f 25,000 in founding capital was already in hand, hinted at plans still under private discussion, and asked every reader directly what they would give. Just above it, a donation notice earmarked 'KW. logger 152' gave a running total of f 1,176.56. Under a headline about employers asking for a more flexible application of the Labour Act, the readable text is actually part of a report on a lecture about Daudet's novels and their memorable characters, from Delobelle and Tartarin to Sappho.
Movements of Zhou's Troops at Nanjing and Changzhou
Zhejiang Gentry Telegraph Sun, Zhou and Chiang
Zhang Zuolin's Attitude
The Shibao of 16 October 1926 looked at the war between Sun Chuanfang's Allied Army and the southern Northern Expedition forces from three angles. A Nanjing dispatch quoted the Allied Army's own daily as saying that fighting in Jiangxi was easing, that both sides would cease fire, and that Sun had ordered his armies onto the defensive. The same report described rear-guard troops of Zhou Fengqi's 3rd Division leaving Nanjing at night, while the city tightened martial law, changed passwords and searched baggage at stations, wharves and gates. Leading Zhejiang gentry, among them Chu Huiseng and Yu Qiaqing, telegraphed Sun at Jiujiang asking for an immediate ceasefire, a buffer zone and the return of Zhejiang troops to their home province. They cited a province left without defenders, the coming winter and rumors that Shandong troops would pass through. Telegrams from Beijing portrayed Zhang Zuolin as cautious, unwilling to cross the Pass and ready to refuse leadership of the central government.
This partial reading of the World Daily for 16 October 1926 covers three items. A notice announced that the Zhengyan Evening News would begin publishing in Beijing on 17 October as one large daily sheet, claiming twice the size of the city's existing evening papers, listing its copy, monthly and yearly prices, and inviting paid contributions to its office outside Xuanwu Gate. Above it survived the closing lines of a proclamation to merchants, signed by army group commanders Zhang Xueliang and Han Linchun, promising strict secrecy. The paper also advertised monthly bound volumes of its own supplement edited by Liu Bannong, about 120 pages and more than 150 pieces each, and a six-volume English reader built on the direct and oral methods by a former St. John's University English lecturer.
The Dong-A Ilbo's front page of 16 October 1926 led with an editorial on the tenant-farmer disputes that open with each autumn harvest. It began with an old Chinese poem about silk-wearers who never raise silkworms, argued that Korea was still an agricultural country whose majority were tenants, called solidarity the natural weapon of the weak against high-handed landlords, and urged tenants to agree on a fair, uniform standard for dividing rent and to act calmly and squarely. Shorter items asked whether the British coal dispute would flare up again after a district ballot of miners, and reported that the British Labour Party's annual conference had passed a resolution protesting the British naval bombardment of Wanxian in China. Fragments of Tokyo dispatches about a nationality tally, a customs conference and U.S. Secretary of State Kellogg also survive. This reading covers only parts of a badly damaged page.
On 16 October 1926 La Nación followed Santiago's Spring Festivities through the entertainments run by university faculties. The Engineering students' centre announced an afternoon fancy-dress matinée at the Santa Lucía, with orchestras, variety acts by the Arozamena company, and contests for costumes, street bands and masquerade troupes. The same students put on "The Night of Love", the second of their "crazy nights". A student dancing tea at Moneda 815, along with telegraphed notes from Linares, where a flower parade at the Stadium was being prepared, and from La Serena, showed the celebrations reaching beyond the capital. A report on a mock King Quasimodo receiving his subjects' homage came just before the Law students' fancy-dress ball at Girls' Liceo No. 2. Tickets for the ball cost four pesos for women and six for men.
THE ARGENTINES BEAT THE BOLIVIANS WITHOUT ANY EFFORT BY A HIGH SCORE
BONIFACIO HAS REFUTED DR. CANTONI
The Uruguayans returned today from Cauquenes
Crítica's page of 16 October 1926 followed the South American Football Championship in Santiago de Chile through Agencia Austral cables. The main report covered Argentina's opening match against Bolivia at Nuñoa. It said few spectators came despite cheaper tickets, because everyone took Bolivia's weakness for granted after its first defeat, and it presented the game as a test of the favourites' strength and of host Chile's chances. A second cable described a quarrel in the Chilean press: Bonifacio, writing in El Diario Ilustrado, said the Argentine delegation had joined the Uruguayans in opposing matches in Valparaíso, which contradicted statements by Drs. Cantoni and Gómez. The page also printed the two teams' line-ups and a short item saying Uruguay's squad had returned from three days of secluded, rigorous training at Cauquenes.
Trieste's Il Piccolo of 16 October 1926 led with the Fascist party's orders for the fourth anniversary of the March on Rome. These included a rally and review in Rome on the 28th with a speech by Mussolini, ministers and party leaders assigned to provincial ceremonies, and the party's own claim of 937,967 members. The same orders announced a new party statute that called for a purge of members, readmitted two deputies, expelled a third and reported on the welfare work of the women's Fasci. From Vienna the paper reported that Rudolf Ramek's cabinet had resigned under a civil servants' strike ultimatum and a bank scandal, and that Ignaz Seipel was expected to return. From Paris it said that the rebuilt 90-million-dollar Morgan fund had steadied the franc, although Poincaré's real test would come the following February. A Berlin dispatch covered coalition talks in Danzig.