Queen Is Speeding to Washington on Her Special Train
Anti-Smith Plot in Illinois Bared
Commission Men to Confer on Sites Near New Market
The Evening Star's front page led with Queen Marie of Rumania's hurried passage through New York. The AP account described rain thinning the crowds and muting the cheers, a ticker-tape "paper snowstorm" on lower Broadway, and a five-minute shipboard interview in which the Queen talked about women and peace, American cooking, her trunks, her daughter's marriage prospects and the Jews of Rumania before leaving on a special train for Washington. From Chicago came Anti-Saloon League testimony before the Reed committee about an alleged plan to replace the Republican Senate nominee Frank L. Smith and to fund a rival candidate. The same column carried the Indiana grand jury's Klan corruption inquiry and news that Eugene V. Debs was ill. A local story covered the planning commission's choice of Eckington for a new wholesale market and the rival neighborhoods' vow to take the fight to Congress.
QUEEN MARIE AMONG SHIP'S WORSHIPERS AT SUNDAY SERVICE
AL SMITH COURTS SOUTH'S FAVOR IS COLONEL ROOSEVELT'S CHARGE
The Montgomery Advertiser's Monday front page led with two Sunday fires in Dothan, in Alabama's Wiregrass. The fires destroyed a livery stable, a warehouse holding 2,000 bales of cotton, part of the Atlantic Coast Line compress and a produce store, with losses put at nearly half a million dollars and the second blaze suspected as arson. Much of the burned cotton, the paper said, belonged to uninsured farmers who had been holding out for higher prices. An AP dispatch from the liner Leviathan described Queen Marie of Romania's quiet last day at sea before landing in New York, from a shipboard Episcopal service to 160 pieces of luggage piled in the corridors. A column of wire news carried a Chicago safe-blowing, a fatal quarrel in Memphis and Theodore Roosevelt Jr.'s charge in Harlem that Governor Al Smith had dropped the New York Democrats' equal-rights plank to court the South with an eye on the presidency.
This partial reading of the London Evening Advertiser for October 18, 1926 opens with a Canadian Press report. It said Premier Howard Ferguson was meeting his cabinet before announcing an Ontario election. His platform was expected to be government control of liquor sales by local option, the date would be December 1 or 8, and gossip said the cabinet was not united on the liquor policy. A short local item reported that Henry Ellis, a Parkhill cattle dealer who had lived there for 60 years, was found dead in his office with a revolver; a doctor ruled it suicide and no inquest would be held. A city-finance story explained that London had held back its 1921–1924 provincial highway payments while municipalities pressed for refunds. The city now planned to cover the $201,803 bill with debentures, and the treasurer argued that paying promptly would save money and strengthen London's claim to a share of the gasoline tax.
The Vossische Zeitung's front page of 18 October 1926 carried three reports on economics and politics. The first announced, on the strength of a Reuter report, that leading industrialists and financiers would publish a manifesto in every European country on Sunday. The manifesto urged economic understanding and the removal of artificial trade barriers, and the paper named Reichsbank President Schacht, Robert Bosch and Geheimrat Deutsch of AEG among its German signatories. The second previewed Norway's referendum on alcohol prohibition, held that day. It recalled the 1919 vote and argued that close to 100,000 young voters, enfranchised when the voting age was lowered, were hostile to the ban. The third, a dispatch from Paris, reported that Serruys of the French Ministry of Economics was coming to Berlin to discuss the Franco-German commercial treaty and trade with the Saar.
The front page of 18 October 1926 led with cabled news from abroad. A United Press dispatch from Shanghai reported a state of siege after the civil governor of Zhejiang (Chekiang), long a loyal helper of Marshal Sun, went over to the Cantonese, allegedly through bribery; it added that three Nanking regiments had joined them, that refugees were pouring in, and that a steamer explosion had killed 1200 men. From New York came word of Saturday's sharpest price fall since March, with 1,103,000 shares sold in two hours and financial circles fearing that American business had peaked. The centrepiece was Max Eastman's signed article introducing what he called the first full publication of Lenin's 'testament' on Stalin and Trotsky, which Moscow had denied existed.
The Prager Tagblatt's front page of 18 October 1926 opened with a Berlin column by S. Saenger on "internal sovereignty". He took up the alarm abroad at reports that the Hohenzollern settlement with Prussia granted the former Kaiser and his wife the palace at Homburg as a possible residence. Saenger rejected any foreign right to interfere in Germany's internal affairs but said he understood the criticism. A Paris report, headlined with Caillaux's cry to do away with all war debts, said the Radical party congress at Bordeaux had ended more calmly than expected because party leaders held back for the sake of unity. A United Press wire from Moscow reported that Trotsky and Zinoviev had admitted their errors before the Politburo. It was followed by a short Belgrade item saying that Prime Minister Uzunović would stay in office.
Politika's front page of 18 October 1926 dealt with the end of a ten-day cabinet crisis in Belgrade. The main report retraced how the crisis opened when Dr. Nikić left Nikola Uzunović's government on the evening of 7 October, how Stjepan Radić's outburst at Zagreb station the next day set off a storm among the Radicals, how Uzunović resigned on 13 October and the Crown refused the resignation, and how, after a break between Radicals and Radićists, everything ended where it began. A second item reported that neither Uzunović nor his ministers and majority deputies would discuss a new protocol that was to stay secret. A short note said King Alexander, who had come from Topola on news of the resignation, went back there once it was withdrawn.
On the morning of the 18 October 1926 referendum on whether Norway should keep its ban on spirits, Aftenposten turned its front page into a campaign sheet. An appeal under the masthead told readers that the prohibition could be voted down that very day if everyone did their duty, under the slogan “against spirits prohibition – for greater sobriety”. Most of the lower page was given to a patriotic poem that framed the ballot as a choice between freedom and compulsion: it invoked the red-blue-white flag, warned that rule by compulsion would make Norwegians a people of thralls, insisted that law cannot save souls, and ended by urging readers to turn out and vote against prohibition. A small advertisement for Blue Star polish sat in the upper corner.
This Leiden front page of 18 October 1926 carried a headline saying the dune water supply was working normally again, but the text read under it is the close of a concert review. The society "Per Aspera" ended its Saturday evening with dancing and applause. The reviewer hoped for better playing next time and singled out two pieces for cello, clarinet and piano. A separate report described the Amsterdam tribute to the cartoonist Johan Braakensiek on his forty years of work. There, former education minister J. Th. de Visser announced that the Queen had appointed him an officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau, and Prof. W. Kernkamp, speaking for De Groene Amsterdammer, announced that the painting Hartjesdag had been bought and presented to Amsterdam. Under the Clusius commemoration heading, the legible text is a long list of small donations from individuals, clubs, birthday parties, a church and a football match.
Sun and Xia Armies Made Contact at 4 p.m. Yesterday
Wang Yazhi Goes to Meijianong to Direct the Fighting
Li Baozhang Leads One Battalion to Shanghai
This partial reading of the Shibao for 18 October 1926 covers three linked reports from the first full day of fighting in Xia Chao's revolt against Sun Chuanfang on Shanghai's southwestern edge. Citing transport sources, the paper reported that the two armies made contact at 4 p.m. on the 17th, with gunfire northwest of Xinlonghua, Sun's line between Meijianong and Xinzhuang, and dozens of railway cars waiting to carry troops forward; a second report placed contact at Qibao that night. Further items described a 4 a.m. war council at the Longhua office with Ding Wenjiang, Wang Yazhi's two trips to the front to direct the fighting, a train at Hangzhou waiting for troops, and the arrival of Meng Zhaoyue's and Li Baozhang's units from Nanjing, Zhenjiang and Wusong. The paper did not yet know who was winning.
Proclamation of the Zhenwei Third and Fourth Joint Army Group Headquarters
Living English Readers
This Peking daily carried three legible items of interest. A new evening paper, the Zhengyan Evening News, announced its scheduled launch on October 17, claimed a daily sheet twice the size of any existing evening paper in the capital, set out its copper and silver prices, and invited paid contributions of news and short sketches to its office outside Xuanwu Gate. The headquarters of the Zhenwei Third and Fourth Joint Army Group told residents that troops quartered inside the city as a temporary measure would move elsewhere now that order was returning, and directed anyone harmed by unruly soldiers to report names under two earlier proclamations. An advertisement promoted the first volume of a six-volume Living English Readers series built on the direct and oral methods, with Craigie pronunciation marks and a compiler said to have taught at St. John's University.
The Modern Diplomat Has No Mission Other Than a Purely Commercial One
She Will Have to Spend About Five Dollars on Trains
Today
This page of Crítica carried an Associated Press interview from Berlin in which Alexandra Kollontai, travelling to her new post in Mexico, described modern diplomacy as essentially commercial work, promised to avoid propaganda and interference in Mexican affairs, left Mexico's religious dispute to Mexicans, and called U.S. recognition of Russia outside her duties. Agency wires reported Egypt's cotton-price crisis and the plight of small growers, a conciliatory telegram from Vicente Rossi after a clash with Spain's delegate at a history congress in Asunción, and a deal among North American railways to carry Queen Marie of Romania across the continent for about five dollars. The 'Hoy' column took up Bank of France governor Émile Moreau's drive to stop gold leaving France.