WORLD FINANCIERS URGE REMOVAL OF BARRIERS TO TRADE
QUEEN MARIE LAYS FLORAL TRIBUTE AT TOMB OF UNKNOWN; VISITS MT. VERNON
SENATOR REED'S FUTURE AT STAKE AT MISSOURI POLLS
The Evening Star's front page of October 19, 1926, led with an Associated Press report from New York on a manifesto signed by J. P. Morgan and leading European bankers and industrialists, among them Montagu Norman and Hjalmar Schacht. They blamed post-war tariffs, licenses and newly guarded frontiers for Europe's slow recovery and told politicians that trade is not war but exchange. The page also followed Queen Marie of Rumania as she laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington, received a 21-gun Presidential salute and reached Mount Vernon 15 minutes early. From Kansas City, G. Gould Lincoln argued that Harry Hawes's Senate race in Missouri would decide whether the Democrats' new harmony held, and with it Senator James A. Reed's hopes for the 1928 presidential nomination.
CHEERING THOUSANDS WELCOME QUEEN MARIE ALONG ROUTE FROM LEVIATHAN TO RUMANIAN LEGATION AT CAPITAL
CHARGE FERGUSON OFFERED SERVICE TO ROAD BUILDERS
COMMITTEE TO FIX PLAN OF OPERATION FOR COTTON POOL
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page for October 19, 1926, led with an Associated Press account of Queen Marie of Rumania's first day in America: her arrival by special train in Washington, the Marines, army bands and cavalry escort at Union Station, her delight at the lighted Capitol dome, and the surprise that President Coolidge put off receiving her until the next day 'for personal reasons.' From Austin, the paper reported a Texas legislative committee hearing in which a road contractor testified that former Governor James E. Ferguson had asked him for $7,500, about ten per cent of a contract, in small bills, a charge Ferguson called a 'cheap political falsehood.' Closer to home, it announced a Montgomery meeting of bankers and farm leaders to organize a cotton pool under the southwide plan from the Memphis cotton conference, with the governor expected to proclaim an acreage reduction week.
This partial reading of the London Evening Advertiser for 19 October 1926 is dominated by Ontario politics. A Canadian Press despatch reported that Premier Howard Ferguson had dissolved the legislature and called a general election for 1 December on a plan to replace prohibition with freer, government-controlled liquor sale under local option, and that Attorney-General W. F. Nickle had left the cabinet because he disagreed. A neighbouring fragment quoted Nickle defending the Ontario Temperance Act and calling government sale "alluring, but deceptive." A special cable from London described a free-trade manifesto by European business leaders, signed by Reichsbank president Dr. Schacht and reportedly by Montagu Norman, which blamed tariffs for propping up uneconomic industries. A short Chicago despatch said the 71-year-old Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs was near death in a sanatorium.
The Vossische Zeitung’s front page of 19 October 1926 led with a Budapest report: Bethlen told the reconvened Hungarian National Assembly that his government’s course was unchanged and that the upper house bill came first, while the paper’s correspondent learned of a plan to make Regent Horthy a “Palatine”, a Habsburg-era office the paper itself called constitutionally impossible after the dethronement law; it added talk of a Christmas amnesty for the franc forgers. The page also carried the Reich President’s confirmation of Dorpmüller as Reichsbahn director general, ending the dispute that followed Oeser’s death through a consultation procedure between the railway board and the transport minister, and an obituary of Cologne’s district president Count Adelmann. A leading article attacked the Kölnische Zeitung for welcoming the Stahlhelm’s new course under Captain Ehrhardt and his slogan “Into the State”, which it read as a campaign against parliament and democracy.
On 19 October 1926 the Vienna Neue Freie Presse led with an editorial on a newly published manifesto for free trade. It hailed the manifesto as a mighty trumpet blast but complained that it came late, asking why eight years had had to pass since the armistice before such golden principles were taken up. A telegram from Luxembourg reported that the international rail agreement had been signed at a meeting in London; the German delegation asked for time to consult its principals but was expected to sign later, and the treaty rested on the earlier provisional basis. The feuilleton reviewed Albert Bassermann as Egmont, describing a hero who loves life, knows no enemy and walks smiling to his downfall.
This reading of the Prager Tagblatt of 19 October 1926 covers three front-page pieces. An editorial headed with the name Jesaias Aberbach mocked Austria's Christian Socials. It claimed that at the party-founded Lower Austrian Peasants' Bank the franc had been sold short in Paris, party functionaries had held speculation accounts under aliases or in their wives' names, and the speculation department had kept no fewer than fifteen hundred accounts. It also claimed that the bank's speculation department was advised by an unbaptized Jew, despite the party's antisemitic anti-corruption rhetoric, and it named Provincial Governor Buresch among the account holders. A Budapest dispatch reported that Prime Minister Bethlen told the reconvened National Assembly why his cabinet had resigned, a resignation Regent Horthy had refused amid the franc-forgery affair; its headline asked whether Horthy might become Palatine. The paper also printed passages from Lenin's 'Testament', including the January 1923 postscript urging that Stalin be removed as General Secretary.
The Journal de Genève front page of 19 October 1926 opened with a dispatch from its Rome correspondent reporting that the Roman question — the unresolved quarrel between the Italian state and the papacy — was again being fought over in Fascist and Catholic newspapers, and that Fascism's favours to religion and the clergy and its campaign against Freemasonry had made a reconciliation look concrete. An editorial signed J. M. answered farmers who accused the paper of wanting their ruin because it opposed the federal wheat monopoly, beginning its explanation with the crisis of Swiss agriculture before the war. A piece on a new book hailed the 'modern Greek miracle' of settling refugees in a country of barely five million people, crediting the refugees, the Greek state and a League of Nations-sponsored loan, and citing a total outlay of £15,225,000.
Politika's front page of 19 October 1926 was taken up by a government crisis in Belgrade. A sharp editorial, "A Compulsion", argued that the consequences of the Zagreb incident involving Stjepan Radić, which Prime Minister Nikola Uzunović had tried to secure by resigning, now lay buried in a secret protocol worth no more than Radić's promises. It traced how the incident moved from discussion in cabinet to a government crisis, the resignation, and conditions set for Radić. A shorter report said the Democratic Union would file interpellations on domestic, foreign and economic policy and had discussed aid for flooded regions. It also reported that the Assembly's commission of inquiry was still reading files on the so-called Subotica affair, which many members called a waste of time.
In Oslo 120,973, or nearly 75 per cent, have voted.
Aftenposten's front page of 19 October 1926 was dominated by the previous day's national referendum on whether to keep Norway's ban on spirits. A leader written at 2 a.m. declared that prohibition had been 'broken' and was being voted down outright. It traced the swing from the first report from Røra in Nord-Trøndelag through the western counties, where Rogaland and Sogn og Fjordane held out, to Trøndelag and Eastern Norway, and congratulated the people on their 'sound common sense'. A news report described crowds packing Akersgaten outside the paper's offices to watch its election barometer, which set the new figures beside those of 1919. It told of cheers at the first district to swing and of police diverting traffic. A third column gave Oslo's turnout, nearly 75 per cent of 161,673 eligible voters, with figures for each polling place.
COMMEMORATION OF THE 400th BIRTH YEAR OF CAROLUS CLUSIUS
The Leidsch Dagblad of 19 October 1926 led with the news that Mayor N. C. de Gijselaar had asked the Queen to release him, for health reasons, from 1 January of the following year. The paper described the dismay in the council and the town, quoted the popular song about him, and listed works of his 16-year term, from the electric tram and a new HBS to the rerouted Rhine-Schie canal. It also praised his wartime devotion and his skill in chairing the council. A front-page column continued the paper's own relief fund for Katwijk families hit by the loss of the vessel KW. 152, with small gifts from firms, schools and individuals bringing the total to f 1686.83½. A municipal notice about a housewives' exhibition followed. The report on the Clusius anniversary survives here only as its headline.
The Shibao of 19 October 1926 followed the Zhejiang crisis almost hour by hour. Reports timed through the 18th said the vanguard of Xia Chao's army had suddenly turned back at dawn, passing Shihudang and Fengjing without stopping and returning to Jiashan. The same item said the military authorities at Jiaxing had ordered locomotives kept on standby and that a ten-car troop train had carried 300 soldiers from Hangzhou. On the other side, the paper traced Sun Chuanfang's advance units to Shihudang, his pickets beyond Mingxing Bridge, a platoon reaching Songjiang and battalions holding Meijianong and Xinlonghua. A Beijing telegram reported Qi Xieyuan's visit to Zhang Zongchang in Jinan. On the surface the talks concerned aid to Jiangxi and Hubei, but they also touched on the Southeast, and the telegram called reports of Shandong troops at Bengbu premature. This reading covers three news items, and much of the page remains illegible.
Important Notice from the Peking–Hankow Railway Administration
Bound Volumes of the Shijie Ribao Supplement
Buy Your Autumn Festival Gifts
This page of the Peking Shijie Ribao for Tuesday, October 19, 1926, carried mainly notices and advertisements. In a notice dated September 11, the Peking–Hankow Railway Administration announced that it was withdrawing Special Express Trains Nos. 7 and 8 between Peking and Shijiazhuang. It replaced them with ordinary trains Nos. 21 and 22, which hauled freight cars as well as passengers, and gave the need to redistribute rolling stock as its reason. The paper also advertised monthly bound volumes of its own literary supplement. According to the ad, Peking University professor Liu Bannong edited the supplement, and each volume ran to about 120 pages with more than 150 pieces, aimed at students. A tea shop outside Qianmen offered tins of chloranthus-scented Pearl Tea as Autumn Festival gifts.
The Paraguayan Football Delegation Arrived in Santiago Last Night
A Trophy for the Paraguay–Chile Match
THE SOUTH AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONGRESS MET IN THE EARLY HOURS OF TODAY
The sports coverage centred on the South American Championship then under way in Santiago. La Nación reported that the Paraguayan football delegation had arrived the night before, quoting Mr. Ayala on Paraguay's close friendship with Chile, his earlier visit in 1921 as an embassy secretary on the way to Peru, and a gruelling five-day journey, and praising Adriano Irala, head of the Paraguayan Football League. A short item announced that the jeweller La Equitativa had given a bronze lion trophy, and the Teatro Setiembre's manager a captain's cup, for the Chile–Paraguay match. A report on a pre-dawn session of the South American football congress followed the Argentine, Chilean and other delegates as they argued over postponing Paraguay's first match, an Argentine-Paraguayan agreement to play on Wednesday the 20th, and a Chilean offer of Thursday the 21st, with two recesses called.
A Collapse Occurred at the Government House of Uruguay
Aviator Byrd Proposes to Make a Flight to the South Pole
Scheduling the Paraguay-Argentina Match for Today Was a Fixture Error
This page of Crítica from 19 October 1926 carried three foreign reports. A correspondent in Montevideo reported a collapse at Uruguay's Government House: 14 cavalrymen of the Blandengues Artigas battalion fell five meters into the basement, five were named as injured, and military doctors arrived quickly. An Associated Press dispatch from Philadelphia quoted Richard Byrd, whom it presented as the man who reached the North Pole by airplane. Byrd said he might also try for the South Pole, though the plan was not final, and that the flight would be much harder than his Arctic one because it would require a 2,000-mile nonstop flight. From Santiago, Agencia Austral described a quarrelsome extraordinary session of the South American Football Congress. After two hours, the Congress postponed the Argentina–Paraguay match to the following day, and the headline blamed the original date on a fixture error.
Il Piccolo's front page of 19 October 1926, in the portions read here, carried a Rome report on a Tribuna commentary about the Fascist party statute's rule that federal secretaries must supervise the party press. The Tribuna accepted that the Fascist press must obey party directives, but warned that local leaders might stretch the word and asked which papers actually counted as party press. From Bologna the paper reported that Filippo Naldi had been arrested in Paris and would be brought to Bologna once the extradition request went through. It then began an item on army disciplinary proceedings against General Bencivenga. A Rome report described the Ministry of National Economy raising the number of rail wagons for Polish coal as the British strike dragged on. It followed the tail end of a report on reducing Allied debts and German reparations.