Evening Star
- Queen and Party Reach Baltimore After 65-Mile Trip From Washington
- Cuno H. Rudolph Resigns District Post as His Third Term Nears Close
- Imperial Parley Meets in Secret
The Evening Star of October 20, 1926, followed Queen Marie of Rumania on the third day of her American visit: an Associated Press dispatch described her rain-soaked automobile run from Washington and Annapolis into Baltimore, bareheaded crowds lining the streets, police cordons on Hanover Street and a lavishly decorated 24-room suite waiting at the Belvedere Hotel. Closer to home, J. Russell Young reported that District Commissioner Cuno H. Rudolph, near the end of his third term, had asked President Coolidge to let him go, and that Coolidge agreed but asked him to hold back a formal resignation until a successor could be found. A column headed by news of the Imperial Conference meeting in secret in London instead carries, in this reading, a continuation of the Hall-Mills murder story, with new exhumations and disputed findings about a throat wound.
Translation
QUEEN AND PARTY REACH BALTIMORE AFTER 65-MILE TRIP FROM WASHINGTON
By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, October 20. - Under skies that frowned on royalty and commoner with damp impartiality. Queen Marie of Rumania ended a [?] automobile trip over rainwashed roads from Washington and Annapolis at 12:55 p.m. today. Streets over which the royal entourage passed after crossing the Patapsco River were black with humanity, hats off in the rain. Special police cordons kept a lane open in Hanover street to allow the cars to pass on through the heart of the city to the Belvedere Hotel, where a 24-room suite, hung with tapestries and brocade and resplendent with massed greenery was reserved for the Ru -
CUNO H. RUDOLPH RESIGNS DISTRICT POST AS HIS THIRD TERM NEARS CLOSE
Planned to Quit Year Ago, But Remained Until Fight in Congress Over Local Government and Fenning Was Finally Cleared Up. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Cuno H. Rudolph, rounding out his third term as District Commissioner and now the chairman of the Board of Commissioners, has asked President Coolidge to relieve him of his duties and to accept his resignation. President Coolidge, after hearing the Commissioner's request today and his wishes for wanting to be relieved, agreed to accept his resignation, but asked the Commissioner, at the same time, to withhold a formal resignation indefinitely - at least, until he has had an opportunity to consider the question of a suitable successor. Mr. Rudolph has worked hard all his life, and the years he has given as one of the civilian heads of the
IMPERIAL PARLEY MEETS IN SECRET
a Brooklyn grave in the renewed search for evidence. Dr. Otto Schultze of the New York district attorney's office, who exhumed the slain pastor's body four years ago, has been retained by New Jersey authorities to examine the body of Mrs. Mills. Slash Found Later. Dr. Hall was killed by a bullet, Mrs. Mills's body bore three pistol bullet wounds. Re-examination of her body four years ago disclosed that her throat had been slashed, although this had been overlooked in a first examination. Investigators decided the cut had been made no less than half an hour after Mrs. Mills' death. Charlotte Mills, the slain woman's daughter, declared it had been done by a jealous woman. It is now said that there were discrepancies in reports as to the nature of this slash. Investigators have talked of exhuming Dr. Hall's body a second time, but no formalities toward that end had been disclosed today. Special Prosecutor Alexander Simp -
Context
Why Queen Marie was touring America in October 1926
Queen Marie of Romania undertook a diplomatic tour of the United States in 1926, travelling with her son Nicholas and her daughter Ileana. She came with a public record as an advocate for her country: in 1919 she had attended the Paris Peace Conference and campaigned for international recognition of the enlarged Romania that emerged from the First World War. She arrived in the United States on October 18, 1926, and called on President Calvin Coolidge in Washington. The Associated Press dispatch in this edition therefore catches the royal party only two days into the tour, leaving Washington by way of Annapolis for Baltimore. What the dispatch adds is the scene: crowds standing hatless in the rain and special police cordons clearing Hanover Street for the cars.
How the press built the queen's American tour
The newspapers were part of the tour from the start. Her visit had been rumored in the press for several years before it took place, and during the trip Queen Marie herself wrote a series of articles, My Impressions of America, which HistoryLink describes as written for the American Newspaper Alliance. A press contingent travelled with her and reported minute details of her activities across the country. The Star's dispatch fits that pattern closely: beyond the arrival time of 12:55 p.m., it lists the tapestries, brocade and massed greenery of the 24-room hotel suite set aside for her, the kind of detail that kept the royal visit on front pages day after day.
Rudolph's long service and the Fenning affair
Cuno H. Rudolph was the only person to lead the District of Columbia's Board of Commissioners in two separate periods, first under Taft and again from 1921 under Harding and Coolidge, which explains the Star's reference to his third term. The paper's subheading ties the timing of his departure to the congressional fight over local government and over Commissioner Frederick A. Fenning. Fenning left the board before his term was complete, resigning in the face of impeachment, and Coolidge filled his seat with a recess appointment, Proctor L. Dougherty. Coolidge's request that Rudolph delay a formal resignation did not last long: in December 1926 Rudolph left the board and Dougherty succeeded him as president. The Wikipedia biography gives poor health as the reason; the Star's report presents the decision as the end of a long working life and the close of the Fenning dispute.
What the 1926 Imperial Conference was
The Imperial Conference that the Star's headline describes as meeting in secret was held in London from October 19 to November 23, 1926, so this edition appeared the day after it opened. Its timing had been arranged to follow directly after the 1926 Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva. The closed sessions reported in the headline would eventually produce the Balfour Declaration, which established the principle that the dominions were all equal in status. In October 1926 that outcome was still weeks away; the headline records only that the empire's leaders had begun their talks behind closed doors.
Original
QUEEN AND PARTY REACH BALTIMORE AFTER 65-MILE TRIP FROM WASHINGTON
By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, October 20. - Under skies that frowned on royalty and commoner with damp impartiality. Queen Marie of Rumania ended a [?] automobile trip over rainwashed roads from Washington and Annapolis at 12: 55 p. m. today. Streets over which the royal entourage passed after crossing the Patapsco River were black with humanity, hats off in the rain. Special police cordons kept a lane open in Hanover street to allow the cars to pass on through the heart of the city to the Belvedere Hotel, where a 24room suite, hung with tapestries and brocade and resplendent with massed greenery was reserved for the Ru -
CUNO H. RUDOLPH RESIGNS DISTRICT POST AS HIS THIRD TERM NEARS CLOSE
Planned to Quit Year Ago, But Remained Until Fight in Congress Over Local Government and Fenning Was Finally Cleared Up. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Cuno H. Rudolph, rounding out his third term as District Commissioner and now the chairman of the Board of Commissioners, has asked President Coolidge to relieve him of his duties and to accept his resignation. President Coolidge, after hearing the Commissioner's request today and his wishes for wanting to be relieved, agreed to accept his resignation, but asked the Commissioner, at the same time, to withold a formal resignation indefinitely-at least, until he has had an opportunity to consider the question of a suitable successor. Mr. Rudolph has worked hard all his life, and the years he has given as one of the civilian heads of the
IMPERIAL PARLEY MEETS IN SECRET
a Brooklyn grave in the renewed search for evidence. Dr. Otto Schultze of the New York district attorney's office, who exhumed the slain pastor's body four years ago, has been retained by New Jersey authorities to examine the body of Mrs. Mills. Slash Found Later. Dr. Hall was killed by a bullet, Mrs. Mill's body bore three pistol bullet wounds. Re-examination of her body four years ago disclosed that her throat had been slashed, although this had been overlooked in a first examination. Investigators decided the cut had been made no less than half an hour after Mrs. Mills ' death. Charlotte Mills, the slain woman's daughter, declared it had been done by a jealous woman. It is now said that there were discrepancies in reports as to the nature of this slash. Investigators have talked of exhuming Dr. Hall's body a second time, but no formalities toward that end had been disclosed today. Special Prosecutor Alexander Simp -
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