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.
QUEEN MARIE OF RUMANIA GUEST OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. COOLIDGE
STATE FINANCING COTTON BODY GIVEN COOLIDGE APPROVAL
SENATORIAL COMMITTEE JOINS INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED SCANDALS IN INDIANA POLITICAL AREA
The Advertiser's front page of October 20, 1926, gave prominent display to Queen Marie of Romania's formal welcome by President and Mrs. Coolidge: a brief Blue Room reception, a return call at the Romanian legation and a state dinner, capping a day at Mount Vernon, Arlington and the Lincoln Memorial. From Washington came the President's cotton committee's plan for state financing corporations to help market a record crop, with growers urged not to dump their cotton. From Indianapolis, Senator Reed's committee joined the search, already pressed by a grand jury, for alleged Klan corruption linked to D. C. Stephenson. Shorter items covered fire chiefs meeting in New Orleans, Henry Morgenthau promising eastern capital for the South, a Pittsburgh Liberty bond bank case, seamen suing over a raid on Nicaragua, two missing Crenshaw County girls and H. L. Mencken's brief stop in Montgomery.
The page's lead dispatch followed a powerful hurricane from Havana toward southern Florida. Early reports told of more than 150 homes demolished in two crowded Havana districts, winds of 98 miles an hour and a rapidly falling barometer, while Washington ordered hurricane warnings and Miami readied its schools to close and emptied its jail. A London police-court item reported that a wounding charge was dropped because the accused's common-law wife could not be found, and that his sentence for attempted suicide was suspended on condition he leave the country. A civic report described T. U. Fairlie's valuation of about $1,000,000 for the London street railway's equipment, a council meeting closed to the press, and Mayor Moore's hope of putting a plebiscite to ratepayers on Dec. 6.
The Vossische Zeitung of 20 October 1926 reported from Geneva that French, Little Entente, Polish and Finnish officers on the disarmament commission's military committee had proposed punishing any illegal gas attack with a collective chemical counterattack. The paper ridiculed the idea, and the German delegation warned that such a sanction would legitimize gas warfare. A London report covered the opening of the Imperial Conference, including Baldwin's agenda of foreign-policy consultation, defence burdens, imperial trade and American films, and Hertzog's demand for equal status for South Africa. In a signed column, Max Cohen-Reuß claimed that the Sozialistische Monatshefte's continental-Europe idea came before Coudenhove-Kalergi's Pan-Europe. He also faulted the name “Pan-Europe” and the debates it had caused over whether to admit Britain.
The Journal de Genève of 20 October 1926 led with a column signed W. M., dated the day the Imperial Conference opened in London. The writer expected the dominion statesmen to defend their peoples' rights firmly against Britain and credited the League of Nations with speeding up the dominions' control of their own foreign affairs, citing Canada's fishing treaty with the United States and Australian postal conventions registered at Geneva without British mediation. Beside it, J. M. traced Geneva's cantonal civil-service salaries from the large 1919 increases through the 1923 cuts and the Grand Council committee's softening of them, then argued that extending the cuts, worth 900,000 francs against a 6-million deficit in the 1927 draft budget, was hard but necessary. Only the heading of an article on freedom of trade falls within the reading.
In Bergen a majority of 13,297 against prohibition.
After Norway's prohibition referendum, Aftenposten celebrated the defeat of prohibition. Its lead editorial argued that repeal now had to pass through the Storting, because the ban rested on a statute, and it warned the Lykke government not to replace prohibition with rules so strict that buying a bottle of spirits legally would again be nearly impossible. The editorial mocked the Christian People's Temperance Council and the clergy, and it insisted that town and country had voted together. A second piece hailed Oslo's lopsided result of 103,311 against and 15,419 for as proof that the capital had been right to stand alone in 1919. A Bergen report gave 26,000 against and 12,703 for, compared with 17,136 and 14,198 in 1919.
Manifesto of European and American financiers and industrialists.
FÖLDESY — WEINGARTEN.
ADDRESS TO THE SECOND CHAMBER.
This Leiden daily's front page of 20 October 1926 carried the opening of an appeal by European and American financiers and industrialists, presented as a forceful plea for free trade and a separation of politics and economics, which blamed postwar tariff walls, special licences and prohibitions for holding back the return to prosperity. Its music critic praised a recital by Földesy and Weingarten in the Kraus concert series, while puzzling over why Leideners stayed away from music in the Schouwburg and defending the hall's acoustics. The society of friends of the municipal museum De Lakenhal petitioned the Second Chamber against a proposed 10 per cent duty on gifts, warning that donations to the museum would often stop. A short police item reported cloth stolen from a shop display case.
Peking–Hankow Railway Administration, Important Notice
Notice from Lawyer Gao Rang
This partial reading of the Beijing World Daily for 20 October 1926 covers three items. An advertisement promoted monthly bound volumes of the paper's supplement, edited by Dr. Liu Bannong of Peking University, offering about 120 pages a volume, careful printing and binding unlike crudely stitched old newspapers, and a balance between interest and a partly illegible second quality, and urging every student to own a copy. The Peking–Hankow Railway Administration's Notice No. 246, dated 11 September 1926, announced that special express trains 7 and 8 between Beijing and Shijiazhuang were suspended and replaced by ordinary trains 21 and 22 hauling freight cars, citing the need to adjust rolling stock. A block headed as a notice from the lawyer Gao Rang survives mainly as fragments of a face-cream advertisement.
This page of Santiago's La Nación for 20 October 1926 mixed fiction with farm business. Beneath a strip of subscription rates it began a short story by Jean Reibrach, "La Máscara," in which a narrator visits an old acquaintance confined in an asylum after his wife was reportedly devoured by wolves during a summer stay in a mountain village; the narrator is astonished that her death should have driven him mad. A report on Chilean livestock praised a breeding establishment for nearly a quarter-century of prestige and announced that the main prizes in the sheep section of the current Exposition had gone to the Criadero San Carlos. An advertisement by Saavedra Bénard & Cía. invited farmers visiting the Animal Exposition to its permanent showroom of Deering farm machinery on Calle Catedral.
The Executive Promulgated the Enrolment and General Amnesty Law This Afternoon
“The Argentine Delegates Come Here to Exploit the International Situation!”
Crítica's front page of 20 October 1926 gave most of its space to the South American Championship in Santiago. It ran a minute-by-minute account of Argentina's lopsided win over Paraguay, with goals from Sosa, Delgado and Miguel and injuries to Paraguayan goalkeeper Recalde and to Argentina's Fortunato. Hugo Marini reported a stormy session of the football congress in which Chile's delegate Cariola, during a row over the Bolivian-nominated referee Cursach, accused the Argentines of exploiting tension between Chile and Bolivia; the words were struck from the record and the matter was postponed. The page also announced that the Executive had promulgated the enrolment and general amnesty law, No. 11.386, with enrolment due to begin within ninety days. It also carried a sabre duel between two newspaper directors, a note that the Brazilian aviator Ribeiro do Barros had reached Las Palmas, and the start of a story about an identity card found in a taxi.
Il Piccolo of 20 October 1926 carried economic and labour news from Rome and London. A Rome dispatch reported that the Roman press had received the international financiers' manifesto for 'economic peace' with hostility, with some papers calling it a trust's manoeuvre to subjugate nations, while La Tribuna argued that it was the work of a handful of English economists and businessmen whose signatures were gathered on a tour by Sir George Pais. From London, the paper reported that the coal strike continued despite the opening of the Imperial Conference, described a theory that winter cold would hand the miners victory by Christmas, and dismissed it as too simplistic. A Treasury report from Rome gave an actual first-quarter surplus of 55 million, rising to 243 million once special items, including an instalment toward reducing the note circulation, were set aside.