Evening Star
- 30 DEAD, 1,200 HURT IN HAVANA STORM; ALL SAFE IN MIAMI
- EUGENE DEBS DIES IN FAMILY'S MIDST
- POLITICAL ACTIVITY OF KLAN DISCLOSED
The Evening Star of October 21, 1926, led with an Associated Press dispatch from Havana. It reported that a Caribbean hurricane had killed perhaps more than 30 people, injured about 1,200 and caused an estimated $30,000,000 in damage. The storm had sunk vessels in the harbor and wrecked the monument to the Maine's dead, while Americans and Miami were reported safe. From Chicago came word that Eugene V. Debs, five times the Socialist presidential candidate, had died peacefully among family and party leaders, days after scrawling the closing lines of "Invictus." A second Chicago report gave testimony to the Senate campaign fund committee by Indiana's Klan grand dragon, who said he faced removal for refusing to back Klan-approved candidates. The same column then carried part of a tariff story: the President and Secretary Mellon set out the government's position on a bankers' manifesto against trade barriers.
Translation
30 DEAD, 1,200 HURT IN HAVANA STORM; ALL SAFE IN MIAMI
Fair; slightly colder tonight; light frost; possibly heavy in suburbs; tomorrow increasing cloudiness; warmer. Temperatures: Highest, 55, at 12:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 42, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30. No. 30,123. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D.C.
Cuban Property Loss Put at $30,000,000, With Provinces Still to Report.
MONUMENT TO MAINE HEROES DESTROYED
Many Vessels Sunk in Harbor. All Americans Believed Uninjured.
By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, October 21. — The Caribbean hurricane which struck Havana early yesterday took a toll of dead which may exceed 30 and caused the injury of about 1,200 persons. Early estimates that 1,800 had been injured were not borne out by later reports. The majority of those injured were suffering only from slight hurts.
Damage so far reported is estimated at $30,000,000.
Complete details of the damage caused in the suburbs are still lacking. Reports thus far received say about 12 persons were killed, while an unknown number were injured, with few serious cases reported.
Communication with the interior is still cut off, but it is hoped that a restricted service will be restored in some parts of the island by tonight. The telephone service in Havana was greatly curtailed today.
Americans Believed Safe.
The American consulate, the American Club and leading hotels thus far [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?]
EUGENE DEBS DIES IN FAMILY'S MIDST
End Comes Peacefully to Socialist Leader, Five Times Presidential Candidate.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 21. — Eugene V. Debs is dead.
The indomitable will that carried the veteran Socialist leader through a turbulent career, including a term in prison for obstructing the draft, broke last night under the flood of years and the strain of heart disease, from which he had suffered for 25 years.
Nearing his 71st birthday, the five-times nominee of the Socialist party for the presidency died peacefully in a suburban sanitarium, surrounded by the immediate members of his family and leading representatives of the party.
Debs sank into coma last Saturday, coming out of that strange half-way place between life and death for only a few minutes Sunday, during which he motioned to his wife for a pencil, and in a feeble scrawl scratched out W. E. Henly's famous poem, "Invictus," ending with the lines, "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul."
Friends explained [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?]
POLITICAL ACTIVITY OF KLAN DISCLOSED
[Ex-]Dragon of Indiana Says [He] Quit Post Over Refusal to Back Candidates.
[By the] Associated Press.
[CHI]CAGO, October 21. — More dis[closur]es regarding political activities [of the] Ku Klux Klan in Indiana were [made] today before the Senate cam[paign] fund committee.
[Wal]ter F. Bossert of Indianapolis, grand dragon of Indiana, said [he had] information that unless he [chang]ed his policy of refusing to sup[port] Klan-approved candidates for pu[blic] office he would be removed.
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Statement in Paris.
Coincident with the White House conference it became known that the American section of the International Chamber of Commerce, composed of business men who are members of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, had prepared a report saying that American business and American labor had come to the "studied decision" that American living standards must be protected, and that "no action which will tend to lower them can have any [other] than an unfortunate effect."
The financiers' manifesto, recently made public in New York, advocated a leveling of international trade barriers, but made specific reference to no individual nation. It carried the signatures of an imposing international group of business men, including J. P. Morgan.
In deciding to set forth clearly the position of the American Government, the President and Secretary Mellon were influenced by continuing speculation whether the suggestions of the financiers were intended to apply to the American protective tariff, as well as to the customs barriers erected between European nations since the World War.
Not Aimed at U.S.
Some of those interested in preparation of the manifesto have said there was no intention to apply the conclusions to the United States, but in other quarters it has been pointed out that nothing in the text of the document excludes this country.
Secretary Mellon told the President today that he knew nothing of the manifesto before its publication and that while he had not consulted either American or European signers of the proposal, he was certain they had no intention that it should apply to America.
The full report of the American
Context
How the Category 4 storm hit Havana, and how the first count compares
The hurricane the Star reported made two landfalls on Cuba as a Category 4 storm on October 20, the day the dispatch calls "early yesterday." Much of Havana's damage came from a tidal wave that topped the Malecón seawall. Offshore, strong waves damaged or sank a large number of ships, including 40 fishing vessels, which matches the paper's deck about vessels sunk in the harbor. The toll that "may exceed 30" was an early figure. The later record counts at least 58 deaths in Havana alone, many caused by collapsing walls and flying debris, so the first-day count was well short of the final toll. The Miami half of the headline held up: the storm caused generally minor damage in South Florida.
What the 1925 Maine monument was and what the storm did to it
The battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, killing two officers and 250 sailors. The monument to its victims on the Malecón was about 19 months old when the hurricane struck: it was inaugurated on 8 March 1925, with President Alfredo Zayas and General John Pershing among those attending. The account of the storm says high floodwaters destroyed the monument, which matches the Star's deck. The monument's own history records the harm more narrowly: it ties the October 1926 damage to the bronze eagle with vertically extended wings, and says the original eagle was replaced the same year by one with horizontal wings. The paper's "destroyed" is a first-day description from a flooded waterfront that later records describe as damage to the eagle.
Why Debs went to prison and ran for president from a cell in 1920
The obituary's phrase "a term in prison for obstructing the draft" compresses a case that began with a speech. On June 16, 1918, Debs spoke at a socialist rally in Canton, Ohio, delivering a blistering critique of the war, and within a week he was charged with violating the Espionage Act. He was convicted on three counts and sentenced to 10 years in the Atlanta federal penitentiary. On appeal, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes affirmed the conviction, holding that attempts "to obstruct the recruiting service" were unlawful. From prison Debs drew nearly one million votes on November 2, 1920. President Harding commuted his sentence in 1921, and Debs lived out his life in Terre Haute. The five candidacies the obituary highlights never brought him more than six percent of the vote, yet roughly 8,000 people came to his Terre Haute home after his death on October 20, 1926.
Who Walter Bossert was and why the Indiana Klan was in retreat by 1926
Bossert, the witness before the Senate committee, was Grand Dragon of the Klan for Indiana and 17 other states from 1924 to 1926. He had replaced D. C. Stephenson after Stephenson was ousted for committing murder. Under Stephenson, Indiana Klan membership grew to nearly 250,000, about one third of the state's white men, and he sent 225,000 letters urging Hoosiers to vote for Jackson in the Republican primary. A jury convicted Stephenson of second-degree murder on November 14, 1925, and the case destroyed the Klan as a political force in Indiana. Bossert resigned as Grand Dragon in 1926, which fits the Star's deck that he quit rather than back Klan-approved candidates; the stated reason rests on his testimony as the paper reported it. Larger exposures came after this page. In 1927, after Governor Jackson denied him a pardon, Stephenson began talking with Indianapolis Times reporters and released a list of officials who had been in the pay of the Klan.
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30 DEAD, 1,200 HURT IN HAVANA STORM; ALL SAFE IN MIAMI
Fair; slightly colder tonight; light frost; possibly heavy in suburbs; tomorrow increasing cloudiness; warmer. Temperatures: Highest, 55, at 12: 30 p. m. yesterday; lowest, 42, at 5 a. m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 No. 30, 123. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 30 DEAD, 1, 200 HURT IN HAVANA STORM; ALL SAFE IN MIAMI Cuban Property Loss Put at $ 30, 000, 000, With Provinces Still to Report. MONUMENT TO MAINE HEROES DESTROYED Many Vessels Sunk in Harbor. All Americans Believed Uninjured. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, October 21. - The Caribbean hurricane which struck Havana early yesterday took a toll of dead which may exceed 30 and caused the injury of about 1, 200 persons. Early estimates that 1, 800 had been injured were not borne out by later reports. The majority of those injured were suffering only from slight hurts. Damage so far reported is estimated at $ 30, 000, 000. Complete details of the damage caused in the suburbs are still lacking. Reports thus far received say about 12 persons were killed, while an unknown number were injured, with few serious cases reported. Communication with the interior is still cut off, but it is hoped that a restricted service will be restored in some parts of the island by tonight. The telephone service in Havana was greatly curtailed today. Americans Believed Safe. The American consulate, the American Club and leading hotels thus far [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] My By Written Ex NOTE personally by articles will second articl Leviathan, a THE days choose days, w Of can, in fitting a of dress, to wea But, of co life. I owe my holiday abr [?] artists, musicia me, interest me The other dream. I want who has remai door something by one thing o unreachable go If I am a America, where where so many My Spanis had to give it tached to each take her with She is so how to entertai as I, but her sp such a short fe All sorts o cause I am leav I am struc cans. There is ing me. Each even have of saying to certain joke possible! But it bec longer time-o ing in other co
EUGENE DEBS DIES IN FAMILY'S MIDST
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POLITICAL ACTIVITY OF KLAN DISCLOSED
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