3 QUAKES TERRIFY SAN FRANCISCO AND OTHER COAST CITIES
WATSON, FROM BED IN HOSPITAL, DENIES KLAN PACT CHARGE
CUBAN HURRICANE DEATHS PASS 650 AS DAMAGE GROWS
The Evening Star's front page for Friday, October 22, 1926, led with three Associated Press reports. From San Francisco came word of three early-morning earthquakes, an hour apart, that sent people on the central California coast into streets and parks, broke windows and stopped clocks but caused no reported injuries; Santa Cruz seemed hardest hit. From Indianapolis, Senator James E. Watson, testifying from a hospital bed to Senator James A. Reed's campaign funds committee, flatly denied any deal with Ku Klux Klan leaders over seating Texas Senator Mayfield. From Havana, belated reports put the hurricane's dead above 650, with ten towns wiped out, 6,500 people homeless, sugar mills and cigar factories wrecked and damage nearing $100 million, alongside early word that the Bahamas were safe.
LIST OF KILLED IN CUBAN STORM GOES ABOVE SIX HUNDRED
BROWDER KILLING WILL BE THRESHED IN CIRCUIT COURT
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page for October 22, 1926 led with Governor W. W. Brandon's proclamation, issued at the request of an Alabama committee of bankers, farmers and agricultural leaders, setting aside the week beginning October 25 for cotton relief: growers were urged to pool the current crop for orderly marketing and to cut the next planting drastically, in a movement headed by Edward A. O'Neal. An Associated Press dispatch from Havana described the hurricane that had struck Cuba on Wednesday: a death list the headline put above six hundred, 6,500 homeless, ten or more towns destroyed, damage near $100 million, a hundred ships sunk or badly damaged and about fifty seamen missing. Locally, Sheriff Robert C. Phelps charged a pilot with manslaughter in the Browder homicide and insisted on moving the case from military to civil authorities, while a chemist reported probable human hair and no blood stains.
This London, Ontario evening paper of October 22, 1926 carried a wire report on a morning of earthquakes around the San Francisco Bay region that sent hotel guests into the streets, some in nightclothes, but injured no one; the worst it found were cracked walls, stopped clocks and slight damage to a Santa Cruz resort hotel. A report on the hurricane that had just crossed Cuba put the death toll at 650, estimated 200 dead and 1,600 injured in Havana alone, listed more than 300 dead at Batabano, where the storm first struck, and gave town-by-town figures and expected damage of nearly $100,000,000. Locally, a London Township farmer charged with keeping liquor for sale said a motorist whose car had broken down left the alcohol at his farm as security for a loan; the magistrate reserved judgment.
The Vossische Zeitung of 22 October 1926 reported by cable from New York that President Coolidge had called Mellon to the White House to work out America's answer to the recent free-trade manifesto; Treasury circles expected Mellon to call its idea sound for Europe but inapplicable to American tariff policy. A commentary regretted that the manifesto had found little echo and that its own signatories had broken ranks within 24 hours. Under the heading "Rhineland and Thoiry", the Rhine Province authorities appealed for restraint after several clashes between occupation troops and the population. In a signed column, Hans Jürgen v. Kleist argued that most of the German nobility had failed its leadership mission since 1918 by refusing to accept the new state.
No Czechoslovak Entry into the Steel Cartel for the Time Being.
The Neue Freie Presse of 22 October 1926 led with an editorial on the change of government in Vienna, praising the courteous farewell and welcome speeches. It credited the outgoing chancellor Rudolf Ramek with completing the Geneva programme and ending Austria's financial tutelage, and noted his remark that close ties with Germany must stay within the treaties. It reported Ignaz Seipel calling Ramek his friend and denying that he had pulled the strings from behind the scenes, Vice-Chancellor Waber's forecast that a joint German-Austrian penal code would reach parliament next spring, and Education Minister Schmitz's words on guarding a people's highest treasures. Telegrams reported that about thirty left-wing French Radical-Socialists under Léon Meyer were threatening to break away after the Bordeaux congress. They also reported that Czechoslovak ironworks had failed to agree on dividing their national quota and had adjourned talks on joining the international steel cartel.
The Prager Tagblatt of 22 October 1926 put Czechoslovak politics side by side with the new European steel cartel. In a signed column, “R. K.” attacked the steel pact between German, French, Belgian, Luxembourg and Saar producers. He argued that behind its peace-pact image it would let heavy industry charge consumers a private “war indemnity” as large as France's income from the Dawes Plan. The Senate report covered the debate on the government statement. The German National Socialist Jesser complained that the cartel had been formed with no regard for Czechoslovak industry. Hilgenreiner spoke for the three German parties that had just entered the Švehla cabinet and called German ministers only a promise, not the fulfilment, of German demands for equality. A third report described Andrej Hlinka's rapturous welcome at Prague's Wilson Station. There he declared loyalty both to the Republic and to the Pittsburgh Agreement while his party weighed whether to join the government.
The Journal de Genève's front page for 22 October 1926 dealt with trade, public finance and French politics. In an editorial signed W. M., the writer argued that the moment was right for a renewed push toward freer trade. He recalled that the hopes of the 1920 financial conference had run into political, financial and economic obstacles, and said Franco-German rapprochement had reduced the political ones. J. M. set out how Geneva could trim its 1927 budget, estimating that cuts to civil servants' salaries could save 900,000 francs and perhaps 1 million. The paper's Paris correspondent, held up in southern Brittany, reluctantly turned to the Radical Party congress just held at Bordeaux.
This reading of Politika for 22 October 1926 covers parts of two pieces. In a signed column on controlling financial institutions, Dr. M. Nedeljković links a push for stronger statutory and administrative oversight of banks to the general spirit of Fascist Italy. He describes the regime as trying to subordinate social life to government directives, and he gives the compulsory corporations of employers and workers as an example. The second piece, the third instalment of a series titled 'Before 29 May 1903', describes the bustle at court while King Alexander Obrenović struggled to find a government willing to carry out his marriage to the widow Draga Mašin, at a time when the public still knew nothing of it.
When the Mowinckel government decided to let Handelsbanken continue.
Two doctors have demanded that Chief Physician Johan Scharffenberg be expelled from the medical association.
The banner of total prohibition.
Aftenposten's page of 22 October 1926 was dominated by the impeachment court. It printed in full the record of a Finance Ministry conference on 30 September 1924, read out in court the day before, at which the new Mowinckel government's finance minister, Arnold Holmboe, recommended that the struggling Den norske Handelsbank keep operating, even though the bank's own representatives, Bratlie and Throne Holst, were sceptical. According to the paper, the bank suspended operations two weeks later. The page also reported that two doctors had asked the Medical Association to expel the temperance campaigner Johan Scharffenberg. During the prohibition referendum campaign, Scharffenberg had said at a meeting in Levanger that doctors carried on a trade in prescriptions. An editorial mocked the prohibitionist paper Folket for raising "the banner of total prohibition" after the defeat, arguing that total prohibition would again threaten fisheries and shipping.
On the Action of X-Rays on Normal and Diseased Tissue
Petition to the Council
Institute for Workers' Education
The Leidsch Dagblad's local news page of 22 October 1926 carried three substantial reports. Dr. D. J. Steenhuis took up a lectureship in radiology at Leiden University with an inaugural address arguing that X-ray diagnosis had outpaced X-ray therapy and that the biological action of radiation on tissue was still not understood. Cinema owner J. Diks appealed to the city council against a permit condition forbidding any change to the facade of Breestraat 31, which he had bought to turn into a first-class cinema, insisting that the street was now a shopping street and that he would only merge two windows. And at the Leiden branch of the Instituut voor Arbeidersontwikkeling, Mr. De Klerk of The Hague urged workers to learn Esperanto as a neutral auxiliary language for international labour contacts, drawing on his own experience as a trade-union board member.
Fighting Broke Out East of Jiaxing Yesterday at Noon
8th Division's 30th Regiment Moves to Su-Shan
Chen Yi's Important Statement
On 22 October 1926 the Shibao led its military and political news with the clash between Sun Chuanfang's Allied Army and Xia Chao's Zhejiang troops at Bridge No. 68, twelve li east of Jiaxing on the Shanghai–Hangzhou route. A 9 p.m. report described a three-hour exchange of fire with no clear result and small, equal casualties, while a 6 p.m. report relayed an unconfirmed claim from Sun's side that Jiaxing had been taken and Xia's men were falling back toward Wangdian, with the telegraph to Shanghai cut. The page also carried a Xuzhou telegram saying Sun had named Chen Yi civil governor of Zhejiang, a detailed account of two troop trains taking 8th Division units from Nanjing to Suzhou, and the opening of a statement from Chen Yi to the press about rumors in Shanghai.
List of Books Sold on Commission by This Paper's Publishing Department
The World Daily of Beijing on 22 October 1926 promoted bound monthly volumes of its literary supplement, edited by Peking University professor Dr. Liu Bannong. The advertisement praised their fine printing, about 120 pages and more than 150 pieces per volume, and an equal balance of learning and enjoyment, and it listed Volume 1 contents such as Indian fables, a short play, poems and diaries. A lawyer announced that the board of the Beijing Securities Exchange had engaged him to recover money owed to it, giving debtors one month from 15 October to repay principal and interest. The paper's publishing department also listed books it sold on commission, priced from 0.15 to 0.50. This reading covers these three items and leaves the page's medicine advertisements and Sibu Congkan prospectus unread.
This page of Santiago's La Nación for 22 October 1926 set reading matter beside commerce. "A Mother's Story" opened on a prosperous farm in a Virginia village, worked by Raimundo Stone with the help of his happy, close-knit family. "A Weak Man", a story signed by Pierre Billotey, showed Mr. Valney sighing with envy at a neighbour's pretty maid until a voice from the kitchen berated León over milk boiling over. An advertisement from Saavedra Bénard & Cía. Ltda. invited farmers, on the occasion of the Animal Exhibition, to see its permanent display of farm machinery, above all the Deering brand, at Catedral 1063.
The Australians Want to Push Argentina Out of the British Meat Market
THE ARGENTINE TEAM IS OUTSTANDING
FESTIVITIES FOR THE PLAYERS MULTIPLY
Crítica's page of 22 October 1926 carried an Associated Press cable from London reporting that Australia's government was said to be behind a proposal, due before the Imperial Conference, to build seven fast refrigerated steamers that would cut the Southampton–Fremantle run to 22 days and let Australian meat compete with Argentina, which the cable said supplied more than two-thirds of Britain's meat. On the sports side, Agencia Austral relayed the Asunción paper La Tribuna's blunt verdict on Paraguay's crushing defeat by Argentina at the South American Football Championship in Santiago: a weak defence and forward line, players in poor physical condition and a magnificent Argentine side. A further dispatch listed the theatre gala, banquet, reception and garden party planned in Santiago for the visiting delegations.
The antithesis between Italian directives and the plans of international finance
A letter from Count Volpi to the Head of Government
The improvement of the franc
This Trieste front page of 22 October 1926 was dominated by money. A Rome dispatch insisted that the Italian bankers and industrialists who signed an international manifesto for freedom of trade had only been asked for formal adherence and had not helped draft it, rejecting Milan reports to the contrary and casting the affair as Italian policy against international finance. Finance Minister Volpi's letter to Mussolini claimed the internal public debt had fallen by almost 5 billion lire in the quarter to 30 September, crediting the transfer of 90 million Treasury dollars to the Bank of Italy and a drop in ordinary Treasury bills, while the external debt stayed tied to the American and British war-debt settlements and the Morgan loan. A Paris dispatch described the franc's sharp rise against sterling and panic selling by holders of foreign currency, adding that the lira had moved ahead of the franc on the road to revaluation.