300 BURIED ALIVE OR KILLED, TOLL OF QUAKE IN ARMENIA
SCRIVENER SUICIDE THEORY RAISED AS MURDER CLUES FAIL
HI-BOY IS NAME FOR THE GIRAFFE, AND MILDRED SMITH WINS PRIZE
The Sunday Evening Star of October 24, 1926, set a disaster abroad beside two Washington stories. An Associated Press dispatch from Leninakan reported that a Friday-night earthquake had killed or buried alive more than 300 people, destroyed half the town and left thousands believed injured, and that lighter early tremors had driven residents into the streets before the worst shocks. At home, the paper reported that, with murder clues exhausted, a coroner's jury would have to weigh whether Detective Sergeant Arthur B. Scrivener had died by his own hand. A lighter item announced that the Zoo's giraffe would be called Hi-Boy, with gold-coin prizes for Mildred Smith and the other contest winners.
STEPHENSON AFRAID TO TALK FREELY IS COMMITTEE REPORT
Saturday Night Movies Given Trial On Woman's College Campus by Societies
The Montgomery Advertiser of October 24, 1926, announced that the Montgomery State Fair would open its gates at noon on Monday, boasting that its exhibits, all already in place, were probably the most elaborate and varied ever seen at such an event in the county. An Associated Press dispatch from Michigan City, Indiana, reported that publisher Thomas H. Adams and a committee spent more than two hours questioning D. C. Stephenson, the former Indiana Klan grand dragon serving a life sentence for murder, in search of evidence for Adams's corruption charges; they came away with few admissions and the impression that Stephenson was afraid to talk freely. Closer to home, student societies at the Woman's College tried out Saturday night movies on campus, opening with Colleen Moore in "Irene" in Flowers Hall, with piano accompaniment.
This front page set foreign policy beside party politics. In a signed column, Georg Bernhard turned on those who had spent years obstructing Germany's road to Geneva and Thoiry, and who now complained that the Franco-German understanding was still incomplete. He mocked their demand for an immediate "brotherly kiss" and their talk of the Foreign Minister's "dizzy spells", and he urged readers to keep a cool head. Two shorter reports dealt with the German Democratic Party. A leaders' conference in the Reichstag building closed by unanimously adopting a resolution, drafted by Deputies Fischer and Meyer, on the party's two guiding aims. The party also planned its national congress for Stuttgart in the week after Easter 1927, with the unitary state and peasant settlement at the centre of debate.
Possible Abolition of the Direct Czechoslovak Coal Tariff via Austria.
Fur Fashion Revue
On Sunday, 24 October 1926, the Neue Freie Presse ran an essay by the Oxford classicist Gilbert Murray under a heading on eminent Englishmen and world peace. In its opening lines Murray says the world is passing through, or has perhaps just passed through, a great age of revolution: every defeated people has had a revolution since the war, some new states have revolutionary governments, and Spain, Italy and Greece have counter-revolutionary ones. A short rail report said a railway minister had explained the current shortage of coal wagons and then said the direct Czechoslovak coal tariff via Austria was unlikely to be extended. An advertisement invited readers that afternoon to a fur fashion revue with jazz, dancing and gifts for the ladies in the firm's tea salons, with advance tickets sold at Kärntnerstraße 15.
The Prager Tagblatt of 24 October 1926 carried a Berlin report that the Reich cabinet had discussed speculation, prompted by § 7 of the Hohenzollern settlement, that ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II might return to Germany; ministers judged such a return as a private citizen highly undesirable and impermissible, and the government said it had not known in advance that the clause offered him and his wife the palace at Homburg for life. A second Berlin dispatch quoted informed circles insisting that the Thoiry understandings with France still stood, provided the technical financial obstacles to German aid for France could be overcome. Beside them ran a signed column by Henry Ford explaining his five-day week: he argued that workers' leisure is neither lost time nor a class privilege and rejected a French scholar's claim that shorter hours lead to more drinking.
The front page of the Journal de Genève on 24 October 1926 carried an editorial signed W. M. on Mexico's conflict with the Catholic Church. It argued that circumstances had pushed President Calles onto the offensive, dated the hostilities to February, just after the land laws, and judged the July religious law blameworthy in spirit yet partly necessary; that law barred foreigners from clerical office. It described the interdict and the Catholic economic boycott in force since 31 July. A note signed J. M. reported that a popular movement against Robert Grimm's election as president of the National Council was spreading through every region of Switzerland. A column signed Cd. thanked the Studio for praising Swiss pictorial advertising for tourists.
Politika's issue of 24 October 1926 carried a commentary headed "The Steel Pact," printed about a month after continental steelmakers formed an international cartel. The readable opening sets the agreement against a longer rivalry. It calls it an exaggeration to name the race to produce and export iron and steel the main cause of the World War. It still insists that this race lay at the root of the Anglo-German antagonism that had developed since the end of the previous century, noting that England held first place in pig iron and steel until nearly the end of that century. The rest of the commentary and a political cartoon on the same page, a dialogue between Korošec and Radić, could not be read reliably.
On 24 October 1926 the front page of Santiago's La Nación was taken up by a large retail advertisement. Its banner promised that everyone would be amazed by "colossal" bargains on thousands of quality articles. Price lists followed, arranged by department. The tie department offered knitted silk ties in newly created patterns and colors, and "Bakelith" cigarette holders for gentlemen. The shirt department offered hinged studs for soft collars and practical Oxford collars. Every item quoted was priced at $1.00. The excerpts read here do not name the store.
On the day of the Uruguay–Argentina match at the South American Championship in Chile, Crítica printed statements from both captains. Uruguay's Nasazzi said his players were rested after their stay at Cauquenes, predicted a hard game won by a minimal margin, and said his team could not even think of defeat against its 'eternal and worthy rival'. Argentina's Vaccaro refused to make a forecast and called the sides evenly matched. He said two new men would not weaken his team and predicted that the defenses would decide the match. A running report then described the teams coming out, written in the present tense: a band played tangos and both national anthems, the Paraguayan referee Miguel Barba came on with Paraguayan players as linesmen, and the two captains exchanged flowers.
The Exceptional Character of the Celebration of the Fourth Anniversary of the March on Rome
French Measures against the Italian Exiles
Calls to Party Discipline
Il Piccolo of 24 October 1926 prepared readers for the fourth anniversary of the March on Rome. It quoted a confederation's notice that, under a Grand Council resolution of 7 October, 28 October would be a holiday for all activity and that factories must close, with further word possibly to follow on whether the lost work could be made up. From France it reported that Interior Minister Sarraut, invoking a 5 October circular on foreigners' obligations, had banned La Riscossa, an Italian-language communist paper published in Paris, for a campaign of agitation and provocation. A party-discipline item backed a deputy's dismissal of 1926 squadrismo as ridiculous and announced that expulsions would become final only when published by name in the Foglio d'Ordini, beginning with a first list that opened with names from Catanzaro.