PRESIDENT’S RIGHT UPHELD IN OUSTING OF POSTMASTERS
REED SCORES WALB FOR INDIANA SLUSH FUND ALLEGATIONS
TWO GIRAFFES COMING TO ZOO; THIRD DIED BEFORE SHIP SAILED
The Evening Star's front page led with the Supreme Court's decision in the Myers case, in which Chief Justice Taft's opinion upheld the President's power to remove postmasters and other executive appointees without Senate consent and voided statutes that had been read to deny it. From Kansas City came the resumed Senate campaign-fund inquiry into Indiana, where Joseph Myers Jr. of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association dismissed as “poppycock” Republican chairman Clyde Walb's charge that the group's propaganda aimed to defeat Senators Watson and Robinson over their World Court votes. A lighter dispatch from Boston reported that Hi-Boy, the giraffe Washington's children had sent an expedition to Africa to fetch, had landed with an unexpected companion among 2,000 animals.
Exhibits in Place for Inspection of Alabama Products
Surgeons Will Oppose Poisonous Gas Warfare
The Advertiser's front page carried three very different stories. From Chicago, the AP reported that Vice-President Charles G. Dawes used a tribute to Thaddeus Kosciusko, the Polish hero of American liberty, to argue that the primary system in many places lets an interested minority rule in place of constitutional representative government. At home, the paper announced that the Alabama State Fair would open at noon with brief ceremonies led by Governor W. W. Brandon, its exhibits finally in order after days of noisy construction. From Washington came word that the 3,500-member Association of Military Surgeons had backed the American Legion's fight against the Geneva protocol's ban on poison gas, calling gas more humane than other weapons, while the State Department said it would still urge the Senate to ratify.
The Vossische Zeitung of 25 October 1926 reported the opening of the first Feme murder trial before the jury court at Landsberg an der Warthe. A driver, a druggist and a merchant stood accused of trying to poison Richard Jahnke, and the merchant was said to have used threats to force the druggist into supplying the poison. A quoted press commentary called it ridiculous to declare the policy of Locarno, Geneva and Thoiry dead merely because the Conference of Ambassadors was again discussing military control and irresponsible journalists on both sides of the border were trading conditions. From Moscow, the paper reported that the joint plenum of the Soviet party's Central Committee and Central Control Commission had warned leading members of the opposition, barred Zinoviev from Comintern work, removed Trotsky from the Politburo and struck Kamenev from its list of candidates.
Civil war and the disorganization of the railways in China
"GENEVA A HUNDRED YEARS AGO"
This front page of the Journal de Genève carried André Maurois's essay on Jules Renard's Journal. Maurois contrasted it with literary confessions that either keep only the flattering truth or, as with Byron, Rousseau and Dostoevsky, slander their authors, and praised Renard for wanting to distort himself as little as possible. A news report described China's railways as nearly ruined by civil war and persistent anarchy, with Peking almost cut off from the south, the Peking–Shanghai line abandoned and trains running like caravans without timetables. A notice offered readers a limited-edition subscription premium, Genève il y a cent ans, at 16 francs on Holland paper or 50 francs on Japon Impérial.
This partial reading of Politika's 25 October 1926 issue covers three items. A signed editorial by M. P. M. examined why the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had failed to win a seat on the League of Nations Council, setting out the Covenant's distinction between permanent seats held by the Great Powers and non-permanent seats that other states win in Assembly elections. A recollection signed by the widow of General Cincar-Marković, the prime minister killed in the 1903 coup, claimed that his government had kept 7,000,000 dinars in the prime minister's office safe to pay for urgently ordered Krupp guns. A gossip column joked that the sugar found in a sick assistant minister came from the Čukarica refinery.
Property relations between Norwegians and foreigners on Svalbard settled.
Why Svensson did not shoot at the police dogs and at his other pursuers.
Complaint about the referendum in Telemark.
Aftenposten's page of 25 October 1926 reported that the Danish Svalbard Commissioner, Professor Kr. Sindballe, had spent the previous week in Oslo negotiating with the Norwegians and foreigners claiming land on Svalbard, and reminded readers that claims he did not recognize, or that other occupants contested, would go to arbitration in Copenhagen. The paper described the end of the manhunt for Svensson, the man it called the sheriff's murderer: after he shot himself in a forest near Skolleborg farm, armed men walked home in silence, and the headline promised to explain why he had never fired at the police dogs or his pursuers. A third item reported a complaint to Telemark's Committee against Prohibition that in a Fyresdal polling district the ballots for the spirits ban lay beside the ballot box while those against it lay at the far end of the table.
THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHURCH-HISTORICAL SOCIETY S. S. S.
ENGLAND.
DANCE EVENING “THE POPULAR JASZ”
The Leidsch Dagblad's front page of 25 October 1926 marked the 25th anniversary of the Leiden church-history society S. S. S. It recalled how Prof. Pijper gathered four theology students in his study on 24 October 1901 to found a society for studying the history of Christianity and publishing important documents, following the example of Moll in Amsterdam and Fredericq in Ghent. The society began with 16th-century writings. A British news item reported Lord Derby's offer, made in a speech at Leigh in Lancashire, to mediate in “the dispute”. It quoted his hope for a peace that would satisfy both sides and his admission that a self-appointed go-between can do more harm than good. A local notice said that the proceeds of a dance evening, “The Popular Jasz”, would go to the paper, and praised the young musicians who played from 8 to 12.
This partial reading of the Shibao for 25 October 1926 covers three advertisements and notices. The Commercial Press's advertisement for the Sibu congkan described the rare editions behind its facsimile titles one by one, stressing Song printings, texts fuller than other editions, and copies said to be better than those used for the imperial Siku collection. An electrical goods firm announced that its new Shanghai branch on Nanjing Road opened that day, with gifts for every visitor. Five lottery-bond bureaus, including the Cishan (charity) bureau, jointly put off their A and B prize draws for one month, citing the political situation and telegraphed requests from colleagues in other ports, and promised to hold the draws earlier once peace returned.
This page of La Nación of Santiago for 25 October 1926 carried no news, only a large store advertisement split into boxes by type of goods. The groceries-and-liquors box offered pâté de foie, apple and pear marmalade, mussels, petit-pois, Santa Vittoria liqueur and Cinzano bitter. The box for ladies listed handkerchiefs, needle books, pins, celluloid hairpins, lace, braid, ribbons, ornamental combs and a cream for footwear. The miscellaneous box offered writing pads, envelopes, Lyra pencils, fountain pens, small paint palettes, glue, blotting paper and drinking straws. The page sold these goods as part of a 'Gran Semana del Peso' (Great Peso Week) sale.
PARAGUAYAN WAR MINISTER EXPLAINS THE FORMOSA INCIDENT
THE BELGIAN FRANC WILL BE STABILIZED AT THE RATE OF 174.31 TO THE POUND
TIRES SHOULD BE USED AS LONG AS THEY WILL TAKE PATCHES, THEY SAY IN THE U.S.
This front page of the Buenos Aires daily Crítica for 25 October 1926 carried one regional report and two foreign ones. Paraguay's war minister denied that Paraguayan soldiers had clashed with Argentine settlers in Formosa. He said the troops had been chasing cattle rustlers who stole livestock in Paraguay, and the paper added that eighty head were seized from them. A cable reported that Belgium would stabilize its franc at 174.31 to the pound the next day, when a hundred-million-dollar stabilization loan went on the market at 7 percent interest plus 1 percent amortization, repayable over 30 years. From the United States came advice to keep tires in use for as long as they would take patches. E. G. Holt of the Commerce Department's Rubber Division warned that foreign governments, encouraged by the success of the rubber monopoly, were trying similar schemes with camphor, coffee, nitrate and other American imports.