Big Wet Majority Seems Assured in Illinois Contest
My Impressions of America
Dr. Mann Arrives in Capital With 1,700 Wild Animals
The Evening Star of October 26, 1926, carried G. Gould Lincoln's dispatch from Chicago predicting that Illinois would probably elect the Republican dry Frank L. Smith to the Senate on November 2 while voting heavily wet in a referendum asking that the Volstead Act be amended to let each state define intoxicating liquor; the Anti-Saloon League had told drys to stay away from that vote as meaningless and unconstitutional. The page also printed the opening of a column signed by the Queen of Rumania, describing her sad farewell to the liner Leviathan and her misty first sight of the Statue of Liberty, and a report on Dr. Mann's return to Washington with 1,700 wild animals, in which his assistant Saidi rode overnight beside a nervous leopard.
TWO PLANE PILOTS ORDERED RELEASED BY GENERAL HAGOOD
THOUSANDS ATTEND BRILLIANT EVENTS ON OPENING DAY
FAMOUS PAINTER DIES
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page of October 26, 1926 reported an Army case at home: General Johnson Hagood, commanding the Fourth Corps area, ordered the release of Maxwell Field lieutenants J. C. A. Dennison and Clair Stroh, who had been held on voluntary manslaughter charges after Confederate veteran Frank G. Browder was killed by an airplane on October 20, while Lieutenant A. J. Lehman stayed under arrest pending further investigation. The paper also described the opening of Montgomery's fair, announced by factory whistles at noon and formally opened by Governor W. W. Brandon, with school children admitted at reduced rates the next day. An AP dispatch from Great Falls, Montana, reported the sudden death of Charles M. Russell, the "cowboy artist," and his wish to be carried to his grave in a horse-drawn hearse rather than a motor car.
The London Evening Advertiser of October 26, 1926, led local readers with an election-law tangle: chief election officer Allan Dymond ruled, after a week of doubt, that districts annexed to the city since 1912 belong in the London North riding, settling the status of nearly 2,000 voters left uncertain by the wording of the 1925 Redistribution Act. From Niagara, the paper reported Princess Ileana and the visiting queen's party crossing the steel arch bridge into Canada on a sightseeing drive, after the mayors of both Niagara Falls had welcomed the queen at breakfast. Henry Somerville's dispatch from Britain described miners' leader Cook still free to speak, an explosive mood in many districts, snow in London and ill-clad children queuing at gas works to buy coke in paper bags.
The Vossische Zeitung of 26 October 1926 reported the verdict in the first Feme murder trial at Landsberg an der Warthe: a driver, Reinhold Thom, and a druggist, Alfred Rathsman, each received two years' imprisonment over an attempt to poison Lieutenant of the Reserve Richard Jahnke, while a merchant was accused of forcing the poison's purchase by threats. A second piece dismissed talk of a "failure" of the Thoiry policy, noting that Briand and the German ambassador had agreed to resume talks and that Ambassador von Hoesch was preparing the ground in Paris. A column by the Vienna professor Karl Brockhausen relayed the Italian envoy Auriti's claim that the planned changes to German surnames in Trento were limited to two groups and largely harmless.
The Neue Freie Presse of 26 October 1926 carried an editorial asking whether Austria's great parties could achieve a domestic 'Locarno': not soon, it conceded, but eventually a lasting community built on tolerance, respect and recognition of the opponent's strength, held together by the economic forces that shape parliament. A financial report listed nine foreign central banks, the Austrian National Bank among them, joining credits for the Belgian National Bank, and said a Swiss bank was expected to join. In the feuilleton Franz Farga told how Casanova's horoscope in Grenoble, and his loan of travel money, set Anne Coupiers de Romans on the path to becoming Louis XV's lover.
The Prager Tagblatt of 26 October 1926 carried three foreign reports in the passages read here. A fragment presented as a "counter-manifesto" by US Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon argued that Europe could be compared with America only if each of the 48 states had its own tariff, budget, currency and language, and it rejected the idea that Washington would change its tariff policy for the sake of European reconstruction. From Brussels the paper reported that decrees in the official Moniteur had put Belgium on a gold currency, fixing the franc at 175 to the pound and making the new belga the unit quoted on the exchange. From Vienna it gave the final results of the Austrian army's elections for soldiers' representatives: the Social Democratic Militärverband kept a large majority, while the rival Wehrbund gained ground.
The Journal de Genève of 26 October 1926 led with an editorial by W. M. on Vilno. It argued that the disputed city mattered less for its own sake than for its location, as a fuse the Soviet government could light in Eastern Europe, and it began to recall the centuries of Polish–Lithuanian federation behind the rival claims. Colonel Feyler announced that a federal commission would meet in Bern on 3 November to study reform of Swiss preparatory military instruction, which the Swiss Officers' Society had requested. A report on the Ricken tunnel disaster described a test train with the same locomotive and fuel stalling at the same kilometre 4. It concluded that the briquette fuel was too weak for the load and that gas-protection apparatus might have saved the crew.
Politika's editorial "Give Us a Man" opened with a wartime parable rather than with Belgrade politics. It recalled how the British armies in France, supplied directly from home, had been put in mortal danger by inadequate railway lines, and how England, a nation that learns from its own mistakes, searched among its people for the most capable person equal to the crisis. England found him in Geddes, whom the paper described as a director of the "North-Western railways." The same page also carried a cartoon of Prime Minister Nikola Uzunović, whose government was then reshuffling ministers.
This Aftenposten page of 26 October 1926 leads with an editorial on the Court of Impeachment convened against the former Berge government. It mocks a Venstre paper for boasting that it demanded the trial on the very day the state deposit in Handelsbanken became known, and argues that after a year and a half in which the Venstre and Labour press had the floor, it is now the court's turn to speak. A tribute marks Sam. Eyde's 60th birthday on Friday, hailing him as the creator of Norsk Hydro, a man who gave a livelihood to 25,000 people where 1,000 had lived and created two towns. A short news item lists the addresses and wreath presented at the matinee for the jubilee of Den nationale Scene in Bergen.
Bazaar of the Association for Combating Tuberculosis in Leiden.
The Resurgence of Rome in the Netherlands.
Total Abstinence among Railway and Tramway Personnel.
The Leidsch Dagblad of 26 October 1926 reported the opening of a bazaar run by Leiden's Association for Combating Tuberculosis: the board, the organising ladies' committee and invited dignitaries attended, and chairman Dr. J. Bruining welcomed them in a speech the paper printed at length. A report on a lecture titled "The Resurgence of Rome in the Netherlands" followed the speaker's account of the restoration of the Catholic bishoprics without consulting parliament, the protests that failed partly because of Thorbecke, and Thorbecke's description of the nation as Dutch rather than Protestant or Catholic. A third report described a temperance evening for railway and tram staff, where a cocoa and chocolate advertising film was shown and promotional packets were handed out.
The Shibao page of 26 October 1926 carried war news from the north and from the Shanghai area as the Northern Expedition advanced. A Jinan wire reported that Zhang Zongchang convened a military conference when Chu Yupu arrived. The Zhili and Shandong commanders agreed to issue a joint circular telegram and send troops to aid Hubei. Both armies would get a month's pay, and the troops would march south once Chu was back in Tianjin. A survey listed where units of the allied army's 7th Division were stationed in Songjiang and Shanghai, down to the temples and barracks they occupied. A further Jinan item reported that Mei Lanfang, Yang Xiaolou and other opera stars were kept on to perform Farewell My Concubine and other plays on the military governor's new stage.
THE SOUTH AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONGRESS MET LAST NIGHT
Other details of the meeting
This Santiago daily of 26 October 1926, printed while the South American football championship was being played in the city, carried the three short items read here. One reported that René Borjas, Uruguay's centre-forward, was confined to bed after being badly hurt early in Sunday's match, was ruled out of the coming games and was due for an X-ray because his swollen ankle hid the extent of the injury. A second, from the South American football congress that met the night before, quoted the Uruguayan delegate Gómez accepting a postponement so that delegations could consult their associations, while urging that the matter be settled at this congress. A third noted that two military bands would attend, as at every match of the championship.
I WILL BE VERY GLAD TO SEE FIRPO IN THE U.S., SAYS TEX RICKARD
UNDER THE FURY OF THE CYCLONE, THE OLD SEA DOGS KNEW HOW TO GO DOWN LIKE HEROES
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This Buenos Aires page mixed boxing, a disaster at sea and university politics. The promoter Tex Rickard said he would be delighted to see Luis Ángel Firpo and Uzcudum box in the United States, calling them colorful fighters, though he added that Firpo and Jack Dempsey both needed hard training to recover their lost form. A report on the British freighter Eastway, lost in a hurricane, gave the survivors' account: the storm struck suddenly, the captain was swept overboard at 16:00, the coal cargo shifted, waves carried off all but one lifeboat, and the ship sank shortly before 19:00. The 'Hoy' column mocked plans to limit medical admissions to 400 students in 1928, suggesting that next year's entry rules would need a police certificate of good conduct.
Il Piccolo's front page of 26 October 1926 combined Fascist economic triumphalism, British labour news and royal reportage. A financial commentary credited the regime's policy of control, including strict discipline over money rediscounted to industry, with forcing Italians who had hoarded savings abroad to bring their capital home, and claimed that the Bank of Italy was seeing "fabulous sums" return, some in unexpected names. A fragmentary report from Britain covered a parliamentary debate on the ban on A. J. Cook's miners' meetings: the minister left responsibility for meetings and processions to local chiefs, and Mines Minister Lane Fox promised regularly published official coal prices to curb speculation. From San Rossore came an account of the King and Queen getting out of their car during a storm to help two soldiers haul a drifting motorboat ashore, after which the King had the men driven back to barracks in his own automobile.