DEMOCRATIC HOPES GROW BRIGHTER IN 5 WESTERN STATES
BUS COMPANY SALE IS HELD APPARENT VIOLATION OF LAW
CONTRABAND LOST; RUM ARRESTS SEEN
Less than a week before the 1926 midterm elections, the Evening Star's political correspondent predicted Democratic Senate gains in the West. He rated the party's chances brightest in Arizona, Oregon, Colorado, Oklahoma and Missouri, and conceded California, Washington, Kansas, Utah, Iowa, Wisconsin, Idaho and probably Nevada to the Republicans. Because every contested Western seat was held by Republicans, he wrote, each Democratic win would be a clear gain. In local news, the Public Utilities Commission abruptly suspended hearings on the Washington Rapid Transit Company's request for a 10-cent bus fare. It acted after the Corporation Counsel found an apparent violation of law in the sale of the company's controlling stock to the North American Company. An Associated Press dispatch reported that conspiracy indictments were expected over whisky that had allegedly disappeared after the rum ship Elma was seized several months earlier.
RECORD ATTENDANCE SET BY THOUSANDS WHO CROWD MIDWAY
Round Up 'Nuts' In Toledo Seeking To Find Slayer and Attacker of Teacher
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page of October 27, 1926, reported on Alabama's part in a Southwide campaign to rescue cotton growers. Alabama Farm Bureau president Edward A. O'Neal reported that nine counties were organizing their bankers, businessmen and farm bureaus to sign farmers up for a cotton pool and an acreage-reduction plan. The page also covered the state fair, where record crowds filled the midway and Ramer won first prize for community exhibits. A third story reported that Toledo police had ordered a roundup of people they called 'mentally deficient' after a schoolteacher was beaten to death in a way that recalled an attacker of the year before.
This Vossische Zeitung page of 27 October 1926 carried three very different pieces. Its court report said the second Landsberg Feme trial, in the Gaedicke case, had been adjourned indefinitely on its first day after the defendant, retired First Lieutenant Schulz, declared that nothing had been secret and that everything had happened lawfully and with the government's knowledge; the court cited a missing prosecution witness. A column signed 'Ma.' described a stormy first meeting of the Prussian Academy of Arts' new Section for Poetry, where the currents Arno Holz had voiced in a recent article resurfaced. Colin Ross opened an essay on the preconceptions newly arrived whites bring to Africa, contrasting the missionary view of the African as an equal 'brother in Christ' with the view that Black people are an inferior race destined to serve, a view that treats the existing division of labour as natural.
Le Figaro's front page of 27 October 1926 carried a signed historical column by Louis Barthou of the Académie française on the night of 8 Thermidor. Barthou argued that Robespierre ignored the warnings of the national agent Payan, who urged him to strike at the Committees, and that after being acclaimed he went calmly to bed at Duplay's, a sleep that cost him his life. In an editorial, Lucien Romier took up the rise in food prices after the Agriculture Minister had explained the export bans to the cabinet, and insisted that exports were not seriously to blame. A short news item, partly cut off, made fun of the former German crown prince, whom an Italian palmist reportedly told that he would be proclaimed Kaiser but would never sit on the throne.
The Vienna paper's financial page of 27 October 1926 led with an editorial welcoming the belga, Belgium's new monetary unit, which had appeared on the exchange lists of the great financial centers the day before. The editorial argued that the backing of ten gold-standard central banks, standing as godparents, gave the new money an international guarantee that it need fear no danger. A short report from Prague said the Czechoslovak National Bank had cut its discount rate by half a point to 5½ percent and listed its holdings of 188 million, 130 million of them in bills. Below, a feuilleton by Rudolf Jeremias Kreuß described how businesses collapsed in a world that traded gold for iron, iron for paper and paper for gold, leaving an army of officers, officials and merchants laid off and ruined.
L'Écho d'Alger of 27 October 1926 carried a Paris report on the cabinet meeting held that morning under Raymond Poincaré. Painlevé secured the arrangements for discharging the conscript class early so the men could help with the sowing from 29 October, the navy followed suit, and Queuille outlined measures banning food exports. A commentary on Belgium's currency explained why its first attempt to stabilise the franc at 106 to the pound had failed: the rate was over-ambitious, the plan leaked while it was being prepared, and short-term foreign debts fell due at the worst moment. The paper expected the new stabilisation by the financier Émile Francqui to do better. From Marseille came a brief court report: a Camelot du Roi who had kicked a police inspector during a scuffle outside a church was given a suspended fifteen-day prison sentence.
This page of L'Écho Annamite for 27 October 1926 opened with a signed column by "V. G." answering a Saigon Républicain article on the newly formed Progressive Union of the Annamite People. The writer granted that the article's pessimism was justified by past experience, but to the question of whether nationalism was reawakening he answered a plain "Yes!" An editorial note accepted the denial of An-Giang Sport's president that he had asked a Mrs. Thoàn to lend dresses for Tonkin flood-relief evenings, and blamed an impostor using his title. A short news item reported a street fight in Saigon's Ruelle Duranton between about ten tirailleurs and three artillerymen, which the paper put down to rivalry over prostitutes in nearby houses.
The Prague German-language daily of 27 October 1926 covered two scandals in neighbouring states and ran a leading article on Franco-German relations. On the collapsed Zentralbank, it reported that after a long debate Hofrat Stern concluded the bank's share takeover had lacked every safeguard, that the Bauernbank and Steirerbank deals had booked future profits and interest gains in advance, and that things would have gone differently had Wutte and the other major shareholders met their obligations. On the Gajda case, it carried Udržal's charge that the general had spurned the military administration's good intentions and leaked the affair irresponsibly, together with his explanation that betraying French secrets was not punishable under Czechoslovak law. An editorial signed LG., headed 'Sabotage?', opened by arguing that the rush to embrace the idea of Thoiry showed Europe now understood that its fate rested on relations between Germany and France.
On 27 October 1926 the Journal de Genève weighed three developments in post-war Europe. An editorial signed W. M. called the hundred million dollars behind Belgium's stabilisation a considerable sum that had been raised with little difficulty. It argued that by giving the new gold-based belga a value different from the gold franc, Belgium was cutting its fate loose from the French franc and accepting its losses. A news item played down hopes that Ambassador von Hoesch's meetings with Berthelot and Briand meant quick progress on the Thoiry talks, and predicted months of negotiation. A column signed J. M. backed Professor Steiger's campaign against a Swiss wheat monopoly, which it presented as a step toward State socialism that the socialists welcomed.
Politika's front page of 27 October 1926, as read here, carried the following items. In a signed column, Jov. M. Ćirković argued that nowhere in the state administration was there more confusion and chaos than over agrarian reform in South Serbia, a policy he said had gone wrong from the start and sunk ever deeper until no one could tell what it was. A retrospective piece headed 'Before 29 May 1903' recalled the blood spilled on Belgrade's cobblestones on 23 March 1903, attributing much of it to the exuberance of the youth of the day and calling it mostly innocent blood. A satirical item, 'The Mystery of the Yellow House', opened with the report that the government had held a spiritualist séance at midnight.
The Great Fraud Case from Nordland Before the Lagmannsrett.
Aftenposten's front page of 27 October 1926 led with a look at the precarious finances of Norway's municipalities. It recalled that a year earlier the Currency Commission had declared that returning the krone to par was not current policy, mainly out of concern for public finances and above all for municipal debt. An editorial attacked the committee that awards the Order of St. Olav as planless, and blamed it for forgetting artists at Den Nationale Scene's 50th anniversary. A court report from Nordland covered the fraud trial of a suspended lensmann over an 87,000-krone deficit. The accused broke down while testifying, and the case was adjourned with 11 witnesses and 2 experts summoned.
The Leiden daily's page of 27 October 1926 carried a report on research into why the city's canals stank: Miss Korswagen, after examining a large number of water samples, concluded among other things that the chlorine content of Leiden's canal water never rose high enough to affect the stench at all. A report from the Association of Women Citizens (Vereeniging van Staatsburgeressen) gave a speaker's account of Dutch marriage law since 1838, arguing that the Civil Code had stripped out the better elements of the French law and placed all power with the husband through his 'marital power'. The page also printed the municipal civil register, opening with the births of Leiden children.
This front page of 27 October 1926 set the mood before Parliament reconvened. In a signed column, Raymond Colrat predicted a quiet return. He argued that deputies were keeping silent so that Poincaré's ministry, not they, would bear the unpopularity of harsh measures, and he passed on rumours of more reforms beyond court reorganisation and limits on restaurant menus, under the refrain 'the pound falls and the cost of living rises'. A report on the cabinet council described the early release of conscripts from the 29th to help with the sowing, and Agriculture Minister Queuille's account of export bans. A dispatch from Marrakech described Resident-General Steeg's grand entry, a reception in the Sultan's Throne Room with wedding gifts for the princes, and a telegram about labour unrest in Tangier.
China Chemical Industry Society 15th Anniversary Grand Gift Offer
Mr. Liang Rengong's Yinbingshi Collected Works, Re-edited in the Yichou Year
Shanghai Bond Association Notice on Postponing the Draws of the 5 Kinds of A and B Bonds: Dongfang, Jiangnan, Zhongnan, Liji and Charity
This page of the Shibao for 27 October 1926 carried only advertisements and notices. The China Chemical Industry Society marked its 15th anniversary with a gift promotion, offering four jiao in gifts for every yuan spent and warning that only a few days remained. Another advertisement laid out the contents of Liang Qichao's re-edited Yinbingshi collected works, arranged in four collections by period of his life, plus a supplement of colophons, poetry, fiction and remarks on poetry. The Shanghai Bond Association announced that five lottery-bond offices had jointly postponed their prize draws because dealers in other ports had asked for a delay, citing the political situation, and said the new dates followed below.
South American Athletics Congress Approved a Definition of “Amateur”
In Chile It Is Believed Uruguay Will Not Grant the Rematch
He Tried to Enter the Tiger's Cage, but the Beast Drove Him Back Brutally
Crítica's page of 27 October 1926 reported that the South American athletics congress had adopted the latest amateur definition approved at the Prague congress. It also heard an account of the case of Chilean distance runner Plaza: his government had offered him money that he never collected, and the money sat in a bank in his name while the rules remained unsettled. A special report from Chile said Uruguay's Mr. Gómez had left an Argentine proposal for a football rematch to an emergency committee in Montevideo, and that informed opinion expected it to be refused. An Associated Press wire from Houston described a North Dakota parks official who was badly mauled inside a tiger's cage until the zoo superintendent shot the animal.