BOTH PARTIES FIRE FINAL BROADSIDES AS ELECTION NEARS
WADSWORTH RACE, WITH G. O. P. SPLIT, DECLARED IN DOUBT
Local Bootleggers Now Inclose Warning With Wares Against “Cheap, Nasty Gins”
The Evening Star of October 30, 1926, led with the closing days of the midterm campaign. An Associated Press roundup cast the election as a play reaching its last act, and noted a White House denial that President Coolidge had taken sides in the Illinois Senate race. It also reported Republican nominee Frank L. Smith's defense of campaign money from utility magnate Samuel Insull, whose companies Smith's state commission regulated. G. Gould Lincoln reported that Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr.'s New York race turned on whether wet Democratic votes could offset Republican drys defecting to the bone-dry Franklin Cristman. A short local item described Washington bootleggers packing their synthetic gin with a health leaflet that condemned "cheap, nasty gins."
SIX GREAT EVENTS WITH $1,500 PURSE FOR FREE-FOR-ALL
JURY CONVICTS TWO FOR OSAGE INDIANS' DEATH IN OKLAHOMA
FACES MURDER CHARGE
The Montgomery Advertiser of October 30, 1926, carried a local report from the Alabama State Fair, where Friday had been set apart for Black school children. The paper said the crowd held up well against Thursday's record attendance, that the segregated negro building was crowded all day with visitors viewing Black exhibitors' work, and that about 5,000 Black pupils had attended. An AP dispatch from Oklahoma City reported that a federal jury had convicted cattleman William K. Hale and cowboy farmer John Ramsey of murdering Osage tribesman Henry Roan for $25,000 in insurance, imposed life sentences, and described the terror among the Osage, whom it called the richest aboriginal people in the world. A short AP item from Omaha reported that a 52-year-old man faced a first-degree murder charge after shooting a 16-year-old boy during a Halloween prank.
Le Figaro's front page of 30 October 1926 opened with Lucien Romier's essay on the renewed quarrel over classical studies. Léon Bérard's letter to Édouard Herriot had brought the question back before Parliament, and Romier left the pedagogy to others, arguing instead that the dispute pitted republican tradition against democratic equality. Achille Mestre rejected the claim that modern youth cannot meditate and invited students about to return to the Latin Quarter to a kind of spiritual retreat. Paul Lesourd described the consecration of the first Chinese bishops in a brilliantly lit St Peter's, where a huge crowd cheered as the Pope was carried in on the sedia gestatoria to the sound of silver trumpets.
This Vienna front page of 30 October 1926 carried signed columns by David Lloyd George and Heinrich Mann alongside a British labour report. Lloyd George wrote that the manifesto of international finance and industry leaders had caused a sensation, recalled an 1820 London bankers' manifesto that took a quarter of a century to bear fruit, and argued that inherited trade conditions looked outdated in the war-ravaged world. A news report quoted Thomas as calling the coal strike situation promising after union talks with Churchill, with the miners ready to consider provisional district agreements built on national principles. Mann began an essay on French and German postwar literature by noting that the young French author Henri Poulaille had dedicated a novel to him, an act he called courageous.
L'Écho d'Alger's front page of 30 October 1926 led with an editorial, 'Pour l'Algérie', that resumed the paper's September campaign against Governor General Maurice Viollette. The paper said it was keeping its promised appointment with him before the Délégations financières on 3 November. It also rejected rumours, spread after the Conseil général had elected its officers, that every quarrel would now end in a stage-style reconciliation. The same page carried an interview in which Alexandre Varenne, Governor General of Indochina, summed up ten months of work: opening administrative careers to young Indochinese, better pay and recruitment for native officials, a drive against usurers, the near-abolition of imprisonment for debt and a new popular credit body. A short Lisbon dispatch reported a young Portuguese woman said to have lived on water alone for seven years, whom scientists planned to study.
Mr. Lê-van-Gông's Lecture at the Association of Annamite Merchants and Industrialists
For the Benefit of the Tonkin Flood Victims
This issue of L'Écho annamite, the Saigon French-language daily, devoted much of its page to economic self-defence. In a signed editorial, E. Dejean de la Batie drew lessons from a recent vote, welcomed Nguyên-phan-Long's lead and urged Annamites to boycott moneyed adversaries whose power, he argued, rested on Annamite customers themselves. A report of Lê-van-Gông's lecture to the Annamite merchants' and industrialists' association proposed a gradual abstention from foreign goods that would widen as local industry grew, and insisted this was not a boycott but an act of national solidarity. A short provincial item described a committee in Phan Rang organizing amateur cải lương performances by native officials and merchants, with the proceeds going to the Treasury for the victims of the Tonkin floods.
The Prager Tagblatt of 30 October 1926 carried three items on Central European politics and economics. In a speech passage, the speaker welcomed the decision of "our German fellow countrymen" to work in parliament. He called it only a first step, but saw personal contact among the government parties and their administrative cooperation as a good basis for further rapprochement. In a signed column, David Lloyd George took up the manifesto of international financiers and industrialists. He endorsed its claim that the break-up of large political units and the new frontiers had dealt the international economy a heavy blow, and gave the example of former Austrian territory now divided among four states. A Warsaw report described a "conflict": Prime Minister Pilsudski handed Sejm Marshal Rataj a copy of the presidential decree convening the session and asked that the deputies stand to hear it read, which the papers said had never been done before.
The Journal de Genève of 30 October 1926 opened with a sharp editorial, signed J. M., answering Robert Grimm, the Bernese socialist leader who had attacked the paper in his Berner Tagwacht. The editor dismissed Grimm's claim that the Geneva staff wore French Legion of Honour ribbons and insisted on the paper's right to fight his bid for the presidency of the National Council. A column signed V. B. reflected on the coming Reformation Day and what it meant to Geneva's Protestants, and an unsigned report praised the League of Nations Secretariat for treating every question in practical, technical terms, as an introduction to the League's dealings with the press.
Politika's page of 30 October 1926 carried signed memorial tributes to two Serbian statesmen. In Slobodan Jovanović's portrait of Stojan Novaković, the 1885 appointment as envoy in Constantinople is described as making Novaković a minister of education once more, this time 'for Macedonia', at a moment when Bulgarians were already pursuing a cultural conquest of the region through their schools and bishops. A second tribute recalls how Andra Nikolić, together with Đaja and Stojan Protić, filled the newly launched paper Odjek in the reactionary climate of 1884 with fine articles and with a literary column, 'Political Fables', which the writer says meant a great deal in its day.
The Committee Against Prohibition Must Be Retained.
This Aftenposten page of 30 October 1926 carried a signed column by Director H. Grosch on nineteenth-century museums. Grosch credited the Nordic countries with leading the folk-museum movement, set Hazelius's Nordiska Museet in Stockholm and Bernhard Olsen's Danish folk museum as the models, and praised Anders Sandvig and Hans Aall as Norway's pioneers. An advertisement for Ulefos Jernværk, founded 1657, promoted fuel-saving stoves and put its low prices down to its own mines and to smelting with electricity from its own waterfalls. A large item demanded that the committee against prohibition be kept, warning 'Ola Nordmann' not to fall asleep again.
The Golden Jubilee of the Steam Oil Mill Ltd., formerly Sillevis & Rutten
The Dutch–Belgian Treaty
Destroyers for the Indies
On 30 October 1926 this Leiden daily marked the golden jubilee of the Sillevis & Rutten steam oil mill on the Lage Rijndijk at Leiderdorp. It traced the firm back more than a century, to an oil trade in The Hague and earlier mills at Vrijenban near Delft and at Nieuw-Lekkerland. On the disputed Dutch–Belgian treaty, the paper accepted Vandervelde's denial that he knew of a discussion. It still argued that Belgian minister Francqui's step was a warning to the Netherlands, whether or not his colleagues knew about it. A short naval item reported that the Navy Department's tender for two destroyers for service in the Netherlands Indies would go to the Feijenoord shipbuilding company.
A Long Letter from M. Bérard to M. Herriot on the Reform of Public Education
Note of the Day
This 30 October 1926 front page reported that the Prince of Wales, on a visit to Saint-Cyr, was made a private first class of the “First Battalion of France” in a small ceremony on the Grand Carré, and received white gloves and a casoar cap from the class’s lowest-ranked cadet, which made him an honorary Saint-Cyrien of the “promotion du Maroc.” The paper printed the opening of a letter in which former minister Léon Bérard told Education Minister Édouard Herriot that two years of major school reforms had gone ahead without any debate in parliament. A signed Note du Jour predicted that Dr. Robinson would fail to reach Mars this time, but saluted such attempts as steps toward contact in a later generation.
This partial reading of La Nación, the Santiago daily, for 30 October 1926 covers three items from the front page. A short story titled "La Bailarina" opens by introducing its hero, Evaristo Prudent, a member of the Institute of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres and of several scientific societies, who had written a famous study of ancient Egypt and was celebrated in intellectual circles. A cartoon panel bylined John Held Jr has its heroine Margarita recommend the cheap express lunches at the Fancy. A partly cut-off advertisement promises that fat people will become thin in three months with the "Hyperthermán" vaccine of a famous Dresden institute.
Argentine Pavilion at the Philadelphia Exposition Will Be Inaugurated Tomorrow
Sacco and Vanzetti Day to Be Held in Marseille Tomorrow
Today
Crítica's issue of 30 October 1926 carried an Associated Press dispatch announcing that Argentina's pavilion at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition would open the next day. The dispatch reported Argentine regret that the fair would close before many Americans could see an exhibit said to be complete and extremely interesting. A second AP item reported that Marseille would hold a Sacco and Vanzetti day and that two thousand Paris communists had demonstrated against the threatened execution of the two Italian workers. In the 'Hoy' column, the paper doubted the sporting value of a German aviator's flight from São Paulo toward Buenos Aires in a small 45-horsepower Farman and asked whether such raids still served any purpose.
This reading of Il Piccolo for 30 October 1926 takes three pieces from the page. The lead editorial, 'Forza e consenso', survives here only from mid-sentence: it praised pictures that set the 'impartiality of the photographic lens' beside intimate scenes of the leader's superhuman daily toil for the tides of citizens who trusted him and swore by him. A dispatch reported that a nearly two-hour meeting between Ambassador von Hoesch and Briand had produced nothing new, while the Paris papers complained that the Quai d'Orsay was giving out no exact information. A third report said that Charles Maurras, retried after an appeal to the Court of Cassation, had been sentenced to one year in prison and a 1,000-franc fine because his letter to former minister Schrameck amounted to a death threat.