STABS KILL YOUTH AFTER HIS BULLET GRAZES MUSSOLINI
BOTH SIDES CLAIM VICTORY ON EVE OF VOTING TOMORROW
My Impressions of America
The Evening Star of November 1, 1926, carried an Associated Press report from Italy: a young man fired at Benito Mussolini as he left a stadium after opening a science congress, and Blackshirts stabbed, beat and dragged the youth to death within minutes while the authorities searched for accomplices. On the eve of the midterm elections, another AP dispatch found Republicans and Democrats, wets and drys, all claiming victory, with control of the Seventieth Congress, especially the Senate, at stake and voters giving few signs of their intentions. In a signed installment of "My Impressions of America," Queen Marie of Romania described the formal presidential dinner at the White House.
ASSAILANT SEIZED BY INFURIATED MOB AND PUT TO DEATH
HARRY HOUDINI UNABLE TO ESCAPE GRIP OF GRIM REAPER; NOTED MAGICIAN DIES AFTER QUARTER CENTURY OF POPULARITY
TWIN CITIES GIVE QUEEN MARIE ROYAL RECEPTION SUNDAY
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page for November 1, 1926 carried stories from October 31. An AP dispatch from Bologna reported that an eighteen-year-old had fired at Benito Mussolini, missing his chest by a fraction of an inch and tearing his coat and sash, before a furious crowd stabbed and beat the youth to death. From Detroit came word that Harry Houdini, the escape artist famous for slipping out of straitjackets, chains and cells, had died of peritonitis after a second operation that followed surgery for appendicitis. Another story followed Queen Marie of Romania through the Twin Cities, where she used a WCCO radio broadcast to invite North Dakota farmers and their wives to meet her train and tell her about their problems.
The Journal de Genève of 1 November 1926 carried a signed report by Alex. Philadelpheus, who argued that after four excavation campaigns at Sicyon he had reached the civic heart of the ancient city. As evidence he named a temple, a Bouleuterion and a great portico standing on a high plateau above the Agora. In a literary column, Raoul Patry noted that Fernand Divoire, whose survey on God the paper had already mentioned, was now asking contemporary thinkers what they believed becomes of man after death. Another piece traced Beethoven's poverty back to the age of thirteen at the Bonn court, where musicians were treated as household servants.
This partial reading of Politika for 1 November 1926 covers three items. A piece on the M. Vapa joint-stock company recounted how the State Monopoly Administration's 1924 contract with the owner of the paper factory fell through after a year and a half, according to the owner because the Monopoly failed to meet its obligations, and how a new contract gave the Monopoly full ownership and required the first owner to leave. A second piece answered an Italian book about the rescue of the Serbian army, insisting that the French and British fleets also took part and that the late Tsar Nicholas's intervention started the transfer of troops and refugees. A third item retold a rumour-driven story in which King Milan, hearing that Karađorđević had visited Ljotić's estate, refused to give the railway to the 'rebellious' people of Smederevo.
Aftenposten's front page for Monday 1 November 1926 combined Norwegian politics, charity and foreign news. Reporting from the impeachment court trying the former Berge government, the paper explained that its Saturday evening edition had found room for the answer to only one of defence counsel Gustav Heiberg's questions to Docent Dr. Jacob Worm-Müller, and announced that it now printed every question and answer under the heading 'Secret Storting sessions'. The appeal for the 1926 Argus lottery described homes short of clothes, food and fuel and crushing unemployment, and called on the kindness of Oslo, 'the city with the big heart'. A brief report said someone of about 18 had fired a revolver at Mussolini the day before; Mussolini was unhurt, the crowd lynched the gunman, and Mussolini left by special train for Forlì.
This Leiden front page of 1 November 1926 carried a signed music column by H. W. H. introducing Darius Milhaud to local readers as one of the young Parisians disturbing musical peace after Debussy, with a regretful aside that a planned local performance of Honegger's Pacific had fallen through. A report from an education conference gave the closing theoretical remarks of Prof. R. Casimir, who argued that the many school reforms of the previous quarter-century shared a common theoretical basis. A notice from the paper's management urged readers to read about the loss of the Katwijk logger KW 148 and to send donations through the paper's giro account or the Amsterdamsche Bank.
A Tremendous Fire Breaks Out in Brussels in a Pharmaceutical Depot
300 Redskins against 1 Negro
This front page of Le Petit Matin for 1 November 1926 led with Marcel Huart's political column. Huart argued that the government still could not set a date for the Chambers to reconvene because it first needed to know where the parties stood, even though it wanted the 1927 budget finished before the end of December. A news report described a huge fire in a newly built reinforced-concrete depot of the Centrale Pharmaceutique de Belgique in a crowded Brussels district: residents fled in their nightshirts, four people were injured and the damage was put at over 10 million francs. A short wire item from Montana used the crude racial language of the time to tell of a Black man accused of theft who shot two police officers and was killed after 300 Native Americans were called in to burn him out of a barn.
Chileans and Argentines draw in yesterday's big match
THE CAPTAINS' VIEWS
Changes in the Chilean side
La Nación's sports coverage dealt with the draw between Chile and Argentina at the Campos de Sports de Ñuñoa during the South American Championship. The main report opened with the buzz before kick-off, as fans compared players man for man and imagined moves that ended in Chile's favor. Chilean captain Arellano called the result very satisfying because his side had played almost the whole second half with ten men. Argentine captain Vaccaro praised Chile's vigor and determination but faulted its heavy physical play and lack of technique, blamed his own forwards for missing near-certain goals, and lamented Argentina's bad luck in the Copa América. A shorter note explained how Chile moved players back into defense and rebuilt its attack after going down to ten.
FASCIST MOBS SAVAGED THE YOUTH WHO ATTACKED MUSSOLINI
After the Attack, Mussolini Showed Great Unconcern
FOURTEEN STAB WOUNDS!
Crítica's front page of 1 November 1926 was given over to the attempt on Mussolini's life and what followed it. The lead story described in graphic terms how, within a minute and a half, Fascists hoisted a shapeless mass into the air, and that mass was the young boy accused of the attack. A shorter column reported that Mussolini showed great unconcern afterwards: on reaching Forlì he was greeted by a Fascist demonstration and chatted calmly with officials and relatives. At the foot of the page, an editorial headed 'Fourteen stab wounds!' argued that the press should record not the attack on Mussolini but the other assault behind it, the one that grieves free peoples.