REPUBLICANS WIN HOUSE; SIX STATES VOTE “WET”; SMITH VICTOR IN ILLINOIS
HALL WIDOW CALM AS MILLS MURDER JURY IS SELECTED
Mrs. Langley Only One of 19 New Woman Candidates to Be Elected to Congress
The Evening Star of November 3, 1926, carried the morning-after picture of the midterm elections. G. Gould Lincoln wrote that the Republicans had held the House, the only nationwide contest, while early returns showed the Democrats taking six Republican-held Senate seats, from Massachusetts to Arizona; the headline also counted six states voting “wet” and a Smith victory in Illinois. An Associated Press dispatch from New Jersey reported that the Hall-Mills murder trial had moved past jury selection, which took an hour and a half, as Justice Charles W. Parker conferred with counsel. A second AP item noted that only one of 19 women seeking new House seats had won: Mrs. John W. Langley of Kentucky, whose husband was in federal prison for conspiring to violate the prohibition law.
Al Smith Sweeps to Easy Victory Over Republican Opponent
Wagner and Walsh Replace Butler and Wadsworth
Pugh Testifies for Prosecution in Davis Trial
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page on the morning after the midterm elections led with Democratic successes. One story described Governor Al Smith pushing through cheering crowds at Tammany Hall to thank New Yorkers after his re-election. A Senate roundup reported that Robert F. Wagner's defeat of Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr. in New York was practically certain, that David I. Walsh had beaten Senator William M. Butler in Massachusetts, and that Democrats were ahead in Arizona, Maryland, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kentucky. Closer to home, an AP dispatch from Birmingham reported that Wiley Pugh, whose statement had set off an inquiry into convict deaths at Alabama's prison mines, spent most of the day testifying for the state against former warden Charles R. Davis, who was accused of murdering James Knox at the Flat Top prison mine in 1924.
SIX SENATE SEATS ARE LOST BY G.O.P.; HOLD IS WEAKENED
SHIPPING TIED UP BY GALES ON LAKES
Two Spotters Get Long Ride But Nothing On the Driver
This London, Ontario evening paper of 3 November 1926 reported the U.S. midterm results in a storm-at-sea metaphor: the Republicans lost six Senate seats and some of their House margin, party chairman William Butler fell to David I. Walsh in Massachusetts, and Senator Wadsworth was 'buried' under Al Smith's New York landslide. A weather item said a northwest gale halted shipping out of Cleveland, leaving three boats at anchor outside the breakwater, while Lake Ontario was spared. A local fragment told of two liquor 'spotters' who took a long taxi ride, said they wanted no booze after all, and were charged $25 for the trip back to London.
Le Figaro of 3 November 1926 set economics beside literature on its front page. Lucien Romier argued that France's present calm rested on a temporary balance between two opposing currents: old savings flowing back into Treasury bonds, prized for their tax exemption, and rising prices pulling more banknotes into circulation. He warned that whichever prevailed would bring either a commercial crisis in the spring or a relapse into inflation. André Maurois sketched a strikebound Northumberland coalfield, its chimneys cold and its football pitches crowded, with an engineer blaming the fall of continental currencies for making British coal too dear to mine. Hugues Delorme contributed a satirical poem imagining a secret poisoner slumbering in the heart of the pharmacist Monsieur Homais.
L'Écho d'Alger's front page of 3 November 1926 led with an editorial on a proposed sinking fund for the state-built steamers that shipping companies ran under lease between France and Algeria. The paper said the Algerian assemblies were being asked to vote 2.5 million francs a year towards replacing the eight "Gouverneurs généraux" liners then in service. A Rome dispatch on the Bologna attempt on Mussolini reported demonstrations in his honor across Italy and several thousand congratulatory telegrams, including ones from Poincaré, Austen Chamberlain, Briand and the Italian royal family. A short, partly illegible Paris item told of a one-legged night watchman whose wooden leg caught fire while he lay at a work site, leaving him badly burned on the thigh.
This issue of L'Écho annamite led with a signed column by "E. A." arguing that Indochina lacked schools beyond the primary level. The writer said the Collège Chasseloup-Laubat in Saigon and the Collège du Protectorat in Hanoi turned away as many pupils as they admitted, or more, every year, and that despite repeated French promises to educate the Annamese, only about a dozen young Annamese reached the baccalauréat each year. A dispatch signed "X." described China's Nationalist Government setting up provisional civil administrations in the provinces won by its armies, keeping the generals out of civil affairs, and even winning over Zhejiang's commanders. A short notice announced a new Bank of France price for buying gold coins from 3 November.
The Prager Tagblatt of 3 November 1926 carried two reports on Fascist Italy and a column on schooling at home. A Rome dispatch quoted Arnaldo Mussolini, the Duce's brother, writing in Il Popolo d'Italia that cold deliberation should replace the Fascists' disorderly cry for revenge, and that striking without mercy was the best way to stop 'the criminals'. A Paris report relayed French accounts that Fascist militia, newly sent from Genoa to strengthen the border guard, attacked French railwaymen in Ventimiglia because some officials had allegedly kept their hats on during a pro-Mussolini demonstration. A signed column by Paul Fürstenau took up words spoken by two 'teachers', the President of the Republic and its Finance Minister, and turned to the moral foundation of all schooling.
The Journal de Genève of 3 November 1926 opened its account of the Sino-Belgian dispute by recalling that on 16 April the Chinese government had told Belgium it meant to revise the 1865 treaty's clauses on denunciation, customs tariffs, consular jurisdiction and extraterritoriality. A budget column quoted the federal government's aim of making 1927 the last step in restoring Swiss finances. It argued that the accounts would already be sound if 18 million had not been set aside for social insurance and 4 million in milling premiums had not been charged to the federal treasury. A report on Turkey explained that the hat had long marked the foreigner and the Christian, so that a photograph of a Constantinople politician in a bowler or a boater could ruin his reputation.
Politika's issue of 3 November 1926 is read here through three political items. In a signed column, Dragiša Lapčević argued that the country had a National Assembly in name only: it was not a real parliament, and since liberation and unification no cabinet had fallen in it or come out of it. A news item on rumours that the Assembly would be adjourned again quoted the prime minister's flat denial: he had heard the rumours too, but it would not happen. A third report covered Mr. Pribićević's meeting at Mr. Ninčić's. Among the topics was deputy Božović's interpellation to the foreign minister over Ceno Beg's appointment as envoy to the Belgrade court. The police had then summoned Božović at the minister's request, and the paper called this a violation of a deputy's immunity.
Aftenposten's front page of 3 November 1926 led with an editorial on the American elections. It argued that the idealism with which the United States had entered the war under Wilson had given way to materialism, with Americans praising prosperity and hoping to stay out of European politics, and it traced the change to disappointment with the peace. The page also carried a signed column by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen, who judged that Danish music held no especially marked place in European musical culture, being neither deeply rooted in folk song nor at the summit of art music. A special telegram reported that the outbuilding at the Traane farm had been deliberately burned under the supervision of a fire constable from Mandal, leaving only ashes while a fire tarpaulin kept the farmhouse safe.
This Leidsch Dagblad page of 3 November 1926 set local culture beside foreign politics and justice. A review opened by describing an austere, book-lined room at the Leiden firm of Van Doesburgh, where the graphic work of the sculptor Oswald Wenckebach could be seen. In its survey of the general situation, the paper quoted a speaker who called an early evacuation of the occupied Rhineland a crime against the fatherland and accepted an agreement with Germany only if it left the country's security and the treaties intact. A short item from Germany reported that the prosecutor in the Landsberg Feme murder trial had demanded the death penalty for Lieutenant Schulz and Klapproth over the killing of Gröschke.
Serious Incidents Break Out Again on the S.E. Frontier
A Few Moments with... in the Pas-Perdus
The Harpy Will Atone
Le Petit Matin's front page of 3 November 1926 reported a fresh flare-up on the Franco-Italian frontier at Ventimiglia. Fascists there bullied French railwaymen, threatened to sabotage French trains and marched on the French consulate with rifles and clubs, until the police stepped in and arrested a man who had got inside. In Raymond Colrat's lobby column, a Socialist deputy joked about the writers lined up for the party's coming newspaper, then warned that the congress decision to run complete lists in every department could hand seats to the right. A short dispatch from Douai announced the death sentence passed on Marie Lefebvre, who had shot her pregnant daughter-in-law.
Advance Notice of Subscription Sales: The Old-Edition Twenty-Four Histories and the Sibu Congkan Continuation
Urgent Notice from the Peking Telephone Bureau
This partial reading of the Shijie Ribao page of 3 November 1926 covers three notices from the lower part of the page. The Commercial Press advertised a second subscription for its Sibu congkan reprint series of 323 titles and 2,100 volumes, promising to hold the price set seven years earlier despite higher labour and material costs, as a gesture for its thirtieth anniversary. A second advertisement previewed a set of the Twenty-Four Histories reproduced from old editions, criticising the familiar Wuying Hall printing for missing passages and misprints, and announced a continuation of the Sibu congkan. The Peking Telephone Bureau published an urgent notice quoting an official instruction about Zhili–Shandong Allied Army scrip that it had earlier been ordered to accept in part payment.
There Are 500,000 Pesos for the Jewish National Home
Two Policemen Commit a Serious Assault in Avellaneda
Soon the Zoo's Inhabitants Will Have to Endure One Diet Day a Week
Crítica's page of 3 November 1926 set community news beside crime reporting and a lighter zoo story. Under a headline announcing 500,000 pesos for the Jewish National Home, the paper reported the 8th session of the Zionist Congress, where delegates debated the reports of the federation's general secretary and department heads. A second item denounced a fresh assault by provincial policemen in Avellaneda, this time on two minors, coming soon after Dock Sud policemen had shot and kicked two workers. In the zoo piece, Dr. Holmberg argued that U.S. protection had made bison plentiful enough to cost only 900 dollars a pair, though the zoo had no room for them yet.
An article by Arnaldo Mussolini on the measures in defence of the Regime
The investigations of the Bologna police
Young Fascist barbarously killed by deputy Lussu in Cagliari
Il Piccolo's front page of 3 November 1926, three days after the shot fired at Mussolini in Bologna, was dominated by the regime's response. It carried an article by Arnaldo Mussolini arguing that Fascism admits no legitimate anti-Fascism and no 'anti-national' newspaper, that the struggle is one of 'life or death', and that Fascism therefore cannot be bound by normal procedures. A report on the Bologna police inquiry said that Anteo Zamboni had carried, besides a pistol, a small bottle of what seemed to be vitriol, supposedly to fend off those who would seize him. From Cagliari, a Stefani dispatch described the funeral of Battista Corrà, a young Fascist the paper said had been barbarously killed by deputy Emilio Lussu, ending with the crowd's triple ritual answer of 'Present!'.