G.O.P. TO ORGANIZE CONGRESS THROUGH EYELASH CONTROL
SEVEN CROWNED HEADS SEE ASTRID AND LEOPOLD MARRIED
3,081 TRAFFIC ARRESTS.
The Evening Star's front page of November 4, 1926, read here through three items, led with G. Gould Lincoln's tally of the midterm Senate results: final returns gave the Republicans 48 seats against 47 Democrats and one Farmer-Labor senator, a margin so thin that Vice President Dawes's tie-breaking vote would settle the organization of the Seventieth Congress even if Minnesota's Senator Shipstead sided with the Democrats. An Associated Press dispatch from Stockholm described the civil wedding of Sweden's 20-year-old Princess Astrid to Belgium's Crown Prince Leopold before the crowned heads of four nations, with a church ceremony to follow in Brussels the next Wednesday. A local item reported 3,081 traffic arrests in October, the largest number of them for parking, including one for a horse with no weight and one for a bicycle with no bell.
PRISON KEEPER AND 3 CONVICTS ARE SLAIN IN FIGHT FOR LIBERTY
SEEK BURIAL PLACE FOR J. BARLEYCORN
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page of November 4, 1926 led with AP returns from the midterm elections. The wire story reported that Democratic gains had wiped out most of the Republican Senate majority, leaving a small group of insurgents elected as Republicans holding the balance of power, and that Republican control of the House was also under threat. From New York came an account of a gun battle in the yard of the Tombs prison, where three prisoners trying to shoot their way out were killed after killing a keeper and shooting the warden. A lighter AP item from New Orleans followed federal officers driving truckloads of seized whiskey around the city in search of a lot where $300,000 worth of evidence liquor could be destroyed.
This partial reading of the London Evening Advertiser for 4 November 1926 covers three datelined news items. From Hamilton, Canadian Press carried a statement by Hon. Dr. Carr, a member of Premier Howard Ferguson's cabinet, who said he was surprised by the premier's announcement in the morning papers that he meant to stop home brewing in Ontario, and that the cabinet had never considered interfering with a custom he described as endorsed by the federal government. From Ishpeming, Michigan, the Associated Press described widows and orphans keeping an all-night vigil at the mud pit over the Barnes-Hecker iron mine, where the paper put the number of trapped miners at 52 after a swamp gave way above the shaft. A lighter item from Paris reported an 'Anti-Pillory Society' urging men to give up stiff collars even with evening dress, though its membership lists were not yet public.
A Separatist Movement Was to Break Out Today in Catalonia
Le Figaro's front page of 4 November 1926 combined political argument with breaking news. In a signed column, François Coty charged that two unnamed writings handed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand ready-made reasons to postpone or narrow his coming talks with Mussolini, arguments Coty linked to pleasing the Cartel. Lucien Romier's editorial on the American elections warned Europeans not to expect precise changes toward them, since American voters decide on local, personal or propaganda grounds. A news report described a Catalan separatist rising planned for that very day, with arrests that included a bomb-carrying revolutionary, and insurgents who even brought doctors, pharmacists with dressings and a flag-bearer.
Differences Sharpen in the Civil Servants Question
Anti-French Outrages in Benghazi and Tripoli
Bomb Attack on the Militia Barracks in St. Peter
On 4 November 1926 the Neue Freie Presse led with an editorial on the deadlocked civil servants question: after several weeks of uninterrupted negotiations, the writer judged, the two sides stood further apart than ever and no way out was yet in sight. A correspondent's telegram reported anti-French violence, describing how a band of Fascists broke into the French consulate in Benghazi and forced the consul to hoist the Italian flag. A second telegram covered a bomb attack on a Fascist militia barracks at St. Peter: the police had found no trace of the attackers, Fascist reinforcements had been brought in from Adelsberg, and senior militia leaders had come to inspect the scene.
French Police Uncover a Vast Plot Against the Spanish Government
After the Attempt on Mr. Mussolini
The Great Long-Distance Flights
This front page of L'Écho d'Alger, carrying dispatches dated 3 November 1926, led with a Paris report that French police had broken up a large conspiracy by what it called Spanish revolutionaries and anarchists, who had set up headquarters and stockpiled arms in France to overthrow Primo de Rivera and the Spanish monarchy; the principal militants were said to have been seized as they crossed the border. A Rome dispatch added grim detail on the Bologna attack on Mussolini: the alleged shooter Zamboni was shot down by a carabiniere, then stabbed and strangled by fascists in the crowd, while police had made two thousand preventive arrests and searched houses along the route before the Duce's visit. A short aviation item reported Noguès leaving Saint-Raphaël for the Persian Gulf and putting in at Ajaccio because of bad weather.
The 4 November 1926 front page of L'Écho annamite combined an appeal, a crime report and a press quarrel. An editorial signed E. A. praised a friend of the paper who, citing the proverb “Heaven helps those who help themselves” and a Vietnamese equivalent, turned an estate and villa on the Côte d'Azur into an Institut Franco-Annamite de Toulon for young Annamites. A news report described how French consul Robert and administrator Cadet, driving from Longzhou toward Hanoi, were ambushed by pirates 23 km out of town, and how an armed party sent by the Chinese authorities found Robert shot dead beside the road. In a signed column, Paul Marchet denied L'Impartial's story that a woman had beaten him in Mytho, and hit back with stories of fistfights involving the rival paper's own staff.
The Prager Tagblatt's front page of 4 November 1926 carried three foreign reports. A United Press dispatch from Washington read the first returns of the US midterm elections as a Republican setback. It counted a Senate split 46 to 46 with one Farmer-Labor senator and argued that seven independent Republicans would hold the real balance. A second report followed the diplomatic fallout after Fascists stormed the French consulate in Tripoli and after incidents at Ventimiglia, which drew the sharpest protests from the French ambassador in Rome. A third described Blackshirts of the New York Fascist branch wrecking the offices and composing rooms of the anti-fascist papers Il Martello and Il Nuovo Mondo in reprisal for the latest attempt on Mussolini's life.
This front page of the Journal de Genève, dated 4 November 1926, carried three pieces on European politics. An editorial signed W. M. said Italian alarm at the repeated attempts on Mussolini was understandable, and called him, despite his imperial rhetoric, a rampart of European peace and order. It then asked why every attack turned Italian crowds against France. A column signed R. P. argued that the Swiss public would never accept Robert Grimm, a revolutionary leader of 1918, as President of the National Council, and cited his party's recent manifesto on undemocratic means. A correspondent's dispatch from Poland read Marshal Pilsudski's visit to the Radziwill tomb at Nieswicz as a sign that monarchist aristocrats supported him, and quoted the worldwide rumours that he wanted a crown.
This partial reading of Politika for 4 November 1926 covers three items. In a signed column, V. Wilder recalled a night in 1903 when a young Jesuit, by the light of a tallow candle, called Bishop Strossmayer “a great man but a small bishop”, and wrote that the sneer made him grasp Strossmayer’s greatness. A short item revived forgotten figures on Russia’s war effort: a front of more than 3,400 kilometres, with one soldier for every metre and a half. A report from New York on the US elections counted 46 Democratic and 43 Republican senators, expected six Progressives to give the Republicans a majority, and read the vote as a plebiscite on Prohibition rather than a political contest.
Crown Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid are married today in Stockholm.
Big fire in Bærum last evening.
What has happened?
Aftenposten's issue of 4 November 1926 led with the wedding of Belgium's Crown Prince Leopold and Sweden's Princess Astrid, held that day in Stockholm. The paper's own correspondent described a reception at which Stockholm's mayor, Director Cederborg, gave a long French speech over champagne welcoming the kings, above all the Belgian one. The front page also reported a fire the previous evening at the Aug. Herm. Francke and Dr. Barnardo's children's home at Wøien in Bærum: the glow turned the western sky blood-red and set the newsroom telephones ringing, and the large outbuilding burned. A leader titled "What has happened?" turned to the impeachment case then under way against Abraham Berge's former government, attacking a general secretary for failing to see that the Storting and the court of impeachment are separate, and that the facts, not party resolutions, should decide how the case proceeds.
The Leiden daily's front page of 4 November 1926 reported a lecture on the Roman catacombs. The speaker used a map of Rome and the different types of tombs to argue that early Christian paintings and sculptures show life understood, as the Gospel teaches, as a struggle that ends in victory. The page also listed the people who welcomed former Governor-General D. Fock home: a former minister, members of parliament, Vrijheidsbond representatives, colonial and press societies, a folk-singing deputation and Hague councillors. A short item said the government had moved a large stock of gunpowder out of the cellars of Loevestein Castle and would stop using the cellar under its Maas Tower as a munitions workshop.
Thus Was Queen Marie Consecrated, Henceforth a Sister of the Sioux Women
Le Petit Matin's front page of 4 November 1926 set colonial politics beside a border quarrel on the Riviera and a royal spectacle in America. In a signed column, Paul Lafitte welcomed Resident General Lucien Saint back with gentle irony, comparing him to an ancient Roman who claimed Rome went wherever he went, and having him declare that Tunisia was wherever he was. A Nice dispatch reported that the Ventimiglia affair had spilled over into Beausoleil, where French veterans returning from a cemetery wreath-laying came to blows with an Italian procession wearing fascist badges. A report relayed through London described Queen Marie of Romania being made a Sioux sister, with a war bonnet, a new name and a blood-mingling rite with Chief Red Tomahawk.
FRENCH AUTHORITIES TODAY ARRESTED COLONEL RICCIOTTI GARIBALDI IN NICE
THE FASCISTS DO NOT COME OFF BEST
Crítica's front page of 4 November 1926 set anger at a disaster at home beside political turmoil in Europe. An editorial headed "No es azar" blamed the Ferrocarril Central Argentino for the previous day's railway catastrophe. It called the disaster the result of negligence and irresponsibility, said the paper had predicted it after earlier accidents, and rejected in advance the company's likely excuses of staff error and unforeseen circumstances. A cable from Nice reported that French police had arrested Colonel Ricciotti Garibaldi over the recent Catalan plot and the attack on Mussolini. A short Italian report described a shootout at Vada, where a Fascist attempt to invade an opposition member's home left one Fascist dead and four wounded.