DRY AGENTS USE SMOKE SCREEN TO HALT REVENUE CHIEF; 4 FIRED
STORY OF WOMAN WITNESS ATTACKED BY HALL DEFENSE
NIGHT CLUB'S BOOTHS WILL BE DOORLESS
The Evening Star's front page for November 6, 1926, led with a Treasury embarrassment: prohibition agents had stopped Charles R. Nash, assistant commissioner of internal revenue, as he returned from a fishing trip, and the Treasury responded by forcing out its chief enforcement officer in Washington, firing three agents and warning dry agents nationwide against such tactics, while the dismissed men vowed to fight for reinstatement. An Associated Press dispatch from Somerville, N.J., followed the Hall-Mills murder trial as defense counsel cross-examined Mrs. Mary Demarest about seeing defendant Henry Stevens in New Brunswick the morning after the killings. Closer to home, Washington police held back a license for the new Valencia night club until it took the doors off 16 booths around its dance floor.
Heflin Will Fight Seating of Smith And Vare in United States Senate
WITNESS REFUTES CHARGE OF STATE IN DAVIS TRIAL
The Montgomery Advertiser of November 6, 1926, reported that Major H. H. C. Richards, commander of Maxwell Field, would send Lieutenant A. J. Lehman before a court-martial. Lehman was being held over the October 19 death of Frank G. Browder, Sr., who was killed by a swooping aeroplane, and Richards made the announcement after a Montgomery grand jury returned no indictment. In a piece by Atticus Mullin, Senator J. Thomas Heflin vowed to fight the seating of Senators-elect Vare of Pennsylvania and Smith of Illinois. He said their spending turned Senate seats into goods sold at auction, and that next to them Newberry had been a mere piker. A short item from the Davis trial reported a weekend recess, and the judge's order that bailiffs closely guard the jurors while they attended Saturday's football game.
The London Evening Advertiser of 6 November 1926 led local readers with the end of a year-long council fight over London's street railway: the question had left the City Council's hands, and voters would decide on 6 December between a new franchise agreement and municipal ownership. From Lucan came a vivid crime report of two young bandits who blew two firms' safes early in the morning, held a proprietor at gunpoint, entered a hardware store, broke into two gasoline pumps and escaped with $160 and a full tank, while the headline added that Goderich was hit too. From Brantford, the paper reported that the local Conservative Association president attacked the prohibitionist Rev. Ben Spence at the convention that nominated Rev. W. G. Martin, weeks before Ontario's December 1926 'temperance election'.
The Neue Freie Presse of 6 November 1926 led with an editorial greeting the end of the civil servants' dispute as a "peace settlement" that at last let Dr. Seipel truly govern as chancellor, arguing that a government without an obedient administration was a knife without a blade. From Britain it reported talks between the TUC General Council, the miners' leaders and Prime Minister Baldwin, with union leaders already speaking of a provisional agreement that still needed the approval of the Cabinet and the coal owners. The page also carried an obituary of the Tyrolean painter Albin Egger-Lienz, recalling the sensation his huge "Ave Maria after the Battle of Bergisel" caused at the Vienna Künstlerhaus in 1897.
Colonel Ricciotti Garibaldi, arrested in Nice, was an agent provocateur in the pay of the Fascist police
The Plot against the Spanish Government
A moving ceremony
L'Écho d'Alger gave its front page to the unravelling of a conspiracy on France's southern border. A Nice dispatch reported that Colonel Ricciotti Garibaldi, an officer of the Legion of Honour, had been held for thirty-six hours by Commissioner Leluc on suspicion of provocation and of betraying his political friends, and that both his homes had been searched; the headline went further and called him an agent provocateur paid by the Fascist police. A Perpignan dispatch described how the Catalan separatist leader Macià and his staff, shadowed by the Sûreté, were arrested without resistance at the villa Denise in Prats de Mollo and driven to the prefecture. A third, largely illegible item described a moving scene involving Macià and a prefect in an old barracks.
The 6 November 1926 front page of L'Écho annamite carried an open letter signed by René Maran. It blamed the man it was attacking for the Kompong-Chnang affair, in which Résident Bardez was killed, borrowed Governor-General Alexandre Varenne's condemnation of impunity for violence against defenseless inhabitants, and accused Bardez of collecting taxes by holding innocent people captive and letting women be raped. A historical column by Ung-Hoe followed Phan Thanh Gian's 1863 embassy from its imperial audience to a solemn audience with the queen in Madrid, escorted by Commandant Aubaret. A short news item reported that Mussolini was preparing a bill to reorganize the Sûreté Générale and introduce the death penalty for attacks on the King, the royal family, the Regent or the head of government.
On 6 November 1926 the Prager Tagblatt carried a Rome report on what Mussolini's cabinet had decided the day before. According to the report, all passports issued so far would be void from 9 November, anyone who tried to leave Italy without a proper passport, or helped someone do so, faced severe penalties, and there was an obligation to shoot at people leaving with unauthorized passports. An unsigned editorial compared the mood in Italy to Goethe's Egmont and to Dutch towns under the Duke of Alba. It argued that the foolish Bologna attempt on Mussolini had come in very handy for Fascism. A third item dismissed Colonel Macià and his 132 Catalan conspirators, arrested by French police at the Spanish border, as muddled idealists and adventurers who had more money than weapons. Its headline named Ricciotti Garibaldi as Mussolini's secret agent.
This page of the Journal de Genève carried an editorial on Switzerland's dwindling wheat self-sufficiency. It argued that home production had fallen from 300 days of bread a year in 1840 to just 60 before the war, and it put the main blame on the growth of the non-farming population. A Paris correspondent weighed rumors that the Italian ambassador had sounded out Aristide Briand about broad Franco-Italian talks, and he noted Rome's complaint that Paris would talk with everyone but Italy. A causerie looked back at Jean-Baptiste Féronce von Rotenkreutz, the Brunswick finance minister who cut the duchy's debts largely by hiring out its subjects to Britain as soldiers against the American colonies.
This partial reading of Politika's page for 6 November 1926 covers three items. In a signed column, the socialist writer Dragiša Lapčević rejected a Mr. Kojić's claim that "in every dictatorship the first prisoner is the crown", arguing from the Obrenović rulers' coups that Serbian monarchs had kept the whole situation in their own hands and swapped cabinets at will. A tribute to Prota Milan Đ. Đurić recalled the priest charging the Turks with a cross and a rifle, his medals and Takovo Cross for bravery, and his later, costly networks among Serbs of both faiths in Ras, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A cartoon titled "Ministerial Proletariat" joked that the country could breathe easier once several ministries were abolished.
This Aftenposten page of 6 November 1926 carried a signed column titled "New Art" by museum director Jens Thiis. Thiis opened by calling the Dresden exhibition the first international art exhibition since the war, and he presented it as an attempt to pick up where the 1912 Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne had left off, which he praised as the fullest survey of modern art in its day. Advertisements framed the page. Ulefos Jernværk promoted its stoves, ranges and fireplaces as cheap because it mined its own ore and smelted it with power from its own waterfalls. Centralbanken for Norge, then under public administration, advertised general banking, silver storage, safe-deposit boxes and asset management at its Drammensveien branch.
REQUEST FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MONUMENTS ORDINANCE.
Bohemian String Quartet.
NOTICE.
This Leiden daily's front page mixed civic affairs, music and news about the paper itself. Its lead item printed the closing argument of a petition asking the municipal council for a monuments ordinance: buildings on a list could not be demolished or altered without the municipal authorities' special permission, given only after a Commissie van Waakzaamheid had been heard. The petitioners admitted this protection was incomplete, but said it cost the town nothing and hardly troubled owners. A concert review noted that the Bohemian String Quartet was nearing its 500th Dutch concert, thirty years after a thinly attended first appearance in The Hague. A notice from the management announced a new 32-page rotary press with stereotyping equipment and marked it with a 32-page issue.
Was Colonel Ricciotti Garibaldi Playing a Double Role?
Financial Draws
This front page of Le Petit Matin for 6 November 1926 is read through three pieces. A signed column by Paul MXY. warned that the 'golden age' being promised would in fact be a 'barbarism of gold', in which a tiny minority holding the metal would impose the harshest slavery on the peoples. A news report asked whether Colonel Ricciotti Garibaldi, grandson of the Italian hero, had been playing a double game: it said the Sûreté had been tipped off by an official Italian source about one Fernando Scivoli, allegedly planning to kill Mussolini, who had gone to Garibaldi's villa in Nice and been introduced by the colonel to republicans as a man on a secret mission. A financial notice listed the winning numbers in a draw of the Foncier 1879 bonds, with top prizes of 100,000 francs.
Zhang Zuolin's Assumption of the Presidency Takes Concrete Shape
Urging the Propertied Class to Awaken
This partial reading of the Tonga Ilbo for 6 November 1926 covers the opening lines of two pieces. A news report said the Fengtian faction had begun preparing repairs to the Presidential Palace, work expected to take fifty days, and its headline presented this as a sign that Zhang Zuolin's assumption of the presidency was taking concrete shape. An editorial urging the propertied class to awaken began by observing that the cry of the propertyless masses' movement was worldwide and had already reached Korea. It then mentioned Britain's Labour Party and a Russian party whose name is partly illegible, at which point the legible text breaks off. Most of the page's small print cannot be read, so neither piece is followed beyond its first lines.
Close Union Between Maciá and R. Garibaldi Confirmed
Ricciotti Garibaldi Confesses He Was a Spy for Mussolini
Don't Shake Hands!
Crítica's front page of 6 November 1926 carried, near the top, the collapse of Francesc Macià's Catalan conspiracy on the French border. An Associated Press cable from Paris reported that the French interior minister was personally directing the inquiry into the plot prepared at Perpignan and had declared that the evidence showed a close link between Colonel Maciá's conspiracy and Ricciotti Garibaldi. A second item, from Agencia Austral, reported Garibaldi's confession that he had spent eight months heading Italian minister Federzoni's secret service in France and had received 400,000 francs, and noted that he remained in the hands of the secret police. Lower on the page, an illustrated notice urged readers to give up the 'absurd custom' of shaking hands and pointed them to an article on page 6.
Diário de Lisboa's page of 6 November 1926 carried items on shipping to Brazil, a new League of Nations appointment and a new Brazilian president. An editorial signed J. S. argued that a Portuguese-flag shipping service to Brazil had reached a decisive phase. It said Portugal's flag could reach Brazilian ports within months if a study commission reported quickly, and it put its hopes in Mr. Passos e Sousa. A short, playful item greeted the League's new under-secretary, Albert Dufour-Feronce, as heir to a League that Charlemagne had supposedly imagined, carrying the plan forward by persuasion. A news note announced that on 15 November, the anniversary of the Brazilian Republic and the day Washington Luís took office, an exhibition of goods from industries Portuguese settlers had built in Brazil would open at the Sociedade de Geografia.
Il Piccolo's front page of 6 November 1926 carried the Fascist government's response to the 31 October attempt on Mussolini in Bologna. It printed articles of the new law for the defence of the State, under which citizens and foreigners who commit its offences abroad are tried in the Kingdom even if already tried elsewhere, and judges may replace the death penalty with life imprisonment. It reported the Grand Council's statement on the nation's indignation and its call for local reprisals to stop, and it explained how police confino, until then used for common crimes, was being extended to political offences, with island penal colonies at Pantelleria, Tremiti, Ustica and Lipari.