DEATHS PUT AT 300 IN LUZON TYPHOON; DAMAGE MILLIONS
Italian Cabinet Bans "Ridiculous" Names for Babies
The Evening Star's front page of November 8, 1926 carried three Associated Press dispatches. From the Hall-Mills murder trial in Somerville, N.J., it reported that witness Robert Ehrling placed Jane Gibson, the "pig woman," on her mule in De Russey's Lane on the murder night, along with two cars, one of them apparently a Ford sedan carrying a lone "man with a mustache." From Manila came an estimate of 300 dead in southern Luzon after Saturday's typhoon, tidal wave and floods, with Batangas hardest hit and telegraph lines still down. From Rome, the AP wryly reported a Fascist cabinet decree barring "ridiculous, shameful or subversive" baby names and forbidding "nobodies" from giving their children the names of famous people.
Family Cremated When Kerosene Is Poured Into Stove
Wayne B. Wheeler Declares Prohis Won Clear Victory
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page of November 8, 1926 carried an AP dispatch from Somerville, New Jersey, on the Hall-Mills murder trial: special prosecutor Alexander Simpson personally escorted his ailing star witness Jane Gibson, the "Pig Woman," by ambulance from the Somerset hospital to Jersey City over the protests of a hospital physician who said she could not testify for weeks. A report from a dairy farm near Nashville described how a cattle foreman poured coal oil into a small heater, setting off an explosion that set his house on fire and trapped his family. From Washington, Anti-Saloon League leader Wayne B. Wheeler claimed dry victories in Ohio and Delaware in the previous week's election, saying Delaware voters had defeated candidates who wanted whisky available on prescription.
The Vossische Zeitung's front page of 8 November 1926 reported that the Paris political police were about to wind up, for now, their questioning of Ricciotti Garibaldi, whom the headline branded fascism's agent provocateur in the Catalan separatist affair. The police said semi-officially that he had broken no French law and could not be charged, but would probably be expelled. A second report described Piłsudski's new press decree, which threatened heavy fines or prison even for unintentionally spread false news or rumours about the state and its officials, so that newspapers could print little beyond official communiqués. A third item said that Austria's telegraph and telephone employees, organised in the Technical Union, would begin passive resistance on Tuesday and strike on 15 November unless the government met their demands.
Fascist Demonstration against the Prince-Bishop of Trento
The Neue Freie Presse of 8 November 1926 opened with an editorial lamenting that Austria could not catch its breath: months of conflict with public employees had only just ended in an agreement that the civil-service organizations accepted, and now the Technical Union was threatening to strike. A correspondent's telegram from Athens reported that Greece's parliamentary election had passed off quietly and relayed Prime Minister Kondylis's statement that a republican majority was assured, with republicans expected to win about 180 of 280 seats. A report taken from the Tiroler Anzeiger described Fascists outside the palace of Prince-Bishop Endrici of Trento shouting "We want you!", and the bishop's reply that he would resign if the Vatican so instructed.
This Geneva front page mixed literary portraiture, classical scholarship and economic reporting. Edouard Chapuisat's column on the Prince de Ligne presented the soldier-prince as an advocate of Anglo-French reconciliation, of disarmament and of a single union of nations kept by a police force rather than an army, and cited his biographer in calling him a godfather of the League of Nations. A column signed J. Ds. introduced the diatribe, the popular and practical moralizing philosophy that ran from Antisthenes to Bion. A correspondent's report explained how Germany's big banks came through the mark stabilization crisis under the Reichsbank's credit restrictions, while industry, short of working capital and shut out of the domestic market, turned to foreign lenders.
Aftenposten's page for 8 November 1926 carried a short shipping report on the Isbjørn. The ship finished fitting out, went to Horten, had its compasses and direction-finding gear corrected, and then headed west on its way north. An editorial titled "Skindfelden" took up an interview the Russian minister in Oslo gave for the ninth anniversary of the revolution, starting with the question of how the Soviet working class was faring. From the south, the paper reported that officials meeting over the foot-and-mouth outbreak in Søgne had agreed to lift the most burdensome restrictions from Thursday morning. Cinemas, bazaars, meetings and church services could then resume, provided no new cases were confirmed.
Ricciotti Garibaldi's Conduct in France May Disturb the Cordial Italo-French Friendship
General Graziani Will Take Over the Trials for the Attempts on the Duce
THE PARACHUTE BECAME TANGLED DURING THE JUMP
Crítica's front page of 8 November 1926 led with two Associated Press cables about Fascist Italy. From Paris came word that French investigators had established links between Colonel Ricciotti Garibaldi and two Italian police officials, Commendatore Lapolla and Commissioner Sala, that his questioning had resumed, and that the affair threatened Franco-Italian goodwill. From Rome, the paper reported decrees taking effect on 15 November that made any new attempt on Mussolini punishable by death before a military firing squad, along with a semi-official plan for just three military tribunals, one under General Graziani that would try Zaniboni, Mrs. Gibson and Lucetti. A shorter item described an airman in a second plane risking his life to cut the tangled cord of Miss Chase's parachute.