Youth’s ‘Amen’ Too Loud in Church, He Is Jailed and Fined
The Evening Star of November 9, 1926, reported from the Hall-Mills murder trial in Somerville, New Jersey, where the morning session turned almost entirely on the Rev. Edward W. Hall's calling card, found near his body. Under cross-examination, two State fingerprint experts held to their testimony that a print on the card belonged to the defendant Willie Stevens. A late bulletin reported that a windstorm had blown down the public schoolhouse at La Plata, Maryland, and that many children were believed buried in the ruins. Early word on casualties conflicted: a telephone operator had heard of injuries but no deaths, while the town hotel spoke of as many as 20 children killed. A lighter Associated Press item told of a young man fined $20 for shouting "Amen" too loudly during a sermon; the court remarked that a proper amen depends on fervency, not volume.
BROADWAY SHARES HONORS WITH LANE IN HALL-MILLS TRIAL
TAX REFUND PLANS PROVIDE FOR CUTS IN 1927 PAYMENTS
STATE EXPECTED TO CLOSE CASE IN TRIAL OF FORMER FLAT TOP WARDEN
The Advertiser's front page on November 9, 1926, followed two criminal trials and a tax debate in Washington. From Somerville, N.J., it reported that testimony in the Hall-Mills murder trial of Frances Hall and her brothers had moved from De Russey's Lane to Broadway: a New York detective insisted, against vestryman Ralph Gorsline's earlier testimony, that Gorsline had told him he saw Henry Stevens in the lane, and another witness had seen the slain rector and choir singer together on Broadway in 1921. From Washington it reported that President Coolidge and Secretary Mellon had agreed on a credit of about 12 1/2 per cent on income taxes due in 1927, after Mellon argued that an immediate refund would be too costly to administer, while congressional leaders voiced doubts. In Alabama, convict Tom Wilson testified against former Flat Top warden Davis, describing an overheard telephone order to beat Knox and Knox begging for his life near the laundry vat where the state says he died.
The Technical Union's Ultimatum Deadline Extended.
From Athens to Constantinople.
The Neue Freie Presse of 9 November 1926 opened with a scathing editorial on Ricciotti Garibaldi, portrayed as a descendant who had inherited nothing from his illustrious forebear but a taste for conspiracy, and who had now been exposed as taking money from the Fascist government he claimed to oppose. A news report described three hours of talks at the Finance Ministry, where Finance Minister Kienböck, flanked by the heads of all the federal enterprises, received the Technische Union, whose ultimatum deadline was extended. In a signed feuilleton, Alice Schalek argued, in her account of a journey from Athens to Constantinople, that the Greek–Turkish population "exchange" had sounded like a simple cure for national quarrels while hiding bitter misery.
The Prager Tagblatt of 9 November 1926 carried reports on politics and public order from Italy, Spain and Germany. From Rome it summarized a new police bill due before the Italian parliament, about ten of whose articles dealt with foreigners: they would still have to register and might have to appear before the police in person, and anyone letting a foreigner use property or real estate would have to notify the police in writing. From Spain it described a conspiracy reaching across the country, above all Barcelona and Madrid, to overthrow the dictatorship and the monarchy and set up a federal republic, naming Blasco Ibáñez as its president and Leroux as the would-be premier. From a German trial it reported a striking turn in the morning session. The indictment rested on Lieutenant Hahn's earlier testimony that in June 1923 First Lieutenant Schulz, angry at Sergeant Gädicke's munitions dealing, had said Gädicke "must disappear" and that Klapproth would take care of the rest.
The Journal de Genève of 9 November 1926 carried a report by P. B. asking whether Poincaré, described as the absolute master of French monetary policy, meant to revalue the franc or only stabilise it. The writer accepted that the Prime Minister could not reveal his plans without exposing them to speculation, but still wanted some general indication. A signed editorial by J. M. attacked the Swiss Socialist congress, which had backed Robert Grimm's line over Charles Naine's by 190 votes to 101. It warned bourgeois deputies that electing Grimm President of the National Council would show they had lost all self-respect. A column signed Be. marked Eugène Ritter's ninetieth birthday, praising the precise replies he gave to inquiries, complete with references and page numbers, and his ornate handwriting, still clear and firm.
The desperate economic situation of Norway's farming, forestry and fishing population.
Plan.
Oslo decides to introduce the newly revised hymnbook.
Aftenposten's front page of 9 November 1926 led with the "desperate" economic situation of Norway's farming, forestry and fishing population. In the excerpt, a speaker introduces a meeting whose heavy programme starts with the rural economy, with committee reports to come, among them one on the currency and the discount rate chaired by Asmund Enger. A short editorial, "Plan.", argued that leaving each distressed municipality to fend for itself would achieve nothing, and demanded quick, methodical action with the initiative taken by the central administration. A church report described Oslo's parish councils meeting in the great hall of Logen, at the invitation of Our Saviour's parish council, to discuss the new revised hymnbook, which the headline said the city had decided to adopt.
Power Without Control: This Is What the Police Have Become!
ARGENTINE CYCLISTS ARE IN PERU
Crítica's front page of 9 November 1926 led with a fraud inside the Buenos Aires police. The paper estimated the losses at 500,000 pesos and reported that the scheme surfaced when the pension fund issued membership cards, revealing many non-employees on the police rolls; a bookkeeper named Díaz admitted taking part and said the practice went back more than 20 years. An editorial turned the scandal into an attack on the police's secret funds, accusing the force of spending them to hunt workers and anarchists, to shadow Hipólito Irigoyen and to fill its cells with honest workers. A short wire from Arequipa reported that the cyclists Egidio Samer and Antonio Francescutti, riding from Buenos Aires to New York, had reached Peru.
The Chamber will complete its business in a single sitting
This page of Il Piccolo followed the last steps of Fascist Italy's emergency legislation. One report said the Chamber would pass Justice Minister Rocco's bill the next day in a single sitting, hearing the rapporteur and then approving the government text, which the paper praised as an example of the 'Fascist style'; the bill would let the government issue implementing rules by royal decree. Citing Il Tevere, the same report named a General Graziani of the Militia as president of the tribunal that would try those accused of plots against Mussolini, with five Militia consuls still to be chosen. A second item summarised Federzoni's report on the new consolidated public-security law, which separated police from criminal justice but gave administrative police bodies preventive powers such as admonition and forced residence. A shorter item listed Council of Ministers approvals on hydraulic works in the north-east and on relief services after earthquakes and other disasters.