HALL’S LOVE DIARY IS ADMITTED OVER DEFENSE PROTEST
NAVY FLYERS MEET AIR ACES OF ITALY FOR SCHNEIDER CUP
Woman Reporter Stowaway Aboard Byrd Polar Plane
The Evening Star's front page of November 13, 1926 carried three stories from a crowded autumn of news. From the Hall-Mills murder trial in New Jersey, the Associated Press reported that the court admitted a so-called love diary to show the feeling between the slain minister and the choir singer, overruling defense protests that the defendants had never seen it. Frederick R. Neely previewed that afternoon's Schneider Trophy seaplane race at Hampton Roads, where six planes, three of them Italian, would start after weeks of American preparation that had cost two lives. A short AP item told how reporter Marjorie Cope stowed away on Byrd's polar plane Josephine Ford during a 30-mile hop from Fort Worth to Dallas.
Both Teams in Good Shape for Contest; Fun Starts 2 P.M.
Charles R. Davis Not Guilty, Says Jefferson Jury
The Montgomery Advertiser of November 13, 1926, reported a luncheon at the Montgomery Country Club where the Alabama Power Company entertained 35 eastern bankers and investment officials, and where Governor W. W. Brandon and Governor-elect Bibb Graves promised every investor fair treatment and protection. From Birmingham, an AP dispatch told how a jury, after less than an hour, acquitted Charles R. Davis, former warden of the Flat Top prison mine, of murder in the 1924 death of convict James Knox, a case the paper said had pushed the convict lease system into the Democratic primary. The page also previewed the national champion Crimson Tide's 2 p.m. game against Florida at Cramton Bowl, the capital's last big game of the season.
The front page of 13 November 1926 led with a column by an unnamed "eminent expert" warning against a fiscal mistake. Its subject was a bill, introduced more than two months earlier by the Ramek government, that would let the Austrian Länder tax alcoholic drinks to cover at most nine million schillings a year in extra costs from the unemployment insurance amendment, and the parties had fought over it for two months. Ann Tizia Leitich wrote from New York under the title "Ecce Amerika!", opening with the scattered cries of warning and indignation about a wave rolling over the "so-called civilized world". A market report described a sharp Friday rise of the French franc, with Paris quoted at 17.30 in Zurich and the pound down to 145½ on the French markets.
The Prager Tagblatt of 13 November 1926 reported from Pressburg that Hlinka's Slovak People's Party had turned down the government's offer to replace the Ministry for Slovakia with a compatriot ministry in Prague. The party demanded to keep the existing ministry under one of its own members and resolved to stay out of the cabinet while negotiations continued. The same page followed the scandal around Prince Cyril of Coburg's lawyers. It described how the lawyer Dr. Eisler, before his arrest, had written to Minister Hodža accusing him of improprieties. The cabinet first decided to prosecute and then dropped the matter once Eisler signed a pledge of silence. A column headed "Stránský's Accusations" contained a passage mocking a leading politician for accepting a declaration of honour from a man held on suspicion of a common crime.
This Geneva front page of 13 November 1926 opened with an editorial on the federal wheat monopoly. It argued that Swiss wheat growing had shrunk again after the war because heavy, stony, sloping soil and small farms kept production costs far above those of the big producing countries. A dispatch signed Th. V. reported that Italy's new laws for the defence of the State took effect at once after the latest attempt on Mussolini, and it presented each attack as a spur to tighter Fascist legislation, recalling that the death penalty had been decided after Lucetti's attempt in September. In a piece on the armistice anniversary in France, P. B. recalled the splendour of the 14 July 1919 parade and Clemenceau's piles of captured guns along the Champs-Élysées.
Politika's page of 13 November 1926 opened this reading with an editorial, "Beyond the border...". It protested that Italy had closed every primary and secondary school of "our brothers" across the frontier. It also said that a royal decree of December 1925 had banned the children's mother tongue even as an optional subject, and that the brothers were refused private schools although Italy's own laws should allow them. The page also ran a fragmentary instalment of the memoirs of Mil. J. Nikolajević. It recounts how a king tried to break with a woman linked to the opera and ran into public trouble. Beside it ran the printed transcription of a short note from the court lady Draga Mašin, who postponed an audience to the following Monday because the Queen had a fever.
This Aftenposten page of 13 November 1926 carried a signed column by Ludv. Saxe, “Queen of the Tropics”, praising the transformation of Rio de Janeiro. Saxe contrasted the city of a quarter-century earlier – unhealthy and ridden with yellow fever, a coast where Norwegian ship crews were left behind and their abandoned vessels chopped up for firewood – with the city the authorities had cleaned up by draining swamps, modernizing water and sewer works and cutting the broad Avenida Rio Branco through the densest quarter in two years. Two advertisements shared the page: Imperial “Høvding” motor oil, pitched as unsurpassed for winter driving, and Ulefos Jernværk, which promised low prices because it mined its own ore and smelted it with power from its own waterfalls.
This partial reading of La Nación of Santiago for 13 November 1926 covers three items. A column by Miguel A. dos Reis greeted the rise of a new successor to the Baron of Rio Branco in the traditional chair of Brazil's Itamaraty, predicting that the countries of America would watch with curiosity and arguing that this century's international problems cannot be settled in the old moulds of secret diplomacy. A feature of maxims by George Bernard Shaw quoted him joking that, before his pen earned him anything, he already had the British Museum library in Bloomsbury and another at Hampton Court at his disposal, with no servants to keep. An advertisement promised that tuberculosis sufferers of any stage would be cured rapidly by Dr Ponndorf's cutaneous vaccine from Dresden.
The first meeting in Odessa between Chicherin and Rüştü Bey
The end of the British strike is said to be imminent
The salute to the pennants
This issue of Il Piccolo, as far as it can be read, carried news from abroad alongside an item from Italy itself. A brief dispatch reported that Chicherin and Rüştü Bey had met in Odessa that morning for a first conversation lasting two hours, and added that no other details were yet available. A report headlined as forecasting an imminent end to the British dispute gave the toll in lost working days for January to October 1926: about 142 and a half million, against eight million in 1925. It put 126 and a half million of these down to the miners' strike, 15 million to the general strike and about two million to other disputes. A third item quoted a Fascist statement calling it a more than legitimate custom to demand that passers-by salute the pennants during parades, since the pennants were the living symbol of a new Italian and Fascist faith. The readable excerpts are short fragments of a badly scanned page.