300 "Reds" Storm Chicago City Hall as Marie Departs
Italian Flyer Sets 246-Mile Record to Win Schneider Cup
Bomb Hurts 5 at Game.
The Evening Star of November 14, 1926 followed Queen Marie of Romania to Chicago, where she received the keys to the city from Mayor Dever and the council; after she left by one exit, a bedraggled column of Communists, put at 300 in the headline, forced its way into the Municipal Building and was driven out by police, who arrested several. Frederick R. Neely's dispatch from Norfolk hailed Maj. Mario de Bernardi's Schneider Cup victory at Hampton Roads in a Macchi seaplane as a record-breaking feat and conceded America's first defeat in aircraft design. An AP report from Columbus told how a pre-game mortar bomb at the Ohio State-Michigan game drifted on the wind into a temporary stand and injured five, while four more were hurt in the crush at the gates.
'GATORS ENGULFED BY RUTHLESS TIDE IN 49 TO 0 STYLE
LOVE LETTERS FROM RECTOR ARE FEATURE OF HALL-MILLS TRIAL
Aged Confederate Veterans' Company Enlists As Guards
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page of Sunday, November 14, 1926, led with Jack Langhorne's exuberant account of Alabama's 49-0 rout of Florida in Montgomery, presenting the result as proof that Coach Wallace Wade had kept his promise to take no chances, and noting one of the largest crowds the capital had seen for such a game. An Associated Press dispatch from Somerville, New Jersey, described Frances Stevens Hall listening as letters professing her murdered husband's love for another murdered woman were read in the Hall-Mills trial, with the jury seeming less absorbed than the spectators. From Nashville, the AP reported that Company B of the United Confederate Veterans, men aged 79 to 89, had re-enlisted in the national guard for three years and intended to stay in it as long as they lived.
This edition of the Vossische Zeitung carried an early telegram on a communist rising in West Java. It reported that insurgents had seized the telephone exchange in Batavia's lower town, attacked the prison, cut wires and wrecked the railway near Bandung, and that the Dutch authorities were not yet in control. From Paris the paper reported that Ricciotti Garibaldi and Colonel Macià had been arrested after a police-staged confrontation. It called this a sensational turn in the Garibaldi affair. A third item passed on a report from Ljubljana that South Slavs were fleeing Italy for Yugoslavia because they feared mass deportation to Sicily or Africa.
The Neue Freie Presse of 14 November 1926 combined Viennese domestic polemic, a Paris arrest story and a society feuilleton. An open letter titled "Soziale Reparationen" reproached unnamed addressees for honouring the Republic on its festive day without offering any message of reconciliation between the classes or any grief over economic ruin. A report from Paris described how Colonel Macia, leader of the Catalan separatist conspiracy, was taken off the Perpignan express under police escort, confronted with Garibaldi for about an hour, and then sent with him to the Santé prison. The feuilleton "Tugendkrise" opened in a tea-dance room full of Charleston and jazz, where a cigarette-smoking lady proposed an evening lecture on the "virtue crisis of the modern woman".
The Prager Tagblatt of 14 November 1926 led with a Berlin report: with "Thoiry" now a catchword spoken only skeptically and offering no immediate program, the German Foreign Office was concentrating on the final removal of the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission and its replacement by a League of Nations body for disarmament control, amid a somewhat nervous mood in Berlin. The paper also printed a statement from a responsible representative of the Soviet mission rejecting rumors that agents of "mysterious institutions" inside the mission were controlling the plenipotentiary representative's work, and a Belgrade dispatch reporting that the Italian envoy had handed Foreign Minister Ninčić a written protest over Stjepan Radić's attacks and demanded full satisfaction.
The Journal de Genève of 14 November 1926 opened with a correspondent's account of the festivities for the wedding of the Duke of Brabant and Princess Astrid of Sweden, recalling that the engagement had first met coolness in circles that remembered pro-German Swedes and Stockholm's wartime peace intrigues. On Geneva politics, the paper reported that the Grand Council had adopted the constitutional law on merging the city with its suburbs by 41 votes to 29, after rejecting the Socialist Nicole's amendment and after M. Chapuisat denounced a far-left move to tie women's suffrage to the merger as sabotage. The page also carried an appeal from the Democratic party's central committee recalling the general strike and influenza-stricken mobilization of November 1918.
On Sunday, 14 November 1926, the front page of the Santiago daily La Nación gave its space to an installment of an illustrated detective serial, "El extraño caso del doctor Zint" (The Strange Case of Doctor Zint), credited to Nelson Coleman. The readable passage is first-person narration. The narrator watches a Mr. Mirrorley hand a package to another man and then hurry away. The narrator does not know what the package holds but finds it very strange that "the patient" should act this way. The page also carried a Paramount advertising box in the masthead. That box points to the presence of the American film business in Chile.
Crítica reported from Esperanza, in Santa Fe province, on a motor race that finally took place after two postponements. The paper called the day a great sporting success: rain had fallen the day before, yet the circuit was in splendid shape, with a little water only on the curves. A second piece described how news of an accident spread among the spectators. Balestretti's Spa had overturned, injuring him and his mechanic Vicente Sabone, and a grimmer rumour about Sabone soon followed; the paper said it was useless to wait for a denial. A third item told of special trains bringing thousands of fans from Santa Fe and Rosario, and of crowds in Santa Fe following the race on newspaper blackboards.
Angora hesitates to commit itself to Moscow and limits the scope of the Odessa negotiations
Ricciotti Garibaldi and Colonel Macia arrested
A speech by De Stefani
This front page of Il Piccolo carried a London report, which the paper itself flagged as doubtful, that Turkey's Angora government, alarmed as the pound rose from 900 to 970 piastres between mid-September and late October, might shore up its currency by ceding state monopolies to foreign powers, with Italy first in line; it ran under a headline about Turkish caution towards Moscow in the Odessa talks. From Paris the paper reported that Ricciotti Garibaldi and Colonel Macià had been arrested over the Catalan plot and sent to the Santé prison, a turn it found surprising after semi-official hints that Garibaldi would merely be escorted to the frontier. A third item described the opening of the 1926-1927 academic year, where the rector and deans, De Stefani among them, entered flanked by fascist student and university militia formations bearing pennants.