The ongoing Cuban revolution spread to Oriente Province.
The Pusan Public Industrial Continuation School, later the Busan National University of Technology, now part of Pukyong National University, was established in Japanese occupied and ruled Korea.
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Locally, plans were being advanced for the construction of the Presbyterian church, which were published in one of the papers.
The church ultimately constructed would look a big different.
City Park Church, formerly First Presbyterian Church, Casper Wyoming
This is City Park Church, and was formerly, as noted below in the original entry, the First Presbyterian Church.This Presbyterian Church is located one block away from St. Mark's Episcopal Church and St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, all of which are separated from each other by City Park.The corner stone of the church gives the dates 1913 1926. I'm not sure why there are two dates, but the church must have been completed in 1926.This century old church became the home of the former First Baptist Church congregation on February 28, 2020, and as noted in a thread we'll link in below, had been experiencing a lot of changes prior to that.The original entry here was one of the very first on this blog and dated at least back as far as January 25, 2011. While the architecture hasn't changed at all, with the recent change our original entry became misleading to an extent.
Related Threads:Grace Reformed at City Park, formerly First Presbyterian Church, Casper Wyoming
Changes in Downtown Casper. First Presbyterian becomes City Park Church, the former First Baptist Church.
And, as can be seen, events have resulted in some denominational shifting.
The morning edition was full of all sorts of dramatic news.
German elections were held, resulting in the Social Democratic Party of Germany narrowly maintaining a small plurality of 100 seats. The German National People's Party finished with 95.
The Soviet Union demanded an apology for yesterday's police raid.
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The Grand Order of the Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA or אצא), an international fraternity for Jewish teenagers, was founded in Omaha, Nebraska.
The SS Catalina, which would be in service for 51 years ferrying passengers between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island, was launched.
German police raided the Soviet Trade Delegation
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President Coolidge placed an arms embargo on Cuba at the request of its government.
Craters of the Moon National Monument was established.
WHEREAS, there is located in townships one south, one and two National Monument, north, ranges twenty-four and twenty-five east of the Boise Meridian, in Butte and Blaine Counties, Idaho, an area which contains a remarkable fissure eruption together with its associated volcanic cones, craters, rifts, lava flows, caves, natural bridges, and other phenomena characteristic of volcanic action which are of unusual scientific value and general interest; and
WHEREAS, this area contains many curious and unusual phenomena of great educational value and has a weird and scenic landscape peculiar to itself; and
WHEREAS, it appears that the public interest would be promoted by reserving these volcanic features as a National Monument, together with as much land as may be needed for the protection thereof.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, by authority of the power in me vested by section two of the act of Congress entitled, “An Act for the preservation of American antiquities,” approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and
six (34 Stat., 225) do proclaim that there is hereby reserved from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, subject to all valid existing claims, and set apart as a National Monument all that piece or parcel of land in the Counties of Butte and Blaine, State of Idaho, shown as the Craters of the Moon National Monument upon the diagram hereto annexed and made a part hereof.
Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy or remove any feature of this Monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.
The Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of this Monument as provided in the act of Congress entitled, “An Act to establish a National Park Service and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (39 Stat., 535) and Acts additional thereto or amendatory thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
DONE in the City of Washington this 2d day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty – eighth.
Sen. Robert Howell (R-Neb.) proposed that the Senate broadcast its proceedings via radio.
Doing so would have cost $3,300,000 in 1924 dollars, which would be $100,000,000 now, thanks to inflation. The initiative died.
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It was Canadian pediatrician David Murray Crowe who became aware that the addition of sodium iodide or potassium iodide to salt could safely remedy the problem of iodine deficiency that was a leading cause of thyroid problems.
Benz und Companie and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft combined operations, but had not yet quite merged.
May Day demonstrations occured across the US.
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Tornadoes killed 111 people in five southern states.
The lead plane in the transglobal flight effort, the Seattle, crashed in fog near Port Moller, Alaska. The crew was unharmed.
A short-lived rebellion broke out in Cuba under Gen. Laredo Bru.
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In Casper, the well known fire in the Townsend Building broke out.
This building is not, of course, to be confused with Casper's Townsend Hotel, which is now the Townsend Justice Center.
And Councilman Royce was struggling to retain his position.
There was a huge tornado outbreak in the southern United States.
Southern Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe, elected its first colonial legislature, with voting restricted to whites.
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Ten years after the terrible disaster at Eccles, West Virginia, which killed 180 coal miners, 119 were killed in a mine explosion at Benwood, West Virginia.
Gov. Warren T. McCray of Indiana was booked into the Marion County Jail after being found guilty of fraud by a Federal Jury.
McCray had been an opponent of the Ku Klux Klan who helped figure in his conviction, although McCray admitted the truth of the allegations, which involved promissory notes and land speculation. Becuase of the KKK's involvement, McCray was pardoned by President Hoover in 1930. He lived out the rest of his days after serving three years of his sentence on his farm.
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The German government issued a warning against extremist opposing the Dawes Plan, noting that its rejection might lead to a second World War.
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Russian Orthodox faithful prevented the police from confiscating icons from St. Andrew's Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
Communist authorities subsequently turned the church over to the Soviet-sponsored Renovationist Church that promoted a pro-Communist Orthodox body which originally been a post Russian Revolution reform movement with in the Russian Orthodox Church, but which was taken over by the Communist infiltration. It received Communist backing at first, but was ultimately repressed, just as the Russian Orthodox Church was. It never received the support of the Russian faithful, and it passed away after World War Two. Almost all of its priests returned to the Orthodox Church after Stalin stopped the strict oppression of it during World War Two.
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President Coolidge gave the famous "You Lose" reply to Associated Press president Frank B. Noyes introduction to the AP conference that stated that Noyes could "get more than two words" out Coolidge.
John Phillip Hill presented petition on the country's liquor prohibition.
Hill was a Congressman from Maryland who would himself be arrested during prohibition after he planted apples and grapes at his home, and used them for alcohol. He renamed his home a "farm", as farmers were allowed to do that for home consumption, which didn't serve to avoid the law. A jury found him not guilty as his products, at a whopping 12% alcohol, were "not intoxicating in fact".
German born Western artist Herman Wendelborg Hansen died at age 70.
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The first public Mass at the Catholic Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. took. The Mass was celebrated by Bishop Thomas Joseph Shahan.
Shahan is interred in a crypt as the basilica, the only person to have received internment there to date.
The Turkish Constitution was ratified by the Grand National Assembly. It established Islam as the official religion and Turkish as the official language. Ankara was established as the capital.
The Casper Daily Tribune issued an Easter Sunday edition noting the result of the prior day's meeting on a councilman with a liquor charge.
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