Saturday, August 26, 1922. Wings, Baseball stunt in Denver, The beginning of the end for Turkish Anatolia, Labor troubles, Ships, Controversial Eastern Orthodox Bishop, Magazine covers.

Boeing wing room, August 26, 1922.

On this day in 1922, Dixie Parker, catcher for the Denver Bears, caught a baseball dropped from the top of the May D&F Tower in downtown Denver.

On the same day, the Turkish Great Offensive was commenced, which would bring about the end of the war in a Turkish victory in the Greco Turkish War.

The Japanese cruiser Nitaka was driven aground off of the Kamchatka Peninsula in a storm, resulting in the loss of all but seven of its 301-man crew.

Ford Motors announced that it was closing down all of its plants due to the ongoing industrial crisis in the country.

The ammunition ship USS Nitro was photographed in port.  She was commissioned in 1919 and would serve all the way through World War Two.

Eastern Orthodox clergymen, including Bishop Ofiesh Aftimios, were also photographed.

The Bishop had been born in Lebanon and first served in the Middle East before coming to the United States in 1905.  At that time, the Russian Orthodox Church had canonical authority over the various Eastern Orthodox churches, including those of Arabic origin, but that became disrupted following the Russian Revolution.  The Bishop became a figure in that story, leading to the establishment of a small branch of Orthodoxy that sought to establish an American Orthodox branch that was separate from other Orthodox Churches.  He did that, establishing the American Orthodox Church, which has not reunited with a larger group even at this point.  The Bishop himself was effectively removed from his position when he married in 1933, thereby seemingly violating an oath of celibacy.  It seems clear that his intent had been to function as a married Bishop.  He died in 1966 at age 85.

Perhaps ironically, his desire to establish an American Orthodoxy that was separate of the national churches of other regions was ahead of its time, with some of the Orthodox churches in the country now seeking to distance themselves from their national origins.  His church, however, effectively collapsed following his removal.

The Country Gentleman came out, as it was of course a Saturday.

The Saturday Evening Post had a cover by Leyendecker which they could not run today.

Judge came out with one of its supposedly humous photos showing an act of stupidity.