Kurdish rebels declared Diyarbekir as the capital of Kurdistan.
From the Reading Times, February 14, 1925.
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Thursday, January 30, 2025
Friday, January 30, 1925. Antitoxin runs out in Nome.
Diphtheria antitoxin ran out in Nome. The serum run had reached Kaltag.
Turkey exiled Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Constantine VI to Greece
The Khost Rebellion in Afghanistan ended with the reign of King Amanullah Khan intact.
A national news media frenzy started when Cave explorer Floyd Collins became trapped in Sand Cave, Kentucky. The story went on for days, but did not conclude happily.
High winds blew a train off of a viaduct in County Donegal, Ireland, killing four people.
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Thursday, January 29, 1925. 裁軍 and Flapper Fanny.
Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1930s, 1940s, Cartoons, China, Chinese Warlord Era, Shanghai, The Roaring Twenties, Women
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Thursday, January 29, 1925. 裁軍 and Flapper Fanny.
About 20 people were killed when representatives of the Fengtian Clique met resistance attempting to disarm about 1,000 defeated Jiangsu troops, who apparently weren't quite as defeated as thought.
Flapper Fanny Says was on day three of its new syndicated run. The cartoon would run until 1940, during which time Fanny ceased being a flapper. It had two different cartoonist illustrate it, both of them women.
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Wednesday, January 28, 1925. Russian Mercenaries
Labels: 1920s, 1925, China, Chinese Warlord Era, It was because of the Russian Revolution, Mercenaries, Shanghais in Shanghai.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Tuesday, January 28, 1975. Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown.
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, premiered.
Japan and the Soviet Union signed an agreement for a joint venture of drilling for oil on Sakhalin Island in which Japan was to receive "a significant discount on half of the pumped oil" for ten years in exchange for funding the project.
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Thursday, January 23, 1975. Failed tariff.
Saturday, January 4, 2025
Sunday, January 4, 1925. Death of Red Shirt. Ignoring the warning signs.
Red Shirt (Ógle Ša) Oglala Lakota leader and supporter of Crazy Horse during the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 and the Ghost Dance Movement of 1890, died at age 77 at Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
Italian prefects were ordered to control "suspect", i.e., non fascist, political organizations. Mass searches resulted.
Adolf Hitler pledged his loyalty to Bavarian Minister President Heinrich Held.
Hitler's pledge, of course, would turn out to be a lie. Held maintained Bavarian state sovereignty until the end, but ultimately the Bavarian government was removed in 1933 by Hitler. Held's pension would be revoked by the Nazis. He died in 1938.
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Saturday, January 3, 1925. Mussolini becomes a dictator.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Monday, November 13, 1944. Air service returns to London.
Civil air service returned to London. It had been stopped in September, 1939.
The Akebono, Akishimo, Hatsuharu, Kiso and Okinami was sunk in Filipino waters by the U.S. Navy. The I-12 was sunk east of Hawaii.
The Bulgarian 1st Army captured Skopje.
SSgt Junior J. Spurrier performed the actions that resulted in his receiving a Medal of Honor.
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy at Achain, France, on 13 November 1944. At 2 p.m., Company G attacked the village of Achain from the east. S/Sgt. Spurrier armed with a BAR passed around the village and advanced alone. Attacking from the west, he immediately killed 3 Germans. From this time until dark, S/Sgt. Spurrier, using at different times his BAR and M1 rifle, American and German rocket launchers, a German automatic pistol, and hand grenades, continued his solitary attack against the enemy regardless of all types of small-arms and automatic-weapons fire. As a result of his heroic actions he killed an officer and 24 enlisted men and captured 2 officers and 2 enlisted men. His valor has shed fresh honor on the U.S. Armed Forces.
Spurrier had an extremely difficult time adjusting to post World War Two life and rejoined the Army during the Korean War, where he proved to be a difficult soldier. He was by that time an alcoholic and after his second period of service had numerous run ins with the law. He ultimately became a teetotaler and ran an electronics repair service, dying at age 61 in 1984.
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Sunday, November 12, 1944. Carving off part of China, Tirpitz sunk, Hitler takes time to release a long Beer Hall message, Dog Faces in chow line.
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Sunday Morning Scene, part Pars Duo: Please, stop.
Next year with be a Jubilee Year in the Catholic Church. For some reason, the Church felt it needed a mascot for this.
This is what it came up with:
How does a 2,000 year old institution in possession of much of the Western World's great art, come up with something so juvenile, and indeed something that looks like its out of Pokemon?
In announcing this, Archbishop Rino Fisichella stated that the cartoon imagine, titled "Luce" (light in Italian) was inspired by the Church's "to live even within the pop culture so beloved by our youth." This presents the classic problem of the elderly, now the Baby Boomers, recalling the desires of "youth" in terms of when they were fairly youthful themselves. Indeed, in my mind it brings to mind attending the "Teen Life Mass", or whatever it was called, that used to be held on Sunday evenings. I generally tried to avoid it, but when I did, you'd find a guitar band with bongos for the music, lead by a Boomer, and a bunch of aged Boomers who would sway and whatnot to the music.
In contrast, if you hit some Masses with a lot of young people, you'd find young women, some down in their teens, wearing mantillas.
I'm pretty convinced that in 2024, with ready access to the Internet, and all the news that's on it, combined with all the sewage that's washed up with it, such as horrific political arguments, the revival of racism, far right and far left extremist, Hamas murder and rape of young people in Israel, an aged geezer in the Kremlin trying to revive the Soviet Union, and young women prostituting themselves on TikTok, a childish cartoon from the 1980s isn't really going to win hearts and minds. Indeed, its even worse than the Comic Sans Serif font and 1970s vintage art that was officially used for the Synod on Synodality. And it gives emotional support to the Orthodox who are looking for reasons not to come back into the Church, even if superficially. This sure doesn't look like something Saints Cyril and Methodius would have passed out.
I've long held, and have stated it here, that Western culture had experienced Post World War Two materialism and found it lacking, and that the generations that have come up in the wake of the Baby Boomers are struggling to through the cultural innovations of the 1960s and 1970s off. We don't believe that "Greed is good" or that the Sexual Revolution was freeing. The problem is that so much was destroyed that recovering is hard, particularly when the aged hand remains on the tiller. Often that aged hand reaches out with what it thinks the young want, not grasping what that is, and actually making things worse.
This cartoon is really bad. Somebody should look around the Vatican and see if something serious might be available. The young Catholics in blue jeans, the mantilla girls, and myself, will all be thankful.
Postscript
I'm hating this image slightly less after some Twitter person made some interesting riffs off of it, but I still don't like it.
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Thursday, September 28, 1944. The Belgrade Offensive and a last telegraph.
Soviet, Yugoslav Partisan, and Bulgarian forces, the latter now in league with the USSR, began the Belgrade Offensive.
Polish Home Army General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski sent a last telegraph requesting help from the Red Army command for the fighters at Warsaw. He received no reply.
Churchill announced the formation of a Jewish Brigade.
The US lands on Negesbus and Kongaruru near Peleliu.
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Wednesday, September 27, 1944. The Battle of Metz commences.
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
September 10, 2024. Pearls Before Swine.
I can't post it, due to copyright concerns, but the September 10, 2024 Pearls Before Swine, a cartoon, really needs to be read.
Monday, August 5, 2024
Monday, August 5, 1974. Inescapable conclusions.
The White House released transcripts of subpoenaed tape recordings. The tapes demonstrated that President Nixon and his chief of staff H.R. Haldeman had discussed a plan in June 1972 to use the CIA to thwart the FBI’s Watergate investigation. They also showed that Nixon had ordered the FBI to halt investigation of the Watergate matter.
Nixon then issued a statement acknowledging guilt, and that matters would go to the Senate for an impeachment trial. Congressional supporters of Nixon began to rapidly change their view.
The first Tank McNamara comic strip was printed.
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Friday, August 2, 1974. Dean to prison.
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Thursday, June 25, 1874. Leaving for Adobe Walls.
A party of buffalo hunters left Dodge City, bound for the abandoned trading post of Adobe Walls in Texas.
Rose O'Neill, creator of Kewpies, was born.
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Saturday, June 20, 1874. Life Savers
Monday, April 29, 2024
Saturday, April 29, 1944. More friendly fire, Raid on Truk, More German strikes in the Channel.
Just a few days after U.S. ships shelled US Army troops at Slapton Sands in Operation Tiger in a friendly fire incident, the PT-346 was sunk, killing nine sailors and wounding nine, by Marine Corps Corsairs.
Lieutenant James Burk ordered medic John Frkovich to take his Burk's life jacket so he could survive and treat the wounded. Wilbur Larsen, USNR, received the Navy Marine Corps medal for saving wounded non-swimmer Forrest May's life.
Japanese torpedo bomber making a run on the Yorktown in a counter to the attack on Truk.
An American air raid on Truk destroyed most of the island's Japanese aircraft.
On New Guinea, the captured Japanese airfields at Hollandia and Aitape become operational for Allied aircraft.
The HMCS Athabaskan was sunk in the English Channel by the T24, once again showing active Kriegsmarine activity in the Channel. The T24 picked up 83 men as prisoners, 44 were rescued by the Allies, and 123 went down with the ship.
The I-183 was sunk off the Bungo Strait by the USS Pogy.
The U-421 was sunk at Toulon in an American air raid.
Stars and Stripes, April 29, 1944.
While I can't post it due to an active copyright, The Saturday Evening Post came out with a classic illustration called "Arm Chair General" by Norman Rockwell.
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Friday, April 28, 1944. Day Two of Execise Tiger.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Tuesday, April 25, 1944. The Blood for Goods deal extended, Air disaster at Montreal, the death of George Herriman.
Joel Brand in 1961, age 55.
The Nazis offered Hungarian rescue worker Joel Brand an offer which has been termed the "Blood for Goods" deal. It was an offer to free 1,000,000 Hungarian Jews, releasing them to an Allied country, save for Palestine (oddly) for goods. The offer was extended through Adolf Eichmann to Brand, who was a pre-war Hungarian Zionist.
Brand carried the message to the Allies, making his way through Turkey to Egypt, where he was arrested by the British. The British did not take the offer seriously and believed it was a trick. The US was cautious about the offer but less hostile to it. British opposition to exploring it ended the matter, and the British press leaked it and termed it blackmail by the fall.
At this point in the war, members of the SS were not completely loyal to Hitler and there is some reason to believe that this was a camouflaged effort to open up communications with the Western Allies in order to advance a separate peace, a delusional prospect of that is what they were thinking.
Brand moved to Israel after the war and was haunted the rest of his life by the failure of the proposal. He died visiting Germany in 1964, at age 58.
A Royal Air Force variant of the B-24, a Liberator B Mark VI crashed into the Griffintown neighborhood of Montreal after taking off from Dorval Airport. The crew and ten civilians were killed.
My mother lived in the St. Lambert district of Montreal at the time. St. Lambert is directly across the river from Griffentown. I'd never heard of this incident, but then, there are many such thing that my parents never mentioned to me on matters like this, and I suppose that's to be expected. Casper suffered numerous air disasters during World War Two.
My mother, then 19 years of age, would have been working in the city at this time, so was likely on the Griffentown side of the river when the accident occured.
The first combat helicopter evacuation completed in the CBI:
21–25 April 1944
The Luftwaffe raided shipping at Portsmouth and Plymouth-Devonport in a nighttime raid. The same night, the HMS Black Prince and three Canadian destroyers engaged German warships in the English Channel, sinking the T-29 and damaging the T-24 and T-27.
The T-39 series of German ships were torpedo "boats", but due to their size they were more in the nature of corvettes.
Allied forces landed at Humboldt Bay, New Guinea.
The British government announced that it had a £2.76 billion deficit, £89 million smaller than anticipated.
Service Club mural, Ft. Bliss, Texas. April 25, 1944.
The United Negro College Fund was established.
George Herriman, the creator of Krazy Kat, died at age 63.
Herriman was creole and born in New Orleans, although he speant much of his adult life in Los Angeles. The Creole are their own distinct ethnicity, with some noting that means by default that they are of "mixed race", something that a lot of non Louisianians don't realize as they confuse creole with Cajun, the two not being the same. Under the bizarre rules of American culture, Herriman would have been regarded as "black" in some regions of the United States, although legally, and equally bizarrely, he could at the time choose to self identify as white or black, neither of which really describes his ethnic heritage. He self identified as white, which makes sense, as to do otherwise would have hindered his career.
Herriman was a shy and gentlemanly man. A Catholic, he married his childhood sweetheart and had two children, as well as a lot of pets, of which he wsa very fond.
Last prior edition:Monday, April 24, 1944. Violating Swiss Airspace.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Holy Saturday, April 19, 1924.
The Saturday Evening Post went to press observing Easter with a Leyendecker illustration.
National Barn Dance, a direct precursor to the Grand Old Opry, premiered on Chicago's WLS, running a whopping four hours every Saturday night. It would run until 1968.
The Washington Post depicted Coolidge holding fast in a political cartoon.
In Casper, there was a big meeting to oust a city councilman who had been convicted on a liquor charge.
And Arizona tourists could get into California before Easter.
It's interesting to realize that motor tourism had become a thing by 1924.
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Thursday, April 17, 1924. Japanese reaction.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Monday, April 17, 1944. The Uman–Botoșani Offensive Concludes, First Shots of the Greek Civil War, The Martyrdom of Fr. Max Josef Metzger, A Mystery Flight, Up Front in U.S. newspapers.
Soviet soldiers in Ukraine examining a destroyed Panther tank. By Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=113828084
The Uman–Botoșani Offensive concluded in a wide-ranging Soviet victory. The Soviets had advanced 190 miles in one month, cleared southwestern Ukraine and entered Romania and Moldova. The offensive had been, moreover, carried out during spring mud season, the rasputitsa. It was one of the most successful Soviet advances of the war.
The Take-Ichi sendan (竹一船団, "Bamboo No. One" convoy) left Shanghai with two infantry divisions to reinforce the Philippines and western New Guinea. Its story was to be fateful and strategically important.
Following an attack on his unit by Greek Communists on Orthodox Easter Monday, Greek army officer and partisan, Col. Dimitrios Psarros (Δημήτριος Ψαρρός), founder of the partisan National and Social Liberation organization was executed in an early indication of how things were going to go as the Axis control of Greece loosened. Greece would be in a civil war before the end of World War Two.
Fr. Max Josef Metzger, German Catholic Priest and founder of the German Catholic Peace Association, was executed by the Nazi German state. He is regarded as a Catholic martyr.
The U-342 was sunk in the North Atlantic by a RCAF PBY.
Civilian airliner Deutsche Lufthansa D-AOCA, a Junkers Ju-52/3m was shot down on scheduled service E.17 from Vienna to Athens with stops in Belgrade, Sofia, and Thessaloniki. An Allied fighter sweep of Belgrade mistook it for a military aircraft. Five of its seven occupants were killed.
A Royal Air Force Warwick passenger plane went down over the UK, creating a mystery. As the recovery of its doomed passengers occured, large amounts of cash were found with them.
United Features Syndicate began to run Bill Mauldin's Up Front in U.S. newspapers.
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Sunday, April 16, 1944. Black Sunday.
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