President Harding, continuing his Voyage of Understanding, was allowed to take the controls of a locomotive, fulfilling a boyhood ambition. It was an early electric locomotive.
The trip took Harding to Spokane, where he addressed a crowd on public lands. In his address, acknowledging the growing conservation movement that had received a large boost during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, he argued that use of public resources from public lands, rather than locking them up, preserved them. He also more or less correctly anticipated the size of the US population in 2023.
The sad story of a woman killed by a sheriff's deputy for failure to dim her lights was playing out with officers now behind bars.
And the French seized a Krupp plant.
Pope Pius XI sent a letter to the papal nuncio in Berlin appealing to the Weimar German Republic to try to make its reparations payments and to cease resisting the French. Basically, an appeal to try to restore the evaporating peace.
On reparations, Allied delegates at the Conference of Lausanne made their final offer to Turkey.
