U.S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover submitted a paper before the World Power Conference in London urging American power plants to be linked together to save energy.
Hoover was, legitimately, a genius.
Oath taking ceremony, Citizens Military Training Camp, Camp Meade, Md., 7/3/24.
Citizens Military Training Camps were part of a Federal program that offered basic military instruction to civilians who were not part of the Army's reserve system, which principally consisted of the National Guard. First authorized in 1921, they continued through 1940.
John Montgomery Ward presenting cup to Roger Bresnahan, May 24, 1924.
Following a by then long-established example, Sweden became the first European Nation to create national parks, establishing Abisko, Ängsö, Garphyttan, Gotska Sandön, Hamra, Pieljekaise, Sarek, Stora Sjöfallet, and Sonfjället.
Diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Mexico were restored.
They had ended during the long Mexican Revolution, during which, for a long period of time, it was unclear who would govern Mexico, and the US found many of the options distasteful.
The Italian Navy shelled the Greek island of Corfu and then landed over 5,000 troops on the islands. Civilians were injured and killed in the bombardment. Following the landing, the Greek administration was arrested, but the small Greek garrison did not surrender and instead retreated to the interior of the island.
Mussolini declared that the island had always been Venetian.
An Anti KKK riot broke out in New Castle, Delaware.
Turkey stated a demand for East Thrace, which had been ceded to Greece in 1920.
East Thrace.
This meant that Turkey was declaring that it wanted to reclaim recently lost territory, lost to Greece, across the Bosporus. This would of course give it completely control of the straits, and hence entry into the Black Sea.
Greeks had comprised about 38% of the population there before the Greco Turkish War, and Bulgarians about 4.3%. Bulgarians had been subject to a pre-war set of expulsions and violence due to the Balkan Wars that foreshadowed World War One which, at the same time, increased the Muslim population as Muslims fled into the area for refuge due to Ottoman lands being lost elsewhere. Greeks would now be subject to the coming population exchange between Turkey and Greece, which also impacted the remaining Bulgarians. In 1934 the Jewish population was expelled in the Thrace Pogroms.
Today, 15% of the Turkish population lives in the region.
Dealing with speed of a different type, motorcycle racer Billy Denham was photographed at a motorcycle race.
Denham is wearing elements of the wool U.S. Army uniform of the period, to at least the extent that he's wearing a wool service shirt. Note also that he's wearing a tie, something you wouldn't see a motorcycle racer wear now, and for good reason.
82nd Infantry Division standing "Retreat" following Sgt. Alvin C. York's address to the Division at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana on this day in 1942. The event was the first assembly of the Division since reactivation.
The 82nd had been Sgt. Alvin York's division in World War One, at which time it acquired the nickname the "All American" division, as its members were conscripts from around the United States. It was, at that time, simply the 82nd Division.
At the time of this photograph, it was the 82nd Infantry Division, but that was about to change. In August, it would become the 82nd Airborne Division. The change came about due to a variety of factors, including that it was once again made up of conscripts, and many Regular Army officers did not trust the airborne concept.
In the Battle of the Coral Sea the Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho was sunk.
The Giants took the World Series with a 1 to 0 victory over the Yankees.
The Treaty of Kars fixed the boundary between Turkey, still at war with Greece, and what was effectively the Soviet Union.
The treat effectively operated in Turkey's favor, granting it territories that had been within Imperial Russia's boundaries.
While both nations were in a shaky position at the time, it's worth remembering that Turkey, while on the defensive, was holding its own against Greece. France and the UK, initially allies in the Greek effort, had abandoned Greece as it became more aggressive in regard to its territorial demands and efforts. The Turks, on the other hand, had shown an inclination to look East into Turkic territories, something the USSR didn't need to happen. Moreover, the Soviet Union was having difficulty imposing its moronic economic system on an unwilling population and its political thumb on various ethnicities, so it was arguably in a worse position than Turkey was. Also, its population was enduring famine to the lunatic nature of its farm policy.
After World War Two Stalin pressed for the return of Imperial Russian lands, but Turkey resisted it, and the Western Allies backed Turkey's position. Soviet demands were dropped, but Georgia and Armenia have never been happy with the border that the treaty created.
A photographer took a photo of Jacksonville, Florida.
Jacksonville, Florida. October 13, 1921.
Hine was at the state fair in Charleston, West Virginia, where he photographed members of the 4H clubs.
Philander Knox, a well known U.S. Senator, was reported as having died the day prior.
He was 68 years old.
The original Lyric theater (there's been one since, which while relatively new, is no longer a movie theater, was running Man-Woman-Marriage, a film released that previous March. It's interesting in that it gives us a glimpse of the touring speed of movies at the time.
A less lurid ad from somewhere else.
Billed as the "Greatest love story of all time" by advertisers, the ostensible plot involved something to with a woman rebelling against a forced marriage, but also gave the filmmakers view of marriage throughout human history. Robert Sherwood of Time magazine described the film as the worst move ever made, adding that it was "a grotesque hodgepodge about woman's rights through the ages (interminable ages they are, too) with a great deal of ham allegory and cheap religious drool, used to cloud the real motif — which is sex appeal."
Based on the Casper ads, that was probably about right.
Be that as it may, the ads run in the Casper paper got the biological facts right. Generally, they showed some guy leering over a woman dressed in about as revealing fashion as allowable in the Casper papers, and, viewed left to right, a baby ensues.
