Thoughtfully curated historical journalism
SWAMPSCOTT, Aug. 22.—President Coolidge has made public a letter which recently received from William A. Aiken, a “Green Mountain boy” who voted for Lincoln and now wants to vote for President Coolidge for another term.
This letter and the President’s reply, follow;
Newark, N. J., Aug. 16—Black-shirted Fascisti and members of the Italian socialist labor party clashed for the second time within the past few weeks in Newark today and when the smoke of battle had cleared it was found that six men had suffered bullet or stab wounds.
The clash followed an encounter at Laurel Garden In Springfield avenue where the Socialists had called a meeting and to which the members of the New York branch of the fascisti society had been invited.
For more than an hour police reserves from six precincts wielded night sticks and pistol butts to restore order. When quiet prevailed the police had one prisoner, Frank Catalano, suffering from a stab wound; six razors, a stilletto and two jack knives.
Now that the historic Bear is safe again and en route south, let’s revive that former suggestion for preserving the grand old ship for Seattle.
Some time ago the Chamber of Commerce started a movement to bring the ship here after her last voyage as a coast guard cutter, and turn her into a sort of monument-—an embodiment of the spirit of the Northland. That is a worthy idea; it should be carried thru. And what better place for the Bear than Seattle harbor, from which so many tall ships have sailed to the storied lands to the northward?
Cover 2,546 Miles in Non-Stop Flight of 40 Hours, Still Up.
By the Associated Press.
CHARTRES, France, August 9.—The French aviators, Drouhin and Landry landed at the airdrome here at 2:42 o’clock this morning, after having covered 4,400 kilometers in 45 hours 11 minutes 59 seconds, creating a new world non-stop record both for duration and distance.
By the Associated Press.
ETAMPES, France, August B.—The French aviators Drouhin and Landry, at 10 o’clock tonight, became holders of the world’s record for a non-stop airplane flight, having covered a distance of 4,100 kilometers (2,546.1 miles).
Washington, Aug. 6 (AP)—A fight with a herd of walrus was described by Commander MacMillan of the MacMillan Arctic expedition in a message received tonight by the National Geographic Society.
The message, dated today, and relayed by A. A. Collins of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, related that “In a walrus hunt yesterday, three members of the Peary crew, in a Bowdoin boat, were attacked by an infuriated herd of at least 100 walrus.” The kyack of one of the Eskimos aiding in the hunt was capsized, but he was rescued.
Motion Pictures of Little Traveled Land Are Seen
Great temples with roofs of solid gold, a huge lake of solid salt, weirdly impressive rituals of a barbaric religion, strange people and animals—these were some of the wonder of Tibet shown by motion pictures In the Italian room of The Olympic Hotel Tuesday night.
GUNS BLAZE, DOZEN HURT IN KKK RIOT
Police of Three Towns Unable to Restore Order in Massachusetts Battle
STATE TROOPS CALLED
Band of Klansmen Besieged in Cellar, Rescued From Mob of 500 Rioters
West Wood, Mass., Aug. 3. (AP)—Injury to a dozen or more persons, the wrecking of a farm house in the Islington district here, and the arrest of three men for carrying concealed weapons was the aftermath of the Ku Klux Klan’s first attempt to hold a meeting in the district since the state police stopped supplying guards for Klan gatherings.
Mob of Five Hundred
The meeting in a field of the Boston, Providence highway here yesterday, ended in a riot which the police of three towns were unable to quell. A mob of 500 anti-Klan sympathizers and three score Klansmen staged a pitched battle with fists, rocks and brick bats. Although fire arms were in evidence, no shots were fired.
Klansmen Escape
Most of the Klansmen escaped in their cars, but a few were bottled up on the south Stephen Illisleey where they huddled in the cellar while every window and much of the furniture disintegrated under a hail of rocks from the outside. Among those injured by flying missiles were Bernice Lee and May Wheeler of Waltham.
CHIEF JAILED AND GANG HALTED
Captain Hanson Says “All Is Tight” in Del Rio District.
A large smuggling ring with headquarters at Monterey, and operating solely for the purpose of smuggling aliens into this country, is believed to have been broken up with the arrest at Del Rio of a man who is believed to be the head of the smugglers, according to Captain W. H. Hanson, head of the immigration forces of this district, who returned from Del Rio Saturday.
With the co-operation and in company with Felix Salinas, inspector of immigration in Nuevo Laredo, Captain Hanson made a thorough inspection of border immigration work in the vicinity of Del Rio and Eagle Pass.