French Lt. Jean-Pierre Fontan will attempt the first trans-Atlantic flight, starting in Dakar, Senegal and heading for Brazil, 1,700 miles away, by way of the Cape Verde Islands and the St. Paul Rocks.
And two-way wireless telephonic communication between two airplanes has been made for I guess the first time.
The Peace Conference plans to ignore Japan’s call for a provision in the League of Nations Covenant against racial equality, even if this means Japan doesn’t join the League. In all the fuss over this, the provision on religious equality also gets dropped. Sorry, Jews.
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Bit of a linguistic mistake, really. They just had a hankering for some pretzels.
The lower house of the West Virginia Legislature passes a resolution against the US joining the League of Nations.
Headline of the Day -100:
Some of the logs are made into souvenirs to commemorate the momentous occasion.
False death reports in today’s paper:
1) German Gen. Friedrich Sixt von Armin (1851-1936), supposedly beaten to death by peasants after he shot at them while they were gathering firewood on his property.
2) The last emperor of Korea (1874-1926), deposed by the Japanese, who supposedly committed suicide when the Japanese tried to marry off his son to a Japanese princess.
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