Today -100: September 18, 1923: The need for speed

New aeroplane speed record: 259 mph, US Navy Lt. Lawson Sanderon in a Wright plane.

Big fire in Berkeley. A change in the wind prevents the University of California burning down, although half the professors lose their homes.

Gen. Primo Rivero Phoenix asks everyone to give him 90 days (of dictatorship) to fix all of Spain’s problems.

Italy names an Italian general as governor (pardon, “Civil Governor of Fiume for the Economic Organization of the City”) of Fiume, which is supposed to be a free state, not part of Italy. Italy claims this does not amount to annexation. Italy is still negotiating with Yugoslavia over the status of Fiume, which the Yugs may give up in exchange for other territory.

The Ku Klux Klan holds an initiation ceremony in the Georgia State House.

By the way, these stories come from a ghost edition of the NYT that was not distributed due to a strike. A few copies of the Sept. 18th issue were printed, “for the record,” a couple of weeks later.

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