The steamship City of Rome collides with the submarine S-51 off the coast of Rhode Island. 33 crewmen on the latter drown, 3 survive. The biggest submarine disaster in US history, which includes the Great War.
Coal-mine owners in West Virginia get many injunctions against United Mine Workers officers trying to call on non-union miners to strike. One injunction is against picketing at the mines of the Consolidated Coal Company, where scabs have been hooted – HOOTED! – on the way to and from work. The petitioners especially object to a picket-line song which goes a little... like this:
Shoot them in the head,
Shoot them in the feet,
Shoot them in the dinner bucket,
How are they going to eat?
The US counter-proposal to France’s offer to pay $4 billion in war debts over 62 years: how about $10 billion? Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux says he won’t change his plans to return to France next week.
The investigation into the crash of the Shenandoah is showing that the dirigible was just badly designed and badly constructed, lacking stability and engine power. The Navy knew this and was planning to make alterations, but still had the thing flying about, doing important Navy things like flying over fairs.
John Scopes begins graduate study at the University of Chicago, studying geology.
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