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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1924
Page
1
The column threads through fiction versus news, Franco-British politics, and figures like Coolidge, Davis, Ford, and Walsh. It sketches satire on treaties, elections, and diplomatic blunders, alongside wartime anecdotes, a Norfolk to Clarksburg flavor, and a drought toll in Shenandoah with references to international figures and newspapers.
A massive fire at the Old Hickory powder plant near Jacksonville Tennessee destroyed powder, machinery, and fifty factory buildings valued at up to 28 million dollars. About 45 million pounds of government war reserve powder burned, with present value around 460 thousand dollars. No serious injuries reported as flames consumed most of the plant's storage, while the power house narrowly escaped.
A Cincinnati, Indiana and Western passenger train struck a car near Hamilton, Ohio, killing Roy Fawns, 20, Lelia Fawns, 15, J E B Johnson, 35, and his daughter Dolores. Mrs Roy Fawns, bride of two days, was fatally injured. The car was hurled about three feet as the gasoline tank exploded and wreckage caught fire.
The American world flight continues with three route options under Admiral Magruder’s orders as ships search Greenland for a safe landing. Ice, fog, and fuel concerns threaten the leg toward Labrador, while Lieut. Smith and the crew weigh options aboard the Richmond and Raleigh.
Gloversville New York August 10 a severe electrical storm swept the area with hail and rain. Near St Johnsville highways and fields were buried under six inches of hail forcing motorists to shovel drifts to pass. Elsewhere hail reached depths of a foot while weather and damage were reported across the region.
Rome Aug 10 wine shortage forces producers to charge a few cents for cellar entry. People may drink as much as they wish. This year’s vintage is 15 to 20 percent below last year but above the twenty year average. Combined with remaining stocks, current supply is about 52 000 000 hectolitres.
Madrid reports indicate the military directorate maintains full control and will stay in power until old regime politicians are ousted and their parties disappear. Rumors of army divisions are dismissed as insignificant. The government welcomes new parties to create a broad front aimed at preventing former government members from returning to power.
Word from the Vatican indicates the college of cardinals will meet in Rome to consider proofs of two miracles attributed to Blessed Teresa of the Carmelite order. If accepted, the canonization could take place on September 30, the anniversary of her death, rather than next year.
Crown Prince Humbert of Italy witnessed a military parade in Buenos Aires as twenty thousand Argentine troops and a detachment of Italian sailors from the battleship San Giorgio passed in review. An estimated two hundred thousand spectators watched the event.
The Soviet government grants the German seed firm Deutsche Saatbau Gesellschaft a 31 year concession to 54,000 acres in the Caucasus. The plan calls for sowing the entire area by 1927 with 20 percent of annual harvest income paid to the Soviet state. At the end of the term the estate including livestock and implements will be returned in good condition.
Special to The Washington Post from New York dated August 11 reports three rum runners 20 miles southeast of Point Judith spotted by the navy dirigible Shenandoah at 300 feet. The airship, returning to Lakehurst after leaving Narragansett Bay mooring, used searchlights to reveal decks piled with cargo. Captain Zachary Lansdowne praised the mooring tests and noted Shenandoah’s unlimited range as proof of the craft’s capability.
In Clarksburg West Virginia Aug 10 Democrats pour in ahead of John W Davis acceptance event tomorrow night at Golf Plaza Senator Walsh and Senator Claude Swanson aboard the senatorial special greet Davis supporters and visiting dignitaries including George Brennan and many state and national party leaders expected to attend and address the national committee meeting afterward
Washington awaits a brief honor as the Prince of Wales plans a holiday stopover. The plan shifts from incognito Baron Renfrew to a formal welcome, with a private lunch at the White House on arrival aboard the Berengaria. Officials including Sir Esme Howard and Maj Oscar Solbert prepare a discreet White House visit.
President Coolidge plans rest through Thursday after church with Mrs Coolidge and guests including John Coolidge and William M Butler. He will deliver the Republican nomination notification keynote from Memorial Continental Hall Thursday night, with radio and long distance telephone broadcasts to about fifteen stations nationwide. Stations listed include WEAF New York WJAR Providence KDKA Pittsburgh WGN Chicago KSD St Louis WDAF Kansas City WGR Buffalo WNAC Boston and WGY Schenectady.
Bar Harbor residents reel from a second jewelry robbery in two weeks. Mrs J S Kennedy, whose Frenchman’s Bay facing home is Bar Harbor’s showplace, reported jewelry worth thousands missing after a dinner party. Earlier, Mrs Frederick Vanderbilt of New York was robbed.
A seven passenger car skidded on a freshly oiled Mount Freedom turnpike near Morristown. It plunged down a four foot embankment, tearing through brush for 100 yards and overturning. Two men, Thomas F McGovern of Newark and Lester Graves of South Orange, died at the scene. A young woman, Mary O Grady, 20, died later at Morristown Memorial Hospital. Mazie and Margaret McDonald, 18 and 22, were seriously injured, and a South Orange police officer was badly hurt. The party had been to Lake Hopatcong and was returning home.
In Philadelphia on August 10 Howard Bub, 88, shot his wife 87 and then died by his own hand. Their son Charles Bub found the couple dead. Bub's left arm encircled his wife's neck while his right hand held a pistol. Five of their sons died in the past year. both spouses suffered cancer, factors believed to have affected Bub's mind.
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