March 5, 1926: Striking textile mill workers parade in Passaic, N.J., in a new show of solidarity two days after police attacked them with clubs. Many of the strikers are now wearing helmets in case of new violence. Radical activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn tries one on.
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Pius XI
March 5, 1926: Pope Pius XI issues an encyclical denouncing beliefs in white superiority and insisting the peoples of East Asia and Africa “can easily compete” with Westerners mentally. His encyclical, “On Affairs of the Church,” calls for recruiting more native missionaries.
Carlisle
London Chronicle
March 5, 1926: Alexander Carlisle, the former general manager of shipbuilder Harland & Wolff who was one of the principal designers of the Titanic, dies at 71 in London. He lost his argument with the company’s chairman, his brother-in-law Lord Pirie, for including more lifeboats.
March 5, 1926: “Snapshots of Baby in a Pen,” by Gluyas Williams.
March 5, 1926: Dorothy Flexer, a 23-year-old contralto from Allentown, Pa., with her parents before she makes her debut with the New York Metropolitan Opera singing a role in "Andrea Chenier."
(Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Tribune
March 5, 1926: A gang of eight robbers hold up the offices of the International Harvester Co. in Chicago, wildly firing shotguns and pistols before getting away with an $80,000 payroll.
In 1959’s “Some Like It Hot”
Shawlee in 1954 (died 1987)
March 5, 1926: Joan Shawlee, a statuesque actress who played many bawdy and idiosyncratic characters in movie comedies, including the band manager Sweet Sue in “Some Like It Hot,” is born (as Fulton) in Forest Hills, N.Y.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
San Francisco Chronicle
March 5, 1926: Chorus line dancer Vernoghn Garrett is about to go onstage at a San Francisco theater when a calcium stage light ignites her flimsy costume. She is badly burned about her arms but says, “I’m lucky to be alive.”
(London Daily News; Chicago Tribune)
London Daily News
Burlington House
March 5, 1926: Four landscape studies painted by the English master John Constable are stolen from an exhibition at Burlington House in London, apparently by an unseen person during visiting hours. A few days later, three of the missing works are returned by mail.
March 5, 1926: A gathering of foreign exchange students dressed in their national costume at Elmira College in upstate New York. From left: Hatsue Kanda, Japan; Josephine Agresta, Italy; Linda Lack, Estonia; Faith Thompson, Palestine; Jeanne Eloury, France; and Alice Hsiang and Rhoda Tsao, China.
March 5, 1926: Romanian immigrant Veronica Rusu, 16, is making her way by train across the U.S. after arriving at Ellis Island. She is seen at Union Station in Washington, D.C., before proceeding to Havre, Mont., where her father has lived for five years.
March 5, 1926: The Isham Jones Orchestra before playing at the Davis Islands Coliseum in Tampa.
Buffalo Times; Mid-Week Pictorial
March 5, 1926: Leslie Rodrick of vaudeville's Morgan Dancers greets the coming of spring with joy in the San Francisco Bay Area.
(Louisville Courier-Journal)
Birmingham, Ala., Age-Herald
In Alabama, a hanging goes wrong when the doomed man drops through the trapdoor and the rope breaks. Herbert Julius, who is Black, is fatallly injured anyway from the blow to his neck. 2/2
Louisville Courier-Journal
March 5, 1926: A Black man is hanged in Lexington, Ky., for the murders of a white father and his two children, and the rape of the mother. Ed Harris’ death is witnessed by 400 people who crowd the jail yard. Hundreds more watch from rooftops, in some cases paying admission. 1/2
March 5, 1926: New York police padlock the Rialto restaurant in the Theater District for Prohibition violations.
March 1926: A storefront on Market Street in San Francisco.
March 5, 1926: A motorcycle and sidecar that crashed into a lamppost in Southend, England, after being struck by a car. Five people were hurt.
Carlisle
London Chronicle
March 5, 1926: Alexander Carlisle, the former general manager of shipbuilder Harland & Wolff who was one of the principal designers of the Titanic, dies at 71 in London. He lost his argument with the company’s chairman, his brother-in-law Lord Pirie, for including more lifeboats.
March 5, 1926: Sculptor Moses Dykaar with the busts he made of President Coolidge and first lady Grace Coolidge, at the National Gallery in Washington.
March 5, 1926: Striking textile mill workers parade in Passaic, N.J., in a new show of solidarity two days after police attacked them with clubs. Many of the strikers are now wearing helmets in case of new violence. Radical activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn tries one on.
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Pius XI
March 5, 1926: Pope Pius XI issues an encyclical denouncing beliefs in white superiority and insisting the peoples of East Asia and Africa “can easily compete” with Westerners mentally. His encyclical, “On Affairs of the Church,” calls for recruiting more native missionaries.
March 5, 1926: The Labor-Farmer Party is founded in Tokyo as a left-wing coalition of unions and poor farmers. Activists had attempted to launch a previous version of this party in December but it was banned by the government as subversive within two hours.
(London Daily Telegraph)
March 5, 1926: A horse-drawn military munitions wagon explodes on its way through Prague, killing the two soldiers aboard and one bystander, and injuring 66. Many buildings on the narrow street are damaged by the blast, likely caused when a box of grenades fell and was run over.
