- Topic "A" for the day was a mysterious shooting. Joseph Wynn had been shot in his Fifth Ward home in Shamokin. Wynn was taken to Shamokin State Hospital, but he died there without saying a word about who shot him. Police theorized the slaying might go unsolved since Wynn apparently had a lot of enemies and there were no witnesses to the murder, nor any clues concerning specific motive.
- In Atlas, two men were walking their dogs - one a collie, the other a bulldog. The dogs suddenly attacked each other. They seemed to be locked in a struggle to the death. A third man came onto the scene and tried to separate the dogs. In so doing, he kicked the bulldog. Its owner became furious and attacked the man. All three men wound up injured, as did both dogs. This was a headline story in 1927.
- State police raided what they described simply as a "place on the Trevorton-Dornsife Road." They said orgies and illegal drinking parties were held nightly at the place, and they arrested several men. The toughest fine was $25.
- In Philadelphia, the Ku Klux Klan staged what news people described as a monster rally with no major confrontations.
- Adm. Richard Byrd, the conqueror of the North Pole, was set to fly to Paris from New York with a crew of three in his huge monoplane "The America." Byrd would not make it. After 43 hours, he had to ditch the "America" in the English Channel. He and all crew members were OK.