The following events occurred in September 1922:
September 1, 1922 (Friday) The Reichsbank in Germany was closed by police following a bank run by employers looking to meet overdue payrolls. The Constitution of Mandatory Palestine was put into effect by publication, providing for the British Mandate in what is now Israel and Jordan, to be governed by a British High Commissioner and an elected Legislative Council and to have a civil and religious court system. Born: Yvonne De Carlo (stage name for Margaret Yvonne Middleton), Canadian-born American film and television actress known for The Munsters; in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2007) Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor and director; in Genoa (d. 2000) Died: Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, 61
September 2, 1922 (Saturday) An agreement to end the nationwide anthracite coal mining strike in the United States was reached between the United Mine Workers of America and the Policy Committee of the Anthracite Coal Operators, by extending the terms of the contract between labor and management to at least August 31, 1923. The compromise came after the intervention of U.S. President Harding, who had appealed to both sides "in the name of public welfare" to accept the proposal to end the strike in time for the onset of winter, as made by the two U.S. Senators for Pennsylvania, David A. Reed and George W. Pepper, both of whom had been in office for less than a year. German President Friedrich Ebert declared the "Deutschlandlied" to be the national anthem of Germany. The lyrics were limited to the song's third stanza ("Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit, Für das deutsche Vaterland!"). The song would be used in Nazi Germany (with the words of the more militant first stanza, "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Über alles in der Welt,") until the fall of the Third Reich in 1945. The "Deutschlandlied" would be made the anthem of West Germany on May 2, 1952 and continued after the reunification of Germany in 1989.
September 3, 1922 (Sunday) The Austrian government issued a decree forbidding, except in the city of Vienna, the sale of alcohol in restaurants after 10 p.m., and in bars after midnight. Newspapers called it a first step towards prohibition. Born: Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter; in Nólsoy, Faroe Islands, Denmark (d. 1976) Salli Terri, Canadian singer; in London, Ontario (d. 1996) Died: Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, 31, Austrian heiress and mother of the seven children who would become the Trapp Family singers who were the subject of the musical The Sound of Music, died of scarlet fever. In 1927, Agathe's widowed husband, former submarine commander Georg von Trapp, would remarry, taking the children's teacher, Maria Kutschera (portrayed in film by Julie Andrews) as his wife.
September 4, 1922 (Monday) Jimmy Doolittle began the first single-day crossing of the United States, departing at 10:03 p.m. in a modified DH-4B from Pablo Beach, Florida toward Rockwell Field in San Diego, California. John Hessin Clarke, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, announced his resignation, to take effect on September 18, his 65th birthday. Clarke had only been on the Court for six years, and friends said that he would work toward bringing the United States into the League of Nations. Born: Margaret S. Collins, African-American entomologist known for her expertise in the study of termites; in Institute, West Virginia (d. 1996) Died: Lieutenant General Pratap Singh, 76, Maharaja of the princely state of Idar and regent of Jodhpur State, decorated hero of the British Indian Army James Young, 40, Scottish footballer, was killed in a motorcycle accident
September 5, 1922 (Tuesday) A mine explosion at Haig Colliery in Whitehaven, England killed 39 miners. In a telegram to prime minister Rauf Orbay, Turkey's President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk asserted the Turkish claim to East Thrace (Trakya) as part of its conditions of the settlement of the war with Greece, to take back territory that had been ceded to Greece in 1920. The areas that came back under Turkish control under the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne would include Edirne (Adrianople) and Izmir (Smyrna). Born: Denys Wilkinson, British nuclear physicist and inventor, known for the Wilkinson ADC (analog-to-digital converter); in Leeds, West Yorkshire (d. 2016) Died: Sarah Winchester, 83, American heiress and the wealthiest woman in the world at the time of her death as the majority owner of the Winchester firearms company; known as the builder of the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California
September 6, 1922 (Wednesday)