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January 12th, 1927
Senators Copeland and Wadsworth of New York and Deneen and Smith of Illinois have co-sponsored a bill to prohibit immigration of persons known to have ties to communist or anarchist groups or from nations with large communist and anarchist movements. It also would declare that communist and anarchist groups are “terrorist conspiracies intent on the destruction of Constitutional government in the United States” and outlaw any such group and make membership in or assistance to such a group a federal offense. Some members of Congress have expressed fears that the bill is too sweeping in scope, but it is expected to pass and be signed into law by President Coolidge. The first criminal trials linked to the October attacks are scheduled to begin in New York in April.

January 21st, 1927
Goodyear Zeppelin broke ground on its new construction hanger in Akron, Ohio today. The huge “airdock” will be the building site for Goodyear’s giant airships planned for the US Navy and Atlantis. The building will be over 1,000 feet in length, over 300 feet wide and 200 feet tall, making it the largest building of its type in the world. A similar facility near Cleito in Atlantis will produce airships for their government under a recently announced deal between the US and Atlantis with construction beginning there next month. Construction of the Atlantian airships will begin this month with initial fabrication of components. Actual final assembly of the Atlantian airships will begin this autumn when the airdock is completed. Goodyear says it may need to build a second airdock in Akron, depending on the possible expansion of the “ZRS” program of large airship/carriers. The first two ZRS ships will be named “Akron” and “Macon”, the former to honor her city of construction, the latter named for the largest city in the congressional district of Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, member of the House Naval Affairs Committee. It is believed that if the two ships prove successful, the Navy may order as many as a dozen more over the next decade.

Artist's conception of the new Goodyear Zeppelin Airdock and the planned USS Akron.
February 7th, 1927
Construction began at the Mare Island Naval Shipyards today on the Chilean Coastal Battleship Almirante Gideon. The 16,000 ton ship will be armed with a half dozen fourteen inch cannons and a variety of smaller weapons. The vessel should be completed by the beginning of 1929.

February 16th, 1927
The Anti Terrorism Act of 1927 was signed into law by President Coolidge today after being passed by both houses of Congress. The President hailed the bill as a major step in eliminating the threat of Communist/Anarchist terror in the United States. Major labor union leaders decried the sweeping nature of the bill and fear it might be used to quash union activities. AF&L President William Green said: “I fear we will gain neither peace nor security through this bill but rather tyranny will be the result.” The bill also orders the creation of the Federal Bureau of Security to act as a nation-wide police force unhindered by jurisdictional boundaries between states. Commissioner Hoover is expected to be selected as its head.

March 17th, 1927
The Navy Department announced that large scale maneuvers with the Atlantian Navy will commence this spring. Most of the Atlantic fleet will be involved with operations to take place in the Caribbean off of the Venezuelan coast. Exact details and notices to mariners will be released later. The exercise will be the largest ever undertaken by the Navy.

Finally something to replace the aging Capitan Prat

Wow Canis, you didn't miss a thing! Very interesting news indeed.