jurisdiction rights. The day after his father's death, and the proclamation of his six-year-old son as King of Romania, former Crown Prince Carol, who had renounced his right of succession two years earlier, proclaimed from his villa near Paris that he planned to claim the throne. Friday, July 22, 1927 The merger of three clubs (Roman FC, SS Alba-Audace and Fortitudo-Pro Roma SGS) created the Italian soccer football team A.S. Roma, league champion in 1942, 1983 and 2001 Saturday, July 23, 1927 The first regular radio broadcasts in India began as the Indian Broadcasting Company went on the air in Mumbai (Bombay). A second station began operation on August 26 in Kolkata (Calcutta). The privately owned company was bought in 1930 by the publicly funded Indian Broadcasting Service, now All India Radio. Born: Elliot See, American astronaut who was killed in a plane crash three months before he was scheduled to have commanded the Gemini 9 mission; in Dallas (d. 1966) Died: Brigadier General Reginald Dyer, 62, British officer whose troops fired into a crowd of protesters, killing hundreds of unarmed civilians during the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919; from a cerebral hemorrhage Sunday, July 24, 1927 The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing was dedicated in Ypres, Belgium, as a monument to nearly 90,000 soldiers of the British Empire who went missing in action in the three Battles of Ypres in World War I. The names of 54,900 soldiers who were missing in action were engraved on the available space, and another 34,888 were inscribed at a memorial at the nearby Tyne Cot cemetery. The Last Post continues to be sounded each evening at 8:00 pm at the monument. Died: Maurice E. Crumpacker, 40, U.S. Representative for Oregon since 1925, killed himself by leaping into San Francisco Bay Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, 35, Japanese short story writer, killed himself with an overdose of barbiturates Monday, July 25, 1927 Centralized traffic control, now in use on railroads worldwide, was first implemented. The system for remote control of railroad signals from a central location was invented by Sedgwick N. Wight, and first used for a 40-mile stretch of the New York Central Railroad between Walbridge and Berwick, Ohio. July 25, 1927, is the date of the "Tanaka Memorial", purported to be a report by the Prime Minister of Japan, Baron Tanaka Giichi, to the Emperor Hirohito, summarizing a plan for world conquest that