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FOREIGN
INTERNATIONAL
Jan. 2—Japanese troops occupied
•Chinehow, Manchuria.
Jan. 9—Chancellor Bruening an-
•nounced Germany could no longer par
•reparations.'
<JAn. 20—rLausanne .conference oa
•reparations postponed.
Jan. 25i- i Gouncil of League of Na
tions met and China demanded Arm
action against Japan.
Russia and Poland signed a. non
aggression treaty.
Jan.' 28—Japanese marinijs seised
Chinese quarter of Shanghai and
bloody battle began.
Jah. 29—China in League of Na
tions council invoked, string articles
of covenant against Japan.
Jan. 30‘—Japanese seized part of for
eign section of Shanghai, despite pro
tests of other nations.
United States ordered Asiatic fleet
and'regiment of infantry to Shanghai.
Feb. 1—Japanese warships shelled
the Nanking forts.
United States. Great Britain. France
*.nd Italy* made concerted protest
Against Japan’s course in China, and
offered plan for peace. t
Feb. 2—International disarmament
conference opened in Geneva.
Feb. 4—Japanese rejected peace
plans of the powers, battle in Shang
hai renewed.
Full division of U. S. army Ordered
to- Shanghai.
Hay bin. Manchuria, occupied by
* Japanese^ . #
Feb. 6—U. S. 31st Infantry arrived
In Shanghai.
Feb. 12—Japanese resumed fierce at
tack .-on Woosuog forts and Chapei.
China demanded convocation of
League of Nations assembly to con
sider the Japanese affair.
Feb. 14—Japan landed 12,000 troops
At Shanghai.
Feb. 1C—League of Nations council
In a sharp note appealed to Japan to
cease hostilities against China. Secre
tary Stimson sent another protest to
Tokyo.
Feb. 17—Japan served ultimatum on
v China to withdraw her troops from
-Shanghai.
Feb. 19—China -rejected Japan’s ul
timatum.
Feb. 22—Great Britain. France and
Italy signed Mediterranean peace
Agreement.
March 1—Japan accepted League of
Nations plan for peace parley in
Shanghai, both Japanese and Chinese
armies, to withdraw.
March 3—Both Japanese and Chinese
Armies were ordered to cease lighting
% At Shanghai; Chinese were driven
back about 13 miles.
' League of Nations assembly met in
'Geneva to take up Si no-Japanese
trouble.
March 4—Japanese renewed attack
-on Chinese;. League of-Nations assem
bly demanded withdrawal of Jppaneso
army at Shahghai. '•
March 11—League of Nations adopt-
•ed resolution condemning Japan's nc-
- tionsMn China and setting op commis
sion to deal with the case. ' .
-hUtgeifr 19—International disarms-
fnent' c6nfecei«fe adjourned to April II.
ril it—Disarmament conference
Jan. 3—Mahatma Gandhi^ordered civ
il disoitedience campaign in India re-
new»><t and was arrested, a
Jan. 12—French cabinet.resigned.
Jan. (4—(.aval formed ‘new French
cabinet with Briand left nut..
Jan. 21—Japanese diet dissolved.
Rebellion broke out iu Catalonia.
Spain.
Jan. TX—Communistic uprising in
Salvador.
Jan. 24—Jirltisli -convicts in Part- !
moor penitentiary. Kngland, mutinied
and burned part of the prison.
Mnr'ial law declared in Salvador;
government troops defeated rebels.
Jan. 28—Chiang Kai-shek became i
premier of ChRih. I
Jan. 39—Viola mi repealed its pro- I
hibition 'aw.,..
Feb. It—Pttettiier Mussolini paid his
first visit to 1'ope.-d'ius IXI..
Feb. 14—-Ricardo Jiminez elected
president of <%*sts« ‘Rica.
Feb. IS—Pierre I .aval’s French gov-,
eminent resigned.
De Valera s Fi.rnna Vail party won ,
Irish elec.tori
or V
[abinet
Tf Hitler
r of Germany
he rejected,
i—l tonal Buckley
ert^^ptfeneral of Irish Fr
2—Gen. Kurt von S»
pointed chancellor of Germ
new government.
I ten-. 14—Premier Herriot of France
resigned when parliament voted mil to
pay war debt installment ‘due (’rilled
i>ec. < lb—Kdmural Schtiltcss elected
president of Switzerland.
Dec. is—Huge plot against Argen
tina government foiled and prominent
men arrested.
Dec. IX—Joseph Paul-Hont’oitr formed
P*;*v French cab.net.
Dec. z'i—Arturo Aleasatidri Jpaugw- ;
fated president of Ghile
-DOMESTIC
Jdm 4—^UU>n>;ress reassembled and re
ceived message from Pres.ri'eut dA-.a-uet •'
asking quick action on' relief mcas
ures.
Jan. 8—Ambassador Dawes an-
1H
W
J
vent
J uh
passed
June
adopted
Kighteen
reireal. 1
July l
lin L>.
fourth ballot.
July 2—Ddmocra
Witin yrrankT'
it <Jn
Feb. 2d—Augustin B. Just.. Inaugu-! COM * i,,K fr ’*«
TarTpeu S '^formed A glfverument for 9—Dwight F l«av rs resigned a.-
j • s
“S*
— M v.v. . .. Lwvanr uy GemtRHy. ayd his cabinet re-
oril 19—Lengtnt of Nations commit-*
called on Japan to evjfeuate Shang- «l_JF«»tiz von Papen made
th “ r ” ,,,r ‘* chancellor of Germany.
Premier Jorgg of Rumania resigned.
June 4—Kdouard Herriot
Apri
hai “in ‘the near' futur#.'
April 29-sTfns-And
Aban
.pyil 20-—Tf ns-Andean railway
Adoned because of Argentina-Chne
WjSr. V--- v -
lay 5—Japanese and Chinese signed
peace agreement for Shanghai Aren.
May 13—Austria appealed, to League
•of Nations to save her from ruin.
Mayt 14—Mexico, severed diplomatic
relations with Peru.
June 161—^Lausanne, reparations con
ference opened.
June 17—European moratorium aa
Intergovernmental debts during Lau
sanne conference agreed upon.
June 22—president Moover offered
-Geneva conference plan to rut world
-arm&mertVs-by nearly one-third.
< -
4—Italy demanded cancellatloa
repai
July ^8—St. Lawrence seaway treaty
’ United States and Canada. . .
—International disarmament * uppre * n -
rated
Tartt'eu . . .
France. \
Feb. 21—Soviet Russia banished
Vrotxky •and iiU others for all time.
Feb. 24—.Spains first divorce law
passed.
Feb. 25—British parliament passed
1W per cent ta,riff bill.
March 9—Ramon de Valera elected
president of Irish Free State.
Henry Pu-yi installed us bead of
new Manchurian state of Manchtikuo.
March 12—IVar Krueger, head of
Swedish match trust, committed sui
cide ip Paris. -
March 13—President Von Hindenburg
lead in German election hut failed to
get a majority vote; Hitler badly
beaten. ,
Apr ft - !•—Ten thousand inhabitants
of Villa Santa Stefam*, Italy, fled for
their lives *» village dropped Into an
cient Roman caves.
April C-^Mob forced resignation of
Newfoundland government..
•April (0—Von Hindenburg re-elected
president of Germany.
April 13—Germany ordered Hitler to
disband his 40».()00 shm-k troops.
April IS—British budget introduced,
continuing heavy taxation for another
year.
April 24—Hitler’s National Social
ists won ia elections in Prussia ’and
Austria.
May I—Two British scientists an
nounced they had split the hydrogen
atom and obtained a helium atom.
May 6—Paul Doumer, president of
France, assassinated by a Russian.
May 8—Eusebio Ayala elected presi
dent of Paraguay.
Ricardo Jlminez Installed as presi
dent of Costa Rica.
Communist revolt In Peruvian navy
quelled.
French elections resulted In wiping
out Premier Taniieu’s majority by rad
ical Socialists and Soeialists.
May to—Albert Lebrwn elected presi
dent of France,■’
May t$—Premier Enukal of Japan
assassinated by young militarist ter-
rerists.
May IS—Jrish Free State Dali Eire-
aan passed bill abolishing oath of al
legiance to the king..
May 32—Admiral Salto mad* premier
ef Japan. '-;C- V •
Premier Vdtiixelos;,: of Greece re-
•'ST.'? 3d—Alexander Papahastaslou
formed hew government for Greece.
'' nrich Bruenlng. chancel-
, governor general of the i’hiliitpitiea
and Th««wi<.re Roosevelt wax named to
Mqcceed him. . \
Democrats selei-ted Chicago fo* their
national convention.
Jan. .11—Senate passed Iteconstruc
tion Finance corporation Mil.
Jan. 12—Associate Justice -O. W.
Holmes of United States Supreme
coart resigned.
Mrs. Hattie Caraway elected U. S.
senator from Arkansas.
Jan. 15—House passed lieconstruc-
|ion Finance corporation bill.
Jan. 18—JosephfC.', Grew selected as
ambassador to Japan.
Jan. 19—Gen. C. G, Dawes selected
as president of -Reconstruction Finance
corporation; Secret try Srtiupon re
placed him as chairman of disarma
ment conference delegation.
Jan. 21—Wets lost, 15 to 55. in test
vote in jsenate.
Jan. 3?—Franklin J>., Roosevelt
formally-declared himself a candidate
for the Democratic Presidential nomi
nation. y
Jan. 27—Department of Agrici|lture
supply ..bill passed by house; salary
increases prohibited.
Jan. 28—Sedate confirmed Dawes.
Jones and Couch as directors of Re
construction Finance corporation.
Jan. 31—Railway presidents and un
ions signed agreement for 10 per cent
wage deduction for one year.
Feb. 3—President Hoover announced
that Secretary of the Treasury Andrew
W. Mellon would retire from the cab
inet and become ambassador to Great
Britain.
Feb. 4— Ogden L. Mills appointed
secretary of the treasury.
Feb. 6—Conference tocljeck hoard-
• *• * •* ’ W, '
ot al? reparations and war debts.
July 8—Turkey accepted invitation
to Join League of Natloha. '
Jniy 8—Ktiropean powers agreed to
•end German reparations with payment
by Germany, of three billion gold
marks In bonds, but ratification was
made dependant on reduction of war
-debts by United States. (
July 13—NeW’ entente formed by
France and Great Britain to aid Eu
rope
- *
signed Dy
July 23-
• conference in Geneva adjourned, ten
'nations' refusing to vote for resolu
tion of ■'‘admevement.**
July 25—Poland and Russia signed
'Peace treaty.
;.i. July IS'*—Germany Joined the Fran-
'''7— r '*^»<50-9ritiah entente.
July 29—Bolivian troops attacked
Paraguayan frontier forts In Chaco
•dispute.
•i • r July 31—Paraguay ordered general
• mobilization against Bolivia.
Aug. 2—United States accepted in-
, vitation to participate in #drld econ-
• omic conference, war debts being
•charred.
United- States and South and Central
‘American nations warned Paraguay
- and Bolivia against war.
Aug. 31—Germany, in note to France,
demanded equality, of armaments..
Sept. 5—Conference of Danubian na
tions opened in Strese. Italy. }
me
premier Of France and completed For
mation of a Socialist cabinet.
Chilean Socialists and military junta
overthrew government of President'
Montero; Carlos Davila made preal-
deat pro »«m.
June S—Dr. Harmodio Arias elected
presidout of Panama. *
June !<!—Three rich Cubans tried to
asaasulnate President Machado with
toOPlflL
June 12—Oavila resigned as head
Of new Chilean government.
June Id.—Radical Socialist govern
ment of Chile ousted by military junta.
Davila reinstated.
June 34—Siam’s army and navy re
volted and forced ' King Prajadhipok
to accept a constitutional government.
‘ June 23—Irish Free State senate
passed bill abolishing oath to the king,
July 4—British government imposed
retaliatory tariff oh impdrts from Ire
land.
July i—Civilian communist rebels In
Peru captured Trujillo.
July 19—Brazilian rebels captured
Sao Paulo.
July It—Peruvian revolt at Trujillo
July 13—Brazilian revolt spread to
two more states.
July 2h—German government decreed
dictatorship for Prussia and martial
law in Berlin.
Premier' MUssotini revamped Italian
cabinet, ousting Foreign Minister Dino
Grand! and others.
July 21—British Imperial economic
conference opened In Ottawa. Canada.
July 31—Hitler's Nazis made big
gains in German elections but failed to
get control of reichstag.
Aug- <—New Welland ship canal
formally opened by Canada.
Aug. 19—Spanish royalists started
revolutionary movement but were sup
pressed.
Aug. 13—President Von Hindenburg
refused to make Hitler chancellor of
Germany.
Aug. Id—Eusebio Ayala inaugurated
president of Paraguay.
Aug. 1C—Ten thousand Cuban physl-
fng of money opened in Washington.
Alfred K. Smith declared hii! will
ingness to be again tne Democratic
Presidential Candidate.
. Winnie Ruth Judd. Arizona trunk
msrderer, convicted and sentenced to
death.
Feb. 15—Judge Benjamin N. Car-
doxo of New York appointed associ
ate* Justice of the U- 8. Supreme court.
House passed Glass-SteSgel federal
reserve credits bill. , .,
Feb. 19—Seabdte passed reserve cred
it bilL
Feb. 31—President Hoover opened
the Washington bicentennial wfth ad
dress before Joint session of congress.
Feb. 27-r—House passed 9132.000,000
federal aid highway bill.
Conviction ot A1 Capone upheld by
federal court Of appeals.
■ March 1—Senate passed the Norria
ojrafHlon
buahefa-of farm board wheat ror job
less and for drought stricken farmers.
March 5—House passed treasury and
post office appropriation bill carrying
fl,059.778.1(3.
March 9—Rooae\*elDwon New Hamp
shire primaries from Smith,
Antf-injunction bill, passed by the
house. " \ ■* $
' March 14—“Home rule” antl-prohlbl-
..tlon motion defeated In house. 187. to
im.
Benjamin Cardozo sworn in as mem-
*f United States Supreme court.
Sept.. 12—France reeled Catrmw’g dans struct? against cheap service in
qua my. > •'
demand for arms equa'
Sept. 15—Manchukuo recognized by
Japan.
- Sept. 18—Great Britain rejb^ted Ger
many’s demand for arms equaMty.
Oct. 2—Report of League of RLatfons
commission on Manchuria made pub
lie-, calling for establishmen
autonomous, demilitarized
under Chinese sovereignty
Oct. 3—Iraq became a memfc
League of Nations, Great Bri,
rendering her mandate.
Oct. 18—Great Britain a|
trade treaty with Russit;
Oct. 21—New Chilean^
recognized by United Stat
Britain.
Oer. 22—Paraguay capt
Arces in the Gran Chaco ti
ans.
Nov. 4—France’s new
djaaxmamtot plan” laid tapi
ament conference bureau ii
. Nov. .-10—John Galsworth]
novelist, was awarded the
for literature.
Nov. 11—Great Britain,
other nations asked posti
payment of their war debt
United States and revisl
debts.
Nov. 14—France’s plan
ament and security laid
armament conference In
Nov. 21—Japan’a case
affair laid before coimcf
Nations. Chinn repll-d.
Nov. 23—European natl»™
by United States they must .
•debt installment and Interesl
Nov. 29—France and Rusi
treaty of honaggresslon ah«)
lion.
Dec l—Second British nolo
cancellation of war debts r*oJ
Washington. j
Dec. 2—France’s second n©i«,
•debt" cancellation received it
ihgton
Dec. 5—Special meeting, of
Nations -assembly opened
the Manchurian trouble.
Dec. 7—British war debt pf
rejected '— — - -
>j0|
dinicR.
Aug. 18—Spain ordered exile of 92
nobles for monarchist revolt.
I Ants. 24^British imperial economic
confereni?^B|nsed with^Bberffig of 12
ions.
led Presi-
\
|n Ecuador
weavers
suppressed
Mexico
elected
,a b«r • .jv- ,,
Bnarch 19—Senate subcommittee re
ported favorably the Bingham beer
bill.
March 22—-House amended revenue
hill to boost estate taxes of the
wealthy. j
Senate ordered department appropri
ations cut 19 per cent.
March, 24—House defeated sales tax.
(larch 2(—House -voted tax on beer,i
materials, Imported coal and toil,
April 1:—House *passed billion dollar
tax bill. With sales tax eliminated, but
with surtaxes revised.
Aurli 4—Dr. C. C. King pf University
of Pittsburgh isolated Vitamin C.
, April 4—House voted independence
for Philippines.
April 9—Lindbergh paid ransom, but
kidnapers failed to returh his baby.
April 21—Gov. Rolph of California
denied pardorf for Thomas J. Mooney,
convicted for Preparedness day bomb
ing In 1919 in San Francisco.
April 29—Lieut. T. H.‘ Massie. Airs.
Fortescue and Seamen Lord and Jones
found guilty of manslaughter In Kaha-
hawai murder case in Honolulu.
■s May 2—Supreme court refused to re
view Al Capone’s case; refused to con
sent to modification of the packers’
consent decree of 1920; held Invalid
the Texas law by which negroes were
barred from Democratic primaries, and
upheld President Hoover's refusal to
resubmit °power board nomination to.
senate after it had been confirmed.
..„— noihinag^d John
N. Garner for Vice. P re8,< *® , 'js Roose
velt'flew to ClHda'go, and t^aa*formally
notified of ntunlnation, , F
July 7—Emergency felref pill passed
house. , t Jf
Tyhjbition party nominated w. D.
^WaWMWr PfSVidvnt anti/TF. S. Regan
for Vice President.
July 9—Senate passed Garner-Wag-
ner relief bill.
July 11—President Hoover vetoed
tlie relief hill.
Julv 12—Senate passed new relief
bill.
July 13—Relief bill passed by the
house.
July 15—President Hoover cut sal
aries of himself and his cabinet.
July 16—Congress passed home loan
bank bill, with inflation amendment,
and adjourned.
July 21—President Hoover sigtied
emergency relief measure.
Interstate commerce commission ap
proved merger of all eastern railroads,
except those of New England, into
four systems. f
July 22—President signed home loan
bank bill.
July 23—Federal grain commission
ordered Chicago Board of Trade closed
as contract market for 60 days for
violating grain futures act. 1
President Hoover called conference
on shorter work day week.
July 26—President Hoover appointed
Atlee Pomergne >.af Ohio ■ member of
Keccnstruction Finance corporation
board and he was made chairman.
July 28—“Bonus army" in Washing
ton routed by regulars and its camps
burned after fight with police in which
one -veteran was killed and scores of
policemen and veterans were injured.
Charles A. Walker of Utica, N; Y..
appointed to R. F. C. board by Presi
dent Hoover and made president of the
corporation. >.
Governor Roosevelt received reply
of Mayor Walker of New York to the
Seabury charges, denying all of them.
Aug. 2—Bonus army, gathered at
Johnstown, Pa., ordered disbanded by
W. W. Waters, its commander.
Aug. 3—Secretary of Commerce Rob
ert P. Lamont resigned and Roy D.
Chapin of Dotrcit was appointed to
succeed him.
Aug. 9—U. 5. Attorney Gt E. Q.
Johnson of Chicago made federal dis
trict judge.
Aug. 10—Army exchanges ordered
to stop sales to civilians.
Aug. 11—President Hoover delivered
his speech of acceptance and declared
himself for change from national pro
hibition to state liquor control with
federal safeguards.
• Aug. 15—Farmers of Iowa and oth
er central west states started “strike”
for higher prices for produce.
Aug. 19—Second son born to Col.
and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh.
• Aug. 1$—Vice Preeident Curtis for
mally notified of his renominatlom
Seriator J. J. Davis of Pennsylvania
and six others indicted In connection
with fraternity lotteries.
Aug. 24—John Bain. Whose twelve
Chicago hanks failed, found guilty of
conspiracy to defraud depositors.
Aug. fl^Business leaders, summoned
by President Hoover, adopted plan
J. for economic recovery.
•!-—John W. Poole resigned as
comptroller of the currency.
Sept 1—Mayor Jamer J. Walker of
New York resigned.
Hanford McNider-v resigned as min
ister to Canada.
Sept. 6—.Farm board announced it
would hold weat and cotton off mar
ket until, next year.
Sept. 9—Railway executives voted
for 20 per cent cut in wages, effec
tive February 1. v *
Sept.* 11—Central elates governors
recommended federal financial aid for
farmers. . ’
Sept. 12—Democrats won governor
ship and two congress heats in Maine
election. ,
American Legion convention opened
In Portland, Ore.
Sept. 15—American Legion voted for
immediate cash payment of bonus and
for repeal of Eighteenth amendment,
and elected Louts A. Johnson of West
Virginia national commander.
. Sept. 18—G. A. R. national encamp
ment opened in Springfield. 111.
Sept. 20—•Wisconsin Republicans
nominated W. J. Kohler for governor,
rejecting Gov. Philip La Follette; and
J. B. Chappie for senator, defeating
Senator J. J. Blaine.
Sept. 22—Capt. W. P. Wright of
Chicago elected national commander
of G. A. R.
• Sept. 27—Representative C. R. Crisp
of Georgia appointed to tariff com
mission.
Oct. 3—Four lake states asked Su
preme court to appoint commissioner
lyanadel
of Chllo.
to ihrn the Chicago sanijary district.
Case of Senator D&V{s of Pennsyl
vania on lottery charges ended irt mis
trial.
Oct. 4—Samuel and Martin Instill,
former public utility magnates, indict
ed in Chicago.
Oct. 10—Samuel Insull arrested in
Athens.
Oct. 23—Brig. Gen. Harry Burgess
May 3—Al Capone taken from Chi- ■ resigned as governor of the Panama
cago to Atlanta penitentiary. Canal Zone and Lieut. Col. Julian
House passed economy *111 after Schley was appointed to succeed him.
wrecking it. ' Nov. l-j-F. Lammot Beiin appointed.
May 4P—Massie case defendants in ambassador to Poland.
Honolulu sentenced to ten years In Nov. 5—Director of the Budget Roop
prison and Immediately set free by began cutting duWn the national bud-.
Governor Judd. get 3150,000.000.
May 5—House passed bill for oper- ! American Red Cross reported three
atlon of Muijcle Shoals. _ 1 and a half millions spent for relief
May 6—Senate passed Hale bill for
treaty strength navy.
May 11—President Hoover vetoed
the Democratic tariff bill.
Mav 12—Col. Lindbergh’s kidnaped
in past year.
Nov. 7—Supreme court ordered new
trial for seven negroes in internation-,
ally agitated Scottsboro (Ala.) case.
Nov. 8—Franklin D. Roosevelt and
baby found murdered near the Lind- John N. Garner elected President and"
bergh estate in New Jersey. I Vice President, Democrats sweeping
President Hoover proposed 1% bil-! the country.
Hon for jobless relief. I Nov. 13—President Hoover Invited
May 18—Senate voted against 2.75 President-elect Roosevelt to confer-
per cent beer. ence on foreign war debts when debtor
May 19—House passed War fltpart- • nations asked postponement of pay
ment supply bill carrying $2'ir2;587,000. ments and revision.
Eastern bankers and .Indtfstrlaliet* Nov. 18—Helen Hayes and Frederic
mphHi99*t >fGt' , 4r*de revival. March voted best' film actors of the
May 23—Bill legalizing and taxing gear,
beer defeated by the house. , Nov. 21—A. Lawrence Lowell re-
May 25—Senate \again rejected le-j elgr.ed as president of Harvard uni-
galized and taxed Beer. versiiy.
May 31—Senate' massed billion dol- ! Nov. 22—President Hoover and Pres-
lar revenue bill, rbjectin& sales tax ident-Elect Roosevelt conferred on the
feature, after President Hoover in per- war debt situation.
a«»n appealed for quick action. I E. & Grajnmer, Seattle, appointed
Jun*. 4—R. R, Reynolds defeated U- S. senaror to succeed the late Wes-
Sebator Cameron Morrison in North l«y L. Jones of Washington.
Carolina Democratic primarv. Nov.
fill
MS
Irelal
Roosel
May 1
Putnanll
bor Oral
May
nam land!
•land, the
across the
Rear
^ (Mrs. G. P.
fht from Har-
lia Earhart Put-
LondotYderry. Ire-
woman ever to fly
ntlc alone.
June 1—AWtny balloon No. 2, piloted
by Lieutenants Paul and Bishop, won
national bplloon race.
Jupe 3—S. F. Hausner started flight
from New York to Poland.
June 11—Hausner picked up at sea
after floating eight days on his plane.
.July 5—Jadies Mat tern and BennetJ
Griffin started round-the-world flight
from Harbor Grace. N. F.
July.6—Matt.ern and .Griffin crossed
ocean in record time, landed at .Ber
lin and departed for Moscow.
July 7—Mattern and Griffin made
forced landing 50 miles from Minsk.
July 22—Capt. Wolfgang von *Gro-
nau of Germany and three companions
flew from Germany to Ideland on way
to Chicago.
Aug. 2—Von Gronau arrived at Chi
cago.
Aug. IS—Prof. Auguste Piccard rose
in balloon to record altitude of 55,774
feet over Switzerland and Italy.
Capt. J. A. Mollison began flights
from Ireland across Atlantic in Moth
plane.
Aug. 19—Mollison landed* in New
Brunswick, completing first westward
solo flight across the Atlantic.
Aug. 22—Mrs. I/Otiise Thaden and
Mrs. Frances Marsalis set new wom
en’s endurance flight record of 8 days.
4 hours.
Aug. 24—Amelia Earhart Putnam set
new women's records by 19-hour non
stop flight Torn Los Angeles to New
ark.
Aug. 25—Clyde Lee and John Bock-
hon started flight from Harbor Grace
to Oslo, Norway, and were lost.
Aug. 29—J. G. Haizlip set new coast-
to-coast record of 10 hours. 19 minutes.
. Sept. 3—Major Doolittle set new land
plane speed record of . 292.287 miles
an hour at National Air races in Cleve
land.
Sept; 11—Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Hutch
inson, two daughters and crew of
four crashed'off coast of Greenland
while flying to Europe. •
Sept. 13—W. Ulbricht and Edna
Newcomer, pilots, and Dr. L. M. Pis-
culi hopped off from New York on non
stop flight to Rome and were lost at
sea.
Nov. 14—Roscoe Turner set new
record of 12 hours, 33 minutes, for
flight from New York to Burbank*
Calif.
Nov. U—Amy Johnston completed
London to Capetown flight In record
time of 4 days, 9 hours, 55 minutes.
Nov. 19—Memorial to Wilbur and
Orville Wright unveiled aJ Kitty
Hawk. N. C. ^
DISASTERS
_ _ 23—Congress leaders in confer-
June 6—President {Hoover signed the^ ence with President Hoover rejected
new revenue bill.-,T his war debt revision plan. *
Charles G. Dawes reWqjTtlfd as oreef. 1 Nov. 28—American Federation of |
dent of Reconstruction Flnancecor- Labor, in convention in Oiheinnati.
poration. demanded the five-day week and six-
Senator Hrookhart of Iowa defeated
for renomination by Henry Field Dec. 3—Conrad H. Mann, prominent
Samuel fnsull ct Chicago Kansas City resident, and two others
to resign „„ unities chief and waf s^oSdSd «> T > v ‘ cted ot violating federal lottery
* . ! hv .la«H-?s Simoson. taw.
Dec.
voted nqt
18—Franc/
K*t to pay
Designed as
t Irish Free
resident De
{Nie rebels
new
ration of
elected
mill
3.000
r, D « c - 4—“Hunger army” of
. J,. Garn * r reached Washington.
lw«-h511ion-dnllar relief bill. Dec- 5—short session of cpngress
June 8—Senate passed emasculated opened,
ecmiomv hill. • , ■ House defeated Garner resolution for
June 9—Senate passed 399 million prohibition repeal by six votoa.
dollar army supply bill. , o ec g—President Hooveir In annual
June 10—Senate passed relief bill message asked congress for sales tax
to provide 311 ir.l.linns In loans to and economy legislation,
statea. ’ £> ec> 7—President Hoover submitted
June 13—Gaston Means convicted of budget cutting ffovernmetrt expenses bv
lar«t*ny of 9194,090 front Mrs Kvalyn half a billion.
*»g|<*9« '.V ^Ifdberjrh ?a»Mi , Dec. .8—Powers of th* R. F. C. ex-
June 14—Republican *iatfonar • con- teftded ' Cor ' trije ’■roar by President
vent Ion •priced In Chicago. • *•• 1 Hoover
Juno 15—Republican convention ' Dec. 9—PresidelSt Hoover gave cou-
adopted moderate prohibition resub- * gresg 'trig* plans tpr federal government
ut.uii.oii piaufc. reorganization.
Jan. 2—Fifty killed )n train wreck
near Moscow. ^
Jan. 26—British submarine lost
near Portland with crew of 161.
Feb. 2—Santiago, Cuba, badly dam
aged bv earthquakes; six killed.
Feb. 4—Seventeen killed by explo
sion of motorship at Marcus Hook. I’a.
Feb. 29—Thirteen persons killed by
avalanches near Seattle.
Feb. 27—Mine explosion at Poca
hontas, Va„ killed 38 men.
March 12—Island of Banda Nelra In
Dutch East Indies, nearly destroyed by
earthquakes and volcanoes, with great
loss of life,
March 21—Tornadoes in Alabama,
Georgia. Kentucky, South Carolina and
Tennessee killed 358 and did great
damage.
March 27—Tornado killed 9. In
jured 50 in Alabama.
April 14—Six dead, 57 hurt, in blast
in Ohio state office building at Co
lumbus.
April 25—Tornadoes In Tennessee.
■Alabama and Arkansas killed nine.
May 2-—Nearly a hundred kilted by
typhoon in Philippines.
May 9—Two million dollar Are on
Cunard pier. New York.
May 16—New French liner Georges
Philippar burned in Gulf of Aden; 52
lives lost. •
June'3—Earthquake killed hundreds
in Guadalajara region of Mexico.
June 7—Eleven killed In apartment
house fire in Cleveland. Ohio.
June 17—Explosion on oil tanker at
Montreal killed 29 men.
June 19—rHailstorm in Honan prov
ince, China, killed 200. *
■July 7—French submarine Promethee
sank off Normandy coast with 63 men.
July 10 —-Explosion of ammunition
depot in Nanking. China, killed 50.
July 13—Three million dollar fire on
Coney Island, N. y.
July 26—German, training shlb Niobea
sank In storm; 69 drowned. > a
Aug. 4—Six millio/i dollar fire In
Chicago packing house district.
Aug. 13—Forty killed in south Texas
storm.
Sept. *9—Fifty-six workmen killed
by steamer explosion at N%w York.
Sept. 14—Fifty-five men lulled in
wreck of French Foreign Legion train
In Algeria.
Sept. 2&—Earthquake In the Balkans
killed about 235.
Sept. 27—Hurricane swept Porto j
Rico, killing several hundred and do- {
ing vast damage. |
Sept. 30—Forty lives lost io cloud- :
burst in Tehaehapi pass, California. 1
• Nov. 9—Disastrous storm in South- 1
ern Cuba; 2,500 killed and great dam- |
age done.
Nov. 14—Japaji swept by terrific ty
phoon: scores of lives lost and many
towns and villages wrecked.
Dec. 5—Japanese destroyer capsized
In storm; 105 men lost.
Dec. 7—Fourteen coal miners killed
by blast at Madrid, N. M.
Dec. 9—Explosion in coal mine at
Yancey, Ky., killed 23.
NECROLOGY
Jan. 1—C. O. Iselin, millionaire
yachtsman of New York.
Jan. 2—Gen. Paul Pau. French war
commander.
Rear Admiral Cameron Winslow, U.
3. N.. hero of Spanish war.
Jan. 6—Julius Rosenwald, Chicago
philanthropist and capitalist.
Jan. 9—Frederick O'Brien, author
and traveler.
Jan. 17—J. W. Langley, former Ken
tucky congressman.
Jan. 18—Dr. J. G. McClure, presi
dent emeritus of Presbyterian semi
nary of Chicago.
Jan. 21—Lytton Strachey. English
biographer.
Jan. 24—Paul Warburg. New York
banker. \
Jan. 26—William Wrigiey. Jr., of
Chicago, capitalist and owner of Chi
cago Cubs, In Phoenix. Calif.
Alfred S. Austrian, leader of the
Chicago bar.
Jan. 27—Lewis Cass Ledyard. noted
New York lawyer.
Jan. 30—William Hodge. American
actor. •
Feb. 4—Hyrum G. Smith, presiding
patriarch of Mormon church, at 3alt
Lake City-.
Feb. 5—John R. Voorhis, grand sa
chem .of Tammany, aged 103.
Barney Dreyfuss, owner of Pitts
burgh Pirates.
Keb. 15—Minnie Maddern Flake.
American actress.
Henry A. Blair, Chicago capitalist.
K«*l». 16—Sir Edgar Speyer, former
British financier.
BKe&ld^L 8W
( of the .treasury,
r i—Dr. Evan (tfNeill
Pgeon,'in Philadelphia
JresentativeVwa. H. Vestal.
In Washington^ *• , -i
iril 2—Rose Cogjilan, actress.'
Frrison, N. Y. ' .
JApril 11—Joseph Letter, iA^Cbrica'
'April 14—William J. Burns, det
tive, at Sarasota, Fla.
April 18—Senator William J.
ris, at Washington.
April 22—Gen. J. W. Keifer, form'
speaker of the tfouse, id Springfieli
Ohio.
. April 24—Bishop Frank M. Bristol
of Methodist church, in Montclair. N.
May 2—Lee Hammond, pioneer ia
aviation, in Jacksonville, Fla.
May 4—Rear Admiral C. M. Chester,
U. S. N., retired.
May 6—Paul Doumer, president of
.France. . ^
John W. Scott, Chicago merchant. £
May 7—Mai. Gen. Enoch R. Crowder, %
in Washington?'.
Albert Thomas, head of International[ |
labor bureau, in Paris.
May 8—D: M. Ryetson of Chicago,
.steel magnate.
May 13—Andreas Dippel, former
grand opera' singer and manager, in
Hollywood.
May 16—Capt. Robert Dollar, dean
of American shipping industry, in San
Rafael, Calif.
May 17—Dr. B. J. Cigrand of Ba
tavia, ill., founder and president of
National Flag Day association.
May. 20—Admiral W. S. Benson, U.
S. N., retired.
May 23—Lord Inchcape, British ship,
ping magnate.
Lady Augusta Gregor:«9bflBBh d
tist.
May 23—Edward F.^Swift, ~cnicago
packer. /
May 30—Rear Admiral John Hub
bard.
June 1—Former Congressman Wil
liam D. Boies of Iowa.
June 2—Hugh Chalmers, pioneer au
tomobile manufacturer, at Beacon*
Ilf. Y.
June 7—Dr. W. W. Keen of Phila
delphia. famous surgeon.
June 8—Viscount Brentford (Wil
liam Joynson-Hicks), English states
man.
June 13—William C. Redfleld, secre
tary of commerce under President
Wilson.
June 19—Robert Scott Lovett, head
of Uni*>n Pacific, in New York.
June 27—Gen. F. E. Bamford. aero
ot Battle of Cantigny, in Charleston*
W. Va.
Vice Admiral DeWitt Coffman. U. SL
N., retired.
J one 29—Dr. G. F. Kunz, gem ex
pert, in New York. ;
July 2—Janies N. Gamble. Cincin
nati manufacturer.
Dr. G. K. Burgess, director of bu
reau of standards. In Washington.
Former King Manuel of Portuiraf.
July 3—A. H. Scribner, publisher,
in New .York.
July 6—Kenneth Grahame. Scottish.
au’Jior, v
Dr. Joseph Leldy of Philadelphia. a
neurologist.
July 9—King C. Gillette, safety ra
zor inventor, in Los Angeles.
July 10—C. C. Goodrich, tire mapa-
facturer. in York. Maine. *
‘July 13—Fergus Hume. British au
thor.
July 14—Alice Barber Stephens^
\
American artist.
H}—Fi<
Viscount
Charles*
July 16—Field Marshal
Ptqmer in'London.
July 17—Countess Beatty, former
Ethel Field- of. Chicago, in London.
July 18—Jean Jules Jussersnd. for
mer French ambassador to Washing
ton.
Thomas Arhie .Clark, former dean of
men in University of Illinois.
July .22 —Klorehx Ziegfeld, musical
comedy producer.
July 24—Iklbertn •Santos-Du most of
Brazil, aviation pioneer. . •
July tS-^-Caleb Powers, former con
gressman from Kentucky.
Fred Duesenberg of Indianapolis,
pioneer automobile maker.
Aug. 4—James Oppenheim, American
novelist and poet.
Aug. 5—Dr. J. Paul Goode, noted
geographer.
Aug x—James F-mmrio.JSurke. gen
eral counsel of KoPubllca.n
committee.
Ang. li—Martin A. Ryerson, Chlca- ^
go finaneier and philanthropist. • B
Aug. 18—JunJus S. Morgan of New
York, in Switzerland.
Aug. 22—Wilton Lackaye. American
actor.
•Aug. 25—Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mc
Cormick in Chicago.
Aug. 27—C. A. Waterman, -senator
from Colorado.
Sept. 6—Sir Gilbert Parker. British
novelist.
Sept. 20—Dr. Frank L. Billings, fa
mous physician, in Chicago.
Sept. 27—Former Senator John.
Sharp Williams of Mississippi.
Oct 2—David Pingree, wealthy lum-
nerman and philanthropist, in Salem,
M sis.-'.
Oct. 4—Gen. Sir Rudolph , Statin
I'pXha, in Vienna.
Oct. 5—Congressman
l.inthicum of Maryland.
Oct. 6—Darwin P. Kingsley, head of
New York Life insurance company.
Oct.. 11—William Alden Smith, for
mer senator from Michigan.
Oct. 18—Maurice Dornier of Munich,
builder of giant flying boat DO-X.
Oct. 19—Lindiey M. Garrison, for
mer secretary of war.
Oct. 10—Marquis Boni de, Castellanu
in Paris.
Oct. 29—Horace Kent Tenney, noted
Chicago lawyer.
Emmett Corrigan, American actor.
O-t. 30—Harold'MacGrath, American
author.
Field Marshal Lord Methuen of Eng
land.
Nov. 1—William Morris, New Yorlc
theatrical producer and philanthropist.
Nov. 2—Will Levington „ Comfort,
American novelist.
Nov. 16—Dr. Fenton B. Turck, eml—
nent physician in New York. .
Nov. 19—United States Senator Wes
ley L. Jones of 'Washington.
Nov. 20—Dr. H. J: Doer man, presi
dent of University of Toledo.
Delmar W. Call, noted manufactured.
Robert M. Cutting of Chicago, presi
dent-elect of United States Golf asso
ciation.
Nov. 25—Dr. F. I* Patton, former
president of Princeton university.
Nov. 26—E. A. Van Volkenburg. ,
Philadelphia journalist. A
. Nov. 27—Will H. Low, American./
artist. &
Nov. 29—Congressman J. C. Me/
^.aughlin of Michigan. /
Nov. 30—Gari Melchers, America^,
artist.
Dec. 2—Louis J. Petit, MilwauV
capitalist.
Dec. 3—Clement Studebaker, Jr., ut.*
ities magnate, In Chicago.
C. R. Breckinridge, former American
ambassador to Russia, In Wendover.
Ky. ,
Dec. 5—Dr. J. C. Van Dyke of Rut
gers. art: author!ty, f < !■
Dec. 6—Eugene Brleux, French
dramatist.
Dec. 7—F. T., Lovejoy, foreign steel
magnate of Pittsburgh.
John H. Niemeyer, American artist.
Dec. 8—;Henry Kitchell Webster, nov
elist. in Evanston, 111.
Dee. 10—R. B. Williamson, vice chair
man of federal power commission.
Dec. 11—A. C. Loring of Minneap
olis, head of Pillsbury flour mills.
' ’Dec. 13—Congressman Daniel B. Gar
rett of Texas.
Dec. 18—Edmund Vance Cooke, poet
and lecturer, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Ernest Howe, noted geologist, Ih
Litchfield, Conn.
Dec. 19—Clarence JB. Whitehlll, Amer
ican operatic baritone.
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