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Jan. 2—Andrew W. Mellon offered his
great art collection to the nation.
Jan. 4—Rep Sam Rayburn of Texas made
speaker of the house.
Supreme court upheld law restricting
prison-made goods.
Oregon’s cnminal
Invalid by Supreme court.
inal syndicalism law held
Jan. 5—Seventy-fifth congress convened
and organized.
Jan. 6—President Roosevelt read his
message to congress.
Congress passed neutrality resolution
barring war shipments to Spain.
Jan. 7—President Glenn Frank of Uni
versity of Wisconsin ousted by board of
regents.
Jan. 8—President Roosevelt’s budget
message asked for between $6,000,000,000
and $8,000,000,000.
Jan. 11—President Roosevelt asked for
$790,000,000 for WPA until July 1.
Charles Edison appointed assistant secre
tary of the navy.
Strikers at Flint, Mich., in bloody riot
with police.
Supreme court upheld 50 per cent tax
on silver profits.
Jan. 12—Congress received from Presi
dent plan for reorganizing administrative
branch of government.
Jan. 14—Truce for negotiations arranged
in General Motors strike.
Jan. 15—Senate voted 2M> years exten
sion of RFC and subsidiaries.
Jan. 19—Congress extended for 2Va years
President’s control of stabilization fund
and dollar valuation.
Jan. 20—Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugu
rated for second term as President.
Jan. 21—Sanford Bates resigned as fed
eral bureau of prisons director.
Jan. 22—House extended RFC and loan-
subsidiaries to June 30, 1939.
ostmaster General Farley re-appointed.
Jan. 26—House passed $790,000,000 flood
relief bill.
Jan. 27—Senate passed house bill ap
propriating $50,000,000 for seed and crop
loans.
Jan. 28—House voted to put first, second
and third postmasters under civil service.
Feb. 1—Michigan National Guard mob
ilized to stop new strike riots in Flint.'
Feb. 2—Sit-down strixers ordered ousted
from General Motors plants by court in
junction.
Fab. 3—^President Roosevelt submitted to
congress a 5 billion 6-year public works
program.
House passed bill appropriating $1,000,-
000 for federal offices and agencies.
Senate passed $948,000,000 deficiency bill.
Feb. 4—West Coast maritime strike
ended.
Feb. 5—President Roosevelt submitted
tp congress a bill for reorganization of the
federal judiciary, including increasing Su
preme court to 15.
Feb. 10—House passed bill providing for
voluntary retirement of Supreme court
justices at seventy on full pay.
President asked congress for legislation
to protect plains states from future
droughts.
Feb. 11—Bill creating Disasters Loan
corporation passed by congress
General Motors strike settled by com
promise agreement. "
Feb. 13—Prof. Charles Seymour elected
president of Yale.
Feb. 15—United Mine Workers suspended
from membership President Green of A.
F. of L.
Feb. 16—Ex-Gov. Paul V. McNutt of In
diana made high commissioner to the Phil
ippines.
Feb. 19—J. G. Wynant resigned as chair
man of social security board; A. J. Alt-
meyer named chairman and M. W Latimer
appointed a member.
Feb. 25—Reciprocal trade treaties act
extended three years by -congress.
Feb. 26—Senate passed house bill for
voluntary retirement of Supreme court
justices at seventy.
Feb. 27—President Roosevelt asked
states to enact soil conservation laws.
Feb. 28—Eugene Vidal resigned as di
rector of federal air commerce bureau.
March 1-^Supreme court again upheld
the gold clause abrogation act.
March 2—Big steel companies began
raising wages and reducing hours, and
recognized C. I. O. committee as bargain
ing agent.
March 3—Neutrality extension resolu
tion adopted by senate.
March 9—Permanent maritime commis
sion named with J. P. Kennedy as chair
man.
March 11—House passed new Guffey coal
control bill.
March 12—Dr. F. E. Townsend sentenced
to month in jail and $100 fine for contempt
of the house.
Marqh 13—General Motors and United
Automobile Workers reached agreement.
March 14—Remington-Rand ordered by
labor relations board to re-employ 4,000
workers.
C. A. Dykstra, city manager of Cincin
nati, accepted presidency of University of
Wisconsin.
March 15—Chrysler sit-down strikers or
dered by court to evacuate plants.
March 16—Railroads and unions agreed
on pension plan.
March 21—Nationalist riot in Ponce.
Puerto Rico, fatal to ten.
March 22—Senate passed $512,847,808 naval
appropriation bill.
March 24—John L. Lewis ordered Chry
sler strikers to evacuate the plants.
March 29—Supreme court upheld the
Washington minimum wage for women act.
the railway labor act and the new Frazier-
Lemke farm mortgage moratorium act.
April 1—Soft coal miners of Appalachian
fields quit work pending new wage agree
ment.
April 2—New wage scale for coal miners
signed; strike ended.
April 3—S. S. Kresge gave about $12,000,-
000 to Kresge foundation.
April 5—Senate passed Guffey coal con
trol bill.
April 6—Chrysler strike settled.
April 7—Senate passed concurrent res-
lution condemning sitdown strikes and the
industrial spy system.
April 12—Supreme court upheld Wagner
labor relations act in five decisions.
April 14—House passed bill repealing
"long and short haul’’ clause of interstate
commerce act.
April 15—Anti-lynching bill passed by the
house.
April 19—Mrs. Florence Harriman ap
pointed minister to Norway and A J Drexel
Biddle ambassador to Poland.
April 20—President Roosevelt sent mes
sage to congress revising his budget esti
mates or 1938 fiscal year and asking bil
lion and a half for relief.
April 23—House passed 27 million dollar
agriculture department bill.
April 26—President Roosevelt averted
strike of freight handlers in New York
area by appointing mediation board.
April 27—President Roosevelt left for
fishing trip in Gulf of Mexico.
House voted repeal of law for publica
tion of incomes of $15,000 and over.
The senate confirmed Anthony J. Drexel
Biddle, Jr., of Philadelphia as ambassa
dor to Poland: Florence Jaffray Harriman
of the District of Columbia as minister
to Norway, and Robert Granville Caldwell
of Texas as minister to Bolivia
April 28—House passed $79,200,000 second
deficiency bill.
April 29—House passed war department
bill carrying $416,400,000.
May 1—Strikes started In Hollywood
movie studios by technical workers.
Fifteen San Francisco hotels tied up by
■trikes . ...
President Roosevelt signed the neutrality
act.
May 7—George L. Berry appointed sena
tor from Tennessee.
May 12—House extended CCC for two
,e C T% i O. called strike in plants of Jones
Apr
olutio
spread to other
Ac Laughlin Steel corporation
May 13—Steel strike
plants.
Senate passed agriculture department
bill carrying almost 900 millions.
May 14—President Roosevelt returned to
Washington from fishing trip
May 17—Supreme court upheld act re
stricting refund of AAA processing taxes.
House passed $115,000,000 Department of
Interior bill. •
May 18—Justice Willis Van Devanter an
nounced his retirement from Supreme court,
effective June 1.
Senate judiciary committee reported un
favorably the President’s Supreme court
enlargement bill.
May 20—Senate voted to make CCC
permanent.
. Jones & Laughlin Steel employees voted
5 to 2 for C. I. O
May 24—Supreme court upheld old age
pensions and unemployment insurance
§ revisions of social security act, and Ala-
ama employment insurance law.
President asked congress for legislation
setting up wage and hour standards for
industry, and identical bills were intro
duced in house and senate.
May 26—C. I. O. started strikes against
three independent steel companies.
May 30—Seven killed, many hurt in bat
tle between police and steel strikers in
South Chicago, 111.
June 1—House passed billion and a half
relief bill.
President Roosevelt asked congress to get
after big tax dodgers.
June 3—President asked congress to cre
ate seven regional authorities like TVA.
June 5—John D. Rockefeller left bulk
of estate. $25,000,000, to granddaughter.
June 9—Strikers and police staged battle
with guns and gas at Youngstown. Ohio.
June 10—Resolution calling for investi
gation of tax evasion problem sent to
White House.
June 11—Strike called at Bethlehem Steel
corporation’s Cambria mill.
June 12—Lewis called strike in 17 coal
mines owned by two steel companies.
June 14—Senate committee condemned
court enlargement bill.
June 20—Pennsylvania governor closed
Johnstown steel plant; martial law de
clared.
June 21—Senate refused to cut relief
appropriation.
House passed pension bill for railroad
employees.
June 22—Senate passed 2 billion 63 mil
lion dollar relief bin.
June 23—Ellis Parker, Sr., and son con
victed at Newark, N. J., of kidnaping plot
under Lindbergh law.
Fifty-five indicted in 13 million dollar
gem smuggling plot in New York.
June 24—Senate voted to extend nuis
ance taxes and 3 cent postage for two
years.
June 25—Steel ftrike in Johnstown area
lost by union. ^
June 26—J. Butler Wright named ambas
sador to'Cuba.
National labor relations board charged
Ford with violation of Wagner act.
June 29—Senate ratified treaties drawn
at Buenos Aires conference.
June 30—Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and
Ethel du Pont married.
July 6—Ohio grand Jury Indicted 200
for rioting as steel plants reopened.
July 7—National labor relations board
began hearings on charges Ford company
violated Wagner act.
July 8—Immunity was granted President
Roosevelt in tax dodging hearings.
July 12—President urged immediate pas
sage of new crop control legislation.
Dave H. Morris resigned as ambassa
dor to Belgium; Hugh Gibson, ambassa
dor to Brazil, transferred to Belgium.
July 13—House paid tribute to and pen
sioned Harry Parker, venerable doorman
for the ways and means committee.
House overrode President’s veto of farm
loan bill.
July 14—Nine men, including two C. I. O.
chieftains Indicted for halting United
States malls in Ohio strike zone.
July 17—Controller general refused to
pay expenses of foreign junkets.
July 19—House voted 24 millions for Ohio
basin flood control.
July 21—Administration abandoned Su
preme court bill.
Senator Barkley of Kentucky elected
majority leader of senate.
July 22—Senate voted 70 to 20 to re
commit the court bill.
Senate overrode President’s veto of low
farm Interest extension.
J. L. Houghteling, Chicago, appointed
commissioner of immigration.
July 27—House voted six more White
House secretaries.
Congress authorized building of six aux
iliary naval vessels to cost $50,000,000.
San Francisco hotel workers’ strike set
tled.
July 28—Senate confirmed the nominations
of George A. Gordon of New York to be
minister to the Netherlands; Leo J. Keena
of Michigan as minister to Honduras and
Franklin Mott Gunther of Florida as min
ister to Rumania.
July 29—F. P. Corrigan appointed min
ister to Panama and Robert Frazer min
ister to San Salvador.
July 30—Senate passed the wage and
hour labor bill.
Aug. 6—Senate passed Wagner housing
bill in limited form.
Aug. 7—Congress appropriated $5,000,000
toward Will Rogers memorial. s
Aug. 11—Senate passed federal court
procedural reform bill.
Aug. 12—President Roosevelt nominated
Senator Hugo L. Black of Alabama for
associate justice of Supreme court.
Aug. 13—Senate passed sugar control
bill
Aug. 16—House passed bill to stop tax
leaks.
Aug. 17—Senate confirmed appointment
of Hugo L. Black to Supreme court.
House passed third deficiency bill carry
ing 100 millions.
Aug. 18—House passed half billion dollar
housing bill.
Aug. 19—Gov. Bibb Graves of Alabama
appointed his wife, Dixie Bibb Graves, Unit
ed States senator to succeed Hugo L.
Black.
Senate passed Panama canal tolls re
vision bill.
Aug. 20—Senate passed deficiency bill.
New York C. I. O. shipyard strike col
lapsed, workers returning to^ jobs.
ing U §ill and
were enacted
President vetoed Will Rogers memorial
bill.
Aug. 23—Col. H. B. Hackett resigned as
assistant director of P. W. A.
Aug. 26—Strike of railway brotherhoods
averted by federal mediation.
Aug. 28—Andrew Mellon’s will left his
millions to a charitable trust.
Aug. 31—A. F of L. council voted to
rejoin world labor federation.
Sept. 4—President Roosevelt in Labor day
address asked labor to droo strike tactics.
Sept. 7—Edward McGrady resigned as
assistant to secretary of labor.
Sept. 9—Dr O. H Mennet, Los Angeles,
elected commander of G. A. R.
Sept. 12—Justice Hugo L. Black of Su
preme court publicity accused of being
member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Sept. 13—Engagement announced of John
Roosevelt, son of President, to Anne Clark
of Boston.
Sept. 14—James E. Landis resigned as
chairman of securities and exchange com
mission.
Sept. 16—La Guardia renominated for
mayor of New York by Republicans, and
J. T. Mahoney by Democrats.
John T Biggers of Toledo named to
manage census of unemployed.
Sept. 20—American Legion convention
opened in New York.
W. O. Douglas became head of SEC.
Sept. 22—President Roosevelt started trip
to Seattle.
Sept. 23—Daniel Doherty of Boston elected
national commander of American Legion.
Sept. 29—American Bar association voted
unanimously to continue fight for inde
pendence of the judiciary.
Oct. 1—Hugo L. Black in radio address
admitted he was a member of Ku Klux
Klan but said he had abandoned it.
Oct. 3—Railway brotherhoods accepted
offer of 44 cents a day wage raise; strike
averted.
Oct. 4—Hugo L. Black took his seat as
associate justice of the Supreme court
American f ederation ot Labor conven
tion opened in Denver
Oct. 5—President Roosevelt in Chicago
speech intimated America might be drawn
into war
Oct. 11—Supreme court rejected motions
to unseat Justice Black
Oct. 12—President Roosevelt called ex
traordinary session of congress for Novem
ber 15.
Brady gang of outlaws wiped out by
G-men in Bangor. Me
Oct. 16—President named delegation
headed by Norman H Davis to attend far
eastern conference in Brussels.
Oct. 18—John E Mi tier elected senator
from Arkansas to fill out term of the
late Joseph T. Robinson.
Nathan Straus appointed federal housing
administrator.
Great decline in stock markets began.
Oct. 22—Interstate Commerce Commis
sion approved increase of railway freight
rates.
Oct. 26—E. R. Stettinius, Jr., succeeded
M. C. Taylor as head of United States
Steel.
Oct. 27—Federal reserve board cut stock
margin rate to help market.
Nov. 2—La Guardia re-elected mayor of
New York.
Nov. 15—Congress met in extraordinary
session; President asked tax revision to
aid small business.
Aug. 21—Congress adjourned, after hous-
defii ‘
ciency appropriation bill
Nov. 18—Governors of the six New Eng
land states demanded repeal of taxes that
hamper business.
J. H. Rand, Jr., and P. L. Berghoff
acquitted In first case tried under law
against transporting strike breakers across
state lines. _
Nov. 21—Secretary of War Woodring
asked stronger army for defense.
Nov. 27—President Roosevelt went on fish
ing trip in Florida waters.
Nov. 29—President asked congress to au
thorize a $16,000,000,000 housing program.
Nov. 30—President asked congress to cut
$214,000,000 from federal highway grants to
states.
Dec! 5——Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh re
turned to United States.
Steamship Leviathan sold to British junk
firm.
Dec. 7—Federal board of tax appeals ex
onerated Andrew Mellon of income tax
fraud.
Dec. 10—President ordered immediate re
vision of taxes on business. House passed
crop contt ol bill.
J. W. Hanes and Jerome Frank appointed
to SEC.
Dec. 13—Supreme court upheld redemp
tion of United States bonds before maturity.
Dec. 22—Extraordinary session of con
gress adjourned.
Jan. 1—German warships seized two
Spanish steamers in reprisal.
Jan. 2—Great Britain and Italy signed
Mediterranean pact.
Jan. 6—Spanish government protested
to League of Nations against German and
Italian aid given to Fascist rebels.
Jan. 17—Soviet Russia refused to declare
ban on volunteers going to Spain.
Jan. 24—Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
signed treaty of friendship and peace.
Jan. 30—Hitler on fourth anniversary of
his assumption of power denounced the war
guilt clause of Versailles treaty.
March 5—Department of State of United
States apologized to Germany for insulting
reference to Hitler by Mayor La Guardia
of New York.
March 8—International conference on
distribution of sources of raw materials
opened in Geneva.
March 14—International sea patrol to
isolate Spanish war began.
March 25—Italy and Jugoslavia signed a
peace and economic treaty.
March 30—Hans Dieckhoff appointed Ger
man ambassador to the United States.
April 24—Great Britain and France re
leased Belgium from Locarno obligations
and guaranteed it against aggression.
May 2—British ships helped remove civ
ilians from besieged Bilbao, Spain.
May 25—Jews In Italy were ordered to
become Fascists or leave the country.
May 27—Spain protested to League of
Nations against intervention of Italy and
Germany in Spanish civil war.
May 29—Spanish loyalist planes bombed
German battleship Deutschland, killing 23
and wounding 83.
May 31—German warships shelled Al-
meria, loyalist Spanish port, killing 20.
Germany and Italy withdrew from in
ternational neutrality patrol.
June 10—Mussolini mobilized big army to
aid Spanish rebels. _ _ ,
June 24—United States Joined Great Bri
tain and France in warning Germany and
Italy to keep hands off Spain.
June 29—Russia agreed to withdraw
troops from disputed islands as Japan
made war threat. „ ,
July 8—Truce ended battle of Chinese
and Japanese west of Peiping
July 9—Great Britain was delegated
by 27 powers to devise a new plan for
naval patrol of Spanish coast.
July 13—Chinese fought off Japanese at
tacks in furious fighting around Peip
ing.
July 20—Japanese seized port of Tanghu,
China, and began general offensive south
of Peiping. ^
July 29—London naval treaty of 1936
went into effect.
July 39—Japan set up puppet regime in
North China. . . _ .
Aug. 8—Japanese army occupied Peip
ing. China. ^ , . . .
Aug. 12—Chinese airmen, trying to bomb
Japanese warships at Shanghai, killed
nearly 1,000 civilians in international set
tlement.
Aug. 16—Americans and british were
evacuated from Shanghai.
Japan closed its embassy at Nanking.
Aug. 19—Portugal severed relations with
Czechoslovakia. _ .
Aug. 22—Chinese and Japanese in great
battle near Peiping. . . ,
Aug. 25—Japan blockaded Chinese coast
for 800 miles.
Aug. 26—British ambassador to China
wounded by Japanese aviators.
Hungary announced it would make
"token" payment on debt to United States.
Aug. 29—Great Britain demanded full re
dress from Japan for shooting of ambas
sador to China.
Aug. 30—American liner President Hoover
bombed by Chinese planes by mistake;
one of crew killed, ten wounded.
Aug. 31—Little Entente voted to continue
alliance with France.
Sept. 5—Great Britain and France invited
powers to conference to stop “piracy” by
submarines in Mediterranean.
Sept. 7—Hitler declared Germany stood
with Italy and Japan in fight on commun
ism
Russia accused Italy of Mediterranean
piracy.
Sept. 8—Japanese planes bombed Chinese
refugee train near Shanghai, killing 300.
Sept. 11—England and France agreed to
police Mediterranean against pirate subma
rines
Sept. 12—China asked League of Nations
to halt Japanese aggression.
Sept. 13—League of Nations seated Span
ish loyalist delegates.
Sept. 14—Spain agreed to pay $30,000,000
American war claims.
Sept. 18—British underwriters cancelled
all war risk insurance.
Spain demanded League of Nations curb
German and Italian aggression in Spanish
civil war.
Italy demanded parity in Mediterranean
"anti-piracy” patrol.
Sept 22—Japanese air fleets raided Nan
king and Canton; protests of United States
and Great Britain disregarded.
Sept 25—Mussolini began five day visit
with Hitler.
Japanese airplanes bombed six big Chi
nese cities.
Japan refused League of Nations invita
tion to discuss war in China.
Sept. 28—League of Nations condemned
Japan for bombing civilians in China.
Sept. 29—Japan defended her air raids on
Nanking.
British g<
warplane fleet for China
Oct. 1—Japan warned world not to inter
fere with her actions in China.
Oct. 5—League of Nations recommended
convocation of nine-power pact signatories
to consider Sino-Japanese war.
Oct. 6—United States government formally
denounced Japan as violator of treaties.
League of Nations invited nine-power
treaty signers to take action to stop Japan
in China.
Oct. 9—Japan denied treaty breaking and
blamed China.
Oct. 16—United States accepted invita
tion to conference of nine-power treaty sig
natories on Sino-Japanese war; Norman H.
Davis named head of American delegation.
Oct. 26—Japanese routed Chinese defend
ers of Shanghai.
Oct. 29—Japan declined to attend nine-
power treaty conference.
Oct. 30—Several British soldiers killed by
Japanese in Shanghai.
Nov. 2—Great Britain agreed to receive
consuls of Franco’s Spanish regime.
Nov 3—Far East peace parley opened in
Brussels.
Nov. 5—Duke of Windsor abandoned Amer
ican tour because of criticisms by labor
Nov. 6—Italy joined Germany and Japan
in anti-communism agreement.
Nov 8—Shanghai captured by the Jap
anese.
Nov 12—Japan rejected peace proposals
of Brussels conference.
Nov. 15—Fifteen nations in Brussels con
ference voted to condemn Japan for invad
ing China
Nov. 16—Government of China evacuated
Nanking.
Nov. 18—Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
awarded 1937 Nobel peace prize.
Nov. 23—Japan established Chahar and
Suiyuan provinces of North China as new
buffer state
American Ambassador Johnson and staff
moved from Nanking to Hankow.
Nov. 24—Brussels Far East conference
collapsed.
Nov. 26—Japanese seized all communi
cation facilities in Shanghai area.
Nov. 29—Italy recognized Manchukuo gov
ernment.
Dec. 7—Japanese armies began siege of
Nanking.
Dec. 11—Japan announced the capture of
Nanking.
Italy quit the League of Nations.
Dec. 12—U. S. Gunboat Panay and three
Standard Oil ships sunk by Japanese shells
in Yangtse river; British gunboats shelled.
g-
British government approved building of
President Roosevelt demanded apologies.
Indemnifications and guarantees against
repetition of such outrages.
Dec. 15—France and Germany concluded
frontier treaty.
FOREIGN
Jan. 4—Marshal Chang sentenced to ten
years imprisonment for kidnaping Chinese
dictator Chiang Kai-shek and then par
doned.
Jan. 7—Crown Princess Juliana of the
Netherlands married to Prince Bernhard
zu Lippe-Biesterfeld.
Jan. 15—George Bonnet made French am
bassador to United States.
Jan. 17—Convicts at Guelph, Ontario,
started riot, fired prison and several hun
dreds escaped.
Jan. 23—Premier Hirota of Japan and
his cabinet resigned after being attacked
in parliament.
Karl Radek and 16 others on trial at Mos
cow confessed plot to overthrow the Stalin
regime.
Jan. 26—Germany abolished free city
rights of Hamburg and Luebeck.
Jan. 30—Thirteen Russian conspirators
condemned to death; four, including Karl
Radek. given prison terms.
Gen. Senjuro Hayashi undertook task of
forming Japanese ministry.
Feb. 2—Hayashi cabinet accepted by em
peror of Japan.
Feb. 7—Spanish Fascists captured Malaga.
Feb. 9—All political prisoners in Mexico
granted amnesty.
Feb. 14—Chancellor Schuschnigg of Aus
tria declared in favor of restoration of
Hapsburg dynasty.
Spanish rebel warship shelled Valencia,
temporary loyalist capital.
March 8—Spanish liner Mar Cantrabrico
with American cargo of munitions for loy
alists shelled and taken by rebel vessel.
March 16—New state, Mongukuo, spon
sored by Japan, set up in north China.
April 1—New constitution for India went
into effect; Burma became state within
British empire; Aden became crown colony.
April 11—Anti-Fascists won crucial elec
tion in Belgium.
April 20—British coal miners voted to
strike.
Gen. Francisco Franco consolidated Span
ish insurgent factions to form a one-party
authoritarian state.
April 22—Poland barred all Jews from
politics.
May 1—President De Valera
new constitution for Irish Free State.
London transportation tied up by strike
of 26,000 busmen.
May 12—King George VI and Queen Eliza
beth of Great Britain crowned.
May 14—British imperial conference
opened in London.
May 15—Caballero’s loyalist Spanish cabi
net resigned.
May 17—New Spanish government formed
by Dr Juan Negrin.
May 24—Paris world’s fair opened.
May 28—Baldwin quit as British prime
minister and was succeeded by Neville
Chamberlain.
May 31—Hayashi’s Japanese cabinet re
signed.
June 2—Prince Fumimaro Konoe made
premier of Japan.
June 3—Duke of Windsor and Wallis War-
field married at Monts, France.
June 16—President of White Russia com
mitted suicide as hundreds were seized.
June 19—Bilbao fell to Spanish rebels.
June 20—Premier Blum and cabinet re
signed as French senate refuses to make
him money dictator.
June 21—Camille Chautemps named pre
mier of France to succeed Blum.
Premier of Georgian soviet republic re
moved by Moscow.
June 23—President of Mexico announced
that government would take over national
railway lines.
June 28—France suspended payment of
gold and foreign exchange; bourse closed
until further notice.
Russian firing squads executed 37 more
wreckers in Soviet Far East.
June 29—French chamber gave cabinet
dictatorship over finances.
July 1—German police seized Rev. Mar
tin Niemoeller, leader of the Protestants.
July 2—De Valera’s party failed to get
a majority, but new constitution won in
Irish Free State elections.
July 3—Count Covadonga, former crown
prince of Spain, and Marta Rocafort mar
ried in Havana.
July 12—Japan prepared nation to go on
war footing.
July 13—French Reds and rightists rioted
in Paris on eve of Bastile day.
July 17—Pope Pius angered Nazis by pay
ing tribute to Cardinal Mundelein of Chi
cago.
July 19—British parliament passed divorce
reform act. >
July 21—Eamon de Valera re-elected presi
dent of Irish Free State.
July 26—Republic of Liberia celebrated
Its 90th anniversary.
July 28—Farouk I invested as king of
Egypt.
Aug. 1—American war memorial at Mont-
faucon, France, dedicated.
Aug. 11—Kurd uprising in Syria sup
pressed by French troops.
Russia reported execution of 72 railroad
wreckers.
Aug. 25—Spanish rebels captured San
tander.
Aug. 31—French railroads nationalized by
decree
Sept. 8—^Paraguay government suppressed
revolt.
Sept. 17—Dr. Hjalmar Schacht retired as
German finance minister.
Oct. 2—Spanish rebels took Covadonga.
Oct. 19—New high taxes decreed in Italy.
Oct. 23—Provisional President Paez of
Ecuador resigned and was succeeded by
Gen. Alberto Enriquez.
Oct. 25—Van Zeeland resigned as premier
of Belgium.
Oct. 26—British parliament opened by
King George VI.
Oct. 29—Spanish loyalists moved capital
from Valencia to Barcelona.
Nov. 9—Spanish rebels announced block
ade of entire loyalist coast.
Nov. 19—President Vargas made himself
dictator of Brazil.
Nov. 16—Grand Duke George of Hesse
and ten others killed in Belgian plane cash.
Nov. 18—Dictator Vargas abolished fed
eral courts of Brazil.
Nov 22—Duke of Windsor won libel suit
against author and publisher of book about
his abdication.
Due de Guise issued manifesto starting
campaign to regain throne of France.
Dec. 3—Dictator Vargas of Brazil out
lawed all political parties.
Dec. 12—Soviet Russia held first "free”
election under new constitution.
Dec. 13—Pope Pius created five new car
dinals.
SPORTS
Jan. 6—Fred J. Perry in debut as profes
sional tennis player defeated Champion
Ellsworth Vines.
Jan. 29—Joe Louis defeated Bob Pastor
in New York.
Jan. 30—Schaefer won 28-2 billiards title,
defeating Hoppe.
Feb. 19—Freddie Steele, middleweight
champion, whipped Babe Risko in title
fight.
March 6—Illinois and Minnesota tied for
Big Ten basketball title.
March 13—University of Michigan won
Big Ten mdoor track title.
March 24—Chicago Golden Glove boxers
beat New Yorkers, 9 to 7.
Oxford defeated Cambridge in annual
regatta.
March 25—Horton Smith won North and
South open golf tournament at Atlanta
April 1—Detroit Red Wings retained na
tional hockey title.
April 4—Byron Nelson won Masters' golf
tourney at Augusta
April 15—Max Baer whipped by Tommy
Farr, British heavyweight champion
April 19—Baseball season opened.
April 21—Ralph Greenleaf won the world
pocket billiard championship.
May 7—Ambers whipped Canzoneri. re
taining lightweight title.
May 8—War Admiral won Kentucky
Derby
May 18—Sid Richardson of Northwestern
won Big Ten golf title.
May 22—Michigan won Big Ten track
title.
May 28—Golden Gloves boxing tourna
ment in Chicago resulted in tie between
fighters from Europe and from the Chi
cago area.
May 29—Illinois won Big Ten baseball
title.
Bob Sweeney, American born Londoner,
won British national amateur golf title.
May 39—Shyte won P. G. A. champion
ship.
May 31—Wilbur Shaw won Indianapolis
500-mile automobile race.
June 12—Ralph Guldahl won United States
open golf title.
June 22—Joe Louis won world champion
ship; knocked out Braddock in the eighth
round.
June 30—American golfers beat British
in Ryder cup matches.
July 2—John D. Budge, American, won
Wimbledon tennis title.
July 7—American league all-stars defeat
ed Nationals, 8 to 3.
July 9—Henry Cotton, England, won Brit
ish open golf championship.
July 25—Gene Sarazen won first prize in
Chicago $10,009 open golf tourney.
July 27—American tennis team won Da
vis cup from England.
July 31—Ranger defeated Endeavor n in
first America’s cup race.
Aug. 2—Ranger won second race.
Aug. 4—Ranger won third race.
Aug. 5—Ranger won fourth race, retain
ing the America’s £up.
Aug. 21—American tennis team defeated
British for Wightman cup.
Aug. 22—Gar Wood, Jr., won outboard
regatta at Chicago.
Aug. 28—Johnny Goodman won national
amateur golf title.
Aug. 39—Joe Louis defeated Tommy Farr
of Great Britain on points, retaining cham
pionship.
Von Cramm and Henkel of Germany won
United States tennis doubles title.
Sept. 5—Wehrle won western amateur
golf title.
Sept. 11—Don Budge won national singles
tennis title.
Harry Cooper won Canadion open golf
championship.
Sept. 20—Ralph Guldahl won western open
golf title.
Sept. 22—Old Westbury team won Ameri
can polo title from Greentree.
Sept. 23—Ross and Ambers retained wel
terweight and lightweight titles; Jeffra won
bantamweight title.
New York Yankees won American league
championship.
Sept. 29—Greyhound trotted mile in 1.56,
new world record.
Sept. 30—New York Giants won National
league pennant.
Oct. 9—Mrs. Estelle Page won women’s
national golf championship.
Oct. 10—New York Yankees won world
series from Giants.
Nov. 2—Harvard beat Yale at football.
Minnesota won Big Ten football cham
pionship.
Nov. 15—Samuel E. Hoyt elected presi
dent of A. A. U.
Nov. 18—Capt. George Eyston of Eng
land set new world record for speed on land
of 311.42 miles per hour in automobile at
Bonneville salt flats, Utah.
Dec. 7—National Baseball league adopted
slower ball.
Dec. 12—Washington Redskins won pro
fessional football championship' of world.
NECROLOGY
Jan. 1—E. V. R. Thayer, New York finan-
?i6r.
’ Col. D. W. MacCormack, commissioner
)f immigration.
Jan. 6—Admiral Albert Cleaves, U. S.
>*., retired.
Jan. 8—Charles Hayden, New York bank
er and philanthropist.
Jan. 9—Clarence Eddy of Chicago, fa-
nous organist.
Jan. 10—Julius Steiglitz, noted chemist,
h Chicago.
Jan. 13—Martin Johnson, noted explorer.
Jan. 17—R. D. Cary, former United States
senator and governor of Wyoming.
Jan. 18—ClarenCe A. Barbour, president
)f Brown university.
Jan. 29—Bishop M. J. Gallagher of De
troit.
Jan. 21—H. G. Lloyd, Philadelphia and
(Jew York banker.
Jan. 22—Eugene M. Stevens. Chicago
janker.
Jan. 29—Sir Percival Phillips, British war
;orrespondent.
Feb. 4—W. W. Durbin, register of United
SfafAe fT*AA<:ilT*V
Feb. 6—Elihu Root, statesman and law
yer, in New York.
Feb. 7—Bishop A. F. Schinner in Mil
waukee.
Ex-Congressman C. R. Crisp of Georgia.
Feb. 22—Congressman James P. Buchan-
in of Texas.
Rollo Ogden, editor of New York Times.
Feb. 23—Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo,
[J. S. N. retired.
Feb. 24—Sir Guy Standing, movie actor,
n Hollywood. „
March 5—Richie Ling, veteran American
ictor, in New York. . , .
March 6—Dr. W. T. Homaday, zoologist,
»t Stamford, Conn.
Mary L. Requa, California Republican
leader
March 13—Maj. Gen. H. W. Butnar, com
mandant of Panama canal zone.
Elihu Thompson, noted inventor.
March 16—Rear Admiral Richmond P.
3obson.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, British states-
nan.
Dr. B. B. Moeur, ex-governor of Arizona.
March 20—Harry Vardon. famous British
jolfer.
March 21—Edwin S. Stuart, ex-governor
>f Pennsylvania.
March 22—Frederick MacMonnies, Ameri-
:an sculptor. ...
March 25—John Drinkwater, British poet
and dramatist.
March 28—Frank Mandel, Chicago mer-
:hant.
J. B Frazier of Tennessee, former sena-
:or and governor. „ _
March 29—William A. Butter of Boston,
ndustrialist and former United States sen-
March 31—Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln,
laughter-in-law of President Lincoln.
April 4—Talcott Powell, editor and ex
plorer.
April 9—Albert Bigelow Paine, biogra
pher and poet.
April if—Ralph Ince, film director, in
England. .
Everett Brown of Chicago, leader in busi-
less and amateur sports. . .
April 13—Lars Anderson. American diplo-
nat and soldier.
April 20—W. Forbes Morgan, former treas
urer of Democratic national committee.
April 21—Gus Hill, veteran theatrical
producer and actor. „ _
April 23—Senator N. L. Bachman of Ten-
\pril 26—Bishop W. F. McDowell. Metho-
;t leader, in Washington.
Upril 28—John G Pollard, chairman of
terans' administration board of appeals
d fox mer governor of Virginia.
\pril 29—William Gillette, actor.
Norman Hapgood, author and editor.
May 6—C. K. G. Billings. Chicago capi-
ist and sportsman.
May 9—Harry S. New. former senator
>m Indiana and postmaster general.
May 10—Paul Chabas. French painter.
May 12—Louis F. Swift of Chicago, retired
Dsckcr
May 14—Gen. John L. Clem, “Drummer
y of Chickamauga," in San Antonio.
John Burke of Minnesota, former gover-
r and treasurer of United States.
Prof C. H. Haskins of Harvard.
May 15—Viscount Snowden, former British
ancellor of exchequer and Laborite leader.
Percy Gassoway, ex-congressman from
:lahoma. „
May 19—J. Henry Roraback, Connecticut
publican leader. . „ A _
May 23—John D. Rockefeller, Sr., at Gr
ind Beach, Fla. ,
Manuel Tellez. Mexican diplomat.
May 24—Edward F. Dunne, ex-mayor of
icago and ex-governor of Illinois.
Rear Admiral J. V. Chase, retired.
May 25—Edward Albright. American min
er to Costa Rica.
May 27—Frederick E. Ives of Philadel-
ia, inventor of half-tone process.
May 30—George F. Baker. New York
une 7—Jean Harlow, screen actress,
une 10—Sir Robert Borden, former Ca-
lian premier.
une 14—Charles L. Pack, president Amer-
i Tree association.
une 15—W; P. Connery, congressman
n Massachusetts.
une 18—Gaston Doumergue. former presi-
t of France.
une 19—Sir James M. Barrie, author and
une 20—Former Representative Frank-
W. Fort of New Jersey,
une 24—Demarest Lloyd, Journalist,
une 25—Colin Clive, stage and screen
3F
une 29—Frank A. Vanderlip. financier.
uly 11—George Gershwin, composer of
isicai jazz music.
ack Curley, sports promoter.
uly 14—Senator Joseph T. Robinson of
cinsds
uiy 17—Gabriel Pierne. French com-
er.
uiy 19—Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of
efess, in Rome. _ _
. S Parker, industrialist, of Janesville.
lily 24—A. S. Prall, chairman federal
imunications commission,
uly 26—J. J. Dooling of New York, lead-
jf Tammany.
uly 28—Henry Clews, American sculptor,
ug 2—Rear Admiral W. F. Worthing-
U. S. N.. retired.
ug. 7—Lady Maude Tree. English act-
iig. 12—Frederick Strauss. New York
kcr.
ear Admiral N. E. Erwin. U. S. N„ re-
Edith Wharton, American novelist.
Aug. 13—Baron Runciman, British shtp
ping magnate.
Aug. 26—Andrew W. Mellon, financier and
statesman.
Aug. 27—John R. Pope, famous architect;
in New York.
Frederick Opper, veteran cartoonist.
Aug. 29—Dr. Charles F. Thwing, educa
tor and author.
Sept. 1—Dr. G. H. Simmons of Chicago*
eminent medical editor.
Sept. 6—Henry Hadley. American com
poser.
Sept. 13—Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk, first
president of Czechoslovakia.
Ellis Parker Butter, American writer.
Sept. 18—Lott R. Herrick, Illinois Supremo
court Justice.
William Loeb, secretary to President
Theodore Roosevelt, in New York.
Sept. 23—Charles A. Knorr, Americas
tenor.
Sept. 25—Edward A. Filene, Boston mer
chant and economist.
Sept. 26—E. T. Emmet, American ambas
sador to Austria.
Oct. 3—Ed Howe, author and editor, in
Atchison, Kan.
Oct. 7—John Griffiths of Chicago, builder
of skyscrapers.
Oct. 11—Ogden L. Mills of New York, for
mer secretary of the treasury.
Oct. 14—Robert Underwood Johnson of
New York, editor, educator and former,
diplomat.
Oct. 18—Col. Grayson Murphy of New
York, industrialist.
J. Bruce Ismay, British shipping mag-,
nate.
Oct. 19—Lord Ernest Rutherford, British
scientist.
Dr. J. N. B. Hewitt of Washington, ethnolo
gist.
Oct. 20—Felix Warburg of New York,
financier and philanthropist.
Oct. 22—George Horace Lorimer, ex-editor,
of Saturday Evening Post, in Philadelphia,'
Prof. E. R. Jones, drainage engineer and
educator, in Madison, Wis.
Albert B. Insley, American landscape
painter.
Oct. 24—Sir Joseph Isherwood, British
naval architect.
Oct. 31—Rev. C. W. Gordon (Ralph Con
nor). author, in Winnipeg.
Judge Francis J. Heney in Santa Monica,
Calif.
Nov. 3—Henry M. Robinson, banker and
economist, in Pasadena.
Nov. 4—Jack McAuliffe, former world
champion lightweight, in New York.
Nov. 6—Sir Johnston Forbes-Roberston,
English actor.
Nov. 7—F. P. Garvan of New York, ex
alien property custodian.
Nov. 8—Frederick Donaghey of Chicago^
journalist and dramatist.
Nov. 9 — Ramsay MacDonald, British
statesman and former prime minister.
Nov. 12—Atlee Pomerene, ex-senator from
Ohio.
Nov. 13—Mrs. Leslie Carter, veteran act
ress.
Rev. Dr. John McDowell, Presbyteriaa
leader, in New York.
Nov. 21—Howard Coffin, industrialist and
engineer, at Sea Island. Ga.
Nov. 22—K. R. Kingsbury, president
Standard Oil of California.
Nov. 23—Sir Jagadhs Chandra Bose, Hin
du savant.
Nov. 24—A. S. Burleson, former postmas
ter general, in Austin. Texas. \
Nov. 27—Theodore Walters, assistant sec
retary of the interior.
Nov. 30—J. O. McKinsey, Chicago, presi
dent Marshall Field & Co.
The Panchen Lama, spiritual ruler of
Tibet.
Dec. 10—Harry G. Leslie, ex-governor of
Indiana. \
Dec. 14—W. J. Harrahan, president of
C. & O. railway.
Miss Kate Buckingham. Chicago, art pa
tron.
DISASTERS
Jan. 11—Finnish motorship wrecked in
Orkney islands; 31 lost.
Jan. 16—Hundred killed in burning rail
way train in China.
Jan. 20—Serious floods throughout the
Ohio river valley.
Jan. 21—Chinese ferryboat capsized; 227
drowned.
Jan. 23—Floods in Ohio valley increased;
500 dead; 1,009 homeless; damage $500,-
000,000.
Jan. 25—Seventeen drowned when bus fell
into Everglades canal near Miami, Fla.
Feb. 1—Flood, passing down the Missis
sippi, drove many thousands from their
homes.
Feb. 13—Nearly 700 killed in theater fire
hi Antung, Manchukuo.
Feb. 18—Six marines killed by shell explo
sion on battleship Wyoming.
March 18—Explosion of gas in London
Consolidated school, east Texas, killed 455
children and teachers.
March 25—Thirteen killed in crash of air
liner near Pittsburgh.
May 6—German dirigible Hindenburg ex-
S loded and burned at Lakehurst, N. J.;
5 persons killed.
May 17—Boiler explosion on launch aft
Hongkong killed 70 Japanese emigrants.
June 20—Sixteen killed by avalanche while
climbing Himalayas.
July 2—Thirty-two injured in wreck of
North Western train at Evanston, HI.
July 15—Twenty killed in mine explosion
at Sullivan, Ind.
July 16—More than 150 injured in blast
of gasoline tanks at Atlantic City.
July 29—Twenty-five killed In train wreck
near Paris.
Aug. 3—Fourteen lost when Pan Amerl-
can-Grace plane fell into sea off Panama.
Aug. 20 — Destructive earthquake aft
Manila.
Aug. 22—Eleven killed in Wyoming for
est fire.
Sept. 2—Terrific typhoon at Hongkong;
more than 500 killed.
Sept. 11—Southern Japan swept by de
structive typhoon.
Sept. 20—Wyandotte county lake dam,
built by WPA near Kansas City, collapsed.
Oct. 16—Mine explosion at Mulga. Ala.,
killed 33.
Nov. 11—Three hundred Japanese sul
phur miners killed by landslide.
Dec. 10—Thirty-four killed in railway
collision in Scotland.
Dec. 11—Dollar liner President Hoover
stranded on island off Formosa; all saved.
AERO
Jan. 12 — Western Air Express plane
crashed near Burbank, Calif; two passen
gers killed.
Jan. 29—Twelve United States army planes
completed mass flight from San Diego to
Hawaii.
Feb. 9-r-United Air Lines plane fell in Saw
Francisco bay; 11 killed.
March 17—Amelia Earhart hopped from
Oakland, Calif., for Honolulu on world en
circling flight.
March 25—T. W. A. liner fell near Pitts
burgh; 13 killed.
March 30—Pan-American Clipper com
pleted exploratory flight from San Francis
co to Auckland, New Zealand.
April 9—Two Japanese completed flight
from Tokyo to London in 94‘/a hours.
May 6—German dirigible Hindenburg ex-
B oded and burned at Lakehurst. N. J; 35
lied.
May 9—Dick Merrill and J. S. Lam bio
began flight from New York to London.
May 10—Merrill and Lambie landed safely
at Croydon airport.
May 14—Merrill and Lambie completed
return flight from London to New York.
May 21—Russian aviators landed near
North Pole and established air base on ico
floe.
June 1—Amelia Earhart started from
Miami on round the world flight.
June 15—Amelia Earhart landed in Ka
rachi, India.
June 18—Russian plane started from Mos
cow on non-stop flight to Oakland, Calif.
June 20—Russian plane forced down by
weather at Vancouver, Wash.; time from
Moscow, 63 hours.
July 2—Amelia Earhart forced down near
Howland island on 2,570-mile hop from New
Guinea on round the world trip.
July 3—Warships and planes were rushed
to the rescue of Amelia Earhart. but failed
to find her.
July 11—Three Soviet aviators took off
from Moscow, attempting polar flight to
Srr Francisco
July 13—Sixty navy planes searched 21,000
miles of Pacific in vain hunt for Amelia
Earhart.
July 14—Soviet flyers set new distanca
record in non-stop flight from Moscow to
San Jacinto. Calif., 6,262 miles.
July 18—Search for Amelia Earhart aban
doned by navy.
Aug. 25—New radio beam for blind land
ing successfully tested.
Sept. 3—Frank Fuller won Bendix trophy
race Los Angeles to Cleveland.
Oct. 24—Miss Jean Batten cut Australia
to England record to 5 days, 18 hooirs.
Dec. 3—Rudy Kling and Frank Hayes
killed in Miami air races.
Dec. 17—Thirty-fourth anniversary of
Wright brothers’ first flight celebrated.
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