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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1940
CHRONOLOGY
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OF THE YEAR A
1939
COMPILED BY
JOHN D. GRANT
EUROPEAN WAR
MARS GOES TO WORK—
French poilu puzzles over street
sign in captured German village.
Hitler Still Crabbing
MARCH
IB—German troops mass near border of
Slovakia.
13— Czechoslovakia submits to Hitler’s de
mands for further breakup of the Czech
state.
14— Slovakia formally secedes from Czecho
slovakia and becomes independent state
under German protection.
Hitler seizes Bohemia and Moravia,
completing subjection of Czecho-Slo-
vakia.
16— Hitler absorbs Slovakia. Hungary an
nexes part of Carpatho-Ukraine.
S7—Germany puts pressure on Poland.
88—Poland refuses German demand for
pathway to East Prussia.
APRIL
4—Poland Joins British in war alliance.
17— Germany pushes drive to take Danzig.
French fleet guards Gibraltar. British
fleet sails to Malta.
MAY
T—Nazis plan plebiscite in Danzig.
6—Pope Invites five powers to Vatican par
ley to settle Polish-German dispute.
80—Germany fortifies its eastern frontier
against Poland.
JUNE
1—Hitler pledges Germany will support
Jugoslavia’s border.
80— German troops move to encircle Poland.
88—Britain appeals to Germany to settle
dispute by negotiations.
JULY
6— Warsaw reports 5,000 Polish families in
East Prussia are forced to move away
from border.
AUGUST
15— Germany and Italy establish policy on
Danzig; Polish attitude called unbear
able.
18— Nazis declare Danzig must return to
Germany before August 27.
18—Germany takes military possession of
Slovakia.
81— Germany announces nonaggression pact
with Russia.
82— German troops massed near Polish cor
ridor.
83— Germany and Russia sign nonaggression
pact.
88— Britain and Poland sign war alliance.
Japanese cabinet abandons Rome-Berlin
lineup.
89— Poland asks British help under new mu
tual aid pact.
Germans Invade Poland
81—Germany opens war on Poland.
SEPTEMBER
8—Britain and France declare war on
Germany.
British ship Athenla torpedoed off coast
of Ireland, 1,400 aboard, 43 lost.
Germany blockaded by British navy.
8—Germans shell Warsaw; government and
citizens flee.
President Roosevelt proclaims U. S.
neutrality.
8—Poles appeal to Britain to rush aid.
7— Nazi torpedoes sink five ships.
8— French planes bomb Siegfried line. -
10—German counterattack halts French on
western front.
Russia rushes reserves to Polish border.
12— German forces shut a vise on Warsaw.
13— Big British army lands in France with
out loss.
Polish defense cracks; Nazis move east
ward.
16— Russian trdops invade Poland to ’’pro
tect minorities.”
17— Warsaw decides to fight on after truce
talk fails.
Poland's defenses collapse under Nazi
pressure.
Russian army drives 50 miles into Po
land.
20—Report Red purge of former officials in
Polish Ukraine.
S3—French repulse wave after wave of Nazi
shock troops.
88—French defeat Germans in two big air
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battles; bombard whole lengtlr
fried line; bomb Zeppelin works.
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27—Warsaw surrenders
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Germans after
29—Britain defies warning by foes to stop
war.
OCTOBER
1—Britain calls 250.000 more troops.
4—Daladier says France will fight until
victorious. . _ .
7—Hitler makes peace proposals to Britain
and France; seeks armistice.
9—Hitler sets aside area in Poland for
Germans to be transplanted from other
countries.
10—French premier spurns Hitler s peace
terras.
Finnish civilians ordered to leave dan
ger zone near Soviet frontier.
12—Britain refuses peace based on Nazi
conquests. . _ . , ^
14—British battleship Royal Oak sunk by
sub, 788 lost.
16— Nazi raid navy base in Scotland; 16
killed.
17— German planes raid Scapa Flow; Iron
Duke, training ship, damaged.
20—British repel another Nazi air raid
over Edinburgh.
23— British report three U-boats sunk.
Germans capture American ship City of
Flint and take it to Soviet port.
24— Four British, one Greek ship sunk by
Germans. . ..
Nazi sea raiders slip through blockade;
lielgiana dem'anf British ease blockade.
26—American ship City of Flint, turned over
to Germany by Russia, sails from Rus-
28—Germans claim 115 foreign ships sunk
since war began.
31—Soviet demands raise new crisis in Fin
land.
NOVEMBER
8—Norway frees City of Flint and Interns
German prize crew. Finland defies So
viet threat; ready to fight.
7— Belgium and Houand offer to mediate
peace between warring nations.
6—Hitler escapes plot: blast in Munich
beer cellar Kills 6 and injures 60.
8— Dutch open defense dikes; clash at bor
der with Germans.
10—French repulse two German attacks.
15—Four more merchantmen sunk in sea
wBrf Arc.
17— German's shoot nine Czech students,
seize 1.200 and close academies for three
years.
18— butch liner hits German mine in North
sea; sinks with 140 lives.
19— Four more ships sunk by German mines
off England. ,
26—Germans extend war at sea: 10 vessels
sunk since November 18; 133 dead or
missing. _ . . ... .
81—Germany charges Munich man with beet
cellar explosion; arrests two British
Britain declares unrestricted blockade
of Germany in reprisal for illegal mine
warfare; forbids neutral nations to trade
with Germany.
22— British destroyer sunk, 40 missing.
Nazi bombers raid Shetlands, no dam
age done.
French report torpedo boat sank two
subs
23— Eight more vessels sunk; total for six
days* 25
France and Britain claim 20 air vic
tories in three days on western front.
Exiled Polish government begins func
tioning in France.
24— British cruiser damaged in port by blast
from mine or submarine.
25— Berlin claims bombers hit four British
warships; London denies.
Six nations protest British ban on Ger
man trade.
26— Two hundred eighty-seven die in a Brit
ish armed ship. Germans fight back
British planes attempting to raid Kiel
canal.
Britain fights for a new Europe, Cham
berlain says.
Finnish guns kill four Russian soldiers,
Soviet charges.
27— Russia demands Finns remove soldiers
from border; Finland offers to negotiate
border issue; Russia threatens war.
28— Russia denounces nonaggression pact
with Finland; Finland declares Russian
reports of border attacks false.
Germany claims British cruiser sunk by
submarine; Britain denies.
29— Russian troops invade Finland after
breaking off diplomatic relations; Finns
stunned by break.
30— Russians claim 10-mile advance into
Finland; bomb Helsingfors.
DECEMBER
1— Finns disable Russian cruiser with 500
aboard.
Russians capture Finnish port.
New cabinet takes over Finnish govern
ment.
2— Finnish rebel regime cedes territory to
Russians.
Regular Finnish government orders
evacuation of all southern towns.
Sweden tightens its defenses.
3— British planes attack German naval
base and score hits on German war
ships.
Finns shatter Red troops in Arctic
battle.
League of nations summoned to hear
Finnish appeal for aid.
Britain puts blockade against German
exports into effect.
4— German pocket battleship sinks British
steamer Doric Star in south Atlantic.
5— Finnish flyers inflict heavy casualties
on Soviet troop concentration.
6— Finns repulse Russian army of 200,000
on three fronts.
7— Russians to blockade Finnish coast;
warn shipping.
British fighting planes beat off German
raids.
8— Finns repel offensive on Karelian
Isthmus.
10— Finns report Russian attacks repelled
on all fronts.
11— League of Nations requests Russia to
cease hostilities against Finland.
12— Russia rejects league of nations pro
posal to mediate conflict with Finland.
German liner Bremen runs British
blockade to home port.
13— British ships disable and chase Ger
man raider Graf Spee into South Amer
ican port.
14— Russia expelled from league of nations.
Uruguay gives Graf Spee 72 hours to
make repairs.
16—Finn coast artillery sinks Russian de
stroyer.
18—Germans scuttle Graf Spee outside
Montevideo harbor rather than risk
S ?ht with British ships waiting outside.
uge Red forces storm Finns' moun
tain positions.
Germans claim 34 out of 44 British
E lanes shot down in battle over Heligo-
md.
British claim sinking of German cruiser
and damage to two others.
FOREIGN
RUSSIA FACES WEST —Dic
tator Josef Stalin, having completed
a pact with Germany, conquers
part of Poland and moves into Es
tonia, Latvia, Lithuania—and then
into Finland.
JANUARY
1—Chinese dictator “purges” government
ranks of 200 "peace party” leaders.
3— Japan’s cabinet resigns over policies in
China.
Spanish rebels report capture of Artesa.
5— New Japanese premier declares war in
China must go on.
6— ^Hungarians and Czecho-Slovaks fight
along border.
10—Britain promises to support France
against Italy in clamor for part of
French empire.
15—Spanish rebels take Tarragona in drive
toward Barcelona.
18—Madrid rushes fresh troops to defense
of Barcelona.
22— All citizens of Barcelona called to dig
trenches.
24—Spanish rebels bomb Barcelona.
26— Rebels take Barcelona without a battle.
30—Hitler demands return of colonies.
FEBRUARY
4— Britain Increases plane orders in U. S.
to 650.
5— Spanish loyalist army of 200.000 flees to
France to escape trap.
6— Japan refuses to give up mandated is
lands Germany lost in war.
12—Two hundred thousand move past bier
of Pope Pius in St. Peter’s.
14—Pope Pius buried in tomb beneath St
Peter’s cathedral.
18—Spanish loyalists offer to surrender.
France occupies African area once
ceded to Italy.
20— Italy moves to place colony Libya on
war footing.
23— General Franco hands Britain final
terms for peace with Spanish loyalists.
24— Britain and France decide to recognize
Franco government m Spain.
Polish students attack German embassy
in Warsaw.
28—Commons approves Chamberlain's O. K.
of Franco.
MARCH
1— College of cardinals convenes in Rome
to elect a pope.
2— Franco requests Mussolini to withdraw
Italian troops from Spain.
Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli elected pope on
third ballot; takes name of Pius XII.
8—Leader of Spanish loyalist army seizes
control of Madrid government.
6— Communist leaders flee Madrid zone;
General Miaja, new loyalist chief, asks
"worthy peace."
7— Gandhi won political victory for democ
racy in India, forced by four-day fast;
accepts invitation for consultation with
viceroy.
Loyalist planes bomb centers of commu
nist revolt in Madrid.
8— Franco’s fleet blockades all Spanish loy
alist coast.
12— 500,000 witness coronation of Pope Pius
Xli.
21— Lithuania returns Memel to Germany.
22— Rumania and Germany sign trade pact.
23— Madrid offers to surrender to General
Franco.
27— Japanese capture Nanchang.
28— Madrid surrenders, ending Spanish civil
war.
29— France flatly refuses Mussolini's colonial
demands.
30— Russia rejects British plea to join front
against aggressor nations.
APRIL
2—Britain offers to protect Rumania.
Japanese kill 8,000 Chinese in three bat
tles.
4— Turkey asks for part of Syria; French
dispatch warship.
5— Albert Lebrun re-elected president of
France.
6— Italian troops invade Albania.
8— Mussolini sets up puppet government in
Albania.
9— British and French fleets reported
massed off coast of Greece.
13— Massing of troops near Gibraltar causes
alarm; British barricade road to Spain.
18—Hitler appoints Franz von Papen ambas
sador to Turkey.
Russia faces famine; 80 per cent of
grain crop destroyed.
23— General Franco orders return of prop
erty which Spanish republic took from
former King Alfonso.
24— President of Bolivia assumes dictatorial
powers.
27—Serbians sign pact with Croats, ending
Jugoslavia’s biggest internal problem.
30—Paraguay elects General Estigarribia,
Chaco war hero, president.
MAY
3—Litvinov dismissed as foreign commissar
of Russia.
6—King and queen of Great Britain sail
for Canada.
14—Moscow short of food; army ordered to
save on motor fuel.
16— Twenty million dollars reported paid to
Hitler to release Baron Louis Rothschild.
17— King and queen of Great Britain wel
comed at Quebec.
18— King and queen start on tour of Canada.
One hundred Jewish youths injured in
clashes with police in Jerusalem.
22—Dionne quintuplets greet queen with hug
and kiss as British sovereigns visit
Toronto.
24—German troops In Spain leave for home.
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25—Bill setting up dictatorship over industry
introduced in British parliament.
29—New border war develops between Japan
hukuo.
JUNE
10—Bombs in mail in England injure seven
persons.
14—Japan presents Britain with new de
mands as troops tighten blockade at
Tientsin.
22—King and queen given tremendous re
ception on their return to England.
26—Soviets repulse Jap air attack on Mon
gol border; shoot down 25 planes.
JULY
13—France Jails two newspaper executives,
charged with receiving pay from Ger
many.
19—Danzig political police purge city of
Socialists.
24—Chamberlain promises Britain will stay
out of Japan's way in China.
26—Four bombings in England blamed on
Irish Republican army.
AUGUST
3—Britain offers to mediate Japanese-Chi-
neS e war.
6—Spain executes 53 persons for complicity
in slaying of civil guard officer.
9—Sudden German food shortage rouses
public.
SEPTEMBER
26— French cabinet decree ends Communist
party in France.
27— ^Bulgaria seeks trade pact with Russia.
28— Constantine Argesanu appointed premier
of Rumania.
OCTOBER
2— Delegates of 21 republics at an inter-
American neutrality conference fixed a
safety zone around two Americas.
3— Japanese admit loss of 18,000 men in
fighting Russians.
5—Chinese halt Japanese drive in Hunan
province; report 10,300 slain.
10— Soviet returns Vilna to Lithuania.
11— ^Britain and Russia sign trade agree
ment.
27— Pope Pius in encyclical assails dictators.
28— Thousands arrested as Czechs and Nazis
battle in Prague.
NOVEMBER
2—Slovak mob wrecks shops and news-
g apers in Bratislava, Hungary.
tritish threaten to abolish self-rule in
India.
20—Ex-kaiser narrowly escapes death in
storm at Doom.
DECEMBER
3—Japan faces scarcity of food this winter.
Peru opens great new port facilities to
Callao.
11—Italy quits league of cations.
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U. S. GUARDS NEUTRALITY—
Special congressional session insti
tutes **cash-and-carry > * neutrality as
Americans rush home from Europe,
away from war zone.
JANUARY
2— Former Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan
takes oath as U. S. attorney general.
Harry Hopkins sworn in as secretary of
commerce.
3— Seventy-sixth congress convenes.
5—President sends to congress $10,000,000,-
000 budget for 1940 fiscal year.
Felix Frankfurter nominated for U. S.
Supreme court.
12— President, in message, asks 552 millions
more for defense.
16—President asks extension of social secu
rity benefits.
19—President asks legislation to end tax
free public salaries and to levy on all
securities.
FEBRUARY
7—President makes new demand for 150
millions more for PWA after signing
appropriation bill with that amount cut
off.
9—House passes bill making state and mu
nicipal employees subject to Income
tax.
13— Justice Brandeis retires from the U. S.
Supreme court.
15— House approves $376,000,000 defense bill.
25—James J. Hines. Tammany chief, con
victed of violating lottery laws.
27—U. S. Supreme court rules sit-down
strikes illegal.
MARCH
2— Ex-Judge Martin T. Manton indicted by
federal grand jury in New York as bribe
taker.
7— Senate passes $358,000,000 army exten
sion bill.
8— House passes bill giving President re
stricted authority to reorganize depart
ments.
16— Lieut-Gov. Lauren D. Dickinson sworn
in as governor of Michigan to succeed
the late Frank D. Fitzgerald.
18—U. S. puts penalty tariff on German im
ports.
23—James J. Hines. Tammany leader, sen
tenced to serve four to eight years in
prison.
27— U. S. Supreme court holds federal and
state governments may tax salaries of
each other’s employees.
APRIL
3— C. I. O. union ordered to pay Apex
Hosiery company $711,930 damages for
sit-down strike.
4— Jack Benny, radio comedian, fined
$10,000 for smuggling.
William O. Douglas confirmed for Su
preme court.
10— Senate rejects amendment to give WPA
50 millions more, then passes original
bill.
15— President addresses peace plea to Euro
pean dictators; asks 10-year peace guar
antee..
18—War department assigns Charles A.
Lindbergh to study U. S. ayiation facili
ties.
28— President makes first transfer under re
organization act; creates three super
agencies.
27—President asks 1,762 million more for
relief.
MAY
1—U. S. Supreme court denies appeal of
miners convicted of Illinois bomb out
rages.
11— Coal conferees agree on new contract
with operators.
Senate passed record-breaking $1,218,-
666.572 farm bill.
12— President names Admiral Leahy gover
nor of Puerto Rico.
16— House votes each congressman another
clerk at annual cost of $658,500 without
a roll call.
17— Senate kills New Deal Florida canal bill.
18— Senate passes $773,000,000 naval appro
priation ■ bill. ,
Jerome Frank elected chairman of SEC.
20—Yankee Clipper flies from Long Island
to Europe, opening trans-Atlantic air
mail service.
22— Boss Pendergast of Kansas City given
15 months in federal prison for income
tax evasion. «
23— House approves farm appropriation bill
as passed by senate.
25—Fritz Kuhn, Nazi bund leader, indicted
in New York on theft charges.
Draft Dodger Bergdoll returns to the
United States from Germany and is
made military prisoner.
27—Yankee Clipper returns from Europe.
JUNE
1— Senate passes bill lifting long term bond
ed national debt limit above $30,000,-
000 000.
2— Contract for 24 warships costing $350,-
000,000 awarded by navy department.
3— Former Judge Manton found guilty of
bribery.
5—House rejects plan to make Hyde Park
home a memorial to President Roose
velt.
7— King George and Queen Elizabeth of
Great Britain enter United States at
Niagara Falls; officially welcomed by
Secretary of State Hull.
8— King and queen of Great Britain wel
comed to Washington by President
Roosevelt; attend state dinner at White
House.
10— House votes big slash in payroll taxes;
benefits are Increased.
11— King and queen end U. S. visit.
12— Senate votes $225,000 to department of
commerce to employ experts.
U. S. monetary gold stock passes 16
billion mark.
13— House votes drastic limitations on future
operations of TVA.
15—King
ig and queen sail for home.
19— House passes tax bill of 1,844 millions;
retains nuisance taxes, but revises lev
ies on corporations.
20— Senate committee boosts pork barrel bill
from $83,848,100, as passed by the house,
to $407,855,600.
21— Widespread WPA graft charged in Lou
isiana; Governor Leche resigns.
F. Ryan Duffy nominated for federal
bench in Milwaukee.
25— Fraud bared at Louisiana university.
26— Governor Leche steps down and Lieu
tenant Governor Long is sworn in in
Louisiana.
$600,000 fraud laid to President Smith
of the Louisiana university.
28— Senate adds 73 million to relief bill and
passes it.
29— House hands administration defeat of
neutrality bill; endorses embargo on
arms shipments.
30— Senate lets Roosevelt’s money rule die
by preventing legislation to extend.
House passes neutrality bill barring
arms shipments.
JULY
5— Senate adopts conference report on re
viving President's money powers.
6— W. P. Buckner given two years in prison
on Philippine railway bond charges.
10— President gives Ptful V. McNutt of Indi
ana job as head of the newly created
Federal Security administration.
13— Senate votes to fix payroll tax at 1 per
cent until 1943.
14— President signs bill giving war depart
ment power to hide secret new equip
ment from spies.
20—House passes bill to curb bureaucrats
in politics.
24— House committee shelves President’s
$800,000,000 housing program.
Nation-wide lottery swindle using name
of Will Rogers exposed.
25— One killed, seven shot, in battle over
nonunion labor at Boonville, Ind.
26— United States scraps trade treaty with
Japan.
Francis B. Sayre nominated for high
commissioner to the Philippines.
31— Senate lops $1,615,000,000 from spending
bill and passes it.
AUGUST
1— Army’s flying fortress flies coast to
coast in 9% hours.
House kills President’s lending-spending
bill.
4— Senate passes third deficiency bill of
189 millions.
Agreement reached on social security
amendment cutting pay roll tax $900,-
000,000 in next three years.
5— Congress adjourns after appropriating
more than $13,000,000,000.
7— Former Governor Leche of Louisiana
and two others indicted in hot oil quiz.
14— President advances Thanksgiving day
one week, naming November 23.
15— WPA raises pay of 2,000,000 workers
$5,000,000 a month. New York fair asks
bondholders for $4,820,000 to meet debts.
16— Mayor of Waterbury, Conn., among 20
guilty in $1,000,000 graft.
18—-U. S. and Canada sign new pact for
air service.
20—Louisiana oil czar. Dr. J. A. Shaw, wit
ness against ex-Gov. R. W. Leche, kills
self.
24— President pleads for peace; cables Hit-
< ler, Poles, and king of Italy.
29—German liner Bremen held up at New
York for search.
SEPTEMBER
2— Liner Bremen allowed to depart from
New York.
6— Roosevelt establishes naval patrol along
Atlantic coast*
11— President lifts quota on sugar to curb
prices.
12— Steel plants and railroads call back their
workers.
13— Congress called for September 21.
14— Borah opposes repeal of arms embargo
as likely to put America into war.
18—Soviet purchasing agent tells of pay
ments to persons connected with Demo
cratic national committee.
20— At a conference of Republican and Dem
ocratic leaders Roosevelt urges repeal
of neutrality act.
21— Congress convenes in special session;
Roosevelt urges early repeal of arms
embargo provision of neutrality act.
25— American Legion convenes in annual
session in Chicago.
27— Sudden dissolution of war resources
board causes surprise.
28— Administration's neutrality repealer bill
sent to the senate.
29— Powerful naval fleet ordered to Hawaii.
OCTOBER
2—Debate on repeal of neutrality act begins
in senate.
4— Army places an order for 329 high
speed, light tanks.
5— Grover C. Bergdoll, draft dodger, sen
tenced to 7% years in prison.
7— Bishop Ablewhlte sent to prison for fund
shortage.
10—War department orders 65,000 semi-auto
matic rifles.
12—William Green elected president of A.
F. of L. for sixteenth time.
17— Brazil orders $5,870,000 rail equipment
from America.
18— President closes American ports to sub
marines of warring nations.
19— New house bill bans financial aid to
warring nations.
20— Roosevelt sets three-mile limit for sub
marines.
23— Indiana endurance flyers descend after
535 hours: new record.
24— Senate adopts cash and carry amend
ments to neutrality bill.
25— Government sues 236 railroads under
Sherman antitrust act.
27— Senate votes, 63 to 30, to repeal arms
embargo provision of neutrality act. Bill
goes to house.
28— Carl Bevins, Missouri flyer, kidnaped
and slain in his own plane by Ernest
Pletch, arrested.
29— California flyers land after 726 hours in
air—new record.
30— U. S. assesses Germany 50 millions for
Black Tom and Klngsland blasts during
World war.
31— United Mine Workers raise $3,000,000 for
olitical fight in 1940.
'resident asks 276 million for added
defense.
NOVEMBER
2— House votes against embargo on arms;
bill goes to conference.
3— Congress passes neutrality repeal bill
and adjourns.
4— President signs repeal bill and bars war
zones to American shipping.
6— Supreme court rules state cannot tax
HOLC mortgages.
7— Old age pension plans defeated in Ohio
and California.
AAA will make loans to cotton growers
on new crop.
8— Navy sends marines to Hawaii to
strengthen Pacific defense.
Fifteen U. S. oil tankers transferred to
Panamanian registry.
9— Roosevelt demands Lewis, head of C. I.
O., resume peace negotiations with A.
F. of L.
12—Dr. Smith, former president of L. S. U.,
g iven 8 to 24 years for university scan-
als.
14—Louis Levy, New York lawyer, disbarred
in Manton scandal.
16—A1 Capone, gang leader, released from
federal prison; enters Baltimore hospi
tal.
21—Proportion of civil service employees
reduced under President Roosevelt.
22—U. S. court upholds wage-hour law in
Montgomery Ward case.
Supreme court voids cities’ ban on hand
bills.
27—Morgenthau declares next congress must
lift legal debt limit.
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28— Chrysler company and C. I. O. agree on
basis of peace after auto plants are tied
up 53 days.
29— Jury finds German-American bund lead
er Fritz Kuhn guilty on forgery and
theft charges.
30— Roosevelt sends sharp note to Russia
asking that bombing of cities stop.
DECEMBER
2— Curtiss plants speed building of war
planes.
3— Winnie Ruth Judd, Insane slayer, again
escapes from prison in Arizona.
5—Fritz Kuhn, bund leader, sentenced to
prison for two and a half years.
7— Upward trend seen in several lines of
business.
8— Secretary Hull protests British blockade.
9— Roosevelt orders a special naval dis
trict in Caribbean.
11—RFC grants $10,000,000 loan to Finland.
U. S. Supreme court bars evidence
gained by wire tapping.
13— Twelve naval captains promoted to be
14— ICC approves trainload rail rate re
duction.
18—Garner announces candidacy for Demo
cratic presidential nomination.
DISASTERS
SQUALUS SINKS—U. S. navy's
diving bell gets first real test rescu
ing 33 survivors from sunken sub
marine. Twenty-six others die.
JANUARY
21—The airliner Cavalier wrecked at sea off
Cape May, N. J. three lost, 10 saved.
23—Bomber crashes on test hop at Los
Angeles; pilot killed.
25—Thirty thousand killed, 50,000 injured by
earthquake in Chile; towns wiped out in
disaster.
FEBRUARY
2—Japanese submarine sunk in collision.
11— Army mystery plane crashes after
coast-to-coast flight at 340-mile rate.
MARCH
2— Two hundred killed in explosion of mu
nitions dump in Japan; 800 houses de
stroyed.
18—Ten killed in airplane crash near Ta
coma, Wash.
25—Airliner crashes in Oklahoma killing
eight.
APRIL
4—Four navy fliers killed when planes col
lide in maneuvers.
13— Twenty-eight killed, 50 injured in train
wreck in Mexico.
16—Tornadoes in Arkansas, Texas and Lou
isiana cause 53 deaths and injuries to
300.
MAY
23— Fifty-nine trapped in sunken submarine
Squalus.
24— Thirty-three rescued alive from Squalus,
26 dead.
JUNE
1—Missing British submarine found mired
in mud; 99 lost.
4— ^Twenty-two persons killed in Mexican
theater fire.
16— Seventy-one lives lost in wreck of French
submarine.
18—Ten dead, 63 injured in Minnesota tor
nado.
JULY
5— Fifty-three drowned, 47 missing, in flood
in mountains of eastern Kentucky.
12— Mystery explosion and fire damage navy
aircraft carrier Ranger.
14— Twenty-eight perish in mine blast at
Providence, Ky.
17— Five killed as train hits auto in Chicago
suburb.
23—Avalanche on Mount Baker Wash., kills
two, four missing.
AUGUST ’
11—Nine U. S. army fliers and two navy
fliers killed as two bombers crash.
13— Fourteen killed as Miami to Rio de Ja
neiro plane crashes in Rio harbor. Twen
ty-three killed, 60 injured, when stream
liner is wrecked in Nevada.
SEPTEMBER
25— Storm in California kills 100; damage.
$1,000,000.
28—Munitions plant blast in Britain kills 15.
OCTOBER
11—Wreck of school bus at War, W. Va„
kills six; 71 injured.
NOVEMBER
14— Five hundred killed and injured when
fire engulfs Venezuelan oil port.
DECEMBER
3— Typhoon ravages five Islands in the Phil
ippines.
SPORTS
IRON MAN STRIKES OUT—
Lou Gehrig, “iron man of base-
ball,'* retires from New York Yan
kees with paralysis infection after
hanging up all-time record for
games played.
JANUARY
2— Southern California football team de
feats Duke in Rose Bowl.
3— Budge defeats Vines in pro tennis debut.
17—Edward G. Barrow elected president of
the New York Yankees.
25—Joe Louis, heavyweight champion,
stopped John Henry Lewis in first round
in New York.
FEBRUARY
5— Ken Bartholomew wins national skating
title.
9—National Professional Football league
re-elects Joseph Carr president for 10
years.
23—Tony Galento scores technical knock
out over Abe Feldman.
MARCH
20—Charles Bowser named head football
coach at Pitt.
APRIL
2—Ralph Guldahl wins Masters golf title at
Atlanta, Ga.
16— Boston wins Stanley cup, defeating To
ronto in hockey playoffs.
17— Joe Louis, heavyweight champion,
knocks out Jack Roper In first round.
18— Joey Archibald wins featherweight title
from Leo Kodak in 15 rounds.
MAY
6- *Johnstown won Kentucky derby.
20—Joseph F. Carr, National Football league
president, dies.
23—Davy Day, welterweight, stopped Pedro
Montanez in the eighth round.
25—Henry Armstrong, welterweight, defeats
Ernie Roderick, British champion, in 15
rounds.
30—Shaw wins Indianapolis auto race, av
eraging 115.035 miles per our. Roberts
killed.
JUNE
6—Giants make five home runs in one in
ning for record; rout Reds.
12—Centennial birthday of baseball cele
brated at Cooperstown, N. Y.. where it
originated.
21—Lou Gehrig. Mayo clinic physicians an-
>, has Infs
nounce after check-up.
antile pa
ralysis; playing career ended.
23—Joe Louis stops Tony Galento in the
fourth round.
Yankees break record with 13 home runs
in two games on same day.
JULY
8—Alice Marble wins British tennis cham
pionship at Wimbledon.
11—American league wins all-star baseball
game, 3 to 1.
30—Dick Metz wins St. Paul open golf cham
pionship with record score of 270.
AUGUST
22—Lou Ambers regains lightweight title
in 15-round bout with Armstrong.
30—New York Giants, professional football
champions, defeated the All-Stars, 9 to
0, before 81,000 people in Chicago.
SEPTEMBER
5—Roscoe Turner wins Thompson trophy
air race third time.
15— Tony Galento stops Nova in 14 rounds.
16— Bobby Riggs, Alice Marble win U. S.
net titles.
17— Yankees cinch American league pen
nant.
20—Joe Louis knocks out Bob Pastor in 11
rounds.
25—Billy Conn, light heavyweight champion,
defended his title against Melio Bettina
in 15 rounds.
28— Cincinnati Pods win National league pen
nant.
30—Frankie Frisch appointed manager of
the Pittsburgh Pirates.
OCTOBER
8— Yankees win world’s baseball series in
four straight games.
17—Bucky Walters, Cincinnati pitcher, voted
most valuable player in National league.
19—Chicago White Sox defeat Cubs in city
baseball series.
24—Joe DiMaggio wins American league
most valuable player award.
29— Harry Thomas, heavyweight fighter, re
veals fixed fights.
NOVEMBER
1—A1 Davis stops Tony Canzonerl in third
round.
17—Billy Conn, light heavyweight cham
pion, successfully defends title against
Lesnevitch in 15 rounds.
DECEMBER
9— Eddie Anderson awarded plaque as
football coach of year.
10— Green Bay Packers whip New York
Giants to win professional football title.
11— Nile Kinnick, Iowa football star, named
No. 1 athlete of all sports in annual
poll.
13—New York Yankees voted best team in
any sport.
NECROLOGY
POPE SUCCUMBS—The devout
kneel in prayer before casket con
taining the body of Pope Pius XI.
JANUARY
11—Prof. Herman Oliphant, treasury de
partment counsel. In Washington.
13—Col, Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New
York Yankees.
26—Former Sen. Joseph L France of Mary
land, in Baltimore.
29—William B. Yeats, Irish poet and play
wright, in France.
FEBRUARY
9—Pope Pius XI.
13— Rt. Rev. J. M. Francis, Episcopalian
bishop of Indianapolis.
15— Charles R. Crane, former diplomat.
16— Dr. Clarence True Wilson, prohibiten
leader.
MARCH
2—Howard Carter, who found King rut’s
tomb, in London.
5— Former U. S. Attorney General John G.
Sargent.
6— Frank W. Stearns, close adviser to Pres
ident Coolidge.
29—Gerardo Machado, former dictator of
Cuba.
APRIL
2—George F. Harding, Republican aational
committeeman for Illinois.
6—Premier Joseph Lyons of Australia.
9—James Hamilton Lewis, U. S. senator
from Illinois.
11—S. S. Van Dine, mystery-story writer,
real name Willard H. Wright.
MAY
26—Dr. Charles Mayo, famous sorgeon.
JUNE
6— George Peabody Gardner,' Inancier, in
Boston.
19—Miss Grace Abbott, noted welfare work
er and University of Chicafo professor.
26—Ford Maddox Ford, British author.
JULY
7— Claude A. Swanson, seaetary of ths
navy.
8— Havelock Ellis, scientist and philoso
pher- . _
11—Rep. Sam D. McReynoldJ of Tennessee.
18—J. Louis Comiskey, owier of Chicago
White Sox baseball team
28— Dr. William J. Mayo, co-founder with
his brother of the Majo clinic.
31—Former Federal Judge F. A. Geiger of
Milwaukee.
AUGUST
14— T. E. Powers, famec cartoonist.
SEPTEMBER
4—Charles Donnelly, president of Northern
railwav
18—Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate.
23— Sigmund Freud, ojiginator of psycho-
analysis.
24— Floyd Gibbons, wsr correspondent.
Carl Laemmle. pidieer movie producer.
OCTOBER
2— George Cardinal Mundelein, archbishop
of Chicago.
Sen. M. IX. Log* of Kentucky.
3— Fay Templeton, actress.
8— Count Von Bernitorf. German envoy to
U. S. in 1917.
13—Ford Sterling, floyle comedian.
23—Zane Grey. n»ted writer of western
stories.
29— Alice Brady, stage and screen star.
NOVEMBER
2— Ople Read, firnous author.
8 Dr Livingstot Farrand, president emer
itus of Corntll university.
16—Pierce Butler. U. S. Suj
25— i'ames Simpson, Chicago business leader.
27_Dr J. A. Faismith. inventor of basket-
baU.
DECEMBER
3— Alfred Gringer. prominent architect.
Princess houise, duchess of Argyle, old
est living child of Queen Victoria.
4— Marshal Wu Pei-fu. poet-soldier of Re
publican China.
J. Butle* Wright. American ambassa
dor to Cuba.
9— Col. Join S. Hammond, sportsman and
soldier. _ . . , „
11—Dougla» Fairbanks Sr., stage and scree;,
star. _ ... .
Charlei R Walgreen, chain drug store
head. . _ .
18—Heywtod Broun,/columnist.
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