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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1941
OP THE YEAR
1940
commtD by
JOHN D. GRANT
EUROPEAN WAR
SWASTIKA OVER PARIS—Mark of
the Nazi conqueror, the swastika, floats
over crushed Paris following invasion.
Famed Eiffel Tower can be seen in back
ground.
JANUARY
> •—Finland claims destruction of a Russian
division.
SO—Winston Churchill warns Europe's neu
trals they cannot keep out of war and
1 asks them to Join the allies.
FEBRUARY
I 1—Russians start heavy assault on the Man>
nerheim line. .
S—President sends Sumner Welles to confer
with rulers of Britain, France, Italy and
Germany.
16— Sweden rejects Finnish plea for aid with
17— British raid German prison ship in Nor*
wegian waters, rescuing 326 captives.
S4—Prime Minister Chamberlain declares
Britain never will conclude peace with
present Reich rulers.
, MARCH
1— Russians enter Vipurl, key Finnish city.
11— Allies offer full aid to the Finns.
12— Soviet-Finnish peace treaty signed, Rus
sia getting Karelian isthmus and naval
base at Hangoe.
17—Nazi bombers raid British anchorage at
Scapa Flow.
APRIL
4—Winston Churchill given general super
vision over Britain’s fighting strength.
9—Germans occupy Denmark, which sub
mits, and invades Norway, which re
sists. Oslo, the capital, is taken.
12—Germans capture more Norwegian ports,
while British fleet tries to cut supply
line across Skagerrak.
16—British expedition arrives on Norway
coast and is battered by German bomb
ers.
20— Germans capture Dombaas, key rail
town in Norway.
MAY
2— Norwegian army in central Norway
seeks peace as British and French with
draw.
11—Allies rush aid to low countries; Church
ill succeeds Chamberlain as prime min
ister.
14—Dutch armies cease resistance.
16—Nazis mass for Balkan raid; believed
aimed at Rumanian oil.
19—Weygand replaces GameHn as French
commander; Germans within 80 miles
of Paris.
21— Germans reach French channel coast,
cutting off British-Belgian forces.
22— Britain votes dictatorship; Churchill
given supreme power; labor and wealth
to be drafted. '
Allies check German drive on 200-mile
front.
24— Germans tighten net around British,
French and Belgian troops.
25— Germans claim Calais.
France shakes up general staff.
27—Belgium gives up on orders of King
Leopold.
26— Battered British troops reach England
from Flanders.
Belgian cabinet deposes Leopold for
surrender.
JUNE
4—Nazis take Dunkirk; Hitler vows to de
stroy foe.
Last allied troops leave Dunkirk.
8— French forced back by onslaught of
million Germans.
9— Allies evacuate Narvik; Norway surren
ders to Germany.
10—Italy declares war on the allies. Ger
mans cross the Seine.
13— French decide not to defend Paris. Ger
man troops march in.
14— Germans attack Maginot line in effort
to trap million French.
17—Petain becomes premier of France and
asks Germany for armistice. Britain
declares it will fight on alone.
20—Germans pick Compiegne, scene of
1018 armistice, for parley.
22— France signs German armistice.
23— Nazi terms strip France of arms and
land; navy interned.
French government repudiated by Brit
ain.
24— Germany ends war on France; cease
firing order issued.
26— Soviet and Rumania planes clash.
27— Rumania cedes Bessarabia and north
ern Bukovina to Russia.
26—French colonies in Asia and Africa
g ve up fight.
umanians fight Red troops, kill many.
JULY
1—Germans occupy two British Islands in
channel. Rumania renounces Anglo-
French guarantee of her independence.
2—British navy acts to take over scattered
units of French fleet, attacking ships that
refuse to surrender.
4—British report seizure of 250 French
naval vessels.
Waves of German raiders blast at new
British naval base.
9—The French government at Vichy, dom
inated by Berlin, breaks off relations
with Britain.
6—French naval squadron at Alexandria
g elds to British.
ritish and Italian fleets battle in Med
iterranean.
Waves of German bombers attack Eng
land; British strike back.
France votes dictatorship.
14—Churchill declares Britain ready to fight
for years.
15—Gibraltar raided four times.
British fliers raid parts of Germany.
19—Hitler calls on Britain to give up the
war or face destruction of the empire.
21—Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, under
pressure from Moscow, vote to join the
Soviet Union.
23—France seizes Daladier and former
aides.
29—Germany launches mass air raids on
Britain.
AUGUST
4—British fliers bomb Germans massed
on channel coast for invasion.
6—Italians invade British Somaliland.
7—British liner torpedoed in convoy; 455
saved, 20 lost.
Italians march into Zella, port on Gulf
of Aden; capture two towns in British
Somaliland.
12—"Air blitzkrieg" has started, Britain told,
as Nazis launch third day of mass raids.
Italians mass on Egypt.
13—Nazi aerial Blitzkrieg covers Britain;
industrial heart bombed.
France indicts war guilt chiefs.
17—Germany announces total blockade of
waters around England.
19—Italy conquers British Somaliland.
20—Churchill announces plan to lease bases
to United States on British territory in
Western hemisphere.
27—Axis orders parley after armed clashes
in Balkans.
20—Germany and Italy force Rumania to
cede part of Transylvania to Hungary.
SEPTEMBER
10— British bombs hit Reichstag building in
heart of Berlin.
11— Buckingham palace in London damaged
by air bombs.
12— Italy opens drive against Egypt.
14— Italy invades Egypt; takes two towns.
19—British fleet blasts Italian forces invad
ing Egypt.
23— British warships shell West African
port of Dakar.
24— British bomb Berlin for three hours.
25— Germans depose King Haakon; end Nor
wegian monarchy.
27— Germany, Italy and Japan sign war al
liance.
OCTOBER
2—British planes bomb Krupp plant in
Germany.
2—Neville Chamberlain resigns from Brit
ish cabinet. t
4— Hitler and Duce confer on war crisis.
Serve notice there will be no let up
on Britain.
7— German troops enter Rumania.
15— British cruiser sinks three Italian de
stroyers.
17— British reopen Burma road.
18— Axis demands on Greece include abdica
tion of king, pro-axis government and
yielding of land.
23— Six weeks of attacks balked invasion,
British say.
Hitler and Franco meet at French bor
der.
Spain arrests former King Carol and
Magda.
, 27—Greece and Italy declared at war.
Canadian destroyer sinks after collision
'with merchantman; 140 lost.
28— British put war resources at disposal of
GflTGCCC
30— Greeks put up stout defense against
Italians.
31— First Greek counterattack shoves back
Italians.
NOVEMBER
2—British land troops on Greek territory.
5— Two U-boats sunk by British.
6— British cut Gibraltar off from Spain.
British seize 24 ships of Russian-Baltlc
nations.
9—Greek troops tighten netjon Italians in
Albania.
16— Italians routed in mountains by Greeks.
Intense bomb attack made on London.
11— Greece reports Italians fleeing toward
Albania.
British fliers drop bombs on two con
tinents.
12— British armed merchantman, afire and
sinking, fights off German warship and
saves 29 ships in British convoy.
13— British destroy six Italian warships in
port of Taranto; two Italian supply ships
sunk in another engagement.
15— Germans drop 30,000 fire bombs on
Coventry, England, 1,000 killed.
Greeks capture 700 Italians.
16— Greeks claim wide gains against re
treating Italians.
19— Nazis pound Birmingham.
20— ^Hungary enters axis, making it a four-
power war on Britain.
21— Greeks drive deep into Albania; hem
in two vital Italian bases.
Liverpool raided twice in night bomb-
22— Turkey proclaims martial law in prep
aration for war.
Bombs damage thousands of homes
near London.
Italians in rout after Greeks take
Koritza.
24— British vessel attacked by raider in At
lantic.
Greek troops advance in three sectors.
British bombers attack German and
Italian cities.
26— Britain offers guarantees to Bulgaria.
Bristol raided by Nazi bombers.
27— Sixty-four Rumanian political leaders ex
ecuted in Nazi purge. . .
Italian fleet attacked and pursued by
British.
29— Rumanian troops shell Iron Guard
rebels.
DECEMBER
1— Southampton turned into an inferno by
N az i sir raids.
Greeks capture strategic points on cen
tral front.
2— Ten merchant ships attacked west of
Ireland by U-boats and planes.
Greece reports new Italian rout near
Ionian sea.
3— Nazis claim sinking of 20 British ships.
4— British cabinet’s conduct of war criti
cized in commons.
Italians withdraw from two bases.
British told they will get 150 U. S.
merchant vessels.
5— Greeks drive into two Italian bases;
both in flames.
Twenty U. S. flying fortresses released
to Britain. 4 .
Commons smashes peace move, 341 to 4.
6— Greeks occupy Porto Edda and pursue
Italians northward. . , , ,
8— British cruiser sinks German freighter
off Cuba. .
Argyrokastron falls to Greek troops.
9— British capture 30,000 Italian troops.
British bombers smash at Bordeaux
U-boat raiders. , _
10— British trap Italian forces in Egyptian
desert.
11— British capture main Italian base of
Sidi Barrani. , „
13— British drive Italians out of Egypt.
14— Petain ousts Laval; names Flandin. Hit
ler’s friend’, foreign minister.
Greeks smash Italian mountain defenses.
16—Italians lose two more bases in African
war.
18— Nazi troops mass at two Italian ports.
19— British close in on Bardia, Libya.
20— Nazis reported flying Italian soldiers to
Alhanla
DOMESTIC
V. S. PEACETIME CONSCRIPTION-
Sec. of War Henry L. Stimson draws the
capsule containing the first number (158) '
in the nation’s first peacetime military
conscription.
JANUARY
3— Third session of the 76th congress as
sembles. Message asks for additional
taxes to finance expenditures for na
tional defense.
Archbishop Samuel A. Stritch of Milwau
kee named archbishop of Chicago.
4— President sends eight and a half billion
budget to congress.
Attorney General Frank Murphy named
to Supreme court.
James Cromwell named minister to
Canada.
Robert H. Jackson named attorney gen
eral.
8— Third term not mentioned at Jackson
day dinner.
Clarence E. Gauss named first U. S.
minister to Australia.
9— Federal debt passes 42 billion mark;
nears limit.
12—House votes $264,611,252 for emergency
defense.
16—President sends proposal to congress for
financial assistance to Finland.
House committee trims 94 millions off
first appropriation bill.
Senate confirms Frank Murphy’s ap
pointment to the Supreme court.
18—American exporters lose market of $60,-
000,000 a year through British war ban
on tobacco.
22—Official Washington pays tribute to Sen
ator Borah at state funeral in the sen
ate chamber.
Earl Browder. Communist leader, sen
tenced to four years in prison and fined
§ 2,000 for passport fraud.
enate committee approves bill paving
way for $20,000,000 loan to Finland.
30—Witness tells of plot to link Dies with
Fascists with forged letters.
FEBRUARY
2—House passes farm bill slashed.
5—Chicago gets Democratic national con
vention.
7—Senate committee approves bill to per
mit additional loans to Finland and
China.
12—Supreme court decision adds to power
of labor board.
16—House approves $965,722,000 naval bill
after slashing 112 million.
23—House votes to extend President’s recip
rocal trade powers.
Britain and France announce plans to
buy billion dollars’ worth of planes in
u - s.
27— House committee rejects Roosevelt s
227 million dollar bid for locks in Pana
ma canal.
29—Movie academy awards go to Robert
Donat and Vivien Leigh.
MARCH
4—Byrd expedition funds cut out of house
appropriation bill.
6—British liner Queen Elizabeth, world’s
largest merchant ship, makes secret
voyage to New York.
Remington Arms Co. indicted; violation
of neutrality act charged.
11— John Monk Saunders,, screen writer,
hangs himself.
12— House approves 654 million dollar navy
> expansion.
15—Governor Rivers of Georgia arrested on
a contempt charge.
18—Britain to use two liners berthed at New
York as troops ships. ....
Senate passes Hatch clean politics bill.
21— Secretary Hull upbraids James H. R.
Cromwell, minister to Canada, for
speech at Toronto criticizing Germany
and lauding empire nations.
Senate adds 90 million more to farm
bill.
29— Washington officials deny German
charges that this natron helped bring on
European war.
APRIL
10— Neutrality proclamation issued by Pres
ident bars American ships from Norse
coast.
11— State'department arranges to evacuate
United States citizens from Scandinavia.
15— America releases fastest and most secret
planes to empires.
16— Navy chief asks congress to increase
fund for warships to 1 billion 10 million
dollars.
17— Secretary Hull warns world that Dutch
East Indies must not be overrun.
22— U. S. Supreme court kills state laws pro
hibiting picketing.
25—President puts neutrality law in effect
for Norway.
MAY
.3—House shelves bill to reform wage-hour
law.
8— House refuses Roosevelt’s plea for air
control shift.
9— Senate passes bill to end buying of for
eign silver.
14—Bill introduced In house to deport
Bridges.
Senate upholds President in transfer of
CAA.
16— President addresses joint session of con
gress; asks billion dollars and 50,000
planes as defense plan.
17— President pardons Dr. F. A. Cook, Arc
tic explorer.
22— Senate passes $1,823,252,724 army appro
priation bill.
23— Senate passes 1 billion 473 million navy
expansion bill.
28— President appoints Edward R. Stettinius
Jr., W. S. Knudsen, S. S. Hillman, Ches
ter C. Davis, Ralph Budd, Leon Hender
son, and Miss Harriet Elliott on defense
stair.
House passes bill to speed naval build
ing and expand air force.
30— President adds another billion dollars
to defense program.
JUNE
3— U. S. Supreme court upholds law forcing
school children to salute the flag.
Senate passes bill authorizing 11 per
cent increase in navy.
4— President presses Mussolini to stay out
of war.
Britain and France ship gold to America
for safety.
6— Allies to get U. S. army guns; 50 navy
planes on the way.
7— House votes sweeping reforms in NLRB
and its procedure.
10— Roosevelt assails Mussolini; promises
material aid to allies.
11— Senate approves sale of war machines
to allies.
House passes billion a year tax for de
fense program.
12— House votes additional 1 billion 706 mil
lion for defense. .
13— House passes bill ordering deportation
of Harry Bridges.
17— Treasury impounds French assets in
this country.
18— Secret release of 20 U. S. war craft to
Britain revealed.
19— U. S. calls conference of 21 nations to
map hemisphere policies.
20— Frank Knox and Henry L. Stimson, Re
publicans. enter Roosevelt’s war cabi
net.
National committee reads Knox and
Stimson out of G. O. P.
Senate passes excess profits corporation
tax.
22— Congress passes defense and tax bills;
tciKcs recess.
24— President calls off transfer of 20 motor
torpedo boats to Britain.
28— Ships barred from leaving U. S. without
authorization.
29— President signs bill requiring finger
printing of all aliens.
JULY
1— Roosevelt asks congress for "steep” tax
on excess profits.
2— Senator Burton K. Wheeler announces
his candidacy for the Democratic nom
ination for President.
8— Congressman James W. Martin of Mas
sachusetts chosen as chairman of the Re
publican national committee.
9— Senate confirms nomination of Henry L.
Stimson (Rep.) as secretary of war.
10— Roosevelt asks 5 billion more for de
fense.
House passes Hatch bill to clean up state
politics.
11— Senate passes Hatch clean politics bill.
Senate confirms nomination of Col.
Frank Knox (Rep.) to be secretary of
the navy.
20—President signs 4 billion navy bill.
23— Ex-Gov. Long of Louisiana and four in
dicted in payroll fraud.
25— Roosevelt halts export of oil and scrap
material.
26— Roosevelt renews demand for authority
to call the National Guard.
AUGUST
6— House approves wire-tapping to trap fifth
columnists.
7— House votes permission for American
ships to bring children from war zone.
Army arsenals ordered to use three daily
shifts.
8— Senate gives President power to call
National Guard.
Farley resigns as postmaster general.
10—Farley becomes sales executive for a
soft drink concern.
12—Russia demands America recall all its
Baltic envoys.
15— House passes bill for Guard call.
16— Army buys 56 bombers and orders huge
powder plant.
17— Wendell Willkie accepts the Republican
nomination for president before a vast
throng at Elwood, Ind.
18— Roosevelt announces pact with Canada
for a joint defense board.
20—Claude R. Wickard nominated to suc
ceed Wallace as secretary of agricul
ture.
23— President approves plans for transfer
of destroyers to Britain.
24— Harry Hopkins resigns as secretary of
commerce, Jesse Jones his successor.
Frank Walker named to succeed Farley
as postmaster general.
27— McNary formally accepts Republican
nomination for vice president.
28— Senate passes draft bill including con
scription of industry.
29— Henry Wallace formally accepts Demo
cratic nomination for vice president.
Senate votes 5 billions more for defense.
30— Army orders 687 planes; 20,000 engines.
SEPTEMBER
1—Roosevelt calls up 60,500 National Guard
for year service with U. S. army.
3— President announces exchange of 50 de
stroyers to Great Britain for air and
naval bases in British Western hemi
sphere possessions.
4— Secretary Hull renews warning to Japan
on Indo-China.
6— Congress passes S 1 /* billion defense bill.
7— House passes draft bill; sets ages at 21
to 45.
9— Navy orders 200 warships.
14—Conscription bill passes congress.
16—War department calls out 35.000 more
Guardsmen.
Sam Rayburn elected speaker of the
house to succeed Bankhead.
19— Senate passes excess profits bill.
House votes third of a billion to house
draft army.
20— Marc de Tristan, three-year-old son of
Count Marc de Tristan, kidnaped in
Hillsboro. Calif.; held for $100,000 ran
som.
21— Census bureau reports population of
U. S.. 131,409,881.
22— Two hunters capture kidnaper and res
cue Marc de Tristan in California hills.
26—Roosevelt bars export of scrap metal to
Japan.
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OCTOBER
1—Congress passes excess profits tax bill.
3—Congress passes IVa billion dollar war
spending bill.
5— Navy orders out 27,591 fleet and marine
reservists.
8— State department urges Americans to
leave the Orient because of Japanese
crisis.-
Senate passes bill to release large
amount of foreign funds.
12—President Clarence A. Dykstra of the
University of Wisconsin, granted leave
of absence to serve as director of the
draft.
14—Joseph H. Ball named to succeed Sena
tor Lundeen, deceased, as senator from
Minnesota.
16—More than 16 million registered for draft
in nation.
22—U. S. seizes 100 planes built for Sweden.
26— Hull warns axis to keep hands off col
onies.
27— Joseph B. Kennedy, ambassador to
Great Britain, returns and confers with
President.
29—Drawing for draft begins.
NOVEMBER
9— Forty-hour week abandoned on defense
Jobs.
14— Eight theological students in New York
sentenced to year in prison for draft
evasion.
15— Strike closes plane plant working on
military orders in California.
16— Navy announces it will accept 17-year-
old recruits.
18— Lewis resigns as chie£ of C. I. O.
19— House refuses to adjourn by vote of
191 to 148.
20— U. S. transfers giant bombers to Britain.
22— Senator Holt asks investigation of Brit
ish propaganda.
Phillip Murray succeeds John L. Lewis
as chief of the C. I. O.
23— Attorney General Jackson says evidence
shows that Reds caused plane plant
strike in California.
24— Investigation of food prices started.
26— Senate passes Walter-Logan bill to curb
* powers of government agencies.
27— Roosevelt sets aside 50 million dollars
to condition naval bases.
DECEMBER
1— Joseph P. Kennedy resigns as ambassa
dor. to Great Britain.
2— Walter-Logan bill passes house.
6— British and U. S. treasury heads con
fer on finances.
Strike closes 35 Pacific northwest lum
ber mills.
9—Treasury puts tax on newest issue of
notes.
10— British reject Hoover plan to feed Nazi-
conquered countries.
11— Lord Lothian, British ambassador to
U. S., asks for more help for Britain.
17— U. S. gets new request for aid to Britain.
18— President vetpes Walter-Logan bill.
20—Navy awards 50 millions in plant expan
sion contracts.
THIRD TERM TRADITION BROKEN
—First U. S. executive to be elected three
times, FDR is pictured here as he, Mrs.
Roosevelt with Vice President and Mrs.
Henry Wallace, arrived in Washington
shortly following the election.
JUNE
24—Republican national convention meets in
Philadelphia.
27— Wendell Willkie of New York named as
candidate for President.
28— Senator Charles L. McNary named for
vice president.
JULY
15—Democratic national convention meets
in Chicago.
17— President Roosevelt unanimously nom
inated for third term.
18— Henry A. Wallace named for vice pres
ident.
NOVEMBER
5—Roosevelt and Wallace carry 38 states
in national election, with a total of 449
electoral votes.
Willkie and McNary carry 10 states,
with 82 electoral votes.
DISASTERS
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MUNITION INDUSTRY BLASTS-
Several munition plants working on U. S.
defense orders were rocked by powder ex
plosions. Here is part of the splintered
wreckage after a blast at the Kenvil, N. ].,
plant of the Hercules Powder Co^ in
which 41 were killed.
JANUARY
3—Eighteen lives lost in Minneapolis apart
ment hotel fire.
10—91 lives lost in West Virginia mine ex
plosion.
23—Army bomber crashes in rainstorm; four
killed.
FEBRUARY
15— Wild blizzard grips East; 71 dead.
20— Fire sweeps circus in winter quarters at
Rochester. Ind. 100 animals perish.
31 ARCH
12—Tornado kills 13 in South; heavy loss.
16— 71 trapped in mine at St. Clairsville. O.
APRIL
19—30 dead, 100 Injured in train wreck at
Little Falls. N. Y.
21— Eleven killed when two cars hit head-on
in Minnesota.
23— Dance hall fire kills 247 Negroes in
Natchez, Miss.
29—Tornado in Illinois kills 16.
31 AY
24— Earthquakes kill 249 in Peru, 3,000 in
jured.
JUNE
17— Eleven army fliers killed when two army
bombers collide in New York.
JULY
2—Train hits auto in Chicago, six killed.
15—63 killed in coal mine blast at Sonman,
Pa.
31—41 die when railroad coach crashes
freight near Akron, Ohio.
AUGUST
12—Hurricane batters the coast of Geor
gia and South Carolina; 35 dead; dam
age in the millions.
48 Dead, hundreds injured in blast of
munitions plant at Kenvil. N. J.
14— Sixteen lives lost In floods in four
southern states.
15— Dr. Glenn Frank and son killed in auto
accident at Greenleaf, Wis.
23—Nine killed in crash and explosion of
army bomber near Denver.
31—Senator Lundeen of Minnesota and 24
others die in plane crash in Virginia
during a storm.
OCTOBER
12—Tom Mix of silent movie fame killed in
auto accident.
NOVE3IBER
4—Airliner hits mountain in Utah during
snowstorm; 10 killed.
7—Tacoma bridge, third largest in world,
collapses; no lives lost.
10— Earthquake in Rumania takes 1,000
lives.
11— Devastating windstorms sweep coun
try from the Dakotas to Ohio, 100
killed, damage in the millions.
12— 75 sailors lose their lives in storm on
Lake Michigan.
29—Mine explosion at Cadiz, Ohio, traps
31 miners.
DECE3IBER
4—Giant air transport crashes at Chicago
airport; 10 dead, 6 injured.
18—Crash of U. S. army bomber kills six.
SPORTS
REDS WIN WORLD SERIES—Base
ball’s major prize—the World Series cham
pionship—was taken by National League
Cincinnati Reds as they defeated the De
troit Tigers in a seven game series. Above
—jubilant Reds are pictured in clubhouse
after victory.
JANUARY
1—USC defeats Tennessee in Rose bowl
football game. 14 to 0.
11—Clark Shaughnessy appointed football
coach at Stanford for five years.
14—Landis frees 92 baseball players in $500,-
000 ruling.
24—Armstrong keeps welterweight title, stop
ping Montanez in ninth.
29—Jock Sutherland appointed coach of the
Brooklyn professional football team.
FEBRUARY
9—Joe Louis wins over Arturo Godoy in 15
rounds.
31 ARCH
4—Purdue wins Big Ten basketball title.
29—Joe Louis knocks out Paychek in second
round.
APRIL
6—Willie Hoppe wins three-cushion billiard
championship, winning all 20 games.
13—New York Rangers win Stanley cup in
hockey.
16—Baseball season opens; Bob Feller,
Cleveland, pitches no-hit game against
Chicago White Sox.
18—Kid McCoy, old-time boxer, commits
suicide.
31 AY
4— Gallahadion, 35 to 1, wins Kentucky
derby.
10—Lew Jenkins stops Ambers in third
round.
26—Craig Wood wins Metropolitan open with
264.
30—Wilbur Shaw wins 500-mile automobile
race at Indianapolis.
JUNE
5— Altus Allen knocked out Johnny Pay
chek in tenth round.
6— Buddy Baer knocks out Valentine Cam-
polo in first round.
9—Lawson Little beats Gene Sarazen in na
tional open golf playoff.
12—Dodgers get Joe Medwick and Curt Da
vis from Cardinals.
20—Joe Louis stops Godoy in eighth round.
30—Babe Didrickson Zaharias wins women’s
open golf title.
JULY
1—Jack Dempsey knocks out wrestler in
second round.
9—National league all-stars defeat Ameri
can league all-stars 4 to 0.
17—Armstrong stops Jenkins in sixth round.
AUGUST
6—Dr. Eddie Anderson elected head coach
of the All-American football team.
29—Green Bay Packers defeat College All-
Stars 45 to 28.
SEPTE3IBER
2—Byron Nelson,wins professional golf title.
6—Billy Conn knocks out Bob Pastor in
13 rounds.
14—Dick Chapman wins American amateur
golf title.
19— Cincinnati Reds clinch National league
pennant.
26— Max Baer stops Pat Comiskey in the
first round.
27— Detroit Tigers clinch pennant in Ameri
can baseball league.
OCTOBER
5— Fritzie Zivic wins welterweight boxing
crown from Armstrong.
6— Chicago White Sox win city baseball se
ries from Chicago Cubs.
8—Cincinnati wins world's series, defeating
Detroit 4 games in 7.
NOVE3IBER
13— Frank McCormick of Cincinnati voted
most valuable player in the National
league.
"Gabby” Hartnett let out as manager
of the Chicago Cubs.
14— James T. Gallagher named general
manager of the Chicago Cubs.
17—Jimmy Wilson appointed manager of the
Chicago Cubs.
DECE3IBER
8—Chicago Bears defeat Washington Red
skins for professional football champion
ship 73 to 0.
12—Three-cornered trade between Boston
Red Sox, Washington and Cleveland in
volves seven players.
16— Joe Louis wins over A1 McCoy on tech
nical knockout in sixth round.
17— Ohio State accepts resignation of Francis
Schmidt, football coach.
20— Captain Wood leaves Army coaching Job.
FOREIGN
PAN AMERICAN CONFERENCE—
General scene of assembled delegates from
21 American Republics participating, as
this important defense congress opened
in Havana, Cuba.
JANUARY
22—Japanese warn America against exert
ing pressure.
28—Japan tightens blockade on British-
French concessions at Tientsin.
31—China proposes that six-year-old boy be
named ruler of Tibet.
FEBRUARY
7—Japan prepares for "difficulties” in re
lations with United States.
11— Belfast police fight 2,000 I. R. A. rioters
two hours.
26—Welles hands Mussolini message from
Roosevelt.
28—Ancient Egyptian king’s tomb yields
vast riches.
MARCH
4—Germany stops deportation of Jews to
district in Poland.
13— Sir Michael O’Dwyer, British India lead
er, assassinated by native gunman.
19— French cabinet resigns in body.
20— Paul Reynaud seeks to form new cabi
net for France.
26—Russia recalls ambassador to Paris.
APRIL
10—Iceland takes control of own foreign
affairs.
19— Jugo-Slavia smashes Nazi plot to over
turn government.
3IAY
30—Rumania votes state control over aQ
businesses.
JUNE
22— Workers’ coup results in new govern
ment for Estonia.
JULY
9—Duke of Windsor appointed governor of
Bahamas.
14— Fulgencio Batista elected president of
Cuba.
23— Dr. Benes heads new Czech regime rec
ognized by British.
American republics approve program to
resist Nazi influence in Western hemi
sphere.
AUGUST
3—Japan protests U. S. ban on «viation oil.
6— Japanese arrest 7 members of Salvation
Army as spies.
7— Rumania passes severe new law against
Jews.
17— Duke of Windsor is sworn in as gover
nor of Bahamas.
20— Trotsky attacked by axman in home in
Mexico.
30—Rumania loses half of Transylvania to
Hungary.
SEPTE3IBER
3— Assassins attempt to kill King Carol in
plot to revolt.
4— King Carol yields power and picks "dic
tator.”
6—King Carol abdicates in favor of his son
Michael.
12— Mexico names Gen. Avila Camacho pres
ident-elect.
14—Rumania now a totalitarian state under
Iron Guard rule.
22—Japs invade Indo-China; fight French.
OCTOBER
10—Assassins slay Jap mayor of Shanghai.
American charge d’affaires at Berlin
ordered home.
NOVE3IBER
16—Survey plane hops to British Honduras
in 6 hours, 35 minutes.
30—Cuba captures seven Japs in fish boats
with maps of U. S. bases.
DECE3IBER
1—Gen. Manuel Avila Camacho sworn in
as president of Mexico, pledges to de
fend Americas.
18— Actual work started on Latin-America
air and naval bases.
20—Five thousand Cuban workers on naval
base go on strike.
NECROLOGY
IDAHO’S BORAH DIES-Brilliantly
uniformed pallbearers carry the body of
Senator William E. Borah from the Idaho
state capitol at Boise, to his last resting
place.
JANUARY
8—Rufus C. Dawes, president of Chicago’s
Century of Progress.
19— Senator William E. Borah of Idaho.
FEBRUARY
4—Samuel H. Vauclain, locomotive builder.
11— Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan), gov
ernor-general of Canada.
26—George M. Reynolds, retired Chicago
banker.
31 ARCH
4— Dr. Karl Muck, famous Wagnerian mu
sician.
Hamlin Garland, author.
6— Maxine Elliott, famed actress.
7— Edwin Markham, author of “The Man
With the Hoe.”
15—Samuel Untermyer, lawyer.
APRIL
1— William Horlick Jr., malted milk mil
lionaire.
10—Mrs. Patrick Campbell, actress.
20— Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Sr.
21— Walter Kohler, former governor of Wis
consin.
28— Mme. Tetrazzini, famous soprana.
31 AY
2— George Craig Stewart. Episcopal bishop
of Chicago.
13— Emma Goldman, exiled radical leader.
JUNE
8— Hugh Rodman, admiral U. S. navy, re
tired.
22— Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, former U. S.
Marine chief.
30—John E. Andrew, national commander
of G. A. R.
JULY
1— Ben Turpin, crosseyed comediML
14— Robert Wadlow, 22-year-old Alton TttL),
giant.
AUGUST
5— Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who claimed dls- •-
covery of North pole.
6— Talbot Mundy, author.
18— Walter P. Chrysler Jr., motor car man
ufacturer.
21— Leon Trotsky, exiled Bolshevist leader,
in Mexico, murdered.
22— Sir Oliver Lodge. English scientist and
sniritualist.
26—Duke of Guise, pretender to the French
throne.
SEPTE3IBER
2— David F. Houston, former secretary of
agriculture.
Gatti-Casazza. grand opera impresario.
14—William B. Bankhead, speaker of the
house of representatives.
29— Courtney Ryley Cooper, writer (suicide),
OCTOBER
6—Henry Horner, governor of Illinois.
9— Sir Wilfred Grenfell, good Samaritan of
Labrador.
12— W. H. Dietrich, former senator from Illi
nois.
23— George B. Cortelyou, financier and for
mer cabinet member.
NOVEMBER
10—Neville Chamberlain, former prime min
ister of Great Britain.
Sen. Key Pittman of Nevada.
24— Viscount Craigavon, prime minister of
Northern Ireland.
Prince Salonji, last of Japanese elder
statesmen.
26—Lord Rothermere. British Journalist.
DECE3IBER
5—Jan Kubelik, violinist
12—Lord Lothian. British ambassador to
U. S.
19— Kyosti Kallio, foremost Finnish states
man.
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