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FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1936
Chronology
Cof the Year
1935 _
Compiled by E. W. PICKARD
FOREIGN
Jnn. I—Russia1 —Russia discarded ihe bread
card system, In operation six years
Jun. 3—Bolivia's general army mobil
I rat ion went into effect.
Jnn. 21—Nomnd tribesmen massacred
107 persons in Africa.
Jan. 28—King iloris of Bulgaria oust
ed Fascist cabinet.
Feb. 6—Byrd expedition sailed foi
New Zealand after 17 months In Ant
arctic.
Feb. o—Germany planned army of
<OO,OOO, with militia running Into mil
lions.
Feb. 28—Saarlanders staged wild cel
ebration hailing return of territory to
Germany.
March 2 Revolution broke out In
Greece.
King Prajadhlpok of Slam abdicated
and retired to pilvato life in Kngland.
March I>—Greek troops defeat rebels
In Macedonia.
Prince Ananda, eleven years old
■anted king of Siam.
March 12 —Greek rebellion ended
when V'eniselos fled.
March 16—Hitler decreed conscript
•rmy of 540,000.
March 26 —France prohibited export
of raw materials necessary for war.
April 3—Austrian cabinet decided to
increase army over strength allowed by
treaty of h’t. Gerinain.
April 7—Nazis failed to win full con
trol of Free City of Danzig.
April 17—King Boris of Bulgaria
foiled a Fascist plot to overthrow him
April 23—Dictator Chiang Kai-shek
ordered all Chinese high school and
coll-go students to undergo a years
military training.
April 26 - Germany began building
submarines, In defiance of peace treaty.
May s—Kleutherios Venizelos sen
tenced to death for part in Greek re
volt.
May 6—Celebration of silver Jubilee
of King George of Great Britain began.
May 11—Thirty-three Greek naval of
ficers condemned to death for part In !
revolt.
May 11—Swiss court found "Protocols I
of Zion" were false and obvious plagi- J
arism.
Filipino plebiscite ratified proposed
constitution.
May 18 —Kmperor Halle Selassie of
Ethiopia ordered freedom for all serfs.
May 24—Grown Prince Frederik of
Denmark and Princess Ingrid of Sweden
married.
May 30—Premier Flandln of France,
defeated lev chamber of deputies in
financial crisis, resigned with his cabl
net.
May 31—Bouisson formed new French
cabinet.
Juno 4—French cabinet ousted by
chamber of deputter.
June 6 —Pierre Laval formed new
French government.
June 7--Stanley Baldwin succeeded
Itamsny .MacDonald as prime ministei
of Great Britain.
June 15— Italy called all silver money
from circulation.
Mexican cabinet forced out . govern
ment rushed troops to capital.
July 6—Former King George of
Greece divorced by ex-Queen Klizahelh.
July 10—Austrian diet revoked ban
ishment of Hapsburgaand restored their
properties.
July 22—German government put ban
on all religious youth organizations,
Aug. 2—Law for new government of
India enacted b> British parliament.
Aug 7—Revolutionary plot in Siam
foiled.
Aug. 16—Revolt against King Zog of
Albania crushed.
Aug. 21-—Ecuador army officers n.r
rested President Ibarra for trying to
wet up a dictatorship and installed An
tonio Pons as his successor.
Aug. 29—Queen Astrld of Belgium
killed In automobile accident-
Engagement announced of Duke of
Gloucester, third son of king and queen
f England, to Lady Alice Montagu-
Douglas-Scott.
Sept. I—Mexican1 —Mexican women workers giv
en the franchise.
i Sept. 3—Dr. Chaim Wclzman elected
president of World Zionist organization.
Sept. 15—German relehstag passed
laws making the swastika tho national
and trade (lag; forbidding marriages
of Jews to Aryans, and setting up three
classes of German citizenship, exclud
ing Jews.
Sept. 17—Manuel Quezon elected to be
first president of Philippines republic.
4 Sept. 26—Federico Pnez became mili
tary dictator of Ecuador.
Oct. 10—Greek republic upset by mili
tary coup; restoration of monarchy de
creed by national assembly.
Oct. 14—Premier R. B. Bennett of
Canada and Conservative parly de
feated In parliamentary elections by
Liberals led by Mackenzie King.
Oet. 23—Liberal government headed
>y Mackenzie King installed In Canada.
I' Oct. 29—Mu*solini decreed war lime
diet for Italy.
Nov. 3—Greece voted for recall of
Klpg George 11.
Nov. B—Chancellor8 —Chancellor Hitler of Germany
dissolved the Steel Helmets, war vet
erans' association.
Nov. 10—King George II accepted
call to Greek throne.
Nov. 13 —Serious Egyptian riots
• gainst British domination.
Nov. 14—British Conservatives and
Prime Minister Baldwin won parlia
mentary elections.
Nov. 15 —Commonwealth of the Phil
ippines established and Manuel Quezon
Inaugurated as president.
- Nov. 24 —Yin Ju-keng proclaimed
autonomy for 25 counties In eastera
Hopei province of China.
Military revolt broke out in north
eastern Brazil.
Nov. 25 —King George 11 returned te
the throne of Greece
Nov. 28 —Hitler started new "purge,'
arresting hundreds. . , , ,
Revolt in Brazil crushed. 138 being
killed.
Dec I—Great1 —Great Britain ordered naval
reservist officers to repott for duty.
Hans Kerri, German church dictator,
decreed censorship for pastoral letters.
Ilec. s—Church of England commis
sion rejected claim of women to enter
priesthood.
|y ec c—French chamber of deputies
dissolved all semi-military organiza
tions.
Chiang Kai-shek became premier of
China. , .
Dec 7 —Hopei and Chahar provinces,
northern China, set up autonomous le
gtmt
Dec. 10—London silver market col
lapsed.
De<-. 11—Carlos Mcndlcta resigned as
president of Cuba.
Dec. 12 —King Fuad decreed restora
tion of constitutional government In
Egypt Great Britain consenting.
Ijcc. 14 —President Mazar.vk of Czecho
slovakia resigned.
I> C e ig—Eduard Penes elected presi
dent of Czechoslovakia.
North China autonomy council in
stalled.
INTERNATIONAL
Jan 4—Foreign Minister Laval of
Frame and Premier Mussolini of Italy
began peace pact conference in Rome.
Jan 6 —Mussolini and Laval reached
full agreement ou all points in dispute
between Italy and France.
Jan. 12—The Saar voted to rejoin
<lermany.
Jan 17 —League set March ’. as date
for return of the Saar to Germany.
Keb IS—Ethiopia defied Italy's de
mand for -satisfactory amends tri Afri
can border row. „ _ ,
March 11—Russia decided to sell Cbj
■eso Eastern railway to llauehukuo.
"March is— Germany's status ,- s an
aual power accepted by Great Britain,
France appealed t l.oinu
t Notions l*> deal with Germany s
scrapping of the VersaiUo* treaty.
U arch 21— Germany deflrd Krauce
Italy, rejecting protests.
March 26—Japan’s resignation from
league became effective.
March 30—Ethiopia broke off negoti
ations with Italy.
April 11 —England, France and Italy,
at Stiesa, agreed on peace plan for
Europe and denounced Germany as
treaty violator.
April 17—League of Nations council
adopted resolution censuring Germany
for treaty violation.
April 20—Chancellor Hitler. In note
to 12 nations, rejected league councils
resolution condemning Germany.
May 2—France and Itursia signed
mutual assistance agreement.
May 19—Pope Pius canonized Tlmmas
More and Bishop John Fisher, who
were executed by Henry VIII.
May 20—League of Nations council
took up Ethiopia's protest against
Italian warlike action.
May 31—Japan delivered ultimatum to
China and prepared to occupy Peiping
and Tientsin.
June 7—Bolivia and Paraguay ac
cepted basis of settlement of Gran
Chaco war.
June 9-—Chinese Iroops and official*
left Pciping nnd Tientsin as Chinese
government rejected new Tokyo de
mands. , .
June 14—War In Gran Chaco ended
by truce.
June JB—Great Britain nnd Germany
concluded naval agreement, disregard
ing France.
June 23—Fnlted States embassy in
Mexico City bombed.
July 4—Ethiopia appealed to the
United States to persuade Italy to cease
warlike preparations.
July s—united5 —united States sidestepped
Ethiopia's appeal.
July )o—Ethiopia appealed to the
world for fair play In contest with
Italy, and demanded early action by
League of Nations.
July 13—United States and Russia
concluded a trade agreement.
July 28 —Forty Italians twenty Ethi
opians killed in border clash.
Aug. 3—League of Nations council
delayed for one month settlement of
Itaio-Ethiopian quarrel.
Aug. 25—United States demanded
Russia slop subversive plotting In So
viet territory.
Mussolini warned League of Nations
Italy would tight any nation taking
sanctions against her.
Aug. 27 Russia formally rejected the
American protest against Communist
activities.
Aug. 28—French cabinet voted to op
pose sanctions against Italy.
Italian cabinet formally approved
Mussolini's war preparations.
Aug. 30—Emperor Haile Selassie
granted \ast development concession in
Ethiopia to an American corporation.
Second American protest note sent to
Russia on Communist plots.
Sept. 3—Ethiopian development con
cession cancelled by the American own
ers on request of American government.
Sept. 4—League of Nations council
met in Geneva anil received Italy s
statement against Ethiopia and the
latter country's reply.
Sept. 6—League council committee of
five nations named to handle Itaio-
Ethiopian embroglio, Mussolini assent
ing.
Sept. 7 Germany entered formal pro
lost against attack on Nazi regime by a
New York Judge.
Sept. 9—League of Nations assembly
met In Geneva.
Frank lb Kellogg resigned from
World court.
Sept. 11—Sir Samuel Iloarc, British
foreign secretary, told League of Na
lioiis assembly Britain would isloate
herself from continent unless all mem
bers of league consented to take sanc
tions against an aggressor.
Sept. 12—Secretary of State Hull
asked Italy and Ethiopia to keep their
obligations under the Kellogg pact.
Sept. 14 —Italian cabinet refused com
promise on Ethiopian question.
Sent. 19 —Jews appealed to League of
Nations to stop "persecution’’ In Ger
mn ny.
Sept. 21—Italy rejected peace plan of
league committee.
Sept. 24—League committee of five
abandoned peace efforts.
Sept. 20 League of Nations council
acted to enforce peace but gave Italy
tin days lo agree to conciliation.
S pt. 29—Great Britain promised to
support collective action against any
aggressors.
Oct. 2 -Emperor Haile Selassie In- 1
formed League of Nations Italians had
invaded Ethiopia from Eritrea. General
mobilization of all Fascists in Italy. j
Oct. 3—ltalian planes nnd artillery
bombarded Aduwa, Aillgrat and Harrar, 1
killing and wounding hundreds. Gen- !
oral mobilization ordered by Emperor
Haile Selassie.
Oct. 4—ltalians Invaded southern
Ethiopia, and captured Adlgrut in the
north.
Oct. 6 Italians captured Aduwa;
2,Out) Ethiopians killed.
Oct. 7—League of Nations council
found Italy's invasion of Ethiopia "an
act of war against oil other members of
tho league."
Oet. 9 -Austria and Hungary refused
to Join in League of Nations sanctions
against Duly.
Oct. 10 —League assembly declared
Italy .outlawed.
Oet. it —League voted embargo on
arms and munitions for Italy and raised
embargo on arms for Ethiopia.
Oct. 14—League of Nations banned
foreign loans to Daly.
Oct. 19—Fifty-two members of League
of Nations declared a boycott on Ital
ian goods and an embargo on key ex
ports.
Oct. 21—Germany formally ended
membership in League of Nations.
Nov. I—League of Nations ordered
sanctions against Italy into effect No
vember 18.
Paraguay gave notice of withdrawal
from League of Nations.
Nov. B—ltalians8 —Italians occupied Maknle and
Gorahal, Ethiopia.
Nov. ll—Mussolini formally protest
ed against sanctions.
Nov. 17 —United Ktates-Canadiun trade
treaty made public.
Nov. 18 —Sanctions against Italy by
52 nations went Into effect.
Gen. I'ietro Badogllo succeeded Gen.
Emilio de Bono as commander In chief
of Italian armies In Ethiopia.
Nov 20—Dope Pius named twenty
new cardinals.
Nov. 25—League of Nations postponed
embargo on oil against Italy.
Nov. 27 —Japan seized control of north
China railways nnd sent large bodies
of troops to the Tientsin area.
Dec. 2 —Hritlsh cabinet derided to
support oil embargo against Italy; anti
aircraft defenses of London ordered
strengthened.
Dee. s—American.5 —American. Irish and Canadian
delegates met In Washington to plan
trans-AUatulc air service.
lice. 6—ltalian planes bombed im
pel ial palace. American hospital and
Bed Cross tents In Desayc, Ethiopia.
Emperor Halle Seiassio formally pro
tested to League of Nations.
Dee. B—Great Britain and Franc*
agreed on last peace offer to Italy.
Dec. 9—lnternational naval confer
ence opened in London.
Dee. 11—Ethiopia rejected Franco-
British peace plan.
Deo. 12—Japan's demand for naval
parity injected by other powers in Lon
don parley.
Dec. 18 —Sir Samuel Hoar- resigned
ms British foreign secretary because of
opposition lo Franco-Britlsh peace plan.
Italians defeated Ethiopians in big
battle south of Makale.
United States and Honduras conclud
ed reciprocity trade agreement.
Dee. 19 -League of Nations council
discard,-1 Fratno-Brltish peace plan.
Outer Mongolia invaded by Japanese
ami M.inehukuan troops.
DOMESTIC
Jan. 1 Rhode Island Democrats by a
coup seized the senate and ousted the
Supreme court.
Jan. 2- Trial of Hauptmann for kid
naping and murdering the Lindbergh
baby opened in Pleiningtun, N. J.
Jan. 3 —Seventy-fourth congress met
and organized; U) ins elected speaker
of house.
J in. 4—President Roosevelt In annual
message ptoposed great work relief
program to supersede the direct dole
Jan. 7—President Roosevelt present
ed to congress a budget for the fiscal
'Cur 1926 calling for expenditures o!
*5.50ft,00#.060.
United States Supreme court held
unconstitutional petroleum control pro
visions of the National Industrial ite
eo rory act.
Jan, 9 —Arbitration commission or
dered United States to apologise to
Canadian government and pay 160.(66
for sinking or the rum running sckMfttr
l’*> Alone.
THE JACKSON PROGESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Jnn. 10—Mary Piekford granted di
vorce from Douglas Fairbanks.
Jan. ll House passed *770.000,000 in
dependent offices bill.
Jnn. 16—President sent message urg
ing senate lo approve United States
enipy into World court.
Jan. 17 —President's message outlined
"so, lal safety" plan and old-age pen
-BionH.
Jail. IS—Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dali
and John Bocttiger married in New
York.
Jan 21—Bill In house giving Roose
velt power over spending of four bil
lions for public works and eight hun
dred in i 111 >* 11 for relief.
Jan. 24 House passed four billion
eight hundred million relief and works
bill.
Jan. 25 - House voted power to Roose
velt io borrow *11,500,000.91)0 to pay
New Deal cost.
Jan. 26—Uprising in Louisiana put
down by Huey Long's troops.
Jan. 29—Senate rejected World court
adherence resolution.
House passed bill lo extend RFC for
another two years.
Jan. 30—Senate passed bill to In
crease borrowing power of Niw Deal
by *11,500,00,000.
■fan. 31 —Roosevelt extended auto
code to June 16.
Feb. 2 —North Dakota Supreme court
ousted Moodie as governor.
Feb. s—House voted down Inquiry
into postmaster General Garley's gifts
of stamps to friends.
Fib. 6—Extension of NRA two years,
tightening of hour and wage provisions,
and retention of present staff asked by
President Roosevelt.
Feb. B—Rear Admiral Cary T. Gray
son named chairman of Red Cross.
Feb. 13—Bruno Richard Hauptmann
found guilty of murdering Lindbergh
baby; sentenced to death.
Congress voted to end federal pay
cuts.
Feb. 14—Robert E. Wood, Chicago,
named to head advisory committee on
*4.880,000,000 work reief plan.
Feb. 16 —Thirty-one convicts shot way
out of Oklahoma reformatory; guard
killed, eight prisoners wounded.
Feb. IS—Administration won in Su
preme court gold clause decisions by
5 to 4 vote.
Feb. 22—House passed largest peace
time army bill, appropriating *378,000,-
000.
Feb. 28—Federal judge holds section
7-A of NRA unconstitutional In its ap
plication lo Weirton Steel company.
Federal judge granted 35 Kentucky
coal operators injunctions preventing
United States from enforcing code.
March 3—President asked congress
for outright subsidy to merchant ma
rine to replace present mail contract
ami building loan system.
March 5—S. Clay Williams resigned
as head of NRA board.
March 10—Government moved to re
place all national bank currency with
money based on gold taken by treasury.
March 11—House repealed pink slip
income tax publicity feature.
Samuel Insull acquitted of embezzle
ment charge.
March 14—J. Crawford Biggs, solic
itor general, resigned.
March 21—House accepted Patman
currency inflation plan to pay sol
diers’ bonus.
March 23—Senate passed works relief
measure.
March 24—President gave his ap
proval to proposed constitution for
Philippines.
March 26—President left on fishing
trip off the Bahamas.
Senate passed *905,000,000 treasury
bill.
March 27—House voted *38,000,000 to
strengthen navy shore bases.
Mareli 28—Senate voted for repeal of
income tax publicity feature.
March 30—Coal miners and operators
agreed to continue wage scale until
June 16.
April I—United States Supreme court
again reversed conviction and death
sentence of two negroes in famous
Scottsboro case.
Five per cent pay raise for railway
workers went into effect.
April s—Conference report on work
relief Dili accepted by senate and house.
April B—President Roosevelt ended
his fishing trip and signed the work
relief bill.
April 9—House passed McSwain war
profits hill.
Senate passed the navy public works
bill carrying *38,000,000.
April 19—House passed administra
tion's social security bill.
April 23—Frank Walker named di
rector of National Emergency council
nnd chief adviser in work relief ex
penditures.
Toledo branch of Chevrolet Motor
company closed by strike.
April 2 I—President announced crea
tion of three new agencies for work
relief program, and named eight classes
of projects.
April 25—Secretary Tckes named head
of works allotment division.
April 26—Harry Hopkins made head
of works progress division.
April 29 —Supreme court ruled in fa
vor of Arizona in Parker dam ease.
April 30—Toledo motor workers'
strike spread to Cleveland and Cin
cinnati.
May 2 —United States Chamber of
Commerce adopted resolutions opposing
legislation asked by the administra
tion.
May 3—Leland Harrison appointed
minister to Kumanln.
May 6—Supreme court declared rail
way pension aet unconstitutional.
May 7—Senate passed the Patman
bonus bill.
Conviction of Ex-Gov. William Langer
of North Dakota and four others for
conspiracy to misuse federal relief funds
reversed by Federal Court of Appeals.
May 9—House passed the omnibus
banking bill.
May 11—President Roosevelt estab
lished rural electrification division,
headed by Morris L. Cooke.
Dennis Chavez appointed senator from
New Mexico.
May 13—Toledo auto strikers accept
ed compromise settlement.
May 14—Senate passed bill extending
NRA until April 1, 1936.
Long's resolution for investigation of
Farley rejected by senate.
May 15—Representative Michael L.
Igoe appointed United States district
attorney at Chicago.
May 16 —Senate passed the Wagner
labor relations bill.
Mav 18 —Audit by Comptroller Gen
eral McCarl disclosed great waste in
TVA.
May 20—President fixed wages and
hours for work relief program.
Norman Armour appointed American
minister to Canada.
May 22—President Roosevelt, appear
ing personally before Joint session of
congress, vetoed the Patman bonus
measure. The house immediately re
passed it.
May 23 —Senate sustained President's
veto of bonus act.
May 24 —Senate passed *460.000,000
navy appropriation bill.
May 27 —United States Supreme court
unanimously ruled the code structure
and wage and labor hours provisions of
NRA were unconstitutional.
Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage mora
torium act held invalid by Supreme
court.
President Roosevelt's removal of the
late William E. Humphrey as trade
commissioner declared invalid by Su
preme court.
May 2S —Senate passed Copeland food,
drug and cosmetic bill.
May 29 —California Pacific exposition
at San Diego opened.
May Sl President Roosevelt sug
gested revision of Constitution to give
economic control to federal govern
ment.
June l —Young George Weyerhaeuser,
k dnaped from Tacoma, freed on pay
ment or *200,000 ransom.
June 7 —House passed bill extending
skeletonized NBA until April 1. 1956.
June 9 —H. M Waley and wife were
arrested in Sail Igike City fnr Weyer
haeuser kidnaping and confessed.
Juno 10 —Republicans of ten mid-west
stales opened "crass roots" conference
in Springfield, condemning the New
Deal-
June 11—Senate passed the public
utility bill.
June t*—President Roosevelt present
ed diplomas to 276 West .Point gradu
ates. , , . ,
June 13—Senate passed resolution ex
tending skeletonized NRA to April 1.
June It —Secretary of War Dem vin
dicated General Foulois of air mail
charges. „
June IS—Presitlen. Roosevelt named
new NRA board with Janies L. ©Neill
aa administrator. , _ .
June IT —Hoses extended "nuts****”
taxes two years
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June 18—House passed AAA amend
ments asked by administration.
June 19—President told to congress
his plan to break up great fortunes and
redistribute wealth through taxes.
Senate passed the social security bill.
House passed the Wagner-Connery la
bor disputes bill.
Senator Oouzens gave federal govern
ment $550,000 for industrial workers
home colony in Detroit area.
June 25—Gen. Hugh Johnson made
works relief director for New York.
June 26—President set aside *50,000,-
000 from works fund to provide jobs
for youth of nation.
July I—President handed *91.000,000
to Itexford Guy Tug well for rural reset
tlement work.
July 2—House passed utilities bill
without "death sentence" clause, and
then ordered investigation of lobbying
for and against the measure.
July 16— AAA processing tax de
clared unconstitutional by Federal Ap
peals court in Boston.
July 22—General strike at Terre
Haute shut off all food supplies; Na
tional Guard called out.
July 23—Senate passed AAA amend
ments bill.
President Roosevelt named L. W.
Cramer to succeed Paul Pearson as gov
ernor of Virgin islands.
Terre Haute general strike called off
by unions.
July 24—House passed liquor con
trol bill.
July 26—Senate passed bank bill as
drafted by Glass.
James O'Neill resigned as head of
NRA, effective August 1.
July 31—Congress passed bill restor
ing *46,000,000 in Spanish war veterans’
pensions.
Aug. 6 —New tax bill passed by
house.
Aug. 6—Rhode Island Republicans
elected Charles F. Risk as congressman,
defeating the New Deal candidate.
Aug. B—Maj.B—Maj. Gen. B. D. Foulois, head
of army air corps, voluntarily retired.
Aug. 9 —Enactment of social security
law completed.
Aug. 15—Senate passed new tax bill.
House cleared Federal Judge Alschu
ler of Illinois of misconduct charges.
Aug. 19—Senate passed farm mora
torium and railway pension bills and
adopted conference report on banking
bill.
House passed Guffey coal 'bill, rail
way pension bill and conference reports
on banking and rivers and harbors
bills.
Aug. 21—Congress enlarged powers
of TVA; senate passed neutrality res
olution concerning Itaio-Ethiopian
quarrel.
Aug. 22—House accepted compro
mise “death sentence" in utilities bill.
Guffgy coal bill passed by senate.
House passed resolution for manda
tory embargo on arms shipments to
nations at war.
Aug. 23—John G. Winant appointed
chairman of labor relations board.
Aug. 24—Senate accepted conference
reports on utilities, new tax and alcohol
control bills; and approved compromise
neutrality resolution.
Texas voted for prohibition repeal and
local option.
Aug. 26 —Congress adjourned; third
deficiency appropriation bill killed by
Senator Long's filibuster.
Aug. 28—James A. Moffet resigned as
federal housing administrator.
Body of John Hamilton, last of
Dillingcr gang, found near Ottawa. 111.
Sept. s—President ordered inquiry
into deaths of hundreds of war vet
erans in Florida hurricane.
Sept. 6—Stewart McDonald appointed
federal housing administrator.
Sept. B—Senator Huey P. Long of
Louisiana shot and critically wounded
in Baton Rouge; assassin killed by
Long's bodyguard.
Sept. 9—National encampment of G.
A. R. opened in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Sept. 10—Senator Long died.
Sept. 12—Oley Nelson of Slater. lowa,
elected commander in chief of G. A. It.
Sept. 16 —Franklin C. Hoyt appointed
federal alcohol administrator.
Sept. 17—Voters of Pennsylvania and
Ne"w Mexico rejected changes in state
constitutions.
Sept. 23 —President Roosevelt allo
cated *800,000,000 more to WPA.
American Legion convention opened
in St. Louis, Mo.
James M. Landis was appointed chair
man of the SEC.
Soft coal miners began strike.
Sept. 26 —President Roosevelt started
on trip to Pacific coast.
Strike of solt coal miners won by
the union.
Ray Murphy of Ida Grove. lowa,
elected commander of American Legion.
Sept. 29—New budget announced, re
ducing deficit by more than a billion
and a quarter.
Sept. 30 —'Van Swearingen brothers
regained control of their railway em
pire.
Oct. 2—President Roosevelt sailed on
Cruiser Houston from San Diego.
Maj. Gen. Malin Craig appointed
chief of staff of army.
Oct. 9—New Jersey Court of Errors
and Appeals upheld death sentence for
Bruno Hauptmann for murdering the
Lindbergh baby.
Oct. 16 —President Roosevelt In Pan
ama.
Oct. 17—Vice President Garner and
big congressional delegation sailed for
Philippines.
Oct. IS —William Green re-elected
president of American Federation of
Labor.
Oet. 23—President Roosevelt landed
at Charleston, S. C.
Oct 26—Farmers voted by big ma
jority for letention of corn-hog pro
gram.
Oci. 27—United States Supreme court
opened fall session in its new home.
Nov. 4 —Eastern standard time for
Chicago adopted by council.
Nov. s—Republicans gained control
of New York legislature and elected
mayors of Philadelphia and Cleveland.
A. B. Chandler, Democrat, elected gov
ernor of Kentucky.
Nov. 11—J. N. Darling, chief of the
biological survey, resigned.
Nov. 17—President Roosevelt refused
to interfere in Mexico’s church affairs.
Bar association upheld Liberty league
lawyers' offer of legal aid.
Nov. 20—President Roosevelt went to
Warm Springs, Ga.
Nov 22 —United States shipping board
warned American shippers against
shipping war material to Italy and
Ethiopia.
Nov. 23 —John L. Lewis resigned as
vice president of A. F. of L.
Nov. 24 —Supreme court granted tem
porary injunction against AAA process
ing taxes on rice.
Nov. 30 —Federal relief ended with
3 500,000 shifted from FERA rolls to
WPA pay rolls. _
Dec. 2—George N. Peek resigned as
president of export bank.
Secretary Wallace announced new
corn-hog program.
Dec. s—Congresss—Congress of American Indus
try and National Association of Manu
facturers adopted platform for defeat
of New Deal and return to "American
system." .. ....
Dec. *—Senator Norris of Nebraska
declared he was not a candidate for
re-election.
Dec. S —Lawyers committee of Amer
ican Liberty league declared Guffey
coal act unconstitutional.
Dec. 9 —President Roosevelt addressed
the American Farm Bureau convention
in Chicago, defending the AAA. and re
ceived honorary degree from Notre
Dame in South Bend, lnd.
Supreme court refused to review the
conviction of Bruno Hauptmann for kid
naping und murdering the Lindbergh
baby.
Dec. 13—Hauptmann sentenced to die
in week of Jan. 13.
Dec. 15 —Gov. Talmadge of Georgia
announced his candidacy for Democratic
Presidential nomination.
Dec. 18 —Republican national commit
tee selected Cleveland for convention
city.
Dec. 18—Frank C Walker resigned
as NEC head.
AERO
Jan. 12 —Amelia Earhart made solo
Right Honolulu to California in IS hours
1* minutes.
Jan. 15 —"Jimmy" Doolittle flew trans
port plane across United States in 11
hours 6* minutes.
Feb. 21—Leland S. Andrews broke
Doolittle's transcontinental speed record
by 38 minutes.
March 17— Pan American Airways
Clipper Pioneer flew from Alameda.
Calif-, to Honolulu.
March *6—Robot-piloted TWA plane
tew from coast to ceut In it hours
i mlnatea.
Kjr te-Aaalis Bar hart made in-
stop flight from Mexico City to New
ark, N J
June 12 —Pan-American Airways Clip
per plane started from Alameda, Calif.,
for Midway islands.
June 13—Clipper plane reached Hon
olulu.
June 15—Pan-American Clipper plane
reached Midway islands.
July 12—Stratosphere balloon blew
up while being inflated at Rapid City.
S. D.
Aug. 15 —Will Rogers, comedian, nnd
Wiley Post, famous aviator, killed in
plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska.
Aug. 30—Benny Howard won Bendix
air race, Los Angeles to Cleveland.
Sept. 2—Harold Neuman of Moline.
111., won Thompson trophy race at
Cleveland.
Sept. 12—Laura Ingalls set new wom
en's record for west to east transcon
tinental flight, 13 hours 34 minutes 5
seconds.
Sept. 13—Howard Hughes made new
land plane speed record. 353 miles an
hour.
Sept. 21—Lieut. Felix Waitkus start
ed non-stop solo flight from New York
to Kaunas. Lithuania.
Sept. 22—Waitkus made forced land
ing at Ballinrobe, Ireland, unhurt.
Nov. B—Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith,
Australian aviator, lost in Buy of Ben
gal.
Nov. 11—Capts. A. W. Stevens and
O. A. Anderson of the armv reached
record altitude of 74,000 feet in strato
spheie balloon.
Nov. 13—Jean Batten of New Zea
land made solo flight across the south
ern Atlantic.
Nov. 22—Pan-American line’s China
Clipper left Alameda, Calif., for Manila
with first trans-Pacifie air mail.
Nov. 25—Lincoln Ellsworth disap
peared on flight over Antarctic conti
nent.
Nov. 29—China Clipper arrived at
Manila.
Dec. 6—China Clipper completed round
trip to Manila.
DISASTERS
Jan. 21—Eleven miners died in coal
mine blast in Pennsylvania.
Jan. 24—Liner Mohawk sank after
collision with freighter off New Jersey
-117 rescued, 46 lost.
Jan. 26—Toil of dead in southern
flood reached 27.
Feb. 9 —Twelve dead, 70 hurt in Texas
tornado.
Feb. 12—Giant airship Macon fell into
sea off California coast; 81 of S3 aboard
rescued.
Feb. 23—Atlantic seaboard storms
killed ten.
March 12—Floods in lower Mississippi
valley drove thousands from homes.
April I—Tornadoes in southern states
killed 33 and injured hundreds.
April B—TwentyB —Twenty persons died in Cali
fornia floods.
April 11—Fourteen school children
killed when train hit bus at Rockville.
Md.
April Si—Earthquake in Formosa
killed 3,050, injured 12,000.
April 23—Hundreds killed by earth
quakes in Persia.
April 25—Oregon state capitol at
Salem burned.
May 2 —Earthquakes in Turkey killed
500.
May 6—Full of transport plane in
Missouri killed Senator Cutting of New
Mexico and four others.
May 13—Four hundred Chinese miners
drowned in flooded shaft.
May 18—Russia's giant plane, the
Maxim Gorky, crashed in collision, 49
being killed.
Tornadoes and floods in Texas and
Oklahoma "dust bowl" killed a score.
May 30—Floods in Colorado, Nebraska
and Wyoming took more than ISO lives.
May 31 —Earthquake in northwest In
dia killed about 60,000.
June 13—Munitions plant at Iteins
dorf, Germany, blew up; scores killed
and hundreds injured.
June 15—Train collision in England i
killed 30.
June 24—Fourteen killed by airplane
collision in Colombia.'
July 2—Japanese vessels collided in
inland sea; 104 lives lost.
July 7—Thousands drowned by flood
at Changteh, China.
July B—Floods in northern New Y'ork
took two-score lives.
July 15—'Thirty thousand lives lost in
fi.ood near Hankow, China.
July 22—Explosion and fire in Hiram
Walker distillery at Peoria. 111., did
$2,000,000 damage.
July 21 —Russian submarine sank in
collision; 55 drowned.
July 27—Munitions factory explosion
at Taino, Italy, killed 33.
July 29 —Formosa hit by destructive
typhoon.
July 31—Thousand dead in flood in
Manchukuo.
Aug. 13 —Power dam at Ovada, Italy,
burst; about 100 persons drowned.
Aug. 25 —Waterspout created havoc in
Genoa; six killed.
Hurricane in Newfoundland killed 40.
Sept. 3 —Nearly 600 killed in southern
Florida by hurricane. Steamer Dixie
with 384 passenger went on French
reef, 60 miles from Miami; all rescued.
Sept. 24—Five-million-dollar fire in
Sydney. Australia.
Sept. 26—Fire in London docks did
*5,000,000 damage.
Sept. 28—Hurricane swept across
Cuba, killing a score and doing great
damage.
Oct. 7 —United Air Lines plane crashed
In Wyoming, killing 12.
Eleven killed and many Injured by
factory explosion In Chicago.
Oct. 18—Severe earthquake in west
ern Montana; two killed and great dam
age done in Helena.
Oct. 20—About 2,000 persons killed in
Haiti hurricane.
Oct. 30—Huge bombing plane under
test for army crashed near Dayton,
Ohio; one dead, four injured.
United Air lines test plane hit hill
near Cheyenne; four killed.
Floods in Honduras killed 115 and did
*l2 000,000 damage.
Nov. 17—Destructive storm on Atlan
tic coast of United States.
Dec. B—Flood8 —Flood at Houston. Texas, did
two million dollars' damage.
Dec. 9 —Sixteen coal miners killed by
explosion at Coalhurst, Canada.
Dec. 10 —Eleven killed in crash of
Belgian air liner in England.
Dec. 13 —Eleven million dollar fire In
new post office building in Washington.
SPORTS
Jan. I—Alabama defeated Stanford in
Rose Bowl football game at Pasadena.
Jan. 2—Sullivan trophy awarded to
Bill Bonthron of Princeton by the A.
A. U.
Jan. 81 —Canzoneri whipped Rodak in
ten rounds.
Feb. 23 —Azucar won *108,400 Santa
Anita handicap.
March 7—Sir Malcolm Campbell
broke own record at Daytona Beach,
driving car 276 miles an hour.
March 10 —Schmelirg stopped Hamas
in ninth round at Hamburg.
April 6—Cambridge beat Oxford in
annual shell race.
April 26 —Jesse Owens of Ohio State
set new American record for broad
jump, 26 feet 1& inches, at Drake relay.
May 4—Omaha won the Kentucky
derby.
May 10 —Canzoneri regained light
weight title by whipping Ambers.
May 18 —Jesse Owens of Ohio State
set new world’s record for low hurdles.
May 21—University of Michigan and
John Fischer won Big Ten golf cham
pionships.
May 22 —Americans defeated Italian
boxers, 5 to 3. in Golden Glove tourney
in Chicago.
May 25—Lawson Little of California
again won British amateur golf title.
Jesse Owens of Ohio State set three
new world records and tied another in
Big Ten track meet which was won by
University of Michigan.
May 27—Barney Ross whipped Jimmy
McLarnin. regaining world welterweight
title.
May 30—Kelly Petillo won Indianap
olis 500-mile auto race.
June 3—Minnesota won Big Ten base
ball championship.
June s—Aga Khan's Bahram won
English derby.
Jane 7—Ohio State won central Inter
collegiate track meet.
June B—Sam Parks of Pittsburgh won
open golf championship.
June 13—James J. Braddock won
heavyweight championship from Max
Baer.
June IS —Johnny Revolta. Milwaukee
pro. won western open golf title.
June IS —University of California, won
the Poughkeepsie regatta.
June 22—Bradley's Black Hdlan won
American derby in Chicago.
Tale defeated Harvard la annual re
gatta.
June 25—Joe Louis defeated Primo
Camera in Now York.
July 21—Charles Yates of Atlanta
won western amateur golf title at Colo
rado Springs.
July 29—English tennis team won
Davis cup from Americans.
Aug. 7—Joe Louis whipped King
Levinsky in one round at Chicago.
Aug. 17 —American women tenni9
team beat English and retained Wight
wan cup.
Aug. 26—1.0 u Salica won bantam
weight title by beating Sixto Escobar
in New York.
Aug. 31—Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare-.
won women's national golf champion
ship.
Sept. 3—Sir Malcolm Campbell of Eng
land set new world record of 301.337
mills per hour with his Bluebird auto
mobile In Utah.
Sept, il—Helen Jacobs retaine.d wom
en's national lennia championship.
Sept. 12—Wilmtr Allison won na
tional tennis championship.
Lawson Little won national ama
teur golf title.
Sept. 19 —Risko won middleweight
championship from Yaroz in Pittsburgh.
Sept. 20—Detroit Tigers won Ameri
can League pennant.
Sept. 21 —-Joe Louis knocked out Max
Baer in fourth round at New York.
Sept. 27—Chicago Cubs won National
League championship.
Sept. 29—American pro golf team won
Ryder cup from British team.
Oct. 2—Chicago Cubs defeated De
troit Tigers in first world series game.
Oet. 3—Tigers won second game
from Cubs.
Oct. 4—Tigers won third world se
ries game.
Tony Canzoneri defeated A1 Roth, re
taining lightweight title.
Oct. s—Tigers won fourth game in
world series.
Oct. 6—Cubs captured fifth world se
ries game.
Oct. 7—Detroit Tigers won sixth
game and the world championship.
Oct. 23—John Revolta won national
P. G. A. championship.
Nov. 15—Sixto Escobar of Puerto
Rico won bantamweight title from Lou
Salica.
Nov. 19—Welker Cochran won world
three-cushion billiards championship in
Chicago.
Nov. 23—Minnesota and Ohio Stata
tied for Rig Ten football title.
Yale defeated Harvard in football.
Nov. 30—Army beat Navy at foot
ball.
Dec. B—A. A. U. voted for American J
participation in Olympic games in Ger
many. Avery Brundage elected presi
dent of A. A. U.
Dec. 13—-Joe Louis beat Paulino Uz
endun in New Y'ork.
Dec. 15—Detroit Lions won profes
sional football championship.
NECROLOGY
Jan. I—William Sproui, ex-president
of Southern Pacific railroad.
Jan. 11 —Mine. Marcella Sembrich, for
mer opera star.
Jan. 15—Mrs. John Dickinson Sher
man, former president General Federa
tion of Women’s clubs, in Denver.
Jan. 23—John Barton Payne in Wash
ington.
Jan. 31—Richard Washburn Child,
diplomat and author.
Feb. B—Frederick8 —Frederick Warde, veteran
actor.
Feb. 9—Cora Harris, novelist.
Feb. 17 —Arthur Somers Roche, au
thor,
March s—Former Justice Oliver Wen
dell Holmes.
April 2—Ellery Walter, American
author.
April 7—Warren Delano Robbins,
American minister to Canada.
- April B—Adolph S. Ochs, owner and
publisher of New York Times.
April 28—Raymond T. Baker, former
director-of the mint.
April 29—Alfred I. du Pont, indus
trialist, in Jacksonville. Fla.
May 6—Senator Bronson M. Cutting
of New Mexico.
May 10 —Herbert Witherspoon, direc
tor Metropolitan Opera company, in
New Y'ork.
May 12 —Marshal Josef Pilsudski, dic
tator of Poland.
May 13—Maj. J. S. Cohen, editor At
lanta Journal and former senator.
May 18—John R. Drexel of Phila
delphia. in Paris.
May 19—Col.‘ Thomas E. Lawrence—
" Lawrence of Arabia"—in Bovington,
England.
May 21—Miss Jane Addams of Chi- ,
cago, famed social worker.
May 31—Rear Admiral W. L. Capps,
U. S. N., retired.
June 6 —Viscount Byng of Y'imy.
June 15—Edwin P. Morrow, ex-gov
ernor of Kentucky.
Gaar Williams, noted cartoonist.
July 6 —Maj. Gen. Stuart Heintzel
man. U. S. A. a
July 9—Ray Long, noted magazine
editor.
July 12—Lt. Col. Alfred Dreyfus of
France.
July 16—Lord Dalziel, British news
paper proprietor.
July 25—C01. H. H. Rogers of New
York, capitalist
July 28 —Gray Silver, veteran farm
leader.
July 29—Dr. Walter Williams, edu
cator, at Columbia, Mo.
July 30—Frederick 11. Gillett of
Massachusetts, former speaker and
United States senator.
Aug. s—Frank5 —Frank H. Hitchcock, Tucson
publisher and former postmaster gen
eral.
Aug. 15 —Will Rogers, actor and hu
morist.
Wiley Post, aviator.
Aug. 25—Thomas A. Edison. Jr.
Aug. 27 —Childe Hassam, American
artist.
Aug. 29—Queen Astrid of Belgium.
Aug. 30—Henri Barbusse, noted
French author and pacifist.
Aug. 31 —Mrs. Harold Ickes, wife of
secretary of the interior.
Sept. 4 —Bishop Walter T. Sumner of
Oregon, crusader against vice.
Sept. B—E.8 —E. L. Doheny, oil magnate.
Sept. 9—Former Gov. S. S. Pennewill
of Pennsylvania.
Sept. 10 —United States Senator Huey
P. Long of Louisiana.
Sept. 12—Clive Runnells. vice presi
dent Pullman company.
Sept. 20 —Gen. W. W. Atterbury, re
tired president of Pennsylvania rail
road.
Sept. 23—De Wolf Hopper, American
comedian.
Sept. 29—Ernest P. Bicknell, vice
chairman of American Red Cross.
Oct. 3—Bishop T. F. Gailor, chan
cellor of University of the South, at
Sewanee, Tenn.
Oct. 7 —Francis Wilson, veteran comic
opera star.
Ovt. 16 —Maj. Gen. Milton J. Fore
man of Chicago.
Maj. Gen. W. L. Sibert, one of build
ers of Panama canal.
Oct. 17 —T. V. O’Connor, former chair
man U. S. shipping board
Oct. 20 —Maj. Gen. A. W. Greely, Arc
tic explorer.
Sidney Smith, cartoonist.
Oct. 21 —Langdqn E. Mitchell of New
York, playwright.
Oct. 27—Federal Judge W. 1. Grubb
at Birmingham. Ala.
Nov. 6—Dr. Henry F. Osborn, scien
tist and explorer, in New York.
William A. ("Billy”) Sunday, evan
gelist. in Chicago.
Nov. 9 —Walter L. Fisher of Chicago,
former secretary of the interior.
Nov. IS —Federal Judge Louis Fita-
Heury at Normal. 111.
Nov. 19—Federal Judge Benson Jlougb
at Columbus Ohio.
Nov. 20 —Earl JelMcoe. British ad
miral.
Nov. 21 Dr. A. B. Dinwiddie. pres
ident of Tulane university.
Dec. 2 —Dr. James 11. Breasted of Uni
versity of Chicago, orientalist.
Princess Victoria, sister of king of
England. .. .
Miss M. Carey Thomas, ex-president
of Eryn Mawr-
Dec 4—Don C. Seitz, New York, vet
eran author and newspaper man.
Dec. B—Charles Ewing of Philadel
phia. president of Reading Rail way com-
Pa De<x 12—M. J. Van Srveringen of
Cleveland. Ohio, railway magnate.
Dec. 15 —Gov. F. H. Cooney of Mon
tana. _ -a
Dec. 16 —Thelma Todd, screen actress,
in Los Angeles. •-
Most Rev. Alphonse Smitlv, Catholic
bishop of Tennessee.
Dec. 17 —Mias L'zette Reese of Balti
more. poet.
Dec. 18—Juan Vicente Gomel presi
dent of Venezuela.
Dee. Is—George D. Buckley, former
•übltsher and hanker. In New York.
• Weaters Newsparer Union,