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: DOMESTIC
Jan, 2—President Coolidge held big
New Year's reception in White House.
Jan, 4—Three bodies taken from
sunken submarine S-4.
Assistant Secretary of War Hanford
MacNider resigned and President ap-
ointed Col. Charles B. Robbins of
owa to succeed him.
i» Jan. 8—Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Lasker
gave $1,000,000 to University of Chi-
faze for medical research.
Seventeen bodies taken from
of the S-4 identified.
+ Jan. l11—Mexican documents pub-
ished by Hearst papers declared
y senate investigating committee to
more
e forged.
re bodies taken
Fifteen
wreck of the
Jan. 12—Democrats selected Hous-
ton, Texas, for their national conven-
tion and set June 26 for its opening.
Mrs. Ruth Snyder and Henry J Gray
Sjpetrocniod in Sing Sing for murder
woman's husband.
Jan. 13—President and Mrs. Coolidge
and party left Washington for Havana.
uba.
Jan. 19—Senate adopted resolution
declaring vacant the seat of Senator-
Elect Frank L. Smith of Illinois.
President Coolidge returned to wash-
ington from Cuba.
Jan. 20— President Cosgrave of
frish Free State arrived in New York.
Jan. 23—President Cosgrave of Ire-
fand called on President Coolidge and
wreck
from
other cfficials.
+ A. P. Giannini, San Francisco bank-
ok gave $1,600.000 to University of
alifornia.
Jan 31—Senate passed Jones bill for
gontinuation of government owned and
pperated merchant marine.
Feb. 3—Senate arrested Robert W.
Stewart, Standard Oil of Indiana offi-
cial, for refusal to answer certain
guestions in Teapot Dome inquiry.
Feb. 10—Senate adopted resolution
oprosing third term for President.
eb. 12—Herbert Hoover announced
his Presidential candidacy by entering
the Obio primaries.
Feb. 15—Serate called for investi-
gation of public utilities by trade com'-
mission. :
Teb. 16—Gov. Ed Jackson of Indiana
freed of bribery charges because of
statute of limitations. .
Senate ordered investigation of coal
mining conditions in Pennsylvania
West Virzinia and Ohio. :
Feb. 20—President appointed Repre-
sentative W. R. Green of lowa as judge
of court of claims.
Feb. 21—H F. Sinclair. H. M. ay,
W. J. Burns and W. 8 Burns found
uilty of criminal contempt of court
nh oil scandal case by Justice Siddous
of District of Columbia Supreme court
Naval court inquiry placed blanie
for S-i1 disaster on commanders of
submarine and destroyer Paulding.
Feb. 23—House naval affairs commit.
tee scrapped the administration navy
program, substitutiog a bill calling for
fifteen cruisers and one aircraft car-
rier within six years.
March 2—Grand jury indicted Col.
WwW. Stewart for contempt of sen-
ate. in connection with Dome oil case.
Senite passed bill for registration
of lobbyists.
Senator Walsh of ldaho entered
PDemccratic race for Presidential nom-
ination,
March 16—Rodman Wanamaker's
will provided for $2,000,000 four trade
school as memorial to his father.
Senate rejected reappointment of
John J. Isch of Wisconsin to inter-
State commerce commission.
March 17-—House passed $274,000,000
naval bill providing for 15 cruisers
and one plane carrier.
March 21—Chicago school poard
found Superintendent McAndrew guilty
of insubordination and ousted him
March 26—Revised McNary-fHaugen
farm relief bill reported favorably by
house agriculture committee
March 27—House passed bill appro-
priating $360.000.000 for naval con-
structica
Marcn 28—Senate passed Jones bill
appropriating $325.000.000 for flood
ecntrol :
March 80—George Remus, former
whootleg king” and slayer of his wife.
found sane by Ohio Court of Appeals.
Senate confirmed all pending appoint-
ments to radio commission,
March 31—Arthur Il. Vandenberg
of Grand Rapids appointed senator
from Alichigan to fill out term of
Ferris.
Goverument completed purchase of
Cape Cod caral.
April 5—Cyrus Locher of Cleveland
aprointed senator from Ohio to fill out
term of late Senator Willis.
April 9—United States Supreme court
upheld validity of flexible tariff law
April 12—Senate passed McNary farm
relief bill
April 16—Socialist national conven-
tion nominated Norman Thomas for
President and James H Maurer for
Vice President.
April 21—Harry F. Sinclair acquit-
ted by fury in Teapot Dome conspiracy
ease.
pera 24— House passed flood control
April 25—Senate passed the $360,000,-
00 naval appropriation bill after de-
feating amendments attacking Presi-
dent's policy in Nicaragua.
April 80—Senate ordered an investi.
gation of Presidential campaign ex-
penditures.
" May 4—llouse passed the Haugen
farm tcliet bill
May 4—Senator 1 J. Walsh with-
drew as candidate for Democratic
Presidential nomination.
May b—House uassed White pill to
sncouruge the merchant marine
Max Mason resigned as president of
University of Chicago.
© May 7--House passed bill raising pay
of 135000 government employees.
May 9—Senate passed flood controi
pill. modified. to avoid a veto
May t0—Senate passed bill to reor-
ganize: Aivlomatic service vromotion
system
“May 15—tresident Coolidge signed
flood relief bill
May 18—Senate voted tull publicity
for tax returns
May 21—Senate passed finance Lili
cutting taxes $205,875.000.
“ May %2—House overrode President's
veto of postal vay raise bill
May 23—President Coolidge vetoed
th. McNary-Haugen farm relief bill
May 25—Congress passed the Muscle
Shoals bill and the house passed the
Boulder dam bill Senate failed by 4
votes to pass farm relief bill over
President's veto.
May 26 —House and senate approved
conference report of bill reducing
taxes $223 COU COU
May 29—Congress adjourned, leav:
tng Louider bam bill unfinished busi-
ness before the senate
President signed tax reduction bill
Mav 30—Dresident Coolidge delivered
Memorial dav address at Gettysburg.
- May 8l1—President Coolidge selected
Cedar Island lodge on Brule river
northern Wisconsin as summer White
House
June 7—President Coolidge let
Muscle Shoals bill die without veto or
approval
June 13—FPiresident and Mrs. Coolidge
left for Wisconsin camp.
June l4—Herbert Hoover nominated
for President by Republican conven-
tion n Kansas City
June 15—Republican convention aotn-
{nated Senator Charles Curtis for Vice
Preardent
June .7—Governo: Ritchie ot Mary-
lang withdrew .rom Democratic Pres-
{dential race in favor of Al Smith
June 2z)-—Dhio Supreme court freed
Georre Hemus wife-glayer. from in-
sarc asviumn,
June 21 —Secretary of the Interior
Hubert C. Work made chairman of
Republican national committee.
June 28—Gov, Al Smith of New York
nominated for President by Democrat-
ic convention in Houston,
Tune 29—Senator Joseph T. Robinson
of Arkansas nominated by Democrat-
ic convention for Vice President.
July 4—Independence_ day accidents
in United States caused death of 225
persons
July 6—Secretary of the Interior
Work named board of engineers to
study Boulder canyon dam project.
July 7—Secretary of Commerce Hoov-
er sent his resignatien to President
Coolidge.
July 10—Prohibition and Farmer-La-
bor national conventions opened In
Chicago.
July 11—John J. Raskob of Delaware
elected chairman of Democratic na-
tional committee,
Farmer-Labor party nominated Sen-
tor Norris for President and Will Ver-
een of Georgia for Vice President. both
of whom declined.
July 12—Prohibition party nom'-
nated William Varney of New York
for President and James A. Edgerton
of Virginia for Vice President.
July 20—Roy O. West of Chicago ap-
pointed secretary of the interior.
July 22—Capt. Charles Collyer and
John Mears completed tour of globe in
record time of 23 days and 15 hours.
July 24—John J. Raskob. Democratic
national chairman, severed his connec
tion with General Motors.
July 28—President Coolidge spoke at
dedication of monument to Col. Wil-
liam Colvill. Civil war hero, at Cannon
Falls, Minn,
Aug. 13—Ship-to-shore airplane mail
service established at New York.
Aug 15—President Coolidge approved
report of board of engineers on Mis-
sissippi flood control.
Aug. 17—Secretary of State Kellogg
departed for Paris to sign anti-war
treaty.
2euben Clark of Utah appointed un-
der secretary of state.
Aug 21—W. F. Whiting of Holyoke,
Mass.,, paper manufacturer, appointed
secretary of commerce and sworn in.
Aug. 26—Director of the Budget
Lord estimated the treasury deficit for
this fiscal vear would be $94,276.346.
Sept. 4—Mrs. Florence Knapp. former
secretary of state of New York, con-
victed of embezzlement of state funds
sentenced to 30 days in fail
Sept. 10—Republicans won Maine
state election by heavy majorities.
Sept. 11—John Coolidge. son of
President. began work as clerk for
New Haven sailroad.
Sept. 12—President and Mrs. Cool-
idge returned to Washington.
Sept. 19—Annual meeting of the G.
A. R. opened in Denver,
Sept. 21—John Reese elected com-
mander in chief of the G. A. R.
Sept. 3)—Col. A. Lindbergh.
| Charles Evans Hughes, and Dr. F. M.
Chapman, ornithologist, awarded Roose-
velt medals for distinguished service.
Oct. 3—Chirago Sanitary District
opened new $32.000.000 sewage dis-
posal plant, best in world.
Oct. 6 —Navy department let con-
tracts .or two huge dirigibles.
Oct. 8—A.nerican Legion convention
opened In San Antonio.
United Spanish War Veterans met in
Havana, Cuba.
Unitel 3ta‘~s Supreme court upheld
right of Canadians to Cross the border
daily to woik in states.
Oct. 10—Trisnnial convention of
Episcopal church opened in Washing:
ton
Oct. 11—Paul V. McNutt of Indiana
elected national commander of Auwmer-
i ican Legion.
Oct. 16—Attorney General Sargent
ruled Sinclair's Salt Creek oil field con-
tracts invalid
Oct. 19—DBattlefields National park in
virginia dedicated. President Coolidge
speaking.
Oct. 20—Congressional medal pre-
sented to Thomas A. Edison by Presi-
dent Coolidge.
Nov. 6—Hoover and Curtis. Repubh-
licans. elected President and Vice
President of United States, receivieg
144 electoral votes to 87 for Smith and
Robinson, Democrats.
Arkansas voted for law to prohibit
teaching of evolution in tax-supported
schools
| Nov. 12—Walter Olson of Rio, 11.
| won national corn husking champion-
| ship at Fowler, Ind.
Nov. 19—United States Supreme
court, upholding a New York law. de-
clared the Ku Klux klan an undesir-
able organization.
President-Elect Hoover sailed from
San Ped'o for good will tour of Latin
America.
| Nov 20—Robert W. Stewart oil mag-
| cate acyuitted of perjury in Teapot
Dome case by jury in Washiugton
Engineers’ commission reported to
President Coolidge that cost estimates
of Boulder bam project were §40.000,-
1000 too low.
Nov 20—President-Elect Hoover
made stops at Ampala. Honduras. and
! La Union. Salvador
| Annual report of governor of Alaska
! showed decrease in fishing and mining
| industries of the territory.
Nov. 27—Nicaraguans greeted Mr.
Hoover at Corinto.
Nov 28—Mr. Hoover
Jose. Costa Rica,
visited San
Engagement of Florence Trumbull
to Johu Coolidge announced
Nov 29 —Secretary of Commerce
Whiting in annual report told of great
| prosperity of country.
Dee. 1—Hoover visited Ecuador.
Rstelle Manville of New York mar-
ried to Count KFolke Bernadotte, nephew
i of king of Sweden.
Dec. 3—Short session of congress
‘opened
Dec. 4—President Coolidge's message
i was read to congress,
pec. 5—Hoover welcomed by great
crowds at. Callao and Lima, Peru.
Dec 7—House passed billion-dollar
treasury and post office supply bill.
Dee. 10—Hoover received in val-
paraiso and Santiago, Chile.
Dec. 13—Hoover welcomed to Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
Dea. 17—Hoover spent
Montevideo, Uruguay.
Dec. 18—Hoover sailed for Rio de
Janeiro on U. S. 8. Utah.
INTERNATIONAL
Jan 2—United States marines de-
ceated Nicarazuan rebels in two-davs
batile at Quilali
a day in
Jan 1v—Pope Pius XI issued en-
! nyclical rejecting the movement fol
arity of all Christian churches.
Jan 16—Pan-American conference
{ opened in Havana, Cuba. with speeches
bv Presidents Coolidge and Machado
Jan 24 —Rumania and Italy begav
eonference on formation of bloc of
southern European nations
Jan ¢6--United States marines in
Nicaragua captured Sandino's strong-
hold at El Chipote
Jan 20 —CGermany and
signed arbitration treaty.
Jan 20 —Pan-American congress re-
jscted Mexico's plan for reorgantza-
tion ot Pan-American union
Fey 6—New Franco-American arb!-
tration treaty signed on one hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of signing of
fret treaty by the two nations.
Feb 10—Plan to make Pan-American
union an American league of natious
jefeated in the Havana conference.
Radiophone service between Amer-
lca and Germany opened
Feb 13—Pan American congress
turned down Argentina's demand for
' jeclaration ¢gainst tarift walls be-
| tween American republics
Feb 16—United States refused to let
Pan-American conference dictate fits
immigration policy.
Fen 16—Honorio Pueyrredon an-
nounced his resignation as head of
Argentine delegation to Pan-American
congress and as ambassador to United
States because his demand for declara-
tion against high tariffs was turned
{ down
Feb 20—FPan-American congress ad -
journed after adopting resolutions gen-
. erally satisfactory to the United States
Feb 21—Hungary destroyed five car-
londs of machine guns shipped from
ftalv on eve of {(nauiry by Learue
of Nations council
Feb 27—Five American
killed by Nicaraguan rebels.
Feb 28 —Secretary of State Kellogg
told France the United States was
ready to make treaties with all the
| great powers renouncing war as a na-
. tional policy.
i March 7—Nicaragua COngiess warned
py United States minister to adoot law
guaranteeing election tair to both
parties in that republic.
March 21—President Diaz decrzed an
Lithuania
marines
electoral law putting Nicaraguan bal-
lot under supervision of Americans.
March 24—Preliminary disarmament
conference adjourned without result
after Great Britain again proposed re-
duction of capital ships.
March 27—Mexican government fs-
sued petroleum regulations recogniz-
irg rights of foreigners in oil proper-
ties prior to 1917.
April 11—United States government
vegan sounding out the great powers
on multilateral treaty renouncing war
as a national policy. 4
April 21—France made public fits
draft of treaty to end war.
Aprit °8—Jnhn Bassett Moore re-
signed as American member of the
permanent court of international fjus-
tice.
May 30—Italy and Turkey signed
treaty of -onciliation and arbitration.
June 16—Chinese Nationalist govern-
ment asked United States for revision
of treaties.
Julv 13—Chile and Peru resumed
diplomatic relations.
July 21—Japanese troops in Shan-
tung killed many Chinese in battle.
July 22—Japan refused to accept
Chinese Nationalists’ repudiation of un=-
equal treaties.
July 25—I/nited States offered Na-
tionaiist government of China a new
autonomy treaty as step toward rec-
ognition.
July 26— France invited 14 other na-
tions to .igning of Kellogg antiwar
treaty in Paris on August 27.
July 27—United States signed treaty
giving China tariff autonomy.
July 20—England and France made
Reinisenret agreement on naval reduc-
on.
Aug. i3—Yugo-Slav parliament, with
Croats absent, ratified the Nettuno
conventions with Italy.
Aug. l4—Argentina cancelled Para-
guay’s war debt of about $4,200,000,000.
Aug. 24—Interparliamentary Union
met in Berlia.
Aug. 27—Kellegg antiwar
signed in Paris by 15 nations.
Aug. 31—League of Nations council
refused Costa Rica's request to inter-
pret the Monroe Doctrine.
Sept. 8—Charles Evans Hughes elect-
ed a member of the world court.
Sept. 23—Italy and Greece signed
treaty of amity and conciliation.
Sept. :9—United States note delivered
to Great Britain and France rejecting
their agreement as basis for naval
disarmament discussion.
Oct. b—Italy rejected the Anglo-
French naval limitation agreement.
Oct. 13—Radiophone service between
United States and Spain opened by
President Coolidge and King Alfonso.
Nov 11—Armistice day celebrated
throughout United States and allied
countries of Europe.
Nov i6—Allies and Germany agreed
to hold congress to revise the Dawes
reparations plan.
Dec. 8-—DBolivia and Paraguay on
verge of war over border dispute.
Dec. 10—Conference of American re-
publics on conciliation and arbitration
opened in Washington and touk up
Bolivia Paraguay dispute.
Japan rejected China's
tariff sch=dule
Dec. 15 —Troops ot Bolivia and Para-
zuay fought in Chaco region,
Dec. l6—Paraguay mobilized its re-
serves. FOREIGN
Jan. 3—-Dr. CC. Wu appointed spe-
cial envoy to Washington by Chiuese
Nationalist government.
Jan 7—Lyman FPF. Barber, American
engineer, kidnaped by Mexican bandits.
killed four of his guards and escaped.
Jan. 10— France removed ban on ex-
portation of gold.
Jan. 15—Trotzky and other opposl-
tion leaders of Russia exiled to remote
parts of Asiatic Russia.
Jan. 20—Conservative cabinet of Nor-
vay resigued.
Foreizn business concerns agreed LO
pay Chinese Nationalist government's
new taxes.
treaty
increased
Feb 1—James McNeill installed as
governor general of the Irish Free
State. :
Fep. 9—Norway’'s labor cabinet re-
signed 12—Cleto Viquez elected Presi-
dent uf Costa Rica.
Feb. 20—Government of Japan won
at first universal suffrage election. ;
Feb 25—Italians completed subjuga-
tion of the Tripoli littorial. defeating
rebel: in two big battles.
May .h 14—Priest and five prominent
citizens executed by Mexican firing
squad. :
March 17—Miss Nancy Ann Miller of
Seattle, Wash. wedded former ma-
harajah of Indore at Bombay. India.
March 18--Nationalist government in
China announced execution of bl Chi-
nese officers and soldiers responsible
for Nanging massacre.
March 25—All Italy celebrated ninth
anniversary of Fascist party.
March 26-—Famous Tower of Charle-
magne at Tours. France, built in
Twelfth century, collapsed.
March 27—Dictator Pilsudski defeat-
ed by Communists in organization of
new Polish parliament.
Apri! 10—Turkish assembly passed
piil separating church and state.
April 12—Attempt to assassinate
Kir z Victor Emmanuel of Ttaly in
Milan by dynamite bomb resulted in
14 deaths.
Apri} 15—Gen. Oscar Carmona inaug-
urated President of Portugal.
April 16—Chinese Nationalists won
big victory over portherners in Shan-
tung province.
Apri: 30—Nationalists
rounced occupation of almost all of
Shantung province. and cut railway
despite warning of the Japanese.
May 4—Chinese Nationalists battled
with Japanese at Tsinan
May 6—Two hundred thousand Ru-
manian peasants met at Albajulia and
demanded the resignation of the Bra-
tiano government.
May 11—Hipolito Irigoyen declared
President-Elect of Argentina.
May 20—Nationalist party routed in
German elections. Socialists making
big gains.
May o2—Greek cabinet resigned
May 20—Chinese Nationalists cap-
rurcd Paotiagfu key to Peking de-
fenses,
June 3—Marshal Chang left Peking
for Mukden and was fatally injured
when his train was bombed.
of China an-
June »—Chinese Nationalists began
occupation of Peking
June 9—Chiang Kal-shek, south
Chinese generalissimo. resigned
June 14—British house of commons
rejected Church of England's revised
oraver hook.
June 20--Yugo-Slavian deputy killed
two Croatian ‘deputies and wounded
four in row in parliament.
June 21—The Chinese Nationalists
changed name of Peking to Peiping.
July 1—General Obregon elected
President of Mexico.
July 4—Yugo-Slavian government re-
signed.
Alired Loewenstein, Belgian multi-
millionaire, disappeared from his plane
over the North sea.
July 11—Chinese Nationalists effect-
ed fiscal unity of the country after
eight-day conference
Ontar'o government seized great
stores of liquor ready for smuggling
into United States.
July 17—Gen. Alvaro Obregon. Pres-
\dent-Elect of Mexico assassinated.
July 19—-Body of Capt. Alfred Loew-
enstein Belgian millionaire found in
English channel
July 21—Revolutionary attempt fin
portuzal crusned by loyal troops.
Luis Morones, labor leader. resigned
trom Mexican cabinet and fled
July 25—Archbishop of Canterbury,
primate of England resigned effective
November 12
July 27 —Dr Cosmo Lang, archbishop
ot York. appointed archbishop of Can-
terbury and primate of all England.
July 30—Manchuria agreed to unite
with Nationai‘et China ignoring Ja-
pan's warning
Aug 1—Russian government named
a dictator for distribution of the vear's
crops
Aug b—Wlorencio Arosemena elect-
ad President of Panama.
Aug 16—Nationalist government ot
China launched its first destroyer.
aug 17—Chinese government decid-
ed to terminate 4ritish-Danish eable
monopoly in 1930
Mongolian army led by Russians In-
vaded western Manchuria. defeating
Chinese troops
Aug 19—Venizeloe party won Greek
elections,
Sept. 1—President Calles of Mexico
refused re-election.
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Ahmad Zogu became king of Albania
as Scanderbeg IIL
Sept. 3—Chinese Nationalist forces
cleaned vut a great pirate stronghold
in Hinghwa bay.
Sept. 11—Four thousand revolution-
aries arrested in Spain for plotting
against the dictatorship.
Sept. 17—DMexican government or-
dered reopening of all closed churches.
Sept. 19— Fascist grand council es-
tablished as supreme power in Italy
Sept. “"5—Mexican congress named
Emilio Portes Gil provisional Presi-
dent for 14 months from December 1.
Sept. 26—Swedish cabinet headed by
Ekman resigned.
Oct. 9—Gen, Chiang Kal-shek elected
President of China by Nationalist
council.
Oct. 23—Hungarian government
closed four universities because of
anti-Semitic riots,
Nov. 1—Machado re-elected President
of Cuba.
Nov. 3—Vintila Bratiano resigned as
premier of Rumania.
Nov. 4—Cen. Jose Maria Moncada
elected President of Nicaragua.
Nov. 6—DPremier Poincare of France
and h's cabinet resigned.
South African government of Pre-
mier Hertzog resigned and he formed
a new one,
British parliament opened. the king
praising *he Kellogg pact.
Mov 8-—Toral, assassin of President-
Elect Obregon of Mexico,
to death .nd Mother Concepcion
tellectual author” of the crime,
tenced to 20 years in prison.
Nov. 9—Juliu Maniu, Pensant party
leader. made premier of Rumania.
Nov, 10 —Hirohito formally
throned as emperor of Japan.
Nov. 11—Poincare formed new cab-
inet for France.
Nov. 25—Mexican troops defeated
rebels fv bloody five-hour battle.
Nov. 30—Emilio Portes Gil inaug-
urated President of Mexico.
Dec. {—King George of England ap-
pointed a royal commission to act for
him during his serious illness.
Dec §—Wilhelm Miklas elected Pres-
ident of Austria.
Dec, 11—Police of Argentina discov-
ered anarchist plot to blow up Her-
pert Hoover's train.
Dec. 12—Peasant party won the Ru-
manian elections.
Dec. 16—Revolt in Afghanistan; king
and queen took refuge in a fort.
INDUSTRIAL
Jan, 2—Twenty thousand pulp work.
ers of Sweden locked out.
Jan. 10—Insterstate commerce com-
mission approved reorganization of
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry.
Feb. 13—New miners’ union signed
agreement with operators in lowa field.
March 20—Consolidation of Mackay
companies and lnternational Telephone
and Telegraph company announced
March 28—Illinois mine operators
cease negotiations with mine union.
[ndiana strip mine owners agreed to
pay Jacksonville scale for another
year
April 1—133,000 coal miners of Mid-
die \West quit work.
April i2—Twenty-two lllinois miues
agreed to «esune on Jacksonville wage
scale.
April 92 —~Thousand northern Illinois
coal miners agreed to accept reduced
wages
May 18—Interstale commerce com-
mission cut the proposed Van Swearin-
gen rail merger to include only the C.
& O. and the Pere Marguette.
June l19—Locomotive engineers of
western roads granted 6% per cent
wage increase.
July 18—United Mine Workers of
America abandoned the Jacksonville
scale as a basis for wage settlements.
Aug. 31—Illinois coal miners’ strike
settled on basis of reduced wages
Sept. T—Continental National and
11linois Merchants Trust banks of Chi-
cazo merged
Sept. 18—Federal mediators aban-
doned zfforts to settle threatened strike
of western railroad trainmen.
Sept 29—President Coolidge named
board to investigate western railroad
wage dispute.
Oct. 1—Fifty thousand German ship
builders struck for more pay
Oct. 6—Textile workers of New Bed-
ford, Mass. accepted wage cut and
ended strike.
Oct. 18—Indiana coal miners and Op-
erators agreed on a wage scale.
Oct. 30—Emergency board consider-
ing western railroad wage dispute
recommended wage increase of 6% Der
cent without change in rules or 7%
with certain changes in operation.
Nov. 19—American Federation of
Labor, in session ia New Orleans. de-
clared war .n displacement of work-
men by machinery.
Nov. 23—Western railroad dispute
settled. trainmen getting 6% oper cent
AERONAUTICS
Jan. 1—Lindbergh flew from Belize.
“in-
sen-
en-
British Honduras. to San Salvador.
Jan. 3—Lindbergh landed in Teguci-
' galpa. Honduras.
Jan. 7T—Lindbergh flew to San Jose.
Costa Rica.
Jan 9—Lindbergh landed at Panama.
Jan. 26—Resuming his Caribbean
' tour. Lindbergh flew from Panama to
! Juan, Port
Cartagena Colombia.
Jan 27—Lindbergh flew to Bogota
Dirigible Los Angeles made landing
on airplane carrier Saratoga at sea.
. Jan. 29—Lindbergh flew from Bogota
to Caracas, Venezuela
Jan. 31—Lindbergh flew 1,050 miles
from Caracas to the Virgin islands.
Feb 2-14ndbergh hopped to San
ico.
Feb 4—Lindbergh flew to San Do-
' mingo
Feb. 8—Colonel Lindbergh ended his
Latin American tour at Havana.
Costes and Lebrix, French aviators
who flew across the south Atlantic. ar-
rived at Washington.
Feb. 13—Lindbergh made nonstop
flight from Havana to St. Louis.
Feb 22—Bert Hinkler completed sclo
| flight from England to Australia in 15
days. foo
feb. 26—Dirigible Los Angeles began
nonstop flight to Panama Canal Zone.
Feb 27—j.08 Angeles arrived at
France eld. Canal Zone
Feb 29 —Woodrow Wilson peace
medal and $25.000 awarded to Colonel
Lindbergh.
March 7—Costes and Lebrix ended
their transcontinental and American
flight at San Francisco.
March 13—Capt. Walter Hinchclifte,
British 1viator. and Elsie Mackay
hopped off from London for transatlan-
tic flight to U S. and were lost
March 19—Mrs Keith Miller ended
13,000-mile flight from England to
Australia.
March 21—President Coolidge pre-
sented Colonel Lindbergh with Con-
gressional Medal of Honor.
March 0—Major de Bernardi of Italy
set new speed record for airplanes at
366.6 miles an hour
Stinson and Haldeman made new en-
durance record of 53 hours 36 minutes
30 seconds.
Apnl 12—Koehl, Von Huenefeld and
Fitzmaurice hopped off from Dublin
for New York ir the plane Bremen
April .3—The Bremen aviators land-
ed on Greenly island. Strait of Belle
Isle, being the first to make east-
west nonstop flight across the Atlantic,
April 15 —Nobile started from italy
on his airship Ttalia for the North pole.
April 21—Capt. George H. Wilkins
and Carl B Eilson completed flight
across Arctic region from Point Bar-
row. Alaska. to Spitzbergen and re-
ported ‘reeing no land
May 6-—Nobile in dirigible Italia
reached Spitzbergen.
May 15—Nobile in dirigible Italia
started on flight over polar regions.
May 18 —Dirigible Italia returned to
Spitzbergen
May 22—Col. Charles A Lindbergh
pecame head of technical committee of
Transcontinental Air Transport
May 23—Nobile in the Italia passed
over the North ole
May 26—Dirigible Italia wrecked on
e.
May 80—kleven of 14 balloons tn na-
tional elimination race from Pitts-
purgh were driven down by furious
storm: two men killed.
May 81—Monoplane Southern Cross
with crew of four started from Oak-
land, Calif. for Sydney Australia via
Hawaii Fifi and Brishane.
June 1—Southern Cross
Wheeler field Hawali.
June 3—Southern Cross left Hawaii
for Fifl
landed at
June 6—Southern Cross reached
Suva, Fiji.
June 9—Southern Cross arrived safe-
ly at Brisbane, Australia.
Colonel Lindbergh given first master
of aeronautics degree by New York
university.
June 10—Southern Cross landed at
Sydney, Australia.
June 12—Captain Carranza completed
nonstop flight from Mexico City to
Washington.
June 17—Amelia Earhart and com-
panions, in airplane Friendship. hopped
off from Trepassey, N. F.
June 18—Captain Amundsen and five
companions lost in attempt to reach
Nobile party in plane.
Airplane Friendship landed in Burry
inlet, Wales.
June 19—Major Maddalena reached
Nobile and five companions by airplane.
June 24—Swedish airman rescued
Nobile,
July 3—Ferrarin and Del Prete,
Italians. hopped off at Rome for Brazil.
July 5—TItalian fiyers landed rear
Port Natal, Brazil. having made new
distance record of 4.449 miles.
July 11-—Russian aviator discovered
Doctor Malmgren and two companions,
members of Nobile party who had wan-
dered over ice 42 days. but he could
_ not land
condemned |
July 12—Russian icebreaker Krassin
rescued Malmgren's campanions but
found Malmgren had been dead a
month; it then rescued the five men
left near Foyn island by Nobile,
July 13—Aviators rescued Sora and
von Dongen, who were lost while
{ hunting for the Italia survivors.
Capt. Emilio Carranza, Mexican good
"will flyer. killed by lightning in New
Jersey.
July 15—Icebreaker Krassin picked
| up Russian Aviator Chukhnovsky and
four companions, who had crashed
, while hunting the Nobile party.
July 31—Nobile and survivors of his
party reached Rome.
T. Courtney and
Aug. 2—Capt. C.
three companions, flying from the
. Azores to Newfoundland, were forced
i and were picked up by steamer.
down in midocean and picked up by a
steamer.
Idzikukowski and Kubala, Polish
aviators. started flight from Paris to
New York.
Aug . 4—Polish flyers fell in ocean
Aug 16—Hassel and Cramer flew
from Rockford, Ill, to Cochrane. Out.
on way to Stockholm.
Aug. 18—Rockford flyers left Coch-
rane for -dount Evans. Greenland. and
| disappeared.
Aug. 20—Art Gobel flew from Los
| Angeles to New York in 18 hours 58
minutes. without stop.
Sept. 2—Hassell and Cramer found
sate in Greenland: plane disabled.
Maurice Bokanowski French minis-
ter of air and commerce, and four aids
killed in airplane accident.
Sept. 5—Thirty-seven airplanes start-
ed from New York in transcontinental
air derby.
Sept. 10— Earl Rowland, Kansas. wcn
in Class A of aerial derby.
Sept. _18—Spanish inventor flew
across English channel in new gyio-
plane,
Oct. 11—The Graf Zeppelin, great
German dirigible, started from Fried-
richschafen. Germany. for the United
States.
Oct. 15—The Graf Zeppelin landed
safely at Lakehurst, N. J.
© Oct 17—Commander H. C. McDonald,
English aviator, started solo flight
trom Newfoundland to England ip
small viane and was lost.
Oct. 25—Tucker and Collyer flew
tfcom New York to Los Angeles in 24
hours 51 minutes.
Oct. 20—Graf Zeppelin began its trip
back to Germany.
Nov. 1—Graf Zeppelin arrived at
Friedrichschafen, Germany.
Nov 4—7Tucker and Collyer. cross-
continent record holders. killed in Ari-
zona in crasn of plane.
Dec i2—International civil aviation
| conference opened in Washington.
Dec. 17—Delegates to aviation con-
ference celebrated at Kitty Hawk N.
C.. the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
first flight by the Wright brothers.
DISASTERS
Jan. 2—Russian steamer foundered In
glack sea: 200 drowned.
Jan 9—Twenty-one men killed by
! mine explosion at West Frankfort, (11.
' Lind, Ark.
'1itinois
. Rico
Feb 10—Twalve men killed and 50
nurt in oil refinery explosion at Ev-
erett, Mass.
Thirty-nine killed in fire in Hollinger
gold mine at Timmins, Ont.
Feb. 12—Thirteen killed by mine ex-
plosion at Whitehaven, England
Feb. 24—Mine explosion at
killed 13 men.
March 10—Two hundred killed by
Mount Serrat landslide in Santos. Bra-
Jenny
zil.
Marzh 13—8an Francisquito dam,
water supply for Los Angeles, broke:
436 drowned.
March 27—Earthquake in Udine
province. Italy. killed ten and Injured
many.
March 31 — Earthquake shattered
Smyrna. Killing many persons
April 13—Explosion destroyed dance
nall in West Plains, Mo., killing 4.
April 14—Forty-three killed by
earthquake in the Balkans.
April 16—Disastrous earthquake In
Peru, many killed
April 29—Earthquake in central
Greece ruined Corinth and killed many
persons.
May 19-—Explosion in mine at bMa-
ther. Pa. killed 198.
May 22—Mine explosions at Yukon.
Ww Va. and Kenvir. Ky., killed 32 men
june 16—Tornado in Oklahoma killed
0.
July i—Vnoicanic eruption wiped out
town of Libog in Philippines.
July 7—Chilean army transport sank.
300 drowned
Aug. 6—Light killed. §&2
Central train
Mounds. «lL
Italian submarine sunk in collision,
with 27 men aboard. all of whom per-
ished
Aug
injured
wreck
in
near
24 —Thirteen killed, 100 injured
in New York subway wreck.
sept. 13—Fourteen Killed by torna-
does in Nebraska and South Dakota
Destructive hurricane swept Porto
and Lesser Antilles: hundreds
11—About 20 persons Killed by
in and near Rockford [Il
15—Tropical hurricane reached
Sept ;
Florida, doing great damage
central
and killing 2.200.
Sept. 23—About 120 perished in the-
ater fire in Madrid. Spain.
Oct. 3—French submarine sunk by
ooljision ith Greek steamer: 43 men
ost.
Oct. 26—Thirty-one killed In train
wreck in Rumania.
Nov. 6—Several Sicilian towns de-
stroyed by eruption of Mt. Etna.
Nov 12—Liner Vestris sank 240 miles
off the Virginia capes: 111 lost. 215
rescued.
Nov. 24— l'errific storms in the Philip-
pines and on the coasts of Eurovpe.
pes. 1—Earthquake in southern
Chile wrecked several towns and killed
about 200 persons.
NECROLOGY
Jan 2—Loie Fuller, dancer, in Paris.
C. M. Kittle, president of Sears. Roe-
ouck & Co. in Chicago.
Emily Stevens, American actress.
Jan. 38—Dorothy Donnelly. actress
and playwright.
Jan. 6—Marvin Hughitt, railroad
builder. in Chicago.
Jan. 11—Thomas Hardy. English
novelist.
Jan. 14—Andrew MacLeish. pioneer
merchant of Chicago.
Jan 19—Edward L. Ryerson. Chicago
steel magnate.
Jan. ¢0—William Du Pont. former
head of the Du Pont interests.
Jan 21—Maj. Gen. George W. Goe-
thals. builder of Panama canal.
Jan. 22—Rear Admiral Victor Blue.
reir, l'alcott Will
an. 2¢4—Talco jams, journal
in New York : alist.
Jan 28—Count
Swedish statesman.
Vincente Blasco Ibanez Spanish nov-
elist
Jan. 29--luar) Haulg, commander ln
chiet of British armies in World war.
Feb. 16—Herbert H. Asquith, earl of
uxford .nd Asquith. former British
premier.
Hugo Hamilton,
Feb 16-—iiddie Koy veteran comedi- °
an, in Kansas City
Feb 20—kKdward B. Butler. Chicago.
millionaire merchant and art patron,
Feb 26— William O'Brien. Irish Na-
tionalist leader.
i e—
— rey
James L. Ford, author and dramatie
eritic, in New York.
Feb. 29—Marshal Armando Dia
Italian commander in chief in Worl
war.
March 7—Willlam H. Crane, dean of
American stage, at Hollywood, Calif.
March 9—Rodman Wanamaker. pres
fdent John Wanamaker stores.
March 18—John F. Smulski, Chicago
banker.
March 19—Nora Bayes, actress.
March 20—James W. Packard. auto
pioneer, at Cleveland.
March 21—William C. Sproul. former
governor of Pennsylvania.
March 23—Senafor Woodbridge N.
Ferris of Michigan.
March 30—Frank B. Willis, United
States senator from Ohio,
April 1—Dr. Sanger Brown. alienist,
in Chicago.
R. C. Carton, English dramatist.
April 3—Congressman J. A. Gallivan
of Boston, Mass.
vo 5—Chauncey M. Depew in New
Ww. E. Griffis, author. lecturer and aue
thority on Japan.
April 9—John A. Dix, ex-governor
of New York.
April 10—Stanley J. Weyman. Eng-
lish novelist.
April 16—E. M. Statler, hotel owner,
in New York.
Charles Sims, English artist.
April 22—Baron Okura. Japanese,
millionaire merchant.
Archbishop Mora y del Rio of Mex=
iro, in San Antonio, Texas.
April 25—Floyd Bennett, famous avi-
ator, in Quebec.
Baron Peter Wrangel, leader of
“White” Russians.
April 27—Congressman Martia B.
Madden of Chicago.
May 1—Congressman Thaddeus GC.
Sweet of New York.
May 3—Dr. Edgar Faha Smith, chems«
{st, in Philadelphia.
BB. Piper. editor Portland Ore-
gonian,
A. W. Krech, New York financier.
May 4—George A. Thorne, Chicago
capitalist.
May 8—Rev. Dr. J. S. Stone. Epls-
copalian divine of Chicago.
May 10—Judge W. I. Sanborn, a.
S. Circuit Court of Appeals. in St. Paul,
Minn.
May 16— Sir Edmund Gosse, English
authcer.
May 18—William D. Haywood. for-
mer I. W. W. chief, in Moscow.
May 19—Bessie Van Vorst American
author.
May 21—Prof. Hideyo Noguchi, bace
teriologist of Rockefeller Institute.
Allan Dale, dramatic critic.
May 24—Herschel Jones. publisher of
Minneapolis Journal.
May 29—Dr. W. A. Young, director of
gridical research for Rockefeller insti-
tute.
June 2—Dr. Otto Nordenskjold. Swed-
ish explorer.
June 6—dJohn D. Works. former U. S.
s:nator from California.
June 13—Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst,
suffragist, in London.
June 17—E. T. Meredith, former sec=
retary of igriculture. in Des Moines,
Iowa.
19—Dbonn Byrne.
June American=
in Ireland.
Irish novelist,
Chang Tso-lin,
June 24—Senator
June 21—Marshal
Manchurian war lord.
Frank R. Gooding
of Idaho.
Holbrook Blinn, actor.
June 27—Robert Bruce Mantell,
Shakespearean actor.
June 29—Leo Ditrichstein, actor.
June 30—Avery Hopwood. American
playwright.
July 8—Howard Elliott, former pres=
ident of Northern Pacific railway.
July 9—George BE. Chamberlain. fore
mer senator from Oregon.
July 15—H. R. Rathbone, congress-
man-at-large from Illinois.
July 16—Giovanni Giolittl Italian
statesman.
Dr. C. L. Summers, pediatrician, in
Baltimore.
July 20—Ellen Terry. English ac-
tress.
July 22—Dr. George Colvin, president
of University of Louisville.
July 23—Rear Admiral W M. Folger.
retired. in Boston.
July 28—T B. Walker, multimillion-
aire lumberman and art patron. in
Minneapolis.
July 30—Federal Judge D. C. Wester-
paver at Cleveland, Ohio.
Aug. 7—Prof. E. C. Hayes of Univer-
sity of Illinois.
Aug. 8—QGeorge E. Brennan, Demo-
cratic national committeeman from I1li-
nois. in Chicago.
Aug. 11—James B. Laughlin, steel
company president. in Hyannisport,
Mass.
Aug. 19—Viscount Haldane. British
statesman.
Aug 20—Col. George B. Harvey. pub-
licist and former ambassador to Great
Britain.
Aug 27—Marsnal Emile Fayolle, fa-
mous French strategist.
Aug. 28—A. R. Sorlie. governor of
North JOakota.
Aug. 29—Mary Garrett Hay. suffrage
leader, in New Rochelle, N. Y.
Sept. 3—Rear Admiral G F. Wins-
low, retired.
Sept 20— William Whitman, cotton
manufacturer, in Brookline, Mass.
Sept. 21—Roy K. Moulton, newspa-
per humorist, in St. Joseph, Mo.
Sept. 23—Sir Horace Darwin, scien=-
tist and son of Charles Darwin.
Sept 26—R. F. Qutcault newspaper
comic artist.
Sept. 26—A. KE. Stilwell. railroad
man, in New York.
Sept. 29—Brig. Gen. W. H. Bixby. for=-
mer chief of army engineers.
Oct. 5—George Beban. film actor.
O:t. 83—Larry Semon. motion picture
comed an.
Oct. 12—Mrs. Augusta KE. Stetson, fa-
mous disciple of Mary Baker Eddy. in
Rochester. N. Y.
Oct. 13—Dowager Empress Marie of
Russia. t
Oct. 14—William J. Flynn. former
chief of U. S. secret service.
Oct. 16—Benjamin Strong, governor
of New York Iederal Reserve bank.
Sir Frank Dicksee, English painter
and president of Royal Academy.
Oct. 22—Adolf Kraus. Jewish leader,
in Chicago
Charles A Towne, former U. 8 sen-
ator from Minnesota.
pr. A. H Putney, international law
authority, in Washington.
Miss Frances Newman, American
novelist.
Oct. 23—eorge Barr McCutcheon,
American novelist, in New York.
Oct. 24—Cardinal de Lai, in Rome.
Oct. 26—Rev. R. A. Torrey. evange«
list, at Ashville, N. C.
Brig. Gen. J. R. McQuigg, former na-
tional commander of American Legion.
Oct. 30—Robert Lansing. former sec-
retary of state.
Richard Hudnut, American parfume
ery manufacturer, in France.
Nov 8—Eliza Scidmore. writer on Far
East.
Nov. 6—Dr. Frank Crane. American
writer, in Nice, France.
Nov. 10—Prince Trepofl. premier of
Russia in 1916.
Nov. :4—Dr. Sabin von Sohocky, in-
ventor of radium paint. at East Orange.
Rev. J. H. Nicely. moderator in In-
diana presbytery.
Nov. 16—Prof. T. C. Chamberlin. ge-
ologist. in Chicago.
Nov. 18—Dr. John Harding. father of
the late President Harding.
Nov. 19—William A. Oldfield.
gressman from Arkansas.
Nov. 21—Hermann Sudermann.
man dramatist.
Nov. 22—George H. Jones, chairmap
of Standard Oil of New Jersey.
Nov. 23—Thomas F Ryan. financier,
in New York.
Dr. BE. Y. Mullins, president Southern
Baptist Theological seminary in Louis-
con-
Ger-
| ville, Ky.
Nov 24—Gen. Baron Jacques, Bel-
gian war commander.
Nov. 26—Admiral Scheer, commander
ol German fleet in battle of Jutland.
Eg 98—Admiral FF F. Fletcher. re-
tired.
Dec. 1—Henry A Haugen. Chicago
banker.
Dec 2—Lord Tennyson. son of the
| tamous poet.
Dec. 3—Ezra Meeker, last of the
Oregon Trail pioneers, in Seattle.
pec. T7—Miss Alice Longfellow.
daughter of the poet.
Dec. Patten,
g—James A
financier
Dickinson, former sec-
retary of war. in Chicago.
Chicago
Dec 13—J M
Dec. 18—FEleanor Wvlie. American
poet and novelist
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