Chronology
of the Year
1929
Compiled by
E. W. PICKARD
BALA LLLALLALLALAS
INTERNATIONAL
Jan. 2—United States and Canads
igned treaty for joint projects at Ni-
ara Falls.
Jan. b—Twenty nations signed new
an-American treaty of conciliation
nd arbitration.
Jan. 16—Salvation Army high coun-
oil voted to oust Gen. Bramwell Booth
as unfit. 5
Jan. 30—Japan accepted new Chi-
nese tariff schedule, recognizing Chi-
ness tariff autonomy
“London chancery ccurt voided action
£ ‘Salvation Army high council oust-
ng Gen. Bramwell Booth from com-
mand.
‘Feb. 6—German reichstag ratified
the Kellogg anti-war treaty.
Feb. 7—Kellogg treaty ratified by
Polish diet.
Agreement between Italy and the
Vatican, recognizing the full sovereign-
ty of the pope, announced in Rome.
Feb. 9—Russia, Poland, Latvia, Es-
thonia and Rumania signed a protocol
king immediately effective among
hemselves the terms of the Kellogg
anti-war treaty
Feb. 11—Pact between the Vatican
and Italy formally signed.
Conference of experts on German
reparations opened in Paris with Owen
D. Young of the United States as
chairman.
Feb. 13—Salvation Army high coun-
cil again deposed Commanding General
Bramwell Booth and elected Edward
J. Higgins to succeed him.
March 1—French and Danish par:
liaments ratified the Kellogg treaty.
March 4—Council of League of Na-
tions met, taking up subject of racial
sminorities.
arch 18—International jurists of
League of Nations accepted formula of
Elihu Root for entry of United States
into world court.
April 13—Allies in reparations con-
ference demanded about $12,000,000,000
from Germany to be paid over period
of 68 years.
April 15—Preparatory disarmament
commission of League of Nations
opened its meeting in Geneva.
April 18—Disarmament commission
rejected Russia's plan for immediate
reduction of armaments. .
April 29—China asked the powers to
surrender their extra territorial rights
May 2—United States, in disarma-
ment conference, withdrew its opposi-
tion to accumulation of reserve war
material.
May 4—Compromise plans for Ger-
man reparations offered by American
delegates.
Gibson's plan for limitation of arms
by publicity of expenditures for war
material adopted by disarmament con-
ference.
May 6—Preparatory disarmament
conference adjourned without definite
results.
¢ May 17—Settlement of the Tacna-
Arica dispute between Peru and Chile
through President Hoover's efforts an-
nounced in Washington. Bolivia pro-
tested the terms.
June 4—Young plan for reparations
accepted by commission of experts in
Paris.
Russian officials ir China, recalled,
were arrested by Chinese government;
Siberian frontier closed. |
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June 7—Representatives of seven na- |
tions signed new Young reparations |
plan. |
June 10—IlLeague of Nations council
met in Madrid.
June 16—Prime Minister MacDonald
and Ambassador Dawes conferred on
naval! disarmament plans.
+ June 21—Peace agreement between
Mexico and the Catholic church an-
nounced.
June 26—dJapan approved the Kel-
logg peace pact.
July 6—England, France, Belgium
and Germany agreed on conference
Sughst ¢ to put Young plan in opera-
on.
July 9-—China ousted Russians from
control of Chinese il:istern railway de-
porting many.
July 13—Germany and Belginm
reached agr=ement for payment for
worthless marks left in Belgium.
July 14—Russia gave China three
days to arrange aniicable conference
on Manchurian embroglio.
July 17—China’s reply to Russian ul-
timatum being unsatisfactory to Mos-
cow, diplomatic relations were severed |
by the soviet government. i
July 20—Russians attacked Chinese |
on eastern Manchurian border with !
artillery and £4 i
¢« China recalled her diplomatic rep-
resentatives from Rusgia. |
July 21—French chamber ratified the |
debt settlements with United States |
and Great Britain. |
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July 24—President Hoover, in cere-
mony in Washington, declared Kellogg |
pact in effect.
Russian and Chinese representatives
gion conference on Manchurian trou- !
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July 8i—International Jamboree of
soy, Scouts opened at Birkenhead, Eng-
lan
Aug. 6—International conference on |
fiquidation of World war problems !
opened in The Hague, l
Aug. 11—Chinese quit the Manchuri- |
an conference; more Russians deported. !
( Aug. 16—Russian army invaded }
Manchuria near Manchouli and battle {
resulted. {
Aug. 29—Confcrence at The Hague |
reached agreement on division of rep- |
jarations and evacuation of the Rhine-
and. |
~ Sept. 2— Tenth annual assembly of |
League of Nations opened in Geneva.
Sept. 4—World court accepted Root
protocol for adhesion of United States.
Sept. 9—Delegates from 28 European
countries heard with approval Briand’s |
plans for a federation of continental
powers. |
Soviet forces lost three-day battle
with Chinese for possession of Pogran-
jchinaya on the eastern Manchurian
border. i
Peru, Yugo-Slavia and Poland elect-
ed to council of League of Nations.
Sept. 14—British army began evacua-
tion of Rhineland. |
+ league of Nations adopted revised
protocol for admission of United States '
to the World court. |
Oct. 1--Great Britain and Russia |
agreed to resume diplomatic relations.
United States and Turkey signed
trealy of commerce and navigation. |
Qct. 2—Soviet troops opened furious
efiepsive against Chinese in Manchouli
rea.
Qct. 4—Ramsay MacDonald, prime
minister of Great Britain, arrived in
Washington to discuss naval limitation
with President Hoover.
Oct 7-—Great Britain invited United
States, France, Italy and Japan to par-
ticipate in naval limitation conference
in London in January.
Prime Minister MacDonald addressed
the American congress. pledging naval
parity
Oct y—United States accepted invi-
tation to naval conference.
President Hoover and Prime Minister
MacDonald announced a close Anglo-
American understanding to renounce
war and work together for world peace.
Oct. 12—Russian forces occupied La-
hasusu on the Amur river and sank
three Chinese gunboats. 300 sailors be-
ing drowned:
Oct: 15—France, Italy and Japan ac-
cepted invitation to the naval confer-
ence, :
Oét = 28—Hetrothai announced of
Crown Prince- Humbert of 'Itily and
Princess. Marie Jose of Belgium.
‘Nov. 5—Delégates of 60 natio. t
4n Paris to raft Henty Yor protection
pf business in foréign lands.
Nov. 9-~Russian troops éressed Amur
giver and invaded China. #
~ Mov. 13—Statutes and charter of the
Bank of International Relations signed
by delezates al Baden Baden
Nov 17—Invading Russians captured
Dalai Nor, Manchuria.
Nov. 23—Russians won decided vic-
tories in west and east Manchuria.
Nov. 26—Chinese government ap-
pealed to League of Nations and signa-
tories to the Kellogg pact to stop the
invasion of Manchuria; and Manchuri-
an provincial government sent appeal
direct to President Hoover.
Nov. 28—Chinese government made
two final proposals to Russia for set-
tlement of Manchurian trouble.
Nov. 29—China and Russia agreed to
settle their dispute by direct negotia-
on.
Dec. 1—Allies evacuated second gone
of occupation in the Rhineland
Dec. 2—President Hoover appealed
to Russia and China to stop fighting
and ahide by Kellogg pact.
Dec. 8—Russia replied to President
Hoover's note declaring it unnecessarv
and not a friendly act.
Dec. 9—American charge at Berne.
Switzerland, signed world court proto-
col for U. S.
Dec. 12—British troops of occupation
left the Rhineland.
DOMESTIC
Jan. 1—President and Mrs. Coolidge
left Sapelo island. Georgia. for Wash:
ington.
Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated gov
ernor of New York.
Jan. 2—Electoral college officially
elected Hoover and Curtis.
Jan. 6-—President Elect-Hoover ar-
rived in Washington from his Latin-
American tour.
Jan. 8—Right of James M. Beck to
seat as representative of first district
of Pennsylvania upheid by the house.
Jan. 11—IHouse passed bill for auto-
matie reapportionment. effective in
Jan. 12—Stephen T. Mather resigned
as director of national parks; H M
Albright succeeded him.
Jan. 15—Senate ratified the Kellogg
anti-war treaty by a vote of 85 to 1.
House passed the army supply bill.
Walter O. Woods appointed treasure!
of the United States.
Jan. 21—Senate approved appoint-
ment of Roy O. West as secretary of
the interior.
Dr. C. C. Little resigned as president!
of University of Michigan.
Oklahoma senate suspended Governo!
Johnston from office.
Jan. 22—Senate voted to give the
President $24,000,000 for dry enforce-
ment.
Jan. 26—Congress authorized the
President to invite foreign nations to
take part In Chicago centennial fair in
1933.
$n. 1—President Coolidge dedicated
the Bok bird sanctuary and singing
tower at Mountain Lake, Fla.
Feb. 5—Senate passed 1b-cruiser bill
with time limit clause.
Feb. 7—House accepted
amendments to cruiser bill.
Feb. 8—Senate passed the army sup
ply bill carrying $456,009,000, and the
house passed the naval appropriation
Feb. 11—BE. S. Shumaker, superin-
tendent of Indiana Anti-Saloon league.
started serving 60-day sentence for
contempt of court.
Feb. 12—Engagement of Col. Charles
Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow.
daughter of the ambassador to Mexico.
announced.
Feb. 13—President Coolidge signed
the 15-cruiser bill,
Feb. 16—House passed bill for de-
portation of alien gunmen and boot-
leggers.
Feb. 19—President-Elect Hoover re-
turned to Washington.
The senate passed bill Increasing
prohibition penalt es. :
eb. 2 enate ordered engineering
survey for Nicaragua canal
Feb. 28—House passed Jones bill in-
creasing prohibition penalties.
March 1-—House passed resolution for
Nicaragua canal route survey.
March 4—Hoover and Curtis in-
augurated President and Vice Presi-
dent of United States.
March 5—Senate confirmed eight new
members of Hoover's cabinet and or-
dered an inquiry into Secretary
lon’s right to hold over.
March 7—President Hoover called
congress in extraordinary session for
April 15.
March 14—President Hoover ordered
that all tax refunds be made public.
March 20—Three University of Mis-
souri teachers ousted in row over cir-
culation of sex questionnaire.
ov.
senate
Mel. ington.
Henry S. Johnston of Okla- |
homa removed from office by state sen- |
ate court of impeachment on charge of
incompetency.
March 22—President Hoover
claimed national origins quotas.
creasing British immigration.
March 28—Former Vice
Dawes sailed for Santo Domingo to
revise public finances.
enry L. Stimson swora in as sec-
retary of state
April 1—Xenry J.
senator from Kansas to
President Curtis.
April 8—U. S. Supreme court upheld
pro-
in-
Allen appointed
succeed Vice
conviction of Harry ¥. Sinclair for con-
tempt of the senate.
April 10—Charles G. Dawes appoint-
ed ambassador to Creat Britain.
i.for deportation,
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President
April 15—Special session of congress |
opened; Longworth re-elected speaker
of the house. : os
read to congress.
April 20—Senator James Couzens of
Michigan created trust fund of $10,000.
000 to aid children.
April 25—Haugen farm relief bil
passed by house
ged, | fe Hutchins, dean of Yale law
school, made president of University
of Chicago.
May 6—Harry Sinclair began jail
term in Washington for contempt of
the senate.
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., appointed
solicitor general of U. S.
May 8—Senate voted, 47 to 44, for
xport debenture plam in farm relief
ill. ’
May 11—Des Moines university, Bap-
tist fundamentalist finstitutiou, closed
and faculty dismissed; students in riot-
ous revolt.
May 14—Senate passed the McNary
farm relief bill.
May 15—Dwight F. Davis, former
secretary of war, selected for gover-
nor general of Philippines.
May 20—President Hoover appointed
his law enforcement commission of 11
headed by George W. Wickersham.
Railroads won Suprew?, court decis-
fon in valuation case involving billions
of dollars.
May 22—Thebdore Roosevelt, Jr.. ap-
pointed governor of Porto Rico.
May 24—R. Lucas of Kentucky
appointed commissioner of internal
revenue.
May 27—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
and Anne Morrow were married at the
Morrow home in Englewood, N. J.
May 28—House passed the Hawley
tariff bill. .
Mabel Willebrandt resigned as as-
sistant attorney general. t
ay 29—Senate passed census-reap
portionment bill.
June 3—Supreme court upheld six
months’ sentence of Harry F. Sinclair
for: ing detectives to shadow jury
members,
June 4—Hubert Work resigned as
chairman of Repuhlican national com-
mittee.
President Hoover. accepted resigng
tion of N. B. Judah as ambassador to
Cuba. ’
June 6—Senaté and house conferees
agreed on farm. relief bill, eliminating
the export debenture clause.
June ¢—House Jassed census and
reapportionment bill
June T7—Housé adopted conference
report on farm. relief bill.
June 8—Seventy-fifth birthday of Re-
Rublican party celebrated at Ripon,
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June l4—Senate accepted conference
report on farm relief bill and sent
measure to President. 3 aie
June 15—President’ Hoover signed
the farm relisf bill.’ wef Ter?
June 17—Congress appropriated $160,-
000,000 for farm relief loan, fund.
tse of riot guns by prohibition
agents forbidden. '
June 18—=Anti-Smith Democrats of
virginia held convention and nominat-
ed candidates for state offices.
June 19—Congress recessed for the
summer.
June 31—Col. J. C. Roop appointed
irector ‘of thé budget.
June 35—President Hoover accepted
Fletcher from diplomatic service.
June 26—Virginia Republicans nom-
inated state slate put up by Anti-
Smith Democrats.
June 28—President Hoover named J.
C. Stone, Kentucky; C. B. Denman, Mis-
souri, and Carl Williams, Oklahoma,
members of new federal farm board.
June 30—Secretary Mellon announced
treasury surplus as $185,000,000. ;
July 2—Alexander Legge of Chicago.
president of International Harvester
company, and C. C.. Teague of Cali-
fornia, accepted appointment to federal
farm board, the former to be chairman.
July 12—C. S§ Wilson of Hall, N. XY.
appointed to federal farm board.
“July 17—Fifteen state banks in
southwest Florida failed.
July 22—Thirteen hundred convicts
attempted to escape from Clinton pr -
on, Dannemora, N. Y., and in battle
with guards three were killed.
July 24—President Hoover halted
work on the cruiser program.
July 28—Seventeen hundred convicts
tn Auburn prison, New York, battled
guards in attempt to escape and two
were killed. . :
July 29—President Hoover started
the child health .and protection con-
férence on fits work.
July 30—Former Governor 8. R. Mc-
Kelvie of Nebraska appointed member
of federal farm board.
July 31—John W. Garrett of Balti-
more appoiated ambassador to Italy.
. Aug. 1—Couvicts in Leavenworth
penitentiary mutinied, one being killed.
Aug 6—dJohn G. Pollard nominated
tor governor of Virginia by Democrats.
Aug. 10—Fruit and vegetable grow-
ers formed $50,000,000 co-operative
marketing association.
Aug. 18—Farm board arranged loan
of $9,000,000 to California ra sin and
grape growers.
Aug. 19—Senate finance committee
made public its tariff bill
Aug. 20—CGerrit J. Diekema of Mich-
fgan appointed minister to Holland.
Aug. 31—William E. Brock appoint-
ed to fill out term of the late Senator
Tyson of Tennessee.
Sept. 1—Des Moines university or-
dered closed by the trustees.
Sept. 6—President Hoover asked an
investigation into propagandist activi-
ties of three shipbuilding corporations
against naval reductions.
Sept. 9—Claudius H. Huston of Ten-
nessee elected chairman of Republican
national committee.
Maine voted against export of power
by Insull companies.
Sept. 10—Regular Republicans in
senate defeated in first test in tariff
battle; resolution adopted calling on
Treasury department for all informa-
tion on income in income tax returns
of tariff beneficiaries.
Sept. 11—Senate voted to investigate
propagandist activities of W. B. Shear-
or on behalf of shipbuilding corpora-
on.
Sept. 12—Grand Army of the Repub-
lic, in session at Portland, Me., elected
BE. J. Foster of Worcester, Mass. com-
mander in chief.
Sept. 16—Henry F. Guggenheim ap-
resignation of Ambassador H P
pointed ambassador to Cuba.
Sept. 17—Gen. Lytle Brown appoint- |
ed chief of army engineers with in- |
structions to reorganize the office. !
Congressman La Guardia nominated |
for mayor of New York by Repub-
licans, and Mayor Walker renominat- |
ed by Democrats. {
Sept. 30—American Legion conven- |
tion opened in Louisville. |
Oct. 1—Senate voted to investigate
‘all lobbies operating in congress.
Oct. 2—Democratic and radical Re-
publican senators removed flexible
tariff feature from the tariff bill. |
Oct. 3—Convicts in Colorado peni- !
tentiary at Canon City mutinied, killed |
seven guards and were conquered by
militia and police with gun fire and |
dynamite. |
O. L. Bodenhamer of El Dorado, Ark., |
elected commander of American Legion.
Oct. 4—Mayor and police chief of |
East Chicago, Ind, and 297 others in- !
dicted in federal clean-up of vice in
northern Indiana.
Dr. A. G. Ruthven elected president |
of University of Michigan.
Oct. 7—Trial of Albert B. Fall for |
oil lease conspiracy opened in Wash-
Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated gov-
ernor of Porto Rico.
Oct. 9—Irwin B. Laughlin of Pitts- |
burgh appointed ambassador to Spain.
Oct. 15—Investigation of congres-
sional lobbying started by senate com-
mittee.
Oct. 16—Great raid made on rum-
running syndicate along Atlantic coast.
Federal farm board members all con-
firmed by senate. :
Oct. 18—Charles C (tirt appointed |
minister to Persia.
Oct. 19—Hundreds of aliens from all
parts of the country sent to New York
Democrats and radical Republicans
put crop debenture amendment in tariff
11.
Oct. 21—Golden jubilee of Edison's
electric light celebrated at Greenfield
Village, Mich.,, with Mr. Edison and
President Hoover among Henry Ford’s
guests,
Seven radicals found guilty of mur-
der of Gastonia (N. C.) police chief.
Senators Reed of Pennsylvania and
! Robinson of Arkansas named delegates |
to naval conference in London with
Secretary Stimson as chairman.
Oct. 22—President Hoover spoke at
_ Cincinnati at celebration of canaliza- |
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April 16—President Hoover's message | toile
Ohio river.
Oct, 23—President Hoover in speech
at Louisville announced great program
for inland waterways.
Oct. 24—Million-dollar livestock co-
operative formed by farmers,
Tremendous crash in prices on stock
exchanges. . 1
Oct. 25—Albert B. Fall found guilty
or Bboy in Washington.
26—Federal farm board made
$100,000,000 available to farmers to
help stabilize wheat prices. :
Oct. 28—Stock values shrink 14 bil- '
lions in another big market slump.
Oct. 29—Further tremendous losses
in stock prices. = i
Organization of Farmers’ National
Grain corporation completed.
Nov. 1—Albert B. Fall sentenced to
oné year in prison and $100,000 fine.
Nov. 2—John A. MacMurray. Ameri-
can. minister to China, resigned to .
enter facuity of Johns Hopk .s uni-
versity.
Nov. ¢—Senator Bingham of Con-
necticut censured by the senate for em-
ploying paid lobbyist.
Nov. b—Jimmie Walker re-elected
mayor of New York.
Democrats carried Virginia election,
defeating Bishop Cannon's coalition
ticket.
Nov. 11—President Hoover in Armis-
tice day address offered new peace code
based on preparedness.
Nov. 13—Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon announced the administration
would ask congress to authorize reduc-
tion of income tax rates by 1 per cent. |
Nov. 15—President called conference '
of industrial, labor and agricultural
leaders.
Nov. 19—Railroad executives as-
sured the President their roads would
continue their construction programs,
and financial leaders reported business
and banking conditions excellent.
Robert M. Hutchins installed as pres-
fdent of University of Chicago.
Nov.
ams and Ambassadors Dawes, Morrow
and Gibson added to naval conference
delegation.
Nov. 21-—Industrial and labor tlead-
ers conferred VA President Hoover
and pledged al maintaining busi-
ness progress, with no wage cuts and
no demands for w¥ increase
Senate confirmeé appointment of
Walter B. Edge of New Jersey as am-
bassador to France. .
Davida Baird, Jr., appointed senator
trom New Jersey to succeed Mr. Edge.
Nov. 2i—Special session of congress
adjourned sine die.
Nov. 28-—President Hoover asked
governors of all states to help speed
up public re ho
ov, 26—Farm organi n- leaders
pied, ‘éd their suppo to Hoover's
Prospi program.
Nov. 37—Utilities es assured
Prion Hoover they fhtarests would
expend more than $1,500,000,000 in {m-
provements in 1830.
Nov. 29—Bodies of 76 American sol-
atérs who fell in’ Russia brought back
for burial.
Dec. 2—Regular session of congress
openéd. f {
Dec. 3—President Hoover's message
transmitted to congress.
g0—Secretary of the Navy Ad- |
‘and
Congress of 4-H clubs held in Chi-
cago.
Dec. 4—P. J. Sullivan of Casper,
Wyo., appointed United States senator
to succeed the late F. E. Warren,
President © Hoover submitted the
budget to congress.
Dec. 6—House passed resolution for
income tax reduction of 1 per cent.
Leading business men of nation con-
jorres with President Hoover in Wash-
ngton.
ec. 6—Senate refused to seat Wil-
liam 8S. Vare of Pennsylvania.
Patrick J. Hurley of Oklahoma ap-
pointed secretary of war. .
Marine reinforcements sent to Halt!
because of disorders there.
Dec. 9—Ex-Judge Ben Lindsay of
Repver disbarred for unethical prac-
ce.
Dec. 11—Joseph R. Grundy appoint-
ed senator from Pennsylvania. !
Revolt of convicts in Auburn prison.
New York, suppressed; nine killed.
Dec. 12—Dr. I. S. Falk of University
of Chicago announced his discovery of
the flu germ. 3
House ratified French debt settle-
ment.
Dec. 14—Senate passed tax cut reso-
lution.
Dec. 21—Congress recessed for the
holidays.
Dec. 80—American Historical asso-
ciation and allied bodies convened ir
Durham, N. C.
FOREIGN
Jan. 1—General Moncada inaugurat-
ed President of Nicaragua.
Jan. 6—King Alexander of Yugo-
Slavia dissolved parliament, abrogated
the constitution and virtually declared
himself dictator, with Gen. Peter Ziv-
covic as premier.
Jan. 183—King Amanullah of Afghan-
{stan abdicated in favor of his broth-
er, Inayatulla, and fled from Kabul.
fopon continued, rebels attacking
abul.
Jan. 17—Afghan rebels under Habi-
bullah Khan in control of Kabul
Jan. 29—Spanish government quelled
a revolt in southern provinces.
Feb. 9—Toral, assassin of President-
Elect Obregon of Mexico, executed.
Feb. 22-—Chinese Nationalist army
defeated bandit rebels in big battle |
near Chefoo, Shantung.
March 3—Revolution broke out in
eight states of Mexico.
Ttalian court of inquiry blamed No-
Phe for the Italia disaster in the Arc-
Cc.
March 5—Mexican rebels won Mont-
8I8y after bloody battle, and lost Ori-
zaba.
March 6—Mexican rebels defeated
and driven from Monterey.
3 March 8—Mexican rebels captured
army filed from Torreon.
March 23—New
opened.
April 2—Mexican rebels defeated at
Jiminez and La Cruz.
April 8—Iiscobar’s
Mexican rebel
! army slaughtered in battle at Reforma. |
Chancellor Seipel of Austria and his |
cabinet resigned.
April 4—Cabinet of Poland resigned.
April 9—Mexican rebels evacuated
Juarez and Chihuahua City.
April 13—Mussolini assumed full
control to regulate capital and labor
in Italy.
April 21—Chinese Nationalist army
routed the forces of Chang Chung-
chang near Chefoo.
April 30—Mexican rebels surrendered |
Nogales; many rebel generals fleeing
‘0 United States.
British parliamentary elections re-
sulted in downfall of the Baldwin con-
servative government, though no party
won clear majority in house of com-
mons.
June 5—King George appointed Ram- }
say MacDonald, Laborite. to form new
British government.
June 7—Italian government and the
vatican exchanged ratifications of the
, Lateran treaty.
June 8—British Labor cabinet sworn
in.
June 10—Pope Pius X1 promulgated
constitution of the Vatican state.
July 2—Baron Tanaka resigned as
remier
y Yamaguchi.
July 24—Prime Minister MacDonald
: stopped naval construction.
Mexico dropped prosecution of re-
ligious rebels.
July 25—The oope left the Vatican
for first time in 59 years.
July 26—French senate ratified the
| war debt agreements.
Fremier Poincare of France resigned.
July 27—Aristide Briand appointed
: premier of France.
Aug. 5—Leguia re-elected President
of Peru.
Aug. 6—Communist plot to overthrow
Cuban government frustrated.
Aug. 23—Arabs attacked and slew
Jews in Jerusalem and other Pales-
tine places.
Aug. 25—Mongol nomads in Man-
churia revolted and killed many Chi-
ese.
Continuation of race war in Pal-
estine led to landing of British troops
and marines; hundreds of Jews mas-
sacred. ;
Sepi. 12—Premier Mussolini of Italy
resigned seven of the eight portfolios
| he had held.
Sept. 19—Rebellious Cantonese divi-
sion started new civil war in China.
Sept. 25—Cabinets of Austria and
Czechoslovakia resigned; Johann Scho-
ber made Austrian chancellor.
Oct. 4—Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes supplanted by kingdom of
i Yugo-Slavia with nine semi-autono-
mous states.
Oct. 8—Forces of Nadir Khan cap-
tured Kabul, capital of Afghanistan,
Habibullah, usurping king, fled by
airplane.
Oct. 15—Nadir Khan proclaimed amir
of Afghanistan.
ot. 21—J. H. Scullin, Labor party
Decame premier of Australia.
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leader, 1
Oct. 22—Premier Briand of France
cf
. and his cabinet resigned.
Oct. 27—Reds of London rioted near
American embassy because of convie-
tion of communists in Gastonia, N. C.
Oct. 30—Untario elections won by
Conservatives with
plank.
Oct. 81—Andre Tardieu undertook to
form French cabinet.
liquor control
Nova Scotia voted for government '
liquor sales.
Nov. 2—Tardieu formed a govern-
ment for France.
Germany voted to hold referendum
on acceptance of the Young plan.
Bacha Sakao,
ghanistan, executed.
Nov. 3—Chinese rebel army defeat-
ed the Nationalist forces in big battle.
Nov. 17—Pascual Ortiz Rubio elect-
ed President of Mexico.
Nov. 25—Belgian [inisuy, resigned
over language dispute in Ghent uni-
versity.
Dec. 3—Chinese Nationalist army
facing 50,000 rebels near Canton,
Dec. 5—King and queen of Ttaly vis-
ited the pope in the Vatican.
Dec. 12—Chinese Nationalists defeat-
ed three rebel armies.
AERONAUTICS
Jan. 7—Army plane Question Mark
completed at Los Angeles a cont 1 uous
fligat of 1560 hours 40 minutes and 16
seconds, having been refueled in air
86 times; all records for aircraft bro-
k
ed United States-Panama air mail
service,
British Honduras.
Feb. 5—Capt. Frank Hawks made
new record, 18 hours 21 minutes 59
seconds, for gonstop flight from Los
Angeles to New York.
Colonel Lindbergh ended second leg
of his flight at Managua.
Feb. 6—Lindbergh completed his mail
flight to P
Seb. 23—George Haldeman made
ponstop flight from Windsor, Ont. to
Havana in 12 hours 56 minutes.
March 25—Spanizh aviators, ,
1gnacio Jiminez and Francisco Iglesias,
flew JESron Atlantic from Seville to
Brazilian coast
May 4—National elimination balloon
race started from Pittsburgh, Pa.
—Balloon race won. by the
Ne NS: 1, which landed near Char-
lottetown, Prince Edward island. after
miles.
flight of out. 900 n
a fish ah o Soucek, U. 8. N.,
May $—Lieut. Apo
qstabiighed new altitude record of 39.-
140 fee
May 326—R. I. Robbins and Jame:
Kelly made new record for airplane
uarez.
March 16—General Escobar’s rebel |
n
Chinese civil war |
of Japan, and was succeeded '
deposed king of Af-
en. i
Feb. 4—Colonel Lindbergh inaugurat-
flying from Miami to Belize.
Capts. |
endurance flight at Fort Worth. Texas
—172 hours 31 minutes 1 secord
June 13—Three Frenchmen hopped
oft in plane Yellow Bird from old Orch-
ard Beach, Me, for Paris; American
plane Green Flash wrecked in starting
fcr Rome.
June 14—French transatlantic flyers
landed near Comillas, Spain.
June 21—Maj. Ramon Franco and
three companions hopped off from
Spain for U. 8. by way of the Azores,
and were lost in the Atlantic for a
week.
June 27—Capt. Frank Hawks made
new record of 19 hours 10 minutes 28
seconds for nonstop flight from New
York to Los Angeles.
June 28—Hawks flew from Los An-
geles to New York in 17 hours 44
minutes. .
‘June 29—Franco and companions
found safe floating in their plane near
the Azores.
July 1—Wilmer Stultz, Amelia Ear-
harbs transatlantic pilot, killed in
rash.
July 6—Mitchell and Newcomb at
Cleveland set new world’s record for
refueling endurance flight—174 hours
69 seconds.
July 8—Williams and Yancey In mon-
oplane Pathfinder hopped off at Old
Orchard, Me. for Rome.
July 9—Williams and Yancey landed
near Santander, Spain, out of gas.
July 12—Mendell and Reinhart at
Culver City, Calif.,, broke all records
by remaining in air 246 hours 43 min-
utes 82 seconds.
July 13—Coste and Bellonte of
France and Idzikowski and Kubala of
Poland began flights from Le Bourget
field, Paris, for New York. The French-
men turned back, and the Polish plane
crashed on Graciosa island. Azores Td-
zikowski being killed.
July 80—Dale Jackson and Forest
O’Brine in St. Louis Robin plane end-
ed record-breaking endurance flight of
420 hours 21 minutes.
Aug. 1—Graf Zeppelin started from
Friedrichshafen for the United States
' wilo 19 passengers Xi
ug. —Gra eppelin arrived at
| Lakehurst, N. J.
| Aug. 7—Graf Zeppelin left Lake-
. hurst on trip around the world.
| Aug. 19—Graf Zeppelin arrived at
| Tokyo.
| Kaesar and uLuscher, young Swiss
| aviators, began transatlantic flight
from Portugal.
Aug. 20—Swiss aviators lost in At-
i lantic.
Mamer and Walker in Spokane Sun
| God completed refueling nonstop flight
from Spokane to New York and return.
Aug. 26—Graf Zeppelin arrived at
Los Angeles.
Louise Thaden of Pittsburgh won
| women’s air derby from Santa Monica
i
1
|
|
| to Cleveland.
! Sept. 1—Graf Zeppelin left Lake-
| hurst for Friedrichshafen.
| Sept. 4—Zeppelin arrived at Fried-
| richshafen.
i Sept. 7—Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn
| wan the Schneider cup for Great Brit-
| ain, averaging 328.63 miles an hour
| over the 218-mile course.
Sept. 10—A. H. Orlebar at Calshot,
England, made record speed of 355.8
miles an hour in the Schneider cup
|
| seaplane.
Sept. 23—Col. Lindbergh, accom-
panied by his wife, completed flight
from Miami to Paramaribo, Dutch Gui-
ana, opening new air mail route,
| Sept. 29—Coste and Bellonte landed
| in Manchuria 4,846 miles from Paris,
| making record long distance flight.
| Sept. 30—Fritz von Opel of Germany
made first flight, six miles, in rocket
| plane.
i Oct. 22—Urban F. Diteman, Jr. of
| Montana started solo flight from Har-
| bor Grace, Newfoundland, for London,
: is Small Barling monoplane, and was
| lost.
Oct. 29—National air races of 1930
! awarded to Chicago.
| Nov. 25—Lieut. George T. Cuddihy.
crack pilot of the navy, killed in crash
at Washington.
. Nov 29—Commander Byrd and three
companions made airplane flight over
South pole.
| DISASTERS
Jan. 156—Three hundred lives lost
when Chinése steamer foundered
Jan. 17—Cumana, Venezuela, de-
stroyved by earthquake; 30 killed.
Jan 22—Seventeen killed in collision
between motor bus and interurban car
near Bellevue, Ohio.
Feb. 25—Twenty-one persons killed
in tornado that swept central south
‘March 4—Munitions explosions killed
25 in Sofia, Bulgaria
+ “"March 20—Twenty killed when Ca-
nadian train smashed up in Ontario.
March 21—Fifty killed in mine dis-
aster near Parnassus. Pa.
Movie theater fire in village near
Moscow, Russia, killed 114.
April 10—Tornado killed about 50
persons in northern Arkansas.
i April 21—Storms in Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana and Kentucky
killed 32 persons.
April 25—Tornadoes in Georgia and
South Carolina killed 52 persons.
May 2—Tornadoes in seven states
took 38 lives, 19 school children being
killed at Rye Cove, Va.
May 3—Three thousand killed by
earthquake in Persia.
May 15—Poison gas from burning
X-ray films and flames killed 125 in
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
June 17—Four Japanese towns de-
stroyed by volcanic eruption; many
killed.
July 9—Twenty-three lives lost when
one British submarine was rammed
and sunk by another off coast of Ire-
land.
July 16—Chilean transport Abtao
sank in storm; 41 lives lost.
Aug. 5—Explosion in Japanese coal
mine killed 75.
Aug. 29—About 74 persons lost when
Pacific coast steamer San Juan col-
lided with a tanker and sank.
Sept. 3—Big air liner destroyed in
storm in Arizona; eight lives lost.
{ Sept. 7—One hundred persons drowned
hen Finnish steamer capsized at
| fammerfors.
. Sept. 9—Fifteen lives lost when Eng-
list tanker burned at Rotterdam.
Freight steamer Andaste lost in Lake
'! Michigan, 25 drowned.
Sept. 19—Twenty killed in Detroit
cabaret fire.
Sept. 25—Hurricane did vast damage
20 lives lost in Nas-
, in the Bahamas;
sau
Oct. 6—Forty-four lives lost when
Norwegian steamer foundered in storm
Oct. 22—Car ferry Milwaukee lost in
storm on Lake Michigan; 57 drowned.
Oct. 29—Fifteen lives lost when
steamer Wisconsin foundered in Lake
Michigan. :
Oct. 31—Steamer Senator sank in
| Lake Michigan in collision: ten lives
eruption in Guate-
lost.
1 Nov. $—Volcanic
mala destroyed two
about 50 persons.
Nov. 18—Earthguake in New England
' and Canada maritime provinces broke
nine Atlantic cablec and was followed
by tidal wave that killed scores in
Newfoundland.
war veterans, in Washington.
A ST SAE RES EI,
Feb. 15—Melville E Stone. journal-
ist, in New York" / ¢
Feb. 24—Frank Keenan. veteran act-
or, in Hollywood.
Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis.
p:eacher, in Bronxville, N. Y.
Feb. 28—Harvey O'Higgins. Ameri-
can author and playwright.
March 1—Harrison M Wild of Chi-
cago, musician.
March 6—Thomas Taggart.
Democratic leader.
Moses Clapp, former U. 8 senator
from Minnesota.
+D. D. Buick. automobile pioneer. in
Detroit.
March 17—Allen B Pond, architect
and reform leader, in Chicago.
March 20—Marshal Ferdinand Fech,
supreme commander of the Allied
armies in the World war.
March 22—Gen. Maurice Emmanuel
Sarrail, known as “the defender of
Verdun.”
. March 24—Samuel Rea, former pres-
ident of the Pennsylvania railroad
March 25—Former Governor W.
Stubbs of Kansas.
March 381—Myron T. Herrick, Amer-
ican ambassador to France.
Brander Matthews, author and edu-
cator, in New York.
Cardinal Lucidi, in‘ Rome.
April 13—Count Shimpel Goto. Jap-
anese statesman.
Joseph W. Bailey. former U S sen-
ator from Texas.
Charles H. Aldrich of Chicago for-
mer solicitor general of U. S
Flora Annie Steel, English novelist.
April 20—Prince Henry of Prussia.
brother of ex-kaiser.
April 30—Dr.. A. B. Hale of Unlver-
sity of Porto Rico. authority on Latin
America.
May 7—C. H. Cooley, sociologist, of
University of Michigan.
May 14—Dr. Edward Brock of Wash-
ington, writer and naturalist.
May 25—Garrett P. Serviss.
on science, in Englewood, N J.
June 12—Judge McKenzie Moss of
U. 8S. court of claims.
June 15—Charles F. Brush.
of the arc light.
June 16—Gen. Bramwell Booth, for-
Mer head of Salvation Army, in Lon-
n.
une 17—Asa P. Potter, Boston finan-
noted
Indiana
writer
inventor
June 21—James O'Sullivan, “rubber
heel king,” at Lowell, Mass.
July 3—Dustin Farnum, stage and
screen actor, in New York.
July 4—Maj. Gen. Eli K. Cole. U. 8.
M. C.,, in San Francisco.
July 6—Rear Admiral E. W. Eberle,
retired, in Washington.
July 14—Former State Supreme Court
Justice I. N. Mills of New York.
July 156—W. T. Francis, American
minister to Liberia.
uly 16—Justice Grant Fellows of
Michigan Supreme court.
July 20—Judge N. J. Sinnott of U. 8.
Court of Claims.
July 21—John Cotton Dana, librari-
an, in Newark, N. J.
July 28—Henry B. Fuller, American
novelist, in Chicago.
Aug. 2—Most. Rev. James J. Keane,
Catholic archbishop of Dubuque.
Aug. 83—Emile Berliner, inventor of
disc phonograph, in Washington.
T. B. Veblen, economist.
Aug. 6—Mary MacLane, once famous:
writer in $ikago,
ug. 7—Victor L. Berger, Socialis
leader, in Milwaukee. E 2 r
Aug. 9—H. C. Witwer,
author, in
Hollywood, Calif. >
Aug. 12—Chauncey Keep, Chicago:
capitalist.
Aug. 14—Cyril Keightley, English
actor.
Alfred Cowles, metallurgist. at Se-
waren, N. J.
Baron Horne,
World war.
Aug. 15—Dr. G. P. Merrill, curator of
geology in National museum.
Sir BEdwin Ray Lankester, British
savant.
Aug. 17—Cyrus Locher, former sen-
ator from Ohio.
Aug. 19—Serge Diaghileff, Russian
opera and ballet producer.
Aug. 20—Rear Admiral Albert P. Ni-
black, U. S. N., retired. .
Dr. Edward B.
Hackensack . &
Aug. 24—Lawrence
British general in
Craft, inventor, at
senator from Tennesse
Field. Marshal
World
Turkey.
Sept 3—William BEB.
mayor of Chicago
Owen T Lkdgar,
Lim
German
last oO
Sept. 4—F FF. Proctor, vaudeville
theater magnate, in Larchmont, N. Y.
Sept. 11—(‘ongressman J. Kvale
!
! of Minnesota.
, and
i
Meux of British navy.
Sept. 12—Louise C. Willcox, author
editor, in Paris.
Sept. 1i—Jesse Lynch Williams, au-
thor and playwright.
Sept. 20—Admiral Sir
Hedsworth:
Miller Huggins, manager of New
York Yankees.
Sept. 26—U 8S. Grant, son of late
President Grant, in San Diego.
Sept. 28—Prof. George A. Goodenough
ot University of Illinois, chairman of
~ Western Conference faculty committee
{ on athletics.
Baron Tanaka, Japanese statesman.
Oct. 1—Thomas E. Mitten, noted trac-
tion expert of Philadelphia.
E. A. Bourdelle, French sculptor.
Oct. 2-—Dr. Gustav Stresemann. for-
eign minister of Germal .
Oct. 3—Bishop John
City, N. J.
Jeanne Eag-ls, Amer
Oct. 4—Dr. W. T. B
physician, in Chicago.
Oct. 5—W. T. Connors of Buffalo.
Y., capitalist and publisher.
Oct. 14—W. S. Kelley of Essex Falls.
N. J., inventor of pneumatic tire. .
Oct. 17—Edmund M. Dunne, Catholic-
bishop of Peoria.
Oct. 20—Dr. H, H. Hoppe. neurolo-
gist, in Cincinnati.
Stephen B. Elkins of New York.
Oct. 25—Rev. E. 8S. Shumaker, Indi-
ana Anti-Saloon league superintendent.
H. C. Jones, dean of University of
! Iowa college of law.
. {in Memphis, Tenn.
Nov.
Nov. 28—Fire swept Nantasket |
Beach, Mass.. doing damage of $1.500.-
© 000.
i Nov. 29—Scientific yacht Carnegie of
the Carnegie institution exploded and
burned at Apia, Samoa; Capt. P. J.
Ault killed.
Dec. 10—Ten burned to death in
movie studio fire in New York.
NECROLOGY
Jan. 6—Grand Duke Nicholas. chiet
! claimant to throne of Russia.
Jan. 6—George [L. (Tex) Rickard.
sports promoter, in Miami Beach.
J
Oct. 28—Prince Bernhard vo. Bue-
low, German statesman.
Senator Theodore BE. Burton of Ohio.
Oct. 29—Rev. John Roach Stratan of”
New York, fundamentalist Baptist.
Nov. 2—William G. Lee, former pies-
ident Brotherhood of Railway Train-
men.
George Hannauer, president of Bos-
ton & Maine railroad.
Nov. 38—Marquis Inouye. Japanese
iplomat. :
s Rov. 3—Maurice Herbette, french.
diplomat.
Nov. 6—Prince Max of Baden, last
imperial chancellor of Germany.
Miss: Mary Solari, artist and writer.
10—Dr. Frederick Monsen;
American anthropologist. :
Nov. 13—Former Princess Victoria,
sister of the ex-kaiser of Germany.
Nov. 17—T. P. O'Connor, “father” of
the British house of commons.
Nov. 18—James W Good. secretary
of war.
John Cort,
theatrical producer.
Nov. 19—Prof. PW Speer. metal-
! jurgist, at Houghton, Mich
Nov. 21—Dr. VC. Vaughan scien-
tist and educator. in Richmond. Va.
Nov. %2—Rear Admiral Henry W.
Lyon, retired.
Nov 23—Georges Clemenceau. war
an. 7—Cardinal Tosi. archbishop of :
Milan.
Jan 8-—-Wallace Eddinger. American
actor.
Benjamin N Duke, tobacco magnate
Jan. 11—Tim Murphy, retired actor.
Jan. 186—Count Chinda. Japanese
statesman.
Jan. 21—Col. James Elverson,
publisher of Philadelphia Inquirer.
Jan 25—Oscar W Underwood. for-
mer senator from Alabama.
an. 28—Ogden Mills, New York
financier slasi a
Jan. 29—Robert L. Slagle, president
of Yhiversity St South Dakota.
Feb. 6—Maria Christina. queen moth-
{ er of Spain.
Feb. $—Edwin Denby, former secre-
tary of the navy. in Detroit.
Feb. 12-—Lily Langtry
Bathe), once noted actress,
Carlo,
Jr.
(Lady de
in Monte
|
time premier of France.
Daniel F. Appel. president New Eng-
land Life Insurance company. in Bos-
ton.
Nov. 24—Senator F B. Warren of
/oming. ‘
Wd Hitchcock. actor. im Los
Angeles
ovide Mussin, violinist, in Brooklyn
Nov. 26—C. J. McCarthy, former gov:
ernor of Hawaii. in Honolulu.
Nov. 27—dJohn J. Flinn of Chicago
veteran journalist. 4
Nov. 28—Dr. Harold Gifford
na, noted eye surgeon.
Nov. 39 Father Tondorf of George
town university, earthquake expert. |
Nov. 30—Dr. J. R. Campbell of Still
Okla., educator. 8
Pec. 1—Prof. M. A. Shaw of Univer
Jowa.
or 9 Robert Reid, American mura
t. : >
arist. —C ongressman Ww. Ww Gries
3 a.
of Fenny nl. WwW. Stryker, forme
Hamilton college.
resident of n
v Pe. 12-—Co). Charles Goodnigh'
oled Texas pioneer:
ys Briz Gen. D BH. Aultman, U 8 A.
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