CHRONOLOGY
OF THE YEAR
1936
COMPILED BY E. W. PICKARD
DOMESTIC
Jan. franklin C. Hoyt resigned as fed.
eral alcohol administrator.
Jan. 3-—-Congress opened its session and
President Roosevelt delivered his message
on the state of the nation.
Jan. 6—-Supreme Court decided the AAA
was unconstitutional,
President Roosevelt submitted budget
message for fiscal year 1837.
Jan. $-—-Democratic national convention,
opening June 23, awarded to Philadelphia.
Jan. 10-—-House passed immediate pay-
ment of bonus bill,
Jan. 11--New Jersey court of pardons re-
fused to commute Hauptmann's sentence.
Jan. 13-—-Supreme Court ordered return
of impounded processing taxes.
Jan. 16—Bruno Hauptmann reprieved for
30 days by governor of New Jersey.
Jan. 20--Senate passed bonus bill provid-
ing payment by baby bonds
an. 21 — ficiency appropriation bill
asked $58 200,000 for New Deal
Jan. 22—-Bonus bill sent to President
Jan. 23-Senate committee rejected sub
stitute AAA bill
Jan. 24. —President vetoed bonus bill and
house voted to override the veto
House voted $296.000.000 for AAA farm
contracts
Jan 27--Senate passed baby bond bonus
bill over Presidential veto
Jan. 31—Huey Long's widow appointed
senator from Louisiana to fill out his term
Feb. 4-Senate repealed cotton, tobacco
and potato control acts
Feb. 5—House repealed the
acts
Feb. 86—-House voted to tmpeach Federal
Judee Halstead Ritter of southern district
of Florida
Feb. 10-—-Supreme Court held
Louisiana law tax EP Newspaper aaver Sing
Feb. 13—-Wayne ( aylor made a
sistant secretary of treasury
Feb. 14
aporopriation
Feb. 15 ew farm bill passed by senate
i 17—Supreme court upheld righ
distribute electricity developed
Wilson dam
House voted to extend neutrality
three farm
18—Senate passed neutrality
21-—-House passed new farm bi
23—Chief of Police E Francis Grig
Gen
and
Johnson Hagood
or elite
0. M4-—-Ma}
m yw from comn
ministration
Feb. 26—President
00 000 seed san bill
Feb. 28-—In ate ¢
cut basic rallway fares to 2 ce
Feb. 20—-President signed revis
ity act
C pleted
1—New
Roosevelt vetoed
mmerce commits
Boulder dam turned over to
vice
York building service work.
CK
) 3 3—President In message to
gress proposed n taxes of $1.137.000 000
March 4-Completed Norris dam opened
by Pre ent Roosevelt
March 10—Arthur W
noted grain speculator,
tax evasion
March 11-District of Columbia Supreme
court permanently enjoined seizu
grams by senate commitiee
March 14-New York bull
strike settled by compromise
March 18-—President Roosevelt asked con
gress for $1.500.000,000 for relief in
gcal year
ding service
annual fishing trip
March 23—Senate passed War department
appropriation bill
cago declared national labor
unconstitutional
ler of Chicago resigned
April 3—Bruno Hauptmann executed at
Trenton, N. J.,
of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's baby son
powers of securities exchange commission
April 8-District of Columbia Supreme
mittee in Hearst telegram case
pril 10—President Roosevelt returned to
Washington
good to command of Sixth
Chicago
April 17—Federal Judge Halsted L
of Florida found guilty by senate on im-
poachment charges and removed from
ce
May 1-—Alvin Karpis, “public enemy No.
1." captured in New Orleans
House passed $531.000.000 navy bill
May B8-Senate passed house naval ap
propriation bill
and deficiency bill.
National Red Cross convention opened in
Chicago
May 13—Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage
refinancing bill defeated in house
May 18—Guffey coal act declared invalid
by Supreme court
May 25—-Supreme court declared invalid
the municipal bankruptcy act
Socialist arty nominated
Thomas for President
May 30-—-8enate approved Florida
canal appropriation.
J Une
Norman
ship
v bill
United States Supreme court held invalid
New York minimum wage law
June 4-William B. Bankhead, Alabama,
Hef speaker to succeed the late J. W
YTS,
June 6--Texas
opened at Dallas
Speaker Byrns' funeral held at Nashville
June 7 -8Sixte~n insane felons fled Minne.
sota prison
June S-—Republican natioral
opened in Cleveland
June 11-—-Gov
ncminated for Preside 1t by Hepublicans
June 12--Republicans nominated Frank
Kuiox of Chicago for vice president
President Roosevelt delivered aldress at
the Texas Crntennial exposition i: Dallas
June l4--Fresident Roosevelt ded.cated
George Rogers Clark memorial at Vin.
cennes, Ind.
Delivery of bonus bonds to veterans be.
a
gan
June 17—House defeated Black - Smith anti.
lobby bill, and Florida ship canal bill
Zune 18Congress passed anti-communist
June 20-..Congress adjourned.
June 3-Demoecratic national convention
opened at Philadelphia.
June 26-Franklin D. Roosevelt renomi-
nated by scclamation by Democrats
June 2i-~John N. Garner renominated
for vice pres .
July 7—Postmas.er General Farley given
leave of a + until after election.
July 11-Roosevelt dedicated $65.000.000
New York Tri-Borough bridze
Ruth Bryan Owen married Capt. Boerge
le of Denmark,
July 14—President Roosevelt and sons left
on two weeks’ cruir
July 15—Townsend followers opened con.
vention in Cleveland.
Former Lieut. Coymdr. Jobn 8. Farnsworth
arrested on charge of selling naval informa-
tion to Japanese.
July 18-Government drouth relief ex-
fenced to 18 states.
July 23-Alf M. Lardon officially notified
of his nomination for Presidercy.
July 25--President Roosevelt ended vaca.
tion cruise at Campobello islsnd. N. B
July 30--Col. Frank Krox officially se.
Stpted Republicai, nomirtation for vice pres.
July 31—President Roosevelt visited gov-
hy Tr genets ay 8 anna in Quebsa.
ug. erfors, 23 petroleum
concerns and three publishing companies ih.
dicted Jederal grand jury for violating
« aw
Aug. 5A. F. of L. council od ten
i Sominaited by John L. he
ug. 18-—-National Union for Social J
fn convention in Cleveland, indorsed rte
for President of United States and elected
Faber Coughlin its president.
a, X-Viiliam philips, det a retary
e. apoointed ambassador taly.
Aug. B-Wililam C. Bullitt samed am-
Centennial exhibition
convention
bassador to France, vice Jesse 1. Straus, re.
signe:
resident Roosevelt began 12-day tour of
drouth area
Aug. 30-—Ruth Bryan Owen resigned as
minister to Denmark,
Sept. 3—President Roosevelt met Gover.
nor ndon and six other midwest gover
nors at Des Moines in drouth relief con-
ference.
Sept, 4-—All Minneapolis flour mills closed
by strike,
8 \ Suspension of ten unions by A. F.
of I. in effect,
Sept. 14-—Maine senatoris! and state elec:
tion carried by Republicans.
Sept. 20--G. A national encampment
opened in Washington,
American Legion opened convention in
Cleveland, dedicating Peace Gardens.
Sept. 24—-American Legion elected Harry
W. Colmery of Topeka national commander,
C H. Williams Ruhe of Pittsburgh elected
commander -in.chief of G. A. R.
Sept. 25-—-Harry Woodring given recess
appointment as secretary of war,
Sept. 26--Flour mill workers’ strike In
Minneapolis ended by compromise
Oct. 20—-Ambassadors Suvich of Italy and
De los Rios of Spain and Minister Mar.
ler of Canada presented their credentials
to President Roosevelt,
Oct. 22--Secretary of Interior Ickes re.
leased more than $9,000,000 for PWA pro}
ects in 34 states
Oct. 23—Burlington Zephyr train broke
world record in run from Chicago to Den-
ver
Oct, 30-Strike of 37.000 maritime workers
tied up Pacific coast shipping.
Nov. 3—Roosevelt and Garner rc-elected
President and vice president; electoral vote
523. to 8 for Landon and Knox
Nov. 8-—General maritime strike voted
by workers committee
Leading steel producers announced wage
increasss averaging 10 per cent,
Nov. 10-—National conference on labor leg-
isiation opened in Washington
Nov. 12—-Great San Francisco Bay bridge
formally opened
-— Engagement
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr,
dent, and Ethel du Pont
Nov. 18—-American Federation of Labor
convention opened in Tampa
Nov. 17--President Roosevelt started on
trip to Buenos Aires
Army board of en recommended
completion of Florida ship canal
RG. Tugwell resigned as assistant sec.
retary of agric ire and resettlement ad
tor
announced of
son of the Presi.
gineers
Nov. 20-Joseph E. Davis appointed am-
bassador to Russia
Nov. 23--.U. 8. Supreme court
York state's unemp
ipheld New
Labor voled
political party
Labor
30 hour week and re-
am Green
Live Stock show
formation of
27-—-American
convention decla
elected President Will
Nov. 28--International
opened in Chicago
Nov. 28—-Herman Strelle of Alberta won
wheat king title for fifth time
Dec. 1-{overn nt chartered ship salled
for Alaska with food
™ ore unions joined in maritime work.
eration of
Frenc
Dec and two as-
oct of house of
F. E Townsend
indicted for contempt
presenta ti
Automotiv
Goodyear tire
Dec. 4
ton a 1 ad he y su iit his
extended to
Ohio
strike
returns
11.069 600
special
election
siurality to be
ichberg resigned as
ey general
Roosevelt
neriean
Donald
sistant a
Dec returned to
of os ry itiee
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rejected Chairman Hamilton
FOREIGN
Jan
of Cuba
jan. 17T—Eleven acquitted
reat Stavisky fraud trial in Paris
20-King George of England died
n. 21-—~Former Prince of
» ed King Edward VIII
Jan. 2J-Premier Laval
Jar M- Albert Sarraut formed
French cabinet
Feb. 13-French cabinet
al rganizations because of riots
Leftists won Spanish elections
Paraguay government seized by
rivtionaries Rafael Franco
resident
19-Manuel
new
a
i%
i
re
assassinated several high officials;
ment butldings n Tokio seized
Feb. 23 -Rebellion in Japan quelled
March $-—New
Hirota stalled
March 11 Franco made Paraguay a to
talitarian state
March 13-8erious Marxist riots through.
out Spain
March 14-~Franco
guay recognized by
nations
March 20
government in Para.
United States and other
Mexican gover
reopening of 3.000 Catholic churches
March 23 — Mussolini abolished
chamber of deputies and nationalized all
large industries
in Brazil
March 2-Cermany gave Hitler almost
unanimous vote In reichstag elections
April
scription, violating St
A
Germain treaty
dent Zamora out of office
April 10--Mexican government
former President Calles
April 2M — Honduran government
nounced suppression of a rebellion
April 25—Eleazar Contreras elected presi
dent of Venezuela
April 26-Combination of Communists and
majority in French parila-
mentary elections
April 38-King Fuad 1 of Egypt died and
expelled
an
May 2--Wald party won Egyptian pariia-
mentary elections
May 3-—-Coalition
of French assembly
3 May 10-Manuel Azana made president of
Spain
May 13-Prince von Starhemberg, vice
chancellor of Austria, dropped from cabi-
of leftists won control
May 15—Chancellor Schuschnigg of Aus.
fria decreed dissolution of all private arm-
ies
May 17--Bolivian army officers forced
President Sorzano to resign and named Col.
David Toro to succeed him.
May 20-Miguel Mariano Gomez
urated president of Cuba.
May Military revolt started in Nica-
ragua.
une 2-J. H. Thomas, resigned P-itish
colonial secretary, found guilty of disclos-
ing budget secrets
une 4--Leon Blum, Socialist, became
premier of France.
June %T—Million French workers won
sirike as employers accepted “NRA” of
Premier Blum
June 10-Spanish Reds and syndicalists
fought machine gun battle at Malaga.
June 15--Pope Pius created two new Ital
fan cardinals.
June 18-—French cabinet decreed dissolu
tion of all Fascist organizations.
July 18 — Gen. Gustav Orlicz-Dresszer,
chief of Poland's air force, killed in crash
with two other officers.
July 18--Fascists and royalists started
revolution in Spain.
July 28-Spanish government seized all
church and school property and took con.
trol of industry and finance.
Aug. 5--Premier Metaxas of Greece set
a dictatorship because of Communist
piot.
hip . 1 Zintviev. Kamenev and oh
pleaded guil ra
and seize control of Soviet Rati,
15. 2—Russian conspirators sentenced
British liner Mary set
atlantic speed ar. Ty new ans
Aug. 24—Sixteen Russian conspirators ex-
ote Seis
ary.
inaug-
of Alcazar at Toledo, killing many rebel
defenders,
Sept, 25—French government decided to
abandon gold standard and devaluate the
anc,
Sept. 27--Spanish rebels captured Toledo
and rescued the Alcazar garrison,
Oct. 1--Gen. Francisco Franco became
head of the Spanish insurgent junta.
Austria, repudiating the treaty of St
Germain, called 8,000 youths for compulsory
military training.
ud Tach parliament passed franc devalus-
n .
Oct. 4—Serious riots in Paris between
communists and nationalists,
Oct. 5--Italy devalued the lira.
Oct, 11--Arab general strike in Palestine
against Jewish immigration called off,
Oct. 14--Belgium dropped all military
alliances,
Oct. 30-Spanish rebel planes bombed
Madrid, killing 189.
Military coup forced reorganization of
Iraq government.
Nov, 3-King Edward of England opened
parliament, pledging the nation to peace,
Nov. 4-—Spanish Insurgents captured Ma-
drid suburbs.
Nov. 7-Spanish government fled from
Madrid to Valencia.
Nov. 15-—-Spanish rebels forced crossing
of Manzanares river and entered one sec-
tion of Madrid.
Nov. 18—Roger Salengro, French minister
of the Interior, assailed by rightists, com.
mitted suicide.
General Franco, Spanish rebel chief, de-
clared blockade of Barcelona.
Nov. 24-Dictator Stalin presented new
constitution to Russia.
Nov, 28-Military revolt in Quito, Ecua-
dor, suppressed by government.
Dec. 1—Spanish loyalists launched great
offensive against Fascist insurgents.
Germany decreed death penalty for those
who hoard wealth abroad
New Russian constitution approved by
soviet congress.
British house of lords defeated bill to
permit "mercy killings."
Dec. 2--British Prime Minister Baldwin
pleaded with King Edward to accept cabi-
net's advice to relinquish his intimacy with
Mrs. Wally Simpson
Renewed rebel air raids on Madrid killed
hundreds
Coup d'etat in Greece foiled by govern.
ment
Dec. 3-King Edward defiled cabinet's de-
mand that he choose between the throne
and Mrs. Simpson
Dec. 5—Pope Pius stricken with paralysis
Russia's new constitution given final sp
proval by all-union congress of soviets
Dec. 6-—-Mexico offered to let Trotzky,
Russian exile. reside in that country
Dec Mrs. Wallis mpson announced
her w gness to renounce her association
with King Edward of England to end the
Crisis
Dec. 10-King Edward of England abdi.
cated In favor of his brother, r duke of
York
Dec. 11--British parliamen the
minions accepted Edward's abdication
the accession of George V1
Dec. 12-George VI was proclaimed king
of Great Britain and made Edward duke of
Windsor
Dictator Chiang Kal
kidnaped in Sianfu by
Marshal Chang
Dec. 17--Gluseppe Motta elected president
do.
and
shek of
mutinous troops of
of Switzerland
INTERNATIONAL
Jan. 1-Empe
League of Na
by [talians a
lance
Jan
Red Cross camp
Jan. 15-Japan
ference in London
British Red Cross unit in Ethiopia bombed
by Italian airmen
Jan. 22-Sevenn European powers
via protested to
r of poison gas
of Swedish ambu
bombed Egyptian
hiopia
irew from naval con
sledged
aly, of
was attacked
Jan. 28
erations against Outer Mongolia
Feb. 15 — Mallans defeated
after six days’ battling on northern front
March 1—Ethiopians defeated by Italians
in another great battle, in Tembien area
March 3--league of Nations committee
asked Italy and Ethiopia
armistice
March 5
the Rhineland:
border
remilitarized
troops to
treaty and
France moved
Lhiopian war
12-Great Britain, France. Bel
of Locarno treaty
to League of Nations council
treaty with Russia,
March 17--Hitler accepted
be represented at league council meeting
in London
March condemned
18—League council]
plan for settlement of Rhineland crisis, vir.
tually an ultimatum to Germany
March 21--United States Britain
France agreed on treaty limiting size of
battleships
March 22--Tialy, Austria and Hungary
strengthened their alliance
March M--Hitler rejected
peace proposals
four power
second city of Ethiopia
representatives from Washington.
carne powers an armistice In
dispute and consideration of his peace plans
April 4-Jlaly announced great victory
over Ethiopian forces
April 8-—France rejected Hitler's settle.
ment plan,
Apt
opis
era
poazible attack by Germany .
April 17--Turkey remilitarized the Dar
end Italo-Ethiopian war
May 2-Ethiopian imperial family aban-
doned Addis Ababa as ltalians drew near;
city burned and looted by natives
May 5-Italians occupied Addis Ababa
and declared the war ended
May $-Italy formally annexed Ethiopia
and
pire
May 12--Mussolini recalled Italian dele
gates from Geneva; league council ad
Journed to June 15.
May 15 — Guatemala withdrew from
League of Nations
May 18-United States senate ratified new
London naval treaty.
June 10--Chinese Dictator Chiang Kail.
Shek ordered northern troops (0 oppose
advance of anti-Japanese army.
June 17--British cabinet voted for end of
sanctions against Italy.
July 12--Cermany and Austria revived
pact of friendship.
July 15 Sanctions against Italy ended.
July 18-Turkey given right to militarize
the Dardenelles,
July 30-Great Britain and Russia reached
a naval accord, with no limit on Soviet
tonnage.
July 31—Great Britain, France, Belgium,
Italy and Germany agreed to work out &
new Locarno pact.
Aug. S-Germany strongly protested to
Spain against killing of four Nazis and
fling of German steamship.
Aug. 21-Hitler demanded Russia and
Spain stop radio “slander” campaign
against Germany.
Aug. 23-Bolivia and Paraguay renewed
diplomatic Aan. lip = of
Ferman en war mu
nitions to Spain.
Aug. 26-Great Britain and Egypt signed
treaty of alliance.
Secretary Hull told Spain United States
would ignore blockade Spanish ports,
Aug. Z7-Great Britain and France asked
17 Ratu to join in arms embargo against
Aug. 20—-Russia demanded expulsion
from Norway, without avail
%. ante Poland signed a
reaty.
Sept 7--World Power congress opened in
Ww. 3
14 Pius lied
to hun commana. © NS
. a
or It Tata of Nations assembly
Oct,
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PY wheel bles ot ree ity of
SE feo nett
relating to
Nov. excepting Ger.
powers,
many and Russia, signed agreement to
“humanize'’ submarine warfare,
Nov. 12--Nobel prize in literature awarded
to Eugene O'Neill, American dramatist;
in physics to Prof. Carl D. Anderson of
California and Prof. V, G. Hess of Austria;
in chemistry to Prof, Peter Debye of Berlin.
Nov. 14-Germany denounc navigation
clauses of Versailles treaty, resuming sov-
ereignty over her internal waterways.
Nov. 18-Germany and Italy recognized
Franco's Fascist government of Spain.
Nov. 24 — Nobel ace prize for 10356
awarded to Carl von Ossietsky, German pac
ifist; for 1936 to Carlos Saavedra Lamas,
Argentine foreign minister,
ov. 28 ~ rmany and Japan signed
agreement to fight spread of communism,
ov, 21 — Spanish government asked
League of Nations to deal with menace to
ace caused by recognition of rebels by
taly and Germany
President Roosevelt addressed Brazilian
parliament at Rio,
Chinese revealed Japanese plan to create
Inner Mongolian puppet state.
Nov, 20-league of Nations council called
to deal with Spanish war matter,
Nov. 30--President Roosevelt arrived at
Buenos Aires,
Dec. 1—-Pan-American peace congress in
Buenos Alres opened with speech by Presi
dent Roosevelt
Great Britain charged that Germany had
sent 6,000 armed soldiers to ald Spanish
insurgents,
Dec. 2--Nicaragua recognized the Franco
government in Spain,
Dec. 3—-President Roosevelt visited Mon
tevideo, Uruguay.
China demanded removal of Japanese ma-
rines from Tsingtao.
Dec. 8—~France and Britain proposed plan
for mediation in Spanish war
Dec. 12-Twenty-one American nations
signed resolution for peace and security at
the Buenos Aires conference
Italy and Germany signed trade accord
relating especially to the Danubian states.
AERO
Jan. 13-Howard Hughes flew from los
Angeles to Newark in record time, § hours
27 minutes 10 seconds
Jan. 14-All air lines of United States
united with Col. E. § Gorrell as president
Jan. 18--Lincoln Ellsworth and Herbert
Hollick- Kenyon, missing seven weeks on
antarctic flight, found safe in Little Amer.
ica
March 30-Cermany's new dirigible,
denburg, started its first transatlantic
to Rio
May 6-—Zeppelin Hindenburg started on
first fight to t ed States
May $-Dirigble Hindenburg arrived at
Lakehurst, N J
May 14--Dirigible Hindenburg completed
om Lakehurst to Frankfurt-on-Main
urs 18 minutes
r 4-R. C. Dupont set new glider mark
miles
y 3H--Plans announced
lantic air mail and passenger
tween Great Canada,
State and New {land
Aug. b-Eis d in crash of Chicago &
Southern airlines plane
Sept. 2-Harry Richman and Richard Mer.
rill took off from New for London
Sept. 3-Richm and Merrill landed
safely in Wales, ou! of gas
Sept. louise Thaden
phy
Sept
Hin.
trip
for
service
Irish
ber
Yor
X Ore
Bendix tro-
won
Markham,
f
et, 1--C. W. A. Scott won
nnesburg race
et. TK Bjorkvall
m New York to Stockholm,
ocean off Irish coast
0--Capt. J. A. Mollison few
cundland to London in record time.
DISASTERS
Jan S8Earthquake killed several hundred
ns in Colombia
12 — Thirty - four
Iowa foundered at m
iver
American Alrl
Arkansas
March 4-Disastrous foods in
ern states
March
attempting Aight
was rescued
drowned
uth
Jar
of Co
lumbia r
Jan. 14 ;
killing 17
19-Floods In New England and
any millions of joss to
March MM - Fourteen persons
plane crash in Mexico
April 5-Tornado at Tupelo, Mies
IrOpeTrty
killed in
killed
bombing plane crashed on Blue
Penn. five killed
April 8-Tornado killed more than 150 at
TWA air
Pa
& million
Army
April 7-Eleven killed when
liner hit mountain near Uniontown
June 30--Forest fires swept
Kentucky
neéence day deaths smashed
4 killed over nation
July 4-Ind
motorship upset at Chicago
Ten miners killed by gas at Dowell. Il
Aug. S-Eight killed in crash of Chicago
Aug. 8-~Explosion in British coal mine
Aug. 14-Twentytwo men and boys killed
00
man mine explosion
Sept. 5-Ten persons killed
sightseeing plane near itisburgh. Pa
Sept. 13-—-Avalanche at Loen, Norway,
18-Dr. Jean
French slar explorer,
drowned in shipwreck
Sept. 27-Forest fires in southwestern Ore.
gon virtually destroyed Bandon and at
tacked three other towns; nine known dead
Oct, 6-Ten miners killed at Mullan, Ida
ho, when shaft car fell
Oct, 1lMore than 300 killed by typhoon
in the Philippines
Oct. 17—Nineteen drowned when Canadjan
ship Sand Merchant foundered in Lake Erie
Oct. 18-~Destructive earthquake in north.
Charcot, famous
Sept.
and B50 others
Nov. 8—Hamburg-American motorship Isis
wider
injured
Nov. 18-Explosion of French
lant near Marseilles killed 34 and
Nov. 18-Thousand killed when dam in
Japan burst
ov. 24--Nine killed and scores injured
In Chicago elevated train wreck
Nov, 30--Crystal palace, London, burned
Dec. 2-Twelve drowned when German
freighter Elsa foundered
Dec. §--Nearly 250 killed In flood in north.
ern Luzon, Philippines
Dec. 7-<-More than 200 drowned in flood in
Turkey.
Dec. 8-~Dutch airliner crashed in Eng-
land, killing 14, including Juan de la Ci
erva, inventor of the autogyro.
. 15Western Air Express plane lost
in Utah with seven persons
Dec. 19-8an Vicente, Salvador, wrecked
by earthquake; several hundred killed.
SPORTS
Jan. 1—Stanford beat Southern Methodist
Rose Bowl football game at Pasadena.
Jan. 11-Willie H won three-cushion
billiards championship from Cochran.
Jan. 17-Joe Louis knocked out Charley
Retziaff in one round in Chicago.
Feb. 6-Olympic winter games opened at
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, any.
Feb 16-Norway won Olympic winter
£ : United States fifth,
March 7—Purdue and Indiana tied for Rig
Ten basketball title,
March 14--University of Michigan won
Ten indoor track championship,
pril 4-Cambridge beat Oxford in annual
atta.
April 8-Horton Smith won the Masters’
golf tournament at Augusta, Ga.
April 14-—-Major league baseball season
May 3-Bold Venture won Kentucky
Bat, Someries race gu em td
May 8-Canzoneri Setenied MeLarnin tn
Nao
res tieahe Hh BETA
June 19-Louls knocked out in twelfth
round by Schmeling.
ad Helen Jacobs won Wimbledon 4
eo
Varoff set world record for pole vault at
14 feet 615 inches.
July 7--National league all-stars defeat
ed Americans 4 to 3,
July 19-Paul Leslie won western ama
teur golf title.
July 23-Eleanor Holm Jarrett, swimming
champion, dropped from American Olympic
team for breaking training.
July 20—-Two men ousted from American
Oye boxing team for breaking training.
uly 31 - Japan awarded the Olympic
Games of 1940,
Aug. 1-Olympic Games at Berlin oM-
clally opened
Jeste Owens, America, broke world rec-
ord for 100 meters at Berlin
Aug. 5-Owens won his third Olympie
championship
Aug. 8-Morris of America won Olympic
decathlon
Aug. $—~American track team won Olym-
pic championship with 208 points
Japanese won Olympic marathon
Aug. 16—-Olympic games at Berlin ended
with Germany in rst place and United
States second
Aug. 18-Joe Louis knocked out Jack
Sharkey at New York
Aug. 31--Mako and Budge won the na-
tional doubles tennis title
Sept 2-New York Yankees won Ameri.
can league championship
Sept. 3—-American Walker cup golf team
defeated British team
Lou Ambers won
Tony Canzoneri
Sept. 12 Perry
Marble of California won
championships
Lawson Little won Canadian open golf
title
Sept. 10-Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati
won national amateur golf title
Sept
league championship
Sept, B-—-Arg
American tea
Oct. 3-Pan
American won
of England and Alice
national tennis
for the title
ela Barton of England won
en's golf championship
Y Yankees won
t Glants
World
Italy, won
vad
nan of Omaha won
won Big
hulle won
retained weller.
at football
three-cush-
wago
won professional foot
NECROLOGY
Harry B. Sn
Spanish dramatist
ham, owner of New
pcior
ex mayor
sCTreen
of New
oxy.” New
British
veleran
British singe?
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ed States
former
rge W
of U
5nd pt
Jan. 21-8colt Bone,
Jar B-Oscar K. Allen, governor of
Louisiana
’ 2--8ir Seaman, former ed
haries B. Warren of Detroit
ional lawyer and former diplomat
Wilhelm Solf. German dipiomat
O. P. Heggie, stage and
rtis, fo
n Washingtor
Justin Smith
rmer
cline E. Furness
sar astronos
David 8 writer and
geant-at-arms of the senate
Feb 11-W H
bimelalism leader
Feb, 12--Mrs
ter, once famous actress
Feb. 16-Ray D
mer pecrelary of commerce
Dr. J. H. Robinso:
¥. In Rew York
Feb, 17-Alexander
former
former
Pantages,
firearms inventor
William Mitchell
air forces in
Hiram P. Maxim
Feb. 19-Brig. Gen
of American World
war
Matthew E
Ariz
22~Henry L
the navy
Feb. I3-Ed Smith, noted sports editor
Feb M--Albert C itchie, former gov
Hanna, former diplomat, at
Feb Roosevell, sssistant
Feb, 27 Antonio Scotti, baritone, in Na.
ples
Feb. 28.J. G. Coolidge,
mat. 1n Boston
son, Wis, Norse history authority
March 4-Maj. Gen. William Weigel, U.
8. A retired
March P-Sidney J. Calls, ex-governor of
Florida
March 10-Earl Beatty, British naval
T™
March 12--Dr. William Wilmer of Wash.
ington, D C.. eve specialist
March 15-George E. Foss of Chicago,
former congressman
Prince Serge Mdvian! st Delray Beach,
la
Prof. J. 8 Haldane, British scientist
March 18-—-Eleutherios Venizelos, Greek
siatesman
March 21-Justin McCarthy, suthor and
playwright, in London
Alexander Glazounoff, Russian composer
March 24-W. J. Bogan, superintendent
of Chicago schools
March 20--Magnus Swenson, scientist, in
Madison, Wis
March 30-Charles G. Phillips. retired
trade paper publisher, at Moniclair. N. J
March Jl--Congressman 8 A. Rudd of
Brooklyn, N. Y.
April 4-C. 1. Strobel of Chicago, steel
construction engineer
Ww. Peyton of New York, chemical
engineer and industrialist.
April 5-Chandler Egan,
champion, at Everett, Wash
April 6-John Hammill, former governor
of a
former golf
Oo
April 7—Marilyn Miller, musical comedy
star.
April 10-.L id von Hoesch, German
ambassador to England
1 11-<Richard Yates, former governor
of Illinois and congressman,
April 12-James Beck. former solicitor
general and congressman from Pennsy)
vania.
C. Howard Walker, architect, in Boston,
April 13--Constantine Demerdjis, premier
of Greece
Howard Thurston, magician.
April 17-Ottorino Respighi, Italian com.
DAB 15-Louls McHenry Howe, secretary
resident Roosevelt
pril 22--Alexandra Carlisle, actress, in
. . Buckbee of
- April 24—Finley Peter Dunne, creator of
FS. Wheeler, chairman of American Can
April 38 percy Hammond, dramatic crit
i New York.
wo R George, founder of the George
ior publ .
April iC, K. McClatchy, California
Dr. John Rid American
DoXking I d 1 of Egypt.
—Dr. A. E, an, nglisy poet.
ay wr = nt
" wa _ ™
Rays le Rem. head of Farmers’ Hol
6—Beatrice Harraden, English nov.
May 1-Dr. ML. Mclain of New York
States Senator Park
jer of Oermany, aw
M. Palmer, attorney general
, who took Pal
May 17-1en Small, ex-governor of NH.
nols
Col. George Fabyan, scientist and cipher
expert,
Kany 19-—Archbishop Pascual Diaz of Mens
May 20-Harry Whitney of New York,
explorer and hunter,
ay 21-—-Minnie Palmer, once famous so-
May 23-Dr. E. M. Lewis, president of
University of New Hampshire.
May 24-Claudia Muzio, grand opers star,
in Rome
May 31--Willlam Butterworth of Moline,
I., industrialist
June 1-John C, Willams, president Weir.
ton Steel company
June 2-Cyrus Hall McCormick of Chi.
cago, former head of International Har.
vester company
Truxtion ale, former diplomat, in Annsp~
olis, Md
June 3-Congressman Joseph W. Byrns
of Tennessee, speaker of the house
Representative A. Platt Andrew of Massa~
chusetts
June B-John Hays Hammond, Sr.
Edward Green, son of late Helly Green.
Jamalu! Kiram, sultan of Sulu
Mrs. Eugene Field, widow of famous poet,
June 14-Gilbert K. Chesterton, English
author and critic
June 15-—-Marc Klaw, theatrics! producer.
June 17-—Henry B. Walthal, actor
Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Flodda,
June 18--Maxim Gorky, Russian suthor,
June Zi—Harold E. Porter (Holworthy
Hall) author
Bernhard W. von Buelow, German foreign
minister
June 23--Arthur W. Cutten, grain broker.
July 10-Joe Humphreys, veteran fight an-
—8. Parks Cadman,
Senator Louis Murphy
Dr. James 1. Barton,
in Boston
Ovingtlon,
clergyman
of lowa,
foreign
July 22 -Earie L American
July 25
entist
July 26
Sir Henry Wellcome, British sci.
Miss Ellen Fitz Pendleton, ex-
of Wellesley college
Dr. C. H Frazier of Philadelphia, noted
at r
Wilfred W. Fry, Philad
Walter Nettleton, American art
Kimball
McSwain of
ncheck of
president B
yiles-
and
Journalist
orth of Rutgers
governor of
National Tea
Troubetskoy,
painter
Winnifred Masor
gre EX Tr
of Chicago, former con
fight referee
secretary of
prize
X
Derr
ago, veteran
of New York, to-
former secretary
Mass
of New York, for.
agnaie
of Chicago,
Kieckheler
Walling, American labor
former senator
r ia
ago edu
pianist and
rg ovie produ
Alexander Zalmis, ex-president
, emeritus professor
Gen. U. 8. G. McAlex-
retired
nk Munson,
une
William Horlick of Racine, Wis,
k manufacturer and philanthro-
president Mun
magazine
nday school leader.
U. 8
.. Rainey, president of Centre
Huff, sthietic director st
louis T. McFadden of
ivania
3-H RH
fils. in
merchant and
in Kew York
a ulius Gomboes, premier of Hun.
Frank Presbrey, former edito
and publisher, in Greenwich. Cenn
Oct. 12-E. M. Blashfield, American mural
painter
Oct. 14--Mary McDowell of Chicago, so
cial worker
Oct. 17 American nov.
Samuel Merwin,
Gen. Andres Figueroa, Mexican minister
of war
Oct. 18D. E
legislator
Oct. 20--Mrs. Anna Macy, teacher of Hel
en Keller
Oct. 22-James Couzens, Unit
senator from Michigan
Oct. 26 Clem Yore, novelist and poet, at
Estes Park, Col
Oct. 25-Arthur
Shanahan, veteran Iilinois
States
W. Needles, president
railway
Oct 20 — Thomas Cochran, New York
financier -
Oct. 30.Lorado Taft. sculptor, in Chicago.
Nov. 4-Nathan E. Kendall, former gov.
ers of lowa
Nov, 6-Henry B. Joy of
mobile manufacturer
Nov, 7-Charles H
in Erie, Pa
Chie Sale, comedian
Nov. 11-8ir Edward German,
composer
Nov. 12--Dr
Cage, surgeon
Franklin W. M. Culcheon of New York,
lawyer and civic worker
Nov. 14-Clark Howell,
Constitution
John F. Whelan of New York,
Detroit, autos
Strong, industrialist,
British
Gilbert Fitz-Patrick of Chi.
editor of Atlanta
tobacoo
i6--Alfred Aarons of New York,
theatrical producer
Cardinal Maurin of Lyons, France
Nov. 17 — Mme. Emestine Schumann.
Heink, operatic and concert contralto
Nov. 18-levin Faust, industrial leader
of Rockford. I
Nov. 18--Maurice Maschke of Cleveland,
Ohio, political leader
Rov. 21-Ma). Gen. R. E. Callan, U.S. A,
retired
Ernest R. Grabam of Chicago, architect,
Nov. 22--Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean,
chief of the Clan Maclean
Nov. 23-0. P. Van Sweringen of Cleve
land, railway magnate
Frank A. Sebring, Beer pottery manu.
facturer, at Cleveland, Ohio
Nov. 26--Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, veteran
actress.
Nov. 27--8ir Basil Zaharoff, “mystery
man” of Europe and war munitions mag-
Nov. 30-—Fred W. Green, ex-governor of
Michigan.
Dec. 1} : Ringling, last of circus
brothers, in New York
Jacob Schaefer, composer, In New York,
ers we ries Thrasher, artist, of OM-
eld, N.
Harold W. Brown, adjutant general of
Missouri.
Dec. 3--Oliver Harker, veteran educator,
at Carbondale, NIL
Mrs. Florence Robinson, psychologist, at
New Haven Conn.
Dec. Cammen, internationally
known engineer in New York.
Dec. 5-J. G. Alexander, Chicago finan
cier,
Congress G. H. Cary of Kentucky.
Dees Tuller Meilish, veteran actor, in
| id © .
-— 10-Luigl Pirandello, Dalian play.
Dec. 13-~Rutssll B. Harrison Indianap.
olis, son of former Dae
Harrison.
hymn in Los
Dee, A. Chicage
ee Tar —-
Peter H. Vai Horn of New York, business
| 19-—-Marie Van Horst, American now
Bee. United
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