HALL, PA. GHAONOLOGY OF THE YEAR 1939 COMPILED BY JOHN D. GRANT EUROPEAN WAR MARS GOES TO WORK— French poilu puzzles over street sign in captured German village. Hitler Still Grabbing MARCH 12—-German troops Slovakia. 13—Czecho-Slovakia submits to Hitler's de- mands for further breakup of the Czech state 14—Slovakia formally secedes from Czecho- Slovakia and becomes independent state under German protection seizes Bohemia and Moravia, sleting subjection of Czecho-Slo- Vv a. 18—Hitler absorbs Slovakia. Hungary an- nexes part of Carpatho-Ukraine 21—-Germany puts pressure on Po 28—Poland refuses German de pathway to East Prussia. APRIL 4—Poland joins British in war alliance. 7—Germany pushes drive to take Danzig. French fleet guards Gibraltar. British fleet sails to Malta. MAY 7—Nazis plan plebiscite in Danzig. 8—Pope invites fi srs to Vatican par- ley to settle man dispute 20--Germany fortifies its eastern frontier against Poland. JUNE 1—Hitler pledges Jugoslavia's bo 20—-German ¢ pS 1 to encircle Poland. 28--Britain appeals to Germany to settle dispute by negotiations. JULY 8-Warsaw reports 5000 Polish families In mass near border of nd, and for Germany will support from border. AUGUST 13-—Germany and Italy establish licy on Danzig: Polish attitude called unbear- able. 15—-Nazis declare Danzig must return to Germany before August 27. 18—-Germany takes military possession of Slovakia. 21-Germany announces nonaggression pact with Russia, Lorman troops massed near Polish cor- ridor. 23--Germany and Russia sign nonaggression ct. 25 Britain and Poland sign war alliance. Jabanese cabinet abandons Rome-Berlin ineup. 290-Poland asks British help under new mu- tual aid pact Germans Invade Poland 31—Germany opens war on Poland. SEPTEMBER 3--Britain and France Germany. British ship Athenia torpedoed off coast of Ireland, 1.400 aboard, 43 lost. Germany blockaded by British navy. 8—Germans shell Warsaw; government and citizens flee, President Roosevelt proclaims U. 8 neutrality 8—Poles appeal to Britain to rush aid. 7-—Nazi torpedoes sink five ships 8-—French planes bomb Siegfried line. 10—-German counterattack halts French on western front. Russia rushes reserves to Polish border, 12-German forces shut a vise on Warsaw, 13-Big British army lands in France with out loss Polith defense cracks; Nazis move east. ward. 16--Russian troops Invade Poland to "pro- tect minorities.” 17-—-Warsaw decides to fight on after truce talk falls. Poland's defenses collapse under Naz essure. ussian army drives 50 miles into Po- land. 20—Report Red purge of former officials in Polish Ukraine. 23-French repulse wave after wave of Naxl shock troops. 25- French defeat Cermans In two Pe alr battles; bombard whole length of Sleg- fried line; bomb Zeppetin works. 1 ~-Warsaw surrenders Germans after 20-day siege. 20--Britain defies warning by foes to stop war. OCTOBER 1--Britain calls 250.000 more troops 4—-Daladier says France will fight until victorious. 7-—Hitler makes peace proposals to Britain and France; seeks armistice. $—Hitler sets aside area in Poland for Germans to be transplanted from other countries. 10—French premier spurns Hitler's peace terms. Finnish ecivillans ordered to leave dan- Eo gone near Soviet frontier, 12-Britain refuses peace based on Naz conquests. 14— British battleship Royal Qak sunk by sub, 786 lost. 18-liand raid navy base in Scotland; 18 ille 17—German planes rald Scapa Flow: Iron Duke, tra ming ship. damaged. 20-—-British repel another Nazi alr rald over Edinburgh. 23--British report three U-boats sunk. Germans capture American ship City of Flint and take it to Soviet rt. 24-—-Four British, one Greek ship sunk by Germans, Nazi sea raiders slip through blockade; rey on shipping. Igians demand British ease blockade, 28--American ship City of Flint, turned over 1 Germany by Russia, sails from Rus sia. 28-Germans claim 115 foreign ships sunk since war began. N--Jovi viet demands raise new crisis in Fin- and. NOVEMBER 3-Norway frees City of Flint and interns German prize crew. Finland defies So. viet threat; ready to fight. 9—Beigium and Holland offer to mediate ace between warring nations. 8Hitler sscapes plot; blast in Munich beer cellar kills 8 and injures 60, #-—Dutch open defense dikes; clash at bore r with rench Germans, repulse two German attacks. Four more merchantmen sunk in sea warfare, 11—Germans shoot nine Czech students, seize 1,200 and close academies for three ears. 18—Duten liner hits German mine in North sea; sinks with 140 lives, 18-Four more ships sunk by German mines oft England. ans extend war at sea; 10 vessels sunk since November 18; 133 dead or m ". 2N-CGermany charges Munich man with beer Sellatl explosion; arrests two British gents. Britain declares unrestricted blockade of Germany in reprisal for {llegal mine warfare; forbids neutral nations to trade with Germany. declare war on 22--British destroyer sunk, 40 missing. Nazi bombers raid Shetlands, no dam- age done, J fench report torpedo boat sank two suns 23-Eight more vessels sunk; days, 25. France and Britain claim 20 air vie tories in three days on western front. Exiled Polish government begins func. tioning in France. 24--British cruiser damaged in port by blast from mine or submarine. 25--Berlin claims bombers hit four British warships; London denies, Six nations protest British ban on Ger man trade. 26—Two hundred eighty-seven die in a Brit. ish armed ship. Germans fight back British planes attempting to raid Kiel canal. Britain fights for a new Europe, Cham- berlain says. Finnish guns kill four Russian soldiers, Soviet charges. 27—Russia demands Finns remove soldiers from border; Finland offers to negotiate border issue; Russia threatens war. 28-—-Russia denounces nonaggression pact with Finland; Finland declares Russian reports of border attacks false, Germany claims British cruiser sunk by submarine; Britain denies. 20-—Russian troops invade Finland after breaking off diplomatic relations; Finns stunned by break. 30—Russians claim 10-mile advance into Finland; bomb Helsingfors. DECEMBER i—Finns disable Russian cruiser with 500 aboard. Russians capture Finnish port. New cabinet takes over Finnish govern. ment. 3--Finnish rebel regime cedes territory to Russians. Regular Finnish government evacuation of all southern towns. Sweden tightens its defenses 3--British planes attack German naval base and score hits on German war. hips Red total for six orders shatter troops In Arctic League of nations summoned to hear Finnish appeal for aid Britain puts blockade against Cerman exports into effect n pocket battleship sinks British ner Doric Star in south Atlantic ish flyers inflict heavy casualties Soviet troop concentration 18 repulse Russian army of 200,000 three fronts, T7—Russians to blockade warn shipping British fhting planes beat off German raijas Finnish coast; repel offensive us report on all fronts 11—league of Nations requests cease hostilities again Fy 12-Russia rejects lea posal to mediate man liner Br lockade to home 13 British ships disable and chase Ger. 1 raider Graf Spee into South Amer. port expelled from league of nations gives Graf Spee 72 hours to alrs n coast artillery sinks stroyer 1B-Germ N on Russia to nland Finland. British i with runs Russian de- scuttle Graf Spee outside harbor rather than risk t with British ships waiting outside, Red forces storm Finns' moun. tain positions Germans claim 3M out of 44 British p! Res shot down in battle over Heligo- iar British claim sinking of German cruiser and damage to two others. FOREIGN La EE EE - 3 RUSSIA FACES WEST — Dic- tator Josef Stalin, having completed a pact with Germany, conquers part of Poland and moves into Es- tonia, Latvia, Lithuania—and then into Finland. JANUARY 1—Chinese dictator “purges” government ranks of 200 “peace party” leaders 3-Japan’'s cabinet resigns over policies In China. Spanish rebels report capture of Artesa. 8-New Japanese premier declares war in China must go on 6--Hungarians and Czecho-Slovaks fight along border 10—Britain romises against ltaly French empire 15—Spanish rebels take Tarragona in drive toward Barcelona. 18-Madrid rushes fresh troops to defense of Barcelona 22-All citizens of Barcelona called to dig trenches, 24--Snanish rebels bomb Barcelona. 26--Rebels take Barcelona without a battle. 30--Hitler demands return of colonies, FEBRUARY 4-Britain increases plane orders In U. 8. to 650. 3-Spanish loyalist army of 200,000 flees to rance to escape trap. 8--Japan refuses to give up mandated is lands Germany lost in war, 12--Two hundred thousand move past bier of Pope Plus in St. Peter's. 14-Pope Pius buried In tomb beneath St Peter's cathedral. 39 3panish loyalists offer to surrender. rance occupies African area once ceded to Italy. 20--Italy moves to place colony Libya on war footing. 2-General ranco hands Britain final terms for peace with Spanish loyalists, 24--Britain and France decide to recognize Franco government in Spain Polish students attack German embassy in Warsaw. 28--Commons approves Chamberlain's O. K. of Franco. MARCH 1-~College of cardinals convenes in Rome to elect a pope, 2-Franco requests Mussolini to withdraw Italian troops from Spain. Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli elected wer on third ballot; takes name of Plus XII, Sleader of Spanish loyalist army seizes control of Madrid government. 8-~Communist leaders flee Madrid 20ne; General Miaja, new loyalist chief, asks “worthy peace.” 1-Gandhi won political victory for democ- racy in India, forced by four-day fast; accepts invitation for consultation with viceroy. Loyalist planes bomb centers of commu. nit revolt in Madrid, 8-Franco's fleet blockades all Spanish loy- alist coast. 12-200 oud witness coronation of Pope Plus 21—Lithuania returns Memel to Germany. 22--Rumania and Germany sign trade pact, n-.Madsia offers to surrender to General ranco. N--Japanese capture Nanchang, 28.-Madrid surrenders, ending Spanish eivil wir, 20 France flatly refuses Mussolini's colonial demand ands, 30--Russia rejectz British plea to join front against aggressor nations. APRIL 2--Britain offers to tect Rumania, Japanese kill 8, Chinese in three bat. ties, 4-Turkey asks for part of Syria; French dispatch warship. Albert Lebrun re-elected president of France, . 8--Jtallan troops Invade Albania. 8-~Mussolinl sets up puppet government in Aibania. 9<British and French fleets reported massed off coast of Greece, 13--Massing of tr near Gibraltar causes alarm; British barricade road to Spain. 8-Hitler appoints Franz von Papen ambas- " France fo support part of in clamor for Russia faces dor to Turkey. amine; 80 per cent of grain crop destroyed. 23-.General Franco orders return of prop. erty which Spanish republic took from former King Alfonso, 24—President of Bolivia assumes dictatorial DOWErs, 27-Serbians sign pact with Croats, ending Jugoslavia's biggest internal problem. 30—Paraguay elects General Estigarcibia, Chaco war hero, president, MAY 3--Litvinov dismissed as foreign commissar of Russia. 6--King and queen of Great Britain sail for Canada. 14-Moscow short of food; army ordered to save on motor fuel, 16- Twenty million dollars reported paid to Hitler to release Baron Louis Rothschild, 17-King and queen of Great Britain wel- comed at Quebec, 18--King and queen start on tour of Canada. One hundred Jewish youths injured in clashes with police in Jerusalem. 22-Dionne quintuplets Jieet queen with hug and kiss as British sovereigns vis Toronto, 24-—-German troops in Spain leave for home, 25-Bill setting up dictatorship over industry introduced in British parliament, 20--New border war develops between Japan and Russia in Manchukuo. JUNE 10-Bombs in mail in England injure seven rsons. 14-Japan presents Britain with new de- mands as troops tighten blockade at Tientsin, 22-King and queen given tremendous re- ception on thelr return to England, 26--Soviets repulse Jap air attack on Mon- gol border; shoot down 28 planes, JULY 13-—France jails two newspaper executives, charged with receiving pay from Ger many. 18—Danzig political police purge city of Socialists, 24-Chamberlain promises Britain will stay wt of Japan's way in China. ~-Four bombings in England blamed on Irish Republican army. AUGUST 3-Britain offers to mediate Japanese -Chi- Be war n executes 53 persons for complicity slaying of civil guard officer 8--Sudd German food shortage pubiie SEPTEMBER 26--French cabinet decree ends Communist arty in France ria seeks trade pact with Russia lO tine Argesanu appointed premier of Rumania. OCTOBER 2--Delegates of 21 republics at an inter American neutrality conference fixed a a id two Americas loss of 18,000 men rouses in we, n returns Vilna to Lit n and Russia sign ania trade agree- ment -Pope Plus in encyclical assalls dictators. Thousands arrested as Czechs and Nazis le in Prague. VOVEMBER 2--Slovak mob wrecks shops and Paps in Bratislava, Hungary Jritish threaten to abolish self-rule in India 20--Ex-kaiser narrowly escapes death storm at Doorr DECEMBER 3. Japan faces scarcity of food this winter. Peru opens great new port facilities to Callao. 11--Italy quits league of nations. news- in DOMESTIC Special congressional session insti- tutes “cash-and-carry” neutrality as Americans rush home from Europe, away from war zone. JANUARY 2-Former Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan takes oath as U, 8 atlorney general Harry Hopkins sworn in as secretary of commerce 3-Seventy-sixth congress convenes 5 President sends to congress $10,000,000, 000 budget for 1040 fiscal year Felix Frankfurter nominated for U. 8 Supreme court. 12-President, in message, asks 552 millions more for defense 16--President asks extension of social secu rity benefits, 15 President asks legislation to end tax free public salaries and to levy on all securities FEBRUARY 7-President makes new demand for 150 millions more for PWA after signing apprapHation bill with that amount cut Off. $House passes bill making state and mu- nicipal employees subject to Income ax. 13 Justice Brandeis retires from the U. 8. Supreme court. 15—House approves $376,000,000 defense bill. 2BJames Hines, Tammany chief, con. victed of violating lottery laws 21-U. 8. Supreme court rules sit-down strikes illegal MARCH 23--ExJudge Martin T. Manton Indicted hy federal grand jury in New York as bribe taker, 7-Senate sion bill Halse pasate bill giving President re. strict authority to recrganize depart ments, 18-Lieut-Gov. Lauren D. Dickinson sworn in as governor of Michigan to succeed the late Frank D. Fitzgerald, 18--U. 8 puts penalty tariff on German im- asses $358.000.000 army exten- ris. 23 Sames J. Hines, Tammany leader, sen tenced to serve four to eight vears in rison. . 8. Supreme court holds federal and state governments may tax salaries of each other's employees. APRIL 3-C. 1. O. union ordered to pay Apex Hosiery company $711,930 damages for e sit-down strike. Jack Benny, radio comedian, fined Noom for smuggling. flliam O. Douglas confirmed for Su. me ate pre court. 10--Sen, rejects amendment to give WPA 50 millions more, then passes original Ne bill. 15.~President addresses peace plea to Euros pean dictators; asks 10-year peace guar. antee, 18-War department assigns Charles A. Lindbergh to study U. 5. aviation facili es 25 President makes first transfer under re- organization act; creates three super agencies, n--Presden asks 1,762 million more for relief, MAY 1=U. 8. Supreme court denies appeal of miners convicted of Illinois bomb out. rages, 11-—Conl Sonfteny agree on new contract w 0 a ‘ Passed record-breaking $1,218, 606,572 farm bill 12--President names Admiral Leahy gover. Ay) nor of ico. SL SRR ' all. Jo —Senate basses ¥713.000.000 a Saal pin. ti 18 erome Frank elected chairman of SEC. 20--Yankee Clipper filles from Long Island to Europe, opening trans-Atlantic air mail service. 22--Boss Pendergast of Kansas City given 15 months in federal prison for income tax evasion, 23--House approves farm appropriation bill as passed by senate, 25--Fritz Kuhn, Nazi bund leader, indicted in New York on theft charges, Draft Dodger Bergdoll returns to the United States from Germany and is made military prisoner, 27-—Yankee Clipper returns from Europs. JUNE 1—Senate passes hill ting long term bond. a at onal debt Umit above $30,000, 2-Contract for 24 warships costing $350,. 000,000 awarded by navy department, 3--Folmer Judge Manton found gullty of ribery. 8-—House rejects plan to make Hyde Park homme a memorial to President Roose. velt, 7—King George and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain enter United States at Niagara Falls; officially welcomed by Secretary of State Hull, 8-King and queen of Great Britain wel. comed to Washington by President Roosevelt; attend state dinner at White House. 10—House votes big slash in payroll taxes; benefits are increased. 11—-King and queen end U. 8. visit, 12—Senate votes $225,000 to department of commerce to employ experts. U. 8. monetary gold stock billion mark. 13-—~House votes drastic limitations on future operations of TVA. 15--King and queen sail for home, 19-House passes tax bill of 1.844 millions; retains nuisance taxes, bu! revises lev- ies on corporations 20--Senate committee boosts pork barrel bill from $83,848,100, as passed by the house, to $407,855. 600 21—Widespread WPA graft charged in Lou- islana; Governor Leche resigns F. Ryan Duffy nominated for federal bench in Milwaukee 25--Fraud bared at Louisiana university. 26-Governor Leche steps down and Lieu. tenant Governor Long is sworn in in Louisiana $600 000 fraud to President Smith of the Louisiana university 28-—Senate adds 73 million to relief bill and asses it 29 fiouse hands administration defeat yeutrality bill; endorses embargo Nn nents Roosevelt's money rule die g legislation to extend bill passes 18 laid of on neutrality barring 1 h pin allway bond charges 10 President giv t 7. McNutt of Indi. ana job as head 3 Federal Security “rR roles to fix payro I 1843 signs bill giving 4 hide secret war depart. new equip. ples bill to curd bureaucrats shelves President's $800,000 00 program, Nati wide y swindle using name Rogers exposed led, seven labor at Bo lle or Ind Sayre nominated for nes rom 31--Senate lops §1.615,000 000 bill and passes it TIC AUGUST l—Army's flying fortress flies coast coast In § hours House kills President's lending spending bill 4—Senate passes third deficiency bill of willions ent reached on social security amendment cutting pay roll tax §800.- 000,000 § 1 B—LCongress spending to appropriating soverfior Leche of Louisiana and two others indicted In hot oll quiz 14-—-President advances Thanksgiving day one week, naming November 23 15-~WPA raises pay of 2.000.000 workers $5,000,000 a month. New York fair asks bondholders for $4,820,000 to meet debis 18—Mayor of Waterbury, Conn., among 20 ery in $1,000,000 graft 18-0. £ and Canada sign new pact for air service. 20-—louisiana ofl czar, Dr. J. A. Shaw, wit. hess against ex-Gov. R. W. Leche, kills se 24 President pleads for peace: cables Hit. ler, Poles. and king of Italy 2--German liner Bremen held up at New York for search. SEPTEMBER $-Liner Bremen allowed to depart from New York 8-—Rooseveltl establishes naval patrol along Atlantic coast 11—President lifts quota on sugar to curd srices 13--Steel plants and railroads call back their workers 13--Congress called for September 21 14—Borah opposes repeal of arms embargo as likely io put America into war. 18-—Soviet purchasing agent tells of pay ments to persons connected with Demo- cratic nations] committee 20--At a conference of Republican and Dem. ocratic leaders Roosevelt urges repeal of neutrality act. 1--Congress convenes in special session; Roosevelt urges early repeal of arms embargo provision neutrality act 28 American Legion convenes in annual session in Chicago N-Sudden dissolution of war resources board causes surprise, 2B Administration’s neutrality repealer bill gent to the senate, 20 Powerful naval fleet ordered to Hawall OCTOBER 2-Debate on repeal of neutrality act begins in senate. Army laces an order for 328 high a. 2Pted ght tanks. stover C. Bergdoll, draft dodger, sen- tenced to ii years in prison 7-—Bishop Ablewhite sent to prison for fund shortage 10-War department orders 65,000 semi-auto. matic rifles 12-William Green elected president of A, F. of L. for sixteenth time, 17—Brazil orders $5.870.000 rail equipment from America 18-President closes American ports to sub- marines of warring nations 19~New house bill bans financial ald to warring nations, 20-Roosevell sets three-mile Umit for sub. marines 23-«Indiana endurance flyers descend after 835 hours; new record 24-Senate adopts cash and carry amend. ments to neutrality bill B-Covernment sues 238 railroads under Sherman antitrust act, 27~Senate votes, 63 to 30, to repeal arms embargo provision of neutrality act. Bill oes to house 28--Carl Bevins, Missouri fiver, kidnaped and slain in his own plane by Ernest Piewch, arrested. 20--California fiyers land after 726 hours In air--new record. 30--U, 8 assesses Germany 50 millions for Black Tom and Kingsland blasts during World war. 31-—United Mine Workers raise $3,000,000 for litical fight In 1940 resident asks 278 million for added defense. NOVEMBER 2--House voles against embargo on arms; bill goes to conference. 3--Congress passes neuirality repeal bill and adjourns, $-President signs repeal bill and bars war zones to American Shipping. SARIOF th s x 8-Supreme court rules LC mortgages. pension plans defeated In Ohio alifornia. AAA will make loans to cotton growers on new Srop. 8-Navy sends marines to Hawall to strengthen Pacific defense, 3 tean u. 8, oit tankers transferred to anamanian registry, Roosevelt remands Lewis, head of C. L O., resume peace negotiations with A. F. of L. 123-Dr. Smith, former president of L. 8. U,, Yiven 8 to 24 years for university scan. a 14—Louis Levy, New York lawyer, disbarred 16—A1 Matto nang der, released from apone, a a a fedter al prison; enters Haltimore hospi NP of || emplo a resident Seas 22-U. 8 court upholds wage-hour law in cities’ ban on hand. Montgomery Ward case. Supreme court voids 1--Morgenthau declares next congress must un debt Umit, 28..Chrysler company and C. 1. O. agree on basis of peace afler auto plants are tied up 63 days. 20--Jury finds German-American bund lead. er Fritz Kuhn guilty on forgery and theft charges. 30--Rooseveit sends sharp note fo Russia asking that bombing of cities stop. DECEMBER 3-Curtiss plants speed building of war anes, 3-Winnie Ruth Judd, insane slayer, again escapes from prison in Arizona, BFritz Kuhn, bund leader, sentenced fo rison for two and a half years. 7—Upward trend seen in several lines of business. 8-—8ecretary Hull protests British blockade, §--Rooseveltl orders a special naval dis trict in Caribbean, 11--RFC grants $10,000,000 loan to Finland U. 8. Supreme court bars evidence ained by wire tapping. 13 Twelve naval caplains promoted to be rear admirals. 14--1CC approves trainload rail rate re- duction. 18—Garner announces candidacy for Demo. cratic presidential nomination. DISASTERS SQUALUS SINKS—U. S. navy's marine. Twenty-six others die. JANUARY . 10 saved hop at Los 3 FEBRUARY 2--Japanese subrn 1l—Army yslery ¢ coast-to-coast flight at 340. MARCH 2~Two hu nitions stroyed 18-Ten con Wash ! crashes | APRIL » navy filers killed when planes col . 50 injured Texas and Lou deaths and ries © n Arkansas i a cause 53 300 MAY 2J-Fifty nine trapped in sunken submarine Se iy 24 Thirty-three rescued alive fron 26 dead. JUNE Missing British submarine found mired in mud; #6 lost nty-two persons killed in Mexican theater fire 18—Seventy-one lives lost in wreck of French submarine, 18—Ten dead, 63 injured In Minnesota tor nado, JULY Fifty-three drowned, 47 missing, in flood in mountains of eastern Kentuely. 12--Mystery explosion and fire damage navy aircraft carrier Ranger, H--Twenty-eight perish in mine blast al Providence, Ky 17Five killed as train hits auto in Chicago suburb 23 Avalanche on Mount Baker Wash., kills two, four missing. AUGUST 11--Nine U. § army fillers and two navy filers killed as two bombers crash 13-Fourteen killed as Miami to Rio de Ja. neiroplane crashes in Rio harbor. Twen. ty-three killed, 80 injured, when stream- liner is wrecked in Nevada. SEPTEMBER 2B-8torm In Californias kills 100; damage, $1,000,000 28 Munitions plant blast in Britain kills 15 OCTOBER 11-—Wreck of school bus at War, kills six; 71 injured. NOVEMBER 14—-Five hundred killed and injured when fire engulfs Venezuelan oil port. DECEMBER 3-Typhoon ravages five islands in the Phil ippines, WwW. Va, SPORTS IRON JANUARY 2--Southern California football team de feats e in Rose Bowl. 3--Budge defeats Vines in pro tennis debut, 17Edward G. Barrow elected president of Be ru areca Ehamplon oe us, vywe mi st John Henry Lewis in first round in New York. FEBRUARY 8--Ken Bartholomew wins national skating title. P--Nationa! Professional Football league re-elects Joseph Carr president for 10 ears. Galento scores tecunical knock out over Abe Feldman. MARCH 20 Charles Bowser named head football coach at Pitt APRIL 2--Ralph Guldahl wins Masters golf title at Atlanta, G 6. ton sj obnstown won Kent 23--Davy Day, welterweight, stopped Pedro Montanez in the eighth round, 25--Henry Armstrong, wellerweight, defeats Ernie Roderick, British champion, in 18 rounds. 30--Bhaw wins Indianapolis auto race, av- graging 115.035 miles per our, Roberts JUNE 8--Glants make five home runs in ons in ning for record; rout Reds, 12-Centennial birthday of baseball cele brated at Cooperstown, N. ¥., where it originated N-lou Gehrig, Mayo clinic physicians an. nounce after check-up, has infantile pa ralysis; playing career ended, 8B-Joe lLouls stops Tony Galento in the fourth round, Yankees break record with 13 home runs in two games on same day. JULY 8-—Alice Marble wins British tennis cham. plonslip at Wimbledon. 1l~American league wins all-star baseball ame, 3 10 1 30—Dick Metz wins St. Paul open Fu cham- plonship with record score of 270. AUGUST 22-lou Ambers regains lightweight title in 15-round bout with Armstrong. 30—-New York Glants, professional football champions, defeated the All-Stars, § to 0, before £1,000 people in Chicago. SEPTEMBER Roscoe Turner wins Thompson trophy alr race third time 15-—-Tony Galento stops Nova in 14 rounds, 16—-Bobby Riggs, Alice Marble win U. 8. net titles 17—Yankees cinch American league pen nant ional league pen. 30—F kie Frisch the Piltsburgh OCTOBER appointed Pirates manager of t fighte it fighter, | DECEMBER #—Eddie Anderson 10—Green ‘ork Yankees vo sport. ted best team In NECROLOGY POPE SUCCUMBS—The devout kneel in prayer before casket con- taining the body of Pope Pius XI. JANUARY 11—Prof. Herman Oliphant, treasury de sartment counsel, in Washington . y Ruppert, owner of the New Joseph 1. France of Mary. Baltimore B. Yeats in France. FEBRUARY Pope Plus XI 13-Rt. Rev. J. M. Francis, Episcopalian bishop of Indianapolis 15~Charles R. Crane, form 16—-Dr. Clarence True Wi leader MARCH Howard Carter, who found King Tut's tomb, In London $—Former U. 8. Attorney General John G. Sargent 6-—-Frank W, Stearns, close adviser to Pres. ident Coolidge 2—Gerardo Machado, Cuba. APRIL 8-George F. Harding, Republican national committeeman for Illinois 8-—Premier Joseph Lyons of Australia. §-James Hamilton Lewis, U. 5. senator from [Illinois 11-8. 8S. Van Dine, mystery-story writer, real name Willard H. Wright. MAY 26-Dr. Charles Mayo, famous surgeon. JUNE 8-—-George Peabody Gardner, financier, In Boston, 19-Miss Grace Abbott, noted welfare work- er and University of Chicago professor. 26. Ford Maddox Ford, British author. JULY Claude A. Swanson, navy 8-—Havelock Ellis, scientist and phiioso- her 11—Rep Sam D. McReynolds of Tennessee, 18-—J. Louis Comiskey, owner of Chicago White Sox baseball team 28-Dr. William J. Mayo, cofounder with his brother of the Mayo clinic $1-—-Former Federal Judge F. A. Geiger of Milwaukee. AUGUST 14-T. E. Powers, famed cartoonist. SEPTEMBER + §=Charles Donnelly, president of Northern Pacific ratlway. 18-Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate. =--Signutd Freud, originator of psycho analysis, 24-Floyd Gibbons, war correspondent. Carl Laemmie, pioneer movie producer. OCTOBER 3--Geotge Cardinal Mundelein, archbishop of Chi Yi Sen. M . Logan of Kentucky. 3-Fay Templeton, actress. 8 Count Jon Berns tor, German envoy S In . 13 Ford Sterling, movie comedian. 23-Zane Grey, noted writer of western stories 2 Alice Brady, stage and screen star. NOVEMBER 2--Opie Read, famous author. 8--Dr. Livingston Farrand, president emer. ftus of Cornell ve 18-Pleree Butler, U. 8. preme court jus A 25. James Simpson, Chicago business leader, f-.Dr_ 4. A. Naismith, inventor of basket DECEMBER 3 Alfred Granger. prominent architect. Princess Louise, duchess of Argyle, old. est living child of Queen Victoria. 4-—-Marshal Wu Pei-fu, poet-soldier of Re gublican China, tor net Wright, American ambassa- 0 : PCa! John 8 Hammond, sportsman and 1-Dougias Fairbanks Sr., stage and screen Charles R. Walgreen, chain drug store 18. Heywood Broun, columnist. Irish poet and play. former dictator of secretary of the (Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
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