PAGE TWO THE UNION PRESS-COURIER. As These Were Among Highlights in the Year's News ¢ ‘ PERSECUTION—The world sought a new home for the wandering Jew, driven from Germany, Czechoslovakia and lialy, battled by Arabs in the Holy Land. she summer, New England in the autumn. focused attention on national affairs and brought Republican gains in many sections. FLOODS— Raging torrents swept California in the spring, Texas in POLITICS— Primary and general elections in every state of the union AGGRESSION—Germany’s Adolf Hitler marched through Austria and Czechoslovakia, Japan marched through China and fought with Russia on the Siberian border. p § BT Jan. 2—Postmaster General Farley's an- nual report showed ‘‘net surplus’ of more than 12 million dollars. Jan. 3—Congress opened regular session and received President's annual message. Supreme court upheld federal power loans and grants. : Jan. 4—Representative Lester Hill nom- inated for senator from Alabama. Jan. 5—President’s budget message re- vealed larger deficit smaller revenues, and asked a billion for national defense. Associate Justice George Sutherland of 3upreme court announced his retirement. Jan. 10—Resolution for war referendum amendment to Constitution buried by house. Jan. 11—Indiana Supreme court outlawed marriage mills of slaie. Jan. 12—House voted to widen President's 10 cut appropriations. n. 15—Stanley F. Reed, solicitor gen- eral, appointed to Supreme court by Presi- dent Roosevelt. Jan. 18—House appropriated billion and a: half for Treasury and Post Office de- partments. Jan. 20—Comptrolier of the Currency J. E. T. O'Connor resigned Jan. 21—Federal court of appeals at Chattanooga upheld TVA competition with private power companies House passed 553 million aavy appro- priation bill. Jan. 22—Sixteen oil companies and 30 individuals found guilty at Madison, Wis, of conspiring to violate Saerman anti-trust law. Jan. 25-—Senate confirmed appointment of Stanlev Reed to Supreme court. Jan. 27—Robert H. Jackson nominated for solicitor general. Jan. 28—Piesident sent congress a pro- gram to strengthen national defense. Jan. 31—Supreme court upheld board's power to make investigations Feb. 1—Housing bill finally enacted. Feb. 6—A. F. of L. expelied United Mine Workers and two other C. I. O. unions Feb. 10—President asked congress to ap- propriate $250,000,000 for relief. ‘eb. fabor 14—Farm bill finally enacted by Congress. Feb. 16—~-House passed 250 million dollar relief bill. Feb. 18—Five United States army planes gompleted 6,000-mile flight to Buenos Aires Secretary Wallace fixed marketing quotas dor cotton and tobacco. Feb. 21 —Anti-lynching bill withdrawn in senate. Feb. 23—Bituminous coal commission re- woked all fixed prices Senate passed $250,000,000 relief bill. Feb. Z6—Spy ring selling United States military and naval secrets to foreign gov- arn:ment smashed; two men and one woman arrested. March 4—Chairman Morgan of TVA asked apngressional investigation of his two fel- low directors. March 8—Interstate commerce commis- mia authorized 10 per cent increase in railraad freight rates. Mare: 11—President told TVA directors to campese their differences or resign. March 14—Chairman C. F. Hosford of coal commission resigned. arch I7—Secretary of State Hull out. lined American foreign policy of co-opera- ton for peace and preparedness to defend international law and order. March 21—House passed navy expansion March 22—President Roosevelt ousted A. E. Morgan from TVA, laid entire matter before Congress and appointed Harcourt Morgan TVA chairman. March 25—Senate voted for joint congres- aicaal investigation of TVA. March 28—Senate passed government re- organization bill. arch 30—House voted for TVA investi- gation. April 4—House passed bill releasing $1,- 500,000,000 RFC funds for business loans. April 5—Presidents Roosevelt and Quezon agreed to defer Philippines’ economic inde- pendence until 1960. April 6—Senate passed army appropria- tion bill carrying 1, ,000. : April 9—Senate passed revenue bill de- signed to relieve business. April 11—Senate passed bill putting 15,000 postmasterships under civil service. April 14—President Roosevelt in message to congress asked nearly seven billion dol- lars for spending and lending program. April 19—House passed 903 million dollar Agriculture department bill, carrying 201 millions for road building. April 21—Congress passed naval appropri- ation bill carrying $546,866,000. April 25—President asked congress to abolish income tax exemption for govern- ment securities and government employees April 28—National Progressives of Amer- ica party formed by Gov. Philip La Follette of Wisconsin and followers. 3—Senate passed naval expansion pill. House passed bill to create 24 more fed- eral judgeships. ES May 6—Labor board withdrew decision against Ford company. House passed $48¢,000,000 highway bill May 9-—Senate passed billion dollar Agn guitura' department bill ‘May 12—Three billion recovery spending bill passed by house May 13—Enactment of naval expansion bill completed. May 16—Senate passed bill creating aero- nautics authority. May 17—Pennsylvania Democratic pri- maries resulted in defeat for C. I. O. can. didates; Gov. G Earle nominated for senator and C. A. Jones for governor. Re- publicans renominated Senator Davis and named A. H. James for governor. May 21—Presbyterian church general as- sembly voted predestination sections out of confession of faith. May 25—Dr. A. E. Morgan, first witness in congressional inquiry into TVA, accused David Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan of deceit and dishonest management Mag 26—Lilienthal and Harcourt Mor- gan heard in denial of A. E. Morgan's charges and counter-attack Bloody labor riots in Detroit and Akron. May 27—President Roosevelt let tax bill become law without his signature. May ®l—Supreme court denied rehearing of stockyards case, Febuking Secretary Wal- lace and Solicitor General Jackson. President signed bill creating 20 new fed: eral judges. Government reorganization bill by_ congress. June 3—Senate passed the three billion recovery bill. June 8—House ousted Representative Jenks, Republican, of New Hampshire, and seated Alphonse Roy, Democrat. June 14—Senate passed the wage-hour act. June 15—Congress passed flood control shelved bill. June 16—Congress passed relief and pump-priming bill and adjourned. June 20—Eighteen persons indicted in New York as German spies. June 24—President by executive order ex- tended civil service 1o all government em- ployees not exempted by statute. July 6—Dr. A. E “organ sued for rein- statement as chairman of A. July 7—President Roosevelt began trans- continental speechmaking tour. July Presiden! reviewed battleship fleet at San Fran 4 £ four others com- pleted round-the- id flight started July 10, setting record of three days, 19 hours, 14 minutes. July 15—Elmer § Andrews, New York, appointed administrator of wage and hour law. Secretary Wallace asked 31 per cent cut in wheat acreage. July 18—Douglas Corrigan of Los Angeles made solo flight from New York to Dub- lin, Ireland, in 28 hours, 13 minutes. July 19—Governor of Iowa ordered troops to Newton, home of strike-bound Maytag lant. » Five officials and 12 corporations fined in oil conspiracy case at Madison, Wis. July 20—Government began anti-monopoly suit against chief movie companies. July 22—Federal court of appeals in Chi- cago set aside finding of NLRB in Fansteel corporation case. July 25—Puerto Rico nationalists tried to assassinate Gov. Blanton Winship. Aug. 1--Justice department announces in- vestigation of American Medical associa- tion on charge of anti-trust law violation. Aug. 2—New Dealers defeated in Virginia and Missouri Democratic primaries. Aug. 3—William C. Dodge. former New York district attorney, linked with James J. Hines in policy racket charge. President Roosevelt heads back home after fishing cruise in South Pacific. Aug. 6—Majority Leader Alben W. Bark- ley wins Democratic senatorial nomination in Kentucky. over Gov. A. B. ‘‘Happy" Chandler. Aug. 11—President Roosevelt asks defeat of Sen. Walter F. George in Georgia speech. Twenty-six passenger German plane flies non-stop from Berlin to New York. Aug. 12—Tom Girdler, Republic Steel resident. blasts C. I. O., National Labor elations board and senate civil liberties committee. Aug. 13—United States Naziism and Com- munism investigated by house committee on un-Americanism. Aug. 15—President Roosevelt asks de- feat of Sen. Millard Tydings in ‘‘fireside chat’’ on social security's third birthday. Trial of James J. Hines on racket charge opens in New York city. Ford Motor company calls 24,000 back to work. Aug. 16—John P. Frey, A. F. of L. lead. er, blames Communists for sitdown strike epidemic. Aug. 18—President Roosevelt dedicates new international bridge through the Thou- sand Islands, St. Lawrence river. Aug. 24—President Roosevelt denounces G. O. P. for meddling in primaries. Secretary Hull sends sharp note to Mexi- £9 2 seizure of American-owned farm- ands. Aug. 30—Senator Smith, intended purge victim, wins in South Carolina primary. McAdoo, indorsed by Roosevelt, loses in California primary. Sept. overnor Davey of Ohio defies federal social security board to cut off state's old-age assistance grants. Senator Pat McCarron defeats two 100 per cent New Dealers in Nevada primary. Sept. 7—Grand Army of the Republic holds national reunion in Des Moines. Sept. 9—Grana Jury indicts S. Davis Wil- son, mayor of Philadelphia, in gambling inquiry. ept. 11—-James Roosevelt undergoes op- eration at Rochester, Minn. Sept. 12—Senator Tydings wins in Mary- land primary; voters defy President by landslide Judge Pecora declares mistrial in Hines racket case. Maine elects Republican governor and all three congressmen Sept. 14—Senator W. F. George, on the purge list, wins in Georgia. ept. 20—Democrats defeat J. J. O'Con- nor in New York; G. O. P. nominates him. Sept. 27—Senator McAdoo made chairman of the Dollar ship lines under United States control Sept. 29—District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey nominated as Republican candidate for governor of New York Sept. 30—Gov. H. H. Lehman named by Democrats as candidate for governor of New York. Oct. 4—Sweeping graft inquiry started in Brooklyn. Oct. 5—Two bandits hold up two bank employees at Ottawa, Ill., and escape with 0,000 in cash. Oct. 6—A. F. of L. votes to continue as. sessments for fight against C. I. O. Oct. 10—United States Supreme court re- fuses to review conviction of Tom Mooney, serving sentence for bombing in San Fran- cisco in 1816. Oot. JixGresn re-elected president of A. F. of L. Oct. 14--Gustav Rumrich, army desert- er, pleads Sri to being a German spy. Oct. 17—Dr. Eduard Benes, former presi. dent of Czechoslovakia, accepts invitation to become visiting professor at the Univer- sity of Chicago. Oct. 18—National Eucharistic congress opened in New Orleans. Oct. 19—Labor board ordered Republic Steel to reinstate 5,000 strikers. Oct. 20—United States indicted 73 as WPA grafters in New Mexico. Oct. 24—-Wage-hour law went into effect. Oct. 28—Big utilities pledge two billion dol- lar expansion with federal aid. ov. 7—President Roosevelt sent congrat- ulations to Soviet Russia on its twenty-first birthday. Nov. 8—Election results: Republicans gain eight senators, 80 representatives and governors in 11 states. Nov. 9—Rise in stocks and heaviest trad- ne since Oct. 21, 1937, follow election re- sults. Nov. 10—Col. Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, welcomed to Washington. Nov. 12—Ladies Garment Workers’ union, 250.000 strong, withdraws from C. I. O. Nov. 15—Grand jury indictments returned in Chicago charging 97 persons and firms with conspiracy to fix the price of milk and ice cream. Nov. 16—New Deal turns to arms making to supplant job relief. John L. Lewis retains dictatorial control of C. I. 0, including $2,000,000 levy. Nov. 17—Reciprocal trade agreements signed with Great Britain and Canada. Nov. 18—Attorney General Cummings an- nounced resignation from cabinet, effective in January. Nov. 19—Roosevelt recalls Hugh R. Wil- son. ambassador to Germany. Navy contracts for three new battleships. Nov. 21—President Roosevelt arrived at Warm Springs, Ga., for two weeks visit. Wisconsin's retroactive income tax law upheld by U. S. Supreme court. Nov. 29—Capt. Ross T. McIntyre, White House physician, named surgeon general of the navy. Nov. 30—Grand jury investigation of graft charges against Governor Earle of Pennsyl- vania and 14 others ordered. Dec. 1—Homer Mactin reveals far flung rule of Reds over C I. O. at Dies commit- tee hearing. Dec. 5—U. S. Supreme court rebukes la- bor board for abuse of authority. Mrs. Elma Lauer, wife of New York Su- preme court justice, indicted for smuggling. Dec. 7—Anna Hahn, Cincinnati poison slayer, electrocuted af Columbus, Ohio. ec. 9—United States ambassador to Chi- na recalled for conferenc> Dec. 11—President Roosevelt announces plan to deed Hyde Park estate to govern- ment to serve as a memorial to himself. Dec. 13—George Burns, of Burns and Al- len, pleads guilty on smuggling charge. Dec. 16—F Coster, head of McKesson & Robbins drug firm, revealed as exconvict, real name, Phillip Musica, indicted in huge swindle, kills self. Three brothers of Cos- ter, under different names, arrested on same charge. Dec. 20—Confession of Anna M. Hahn, electrocuted poison slayer, made public, in which she confesses to four murders. Theft of $4,000,000. uncovered as Coster- Musica swindle grows; huge gun deals with foreign power linked to swindle. Administration grants indefinite credit to China against gold held in U. S. Dec. 21—Inquiry reveals use of large part of drug fraud millions for nation-wide lobby. Four medical associations and 21 physi. cians indicted on restraint of trade charges. Jan. 1-—France embargoed arms ship- ments to Rumania and Jugoslavia. Jan. 2—-Chiang Kai-shek heads reorgan- ized Chinese government. Jan. 9—Prince Paul, heir presumptive to Greek throne, married Princess Frederika Louise of Hanover in Athens. Jan. 10—Japanese occupied Tsingtao. Jan, 11—Submarine sank Dutch steamer off Spanish coast. Jan. 14—Premier Chautemps of France and his Popular Front government resigned. Jan. 29—United States rejected proposal to co-operate with Britain, France and Rus- sia in supplying China with war munitions. Jan. 31—British steamer torpedoed and sunk by pirate submarine off Spanish coast. Feb. 4—Hitler reorganized German army high command, assumed absolute control and maas Von Ribbentrop foreign minister. Feb. 7—Biitain warned Franco to stop pirate attacks or face reprisals. Feb. 14—Britain’s great naval Singapore dedicated. eb. 15—Hitler forced Austria to put pro- azis in her cabinet base at eb. 20—Hitler demanded colonies for Germany ar said Reich didn't fear war. A 1y Eden resigned as British foreign ter. Carol proclaimed fascist regime for ania arch 2—Chinese armies in Shensi prov- ince north of Yellow river routed by Jap- anese, March 3—Twenty-one former Soviet Rus- sian leaders pleaded guilty of treason and crimes in Moscow trial. 7 S and Czechoslo- trade treaty M: 9—C Schuschnigg ordered a plebiscite on Austrian independence. Chautemps’ French cabinet resigned. March 10—Leon Blum became French premier. March 11—Premier Schuschnigg of Aus- tria resigned when German troops invaded the country; Seyss-Inquart took post and formed Nazi cabinet. March 12—Hitler proclaimed the union of Germany and Austria, scrapping the treaty of St. Germain. m in Kin Ru: March 5l-Spapion insurgent armies drove forward into Catalonia April 8—Blum’s French cabinet resigned. April 10—-Edouard Daladier formed new French government. April 16—President Benes of Czechoslo. vakia announced amnesty for 4,000 political offenders. Great Britain and Italy signed agreement for peaceful settlement of all their differ- ences. April 19—Plot against King Carol of Ru- mania by Fascists foiled. April 22—Japan paid United States $2,214,- 000 to settle LL incident. April 25—Anglo-Ireland agreement signed, settling trade disputes. April 28—Great Britain and France agreed to pool their armed forces im time of war. May 3—Hitler arrived in Rome for con- ference with Mussolini. May 4—Dr. Douglas Hyde made presi. dent of Ireland by acclamation. May 1l1—Fascist revolt in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, suppressed May 12—League of Nations council in. formally recognized Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, May 13—-New anti-Nazi government tor Hungary formed by Bela Imredi. May 21—German and Czech troops massed | along the frontier. May 22—Germany promised Czechoslo- vakia would not be attacked. y 30—Japanese bombed Canton for three days, killing 800 persons and injuring June 4—Japanese continued bombing of Canton, killing hundreds. June 11—United States government took steps to discourage sale of planes to Japan. July 2—Japanese bombed Swatow, south China port, killing many. July hinese air base at Nanchang raided and wrecked bv Japanese bombers. July 14—Manchukuo protested invasion by Russian rons. July 19—King George of Great Britain made state visit to Paris. July 25-Japanose occupfed Kiukiang, China, key to Hankow defense. Aug. 1—Russian planes invade Korea and shell Japanese. A 7—Russia rejects Japanese terms, offers counter plan. Aug. 11—Russia, Japan, Manchukuan border conflict. Aug. 24—Reichsfuehrer Hitler pledges the inviolability of Hungary in meeting with Admiral Horthy, Hungarian regent. Aug. 26-— Hitler demands powers force Czechs to submit to him. Aug. 27—Britain warns Hitler attack on Czechoslovakia. Sept. 1—Mussolini orders out all Jews who entered Italy since the World war. i Sept. 4—France masses troops at Maginot ine. Sept. 6—Polish police wreck 173 orthodox churches; kill many. Sept. 9—Britain Hitler i ing Czechs. rechs and Nazis riot in Sude- reach truce in against again warns Sept. 12—Hitler defies Britain and France in speech. Sept. 14—Czech froops smash civil war in Sudeten territory Prime Minister Chamberlain flies to Germany to see Hitler. 5 Japan pledges armed aid to Hitler. Sept. 15—Four-power peace parley planned as result of Prime Minister Chamberlain's conference with Hitler. Sept. 16—British and French cabinets con- fer on Czech situation. Sept. 18—Britain and France yield to Hitler's demands. Sept. 20—Czechs accept Sept. 21--Poland and slices of Czechoslovakia. Sept. 22 =Cnamberigin and Hitler discuss an. remier and cabinet resign. Sept. 25—President Roosevelt sends peace appeal to Hitler. ept. 26—Chamberlain pledges Britain to enforce yielding of Sudoten area if Hitler will not make war. Hitler warns Czechs he is ready to fight for Sudetenland. Sept. 27—Roosevelt sends second plea to Hitler, proposes Furopesn parley. Sept. 28—Hitler calls four-power peace conference, including Great Britain, France and Haly of last effort to avert war. Sept. onference agrees to all Hitler's demands; Germans take immediate posses- sion of Sudetenland. Czechs submit. Sept. 30—German troops begin march into Czechoslovakia. Czechs get new demand from Poland. Czechs cede territory. Oct. 4—Premier Daladier given dicta- torial powers by French chamber of depu- ties. President Benes of Czechoslovakia resigns. Oct. 6—British forces kill 50 Arabs in new Palestine clash. House of commons endorses Chamber lain’s deal with Hitler. Oct. 7—Powers bar plebiscite in Sudeten- r give Hitler area without vote of artition ungary demand Cui. 8—Nazis stone palace of Cardinal Innitzer at Vienna, injuring the cardinal. Oct. 10—Chinese report 20,000 Japanese slain in three-day battle near Tein. Oct. 12—Germany demands $43,000,000 from Czech gold reserve to strengthen financial position. Oct. 14—Hitler demands Britain limit air | force to fraction of Germany's. Oct. 16—Germany arrests labor leaders as anti-Nazi agitators in new wave of unrest. Oct. 18—British troops besiege Arab rebels within old city of Jerusalem. Oct. 20—British troops disarm Arab reb- els in Jerusalem. Oct. 25—Duke of Kent made governor of Australia. Oct. 26—Japs take complete control of Hankow. Oct. 27—Japan approved plan to share spoils of Chinese conquest with Germany and Italy. Nov. 2—British commons approved Cham- berlain's pact with Italy. Hungary given chunk of Czechoslovakia by Germany and Italy. Two British planes set non-stop record of 7.162 miles, flying from Egypt to Australia. Nov. 7—King George of Great Britain ac- cepted President Roosevelt's invitation to visit United States. Nov. 10—20,000 Jews thrown into prison in Germany as mobs destroyed their homes and stores. Pearl Buck, American novelist, won 1938 Nobel prize for literature; Eurico Fermi won physics award. Nov. 11—Duke of Gloucester visited Duke of Windsor in Paris; former king to be re- stored to royal family circle. Gen. Ismet Turkey. Nov. 12—Germany fines Jews $400,000,000 as penalty for murder of German diplomat by Polish Jew in Paris. Nov. 16—31 nations ask Nazis to let Jews enter other lands. Nov. 21—Britain ofters new homelands tor German Jews in British Guiana and parts of Africa. Nov. 24—Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Halifax call on duke of Windsor in Paris. Nov. 29—General strike began in France; troops Secupy public services. Nov. 3 erman secret police begin purge 2 Nazi circles and army in drive to silence critics Dec. 1—Rumanian province forbids use of Yiddish language in public. Japanese air bombers kill 72; wound 200 in raid on Kwellin, China. Dec. 4—French colonists in Tunis and Cor- sica riot against Italy's apparent program of annexation Dec. 5—Germany forbids Jews to engage in economic affairs and bars sale of their possessions. Dec. 7—France and Germany sign war'' pact. Dec. 8-Britain shelves Germany's de- mands for restoration of colonies. Dec. 9—Disorders grow ‘n French-Italian row over Tunisia. Dec. 14—British refuse to help France in war with Italy. Dec. 15—Chamberlain warns Italy to keep hands off French Tunisia. Dec. 16—Spanish rebels decree full citizen rights to former King Alfonso. Dec. 19—British inflict heavy losses on “no Arab rebels in Palestine. X Dec. 20—France fortifies African colonies. | Inonu becomes president of Jan. 4—United States army bomber with seven aboard lost off California coast. Jan. 10—Ten killed in plane crash near Bozeman, Mont. an. 1l1-—-Munitions explosion in Madrid killed 200. Capt. Edwin Musick and six others killed in plane crash near Samoa. Jan. 18—Forty-seven killed when Catholic college at St. Hyacinthe, Que., burned. Jan. 27—Falls View bridge at Niagara Falls destroyed by ice jam. . _ 29 — Munitions lant wrecked town of Segni, Italy, and killed 27. Feb. 2—Eleven killed in collision of planes near San Diego. Feb. %—Russian dirigible crashed, kill- ing 13. Feb. 17—Tornado in Louisiana killed 30. March 2—Flood in Los Angeles area killed 64. . W. airliner with nine aboard lost in storm in California. explosion March 15-Tornadoes killed 21. March 24—Ten killed in plane crash in Ohio March 30—Tornadoes in Illinois, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri killed 29, April 6—Seven men burned to death in Chicago lodging house fire. April 8—Storms in many states killed 40 persons. April 20—Earthquake Tur- key. killed 800. April 22—Mine explosion at Grundy, Va., killed 45 men. May 1—Nineteen killed in crash of Italian air liner, May 10—Seventy-nine miners killed by explosions in Derbyshire, England. May 16—Hotel fire in Atlanta, Ga., killed Air liner with 9 aboard lost in California mountains. May 28—Excursion in seven states mm Anatolia, steamer Mandalay sunk by collision off Staten Island; 325 saved. June 10-—-Fight army fyers killed by plane crash near Delavan, Ill. June 14—Great Yellow river flood in China killed 150,000. June 19—Forty-six killed and many in- Jured in train wreck near Miles City, Mont. July 2—Destructive storms, floods and earthquakes in Japan. July 14—Italian airliner fell in sea; 20 killed. 19 — Destructive earthquake in Eleven men killed by Baltimore water tunnel explosion. July 24—Forty-two killed when airplane crashed in crowd at Bogota, Colombia. Aug. 14—Thirty-three die in German, Mexi- can. English air crashes Aug. 15—Nine die as plane falls into Rio de Janeiro harbor. Triple navy airplane crashes at Camp Kearny, San Diego, kill eight Aug. 22—More than 100 persons killed and 117 injured in train wreck in India Two killed and 49 injured in worst York subway train crash in 10 vears Two French bombing planes collide near Lyon. killing six. Aug. 23—Frank Hawks, famed flier and holder of speed records. dies with compan. ion in plane crash at East Aurora, N Aug. 24—Two planes collide over Omori, Japan, crashing into iron foundry and kill ing 28, injuring 130. Aug. 31--One hundred killed in typhoon that hit Tokyo. Sept. 1—Eleven killed in Quebec by dis- asters caused by floods. Sept. 4--Ten killed in plane crash in Lon- don suburb. Sept. 6—Hundreds die as fire and flood sweep Japan. Count of Covadonga, eldest son of ex-King Alfonso, bleeds to death following an auto accident in Florida. Sept. 11—Four killed in plane crash near Danville, Ill Sept. 21—Hurricane rips east coast: 661 dead: loss $300,000,000. Mississippi river floods factories, drives out lowlands residents. Maj. Gen. Oscar Westover killed in plane crash in California. Sept. 29— Twenty-seven killed in tornado at Charleston, S. C. Oct. 3—Richard T. Crane IIl, former dip- lomat, killed in hunting accident in Vir- ginia. Oct. 11—Twenty-one persons dead as for- ot fires raged near Minnesota-Ontario bor- er. Oct. 29—Fifty-six Marseilles, France Nov. 19—Army bomber, traveling 200 miles an hour, crashes in rain, killing seven Nov. 22—Hundreds buried by avalanches in British West Indies. Nov. 29—United Air lines plane crashes in sea off Point Reyes. Calif.; five drowned. Dec. 1—Twenty-two pupils and driver killed as train demolishes school bus near Salt Lake City. New lives lost in fire at Jan. 1—Admiral H. P. Jones, U. S. N., retired. ) Jan. 2—Rolana R. Conklin, New York capitalist. an. 8—Henry M. Dunlap, noted horti- culturist, in Champaign, Ill Jan. 11—Robert B. Harshe, director Chi- cago Art Institute Jan. 16—W. H. Pickering, Harvard uni- versity astronomer. Jan. 19—Dr. W. K. Boyd, historian, at Durham. N. C. Jan. 25—William Slavens McNutt, play- wright. Jan. 27—Charles A. Corwin, artist, in Chicago. Feb. 3—Armando Valdes, eminent Spanish novelist. > Feb. 7—Harvey S. Firestone, rubber mag- nate. Feb. 14—Admiral Cary T. Grayson, head of American Red Cross. O. McIntyre, writer, in New York. Feb. 20—John O. Sumner, historian, in Boston. Feb. 24—Mrs. Irene Rucker Sheridan, widow of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, in Wash- ington. Feb. 27—Elijah W. Halford, former edi- tor, and Frivale secretary to President Benjamin Harrison. March 1—Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian poet, playwright, soldier and patriot. March 3—R. P. Scripps, president Seripps- Howard newspaper chain. March 6—Walt McDougall, veteran car- toonist. March 11-Dr. W A. Wirt, educator, at Gary, Ind. March 13—Clarence Darrow, noted law- yer, in Chicago. March 28—Col. Edward M. House, in New ork. April 10—Brig. Gen. Leon A. Matile, U. S. A., retired. veteran of three wars. April 12--Feodor Chaliapin, grand: opera star, in Paris. April 18—Robert S. R. Hitt, retired Ameri- can diplomat. April 24—George Gray Barnard, Ameri. can sculptor. April 27—Albert B. Anderson of Indian- apolis, former federal judge. May 4—Karl von Ossietzky, Nebel peace prize winner, in Berlin. . ay 6—F. D. Waterman, fountain pen Jamacirer and philanthropist, in ew ork. Duke of Devonshire in London. May 7—Moses Ginsburg, pioneer Jewish publisher, in Chicago. ay 11—W. C. Noble, American sculptor and painter. Rear Admiral W. W. Phelps, U. S. N. May 16—E. T. Stotesbury, financier, in Philadelphia. Joseph B. Strauss, famous bridge builder, in Los Angeles. May 18—Anton Lang, Play actor, in Munich. May 22—William J. Glackens, American artist. May 26—John G. Oglesby, former lieuten- ant-governor of Illinois. James Forbes, American playwright. Rear Admiral T. P. Magruder, U. S. N., retired May 31—Louis Zangwill, English author. June 3—Marion Butler, former senator from North Carolina. June 7—F. E. Taplin of Cleveland, Ohio, rail and coal magnate. June 10—Constance Fletcher Fleming), novelist and dramatist. June 11—John Claflin, retired dry goods magnate, in Morristown, N. J. June 12—S. J. Duncan-Clark, journalist and lecturer of Chicago. June 14—Dr. W. W. Campbell, astronomer and former president of University of Cali- fornia John V. A, Weaver, American author. June 17—Dr. Royal S. Copeland, United States senator from New York. June 19—Henry W. Keyes, former sena- tor and governor of New Hampshire. * July 2—Douglas Malloch, Chicago poet, author and editor. Percy White, English novelist. Jy 4—Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis star. July 6—Mrs. Mabelle Horlick Sidley, malted milk heiress. July 9—Associate Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo of Supreme court. July 10—Dr. Frederick Peterson, neurolo- gist and author, in Bridgeport, Conn. July 11—Arthur Barclay, ex-president of Liberia. July 15—Rear Admiral J. K. Robison, ..S. N., retired, in New York. July 16—Samuel Insull, former utilities magnate, in Paris. July 18—Dowager Queen Marie of Ru- mania Elizabeth Banks, American author and journalist, in London. July 19—Dr. Paul Rader, noted evangelist, in Los Angeles. July 21—-Owen Wister, American author. Charles P. Howard, president of Typo- graphical union. July 23—D. F. Kelly, Chicago merchant and civic leader. July 24—Obadiah Gardner, former sena- tor from Maine. T. H. Bevan, American consul general at Warsaw, July 25—Maj. A, V. Dalrymple, last na- tional prohibition director. Countess of Warwick. veteran Passion (George Thursday, January 5, 1939. Jily 27--Warren €. Fairbanks, publishes Indianapolis News. July —~Dr. H. E. Van Norman. dairy industry exvert, in Chicano James Thornton, song coinposer. Bert Collyer, turf writer and publisher. Aug. 3—Pear] White, silent screen movie heroine. Aug. 6—Warner Oland, ‘Charlie Chan" of cinema fame. . Auz. 11--Mrs. Walter P Chrysler, wife of automobile magnate. Aug. 12—David Edstrom, Swedish-Ameri- can sculptor, one of organizers of Los Ane Art Center. 15—Daniel G. Dodge, 21, heir to au- | fortune. : . 16—Pauline Palmer, premier Amer{- can artist. J Lord Haldon, 42, penniless British peer and World war veteran, in London. Aug. 17—Adolph Lewisoan, 89, multimil- lionaire investment broker and philan- thropist. Aug. 18—Thomas K. Heath, 85, of famed vaudeville team of McIntyre and Heath. Aug. 28—May Yohe, actress, in Boston. Sept. 4—Cardinal Hayes, in New York. Sept. 6—Cardinal Camillo Laurenti, fia Rome. Sept. 11—Prince Arthur of Connaught, in London. Sept. 14—Willis R. Gregg. chief of United States weather bureau, in Chicago. Sept. 15—Thomas Wolfe, novelist, in Bale timore. Sept. 19—Pauline Frederick, star of stage and screen, in California. Sept. 22—President La D. Coffman of the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis. Sept. 28—Charles E. Duryea, inventor of first automobile, in Philadelphia. Oct. 1—Conway Tearle, stage and screen star, in Hollywood. Oct. 10—George W. Lederer, theatrical producer, in New York. Oct. 12—Grand Duke Cyril, self-pro- claimed czar of Russia, in Paris. Oct. 13—E. C. Segar, creator of "Popeye, the Sailor,” in California. Oct. 17—Dr. John Barrett, ex-diplomat, in Bellows Falls, Vt. Oct. 22—May Irwin, New York Harry Stilwell Edwards. Georgia author, in Macon, Ga. Oct. 27—Alma Gluck, opera star, in New York famous actress, in . 2)—Pat Crowe, Cudahy kidnaper in 1900, in New York. Robert Woolsey, comedian, in California. Nov. 10—Kemal Ataturk, president of Turkey. Nov. 12—C. H. Mackay, Postal Telegraph head, in New York. Nov. 20—Queen Maud of London Nov. 21—Leopold Godowsky, famed pian- ist, in New York. Nov. 27—Rear Admiral Edward B. Barry, retired, in Baltimore. Dec. 10—Professor J. W. Garner, political science authority at the University of Illi. nois. Dec. 13—Gaston B. Means, superswindler, responsible for the Lindbergh ransom hoax, in Springfield, Mo. Dec. 20—-Warren T. McCray, former gov- ernor of Indiana. Dec. 21—Mrs. Helen Shenard, daughter of Jay Gould. in Margaretsville. N Y Norway, in Jan. 1—Califorma beat Alabama in Pasa- dena Rose Bowl game Jan. 21—Jim Braddock whipped Tommy Farr in New York. Jan. 30—Max Schmeling whipped Bem Foord of South Africa in Hamburg. Feb. 20—Escobar of Puertc Rico regained world bantam weight title by whipping Jeffra. Vic Ronchetti of Chicago won national skating championship. Feb. 23—Heavyweight fouls knocked out Nathan ork. Feb. 26—Glenn Cuhningham set indoor record for ‘‘metric mile’ at 3:48.4. March 3—Glenn Cunningham ran mile in 4:04.4, world record. March 11—Max Baer whipped Tommy Farr in New York. March 21—Chicago area Golden Gloves boxers defeated New York team. April 1—Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis whipped Harry Thomas in Chicago. April 4—Henry Picard won the Masters’ gold tournament at Augusta, Ga. April 12—Chicago Blackhawks won Stan- ley cup and world's hockey championship. April 16—Max Schmeling whipped Steve Dudas in Berlin. May T7--