PAGE SIX Russians move to within 27 miles of Polish border. J. S. marines expand hold on Cape w Britain. American "troops capture San Guista, Two new Russian offensives are opened. 3ritish blast Magdeburg in 1,000-plane raid. 2N-—LENINGRAD CLEARED OF NAZIS. 80--Hitler in speech anticipates defeat. February 1—Chinese advance in northern Burma. | 8~Marines capture Namur and other is- lands in the Marshalls. '@=U. S. army takes Kwajalein atoll in Marshalls. 18—Heaviest bomb load on Berlin by British d7-U. S. naval task force attacks Truk, main Jap base in south Pacific. 18-—Japanese cabinet naa ‘following attack on Truk. U. S. naval task force strikes at Mari- anas islands. of western New Britain passes to Jat & dropped hurled bers. American control. 29-—Stalin offers peace terms to Finland. March 8—Record raid on Berlin made by 2,000 UR army crosses Bug river. 19—Advancing Russians enter Bessarabia. 26—Russians reach Romanian border. Palau islands, 1,600 miles south of Ja- pan, attacked by U. S. navy. April 2—Husyian troops enter Romania, rican planes bomb Austria. 10 ODESSA FALLS TO RUSSIANS. 13—Allied troops halt Jap drive near Ko- hima, in India 29—A thousand uv 'S. bombers raid Berlin. Jonas s mid- Bacio base, Truk, is raid- r 35th t May 7—Allied forces in Italy frm back German counterattack near Anz 8—Sevastopol, Hack sea oval base, falls to Russian 15—Chinese ich counter-offensive in west- ern Yunnan province. ‘18—CASSINO, NAZI STRONGPOINT IN IT- AL LLS TO AMERICANS AFTER LONG SIEGE. 28—Allied bombers strike at German syn- thetic oil plants in Leipsig area. June 4—AMERICAN TROOPS ENTER ROME. ITH L Y $—aniss in yo capture port 38 miles orth of Rome. 13 Allies advance into northern France reaching point 15 miles {ila ne 17—Chinese take Kamaing, Bur '23—Week-long German robot ombing re- ported by British. 25—American tank units enter Cherbourg, important French port. 26—Russians capture Vitebsk and Zhlobin. July , 8—Minsk falls to Russians as they sweep joie Polish territor; ; 6—Robot bomb casualties and damage in Southern England are admitted to be serio 9— British and Canadians enter Caen, France, anchor of German lines for eeks. 27—Six Nazi bases, the most important be- ng vo ow, fall to Russians on various Home Litovsk captured by Russians. 30—Allied ‘‘break-through' registers large gains in France. ‘August 1—Hesistance in Tinian island in Marshalls 2 Turkey breaks diplomatic relations with Germany. 10—Guam conquered, giving U. S. control of all important islands of Marshalls. 15-4 second Allied invasion force lands on southern FTench coast between Mar- seille and 10—U. S. tank hi reach suburbs of Paris. R0--Soutern France invasion force enters ‘ou! B1—Homanian Capital, Bucharest, is entered y Russians. Soporte: 4—Finns and Russians cease fighting in Truce. 5—Russia declares war on Bulgaria, ¥—Britain lifts black-out regulations, con- sidering menace from air conque! NeAmsrican First army pushes i oles 0 German territory. 12— Romania granted alstice by Allies. 13—Russians reach border of Czechoslo- vakia. 1-0 S. Third fleet attacks Cohn and Ne- ros islands of the Philippi 16—Seoond Quebec conference is. Plans for quick finish of European war and of inarshaling of forces for Japanese front 19. nish’ armistice signed by Russia and Fin. 22—Russians take Tallinn, capital of Estonia. 30—Russians gain 60-mile-wide bridgehead in Yugoslavia. October { Calais, French channel port, falls to Al- | 3-Sietried ine JLreached at Uebach by S. Fifth 4-U. S. Sa id Borneo oil fields. 6—Russians cross Hungarian border. 1--Fast Prussian border reached oy Rus- nu "S: troops enter Aachen, important German border city. 20—-AMERICAN FORCES UNDER MacARTHUR INVADE PHILIPPINES, LANDING ON LEYTE I Moscow conference between Stalin and Chwenll ends. avy meets and defeats huge Jap fleet rower Ehilippines and Formosa. November 4—All German forces driven from Greece, | 9=Japs gain in China, advancing on rail city of Liuchow. Meanwhile, British yn SOP drive back Japs in Burma planes sink eight Jap warships. I Britian bombers sink Tirpitz, famous German battleship, in Norwegian port. 16—Great Allied drive launched on 300-mile front from Holland to Vosges. 20—French troops reach Rhine river in lunge through Belfort g EF 21—Lieut. Gen. Patton leads Third army in drive 23 miles beyond 24—B-29s bomb Tokyo er. from base in Marianas, 1,560 miles awa; 2i—Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark is made coms mander in chief of U. S. army forces in 20--U. Third army attacks ors at Saar. brucken, Saarlautern, and rz First, and Ninth armies oe border tow! »-—-U. Ss ‘planes sink 10 Jap transports eng three destroyers, @rowning 4,000 yte, ' 13—A budget of $99, 3%, 000, , 26—Muster-out-pay bil UNION PRESS-COURIER December 1-U. S. Third army reaches Saar river. 2—Nazis withdraw troops from Norway, leaving only small garrison forces. 3—American armies advance in both Roer and Saar Jes. 4-U. Third army enters Saarlautern, as entire lied front of 450 miles swings into motio Military oY golitical orisis grips China. Rioting breaks in Athens, Greece. Civil war si . 6—B-29s raid Jap bases on Bonin islands. Others hit Tokyo again. 8—Units of 77th division make new landing n Leyte, splitting Jap lines. 11—MacArthur’s troops capture Ormoe, en- emy supply pon yte. France and TE Sen mutual assist. ance pact. 18—Greei factional fighting grows in inten. B- i hit Nagoya, Japanese aircraft pro- duction center. 14—U. S. tank and infantry units reach out. skirts of Duren, key to Cologne region. 5—U. S. Seventh army advances to Ger- man border on 35 mile fron Twenty eight men and {wo women are indicted on sedition charges. J0Gongress reconvenes 11—Roosevelt asks for National Service act. 4000 is President's estimate of 19 20—Army allows Icio ot loyal Japanese- Americans. sla eed, providing for a maximum of 29—World's most re batilesnip, the 45,000-ton Missouri, is launch February 7—Tax bill sent to White House. It pro Tides for $2,315,200,000 of additional reve. 16—War Relocation authority {W1A) trans. ferred to department of inter; 17—Army announces more than "200, 000 men ave been returned from the Pacific fronts on furloughs, besides the sick and wounded, and that the rotation furlough lan is in full swing. 18—Selective sevice orders farm workers reclassified. a bill is vetoed as “wholly inade- ua 2 ongress overrides veto on tax bill. Sen. Alben Barkley, Democratic majority HY vin resigned in flareup on veto, is re-named March 6—Five veterans’ organizations combine in asking for a bonus up to $5,000 for all members of the armed forces 14—Draft EER for men 18 to 26 in Sisentied industry ended except for 15 Belginen vote” bill providing for short federal ballots is passed and sent to President. 21—State department announces that it will have no dealings with the Vichy French government. 25—Three men and two women are convict. ed as spies, and sentenced to long terms. April 1—Army reports that 1,058,000 enlisted men have been discharged between Decem- ber 1, 1941, and January 4—House committee A aes that the fed- eral government now owns one-fifth of Be, and area of continental United 5— Wendel Willkie withdraws as a Rep! lican presidential candidate after etont in Wisconsin. 12—Attorney General Biddle reopens investi- Estion of Political Action committee of 17—A new. chemical treatment that will give v ny degree of hardness desired, i nT. 26—Federal troops take possession of the Chicago plant of Montgomery Ward Co. by order of FDR when the company re- fused to obey his order to recognize a CIO union. 29—Gen. Douglas MacArthur announces that he will not accept nomination for Presi- ent. May 1—Pulitzer prize for novels awarded to Mar- tin Flavin for “Jo ourney in the Dark.” Musical comedy ‘“‘Oklahoma’’ won a spe- cial award for authors. 3—Most meats are removed from ration. ing. Steaks and beef roasts are princi. al exceptio ew draft So Nations defer most men over 26. Those under 26 are scheduled for early induction. Men 26-29 in war- supporting industries gain at least six months deferment, and those 30 and over an indefinite sta ay. 15 Senate voted to delay action on poll t 11— British delegation arrives for talks on ostwar security 2 i party votes to disband as a political party, but to continue as an ‘*‘association.” 22—Supreme court decision upholds validity f O suspension order: 31—Synthetic sugar is Pros at the Uni- versity of California. Process is too ex- pensive to be practical at present. Governors’ conference adopts resolution calling for restoration of state powers yielded to federal government when war emergency ends. June A=Rscretary of State Hull pledges that in the postwar world organization, small nations will be kept on an equality with large in every practicable way. 2—War Manpower commission announces that it will take over ‘‘absolute control of all male workers over 17 to check turnover in essential industries.’ 8—Twenty-one brigadier generals promot- ed to gajor generals and 63 colonels to brigadiers “G. 1. Bill of Rights’ clears Si 13—Democrats lose majority in the hous with the election of Rolla McMillen, 19th Illinois. 21—Senate passes army appropriation bill of $49,107,735,795. 28—Republican convention nominates Thom- as E. Dewey, governor of New York, for President, and John W. Bricker, gov- ernor of Ohio, as vice president. 29—A serum to prevent measles has been developed and will be made available soon, the Red Cross reveals. July 3—Treasury reveals that war Sosis for fis. cal year total 90 billion dolla 7—The Grumman F-7-F, new iA “motored naval fighting plane, is {ssisd, and is called superior to the Helle 8—Roosevelt’'s conversations # with Gen. Charles DeGaulle of France end. Gaulle reported to be ‘highly gratified.” 3-Vice President Wallace returns from Chi- redicts an era of peace in the Pacific, with Russia and China as lead 1D sient Roosevelt says that he will run again “if nominated.’ 1—-Ene Johnston, president pH U. S. Cham. er of Commerce, returns from Russia. Dre and duchess of Nndsor EiTive in New York from the Baham 14—Army reveals that there are ee 196,941 war prisoners in the U. S., 146,101 be- ing German, and §0,278 Italian. 20—Democratic convention in Chicago nomi. | . nates Roosevelt for a 21—Sen. Harry Truman (Mo.) {i acy. { a says that malaria has been re. duced to two-thirds of early war rate. Augu ind of Puiisephia Jransit workers is referred to Presiden s powinated for Democratic vice presidential candi | 4—Governors’ conference ends, after issu.) . ing statement defining limits of state and federal powers. 6—Philadelphia street cars and busses op- erate under army contro Newly developed calculating machine that will solve problems in higher mathe- is announced by Harvard uni. versity. 12—President returns from visit to Hawaii and Alaska. 14—Strike of midwestern truck drivers ends, following government seizure of es 16—Army ends censorship of soldiers’ read- ing matter. S. department of justice files anti- trust suit in Lincoln, Neb., against 47 western railroads. 25—Secretary of State Hull and John F. Duhee, Fepresenting Dewey, discuss for- eign y. Sane passes reconversion bill to take care of government surplus sales. 29—Republican campaign opens with radio speeches by Governors Warren of Cali. fornia, Green of Illinois, and Baldwin of Connecticut. Navy Teports the construction of 65,000 Shin: s of all types since September 1, September 6—Army announces demobilization ‘plans; More than a million men will be dis-| charged when Germany is defeated. Seventeen processed foods are removed from ration t. | 11—Roosevelt es Churchill in Quebec for| military discussions. 15—Nineteen coal mines are seized on the President's order 21—Congress ross “until November 14. 2—-hation controls removed fom all farm ery except corn picker: 30—Birth rate for 1943 Ey census bureau says. October 5—Strike of Detroit maintenance workers, affecting 3 war plants and 50,000 work- ers, en 6—Super-; a oved X-ray announced that will hotograph through a foot of steel. ease conference at Dumbarton Oaks, N. H., ends sessions. A general frame- Nn for peace and security agreed upon, it is announced. 18—War Production board announces that it has permitted 1,110 Tnanutaciurery to resume civilian productio 23—De Gaulle recognized as “head of French Provisional goyernment b y the U. S. and other United Nation 25—U. S. d other United Niuons Tesume diplomatic relations with Ital November 6—Dept. of Agriculture announces a decline in farm population in last four years amounting to 4,748,000. 7—Nationwide elections held. President Roosevelt reelected by majority of 3,000,- 000 votes, or 53 per cent of popular vote, winning 36 states apd 432 electoral votes. enty Democrats and 13 Republicans gain senate seats. Democrats elect 242 representatives, and Republicans 185. Eighteen Republican and 13 Democratic governors elected. 14—Congress meets. Supplementary appro- priations main business. 18—Special committee on wartime living costs reports to_President that rise is 29 per cent over January 1, 1941, level. 20—Sixth War loan drive opens. 27—Strike on two electric railroads serving Chicago area ends after 17 days. Edward Stettinius appointed secretary of state to succeed Cordell Hull, 30—Assistant attorney-| kody Norman Lit. tell dismissed by President. December 1—Strikes in Detroit and Chicago delay production of B-29 bomber: 2—Government halts ion plans in 125 cities until munition production meets schedule Rr Husband Kimmel and Maj. Gen. Walter Short, Pearl Harbor com- manders, will not be court-martialed, war and navy boards rule, 4—Draft of agreement of International Civil Aviation conference is Comply eted, and ready for signatures of delegates. 7—Sedition trial of 26 defendants ends in mistria Prison revolt of 25 Atlanta convicts e 10— Work or fight” order issued by War Mobilization Director Byrnes, threaten- ing men in age 26-37 bracket with in. duction who are not in war jobs. 11—Nobel prizes awarded to five Americans. 13—War prisoners at Fort Sheridan, Ill., go on sit-down strike; 1,300 put on bread Li and water. 14—Production quotas on machine guns reduced to release workers for more critical items. gk SPORTS January 1—Southern California U. wins annual Rose v1 game, defeating Washington U. 3 MeSpaden wins the Los Angeles Den golf tournament with a score of 17—Byron Nelson wins San Francisco Open golf tournament with 275. February 12—New manager of Boston Braves, Bob Coleman, named to succeed Casey Sten- gel. 25—Joe Baksi outpointed Le Mauriello in ten-round heavyweight tle. 28—Sammy Byrd Hn the id Orleans Golf tournament with 2 March 3—Bob Montgomery regains the lightweight title, as recognized in New York, by outpointing Beau 11—U. of Michigan wins ‘the Big Ten in. door track and field meet at Chicago. 18—Gilbert Dodds bettered his own indoor je mark in Chicago, with a time of 4:06.4. 18—Alan Ford establishes a new world rec- ord for the 100-yard free style swim at 49.7 seconds. U. of Utah captures the N.C.A.A. basket. han title > Fofsoung Dartmouth, 42-40, April 13—Montreal Canadiens defeat the Chicago Blackhawks for the fourth successive time in the Stanley cup Professional lee hockey championship play 18—Major league baseball a opens. May | 5—Charlie Grimm becomes new manager, ! of Chicago Cubs. | 6—Pensive wins the Kentucky Derby, and Stir p, | Broadeloth was second, { 28— |The Preakness race was won by Pen-| lo7—v, iY, Michigan wins western conference i outdoor championship track meet, {June 10—U. of Illinois wins the National Collegiate i Athletic association track and field cham. pionships. 18—Francisco Segura of Ecuador wins the national clay court tennis title. 24—Mrs. Mildred (‘“‘Babe’) Didrikson Zaha. rias defeats Miss Dorothy Germaine to win the n's Western Open golf rons 25—-A new world record for the two-mile run set by Gunder Hagg in Sweden, His time was 8:46.4. July 11—National league team wins the All ame, 7-1, in Pittsburgh, star -y Jritie Ped outpoints Manuel one, world antamweight cham os, a 10-ro| non-title fight in Bosto Ro ud 30—Miss Ann Curtis improves the woman's 880-yard free style swimming record with a mark of 11:08.6. August 7—Joe Baksi defeats Lee Savold in 10- round heavyweight fight. $—Yankee Maid wins the Hambletonian harness race. 12—Miss Dorothy Germaine retains Women's Western Amateur golf title 20—Bob Hamilton wins the Professional Ifers’ association title. B-Trs ghooting championshi; Jepsen or breaking goes to Les- 7 targets out Bo Nelson wins the All-American golf championship 30—Chicago rs rofessional football club defeats the College All Stars, 24-21. September | 6—lke Williams outpoints Sammy Angott, former lightweight champion. 10--Baltimore captures the International league pennant. 20—Nashville wins the Southern league play- off, defeating Memphis. 21-St. Louis Cardinals clinch National league pennant. 20—Willie Pep retains world featherweight boxing title by defeating Chalky White. October 1-—St. Louis Browns win American league nant FI Francisco takes Pacific league se- ries, four games to two. 8—ST. LOUIS CARDINALS WIN WORLD SERIES, FOUR GAMES TO TWO 10—Most valuable baseball players, chosen by Sporting News, are Martin Marion, Cardinal shortstop, and Bobby Doerr, second baseman of Boston American league club. 11-—Little world series of league won by Baltimore. 14—Francisco Segura wins Pan-American tennis title for third straight time. International November 10—Jimmy Daniels defeats Sammy Angott, former lightweight boxing champion. 11—Army football team defeats Notre Dame, 26—College football champions: Ivy league, Yale; ig Ten, hio State; Big Six, Oklahoma; Southwest, Texas Christian; Southern, Duke; Pacific coast, Southern California. 27—Hal Newhouser, Detroit Tigers pitcher, named. most valuable player in American eagu U. of Tennessee chosen for Rose Bowl game with S. California. Jan. Other bowl opponents: Or =nes Bowl, Mi- ami, Georgia Tech, vs. Tulsa; Sugar Bowl, New Orleans, Alabama vs. Du ke; Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas Christian vs. Oklahoma A. and M. Paul Krumske, Chicago, is new national individual match game champion, in wling. December 2—Army defeats Navy, 23.7. Notre Dame beats Great Lakes by 28-7. Georgia Tech wrecks Georgia 44-Q to win Southeast. ern 13—Major baseball club owners vote to bar football games in ball parks until the baseball season is over. 14—Welker Cochran wins world three cush- ion billiard championship. 15—Big League baseball owners divided on successor to K. ndis as commis. sioner, and on other agjuestions. DISASTERS) 2a DIPASTERS January 7—Thirty seamen drown when a navy patrol vessel sinks in collision nff Cape May, wd. 5 freight train strikes ‘army Kingman, Ariz., killing 25 cadets. f —-Twslve Josrsons were killed and 40 in. jure hen a passenger train crashed into gr rear of a standing train near Novice, Texas. bus at aviation February 11—Crash of an airliner ints the Mishsainn river carries 21 passengers an hre crewmen to death near Memphis, Tore March 12—Collision of the Liberty Ship J. Pinkney Henderson and 2 tanker cost many lives. 13—An accidental Xplosion of a surface mine killed ten soldiers in training ma- neuvers at Camp Robinson, Ark. 20—A bus plunging through a guard rail of a bridge over the Passaic river in New Jersey drowns 19 perso 25—An explosion in a coal Bone near Shin- niston, W. Va., ki fis 16 miners. April 6—A blast in the naval ordnance depot in Hastings, Neb., kills eight workers. 7—Thirty-nine merchant marine crewmen and 23 naval gunners drown when a Lib- erty hip struck a reef offshore and broke up on the English coast. 9—Fire following a collision causes the deaths of 29 crewmen naval gutners on a tanker traveling in a con- voy. i-4 tornado cutting through Arkansas takes lives of 34 persons. 25—An American Liberator bombing plane crashes in downtown Montreal, Canada, causing the deaths of 14 persons. 27—Fifteen workmen die of suffocation while % Tapairing naval ship in Ports. mouth, 28—A navy transport plane crashes 15 miles east of Flagstaff, Ariz., killing 22 per- sons. May 16—Ten members of a naval blimp crew died when the airship hit a hangar in its takeoff at Lakehurst, N. J. June 2501s hundred and forty-six were killed nd 1,000 injured by a tornado that swept iS parts of Pennsylvania, West Vir. ginia and Maryland. July 6—A fire in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. circus in Hartford, Conn., causes deaths of ersons, mostly women and children. wo hundred others were injured. Sixty-six miners trapped in & burning coal mine near Bellaire, Ohio, had to be abandoned to their fate, od the en- trance was sealed to check the fire. 7—Wreck of a troop train near Jellico, Tenn., killed 31 soldiers and 2 civil- fang, and injured 100 others. Zi—-An army bomber crashing into a trailer nD in South Portland, Maine, took the ives of 16 persons. 17—Explosion ~ of two munition Navy loadin pier in Port Chicago, Calif.,, results in 319 deaths among naval and merchant marine dorsonnel, and property damage of $7, 0. 26—An army hospital plane a5 000, toll lost at sea between Iceland and New- foundland with 26 aboard ships at August 4—Twenty-eight persons, including 24 army pilots and mechanics are killed in crash of transport plane near Atkinson, | Neb. i 5—Train wreck pear Stockton, Ga., kills, 45 and injures 9—Crash of airliner at Antilla, Cuba, brings | death to 17. 13—Fire Sone gages, N. J, ment park, ki 3 and Rr In apoier fire ne Coney Island, lyn, N. Y., 35 persons were injure September 14—Hurricane sweeping over Atlantic coast from South Carolina to Canada causes BH Caamns and property Eh ssin of $100,- 17=-Navy reports sinking of a destroyer and two coast guard cutters in the hurri- cane, with “heavy loss of life.” 28—Eight persons are killed in collision of freight and passenger trains near Mis- souri Valley, Iowa. 28—Collision of two trains near Terre Haute, Ind., kills 29 and injures 65. Most of the dead were soldiers. October 20—Fire in Cleveland, Ohio, following ex- Flosjon of liquid gas storage plant causes 21 deaths and 200 injuries. November 4—Air-liner crash near Hanford, Calif., takes lives of 24 passengers. 8—Nine die and 75 are injured in train wreck when limited leaves jrach 50 miles northeast of Sacramento, 14—Army rar sport plane hits Sa ain west of Harmon field, Newfoundland, killing nine and injuring nine U. S. army per- 27—Army plane crashes near Madison, Wis., bringing death to three air corps men. December 1—Airliner crashes near Burbank, Calif., with 23 passengers. Seven killed. Freight car loaded with bombs explodes in Tolar, N. M., wrecking buildings and starting fires. 14—Three small children burned to death in Chicago, a fourth seriously injured. January 6—Ida M. Tarbell, 86, writer, famous for exposing trusts, in ‘Bridgeport, 20--Yeler Hackett, 67, playwright, on iow or 29—William Allen White, 75, famous editor of Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, died in Em por Ah . 25—Rear Adm. Charles C. Hartigan, 62, val attache, winner of Oo essional medal, in Palo Alto 29—Rep. Thomas H. Collen, 76, member of house from Brooklyn, N. Y. since 1919, died in Washington, D. C. March 1—-Thomas E. Campbell, 66, formar gover- nor of Arizona, died in Pho 7—Rev. Dr. Thomas Nicholson, 82, “Method ist bishop and former president of the Anti-Saloon league, in Mount Vernon, owa. 15—Joseph B. Eastman, 61, director of Office of Defense Transportation, died in Wash- ington, C. 19—Willam H. Thompson, former mayor of Chicago, Ill, died at 74 in Chicago. Aprit 24—Mrs. Sarah Jane Swanson, 113, said to be the oldest American-born resident of the United States, died in Chicago. 25—-Coe I. Crawford, 86, former governor and Senator of South Dakota, in Yank- on, William D. Stephens, 84, former gover- nor of California, died in Los Angeles, BfeoretaTy of Navy Frank Knox, who as held that Suinet post since 1940, dred in Washington, D. C., at age of € was a newspaper publisher in private life. May 7—Vice Adm. William Rodgers, 84, com mander of U. Adriatic fleet in World War I, died in Bethesda, 8—Brig. Gen, Donald A. Davison, chief of provisional engineering command, Medi- Jerranean area. Death reported from naia. 12—Brig. Gen. Henry D. Styer, 81, com- mander of Allied troops in Siberia in World War I, died in Coronado, Calif. 16—George Ade, famous humorist, died at 78 in Kentland, Ind. June 1—Gen. O. R. Gellette, 99, Confederate brigadier general, in Shreveport, La. 6—Col. eck, prime minister of Po- land during German invasion in 1939, died at 49 near Bucharest, Romania. 25—Louisa E. G. Thorp, 80, internationaily known artist and art teacher, in Angeles. July 8—Martin D. Morrison, 82, former congress- man from Indiana, died in Abingdon, Va. 12—Mrs. Betty Compton Knappen, 37, for- mer musical comedy actress, in Ww ork. 17—Alan Dinehart, 54, film and stage actor who has appeared in more than 100 pic- tures. died in Hollywood, Calif. 20—Mildred Harris, 41, movie actress and first ue of of Charles Chaplin, died in Los An H=—Liedt, ir Leslie McNair killed in 20—Manuel Quezon, president of the Phil. ippines, died at Saranac Lake, N. Y. €e was 0. August 5—Rear Adm. Don Pardee Moon, 50, com mitted suicide i Waspington hile suf- fering from mbat fatig Effie Cherry, 65. or of the SITY Sis- lors of vaudeville fame, in Cedar Rap- ids a. September 1—Isabel Irving, 73, whose stage career covered 50 years, at Nantucket, Mass. 2—George W. Norris, former senator from Nebraska, died at 83 in McCook, Neb. He served 40 years in congress, includ- ing five terms in the senate. 8—James A. Reed, former senator from Missouri, at 82 in Fairview, Mich. October 4—Alfred E. Smith, four times governor of New York and Democratic candidate for President in 1928, in New York ey at 70. 8—Wendell L. Willkie, 52, presidential candidate utility executive. 19—Rep. who rep- resented a So. Carolina district for 12 consecutive terms, in Washington, D. C. 22—Richard Behnett, 72, famous actor, in Los Angeles. November 8—Miss Christiana Bond, 300, S1jthor, art. ist and lecturer, in Balti . 9—Jane Grey, io" well- BD na RS tess, in New York c 12—Edgar S, Kelicy, 87, composer of classi- cal music, in New York city. 16—Boake Carter, correspondent and radio news commentator, 46, in Hollywood, alif. 17—Sen. Ellison D. Smith, who represented So. Carolina in upper chamber for years (longest consecutive PSrind in his- oY) at 80, in Lycos. 8 . 25—Judge Kenesaw Landis commissioner of Professional baseball for 24 years, at 8, in December 1—Albert B. Fall, Hardin administration; at 83, in Paso, —Dr. Dav. a ey, 83, president of U. of Illinois, 1920 to 1930, in Champaign, III tle, 76, in Most outstanding case was treason trial of Max Stephan 7—Maj. John Griffith, Fanti ly of in. Breoliesinte athletics of Western confer- ence, at in Chicago. 14—Lupe Xetor, 34, movie actress, kills self in Ho llywood, Calif, Released by Western Newspaper Union, secretary of interior in El Thursday, January 4th, 1048. MR. AVERY *SITS DOWN RECORD HARVEST 1 | FRANCE LIBERATED EDITOR’S SUGGESTION: When you have finished with this page we suggest you mail it to a serviceman overseas. It gives a graphic account of history-mak- ing 1944—history he is helping build, Ber ——————————————————————
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers