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1936
‘Jan. 1—Franklin C. Hoyt resigned as fed-
eral alcohol administrator. ;
Jan. ongress 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 1937. J
«Jan. 9—Democratic national convention,
opening June 23, awarded to Philadelphia.
Jan. 10—Houge passed immediate pay-
ment of bonus bill.
~ Jan. 11—New Jersey court of pardons re-
fused to commute Hauptmann’s sentence.
an. 13—Supreme Court ordered return
of impounded processing taxes.
~ Jan. 16—Bruno Hauptmann reprieved for
30 days by governor of New Jersey.
y
Jan. 20—Senate passed bonus bill provid-
\ ing payment by baby bonds. J
~ Jan. 21 — Deficiency 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
~ 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Feb. 4—Senate repealed cotton, tobacco
contracts. :
otato control acts. *
: be . 5—House repealed the three farm
Afacis
Feb. 6—House voted to impeach Federal
Judge Halstead Ritter of southern district
of Florida.
Feb. 10—Supreme Court held invalid the
3 Louisisns law taxing newspaper advertising. |
~ Feb. 13—Wayne Chatfield-Taylor made as-
sistant secretary of treasury.
~ Feb. 14—House passed $545,000,000 army
appropriation.
Feb. 15—New farm bill passed by senate.
Feb. 17—Supreme court upheld right of
TVA to distribute electricity developed at
Wilson dam.
House voted to extend neutrality act one
year. :
Feb. 18—Senate passed neutrality exten-
sion bill.
Feb. 21—House passed new farm bill.
Feb. 23—Chief of Police E. Francis Griggs
of Puerto Rico assassinated by two nation-
Feb. 24—Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood .re-
~ moved from command for criticizing ad-
pnimistration,
eb. 26—President Roosevelt vetoed $50,-
¥ © 000,000 seed loan bill.
Feb. 28—Interstate commerce commission
‘cut basic railway fares to 2 cents a mile.
Feb. 29—President signed revised neutral-
act.
Completed Boulder dam turned over to
reclamation service.
March 1—New York building service work-
ers struck.
‘March 3—President in message to con-
proposed new taxes of $1,137,000,000.
~ March 4—Completed Norris dam opened
by President Roosevelt. : J
~ "March 10—Arthur W. Cutten of Chicago,
noted grain speculator, indicted for income
tax evasion.
March 11—District of Columbia Supreme
court permanently enjoined seizu 2 of tele-
- grams by senate committee. :
~ March 14—New York building service
strike settled by compromise.
~ March 18—President Roosevelt asked con-
gross for $1,500,000,000 for relief in next
scal year.
March 22—President Roosevelt started on
annual fishing trip.
March 23—Senate passed War department
. appropriation bill.
March 24—Federal Judge Barnes. in Chi:
cago declared national labor relations act
unconstitutional.
March 30—Federal Judge Samuel Alschu-
ler of Chicago resigned.
April 3—Bruno Hauptmann executed at
Trenton, N. J., for kidnaping and murder
of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s baby son.
g April 6—Supreme court decision curbed
powers of securities exchange commission.
* April 8 District of Columbia Supreme
court justice refused to enjoin Black com-
mittee in Hearst telegram case.
"April 10—President Roosevelt returned to
“ Washington. :
April 13—President appointed General Ha-
good to command of Sixth corps area at
Chicago.
April 17—Federal Judge Halsted L. Ritter
of miorica found guilty by senate on im-
$ «geachment charges and removed from of-
fic
pril 29—House passed $803,000,000 tax
"May 1—Alvin Karpis, “public enemy No.
1,” captured in New Orleans. :
“House passed $531,000,000 navy bill. Li
“May 8—Senate passed. house naval .ap-
~ propriation_bill.
PE Passed $2,364,299,000 relief
~ May 11—House
and deficiency bil
National Red Cross convention opened in
Chicago. 4
~ 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. y
Socialist party nominated
Thomas for President. 4
~~ May 30—Senate approved Florida ship
canal appropriation. 3
3 Te —Senate passed relief and defi-
ciency bill : ;
"United States Supreme court held invalid
New York minimum wage law.
Norman
June 4—William B. Bankhead, Alabama, |
i elected speaker to succeed the late J. W
Byrns & Le
June 6—Texas, Centennial exhibition
opened at Dallas. :
“Speaker Byrns’ funeral held at Nashville.
June 7 —Sixteen insane felons fled Minne-
sota prison. J ;
~~ June 9—Republican national convention
opened in Cleveland.
June 11—Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas
nominated for President by Republicans.
. June 12—Republicans nominated Frank
Knox of Chicago for vice president.
President Roosevelt delivered address at
the Texas Centennial exposition in Dallas.
June 14—President Roosevelt dedicated
George Rogers Clark memorial at Vin-
cennes, Ind.
Delivery of bonus bonds to veterans be-
an.
£ June 17—House defeated Black-Smith anti-
Jobby bill, and Florida ship canal bill.
June 18—Congress passed anti-communist
bill. s
June 20—Congress adjourned.
June 23—Democratic national convention
June 26—Franklin D. Roosevelt renomi-
nated by acclamation by Democrats.
June 87—John N. Garner renominated
for vice presidency.
J 7—Postmaster General Farley given
leave of absence until after election.
July 11—Roosevelt dedicated $65,000,000
New York Tri-Borough bridge.
Ruth Bryan Owen married Capt.’ Boerge
Rohde of Denmark.
July 14—President Roosevelt and sons left
on two weeks’ cruise.
July 15—Townsend followers opened con-
vention in Cleveland.
Former Lieut. Comdr. John S. Farnsworth
arrested on charge of selling naval inferma-
tion to Japanese.
July 18—Government drouth relief ex-
tended to 16 states.
July 23—Alf M. Landon officially notified
of his nomination for Presidency.
July 29—President Roosevelt ended vaca-
tion cruise at Campobello island. N. B.
July 30—Col. Frank Knox officially ac-
eepted Republican nomination for vice pres-
ident.
July 31—President Roosevelt visited gov-
ernor general of Canada in Quebec.
Aug. 4—Fifty-eight persons, 23 petroleum
eoncerns and three publishing companies in-
dicted by federal grand jury for violating
anti-trust iaw.
Aug. 5—A. F. of L. council suspended en
unions dominated by John L. Lewis.
Aug. 16—National Union for Social Justice,
in convention in Cleveland, indorsed Lemke
for President of United States and elected
Father Coughlin its president.
Aug. 24—William Phillips, undersecretary
of state,’ appointed ambassador to Italy.
Aug. Z;—William C. Bullitt named aut-
i
ad -
bassador to France, vice Jesse I. Straus. re-
signed.
President Roosevelt began 12-day tour of
drouth area. 4 ;
Aug. 30—Ruth Bryan Owen resigned as
minister to Denmark. -
Sept. 3—President Roosevelt met Gover-
nor Landon and six other midwest gover-
nors at Des Moines in drouth relief con-
ference.
Sept. 4—All Minneapolis flour mills closed
by strike. :
I So0t, 5—Suspension of ten unions by A. F.
of L. in effect. ;
_ Sept. 14—Maine senatorial and state elec-
tion carried by Republicans.
Sept. 20—G. A. R. national encampment
opened in Washington. 7
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. :
ept. 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 proj-
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 re-elected
President and vice president; electoral vote
523, to 8 for Landon and Knox. :
Nov. 6—General maritime strike voted
by workers’ committee.
Leading steel producers announced wage
increases averaging 10 per cent.
Nov. 10—National conference on labor leg-
islation opened in Washington.
Nov. 12—Great San Francisco Bay bridge
formally opened.
Nov. 14 — Engagement announced of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., son of the Presi-
dent, and Ethel du Pont.
Nov. 16—American Federation of Labor
convention opened in Tampa. *
Nov. 17—President Roosevelt started on
trip to Buenos: Aires.
Army board of engineers recommended
completion of Florida ship canal.
R. G. Tugwell resigned as assistant sec-
retary of agriculture and resettlement ad-
ministrator.
bassador to Russia.
Nov. 23—U. S. Supreme court upheld New
York state’s unemployment insurance law.
A. F. of L. convention approved suspen-
sion of rebel C. I. O. unions.
Nov 25 — Federation of Labor voted
against formation of labor political party.
Nov. 27—American Federation of Labor
convention declared for 30 hour week and re-
elected President William Green.
Nov. 28—International Live Stock show
opened in Chicago. 4
Nov. 29—Herman Strelle of Alberta won
wheat king title for fifth time. 3 3
Dec. 1—CGovernment chartered ship sailed
for Alaska with food. Si
Two more unions joined in maritime work-
ers’ strike.
Dec, 2—Libby-Owens-Ford Glass company
plant at Ottawa, Ill, closed by strike.
Senator Borah announced opposition to
reduction of French war debt. :
Longshoremen at New York boycotted
French ship.
Dec. 3—Dr. F. E. Townsend and two as-
sociates indicted for contempt of house of
representatives.
Automotive workers’ strike extended to
Goodyear tire plant at Akron, Ohio.
Dec. 4—Republican Chairman John Hamil-
ton announced he would submit his resig-
nation on Dec. 17.
Dec. 9—Final election returns showed
Roosevelt's plurality to be 11,069,699.
Donald Richberg resigned as special as-
sistant attorney general.
Dec. 15—President Roosevelt returned to
Washington from South American trip.
Dec. 17—Republican national committee
rejected Chairman Hamilton's resignation.
FOREIGN
Jan. 10—Miguel Gomez elected president
of Cuba.
Jan. 17—Eleven acquitted, nine convicted
in great Stavisky fraud trial in Paris.
Jan. 20—King George of England died.
Jan. 21—Former Prince of Wales pro-
claimed King Edward VIII. -
Jan. 23—Premier Laval of France re-
signed.
Jan. 24—Albert
French cabinet. | 3
Feb. 13—French- cabinet suppressed all
royalist organizations because of riots.
Feb. 16—Leftists won Spanish elections.
Feb. 17—Paraguay government seized by
military revolutionaries. Rafael Franco
made president.
Feb. 19—Manuel Azana made premier
of Spain. i
Feb. 26—Japanese militarists revolted and
assassinated several high officials; govern-
ment buildings in Tokio seized.
Feb. 29—Rebellion in Japan quelled.
March 9—New Japanese cabinet headed
by Koki Hirota installed.
March 1l1—Franco made Paraguay a fo-
talitarian state. :
March 13—Serious Marxist riots through-
out Spain. - :
March 14—Franco government in Para-
guay recognized by United States and other
nations. :
March 20—Mexican government permitted
reopening of 3,000 Catholic churches.
' " ‘March 23 — Mussolini abolished Italian
chamber of deputies and nationalized all
| large industries. 2
President Vargas proclaimed martial law
in Brazil, BFA : 3
{March 29—Germany gave Hitler almost
unanimous vote in reichstag elections.
April 1 — Austria decreed general con-
scription, violating St. Germain treaty.
April 7—Spanish parliament voted Presi-
dent Zamora out of office.
April 10—Mexican government expelled
former President Calles.
April 24 — Honduran government an-
nounced suppression of a rebellion.
April 25—Eleazar Contreras elected presi-
dent of Venezuela.
April 26—Combination of Communists and
Socialists won: majority in French parlia-
mentary elections. ;
April 28—King Fuad I of Egypt died and
was succeeded by Crown Prince Farouk.
May 2—Wafd party won Egyptian parlia-
mentary elections.
May 3—Coalition of leftists won control
of French assembly.
May 10—Manuel Azana made president of
Spain.
May 13—Prince von Starhemberg, vice
chancellor of Austria, dropped from -cabi-
net.
May 15—Chancellor Schuschnigg of Aus-
tria 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 inaug-
urated president of Cuba.
May 30—Military revolt started in Nica-
ragua.
June 2—J. H. Thomas, resigned British
colonial secretary, found guilty of disclos-
ing budget secrets.
June 4—Leon Blum,
premier of France.
June 7—Million French workers won
strike 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-
ian cardinals.
June 18—French cabinet decreed dissolu-
tion of all Fascist organizations.
July 16 — Gen. Gustav Orlicz-Dreszer,
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
up +2 dictatorship because of Communist
plot. ;
Aug. 19—Zinoviev, Kamenev and 14 oto-
ers pleaded guilty to conspiracy to kill Stalin
and seize control of Soviet Russia.
Aug. 23—Russian conspirators sentenced
to_death.
British liner Queen Mary set new traus-
atlantic speed record.
Aug. 24—Sixteen Russian conspirators éx-
ecuted by firing squad.
Hitler doubled period of military train-
ing in Germany.
Aug. 25—C. T Wang made Chinese am-
bassador to United: States.
Sept. 3—Great Britain put Palestine under
martial law.
Sept. 4—Caballero, Socialist leader, be-
came premier of“Spain.
Spanish rebels captured Irun.
Sept.
000,000 on army.
Sept. 11—British trades union congress
rejected ‘‘popular front’’ alliance with com-
munists
Sept. 12—Spanish rebels captured San
Sebastian.
Sept. 18—Spanish loyalists dynamited part
Sarraut formed new
Socialist, became
Nov. 20—Joseph E. Davis appointed am- |
7—France decided to spend $930, |
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of Alcazar at Tolede, killing many rebel
defenders, ‘
Sept. 25—French government decided t
bandon 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. Eri
Austria, repudiating the treaty of St.
Germain, called 8,000 youths for compulsory
military training.
_ French parliament passed franc devalua-
tion bill.
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.
oop d’etat in Greece foiled by govern-
ment.
Dec. 3—King Edward defied 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 ap-
proval by all-union congress of soviets.
Dec. 6—Mexico offered to let Trotzky,
Russian exile, reside in that country.
Dec. 7—Mrs. Wallis Simpson announced
her willingness to renounce her asscciation
with King Edward of England to end the
crisis.
Dec. 10—King Edward of England abdi-
aren in favor of his brother, the duke of
ork.
Dec. 11—British parliament and the do-
minions accepted Edward’s abdication and
the accession of George VI.
Dec. 12—George VI was proclaimed king
of Great Britain and made Edward duke of
Windsor.
Dictator Chiang Kai - shek of China
kidnaped in Sianfu by mutinous troops of
Marshal Chang.
Dec. 17—Giuseppe Motta elected president
of Switzerland.
INTERNATIONAL
Jan. 1—Emperor of Ethiopia protested to
League of Nations against use of poison gas
3 Italians and bombing of Swedish ambu-
ance.
Jan. 4—Italian flyers bombed Egyptian
Red Cross camp in Ethiopia. ;
Jan. 15—Japan withdrew from naval con-
ference in London.
British Red Cross unit in Ethiopia bombed
by Italian airmen.
Jan. 22—Seven European powers pledged
co-operation of war forces against Italy, if
Britain was attacked.
Jan. 29—Manchukuo opened military op-
erations against Outer Mongolia. .
Feb. 15 — Italians defeated Ethiopians
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 to consider an
armistice.
March 5—Ethiopia accepted proposal for
peace parley.
March 7—Hitler denounced the Locarno
treaty and remilitarized the Rhineland;
France moved troops to border and in-
voked covenant of league against Germany.
Mussolinj accepted in principle parley of-
fer in Ethiopian war. =A
March 12—Great Britain, France, Bel-
gium and Italy indicted Germany for viola-
tion of Locarno treaty and referred further
action to League of Nations council. \
French senate ratified mutual assistance
treaty with Russia.
March 17—Hitler accepted invitation to
be represented at league council meeting
London.
March 19—League . council condemned
Germany for violating treaties.
March 20—Four Locarno powers proposed
plan for settlement of Rhineland crisis, vir-
tually an ultimatum to Germany.
March 21—United States, Britain and
France agreed on treaty limiting size ‘of
battleships.
March 22—Italy, Austria and Hungary
strengthened their alliance.
March 24—Hitler rejected
peace proposals. .
March 29—Italian bombers destroyed Har-
rar, second city of Ethiopia.
March 30—Iran withdrew its diplomatic
representatives from Washington.
March 31—Hitler proposed to other Lo-
carno powers an armistice in Rhineland
dispute and consideration of his peace plans.
April. 4—Italy announced great victory
over Ethiopian forces. :
April 8—France rejected Hitler's settle-
ment plan.
April 14—Italian forces occupied Dessye,
Ethiopia.
April 15—British, French and Belgian gen-
eral staffs planned united defense against
possible attack by Germany.
April 17—Turkey remilitarized the Dar-
danelles in violation of Lausanne treaty.
League of Nations abandoned effort to
end Italo-Ethiopian war.
May 2—Ethiopian imperial family aban-
doned Addis Ababa as Italians drew near;
city burned and looted by natives.
May 5—Italians occupied Addis Ababa
and declared the war ended
May 9—Italy formally annexed Ethiopia
and announced restoration of Roman em-
pire.
May 12—Mussolini recalled Italian dele-
gates from Geneva; league council ad-
journed to June 15.
May 15 Guatemala withdrew
League of Nations.
May 18—United States senate ratified new
London naval treaty.
June 10—Chinese Dictator Chiang Kai-
Shek ordered northern troops to oppose
advance of anti-Japanese army.
June 17—British cabinet voted for end of
sanctions against Italy.
July 12—Germany and Austria revived
pact of friendship.
July 15—Sanctions against Italy ended.
July 18—Turkey given right to militarize
the Dardenslles.
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 a
new Locarno pact.
Aug. 6—Germany strongly protested to
Spain against killing of four Nazis and
shelling of German steamship.
Aug. 21—Hitler demanded Russia and
Spain stop radio ‘‘slander’” campaign
against Germany. ;
Aug. 23—Bolivia and Paraguay renewed
diplomatic relations.
Germany barréd shipments of war mu-
nitions to Spain.
Aug. 26—Great Britain and Egypt signed
treaty of alliance.
Secretary Hull told Spain United States
would ignore blockade of Spanish ports.
Aug. 27—Great Britain and France asked
17 nations to join in arms embargo against
. Spain.
Aug. 29—Russia demanded expulsion of
Trotzky from Norway, without avail.
Sept. 6—France and Poland signed a mili-
tary treaty.
Sept. 7—World Power eongress opened in
Washington.
Sept. 14—Pope Pius called on the world
‘ to crush communism.
Sept. 21—Eighteenth League of Nations
assembly opened in Geneva.
Sept. 23 — League of Nations: assembly
- seated Ethiopian delegation.
{ Japanese marines occupied part of Shang-
four-power
from
hai after one bluejacket was killed by
Chinese.
! Qct. 2—Spanish government and insur-
ge both laid complaints before League of
iN 15
Cot. 5—League of Nations gave Poland
aandate to solve troubles of free city of
Danzig.
Oct. 23—Portugal severed diplomatic re-
lations with Spain; Russia denounced the
neutrality pact relating to Spain.
Oct. 25—Germany and Italy reached
agreement for unified political action.
Nov. 6—Naval pecwers, excepting Ger
‘fany 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 denounced 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 peace prize for 1935
awarded to Carl von Ossietsky, German pac-
ifist; for 1936 to Carlos Saavedra Lamas,
Argentine foreign minister.
Nov. 25 — Germany and Japan signed
agreement to fight spread of communism.
Nov. Spanish government asked
League of Nations to deal with menace to
peace caused by recognition of rebels by
Italy and Germany.
President Roosevelt addressed Brazilian
parliament at Rio. .
Chinese revealed Japanese plan to create
Inner Mongolian puppet state.
ov. 29—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 ‘Aires opened with speech by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. :
Great Britain charged that Germany had
sent 6,000 armed soldiers to aid 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. 5
Dec. 9—France and Britain proposed plan
for mediation in Spanish war.
Dec. 12—Twenty-one American nations
signed resolution for peace and A 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, 9 hours
27 minutes 10 seconds. |
Jan. 14—All air lines of United States
united with Col. E. S. Gorrell as president.
Jan. 16—Lincoln Ellsworth and Herbert
Hollick-Kenyon, missing seven weeks on
antarctic flight, found safe in Little Amer-
ica.
March 30—Germany’s new dirigible, Hin-
genpires started its first transatlantic trip
to Rio.
May 6—Zeppelin Hindenburg started on
first flight to United States.
May 9—Dirigble Hindenburg arrived at
Lakehurst, N. J.
May 14—Dirigible Hindenburg completed
flight from Lakehurst to Frankfurt-on-Main
in 48 hours 18 minutes.
July 4—R. C. Dupont set new glider mark
at 13.5 miles.
July 30—Plans announced for trans-At-
lantic air mail and passenger service be-
tween Great Britain, Canada, Irish Free
State and Newfoundland.
Aug. 5—Eight killed in crash of Chicago &
Southern airlines plane.
Sept. 2—Harry Richman and Richard Mer-
rill took off from New York for London.
Sept. 3—Richman and Merrill landed
safely in Wales, out of gas.
opt 4—Iouise Thaden won Bendix tro-
phy.
Sept. 5 — Mrs. Beryl Markham, first
woman to fly Atlantic alone from east to
west, made forced landing in Nova Scotia. |
Sept. 7—Michel Detroyat of France won
Thompson trophy race at Los Angeles meet.
Sept. 14—Richman and Merrill fiew from
England across Atlantic, landing in New-
foundland.
Oct. 1—C. W. A. Scott won England-Jo-
hannesburg air race. 3
Oct. 7—Kurt Bjorkvall, attempting flight
from New York to Stockholm, was rescued
from ocean off Irish coast.
Oct. 30—Capt. J. A. Mollison flew from
Newfoundland to London in record time.
DISASTERS
Jan. 9—Earthquake killed several hundred
persons in Colombia.
Jan. 12 — Thirty - four drowned when
freighter Iowa foundered at mouth of Co-
lumbia river.
Jan. 14—American Airlines plane crashed
in a swamp in Arkansas, killing 17.
March 14—Disastrous floods in northeast-
ern states.
March 19—Floods in New England and
eastern states Killed scores of persons. and
caused many millions. of loss to property.
March 26 — Fourteen persons killed in
" plane crash in Mexico.
n April 5—Tornado at Tupelo, Miss., killed
8
Army bombing plane crashed on Blue
mountain, Penn., five killed.
April 6—Tornado killed more than 150 at
Gainesville, Ga.
April 7—Eleven killed when TWA air
liner hit mountain near Uniontown, Pa.
June 30—Forest fires swept a million
acres in Kentucky.
July Are day deaths smashed
record with killed over nation.
July 29—Fifteen men drowned when sand
motorship upset at Chicago.
Ten miners killed by gas at Dowell, II.
Aug. 5—Eight killed in crash of Chicago
& Southern Airlines plane.
Aug. 6—Explosion in British coal mine
killed 57 men.
Aug. 14—Twenty-two men and boys killed
in train wreck near Louiseville, Quebec.
Aug. 28—Typhoon in Corea killed nearly
400.
Aug. 31—Twenty-eight men killed in Ger-
man mine explosion.
Sept. 5—Ten persons killed in erash of
sightseeing plane near Pittsburgh, Pa.
Sept. 13—Avalanche at Loen, Norway,
killed 74.
Sept. 16—Dr. Jean Charcot, famous
French ~ polar explorer, and 59 others
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. 11—More than 300 killed by typhoon
in the Philippines.
Oct. 17—Nineteen drowned when Canadian
ship Sand Merchant foundered in Lake Erie.
Oct. 18—Destructive earthquake in north-
eastern Italy killed 25.
Nov. 8—Hamburg-American motorship Isis
foundered off Land’s End, England; 39
drowned.
Nov. 16—Explosion of French powder
Plant near Marseilles killed 34 and injured
0.
Nov. 19—Thousand killed when dam in
Japan burst.
Nov. 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. 4—Nearly 250 killed in flood in north-
ern Luzon, Philippines.
Dec. 7—More than 200 drowned in flood in
Turkey. :
Dec. 9—Dutch airliner crashed in Eng-
land, killing 14, including Juan de la Ci-
erva, inventor of the autogyro.
. Dec. 15—Western Air Express plane lost
in Utah with seven persons.
Dec. 19—San Vicente, Salvador, wrecked
by earthquake; several hundred killed.
SPORTS
. Jan. 1—Stanford beat Southern Methodist
in Rose Bowl football game at Pasadena.
Jan. 11—Willie Hoppe won three-cushion
billiards championship from Cochran.
Jan. 17—Joe Louis knocked out Charley
Retzlaff in one round in Chicago.
Feb. 6—O0lympic winter games opened at
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Feb 16—Norway won Olympic winter
games; United States fifth.
March 7—Purdue and Indiana tied for Big
Ten basketball title.
March 14—University of Michigan won
Big Ten indoor track championship.
April 4—Cambridge beat Oxford in annual
regatta. .
April 6—Horton Smith won the Masters’
golf tournament at Augusta, Ga.
April 14—Major league baseball season
opened.
May 2—Bold Venture
Derby.
May 6—American women’s golf team tied
British team, retaining Curtis cup.
May 8—Canzoneri defeated McLarnin in
New York. |
May 11—Petey Sarron of Birmingham
won featherweight iitle from Freddie Mil-
ler.
May 17—Bold Venture won the Preak-
ness stake.
May 23—University of Indiana won Big
Ten outdoor track championship.
May 30—Louis Meyer won Indianapolis)500
mile auto race.
June 1—Australian tennis team eliminated
United States from Davis cup play.
June 3—University of Michigan won Big
Ten baseball championship.
June 6—Tony Mareno won national open
golf tourney.
June 13—Mrs.
western golf title.
Don Lash broke world’s record for two
miles.
American women’s tennis team won
Wightman cup from British.
won Kentucky
Opal Hil won women’s
June 19—Louis knocked out in twelfth
round by Sehmeling. To oy
Hl July Helen Jacobs won Wimbledon ti-
e.
Varoff set world record for pole vault at
14 feet 61% inches.
July 7—National league all-stars defeat-
ed Americans 4 to 3. }
July 18—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
O1ymbic boxing team for breaking training.
uly 31 — Japan awarded the Olympic
Games of 1940.
(Aug. 1-Olympic Games at Berlin offi-
cially opened. ¥
Jesse Owens, America, broke world rec-
ord for 100 meters at Berlin.
Aug. 5—Owens won his third Olympic
championship.
Aug. 8—Morris of America won Olympic
decathlon. :
ug. 9—American track team won Olym-
/ pic championship with 209 points.
Japanese won Olympic marathon.
Aug. 16—Olympic games at Berlin ended
with Germany in first place and United
States second. z
Aug. 18—Joe Louis knocked out Jack
Sharkey at New York.
Aug. ¢1—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 lightweight title from
Tony Canzoneri.
Sept. 12—Perry of England and Alice
Marble of California won national tennis
championships.
ion Little won Canadian open golf
itle.
Sept. 10—Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati
won national amateur golf title.
Sept. 24—New York Giants won National
league championship.
Sept. 26—Argentine polo players defeated
American team for the title.
Oct. 3—Pamela Barton of England won
American women’s golf championship.
Oct. 6—New York Yankees won World
Series from New York Giants.
Oct. 12 — Tazio Nuvolari, Italy, won
George Vanderbilt 300 mile automobile.road
race. !
Nov. 2—Johnny Goodman of Omaha won
Mexican amateur golf title. .
Nov. 7-—Northwestern university won Big
Ten football championship.
5 Now. 21—Yale defeated Harvard at foot-
all.
Nov. 22—Denny Shute won United States
pro golf championship. 7
Nov. 27—Barney Ross retained welter-
weight title by beating Izzy Jannazzo.
Nov. 28—Navy beat Army at football.
Dec. 12—Welker Cochran won three-cush-
ion billiards championship in Chicago.
Dec. 13—Green Bay won professional foot-
ball title. APG
NECROLOGY
Jan. 1—Harry B. Smith, American libret-
tist, at Atlantic City.
Jan 4—Col. James Churchward, Ameri-
can author.
Jan. 5—Ramon Inclan, Spanish dramatist
and poet.
Jay House, journalist.
Jan. 6—Charles Stoneham, owner of New
York Giants.
Jan. 9—John Gilbert, screen actor.
Jan. 12—John F. Hylan, ex-mayor of New
York.
Jan. 13—S. L. Rothafel, “Roxy,”
York motion picture producer.
: Jan. 15—Cynthia Stockley, British novel-
New
st.
Jan. 16—Annie Russell, veteran Ameri-
can actress.
Jan. 17—A. Barry Bacon, president of the
Christian Science mother church in Boston.
Jan. 18—Rudyard Kipling, British poet
and story writer.
Jan. 20—King George V. of Great Britain.
Jan. 23—Frank H. Simonds, editor and
historian:
Dama Clara Butt, British singer.
Jan. 25—George W. Wickersham, former
attorney general of United States.
Jan. 27—Scott Bone, former governor of
Alaska.
Jan. 28—Oscar K. Allen,
Louisiana. -
Feb. 2—Sir Owen Seaman, former editor
of London Punch.
Feb. 3—Charles B. Warren of Detroit,
international lawyer and former diplomat.
Feb. 6—Wilhelm Solf, German diplomat.
Feb. 7—0O. P. Heggie, stage and screen
actor.
Feb. 8—Charles Curtis, former senator
and vice president, in Washington.
Feb. 9—Henry Justin Smith of Chicago,
journalist and author.
Feb. 10—Prof. Caroline E. Furness, Vas-
sar astronomer.
David S. Barry, writer and former ser-
geant-at-arms of the senate.
Feb. 11 H. “Coin’’ Harvey, veteran
bimetalism leader.
Feb. 12—Mrs. Cora Urquhart Brown-Pot-
ter, once famous actress. :
Feb. 16—Roy D. Chapin of Detroit, for-
mer secretary of commerce.
Dr. J. H. Robinson, writer and teacher of
history, in New York.
Feb. 17—Alexander
theater magnate.
Hiram P. Maxim, firearms inventor.
Feb. 19—Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, com-
mander of American air forces in World
governor of
Pantages, former
war.
Matthew E. Hanna, former diplomat, at
Tucson, Ariz.
Feb. 22—Henry L. Roosevelt, assistant
secretary of the navy.
Feb. 23—-Ed Smith, noted sports editor.
. Feb. 24—Albert C. Ritchie, former gov-
ernor of Maryland.
josh: 27—Antonio Scotti, baritone, in Na-
ples. :
Feb. 28—J. G. Coolidge, veteran diplo-
mat, in Boston. ?
March 2—Prof, R. B. Anderson of Madi-
son, Wis., Norse history authority.
March 4—Maj. Gen. William Weigel, U.
S. A. retired.
March 9—Sidney J. Catts, ex-governor of
Florida.
10—Earl Beatty,
March
hero.
March 12—Dr. William Wilmer of Wash-
ington, D C., eye specialist.
March 15—George E. Foss of Chicago,
former congressman.
PEER Serge Mdviani at Delray Beach,
a.
Prof. J. S. Haldane, British scientist.
March 18—Eleutherios Venizelos, Greek
statesman.
March 21—Justin McCarthy, author and
playwright, in London.
Alexander Glazounoff, Russian composer.
March 24—W. J. Bogan, superintendent
of Chicago schools.
March 29—Magnus Swenson, scientist, in
Madison, Wis.
March 30—Charles G. Phillips, retired
trade paper publisher, at Montclair, N. J.
March 31—Congressman S. A. Rudd of
Brooklyn, N. Y.
April 4—C. L. Strobel of Chicago, steel
construction engineer.
W. C. Peyton of New York, chemical
engineer and industrialist.
British naval
April 5—Chandler Egan, former golf
champion, at Everett, Wash.
pril 6—John Hammill, former governor
of Towa.
April 7—Marilyn Miller, musical comedy
star.
April 10—Leopold von Hoesch, German
ambassador to England.
LL 11—Richard Yates, former governor
of Illinois and congressman.
April 12—James M. Beck, former solicitor
general and congressman from Pennsyl-
vania,
C. Howard Walker, architect, in Boston,
April 13—Constantine Demerdjis, premier
reece.
Howard Thurston, magician.
April 17—Ottorino Respighi, Italian com-
of
poser.
April 18—Louis McHenry Howe, secretary
to President Roosevelt.
April 22—Alexandra Carlisle, actress, in
New York.
April 23—Congressman J. T. Buckbee of
Rockford, Ill.
April 24—Finley Peter Dunne, creator of
“Mr. Dooley.”
F. S. Wheeler, chairman of American Can
company.
April 25—Percy Hammond, dramatic crit-
ie, in New York.
W. R. George,
Junior Republic.
April 27—C. K. McClatchy
newspaper publisher. .
Dr..John Ridlon, American surgeon.
April 28—King Fuad I of Egypt.
May 1—Dr: A. E. Housman, English poet.
May 3—James E. Smith of St. Louis,
pioneer in waterways improvement.
May 5—Milo Reno, head of Farmers’ HoH-
day association.
2 6—Beatrice Harraden, English nov-
elist.
May 7—Dr. H. L. McBain of New York,
educator and scientist.
May 8—United States Park
Trammel of Tlorida.
Dr. Oswald Spengler of Germany,
founder of the George
California
Senator
au-
or.
May 11—A. M. Palmer, attorney general
under President Wilson.
May 14—Viscount Allenby, who took Pal-
estine from the Turks.
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May 17—Len Small, ex-governor of T-
nois.
oe George Fabyan, scientist and cipher
7% PE
May 19—Archbishop Pascual Diaz of Mex-
Co. {
May 20—Harry Whitney of New York,
explorer and hunter.
Hay 21—Minnie Palmer, once famous ac-
ess. : >
May 23—Dr. E. M. Lewis,
University of New Hampshire.
May 24—Claudia Muzio, grand opera star,
in Rome. :
May 31—William Butterworth of Moline, -
I11., industrialist. $
i
president of
ton Steel company.
cago, former head of International Hares
vester company. ;
si on Beale, former diplomat, in Annap-
olis, .
June 3—Congressman Joseph W. Byrns
of Tennessee, speaker of the house.
Representative A. Piatt Andrew of Massa-
chusetts.
June 8—John Hays Hammond, Sr. »
Edward Green, son of late Hetty Green.
Jamalul Kiram, sultan of Sulu.
Mrs. Eugene Field, widow of famous poet.
June 14—Gilbert K. Chesterton, English
author and critic. }
June 17—Henry B. Walthal, actor. :
Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida.
June 18—Maxim Gorky, Russian author. :
June 21—Harold E. Porter (Holworthy |
Hall) auther. 3
Bernhard W. von Buelow, German foreign
minister.
June 23—Arthur W. Cutten, grain broker.
July 10—Joe Humphreys, veteran fight an-
nouncer. :
July 12—S. Parks Cadman, clergyman.
July 21—Dr. James L.
mission leader, in Boston.
July 22—Earle L. Ovington,
aviation pioneer.
July 25—Sir Henry
entist.
July 26—Miss Ellen Fitz Pendleton, ex-
president of Wellesley college.
Dr. C. H. Frazier of Philadelphia, noted
brain surgeon. ns
July 27—Wilfred W. Fry, Philadelphia
capitalist. %
uly 28—Walter Nettleton, American art-
ist.
July 30—C. N. Kimball of Chicago, piano
manufacturer.
- Aug. 2—Louis Bleriot of France, first to
fly the English channel.
Walter Ufer, American painter. |
Avg. 6—Congressman J. J. McSwain of
South Carolina. :
Aug. 7—Congressman M. A. Zioncheck of
Washington.
J. J. O'Brien of Chicago, president Bylles-
by and company
Barton, foreign
American
author.
Arthur B. Reeve, author.
governor of
National Tea
Aug. 22—Floyd B. Olson,
Minnesota.
George Rasmussen, founder
company.
Aug. 25 — Prince Pierre Troubetskoy,
painter. -
gresswoman at large. Z
Aug. 26—Dave Barry, prize fight referee.
\ Aug. 27—George H. Dern, secretary
war.
Miss Anna Morgan of Chicago, veteram
drama teacher. 8
Aug. 29—C. W. Toms of New York, to-
bacco magnate. A
Aug. 30—W. PF.
of commerce, in Holyoke, Mass,
Sept. 5—G. E. Tarbell of New York, for-
mer life insurance magnate
Sept.
billiard star.
ept. 12—W. E. Walling, American labor
leader.
Sept. 13—Magnus’ Johnson,
and representative from Minnesota. j
J. E. Armstrong, veteran Chicago edu-
cator. X 2
Sept. 14—0ssip’ Gabrilowitsch, pianist
conductor, in Detroit.
Irving Thalberg, movie producer. A
Sept. 15—Alexander Zaimis, ex-president
of Greece.
ot ;
of history in Amherst.
son Steamship line. #
"Sept. 25—William Horlick of Racine, Wis.,
malted milk manufacturer and philanthro-
ist.
> Sept. 26—Miss Harriet Monroe of Chicago,
editor of ‘‘Poetry’’ magazine. ~~ ae
Dr. Joseph Clark, Sunday school leader.
Sept. 286—Rear Admiral W. S. Sims, U. S.
N., retired. |
Sept. 30—F. L. Rainey, president of Centre
college, Kentucky. 7 4
Oct. 1—George Huff, athletic director at
University of Illinois.
Ex-Congressman
Pennsylvania.
Oct. 3—H.
Flour Mills, in Minneapolis.
Oct. 4—Jesse I. Straus,
diplomat, in New York
Oct. 6—Julius Gomboes, premier of Hun-
gary. Zs
Oot. 10—Frank Presbrey, former edito:
and publisher, in Greenwich, Conn.
Oct. 12—E. M. Blashfield, American mural |
painter y y he
£0 14—Mary McDowell of Chicago, so-
merchant and
ct.
cial worker.
Set 17—Samuel Merwin, American nov-
elist. 2
Gen. Andres Figueroa, Mexican minister
of war.
legislator. : :
Oct. 20—Mrs. Anna Macy, teacher of Hel-
en Keller. 5
Oct. 22—James Couzens, United States
senator from Michigan. *
novelist and poet, at
Oct. 24—Clem Yore,
Estes Park, Col.
Oct. 25—Arthur W. Needles, president
Norfolk and Western railway.
Oct 29 — Thomas Cochran,
financier.
Oct. 30—Lorado, Taft, sculptor, in Chicago. |
Nov. 4—Nathan jE. Kendall, former gov-
ernor of lowa.
mobile manufacturer.
Nov. 7—Charles H.
in Erie, Pa.
Chic Sale, comedian.
Nov
composer.
Nov. 12—Dr. Gilbert Fitz-Patrick of Chi-
cago, surgeon.
lawyer and civic worker.
Nov
Constitution.
John F Whelan of New York, tobacce
magnate. = Ry
Nov. 16—Alfred -Aarons -oi New Yorks.
theatrical praducer. >
Cardinal Maurin of Lyons, France. =
Nov. Mme. Ernestine Schumann-
Heink, operatic and concert contralto.
Nov. 18—Levin Faust, industrial leader
of Rockford, Ill.
Ohio, political leader. 5
Nov. 21—Maj. Gen. R. E. Callan, U. S. A., |
retired.
Ernest R. Graham 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. ; 3
Frank A. Sebring, pioneer pottery manu-
facturer, at Cleveland, 0 7
Nov. 26—Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, veteram
actress.
Nov. 27—Sir Basil Zaharoff, ‘‘mystery
mae of Europe and war munitions mag-
nate %
Towa.
Michigan. .
Dec. 1—John Ringling,
brothers, in New York. &
Jacob Schaefer, composer, in New York.
5 Pee, B-Crarles Thrasher, artist, of Old-
eld, N. Y.
Harold W. Brown, adjutant general
Missouri. B
Dec. 3--Oliver Harker, veteran educator,
at Carbondale, Ill.
~ circus
la
New Haven, Conn.
Dec. 4—Leon Cammen,
known engineer in New York.
Dec. 5—J. G.
cier. Ee
Congressman G. H. Cary of Kentucky.
Dec. 7—Fuller Mellish, veteran actor, im
New York. /
Dec. 10—Luigi Pirandello, Italiam
wright.
olis, son of former President Benjamim
Harrison. o
Peter Bilhorn, singing evangelist and
hymn writer, in Los Angeles.
Dec. 16—George A. McKinlock, Chicago
capitalist and philanthropist. ;
, Dec. 18—Howard J. White, eminent Chi~
cago architect. »
Peter H. Van Horn
leader. aS
os: 19—Marie Van Horst, Americar nov-
elist. 3
senator from South Dakota.
June 1—John C. Williams, president Weir.
June 2—Cyrus Hall McCormick of Chi-
June 15—Marc Klaw, theatrical producer.
July 16—Senator Louis Murphy of Iowa. i
Wellcome, British sei- |
Aug. 9—Lincoln Steffens, journalist and |
. Aug. 16—Prof. A. A. Titsworth of Rutgers. |
Winnifred Mason of Chicago, former con- |
Whiting, former secretary ;
11— Augie Kieckhefer of Chicago, |
1
former senator |
Dr. E. A. Grosvenor, emeritus professor |
Sept. 18—Maj. Gen. U. S. G. McAlex-
andey, U. S. A., retired. 3 X
Sept. 24—Frank Munson, president Mun- |
Louis T. McFadden of |
H. Whiting president Pillsbury |
Oct. 18—D. E. Shanahan, veteran Illinois |
New York |
Nov. 6—Henry B. Joy of Detroit, auto-}
Strong, industrialist, |
11—Sir Edward German, British |
Franklin W. I: Cutcheon of New York,
14—Clark Howell, editor of Atlanta |
Nov. 19— Maurice Maschke of Cleveland, |
Nov. 28—George Clark, _ex-governor of |
Nov. 30—Fred W. Green, ex-governor of |
ot!
Vrs. Florence Robinson, psychologist, at|
intefhationally |
Alexander, Chicago finam-|
oy i
Dec. 13—Russell B, Harrison of Indianap-{
of New York, business!
Dec. 20—Peter Norbeck, Unite@ States|
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