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INTERNATIONAL
Jim. 2?Japanese trc-ops occupies
Chincho'.v, Muuehuria.
Jan. y?Chancellor Bruening announced
Germany could no longer RM
reparation?.
Jan. -0 ?Lausanne conference or
reparations postpone-tf.
Jan. 26?Council of League of Nations
met and China demanded flru
action against Japan.
Russia antl I'Oland signed a uooagtr
ssion treaty.
Jan. 2$? Japanese marines seized
Chinese qnnrter i?f Shanghai fine
bloody La:, tie began.
Jan. SC?China in League of Nations
eounc.! invoked strong articles
of covenant against Japan.
Jan. 30?Japanese seined Part of forftfen
ROftUflB ..< Snunifo r.*-, .
tests of othnr nations.
United Rimes ordered Asiatic fiec
und re&uneht of infantry ;o Shanghai
Feb. 1?Japanese warships shel'et
the Nanking
United States. Great Britain. France
and Italy made concerted prow-si
against Japan's course in China, and
offered plan for peace.
Feb. 2?International disarmament
conference opened in Geneva.
Feb. l~-Japanese r'cjtcu.-u peace
Plans of the powers, battle in SbangHJgfck
ha renew
Full division of U. S. srmy ordered
to Shanghai.
Harbin. Manchuria, occupied by
Japanese.
Feb. 0?L*. S. 31st Infantry arrived
in ShOLCgba*.
Feb. 12?Japanese resumed tierce attack
on Wor sung forts and Chapel.
China demanded convocation of
League of Nations assembly to consider
the Japanese affair.
Feb. 14?Japan landed 12,000 troops
at Shanghai.
Feb. iS?I.ensue of Nations council
In n sharp note appealed to Japan to
cease hostilities against Chiua. Secretary
S tint son sent another protest to
Tokyo.
Feb. 17?Japan served ultimatum on
China to withdraw her troops from
Shanghai.
Feb. 19?China rejected Japan's ultimatum.
Feb. ::?Great Britain. France and
Italy signed Mediterranean peace
agree mcnt.
March 1?Japan accepted League of
Nations plan for peace parley In
Shanghai, both Japanese and Chinese
armies to withdraw.
March 3?Both Japanese anil Chinese
armies were ordered to cease fighting
at Shanghai; Chinese were driver,
back about 13 miles.
League of Nations assembly met In
Geneva to take up Sino-Japancse
trouble.
March 4?Japanese renewed attack
on Chinese; League of Nations assembly
demanded withdrawal of Japanese
army at Shanghai.
March 11?Beague of Nations adopted
resolution condemning Japan's actions
in China anil sotting up commission
to deal with '.ho case.
March 19?International disarmament
conference adjourned to April 11.
April 11?Disarmament conference
reassembled.
April 19?League of Nations commit;
toe called oh Japan to evacuate ShangApril
20?Trns-Andean railway
abandoned because of Argentina-Chili
,iiTBnn--jT V' 1 N J mm III " ^
-Viay it? ,i mi omricou ci&'mv
peace agreement for Shanghai area.
May 13?Ansrn'a appealed to League
of Nations to savo her from ruin.
May M?Mexico severed diplomatic
relations with Peru.
June 1G?2Jtt.li sat) he reparations conference
opened.
June 17?European moratorium on
Intergovernmental debts during Uug&nne
conference agreed upon.
June 22?President Hoover offered
Gci^ovit^coiiictcnuu- plAri-tW?cut-world
armaments by nearly one-third.
July 4?Italy demanded cancellation
of aii reparation:! win* jmfi agbis, -- ;
July 6?Turkey accepted invitation
to join League of Nations,
July 8?European powers agreed to
end Gorman rt7>nrntions with payment
by Germany t>r three billion gold
marks in bonds, but ratification was
made dependant on reduction or v;ar
debts by United States.
July 13?New entente formed by
France and Great Britain to aid Europe.
.Iul.v 13?St. Lawrence seaway treaty
signed by United States and Canada.
July 23?International disarmament
conference in Geneva, adjourned, ten
nations refusing to vote for resolution
of "achievement."
July 2T??Poland and Russia signed
peace treaty.
July 26?Germany joined the Franco-British
entente.
<ju;y ?/5o;ivi?n troops ottacKCd
I'ara^ftayan frontier forts In Chaco
dispute.
July 31?Paraguay ordered general
mobilization against Bolivia.
Aug. 2?tTnltcd Stales accepted Invitation
to participate in world economic
conference, war debts being
barred.
United States and South and Central
American nations warned Paraguay
and Bolivia against war.
Aug. 23?Germany, in note to France,
demanded equality of armaments.
Sept. 5?Conference of Dnnublan nations
opened in Strese, Italy.
Sept. 11'?Franco rejected Germany's
demand tor arms equality.
Sept. 15?Manchukuo recognized by
Sept. IS?Great Britain rejected Germany's
demand for arms equality
Oct. 2?Report of Ucngue of Nations
commission on Manchuria made public,
calling for establishment of an
autonomous, demilitarised Manchuria
under -.'"a r.' ne sovereignty.
Oct. 3?Iraq became a member of the
T.eague of Nations, Groat Britain surrendering
her mandate.
Oct. IS?Great Britain abrogated her
trade treaty with Russia.
Oct. 2 i?New Chilean goverj?m?ri?i
recognized by United States and Great
Britain.
Oct. 22?Paraguay captured Fort
Arces in the Gran Chaco from Bolivians.
Nov. 4?France's new -constructive
disarmament plan ' iaic. before disarmament
conference bureau in Geneva.
Nov. 10 John Galrv/orthy. English
novelist, was awarded the Nobel prize
for literature.
Nov. 11?Great Britain. France and
other nations asked postponement of
payment of their war debt Interest to
United States and revision of the
debt?.
Nov. 14?-France's plan for disarmament
and security laid before the diaara-r^-2-"
.y ~777>-'WftTit .y?Anf??r?anro tw fj?-nowNov.
21?Japan's case in Manchurian
affair laid before council of Uengue of
Nations. China replied.
Nov. 23?European nations notified
by United States they must pay wai
debt installment and interest.
Nov. 29?France and Russia signec
treaty of nonaggression and conciliation.
Dec. 1?Second British nota asking
cancellation of war debts received in
Washington.
Dec. 2?France's second note ior w-? d
debt cancellation received in WrnfIngton
Dec- 6?Special meeting of league ol
Nations assembly opened to eo.isldei
the Manchurian trouble.
Dec. 7?British war debt plea again
rejected by United States.
Dec, U ?United States, Great Britain.
France, Italy and Germany signed
Agreement to work for world dlsarmaDec.
13?French chamber of deputtei
voted not to pay the war debt Install
men.t due tbo United States, and Premier
Herriot resigned. t
Belgium decided to default Its debt
payment to America. r
Dec. 14?Germany returned to the
. disarmament conference in Geneva. a
Dec. i5r? If*?* Hntnln Tialy. f^itvia_
Lithuania. Finland and Czechoslovak a h
pa?d their war debt Installments due
tlie t'tii'.ed States. France. Belgium, "
Poland, Hungary and Estonia did not ::
paj.
FOREIGN i
Jan. 3?Maluitma Gandhi ordered civ- '*
11 disobedience campaign in India re- u
newed ?tn?l was arrested.
Jan. 13?French cabinet resigned.
Jan. 14?Laval formed new French
cainnet with Briand left out.
Jan. 31?Japanese diet dissolved.
Itebellion broke out in Catalonia.
Spain. ?
Jm. 33?Communistic uprising In i
Salvador. a
Jan. 24?British convicts In Darti
tnoor penitentiary, fc'ngland. mutinied l>
and but nod part o? xtie prison. (J
Martial Jaw d-ciared in Salvador;
government troops defeated rebels.
Jan. 2S?Chiang Kai-shek became
, premier of China.
Jan. 30?Finland repealed Its pro- j
hlb-.lion haw r
j Fel>. 11?Premier Mussolini paid his i
flrst visit to Pope Plus XI.
Feb. 14?nicc.rdo .limiocz elected
president of Com a. iillca
I Fob. 1G?Pierre Laval's French gov- a,
I orament resigned. u
i Do Valla's i"..inr.a Vail party won
. i Irish election. j ?
, Fob. 2-1?Augustin hi. JUHtQ luziigu- <i
rated president of Argentina.
Tard'evi formed government for j $.
Fr-? !,iy. j a
Feb. 21?Soviet Russia banished , s>
? Trotaky and 30 others for all time.
Feb. 24?Spain's lirst divorce law n
j passed.
Feb. 25?British parliament passed i tl
10 per cent tariff bilL
March 0?Eam'on dc Valera elected u
l president of Irish Free State. j c<i
Henry Pu-yi Installed as head cf
new ilnnchurian state of Manchukuo. J
March 12?1 var Krueger. head of j
f".'Cl!rh match tr*i?.t wnmlllivl sul
Cide in Paris.
March _1S?President Von Hindenburg ; ar
pet a majority vote. Hitler badly I as
beaten. J ,;<i
April l?Ten thousand Inhabitants ; r,j
of V?lla Santa Stefuno. Italy, lied for ! m,
their lives us village dropped into an- i
cicnt Homaij co- :>. i Vo
April 6?Mob forced resignation of
N'ev. found land gtwornmefit f0
April 10?Von Hinrienburg re-elected i fc
president of Herman v, i na
April 13?^Getttiniiy ordered Hitler to
disband his 400,(K J slmck troops. gQ
April 10?British budget introduced, ]v
continuing heavy taxation for another
year. ! j,
April 24?Hitler s National Social- , co
1st* won Ju elections in Prussia end '
Austria. i jQ
May :?Two Ihflish scientists an- w
nounccd they had split the hydrogen
atom and obtained a helium atom.
May G?Paul Dotimer, president of \y
France, assas*io:*t#?d bv a Russian. in
May S?Euscb'.o Ayaln elected presi- jj,
dent of Paraguay.
Rlcardo Jlmincz installed as presi- j,e
dent of Costa Rica.
Communist revolt lr. Peruvian navy j jn
Quelled.
j French elections resulted in wiping jn
out Preirtlcr Tardieu'a majority by rad- p,
leal Socialists an?l Socialists.
May 10?Albert Lebrun elected pre3i- m
dent of France <j
May 15?Premier Inukai of Japan
assassinated by young militarist tor- ,jc
rorists. af
May 1C??Irish Free Stale Dfcll Elreann
passed bill uboltshine oath of al- re
leglance to the king.
May 22?Admiral Saito made premier
of Japan.
Premier Vcnizelos of Greece resigned.
tii
May 20?Alexander Papanestaslou
formed new government for Greece.
May 30?Heinrich Bruening. chancellor
of Germany, nnd his cabinet re- fC
sic hali.
| May Til?Fran--, von Papon rnado a,
n"ci.rtuviijlIwT"-Cf
Premier Jorga of Rumania resigned. } x\
1 I June \?Rdouard Herriot became i
. I brenjler or mritnco ana complete 3__IyLrj: 1 h
mation si s rsocmivsi cuds net FTc
Chilean Socialists and military Junta |
overthrew government of President . pi
Montero; Carlos Davila made preal- ! |]
dent pro tern.
Juno 5?Dr. Uarir.odlo Arias elected ; sj
president of Panama.
June 10?Three rich Cubans tried to h,
assassinate President Machado with '
bomb. |
June 12 Davila resigned a? head ; ??
of new Chilean government.
June lu?iiadicai Suvlituoi govern - ;
ment of Chile ousted by military junta, j
Da.viia. reinstated.
June 24? Slam's army and navy re- j bj
volted and forced King Prnjadhlpok i
to accept a constitutional government. [ i,]
June 2S?Irish Free State senate j w
passed bill abolishing oath to tho king, j
July 4?British government imposed J aj
retaliatory tariff on imports from Ire- i
land.
July ?? Civilian communist rebels in , m
Peru captured Trnjillb.
July 10?Brazilian rebels captured j *<.
Sao Paulo. ^
July it?Peruvian revolt at Trujillo j
suppressed. j 0I
July 15?Brazilian revolt spread to 1
t-.vo more states. I
July 20?Gorman government decreed j
dictatorship for Prussia nnd martial
isuw in jagciin.
Premier Mussolini revamped Italian
cabinet. ou3tin^ Foreign Minister Dino cc
Grand; nr.d othera. ir
July 21?British Imperial economic
conference -opened ,in Ottawa, Canada. p
July 31?Hitler's Nazis made big fc
gains in Germau elections but failed to j,;
get control of reichstng.
Aug. 6?New Wetland ship canal v
formally opened by Canada. Si
Aug. 10?Spanish royalists started C(
revolutionary movement but were suppressed.
bi
Aug. 13?President Von Rindenburg u]
refused to make Hitler chancellor of r(
Germany. I sf
Aug. 15?Euseblo Ayala inaugurated
president of Paraguay. ^
Aug. if-?Ten thousand Cuban physicians
struck against cheap service In w
clinics.
Aug. 18? Spain ordered exile of 02 w
noble3 for monarchist revolt. DAwg.
20?British imperial economic q'
conference closed with signing of 12
trade pacts with the dominions.
Ecuador congress disqualified PresiI
dent-Elect Bonifa*. tr
Aug. 26?Military revolt in Ecuador
by supporters of Bonlfaz. -w
Aug. 27?British cotton weavers
struck. v.
Aug. 2P?Ecuador revolt suppressed b,
after battle.
Sept. 2?President Rublo of Mexico ?.
reatgneo.
Sept. A?Gen. A. L. Rodriguez elected
president of Mexico.
Sept. 8?Spanish cories confiscated m
estates of granuei-3 to be distributed ..
among the people, and granted auton- 11
cony to Cntalonfa.
Sept. 12?German relchstag voted no b.
confidenco in the government and waa
(iisninVcu by CiiiVuCcIIOr VOIl Pa pcuSept.
13?Chilean revolt compelled
President Davlla to resign. .a
Sept. 20?Mahatma Gandhi began V:
last "unto death" as protest against "
India.) electoral system.
Sept. 21?Oomu Karolyi resigned as ?
premier of Hungary. p'
Sept. 26?Hindus ana untouchables ~"
devised electoral _cqropromise which
and Gandhi ended his fast,
Sept. 27?Dr. Clemente Bello, presl- a<
dent of the Cuban senate, assassi- **
Oct." Z?Judge Ahrauuin Oyanadel
becani.. provisional president of Chile.
1 General Blanche being forced to resign ai
by threatened revolt. b:
Oct. 3?James McNeill resigned as
governor general of the Irish Free tt
| State at the Instance of President De
Valera. G(
Brazilian revolt ended, the rebels
surrendering.
Oct. 10?Juliu Alanlu formed new
cabinet for Rumania.
Oct. 24?Italy began celebration of "
ten years of Fascism. "
, Oct. 30?Arturo Alessandri elected
president of Chile. la
Tlborclo And 1 no elected president of M
I . Honduras.
Martinez Mera elected president of
Ecuador.
i Oct.. 31?Uancaahire cotton mill jai
workers struck. ? ^
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVE
Nov, 3?Berlin tied up by transporation
workers* strike.
Nov. 6?German elections resulted 1i
eichstag majority tor no parly.
Premier Mussolini or Italy grantee
mnesdy to political exiles.
Juan JB. Sarasa elected president ol
Nicaragua.
Nov. it?Hundreds slain in battle?
etwee a Honduran rebels and governtent
troc ps.
?uV. 17? uiHiiceliui Vyn vi
lermany and his cabinet resigned.
Nov. 30?Adolf Hitler was offered
banceilorship of Germany under conit
ions ivbxch he rejected.
Nov. ?6?Ponal Buckle? made govr.nor
general of Irish Free State,
pec. 2? tier. Kurt von Schleicher apuinted
chancellor of Germany to form
ew government.
Dec. 14?Premier Harriot of France
esrgueU when parliament voted not to
av %var debt installment duo United
tale*.
Dec. 15?Kdniund Schixltess elected
resident of Switzerland.
Dv 2 Kcgo plot agaicst Arsenna
govertin-cnt toiled and prominent
ton srrest< d
Pec. IS?Joseph S-'auI-Kciieonr formed
jew French cabin*
Dp.c. 24?Arturo Alo.i; .-:.dri iaauguwed
president of CD le.
DOMESTIC
Jan. 4?C'ii:;ffe?s reassembled and re?ived
m< - from I resident Hoover
Jkhu; quick action on relief measIres.
Jitij. 5 A:nbp.*>- dor Dawes anouncod
It - ii Cftuitig retJrenie.it from
.pb.w.iacy.
Jan. ???Dalght F. Davis resigned as
'jvernor general ?>r the PnijippDies
nd Theodore Roosevelt was named to
iiceeeci hint.
Democrats selected Chicago for their
atlonal convention.
Jan. 11?Senate pnsitfl Reconstruct
o** Finance corporation bIT;.
Jan. !2?Assoc'ate Justice c O. W.
*m resigned.
Mrs. Uattie Curjiway elected U. S.
nator from Arkansas.
Jan. 15?House parsed Rcconslrucat;
Finance rorponatirn bill
Jan in?Joseph C. Urew selected as
nbassnjlor Jto Japan.
JrttJ. i.? ??Gtll. U. ?J. sricvic-I
president of Reconstruction Finance
r|K> ration: See rotary Stimson rcaced
him as chairman of disuhnaent
conference tlelfc^atVon.
Jan. 25?Wots lost. 13 to 55, In test
[te in senate.
Jan. 2"?Frank Fn D. Roosevelt
rir.Vly declared l.in.solr a candidate
r the Democratic Presidential nomi.liou.
Jan. 27?Department oC Agriculture
pply i ;u passed by house: salary
creases prohti ; tod.
Jan. 2S?Senate confirmed Dawes,
nes ai:?l Couch as directors of Rensltuction
Finance corporation.
Jan. 31?Railway presidents and units
signed agreement for 10 per cent
aire reduction for one year.
Feb. 3?President Hoover announced
iat Secretary of the Treasury Andrew
. Mellon would retire from the cabet
and become ambassador to Great
rltain.
Fob. ? ,:rdcn D. Mills appointed
crelary of the treasury.
Feb. G?Conference to check hoarder
of money opened In Washington.
Alfred K. Smith declared his willsniess^
to be agais*. tlio Democratic
esidcntinl cundidate.
Winnie Ruth Judd. Arizona trunk
urdcrer. convicted and sentenced to
:atb.
Feb. 15?Judge Benjamin N. Carizc
of New York appointed a3socie
Justice of the U. S. Supreme court.
TTouse passed Glass-Steagol federal
servo credit hill.
Feb. 19?Senate passed rosarv* credbtll.
Fob. 22?President Hoover opened
ie Washington bicentennial with adess
before joint session of congress.
Feb. 27?House passed $122,000,000
deral aid highway bill.
Conviction of AI Capone uphold by
idoral court of appeals.
March 1?Senate pasr-cd the Norris
atlf Injunction bill.
<~*nt Charles - Al Lindbergh's baby
as kidnaped from Hopewell, N. J.
zz .Ucur.tr . voted 12 rtllHen
.ish?? af form board wheat.'for. iobisa
aha for brought strickentarOHSTw.
March 5?House passed treasury and
?st office appropriation bill carrying
059.778 162.
March a?Roosevelt won New Harapilre
primaries from Smith.
Anti-injunction bill passed by the
ouse.
March 14?"Homo rule" anli-prohlbton
motion defeated in house, 187 to
*7.
Benjamin Cardoso sworn in as memn
mC UtUiyutSiatcs Supremecourt
March IP?Senate subcommittee rcartcu
favorably; the Hingham beer
11.
March 22?House amended revenue
ill to boost estate taxes of the
oalihy.
Senate ordered department appropri:ions
cut 10 per cent.
March 24?House defeated sales tajc.
March 26?House voted tax on beer
aterials, imported coal and olL
April 1?House passed billion dollar
jc bill, with sales tax eliminated, out
Ith surtaxes revised;
April 4?Dr. C. O. King of University
! Pittsburgh isolated Vitamin C.
April 4?House voted independence
r Philippines.
April 9?Lindbergh paid ransom, but
idnapers failed to return his baby.
April 21?Gov. Rolph of California
;r.ied pardon for Thomas J. Mocney.
>nvlcted for Preparedness day bombI
c n 101h ? n Ron T'ron^lu^
April 2D?Lieu t. T. H. Massle, Mrs.
orteseue anil Scamcr. Lord end Jones
>und guilty of manslaughter In Kahaawai
inurdcr case In Honolulu.
May 2?Supreme court refused to reiew
A! Cap one's case; refused to conint
to modification of the packers'
rnsent decree of 1320; held Invalid
.e Texas law* by which negroes were
nrred from Democratic primaries, and
pheld President Hoover's refusal to
submit power board nomination to
male after it had been confirmed.
May 3?AI Capono taken from ChiLgo
to Atlanta penitentiary.
House passed economy bill after
recking it.
May <?Massle case defendants in
onolnlu sentenced to ten years in
ison and immediately set free by
Dvemor Judd.
May o?IIouso passed bill for operLion
of Muscle Shoals.
May 6?Senate passed Hale bill for
eaty strength navy.
May II?President Hoover vetoed
le Democratic tariff bill.
May 12?Col. Lindbergh's kidnaped
?by found murdered near the Llnd>rgh
estate in New Jersey.
President Hoover proposed 1% bll5n
for jobless relief.
May 18?Seiials voted against 2.75
?r cent beer.
May is?Kourt?j passed War departent
supply bill carrying $391,587,000.
astern hanker* and Industrialists
obllizcd for trade revival.
May 23?BUI legalizing and taxing
;er defeated by the house.
May $5?Senate again rejected leilized
and taxed beer.
may ?oenaie pjtssea DHHon flol.r
revenue bill, rejecting? sales tax
lature. after President Hoover In per>n
appealed for quick action.
Juno 4?R. R. Reynolds defeated
jnator Cameron Morrison In North
arolina Democratic primary. '
Juno G?President Hoover signod the
9W revenue bill.
Charles Q. Dawes resigned as preslsnt
of Reconstruction Finance cor3rat
Ion.
Senator Hrookhart of Iowa defeated
ir renomlnation by Henry Field.
Samuel Insull of Chicago resigned
i utilities chief and was succeeded
7 James Simpson.
June 7?House passed the Garner
vo-bllllon-dollar relief bill.
Juno 8?Senate passed emasculated
:otiomy bill.
June 9?Senate passed 390 million
rtiar army supply bill.
June 10?Senate passed relief bill
? provide 311 millions in loans to
a tea.
June 13?Ganton Means convicted of
ireeny of $104,000 from Mra Kvalyn
cLean In Lindbergh case swindle.
June 14?Republican national conantion
opened In Chicago.
June 15?Republican convention
liopted moderate prohibition resubmission
plank.
IRY THUKSUAY?BOONE. N. C.
j House passed this veterans' bonus |
j payment bill,
i J Five hundred million dollar homo I
; loan bank bill pastil by house.
I Juno IS?Hoover and purl Is ro-nom}
lnated by Republican convention. Ev- j
t I ercit San?*ers elected chairman of na- J
i ttonal committee,
i ; June 17?Senate rejected tho bonus i
. bn>
; Jane 20?House passed 100 million
" . uOuii bill. liivIUuxn^ ?"" "?ou ,
plan for federal employees.
I Juno 22?Governor Roosevelt called
on Mayor Walker of New York city
to answer charges against him.
June 23?Senate passed Wagner two
billion dollar relief MIL
Jane 2-t?Senate voted farm board
wheat and cotton to Red Crocs.
June 27?Democratic national convention
opened in Chicago,
i June 2S?Federal economy bill
passed by the senate.
Jun* 23 ?Democratic convention
i adopted plank advocating repeal of 1
; Kightventh amendment and., pending |
I r^jiapl Iftj-alt-Mi?>' Kof.r -.tnd winft. !
! July l?Democrats nominated Frank
lin 1>. Roosevelt for President on
j fou:.*?i ballot. |
I July 2?Democrats nominated John j
. N. earner for Vice President. Roose- j
j \clt t'flw to Chicago and waa formally :
notified of nojiihailon. I
July 7?Fin erg on ey relief bill passed j
J by house. . _
Prohibition party nominated W. P. I
; Up9h for Pre* deiit and k\ S. Regan j
{ for \ !( e . :?1 lit. I
| e?r"'r".nVf 'i.MV"v
July !l?rresfdeut Hoover vetoed ,
; the relief Ml*.
July i??Senate pawed new relief
bin.
Jul> 13?Relief bill passed by the
Ihoute.
2u?y !f??President lloovcr cttl sal- j
ariej- of himself .and his cabinet.
< July 16?Ctfn'sress passed heme loan
i bank bill with {Filiation amendment,
and adjourned.
; July CI ? President Hoover signed
j emergency relief measure.
interstate commerce commission np!
proved merger of all eastern railroads.
J except those of New ITugland. into
I four &> stems.
; July 22?President signed homo loan
i bank MSI.
iJuiy 23?Federal grain commission
ordered Chicago Foard of Trade closed j
as contract market for 00 days for J
, violating grain futures act.
j President Hoover called conference j
on shorter work day week.
July 26?President Hoover appointed |
! At lee Pomercne of Ohio member of ;
{ Reconstruction Finance corporation ;
i board and lie was made chairman. j
iJuly 2S?"Bonus army" in Washing- i
ton routed by regulars and its camps
burned after figfit with police *n which
I one veteran was killed and scores of
pciioeme:: and veterans were Injured.
Charles A. Walker of Utlca. N. Y.,
appointed to R. F. C. board by President
Hoover and made president of the
corporation.
Governor Roosevelt received reply
of Mayor Walker of Now York to the
Seabury charges, denying all of them.
Aug. 2?Bonus amy, gathered at
Johnstown, Pa., ordered disbanded by
w\ \V. Waters, its commander.
Aug. 3?Secretary of Commerce Rob- 1
ert P. Lnmoht resigned and Roy D j
Chapln of Detroit was appointed to |
Kupooml him.
Aug. 9?U. S. Attorney (?. R Q.
Johnson of Chicago made federal district
judge.
Aug. .10?Army exchanges ordered
to stop sales to cmllans.
Aug. 11?President Hoover delivered
his speech of acceptance and declared
himself for change from national prohibition
to state liouor control with
federal safeguards.
Aug. 15?Farmers of Iowa and other
central west slates started "strike"
for hisher prices for produce.
Aug. 16?Second son horn to Coi.
and Mrs. Charles A. JJndbergh.
Aug. 18?Vice President Curtis formally
notified of hi3 roncmlnatlon.
Senator J. J. Davis of Pennsylvania
and six others indicted In connection
with fraternity lotteries.
Aug. 24?-John Bain, whose twelve
Chicago hanks failed, found guilty of
conspiracy to defraud depositors.
j Aug. 3d?OUaiiiCBo leaders.
) . uy rieawcVit-.' mooyoi. nuvVioti pian j
i.fni?_.*nAnr>inl/> . rAAnvtpu : iscnu ;_J.L
j Aug. 31?John; W. Poole resigned as j
comptroller or the currency.
Sept. 1?Mayor James J. Walker of
New York resigned.
Ilanford McNtder resigned as minister
to Canada.
ScpL 5?Farm board announced It
would hold weat and cotton oft market
until next year.
Sept. 0?Railway executives voted
for 20 per cent cut in wattes, effective
February J.
Sept n?Central states governors
recommended federal financial aid Tv?r i
farmers.
Sept. 12?Democrats won governor- '
ship and two congress seats In Mulno
election.
American Legion convention opened
in Portland. Ore.
Sept. 15?American Legion voted for
Immediate cash payment of bonus and
for repeal of Eighteenth amondment.
and elected Louis A. Johnson of West
Virginia national commander.
Sept. 18?G. A H. national encampment
opened In Springfield, 111.
Sept. 20?Wisconsin Republicans
nominated W. J. Ivohler for governor,
rejecting Gov. Philip La Follettc; and
J. B. Chappie for senator, defeating
Senator J. J. BlainoSept.
22?Capt. W. P. Wrlicht of
Chicago elected national commander
of G. A. R.
Sept. 27?Representative C. R. Crisp
of Georgia appointed to tariff commission.
Oct. 3?Four lake states asked Supreme
court to appoint commissioner
to run the Chicago sanitary district. |
Case of Senator Davis of Pennsylvania
cn lottery charges ended In mistrial.
Got. 4?Samuel and Martin insull,
former public utility magnates, indicted
In Chicago.
Oct. 10?Samuel Insull arrested in
Athens.
Oct. 13?Brig. Gen. Harry Burgess
resigned as governor of the Panama
Canal Zor.e ar.d Lieut. Col. Julian
Schley was appointed to succeed him.
Nov. 1?F. Lammot Belin appointed
ambassador to Poland.
Nov. 5?Director of the Budget Roop
began cutting down the national budget
$150,000,000.
American Red Cross reported three
and a half millions aper.t for relief
in past year.
Nov. 7?Supremo court ordered new
trial for seven negroes in Internationally
agitated Scotiaboro (Ala.) case.
Nov. 8?Franklin D. Roosevelt and
John N. Garner elected President and
Vice President, Democrats sweeping
the country.
Nov. 13?President Hoover invited
Pr?Bident-eloct Roosevelt to conference
oh foreign war debts when debtor
nations asked postponement of payments
and revision.
Nov. 18?Helen Hayes and Frederic
March voted best film actors nf the
year.
Nov. 21?A. Lawrence Lowell resigned
as president of Harvard university.
Nov. 22?President Hoover and President-Elect
Roosevelt conferred on the
war debt situation:
E. S. Grammer, Seattle, appointed
D. S. senator to succeed the late Wesley
lu Jones of Washington.
Nov. 23?Congress leaders in conference
with President Hoover rejected
his war debt revision plan.
Nov. 28-^American Federation of
Labor, In convention In Cincinnati,
demanded the five-day week and sixhour
day.
Dec. 3?Conrad H. Mann, prominent
Kansas City resident, and two others
convicted of violating federal lottery
law.
Dec. 4?"Hunger army" of 5,000
reached Washington.
Doc. G?Short session of congress
opened.
House defeated Garner resolution for
prohibition repeal by six votes.
Dec. 6?President Hoover In annual
messago asked congress for sales tax
and economy legislation.
Dec. 7?President Hoover submitted
budget cutting government expenses by
half a billion.
Doc. 8?Powers of the R P. C. extended
for one year by President
Hoover
Dec. 9?President Hoover gave congress
his plans for federal government
reorganisation.
Dec. 13?Move by McFaddon of
Pennsylvania to impeach President
Hoover voted down by tho house.
Doc. 15?N. W. itfaeChesncy of Chicago
nominated for minister to Canada.
Dec. 12?Senate passed Philippines
indapercrtMnrtft hill.
Dec. IS?President Hoover told congress
he was going to name commission
on war debts and would seek cooperation
of President-Elect .Roosevelt
l?cc. si?iioohe passed Dili icgiuiAUii
2.2 per cent beer.
Railway wage reduction continued
for nine months by agreement
Doc. 23?Congress recessed for Christmas.
AERONAUTICS
Jan. 23 ? Hawks flow from Mexico to
Canada, ami return. 2.600 miles, in 13
hours 4 i minutes.
Jan. 25?Eddie Stunson killed In
crash ut Chicago.
March 4?Harmon trophy awarded
to Gen. Italo Balbo of Italy as international
aviation champion for 1031.
May J 2?Lou T. Re ichors took *.?(?
from Harbor Grace. N. F., on soio
flight to Dublin na.l Paris.
May 13?Re i Pliers forced down near
Irt?anci and rescued by steamship
Roosevelt.
May 20?Amelia Eufln.rt (Mrs. G. P.
Putnam? began solo flight from Harbor
Grace to Paris.
May 21?Mjs. Amelia Enrliart Putnam
landed near Londonderry, Irekind.
the frst woman ever to fly
across the Atlantic alone.
June 1?Army balloon No. 2. piloted
by Lieutenants Paul and Bishop, won
national balloon race.
-June S?S. T\ flausncr started flight
from Now York to Poland.
June il? llau-sncr picked up at sea
after floating eight days on his plane.
July 5?James Mattern ami Dennett
Grifflri started round-the-world flight
from Harbor Grace. N. F.
July 0?Mattern and Grifllr. crossed
ocean In record time, landed at Berlin
and departed for Moscow.
July T?Mattern and Grifiin made
forced landing 50 miles from Minsk.
July 22?Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau
of Germany and three companions
flew from i>rmnny to Iceland on way
to Chicago.
Aug. 2?Von Gronau arrived at Ch:Atig.
IS?Prof. Angus to Plccard rose
In balloon to record altitude of 65.7? t
feet ? vor Switzerland and Italy.
Cupt J. A. MoliisoH began flight
trom Ireland across Atlantic in Moth
plane.
Aug. 13?MollisoTi landed In New
ttrTrnNwjcic. compic'ung nr:-t wesiwani |
solo flight across the Atlantic.
Aug. 32?Mrs. I?ouise Thnden and
Mrs. Frances Marsulis set new women's
endurance flight record of 8 days.
4 hours.
Aug. 24?Amelia Barhart Putnam set
new women's records by 19-hour nonstop
(light from t/OS Angeles to Newark.
Aug. 25?Clyde I.ee. and John Bockhon
started (light from Harbor Grace
to Oslo. Norway, and were lost.
Aug. 29?J. CI. llai/.iip act new ooastto-cdast
record of 10 hours, 19 minutes.
Sept. S?Major Ilnoilttle set new land
plane speed record of 292.2S7 miles
y.ii hour iit National Air raoc-a lr? Cleveland.
Sept. 11?Mr and Mrs. G. Ft. FTutchinson,
two daughters and crew of
tour crashed oft coast of Greenland
while (lying to Europe.
Sept. 13?W. Ulbrlcht ar.d F.dnn
Newcomer, pilot a. and Dr. D. M. Piscull
hopped o'l from New York on nonstop
flight to Rome end were lost at
sea.
Nov. 14?Roscoc Turner sot new
record o? 12 hours, 33 minutes, for
flight from New York to Burbank,
Caltf.
Nov. 18?Amy Johnson completed
Eondon to Capetown flight In record
time of 4 days. 6 hours, G5 minutes.
Nov. 19?Memorial to Wilbur and
Orville Wright unveiled at Kitty
Hawk. N. C.
DISASTERS
Jan. 2?Fifty killed in train tvrcck
near Moscow.
-Jan. ?British submarine lost
near Portland with crew of 161.
Feb. Sv-Sanliazo. Cuba, badly dnmU
(; : li ' uy Cttluiqiiuivtj," aiK ii'lllCd.
fffth 4 i'l.V'Anltan Xrillort KV-.AXOlO*sVcmcf
vuevorship at MaitusTlodK, Jra.
Feb. 26?Thirteen persons killed by
avalanches near Seattle.
Feb. 27?Mine explosion at Pocahontas.
Va.. killed 38 men.
March 12?Island of Hand a Neira In
Dutch East Indies, nearly destroyed by
earthquakes and volcanoes, with Brent
loss of life.
March 21?Tornadoe3 In Alabama,
Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina and
Tennessee killed 353 and did great
damage.
Maroh 2: Tornado hilled 9. Injured
50 In Alabama.
April 14?SI* dead, 57 hurt. In blast
in Ohio state office building at Columbus.
April 25?Tornadoes in Tennessee,
Alabama and Arkansas killed nine.
May 2?Nearly a hundred killed by
typhoon in Philippines.
May 6?Two million dollar fire on
Cunard pier. New York.
May 16?New French liner Georges
Fhilippar burned in Gulf of Aden; ?2
lives lostJune
3?Earthquake killed hundreds
In Guadalajara region of Mexico.
June 7?Eleven killed in apartment
house fire in Cleveland, Ohio.
June 17?Explosion on oil tanker at
Montreal killed 29 men.
June 19?Hailstorm in Oonan province,
China, killed 290.
July 7?French submarine Promethoe
sank off Normandy coast, with 63 men.
July 10?Explosion of ammunition
depot in Nanking, China, Killed 50.
July 13?Three million dollar flro on
Coney Island. N. Y.
July 26?German training ship Niobe
sank in storm; 69 drowned.
Aug. 4?Six million dollar fire in
Chicago packing house district.
Aug. 13?Forty killed In south Texa3
storm.
Sept. 9?Fifty-six workmen killed
by steamer explosion at New York.
Sept. 14?Fifty-five men killed In
wrecit ul x? rencn foreign I.efiion train
In Algeria.
Sept. 26?Earthquake In the Balkans
killed about 235.
SoDt. 27?Hurricane awent Pnri/?
Rico", killing Beveral hundred and doing
vast damage.
Sept. 30?Forty lives lost in cloudburst
in Tchachapl pass. California.
Nov. ft?Disastrous storm in southern
Cuba: 2,500 killed and great damage
done.
Nov. 14?Japan swept by terrific typhoon:
scores of lives lost and many
towns and villages wrecked.
Dec. 5?Japanese destroyer capsized
In storm: 105 men lostDec.
-7?Fourteen coal miners killed
by blast at Madrid, N. M.
Dec. 9?Explosion in coal mine at
Yancey, Ky.. alllcu 23.
NECROLOGY
Jan. 1?C. O. Ise?l?i, millionaire
yachtsman of New York.
Jan. 2?Gen. Paul Pau. French war
commander.
Rear Admiral Cameron Winslow. U.
S. N., hero of Spanish war.
Jar.. 6?Julius Rosenwald, Chicago
philanthropist and capitalist.
Jan. 9?Frederick O'Brien, author
and traveler.
Jan. 17?J. W. Langloy. former Kentucky
congressman.
Jan. 18?Dr. J. G. McClure. president
emeritus of Presbvterlan
nary of Chicago.
Jan. 21?Eytton Strachey. English
biographer.
Jan. 24?Paul Warburg. New York
banker.
Jan. 26?William Wrlgley, Jr? of
Chicago, capitalist and owner of Chicago?
Cubs, in Phoenix. Calif.
Alfred S. Austrian, leader of the
Chicago bar.
Jan. 27?I^ewls Cass l^edyard. noted
New York lawyer.
Jan. 30?William Hodge. American i
actor.
Feb. 4?Hyrum G. Smith, presiding
patriarch of Mormon church, at Salt
Laki* City.
Feb. 5?John R Vnftrhlo ?
chem of Tammany, aged 103. !
Barney Dreyfuss, owner of Pitta- j
burgh Pirates.
Feb. 15?Minnie Madder n Flake
American actress.
Sfe?ry..A ?B,a'Cc Chicago capitalist,
ni5?i i. ? !lI ^gar Speyer, former
British financier.
janizary ti. is;:
iFeb. IS?Frledrlch August XXI. former
king of Saxony.
Fob. 23?Mme. Johanna Gadski.
j Wagawlan royrano, in Berlin.
Feb. 24?Dr. Willy Meyer, noted nur1
seen. In Near York.
l Ffeb. 2S?Dr. A. B. Ch?ce, chancellor
j of Brown university,
j March 6?John Philip Sousa. noted
i band director.
March 7?Ariatide Briand. French
?Laiusu
March 14?George Eastman, tounder
and chairman of board of Eastman
Camera company. In Rochester, N. Y.
March IS?Chauncey Olcott, Aiuerlcan
singer. In Monte Carlo.
March 15?Former Congressman
Richard Bartho'dt. in St. Louis.
March 22?Charles Livingston Bull,
naturalist and painter.
March 2S?Leslie M. Shaw, former
secretary of the treasury, in Washington.
April X?L>r. Evan O'Neill Kane, noted
surgeon, in Philadelphia.
Representative a. H. Vestal. Indiana.
Wash !?>;*?? ?
April 2?Rose Cogblan. actress, at
Harrison. N. Y.
April 11?Joseph Loiter, In Chicago.
April 14?William J. Burns, detective,
at Sarasota, Flo.
April ?S?senator William J. Harris.
at Washington.
April 22?Gen. J. W. Keifer, former
: speaker of the house. In Sprln&Qeld.
i Ohio.
April 24?Bishop Frank M. Bristol
' church. In Moubclatr. N. J.
[ May 2?Leo Hammond, pioneer In
I aviation, in Jacksonville. Fin.
j May 4-?Rear Admiral C. M. Chaster.
U. S. v. retired.
May G?Paul Doumer, president of
France.
John W. Seott, Chicago merchant.
May 7?Maj. Gen. Enoch R. Crowder,
In Washington.
Albert Thomas, head of International
labor bureau, in Paris.
May s?D. M. Rycrsnn of Chicago,
steel magnate.
May 13?Andreas Dipnoi, former
grand opera singer anil manager. In
LI oily wood.
May 10?Capt. Robert Dollar, dean
of American shipping industry, In San
I Rafael, Calif.
May 17?Dr. B. J. Clgrand of Baj
favm in., founder and president of
| National Flag Day as relation.
May 20?Admiral V s. Benson, U.
b X., retired
' May 23?Lord Inchoapo, British shipj
ping magnate.
Lady Augusta Gregory. Irish drama;
tist.
I May 2S?Edward F. Swift. Chicago
I packer.
May 30?Rear Admiral John Hub:
bard.
Juno 1?Former Congressman Wllj
liarn D. Rotas of Iowa.
Juno 2?Hugh Chalmers, pioneer au!
torSnMle njamifacturer. at Deacon.
' N. Y.
June 7?Dr. W. W. Keen of Phlla|
dolphia, famous surgeon.
! Juno S?Viscount Brentford (William
Joynson-Hicks), English statesman.
June 13?Wiliiam C. Itedfleld. secretary
of commerce under President
Wilson.
June 19?Robert Sm.tt Love it* head
j of Union Pacific, in New York.
. June 27?Gen. F. E. Bamford, hero
of Battle of Cuntigny, In Charleston,
W. Va.
i Vice Admiral DeWIlt Cotfman, U. S.
N.. retired,
j June 29?Dr. G. F. Kunz, gem *i
pert. In New York.
July 2?James N. Gamble. Cincinnati
manufacturer.
Dr. (3. K. Burgess, director of bureau
of standards, in Washington.
Former King Manuel of Portugal.
July 3?A. II. Scribner, publisher,
in New York.
July 6?Kenneth Grahamo. Scottish
author.
Dr. Joseph Lcidy of Philadelphia,
neurologist.
July 'J?King C. Gillette, safety ra|
ror Inventor, In Los Angeles.
July 10?C. C. Goodrich, tire manufacturer.
in York, Maine.
I July 13?Fergus llume, British au1
thor.
; July 11 Alice Dnrber StonhAn*
j American artist.
I ' ? - CUM. - - l(ur<)k?l _ ? ?
j Plumer in London. n ..
BtiieV Field of Chicago, In London.
July IS?Jean Jules Jusserand, formor
French ambassador to Washington.
Thomas Arklo Clark, former dean of
raon in University of Illinois.
July 22?Florenz Ziegfeld, musical
comedy producer.
July 24?Alberto Santos-Dumout of
Brazil, aviation pioneer.
July 26?Caleb Powers, former congressman
from Kentucky.
Fred Duesonborg of Indianapolis,
91Cn44i automobile nmkvr;
Auk. 4?James Oppenheim. American
novelist and poet.
Aug. 5?Dr. J. Paul Goode, noted
geographer.
Aug. 8?James Francis Burke, general
counsel of Republican national
committee.
Aug. 11?Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago
financier and philanthropist.
Aug. 18?Junius S. Morgan of New
York, In Switzerland.
Aug. 22?Wilton Lackaye, American
actor.
Aug. 25?Mrs. Edith Rockefeller MdCormick
in Chicago.
Aug. 27?C. A. Waterman, senator
from Colorado.
Sept. 6?Sir Gilbert Parker, British
novelist.
Sept. 20?Dr. Frank L. Billings, famous
physician, in Chicago.
Sept. 27?Former Senator John
Sharp Williams of Mississippi.
Oct. 2?David Pingree, wealthy lumberman
and philanthropist, in Salem,
Mass.
Oct. 4?Gen. Sir Rudolph Slatin
l Pasha, in Vienna.
Oct. o?Congressman J. Charles
Llnthicum of Maryland.
; uci. o?uarvan Jf. itingsley, head of
New York Life Insurance company.
Oct. 11?William Allien Smith, former
senator from Michigan.
Oct. 18?Maurice Domier of Munich,
builder of plant flying hoat DO-X.
Oct. 19?Lindley M. Garrison, former
secretary of war.
Oct. 10?Marquis Bon! do Castellane
in Paris.
Cel. 29?Horace Kent Tenney. noted
Chicago lawyer.
Emmett Corrigan. American actor.
Oct. 30?Harold MacGrath, Amorlcan
author.
Field Marshal Lord Methuen of England.
Nov. 1?William Morris, New York
theatrical producer and philanthropist.
Nov. 2?Will Levingcon Comfort,
American novelist.
Nov. 16?Dr. Fenton B. Turck, eminent
physician in New York. .
Nov. 19?United States Senator Wesley
U Jones of Washington,
i Nov. 20?Dr. H. J. Doerman. president
of University or Toledo.
Delmar W. Call, noted manufacturer.
Robert M. Cutting or Chicago, president-elect
of United States Golf association.
Nov. 25?Dr. F. L. Pat ton, former
presidont^ of JPrlnceton university.
Nov. 26?xv. A. Va? V AikdiiburB,
Philadelphia journalist.
Nov. 27?Will II. Low. American
artist.
Nov. 29?Congressman J. C. McLaughlin
of Michigan.
Nov. 30?Gari Melchers. American
artist.
Dec. 2?Louis J. Petit, Milwaukee
capitalist.
I 1/PU.~Q-? Vliomoul utuuvvonDr.
ities magnate, In Chicago.
C. R. Breckinridge, former American
ambassador to Russia, in Wendover,
Ky.
Dec. 6?Dr. J. C. Van Dyke of Rutgers,
art authority.
Dec. 6?Eugene Brieux, French
dramatist.
Dec. 7?F. T. Lovejoy, foreign steel
magnate of Pittsburgh.
John H. Niemeyer. American artist.
Dec. 8?Henry Kitchcll Webster, novelist,
in Evanston. 111.
Dec. 10?It. B. Williamson, vice chairman
of federal power commission.
Dec. 11?A. C. Lorlng of Minneapolis.
head ?0f Pillsbury flour mills.
Dec. 18?Congressman Daniel 3. Garrett
of Texas.
Dec. 18?Edmund Vanco Cooke, post
and lecturer, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Ernest Howe, noted geologist. In
Litchfield, Conn.
Doc. 19?Clarence Hi. Whitebill, American
operatic baritone.
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