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VOL. LII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JANUARY 6, 1927. *NO. 48. j
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Chronology
OF THE
Year-1926
? ? ?
Compiled by EDW. WEBSTER
INTERNATIONAL
Jan. 9?United States protested
against retroactive features of Mex
ico's new petroleum and land laws. 1
Jan. 12?Silas H. Strawn, American
delegate, made chairman of interna
tional commission on extraterritorial
ity in China.
MaJ. Gen. William Lassiter named to
succeed General Pershing as president
of Tacna-Arica plebiscite commission.
Jan. 27^-Great Britain and Italy
signed debt funding agreement.
Jan. 30?Allies evacuated the first
sone of occupation in the Rhineland.
March 1?United States formally
notified League Of Nations and 48 na
tions it had voted to enter world
court.
March 2?Abd-el-Krim launched big
attack on French in the Riff.
French chamber of deputies ratified
Locarno pacts.
March 6?Germany's admission to
League of Nation's postponed until
fall.
March 8?Special session of League
of Nations opened with Viscount Ishli
In the chair. Deadlocked over new
members. Spain threatened to resign.
March 8?League of Nations received
German application for entrance.
Alfonso Da Costa, former premier of
Portugal, elected president of special
session of League of Nations.
April 6?Secretary Kellogg submitted
to Chile and Peru new plan to settle
Tacna-Arica dispute without plebiscite.
April 14?France and Germany signed
airway accord.
April 19?United States formally de
clined to participate in Leagtie. of Na
tions conference on American adhesion
to world court.
Chile, rejecting Kellogg's plan, de
manded Tacna-Arica plebiscite on May
27 as scheduled.
April 21?Italian debt settlement
ratified by United States senate.
April 23?Ambassador Berenger made
new offer for settlement ' of French
war debt to United States.
April 24?Germany and Russia signed
treaty of amity guaranteeing recipro
cal neutrality if either were attacked.
April 26?United States senate rati
fied Belgian debt settlement.
April 27?Debt fupding agreements
with Latvia, Esthonia and Rumania in
? dorsed by United . States senateu..
April 28?United States senate "rati
fied Czechoslovakian debt settlement..
April 29?Funding arrangement of
French debt to America signed in
Washington, providing for payment
over 62 years of grand total of _|6,
847,674,104.
May 1?Agreement on Yugo-Slavia ,
debt to United States reached in Wash
ington.
May 7?French and Spanish opened
offensive against Rifflans.
May 18?International preliminary
conference on reduction of armaments
opened in Geneva.
May 22?French captured Targuist,
headquarters of Abd-el-Krim, but the
Riff leader escaped.
May 26?Abd-el-Krim surrepdered to
the French. v,
June 2?Crisis in relations between
Great Britain and Egypt due to acquit
tal of Egyptians accused of political
murders.
June 4?French senate ratified the
Locarno treaties, 272 to 6.
American legation at Montevideo,
Uruguay, bombed by radical sympa
thizers with Sacco and Vanzetti, con
demned Socialists in Massachusetts.
June 5?Great Britain Turkey
signed the Mosul treaty.
June 7?-L<eagtt6 of Nations council
met in Geneva.
June 12?Brazil gave two years'
notice of her withdrawal from League
oi {Nations.
June 14?Tacn'a-Arica plebiscitary
commission formally declared the pleb
iscite impracticable. x
' July 27?Britain concluded agree
ment with General Andrews to balk
rum smuggling into the United States.
Aug. 9?Italy and Spain signed ar
bitration treaty, and Rumania and
Prance signed treaty of amity.
. Aug^S?British, Frpnch and German
experts worked out plan for Germany's
entry into League of Nations, with
Spain and Poland to have seml-perma
nent^ seats In council.
Aug. 26?Spain's demand that inter
national district'of Tangier be annexed
to Spanish zone of Morocco formally
,before the powers concerned.
Aug. 27-r-Nicaragua appealed to
League of Nations aghinst- Mexico, al
leging Calles aided revolutionists.
Aug. 30?Great Britain refused
Spain's invitation to-*-conference on
Tangier.
Sept, 4?Spain rejected League of
Nations offer of semi-permanent seat
! ?n council..
* Sept. 6?League of Nations assembly
Jnet with Spain and Brazil absent.
Sept. 7?Spain resigned from League
of Nations.
Sept 8?Germany elected a member
oi League of Nations and given perma
nent seat in council.
Sept. 10?German delegation took its
?oats in League of Nations assembly.
. i pt- 11?Turkey applied for member
snip in League of Nations, stipulating
? ?t must be given seat in the council.
Sept. 14?Locarno treaties filed with
League of Nations, and Germany de
manded evacuation of Rhineland by
allies
. SePL 21-r-French cabinet gave Briand
j;ee hand in working out accord with
Lermany.o
Committee report on American res
wvatlons accepted by -world court
Judicial committee, but its interpreta
tion of fifth reservation declared not
acceptable by President Coolidge.
Sept. 22?Withdrawal of French
troop8 from Rhineland begun. r,
?World court states adopted,
to American reservations, ac
ptirig them with one modification.
Sept. 24?League of Nations decided
*.rence on reduction of arma
1827 oUld k?ld before September,
?rReffioval% of tariff baVrlers
t?A ?Uler ' restrictions (k>on European
int i ^orom^nded ojr a group ot lead
stftJ'n^r?mtl?nal bankers in a ftjgned
is Public ?Iroultairebusly
York and European capitals.
a#r3?--Unlted States government
?tfo potice on, Mexico that diplom
Ama.r tlon^ Wbpld be severed if
JWican properties in Mexico should
nT^^Mcated under the terms of the
Mexican land and oil laws effective
- J?nuary l.
Nnv i|?Foreign Ministers Tchltch
R?Mli und Tewflk Rushti Bey
?{. Tun<ey met to formulate treaty of
wliance.
Nov. 17?Nicaragua asked United
?tales to help in stopping Mexican aid
V? rebels. . , .
t, ']?v. 18?Nlcaraguan rebels' asked by
Lilted States to lay down their arms.
Nov. 1??President Coolidge notified
..Nicaragua the United States would
I ^r*)NP^gopd offices 4.0 maintain peace
Nov. 23?Joint engineering commis
sion of United States and Canada rec
ommended development of the St.
Lawrence river project.
Nov. 27?Italy and Albania signed
treaty of amity and co-operation.
Nov. 28?Report of Strawn interna
tional commission said powers must
retain extraterritorial rights in China
until chaos there was ended.
Dec. 4?China gave notice It would
terminate all unequal treaties on their
expiration.
Dec. 6?League of Nations council
met.
Dec. 10?Nobel peace prize for 1925
awarded to Charles G. Dawes and Sir
Austen Chamberlain; for 1926 to Arls
tlde Briand and Gustav Stresemann.
Dec. 12?Allies agreed to transfer
control of German armaments to
League of Nations committee on Feb
ruary 1.
Dec.'21?Guatemala joined the Hague
court.
DOMESTIC
Jan. 4?House passed post office
i8??.86U00y000a.PPrOPrlallOn Carryln?
J^n' l^7T?0US6 Passed Interior de
partment bill appropriating 1226,600,000.
Jan. 12?Senate by vote of 41 to 39
seated Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota
Jan. 19 Army board of review ap
Mitchell convlction ot CoL William
Jan. 26?Senate adopted Swanson res
ervations to world court resolution.
Haugen co-operative marketing bill
passed by house.
Jan. 27?Senate by vote of 76 to 17
passed resolution for American ad
herence to world court.
Jan 30?Senate passed corn sugar
amendment to pure food laws.
Feb. 10?Senate voted to repeal all
taxes on automobiles, admissions and
an<* estates, cutting revenue
6100,000,000 more.
Feb. 12?Senate passed Its tax bill,
reducing federal revenue |456,000,000.
Feb. 15?Senate and house adopted
resolutions for making inauguration
date in January and convening of con
gress two months after election.
House passed omnibus public build
ings bill carrying 6165,000,000.
Feb. 16?Army and navy bills, with
total of 6660,500,000, passed by house
and senate separately.
Feb. 19?Senate and house conferees
agreed on tax hill with cut of 6387,811,
000.
Feb. 23?House accepted conference
report on tax bill, 354 to 28.
Bert E. Haney of Oregon resigned
from shipping board. ,
Feb. 24?Senate approved new tax
bill by 61 to 10.
March 1?United States Supreme
court decided Wisconsin's gut tax law
invalid. ....
House passed Watson-Parker bill
abolishing railroad labor b<^rd ana
providing means for settlement of fail
way labor disputes by conference, med
iation and voluntary arbitration.
.March 8?Treasury offered for public
subscription $500,000,000 in 30-year
bonds at 3?* per cent interest, lowest
rate since first Liberty bonds were
issued.
March 12?Hervcy Curran, immigra
tion commissioner at Ellis Island, re
signed.
March 14?Board of temperance, pro
hibition and morals of the Methodist
church charged Coolidge administra
tion, because of political conditions,
was keeping men in office who are not
in sympathy with enforcement of the
prohibition laws, ...... ... - _
House appropriated 8lM?M?& *or
foreign embassy buildings.
Daniel F. Siteck (Dem.), was held to
have been elected over Senator Broolc
hart (Rep.), Iowa, in report submit
ted by subcommittee of the senate elec
tions committee.
The White bill, to create a federal
radio commission of five members io
co-operate with Secretary Hoover in
keeping order in the air, was passed
byThe senate rejected Wallace Mc
Cament of Oregon as federal Judge.
March 18?Col. John C. Coolidge,
eighty-one, father of President Cool
idge, died as the President and his
wife were speeding by special train
to his bedside. .
March 22?New York senate by vote
of 27 to 24, defeated state prohibition
March 28?Senate confirmed the
nomination of T. F. Woodlock of New
York as a member of the interstate
corrimerce commission'hy vote of 52 to
25.
March 29?Crampton bill, placing the
entire prohibition unit under civil serv
ice, passed by house. ... .
April 1?House voted to impeach
Judge George W. English of the east
ern district of Illinois. 306 to 60.
<4tpnl 2?President Coolidge selected
Carmi A. Thompson of Cleveland, Ohio,
as special commissioner to make a sur
vey of conditions in Philippines.
Abrll 3?Former Governor Davis of
Kansas and his son acquitted of
bribery charge. . t
Senate committee opened tFeJv*"?ftJr
hearing on Volstead act modification.
Anrll 5?Byrd polar expedition
started from New York for Spits
beAorH 9?Spokesmen for American
Federation of Labor at senate bear
ing demanded beer and light wines
modification of Volstead get.
April 12?Sixty-five representatives
of women's organisations urged sen
ators not to weaken \ olstead act.
Senate by vote of 45 to 41 unseated
Brookhart of Iowa; Daniel F. Steck
sworn iri as senator.
Naval aircraft bill passed by bouse.
April 13?^Frank L. Smith defeated
Senator W. B. McKlnley for Kepub
llcan nomination for senator from Illi
nois. * ? |__* .... ....
April lb?uovci iiiiicuv
for control of radio wave lengths. [
April 17?New York Central railway
celebrated Its centenary.
April 19?New York legislature
passed resolution for beer and wine I
referendum.
April 27?Foreclosure and sale, of I
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad
ordered by Federal Judge Wilkerson. 1
House passed bill creating separate I
bureau of prohibition and a bureau of i
customs.
April 28?National 'crime commission
met in Washington. 1
April 29?National elimination bal
loon race started at Little Rock, Ark.
May 1?President signed Spanish
American war pension bill.
Goodyear IV, piloted by Van Orman,
won balloon' race.
May 4?Senators Watson and Rob
lp?0n of Indiana renominated by Re
publicans.
May 5?Seven convicts killed a dep
uty warden and escaped from the Illi
nois penitentiary at Stateville; two
captured after bloody battle with po
lice at Leonore.
House appropriated $75,000,000 for
five year army air program.
May 6?Senate passed bill to In
crease pay of all federal, judges.
May 7?H. M. Daughefty. former at
torney general; T. W. Miller, former
alien property custodian, and John 1\
King indicted in New York for cbn
spiracy to defraud government,. In
American Metal company case.
-May-UsiJ5.e.nate passed new railroad
labor bill as adopted by house.
May 13?Senate passed McFadden
banking bill. *
May 1*7?House passed Johnson , bill
making great changes In World war
veterans' act of 1924
May 18?Congressman W. S: Vare,
running on wet platform, won. Repub
lican nomination for senator from i
I Pennsylvania, defeating Senator Pepper j
and Governor Pinchot. Democrats ,
nominated W. B. Wilson.
S. S. Kreage |ivt f 23,000,000 to
Kresge foundation for cnuriiable and
public welfare purposes.
May 19?House passed bill prohibit
ing: transporting: of pistols and revol
vers in the mails.
Senate ordered inquiry into primary
campaign expenditures.
May 21?Treasury department an
nounced President Coolldge had signed
an executive order authorising ap
pointment of state, county and muni
cipal officers as prohibition officers at
nominal salaries.
House rejected Haugen farm relief
bill, 167 to 212.
Frederick 8telwer nominated for sen
ate by Oregon Republicans, defeating
Senator 8tanfleld.
May 31?President Coolldge delivered
Memorial Day address at Arlington,
urging world disarmament.
Sesqulcentennial exposition opened
in Philadelphia. '","s
June 2?Senate passed army air ser
vice bill.
June 3?Senate passed naval air pro
gram bill. -
Indiana Democratic convention nomi
nated Albert Stump and Evans Wool-<
len for long and short senatorial
terms, respectively.
June 4?-Omnibus rivers and harbors
bill passed by house.
June 7?Smith W. Brookhart nomi
nated for senator by Republicans of
Iowa, defeating Senator A. B. Cum
mins. Claude R. Porter nominated
by the Democrats.
June 11?Senate passed house bill
carrying 975,000,000 for federal aid
road construction.
June 17?House passed senate's corn
sugar bllL
June 20?Twenty-eighth Internation
al eucharlstic congress opened in Chi
cago. j
June 21?President Coolldge in his
annual budget address announced sur
plus for fiscal year 1926 was about
9390,000,000.
June 24?McNary bill for farm relief
by price fixing defeated in senate.
June 29?ffitss farm relief bill, backed
4>y administration, defeated in, senale,
which then passed the co-operatnre
marketing bill.
Second deficiency bill with dry law
enforcement fund passed by senate.
House passed army air service ex
pansion bill.
June 30?Gerald P. Nye nominated by
North Dakota Republicans for Unit
ed States senator. Gov. A. G. Sorlie,
re-nominated.
E. P. Warner appointed assistant
secretary of the navy for aviation.
July 2?F. Trubee Davison appointed
assistant secretary of war for avia
tion.
July 3?Congress adjourned for sum
mer recess.
July 6?President Coolidge and party
left for summer White House In the
Adlrondacks.
July 12?National convention of the
Elks opened In Chicago.
Fourteen San Francisco men, worth
$100,000,000, formed foundation to give
surplus wealth for benefit of the com
munity.
Kansas City Star and Times sold to
present management for $11,000,000.
July 14?Linton Wells and E. S.
Evans completed circuit of globe In
28 days, 14 hours and 37 minutes.
July 19?Corn belt committee met
In Des Moines to plan renewal of
fight for agricultural relief.
July 26?Senate slush fund commit
tee began inquiry Into Illinois sena- :
torial primary expenses, in Chicago.
July 30?A. F. Myers of Iowa ap
pointed member of federal trade com- i
mission.
Aug. 6?Iowa Republicans nominated
D. W. Stewart to fill unexpired term
of Senator Cummins. Democrats made
no nominatldn.
Aug. 9?William P. MacCracken,
Chicago, appointed assistant secretary
of commerce in charge of aviation
development.
Aug., 10?Knights of Pythias opened
biennial convention in Chicago.
Ohio Republicans renomihated Sena
tor Frank B. Willis, and named M. T.
Cooper for governor. Democrats named
Atlee Pomerene for senate and re
nominated Governor Donahey.
Aug. 15?American authorities near
San Diego, Cal., arrested 150 *men
mobilized for Mexican revolt under
General Estrada, and seized quantity
of arms.
Aug. 16?President Coolidge decided
interveiitlon in Mexico was unwar
ranted.
Aug. 28?Dan Moody defeated Miriam
Fergusoh in run-off primary for nomi
nation for governor of Texas.
Aug. 31?Senator S. M. Shortrldge re*
nominated by California Republicans.
John B. Elliott, named by Demo
crats.
Sept. 7?Senator Lenroot of Wiscon- i
sin defeated for renominatton by Gov.
John J. Blaine. Senators Moses of New
Hampshire and Oddie of Nevada, re
nominated.
Sept. 18?Maine election wop by Re- i
publican ticket headed by Governor
Brewster.
Sept. It?President and Mrs. Cool
idge returned to Washington.
Sept 20?Sixtieth annual convention
of the G. A. R. opened in Des Moines,
Iowa.
Sept. 2$?Maryland Democrats rf
nominated Governor Ritchie on wet
platform.
Frank A. Walsh of Milwaukee elec
ted commander in chief of the G. A. R.
Sept. 28?New York Republicans
nominated Congressman Ogden L. Mills
for governor on moist platform and
renominated Senator Wadsworth. Demo
crats renominated 8mlth for governor
and named R. F. Wagner for senator.
Teapot Dome lease held invalid by
federal circuit court of appeals at St
Louis.
Sept 29-r-Investlgatlng committee of
Republican editors charged corrupt
rule in Indiana by D. C. Stephenson,
Klan leader now serving life sentence.
Sept 30?President Coolidge ap
pointed Charles Evans Hughes a mem
ber of the Permanent Court of In
ternational Justice at The Hague to
succeed the late George Gray.
Oct. 11?Jury In Daugherty-MIUer
conspiracy case disagreed.
National convention of American Le
gion opened In Philadelphia.
Oct 13?American Legion voted to
hold 1927 convention in France.
Oct 15?Howard P. Savage of Chi
cago elected commander in chief of
American Legion.
Oct. 18?Queen Marie of Rumanfh
landed at New York and went to Wash
ington.
Oct 19?Queen Marie entertained at
dinner by President Coolidge.
Oct. 21?A Mitchell Palmer, former
attorney generhl, and others accused
of $5,535,000 conspiracy against gov
ernment in federal suit connected with
sale of Bosch Magneto company as
sets. ?
Oct. 23?8acco and Vansettl, sen
tenced to death flvc years ago, .de
nied a new trial In Massachusetts.
Oct 25?United States Supreme court
held President has power fo oust fed
eral appolhtees- without consent of
senate.
Oct. 28?Board of army engineers
reported against proposed all Amer
ican waterway through New York
state.-.
Nov. 2?In national elections Repub
licans lost seven senate seats and elev
en house serfts to the Democrats. Sen
ator Butler, chairman of Republican
national cominlttee, defeated In Massa
chusetts gnd Senator Wadsworth beat
en In New York. A1 Smith Tp-elected
governor of New York. Six of eight
states voting on prohibition went wet.
Nov. 4?Federal Judge <1. W. Eng
lish of Illinois, under Impeachiherft, re
signed.
Nov. 11?Armistice day genftrglly ob
nerved. President Coolldge dedicated
Liberty Memorial at Kansas City.
Nov. 13?De Bernardl of Italy won
Schneider cup in seaplane races at Nor
folk.
Nov. 18?Queen Marie of Rumania
canceled remainder of her American
tour at Indianapolis to hurry home
to sick husband.
Nov. 27?White Star Line fleet sold to
Royal Mail.
Nov. 29?Arthur R. Gould, Repub
lican, elected United States senator
from Maine to succeed the late Senator
Bert M. Fernald.
Supreme Court upheld Volstead act
clause limiting medical prescriptions
of'whisky to one pint every ten days.
Nov. 30?Sesqulcentennlal exposition
at Philadelphia closed with loss to
city of 920,000,000.
Dec. 6?Short session of congress
opened.
Dec. 7?President's message received
by congress.
S?ec. 9?Congress raised salaries of
eral Judges.
Dec. 10?House passed treasury and
post office appropriation bill carrying
9890.SS4.248.
Dec. 11?House ways and means
committee decided there should be no
tax legislation in short session.
Dec. 18?Congress dropped impeach
ment of ex-Judge G. W. English.
Dec. 16?Albert B. Fall and E. L.
Doheny acciuitted in Elks Hills oil
lease conspiracy case.
Senator-elect F. L Smith of Illinois
appointed by Governor Small to All out
unexpired term of Senator McKlnley.
Dec. 21?Senate passed, the house
river and harbor.bill, carrying *$7S,
000,000.
Five United States army planes be
gan pan-American flight from San An
tonio, Texas.
Dec. 22?Congress adjourned for
holiday recess.
FOREIGN
Jan. 3?Om?. T. H. Pangalos pro
claimed a dictatorship tot Greece with
himself aa its head.
Bulgarian c blnet resigned.
Jan. 4?Four-year-old Prince Michael
of Rumania was proclaimed crown
prince In place of Prince Caro.l, his fa
ther. who had renounced hla rights.
Jan. IS?Doctor Luther reappointed
chancellor of Germany.
Jan. 14?Carlos Solarzano, president
of Nicaragua, resigned.
-Jan. 21?Chamorro assumed presi
dency of Nicaragua;. not recognized
by United States.
Feb. 13?Mexican government or
dered closing of Colleges, schools and
asylums conducted toy Catholic priests.
Feb. 15?Miguel Mendez elected presi
dent of Colombia.
Feb. 28?Mexican government or
dered all foreign priests and ministers,
Catholic and Protestant, to leave coun
try.
March 8?Cabinet of Premier Brland
1 of France resigned.
March 9?Aristide Brland made
| premier of France . for ninth. tlmeu
I March .20?New Czech cabinet headed
| by former Premier Cerny. Dr. Kduard
Benes retained as foreign minister.
April 4?Frencn parliament adopted
Finance Minister Peret's budget
sdheme.
Pangalos elected president of Greece.
April 7?Premier MuSsollni of Italy
shot In nose by eccentric sister of
Baron Ashbourne of Ireland.
A pell 9?Revolt in northern Greece
against Pangalos government "sup
pressed. .
April 10?President Tuan Chi-Jui of
China deposed by coup of national
army leaders.
April 19?Chang's troops occupied
Peking; President Tuan fled to Tien
tsin.
April 25?Riza Khan Pahlevl crowned
as shah of Persia.
French captured Sueida, chief for
tress'of Druses in Syria.
April 30?British miners struck.
May 1?Mexico ordered seizure of
Catholic churches closed-by priests.
Negotiations between British govern
ment, mine operators and miners fall
ing. the British Trades Union congress
ordered general strike of 5,000,000 men
for May 8. Government declared state
of emergency and Prime Minister
Baldwin became virtual dictator.
May 2?British general strike began
at midnight.
May 7?Norge, Amundsen s polar dir
igible, reached Kings Bay, Spitsbergen.
May 9?-Lt. Commander Richard E.
Byrd of Virginia and Floyd -Bennett
flew from Spitsbergen tor North pole,
circled lt thrice and returned without
landing. ?
French bombarded Mldan quarter of
Damascus, killing 500.
May 11?Berlin police broke up roy
alist plot to make V6n Hlndenburg dic
tator.
Amundsen expedition in the Norge
started from Spitsbergen for Alaska.
Belgian cabinet resigned.
May 12?General strike In Great
Britain called off; negotiations with
miners to be resumed.
Marshal Pllsudskl started revolt 1ft
Poland against government of Pfemiet
Wltoa
Chancellor Luther of Oerraany, cen
sured by relchstag, resigned.
Airship Norge passed over Nortl}
pole.
May 12?Norge alighted at Teller,
Alaska. *
Pllsudskl occupied Warsaw after
bloody fighting.
May 14?President Wojclechowski pf
Poland and the cabinet resigned~mnd
fled.
May 15?Pllsudskl made Charles Bar
tel premier of Poland and Rata) act
ing president^
May 15.?Dr. Wilhelm Marx became
chancellor of Gerihany.
May 19?Premier Mussolini pro
claimed Inauguration erf the Fascist
syndicalist form of government for
ItaljL
May 29?Portuguese cabinet resigned
following a military revolt.
Mhy 30?Swedish commission, after
twelve years' study, decided against
prohibition.
Commander Cabecadas In control of
Portugal government.
June 1?Pi*of. Ignatz Mosclckl elect
ed president of Poland,
June 0?Syrian tribesmen rejected
French peace terms.
C. G. Kkman, prohibition leader,
formed new cabinet for Sweden.
June 8?-'Dr. Kasmlr Grintus elected
president of Lithuania.
June 15?Premier Brland of France
and entire cabinet resigned.
June 17?Gen. Gomes da Costa de
clared himself head of Portuguese gov
ernment, ousting Commander Cabe
cades.
June 23?Brland formed French cab
inet with Calllaux as finance minister.
June 28?Prime Minister Mackenzie
King of Canada, being refused dissolu
tion of parliament, resigned with his
cabinet; Arthur Melghen, Conservative
leader, named to form new ministry.
June 29?Italian government adopted
drastic, measures to stabilize currency
and trade, ordering longer working
days and more economy.
July 2?Canada parliament dissolved
by Gov. Oei. Lord Byng.
juiy .French chamber, gave Brland
government vote of confidence.
Gen. Carmonla succeeded Gen. Gomez
da Costa as dictator of Portugal.
July 17?Brland cabinet resigned be
cause of adverse vote Ip chamber; Har
riot tnyited to form ministry". ,
July 19?Harriot's French cabinet
formed with De Monzle as finance min
ister/ ?- . ,
July 21?Herrlot cabinet deflated In
French chamber and resigned.
July 23?Catholic church leaders ar
rested In Mexico for sedition.
l?|Pn1n1rC\7!r T"""1 f""* "bin.t co?.
taming fix ex-premiers.
D,asa,-' HF-r"'dV'-""",n*u
Catholic episcopate of Mexico ask^d
on"r* 1^1 *ov?rnment and a plebiscite
on religious controversy. New reliirloua
BsSSlja ?"'""?H
Aug. 2?President Calles rejected
cUJJJy Pr?P???l of Mexico Catholic
p4U.'d
? "}tVnV*?h ???
hJJ3i^2--C?n? ?nal amendment em
bodying Polncare s project for sinking
fund to redeem floating debt.
aenUVond~M3r?6k Liberals, headed by
^ CondyHs, overthrew dictatorship
d'etat61*" *aIos ,n bloodless coup
Nl0^V_?r7w!nil0,n.VlLT0Vemtnt lD
by^BM*n^hU"r?t?l"?y s^Td'
and stata of siege decreed. " 0
H?fow. *n,?n*" arm5r occupied I
Sept. 9?Military revolt In Athena
against Condylis fovernnicn' aim
pressed after bloody battle. *
asked' U H^ToNLCaira*u^n ?overnment
o . ;. help end revolt,
sept 11?Anarchist attempted vain
itaW tV.h">!na,K Pw'ml,r Mussolini of
Italy with bomb; Mussolini and Rome
?h!f. warnad Prance :o daalat from
regime ' plo,,,,^? the Fascist
Sept. 14 ? Metghen's Conaarvatlva
fmaernIT*nt,'.? Ca,mda d*'?*tad in alec
K?ng Liberals under Wacltenala
Sept. 15?Melchan government of Can
ada resigned and Mackenile King be
came premier. *
Sept. 30-^Pollah parliament cut down
realgne"""""" budK,t ,nd ,h? cabinet
Poland' p,,"ud?," became premier of
Oct. II?Cantopeae troops captured
Wuchang after forty day siege.
HotrenstRUrn*claims by g.WnV the'f^m*
of I'aVd00'000, a caBtle a"d ll?.tOtT acres
Austrian cabinet resigned.
11?Trotxicy and his followers
group In"R^iss?ati0nally tD ,he S<a'">
tlo^i pi,V.^?a; l^w^rohibitlltg use
afcbhol?'* W"h "?re ,ha" 2* Per'ce"
opaned in'Toidom emplre inference
I 'i^r~.arand ?nr council of Mex
Yaquls as*, ,?7b "'""?'""''on of*&
Austria. aKa'? btcame premier of
factro^.ern.,Cuh.r7.0.r,;0A.Pdraa,^nt da
ternal h" entlr? la
nr?Can1a0dTaV?ln^?n,,.t.Mr,,?r?V.aPh^itnty?d
"Dutch*"au'tho"Iuc.JaVU rebe 11,,d against |
nir^orlM? munltl<">? for rebels
Nov. 20?British imperial conferenr*A
announced the dominions arc hereafter
hi* status"1" Un'U
.rNorTV-2,7<!en- chan?r Kal shek, lead
"Ol Cantonese armies, declared revo
lution In China would not end until
extraterritoriality right, and con",
-slona were abolished.
atNpeklng~res*lgned.Vernmfnt ?f C",na
?T-f?^er Vice President Sac
a*a landed troops in Nicaragua for at
n ,Mn?aDI*f goy?rn?nent. 1
H.Bnkowh f-hlnfr'nCh ,r??P" ,and'd a?
g.?naV.au'm<;3rTh0.r,aprPer.Tdn,en'cry0f P?r'U
Nov. 30?King Ferdinand of Rumania
'"?<?* ? warning to former Crown
SSSff Caro1 a" others not to at
SSLUmVK Vl?1 ** "H,? thp throrVT.
?ns ai J* . of Creece resigned
cabinet Za,??ls formed a new
????*? Ontario won by
frle yela* Prohibition to be abandoned
ror government eontrol of liquor sales
uec. 3?flo-lsllst government of Den
17"? r*'",Kned -af,er li'fe.t In elec
P#c- Yugo-Slav cabinet resigned
ffr- "Oerman cabinet resigned
Lithuanian Socialist government
by.r"l,,t?ry ?"<1 Catholic
revolt. Major Plehavlcliius made dicta
tor.
Lec. 19--?Antona 8metona made presi
dsnt of Lithuania.
DISASTERS
Jan. 2?Disastrous floods prevalent
throughout western Europe, and In
Mexico. '
Jan. 13?Ninety-one men killed by
coal mine explosion near Wilburton,
Okla.
Feb. 17?Snowslide destroyed min
ing camp near Bingham, Utah; y>
killed.
Feb. 26?Tornado In Arkansas and
Mississippi killed ' ten persons.
April 7?3>il tank fields at Han Luis
Obnpo antr Urea, Calif., burned with
loss of about $13,000,000.
April 8?Forty mert killed by ex
plosion* on two oil tank steamers near
j New Orleans, ?
April II?Twenty five seamen burned I
to death by explosion on tanker at I
Port Arthur. T4pa?.
May 28?Cyclone and tidal wave In
Burma killed 1,200
June 28?Earthquake jn Sumatra j
killed 283 persons.
July 6?More than 400 killed by an
other earthquake in Sumatra.
July 10?Naval ammunition depot at
Lake Denmark, N. J.. Struck by light
ning, was destroyed Uy explosions and i
lire; twenty?one "men killed and prop
erty loss about llto.boo.dde.
July 14?Twenty killed In hotel fire
at Twilight Park-in the f'atskllls
Aug. 25-*-Twenty five killed In storm
that swept southern Louisiana
Aug. 26?Vofty-four men killed by
mine explosion at Clyrncr, Pa.
Aug. 31?Earthquake in the Azores
wrecked cJty of liorta. 24 killed
Hept- 6?Twenty-seven killed in fraln
wreck near Leadvillo. Colo.
Sept. 12?Disastrous floods In six
middle western states.
Sept. 18?Terrific- hurricane swept
lower east coast of Florida, passing
across state 0ml gulf to Pensacola.
About 500 persons killed and property
losses In Miami and elsewhere amount
ed to over 8200,080,000.
Sept. 28?Vera Cruz, Mexico, and
vicinity badly darpngeU by hurrjcane.
Oct 4?Twenty-eight men killed by
mine explosion at* Rock wood, Tenn.
Oct. 20?Hurricane swept Cuba, kill
ing 800 and doing 8lpO;OOO.OO0 damage I
to property.
Oct. 22?Eftrlhquake in Armenia de
stroyed Leninakari and twelve other
towns; 800 killed,
Nov. 3?1'Fifty-one men killed by cave
in of iron mine at Ishpem'Jng, Mich.
Nov. 8?Typhoon in Philippines killed
several - LufidittU- t
j Nov. 19?Sixteen x. men killed by. ex
plosion on i ranker at Baltimore.
Nov. 25?Tornado killed about 80 per
I sons In Louisiana, Arkansas and Mis
I souii. . \ " ?'
Dec. 9?Twenty-nine men killed by
mine explosion at Princeton. Ind.
Dec. 20?Thirty drowned , In motor
.boat sinking at New York.
I (fc by Western X*wsp0p?r Union.)
The HAPPY HOME
By MARGARET BRUCE
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Individualizing the In tide Door
Have you ever been a visitor In a
large house. In which many bedrooms
opened onto an
upper hall?
HQS you
the return
? H KH trip from the
^?f./^^^B the
HP the
Hi have you
B; fl^^B wondered In con
B. sternatlon
er you were get
B - ting to
Bj bedroom
?^B| or
Orucious, was It
the third door or
only the second? .Or, after all, was It
across the hull and hove you gotten
mixed up In transit? You steal along
anxiously, past all those closed doors,
and breathe a sigh of vast relief when
you Anally open one and And the fa
miliar furnishings you so recently left.
In a charming home that I visited
during my recent summer migration, I
saw Individual bedroom doors treated
In so amusing and unusual a fashion
that they were not only signposts to
the occupant within bnt an artistic
addition to the hallway.
To begin with, they were all painted
different colors! No, It wasn't at all
messy, though you might Imagine so
If you Imdn't seen It. The general ,
woodwork was white, and the doora
were painted deep blue, bright yellow,
one sage green and one was a sort of
mauve. On each was a pretty knocker
of brass or polychrome, and above the
knocker was the occupant's name In a
little frnme. Sometimes there was tin
amusing legend In this frame?for the
cards could be slid In and out easily.
One, I remember, was lettered. "Union
rules?an eight-hour night!" Another i
said: "Busy?sleeping!" On my door,
thy guest-room door, my name was I
prettily printed. No chance to wander I
Into-.the wrong room or have some one
else bolting suddenly Into mine!
Beside each door hung a droll little
lantern on a bracket. An electric light
with managed from a button Inside the
room, and when the orcupuiit was
within the lamp was lighted If he or
she was awake. If out or gone to bed,
the lamp was dark. The bathroom,
for rooms with no bath attached, was
marked by a cunning Illuminated
shude showing a jolly baby appearing
over the ritn.of a hath tub. The light
by this door was kept turned on all
night. The whole scheme was a deco
rative and convenient one for giving
Individuality to un upper halt which
Is usually as impersonal Ss a hotel
corridor.
? J
The Beautiful Luminor
Have you happened to see it yet? |
thia newest antl moat nrtlatic form-of
movable lighting fixture, rivaling the
shaded living room lamp in beauty, if
not in lighting power? It^ is railed a
"luminor," and in Ita rich combination
of blnck and gold and ita antique de
sign, suggesting dim cathedrals. It is
truly a charming accessory of any
room which seeks to express dignity,
sedate good taste, and quiet elegance.
The luminor.,whlcli comes in many
variations of the same general form j
and materials, gives out a soft glow
which Is yery lovely on a small table
in a corner,. In tire center of a, carved
cites*, or on the console In a hall. All
are made with bases and standards of <
black Italian marble effect combined
with Itoinun gold. The cylinder In the
.center,'which contain* an electric bulb.
Is made of gold brocade lined with
mica, giving a mf-llow golden light. On
either side are small torch lights, with
pointed "bulbs, shaded by tiny shields
of mica-lined hrdcade. Such, at least,
is the luminor Illustrated lit the sketch. !
There are other designs, all> In the I
saute general fee!Ing.
Some of these exquisite black and
dull gold lumps are railed "torcheres," !
having tall candelabra-like groups of
lights with black and gold bases. There
are pedestal torcheres aiao. ami some
tall standing lumlnors which would be
beautiful in a hall or in a richly
equipped drawing room or library.
Don't ask rne If these luxurious
things are Inexpensive, far from It!
Hut they are modern developments of
tlds age of beautiful lighting, and we
women ought to know about rhem even
If we ran t afford them. They would
assuredly make charming wedding 1
gifts, provided Ihey titled in with the |
decorative scheme of the newly-weds.
Of course they are nil equipped to
connert with the lighting switch in the
baseboard, and each is a work of art.
from reading lamp to small table dec
oration. They are the "last word" la
lovely lighting.
(Oe?rri? ht.?
kitchen]
i cabinet i
L .J
((c). ltIT, Western Nnwapnper Union.)
An the trueet society approaches >
always nearer solitude, so the most
excellent speech Anally falls Into
silence. HUence Is audible to all
men at all times, and In all placea
She is when we hear Inwardly,
sound we hear outwardly.?Henry
Thoreau.
EVERYDAY FOOD
When fresli mackerel cannot be ob
tained there Ik nothing better than the
_ salted variety. It Is
PMII packed in small wooden
rh(*rll pails, with heads and
'alls removed so there
| ;l ticfll Is almost no waste.
\ :l refill When soaked over night
y f. yjHI and then baked for twen
ZaV I^BI ty minutes, covered wltb.
ceeaui, they are delicious
eutlng.
Macks el Potato Balls.?Cut enough
pared potatoes Into quarters to fill a
pint cup. Turn Into a saucepan and ?
cover with boiling water and cook
until tender. Mash and mix with
flaked leftover cooked mackerel.
Shape Into balls, add seasoning and
fry in fat after dipping the balls In
egg.
Pacific Salad.?Take one cupful of
cooked xpughettl cut Into hits, one '
good-sized stalk of celery, two green,
I>epi>erK all cut fine, add two sweet
cucumber pickles cut Into tliln slices
and plenty, of good boiled salad -
dressing. 4
Rice and Coconut Custard.?Put
one-half of a cupful of well-wnslied
rice into a double holler with 'threjs
pints of milk, cook until very soft,
then set aside to cool. Beat three
eggs?leaving out the white of one?
add one cupful of sugar, and one cup
ful of fresh grated coconut. Stir Into
the cold mixture anil hake in a moder
ate oven. Cover with a meringue
made from the beaten white and two
tuhlespootifulK of powdered sugar,
lirotvn and serve with cream. $
A Day With Candies.
A simple recipe for chocolate cara
mels is the,following:
? Chocolate Cara
?mels.?Take one
hulf cupful of
grated chocolate,
one cupful of sugar,
one cupful of mo
lasses, o n e-li a 11
cupful of milk and
a tahlespoonful of
butter. Cook to
soft ball stage and pour out Into a
buttered pan to cool. Cut into squares
when cool enough.
Here Is another: fil
Chocolate Caramels No. 2.?Tr.ke
two cupfuls of brown sugar, one cup
ful of molasses, one-half cupful of
milk, one-fourth imund of grated
chocolate and a tahlespoonful of but- '
ter. Roll twenty minutes, stirring con
stantly. Pour Into buttered pans and
mark ofT when cool. , -
Chocolate Creams.?ROM two cup
fuls of sugar, one-half cupful of wa
ter and a pinch of cream of tartar
until the sugar slrbp makes u soft
hall when dropped into cold water.
Cool and stir until creamy, let stand
well covered with buttered pa|ter for
two or three days to ripen. Then
mold In balls, dip Into baker's choco- '
late melted over hot water and place
to cool on buttered sheets.
Orange Drops.?Urate rind from one
orange, squeese the Juice, removing"
all seeds. Add to the Julie and rind
enough iiowdered sugar to make Into
small balls.
Ice Cream Candy.?Take two cup
fuls of sugar, two-thirds of trtupful of
cold water, one-half cupful of vinegar,
boll without stirring until It makes
a hard hall Ip water, i'our out to cool
on a buttered platter and when i-ool
pull, adding a few drops of^flavoring.
Tafty.?Tuke two cupfuls of brown
sugur, one-lislf cupful of butter, four
tublesponufuls of molasses, two of wa
ter, two of vinegar. Roil fifteen min
utes.
Hickory Nut Macaroons?Take one
pouDd of powdered sugar and chopped
nuts, the unbeaten whites of Ave eggs, |
one tahlespoonful of flour and two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder. Mix all
together and drop by teas|>oonftiis on
a baking sheet and bake a light brown.
Orange Angel Cake.?Cream two .
cupfuls of sugar and one-halt cupfnl
of butter, add ^>ur egg yolk*, three :
squares of melfl^d chocolate and one
cupful of mashed potatoes. Sift two ,
and one-half cupfuls of pastry flour, i
one-fourth teaspoonful of nntnieg. lire -
teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one
half teaspoonful of salt and one- v
fourth teaspoonful each of cfonamon ,
and cloves: add alternately with two
thirds cupfnl of milk, beat for two
minutes, add one cupful of 'walnuts .
slightly chopped. Then fold In the
egg whites beaten sttif. Rake In lay
ers for twenty minutes.