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CHRONOLOGY OF THE YEAR 1939
Compiled by JOHN D. GRANT i
EUROPEAN WAR "j
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MARCH
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and Moravia. ■
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jg Hitler absorbs Slovakia Hungary an
nexes part of Carpatho-Ukraine.
27 Germany t uts m rt on P tland.
28 Poland refuses German demand for
pathway to Kast Prussia
APRIL
4 Poland joins Britts a in war alliance.
27 Germain pus! o:* :ae !d take Dnnzis. i
French fleet guards Gibraltar. British
fleet sails to Malta.
MAY
7 Nazis plan plebiscite in Danzig.
g.—Pope invites live powers to Vatican par
ley to >ettle Polish-German dispute.
20 Germany tortitlos its eastern frontier
against Poland
JUNE
I—Hitler pledges Germany will support
Jugoslavia's border.
20 German troons move to encircle Poland.
28— Britain appeals to Germany to settle
dispute by negotiations.
JULY
8— Warsaw reports 5.000 Polish families in
East Prussia are forced to move away
from border.
AUGUST
13 Germany and Italv establish oolicv on
Danzig; ‘ Polish attitude called unbear
able.
15—Nazis declare Danzig must return to
Germany before August 27.
18—Germany takes military possession of
Slovakia.
*l—Germany announces nonaggression pact
with Russia.
22 — German troops massed near Polish cor
ridor.
*3—Germany and Russia sign nonaggression j
pact.
3S—Britain and Poland sien war alliance.
Japanese cabinet abandons Rome-Berlin
lineup.
29 Poland asks British help under new mu
tual aid pact.
Germans Invade Poland
31—Germany opens war on Poland.
SEPTEMBER
3 Britain and France declare war on !
Germany. !
British ship Athenia torpedoed off coast 1
of Ireland. 1.400 aboard. 43 lost.
Germany blockaded by British navy. j
5 Germans shell Warsaw; government and
citizens flee. j
President Roosevelt proclaims U. S. i
neutrality.
6 Poles appeal to Britain to rush aid.
7 Nazi torpedoes sink five ships.
8— French planes bomb Siegfried line.
10—German counterattack halts French on !
western front.
Russia rushes reserves to Polish border. I
12— German forces shut a vise on Warsaw. •
13— Big British army lands in France with
out loss.
Polish defense cracks; Nazis move east
ward.
18— Russian troops invade Poland to "pro
tect minorities.”
17— V ,’arsaw decides to fight on after truce
talk fails.
Poland's defenses collapse under Nazi
pressure.
Russian -»rmy drives 50 miles into Po
land.
20—Rcnort Red purge of former officials in
Polish Ukraine.
23 F ri-nch remfise wave after wave of Nazi
shetroons.
25 French defeat Germans in two big air
battles; bombard whole length of Sieg
fried line; bomb Zeppelin works.
27 Warsaw surrenders to Germans after
20-dav siege.
29—Britain defies warning by foes to stop
war.
OCTOBER
I—Britain calls 250,000 more troops.
4 Dal&dier says France will fight until
victorious.
7—Hitler makes peace proposals to Britain
and France; seeks armistice.
9 Hitler sets aside area in Poland for
Germans to be transplanted from other
countries.
19— French premier spurns Hitler’s peace
to ms.
Finnish civilians ordered to leave dan
ger zone near Soviet frontier.
12—Britain refuses peace based on Nazi
conquests.
14— British battleship Royal Oak sunk by
sub. 738 lost.
18— Nazi raid navy base in Scotland: 16
killed.
17- German planes raid Scapa Flow; Iron
Duke, training ship, damaged.
20— British repel another Nazi air raid
over Edinburgh.
23 British report three U-boats sunk.
Germans capture American ship City of
Flint and take it to Soviet port.
24 Four British, one Greek ship sunk by
Germans.
Nazi sea raiders slip through blockade;
prey on shipping.
Belgians demand British ease blockade.
26 American ship City of Flint, turned over
to Germany by Russia, sails from Rus
sia.
28— Germans claim 115 foreign ships sunk
since war began.
31—Soviet demands raise new crisis in Fin
land.
NOVEMBER
•-Norway frees City of Flint and Interns
German prize crew. Finland defies So
viet threat; ready to fight
T—Belgium and Holland offer to mediate
peace between warring nations.
•“toSiSoeSS' dik ' s; clash ** bor '
10— French repulse two German attacks
I& “warfar l £ ore rnerchantm en sunk to 'sea
fl —Germans shoot nine Czech
seize,!. 200 and close academies B?three
“-tetojsarjss mine «»
I& “off U E^and ShiPS SUnk mines
*o—Gennans extend war at sea; 10 vessels
N ° Vember 18: 13 3 deld o?
-H— Germany charges Munich man with beer
agents eXplosion; arrest s two British
nculral t£3S
22—British destroyer sunk, 40 missing
r, “ Si'dam.
French report torp*to boat sank two
23- Eight more vessel, sunk: total for six
days. 25. idaim 30 air vie
France and rs i.a.n
Exiled 11 Polish* government begins func-
S4_ffi . by Mas.
25 lierfin' 1 e'a'; in's emu hers'‘hit four British
warships; London e.e.iirs. r
Six nations p-.-e.est British ban on Gen
tium trade. . ni-it
i 26—Two hundred w :hty-seveni u» a hut
wh armed shin C,erman> b.tou D.u•'
British planes attempting to laid Kiel
Britain tights lor a new Europe. Cham-
Finnish guns kill four Russian soldiers.
Soviet charges.
•>7 I,’iko i demands Finns remou' sOidui.
“ 7 ”from border: Finland offers to negotiate
border issue: Russia tin eat. ns uai .
•»B—Russia denounces nonaggression pact
with Finland: Finland declares Russian
reports of border attacks false.
Germany claims British cruiser sunk b\
submarine; Britain denies. ..
Russian troops invade Finland alter
breaking off diplomatic relations; Finns
stunned by break.
30— Russians claim 10-mile advance into
Finland: bomb Helsingfors.
DECEMBER
I—Finns disable Russian cruiser with 500
aboard. . , .
Russians capture Finnish port.
New cabinet takes ever Finnish govern
.»regime cedes territory to
Regular Finnish government orders
evacuation of all southern towns.
Sweden tightens its defenses.
3 British planes attack German naval
base and score iiits on German war
ships.
Finns shatter Red troops in Arctic
battle.
League of nations summoned to hear
Finnish appeal for aid.
Britain puts blockade against German
exports into effect.
4 German pocket battleship sinks British
steamer Doric Star in south Atlantic.
5 Finnish fivers inflict heavy casualties
on Soviet troop concentration.
6 Finns repulse Russian army of 200,000
on three’ fronts.
7 Russians to blockade Finnish coast:
warn shipping.
British fighting planes beat off German
raids.
8— Finns repel offensive on Karelian
isthmus. , ~ .
10— Finns report Russian attacks repelled
on all fronts.
11— League of Nations requests Russia to
cease hostilities against Finland.
12— Russia rejects league of nations pro
posal to mediate conflict with Finland.
German liter Bremen runs British
blockade to home port.
13— British slvps disable and chase Ger
man raider Graf Spee into South Amer
ican port.
14_Russia expelled from league of nations.
Uruguay gives Graf Spee 72 hours to
make repairs.
16—Finn coast artillery sinks Russian de
strover.
18 — Germans scuttle Graf Spee outside
Montevideo harbor rather than risk
fight with British ships waiting outside.
19— Huge Red forces storm Finns’ moun
tain positions.
Germans claim 34 out of 44 British
planes shot down in battle over Heligo
land.
British claim sinking of German cruiser
and damage to two others.
FOREIGN
RUSSIA FACES WEST—Dic
tator Josef Stalin , having completed
a pact with Germany , conquers
part of Poland and moves into Es
tonia, Latvia, Lithuania—and then
into Finland.
JANUARY
I— Chinese dictator “purges’’ government
ranks of 200 ‘‘peace party’’ leaders.
3 Japan’s cabinet resigns over policies in
China.
Spanish rebels report capture of Artesa.
5 New Japanese premier declares war to
China must go on.
6 Hungarians and Czecho-Slovaks fight
along border.
10—Britain promises to support France
against Italy to clamor for part of
French empire.
15—Spanish rebels take Tarragona in drive
toward Barcelona.
18—Madrid rushes fresh troops to defense
of Barcelona.
22 All citizens of Barcelona called to dig
trenches.
24 Spanish rebels bomb Barcelona.
26—Rebels take Barcelona without a battle.
30—Hitler demands return of colonies.
FEBRUARY
4 Britain increases plane orders in U. S.
to 650.
5 Spanish loya' st army of 200,000 flees to
France to escape trap.
6 Japan refuses to give up mandated Is
lands Germany lost in war.
12—Two hundred thousand move past bier
of Pope Pius in St. Peter’s.
14— Pope Pius buried in tomb beneath St.
Peter’s cathedral.
18—Spanish loyalists offer to surrender.
France occupies African area once
ceded to Italy.
20— Italy* moves to place colony Libya on
war footing.
23 General Franco hands Britain final
terms for peace with Spanish loyalists.
24 Britain and France decide to recognize
Franco government to Spain.
Polish students attack German embassy
to Warsaw.
28— Commons approves Chamberlain’s O. K.
of Franco.
MARCH
1— College of cardinals convenes in Rome
to elect a pope.
2 Franco requests Mussolini to withdraw
Italian troops from Spain.
Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli elected pope on
third ballot; takes name of Pius XII.
5 Leader of Spanish loyalist army seizes
control of Madrid government.
6 Communist leaders flee Madrid zone;
General Miaja, new loyalist chief, asks
“worthy peace.”
7 Gandhi won political victory for democ
racy in India, forced by four-day fast;
accepts invitation for consultation with
viceroy.
Loyalist planes bomb centers of commu
nist revolt in Madrid.
8— Franco’s fleet blockades all Spanish loy
a list coast.
12-o x oo,ooo witness coronation of Pope Pius
21— Lithuania returns Memel to Germany.
i?» Ul ? a aria r l ia and Germany sign trade pact.
I 23—Madrid offers to surrender to General
Franco.
27—Japanese capture Nanchang.
29 France flatly refuses Mussolini’s colonial
demands.
30— Russia rejects British plea to join front
against aggressor nations.
Madrid surrenders, ending Spanish civil
war.
APRIL
2 Britain offers to protect Rumania.
J|P anese kill 8,000 Chinese in three bat
- - ask ' f ° r part of s y ria : French
dispatch warship.
5 Albert Lebrun reelected president of
i *ranee.
ft—ltalian troops invade Albania
3— Mussolini sots up puppet government In
Albania.
9—British and French fleets reported
massed ofT coast of Greece.
13— Massing of troops near Gibraltar causes
alarm; British barricade road to Spain.
18 —Hitler appoints Franz vxn Papon unfits
sailor to Turkey.
Russia faces famine; 80 per cent of
grain crop destroyed.
23 General Franco orders return of prop
erty which Spanish republic took from
former King Alfonso.
24 President of Bolivia assumes dictatorial
powers.
27 —Serbians sign pact with Croats, ending
Jugoslavia’s biggest internal problem.
30—Paraguay elects General Estigarrian,
Chaco w ar hero, president.
MAY
3 —Litvinov dismissed as foreign commissar
of Russia.
6—King and queen of Great Britain sail
for Canada.
14— Moscow short of food; army ordered to
save on motor fuel.
16— Twenty million dollars reported paid to
Hitler to release Baron Louis Rothschild.
17— King and queen of Great Britain wel
comed at Quebec.
18— King and queen start on tour of Canada.
One hundred Jewish youths injunct in
clashes with police in Jerusalem.
22—Dionne quintuplets greet queen with hug
and kiss as British sovereigns visit
Toronto.
24—German troops in Spain leave for home,
j 25—8i1l setting up dictatorship over industry
j introduced in British parliament.
, j 27—Spain rushes plans for reform.
J 29 —New border w ar develops between Japan
and Russia in ManchuKuo.
JUNE
5 Attempt made on life of Marina, duch
ess of Kent; man who fired shotgun
seized bv police.
8— German police round up Polish Jews for
deportation.
10 —Bombs in mail in England injure seven
persons.
12— Plot to assassinate the British ambas
sador to China discovered.
14—Japan presents Britain with new de
mands as troops tighten blockade at
1 Tientsin.
17—Attempt to assassinate King Carol of
1 Rumania frustrated.
Atlantic Clipper flies 30 to Europe in 23
hours and 50 minutes.
22—King and queen given tremendous re
ception on their return to England.
24—Bombs in heart of London Injure 20.
26 Soviets repulse Jap air attack on Mon
gol border; shoot down 25 planes.
27 Japs report shooting down 98 Soviet
planes in battle over Outer Mongolia.
1 Moscow fights bread riots and strikes as
food shortage grows.
• 29—German war council hastens military
preparations.
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JULY
10 —Julian Besteiro, last chief of Spanish
loyalist government, sentenced to 30
years in prison.
• 13 —France jails two newspaper executives,
charged with receiving pay from Ger
many.
19— Danzig political police purge city of
1 Socialists
24—Chamberlain promises Britain will stay
out of Japan’s way in China.
26—Four bombings in England blamed on
Irish Republican army.
30—All Spaniards ordered to work 15 days
per year for state.
AUGUST
3—Britain offers to mediate Japanese-Chi
nese war.
6 Spain executes 53 persons for complicity
in slaying of civil guard officer.
9 Sudden German food shortage rouses
public.
SEPTEMBER
26 French cabinet decree ends Communist
party in France.
27 Bulgaria seeks trade pact with Russia.
28— Constantine Argesanu appointed premier
of Rumania.
OCTOBER
2 Delegates of 21 republics at an inter-
American neutrality conference fixed a
safety zone around two Americas.
3 Japanese admit loss of 18,000 men to
fighting Russians.
s—Chinese halt Japanese drive in Hunan
province; report 10,300 slain.
10— Soviet returns Vilna to Lithuania.
11— Britain and Russia sign trade agree
ment.
27 Pope Pius in encyclical assails dictators.
28— Thousands arrested as Czechs and Nazis
battle in Prague.
NOVEMBER
2—Slovak mob wrecks shops and news
papers in Bratislava, Hungary.
British threaten to abolish self-rule to
India.
20— Ex-kaiser narrowly escapes death in
storm at Doom.
DECEMBER
i 3—Japan faces scarcity of food this winter.
Peru opens great new' port facilities to
Callao.
i 11—Italy quits league of nations.
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! JANUARY
11—Prof. Herman Olipbant, treasury dc
- partment counsel, in Washington.
13— Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New
York Yankees.
26—Former Sen. Joseph I. France ol Mary
land, in Baltimore.
29 William B. Yeats, Irish poet and play
wright, in France.
! FEBRUARY
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9—Pope Pius XI.
i 13—Rt. Rev. J. M. Francis, Episcopalian
bishop of Indianapolis,
i 15—Charles R. Crane, former diplomat.
16—Dr. Clarence True Wilson, prohibition
leader.
5 MARCH
2—Howard Carter, who found King Tut’s
, tomb, in London.
5 Former U. S. Attorney General John G.
. Sargent.
6 Frank W. Stearns, close adviser to Pres
. ident Coolidge.
29—Gerardo Machado, former dictator of
. Cuba.
APRIL
; 2—George F. Harding, Republican national
committeeman for Illinois.
6 —Premier Joseph Lyons of Australia.
, 9—James Hamilton Lewis, U. S. senator
from Illinois.
. 11—S. S. Van Dine, mystery-story writer,
real name Willard H. Wright.
1 MAY
26—Dr. Charles Mayo, famous surgeon.
JUNE
6— George Peabody Gardner, financier, in
i Boston.
19—Miss Grace Abbott, noted welfare work
s er and University of Chicago professor.
26—Ford Maddox Ford, British author.
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JULY
7 Claud*, a. Swanson, secretary of the
navy.
8— Havelock Ellis, scientist and philoso
pher.
11—Rep. Sam D. Mcßeynolds of Tennessee.
18—J. Louis Comiskey, oumer of Chicago
White Sox baseball team.
28— Dr. William J. Mayo, co-founder with
his brother of the Mayo clinic.
31—Former Federal Judge F. A. Geiger of
Milwaukee.
AUGUST
14—T. E. Powers, famed cartoonist.
SEPTEMBER
4—Charles Donnelly, president of Northern
Pacific railway.
18—Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate.
23 Sigmund Freud, originator of psycho
analysis.
24 Floyd Gibbons, war correspondent.
Carl- Laemmle, pioneer movie producer.
OCTOBER
2 George Cardinal Mundelein, archbishop
of Chicago.
Sen. M. M. Logan of Kentucky.
3 Fay Templeton, actress.
6 Count Von Bernstoiȣ, German envoy to
U. S. in 1917.
13— Ford Sterling, movie comedian.
23—Zane Grey, noted writer of western
stories.
29 Alice Brady, stage and screen star.
NOVEMBER
2 Opie Read, famous author.
8— Dr. Livingston Farrand, president emer
itus of Cornell university.
16—Pierce Butler, U. £>. Supreme court
justice.
25 James Simpson, Chicago business leader.
27—Dr. J. A. Naismith, inventor of basket
ball.
DECEMBER
3 Alfred Granger, prominent architect.
Princess Louise, duchess of Argyle, old
est living child of Queen Victoria.
4 Marshal Wu Pei-fu, poet-soldier of Re
publican China.
J. Butler Wright, American ambassa
dor to Cuba.
9 Col. John S. Hammond, sportsman and
soldier.
11— Douglas Fairbanks Sr., stage and screen
star.
Charles R. Walgreen, chain drug store
head.
18— Heywood Broun, columnist.
DOMESTIC
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U. S. GUARDS NEUTRALITY—
Special congressional session insti
tutes “ cash-and-carry ” neutrality as
Americans rush home from Europe ,
away from war zone.
JANUARY
2 Former Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan
takes oath as U. S. attorney general.
Harry Hopkins sworn in as secretary of
commerce.
3 Seventy-sixth congress convenes.
5 President sends to congress $10,000,000,-
000 budget for 1940 fiscal year.
Felix Frankfurter nominated for U. S.
Supreme court.
7 Tom Mooney, in prison 22 years, is par
doned.
10—Comedian Jack Benny indicted in smug
gling case.
Three Musica brothers plead guilty in
drug company swindle.
12— President, in message, asks 552 millions
more for defense.
14— Expenses of government in a dozen
states being slashed.
16— President asks extension of social secu
rity benefits.
17— Senate confirms Frank Murphy as attor
ney general and Felix Frankfurter as
associate justice of Supreme court.
19— President asks legislation to end tax
free public salaries and to levy on all
securities.
27—Senate upholds 150 million slash on
WPA appropriation.
31—George Burns, comedian, fined SB,OOO
in gem-smuggling case.
FEBRUARY
1— Senators demand Roosevelt lift veil of
secrecy on foreign alliances.
2 Bill providing decreased funds for relief
sent to President.
Senate rejects nomination of Floyd H.
Roberts to be federal judge in Virginia.
7—President makes new demand for 150
millions more for PWA after signing
appropriation bill with that amount cut
off.
9—House passes bill making state and mu
nicipal employees subject to income
tax.
13— Justice Brandeis retires from the U. S.
Supreme court.
14— Homer Martin’s faction of U. A. W.
wins court victory over C. I. O.
15— House approves $376,000,000 defense bill.
22 Senate committee nips scheme for un
limited plane buying.
23 House rejects Guam fortification by
decisive vote.
House gets bill for limited governmental
reorganization.
Movie academy awards go to Spencer
Tracy and Bette Davis.
Federal court upholds price fixing milk
law.
25—James J. Hines, Tammany chief, con
victed of violating lottery laws.
27 U. S. Supreme court rules sit-down
strikes illegal.
28— Ninety indictments returned in Kansas
City crime cleanup.
MARCH
2 Ex-Judge Martin T. Manton indicted by
federal grand jury in New York as bribe
taker.
6 Martin faction of auto union bars Com
munists, Nazis, and Fascists from mem
bership or office.
Senate increases army airplane authori
zation to 6,000.
7 Senate passes $358,000,000 army exten
sion bill.
8— House passes bill giving President re
stricted authority to reorganize depart
ments.
Harold D. Smith of Michigan named
federal budget director.
9 Bill before New York senate to bar
Reds from public office.
14—President again demands 150 millions
more for WPA.
16— Lieut-Gov. Lauren D. Dickinson sworn
in as governor of Michigan to succeed
the late Frank D. Fitzgerald.
18— U. S. puts penalty tariff on German im
ports.
20— U. S. government refuses to recognize
Hitler’s seizure of Czecho-Slovakia.
W. O. Douglas named associate justice
of the U. S. Supreme court.
23—James J. Hines, Tammany leader, sen
tenced to serve four to eight years to
prison.
27 U. S. Supreme court holds federal and
state governments may tax salaries of
each other’s employees.
28— House cuts 250 million parity fund from
agricultural appropriation bill and
passes it.
APRIL .
I—U. S. recognizes Franco government in
Spain.
3 C., I. O. union ordered to pay Apex
Hosiery company $711,930 damages for
sit-down strike.
4 Jack Bennyi radio comedian, fined
SIO,OOO for smuggling.
William O. Douglas confirmed for Su
preme BVWt>
B— U. S. denounce* ftalUn invasion of Al
bania. _ ,
Boss Pendergast of Kansas City indicted
as tax evader.
10— Senate rejects amendment to give WPA
50 millions more, then passes original
hi ll "' , . „
15— President addresses peace plea to Euro
pean dictators; asks 10-year peace guar
antee. ~, . ,
U. S. fleet ordered from Atlantic to
Pacific.
16— James M. Slattery appointed senator
from Illinois to succeed J. H. Lewis.
18—war department assigns Charles A.
Lindbergh to study U. S. aviation facili
ties.
20—Wisconsin legislature passes bill outlaw
ing sit-down strikes.
25—President makes first transfer under re
organization act; creates three super
agencies.
27—President asks 1,762 million mere for
relief.
MAY
I—U.1 —U. S. Supreme court denies appeal of
miners convicted of Illinois bomb out
rages.
11— Coal conferees agree on new contract
with operators.
Senate passed record-breaking $1,218,-
666,572 farm bill.
12— President names Admiral Leahy gover
nor of Puerto Rico.
15— Kentucky coal mines open under protec
tion of troops. »
16 — House votes each congressman another
clerk at annual cost of $658,500 without
a roll call.
17— Senate kills New Deal Florida canal bill.
18— Senate passes $773,000,000 naval appro
priation bill.
Jerome Frank elected chairman of SEC.
19— President nominates O. John Rogge to
succeed McMahon as assistant attorney
general.
20— Yankee Clipper flies from Long Island
to Europe, opening trans-Atlantic air
mail service.
22 Boss Pendergast of Kansas City given
15 months in federal prison for income
tax evasion.
23 House approves farm appropriation bill
as passed by senate.
25 Fritz Kuhn, Nazi bund leader, indicted
in New York on theft charges.
Draft Dodger Bergdoll returns to the
United States from Germany and is
made military prisoner.
26 Presbyterian assembly approves joint
committee accord looking to merger
with Protestant Episcopal church.
27 Yankee Clipper returns from Europe.
JUNE
1— Senate passes bill lifting long term bond
ed national debt limit above $30,000,-
000,000.
2 Contract for 24 warships costing $350,-
000,000 awarded by navy department.
3 Former Judge Manton'found guilty of
bribery.
s—House rejects plan to make Hyde Park
home a memorial to President Roose
velt.
7 King George and Queen Elizabeth of
Great Britain enter United States at
Niagara Falls; officially welcomed by
Secretary of State Hull.
8— King and queen of Great Britain wel
comed to Washington by President
Roosevelt; attend state dinner at White
House.
10— House votes big slash in payroll taxes;
benefits are increased.
11— King and queen end U. S. visit.
12— Senate votes $225,000 to department of
commerce to employ experts.
U. S. monetary gold stock passes 16
billion mark.
13— House votes drastic limitations q u future
operations of TVA.
15—King and queen sail for home.
19— House passes tax bill of 1,844 millions;
retains nuisance taxes, but revises lev
ies on corporations.
20— Senate committee boosts pork barrel bill
from $83,848,100, as passed by the house,
to $407,855,600.
21— Widespread WPA graft charged in Lou
isiana; Governor Leche resigns.
F. Ryan Duffy nominated for federal
bench in Milwaukee.
25 Fraud bared at Louisiana university.
26 — Governor Leche steps down and Lieu
tenant Governor Long is sworn in in
Louisiana.
$60(1.000 fraud laid to President Smith
of the Louisiana university.
28— Senate adds 73 million to relief bill and
passes it.
29 House hands administration defeat of
neutrality bill; endorses embargo on
arms shipments.
30— Senate lets Roosevelt’s money rule die
by preventing legislation to extend.
House passes neutrality bill barring
arms shipments.
JULY
5 Senate adopts conference report on re
viving President’s money powers.
6W. P. Buckner given two years in prison
on Philippine railway bond charges.
10— President gives Paul V. McNutt of Indi
ana job as head of the newly created
Federal Security administration.
13— Senate votes to fix payroll tax at 1 per
cent until 1943.
14— President signs bill giving war depart
ment power to hide secret new equip
ment from spies.
20—House passes bill to curb bureaucrats
in politics.
24 House committee shelves President’s
$800,000,000 housing program.
Nation-wide lottery swindle using name
of Will Rogers exposed.
25 One killed, seven shot, in battle over
nonunion labor at Boonville, Ind.
26 United States scraps trade treaty with
Japan.
Francis B. Sayre nominated for high
commissioner to the Philippines.
31— Senate lops $1,615,000,000 from spending
bill and passes it.
AUGUST
1— Army’s flying fortress flies coast to
coast in 9*4 hours.
House kills President’s lending-spending
bill.
House slashes $161,000,000 from final
spending bill.
3 House again refuses to consider housing
bill and economy bloc cuts near 3 billion
mark.
Sen. Robert A. Taft announces his can
didacy for Republican nomination for
President.
4 Senate passes third deficiency bill of
189 millions.
Agreement reached on social security
amendment cutting pay roll tax $900,-
000,000 in next three years.
5 Congress adjourns after appropriating
more than $13,000,000,000.
Moody brothers break all airplane en
durance records by remaining in air 14
days at Springfield, 111.
7 Former Governor Leche of Louisiana
and two others indicted in hot oil quiz.
14— President advances Thanksgiving day
one week, naming November 23.
15— WPA raises pay of 2,000,000 workers
$5,000,000 a month. New York fair asks
bondholders for $4,820,000 to meet debts.
16— Mayor of Waterbury, Conn., among 20
guilty in $1,000,000 graft.
18—U. S. and Canada sign new pact for
air service.
20—Louisiana oil czar, Dr. J. A. Shaw, wit
ness against ex-Gov. R. W. Leche, kills
self.
Army prepares for reorganization with
small, hard-hitting divisions of 11,385
men.
24 President pleads for peace; cables Hit
ler, Poles, and king of Italy.
29—German liner Bremen held up at New
York for search,
SEPTEMBER
2 Liner Bremen allowed to depart from
New York.
5 Stocks soar 1 to 27 points in boiling war
market.
6 Roosevelt establishes naval patrol along
Atlantic coast.
11— President lifts quota on sugar to curb
prices.
12— Steel plants and railroads call back their
workers.
13— Congress called for September 21.
14— Borah opposes repeal of arms embargo
as likely to put America into war.
Louisiana’s big political bosses found
guilty of mail fraud.
18—Soviet purchasing agent tells of pay
ments to persons connected with Demo
cratic national committee.
20— At a conference of Republican’and Dem
ocratic leaders Roosevelt urges repeal
of neutrality act.
21— Congress convenes in special session;
Roosevelt urges early repeal of arms
embargo provision of neutrality act.
25 American Legion convenes in annual
sassion in Chicago,
26 Dies, chairman of house committee in
vestigating un American activities, tells
of 2,850 communists to be purged fiom
government jobs.
27 Sudden dissolution of war resources
board causes surprise.
28— Administration’s neutrality repealer bill
sent to the senate.
23—Powerful naval fleet ordered to Hawaii.
OCTOBER
2—Debate on repeal of neutrality act begins
in senate.
4 Army places an order tor 329 high
speed, light tanks.
5 Grover C. Bergdoll, draft dodger, sen
tenced to 7' 2 years in prison.
7—Bishop Ablewhite sent to prison for fund
shortage.
10— War department orders 65,000 semi-auto
matic rifles.
Former Gov. A. B. Chandler sworn in
as senator from Kentucky, succeeding
the late M. M. Logan.
12—William Green elected president of A.
F. of L. for sixteenth time.
17— Brazil orders $5,876,000 rail equipment
from America.
Elmer F. Andrews resigned as wage and
hour administrator, succeeded by Col.
Philip Fleming.
18— President closes American ports to sub
marines of warring nations.
19— New house bill bans financial aid to
warring nations.
20— Roosevelt sets three-mile limit for sub
marines.
23 Indiana endurance flyers descend after
535 hours; new record.
Earl Browder, head of Communists in
U. S., indicted on bogus passport.
24 Senate adopts cash and carry amend
ments to neutrality bill.
25 — Government sues 236 railroads under
Sherman antitrust act.
Dies committee reveals 539 government
officials and employees linked to Reds.
27 Senate votes, 63 to 30, to repeal arms
embargo provision of neutrality act. Bill
goes to house.
28— Carl Bevins. Missouri flyer, kidnaped
and slain in his own plane by Ernest
Pletch, arrested.
29 California flyers land after 726 hours in
air—new record.
30— U. S. assesses Germany 50 millions for
Black Tom and Kingsland blasts during
World war.
31— United Mine Workers raise $3,000,000 for
political fight in 1940.
President asks 276 million for added
defense.
NOVEMBER
2 House votes against embargo on arms;
bill goes to conference.
3 Congress passes neutrality repeal bill
and adjourns.
4 President signs repeal bill and bars war
zones to American shipping.
6 Supreme court rules state cannot tax
HOLC mortgages.
7 Old age pension plans defeated in Ohio
and California.
AAA will make loans to cotton growers
on new crop.
8— Navy sends marines to Hawaii to
strengthen Pacific defense.
Fifteen U. S. oil tankers transferred to
Panamanian registry.
9 Roosevelt demands Lewis, head of C. I.
0., resume peace negotiations with A.
F. of L.
12— Dr. Smith, former president of L. S. U.,
given 8 to 24 years for university scan
dals.
14—Louis Levy, New York lawyer, disbarred
in Manton scandal.
16— A1 Capone, gang leader, released from
federal prison; enters Baltimore hospi
tal.
21— Proportion of civil seiwice employees
reduced under President Roosevelt.
22 U. S. court upholds wage-hour law in
Montgomery Ward case.
Supreme court voids cities’ ban on hand
bills.
27—Morgenth.au declares next congress must
| lift legal debt limit.
I 28—Chrysler company and C. I. O. agree on
basis of peace after auto plants are tied
up 53 days.
| 29—Jury finds German-Arnerican bund lead
er Fritz Kuhn guilty on forgery and
theft charges.
30—Roosevelt sends sharp note to Russia
asking that bombing of cities stop.
DECEMBER
2 Curtiss plants speed building of war
planes.
3 Winnie Ruth Judd, insane slayer, again
escapes from prison in Arizona.
5 Fritz Kuan, bund leader, sentenced to
prison for two and a half years.
7 Upward trend seen in several lines of
business.
8 — Secretary Hull protests British blockade.
9 Roosevelt orders a special naval dis
trict in Caribbean.
11— RFC grants $10,000,000 loan to Finland.
U. S. Supreme court bars evidence
gained by wire tapping.
13— Twelve liaval captains promoted to be
rear admirals.
14— ICC approves trainload rail rate re
duction.
18—Gainer announces candidacy for Demo
cratic presidential nomination.
SPORTS
IRON MAN STRIKES OUT—
Lou Gehrig , “iron man of base•
ball ” retires from New York Yan
kees with paralysis infection after
hanging up all-time record for
games played.
JANUARY
2 Southern California football team de
feats Duke in Rose Bowl.
3 Budge defeats Vines in pro tennis debut.
17— Edward G. Barrow elected president of
the New York Yankees.
25—Joe Louis, heavyweight champion,
stopped John Henr’’ Lewis in first round
in New York.
FEBRUARY
5 Ken Bartholomew wins national skating
title.
9—National Professional Football league
re-elects Joseph Carr president for 10
years.
23 Tony Galento scores technical knock
out over Abe Feldman.
MARCH
20—Charles Bowser named head football
coach at Pitt.
APRIL
2—Ralph Guldahl wins Masters golf title at
Atlanta, Ga.
16— Boston wins Stanley cup, defeating To
ronto in hockey playoffs.
17— Joe Louis, heavyweight champion,
knocks out Jack Roper in first round.
18— Joey Archibald wins featherweight title
from Leo Rodak in 15 rounds.
MAY
6 Johnstown won Kentucky derby
20—Joseph F. Carr, National Football league
president, dies.
23—Davy Day, welterweight, stopped Pedro
Montanez in the eighth round.
25—Henry Armstrong, welterweight, defeats
Ernie British champion, in 15
30—Shavv wins Indianapolis auto race, av
kinedlß 115 035 miles per our - Roberts
JUNE
r ‘Y e home r uns in one in
,o record; rout Reds.
12-Centenmal birthday of baseball cele
orig t inate t d COOPerStOWn ‘ N ’ Y * where
21— Lou Gehrig, Mayo clinic nhwdn
nounce after check-up, has inf
r a lysis; playing career ended
2o—Joe Louis stops Tony Galento 1,
tounh round.
Yankees break record with 13
m two games on same day
JULY
B—Alice Marble wins British ten tv«
pionship at Wimbledon ‘U
11—American league wins all-star h , .
game, 3 to 1. D ‘ ' M
30—Dick Metz wins St. Paul open golf
pionship with record scoie of 270
AUGUST
22 Lou Ambers regains lightwei- - «...
m la-round bout with Armstro 1
30—New York Giants, professions .
champions, defeated the Ail-s
0, before 81,000 people in Chi * ~J
SEPTEMBER
s—Roscoe Turner wins Thompson nw
air race third time. i *opny
15— Tony Galento steps Nova In U r
16— Bobby Riggs, Alice Marble
net titles. u *.
17— Yankees cinch American k a _
nant. pe|i
20—Joe Louis knocks out Bob P , ~
rounds. ‘ •" *«
25-Billy Conn, light heavyweight ~ rl ,
defended his title against My, 1 ?",
in 15 rounds. •- aa
28— Cincinnati Reds win National nio
nant. ” c ■Jen
30— Frankie Frisch appointed 1 .
the Pittsburgh Pirates. ‘
OCTOBER
8— Yankees win world’s baseball pho.
four straight games. “in
17—Bucky Walters, Cincinnati rv .
most valuable player in Nation t
19—Chicago White Sox defeat C bs n
baseball series. 11 lljr
24 Joe DiMaggio wins American Vam..
most valuable player award ~ a^u *
29 Harry Thomas, heavyweight jioH— „
veals fixed fights. r " ■ r# *
NOVEMBER
1— A1 Davis stops Tony Canzonerl in
round.” in,r ®
17— Billy Conn, light heavvy.vkht Pham
pion, successfully defends - Me aVainw
Lesnevitch in 15 rounds. nn
DECEMBER
9 Eddie Anderson awarded olaoi!. „„
football coach of year. 85
10— Green Bay Packers -.chip \
Giants to win profession ,11
11— Nile Kinnick, lowa foot! ‘
No. 1 athlete of all sports in’ BS
13—New York Yankees voted best team
any sport. m m
DISASTERS ~
SQUALLS SINKS— U. S. navy's
diving bell gets first real test rescu
| ing 33 survivors from sunken sub
marine. Twenty-six others die,
JANUARY
19— Motor tanker splits in two at sea
ing a storm: crew rescued.
j 21—The airliner Cavalier wrecked at sea od
1 Cape May, N. J. three lost, 10 saved.
23 Bomber crashes on test hop at Lot
Angeles; pilot killed.
25 Thirty thousand killed, 50,000 injured by
earthquake in Chile; towns wiped out in
disaster.
FEBRUARY
2 Japanese submarine sunk in collision.
B—Traffic accident kills Race Pilot Bill
Cummings.
11— Army mystery plane crashes after
coast-to-coast flight at 340-mile rate.
20— Eight navy planes crash in dark of
Florida, two fliers killed.
MARCH
2 Two hundred killed In explosion of mu
nitions dump in Japan; 800 houses de
stroyed.
18— Ten killed in airplane crash near Ta
coma, W.ash.
25—Airliner crashes in Oklahoma killing
eight.
APRIL
4—Four navy fliers killed when planes col
lide in maneuvers.
13— Twenty-eight killed, 50 injured in train
wreck in Mexico.
16—Tornadoes in Arkansas, Texas and Ixiu
isiana cause 53 deaths and injuries to
300.
18—French liner Paris, gutted by fire, '•inks
at its dock at Le Havre; sabotage sus
pected.
MAY
23 Fifty-nine trapped in sunken submarine
Squalus.
24 Thirty-three rescued alive from Scjuaiu*.
26 dead. , .
31— Gas Mast wrecks Akron. Ohio, school,
53 children hurt.
JUNE
I—Missing British submarine found mired
in mud: 99 lost. ~
4—Twenty-two persons killed in Mexican
theater fire. h
16 — Seventy-one lives lost in wreck ot r iencn
submarine. . ...
18—Ten dead, 63 injured in Minnesota tor
nado.
JULY
4 Seventy injured in Waukegan, 111.. when
wooden stand collapses at nreworiu
show. .
5 Fifty-three drowned, 47 missing, m noon
in mountains of eastern Kentucky.
12— Mystery explosion and fire damage navy
aircraft carrier Ranger. t
14— Twenty-eight perish in mine mast a*
Providence, Ky.
17— Five killed as train hits auto In Chicago
suburb. ....
23 Avalanche on Mount Baker Was 1 , * lU *
two; four missing.
AUGUST
11—Nine U. S. army fliers and two navy
fliers killed as two bombers crash
13— Fourteen killed as Miami to Rio « Ja*
neiro plane crashes in Rio harbor ' t
ty-three killed, 60 injured, when - ream
liner is wrecked in Nevada.
20—Forest fires rage from central Cautorma
to British Columbia.
24 Storm kills three guardsmen in
games at Plattsburg.
SEPTEMBER
25 Storm in California kills 100; damage.
$1,000,000. . , ...
28—Munitions plant blast in Britain kill*
OCTOBER
ll_Wreck of school bus at War, W. V* ,
kills six; 71 injured.
NOVEMBER
14_Five hundred killed and Injured when
fire engulfs Venezuelan oil port.
DECEMBER
3 Typhoon ravages five islands in the f U
ippines. T _ .
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