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CHRONOLOGY *?.YEAR 1948 ttago b?eb^l ?f?m. including -fcnrK.1"^ t?-??CVun*h%V. Jo-Pi V- CoB hiMAUU January 12 ? Dominican DC- 3 air- \ liner crash between , Santiago and Barce lona. kills 31 persona. Including entire San nollv. partly destroyed by Are. sinks while being towed to New York 30? Air Marshall Arthur Coningham. 52. and 31 others killed In plane crash. February 22 ? Two truckloads of explosives ara blown up. devastating a three-block business section in Jerusalem. 27 ? Nineteen persons aboard an Indian National Airways plane en route from New Deini to London killed la crash. March ? 12 ? Thirty persons killed when Northwest Airlines DC-4 crashes on Mt. Sanford. Alaska, en route from Shanghai to St Paul 18? Ten A. F. flyers killed when a B-29 crashes at MacDill field, near Tam pa. Fla. 19? At least 42 persons killed and mors than 300 injured in a series of tor nadoes which struck nine states from Texas to central New York. April 13? More than 3,000 families are evacu ated when Ohio river overflows. 15 ? Thirty persons (19 Americans) killed when PAW plane crashes In Erie. 20 ? Cooper mine explosion near Agual Calient e. Peru, kills 41 miners. May ? 3 ? Tornadoes kill at least 23 persons tn midwestern states. 30? Flooder. Columbia river claims 23 lives, cr.uses great damage in Oregon. Washington. Idaho. Devastates van port City. Ore. July 1 ? Series of earthquakes destroy about 70 per cent of the Japanese industrial city of Fukuk (population 85.000) and surrounding towns of Honshu. 2 ? Transport plane used by the Mexican American foot and mouth diseass commission crashes on Mt Orizaba. 16 killed. Thirty -cuui IrMinl wbM Swedlsk DC-6 airliner (32 aboard) collides % with R.A F York transport (7 aboard) near London. 27? Thirteen coal miners killed in explo . sion tn Princeton. Ind August 11? Thirteen men killed when B-29 crashes after take-off near Roswell. N. M. A navy wea+her reconnaissance plane with 12 aboard crashes and burns same day on Rota Island. SO miles north of Guam. 10 ? Seventeen U. S. air force men killed In B-29 crash at Rapid City. S. D. September 6 ? Labor Day holiday deaths from ac cidents in the U. S. over three-day period to'.al 407. 14 ? Forty U. S. soldiers killed and 60 in iured in troop train wreck in Korea, floods in Japan leave 541 dead and 600 missing. October 1? Hurricar? causes 11 deaths and 10 million dollars damage in Cuba, then does great damage in Miami. f ? A B-29 bomber, struck by lightning. I explodes over Waycross. Ga. Nine ! killed. 30-31 ? Twenty persons died and hundreds were made ill. apparently as a re- ! suit of smog (blend of smoke and fog) which blanketed Donora. Pa November j 10 ? Search abandoned for Air Forces B-29, j missing since Nov. 6 en route from Okinawa to Guam. 20? Thanksgiving Day accidents take toll of 114 lives, compared with 128 in 1947. January 1? Bing Crosby named top money ? making star for 8th consecu tive year. 11? "Best Years of Our Lives" wins dally film poll as the best 1947 picture. 24 ? California observes 100th anniversary of discoverv of gold by Jas. M. Mar* shall In Coloma. S6 ? Gen. Omar Bradley formally nomi nated by President Truman to suc ceed Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower as army chief of staff. ' 17? Bolivia is put In stage of siege be cause of alleged revolutionary plot February 2? Eric Johnson re-elected president at Association of Motion Picture Di rectors. 9 ? President urges congress to continue for two more years the 500 mlllion-a year programs of federal aid to states for highways. 12? Army reports that World War ? cost U. S. $353,235,000,000 ($2.460 a second). 23? Pope grants ex-King Michael of Ro mania dispensation to man? Danish Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma. March 9? House grants $200,000 to un-American activities committee by a 337-37 vote. 10 ? B-29 drops a 42,000-pound non-explo slve bomb, largest ever made .in test at Muroc. Cal. April ft? President Truman names Paul Gray Hoffman, president of Studebaker corporation, to supervise ERP. SO? Walter P. Reuther. president of CIO United Auto Workers, badly wounded w~ unidentified assailant. m mission of the Churches of In ternational Affairs Is established In New York City. May S? Columbia breaks off diplomatic rsla tions with Russia. 5? Gov Dewey of New York stumps Oregon. IS? President Truman invokes Taft-Hart ley law to avert long-dlatanse tele* m ? Phrytoer ends Its IT -day strike. Grants 13c hourly rslss. June S-fr? Sens tor Taft of Ohio tours North Carolina la election campaign, June ft- George Evan Roberts 90. director of U S mint. 1898 ! 907. 11 10 1?j14 10? Lewis Schwellenbach. 53. sccittaiy of labor sine* 1945 July ft? Richard Gerard Husch. 72 author of Sweet Adeline's lyrics ft? Film actress Carole Landts. 39. sul clde In her Hollywood home. lft? Gen. John J. Pershing. 87. command er-in-chief of the AEF in World War I and only man holding rank of fed eral of the Armies. 2ft ? David Wark Griffith. 72. pioneer Him producer, and producer of "Birth of a Nation." 24? Mrs Eleanor Medill Patterson. 63. editor-publisher of Washington Times Herald. August 8 ? May DeSousa. 66. former light opera ?tar. 13 ? Geo. r. Shafer. 59. Rep. governor of North Dakota. 16 -George Herman (Babe) Ruth. 53. the 'Sultan of Swat." who aet or tied 76 baseball records 17 ? Char lea Evans Hughes. 86. former chief justice of U. S. September j I ? Charles A. Beard. 73. historian, au thor of more than 30 books on Amer? lean history. II? Mohammed AH Jlnnah. 71. founder of Moslem Pakistan. IS Jacques Gordon. 49. vtolinlst and con ductor. former child prodigy. 30 Mrs. Edith Kermit Cftrow Roosevelt, 87. widow of President Theodure Roosevelt October v 3 ? Thomas Augustine Daly. 77. poet, hu morist. lecturer and Journalist 10- -Mary Eaton. 46. former New York musical comedy star 31-' Mary Nolan. 42. film actress and ZJegfeM Follies beauty who won fame as Imogene (Bubbles) Wilson. November 0- -Edgar Kennedy. 58. film comedian, one of the original "Keystone Kuu*. of cancer. In San Fernando. Calif 2* Lewis R. (Hack) Wilson. 48. all-time National league home run king. (56 for Chicago in 1930). in Baltimore. December 3 ? Carl Lorenz Hagenbeck. 40. head of leading German circus family, in Hamburg 1 ? Bowl football gamei ? Rose Bowl: Mich 49. USC 0: Suttar Bowl: Tex 27, Ala 7; Cotton Bowl: SMU 13. Penn. State 13; Orange Bowl: Ga. Tech. 20. Kans. 13. Shrine All Star. East 40. West 9. ??Joe Louis signs with 20th Century ? ? 0 ivrtiag to dcfm? his heavy weight title In New York bout June 23 against Joe Walcott. 12? Detroit Lions sold for about $200,000 to a Detroit syndicate. February 7 ? Gilbert Dodds runs fastest Indoor mile ever timed in Boston (4 08 1) 24 ? Featherweight title is retained by Willie Pep. who knocks out Humbert Sierra of Cuba in Miami. 27 ? Jersey Joe Walcott signs for a re turn Joe Louis bout June 23. March 7 ? Willie Hoppe. 80. of Chicago retains world's three-cushion billiard litio de fcatlng EzequieJ Navarra in a chal lenge series. 23- Guy Lombardo sets U. S goirtcup speedboat record of 113 23a MPH at Miami Beach. April 2-3 -Joe Verdeur of Philadelphia seta new world swimming record of two m>ns. 30 5 sees in the 220-yd breaststroke at AAU indoor championships in New Haven. Conn. I 17- Harrison DiHard sets worid secord of I 13.6 sees, in 120-yard high hurdles and I Charles Fonville a world shotput mark of 58 ft. V?-lnch in Kansas Relays, in Lawrence. 10 Major league baseball season opens. May 15-- Preakness Stakes (72nd annual. $134, 870) Is won by Calumet Farms "Cita tion" in Baltimore. 25? Ben Hcgan. 35. of Hershey, Pa., de feats Mike Turnesa of White Plains. N. Y.. 7 and 6. In the finals of the Professional Golfers ass'n. champion ship In St. Louis. June 10 ? Tony Zale, 34. regains world middle weight title by knocking out Rocky Craziar.o. 26. 12 Ben Hogari wins national open golf championships In Los Angeles, with 278 strokes, tourney record. 25 -Joe Louis. 34. retains world's heavy weight title by knocking out Jersey Joe Walcott in 11th round. Hy 3 ? Princeton's 150-pound crew wins the Thames Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta on Henley -on Thames, England. 11 Lloyd Mangrum wins the $10,000 Co lumbus open golf championship. 25- King George VI formally opens Olympic games In London's Wembley stadium. August 9? Home pro Lloyd Mancrum rins $22,500 fa prizes In winning the All American tourney Aug 6. a world championship event Aug 7 and Tam O'Shanter professional tournament Aug 9. In Chicago. 14? Summer games of the 14th modern Olympiad end tn London after a 16 day program. September 4? Paul Mantz wins Bendlx trophy third time In air race from Long Beach, Calif., to Cleveland, averaging 447.80 MPH 13? Holland R. Free of Hollywood seta world's motorcycle speea record of 150.885 MPH on Bonneville salt flats, Utah. October t? ' Three-year old "Citation" wins the 8108,800 "Gold Cup" race at Belmont Park. N Y. 11? A 4-3 victory In Boston gives the Cleveland Indians the 1948 world series championship over the Boston Brsves 11? National hockey season opens. November 18? Rocky Grazlano. former middleweight boxing champion, suspended by rfa* tional Boxing association after tie withdrew from scheduled fight with Fred Apostoll. 17? Undefeated Army and consistently de? * feeted Hevv feught le St-Sl tie In mm nual football classie. December Mil MM Top Ten Spot News Stories of 1948 (As selected by nation's weekly editors in Publishers' Auxiliary poll.) President Try man and Demo cratic p orty ico re upset election victory. Russians blockade Berlin, caus ing inauguration of airlift, height ening the ' cold war." Count Bernadotte assassinated during U N. mission in Pales'ine. Southern Democrats rebel to form slates rights or Dixiec rat" j party. V/ar in China nears climax with , Ccmmunist troops marching to ap parent victory and U. S. officials refusing to grant additional aid to Chiang Kai-shek. High cost of living plagues Americans and their business with 'ourth round o f wage boosts seen m offing. O k'.ana Kasenkina leaps from Russian consulate window in des perate effort to escape impending return to native land, creating in te national episode. Mohandas Gandhi assassinated by Hindu extremist, terminating life of service to India and cause of freedom. United Nations proceedings bring into open many interna tional problems and emphasize conflict between East and West. Eightieth congress sets legisla tive background for party posi tions during election campaign. August 1? President Truman appoints three man displaced persons commission to administrate the DP act. under which 200,000 persons are to be ad mitted to the u. S. 7? Congress adjourns Its two-week ex tra session. 19 U S demands ouster of Jacob Loma kin. Soviet consul general in New York. September 2? W*?st coast ports paralyzed when CIO Intl longshoremen's union go on strike. 6? President Truman launches his re election campaign. 18 Sen Alben W Barkley, President Truman's running mate, begins two week 13-speech tour of eight eastern states. October ^--Population of the U S as of July 1 was estimated at 146.114.000 by U. 8. census bureau 4? Railroads grant !0-cent hourly wage increase to railway conductors and trainmen 11 ? Former Interior secretary. Harold L. Ickes. and Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt endorse President Truman for re election. 16- President Truman orders reserves brought up to full strength November 2? President Harry S. Truman. 64. Democrat, astounded the political world by defeating Gov Thomas |B. Dewey. 42. of New York, for re-eleq* tion. The Democrats also swept back Into Cont-ol of both houses of con gress and won 20 out of 32 governor* ships 4 ? Rep J Parnell rhumas (R.. N J.I invoked his constitutional rights and refused to testify before a federal grand Jury on charges that he had padded his congressional office pay roll and collected kickbacks 7? President Truman arrives in Key West. Fla . for a two-week post-elee tion vacation. 18 ? First major blizzard of season sweeps through north central states, killing 13 persons. 29 ? Striking Longshoremen on both coasts return to work as shipping strike ends. December 3? Microfilm copies of secret state, war and vr>vy department documents found in hollow pumpkin on Maryland farm are introduced as evidence In house un-American activities commit tee's spy investigation 10 Whittaker Chambers, confessed for mer Communist courier and key flf ure in Communist espionage probs, resigned his position as a senior edi tor of Time magazine. 14 ? GOP Sen. Arthur Vandenberg Is mentioned as possible successor to ailing George C Marshall as seers tary of state. January ?? Dr Robert Ernest Hume. International ly known authority 79. publicity director of the Demo cratic national committee. 1929-43. 15? Josephus Daniels. 85. World War J navy secretary 30? Mohandas K Gandhi. 78. spiritual leader of the Hindus: slain by Hindu nationalist in New Delhi. 30 ? Orville Wright. 76. co-Inventor of heavier-than-air plane. February ??Burnt Mantle, drama critic. N. *. Daily News editor of early collection of best plays. 33--Dr John Robert Gregg, 80. Inventor of Gregg system of shorthand. 34? Will Irwin. 74. newspaperman, novel ist and playwright 39? Robert McCowan Harrington Ward. 57. London Times editor since 1941. April ?? Mrf John D. Rockefeller. Jr., 71. 7? Rep Orville Zimmerman, 97 ( Dem . Mo ), member of house since 1933. 15 Manuel Acuna Roxas. 86. first nreal March May Alison employes, winning nine-cent hourly raise. to A r force rc-veals that rocket-powered Bell X-l has been flown (aster than speed of so jntf. July 5- Ceo 1 Hall, of New York, elected Grand Hulor of BPOE In Philadel phia 13- John L. Lewis and It steel companies s.i;n a contract ending strike of 40.000 j UMW miners. IE? President Tiuman orders all men be tV-wn 13 and 25 to register August 30 to September 18 (or military serv ice 30 -Combined navy, air force shelling, bombing and torpedoing sinks battle ship Nevada in Pacific. 31? Idlewild airport ? 4.900 acres?- dedi cated in New York. August 6 First around the world flight by B-29's i is Completed when two of the bomb ers land at Davis-Monthan base, near Tticson. Ariz. 8- Census bureau estimates U. S. popu Ip'inn at 143.411 000. as of July 1. 11-17. Pi 9 per cent higher than the 1946 _ casus 17? Yanport. Ore., devastated by flood May 30. is sold for salvage for $178. 591 Original cost. 26 million. September 11? Miss America of 1948 chosen In At lantic City: Beatrioe Vetia Shopp. 18. Hopkins. Minn. 13? Rep Margaret Chase <R.. Me.) elect ed to U. S. senate by a record ma jority. October ft? UMW announce* beginning of a pro gram to guarantee all 400.000 mem beis and families free medical and hospital service. 12? Capt. Colin P Kelly. Jr., first U. 8. hero of World War II, U burled In his home town, Madison. Fla. 14? U. S Judge Luther M. Swygert of Indianapolis holds the A.rJL Int. Typo. Union In contempt November k 4? Profs. Auguste Piccard and Max Cosyns abandoned plana to make two and-one-half-mlle deep-sea dives after their special bathyscaphe was damaged off the Cape Verde la lands. e? White House was closed indefinitely to social engagements and alghtaeers until extensive repairs to the man sion could be completed. 11? Trial of 12 top U. S. Communist lead ers postponed for fourth time because of illness of William Z. Foster. Com munist party chairman. 22? U. S. air force ends efforts to make rain by seeding clouds with dry ice after nine months of experiments prove inefficacy of procedure. December 7 ? Secretary of State George Marshall undergoes appendectomy. 13? Astronomers at Mt. Wilson observa tory announced discovery of a new minor planet traveling a route within 140 minion miles of earth. 22 ? Princess Elizabeth's son christened. January 6 ? 80th congress con venes. ??Begin hearings on the Marshall plan. Principal witness Is State Secretary George Marshall. 19? Bernard Baruoh presents senate for* elgn relations committee with his startling "peace mobilisation" pro gram. 23 ? Gen Dwlght D. Elsenhower. Chlel of staff, withdraws from Republican presidential race. February NaUonal Airlines* 149 pilots strike before midnight over dismissal of pilot two years ago. 4? Defense secretary Forrestal consoli dates navy arid air force transport systems into military air transport service. 19? Sen. Glen H. Taylor (D.. Ida.) quits party to become Henry Wallace's running mate. 94? MaJ. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers goes on trial on charges of suborning perjury In senste investigation. March 1? House un-American activities com mittee accuses Dr. Edward U. Con don. director of the national bureau of standards, of being "one erf the weakest links in our atomic secu rity." 19 ? FBI declares It has cleared 1.088.944 federal employes in loyalty pro gram. 24 ? Geihart Elsier sentenced to one to three years imprisonment In Wash ington for passport fraud. April 9? Both houses of congress override tax cut veto, pass omnibus foreign aid bill and acllourn for week. 10? House speaker Joseph W. Martin. Jr. intervenes in the 27-day strike of 400.000 soft-coal miners, and soon sfterwards an Important agreement Is announced. 90? John L. Lewis Is fined 990.000 and UMW 91.400.000 for contempt of fed eral court order. 90- -Gen Hoyt S Vandenberg succeeds Gen Carl A Spaatx aa air force chief May %? Gen Dwlfht Elsenhower retires from the army. ??President Truman celebrates tola 04 th birthday. 10? Three railroad brotherhoods call off threatened nation- wide strike after President Truman orders army to seize roads, 10? House passes Mundt-Ntxon Commu nist-control bill. 319-51. 21? N Y Gov. Dewey wins Oregon presi dential primary over Harold E. Stao sen )une S ? Senate votes to admit SOU.OOO Euro pean displaced persons to the U. ft. during next two years. 4? House appropriates V.9M.710JM lot foreign aid. lO? Senate passes two-year peacetime draft bill 21? Twenty -fourth Republican conveatio? meets in Philadelphia. Gov. Dewejr of New York nominated for the presi dency on fourth day, with Gov. Bo ft Warren, of California, as his running mste. M- -President Truman signs second peacetime selective service MIL July 5? Gen. Elsenhower not run for the 8 ? Soft coal prices . _ 15? President Harry 8. Trum Sen Alben W. Berkley, ' tucky. ere nominated U and vice-president by the national convention tn Phil 22 The Wallace third party, m Philadelphia, officially nan the Profresslve Party, ai nates Henry Agard Wallace Sn H Taylor of Idaho as n mr uresld? I mm 1 \ 2/ Mm ?* mKOk^jeS^* * January S ? 5**? mlHtnn-doll^r nlo program (or Frhnce and Italy gets undei way. 0-^U. S. atd mission in Athens hands Greek army and na tional guard an additional 15 million to raise army to 132.000. IS? Nationwide strike of 00.000 bank em Ployees in Italy ends Salaries raised 5 per cent. IS? Mohandas K. Gandhi ends 121 -hour fast in New Delhi. 23? Union o( Western nations endorsed by U. S state department. 30? Gandhi shot in New Delhi by Hindu nationalist February 1 ? Russia protests that low-flying B-17's ?re making Inspections of Soviet ships In the Yellow .sea and Sea of Japan t S? New Italian trade and friendship treaty signed in Rome. T? France and Spain agree to re-open their frontier, officially closed for two years t8 ? Russia gains complete control ovei Czechoslovakia through Czech Com munist party in bloodless coup, in one week. March 4? Rep. Gerald W Landls <R., Ind.) states that strikes cost P20 million in wages in 1948 and 281 million in 1947 6 ? State Secretary Marshall and Defense Secretary Forrestal urge authoriza tlon of additional 275 million dollar military assistance to Greece and Turkey. 19? U. S. abandons its support of parti tlon of the Holy Land K -President Peron of Argentina say6 that Argentina will not ban Commu nist party. Si? Russia starts battle of blockades against other allies In Berlin. April ? I? Secretary Marshall tells ninth inter national conference of American states in Bogota that ERP must take precedence over aid to Latin America. 1 3- -Britain refers Holy Land dispute to U. N. 9 ? Outbreak of rioting Interrupts Bogota conference. 12 Bronze statue of Franklin D. Roose velt Is unveiled In London. 28? Finnish parliament approves Russo Finnlsh defense treaty. May ? 7? First Congress of Europe is held Id The Hague. 13 -Arab League proclaims In Damascus that a "state of war" exists between its members and the "Jewish rebels of Palestine." IV -Israel. Arst J ? wish st*tt In the Holy Land slncc 70 A. D.. 'a proclaimed by the Jewish Nations Council meeting In Tel Aviv. 28- Gen. Jan Christian 8muts and his United Party are defeated in a South African election. J*ne 7? Dr. Eduard Benes. 84, elected Czech president for life in June. 1948. re* signs. 11? Cease-fire order takes effect on Pal estine's Aghting fronts under four week truce. IS? Senate appropriations committee re stores 1.011 billion of the 1.258 billion cut by the house from ERP. t? ? Soviet occupation forces ban all ship menta from western Germany to Ber Un. July ??Britain. rrance and U. S. demand in nearly Identical notes that Russia lift its blockade of Berlin. ??Holy Land truce, which began June II. expires, and all three principal fronts again flame into action. 13? British lend-lease account with the U S is closed out. 27 ? MaJ. Gen. Hershey announces that the new draft will take 25-year, olds first and youngest men last. ??--Yugoslav Communists re-elect Mar shal Tito as head of the politiburo. 30? Envoys of Western Big Three begin series of official talks in Moscow. 31? Another U. S. tribunal In Nuernberg sentences 11 of 12 Krupp munitions directors to prison. August * ' 3 ? Secret plan lor control of Danube wa terways is presented to the Danube conference in Belgrade. 7 ? Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina. 52. Russian chemistry teacher, plunges from third-floor window, of Russia's New York consulate to escape Reds. 11? Anglo-U. S. airlift to Berlin achieves the 4,500-ton-a-day goal. 15? Democratic republic of Korea la for mally proclaimed. September S? Chile's Communist party to outlawed under act of congress. 4 ? Queen Wllhelmlpa ends 90-year reign over Netherlands, In favor of daugh ter Juliana. 5? Pope Plus XII broadcasts his first speech to German Catholics since the war. 14? Gen. Lucius D. Clay predlcta in Ber lin that a winter-long siege Is In pros IT ? Iwedlsh Count Folke Bernadotte. U. N. mediator for Palestine, assas sinated. St? Third annual session of 98-natlon U.N feneral assembly opens In Paris. October I? Panama's new president, Domingo Diaz Arosemena. Is Inaugurated. I ? Norway. Cuba and Egypt are elected by the U. N. general assembly In Parts to replace Belgium. Columbia and Syria on the security council for two-year teems. 8? Russia's disarmament plan, offered at the ParM U. N. meeting. Is chal lenged by U. 8. November ) i? Chinese Communists completed thelt rout of the Nationsllsts In Manchu ria and subdued the last resistance In Mukden. II? A million men locked In battle on a 200-mile front In the Suchow area In the Nationalist ? Communist war In China. . ? 12? Hldeki Toio and six co-defendants in the principal Japanese war crimes trial are sentenced to desth by hang ing 13? Herbert Evatt, president of the U. N Jeneral assembly, and Trygve Lie. r. N. secretary-general, appeal di rectly to the Big Four to settle the Berlin dispute by direct negotiation. 14? A son is bora to Print- its Elizabeth of Edliifiu* 4114 Pr,nC< phUlP' Duk* ?f Si? Mme "cMang Kai-shek announces she will visit Um U. 8. December ?' 1? Mm*. Chiang Kal-ahek arrlvaa In U. I allegedly to pres. tor three btlllon dollar military and economic loan to Chla* during next three year*. U? United NatUna aaaembly ended Ita It week Parta aeaalon by endorsing the another jraar. lyor ol it weati a. N. $?SSIOl+.& THE VICTORS j fc ^ .11 NEW DRAFT, CONQUERING OREGON FLOOD OLYMPICS] GANDHI'S DEATH!