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Show Fob. 1 8 Frlodrloh AuffUHt III, former for-mer kln of Saxony. Feb. 23 .Mnio. Johanna Gadukl, WaKnorlan Hopruno, In IJorlln. I'd). 24 lir. Willy Meyer, noted sur-tjoon, sur-tjoon, In Ne York. Feb. 2S Ijr. A. B. Chaco. chancellor of Hrowii unlverHlly. March C John l'lilllp Sousa, noted band director. March 7 Arlstlda Briand, French statesman. March 14 George Eastman, founder and chairman of board of KaHtman Camera company, In Rochester, N. Y. March 18 Chauncey Olcott, American Ameri-can singer, In Monte Carlo. March 10 Former Congressman Richard Bartholdt, In St. Louis. March 22 Charles Livingston Bull, naturalist and painter. March 28 Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the treasury, In Washington. Wash-ington. April 1 Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane, noted not-ed surgeon, l Philadelphia. Representative A. H, Vestal, Indiana, Indi-ana, in Washington. April 2 Rose Coghlan, actress, at Harrison, N. Y. April 11 Joseph Letter, In Chicago. April 14 William J. Burns, detective, detec-tive, at Sarasota, Fla. April 18 Senator William J. Harris, Har-ris, at Washington. April 22 Gen. J. W. Kelfer, former speaker of the house, In Springfield, Ohio. April 24 Bishop Frank M. Bristol of Methodist church, in Montclalr. N. J. May 2 Lee Hammond, pioneer In aviation. In Jacksonville, Fla. May 4 Rear Admiral C. M. Chester, U. S. N. retired. May 6 Paul Doumer, president of France. John W. Scott, Chicago merchant. May 7 Maj. Gen. Enoch R. Crowder, In Washington. Albert Thomas, head of international labor bureau, In Paris. May 8 D. M. Ryerson of Chicago, steel magnate. May 13 Andreas Dippel, former grand opera singer and manager, la Hollywood. May -16 Capt. Robert Dollar, dean of American shipping Industry, in San Rafael, Calif. May 17 Dr. B. J. Clgrand of Ba-tavia, Ba-tavia, 111., founder and president of National Flag Day association. May 20 Admiral W. S. Benson, U. S. N., retired. May 23 Lord Inchcape, British shipping ship-ping magnate. Lady Augusta Gregory, Irish dramatist. drama-tist. May 28 Edward F. Swift, Chicago packer. May 30 Rear Admiral John Hubbard. Hub-bard. June 1 Former Congressman William Wil-liam D. Boies of Iowa. Dec. 1.1 Move by McFadden of Pennsylvania to Impeach President Hoover voted down by the house. Dec. 15 N. W. MacChesney of Chicago Chi-cago nominated for minister to Canada. Dec. 17 .Senate passed Philippines independence bill. Doc, l) President Hoover told congress con-gress ho was going to name commission commis-sion on war debts and would seek cooperation co-operation of President-Elect Roosevelt. Dec. 21 House passed bill legalizing 3.2 per cent boor. Railway wage reduction continued for nine months by agreement. Dec. 23 Congress recessed for Christmas. Christ-mas. AERONAUTICS Jan. 23 Hawks flew from Mexico to Canada and return, 2,600 miles, in 13 hours 44 minutes. Jan. 25 Eddie Stimson killed in crash nt Chicago. March 4 Harmon trophy awarded to Gen. Italo Balbo of Italy as international inter-national aviation champion for 1931. May 12 Lou T. Kcichcrs took off from Harbor Grace, N. F.( on solo flight to Dublin and Paris. May 13 Heichers forced down near Ireland and rescued by steamship Roosevelt. May 20 Amelia Earhart (Mrs. G. P. Putnam) began solo flight from Harbor Har-bor Grace to Paris. May 21 Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam Put-nam landed near Londonderry, Ireland, Ire-land, the first woman ever to fly across the Atlantic alone. June 1 Army balloon No. 2, piloted by Lieutenants Paul and Bishop, won national bal loon race. June 3 S. F. Hausner started flight from New York to Poland. June 1 1 Hausner picked up at sea after flo'ating eight days on his plane. July 5 James Mattern and Bennett Griffin started round-the-world flight from Harbor Grace, N. F. July 6 Mattern and Griffin crossed ocean in record time, landed at Berlin Ber-lin and departed for Moscow. July 7 Mattern and Griffin made forced landing 60 miles from Minsk. July 22 Capt. Wolfgang von Gro-nau Gro-nau of Germany and three companions flew from Germany to Iceland on way to Chicago. Aug. 2 Von Gronau arrived at Chicago. Chi-cago. Aug. 18 Prof. Auguste Plccard rose in balloon to record altitude of 65,774 feet over Switzerland and Italy. Capt. J, A. Mollison began flight from Ireland across Atlantic in Moth plane. Aug. 19 Mollison landed in New Brunswick, completing first westward solo flight across the Atlantic. Aug, 22 Mrs. Louise Thaden and Mrs. Frances Marsalis set new women's wom-en's endurance flight record of 8 days. 4 hours. Nov. 8 Berlin tied up by transportation transpor-tation wo r k e rs' s t r Ik o. Nov. G Gorman elections resulted in reichstag mnjority for no pnrty. Premier Mussolini of Italy granted am nest y to pnl 1 1 leal exi les. Juan B. Sauasa elected president of Nicaragua. Nov. 14 Hundreds slain In battles botwoon Honduran rebels and government govern-ment troops. Nov. 17 Chnncellor Von Pa pen of Germany and his cabinet resigned. Nov. 20 Adolf Hitlor was offered chancellorship of Germany under conditions con-ditions which he rejected. Nov. 20 I onal Buckley mndo governor gov-ernor general of Irish Free State. Dec. 2 (.Jen. Kurt von Schleicher appointed ap-pointed chancellor of Germany to form new government. Doc. 14 Premier Ilerrlot of France rosigned when parliament voted not to pay war debt Installment due United States. Doc. 15 Edmund SchuKess electod president of Switzerland. Dec. 16 Hugo plot against Argentina Argen-tina government foiled and prominent men arrested. Doc. IS Joseph Paul-Boncour formed new French cabinet. Dec. 24 Arturo Alessandri inaugurated inaugu-rated president of Chile. DOMESTIC Jan. 4 Congress reassembled and received re-ceived message from President Hoover asking quick action on relief measures. meas-ures. Jan. 8 Ambassador Dawes announced an-nounced his coining retirement from diplomacy. Jan. 9 Dwight F. Davis resigned as governor general of the Philippines and Theodore Roosevelt was named to succeed him. Democrats selected Chicago for their national convention. Jan. 11 Senate passed Reconstruction Reconstruc-tion Finance corporation bill. Jan. 12 Associate J us t Ice O. W. Holmes of United States Supreme court resigned. Mrs. Hat tie Caraway elected U, S. senator from Arkansas. Jan. 15 House passed Reconstruction Reconstruc-tion Finance corporation bill. Jan. 18 Joseph C. Grew selected as ambassador to Japan. Jan. 19 Gen. C. G. Dawes selected as president of Reconstruction Finance corporation; Secretary Stimson replaced re-placed him as chairman of disarma-ment disarma-ment conference delegation. Jan. 21 Wets lost. 15 to 55, in test vote in senate. Jan. 23 Franklin D. Roosevelt formally declared himself a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination. nomi-nation. Jan. 27 Department of Agriculture supply bill passed by house; salary increases prohibited. Jan. 28 Senate confirmed Dawes. Jones and Couch as directors of Reconstruction Re-construction Finance corporation. Jan. 31 Railway presidents and unions un-ions signed agreement for 10 per cent wage reduction for one year. Feb. 3 President Hoover announced that Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon would retire from the cabinet cab-inet and become ambassador to Great Britain. Feb. 4 Ogden L. Mills appointed secretary of the treasury. Feb. 6 Conference to check hoarding hoard-ing of money opened in Washington. Alfred E. Smith declared his willingness will-ingness to be again the Democratic Presidential candidate. Winnie Ruth Judd. Arizona trunk murderer, convicted and sentenced to death. mont due the United Stntoa, and Premier Pre-mier Ilerrlot rosigned. Belgium decided to default its dobt payment to A merica. 1 oc. 1 4 Germany returned to tho disarmament conference in Geneva, Dec. 15 Great Britain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Czechoslovakia paid their war debt Installments due the United States. Franco. Belgium, Poland, Hungary and Estonia did not pay. FOREIGN Jan. 3 Mahatma Oancihl ordered civil civ-il disobedience campaign In India renewed re-newed and was arrested. Jan. 12 French cabinet resigned. Jan. 14 Laval formed new French cabinet with Bliand left out. Jan. 21 Japanese diet dissolved. Rebellion broke out In Catalonia. Spain. Jan. 23 Communistic uprising in Salvador. Jan. 24 British convicts In Dartmoor Dart-moor penitentiary, England, mutinied and burned part of the prison. Martial law declared In Salvador; government troops defeated rebels. Jan. 28 Chiang Kai-shek became premier of China. Jan. 30 Finland repealed Its prohibition pro-hibition law. Feb. 11 Premier Mussolini paid his first vVsIt to Pope Pius XI. Feb. 14 Rlcardo Jlmlnez elected president of Costa Rica. Feb. 10 Pierre Laval's French government gov-ernment resigned. De Valera's Fianna Vail party won Irish eleciion. Feb. 20 Augustln B. Justo Inaugurated Inaugu-rated president of Argentina. Tardieu formed government for France. , , . Feb. 21 Soviet Russia banished Trotzky and 36 others for all time. Feb. 24 Spain's first divorce law passed. Feb. 25 British parliament passed 10 per cent tariff bill. March 9 Eamon de Valera elected president of Irish Free State. Henry Pu-yi Installed as head of new Manchurian state of Manchultuo. March 12 Ivar Krueger, head of Swedish match trust, committed suicide sui-cide In Paris. March 13 President Von Hlndenburg lead In German election but failed to get a majority vote; Hitler badly beaten. April 1 Ten thousand Inhabitants of Villa Santa Stefano, Italy, tied for their lives as village dropped Into ancient an-cient Roman caves. April 6 Mob forced resignation of Newfoundland government. April 10 Von Hindenburg re-elected , president of Germany. April 13 Germany ordered Hitler to disband his 400,000 shock troops. April 19 British budget introduced, continuing heavy taxation for another year. April 24 Hitler's National Soclal-! Soclal-! lsts won in elections in Prussia and Austria. May 1 Two British scientists announced an-nounced they had split the hydrogen atom and obtained a helium atom. May 6 Paul Doumer, president of France, assassinated by a Russian, i Hay 8 Euseblo Ayala elected president presi-dent of Paraguay. Ricardo Jiminez installed as president presi-dent of Costa Rica. Communist revolt In Peruvian navy quelled. French elections resulted in wiping out Premier Tardieu's majority by radical rad-ical Socialists and Socialists. May 10. Albert Lebrun elected president presi-dent of France. May 15 Premier Inukal of Japan Chronotagv of tne Year Compiled by 1932 E.W. Pickard INTERNATIONAL Jan. 2 Japanese troops occupied Chinchow, Manchuria. Jan. 9 Chancellor Bruenlng announced an-nounced Germany could no longer pay reparations. Jan. 20 Lausanne conference on reparations postponed. Jan. 25 Council of League of Nations Na-tions met and China demanded firm action against Japan. Russia and Poland signed a non-aggression non-aggression treaty. Jan. 28 Japanese marines seized Chinese quarter of Shanghai and bloody battle began. Jan. 29 China in League of Na- , tions council Invoked strong articles of covenant against Japan. Jan. 30 Japanese seized part of foreign for-eign section of Shanghai, despite protests pro-tests of other nations. United States ordered Asiatic fleet and regiment of Infantry to Shanghai. Feb. 1 Japanese warships shelled the Nanking forts. United States, Great Britain. France and Italy made concerted protest against Japaris course in China, and offered plan for peace. Feb. 2 International disarmament conference opened In Geneva. Feb. 4 Japanese rejected peace plans of the powers, battle in Shanghai Shang-hai renewed. Full division of U. S. army ordered to Shanghai. Harbin, Manchuria, occupied by Japanese. Feb. 6 U. S. 31st infantry arrived In Shanghai. Feb. 12 Japanese resumed fierce attack at-tack on Woosung forts and Chapei. China demanded convocation of League of Nations assembly to consider con-sider the Japanese affair. Feb. 14 Japan landed 12,000 troops at Shanghai. Feb. 16 League of Nations council in a sharp note appealed to Japan to cease hostilities against China. Secretary Secre-tary Stimson sent another protest to Tokyo. Feb. 17 Japan served ultimatum on China to withdraw her troops from Shanghai. Feb. 19 China rejected Japan's ultimatum. ul-timatum. Feb. 22 Great Britain, France and Italy signed Mediterranean peace agreement. March 1 Japan accepted League of Nations plan for peace parley in Shanghai, both Japanese and Chinese armies to withdraw. March 3 Both Japanese and Chinese armies were ordered to cease fighting i at Shanghai; Chinese were driven back about 13 miles. League of Nations assembly met In Oeneva to take up Sino-Japanese trouble. TTouho passed the veterans' bonus payment hill. Klvo hundred million dollar homo Ion n ban k hill passu d by house. June 10 lloovt-r and Curtis re-nom-1 nalod by Rttpu hi lea n convention. K v-eret v-eret ( Sand u rs elected chairman of national na-tional committee. Juno 17 Sena to rojocted the bonus bill. June 20 House passed 100 million dollar economy bill, including furlough plan for federal employees. June 22 Governor Roosevelt called on Mayor Walker of New York city to answer charges against him. June 23 Senate passed Wagner two billion dollar relief bill. June 2-1 Senate voted farm board wheat and cotton to Hed Cross. June 27 Democratic national convention con-vention opened in Chicago. Juno 28 Federal economy bill passed by the senate. June 29 Democratic convention nd opted plank advocating repeal of Eighteenth amendment and, ponding repeal, legalization of beer and wine. July 1 Democrats nominated Franklin Frank-lin D. Roosevelt for President on fourth ballot. July 2 Democrats nominated John N. Garner for Vice President. Roosevelt Roose-velt (lew to Chicago and was formally notified of nomination. July 7 Emergency relief bill passed by house. Prohibition party nominated W. D. Upshaw for President and F. S. Regan for Vice President. July 9 Senate passed Garner-Wagner relief bill. July 11 President Hoover vetoed the relief bill. July 12 Senate passed new relief bill. July 13 Relief bill passed by the house. July 1 5 President Hoover cut salaries sal-aries of himself and his cabinet. July 16 Congress passed home loan bank bill with Inflation amendment, and adjourned. July 21 President Hoover signed emergency relief measure. Interstate commerce commission approved ap-proved merger of all eastern railroads, except those of New England, Into four systems. July 22 President signed home loan bank bill. July 23 Federal grain commission ordered Chicago Board of Trade closed as contract market for 60 days for violating grain futures act. President Hoover called conference on shorter work day week. July 26 President Hoover appointed Atlee Pomerene of Ohio member of Reconstruction Finance corporation board and he was made chairman. July 28 "Bonus army" in Washington Washing-ton routed by regulars and its camps burned after fight with police in which one veteran was killed and scores of policemen and veterans were inju red. Charles A. Walker of Utica, N. Y.. appointed to R. F. C. board by Presi-! Presi-! dent Hoover and made president of the i corporation. I Governor Roosevelt received reply ! of Mayor Walker of New York to the j Seabury charges, denying all of them. Aug. 2 Bonus army, gathered at i Johnstown, Pa., ordered disbanded by j W. W. Waters, its commander. Aug. 3 Secretary of Commerce Rob-! Rob-! ert P. Lamont resigned and Roy D. ! Chapin of Detroit was appointed to ' succeed him. Aug. 9 U. S. Attorney G. E. Q. Johnson of Chicago made federal district dis-trict judge. I Aug. 10 Army exchanges ordered to stop sales to civilians. Aug. 11 President Hoover delivered his speech of acceptance and declared himself for change from national prohibition pro-hibition to state liquor control with federal safeguards. Aug. 15 Farmers of Iowa and other oth-er central west states started "strike" for higher prices for produce. Aug. 16 Second son born to Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. Aug. 18 Vice President Curtis formally for-mally notified of his re nomination. Senator J. J. Davis of Pennsylvania and six others indicted in connection with fraternity lotteries. Aug. 24 John Bain, whose twelve Chicago ban ks failed, found guilty of conspiracy to defraud depositors. ' Aug. 26 Business leaders, summoned by President Hoover, adopted plan for economic recovery. Aug. 31 John W. Poole resigned as comptroller of the currency. Sept. 1 Mayor James J. Walker of New York resigned. Hanford McNider resigned as minister min-ister to Canada. Sept. 5 Farm board announced it June 2 Hugh Chalmers, pioneer automobile au-tomobile manufacturer, at Beacon, N. Y. June 7 Dr. W. W. Keen of Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, famous surgeon. June 8 Viscount Brentford (William (Wil-liam Joynson-Hicks), English statesman. states-man. June 13 William C. Redfleld. secretary secre-tary of commerce under President Wilson. June 19 Robert Scott Lovett, head of Union Pacific, in New York. June 27 Gen. F. E. Bamford, hero of Battle of Cantigny, in Charleston, W. Va. Vice Admiral DeWitt Coffman, U. S. N., retired. June 29 Dr. G. F. Kunz, gem. expert, ex-pert, in New York. July 2 James N. Gamble, Cincinnati Cincin-nati manufacturer. Dr. G. K. Burgess, director of bureau bu-reau of standards, in Washington. Former King Manuel of Portugal. July 3 A. H. Scribner, publisher, in New York. July 6 Kenneth Grahame, Scottish author. Dr. Joseph Leidy of Philadelphia, neurologist. July 9 King C. Gillette, safety razor ra-zor inventor, in Los Angeles. July 10 C. C. Goodrich, tire manufacturer, manu-facturer, in York, Maine. July 13 Fergus Hume, British author. au-thor. July 14 Alice Barber Stephens, American artist. July 16 Field Marshal Viscount Plumer in London. July 17 Countess Beatty, former Ethel Field of Chicago, In London. July 18 Jean Jules Jusserand, former for-mer French ambassador to Washington. Washing-ton. Thomas Arkle Clark, former dean oC men in University of Illinois. Aug. 24 Amelia Earhart Putnam set new women's records by 19-hour nonstop non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Newark. New-ark. Aug. 25 Clyde Lee and John Bock-hon Bock-hon started flight from Harbor Grace to Oslo, Norway, and were lost. Aug. 29 J. G. Haizlip set new coast-to-coast record of 10 hours, 19 minutes. Sept. 3 Major Doolittle set new land plane speed record of 292.287 miles an hour at National Air races in Cleveland. Cleve-land. Sept. 11 Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Hutchinson, Hutch-inson, two daughters and crew of four crashed off coast of Greenland while flying to Europe. Sept. 13 W. Ulbricht and Edna Newcomer, pilots, and Dr. L. M. Pis-cull Pis-cull hopped off from New York on nonstop non-stop flight to Rome and were lost at sea. Nov. 14 Roscoe Turner set new record of 12 hours, 33 minutes, for flight from New York to Burbank, Calif. Nov. 18 Amy Johnson completed London to Capetown flight in record time of 4 days. 6 hours, 55 minutes. Nc-v. 19 Memorial to Wilbur and Orville Wright unveiled at Kitty Hawk. N. C. DISASTERS Jan. 2 Fifty killed in train wreck near Moscow. Jan 26 British submarine lost near Portland with crew of 161. Feb. 2 Santiago, Cuba, badly damaged dam-aged by earthquakes; six killed. Feb. 4 Seventeen killed by pxplo-sion pxplo-sion of motorship at Marcus Honk, l'a. Feb. 26 Thirteen persons killed by avalanches near Seattle. Feb. 27 Mine explosion at Pocahontas, Poca-hontas, Va., killed 38 men. March 12 Island of Banda Nelra in Dutch East Indies, nearly destroyed by Feb. 15 Judge Benjamin N. Car-dozo Car-dozo of New York appointed associate associ-ate justice of the U. S. Supreme court. House passed Glass-Steagel federal reserve credit bill. Feb. 19 Senate passed reserve credit cred-it bill. Feb. 22 President Hoover opened the Washington bicentennial with address ad-dress before joint session of congress. Feb. 27 House passed $132,000,000 federal aid highway bill. Conviction of Al Capone upheld by federal court of appeals. March 1 Senate passed the Norris anti-injunction bill. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's baby, was kidnaped from Hopewell, N. J. March 3 House voted 40 million bushels of farm board wheat for jobless job-less and for drought stricken farmers. March 5 House passed treasury and post office appropriation bill carrying $1,059,778,163. March 8 Roosevelt won New Hampshire Hamp-shire primaries from Smith. Anti-injunction bill passed by the assassinated Dy young militarise terrorists. ter-rorists. May 19 Irish Free State Dail Eire- i ann passed bill abolishing oath of allegiance al-legiance to the king. May 22 Admiral Saito made premier of Japan. Premier Venizelos of Greece resigned. re-signed. May 26 Alexander Papanastasiou formed, new government for Greece. May 30 Heinrich Bruening, chancellor chancel-lor of Germany, and his cabinet resigned. re-signed. May 31 Franz von Papen made chancellor of Germany. Premier Jorga of Rumania resigned. June 4 Edouard Herriot became premier of France and completed for- ' mation of a Socialist cabinet. , Chilean Socialists and military junta ( overthrew government of President, Montero; Carlos Davila made president presi-dent pro tern. June 5 Dr. Harmodio Arias elected president of Panama. June 10 Three rich Cubans tried to assassinate President Machado with bomb. June 12 Davila resigned as head of new Chilean government. ; June 16 Radical Socialist government govern-ment of Chile ousted by military junta. Davila reinstated. June 24 Siam's army and navy revolted re-volted and forced King Prajadhipok : to accept a constitutional government. June 28 Irish Free State senate passed bill abolishing oath to the king. July 4 British government imposed retaliatory tariff on imports from Ireland. Ire-land. July ? Civilian communist rebels in Peru captured Trujillo. July 10 Brazilian rehels captured Sao Paufo. July 11 Peruvian revolt at Trujillo suppressed. July 13 Brazilian revolt spread to two more states. July 20 German government decreed dictatorship for Prussia and martial law in Berlin. Premier Mussolini revamped Italian cabinet, ousting Foreign Minister Dino Grandi and others. July 21 British Imperial economic conference opened in Ottawa, Canada. July 31 Hitler's Nazis made big gains In German elections but failed to get control of reichstag. Aug. 6 New Welland ship canal formally opened by Canada. Aug. 10 Spanish royalists started revolutionary movement but were suppressed. sup-pressed. Aug. 13 President Von Hindenburg refused to make Hitler chancellor of Germany. Aug. 15 Euseblo Ayala inaugurated president of Paraguay. Aug. 16 Ten thousand Cuban physicians physi-cians struck against cheap service in clinics. Aug. 18 Spain ordered exile of 92 nobles for monarchist re vol t. Aug. 20 British imperial economic conference closed with signing of 12 trade pacts with the dominions. Ecuador congress disqualified President-Elect Bonifaz. Aug. 26 Military revolt in Ecuador by supporters of Bonifaz. Aug. 27 British cotton weavers struck. Aug. 29 Ecuador revolt suppressed after battle. Sept. 2 President Rublo of Mexico resigned. Sept. 4 Gen. A. L. Rodriguez elected president of Mexico. Sept. 8 Spanish cortes confiscated estates of grandees to be distributed among the people, and granted autonomy auton-omy to Catalonia. Sept. 12 German reichstag voted no confidence in the government and was dissolved by Chancellor Von Papen. Sept. 13 Chilean revolt compelled President Davila to resign. Sept. 20 Mahatma Gandhi began last "unto death" as protest against Indian electoral system. Sept. 21 Coum Karolyi resigned as premier of Hungary. Sept. 26 Hindus and untouchables devised electoral compromise which was accepted by British government, and Gandhi ended his fast. Sept. 27 Dr. Clemente Bello, president presi-dent of the Cuban senate, assassinated. assassi-nated. Oct. 2 Judge Abrai.am Oyanadel becamu provisional president of Chile. General Blanche being forced to resign by threatened revolt. Oct. 3 James McNeill resigned as governor general of the Irish Free State at' the Instance of President De Valera. Brazilian -revolt ended, the rebels surrendering. Oct. 1 9 J u Mu Maniu formed new cabinet for Rumania. Oct. 24 Italy began celebration of ten years of Fascism. Oct. 30 Artn ro Alessandri elected president of Chile. Tiluircio Andino elected president of Ho nduras. Martinez Mera elected president of Ecuador. Oct. 31 Lancashire cotton mill workers struck. March 4 Japanese renewed attack on Chinese; League of Nations assembly assem-bly demanded withdrawal of Japanese army at Shanghai. March 11 League of Nations adopted adopt-ed resolution condemning Japan's actions ac-tions in China and setting up commission commis-sion to deal with the case. March 19 International disarmament disarma-ment conference adjourned to April 11. April 11 Disarmament conference reassembled. April 19 League of Nations committee commit-tee called on Japan to evacuate Shang- j hai "in the near future." April 20 Trns-Andean railway ! abandoned because of Argentina-Chile ; tariff war. May 5 Japanese and Chinese signed peace agreement for Shanghai area. May 13 Austria appealed to League j of Nations to save her from ruin. i May 14 Mexico severed diplomatic ! relations with Peru. June 16 Lausanne reparations con- , fere nee opened. June 17 European moratorium on Intergovernmental debts during Lausanne Lau-sanne conference agreed upon. June 22 President Hoover offered Geneva conference plan to cut world armaments by nearly one-third. July 4 Italy demanded cancellation , of all reparations and war debts. I July 6 Turkey accepted invitation ! to join League of Nations. July 8 European powers agreed to end German reparations with payment by Germany of three billion gold : marks in bonds, but ratification was : made dependant on reduction of war debts by United States. July 13 New entente formed by France and Great Britain to aid Europe. Eu-rope. July 18 St. Lawrence seaway treaty cigned by United States and Canada. July 23 International disarmament conference in Geneva adjourned, ten nations refusing to vote for resolution resolu-tion of "achievement." July 25 Poland and Russia signed peace treaty. July 26 Germany joined the Franco-British entente. July 29 Bolivian troops attacked Paraguayan frontier forts in Chaco -dispute. July 31 Paraguay ordered general mobilization against Bolivia. Aug. 2--United States accepted invitation in-vitation to participate in world economic econ-omic conference, war debts being barred. United States and South and Central American nations warned Paraguay and Bolivia against war. Aug. 31 Germany, in note to France, demanded equality of armaments. Sept. 5 Conference of Danuhian ' nations na-tions opened in Strese. Italy. Sept. 12 France rejected Germany's demand for arms equality. Sept. 15 Manchukuo recognized by Japan. Sept. 18 Great Britain rejected Germany's Ger-many's demand for arms equality. Oct. 2 Report of League of Nations commission on Manchuria made public, pub-lic, calling for establishment of an autonomous, demilitarized Manchuria under Chinese sovereignty. Oct. 3 f raq became a member of the League of Nations, Great Britain surrendering sur-rendering her mandate. Oct, 18 Creat Britain abrogated her trade treatv with Russia. Oct. 21 New Chilean government recognized by United States and Great Britain. Oct. 22 Paraguay captured Fort Arces in the Gran Chaco from Bolivians. Bolivi-ans. Nov. 4 France's new "constructive disarmament plan" laid before disarmament disarm-ament conference bureau in Geneva. Nov. 10 John Galsworthy. English novelist, was awarded the Nonel prize for literature. Nov. 11 Great Britain, France and other nations asked postponement of payment of their war debt interest to "United States and revision of the debts. Nov. 14 France's plan for disarmament disarm-ament and security laid before the disarmament dis-armament conference in Geneva. Nov. 21 Japan's case in Manchurian affair laid before council of League of Nations. China replied. Nov. 23 European nations notified oy United States they must pav war debt installment and Interest. Nov. 29 France tnd Russia signed treaty of nonaggression and conciliation. concilia-tion. Dec. 1 Second British note asking -cancellation of war debts received in "Washington. .ec. 2 France's second note tor war debt cancellation received in Washington. Wash-ington. Dec. 5 Special meeting ot League of jsatlons assembly opened to consider the Manchurian trouble. Dec. 7 British war debt plea again rejected by United States. Dec. II United States, Great Britain, Brit-ain, France. Italy and Germany signed agreement to work for world disarmament. disarma-ment. Dec. 13 French chamber ot deputies voted not to pay th war debt install- juiy x lorenz ziegiem, musical comedy producer. July 24 Alberto Santos-Dumont of Brazil, aviation pioneer. July 26 Caleb Powers, former congressman con-gressman from Kentucky. Fred Duesenberg of Indianapolis, pioneer automobile maker. Aug. 4 James Oppenheim, American novelist and poet. Aug. 5 Dr. J. Paul Goode, noted geographer. Aug. 8 James Francis Burke, general gen-eral counsel of Republican national committee. Aug. 11 Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago Chica-go financier and philanthropist. Aug. 18 Junius S. Morgan of New York, in Switzerland. Aug. 22 Wilton Lackaye, American actor. Aug. 25 Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mc-Cormick Mc-Cormick In Chicago. Aug. 27 C. A. Waterman, senator . from Colorado. Sept. 6 Sir Gilbert Parker, British novelist. Sept. 20 Dr. Frank L. Billings, famous fa-mous physician, in Chicago. Sept. 27 Former Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi. Oct. 2 David Pingree, wealthy lumberman lum-berman and philanthropist, in Salem, Oct. 4 Gen. Sir Rudolph Slatin Pasha, In Vienna. Oct. 5 Congressman J. Charles Llnthicum of Maryland. Oct. 6 Darwin P. KIngsley, head of New York Life Insurance company. Oct. 11 William Alden Smith, former for-mer senator from Michigan. Oct. 18 Maurice Dornier of Munich, builder of giant flying boat DO-X. Oct. 19 Lindley M. Garrison, former for-mer secretary of war. Oct. 10 Marquis Bonl de Castellana In Paris. Oct. 29 Horace Kent Tenney, noted Chicago lawyer. Emmett Corrigan, American actor. Oct. 30 Harold MacGrath, American author. Field Marshal Lord Methuen of England. Eng-land. Nov. 1 William Morris, New York theatrical producer and philanthropist. Nov. 2 Will Levington Comfort, American novelist. Nov. 16 Dr. Fenton B. Turck, eminent emi-nent physician In New York. Nov. 19 United States Senator Wesley Wes-ley L. Jones of Washington. Nov. 20 Dr. H. J. Doerman, president presi-dent of University of Toledo. Delmar W. Call, noted manufacturer. Robert M. Cutting of Chicago, president-elect of United States Golf association. asso-ciation. Nov. 25 Dr. F. L. Patton, former president of Princeton university. Nov. 26 E. A. Van Valkenburg", Philadelphia journalist. Nov. 27 Will H. Low, American artist. Nov. 29 Congressman J. C. McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin of Michigan. Nov. 30 Gari Melchers, American artist. Dec. 2 Louis J. Petit, Milwaukee capitalist. Dec. 3 Clement Studebaker, Jr., utilities util-ities magnate, in Chicago. C. R. Breckinridge, former American ambassador to Russia, in Wendover, Ky. Dec. 5 Dr. J. C. Van Dyke of Rutgers, Rut-gers, art authority. Dec. 6 Eugene Brieux, French dramatist. Dec. 7 F. T. Lovejoy, foreign steel magnate of Pittsburgh. John H. Niemeyer. American artist. Dec. 8 Henry Kitrhell Webster, novelist. nov-elist. In Evanston, 111. Dec. 10 R. B. Williamson, vice chairman chair-man of federal power commission. Dec. 1 1 A. C. Loring of Minneapolis, Minneap-olis, head of Pillsbury flour mills. Dec. 13 Congressman Daniel E.Garrett E.Gar-rett of Texas. Dec. 18 Edmund Vance Cooke, poet and lecturer, in Cleveland, Ohio. Ernest Howe, noted geologist, In Litchfield, Conn. Dec. 19 Clarence E. Whitehlll, American Amer-ican operatic baritone. ) by Western Newspaper Union. j earthquakes and volcanoes, with great loss of life. March 21 Tornadoes in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee killed 358 and did great damage. March 27 Tornado killed 9, injured in-jured 50 In Alabama. April 14 Six dead, 57 hurt, In blast In Ohio state office building at Columbus. Co-lumbus. April 25 Tornadoes In Tennessee, Alabama and Arkansas killed nine. May 2 Nearly a hundred killed by typhoon in Philippines. May 6 Two million dollar fire on Cunard pier, New York. May 16 New French liner Georges Philippar burned in Gulf of Aden; 52 lives lost. June 3 Earthquake killed hundreds In Guadalajara region of Mexico. June 7 Eleven killed in apartment house fire in Cleveland. Ohio. June 17 Explosion on oil tanker at Montreal killed 29 men. June 19 Hailstorm In Honan province, prov-ince, China, killed 200. July 7 French submarine Promethee sank off Normandy coast with 63 men. July 10 Explosion of ammunition depot in Nanking, China, killed 50. July 13 Three million dollar fire on Coney Island, N. Y. July 26 German training ship Nlobe sank in storm; 69 drowned. Aug. 4 Six million dollar fire In Chicago packing house district. Aug. 13 Forty killed in south Texas storm. Sept. 9 Fifty-six workmen killed by steamer explosion at New York. Sept. 14 Fifty-five men killed In ; wreck of French Foreign Legion train in Algeria. Sept. 26 Earthquake in the Balkans killed about 235. Sept. 27 Hurricane swept Porto Rico, killing several hundred and doing do-ing vast damage. Sept. 30 Forty lives lost in cloudburst cloud-burst in Tehachapl pass, California. Nov. 9 Disastrous storm in southern south-ern Cuba; 2,500 killed and great damage dam-age done. Nov. 14 Japan swept by terrlfin typhoon; ty-phoon; scores of lives lost and many towns and villages wrecked. Dec. 6 Japanese destroyer capsized in storm; 105 men lost. Dec. 7 Fourteen coal miners killed by blast at Madrid, N. M. Dec. 9 Explosion in coal mine at Yancey, Ky., killed 23. NECROLOGY Jan. 1 C. O. Iselin, millionaire yachtsman of New York. Jan. 2 Gen. Paul Pau, French war commander. Rear Admiral Cameron Winslow, U. S. N., hero of Spanish war. Jan. 6 Julius Rosen wald, Chicago philanthropist and capitalist. Jan. 9 Frederick O'Brien, author and traveler. Jan. 17 J. W. Langley. former Kentucky Ken-tucky congressman. Jan. 18 Dr. J. G. McCIure, president presi-dent emeritus of Presbyterian seminary semi-nary of Chicago. Jan. 21 Ly tton Strachey, English biographer. Jan.. 24 Paul Warburg-, New York banker. Jan. 26 William Wrlgley, Jr., of Chicago, capitalist and owner of Chicago Chi-cago Cubs, in Phoenix. Calif. Alfred S. Austrian, leader of the Chicago bar. Jan. 27 Lewis Cass Ledyard, noted New York I a w y e r. Jan. 30 William Hodge, American actor. Feb. 4 Hyrnm G. Smith, presiding patriarch of Mormon church, at Salt Lake City. Feb. 5 John R. Voorhls, grand sachem sa-chem of Tammany, aged 103. Barney Dreyfuss, owner of Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh Pirates. Feb. 15 Minnie Maddern Fiske. American actress. Henry A. Blair, Chicago capitalist. Feb. 16 Sir Edgar Speyer, former British financier. would hold weat and cotton off mar- i ket until next year. j Sept. 9 Railway executives voted I for 20 per cent cut in wages, effective effec-tive February 1. Sept. 11 Central states governors recommended federal financial aid for ; farmers. j Sept. 12 Democrats won governorship governor-ship and two congress seats in Maine election. i American Legion convention opened in Portland, Ore. Sept. 15 American Legion voted for immediate cash payment of bonus and for repeal of Eighteenth amendment, and elected Louis A. Johnson of West Virginia national commander. Sept. 18 G. A. R. national encampment encamp-ment opened in Springfield, 111. Sept. 20 Wisconsin Republicans nominated W. J. Kohler for governor, rejecting Gov. Philip La Follette; and J. B. Chappie for senator, defeating Senator J. J. Blaine. Sept. 22 Capt. W. P. Wright of Chicago elected national commander of G. A. R. Sept. 27 Representative C. R. Crisp of Georgia appointed to tariff commission. com-mission. Oct. 3 Four lake states asked Supreme Su-preme court to appoint commissioner to run the Chicago sanitary district. Case of Senator Davis of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania on lottery charges ended In mistrial. mis-trial. Oct. 4 Samuel and Martin Insull, former public utility magnates, indicted indict-ed in Chicago. Oct. 10 Samuel Insull arrested In Athens. Oct. 13 Brig. Gen. Harry Burgess resigned as governor of the Panama Canal Zone and Lieut. Col. Julian Schley was appointed to succeed him. Nov. 1 F. Lammot Bel in appointed ambassador to Poland. Nov. 5 Director of the Budget Roop began cutting down the national budget bud-get $150,000,000.. American Red Cross reported three and a half millions spent for relief In past year. Nov. 7 Supreme court ordered new trial for seven negroes in Internationally Internation-ally agitated Scottsboro (Ala.) case. Nov. 8 Franklin D. Roosevelt and John N. Garner elected President and Vice President, Democrats sweeping the country. Nov. 13 President Hoover Invited President-elect Roosevelt to conference confer-ence on foreign war debts when debtor nations asked postponement of payments pay-ments and revision. Nov. 18 Helen Hayes and Frederic March voted best film actors of the year. Nov. 21 A. Lawrence Lowell resigned re-signed as president of Harvard university. uni-versity. Nov. 22 President Hoover and President-Elect Roosevelt conferred on the war debt situation. E. S. Grammer, Seattle, appointed U. S. senator to succeed the late Wesley Wes-ley L. Jones of Washington. Nov. 23 Congress leaders in conference confer-ence with President Hoover rejected his war debt revision plan. Nov. 2S American Federation of Labor, in convention In Cincinnati, demanded the five-day week and six-hour six-hour day. Dec. 3 Conrad H. Mann, prominent Kansas City resident, and two others convicted of violating federal lottery law. Dec. 4 "Hunger army" of 3,000 reached Washington. Dec. 5 Short session of congress opened. House defeated Garner resolution for prohibition repeal by six votes. Dec. 6 President Hoover in annual message asked congress for sales tax and economy legislation. Dec. 7 President Hoover submitted budget cutting government expenses by half a billion. Dec. 8 Powers of the R. F. C. extended ex-tended for one year by President Hoover Dec. 9 President Hoover gave congress con-gress his plans for federal government reorganization. March 14 "Home rule" anti-prohibl-tlon motion defeated in house, 187 to 227. Benjamin Cardo'zo sworn In as member mem-ber of United States Supreme court. March 19 Senate subcommittee reported re-ported favorably the Bingham beer bill. March 22 House amended revenue bill to boost estate taxes of the wealthy. Senate ordered department appropriations appropri-ations cut 10 per cent. March 24 House defeated sales tax. March 26 House voted tax on beer materials, imported coal and oil. April 1 House passed billion dollar tax bill, with sales tax eliminated, but with surtaxes revised. April 4 Dr. C. C. King of University of Pittsburgh Isolated Vitamin C. April 4 House voted independence for Philippines. April 9 Lindbergh paid ransom, but kidnapers failed to return his baby. April 21 Gov. Rolph of California denied pardon for Thomas J. Mooney, convicted for Preparedness day bombing bomb-ing in 1916 In San Francisco. April 29 Lieut. T. H. Massie, Mrs. Fortescue and Seamen Lord and Jones found guilty of manslaughter In Kaha-hawai Kaha-hawai murder case in Honolulu. May 2 Supreme court refused to review re-view Al Capone's case; refused to con-i con-i sent to modification of the packers' consent decree of 1920; held invalid the Texas law by which negroes were , barred from Democratic primaries, and upheld President Hoover's refusal to resubmit power board nomination to senate after it had been confirmed. May 3 Al Capone taken from Chicago Chi-cago to Atlanta penitentiary. House passed economy bill after wrecking it. May 4 Massie case defendants in Honolulu sentenced to ten years In prison and immediately set free by Governor Judd. May 5 House passed bill for operation oper-ation of Muscle Shoals. May 6 Senate passed Hale bill for treaty strength navy. May 11 President Hoover vetoed the Democratic tariff bill. May 12 Col. Lindberghs kidnaped baby found murdered near the Lindbergh Lind-bergh estate in New Jersey. President Hoover proposed 1 billion bil-lion for jobless relief. May 18 Senate voted against 2.75 per cent beer. May 19 House passed War department depart-ment supply bill carrying $392,587,000. Eastern bankers and industrialists mobilized for trade revival. May 23 Bill legalizing and taxing beer defeated by the house. May 95 Senate again rejected legalized le-galized and taxed beer. May 31 Senate passed billion dollar dol-lar revenue bill, rejecting sales tax feature, after President Hoover in person per-son appealed for quick action. June 4 R. R. Reynolds defeated Senator Cameron Morrison in North Carolina Democratic primary. June 6 President Hoover signed the new revenue bill. Charles G. Dawes resigned as president presi-dent of Reconstruction Finance corporation. cor-poration. Senator Brookhart of Iowa defeated for renominatlon by Henry Field. Samuel Insull of Chicago resigned as utilities chief and was succeeded by James Simpson. June 7 House passed the Garner two-billion-dollar relief bill. June 8 Senate passed emasculated economy bill. June 9 Senate passed 390 million dollar army supply bill. June 10 Senate passed relief bill to provide. 311 millions in loans to states. June 13 Gaston Means convicted of larceny of $104,000 from Mrs Evalyn McLean In Lindbergh case swindle. June 14 Republican national convention con-vention opened In Chicago. June 15 Republican convention adopted moderate prohibition resubmission resub-mission plank. |