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Show Chronology of tho Year Compiled 1934 LW.Pickard ... n' i(Txm in- ' fi I'.in' i fk in m rti'i -1 - DOMESTIC Jan. 1 President Roosevelt ac-e;pi ac-e;pi m t fie r:H lk nntion of Secretary of Uie Treatiury VV. H. Woudm, and fcppoiiit'Ml li.riiry M urgent. ha a, Jr., to bui:;m;J him. Jan. 3 roiirr-sa opened regular neHHlon and heard I'ruMidunt Itoo.se-Vclt'a Itoo.se-Vclt'a niiTnaKe tied a r i n k this New U-al mu:tt he made permanent. Jan. 4 CoriK re:-,H revivor I're.sident ItooM'-vi;l t'n huiiKt in usage calling fur Hi billion dollai-8. Jan. & iluUMe pa.'."Md $470,000,000 national liquor lax bill. Jan. 8 Supreme court upheld moratorium on tnurtgUKea. Jan. 10 I're.Nidoiit RooHvelt HH.knil the en;ite to ratify the iat. I, a w re nee wniurway ti wit y. HHiiale passed nation;! liquor tax bill. Jan. 1 2 f!en. HI an ton Win .ship was appol n led governor of i'orto Kirn vu: It. II. Gore, resigned. Willi G. Uretftf was appointed clilcf of the weather bureau. Jfin. If) i 'resident Roosevelt aHked congreMH for additional authority to Heine federal bank Kld reserve and llx dollar between GO and 60 cents. Jan. 1 ii Preside!) t Roosevelt mod-fled mod-fled h la economy regulation to Increase In-crease annual payments to disabled Vetera oh by 21 nil 11 ion dol lars. Jan. 20 House of represeri tatl vea passed the President's money bill, 2(10 to 4 0. Jnn. 24 Naval Rupply bill of 284 millions passed by house. Jan. 27 Senate passed President's money bill. Jan. 30 Nat Ion celeh rated President Presi-dent Roosevelt's fifty-second birthday. birth-day. House passed the Vinson navy bill. Jan. 31 -President established a 69.0(i cent dollar. Feb. & United States Supreme court quashed all pending federal dry cases. Lvb. 9 President and postmaster general cancelled all air mail contracts con-tracts and the army was called on to carry the nlr mall. Feb. 1 4 William P. MacCraclcen and L. H. Hrittin sentenced by sen- , ate to ten days In jail for contempt ! In connection with air mall Invest!- j go Hon. Feb. 1!) Army air corps began j flying the air mall. j Feb. 21 House passed tax revision I bill. Feb. 22 Roger Touhy and two members of his gang convicted In Ch icn go of kidnaping John Factor and given OH years In prison. Fob. 2fi President asked congress ! to create federal commission on wire ! and rad io communications. I Feb. 27 Senate voted to restore 850 millions in veterans' benefits and federal salaries. ! Feb. 2S House voted against fed- era! furniture factory. , : March 2 President asked congress con-gress for power to negotiate tariffs. March 3 John Dilllnger, bank robber and desperado, escaped from jail at Crown Point, Ind. March 5 Supreme court upheld government price fixing. President Roosevelt asked Industry Indus-try to raise wages and shorten ho xi rs. March 6 Senate passed full strength navy construction bill. President appointed Judge Florence Flor-ence Allen of Ohio as federal circuit court of appeals Judge. March 10 President ordered army air mail service halted. Attorney General Cummlngs ordered or-dered criminal action against Andrew An-drew Mellon. James J. Walker and others for alleged Income tax evasion. eva-sion. March 12 House passed bill for Immediate payment of veterans' bonus in greenbacks. March 13 Arthur Cutts Wlllard elected president of University of Illinois. March 14 St. Lawrence waterway treaty rejected by the senate. March 19 Army resumed flying air mail. March 23 President urged passage pas-sage of job Insurance bill. March 24 President signed Philippine Philip-pine Independence bill. March 25 President settled threatened threat-ened strike In automobile Industry. March 26 President vetoed econ- j omv bill. March 27 President left for Florida Flor-ida cruise. House overrode veto of economy bill. March 28 Senate overrode economy econ-omy bill veto. March 31 Johnson Imposes 5-day, 85-hour week on soft coal industry. April 9 Florence E. Allen took oath In Cleveland as first woman federal judge. Trial of Bishop Cannon and Miss Ada Burroughs for violation of corrupt cor-rupt practices act began in Washington. Wash-ington. April 10 House committee began Investigation of charges made by Pr. William A. Wirt that members of "brain trust" were plotting to overthrow the government. April 11 Senate voted for 10 per cent increase in Income tax, April 13 Senate passed Its $4S0(-000,000 $4S0(-000,000 tax bill with income tax publicity pub-licity provision. President Roosevelt returned to Washington from fishing trip. April 16 Gov. Linger of North Dakota and eight others indicted by United States for forced collections collec-tions from relief workers. April IS Wirt investigation ended end-ed by Democrats after his story was denied. prill 22 General Johnson proclaimed pro-claimed new wage structure for soft coal industry. April 23 Milk control plan dropped by the AAA. April 24 American fleet of 111 warships made record transit of Panama Pan-ama canal. April 27 Bishop Cannon and Miss Burroughs acquitted of violation of corrupt practices act. April 2S Senate passed air mall bill. May 3 Postmaster General Farley Far-ley awarded 15 air mail contracts. New revenue bill enacted by congress. con-gress. May 4 House passed stock exchange ex-change control bill. Mav 7 Samuel Insull was landed In United States and taken to Chicago Chi-cago for trial. May 8 Federal grand Jury In Pittsburgh refused to indict A. W. Mellon for tax evasion. May 12 Senate passed Fletcher-Kayburn Fletcher-Kayburn stock exchange bill. May 15 Senator David A. Reed defeated Gov. GifTord Pinchot in Pennsylvania Republican primaries; Democrats nominated Joseph F. Guf-fey Guf-fey for sennte. Senate passed bill for federal control con-trol of radio and wire communications. communica-tions. May 18 President Roosevelt, In message to congress, called for domestic do-mestic and international control over arms nnd munitions. Sov. bills to aid federal war on crime were signed by the President. Dr. George F. Zook resigned as commissioner of education, effective July 1. and John W. Studehaker of Des Moines was selected to succeed bim. May 22 President Roosevelt asked congress to ass bill partly remon- I tiziug silver. 1 May 2ft Ohlontro'a Century of l'rK resx expoMi lion reope ned. May 27 President ordered modi-flea modi-flea lion of service, industries codes. May 20 Predion t Roosevelt de-Mverod de-Mverod Memorial Day addrt.s at Gt- it y sh u rg. Cotton textile workers called pen-eral pen-eral strike. May 31 President Roosevelt reviewed re-viewed the Lnitcd States f.eet oif New York. House pasted ad rn In 1st rat Ion's sliver bill. June 1 Congress completed enactment en-actment &f stock fcxchui.tfe control bill. June 2 Cotton textile strike cal leit ;ff by com prom i we. House passed communications control con-trol bill. June 4 Sonate passed the tariff bill. June 6 Henry P. Fletcher of Pennsylvania elected chairman of Republican national committee. June & President Roosevelt In special rnes.sa.tte set forth his future plana for ueiierment of living. June 11 Silver bill pasaed by the senate. June 14 Senate confirmed R. G. Tmrwell as undersecretary of agri-cui agri-cui t ura. June 15 Steel workers decided to post ion e strike 1 ndefl ni tely. June 1 'i Governor Danger of North Dakota and four others convicted con-victed of defrauding United States ; government. 1 June IS Seventy-third congress ad ou rned. June 20 President Roosevelt given giv-en degree of doctor of law at Yale. Cleaners scrapped their NRA code. June 24 President Roosevelt ordered or-dered spending of $150,000,000 in middle west drouth areas. June 26 United States milk code held illegal by Federal Judge Barnes in Chicago. June Board of three named by President to mediate steel industry in-dustry troubles. July 1 President Roosevelt sailed on cruiser Houston for vacation cruise to Hawaii. July 4 Rev. John F. OHara elected president of Notre Dame uni-verHi uni-verHi ty. July 6 Eightieth birthday of Republican Re-publican party celobrated at Jackson, Jack-son, Mich. July 9 Senate's jail sentence of W. P. McCracken for contempt upset up-set by D. C. court of appeals. July 10 Mississippi voted to remain re-main dry. July 14 Unions In San Francisco area voted for general strike. July 16 General strike in effect In San Francisco. James J. Dooling elected head of Tarn many. July 17 Gov. William Danger of North Dakota ousted by state supreme su-preme court decision. July 19 General strike at San Francisco called off. July 20 Serious strike riots In Minneapolis and Seattle. Blue Eagle restored to Harriman hosiery mills In Tennessee. July 21 President Roosevelt ordered or-dered the beginning of vast reforestation refor-estation project in midwest plains region. July 22 John Dilllnger. notorious desperado, shot to death by federal agents in Chicago. July 24 President reached Hawaiian Ha-waiian waters. July 25 Pacific coast longshoremen longshore-men voted to accept mediation. July 26 Minneapolis put under martial law by Governor Olson because be-cause of teamsters' strike. July 29 Longshoremen's strike on Pacific coast ended In compromise. Aug. 3 President Roosevelt landed land-ed at Portland, Ore. Aug. 9 Nationalization of silver ordered by the President. Aug. 10 Secretary Wallace announced an-nounced virtual abandonment of crop reduction program for 1935. Strike of 15,000 employees of Aluminum Company of America started. Aug. ' 15 Eugene R. Black resigned re-signed as governor of federal reserve re-serve board. Aug. 16 United Textile Workers voted for general strike in cotton textile Industry. Aug. 17 Wool, silk and rayon un- j Ions voted to join In textile strike. I Aug. 18 Louisiana legislature I passed laws making Senator Long J find Governor Allen dictators of the ! state. Aug. 21 Twelve bandits took i $427,000 from armored money truck j in Brooklyn. N. Y. ! Truck drivers' strike in Minne- apolis ended in compromise. i Aug. 24 Reciprocal trade treaty j with Cuba proclaimed by President Roosevelt. i Sept. 1 Director of the Budget , Lewis Douglas resigned. Sept. 3 Retail coal code author- ; ity resigned in protest against NRA j methods. Sept. 4 Strike of textile workers began; declared 50 per cent effec- , tlve. Sept. 6 Aluminum workers' strike ended by compromise. i Sept. 10 Maine re-elected Governor Gover-nor Brann, Democratic, and Senator Hale, Republican: and voted repeal t of state prohibition law. ' Sept. 11 Senator Huey Long's faction won in Louisiana election. Sept. 15 Government renewed Its tax evasion charges against Andrew ; Mellon. Sept. 20 Solution of Lindbergh j baby kidnaping begun with arrest in New York of Bruno R. Hauptmann ; with part of the ransom money. President's special board offered plan for ending of textile strike. Sept. 22 Textile union officials ordered or-dered end of the strike. Sept. 24 Packers raised pay of 100.000 employees 8 per cent. Sept. 25 Gen. Hugh S. Johnson resigned as NRA administrator, effective ef-fective October 15. Sept. 27 President announced appointment ap-pointment of boards to conduct the NRA. Sept. 30 President Roosevelt declared de-clared in radio address that he would seek a labor-industrial truce to end strikes. Oct. 2 Trial of Samuel Insull and former associates begun In Chicago. Oct. 8 American Federation of Labor convention in San Francisco voted for 5 day, 30 hour work week. Oct. 12 President ordered 36 hour week for cotton garment industry. Oct. 22 American Legion convention conven-tion opened in Miami, Fla, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, notorious Oklahoma outlaw, killed by federal officers near East Liverpool, Ohio. Oct. 25 American Legion de-. de-. manded immediate bonus payment and elected Frank Belgrano. Jr.. of San Francisco, national commander. Rayon and silk dyers went on strike. Oct. 31 Chicago's World's Fair closed. Nov. 6 Elections resulted generally gener-ally in decided Democratic victories, with senate gain of 10 seats and loss of 10 seats in house. Nov. 9 Marriner S. Eccles of Utah made governor of federal re- ' serve board. Nov. 10 President Roosevelt ap- ; pointed advisory council for social reforms, headed by Frank P. Graham. Gra-ham. Martial law declared In Arizona in state's fight against California i project. i Nov. 14 Unemployment insurance i program outlined by President i Roosevelt before conference on eco- i nomic security. Nov. 15 President Roosevelt left I Washington for Warm Springs via j the Tennessee valley projects. Nov. 20 Gen. Smedley D. Butler told congressional committee of alleged al-leged Fascist plot to seize the govern gov-ern ment. Nov. 24 Samuel Insull and 16 co-defendants co-defendants acquitted of fraud in Chicago. Nov. 27 "Baby Face" Nelson, public enemy No. 1, killed two government gov-ernment agents near Barrinyton, 111., and was himself shot to death. Dec. 1 Katherine Den root appointed ap-pointed chief of the children's bureau. bu-reau. Department of Labor. Dec. 3 United State?? Supreme court upheld riht of land grant colleges to make military training compulsory. Dec. 6 President Roosevelt returned re-turned to Washington. Dec. 10 National conference on crime pre vent, on opened in Washington. Wash-ington. Dec. 12 Preldpnt named committee commit-tee to draft legislation to end war pro fi r.s. Dec. 15 President's advisory council reported unemployment insurance in-surance system. Dec. 16 National resources board outlines 105 billion dollar public works program for 20 to 30 years. INTERNATIONAL Jan. 7 Paraguay and Bolivia resumed re-sumed war in the Chaco Boreal, the truce having expired. Jan. 8 France quadrupled United States Import quotas. France and Russia signed new commereial treaty. Jan. 23 Government of President Mendieta of Cuba recognized by United States. Jan. 2ti Germany and Poland signed a ten year peace treaty. Feb. 5 Austrian cabinet decided to appeal to League of Nations against German Nazi aggression. Feb. 17 Great Britain, France and Italy agreed to maintain Austria's independence and integrity. March 2 China refused to recognise recog-nise Manchukuo. March 23 France charged Germany Ger-many had violated Versailles treaty. April 17 Japan protested against the giving of aid to China by other nations. June 23 Bolivians and Paraguayans Paraguay-ans fought great battle in the Chaco. July 13 Great Britain and Italy announced approval of eastern European Eu-ropean security pact fostered by France. August 1 5 Evacuation of Haiti by American marines completed. Aug. 18 Manchukuo severed all relations with Russia. Aug. 21 World Jewish conference at Geneva declared redoubled boycott boy-cott of Nazi Germany. Sept. 3 Evangeline Booth elected general of the Salvation Army. Sept. 10 Richard Sandler, Sweden, Swe-den, elected president of League of Nations. Sept. 15 Russia accepted Invitation Invita-tion to join League of Nations. Sept. 18 Russia became a member mem-ber of the League of Nations. Sept. 23 Russia agreed to sell half interest In Chinese Eastern railway to Manchukuo for $50,000,-000. $50,000,-000. Sept 27 Great Gritaln, France and Italy signed agreement to guard independence of Austria, Oct. 9 King Alexander of Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia and Foreign Minister Barthou of France assassinated in Marseilles by Macedonian terrorist. Oct. 23 Japan demanded naval equality with United States and Great Britain. Oct. 25 Nobel prize In medicine awarded to Drs. George Minot, G. H. Whipple and W. P. Murphy of United States. Nov. 8 Lulgi Pirandelli, Italian novelist and playwright, awarded Nobel prize for literature. Nov. 15 Dr. Harold C. Urey of j Columbia university, New York, ! awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry chemis-try for his discovery of "heavy water." wa-ter." Nov. 22 Jugoslavia accused Hungary Hun-gary of complicity in assassination of King Alexander. Nov. 26 Italy refused French re- 1 quest for extradition of Dr. Ante Pavelich, alleged leader of band that killed King Alexander of Jugoslavia, Jugo-slavia, Dec. 1 France refused to join Japan In denouncing Washington naval treaty. Dec. 3 Germany promised France to pay for the Saar coal mines and grant political equality to citizens of the region. Dec. 5 League of Nations decided to send international police force into the Saar, French being excluded, exclud-ed, and Germany agreed to plan. Dec. 6 Jugoslavia deported 27,000 Hungarian residents of that country. Dec. 7 United States notified League of Nations It would help in negotiating peace between Paraguay Para-guay and Bolivia. Dec. 10 Jugoslavia and Hungary accepted League of Nations peace proposal, averting danger of war in Balkans. FOREIGN . Jan. 3 George Tatarescu, anti-Nazi, anti-Nazi, became premier of Rumania. Jan. 10 Marinus Van der Lubbe, who burned the reichstag building, beheaded in Leipsig. Jan. 14 Pope Pius XI proclaimed as a saint Sister Joan Antida Thouret of France who founded the order of the Sisters of Charity. Jan. 15 Ramon Grau San Martin resigned as president of Cuba and Carlos Hevia was selected to succeed suc-ceed him. Jan. 16 Chancellor Hitler made himself dictator over all German industry. in-dustry. Jan. 17 Hevla resigned presidency of Cuba and Carlos Mendieta was named to succeed him by Col. Ful-gencio Ful-gencio Batista, head of the army. Jan. 23 British Imperial naval conference opened In Singapore. Estonia became a Fascist state with Constantin Paets as dictator. Cuban students declared themselves them-selves against President Mendieta. Jan. 27 Chautemps' French cabinet cab-inet resigned. Jan. 30 Daladier formed new French government. German reichstag made Chancellor Chancel-lor Hitler sovereign of all the states. Feb. 6 Serious riots in Paris against the Daladier government. Feb. 6 Paris mobs fought troops and police, many being killed or wounded. Feb. 7 Premier Daladier of France resigned and Gaston Dou-mergue Dou-mergue undertook formation of new government. Feb. 9 Doumergue announced his cabinet for France; Communists rioted in Paris. Feb. 12 Civil war broke out In Austria between the government and the Socialists and hundreds were killed. Feb. 14 Socialists' revolt In Austria Aus-tria suppressed; dead estimated at I, 000 to 2,000. Feb. 17 Albert I. king of the Belgians, Bel-gians, killed by fall while climbing small peak near Namur. Feb. 22 Gen. Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot and rebel leader, lead-er, murdered by national guardsmen guards-men at Managua, Feb. 23 Leopold III crowned king of the Belgians. March 1 Henry Pu-yi enthroned as Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo. Manchu-kuo. Lerroux cabinet In Spain resigned. March 2 Lerroux again made premier pre-mier of Spain. March 11 Luisa de Marlllae sainted saint-ed by the Pope. March 15 Samuel Insull vanished from Athens on eve o his deportation. deporta-tion. March 20 Hitler launched program pro-gram to give jobs to Idle. March 28 Gen. Johan Laldoner becomes dictator of Estonia. April 5 Spain restored priests to payroll. April 9 High army officers of Rumania Ru-mania arrested for plot to kill the king. April 14 Italian government ordered or-dered reduction of cost of living and of wages in effort to balance the budget. April 22 Serious revolutionary riots in Spain. April 25 Spanish cabinet resigned. re-signed. April 28 RIcardo Ibanez formed new Spanish cabinet. April 30 Austrian parliament adopted new constitution. May 3 King Ibn Sand of Arabia began war on the kingdom of Yemen. Ye-men. May 9 Premier Mussolini set up ri.le of country by guilds. May 13 Armistice declared In war In Arabia. May 19 Bulgarian army established estab-lished dictatorship by bloodless coup. Pnre Plus C".or,!lew Conrad of Purzham. .May 24 Thomas Masaryk reelected re-elected president of Czechoslovakia. N'-'v 2j Irish dail abolished the senate. j u i . e 4 Italian scientist announced discovery of new element, artilicial-ly artilicial-ly created from uranium. June 15 President Mendieta of Cuba wounded and two navy otlicers killed by a terrorist's bomb. June 17 Cuban terrorists attacked at-tacked ABC paraders: fifteen killed and many wounded. June 3u Revolt of radicals In the Nazi party smashed by Chancellor Hitler; Gen. Kurt von Schleicher and many other leaders shot to death and scores arrested. July 1 L'.en. Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico. July 2 Japanese cabinet resigned. July 4 Admiral Keisuke Okada made premier of Japan. July 12 Chancellor Dollfuss reorganized re-organized Austrian cabinet and declared de-clared war on Nazism and bomb throwers. July 17 Vargas elected constitutional constitu-tional president of Brazil. July 25 Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria assassinated by group of Nazis. July 29 Kurt Schuschnlerg appointed ap-pointed chancellor of Austria. Julv 31 Two slayers of Chancellor Chancel-lor Dollfuss of Austria condemned and executed. Aug. 2 President von HIndenburg of Germany died and Chancellor Hitler assumed the presidential powers. Aug. 19 Germany by 10 to 1 vote accepted Hitler's assumption of supreme su-preme power. Sept. S Strikes and riots throughout through-out Cuba; martial law proclaimed; cabinet resigned. Sept. 26 Queen Mary of England launched the Cunarder Queen Mary, world's largest ship. Oct. 6. Radical revolt broke out in Catalonia and other parts of Spain. Hundreds killed in fights with troops. Oct. 7 Spanish revolution suppressed sup-pressed by government troops. Oct. 9 King Alexander I of Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia assassinated. Oct. 10 Crown Prince Peter, 11 years old, proclaimed king of Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia under a regency. International Eucharistlc Congress opened in Buenos Aires. Oct. 17 Chancellor Hitler of Germany Ger-many proclaimed fuehrer for life. Oct. 23 Mahatma Gandhi retired as Indian Nationalist leader. Nov. 8 Doumergue resigned as premier of France and Pierre Flan-din Flan-din formed new government. Nov. 10 Premier Mussolini formally for-mally Installed his system of industrial indus-trial self-government in Italy. Nov. 28 President Salamanca of Bolivia forced to resign by military coup. Duke of Kent and Princess Marina of Greece married In London. Nov. SO Gen. Lazaro Cardenas Inaugurated In-augurated president of Mexico. Dec. 1 Sergei Kirov, Soviet leader lead-er assassinated in Leningrad. Dec. 2 Plot to kill all Soviet leaders lead-ers In Russia uncovered; ten army officers executed and many others arrested. Dec. 3 Russia restored death penalty pen-alty to crush "White Russian" terrorist ter-rorist plot. Dec. 6 Sixty-six terrorists executed ex-ecuted In Russia. Dec. 6 Two hundred more Russians Rus-sians including GPU officials, summarily sum-marily shot. Dec. 17 Western Australia's petition peti-tion for secession from the commonwealth common-wealth presented in parliament. AERONAUTICS Jan. 4 French seaplane Southern Cross completed flight from Senegal, Africa, to Natal, Brazil. Jan. 11 Six American navy planes make nonstop flight from San Francisco Fran-cisco to Honolulu. Jan. 30 Three Russian balloon-lsts balloon-lsts ascended to record height of 13.67 miles and then were killed by fall of their gondola. April 11 Renato Donatl, Italy, set new airplane altitude record of 47,560 feet. May 9 French air liner fell In English channel, six perishing. May 14 George R. Pond and Cea-sare Cea-sare Sabelll started from New York on nonstop flight to Rome. May 15 Pond and Sabelll landed in Ireland because of engine trouble. trou-ble. May 27 Rossi and Codos began flight from Paris to California. May 2S Wing trouble forced Rossi Ros-si and Codos to land at New York. June 28 B. and J. Adamowlcz started flight from New York to Warsaw, via Harbor Grace, N. F. June 30 Gas shortage forced Adamowlcz Ad-amowlcz brothers to land in Normandy. Nor-mandy. July 24 Ten United States army bombing planes completed flight from Washington to Fairbanks, Alaska. July 28 Stratosphere balloon started from near Rapid City, N. D., but fabric ripped at 60,000 feet; three occupants of gondola came down safely with parachutes. Aug. 8 James Ayling and Leonard Leon-ard Reed began nonstop flight from Wasaga Beach, Ont., to Bagdad. Aug. 9 Ayling and Reed forced to land near London by lack of fuel. Aug. 19 Pond and Sabelll, flying back from Rome, crashed in Wales. Sept. 3 Col. Roscoe Turner won Thompson trophy at national air races in Cleveland; Douglas Davis, noted pilot, killed during the race. Sept. 26 Poland won international internation-al balloon race. Oct. 19 Twenty airplanes left England on race to Melbourne, Australia. Aus-tralia. Oct. 23 C. W. A. Scott and Campbell Camp-bell Black of England won air race to Melbourne in 2 days, 22 hours and 25 minutes. Lieut. Francesco Agello of Italy set new seaplane speed mark of 440.29 miles an hour. Prof. Jean Piccard and his wife made stratosphere balloon ascent of ten miles. Nov. 4 Sir Charles Klngsford-Smith Klngsford-Smith and Capt. P. G. Taylor completed com-pleted three-stop flight from Brisbane, Bris-bane, Australia, to Oakland, Calif. Nov. 8 Transport plane commanded com-manded by Eddie Rickenbacker flew from Burbank, Calif., to Newark, N. J., in 12 hours 3 rrinutes 60 seconds. sec-onds. Dec. 8 Flight Lieut. C. T. P. Ulm of Australia and two companions started from Oakland, Calif., on flight to Honolulu, were forced down at sea and lost. DISASTERS Jan. 1 Floods in Los Angeles area resulted in about 75 deaths. Jan. 4 Explosion and fire in mine at Dux, Czechoslovakia, killed 140 men. Jan. 8 Eighty perished In a panic pan-ic at Kyoto, Japan. Jan. 15 Earthquake shook all India, In-dia, killing 500. French tri-motor plane crashed, killing ten including prominent officials. offi-cials. Feb. 20 Ten aged widows and daughters of Civil war veterans burned to death at home In Brook-ville, Brook-ville, Pa. Feb. 23 Eight persons killed by crash of air liner near Salt Lake City. Feb. 5 Tornado In Georgia, Alabama Ala-bama and Mississippi killed 23. March 12 New Japanese torpedo boat capsized, about 100 men drowning. drown-ing. March 14 La Liberated, Salvador, almost destroyed by dynamite explosion ex-plosion and fire; 150 lives lost. March 21 One thousand dead, 3,-000 3,-000 Injured in Are at Hakodate. Japan. Ja-pan. April 4 25 lives lost In Oklahoma floods. April 7 Fifty Norwegians killed when huge cliff fell into a fjord. April 21 Mine explosion in Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia killed 150. May 7 Eighty-seven men killed in mine disaster at Buggingen, Germany. Ger-many. May ljv Liner Olympic rammed and sank isantucket lightship; seven drowned. Mine blast In Belgium killed 43. Lake steamer in Finland sank; 21 drowned. May 1 Chicago L'nion Stockyards Stock-yards partly octroyed by $S,0ti),-(R'i.i $S,0ti),-(R'i.i fire. May 25 Lanofl'de In Kwantung province, China, 'fc!l!td 250. June 1 Forty chl.Cren killed by hurricane near Nanching. China. June 7 Two thousand killed by hurricane In Salvador. June 9 Air liner crashed and burned In the Catskllls; seven persons per-sons killed. June 11 Floods destroyed Honduras Hon-duras town; 1.000 lives lost. July 17 Disastrous earthquake at David. Panama, July IS Floods In southern Poland Po-land took scores of lives. Aug. 4 Three hundred die In floods in Persia. Sept. 8 Ward liner Morro Castle burned off New Jersey coast; 134 persons perished. Sept. 17 Nome. Alaska, destroyed by fire; loss $2 ono.000. Sept. 21 Japan swept by destructive destruc-tive tvphoon; more than 2.000 killed. Mine explosion at Wrexham, Wales, killed 261 men. Oct. 21 Disastrous storm along northwest coast of United States. Nov. 15 Scores killed by typhoon In Philippines. Dec. 5 Earthquakes In Honduras destroyed three towns. Dec. 11 Hotel in Lansing, Mich., burned; about 40 lives lost. NECROLOGY Jan. 1 Jacob Wassermann, German Ger-man novelist. Jan. 4 Prof. H. C. Warren, Princeton university psychologist. Jan. 7 Robert Simpson, American novelist and editor. Jan. 9 Miss Alice French (Octave Thanet), American novelist. Jan. 10 Frank P. Glass of Alabama, Ala-bama, editor and publisher. Jan. 12 Almaro Sato, Japanese diplomat. Jan. 14 Walker D. Hlnes, former director general of American railroads. rail-roads. Gen. Jean Marchand of France, center figure of Fashoda fort Incident. Incid-ent. Jan. 16 John Sherwln, Cleveland banker. Jan. 18 Joseph Devlin, Irish nationalist na-tionalist leader. Jan. 19 Harrison Fisher, American Amer-ican artist. Jan. 20 Edward J. Brundage, Republican Re-publican leader, in Lake Forest. 111. Dr. Lincoln Hulley, president Stetson university, Deland, Fla. Jan. 21 John H. McCooey, Tammany Tam-many leader of Brooklyn, N. Y. Amelia Summerville, former stage star. Jan. 22 Dr. Mary I H. Black, southern educator. Jan. 30 Frank N. Doubleday, New York publisher. Jan. 31 Walter Wellman, pioneer aeronaut and veteran Journalist. Feb. 2 Gilbert M. Hitchcock, former for-mer senator from Nebraska. Feb. 3 Montague Glass, American writer. Eleanora de Cisneros, operatic star, in New York, Feb. 13 August Anheuser Busch of St. Louis, brewery magnate. William Travers Jerome of New York. Charles R. Flint, shipowner and financier. Feb. 14 Melvin A, Traylor, Chicago Chi-cago banker. Feb. 17 Albert, king of the Belgians. Bel-gians. Feb. 18 John R. Rogers, co-inventor of the Mergenthaler linotype machine, in New York. Feb. 22 Representative Joseph L. Hooper of Michigan. Feb. 23 Sir Edward Elgar, British Brit-ish composer. Corse Peyton, veteran American actor. Feb. 25 Dr. Daniel W. Protheroe of Chicago, composer and director. John McGraw, veteran baseball manager. Feb. 27 Dr. Henry O. King, educator, edu-cator, In Oberlin, Ohio. March 4 John Alden, poet and editor, in Brooklyn, N. Y. William Astor Chanler, explorer and soldier, In Mentone. France. March 11 Margaret Illington Bowes, former stage star. March 14 Mrs. Fannie Osborn Porteous, first "Topsy" of stage, at Watertown, S. D. March 15 John A. Simpson. Oklahoma Okla-homa City, president of the National Nation-al Farmers' union. March 21 Lilyan Tashman. movie actress, in New York. March 23 John M. Harlan, lawyer, In New York. March 25 Maj. Gen. George O. Squier in Washington. March 29 Otto Kahn, banker, in New York. April 1 Edward W. Pou, congressman, con-gressman, in Washington. April 9 William Wallace McDowell, Mc-Dowell, American minister to Irish Free State. Mother Hyacinth, founder of Passionate Pas-sionate order in United States. April 10 Theodore Douglas Robinson Rob-inson at Little Falls, N. Y. April 11 Alfredo Zayas. ex-pres-tdent of Cuba. Sir Gerald Du Maurier, British actor. April 14 Justice W. C. Owen of Wisconsin supreme court. April 16 John J. Blaine, former governor of Wisconsin and United States senator. Edwin V. Morgan, former diplomat. diplo-mat. April 18 Alfred Juergens of Chicago, Chi-cago, artist. April 20 C. H. Allen, former governor gov-ernor of Puerto Rico. April 21 Federal Judge W. B. Sheppard at Jacksonville, Fla. April 22 Mrs. Cornelius Vander-bilt. Vander-bilt. Sr., in New York. William Thaw, veteran of Lafayette Lafay-ette Escadrille. April 24 Dr. Paul Shorey, Greek scholar, in Chicago. Fay Hempstead, poet laureate of Free Masonry, in Little Rock, Ark. April 30 Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, noted Indian fighter. Dr. W. H. Welch, pathologist, at Baltimore. May 2 William C. Proctor of Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, manufacturer. May 3 William H. Woodln, ex-secretary ex-secretary of the treasury. May 7 William Gardner, naval architect, in Bayhead, N. J. May 9 Joy Morton of Chicago, salt company head. May 11 William E. Corey, former for-mer head of United States Steel corporation. cor-poration. May 14 Charles De Garmo, ex-president ex-president of Swarthmore college. May 17 Cass Gilbert, American architect. May 19 Willis J. Abbott, veteran editor, in Brookline, Mass. Dr. William Hoskins, famous chemist, in Chicago. May 22 Joseph M. Dixon, ex-governor of Montana. May 24 Brand Whltlock, former ambassador to Belgium. May 25 William B. Wilson, first secretary of labor. Frank Lascelles, English sculptor and painter. Archbishop Nell McNeil of Toronto. May 2S J. F. J. Archibald, war correspondent. In Hollywood. Calif. Samuel T. Clover, journalist. In Los Angeles. Prof. F. J. Pyre of University of Wisconsin. May 29 Jackson Barnett, wealthiest wealth-iest Indian, In Los Angeles. Admiral Togo, Japanese war hero. May 31 Lew Cody, screen actor. June 2 James Rolph, Jr., governor gover-nor of California. Maj. Gen. James Parker, retired. June 4 Rev. C. L. O'Donnell, president of Notre Dame university. June 6 Dr. C. A, Hedbiorn of Chicago, Chi-cago, surgeon. June 7 James Keeley, vice president pres-ident of Pullman company and for mer editor. June 16 Hal Skelly, American actor. ac-tor. June 18 Tom Masson. author and editor. Fourth Duke of Wellington. June 20 Thorne Smith, American author. June 24 Charles S. Thomas of Colorado, former governor and senator. sen-ator. June 27 Eugene M. Rhodes, historian his-torian of the West. Milton C. Work, bridge expert. June 2S Zaro Agha, 100 years old. In Istanbul. Clifford G. Roe of Chicago, noted crusader against white slaver. June 30 The duke of Marlborough. Marlbor-ough. July 1 Chester I. Long, former senator from Kansas. July 3 Prince Consort Henry of the Netherlands. July 4 Mme. Marie Curie, co-discoverer of radium, in France. Chalm Blalik of Vienna, Hebrew poet. July 6 Franklin MacVcagh of Chicago, former secretary of the treasury. Mrs. Maud Radford Warren, American Amer-ican author. July 13 Hugh Frayne, prominent union labor leader. July 14 Julian Hawthorne, author, auth-or, only son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Haw-thorne. July 16 Louis Ferdinand Gott-schalk, Gott-schalk, veteran composer and conductor con-ductor of light opera. July 21 Col. J. T. Axton. former chief of chaplains of United States army. July 24 Bishop John W. Hamilton, Hamil-ton, dean of Methodist board of bishops. July 25 Engelbert Dollfuss, chancellor of Austria. Francois Coty of Paris, perfumer. July 27 Marshal L. H. Lyautey, French soldier. July 28 Marie Dressier, actress. Henry Irving Dodge, author and playwright. July 29 J. L. McLaurln, former senator from South Carolina, July 30 Paul May, Belgian ambassador am-bassador to United States. Aug. 2 Paul von Hindenburg, president of Germany. Aug. 6 Ida Mulle. veteran light opora actress. Aug. 7 William E. Vnre, veteran Republican leader of Philadelphia. Aug. 12 Augustus Thomas, American Amer-ican playwright. Aug. 13 Mary Austin, American novelist. Aug. 14 Raymond Hood, architect. archi-tect. Aug. 16 Albert B. Dick, Chicago inventor and manufacturer. Prof. F. E. Seagrave, astronomer, at Providence, R. I. G. A. Kingsbury of Chicago, veteran vet-eran theatrical manager. Aug. 19 Henry T. lialney of Illinois, Illi-nois, speaker of t'he house. Sir Nigel Playfalr, English actor and manager. Aug. 25 Hugo Victor Felix, composer, com-poser, In Hollywood. Calif. Aug. 80 Charles B. Dillingham, veteran theatrical producer In New York. Aug. 81 Maj. Gen. H. Q. Bishop, United States army. Sept, 2 Russ Columbo, screen actor ac-tor and radio crooner, in Lob Angeles. An-geles. Sept. 3 Dr. G. C. Brandenburg of Purdue university. Arthur A. Fowler of New York, sportsman and author. Sept. 4 Arthur Jordan of Indianapolis, Indian-apolis, philanthropist and industrialist. industrial-ist. Sept. 6 Gen. Theodore Bingham of New York. Sept. 10 Count Joseph Karolyl, Hungarian legitimist leader. Sept. 12 Catherine Breshkovsk-aya, Breshkovsk-aya, Russian revolutionist. In Prague. Sept. 13 William Lorimer. former senator from Illinois. Dr. Bertbold Laufer of Chicago. anthropologist. Sept. 16 C. B. McNaught, Canadian Cana-dian financier. Sept. 18 Ruth Hale of New York, writer and feminist. Sept. 20 Porter Emerson Browne, American playwright. Duke of St. Albans, descendant ot Charles II Sept. 21 Robert Fulton Cutting, New York financier and philanthropist. philanthrop-ist. Sept. 23 Anthony Ivins, prominent Mormon, in Salt Lake City. Lucien Gaudin of France, champion cham-pion fencer. Sept. 24 Alfred Rustem Bey, Turkish diplomat. Sept. 25 Percy A. Rockefeller, New York financier. Marquess of Beresford, Irish peer. Edwin Le Mare, American organist organ-ist and composer. Sept. 28 Maj. Gen. G. H. Harries, war time commander at Brest. Sept. 30 Harry Askin, veteran theatrical manager. John K. Shields, former senator from Tennessee. Oct. 6 Frank L. Coombs of California, Cali-fornia, former congressman and ambassador am-bassador to Japan. Oct. 8 Maj. Gen. W. A, Mann. United States army, retired. Oct. 9 Louis Barthou, French foreign for-eign minister. King Alexander of Jugoslavia. Oct. 12 Lord Cushendun of Ul8-ter, Ul8-ter, Ireland. Oct. 13 Sir Arthur Schuster, British Brit-ish physicist. Oct. 14 Raymond Polncare. French statesman. Oct. 15 Charles E. Coffin of rn-dianapolis, rn-dianapolis, philanthropist and business busi-ness leader. President E. B. Bryan of Ohio university. uni-versity. Athens, Ohio. Oct. 18 Hal G. Evarts, American author. Oct. 19 Gen. Alexander von Kluck, German field marshal. Oct. 20 James R. Mellon of Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, banker. Oct. 23 Prince Caetanl, Italian diplomat and engineer. Oct. 25 Frank Sprague of New York, electric traction pioneer. I Oct. 29 Lou Tellegen, screen ac- tor. I Nov. 2 Baron Edmond de Roths- I child, banker and sportsman, In Boulogne, Bou-logne, France. Nov. 3 Dr. Elmer E. Brown,. I American educator. Nov. 4 Sir Alfred Gilbert, English Eng-lish sculptor. Nov. 5 Dr. L. L. McArthur of Chicago, Chi-cago, surgeon. Nov. 6 Thomas G. Lee, president, of Armour & Company, In Chicago. J Nov. 9 Ivy Lee. publicity expert, I In New York. I Nov. 11 Rear Admiral Samuel Magowan, United States navy. Sir Donald Mann. Canadian railroad rail-road builder. Nov. 15 Congressman-elect Frederick Fred-erick Landis of Logansport. Ind. Nov. 16 Bryson Burroughs, Amer- j lean artist. i Mrs. Alice Hargraves, original of Alice in Wonderland, in England. Justice F. R, DeYoung of Illinois Illi-nois Supreme court. Nov. 17 W. R. Cole, president Louisville & Nashville railroad. Nov. 18 Lee Mantle, former senator sen-ator from Montana. Cardinal Gasparri in Rome. Nov. 23 Sir Arthur Pinero, British Brit-ish dramatist. Sir Ernest Budge. Egyptologist. Nov. 24 Charles Macauley of New York, veteran cartoonist. Nov. 25 Queen Sadie, mother of King Zog of Albania. Nov. 26 Sam Harris, theatrical producer, In San Francisco. Nov. 29 Capt.: John Wanamaker ' of New York, sportsman and war veteran. Nov. 30 Philip Hale of Boston, music and drama critic. Dec. 1 C. M. Greenway, president presi-dent of Booth Newspapers. Inc. Dec. 5 Lord Rlddell, British newspaper publisher. Dec. 6 Dr. A, W. Rowe of Boston, Bos-ton, biologist. Dec. 7 Former Gov. W. W. Brandon Bran-don of Alabama. Dec. 9 Dr. Manuel Sterling, Cuban Cu-ban ambassador to Washington. Dec. 10 Dr. Theobald Smith, president pres-ident of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Dec. 11 W. T. Waggoner of Fort Worth, Texas, capitalist and turf leader. Rear Admiral John .Halllgan, U S. N. Dec- 14 Anthony J. Drexel, Sr. Philadelphia banker. Dec. 17 W. L. Harding, forme? governor of Iowa. James B. Clews. New York banker , Western Newspaper Ulon. |