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Show Chronology of tho Y G Q r Compiled 1934 E.W. Pickard 7 . rJn DOMESTIC ;aM ll'rifi'lnt J too "ft vlt ao-f.-(Jr.-.i t li rr.)lK'ii.f.!n or iS.-.-rer:iry ,f thi 1 iraiuiy W. if. Wo'.-lln, aii'l iiiany Mji k'(;iitliii.u, Jr., Lo N'. .:.:! him. Jun. 3 i'lmKrrin nitf.nf.d regular k.c'11'til Hfi'J h.:arl I'r.-sl'Hfit llo--.-v.iil int;-,.iK l:Unntf the Nti ljf.:.l mu.it I") fiiiulu jriiiiiririt. J;in 4 -O.iiKiMS rvjv:.l ft'reMldnt f:oofc-:vt -lt'ii Nu-iK'-t rn-aaK cullintj for Jil lA billion dollar. J;t .'.-Houna pa,-! 1470,000,000 national llu-iur tax bill. Jan. H.Sutrtin court upheld turn at orlu fii on mort KK'ta. Jan. 10 1'reaitleot KoonevMt nnU.1 thu nenalH to ratify tne St. I, a a rin'i) w al'-r w.'iy treat y. S.-iiato pu.iaeiJ national lwuor tax bill Jan. 12 fi-n. Wanton W1nnhip wat aijpolniurl K"V.-rnor of For to jdi'M vic It. H. (iort;, rewljntMl. Willis O. irKK wan appointed chief of the w t-iit her bureau. Jan. 15 l'i i:Mlil'-nl KooheVwlt asked rr,(iKrens for n M 1 1 io na I authority to .-. fiMlwriil bank Kohl reserve and tlx .lollar between uO and tiO emits. Jan. I'J rre.snleiit Itoo.nevelt mod-fieri mod-fieri hlM economy reflation to ln-rreao ln-rreao annual payment to disabled vet ei a n ty 21 nil 1 1 ion dollars. Jan. 2 lloiiMft of representatives pa.iMed the i'ruwldeiit'o money bill, 3.1H to 40. Jan. JM Naval supply bill of 284 millions pus.sed by house. Jan. 27- Hunuto paused President's money bill. Jan. 30 Nation rolohrated President Presi-dent itooHovolt'a tt ly-seeond birthday birth-day House pusaed the Vinson navy bill. Jan. 31 President established a 61) .06 cent dollar. I'Vl), 6 United States Supreme court quashed all pending federal dry cases. 1'Vb. i President and postmaster Kent! nil cancelled all atr mail con tracts and the army was called on to carry the air mall. Feb. 14 William P. MacCracken and I j. H. Hrittin sentenced by senate sen-ate to ton days In Jail for contempt In connection with air mall Investigation. Investi-gation. Keb. 19 Army air corps began flying the air mall. Keb. 21 House passed tax revision bill. Feb. 22 HoR-er Touhy and two members of his Rang convicted In Chicago of kidnaping John Factor and Riven 99 years In prison. Ke-b. 26 President asked congress to create federal commission on wire and radio communications. h'flh 27 Sunn Ia vntpf) tn rnfltnrA 350 millions In veterans' benefits and federal salaries. Feb. 28 House voted against federal fed-eral furniture fnctory. , March 2 President asked con-iress con-iress for power to negotiate tariffs. M arch 3 John Dllllnger, bank rebber and desperado, escaped from J ill at Crown Point, Ind. Ma roh 6 Supreme court upheld overninent price fixing. President Koosevelt asked Industry Indus-try to raise wages and shorten hours. March 6 Senate passed full strength navy construction bill. President appointed Judge Flor-eiiVe Flor-eiiVe Alien of Ohio as federal circuit coil rt 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. Mnrch 13 Arthur Outts Wlllard elected president of University of Illinois. March 14 St. Lawrence waterway treaty rejected by the senate. March 19 Army resumed flying air mall. March 23 President urged pas-engo pas-engo of Job Insurance bill. March 24 President signed Philippine Philip-pine 1 ml e penile nee bill. March 2 ft President settled threatened threat-ened strike In automobile Industry. M arch 26 President vetoed economy econ-omy 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-dav, 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 bv Dr. 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 Koosevelt returned to Washington from fishing trip. April 16 Gov. La n per 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. A 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 rract Ices act. April iS 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. May 7 Samuel Insull was landed In United States and taken to Chicago Chi-cago for trial. May S Federal grand Jury In Pittsburgh refused to indict A. W. Mellon for tax evasion. May 12 Senate passed Fletcher-Ray Fletcher-Ray burn stock exchange bill. May 15 Senator David A. Reed defeated Gov. Gifford Pinchot in Pennsylvania Republican primaries; Democrats nominated Joseph F. Guf-fey Guf-fey for senate. Senate passed bill for federal control con-trol of radio and wire communications. communica-tions. May IS President Roosevelt, In message to congress, called for domestic do-mestic and international control over arms and munitions. Seven 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. Studebaker of pes Moines was selected to succeed im. May 23 President Roosevelt asked congress to pass bill partly remon- t;ini silver. M-.y 2H Ch'cr.go's Century of Vr -Ttaa :riit:ori reopened. May 27 Pr-aidmil orl-r--l rriO'li-AV;,rV.n rriO'li-AV;,rV.n of rvic- ln-1 trira cod -a. ity pre-bU-rt P.'ju-fve.t de-llv.-red M-rnurl Lay address at ( j f y i 0 u ! -A . , , , Cotton t-.-xtile workers called gen- r'vay ""lii Prfidrit Roosevelt re-v'ewc re-v'ewc 1 the Lulled dial. ..-a i:el olf N-w York. , liou.i: paasftd administration a ah -"r o:!l. Ji: 1 o : -a if a .1 completed en-a' en-a' ' mei.t of slock exchange control bill. ., June 2 Cotton textile strike ca::-d i.ff bV ComorMr: he. Hoo-e pasd communications control con-trol bill. t J uno 4 Senate passed the tar.n J u n 6 Henry P. Fletcher of von - yiv.mla. eN-ced chairman of it.- pu 01 ie:i n national committee. Juno H Presidr-nt P.uusevelt In ap.rcial rue.-;ie set forth hm future pian.i for betterment of living. June U Silver bill passed by the J line 1 4 Senate confl rrned R. G. Tnwell a.i unde.rsecreLary of agrl- cu i t u re. June 15 Steel workers decided to pu m p r j n t strike tndetlnl tely. June 1 i Governor Langer of North Dakota and four others convicted con-victed of defrauding United States governnie nt. June 1 Seventy-third congress j adtournerj. juna 2 - J 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 1 00,000,00 0 in middle west drouth areas. June 2ti United States milk code held Illegal by Federal Judge Barnes In Chicago. JuriH 2' Board of three named by President to mediate steel Industry In-dustry troubles. July 1 President Roosevelt sailed on cruiser Houston X'or vacation cruise to Hawaii. juy 4 Hf;v. John F. CVHara elected president of Notre Dame unl-versi unl-versi ty. July 6 Eightieth birthday of Republican Re-publican party celebrated at Jackson, Jack-son, Mich. July !i Senate's Jail sentence of W. P. McCraeken for contempt upset up-set by D. C. court of appeals. July 10 Mississippi voted to remain re-main dry. juy 14 Unions in San Francisco area voted for general strike. July 16 General strike In effect In San Francisco. James J. Doollng elected head of Tammany. July 17 Gov. William Langer 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 Harrlman 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 Dllllnger. 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 jTHCim; uuum enucu in vuiupi umisc. 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 unions un-ions voted to Join in textile strike. Aug. 1 8 Louisiana legislature passed laws making Senator Long end Governor Allen dictators of the state. Aug. 21 Twelve bandits took $427,000 from armored money truck in Brooklyn. N. Y. Truck drivers' strike In Minneapolis Minne-apolis ended in compromise. Aug. 24 Reciprocal trade treaty with Cuba proclaimed by President Roosevelt. Sept. 1 Director of the Budget Lewis Douglas resigned. Sept. 3 R e tail coal code authority author-ity resigned in protest against NRA methods. Sept. 4 Strike of textile workers began ; declared 50 per cent effective. effec-tive. Sept. 6 Aluminum workers' strike ended by compromise. Sept. 10 Maine re-elected Governor Gover-nor Brann, Democratic, and Senator Hale, Republican : and voted repeal 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 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 otllcera near East Liverpool, Ohio. Oct. 25 American Legion demanded 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 reserve re-serve boart. Nov. 10 President Roosevelt appointed ap-pointed advisory council for social reforms, headed by Frank P. Graham. Gra-ham. Martial law declared in Arizona in state's tight against California project. Nov. 1 4 Unemployment Insurance program outlined by President Roosevelt before conference on economic eco-nomic security. Nov. 15 President Roosevelt left Washington for Warm Springs via 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 Barrinsrton 111., and was himself shot to death' Eec. 1 Katherine Lenroot ap-I ap-I pointed chief of the children's bureau, bu-reau, Department of Labor. Dec. 3 United States Supreme court upheld right of land erant colleges to make military training con; puisory. i. Dec. 6 President Roosevelt re-tur,1-d to Washington. I.c. 10 National conference on crime prevent. on opened in U a-sn- De'"' 1" Pre!dent named committee commit-tee to draft legislation to end war PT'-fKS. , , D-c. 15 President's advisory council reported unemployment insurance in-surance sytem. . r,w. 16 National resources board ou tl 'neg 105 billion dollar pub.ic works program for 20 to 30 years. INTERNATIONAL jan. 7 Paraguay and Bolivia re-um" re-um" war in the Chuco Boreal, the truce bitvinn expired. Jan. I France quadrupled Lulled Sta!-1 import quotas. France and Kusaia signed new commercial treaty. Jan 23 Government of President Mer.dieta of CuLa recognized by United States. Jan. 2'i (lermany and Poland eiKned a ten year peace treaty. peij 5 Austrian cabinet decided to appeal to League of Nations at-alnst German Nazi aggression. tb. 17 Great Britain. P'ranceand Italy aprreed to maintain Austria's Independence and integrity. March 2 China refused to recognise recog-nise Manchukuo. March 23 FVance charpred Germany Ger-many had violated Versailles treaty. April 17 Japan protested against the giving of aid to China by other nations. June 25 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 15 Evacuation of Haiti by American marines completed. Aug. IS Manchukuo severed all relations with Russia. Aug. 21 World Jewish conference at Geneva declared redoubled boycott boy-cott of Nazi Germany. Sept. 3 Kvangeline 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 Mlnot. G. H. Whipple and W. P. Murphy of United States. Nov. 8 Lulgl Plrandelll. Italian novelist and playwright, awarded Nobel prize for literature. Nov. 15 Dr. Harold C. Urey of 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 request re-quest for extradition of Dr. Ante Pavellch, alleged leader of band that Hilled 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 Internationa police force Into the Saar, French being excluded, exclud-ed, and Germany a'greed 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 Marin us 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 He via was selected to succeed suc-ceed him. Jan. 16 Chancellor Hitler made himself dictator over all German industry. in-dustry. Jan. 17 Hevia resigned presidency of Cuba and Carlos Mend 1 eta was named to succeed him by Col. Ful- gencio atista, neaa oi tne 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 Chau temps' French cabinet cab-inet resigned. Jan. 30 Daladler formed new French government. German reichstag made Chancellor Chancel-lor Hitler sovereign of all the states. Feb. 5 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 1,000 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 Sandlno, 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 Marillac sainted saint-ed by the Pope. March 15 Samuel Insull vanished from Athens on eve of his deportation. deporta-tion. March 20 Hitler launched program pro-gram to give jobs to idle. March 28 Gen. Johan Laidoner 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 Saud of Arabia began war on the kingdom of Yemen. Ye-men. May 9 Premier Mussolini set up rule of country by guilds. May 13 Armistice declared In war in Arabia-May Arabia-May 19 Bulgarian army established estab-lished a dictatorship by bloodless coup. Pope Pius canonist Conrad of PVAvam2 4 Thomas Masaryk reelected re-elected president of Czechoslovakia f;,v 2i Irisb dail abolished the Se" Italian scientist announced d'scovery of new element, artmcial-lv artmcial-lv created from uranium - june 15 president Mendieta or Cuba wounded and two navy otticers k-Pcd by a terrorist's bomb. June 17 Cuban terrorists attacked at-tacked ABC paraders; fifteen killed and many wounded. June 30 Revolt of radicals in the Nazi Partv smashed by Chancellor Hitler; Gen. Kurt von Schleicher and many other leaders shot to death and scores arrested. Aana July i;en. Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico. July 2 Japanese cabinet resigned. July 4 Admiral Keisuke Okada made premier of Japan. JuIy 12 Chancellor Dollfuss reorganized re-organized Austrian cabinet and declared de-clared war on Nazis and bomb throwers. . . ju!v 17 Vargas elected constitutional constitu-tional president of Brazil. Julv 25 Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria assassinated by group of NlJu?y 29 Kurt Schuschnlgg appointed ap-pointed chancellor of Austria. Julv 21 Two slayers of Chancellor Chancel-lor Dollfuss of Austria condemned and executed. v, Aug 2 President von Hlndenburg of Germany died and Chancellor Hitler assumed the presidential PAug3"l9 Germany by 10 to 1 vote accepted Hitler's assumption of bu-preme bu-preme power. Sept 3 Strikes and riots throughout through-out Cuba; martial law proclaimed; cabinet resigned. . , Sept 2(i Queen Mary of England launched the Cunarder Queen Mary, world's largest ship. Oct 5 Radical revolt broke out in Catalonia and other parts of Spain. Hundreds killed in fights with trocta 7 Spanish revolution suppressed sup-pressed bv government troops. Oct. 9 King Alexander I of Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia assassinated. 0ct io Crown Prince Peter, 11 years old, proclaimed king of Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia under a regency. International Euchartstic 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, g 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. pec 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. B 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- ii six American navy planes make nonstop flight from San Francisco Fran-cisco to Honolulu. Jan. 30 Three Russian balloonist balloon-ist ascepded 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 Sabelli started from New York on nonstop flight to Rome. May 15 Pond and Sabelli landed in Ireland because of engine trouble. trou-ble. May 27 Rossi and Codos began flight from Paris to California. May 28 Wing trouble forced Rossi Ros-si and Codos to land at New York. June 2S B. and J. Adamowlcz started flight from New York to Warsaw, via Harbor Grace, N. F. June 30 Gas shortage forced Ad-amowicz Ad-amowicz 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 Leon- -Daai )ao n nnnatnn fli P-h t frnm VVasaga Beach, Ont., to Bagdad. ' Aug. 9 Ayling and Reed forced ! to land near London by lack of ! fuel. Aug. 19 Pond and Sabelli, 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 rrlnutes 50 seconds. sec-onds. Dec. 3 Flight Lieut. C. T: P. Ulm of Australia and two oompanions 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, Czechosloakia, killed 140 men. Jan. 8 Eighty perished in a panic pan-ic at Kyoto, Japan. Jan. 15 Earthquake shook all India, In-dia, killing 5C0. 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 dvnamite explosion ex-plosion and fire; 150 lives lost March 21 One thousand dead! 3-000 3-000 Injured in fire 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 Highty-seven men killed In mine disaster at Buggingen Germany. Ger-many. May 15 Liner Olympic rammed and sank rsantucket lightship; seven ddblast in Belgium killed I 43 Lake steamer In Finland sank. 21 drowned. tsmrV. May 19 Chicago Union Stockyards Stock-yards partly destroyed by 5S.00U,- 0Marvre25 Landslide in Kwantung province. China, killed 2:0 June 1 Forty children k 1 by hurricane near Nanching. C i na. june 7Two thousand killed by hurricane in Salvador. june 9Air liner crashed and burned In the Catskllls; seven persons per-sons killed. . .t June 11 Floods destroyed Honduras Hon-duras town; 1.000 lives lost. July n Disastrous earthquake at David. Panama. july is Floods In southern Poland Po-land took scares of lives. Alg 4 TtiTee hundred die In floods In Persia. Sept 8 Ward liner Morro Castle burned off New Jersey coast; m """sent.3 17 Nome, Alaska, destroyed bv tire; loss $2,000,000. 'Sept. 21 Japan swept Jy destructive destruc-tive tvphoon: more than 2,000 killed. Mine explosion at 'Wrexham, Wales, killed 261 men. Oct 2i Disastrous storm along northwest coast of United States. Nov. 16 Scores killed by typhoon 'nDec."o 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. Jall. 14 Walker D. Hines, former director general of American railroads. rail-roads. . , Gen Jean Marchand of France, center figure of Fashoda fort lncid- e"jan. 16 John Sherwin, 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 StJan. 22 Dr. Mary I H. Black, southern educator. Jan. 30 Frank N. Doubleday, New York publisher. Jan. 31 Walter Wellman, pioneer aeronaut and veteran JournaliBt. Feb. 2 Gilbert M. Hitchcock, former for-mer senator from Nebraska. Feb. 3 Montague Glass, American writer. Eleanora de Clsneros, operatic, star. In New York. Feb. 13 August Anheuser Buscn of St. Louis, Drewery 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. Anril 11 Alfredo Zavas. ex-Dres- ident 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 lighter. Dr. W. H. Welch, pathologist, at Baltimore. May 2 William C. Proctor of Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, manufacturer. May 3 William H. Woodin, 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 arch itect. May 19 Willis J. Abbott, veteran editor, in Brookline, Mass. Dr. WJlliam Hoskins, famous chemist, in Chicago. May 22 Joseph M. Dixon, ex-governor of Montana. May 24 Brand Whitlock, former ambassador to Belgium. May 25 William B. Wilson, first secretary of labor. Frank Lascelles, English sculptor and painter. Archbishop Neil McNeil of Toronto May 28 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. Hedblom 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 IS Tom Masson. author and editor. Fourth Duke of Wellington. June 20 Tnorne Smith, American author. June 24 Charles S. Thomas ol Colorado, former governor and sem a June 27 Eugene M. Rhodes, historian his-torian of the West. Milton C. Work, bridge expert. June 28 Zaro Agha, 160 years old, In Istanbul. Clifford G. Roe of Chicago, noted crusader against white slavery. June 30 The duke of Marlbor- Jul'y 1 Chester I. Long, former senator from Kansas. july s Prince Consort Henry of the Netherlands. july 4 Mine. Marie Curie, co-dls-coverer of radium, in France. Chalm Bialik of Vienna, Hebrew PJuly 6 Franklin MacVeagh of Chicago, former secretary of tho 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 "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 P;ul May, Belgian ambassador am-bassador to United States. Aug. 2 Paul von Hindenburg, president of Germany. Aug. 6 Ida Mulle. veteran light opera actress. Aug 1 William E. Vare, veteran Republican leader of Philadelphia. Aug. 12 Augustus Thomas, American Amer-ican playwright. Aug. 13 Mary Austin, American novelist. TT . . , Aug. 14 Raymond Hood, architect archi-tect Aug. 15 Albert B. Dick, Chicago inventor and manufacturer. Prof. F. E. Seagrave, astronomer, at Providence, H. L G. A. Kingsbury of Chicago, veteran vet-eran theatrical manager. Aug. 19 Henry T. Kainey of Illinois, Illi-nois, speaker of the house. . Sir Nigel Playfalr, English actor and manager. Aug. 25 Hugo Victor Felix, composer, com-poser, In Hollywood. Calif. Aug. 30 Charles B. Dillingham, veteran theatrical producer in New Aug. 31 Maj. Gen. H. Q. Bishop, United States army. Sept. 2 Russ Columbo. Nreen actor ac-tor and radio crooner, 1 18 An- B6Sept. S Dr. G. C. Bran65rs of Purdue university. 1 Arthur A. Fowler of New Tfk, sportsman and author. Sept. 4 Arthur Jordan or Indl&a-apolis, Indl&a-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, io Prague. Sept. 13 William Lorlmer. former senator from Illinois. Dr. Bertr.old Laufer of Chicago, anthropologist. Sept. 16 C. B. McNaught, Canadian Cana-dian financier. Sept. 18 Ruth Hale of New Yorfe. writer and feminist. Sept. 20 Porter Emerson Browne. American playwright. Duke of St. Albans, descendant of Charles II. Sept. 21 Robert Fulton Cuttin 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 Bej. Turkish diplomat. Sept. 25 Percy A. Rockefeller New York financier. Marquess of Beresford, Irish pee Edwin Le Mare, American organ' 1st and composer. Sept. 28 Maj. Gen. G. H. Harriet war time commander at Brest. Sept. 30 Harry Askin, Vetera theatrical manager. John K. Shields, former senator from Tennessee. Oct. 5 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 Uls ter, Ireland. Oct. 13 Sir Arthur Schuster, British Brit-ish physicist. Oct. 14 Raymond Polncare. Frenck statesman. Oct. 15 Charles E. Coffin of In- illnnnnnlis. nhilanth roDis t and busl' ness leader. President E. B. Bryan of Ohio unfr versity, Athens, Ohio. Oct. 18 Hal G. Evarts, American author. Oct. 19 Gen. Alexander votf Kluck, German field marshal. Oct. 20 James R. Mellon of Pitt burgh, banker. Oct. 23 Prince Caetani, Italia diplomat and engineer. Oct. 25 Frank Sprague of New" York, electric traction pioneer. Oct. 29 Lou Tellegen, screen actor. ac-tor. Nov. 2 Baron Edmond de Roths-child, Roths-child, banker and sportsman, in Boulogne, Bou-logne, France. Nov. 3 Dr. Elmer E. Brown, American educator. Nov. 4 Sir Alfred Gilbert, Eng. lish sculptor. Nov. 6 Dr. L. L. McArthur of Chi cago, surgeon. Nov. 6 Thomas G. Lee, president of Armour & Company, In Chicago- Nov. 9 Ivy Lee, publicity expert, In New York. Nov. 11 Rear Admiral Samuel Magowan, United States navy. Sir Donald Mann, Canadian railroad rail-road builder. Nov. 15 Congressman-elect Frederick Fred-erick Landls of Logansport. Ind. Nov. 16 Bryson Burroughs, American Amer-ican artist. 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 Wanamnker of New York, sportsman and war veteran. Nov. 30 rhlllp Hale of Boston, music and drama critic. Dec. 1 C. M. Greenway, president presi-dent of Booth Newspapers. Inc. Dec. 5 Lord Hiddell, 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, pres- l?"?.1 ?f Roclefeller Institute for Medical Research. ,B',C: n w- T- Waggoner of Fort Worth. Texas, capitalist and turf leader. g liear Admiral John Halllgan, U. dv,LuCc.; ,14 Anthony J. Droxel. Sr. Philadelphia banker Dec. 17 W. L. Harding, former governor of Iowa. cornier James a Clows. New York banker. 10, Woulorn Nuu'spuper Union. |