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Show EVENTS OF 1929 pflssjee Noteworthy Happeningsof the Year in the United States and Other Countries. By EDWARD W. PICKARD MAN happenings contributed to milking the yenr 1020 highly Interesting to the olwarvers of human hu-man even Is, and at times exciting for some of Hie participants therein. there-in. l''lrst In International Importance Impor-tance were the long 81 rides taken toward the establishment of pence throughout the world. There were the tinprecedented visit of L'rlme Minister MacDonald of Great Britain Brit-ain to ('resident Hoover, followed by the announcement that under their administrations tne two great llngllsli-spetiklng nations would cooperate co-operate to prevent war, and by the Invitation to 'France, Italy and Japan to participate with the United States and Britain In another an-other conference for naval llmlta tlon ; the formal acceptance of the Kellogg-Brland pact by nearly all nnttnna tho run fl 1 1 1 f men t fit fipr- inun reparations by the Young commission, com-mission, the liquidation of other World war problems and the beginning begin-ning of the evacuation of the Rhine-land Rhine-land by the allies. Mars was almost idle throughout the year. The only serious armed conflicts were the "unolliclal" war -In Manchuria between the Chinese mid Itusslans; the perennial civil wiir In China ; a oloody but futile rebellion In Mexico, and a bitter struggle for the throne of Afghanistan. Afghan-istan. An uprising of Arabs against Jews In Palestine cost many lives, but was speedily quelled by the (trltish. In the United States the most talked-of event was the collupse In the autumn of Inflated stock prices on the exchanges, which look from a host of amateur speculators spec-ulators paper profits of many bil lions of dollars. The calamitous depressions de-pressions that might have resulted was averted when ('resident Hoover called into conference the leaders of Industry, finance and labor and obtained their pledges to support his program for continued and increasing in-creasing prosperity. At the same time Secretary of the Treasury Mellon Mel-lon announced that the administration administra-tion would recommend that corporation corpora-tion and Individual income tax rates for 1929 be reduced by 1 per cent, and tills plan was supported by leaders of both parties and acted on with celerity by congress In De--"unber. In its special session dur-'ie dur-'ie summer congress enacted a A'-ief law and a federal farm ofting under Its provisions was ou&n In operation with ample funds,to aid the agriculturists. The house also passed a tariff bill, raising rais-ing many of the rates; but the senate, sen-ate, controlled by a coalition of "(democrats, re-wrote the measure on other lines and the controversy went over to the regular session that opened on December 2. INTERNATIONAL J WHEN Gen. Charles Gates Dawes, after doing a little job of revising the public finances of Santo Domingo, went to England as; American ambassador, he Immediately Imme-diately began conversations with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald with a view of clearing up the differences dif-ferences between the United States and Great Britain concerning limitation lim-itation of naval armament and preparing pre-paring the way for another conference confer-ence of tiie chief naval powers. The two statesmen found agreement easy, and early in October Mr. Mac-Donald Mac-Donald came over to discuss that and allied questions with President Hoover. Their conversations were equally satisfactory and they announced an-nounced that the two nations would renounce war with each other and co-operate to preserve peace throughout the world. The spirit of good will infused all their utterances, ut-terances, and even the suspicious French were reassured when both Mr. Hoover and Mr. MacDonald declared de-clared this Anglo-American entente was not designed to tnke tfie least advantage of any other nation. The ground thus being made ready, France, Italy and Japan were invited to participate in a conference confer-ence In London In January for the purpose of extending nnd supplementing supple-menting the Washington treaty of 1922. They were told that the British Brit-ish and American governments still desired the abolition of the submarine subma-rine but recognized that no final settlement set-tlement on this subject could be reached except In conference with the other naval powers. It was made plain that the Americans and liritlsh felt fairly sure they could agree on the matter of cruiser limitation. lim-itation. Acceptances from all were quite prompt, but it was evident France would cling to the submarine subma-rine and that Italy probably would support her In this. In other respects re-spects those two nations found It hard to reach a preliminary understanding under-standing owing mainly to their rivalry ri-valry in the Mediterranean. President Hoover named, as American delegates to the conference, confer-ence, Secretary of Slate Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Adams, Ambassadors Am-bassadors Dawes, Morrow and Gibson, Gib-son, and Senators Reed of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and Robison of Arkansas. Adjustment of Reparations. German reparations were readjusted read-justed by the commission of International Inter-national experts headed by Owen D. Young of the United States, and the plan offered was accepted by all nations concerned, though Germany Ger-many professed to be disappointed with it, and Great Britain would not accept the division of payments at first suggested. The Germans were consoled by the resulting evacua tion of the Rhlneland long before the time set by the treaty of Versailles. Ver-sailles. Withdrawals from two of the occupied zones was completed late In the year, and by the middle of December all the British troops had departed. One of the most Important features fea-tures of the Young plan was the setting up In Basel, Switzerland, of a BHiik o International Settlements. Settle-ments. The allied nations and Germany settled most of the remaining World war questions, Including the payments to Belgium for the worthless worth-less German murks left In that country. coun-try. Russia and China, disputing over the control and management of the Chinese Eastern railway, came to blows along the Manchurian borders, bor-ders, and though there was no declaration dec-laration of war, the fighting continued con-tinued for months. The Itusslans were the aggressors, making frequent fre-quent raids into Chinese territory and destroying a number of towns. "White" Russians In Manchuria were especially the object of their attacks. Finally, late in November, China appealed to the powers to persuade Russia to abide by the Kellogg-Brland pact, which both Russiu and China had signed. President Pres-ident Hoover led the way In response re-sponse to this request, but meanwhile mean-while negotiations had begun between be-tween Moscow and the provincial government of Manchuria, and Moscow Mos-cow resented the American note as I unnecessary and "not a friendly ac tion." The Nationalist government of China made repeated attempts to persuade the United States and other powers to surrender their extraterritorial ex-traterritorial rights in China, but with small success. Italy and the Vatican at Peace. Early In February negotiations for the resumption of friendly relations re-lations between Italy and the Vatican Vati-can were completed and a treaty was signed by which Italy recognized recog-nized the full sovereignty of the pope and the quarrel which had lasted SO years was ended. The separation of church and state in Italy was made official, and the Vatican, Vat-ican, with some 'adjacent land given the status of an Independent state. It was called "Vatican City" and Pius XI promulgated a constitution consti-tution for it. One other old quarrel was settled amicably, through the efforts of President Hoover. This was the Tacna-Arica dispute between Chile and Peru. The territory was divided divid-ed and every one was satisfied except ex-cept Bolivia, which had hoped for an outlet to the sea. EUhu Root's formula for adhesion adhe-sion of the United States to the Court of International Justice, commonly com-monly known as the World court, was accepted by the League of Nations Na-tions and the court itself. It satisfies sat-isfies in the main the reservation long ago made by the senate, but It will be necessary for that body to pass upon the matter again. The protocol was signed in December on behalf of President Hoover by J. P. Moffat, American charge d'affaires at Berne, Switzerland. : In January the high council of the Salvation Army, In session in England, Eng-land, voted to depose General Bram-well Bram-well Booth from the command because be-cause It was thought 111 health had made him Incompetent. The old general fought the decision through the courts, but on February 13 he was finally ousted and Edward J. Higgins was elected to succeed him. f FOREIGN DRIME Minister Stanley Baldwin's British government grew steadily stead-ily weaker through the first part of the year because of unemployment, housing, pensions, taxes and a dozen other domestic problems which it could not meet to the satisfaction of the nation. David Lloyd George put the rejuvenated Liberal party in the limelight with ample promises, prom-ises, and the Laborites looked forward for-ward to the general elections of May 30 with a confidence that was fairly justified. When the ballots were counted it was found that the Conservatives had been badly defeated, de-feated, so Baldwin and his cabinet resigned. No one party had secured se-cured a clear majority in the house of commons, but the Lat-orites were strongest. Therefore Ramsay MacDonald Mac-Donald was given the post of prime minister and proceeded to form a new government. The portfolio of minister of labor was given to Miss Margaret Bondfield, the first woman to enter a British cabinet. She was one of fourteen women elected to parliament. Arthur Henderson Hen-derson was put at the head of the foreign office. The Liberals had elected 59 members and held the balance of power. They virtually agreed to support the Labor government so long as the policies it put forward were not too socialistic; and it was freely predicted that Mr. MacDon-ald's MacDon-ald's chief troubles would come from the radical members of his party. His plans for the alleviation allevia-tion of unemployment were almost upset in July when the great cotton cot-ton industry was tied up by a strike that involved 500,000 operatives and closed l.SOO mills in the Lancashire area. The prime minister took an active personal part In the settlement settle-ment of this trouble. He also made progress toward ending the old dispute dis-pute between the coal mine operators opera-tors and their employee's. France Reasonably Prosperous. France had a fairly prosperous year, her people fattening on big crops, reparations and American tourists and amusing themselves as always with the game of politics. Premier Poincare continued In office, of-fice, despite 111 health, until he had secured the ratification of the war debt agreements with the United States and Great Britain. This action ac-tion was taken by the parliament on July 20, and M. Poincare, who had so long and so well served his country. coun-try. Immediately resigned. Aristlde Briand, veteran cabinet member, was made premier, and as the Radical Radi-cal Socialists refused to partlcl pate, he made no changes In the ministers. Under his rule repressive repres-sive measures against the Communists Com-munists were continued with vigor, and their meetings of protest were broken up by the police. Through the summer unemployment was almost al-most nonexistent, and In August a French commission reached an agreement with the government of Rumania by which 10,000 laborers were to be transported from that country to France. In October Briand's support in the chamber of deputies dwindled, and on the 22nd of that month he and his cabinet resigned. Eduard Daladler tried In vain to form a new government, and the job was then done successfully by Andre Tardieu. Briand remained In the cabinet as foreign minister and It seemed that his policies would be carried forward by the Tardieu government. gov-ernment. Fascism Grows Stronger. Premier Mussolini of Italy, scornful scorn-ful of his many detractors, further strengthened the power of Fascism, If that were possible. The new legislature was set up early In the year, and in April the Duce assumed full control of the regulation of capital cap-ital and labor. Not having much confidence In disarmament conferences, confer-ences, the premier took steps to make Italy's armed forces more efficient effi-cient and declared that while the nation desired peace with all the world. It was spiritually prepared to face any crisis. The settlement of the old quarrel with the Vati can was a feather In his cap, but later developments showed that much bitterness remained. In December De-cember the king and queen paid their first visit to Pope Pius XI In the Vatican. Their progress through the streets of Rome was a grand pageant, but the conversation with the pope was In private. Afghanistan achieved the front page at various times during the year. King Amunailah found the western reforms he tried to introduce intro-duce were causing such violent opposition op-position that he rescinded them in January and abdicated in favor of his brother. The rebellious tribesmen tribes-men were still not satisfied, and under the leadership of one Habl-bullah Habl-bullah Khan, they captured Kabul, the capital, and drove out the new king. Habibullah, who really was Bacha Sakao, a bandit, assumed the crown and lasted until October, when Nadir Khan occupied Kabul and proclaimed himself king. Bacha was taken prisoner and executed. Race War In Palestine. Palestine was the scene of a bloody uprising of the Arabs against the Jews in August and many of the latter race were massacred in Jerusalem and other places. The Immediate Im-mediate cause of the outbreak was a dispute over the Wailing Wall which the Jews have used for centuries cen-turies as a place of prayer; but It goes back to the deep resentment of the Arab against the British mandate and the predominance of Jewish influence in the government of a country which they consider belongs to them. The local authorities author-ities were unable to stop the fighting, fight-ing, so the British stepped In with warships, troops and airplanes and speedily forced the belligerents to cease their killings and depredations. depreda-tions. The situation in. the Holy Land was still considered so serious se-rious that the British government sent out a commission of inquiry. China's Nationalist government, besides the quarrel with Russia, had to contend with the seemingly unending civil warfare that keeps the huge nation relatively powerless. power-less. This conflict died down and reviveu aeveitu muta uuiiug uic twelvemonth, and in December reached its most serious stage. The rebels at that time consisted of the Kwangsi province army -and the independent in-dependent body known as the "Ironsides "Iron-sides division" commanded by Gen. Chang Fak-wel. These two forces were advancing on Canton from the west and the north, and the government govern-ment was compelled to withdraw large numbers of troops from Manchuria Man-churia to meet them. Mexico's annual revolutionary outbreak came In March and spread rapidly in eight or ten states, becoming be-coming really formidable though belittled by President Portes Gil. The rebels were under the general leadership of Escobar, while General Gen-eral Calles, minister of war, led the government forces in person. For weeks there was bloody fighting .In Orizaba, Monterey, Juarez, Manzan-illo, Manzan-illo, Jiminez and Torreon, witb fortune for-tune favoring first one side and then the other. Gen. Jesus Aguirre, rebel leader in Vera Cruz, was captured cap-tured and executed, and on April 3 the federal forces won a great victory vic-tory at Reforma. By the end of April the rebellion was In collapse, and generals by the dozen were flee-lng flee-lng across the United States border. With this off its hands, the government govern-ment proceeded to squelch the "religious "re-ligious rebels" who had been active especially along the west coast The Presidential election was held on November 17 and resulted in victory for Pascual Ortiz Rublo, candidate of the Grand Revolutionary Revolution-ary or government party, over Vas-concelos Vas-concelos of the Anri-Re-election party. The election itself was reasonably rea-sonably quiet, but was preceded by sanguinary riots in many cities. DOMESTIC j DURING the last two months of its life the Seventieth congress passed a number of necessary and wise measures, including the army , nnd navy supply bills, the bill authorizing au-thorizing the construction of To cruisers, and one providing for deportation of alien gunmen and bootleggers. Resolutions were adopted adopt-ed ordering a survey of the Nicaragua Nica-ragua canal route und giving federal fed-eral approval to the Chicago centennial cen-tennial exposition of 1933, and the senate ratified the Kellogg-Brland pact outlawing war. Aiwher measure meas-ure passed both houses that was looked upon by a considerable part of the citizenry as neliher necessary nor wise. This was the Jones bill to punish offenders against the Volstead Vol-stead law by a maximum of $10,000 fine or five years in prison or both. The bitter opposition of the wets was appeased somewhat by an amendment stating that congress did not intend that such severe penalties pen-alties should be imposed for slight or casual violations. Then came Herbert Hoover, who, with Charles Curtis, as vice president, presi-dent, was inaugurated a3 chief executive ex-ecutive on March 4. In a vigorous inaugural address the new President Presi-dent promised that his campaign pledges would be fulfilled, and dwelt especially on the problems of law enforcement, farm relief, and the tariff. He announced that the first of these would be subjected to a searching Investigation by a national na-tional commission which he would appoint, and urged congress to do its duty in respect to the others. Mr. Hoover's cabinet was headed by Henry L. Stimson as secretary of state and contained two holdovers hold-overs Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and Secretary of Labor Davis. Da-vis. The names of Mellon and Davis were not submitted to the senate for confirmation, and a little later the foes of the head of the treasury tried in vain to Impeach his right to hold the portfolio. Farm Relief and Tariff. The President called congress to meet In special session on April 15, asking that it confine Itself to passing pass-ing bills for the relief of agriculture and revising the tariff especially for the benefit of farmers and Industries In-dustries that had Dot been prosperous. prosper-ous. The house In ten days passed tne uaugen tarm reller bill; ana on May 28 it gave Its approval to the Hawley tariff measure which revised re-vised most of the schedules and generally Increased duties. In the senate the Republican radicals rad-icals and the Democrats insisted on putting in the McNary farm relief re-lief measure a provision for the debenture de-benture or export subsidy plan, though they knew this would not be accepted by President Hoover. In this shape the bill was passed on May 14, and for a month the house and senate conferees struggled over it, the house finally winning and the debenture scheme being eliminated. Mr. Hoover signed the measure on June 15, and soon after named the members of the federal farm board authorized by the act. Alexander Legge of Chicago, president of the International Harvester company, was appointed chairman, and the board proceeded to promote the formation for-mation of farmers' co-operatives, which would be aided with loans from a revolving fund of $150,000,-000 $150,000,-000 that had-been voted by congress. This work continued throughout the year, meeting with general approval.- With the question of tariff revision revi-sion the senators got tangled up In a fight that seemed Interminable. A coalition of Democrats and radical Republicans was formed that succeeded suc-ceeded in tearing to pieces the bill reported by the senate committee which resembled that passed by the house. The anomolous majority professed to be acting for the farmers, farm-ers, and even Inserted in the tariff measure the export debenture plan. The rewriting of the bill could not be completed before Thanksgiving, and so was passed on to the regular reg-ular session that opened on December Decem-ber 2. In their spare time during the autumn the senators investigated the activities of lobbyists, especially those concerned with tariff rates, and from some witnesses, notably Joseph Grundy of Pennsylvania, they heard comments on t'nem and their doings that were not pleasing. President Hoover on May 20 appointed ap-pointed his commission on law enforcement, en-forcement, consisting of eleven eminent emi-nent men and women with Geroge W. Wickershara as chairman. It was understood this commission would take several years for Its Investigation, making recommendations recommenda-tions from time to "time. Stock Market Collapse. The great debacle ' mentioned in the introductory paragraphs came in late October and continued for two weeks. It was the culmination of many months of frenzied gambling gam-bling by amateur speculators in a sensational rising market. Prices fell rapidly and paper profits of about seventy billion dollars vanished. van-ished. The government could do nothing to check the collapse, but when normal levels had been reached President Hoover came forward for-ward with a program for the stabilization stabil-ization of business and Industry and the continuation of prosperity the country had been enjoying. He called groups of lenders in all lines to conference in Washington and received from them assurances that they and their organizations would co-operate with his plans. At a final, meeting of big Industrialists and financiers a permanent committee commit-tee was named to watch out for weak spots In business and apply remedies. In his message rend to the first regular session of the Seventy-first congress the President expressed the confidence that the measures taken had re-established confidence nnd that a very large degree of unemployment un-employment had been prevented. He recommended increased . expenditures expendi-tures for waterways,, buildings, and other public works, and asked congress con-gress to authorize the income tax cut of 1 per cent, effective for one year. The President also dwelt at length on the matter of law enforcement, enforce-ment, declaring it to be tiie most important im-portant issue before the people and recommending various chnnges to help the enforcement of prohibition The house speedily passed the tax reduction resolution and the senate accepted it in due time. One of the first acts of the upper house was the adoption of a resolution which denied a seat in the senate to William Wil-liam S. Vare of Pennsylvania on the ground of corruption and fraud in his nomination and election three years previously. Governor Fisher promptly appointed Joseph Grundy to fill the vacant seat, and he was sworn In after being severely cas tigated by a number of senators. Riotous demonstrations against President Borno of H.iltl and his American advisers broke out in D" cember. The United States mar' were constrained to shoot down a few natives, and President Hoover asked congress to authorize the appointment ap-pointment of a commission to study the unsatisfactory conditions on the island. Secretary of of War James W. Good died on November IS and Patrick Pat-rick J. Hurley of Oklahoma, who had been assistant secretary, was given the portfolio. Diplomats Appointed. Mr. Hoover's diplomatic appointments appoint-ments were highly commended. He sent Gen. Charles Gates Dawes to London, Senator Walter E. Edge to Paris, John W. Garrett to Rome, Gerritt J. Diekema to Brussels, Henry F. Guggenheim to Cuba, Irwin Ir-win B. Laughlln to Madrid, Charles a Hart to Persia, and A. B. Geiss-ler Geiss-ler to Siam. Dwlght t Davis, former for-mer secretary of war, was appointed appoint-ed governor general of the Philippines; Philip-pines; Theodore Roosevelt. Jr., was made governor of Porro Rico, and Lawrence M. Judd governor of Hawaii, Ha-waii, There were echoes from time to time of the oil scandals. The Supreme Su-preme court upheld the conviction of Harry F. Sinclair for contempt of the senate and of court and he was in prison from May G until November Novem-ber 20. Albert B. Fall, former secretary sec-retary of the interior, was found guilty of bribery In the oil lease cases and was sentenced to one year In prison and $100,000 line. The annual convention of the American Legion was held In Louis- vine, and O. L. Bodenhamer of Oklahoma Ok-lahoma was elected commander. The Grand Army of the Republic met in Portland, Maine, and "chose E. J. Foster of Worcester, Mass., as Its commander in chief. An interesting event wa3 the celebration cele-bration on October 21 of the golden jubilee of Edison's electric light. The entire civilized world recognized recog-nized the occasion, but the big doings do-ings were at Henry Ford's reconstructed recon-structed old-time village near Detroit, De-troit, President Hoover, Mr. Edison and a host of other notables being be-ing the automobile manufacturer's guests Whiie In the Middle West the President took part In the celebration celebra-tion of the completion of canalization canaliza-tion of the Ohio river, delivering addresses ad-dresses at Cincinnati and Louisville. Louis-ville. There were two elections that attracted at-tracted especial attention. In Virginia Vir-ginia the regular Democrats defeated defeat-ed a coalition of Republicans and anti-Smith Democrats led by Bishop Cannon. In New York Jlmrule Walker Walk-er was re-elected mayor, easily beating Congressman La Guardla and other aspirants. Other elections elec-tions in various parts of the country coun-try indicated that the Democratic party was regaining strength. AERONAUTICS ' XTOST spectacular oi the year's events In aeronautics was the flight of the huge German dirigible Graf Zeppelin in August and September Sep-tember from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, N. J., and thence eastward east-ward around the world, with stops only at Friedrichshafen, Tokyo, Los Angeles and Lakehurst. On September Septem-ber 4 the big ship arrived safely at its home port in Germany. The Atlantic was crossed three times by airplanes. Jiminez and Iglesias of Spain flew from Seville to the Brazilian coast late In March; and in June three French pilots in the plane Yellow Bird crossed from UlU urcuuru oeuuu, mc, iu intr coast of Spain. Next month Williams Wil-liams and Yancey, American flyers, hopped off from Old Orchard Beach for Rome, but they were forced to land near Santander, Spain, by lack of gas; later they completed their trip. All other attempted transatlantic trans-atlantic flights were failures, some of them tragedies. Setting New Records. All records for sustained, flight were broken in January by the army plane Question Mark which remained up 150 hours and 40 minutes, min-utes, being refueled in 'he air 36 times. In May this was surpassed by Robbius and Kelley of Fort Worth Texas, whose endurance flight lasted 172 hours and 31 minutes. min-utes. In July Mendell and Rein-hart Rein-hart at Culver City, Calif., put both records In the shade with a mark of 246 hours and 43 minutes, and then, later in the same month, Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine, in the St Louis Robin plane, settled the contest for the year by remaining aloft for 420 hours and 21 minutes. Lieut. Appollo Soucek of the United States navy established a new altitude alti-tude record of 39,140 feet Capt. Frank Hawks flew from Los Angeles An-geles to New York in 17 hours and 44 minutes, and George Haldeman flew from Windsor, Out, to Havana in 12 hours and 56 minutes. The Schneider cup race for seaplanes sea-planes was won by Lieutenant Wag-horn Wag-horn of England, who averaged 32S.63 miles an hour over the 213 mile course. A few days later A. H. Orlebar drove the same plane at. the record speed of 355.S miles. Over in Germany a plane propelled by rockets was given its first tryout, Fritz von Opel flying six miles. The Germans also boasted of the biggest big-gest airplane, the Dox, which made successful flights carrying 1G9 persons. per-sons. The American national air races were held at Cleveland In August. In connection with them the women, who were becoming very active in aviation, had an air derby from Santa Monica, Calif., to Cleveland, Louise Tliaden of I'ltlsburgli was the winner. The races fur 1930 were awarded to Chicago. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was a busy man during the year, and after his marriage to Miss Anne Morrow in May he usually was accompanied accom-panied on his flights by his bride. In February the colonel Inaugurated Inaugu-rated the United States-Panama air mail service, and in September he and Mrs. Lindbergh opened another an-other new route by a (light from Miami to Par r"'ch Gui- graph hitherto unexplored Aztec ruins. On Thanksgiving day Commander Command-er Richard Byrd and three members mem-bers of his expedition made a difficult and hazardous airplane flight over the great Antarctic plateau in the course of which they looped the South pole, returning In safety to their base In Little America. Amer-ica. Byrd thus became the first man to fly over both poles. f NECROLOGY COME of the greatest actors In the drama we call the World war were taken by death during the year. France lost Marshal Ferdinand Foch, supreme commander com-mander of the Allied armies; Georges Clemenceau, the "Tiger," premier during the later years of the war, and General Sarrail, the defender of Verdun. Among the Germans who passed were Field Marshal LIman von Sanders, commander com-mander of the German forces In Turkey, and Dr. Gustav Strese-mann, Strese-mann, the eminent statesman who was German foreign minister at the time of his death. Myron T. Derrick, Der-rick, beloved American ambassador to France during the great conflict and at the time of his demise, passed away in March. Three United States senators, Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, L. D. Tyson of Tennessee Ten-nessee and F. E. Warren of Wyoming, Wy-oming, and James W. Good, secre tary of war, were among America's noted dead. Other notables who died In 1929 were: In January: Grand Duke Nicholas, Nich-olas, chief claimant to throne of Russia; George L. (Tex) Rickard, sports promoter; Henry Arthur Jones, English dramatist; Casper Whitney, author and editor; former Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama; Ogden Mills, New York financier; Count Chinda, Japanese statesman ; Sophie Irene Loeb, author; au-thor; R. L. Single, president of University Uni-versity of South Dakota. In February : Maria Christina, queen mother of Spain ; Edwin Den-by, Den-by, former secretary ol the navy; Lily Laugtry, Lady de Bathe; Melville Mel-ville E. Stone, journalist; Vice Admiral Ad-miral Sir Francis Bridgeman of England ; Frank Keenan, actor ; Mrs. Ogden Goelet of New York ; Rev. Newell Dwight Uillis, pulpit orator; Harvey O'Higgins, ' author and playwright. In March : Harrison M. Wild, musician mu-sician ; Thomas Taggart, Indiana 1 Democratic leader; Moses Clapp, former senator from Minnesota ; D. D. Buick, automobile pioneer; Allen B. Pond, architect ; Samuel Rea, former for-mer president of the Pennsylvania railway ; Ex-Gov. W. R. Stubbs of Kansas; Brander Matthews, author. In April : E. Lester Jones, director of United States coast and geodetic survey; Count Shimpei Goto, Japanese Japa-nese statesman ; J. W. Bailey, former for-mer senator from Texas; Flora Annie Steel, English novelist; Lord Revelstoke, British banker-; Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the ex-kaiser; ex-kaiser; E. F. Carry, president of the Pullman company. In May : Edward Payson Weston, famous pedestrian ; Earl of Rose-berry, Rose-berry, English statesman ; Garret P. Serviss, writer on science; Wallace Wal-lace Treat, American diplomat ; Maj. Harry A. Smith, U. S. A.; W. B. Thomas, Boston capitalist In June: Admiral Sir Cecil Bur-ney Bur-ney of British navy; Bliss Carmen, poet ; Count Julius Andrassy, Hungarian Hun-garian statesman; Charles F. Brush, inventor of the arc light ; Gen. Bramwell Booth, former head of the Salvation army ; Don Bou-cicault, Bou-cicault, actor; Duarte Felix, Brazilian Brazil-ian journalist In July: Dustin Farnum, stage and screen actor; Maj. Gen. Ell K. Cole, marine corps ; Rear Admiral E. W. Eberle, U. S. N. ; Mrs. Kath-erine Kath-erine Tingley, Theosophist leader; Robert Henri, American artist ; Mrs. Lillian Bell, author; Henry B. Fuller, novelist; Judge N. J. Sin-nott Sin-nott of United States Court ol Claims. In August: Archbishop J. . J. Keane of Ekubuque ; Emile Berliner, phonograph inventor ; H. C. Wit-wer, Wit-wer, author; Chauncey Keep, Chicago Chi-cago capitalist; Cyril Keightley, English actor; Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, British savant ; Rear Admiral Ad-miral A. P. Niblack, U. S. N. ; Dr. J. W. Jenks, president of Alexander Hamilton institute. In September: W. E. Dover, former for-mer mayor of Chicago ; Owen T. Edgar, last of the Mexican war veterans; vet-erans; Congressman O. J. Kvaie of Minnesota; Jesse Lynch Williams, author; Cardinal Dubois, archbishop arch-bishop of Paris; Miller Huggins, manager of New York Yankees; U. S. Grant, son of the late President Grant; Baron Tanaka, Japanese statesman. In October: E. A. Bourdelle, French sculptor; Dr. Gustav Strese-mann, Strese-mann, German foreign minister; Bishop J. G. Murray, head of ! the Protestant Episcopal church; Jeanne Eagels, actress ; W. J. Connors, Con-nors, Buffalo capitalist; Bishop Edmund Ed-mund M. Dunne of Peoria; Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, mother of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge; Rev. E. S. Shu-maker, Shu-maker, Indiana Anti-Saloon league chief ; Rev. John Roach Stralon of New York, noted fundamentalist; Sir Graham Balfour, British author. au-thor. In November: W. G. Lee, former president of Railway Trainmen; Prince Max Baden, last Imperial chancellor of Germany ; T. P. O'Connor, "father" of the house of commons; John Cort, theatrical producer; pro-ducer; Rear Admiral Henry W. Lyon; Daniel F. Appel, president New England Life insurance company; com-pany; Raymond Hitchcock, actor; Father Tondorf of Georgetown university, uni-versity, earthquake expert. In December: Prof. M. A. Shaw of University of Iowa; Robert Reld. American mural artist; Congressman, Congress-man, W. W. Griest of Pennsylvania; Dr. M. W. Stryker, former president of Hamilton college; Col. Charles 'f f 'j!iti ""ted Texas pioneer; ul t man, V a |