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Show EMERY CPIWrv PnOGPF.gS. CAST!,! DAT E. TTTW j " id w Chronology of the Year 1928 Compiltd by E. W. P1CKARD DOMESTIC , Jan. I President Coolidge held big New Tear's reception In White House. Jan. 4 Three bodies taken from sunken submarine Assistant Secretary of War HanfordMacNIder resig-neand President apCharles B. Robbina of fointed Col. succeed him. Jan. 8 Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Lasker rave 11,000.000 to University of Chicago for medical research Seventeen bodies taken from wreck of the 4 Identified. Jan. 11 Mexican documents papers declared by Hearst by senate Investigating committee to be forged. Fifteen mora bodies taken from wreck of the Jan. 12 Democrats selected Houston. Texas, for their national convention and set June 26 for Its opening Mrs. Ruth Snyder and Henry J Gray electrocuted in Sinn Sing for murder of woman's husband. Jan. 13 President and Mrs. Coo'ldge and party left Washington for Havana Cuba. Jan. 19 Senate adopted resolution declaring vacant the seat of Senator-Elec- t Prank L. Smith pf Illinois. President Coolidge returned to WashCuba. ington from of Jan. 20 President Cosgrave Irish Free State arrived in New York Jan. 23 President Cosgrave of Ireland called on President Coolidge and Other officials. A. P. Glanninl. San Francisco banker, gave ll.500.0uu to University of California. Jan .41 Senate passed Jones bill for continuation of government owned and operated merchant marine. Feb. 8 Senate arrested Robert W Stewart. Standard Oil of Indiana offl cial. for refusal to answer certain o.ieetions In Teapot Dome Inauiry, Feb. 10 Senate adopted resolution opposing12 third term for President. Feb. Herbert Hoover announced bis Presidential candidacy by entering the Ohio primaries. Feb. 16 Seriate called for Investi gation of public utilities by trade Feb. 16 Gov Ed Jackson of Indiana (reed of bribery chargea because of statute of limitations. Senate ordered Investigation of coal mining conditions in Pennsylvania West Virginia and Ohio. Feb. 20 President appointed Repre entatlve W. R. Green of Iowa as ludgi of court of claims. Feb. 21 H. F. Sinclair. H M Day W. J. Burns and W. S. Burns found guilty of criminal contempt of couit In oil scandal case by Justice Siddons or District of Columbia Supreme court Naval court Inauirv placed blame for disaster on commanders ol submarine and destroyer Paulding Feb. 23 House naval affairs commit tee scrapped the administration navv program, substituting a bill calling for fifteen cruisers and one aircraft car rler within six years March 2 Grand lury Indicted Col K W Stewart for contempt of sen ata In connection with Dome oil case. passed bill for registration of lobbyists. Senator Walsh of Idaho entered lemi.cr4ttc race for Presidential nom ination. March It Rodman Wanamaker's will provided for $2,000,000 for trade school as memorial to his father. Senate rejected reappointment of John J. Each of Wisconsin to Inter state commerce commission Inarch 17 House passed $274,000,000 naval bill- - providing for 16 cruisers nd one plane carrier. 21 March board Chicago school found .Superintendent McAndrew guilty of insubordination and ousred him March 28 Revised McNary-Hauge- n rarm relief Dill reported favorably bv house agriculture committee March 27 House passed bill appro priating $360,000,000 for naval con struction March 28 Senate passed Jones bill $326,000,000 for flood appropriating ct ntrol March 20 George Remus, former "bootleg king" and slayer of his wife found sane by Ohio Court of Appeals Senate confirmed all pending ments to radio commission. appoint' March $1 Arthur H. Vandenberg of Grand Rapids appointed senator from Michigan to All out term of terris. Government completed purchase of tape tod6 canal. April Cyrus Lorher of Cleveland senator from Ohio to fill out aprointed or term late Senator Willis Anrll 9 United States Supreme court of flexible tariff law upheld validity April 12 Senate passed McNarv farm relief bill. April 16 Socialist national conven tlon nominated Ncrman Thomas for President and James H Maurer or vice president. April 21 Harry V Sinclair acquit ted py turv in Teapot Dome conspiracy 8-- S-- pob-llsh- ed 8-- 4. 8-- 1 cane. April bill. House passed flood control 24 April 25 Senate passed the $360,000.-00naval appropriation bill after de feating amendments attacking Presi In Nicaragua. dents policy April 30 Senate ordered an Invest) nation of Presidential campaign ex nenditures. May 3 House the HauRen rarm rener put. passed Mav 4 Senator T J. Walsh withdrew ms candidate for Democratic I't esiormal nomination. May 6 House passed White bill to ncourage me merchant marine Max Mason resigned as president of of Chicago. Univeisiiy May 7 House passed bill raising pay of 135 000 government employees. May 9 Senate passed flood control bill, modified, to avoid a veto May 10 Senate passed bill to reorganize lloloniatic service promotion system 15 President Coolidge signed May flood relief bill. May IS Senate voted full publicity for (ax returns. May 21 Senate passed finance bill $205,875,000 cutting 22taxes House overrode President't May veto of postal pay raise bill. May 23 President Coolidge vetoed the McNary-Haugefarm relief bill May 25 Congress passed the Muscle bill and the house pussed the Shoals Boulder Jam bill Senate failed bv 4 votes to pass farm relief bill over President's veto. May 26 House and senate spproveo conference report of bill reducing taxes $228 H00f00 May 29 Congress adjourned, leav Ing Bouider lam bill unfinished bus! before the senate rie President signed tax reduction bill. Mat 20 President Coolidge delivered Memorial dav address at Gettysburg May 21 President Coolidat- selected Cedar Island lodge on Brule river northern Wisconsin ss summer White House. 7 June President Coolidge let Muscle Shoals bill die without veto or approval June 13 President and Mrs Coolidge left for Wisconsin camp June 14 Herbert Hoover for Presidenl by KepublicHnnominated convention n Kansas City June 15 Republican convention nominated Senator Charles Curtis for Vice President June 7 Governor Ritchie 01 Mart-lhvlihdrew rom Democratic Pres Idenrlal race in favor of Al Smith June 40 Ohio Supreme court freen Remus George from In nn asvlum June 21 Secretary of the Interior 0 n , d wife-slav- Hubert C, Work mad chairman of national committee. Republican June 22 Gov. Al Smith of New Tork nominated for President by Democrat ic convention In Houston. lune 29 Senator Josenh T. Robinson of Arkansas nominated by Democrat ic convention for Vice President. July 4 Independence day accidents in united states caused death of 225 persona July Secretary of the Interior Work named board of engineers to can von dam oroiect. study Boulder July 7 Secretary of Commerce Hoov-t- r sent bis resignation to President uoonrige10 Prohibition and Farmer-L- a July bor national conventions opened In Chicago.11 John J. Raskob of Delaware July elected chairman of Democratic na tional committee Farmer-Labo- r rartv nominated Sen tor Norrls for President and Will Ver een of Georgia for Vice President, both of whom declined July 12 Prohibition party nom'. nated William Varney of New York for President and James A. Kdgertoi of Virginia for V et Pres dent. July 20 Roy O. West of Chicago ap pvtnted secretary of the Interior. Charles Collyer and July John Mears completed tour of globe In record time of 23 days and 15 hours July 24 John J. Raskob. Democratic national chairman, severed bis connec tion with General Motors July 28 President Coolidge spoke at Wildedication of monument to Col. liam Colvill Civil war hero at Cannon fans Minn. Aug 13 airplane mall service established at New York. 16 President Coolidge approved Aug report or board of engineers on Mis sissippi 17flood control. Aug Secretary of State Kellogg departed for Paris to sign anti-wtreaty. Reuben Clark of Utah appointed un der secretary of state. Aug 21 W F. Whiting of Holyoke Mass.. paper manufacturer, appointed secretary or commerce and sworn in Aug. 26 Director of the Budget Lord estimated the treasury deficit for this fiscal year would he $94,276 349 Sept. 4 Mrs. Florence ivnapp forme"! secretary of state of New York, con victed of embezzlement of state funds sentenced to 30 days In tail Sept. 10 Republicans won Maine state election by heavy maturities 11 son ol John Coolidge Sept. work ss clerk for President New Haven Sept. 12 President and Mrs. Cool to Washington. idge returned Sept. 19 Annual meeting of the Q A. K. opened In Denver Sept. 21 John Reese elected com mander in ch'ef of the Q A. R. Sept. S3 Col. C. A. Lindbergh cnaries Evans hub ties, and Dr K. M Chapman, ornithologist, awarded Roose veil medals for distinguished service Oct I Chi"ago Sanitary District opened new $32,000,000 sewage dig beBt In world posal plant. Oct.. 6 Navy department let con or two tracts huge dirigibles. Oct. 8 American Legion convention opened In San Antonio. United Spanish War Veterans met In Havana. Cuba Unltei ta'TS Supreme court upheld or Canadians to cross the border rignt lailv to work in states. 10 Triennial Oct. convention of Episcopal church opened In Washing ton Oct. II Paul V. McNutt of Indiana elected national commander of Amer ican Legion. Oct. 16 Attorney General Sargeni ruiea Sinclair s salt Creek oil Held con tracts invalid Oct. 19 Battlefields National nark ir Virginia dedicated President Coolidge speaking.20 Oct. Congressional medal pre sented to Thomas A. Edison bv Presl dent Coolidge. Nov 6 Hoover and Curtis Remit. lioans elected President and Vic President of United States receiving 444 electoral voteB to 87 for Smith and Kohinson. Democi-tts- . Arkansas voted for law to nrohiblt teaching of evolution In scnoot Nov 12 Walter Olson of Rio. Ill won national corn husking champion Ind. ship at Fowler. 19 United Nov States Supreme court, upholding a New York law de clared the Ku KIjx klan un undesir able organization. President-Elec- t Hoover sailed from San Pedro for good will tour of Lal'i America. Nov. 20 Robert W Stewart oil nu t rate acquitted of perjury In Teapot Uome case by Jury In Washington Engineers' commission reported to President Coolidge that cost estimates of Boulder Dam protect were $40,000, 000 too low. President-Elec- t 26 Nov Hoover made stops at Ampala Honduras, and La Union. Salvador Annual report of governor of Alaska showed decrease In ashing and mining inoustries oi tne rerritorv. Nov. 27 Nicaraguans 'greeted Mr Hoover at Corinto. Nov. 28 Mr. Hoover visited San Jose, costa Rica. Engagement of Flprence Trumbull to John Coolidge announced. Nov. 29 Secretary of Commerce Whiting in annual report told of great of country. prosperity Dec. 1 Hoover visited Ecuador. Estelle Manville of New York mar rled to Count Folks Bernadotte. nephew of king of Sweden. Dec. $ Short session of congress opened. Dec. 4 President Coolidge e message was read to congress. Dec. 6 Hoover welcomed by great crowds at callao and Lima. Peru Dec 7 House passed billion-dollpost office supply bill. treasury 10andHoover In Dec, received and Santiago. Chile. 13 . tlon. Aug. Ship-to-sho- re ar be-ia- ar Dec. Hoover welcomed to Buenos Aires. Argentina. Dec 17 Hoover spent a day In Montevideo. Uruguay. Dec. 18 Hoover sailed for Rio d Janeiro on u S S. Utah. INTERNATIONAL Jan. 2 United States marines de feated Nicaraguan rebels in two-daba'tle at Quilali Jan. 10 Pope Pius XI Issued encyclical rejecting the movement for urttv of all Christian churches. 16 Jan conference opened In Havana. Cuba, with speech ov coolidge and Machado Jan 24 Rumania and Italv heirar conference on formation of bloc ot southern European nations 6 United States marines In Jan Nicaragua captured Sandino's stronghold at El Chipote 29 Jan and Lithuania Germany signed Hibitraiion treaty Jan 10 congress relucted Mexico's nlan for reorganlia tlon ot union. hen 6 New arbi tration treaty signed on one hundred and nttieth anniversary of signing of erst treaty by the two nations. Feb 10 Plan to make union an American league of natfon defeated In the Havana conference Radiophone service between Amer ica and Germany opened 13 Pan American reb emigres?tumed down Argentina's demand for declaration I gainst tariff walls be tween American republics Feh ,5 United States refused to ler conference dictate Its immigration policy Fso 16 Hniiorio Puevrredon an nounced his resignation ss hend of Argentine delegation to Pan American congress and as ambassador to 1'nited States because his demand for declaration against hleh tariffs was turned n Franco-America- n n n 1own Feb 20 Pan American congress ad louined aftei adopting resolutions gen erally satisfactory to the United States Feb 21 Hunsarv destroyed rive car- loads of machine guns shipped from Italv on ave of innuirv bv l.eaeu nf Nations council 27 Five Feb American marinn Killed ny NP'Sraguan rebels Feb 2x Secretary of S'ate Kellogg idd France the United Stales was ready to make treaties with all the na great powers renouncing wrtr as tlonal policy 7 Nicaragua congress warned l.'nited States minister to adni l.t w guaranteeing election fair tn both nnrtles In lhat republic March ?1 president Dia decreed an Mar-- oy h Kai-she- coum-il- . Oct closed Nov. Mexican troops defeated pame. rebels In bloody Nov. 30 Emilio Portes Gil Inaug urated presment or Mexico. Dec. 4 King George of England ap to act fo pointed a royal commission h.m during his serious illness, Dec 6 Wilhelm Miklas elected Pres ident of Austria. Dec II Police of Argentina discov ered anarchist plot to blow up Her bert Hoover's train Dec. 12 Peasant party won the Itu Nov fjve-no- llii IMilll o V raise. AERONAUTICS Ton .IniihAMrh Annl Ipnn r British Honduras, to San Salvador. Jan. 3 Lindbergh landed in Tegucigalpa. Honduras. flenr in Snn inA Jan. 7 Lindhers-Costa Rica. Jan 9 Lindbergh landed at .Panama . v. i tan 9fi Rfifinminv Vila tour. Lindbergh flew from Panama to oiomoia. iariHgena. Jan. ii Ltnunergn new to Bogota HirisrihlA f.n Ant'alna mn. 1.....4: on airplane carrier Saratoga at sea Jan. 29 Lindbergh flew from Bogota to Caracas. Venezuela Jan. 31 Lindbergh flew 1.050 miles from Caracas to the Virgin islands Feb 2 Lindbergh hopped to San Juan, Port Rico. Feb 4 Lindbergh flew to Sun rcis 6 Florenclo Arnsemena lect President of Panama Aug 16 Nationalist government m China launched its first destrover Aug 17 t hinese gover nment rtccM British Danish oil tn terminate monopoly In 1930 M'maollan aimv led bv Kussans in va'led western Manchuria defeating hiro-t-troops Aug 19 Venuelos partv won Greek le.M ions. President Calies of Mexico Sept refused d Aug 1 .. 1 : 1 1 : mingo Feb Colonel l.inrlharcrh i Latin American tour at Havana. costes ana Leorix. French i&'hn flew nprnea llm untiii. a.i aviators ntiauiic. ar rived at Washington. beb. 13 Lindbergh made nonstoti flight from Havana to St. Louis Feb. 22 Bert Hinkler completed sr. In flight from England In tiutmi,. i .. days. leb 26 Dirigible Los Angeles begin nonstop flight to Panama Canal Zone reo i,os Angeles arrived at France teld. Canal Zone 21 Feb Wonrlrnw Wilc.. medal and $25 000 awarder! i 8 a . Liinlbergh.7 March Costes and Lebrix ended their transcontinental and American San at Francisco. flight Marcn is caul alter Hln. hcliffe ttriti-i......... ami ...... uicic nii ....... ivintnr tt...,.KU V honned off from l.onrton for i.. im tic flight to U S.. and were lost' Marcn is Mrs Keith Miller ended 13. i fliirht trnm Australia 21 March Presirlnt fVnhilc sented Colonel Lindbergh with Con- - e.i.nonai m eon l or Honor M Inr to i ' n . . . . a March - ft ....... v v, ,,v l Set new sneerl rnpi.nl L.iamiui In. , i ....t "l . till . 366 6 miles an hour Stinson and Haldeman made new endurance record of 53 hours 3S minutes 30 seconds. April 12 Koehl. Von Huenefeld and Fitzmaurice hopped oft from Dublin fur New York it 'he plane Bremen Anril - ..... i Ol IIU dTIOIWIB ed on (iieenlv island Strait of Belle Isle, being the first to make east west nonstop flight across the Atlantic Anril tfi Noh.l on his sirship Italia for the North pole Anril 21 Cant CsnroA u w.n.i.. and Carl B Eilson completed flight across Arctic region from Point Bir row. masaa to Spttzbergen and re ported eeine no land MllV 6 Nobile in 41!o.fr.l. reahi-- roitzbeigen. 15 May Nihile in dirigible Italia iiarted on flight over nolnr May Italia returned to Spitsbergen May 22 Col Charles A l.lndhergh became head of technical committee of '- rDi. Transcontinental Air Transport Nobile in the Italin nassed ver lh North ole Mav 26 Dirigible Italia wrecked on ne floe Kleien nt 14 balloons in na May 30 mal elimination race from Pitts buigh were driven down bv furious norm two men killed Mav 31 Monoplane Southern Cross rfilh crew of four started from Oak lund Calif for Svdnev Australia vis Hawaii Fill and Brisbane Ju.-Southern Cross landed at Whe-i- -r field Hawaii. June 3 Southern Cross left Hawaii for le ii. Mav 23 " , 1 fend picked killed airplane accident In Sept 5 Thirty-seve- n airplanes smarted from New York in transcontinental air derby Sept. 10 Earl Rowland. Kansas, won in Class A of aerial derby. 18 Spanish inventor flew Sept. across English channel in new gvio-planOct 11 The Graf Zeppelin, great German dirigible, started from Fried richschafen Germany for the United States Oct 15 The Graf Zeppelin landed safelv at Lakehurst. N J Oct 17 Commander H C. McDonald. English aviator, started solo flight to England in from Newfoundland small :iinne and was lost. Oct 25 Tucker and Collyer flew ew York to Los Angeles In 24 from hours 51 minutes. Oct 29 Graf Zeppelin began Its trip back to German v Nov Graf Zeppelin arrived at Fried richschafpn Germany 4 Nov Tucker and Collyer record holders killed In Arizona in crash f plane Dec i2 International civil aviation conference opened in Washington. ' Dec. 17 Delegates to aviation conference celebrated at Kitty Hawk N C. the twenty-fiftanniversary of the first flight bv the Wright brothers 1 cross-contine- nt h DISASTERS Jan. 2 Russian steamei foundered In Black sea; 200 drowned men killed by Ian 9 Twenty-onmine explosion at West Frankfort. Ill Feb 10 Twlve men killed and 50 hurt in oil refinery explosion at Everest, Mass. Thirty-nin- e killed in Are In Hollingei rold mine at Timrnins. Ont. Feb. 12 Thirteen killed by mine explosion at Whitehaven. England Feb 24 Mine explosion at Jennv Lind. Ark. killed 13 men March 10 Two hundred killed bv Mount Serrat landslide in Santos Brae zil. Mar;h 13 San Franclsqulto dam. water supply for Los Angeles, broke: 43i drowned. 27 March In Udlne Earthquake province . itaiv. Kinea ten and Injured many. 31 March Earthquake shattered Smyrna 13killing many persons April Explosion destroyed dance hall in West Plains. Mo., killing 4 14 Forty-thre- e killed April by in the1 Balkans. earthquake April 16 Disastrous earthquake In Peru, many killed 22 In April Earthquake central Greece ruined Corinth and killed many persons Mav 19 Explosion In mine at Ma ther. Pa killed 198 May 22 Mine explosions at Yukon W. Va.. and Kenvir. Ky., killed 32 men June 16 Tornado in Oklahoma killed Julv l Volcanic eruption out town of Libog in Philippines wiped July 7 Chilean army transport sank 300 drowned Aug. 6 Eight killed 52 Injured In Illinois Central train wreck near Mounds. .11 Italian submarine sunk In collision with 27 men aboard, all of whom perished. Aug. 24 Thirteen killed 100 Intured in New York subway wreck 13 Fourteen killed by tornadoes in Nebraska and South Dakota Destructive hurricane swept Pott., Rico and Lesser Antilles: hundreds killed Sept 14 About 20 persons killed 'ornado in anil near Rockford III bv Sept 15 Tropical hurricane reached entral Florida, doing great damage nd killing 2 200. Sept. 23 About 120 perished In et fire in Madrid. Spain. 3 1 NECROLOGY ' ouck & L'milv St xn;; Chicago. ru.. "":H". acir'8- ja... stress Jan U:ir.,u ii"u"nl11-. . ou.lder In Chicago Hardy En" noJye,ist"Th0"'a8 Jan 14 Andrew MacLelsh oloneoi merchant of Chicago u... a i t. Jan n"r,on Chicago teel magnate 7 tU juii wiiimm head H the Du Bont Inter?"., . Jan yi Mot i.id Playwright ft 111 - r"ad . -- r,., ret.Teri Jan J:fi "R'ar Mm,nl Tlilxnli trttt.. 24 n New York y . u "'"" ..ncen,e Blasco OXfoid .,,d A,uilh oretn oil- Feb 16 an In Kansas r April CongresimL. I-.4r5j - 4.1 of Boston. April f W. E. Griffis. author ' ittt' thority onS Japan ' April John A rv. " M. re., fliy tlonalist leader B "an Briiiph llsh novelist. April 16 R u ?,nL8- English. S4 au. r millionaire me"hant - Mora in San Antnni lco.rit.,..i,ijP April tor. in Quebec WhTe 25-F- Ioyd Na- V'J. "erinett, Rns STzT MaVden SwMeer ' - l m famJ h, " I Th f Dr. Edgar May isi. in rnnadelphia E B. Piper gonian a w u ...1. Mav 4 l,Bi T I? M lno" capitalist. Mav 8 Rev. Dr J a o, copalian divine of Chlcaen May W H Rh f, Circuit Court of Apoeali i 10-J- udge Sir Edmund 16 May author. Gosm. May 18 William D. Hnvwd mer I. W W. chief in 5Zl"A May Van Vorit ij essie author. iay oi Rockefeller teriologist Allan Dale, dramatic critic. ior. 2i-r- Hideyo Nopjol wi "'" "7 Minneapolis "el Jones, tiobli1 Journal May 29 Dr. W A vn,.n. j,J medical research for Rocke'felld June 2 Dr. Otto Nordenskjoli Ish explorer. June. 6 John D. Works, form, senator from California June 13 Mrs. Emmelliu Pan 111 Lionnon. u'iiaRiei. June -17 E. T. Meredith, form reiary igricuiture. in Dea Iowa. June 19 Donn Byrns. Ami novelist, in Ireland inn June 21 Marshal Chang 4 1 Manchurian war lord. June 24 Senator Frank & QJ 01 luano. Holbrook Blinn, actor. June 27 Robert Bruce Shakespearean actor. June 29 Leo Ditrichstein. acta June 30 Avery Hopwood AnJ 1 playwright. July 8 Howard Elliott, formeif iaent or Northern Pacific rallwaj July 9 George E. Chamberlaii mer senator trom Oregon. Julv 15 H. R. Rathbone. eoa irom Illinois. July 16 Giovanni Giolittl. statesman. Dr C. L Summers, pediatric'.! Baltimore. . July ;:0 Ellen Terry. EnRlis tress. Juiy 22 Dr George Colvln. pre of University of Louisville. Julv 23 Rear Admiral W U retired in Boston Julv 28 T B. Walker, multlml aire lumberman and art patrJ Minneapolis Julv 30 Federal Judge D. C fll uaver at Cleveland. Ohio. Aua 7 Prof. E. C Havea of Ci aity of Illinois Aug. 8 George IS. Brennfin, cratic national committeeman fron nois in Chicago. Aug 11 James B. Laughlin. company president In Hyann man-iii-iar- PI Mass. Aug Haldane. Viscount 19 Bj statesman. Aug 20 Col George B Harvey. Heist. and former ambassador to Rritain 27 Au Martial Emile Fayolii mnus French strategist. R. Sorlie. govern Aus 2X.-- A. Vnrlh la If 29 Garrett Hay. ud Mary Aug laaHcr n Mew Rochelle. N. Y Sent. 3 Rear Admiral 0 I low retired cl Sept 20 -- William Whitman, manufacturer. In Rrookline. Mass, m i . . Sept. 21 Roy K. Moulton, ner humorist, in st josepn. Sept 23 Sir Horace Darwm. tint and son of Charles Darwin oewsil Sept. 25 R. F Outrault IrtJIIIII lift. 26 11 Sept ral Stllwell. E. A. man. in New York. Sept. 29 Brig. Gen. W H. nhief nf innv engineers. net s.fienrire Reban film actcrt Oct! 8 Larrv Semon motion vi comedian. ..... ,.i E. Stetson) mous Jiscipie of Mary Baker Etui BUM-nu- .- Rochester. A.io-nati- Y. N Mar Empress Dowager Oct. 13 (w J Flynn m . a cufrpt service. , f D urn jdiM.i. Line l Ul't. fo nrel hi Sir Frank Dicksee. E''Kl'?Jl and president of Royal Academy net 22 Adolf K raus in Chicago U a Charles A Towne. former ator from Minnesota international Dr A. H Putney, luthority. in wasninKo"" - ttl iMa I iuii'o nOcrl23-G- ,.e Barr 1 ,n Kom rhR : . McC .i merrcr Torrey A N C. list, at Ashville. forrjn Brig Gen J R Mcuulgg. tional commander of A merit" former Oct. to Robert Lansing reiary or siaie. Iran oer Richard, Hudnut. Arne erv manuracuiici, more writer ot Scid 3 Nov Ba"K. aOV Eliza ... . IJl rrane. B.-- .h rra. O Nice. writer, in Noy. 10 Prince Trepofl 916 Russia in 4 Nov tr ventor of radium paint, at J. H d,NTv.P.r6-Prof- Arner 1(! orem shocT. U Nicely, moderator C Chamherll" yT. . f.tner, ologist in Chicago UT jonii NOV Id Har'InifTthe late President OldnemA Nov. gressman from Afkan!,";arm,nn. Gf Nov 21 Hermann mW..?rW"U"!:. ft Jones, turn J of Standard Oil of New JsrseT i Thomas F KVn ,n.New. T"rk...... Ident SoUtW Baptist tneoiogivoi Karon la O irinn war 00mm inner - 'Vm-- oer'iian 28 'T'f..,7,,iid 1 t nt-- F Admiral rtenry . Lorn poet coined I. "'"ia li j' WmJ 1 .. 0.tauer"otei In New York? Nov Butler 'en 1 of New York. pm iu Stan ev tec. fiomer S"-- t,.. Caslon. S 01 noy br WiDi from ini'cag R. C ha"15- -' ., ' ; Nov Blue lournali.i HUU Swedish si V an Stae senator NRJev dancer. In Paris Vn" to eaiueru oi sears RoeCo.. in w,e,n' 20-J- ame, March the--- t French submarine sunk by collision with Greek steamer; 43 men lost. Oct 26 Thirty-on- e killed In train wreck in Rumania. Nov 6 Several Sicilian towns de stroyed 2by eruption of Mt. Etna. Nov Liner Vestris sank 240 mile" off the Virginia capes: III lost 215 rescued Nov 24 I'erriflo storms In the Philip pines and on the coasts of Europe Earthnunke tn .n,,tk. l)f. Chile wrecked several towns and killed tiuui ci., lie! sons. Oct. March Nora p.,. ?."? W up by a Art Gobel flew from Los Aug Angeles to New York n 18 hours 68 minutes. i;hout stop. Sept. 2 Hassell and Cramer found sate in Greenland; plane disabled. Maurice Bokanowski. French minister of air and commerce, and four aids 19 governor of March Ferris ot Michan' lisappeared 20 Tha - - Hon.;0 i b.T b.r;h March from Rockford. 111. .'to Cochrane. Ont. on wav to Stockholm Aug IS Rockford flyers left Cochrane f'r lounl Evans Greenland and INDUSTRIAL n Dr down In midocean CIO I C 16 Revolt J;in 2 Twenty thousand pulp work ers of Sweden locked out. .Inn 10 Insterstate commerce com mission approved reorganization of CIim'hko. Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Feb 13 New miners' union signed agreement with operators In Iowa field March 20 Consolidation of Mackay Telephone companies and International and Telegraph company announced Match 28 Illinois mine operators cease negotiations with mine union Indiana strip mine owners agreed to puv Jacksonville scale tor another year April 1133.000 coal miners of Mid die H est quit work. Illinois mine Aoril 12 Twenty-twagreed to . es:ine on Jacksonville wage scale. April 22 Thousand northern Illinois coal miners agreea to accept reduced wages 18 Interstate commerce com May mission cut th" proposed Van Swearin sen rail merger to include only the C & O and the I'ere Maratiette. June 19 Locomotive engineers ot western roads granted t per cent wage increase. July 18 United Mine Workers ot the Jacksonville America abandoned scale as a basis for wage settlement! Aug 31 Illinois conl miners' sink settled on basis of reduced wages continental National and Sent Illinois Merchants Trust banks of Chicago merged 18 Federal mediators aban Sept doned to settle threatened strike of western railnad trainmen. Sept 29 President Coolidge named board to investigate western railroad wage lispute. Oct. 1 Fifty thousan.i German ship ouiiders struck for more pay Oct. 6 Textile workers of New Bedcut and ford, Mass., accepted wag ended strike Oct. 18 Indiana coal miners and op erators agreed on a wage scale. Oct. 30 Emergency board consider ing western railroad wage dispute recommended wage increase of 614 per ceni witnout change In rules or 7 with certain changes in operation. 19 Nov American Federation of Labor, in session In New Orleans de clared war n displacement of work men by machinery Nov. 23 Western railroad diKimte settled, trainmen getting 6ty ner cent Mnrrfc 4 m,,.. uV ", w Went iVn-- steamer. Idzikukowski and Kubala. Polish aviators, started flight from Paris to New York. Aug 4 Polish flyers fell In ocean and were picked up by steamer. Aug 16 Hassel and Cramer flew In Afghanistan: king Dec. ana queen iook reiuiie in a un i. Kai-she- 27-- 25 04 war wan-drie- Obregon of Mexico, condemned "into death n.l Mother Concepcion sentellectual author" of the crime In prison. tenced to 20 vears Nov. 9 Juliu Maniu. Peasant party leader made premier of Rumania. en10 Hirohito formally Nov throned as emperor of Japan new cabformed Nov. Bra-tian- o y 1 government because ol President Vintila Bratiano resigned as premier 4of Rumania. Gen Jose Maria Moncads 2ov elected President of Nicaragua Nov 6 Premier Poincare of France and hrs cabinet resigned. South African government of Premier Hertzog resigned and he formed a new one. British parliament opened the king nraising8 he Kellogg pact of President-Elec- t Toral. assassin ov FOREIGN Yugo-Slavla- Hungarian universities riots. Machado of Cuba. Nov 3 Yugo-Sla- v Jan S Dr. C. C. Wu appointed spe clal envoy to Washington by Chinese Nationalist government. Jan 7 Lyman F Barber. American bandne engineer, kidnaped by Mexican killed four of his guards and escaped Jan. 10 France removed ban on ex portation15 of gold Jan Trotzky and other oppost tion leaders of Kussla exiled to remote parts of Asiatic Russia. Jan. 20 Conservative cabinet ot Nor-- i ay resigned Foreign business concerns agreed to pay Chinese Nationalist government s new taxes. Feb t James McNeill installed as governor general of the Irish Free State. yeb 9 Norway i laoor cabinet re signed 12 Cleto Feb Vlquei elected Presi dent ot Costa Rica. Feb. 20 Government or Japan woo at first universal suffrage election. Feb 2a Italians completed subjuga tion of the Tripoli tutorial, defeating rebels In two big battles Marcn 14 Priest and nve prominent citizens executed by Mexican firing squad. Marco it miss iancy Ann Miner or Seattle, Wash., wedded former mi- harajah of indore at Bombay. India. March Is Nationalist government In China announced execution of 51 Chi nese officers and soldiers responsible for Nanking massacre. March 25 All Italy celebrated ninth anniversary of Fascist party. March 26 Famous Tower of Charle magne at Tours. France, built In Twelfth century, collapsed. March 27 Dictator Pilsudskl defeat ed by Communists In organization of new Polish parliament. April 10 Turkish assembly passed bill separating church and state. 12 April Attempt to assassinate King Victor Emmanuel of Haly in Milan by dynamite bomb resulted tn 14 deaths. Apr! 15 Gen. Oscar Carmona Inaug urated President of Portugal. April 16 Chinese Nationalists won big victory over northerners In Shantung province. Apn SO Nationalists of China an nounced occupation of almost all of Shantung province, and cut railway despite 4 warning of the Japanese. Chinese Nationalists battled May with Japanese at Tsinan. May 6 Two hundred thousand Ru manian peasants met at Albajulla and demanded the resignation of the government. Mav 11 Hipolito Irleoyen declared President-Elec- t of Argentina. Mav 20 Nationalist oartv routed In German erections. Socialists making big gains Mav .2 Greek cabinet resigned. Mav 29 Chinese Nationalists can 'ured Paotiogfu kev to Peking defenses. June S Marshal Chane left Peking for Mukden and was fatally Injured when bis train was bombed. J:ine j Chinese Nationalists began occupation of Peking June 9 Chiang south Chinese generalissimo, resigned June 14 British house of commons rejected Church of England's revised orayer ook. June 20 deputy killed two Croatian deputies and wounded four In row in June 21 The Chinese Nationalists changed 1name of Peking to Peiping. General July Obregon elected President of Mexico. Ju.v 4 Tugo Slavian government re signed. Alfred Loewenstein Belgian multi millionaire, disappeared from his plane over the North sea. July 11 Chinese Nationalists effect ed fiscal unity of the country after eight-daconference Ontar o government seized great tores of liquor readv for smuggling into United Slates. Julv 17 Gen Alvaro Obregon. Pres dent-Eleof Mexico assassinated July 19 Body of Cant Alfred Loew enstein Belgian millionaire found In English 21channel Julv Revolutionary attempt In Horiunal crushed by loyal troops. I. ii is Morones labor leaner resigned from Mexican cabinet and fled iu'v 25 Archbishop of Canterbury of England resigned effective primate November 12 Cosmo Lane archblihni July of York appointed archbishop of Can terbury ant primate of all Enuland Julv to Manchuria agreed to untie with National t China ignoring .la nan's warning Aug I Russian government nnmn dictator for distribution of the vear's four anti-Sernil- ic parliament, with Croats absent, ratified the Nettuno conventions with Italy. Aug. 14 Argentina cancelled Para guay's war debt of about I4.2uo.U0O 000 Union Aug. 24 Interparliamentary met in Berlin. 27 antiwar treaty Aug Kellogg Signed In Paris by 16 nations. Aug. 81 League of Nations council refused Costa Rica's reuuesl to mler pret the Monroe Doctrine. Sept. 8 Charles Evans Hughes elect ed a member of the world court. Sept. 23 Italy and Greece signed treaty of amity and conciliation Sept. 19 Lnited States note delivered to Great Britain and France retectitg their agreement as basis for naval disarmament discussion. Oct. 6 Italy rejected the Anglo French naval limitation agreement Oct 13 Kidiophone service between United States arid Spain opened bv President Coolidge and King Alfonso Nov 11 Armistice day celebrated throughout United States and allied countries of Europe. Nov i6 Allies and Germany agreed to hold congress to revise the Dawes reparations plan. Dec. 8 Bolivia and Paraguay on verge or war over border dispute. 10 Conference of American re Dec, publics on conciliation and arbitration opened in Washington and took " up Bolivia Paraguay dispute. Japan rejected Chinas Increased tariff schedule Dec. 16 Troops ot Bolivia and Para guay fought in Chaco region. Dec 16 Paraguay mobilized Its re serves 13 23 k iv;tV cntic. Suva. Fiji. as Scanderbeg 111Sept 3 Chinese Nationalist '0'r cleaned out a great pirate stronghold in Hingliwa bay. pept ii Four thousand revolutionaries arrested In Spain for plotting d'Ctatorship against the government Sept 17 Mexican reopen rng of all closed churches esS?Di is Fascist grand council 'taiv tablished ss supreme power In namea Sept "5 Mexican congress Emilio Portes Gil provisional rreni-den- 1f tor 14 months from December OV Sept. 26 Swedish cabinet headed Ekman resigned elected Oct 9 Gen Chiang President ,of China by Nationalist . 22r-Ca- pt. June I Southern Cross reached June 9 Southern Cross arrived aafeIv at Brisbane, Australia. Colonel Lindbergh given first maimer of aeronautics degree by New Sork university. June 10 Southern Cross landed at Sydney. Australia. jjine 12 Captain Carranxa completed nonstop flight from Mexico City to Washington. June 17 Amelia Karhart and combopped panions, in airplane Friendship, off from Trepassey. N. F. Amundsen and Ove June 18 Captain comoanions lost- - in attempt to reach Nobile party in jilane. Airplane Friendship landed In Burry Inlet. Wales June 19 Major Maddalena reached Nobile an-- five companions by airplane. June 24 Swedish airman rescued Nobile Ferrarin and Del Prete. July for Braxll Italians, hopped off at Romelanded near 6 Italian flyers July Port Natal. Brazil, having road new distance record of 4.449 miles. July 11 Russian aviator discovered Doctor Malmgren and two companions,d members of Nobile party who had over ice 42 days, but he could not land Julv 12 Russian Icebreaker Krassln rescued Malmgren's campanions but bad been dead found Malmgren month: it then rescued the five men eft near Foyn Island by Nobile. Sora and July 13 Aviators rescued Von Dongen. who were lost while survivors. Italia for the hunting Capt Emilio Carranza. Mexican good will flyer, killed by lightning In New Jersey 15 Icebreaker Krassln picked July up Russian Aviator Chukhnovsky and four 'ompanions. who had crashed while hunting the Nobile party July 31 Nobile and survivors of his oartv reached Rome. Aug 2 Capt, C T, Courtney and flying from the three companions, Azores to Newfoundland, were forced Prohibition defeated In New South and Canberra. Austrslia. Wale Ahmad Zogu became king of Albania electoral law patting Klcarsguan bat lot nnder supervision of American March 24 Preliminary disarmament conference adjourned without result after Great Britain again proposed re auction of coital eh ids. March 27 Mexican government Is sued petroleum regulations recognts ir.g rights of foreigners in oil proper lies prior to 1917. April 11 United States government uegan sounding out the great powers on multilateral renouncing war treaty v as a national colic 21 France made public Its April draft of treaty to end war. John Bassett Moore re April signed as American member of the permanent court of International lui tice. May 80 Italy and Turkey signed or orientation and arbitration treaty June 1C Chinese Nationalist govern ment asked United States for revision or treaties. July i$ Chile and Peru resumed relations. diplomatic July 21 Japanese troops tn Shan tung killed many Chinese tn battle July 22 krun refused to accept Chinese Nationalists' repudiation of un equal treaties. July 25 United States offered Na tionaliat government of China a new autonomy treaty as step toward rec ognition. July 26 France Invited 14 other na tlona to signing of Kellogg antiwar on August 27. treaty in27 Paris United Stales signed treaty July tariff autonomy. giving China July 0 England and France made semlsecret agreement on naval reduc i u, piefher i retinv!-"- .on of 'I fsmru .... h irM u.. ftleehei s. " Oregon TraM pioneerAlice "'."ptffl1' Hec fhli-rtiiin-hie- r ot the'tioct Dec H James A rnrtf" Dec i j .vi itcktnon .n.fri'l reiaiv nf nr in Chl'n-';'- , Dec 1H Kleimur poet and oivdist l. Wef t. tn Nwsil t, . 0f . |