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Show ji v '; i ! I ' ' -11- ' ' ? ' !; ' i " ,-lL v-, ! April 7 Henry Ford. 8$. auto manufacturer. 18 Benny Leonard, 51. former world lightweight boxuig champion. 20 King Christian X of Denmark, 76. 24 Willa Cather. 70, famous novelist. May 4 Martin J. Insull. 78, brother of Samuel Sam-uel and himself a utilities magnata. 1G Sir Frederick (J. Hopkins, 80, biochemist bio-chemist who discovered vitamins. 27 Brig Gen. Evans F. Carlson, 51, marine ma-rine hero, I iHler of "Carlson's raiders." raid-ers." 31 Acirienne Ames, 39, actress and radio commentator. June 11 David 1. Walsh. 74, former U. S. senator sen-ator and governor of Massachusetts. 22 Jim Tully, 5ti. novelist and screen writer. July 12 Rep. Joseph J. Mansfield. 86. Texas congressman since It) Hi and oldest member ol house. 26 Mrs. Martha K. Truman, 94. President Presi-dent Truman's mother. August 4 Gipsv R. Smith, 87, noted evangelist. 21 Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo. C9. U. S. senator from Mississippi, 1935-47. September 20 Fiorello H. La Guarriia, 64. former congressman from New York state, mayor of New York City and director direc-tor general of UNRRA. October 17 Arthur Hyde, 70, former secretary of agriculture, former governor of Missouri. 30 Gov. Earl Snell of Oregon, 52. November 4 John G. Winant, 58, former ambassador ambas-sador to England. 22 James J. Davis, 74, secretary of labor, 1921-30. December 7 Dr. Nicholas irt. Butler, 85, president emeritus of Columbia U. Joseph T. Ryerson, 67, steel magnate. August 10 William Odom of Roslyn, N. Y., flies around world in record 73 hours. covering cov-ering 19.645 miles. H--Sensational Hughes investigation by senate committee probing army airplane air-plane contracts suddenly adjourned. September 1 President and Mrs. Truman visit Brazil on 20-day goodwill mission. 14 Army imposes complete ban on news of biological warfare developments. develop-ments. 28 Farm income soars 11 per cent in past year while operating costs jump 16 per cent, department of agriculture agricul-ture report discloses. October 2 Food conservation drive launched by President. 10 First war dead arrive at San Francisco. Fran-cisco. 23 President calls congress for emergency emer-gency session on November 17. 24 Distillers begin 60-day shutdown to save grain. 30 U. S. justice department files antitrust anti-trust suit against 17 investment banking companies. . November 4 Democrats regain slate control in Kentucky by electing Earle C. Clements Clem-ents governor. 8 President's advisory committee says U. S. must give Europe five and three quarter billion dollars in aid in 1948. 13 Gov. Earl Warren of California enters en-ters Republican presidential race. 17 Congress convenes on President's call to deal with European aid, inflation. in-flation. 20 Charles Luckman resigns as chairman chair-man of citizen's food committee. 25 Robert E. Hannegan's resigns as postmaster general; succeeded by James A. Donaldson, former first assistant. December 5 Ten movie writers, producers and directors indicted for contempt of congress in Red probe. 11 Secretary Marshall denounces Rus-'sian Rus-'sian slurs on U. S. in London. 12 Open congressional investigation of grain speculation of Edwin Pauley, army department official. Top Ten Spot News Stories of 197 (As selected by nation's weekly editors edi-tors in Publishers' Auxiliary poll.) Taft-Hartley act keynotes turbulent labor picture. Marshall plan, including 2212 billion bil-lion dollar outlay, marks U. S. effort to rehabilitate stricken Europe. Eu-rope. Tanker explosion and fire wreak havoc in Texas City, Tex., with death toll of 400. V. S. -Russian disputes hold spotlight spot-light in United Nations' quest for world peace. t Britain grants India long-sought freedom; rioting and bloodshed prevail. Governorship dispute flares in Georgia, Geor-gia, with M. E. Thompson as ultimate ul-timate victor. Telephone strike ties up communications communi-cations over widespread area. Price in flat ion staggers d o mestic economy. Marriage of Britain's Princess Elizabeth Eliz-abeth brings royalty into limelight. lime-light. Truman Doctrine and Greco-Turkish aid mark revised concept in foreign relations. September 1 American Davis cup team defeats Australia to retain cup. 3 N. Y. Giants pro football teams beats Eastern College all-stars, 21-0, in New York City. 7 Minor league baseball season ends. Jersey City leads International league, Kansas City, the American association. 22 Brooklyn Dodgers clinch National league pennant, New York Yankees win American league flag. 27 Armed beats Assault as nation's top race horse. Compete in ?100,000 two-horse two-horse race at Belmont Park, N. Y. 28 Ben Hogan wins International golf tourney in Chicago. October () New York Yankees win World series. 18 Army's record of 32 football games without deteat broken by Columbia. November 8 Notre Dame defeats Army, 27 to 7. 14 Billy Fox defeats Jake LaMotta by technical knockout in New York. E0 Brooklyn Dodgers buy St. Paul club of American Association. December 5 Joe Louis retains heavyweight title in split decision over Joe Walcott. 6 Notre Dame beats Southern Califor nia, 38 to 7. 13 College of Pacific defeats Utah State 35 to 21 in Grape Bowl grid game. 0HE0H0L95Y L; -':' 'January f 1 Five killed when DC-3 L transport crashes near Charleston, S. C. lTransport plane falls near Carmel, N. J., killing 3. injuring 20. 12- Airliner era Jies near Galax, Va., killing 18 of 19 aboard. 13 Fifteen miners die in gas explosion in coal mine in Nottingham, Pa. 30 Tornado sweeping thruui,,h Alabama, Tennessee. Arkansas and Missouri kills 20. February IB Twenty -one killed, 128 injured when train plunges over 150-foot embark-ment embark-ment in Allegheny mountains near Alioona, Pa. 20 Explosion of tank in electroplating factory in central Los Angeles kills IS, injures 158, demolishes area half mile square. March 25 Worst mine disaster since 1928 takes toll of 111 lives in CenLralia. 111., explosion. April 2 Explosion in fireworks plant In Clinton. Clin-ton. Mo., kills 10. 9 Tornadoes rip through Texas Panhandle Pan-handle and Oklahoma, killing 138, injuring 1.000. . Woodward, Okla., haidesl hit. with 84 dead. 16 Most of Texas City, Tex., destroyed by enormous explosion when freighter, freight-er, loaded with nitrate fertilizer, explodes ex-plodes in harbor and sets fire to docks, oil tanks and factories. Fire rages for three days. Toll; 400 killed. kill-ed. 3.500 injured. 29 Tornado destroys Worth, Mo., killing kill-ing 14. Another twister kills 9 in rural northwest Arkansas. May 6 Outbreak of infant diarrhea in Philadelphia Phila-delphia area causes deaths of 27 babies. 29 Forty-two killed when DC-4 airliner crashes after take-off at La Guardia field. New York. Seven survive. 30 DC-4 airliner crashes near Ft. Deposit, De-posit, Md., killing ail 53 on board. Two crashes rank as worst air disasters dis-asters in U. S. history. 31 Tornado strikes Leedy, Okla., wrecking wreck-ing town, killing 6. June 1 Tornado kills 35 in farming section near Pine Bluff, Ark. 9 Mississippi river floods lowlands in northern Missouri, southern Iowa and Illinois, forcing 22.000 to abandon aban-don homes. Seven drowned at Ot-lumwa, Ot-lumwa, Iowa. 13 All 50 on bord DC-4 airliner killed when it strikes mountain near Lees-burg, Lees-burg, Va. 22 Flash flood drowns 11 in Cambridge, Neb. July 3 Tornado Stills 11 near Grand Forks, N. D. 13 chartered DC-3 transport plane crashes in swamp near Melbourne, Fk'., killing 21, injuring 15. 29 E::p:osion wrecks beauty shop in Harrisonburg, Va. Ten women killed, . 30 pc"ons injured. August 8 rour die when chartered plane dives h.to chimney of gas plant in Everett. Ever-ett. Mass. Sep teai ber 3 Labor day weekend takes death toll of 456, compared with 457 in 1946. ' 11 Twenty killed when excusion boat blows up at Pittsburgh dock. 20 Hurricane sweeps in over southern Florida, crosses Gulf of Mexico, strikes Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. Toll: 100 killed, many injured, in-jured, property loss of 25 to 30 million mil-lion dollars. 21 Flood following hurricane drowns 1 37 in New Orleans area. 29 Fire on New York City pier results in injuries to 144 firemen, five mil-I mil-I Kon dollar loss. October 24 Fifty-two killed when transport plane crashes in Bryce Canyon, Utah. 25 Forest fires in Maine kill 17, destroy many homes. Fires rage throughout northeastern states. 26 Transport hits mountain In Alaska, - killing 18. November 13 Army plane hits Mt. Spokane, Wash., killing five men. 21 Nine naval personnel killed, two saved in crash of bomber in Pacific, 100 miles southwest of San Diego, Calif. December 9 Army plane crashes near Goose Bay. Labradoi; 23 die. six rescued. 11 Two passenger trains collide head-on head-on near New Brauiu'els. Tex., killing two, injuring nine. 12 Army plane burns and crashes near Memphis. Tenn., killing 20. 15 CAB tabulation shows 1947 toll of 274 fatalities in mishaps involving scheduled airlines. I ' ' ',. J January t ' , 10 U. N. security council tij. If i- I guarantees independence independ-ence of Free Territory of Trieste, ceded to Italy alter World War I. 11 Chinese civil warfare continues to rar;e. 15 Truce becomes effective between French troops and native rebel forces in French Indo-China. 19 Poland holds first election for parliamentary parlia-mentary offices since 1935. 21 Paul Ramadicr chosen new premier of France. New cabinet leans to left, but not Communism. February 2 Premier Alcide de Gasperi forms new Italian cabinet composed of coalition of Christian Democrats and Leftists. 4 Anglo-Arab conference on Palestine adjourns in failure, as Arabs reject partition plan. 7 British military government of Germany Ger-many announces plan to free 1.000,000 of the 1,500,000 Nazi suspects in zone. First legal Polish cabinet since war formed by Josef Cyrankicwicz. Ten key positions held by Communists or Socialists. 20 British announce withdrawal from India before June, liJ48. 25 Foreign ministers end Iondon conference, con-ference, with little headway on peace treaties for Austria and Germany. Ger-many. March 1 Chinese Communist troops open large scale offensive against Changchun. 4 Greek government appeals to U. S. for immediate aid. 8 Jewish underground forces battle British soldiers in Palestine. 14 U. S. and Philippines sign treaty granting U. S. 99-year leases for naval bases. 24 Dutch and Indonesians sign treaty recognizing Indonesian Republic. with sovereignty by January 1, 1949. April 2 U. N. grants U. S. strategic trusteeship trustee-ship over former Japanese-mandated islands, the Caroline, Marshall and Mariana groups. 5 Chinese Communist troops kill 5 U. S. marines, wound l(i in raid on marine munition dump. 24 Moscow conference ends alter 4(1 days, after reaching agreement on only a lew points for Austrian and German treaties. 26 Peace negotiations begin between Indo-Chinese rebels and French forces. May 9 Communists ousted from French cabinet. cab-inet. 16 Congress passes foreign relief bill. providing 350 million dollars for Austria, Aus-tria, Greece. Hungary, Italy, Poland, Trieste and China. 20 First Japanese premier under new consitution is Tetsu Katayama, 59. lawyer and a Christian. 31 Russia seizes control of Hungarian government through Hungarian Communist Com-munist party coup. Premier de Gasperi of Italy forms ; new cabinet, minus Communists or 1 Socialists. June ! 5 Secretary Marshall reveals "Marshall "Mar-shall Plan" for European aid. U. S. senate ratifies peace treaties i with Italy, Hungary, Romania and I Bulgaria. 27 Austria and U. S. reach settlement on occupation costs. President of Chile Gabriel Videla proposes inter - American army to j guard the- cunlincnt. 30 UNRRA, laret relief effort in history, his-tory, ends alter spending three billion bil-lion dollars in four years, 72 per cent of funds coming from the U. S July 15 Paris economic conference cstab lishes IG-n ition oi ganization for Eu ropean economic cooperation undei Marshall plan. 20 Dutch forces, with air support, at tack Indonesian R,. public installations installa-tions on Java and umatra. claiming claim-ing bieach of truce 28 Protests on undeclared war in Netherlands Neth-erlands East Indies pour into U. N August 1 U. N. atomic energy commission releases re-leases six papers on atomic control pians. Russia rejects proposals. 19 India becomes free of foreign rule as British relinquisn powers. Two sovereign states, Dominion of India and Pakistan, govern most of huge land. 21 Russian vetoes keep Italy, Austria. Transjnrdania. Eire, Portugal from U. N. membership. 23 Government of Ecuador seized In bloodless coup by defense minister Col. Carlos Mancheno. September 2 Inter-American treaty of reciprocal assistance signed by delegates of 19 North and South American nations at Rio de Janeiro. 6 Rioting sweeps India, with thousands of fatalities. 22 EuroDean nations asl: 22 V2 billion dollars in aid under Marshall plan. 29 Arab Higher Committee of Palestine tells U. N. commission Arabs will light to keep Palestine an Arab-controlled state. 30 Greek government reports 45.214 Greek civilians and 4,000 soldiers and policemen killed by rebels since October, 1944. October 5 Communist parties of nine European nations form "Cominform." revived Comintern. 19 F r e n c h anti-Communist party. Charles dcGaulle's RPF, replaces Communists as largest French party. 21 U. N. establishes permanent Balkan "border-watch" committee to covet Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania 30 New French cabinet gets vote of confidence in assembly, averting new crisis. November 3 British and Scotch elections turn to conservative side as Labor and Communis! Com-munis! parties lose ground. 8 Britain forced to ration potatoes. 13 U. N. creates "Little Assembly ' to act during recess of main body. 15 Communist-inspired riots and strikes sweep France and Italy. 17 U. N. accept Geneva trade agreement, agree-ment, signed by 23 nations. 20 Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten in London draws world-wide interest. 24 Strikes in France and' Italy fail, as workers return to jobs. 29 U. N. partitions Palestine into Jewish Jew-ish and Ar. b stales. December (i U. S. forbids shipment of arms to Palestine. 9 Russia breaks off trade pact discussion dis-cussion with France. 12 General strike grips Rome; Com- 1 munis ts march on city. I 1 Soviet government revalues Russia's currency. I 16 London Big Four foreign minister.1:' parley ends in failure; Secy, of Slate Marshall blames Russia for collapse. SPORTS Jk January Jk Bow' football scores: Rose Bowl, Illinois 45. U. C. L. A. 14; Sugar Bowl, Georgia 20. North Carolina Caro-lina 10; Cotton Bowl, Arkansas 0, Louisiana State. 0; Orange Bowl, Rice 8, Tennessee 0. Shrine game. West All Stars. 13. E0st 9. 21 Bob Feller, Cleveland Indians pitcher, pitch-er, signs contract calling for $80,000 plus bonus for 1917 season. 25 Gil Dodds runs Knights of Columbus mile in, Boston in record 4:09.1. February 2 National Collegiate Athletic association associa-tion bans running shift among football foot-ball rule changes. 12 Charles Trippi, pro football star, signs to play baseball with Atlanta club.. 21 Hank Greenbcrg signs wiln Pittsburgh. Pitts-burgh. Pirates for SUO.OOO. 28 Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight champion, knocks out Billy Fox in title bout in New York. March 12 Martin Ortiz takes bantamweight title from Harold Dade in Los Angeles. An-geles. 15 Willie Hoppe retains world three-cushion three-cushion billiards championship. Ted Edwards and William Lintel-bach Lintel-bach win U. S. court tennis doubles. 22 Joseph Verdeur sets new record for 220 - yard breaststroke, 2:16.4 in Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming league. 25 Utah defeats Kentucky, 49 to 45, to win National Collegiate basketball title. 29 Gil Dodds runs fastest indoor mile, 4:06.8 in Chicago. April 9 Commissioner Happy Chandler suspends sus-pends Leo Durocher, Brooklyn baseball base-ball club manager, for 1947 season. l5'Joe Baski. American heavyweight fighter, defeats Bruce Woodcock, British champion, in London. Baseball season opens, Brooklyn Is managed by Burton Shotton. 26 Texas U. take top honors in Drake relays in Des Moines, Iowa. Illinois leads in Penn relays in Philadelphia. 27 "Babe Ruth Day" observed at all ball parks in U. S. and Japan. May 3 Jet Pilot wins Kentucky Derby In 2:06 45; Phlanx second, Faultless, " third. 4 National women's senior A. A. 13. championship swimming meet in Seattle won by Crystal Plunge club of San Francisco. Ann Curtis takes individual honors. 17 U. S. golf team regains Walker cup at St. Andrews, Scotland. 30 Mauri Rose wins annual 500 mile auto race at Indanapolis with average aver-age speed of 11(3.3 miles. June 3 Honeymoon sts new world record for seven furlong race of 1:21 45 minutes al Hollywood Park. Calif. Lloyd Marshall of Cleveland knocks out British light heavyweight champ- ion in London. 15 Lew Worsham wins national open golf title by one stroke at St. Louis. 18 Harvard rowing crew defeats Yale in historic race at New London. Conn. Ewel Blackwell of Cincinnati Reds pitches first no-hit game of season against Boston Braves in Cincinnati. 21 U. of Illinois retains National Collegiate Col-legiate Athletic association championship champ-ionship in meet at Salt Lake City. ' 29 Betty Jameson wins U. S. women's open golf title in Greensboro. N. C. Jiy 8 American League wins All-Star baseball base-ball game in Chicago, 2-1. 16 Rocky Graziano defeats Tony Zale to win world's middleweight boxing title. 21 Schooner Dolphin II wins California-to-IIawaii yacht race in 11 days, 1:04 minutes. Sloop Cara Mia captures cap-tures Chicago-lo-Mackinac race in 39 hours, 5:46 minutes. 29 Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight boxing champion, outpoints Tami Mauriello, heavyweight, in non-title bout in New York. August 4 Ike Williams knocks out Bob Montgomery Mont-gomery in Philadelphia to become lightweight champion of world. 13 Victory Song sets new world record for trotters by running mile in 1 :57 35 minutes, in Springfield, 111. 21 D. Lee Bi aim of Dallas. Tex., wins professional North American clay target championship In Vandalia. Ohio. 22 Willie Pen retains featherweight title bv defeating Jock Leslie in Flint, Mich. College All-Stars beat Chicago Bears pro too thall Squad in Chicago, 16-0. w t' January p4 y 15 Ford Motor company fc&r- reduces prices on pas senger cars $15 to $50 in effort "to halt insane spiral of mounting costs and rising prices." 23 Potato growers authorized to dump 20 million bushels of low-grade potatoes pota-toes stored under government price-support price-support plan. February 4 Largest narcotic seizure In nine years matte in New York when federal agents find 250. 000 worth of heroin in possession of U. S. seaman returning re-turning from France. 7 Coldest temperature ever recorded on North American continent, 81 degrees de-grees below zero, registered at Snag airport in Canadian Yukon. 16 Survey shows average teacher's salary sal-ary in U. S, is S37 weekly, and 350,-000 350,-000 teachers have left schools since 1940. March 16 Margaret Truman, the President's daughter, sings on radio in debut with Detroit symphony. April 6 Tuberculosis death rate In U. S. hits lowest level in history at 40.1 per 100,000. 12 Two die of smallpox In New York City. Mayor O'Dwyer asks all New Yorkers to be vaccinated. 15 Reynolds Bombshell, converted army bomber, sets unofficial around ' the world flight record by covering 20,000 miles in 78 hours, 55 minutes. May 7 Oklahoma State Sen. Thomas Anglin shot in hip by State Rep. James Scott in senate chamber. Scott is adjudged insane. 17 stock market prices slump to lowest point since January, 1945, on reports of buyer resistance and slowing business busi-ness activity. June 11 New "secret weapon," called as effective ef-fective as atom bomb but cheaper to make, announced by Prof. T. D. J. Leech of New Zealand. It reputedly Is some kind of electrical "death ray." 24 Freak snowstorm In Montana-Wyoming border region piles up 15-foot drifts. Three workmen smothered in snow-buried Truck. 28 General Eisenhower declares U. S. army is now "a poor second" to Russia's. July 5 "Flying discs" reported by airlines crew over Emmett, Ida., leads to frenzy of similar stories of discs over other states. 11 Employment in U. S. passes 60 million, mil-lion, figure set as ideal by Henry Wallace. 27 Gallup poll reports 51 per cent of voters would vote for Truman for President, 49 per cent for Dewey. August 19 More than a third (35 per cent) of veterans who entered college under G.I. bill of rights have dropped out of school, VA reports. 23 New mimr planet discovered by University Uni-versity 01 California. It is 10 miles in diameter, 156 million miles from sun. 30 Radio tube "almost as small as a grain of rice" developed. September 9 Cyclotron at University of California produces non-explosive fission of tantalum, tan-talum, thallium, platinum, lead and bismuth. Scientists also discover diamonds dia-monds are radio-sensitive and make excellent counters oi radio-activity. 18 Department of agriculture reports that 70 cents of every consumer dollar dol-lar spent on meat now goes to farmer, farm-er, compared with 51 cents in 1939. 27 "Radac" (rapid digital automatic computation) may be basis of defense de-fense for rocket weapons, reports Presidential Scientific Research board. October 5 Beulah Overell and George "Bud" Gollum acquitted on charge of murdering mur-dering Beulau's parents in yacht explosion. 30 Plot to obtain atomic bomb secrets revealed in senate inquiry uito Hollywood Holly-wood communism. November 3 Dealers blame rumors of nylor stocking shortage on radio commentators commen-tators and newspaper columnists. 11 Russia reported to have exploded atomic bomb in tests; U. S. scient ists doubt possibility. 19 Decommissioned battleship New Mexico reaches junkyard in New ark. N. J., for seiapping, after weeV of ludicrous "battluig" with fireboatj and writs. gtY. January Vff 67-Presldent Truman I emphasizes five maj or problems strikes, business monopolies, housing, taxes and agricultural prosperity in annual an-nual "state of the union" message. 10 President submits budget totaling 37'a billion dollars. 21 Gen. 'George Marshall succeeds James Byrnes as secretary of state. February 10 U. S signs peace treaties ending war with Italy. Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland Fin-land and Romania. 12 U. S. and Canada agree to continue wartime collaboration for "peacetime "peace-time joint security purposes." 28 U. S. cooperatas with Mexico in campaign cam-paign to control hoof-and-mouth disease dis-ease outbreak. March 6 U. S. Supreme court finds John L. Lewis and United Mine Workers guilty of civil and criminal contempt in coal strike of November, 1946. 12 President outlines "Truman Doctrine" Doc-trine" on Europe and blasts Russian aggression. 18 Cash wheat hits 30-year high of $3.05 a bushel in Chicago. 19 Georgia supreme court rules Mel-vin Mel-vin E. Thompson is legal governor of state. , 31 Many war power acts expire automatically, auto-matically, including selective service, serv-ice, CPA controls on steel, resins, textiles, solid fuels administration, transportation restrictions of ODT, and others. April 7 Telephone workers launch nationwide strike as 340,000 employees of Bell system leave jobs. 9 David Lilienthal confirmed as head of Atomic Energy commission after heated senate wrangle. 21 President warns of infiatioa dangers and pleads for voluntary price cuts. May 1 Round of threatened strikes in steel and heavy manufacturing Industries settled by raises of 10 to 15 cents per hour. 14 President signs bill to eliminate most portal-to-portal pay suits. 20 Last major telephone workers' strike ends. Newburyport, Mass., merchants abandon voluntary price cut campaign. cam-paign. 24 Navy accepts new jet-propelled fighter fight-er plane, carrier-based XF2D-1, with speed of 600 mph, June 1 Commission on universal military training issues stern warning on dangers dan-gers of swift annihilation in atomic war without a huge army, extensive defensive organization. 11 President reasserts doctrine of maintaining main-taining world peace by helping weak nations. 17 House fails by two votes to override presidential veto of income lax reduction re-duction bill. 23 Talt-Haiiley bill becomes law as congress con-gress overrides presidential veto. 30 President signs rent control bill continuing con-tinuing modified controls until March 1. 1948. July 18 Senate sustains presidential veto of income lax reduction bill. President si ens presidential succession succes-sion bill placing speaker of the house fii-Ft in line. 25 -Sixty wartime emergency powers rnrtcd and termination dates set lor 124 otheis. 2ti Bilt approved to unify armed forces. 27 Jam Furrc-slal appointed to newly-created newly-created post, secretary of national defense Eightieth consress ends first session. , - ' V""T- January i . 'X.t.u-e ' 5 Ovinglon E. Wetler, fetil.'-- vi fi'i- former U. S. senator sena-tor from Maryland. 7 Chailes S. Wochvorth. 90, one of f'umders of store chain. 11 Eva Tanguay. 68, famous vaudeville actress. 20 Andrew J. Volstead, ts?, tormer Minnesota Min-nesota congressman who inli oduced 191!) pinribitir.n act. 2ti Grace Moore, 4.", opera, radio and screen star, in air crash. 27 Paul P. Harris. 78, founder of Rotary International. Fcbr uary 3-Aflm Mare A Mitseher. 60, hero of both WvU Wars 6 o. Max Crirdncr, G4, U. S. ambassa- d ir to L'v:laiul. 12 Sidney Toier (Charlie Chan), 50. film s i a i" 15 ILirrv K. Thaw. 76. wealthy playboy niui stiot Stanford While. March 9 Mrs. C'u-ne Chapman Catt. 88, worn-;:'i worn-;:'i :--ull i a kg leader. 17 Wilham C. Dinant, 85, founder of General .Motors corporation. f i - L-wv.v.v.- ii i ii niiMhiaii i '"jfrfrjT- i r |