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Show I Chronology h of the k I Year -1927 jjj fa h By E. W. PICKARD ft , , h er? r? erp er? cri rrj rr? o c-p c , , nment within a year, which wis rejected re-jected on ground that It must be preceded pre-ceded by International alliances guarantee guar-antee i n k h e c lv 1 1 y . Dgc. 5 Council of League of Nations Na-tions met In 'i'-neva. Dec. 7 League of Nations council rr-f.-rrd Pol a nd-Li thuania quarrel to Van Block land of Holland for a report. re-port. ijc. 10 Premiers Pllaudskl of Poland Po-land and Wablemaras of Lithuania made temporary peace agreement. FOREIGN Jan. 3 Serious communist revolt In Sumatra, reported Jan. 10 Bishop Diaz and other prel-t prel-t t-d arrested by Mexican government for sedition. J:in. 11 Thouf-.ind natives massacred at U'anghihpao, China, by bandits. Jan. IS Senate rejected Lausanne treaty with Turkey. Jan. 20 Senate, by vote of 4 8 to 33, refused to let Frank L. Smith, aen-a aen-a tor-designate from Illinois, lake the oath of office pending Investigation of his qualifications. House passed armv supply bill, adding add-ing i, 000,000 to budget bureau estimate. esti-mate. Jan. 29 President Coolidge, addressing ad-dressing budget meeting, opposed militarism mili-tarism and pacifism but declared for adequate defense. House passed compromise radio bill Feb. 1 Senate passed navy appropriation appropri-ation bill after adding money for construction con-struction of three light cruisers opposed op-posed by President, and increasing appropriation ap-propriation for navy aircraft program. Feb. 9 President signed bill appropriating appro-priating J10,00u,0uQ for fighting corn borer. Feb. 11 Senate passed McKary-Ilaugen McKary-Ilaugen farm relief bill, 47-39. Feb. 15 Hugh R. Wilson appointed minister to Switzerland, J. Butler Wright minister to Hungary and Le-land Le-land Harrison minister to Sweden. Feb. 1 G Senate passed McFadden bank bill. Feb. 17 House passed McNary-Haugen McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. Ezra Brainerd, Jr., of Oklahoma confirmed con-firmed as member of Interstate commerce com-merce commission. Feb. 18 Radio bill passed by senate. Vincent Massey, first minister from Canada, received by President Coolidge. Feb. 24 House accepted senate amendment to navy bill appropriating money to start building of three light cruisers. Feb. 25 President Coolidge vetoed the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. Feb. 28 U. S. Supreme court canceled can-celed oil land leases given E. L, Do-heny Do-heny by A. B. Fall when secretary of the interior on ground of fraud. March 1 President Coolidge appointed appoint-ed radio commission consisting of O H. Caldwell, Rear Admiral W. H. G. Bullard, E. O. Sykes, H. A. Bellows and J. F. Dillon. House passed medical whisky bill. Senate passed bills for elevation of battleship guns and other navy appropriations appro-priations totaling $104,104,000. March 2 Senate passed prohibition reorganization bill. March 3 Senate ended 37-hour filibuster fili-buster by recessing until March 4. March 4 President Coolidge refused to call extra session as congress adjourned. ad-journed. Jury failed to agree in case of Daugherty in Daugherty-Miller bribery trial, but convicted Miller. March 8 Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custodian, sentenced to 18 months in Atlanta prison and fined 5,000 fcr conspiracy to defraud government. gov-ernment. March 16 Harry F. Sinclair, charged with contempt of the senate during the Teapot Dome oil scandal investigation, found guilty by a District of Columbia Supreme court jury. March 24 Roy A. Haynes appointed acting commissioner of prohibition. April 2 President Coolidge revoked Harding's naval oil reserves order and turned the reserves back to the navy. April 5 William Hale Thompson elected mayor of Chicago, defeating Mayor W. E. Dever. Sacco and Vanzettl, convicted murderers, mur-derers, denied new trial by Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Supreme court President Coolidge vetoed the Philippine Philip-pine act for plebiscite on independence. independ-ence. April 22 President Coolidge called on country for $5,000,000 relief fund for flood sufferers. April 2d President Coolidge spoke at anniversary dinner of United Press in New York, outlining government's foreign policies. Secretary Hoover took personal charge of flood relief activities in Middle West. April 30 IT. S. agents broke up plot to smuggle Chinese from Mexico into California by airplanes and killed one aviator. May 2 U. S. Supreme court upheld the Virginia law for sterilization of mental defectives. President Coolidge called for $5,000,-000 $5,000,-000 more for flood relief. May 17 U. S. Supreme court upheld California anti-syndicalism law. May IS Demented farmer .dynamited schoolhouse at Bath, Mich., killing 37 children and 6 adults, including himself. him-self. American Medical association voted that restrictions on medicinal whisky should be taken from Volstead act. May 19 Mrs. Catherine Cassler condemned con-demned to death in Chicago for murder. Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, sentenced sen-tenced to three months in jail and fined 5500 for contempt of the senate. L. C. Andrews resigned as assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of prohibition enforcement and Seymour Low man picked for place ; Dr. J. M. Do ran appointed commissioner of prohibition, pro-hibition, replacing Roy A. Haynes. May 25 Dr. O. D. Davis of Chicago elected national moderator of Congregational Congre-gational church. Dr. Robert E. Speer of New Jersey elected moderator of the Presbyterian church in the United States at general assembly in San Francisco. June 2 Flood control conference opened in Chicago. June 4 Gen. E. H. Crowder resigned as ambassador to Cuba. June 6 President Coolidge named delegates to naval disarmament conference, con-ference, with Ambassador Hugh L. Gibson Gib-son n s chairman. June 13 President Coolidge and his entourage left Washington for the summer White House in the Black Hills, South Dakota. June 25 Fifty-five indicted at Los Angeles in connection with oil stock swin die. June 29 Sacco and Vanzettl reprieved re-prieved for " i days by Governor Fuller of Massachusetts. July 6 Fall-Doheny bribery indictments indict-ments upheld by District of Columbia Supreme court. July 7 Henry Ford apologized for attacks on Jews in his Dearborn Independent Inde-pendent July 8 James R. Sheffield resigned as ambassador to Mexico. July 9 Federal trade commission ordered La sky, Zukor and Famous Pla yers-Ln sky corpora tion to discontinue discon-tinue "unfair methods" in moving picture pic-ture business, July 12 Northwest farm conference in St. Paul voted to support the McNary-Haugen farm relief measure until it becomes law. July 15 Gov. Ben Small pp. id state of Illinois $650,000 interest refund in satisfaction of judgment. july is Sapiro's $1,000,000 libel suit against Henry Ford dismissed after pavment of a substantial sum. July 24 Charles Eirger, southern Illinois Il-linois gang leader, sen te need to death for murder: two accomplices given life imprisonment. Congressman M. E. Crum packer of Portland, Ore., committed suicide by drowning ft San- Francisco. July 2S Secretary of the Navy Wilbur Wil-bur awarded contracts for building of four new cruisers. Aug. 2 President Coolidge announced an-nounced that he did not "choose to run for President in 1928." Aug. 3 Governor Fuller of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts refused cl mency to Sacco anrl Yanzetii, finding they had a fair trial and were guilty. Aug. 5 Edward S. Shumaker, superintendent super-intendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon league, and Jess E. Martin, attorney for the league, found guilty of contempt by the Indiana Supreme court. Shumaker Shu-maker sentenced to 60 days on penal farm and fined $250. Aug. 22 Chief Justice Taft and Jus-r Jus-r U-e Stone of U. S. Supreme court refused re-fused to intervene in Sacco-Vanzettl case. President Coolidge began a week's visit in Yellowstone National park. A u g. 2 3 S :'. ceo and V a n z e 1 1 i executed execut-ed in Massachusetts state prison. Riotous Riot-ous demonstrations in many cities. Sept. 9 President Coolidge and party left Black Hills for Washington. G r v. Ed Jackson of Indiana in dieted ; on charge of con r-pi racy to bribe Former For-mer Governor McCray, and Mayor Bu-vall Bu-vall of Indianapolis indicted for violations viola-tions of corrupt practio-s statutes. '"Miss Illinois." Lois Delander of .Toilet, .To-ilet, won Atlantic CPy beauty contest and title of ;V.iss America " ynM,t. 1 1 President Coolidge arrive d in Yv ashing ton. Sept. 13 National encampment of G. A. R. opened In Grand r.aplds, Mich. I Sept. 15 D. R. Crissinger resigned : as governor of federal reserve board. E. L. Hawk of Sacramento. Calif., elected commander-in-chief of G. A. R., and Denver chosen for 192S encampment. encamp-ment. Sept. 19 American Legion opened its convention in Paris. Sept 20 Dwight Morrow of New Jersey appointed ambassador to Mexico. Sept. 21 Roy A. Young of Minneapolis Minne-apolis appointed to federal reserve board to succeed D. R. Crissinger Sept. 22 Mayor John U Duvall of Indianapolis found guilty of political corruption. Edward E. Spafford of New York elected national commander of American Ameri-can Legion ; San Antonio selected for 1923 convention. Sept. 24 Baltimore & Ohio railroad : celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. anniver-sary. Oct. 3 President Coolidge, opening annual meeting of American Red Cross, promised flood control and develop- . rnent of inland waterways. I Oct. 4 International radio congress ! opened in Washington with 70 nations represen ted. ; Oct. 10 U. S. Supreme court canceled 1 Teapot Dome lease to Harry Sinclair. Oct 12 Mayor Duvall of Indianapolis Indianapo-lis sentenced to 30 days in jail and barred from public office. Oct. 15 One hundred and two klans-men klans-men indicted in Crenshaw county, Alabama, Ala-bama, fur floggings. H. A. Bellows resigned from federal radio board and Samuel Pickard was appointed to succeed him. Oct. 17 U. S. Supreme court refused to review padlock cases against Chicago Chica-go cabarets. Oct. 25 Admiral Magruder, who criticized navy in magazine article, relieved re-lieved of his command in Philadelphia navy yard. Oct 2G Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas announced his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination. nomina-tion. Oct 31 Secretary of Treasury Mellon Mel-lon submitted to house committee plan for tax reduction of about $225,000,000 Nov. 1 Fall-Sinclair trial in Washington Wash-ington halted by a jury scandal. Nov. 2 Mistrial declared in Fall-Sinclair Fall-Sinclair case because of charges of tampering with the jury. Corn belt and southern agricultural conference in St. Lou is adopted resolutions reso-lutions indorsing McNary-Haugen bill and condemning attitude of Borah Reed of Missouri and Bruce of Maryland. Mary-land. Nov. 4 Harry Sinclair and H. M. Day charged with conspiracy to fix the Sinclair-Fall jury. Nov. S F. D. Sampson, Republican and friend of horso racing, elected governor gov-ernor of Kentucky. Nov. 10 Judge Fead at St Joseph Mich., placed House of David under a receiver and ousted Benjamin Purncll Nov. 17 President Coolidge received Philadelphia Union League club's medal of honor. Nov. 21 House ways and means committee com-mittee agreed on tax cut not to exceed $250,000,000. United States Supreme court declared invalid provision of Alaska dry law prohibiting possession of liquor in private home for owners' use. Nov. 22 Harry Sinclair, W. J. Burns and four others cited for contempt of court in Teapot Dome case. Nov. 23 Charles E. Hughes, as special spe-cial master for United States Supreme court, recommended that the suit of Wisconsin and other states against Chicago Chi-cago Sanitary District for' diversion of Lake Michigan water be dismissed. Col. Noble B. Judah of Chicago made ambassador to Cuba. Nov. 24 Hundreds of convicts in Folsom, Calif., prison revolted; two guards and seven prisoners killed. Dec. 5 Seventieth congress met; house re-elected Speaker Longworth. i Dec. 6 President Coolidge sent his message to congress, Mr. Coolidge told Republican national na-tional committee he had "eliminated" himself as a nomination possibility. Dec. 7 National budget of 53,556.-957,031 53,556.-957,031 submitted to congress by the President. Senate refused to let Frank L. Smith take the oath of office as senator from Illinois. ' Republican national committee selected se-lected Kansas City for the 1928 convention con-vention and issued call for June 12. Dec. 9 Senate denied the oath to W. S. Vare of Pennsylvania; both his case and Smith's referred to Reed committee com-mittee on campaign expenditures. Dec 13 Henry L. Stimsnn appointed governor general of the Philippines. Oklahoma legislators, defying state courts, voted impeachment of Gov. H. S. Johnston. Dec. 14 Oklahoma senate voted to try the governor on impeachment charges. Dec. 15 House passed revenue bill providing for tax reductions aggregating aggregat-ing $290,000,000. Dec. 26 Dearborn Independent. Henry Ford's magazine, suspended publication. pub-lication. AVIATION Feb. 22 De Pinedo, Italian aviator, flew from Cape Verde islands to Fernando Fer-nando Noronba, Brazil. Feb. 28 Two army "good will" planes collided at Buenos Aires; Capt. C. F. Woolsey and Lieut J. W. Benton killed. May 2 Pan-American flyerp ended trip at Washington and wer given medals by President. May S Capt. Charles Nungesser and Capt. Francois Coli of France started on nonstop flight from Paris to New York and were lost in the Atlantic. May ' 20 Capt. Charles Lindbergh started nonstop flight from New York to Paris. May 21 Lindbergh landed in Paris, having made the flight in 33 hours. 21 minutes. First nonstop flight eastward across the Atlantic. May 30 Fifteen balloons left Akron, Ohio, in annual endurance race. June 2 W. T. Van Orman with the Goodyear balloon declared winner of balloon race with a distance of 727 miles. June i C. D. Chamberlin and C. A. Levine in Bellanca monoplane started from New York for Europe. June 6 Chamberlin and Levine landed at Eisleben. Germany, and then flew to Kottbus. 70 miles from Perlin. Established new nonstop record of 3. SOS miles. June 11 Lindbergh landed at Washington Wash-ington and was decorated by President Presi-dent Coolidge with distinguished flying fly-ing cross. June 16 De Pinedo ended his four-continent four-continent flieht at Rome. June 28 Lieuts. L. J. Maitland and Albert Hegenberger began flight in army Fokkcr plane from San Francisco Francis-co to Hawaii. June 29 Commander Eyrd and crew in plane America bopped off at Nev York for nonstop flight to Europe. Maitland and Hegenborger completed complet-ed 2.000-mile (light to Honolulu in 25 hours. 55 minutes. July 1 Byrd's plane, lost in fog over France, landed in sea near Havre: crew all swam ashore. July 14 E. L. Smith and E. ' B. Bronte started flight from San Francisco Fran-cisco to Hawaii. July 15 Smith and Bronte, out of fuel, landed on Molokai island. Hawaii, Ha-waii, unhurt. July 20 Col. Charles A. Lindbergh started from New York on flying tour of the nation. Aug 8 Lieuts. George Covell and R. S. Waggener, U. S. entrants in race to Hawaii, killed in crash of their plane at Point Loma. Calif. Aug. 12 A. V. Rogers, entrant in air race to Honolulu, killed in crash of his plane. Aug 16 Four planes started in race from Oakland, Calif., to Honolulu: lour others failed to get away. Aug 17 Art Goebel snd Lieut. William Wil-liam Davis in plane Woolriroc landed first at Honolulu, winning the lole prie. Martin Jensen and Paul pchlut-er pchlut-er in plane Aloha, second. Other two planes lost, with four men and one woman. Aug. 13 Capt. W. P. Erwin and A. H Eiehwaldt in plane Dallas Spirit, ilew from Oakland. Calif., in search of lost planes and were themselves Inst. Aug. 25 Paul R. Redfern started on noii:-tup flight fmm Brunswick. Ga.. to Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. Aug. 2f. Redfern apparently lost: search begun. Aug. 27 Schlee and Brock In plane .Pride of Detroit itarted from Harbor Grace, N. F.. on round-the-world flight. landing In London next day. Aug. 31- Capt. Leslie Hamilton and Col. F. F. Minchln. with Princess Low-enstein Low-enstein Wertheim as passenger, started start-ed flight from Upavon, Kngland to Ottawa, Ont-, In monoplane SL Raphael. Ra-phael. Sept. 1 Monoplan St Raphael lost In Atlantic. Sept. 6 Prld of Detroit reached Calcutta. Monoplane Old Clory. piloted by Ber-taud Ber-taud and Hill, with P. Pavne as passenger, pas-senger, started from Old Orchard. Maine, for Rome. Sept. 7 Old Glory plane lost In Atlantic At-lantic after sending SOS call. Plane Sir John Carltng left Harbor Grace, N. F., for London, piloted by Tully and Medcalf. Sept. 8 Plana Sir John Carlins considered con-sidered lost. Sept. 10 Schlee and Brock reached Shanghai. Balloon race for the Bennett cud started from Detroit. Sept. 12 Wreckage of Old Glory found In North Atlantic. R. G. Hill In balloon Detroit won Gordon Bennett race, traveling 725 miles. Sept. 14 Schlee and Brock reached aviation field near Tokyo. Sept. 15 Schlee and Brock decided to cross the Pacific in steamship. Sept. 19 National air derby races. New York to Spokane, started. Sept. 21 C. W. Holman won Class A air derby race; J. S, Charlos won In Class B. Sept. 22 Stinson and Schiller, only entrants in Class C of air derby, nonstop non-stop New York to Spokane, forced down in Montana, Sept. 26 Lieut. S. N. Webster of England won the Schneider cup at Venice In his Napier supermarlne plane. Oct. 10 Two French aviators. Costes and Le Brlx. started flight from Parts to Buenos Aires, to establish mai: route. Oct. 11 Ruth Elder and George Haldeman in plane American Girl started nonstop flight from New York to Paris. French aviators reached St. Louis Senegal, 2.700 miles from Paris. Oct. 13 Miss Elder and Haldeman forced down by broken oil- line 350 miles northeast of the Azores and picked up by Dutch oil tanker. Oct. 14 Costes and Le Brlx flew from Senegal to Port Natal, Brazil. Oct. 23 Colonel Lindbergh completed complet-ed his 22,350-mile air tour of the country. coun-try. Oct. 81 Colonel Lindbergh accepted position with Guggenheim Fund for Promotion of Aeronautics. Nov. 4 Capt. Hawthorne Gray, U. S. A., died in balloon over southern Illinois after reaching record height. Dec. 12 Colonel Lindbergh awarded Congressional Medal of Honor. Dec. 13 Lindbergh completed nonstop non-stop flight from Washington to Mexico City. DISASTERS Jan. 9 Seventy-seven children killed In movie theater fire in Montreal. Canada. Feb. 17 Thirty-six killed by tornado In Louisiana. Mississippi and Alabama. Feb. 20 Thirty killed tn great storm along Atlantic seaboard. March 1 Sixty-nine men killed In two mine disasters in England and Wales. March 7 Japanese earthquake and tidal wave; dead 2,485: injured. 3.441. March IS Tornado took 33 lives In Green. Forest and Denver, Ark. April 12 Tornado destroyed Rock-springs. Rock-springs. Tex., killing 59. April 16 Explosion In Chicago killed eight persons and wrecked block of stores. Floods In lower Mississippi valley causing immense losses. April 22 Flood situation In lower Mississippi valley grew steadily worse: scores dead and 75,000 homeless. April 29 Mississippi valley floods worst in the country's history. April 30 Mine explosion at Fairmont, Fair-mont, W. Va., entombed and killed 94 men. May 9 Tornadoes In middle western west-ern states killed about 200. May 23 Gigantic earthquake In Kansu province, China, ruined Liang-chow Liang-chow and other cities, killing about 100,000. May 30 One hundred killed by tornadoes In Virginia. Tennessee and Kentucky. July 6 Thousand Chinese drowned In flood In Anhwei province. July 9 Two hundred persons drowned In floods in Saxony. July 11 Earthquake in Palestine and Transjordania killed about 268. Sept. 7 West coast of Mexico swept by tidal wave; hundreds killed. Sept. 10 Five thousand liv lost In typhoon in Kwantunff province. China. Sept. 13 Typhoon and tidal wave In Japan wrecked towns near Nagasaki, Naga-saki, killed many and did vast damage. dam-age. Sept. 29 Eighty-nine killed, 1,200 Injured In-jured and $75,000,000 damage done by tornado in St. Louis, Mo. Oct. 25 Italian steamship Principes-sa Principes-sa Mafalda sank off Brazil coast when boilers exploded; 314 lives lost Nov. 4 Floods In New England killed many persons and did vast property prop-erty damage. Nov. 14 Explosion of gas storage tank In Pittsburgh killed about forty, injured hundreds and destroyed property prop-erty worth several million dollars. Nov. 26 Great floods In Algeria, hundreds of persons being drowned. Dec. 14 About sixty children and one nun burned to death in orphanage fire in Quebec. Dec. 17 Submarine S-4 with 40 men aboard rammed and sunk by coast guard destroyer Paulding off Province-town, Province-town, Mass. SPORTS Jan. 1 Alabama and Stanford tied in football. 7 to 7. at Pasadena, Feb. 25 Commander Byrd and Chief Mechanic Bennett given Congressional medal for North polo flight. March 5 Harvard won eastern indoor in-door track title. March 7 Michigan won Big Ten basket-ball title. March 12 Wisconsin university won western conference indoor track meet. May 3 Capt. C. H. Gray in army balloon bal-loon set new world record by ascending ascend-ing 41,000 feet from Belleville, 111. May 14 Kentucky Derby won by Whiskery, owned by H. P. Whitney. May 29 Illinois university won western conference track championship. champion-ship. Stanford university won eastern track meet at Philadelphia. June 1 Wright brothers and Lund-berg Lund-berg given engineering societies' award for aerial travel development. June 16 Tommy Armour and Harry Cooper tied for national open golf championship at Oakmont. Pa. June 17 Armour beat Cooper In play-off for championship. June 18 Hydromel won American Derby at Chicago. June 27 Fourteen planes started from Detroit on Ford reliability tour. June 29 Columbia won the Pough-keepsie Pough-keepsie regatta. July 15 Bobby Jones again won British open golf title with record score of 2S5. Aug. 20 Mrs. Harry Pressler, Los Angeles, won women's western golf title. Aug. 27 Bobby Jones won national na-tional amateur golf championship at Minneapolis. Sept. 10 Walter Hagen won western west-ern open golf title at Chicago. French tennis team won the Davis cun from Americans. Sept. 13 New York Yankees won American league pennant. Sept. 17 Lacoste of France again won U. S. tennis championship, defeating de-feating Tilden. Sept. 22 Heavyweight Champion Tunney defeated Jack Dempsey in ten-round fight in Chicago. Sept. 21 Mrs. Miriam Burns Horn won women's national golf championship. champion-ship. net. 1 Pittsburgh Pirates won National Na-tional league pennant. uct. 8 New York Yankees won the world's series. Out. 17 Ban B. Johnson retired from presidency of , American baseball league. Nov. 2 E. S. Barnard of Cleveland elected president of American baseball base-ball league. Nov. IS University of Illinois won western conference footbalt thamploa ship. Yale defeated Harvard t football. Nov. 26 Notre Dame defeated University Uni-versity of Southern California at football foot-ball In Chicago. Army eleven defeated the Navy 1b New York. NECROLOGY Jan. 6 Capt. M. E. Trench, U. . K, governor of the Virgin Islands. Jan. 7 Frank L. Stanton, poet. In Atlanta, Ga. J. P. Underwood of Chicago, Chi-cago, large timber land owner. Jan. 13 Arnold Dalv, Rctor In New Vork. R. F. Wolfe, publisher of Columbus Co-lumbus Dispatch and Ohio State Journal, Jour-nal, In Columbus, Ohio. Jan. 15 David R. Francis, statesman. In St. Louis Jan. 17 Miss Juliette Low. founder of Girl Scouts of America, In Savannah. Ga. Jan. IS Carlotta. ex-empress of Mexico, In Belgium. Jan. 21 Dr. Edward Wyllya Andrews, eminent surgeon, in Chicago. Jan. 26 Lyman J. Gage, former secretary sec-retary of the treasury, at Point Loma, Calif. Feb. 5. Charles Deering. capitalist. In Miami, Fla. Feb. 9 Dr. C. D. Walcolt. secretary of Smithsonian institution. Feb. 12 Congressman A. B. Stephen of North Bend, Ind. Feb. 13 Rov. Dr. Percy S. Grant, noted New York divine. Col. C. D. Mine, railroad and Industrial expert, In New York. Billy Bowman, veteran minstrel. In Houston, Texas. Feb. 14 Oliver Dennett' Grover. artist. In Chicago. William Cotlln. U. f-, S. Consul general to Berlin. Feb. IS Commodore Elbrldge T. Gerry of New York. Feb. 19 Dr. Georsc Brandos. Danish critic. Feb. 22 Benjamin Carpenter, prominent promi-nent Chicago merchant. Judson Harmon, Har-mon, former governor of Ohio. March 4 Dr. Ira Remsen, presid nt '' emeritus of Johns Hopkins universiiy. at Carmel, Calif. Harry Pratt Judson president emeritus of University of Chicago. March 18 Gov. Henry L, Whitfield of Mississippi. March 28 Will II. Dilg. founder of, Izaak Walton League, in Washington. March 30 Perry S. Heath, "father of rural free delivery system. April 10 Eliot V. Sheppard. millionaire mil-lionaire sportsman. In Miami Beach. Fla. Dr. G. O. Sars, noted Norwegian zoologist. Young Corbett former featherweight champion. In Denver. April 27 Albert J. Beverldge, ex-senator ex-senator from Indiana, orator and author. au-thor. Otto Borchert, president.' Mil-1 waukee baseball club. C. T. Trego,1 oldest member Chicago Board of Trade. May 2 Dr. Benjamin Ida Wheeler.1 president emeritus of University of California, In Vienna. May 3 Col. E. E. Ayer, Chicago capitalist, philanthropist and art collector, col-lector, in Pasadena, Calif. May 6 Hudson ' Maxim, explosive expert and inventor, at Lake Hopat-cong, Hopat-cong, N. Y. May 25 Payne Whitney, capitalist at Manh asset. L. I. May 29 James J. Van Alen. NeT York financier. In Paris. June 4 Martin Roche, noted architect, archi-tect, in Chicago. Robert MeKIm, stage and screen star, in Hollywood, Calif. Marquess of Lansdowne. June 5 Dr. Joseph Schne!de, world-famed oculist, in Milwaukee. W. R. Stansbury. clerk of U. 3. Supreme Su-preme court. June 7 Robert C. Hillinrd. actor, 1 New York. Thomas W. Balch. authoi and editor, of Philadelphia. June 13 Coles Phillips. America artist, in New York. June 14 Jerome K. Jerome, Englisl author and playwright. Mrs. B. F, Hight, last survivor of old Boston Mu' seum company, in Lynn. Mass. Oen, G. E. Tripp, chairman of Westing house company board, in New York, J. C. Gillmore, last commodore of U. S. navy, in Washington. June 20 Clara Louise Burnham American author. June 27 Henry Clay Pierce, flnan cier and oil magnate. In New York. July 9 John Drew, leading Amen lean actor, in San Francisco. J. Bi, Odell, vice president Western Electrio company. In New York. July 15 Henry White. American diplomat. In Lenox. Mass. July 20 King Ferdinand of Rumania. Ru-mania. A. A. Hamerschlag. former president of Carnegie Institute of Technology. July 29 B. F. Bush, chairman of board of Missouri Pacific railroad. Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, In Paris. Louis Abbema. noted French painter. Aug. 7 Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, governor general of the Philippines, in Boston. Aug. 13 Rhinelander Waldo or New York. James Oliver CurwoodV. American author, at Owosso. Mich. Aug. 15 Judge E. H. Garv. chair man of board of United States Steel, corporation, in New York. Bertram B. Boltwood. professor of radio chemistry chem-istry at Yale, suicide. Aug. 16 Ogden Armour of Chicago, In London. Aug. 20 Mrs. Fannie Bloomfleld Zeisler. noted pianist. In Chicago. Wilbur Nesbit, Chicago poet and advertising ad-vertising man. Dr. J. M. Tanner. Mor- s mon church dignitary, at Lethbridge, N Alta. Aug. 23 Zaghlul Pasha. Egyptian nationalist leader. Aug. 25 Cardinal Rieg y Casanova of Toledo, primate of Spain. Sept. 1 Amelia Bingham, American actress. Sept. 5 Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of Anti-Saloon League. Marcus Mar-cus Loew. motion picture magnate, in Glen Cove. L. I. Sept. 11 J. U. Sammls. former grand exalted ruler of Elks. In Chicago. Chi-cago. Col. Charles J. Glidden. telephone tele-phone and aeronautical pioneer. In Boston. Sept. 23 Maj. Gen. Lloyd M. Brett, retired. Baron Ago von Maltzan. German Ger-man ambassador to Washington. Oct. 2. Prof. A. S. Arrhenius. Swedish Swed-ish scientist. Austen Peay, governor of Tennessee. "Corporal" James Tanner Tan-ner of Washington. Oct. 3 John Dalzell. former congressman con-gressman from Pennsylvania. Oct. 8 Bishop P. J. Muldoon of Catholic diocese of Rockford. III. Oct. 9 Col. J. F. Dillon, member of federal radio commission. Oct. 11 F. D. Stout, president of Missouri Southern railroad and Chicago Chi-cago capitalist. Oct. 22 Cardinal O'Donnell. prlmat of Ireland. , Oct. 23 Maj. Gen. J. T. Dickman. retired. Oct. 29 John J. Mitchell. Chicago financier. Archbishop J. G. Harty of Omaha. Rear Admiral J. M. Helm. L". S. N.. retired. Oct. 31 John Luther Long. American Ameri-can author and playwright. Miss Elizabeth Harrison, pioneer in kindergarten kinder-garten work, in San Antonio. Texas. Nov. 5 David G. Hogarth. English archeologist. Nov. 7 F. S. Latour, Guatemalan minister to United States. Nov. 10 James C. Brady, New York financier. Nov. 11 W. K. James, president of American Farm Congress, In St. Joseph, Mo. Nov. 12 J. N. Huston, former treasurer treas-urer of United States, in Washington, Nov. 17 Mulai Yusef, sultan of Morocco. Mo-rocco. Charles Mellen, noted railway man. in Concord, N. H. Dr. J. J. Muir, chaplain United States senate. Nov. 24 Ionel Bratlano, premier and virtual dictator of Rumania. F.ear Admiral W. H. Bullard, chairman chair-man of federal radio commission. Nov. 26 John Cardinal Bonzano la Rome. Nov. 29 Henry W. Savage, theatrical producer, in Boston. Dec. 1 Herbert S. Hadley. chancellor of Washington university, St. Louis, and former governor of Missouri. Dec. 12 M. D. Raich ford, former president of United Mine Workers, at M:issillon, Ohio. Dec. 13 Ellen M. Stone. American missionary who was kidnaped by Macedonian bandits In 1901. Dec. 14 James M. Allison, Journalist, Journal-ist, In New York. Dec. 19 Willis Moore, former chief of United States weather bureau. ( by "Western Newspaper Union.) INTERNATIONAL Jan. 2 - I'l'-sld'T t Iduz of Nicaragua a.'.iwd t .'ii I t.-ij St ;i t :, i ii r .r v:fi t ion to Ai' xiciiii aid rebels. .J in --American rnnrtiii: nnd huHois I.'indtd at O.rintM and iural tied fur ii ;i 1 1 a l; nit, r;;idta.l of Nicaragua. ' ;i n f u tie ne forci-H occu rd d British con-:-'.-.Hiori In Hankow; warships Bnt to ih nl act. J. in. 7 l,'nlt'd Hfa't-s warnt-d Mexico i"t ' " liiLtMfre with Its iuijcy ;n I:adlo telephone service between I'Oudun und Nttvv York opened. 'an. H IVru rej.-cted S"rr.iry KelluKV's plan for ntjUlement of Taena-A Taena-A r:ca d i .'Mi u t e. Jan, Mexican Kovermne.nt ac-ciUKed ac-ciUKed "In priri'-i pie" proposition to arhUrufH ol! land dl.sputo with United Unit-ed StaieH. ,j; , 2n Secretary of State Ke.IIor.-e declared fjo v-rnnien t'.s Intention of d'i-fepdhiK d'i-fepdhiK American llva and property In china. Ki rst Urtti.sh troopa landed at fcimi iik liai. Jan. 31 Interallied commission tnrnud over control of Oeiinan disarmament dis-armament to League of Nations. I -b. it United States notified by tlmjtj po v e vh t hat lis reservations on imIIu!'! nru to world court were rot ae .epted. Feb. 10 President Coolidge asked tliu powers to consider extend in t: limitation of naval armament to all classes of vessels. I'V o. t '.) J a pa n accepted Cool (dire naval conference plan with renerva-1 renerva-1 1 oris. t rlt. 20 Sweden nnd Reltflum sifrned pact never to make war on eaeh other l'Vb. 21 tlaiy rejected Coolidge v.i I on I'eivn ce plan. l'Vb. :::t llrilish KDvernmpni warned 'ussi;in Soviet po vernnient that relations re-lations would be severed it' the latter con r i nut d Its an 1 1- liri I ish pro pa. k-a nda. l'Vb. 1M- United Stales transport (.'li-Miiunnt with 1,200 marines arrived ai Ii.'tnha.i. Ki b. Croat Britain accepted f'oo lid pre proposal for naval limitation con 1' re nre. with eurta in reservations coirne rii i n x cru isers. Ma i"eh 1 ('onipte te A m erica n ivin -Lio i rx pi (ii tion landed in Nioirnffua. March 2 1 United States fvovernnieni ord' l ed all Americana out of interior of China. March 28 American consulates it Inn k upper Yanfctse closed. April 4 France rejected United Si:.i c:j I n vlla Lion to naval limitation ce iferenjo. April 5 I taly nnd Hungary sisrned a treaty of amity a tid ar ultra i'ion ; Sweden and Austria ratified a treaty making war illegal under all cir-ci: cir-ci: rust a ncos. Anril ii- Marshal Cliantr raided Soviet embassy In I'ekine;, seizing lied con-t:pi con-t:pi va t org n nd dooumen ts. April 7 -President Coolidpre appointed ap-pointed Henry U Si imson to investigate investi-gate conditions in Nicaragua. April K United States ordered 1.500 more marines to China. April 11 United States. Great Brit-nin, Brit-nin, Fiance, Italy and Japan presented identical demand to Canton government govern-ment for apology and reparation for N v, k inf.; outra ;;e. League of Nations preparatory dis-nrma dis-nrma tin n t commission decided n pt cement ce-ment between French and British vie wpn-n ts was Impossible. May 3 Th i rd Pa n - A inert can com-niercinl com-niercinl conference opened In Washington Wash-ington May 10 All Nien r:i Titans ordered to surrender arms to United States marines. ma-rines. May 1? TCncliPh police raided Soviet trade headquarters in London and seized quantities of documents. a'rv 27 Japan ordered 2.000 troops lo China. May 2S United States warship on th. Ya nf-Vtso bat tied Ch i nese t roops. May 2'.' Cre.at I'.ri'ain warned Fvpl the British must control Evpiian army. .H'ue 3 Ousted Russian representatives representa-tives depart ed from Bon don. June it Yuwo-fila via broke off re-lat re-lat ions with Albania. ' June G Albania appealed to Lairue t Nations tu av e r t w a r with Yugoslavia. Yugo-slavia. .iur.e 1" Beaprue of Nations council session opened at Cerevn; Germany notified ambassadors' council that it had destroyed forts on eastern border. June 14 Poland alarmed bv Kus-y'r Kus-y'r 's concentration of its reserves on the f rou tier. I Sspute over control of Egyptian nr:-.'y settled to satisfaction of Great Britain. J-.'.ne 20 United States, Great Britain n rul .7 a pan represen tat i ves be:;"a n t he Cno ! id. e con ference on na va I arma-p arma-p e:,t limitation in Geneva, each nation brv i 1 1 i inv a plan. .P'.ne 2T- United States delegates at C .Mieva firm against 1 '.rii ish proposition proposi-tion for reducing size of battleships f- r.. cruisers. U:.e 2 S .1 a panose a t Geneva sup-ported sup-ported British plan for reduction of capital ships. July 0 Jaan sided with United Slates In opposing British demands a s t o c r u i s e r s, in the G e n e va n a va I limitation conference. .;! y S J ana :iese t mo ps oecu m'td na'nfu and Tsing'tao. Shantung- prov- y1. -e. China. Jv.ly 1 7 8? n di no's hr v. d of Nirara-K'lan Nirara-K'lan rebels attacked United States marines ma-rines at v'eotal and were routed by b.m bir.i-' planes. S t ' 0 be in a: killed. July 1? British delegates to Geneva conference went home for consultation. consulta-tion. July 27 American Minister SterMng pr -.--ented his credentials to Irish Free British delegate; sent back to Geneva .t!i instruction to stand pat on their VMnds Aug. 4 Naval disarmament confer-c confer-c at Geneva ended in complete fail-n-e. A :iir. 9 France n c reed to rec; uce U. ' r ela nd occupational forces. .'!;-. 17 France and Germany signed cci niercial treaty. f pi. 1 Council of League of N--t : v; opened session in Geneva. c,,-rmany made final payment on rep-nr-.'ior.s for third year under Dawe p:-n. Sept. 3 France accused Raknvsky, TVvs.an minister, of urging French si'' ""vs to revolt, and he denied thrt cV- m-es. :..T.t. 5 Eighth assembly of Beacue r-" Na; ions opened ; Dr. A. N. G ua ni. "n:: ttay. elected ore si dent. .-Vnt. 10 Sir Austen Chamberlain t 1 Beairne of Nations Great Britain v' u ' d si iTU po nmre security pa cts. Sept. 1 f Canada. Cuba and Fin land e' ci ed to r.onpcrmanen t seats In l.'0,:i;e of Nations council. c.-r 5 Atr.eriea assessed counter-- counter-- 'ilir.g duties on certain French and rvrman products as result of tariff I n -r ases by t hose cou n tries. Fr i nee formally demanded recall of viet Ambassador Bakovsky. '( t 1 Russia rec a' led Ambassador Ra kovsky from France. 1 c . I Bi ih uan ia asked Bea gue of Nations to intervene in its quarrel with Poland. i 1,-t. 3 1 Pr. Fried rich von Prit'-wi Prit'-wi ' v. und ( kiP'ro n selected as German ambassador to the United Staffs. N.-v. 1 1 Armistice day observt d all ov r thf world. F nee a ml Ymm-Sla via signed a t,-';;ty which enraged Jiniy. No v. 2 i I . nly and Albania made their friendship pa-t n milPary ;'ll:;nce as a reply tu the Franco-Yuo-Siav iar. tr ty. Nov. ?,!" Bea-nc of Nations pr'-P-P't-to ry d isa 'ma me n r (' n.m i ss i on m r i :i O. nevu; Russia proposed total disarm- J n. 1 S Serious a ntl -Christian riot In Foochow, China. Jan. 27 British government abolished abol-ished slavery in B u r m a. Jan. 2H Br. Marx formed new German Ger-man cabinet, including three l-fomi-ner.t Nationalists, and with no Socialists. Social-ists. Jan, .10 Flriit Hungarian parliament since. 1918 met with great pomp. Mexico ord'-red all priests to report to Kovernrmjnt by February 10. or be oil ' la wed. Feb. 3 Military revolution started t n ' Jporto, Poi tuga 1. liV.b. 7 Portuguese re vol utlonary movement spread to Lisbon. with severe fighting; Oporto recovered by go vera men t troops. Feb. 9 Revolution in Portugal reported re-ported suppressed. Feb. ItJ Cantonese captured Hang-chow. Hang-chow. March 1 Marshal Sun and his forces 0,1.1 It the defense of Shanghai and Slia nt; tungese troops guthered there to combat the Cantonese. March 4 French deputies voted to conscript capital In future wars. March 9 Mexican troops executed many rebels captured In battle. Mussolini wiped out all local autonomy auton-omy in Cyrenaica and Tripoli. March 20 Shanghai's foreign city taken by Cantonese. March 2:! South China Nationalists captured Nanking and Chlnkiang. April 7 President Figueroa of Chile took two months' "vacation," turning government over to Premier Ibanez, virtua 1 did ator. April S GustavSemgal elected President Presi-dent of Latvia. April 1 1 Chancellor of Exchequer Churchill presented new British budget budg-et to meet deficit of $110,1)00,000. April 12 Lithuanian diet dissolved and m 11 i tary d ictatorshi p est a hi ished. April 17 Japanese cabinet resigned, April 1 8 Baron Tanaka appointed premier of Japan. Egyptian cabinet resigned. Moderate Nationalists in China set up new government in Nanking. April 20 Mexican bandits in Jalisco at tacked and burned a train, massacring massa-cring about 100 persons. April 22 Japan granted three weeks' moratorium to banks in financial crisis. Archbishop Mora y del Uio and seven other loading Catholic prelates ex-pelU ex-pelU d from Mexico for fomenting rebellion. re-bellion. Anril 24 Mexican troops killed 60 of bandits who committed the train massacre in Jalisco. ;jn.v 2 Premier Polncare announced plans" for wall of super-forts on France's northern frontier. May 4 President Figueroa of Chile resigned. Nicaragua peace parley adjourned, after both sides agreed to disarm, return re-turn to their farms and await a regular reg-ular election. President Diaz proclaimed a L-eneral amnesty. May 17 Vatican denounced Mussolini's Mus-solini's charter of labor. May 22 Ibanez elected President of Chile. A u June 1 Toronto government began sale of bottled liquor. Premier Avarescu of Rumania resigned. re-signed. jnne 2 Baron Cartfer de Marchienne resigned as Belgian minister to United June 5 Prince Babu Stirbey made premier of Rumania. June 21 Premier Stirbey of Rumania resigned and loan Bratiano succeeded him. June 23 William Cosgrave reelected re-elected President of Irish Free State executive council ; De Yalera and his followers barred from rlail eireann for rel'nsal to take the oath. Julv 1 Canada began celebration of sixtieth anniversary of the confederation. confedera-tion. July 10 Kevin O'HIggins. vice president presi-dent and minister of justice of Irish Free State, assassinated. . July 20 King Ferdinand of Rumania died "and Prince Michael, six years old, was proclaimed king under a regency. Aug. 1 Eruption of Vesuvius caused inhabitants of surrounding villages to nee. Aug. 3 Canada s war memorial at Ottawa dedicated by Prince of Wales. Aug. 1 1 Eumonn de Valera and fortv -four other Fian na Fail party members took oath of allegiance to Clng George. Greek coalition cabinet resigned. Aug. 12 Mexico excluded agitators i nd bolsheviks. Revolt in Portugal suppressed by government. Aug. H Gen. Chang Kai-shek, leader of Nanking Nationalists of China, resigned. Sept. 13 Directorate of Spain modified modi-fied into a semi-military ministry operating op-erating without a parliament. Sept. 15 Irish Free State elections gave government plurality of six votes in dail eiroann. Sept. 1 S President Bin den burg, at unveiling of Battle of Tannenburc memorial, repudiated Germany's war guilt. Sopt. 2" Baron Ago von Ma ltzan. German ambassador to United States, killed in plane crash in Germany. Sept. 2"i Attempts made to bomb train of touring American Legionnaires nea r Nice, Fra nee. Se'pt. GO Leon Trotzky expelled from the Communist Internationale 'at Moscow. Mos-cow. Get. 3 Gomez and Serrano. Preslden-vial Preslden-vial candidates in Mexico, revolted and military units in Mexico City, Torre Tor-re o n and Vera Cruz mutinied. Oct. 4 Serrano, thirteen of his chief followers and other revolters captured by loyal Mexican troops and executed. Oct. 9 Mexican rebels led by Gximez annihilated by federal forces. Oct. 1 0 New Spa n ish na lional es-s es-s e m b I y opened by King Alfonso. Oct. II President Cosgrave of Irish Free State re-elected by the dail. Oi t. 24 Moscow court condemned to d;a th three former mi ill on a i res as spies for Grea t Kritai n. Ma rshal Chang, in conjunction with YYu Pei-fu and Tang Shen-chi of Hankow, Han-kow, announced general wa rfare against the Nan king go ve rumen t. Uuman'an government frustrated plot lo put Pi ince Carol on the throne. Oct. SO President Konduriotis of G'. eece wounded by an assassi.i Nov. 1 Mustapha Kemal Pasha reelected re-elected President of Turkey. Canton Nationalists announced new civilian regiona I go vern m ent for K w a n t u n sj and K w a n g s i p ro v i n c e s of China. Nov. 4 Brazil arranged to get $36,-OCtU'OO $36,-OCtU'OO gold from U. S. treasury. (.Jen. Arnulf j Gcmez, Mexican rebel leader, captured and executed. Nov. 7 Soviet Russia celebrated tenth anniversary of the revolution. Nov. 1 1 Fascist gra nd council abolished the ballot and old parliamentary parlia-mentary system in Italy. Nov. IS Plot against President Calles of Mexico foiled by seizure of arms and men at New Orleans. Mo ha m med Ben Mulai, th i rd son of the hue Mulai Yusef. elected sultan of Morocco. Dec. 5 Portuguese government established es-tablished six gambling zones in the co" n t ry. Dec. 1 1 Communists seized con trol of Canton, China, after b'oody riots. Dec. 1 3 Na t iona 1 ists reirai n ed possession pos-session of Ca n ten : 4.0 0 0 killed in battle. bat-tle. Nationalists severed rela tions wi th Soviet Russia. DOMESTIC j;in : Gov. Al Smith of New York, at hN ,'ou rth i na u g u rat ion , dec la red h 1 mse i r" a ca n d ida re for Den; per a tic P r--s : d'1 n t i'1 1 nomination. Jan. 7 House passed naval appropriation appropri-ation bill without "big navy" amend-in amend-in en ts. |