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Show v s Chronology of the Year 1935 Compiled by E. W. PICKARD FOREIGN Jn.n. 8 Rnlivia'H general army mobilization mo-bilization went into effect. Jan. 21 Nomad tribesmen masa-cred masa-cred 107 persons In Africa. Feb. 6 Hyrd e x prrl 1 1 In n sailed for New Zealand after 17 months In Ant-urct Ant-urct lc Feb, 0 Ornmiiy planned army of 4011,000, with militia running Into millions. Feb. 28 Sanrlandera staged wild telebratlon hailing return uf terrl-lory terrl-lory to Germany. March 2 Revolution broke out In Greece. King P raja d hlpok of Slam a h d i -rated itnd retired to private life In England. March 5 Greek troopa defeat reb-e)H reb-e)H In Macedonia. ! Prince A nan da, eleven years old, named king of Slam. March 1 2 Greek rebellion ended When Venlzelos (led. March 16 Hitler decreed conscript army of 640,000. April 3 A nutria n cabinet decided to increase army over st rcng th allowed al-lowed by treaty of St. Germain. April 20 Germa ny bcffim building submarines In de Dance of peace treat y. Lorroux cabinet in Spain resigned. May 5 Eleulherlos Venlzelos sentenced sen-tenced to death for part In Greek revolt. May 6 Celebration of silver Jubilee Jubi-lee of King George of Great Britain began. . May 11 Thlrty-threo Greek naval " ... officers condemned to death for part In revolt. May 18 Emperor Halle Selassie of Eth lopla ordered freedom for all serfs. May 24 Cro n Prince Frederik of Denmark and Princess In grid of Sweden married. , May 30 Premier Flandln of France, defeated by chamber of deputies In financial crisis, resigned with his cabinet. May 3 1 Bouleson formed new French cabinet. June 4 French cabinet ousted by chamber of deputies. June 6 Pierre Laval formed new French government. June 7 Stanley Baldwin succeeded succeed-ed liamsay MaeDonald as prime minister min-ister of Great Britain. July 1 0 Austrian diet revoked banishment of Hapsburgs and restored re-stored their properties. July 22 German government put ban on all religious youth organizations. organiza-tions. Aug. 2 Law for new government of India enacted by British parliament. parlia-ment. A u fir. 18 Revolt against King Zog of Albania crushed. A ug. 21 Ecuador army officers arrested President Ibarra for trying to Bet lip a dictatorship and Installed Antonio Pons as his successor. Acs;. 29--Queen Astrid of Belgium killed In automobile accident. Sept. 1 Mexican women workers friven the franchise. Kept. 3 Dr. Chnim Welzman elected elect-ed president of World Zionist organization. organ-ization. Sept. 15 German retchstag passed laws making the swastika the national na-tional and trade flag: forbidding marriages of Jews to Aryans, and fiett Ing up three classes of German citizenship, excluding Jews. Sept. 17 Manuel Quezon elected to be first president of Philippine republic re-public Sept. 26 Federtco Paez became military dictator of Ecuador. Oct. 1 0 Greek republic upset by military coup; res to rat Ion of monarchy mon-archy decreed by national assembl. Oct. 14 Premier R. B. Bennett of Canada and Conservative party defeated de-feated In parliamentary elections by Liberals led by Mackenzie King. Oct. 23 Liberal government headed head-ed by Mackenzie King Installed in Canada. Nov. 3 Greece voted for recall of King George II. Nov. 8 Chancellor Hitler of Germany Ger-many dissolved the Steel Helmets, wir veterans' association. Nov. 10 King George 11 accepted call to Greek throne. Nov. 13 Serious Egyptian riots against British domination. Nov. 14 British Conservatives and Prime Minister Baldwin won parliamentary parlia-mentary elections. Nov. 1 6 Commonwealth of the Philippines established and Manuel Quezon inaugurated as president. Nov. 24 Yin Ju-keng proclaimed autonomy for 25 counties In eastern Hopel province of China. Military revolt broke out In northeastern north-eastern Brazil. Nov. 25--Klng George II returned to the throne of Greece. Nov. 28 Hitler started new "purge, arresting hundreds. Revolt in Brazil crushed. 133 being be-ing killed. Pec. 1 Great Britain ordered naval na-val reservist officers to report for duty. Hnns Kerrl. German church dictator, dicta-tor, decreed censorship for pastoral letters. I ex. 6 Church of England commission com-mission rejected claim of women to enter priesthood. Dee. 6 French chamber of deputies depu-ties dissolved all semi-military orgs or-gs n Izat Ions. Chiang Kai-shek became premier of China. Dec. 7 Hopel nnd Chahnr provinces, prov-inces, northern China, set up autonomous auton-omous regime. Dec. 10 London silver market col-lapel. col-lapel. I ec. 1 1 Carlos Mend I eta resigned as president of Cuba. Dec. 1 2 King Fund decreed restoration res-toration of constitutional government govern-ment In Egypt, Great Britain consenting. con-senting. Dec. 1 4 President Mazaryk of Chechoslovakia resij: ncd. Dec. 1 S Edua rd Benes elected president of Czechoslcvak ia. North China autonomy council Installed. In-stalled. INTERNATIONAL Jan. 4 Foreign Minister laval of France and Premier Mussolini of Italy began pence pact conference in Rome. Jan. 6 Mussolini and Iaval reached full agreement on all points in dispute between Italy and France Jan. 12 The Suar voted to rejoin Germany. Jan. 17 League set March 1 as date for return of the Saar to Germany. Ger-many. Feb It Ethiopia defied Italy's demand de-mand for satisfactory amends In Afilcan border row. M arch 11 Russia decided to sell Chinese Eastern railway to Manchu-kuo. Manchu-kuo. March 20 France appealed to League of Nations to deal with Germany Ger-many s scrapping of the Versailles treaty. March 21 Germany defied France and Italy, reject ing protests. March 26 Japans resignation from league became effect i ve. April 14 England. France nnd Italy, at Stresa. agreed on peace plan for Europe and denounced Germa Ger-ma ny as t reaty viola tor. April 17 League of Nations council coun-cil a Mop ted resol ui Ion censuring Germa ny for treaty violation. April 20 Chancellor Hitler, in note to 13 nations, rejected leaguo council's coun-cil's resolution condemning Germany. May 2 France and Russia signed mutual assistance agreement. May 31 Japan delivered ultlma-tum ultlma-tum to China and prepared to occupy Peiping and TientHin. June 7 Bolivia and Paraguay accepted ac-cepted basis of settlement of Gran Chaco war. June H War in Gran Chaco ended end-ed hy truce. June IS Great Britain and Germany Ger-many concluded naval agreement, disregarding France. June 23 United Slates embassy In Mexico City bombed, July 10 Ethiopia appealed to the world for fair play in contest with Italy, and demanded early action by Leiigue of Nations. July 13 United .States and Russia concluded a trade agreement. July 28 Forty It a Mans, twenty Ethiopians killed In border clash. Aug. 3 League of Nations council coun-cil delayed for one month settlement of Italo- Ethiopian quarrel. Aug. 2; United States demanded Russia stop subversive plotting in Soviet territory. Aug. 27 Russia formally rejected the American protest against Communist Com-munist activities. Aug. 3 0 Em per lor Halle Selassie granted vast development concession in Ethiopia to an American corporation. corpora-tion. Second American protest note sent to Russia on Communist plots. Sept. 3 Ethiopian development concession cancelled by the American Ameri-can owners on request of American uovern ment. Sept. 4 League of Nations council coun-cil met in Geneva and received Italy's statement against Ethiopia and the latter country's reply. Sept. 9 t.eague of Nations assem-blv assem-blv mt In Geneva. Frank R. Kellogg resigned from World court. Sept. 11 Sir Samuel Hoare, British Brit-ish foreign secretary told League of Nations assembly Britain would Isolate Iso-late herself from continent unless all members of league consented to take sanctions against an aggressor. aggres-sor. Sept. 12 Seeretnrv of State Hull asked Italy and Ethiopia to keep their .ibligations under the Kellogg pact. Sept. 14 Italian cabinet refused compromise on Ethiopian question. Sept. 19 Jews appealed to League of Na: Ions to stop "persecution" in Germany. Sept. 21 Italy rejected peace plan of league committee. Sept. 2R League of Nations council coun-cil acted to enforce peace but gave Italy ten days to agree to conciliation. concilia-tion. Sept. 29 Great Britain promised to support collective action against any aggressors. Oct. 2 Emperor Halle Selassie informed in-formed Lea gue of Nations Italians ' had invaded Ethiopia from Eritrea. : General mobilization of all Fascists in Italy. Oct. 3 Italian planeB and artillery bombarded Aduwa, Adlgrat and Har-rar. Har-rar. killing nnd wounding hundreds. Genernl mobilization ordered by Emperor Em-peror Halle Selassie. Oct. 4 Italians Invaded southern Ethiopia, and captured Adlgrat in the norih. Oct. 6 Italians captured Aduwa; 2.nnn Ethiopians killed. Oct. 7 League of Nations council found Italy's Invasion of Ethiopia "an " act of war against all other members of the league." Oct. 9 Austr'a nnd Hungary refused re-fused to Join in League of Nations sanctions against Italy. Oct. 10 League assembly declared Italy outlawed. Oct. 11 League voted embargo on arms and munitions for Italy and raided embargo on arms for Ethiopia Oct. 14 League of Nations banned foreign loans to Italy. Oct. 19 Fl f t y t wo members of League of Nations declared a boycott on Italian goods nnd an embargo on key exports. Oct. 21 Germany formally ended membership in League of Nations. Nov. 1 League of Nations ordered or-dered sanctions against Italy into effect November 18 Paraguay gave notice of withdrawal with-drawal from League of Nations. Nov. 6 Germany told League of Nat ions she would bar trade in goods for Ttaly or Ethiopia. Nov. 8 Italians occupied Makale -ind Gorahai. Ethiopia. Nov. 9 Japanese naval unit occupied occu-pied part of Shanghai: new crisis threatened. Nov. 11 Mussolini formally protested pro-tested a ga in t sanctions. Nov 17 United States-Canadian trade treaty made public. - Nov, 18 Sanctions against Italy by 52 nations went Into effect. Gen. Pletro Badogllo succeeded Gen. Emilio de Bono as commander in chief of Italian armies in Ethiopia. Ethio-pia. Nov. 20 Pope Pius named twenty twen-ty new cardinals. Nov. 27 J a pa n seized control of north China railways and sent large bodies of troops to the Tientsin area. Dec. 2 Rrltish cabinet decided to support oil embargo against Italy: anti-aircraft defenses of London ordered or-dered st repgt hened. Dec. 5 American. Irish and Ca-nadlan Ca-nadlan delegates met in Washington to plan trans-Atlantic air service. Dec. fi Italian planes bombed imperial im-perial palace. American hospital and Red Cross tents In Dessye. Ethiopia. Emperor Halle Sf lassie formally protected pro-tected to League of Nations. Dec. 8 Great Britain and France agreed on last pence offer to Italy Dec. 9 International naval conference confer-ence opened in Londcn. Dec. 11 Ethiopia rejected Franco-British Franco-British peace plan. Dec. 12 Japan's demand for naval parll y rejected by other powers in London parley. Dec. 18 Sir Samuel Hoare resigned pr British foreign secretary hecnuse of opposition to Franco-British peace plan. Italians defeated Ethiopian In big battle south of Makale. Un Red States and Honduras con cli-ed reciprocity trade agreement. Dec. r--LeaTtie of Nations council discarded Franco-British peace plan Outer Mongolia invaded by Japanese Jap-anese and Mancnukum troops. DOMESTIC Jan. I Rhode Island Democrats by a coup seized the senate and ousted the Supreme court. Jan. . ? Seventy-fourth congress met and orga nized ; Byrns elected speaker of house. Jan 4 President Roosevelt In annual an-nual message proposed great work relief program to supersede the direct di-rect dole. Jan. 7 President Roosevelt pre-sented pre-sented to congress a budget for the fiscal vear I9"fi calling for expenditures expendi-tures of $S. 500. 000.000. United States Supreme court held un const it ut lonal petroleum control provisions of the National Industrial Recovery act. .Ian 9 Arbitration commission or-dered or-dered United States to nnologlze to Canadian government and pay $50.-B6fi $50.-B6fi for sinking of the rum running schooner I'm Alone. Jan. II House passed $770,000,000 Independent offices bill. Jan. 16 President sent message urging senate to approve United States' entry into World court, Ian. 17 President's message outlined out-lined "social safety" plan and old-age old-age pensions. Jan. 21 Bill In house giving Roose-velt Roose-velt power over spending of 54.000.-noo.000 54.000.-noo.000 fnr public welfare and $800,-000.000 $800,-000.000 for relief. Jan. 24 House passed I4.S00.009.000 relief and works bill. Jan. 23 House voted power to Roosevelt to borrow $1 1,500,000,000 to pay New Deal cost. Jan. 26 Uprising In Ixiulslana put down by H u e y 1 o ngs t roo ps. Jan. "9 Senate rejected World court adherence resolution. House passed bill to extend RFC for another two years. Jan. 30 Senate passed bill to Increase In-crease borrowing power of New Deai by $l 1.500. 000. 000. Jan. 31 Roosevelt extended auto code to June 16. Feb. 2 North Dakota Supreme court ousted Moodie as governor. Feb. 5 House voted down Inquiry Into Postmaster General Farley's Ififts of stumps to friends. Feb. 6 Extension of NRA two years, tightening of hour and wage provisions, and retention of p reseat staff asked bv President Roosevelt. Feb. 8 Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson named chairman of Red Cross. Feb. 13 Bruno Richard Haupt-mann Haupt-mann found guilty of murdering Lindbergh baby; sentenced to death. ''ongrtMS voted to end federal pay cuts. Feb. 14 Robert E. Wood. Chicago, named to head advisory committee on $4,SS-0.000.000 work relief plan. Feb. 16 Thirty-one convicts shot way out of Oklahoma reformatory; guard killed, and eight prisoners wounded. Feb. 18 Administration won T Supreme court gold clause decisloiV by 5 to 4 vote. Feb. 22 House passed largest peacetime army bill, appropriating $378,000,000. March 3 President asked congress for outright subsidy to merchant marine to replace present mail contract con-tract and building loan system. March 5 S. Clay Williams resigned as head of NRA board. March 10 Government moved to replace all national bank currency with money based on gold taken by treasury, March II House repealed pink slip Income tax publicity feature. March 14 J. Crawford Biggs, solicitor so-licitor general, resigned. March 20 AAA dropped restrictions restric-tions on planting of spring wheat, fearing food shortage. March 21 House accepted Patman currency Inflation plan to pay soldiers' sol-diers' bonus. March 22 President asked congress con-gress to pass stricter food and drug bill. March 23 Senate passed works relief measure. March 24 President gave his approval ap-proval tc proposed constitution for Philippines. March 26 President left on fishing fp off the Bahamas. Senate passed $905,000,000 treasury bill. March 27 House voted $38. 000. 000 to strengthen navy shore bases. March 28 Senate voted for repeal of Income tax publicity feature. March 30 Coal miners and operators opera-tors agreed to continue wage scale until June 16. April 1 United States Supreme court again reversed conviction and death sentence of two negroes in famous fa-mous Scottsboro case. Five per cent pay raise for railway rail-way workers went Into effect. April 5 Conference report on work relief bill accepted by senate and house. April 8 President Roosevelt ended his fishing trip and signed the work relief bill. April 9 House passed McSwain war profits bill. Senate passed the navy public works bill carrying $38,000,000. April 19 House passed administration's adminis-tration's social security bill. April 23 Frank Walker named director di-rector of National Emergency council coun-cil and chief adviser In work relief expenditures April 24 President announced creation cre-ation of three new agencies for work relief program, and named eight classes of projects. April 25 Secretary I ekes named head of works allotment division. April 26 Harry Hopkins made head of works progress division. April 29 Supreme court ruled In favor of Arizona In Parker dam case. May 2 United States Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions opposing oppos-ing legislation asked by the administration. admin-istration. May 3 Leland Harrison appointed minister to Rumania. May 6 Supreme court declared railway pension act unconstitutional. May 7 Senate passed the Patman bonus bill. Conviction of ex-Go v. vV ill lam Langer of North Dakota and four others for conspiracy to misuse federal fed-eral relief funds reversed by Federal Fed-eral Court of Appeals. May 9 House passed the omnibus banking bill. May 11 President Roosevelt established estab-lished rural electrification division, headed by Morris L. Cooke, Dennis Chavez appointed senator from New Mexico. May 14 Senate passed bill extending extend-ing NRA until April 1. 1936. Long's resolution for investigation of Farley rejected by senate. i May 15 Representative Michael L. : Igoe appointed United States district attorney at Chicago. , May 16 Senate passed the Wagner labor relations bill. May 18 Audit by Comptroller General McCarl disclosed great waste In TVA. May 20 President fixed wages and hours for work relief program. j Norman Armour appointed American Ameri-can minister to Canada. May 22 President Roosevelt, appearing ap-pearing personally before Joint aes- : sion of congress, vetoed the Patman bonus measure. The house immediately immedi-ately re-passed It. : May 23 Senate sustained Presl- , dent's veto of bonus act. May 24 Senate passed $460,000,000 j navy appropriation bill. May 27 United States Supreme court unanimously rulef the code structure and wage and labor hours orovlsiora of NRA were unconstitutional. unconstitu-tional. Frazler - Lemke farm mortgage moratorium act held Invalid by Supreme Su-preme court. President Roosevelt's removal of the late William E. Humphrey as trade commissioner declared invalid by Supreme court. May 28 Senate passed Copeland food, drug and cosmetic bill. May 29 California Pacific exposition exposi-tion at San Diego opened. May 3 1 President Roosevelt suggested sug-gested revision of Const it ut ion to give economic control to federal government. gov-ernment. June 1 Young George Weyerhaeuser, Weyerhaeu-ser, kidnaped from Tacoma, freed on pavment of $200,000 ransom, June fi Electric power strike In 50 Illinois cities ended In compromise. June 7 House passed bill extending extend-ing skeletonized NRA until April 1. 1936. June 9 H. M. Waley and wife were arrested in Salt Lake City for Weyerhaeuser kidnaping and confessed. con-fessed. June 1 P Republicans of ten midwest mid-west states opened "grass roots" con. f erence in Springfield, condemning the New Deal. June 11 Senate passed the public pub-lic utility bill. June 12 President Roosevelt presented pre-sented diplomas to 276 West Point graduates. June 13 Senate passed resolution extending skeletonized NRA to April 1. June 14 Secretary of War Dern vindica ted General Foulois of air mnil chnrges. June 16 President Roosevelt named new NRA board with James L. O'Neill as administrator. June 17 House extended nui-sance" nui-sance" taxes two years. June 18 House passed AAA amendments asked by administration. administra-tion. June 1 9 President told to congress con-gress his plan to break up great fortunes for-tunes and redistribute wealth through taxes. Senate passed the social security bill. j House passed the Wagner-Connery labor-disputes bill. Senator Couzens gave federal gov eminent $550,000 for Industrial workers' work-ers' home colony In Detroit area. June 25 Gen. Hugh Johnson made works relief director for New York. June 26 President set aside $50,-000,000 $50,-000,000 from works fund to provide jobs for youth of nation. July 1 President handed $91.000.. !0Q to Rexford Guy Tugweil for rural resettlement work, July 2 House passed utilities bill without "death sentence" clause, and then ordered investigation of lobbying lobby-ing for Rnd against the measure. July 22 General strike at Terre i Haute shut off all food supplies; National Guard called out. July 23 Senate passed. AAA amendments bill. President Roosevelt named L. W. Cramer to succeed Paul Pearson as governor of Virgin Islands. Terre Haute general strike called off by unions. July 24 House passed liquor control con-trol bill. July 26 Senate passed bank bill as drafted by Glass. James O'Neill resigned as head of NRA, effective August 1. July 31 Contrress parsed bill restoring re-storing $46,000.1100 In Spanish war veterans' pensions. Aug. 5 New tax bill passed by house. Aug. 6 Rhode Island Republicans elected Charles F. Risk as congressman, congress-man, defeating the New Deal candidate. candi-date. Aug. 8 MaJ. Gen. B. D. Foulois. head of army air corps, voluntarily ret i red. Aug. 9 Enactment of social security secu-rity law completed. Aug. 1 5 Senate passed new tax bill. House cleared Federal Judge Al-schuler Al-schuler of Illinois of misconduct charges. Aug, 19 Senate passed farm moratorium mora-torium and railway pension bills and adopted conference report on bank-ine- bill. House passed Guffey coal bill, railway rail-way pension bill and conference reports re-ports on hanking and rivers and harbors bills. Aug. 21 Congress enlarged powers pow-ers of TVA ; senate passed neutrality neutral-ity resolution concerning Italo-Ethi-optan juarrel. Aug. 22 HouKe accepted compromise compro-mise "death sentence' In utilities bill. Guffey coal bill passed by senate. House passed resolution for mandatory man-datory embargo on arms shipments to nations at war. Aug. 23 John G. Wlnant appointed chairman of labor relations Soard. Aug. 24 Senate accepted conference confer-ence reports on utilities new tax and alcohol control bills: and approved ap-proved compromise neutrality resolution. reso-lution. Texas voted for prohibition repeal and local option. Aug. 26 Congress ndlourned: third deficiency appropriation bill killed by Senator Long's filibuster. Aug. 28 James A. Moffet resigned as federal housing administrator. Sept. 5 President ordered Inquiry into deaths of hundreds of war veterans vet-erans in Florida hurricane. Sept. 6 Stewart McDonald appointed ap-pointed federal housing administrator. administra-tor. Sept. 8 Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana shot and critically wounded wound-ed in Baton Rouge; assassin killed by Long's bodyguard. Sept. 9 National encampment of G. A R. opened In Grand Rapids. Mich. Sept. 10 Senator Long died. Sept. 12 Oley Nelson of Slater, Iowa elected commander In chief of G. A. R. Sept. 16 Franklin C. Hoyt appointed ap-pointed federal alcohol administrator. administra-tor. Sept. 17 Voters of Pennsylvania and New Mexico rejected changes in state constitutions. Sept. 23 President Roosevelt allocated al-located $800,000,000 more to WPA. American Legion convention opened In St. Louis. Mo. James M. Land la was appointed chairman of the SEC. Soft coal miners began strike, Sept. 26 President Roosevelt started on trip to Pacific coast. Strike of soft coal miners won by the union. Ray Murphy of Ida Grove, Iowa, elected commander of American Legion. Sept. 29 New budget announced, reducing deficit by more than a billion bil-lion and a quarter. Sept. 30 Van Swearingen brothers broth-ers regained control of their railway rail-way empire. Oct. 2 President Roosevelt sailed on Cruiser Houston from San Diego. Maj. Gen. Malln Craig appointed chief of staff of army. Oct. 9 New Jersey Court of Errors Er-rors and Appeals upheld death sentence sen-tence for Bruno Hauptmann for murdering the Lindbergh baby. - Oct. 16 President Roosevelt In Panama. Oct. 17 Vice President Garner and big congressional delegation sailed for Philippines. Oct. 18 William Green re-elected president of American Federation of Labor. Oct. 23 President Roosevelt landed land-ed at Charleston. S. C. Oct. 26 Farmers voted by big majority for retention of corn-hog program. Oci. 27 United States Supreme court opened fall session in its new home. Nov. 4 Eastern standard time for Chicago adopted by council. Nov. 5 Republicans gained control con-trol of New York legislature and elected mayors of Philadelphia and Cleveland. A. B. Chandler, Democrat elected governor of Kentucky. Nov. 7 Federal Judge W. C. Coleman Cole-man at Baltimore held public utilities utili-ties holding act unconstitutional. N0V ii j. n. Darling, chief of the biological survey, resigned. Nov. 17 President Roosevelt refused re-fused to Interfere In Mexico's church affairs. Bar association upheld Liberty league lawyers' offer of legal aid. Nov. 20 President Roosevelt went to Warm Springs, Ga. Nov. 22 United States shipping board warned American sh Ippera against shipping war material to Italy and Ethiopia. Nov. 23 John L. Lewis resigned as vice president of A. F. of L, Nov. 24 Supreme court granted temporary injunction n gainst AAA processing taxes on rice. Nov GO Federal relief ended with 3,500 .000 shifted from FERA rolls to WPA pay rolls. Dec. 2 George N. Peek resigned as president of export hank. Secretary Wallace announced new corn-hog program. Dec. 5 -Congress of American Industry In-dustry and National Association of Manufacturei s adopted platform for defeat of New Deal and return to "American system." Dec. 6 Senator Norrts of Nebraska declared he was not a candidate for re-election. Dec. 8 Lawyers' committee of American Liberty league declared Guffey coal act unconstitutional. Dec. 9 President Roosevelt addressed ad-dressed the American Fa rm Bureau convention In Chicago, defending the AAA, and received honorary degree from Notre Dame In South Bend. Ind. Supreme court refused to review the conviction of Bruno Hauptmann for kidnaping and murdering the Lindbergh baby. Dec. 13 Hauptmann sentenced to die in week of Jan. 13. Dec. 15 Gov. Talmadge of Georgia announced his candidacy for Democratic Demo-cratic Presidential nomination. Dec. 16 Republican national committee com-mittee selected Cleveland for convention con-vention city. Dec. 18 Frank C. Walker resigned as NEC head. AERO Jan. 12 Amelia Earhart made solo flight Honolulu to California In 18 ; hours 16 minutes. Jan. 15 "Jimmy" Doolittle flew transport plane across United States in 11 hours 59 minutes. Feb. 21--Leland S. Andrews broke : Doolitt le's transcontinental speed record by 38 minutes. 1 March 17 Pan-American Airways" Clipper Pioneer flew from Alameda. Calif., to Honolulu. March 30 Robot-piloted TWA plane flew from coast to coast In 12 hours 5 minutes. May 8 Amelia Earhart made nonstop non-stop flight from Mexico City to Newark, N. J. June 12 Pan-American Airways' Clipper plane started from Alameda. Calif., for Midway Islands. June 13 Clipper plane reached Honolulu. June 1 5 Pan-A merican Clipper I plane reached Midway islands. July 12 Stratosphere balloon blew up while being iailated at Rapid 1 City. S. D. Aug. 15 Will Rogers, comedian, j and Wiley Post, famous aviator, j killed in plane crash near Point Barrow, Bar-row, Alaska. Aug. 30 Benny Howard won Ren-dlx Ren-dlx air race, Los Angeles to Cleveland. Cleve-land. Sept. 2 Ha rod d Neuman of Mollne, til., won Thompson trophy race at Cleveland. j Sept. 12 I-aura Ingalls set new ' women's record for west to east transcontinental flight. 13 hours 34 , minutes 5 seconds. Sept. 13 Howard Hughes made new land plane speed record. 353 miles an hour. Sept. 21 Lieut. Felix' Waltkus started non-stop solo flight from New York 'o Kaunas, Lithuania. Sept. 22 Waltkus made forced landing: at Ballinrobe, Ireland, un- , hurt. Nov. 8 Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, Kingsford-Smith, Australian aviator, lost In Bay of Bengal. Nov. 11 Capts. A. W. Stevens and O. A. Anderson of the army reached record altitude of 74,000 feet in stratosphere balloon. Nov. 13 Jean Batten of New Zealand Zea-land made solo flight across the southern Atlantic. Nov. 22 Pan-American line's China Clipper left Alameda, Calif., for Manila with first trans-Pacific air mall. Nov. 25 Lincoln Ellsworth disappeared disap-peared on flight over Antarctic continent. con-tinent. Nov. 29 China Clipper arrived at Manila. Dec. 6 China Clipper completed round trip to Manila. SPORTS Jan. 1 Alabama defeated Stanford In Rose Bowl football game at Pasadena. Pasa-dena. Jan. 2 Sullivan trophy awarded to Bill Bonthron of Princeton by the , A. A. U. Feb. 23 Azucar won $108,400 Santa Anita handicap. March 7 Sir Malcolm Campbell broke own record at Daytona Beach, driving car 276 miles an hour. April 6 Cambridge beat Oxford In annual shell race. April 8 Gene Sarazen won Mas ters' golf tournament at Augusta. Ga. April 26 Jesse Owens of Ohio State set new American record for broad jump. 26 feet 1 inches, at Drake relay. May 4 Omaha won the Kentucky derby. May 10 Canzonerl regained lightweight light-weight title by whipping Ambers. May 18 Jesse Owens of Ohio State set new world's record for low hurdles. May 21 University of Michigan and John Fischer won Big Ten golf championships. May 22 Americans defeated Italian Ital-ian boxers, 5 to 3. in Golden Glove tourney In Chicago. May 25 Lawson Little of California Califor-nia again won British amateur golf title. Jesse Owens of Ohio State set three new world records and tied another in Big Ten track meet which was won by University of Michigan. May 27 Barney Ross whipped Jimmy McLarnin, regaining1 world welterweight title. May 30 Kelly Petillo won Indianapolis Indian-apolis 500-mile auto race. June 3 Minnesota won Big1 Ten baseball championship. June 6 Aga Khan's Bahram won English derby. June 7 Ohio State won central intercollegiate in-tercollegiate track meet. June 8 Sam Parks of Pittsburgh won open golf championship. June 13 James J. Brad dock won heavyweight championship from Max Baer, June 16 Johnny Revolta. Milwaukee Milwau-kee pro, won western open golf title. June 18 University of California won the Poughkeepsie regatta. June 22 Bradley's Black Helen won American derby In Chicago. Yale defeated Harvard In annual regatta. June 25 Joe Louis defeated Primo Camera In New York. July 21 Charles Yatea of Atlanta Atlan-ta won western amateur golf title at Colorado Springs. July 29 English tennis team won Davis cup from Americans. Aug. 7 Joe Louis whipped King Levinsky In one round at Chicago. Aug. 17 American women tennis team beat English and retained WIghtman cup. Aug. 26 Lou Salica won bantamweight bantam-weight title by beating Slxto Escobar Es-cobar In New York. Aug. 31 Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare won women's national golf championship. cham-pionship. Sept. 3 Sir Malcolm Campbell of "England Bet new world record of 301.337 miles per hour with his Bluebird Blue-bird automobile in Utah. Sept. 11 Helen Jacobs retained women's national tennis championship. champion-ship. Sept. 12 Wilmer Allison won national na-tional tennis championship. Lawson Little won national amateur ama-teur golf title. Sept. 19 Risko won middleweight championship from Yaros in Pittsburgh. Pitts-burgh. Sept. 20 Detroit Tigers won American League pennant. Sept. 24 Joe Louis knocked out Max Baer in fourth round at New York. Sept. 27 Chicago Cubs won National Na-tional League championship. Sept. 29 American pro golf team won Ryder cup from British team Oct. 2 Chicago Cubs defeated Detroit Tigers In first world series game. Oct. 3. Tigers won second game from Cubs. Oct. 4 Tigers won third world series game. Tony Canzonerl defeated Al Roth retaining lightweight title. Oct. 5 Tigers won fourth game In world series. Oct. 8 Cuba captured fifth world series game. Oct. 7 Detroit Tigers won sixth game and the world championship. Oct. 23 John Revolta won national nation-al P. G. A. championship. Nov. 15 Sixto Escobar of Puerto Rico won bantamweight title from Lou Salica, Nov. 19 Welker Cochran won world three-cushion billiards championship cham-pionship in Chicago. Nov. 23 Minnesota and Ohio State tied for Big Ten football title. Yale defeated Harvard in football Nov. ?.0 Army beat Navy at football. foot-ball. Dec. 8 A A. U. voted for AmeH- i can participation In Olympic games in Germany. Avery Brundage elect- ed president of A. A. U. Dec. 13 Joe Louis beat Paulino Uzcudun Jn New York. i Dec. 15 Detroit Lions won professional profes-sional football championship. NECROLOGY Jan. 1 William Sproul, ex-president of Southern Pacific railroad : Jan. 8 Hubert Vos. painter, In i New York. Jan. 11 Mme. Marcella Sembrich ' former opera star. Jan. 15 Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, former president General Federation of Women's clubs, in Denver. Jan. 23 John Barton Payne in Washington. Jan. 26 Rear Admiral Robert E 1 Coontz at Bremerton. Wash j Jan. 29 Adrian Iselln In New ! York. : Jan. 31 Richard Washburn Child i diplomat and author. Feb. 8 Frederick Warde. veteran actor. Feb. 9 Cora Harris, novelist. Feb. 17 Arthur Somers Roche author. ' March 5 Former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. March 12 Dr. Michael I. Pupin scient ist, in New York. April i James Mullenbach, noted labor mediator, in Chicago. Henry Augustus Lukema'n. sculptor. sculp-tor. In New York. April 4 W. F. Axton of Louisville tobacco magnate and turfman. April 5 Edward Arlington Rubin-aou, Rubin-aou, American poet. April 7 Warren Delano Robblaa, American minister to CnnaU. April 8 Adolph S. Oct 9, owner and publisher of New York Time. Federal Judge Harry B. Anderaoi of Tennessee. April 15 John Paulding, America sculptor. April 2S Raymond T. Baker, former for-mer director of the mint. April 29 Alfred I. du Pont. Industrialist, Indus-trialist, in Jacksonville. Fla, May 5 E. C. Dinwiddle. temior- ance leader, in Washington. May 6 Senator Bronson M. Cutting Cut-ting of New Mexico. May 9 Nathan H. Dole, Americas author and translator. May 10 Herbert Wltherspoon, director di-rector Metropolitan Opera company, in New York. May 12 Marshal Josef Ptlsudaki, dictator of Poland. Mav 13 MaJ. J. S. Cohen, editor Atlanta Journal and former sea-ator. sea-ator. Maj. Gen. Harry Lee, U. S. marines. ma-rines. May 14 Dr. Kdw;in B. Frost, astronomer. as-tronomer. pleasant Stoval, former minister to Switzerland. May 16 John P. Weyerhaeuser, lumber magnate. May is John R. Drexel of Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. In Paris. May 19 Col. Thomas E. Lawrence-Lawrence Lawrence-Lawrence of Arabia" In Bovlng-ton. Bovlng-ton. England. May 21 Miss Jane Addams of Chicago Chi-cago famed social worker. May 27 Rear Admiral W. C. Cole U S. N.. retired. May 30 William Dudley Foulke, author and civil service reformer, at . Richmond. Ind. May 31 Rear Admiral W. 1 Capps. U. S. N., retired. June 6 Viscount Byng of Vimy. George Grossmlth. English actor. June 15 Edwin P. Morrow, ea-governor ea-governor of Kentucky Gaar Williams, noted cartoonist. june 22 Elliott W. Sproul of Chicago Chi-cago ex-congressman. juy 5 j. j. Bernet of Cleveland railway executive. Oliver Herford, American author and artist. juy 6 MaJ. Gen. Stuart Helnt-zelman, Helnt-zelman, U. S. A. juy 9 Ray Long, noted magaxln editor. July 12 Lt. Col. Alfred Dreyfu N of France. July 17-rGeorge William RasaelL Irish poet. July 21 Mrs. Basil de Selinoourt (Anne Douglas Sedgwick), EngHsa novelist, July 25 Col. H. H. Rogers of New York, capitalist. Charles M. Clark, utilities magnate, July 28 Gray Silver, veteran farm leader. July 29 Dr. Walter Williams, edn-cator edn-cator at Columbia, Mo. July 30 Frederick H. Gillett o4T Massachusetts, former speaker and United States senator. Aug. 5 Frank H. Hitchcock, Toq-son Toq-son publisher and former postmaster general. Aug. 9 Representative Charle truax of Ohio. Aug. 13 Sir William Watson, English Eng-lish poet. Aug. 15 Will Rogers, actor a humorist. Wiley Post, aviator. Aug. 17 Gilson Gardner, editor and author, in Washington. Aug. 22 Admiral Kondouriothv first president of Greek republic Aug. 25 Thomas A. Edison, Jr. Aug. 27 Childe Hassam, Americas artist. Aug. 29 Queen Astrid of Belgium. Aug. 30 Henri Barbusse, noted French author and pacifist. Aug. 31 Mrs. Harold Ickes, wife of secretary of the interior. Herman Bernstein, American author au-thor and editor and former diplomat.. Sept. 2 Charles Dickinson of Chicago, Chi-cago, pioneer In aviation. George C. Hanson, veteran American Ameri-can diplomat. Sept. 4 Bishop Walter T. Sumner of Oreg'on, crusader against vice, Sept. 7 William Abbatt of New-York, New-York, historian. Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, America novelist. Sept. 8 E. L. Doheny, oil magnate Sept. 9 Former Gov. S. S. Penne will of Pennsylvania. Sept. 10 United States Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana. Sept. 12 Clive Runnells, vice president pres-ident Pullman company. - Sept. 14 Dr. Leo Gans, nestor o German chemical industry. Dame Madge Kendall, vet era English actress. Sept. 19 J. S. Cooper, former O-S. O-S. commissioner of education. Jules Oambon, French diplomat. Sept. 20 Gen. W. W. Atterbury retired president of Pennsylvania railroad. Sept. 23 De Wolf Hopper. AmeH can comedian. Sept. 29 Ernest P. Bfcknell. chairman of American Red Cross. Oct. 1 Karl Harriman, magaila editor. Oct. 3 Bishop T. F. Gailor, chancellor chan-cellor of University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. Oct. 4 Henry de Jouvenel, French statesman. Oct. 6 Edward C. Moore of Ch lew-go, lew-go, musician and music critic. Oct. 7 Francis Wilson, veteran comic opera star. Oct. 16 Maj. Gen. Milton J. Foreman Fore-man of Chicago. . MaJ. Gen W. L. Slbert. one at builders of Panama canal. Oct. 1 7 T. V. O'Con nor. former chairman U. S. shipping1 board. Oct. 19 Congressman H. M. Kimball Kim-ball of Kalamazoo, Mich. Oct. 20 MaJ. Gen. A. W. Greelr. Arctic explorer. Sidney Smith, cartoonist. Oct. 21 Langdon E. Mitchell f New York, playwright Oct. 22 Dr. J. C. Bloodffood ot Baltimore, cancer expert. Lord Carson, North Irish statesman. states-man. Oct. 27 Federal Judge W. t-Grubb t-Grubb at Birmingham, Ala. Oct. 29 Rev. Dr. Johnston Mrer of Chicago, noted Baptist pastor. Nov. 6 Dr. Henry F. Osborn. scientist sci-entist and explorer, in New York. William A. ("Billy-) Sunday, evangelist, in Chicago. Nov. 8 Herman Black, newspaper publisher, in Chicago Nov. 9 Walter L. Fisher of Chicago, Chi-cago, former secretary of the interior. inte-rior. Nov. 13 Frank Navin. president of Detroit Tigers ball club. Nov. 17 J. K. Blatchford, hotel man, in Chicago Nov. 18 Federal Judge Loui Fi t zHen ry at Normal, III. Nov. 19 Federal Judge Benso Hough at Columbus, Ohio Nov. 20 Earl Jelllcoe, British admiral. ad-miral. Nov. 21 Dr. A. B. Dinwiddle, president pres-ident of Tu lane university Nov. 24 E. W. Rice, pioneer In electricity industry, at Schenectadr. N. Y. Nov. 30 Dr. Edward Judd. noted mayo clinic Burgeon. Dec. 1 J. M. Young, of New York. Inventor of vacuum packing can Adrian Stokes. English artist. Dec. 2 Dr. James H. Breasted of University of Chicago, orientalist. Princess Victoria, sister of king of England. Miss M. Carey Thomas, ex-presl-deni of Bryn Mawr. Dec. 3 Dr. Francis Le Rov Sattcr-lee, Sattcr-lee, American pioneer In X-ray research. re-search. Luella Miner, American educator in China. Dec. 4 Don C. Seitz, New York, veteran author and newspaper man. Dec. 8 Charles Ewing of Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, president of Reading Railway company. Dec. 12 M. J. Van Sweringen of Cleveland, Ohio, railway magnate. Dec. 15 Gov. F. H. Cooney of Montana. Mon-tana. Dec. 16 Thelma Todd, screen actress. ac-tress. In Los Angeles Most Rev. Alphonse Smlth. CathoIU bishop of Tennessee. Dec. 17 Miss Llzette Reese o' Ral-timore. Ral-timore. poet. Dec, 18 Juan Vicente Gomea, pre Ident of Venezuela. Dec. 19 George D. Buckley, former for-mer publisher and banker, in No York. Western Newspaper Unloa. ' |