Show EVENTS OF mi 1 U i mi MANY no f record of twell e m monta oae notable hawn happening I 1 III ill the un united I 1 ted state and abroad j FEATS OF LINDBERGH remarkable year for fat aviation efforts to reduce ar are not strained relations in tit europa politics and arid doing of con y ran mississippi vl val i ly ley devastated by t 1 flood i by EDWARD W P ICKARD LIndbe beur might well U the designation ahen 1927 for or it U vas distinguished especially by ibe the ol 01 thit admirable young american aviator 1114 transatlantic flight tile lie first from america to eu ell rope lit III triumphant pro ass broad abroad gad afterward in his borne home country big ill nonstop light night to city and till his Lal lautry nuil and iso disty made him the roost most taaim man of his hi time both before and artar be winged till his way tc to I 1 ranee rance nu nunu rous osber trans 1 1 oceanic lights flights were a tempted bev eral of them while many failed internationally interest centered largely on efforts to bring about re dachton of armaments president cool f ldes invitation to the nation nations sipa tory to 0 o the washington treaty to confer au w means to extend the provisions of that pact was accepted only by 1 great britain tri nd japan and ended la in complete failure the league of I 1 nation nations preparatory disarmament commission ax as more or less busy throughout the year bat but seemed to i make atle progress its december meeting was attended by russian represent representatives athes who blandly proposed immediate and topi this plan was squelched and the diat mat iter ter of security token up the league council convening toward the dose close of the year bad had to deal ith the old quarrel between io ile land and rod with trained illation 1 and italy engled marines yere vere busy helping hupart s a re movement ii I i baj protecting protect in our in china at home ti tie e year tear was notable for the s rody growth 1 of our out wit ional trono lc le i cheh however hoever iwas was baited in somo some sections by agri cult cultural uril and by tho devas 1 toting in the mississippi volley valley international at o 0 he opining odthe beir prest dent diaz of nicaragua asked ae anier iran lean aid against the liberal led by doctor and naval fore forces and marines ettre promptly sent bluer our tc to the be nicaragua cobil route were ere ih plied ImperI imperiled ledL after numerous all Mcara guan tit atre utro to their arms to the Ame ambati ati force forces cud sud tho the back bone of the tile rebellion vu ins broken in battle at ocotal ocoral in 1 july encounters with scattered guerrilla eu errilla bands bonds continued through tae a rest of the year relations bet beewen wen the united states and exico implored steadily and sad dulghe morrow went down there as ambas dor late in the fall with high hopes of settling all the differences bly 0 2 Syre t detary tary of state kelloggs plans tw of ending the tacna arica dispute be tween chile and peru were rejected by the latter country in Jam january Ja nunry miry the three power ct inference ference OP or DATA baval railed by president coolege Co olge was held in geneva affe ucal agreement was reached concerning submarines but great Brit aias demands in the matter of email small cruisers cru could not be accepted by america and japan and american demands for eight inch duns gung were ere rejected by the british so tie tl whole af of fair collapsed on assist i maseo bf I 1 the stubborn becs of tile british lp gates ehst it he resigned from te cabinet cud nd freni in the doings of the learue f C nations soviet more and more taking part to in inter inte a allu IrS made small pre progress ress into he the good graces of other powars her i 1 roi in the con fiance of 0 tle tl e leogue leigue le igue mentioned above wo difed at fit as not only im fin practicable lint but albo as disingenuous lu in february britain warned moscow to betse its antl BrItish propaganda anil and in may the I 1 ondon londen police raided tile tiet ande headquarters and incriminating documents the Pk Ulin were deper deported td ind nil oil ro lillon betheen jhc two na da tifis re leered ter ered cd until late in to the year the bolet garip na rip ere active in leaping the chinese lill war alive their effort were scarcely uen ban the radical faction of the chinese was virtu virtually ollY suppressed by th moderate wing win the had tied b bu e friends left felt tint thit they practically cally from rom the country the war in to china was made ade an international affair br the at tacks on foreigners and foreign concessions and ard the threats against the treaty yona Aae american rican british anili end nd fortee forces were ent thero there and nd ar nn still then for the rod end of abe tie conflict to 1 afe aft ti sig lelit lit it wa will by japans japan s deter V gatei ia tei to protect tier her national nationals and law large interest interests in manchuria no with will china could b be t made mude by the rover for there was no real to IrikI cf of that ill 11 coul country itry o many k kept pa tip her rall payments cents and her relations ith france were buttered by a commercial treaty and semi private trade pact on jon january aary 31 the corrals lion mon turned over the control of german getman d to the leirmo of nation Nat loni and gad in AOI aug MI lit france agreed to reduce the be occupational force forces in to the france and tuco signed a treaty which r mussolini thought was aimed at it icsey c 1 ay xo bo he retaliated it ith a military pact bc between tween italy and albania which lie he frankly stated was designed to 0 o italian r control 0 of the adriatic was mh a III feel feet ins ing but little apparent of hostilities tili ties liot t ro so much could bo tio aid said for the trouble between poland and athu anil each of these nations CHUMS accused the other of fomenting foment lof plots against it and abe he lithuanians billeted bell ered eTed premier ski had designs cc 00 their independence seizure of vilna by po lind sentral years ago wan waa the underlying cause cam of the row marshal pit sadiki and premier Wal demaras of lithuania went to genera and were ere persuaded to make a temporary peace agreement the details of a permanent pact to be worked out Is later ter FOB EIGN great britain slowly but steadily re covered from the effect effects of the long coal strike abar bar that conflict did to he ilia country was indicated by tile fact that in january for the first trot time in many years the real balance of trade as against ae te t e british tIsh the be deficit i mounting to la to april ta tie a introduced 1 a I bill to attend rather drastically the law rela reto ins ing to trade unions and strikes tn la jre lire was supported by tile athes as nc ccreary sary for the de lensa of the existing political and so cial system but it was assailed bit terly by all the forces of labor who asserted it was designed not cot to protect the tile state bat but to take away the rights won by the workers and to destroy the unions after many reeks weeks of violent debate the cic air jre ire con coo sider ably modified was passed an other plan of ahr government plo posed la in june was to reduce the num ber of peers IQ to the house of lords and at the same time to oo 00 strengthen the powers of that chamber thai that it would be an impregnable defence defene against the growing of ichor this as so to strongly opposed by the socialists and laborites that the scheme was aban boned for the present in april chan bellor of the exchequer churchill in trod produced the budget for the year sear 0 d signed to meet a def deflit elt of WC its ale als that despite her enormous burdens great Britt las financial position was tanda mentally sound when the dill elreano or parila parlia meat of the irish irve ia roe state met if I 1 i june de val valera era and fort four of bis his followers were included because they j reused to take the oath of allegiance to kill king a george later trey changed their minds and were sworn in the general elections in september gave the lie a ty of six boteo ote and president Cos congreve greve rc was reelected in july ireland was chocked shocked by the assassination 1 I kevin 0 big glus gin s ice oce prisident and minister of oti justice the murderers acre cre not caught canadas importance was consider ably amplified by lier ler election as a member of the council nf tit the league of nations senator raoui dandurand Dandura tid being given the seat scat and b the he sen ing of an american minister to ottawa in the person of at is V wiiiiam on july I 1 the dominion celebrated the anniversary of its birth as a relf unit of the british em ontario abandoned prohibition and on ju t I 1 substituted the system of selling liquor in government stores to persons ros permit prince edward island the smallest of the toted rated in june 0 o remain dry that france Is still nervous nerv neri ouy outly afraid of attacks from the kast east was made plain when ibe the superior war council in february announced plans for the construction of on ibe the ger get man and italian frontiers calling for tho the expend expenditure aure rf ef selita billion francs the project will give franci the lie most formidable frontier defenses defens eq in to europe parliament passed a bill in march providing fur for of ill needful industry in to time of war aril aro in april president Doumer dommergue gue signed a bill 11 under which trance 1 ranee will build one ong cruiser six fire end othar war craft premier PoIn poincare cure df spite constant op poi portion tion in to parliament maintained Intal ned bis his j and bis his financial measures proved eo successful that many aoa wo dered athy by he did not proceed to the of tile lie franc trane ilic orin rand tand of Musso lie 1110 fascist state of italy began to function fully in 1017 measures that though severe tm im wholesome were put in force fieni time to time nine and und tic country pro cred beyond belond thulah I 1 of the detric detractors tors of the duce in april the premier procia lined a roll clit ahan lh an of labor which was re i crded as a substitution of the prin capic of i o arx orx ration for tha that of coin colo and thus a mep bep in the abolition of class struggle betru c kin kill t Ir s dinand of ItU LianIa aled on july M ind lils grond grandson son the infant chael was pr bli successor under a regency T frienda of carol former erian prinie prime and father of file lip child kin kill stirred tip P a lot of excite abent aud amil will sclean scle scheme ln to trina him lick from exile I 1 ant int out nt wm ilia o 0 i on the lie throne but lle cattle ot of it ID in nevber premier lonel tit unrelenting enemy of cord cant died aoi antl was temporarily ty by bit hi brother by com la in henria and by KO ito nil all te a in a portugal were suppress suppressed cil la in tb koro ham mer la in hovdet ikima suit 1 his associate undertook to squelch utterly the and leon lee D trothy and bis his ful followers lowers wire were ex filled tied from the communist party president calles of mexico his suppression of the catholic op ponente to his hi role rule many prelates pr elott were on charge charges of sedition and in april archbishop mom jr let aitio 1 and other others wen were expelled from tile country mexico most serious revolutionary amment came lo 10 october and was led by general generals gomel gomez and serrano both nivsia of general obre ohm 00 coo oo for ali the Preil dency i a few weeks the movement had bad beau of effectually put dona down and gomes gomez set race and many other others had bad been executed by firing bring squads president fig rig beroa of chile ivas forced out of office by premier ibanez 01 wh 0 1 was vias later elected to succeed hira bla virtual collapse of fhe Koom intang revolution in china so far for as schley acl v ing if its objective objectives wa wall concerned barbed marked the year la to the oriental re public the nationalist party wa was hopelessly rit split into faction factions while marshal chang maintained bis big ro a prelacy la in and frai was reported to be preparing to proclaim himself croper emper r the civil warfare went CD on unceasingly without definite result DOMESTIC DOMi iTic generally speaking condition conditions were conducive to a year sear in the united states industry and commerce flourished and the government piled up tip a huge reserve ovit made a it leduc cioll of a certainty adverse feature features bere ere the unprecedented floods in the mississippi alley continued though somewhat amell ameliorated orated depression in the agricultural industries the lone long coal strike la to the bl III tu luminous minous fields which was ended in several states to in the autumn and a strike of coal coat miners in to colorado under leadership leade nhip of the L W W presidential politic polities occupied the mink min K of the people to a considerable extent president co cooledge it was conceded cm ceded could have the nomination for the asling but during bla big vacation in n the black bills of south dakota he rather astonished the nation by issuing tho the simple statement 1 I 1 do not choose to run for president in lr 1028 V thus the race wa vat made an open one though many of mr COOlId gel admirers insisted that he would accept the domination if it drafted by the party of the other possibilities those most favorably con eldered were frank 0 lowden her bert hoover and vice president charles dawes charles R hughes also was wa liked by many senator ell charles arles curtis of kansas announced that he be was wao a candidate for the honor and a boom for senator george norris of nebraska was started by some of bis his fellow Ins insurgents urgente senator wills willis of ohio threw bis his hat bat into the ring after the president in december told the national committee he had bad ellmina noted ted himself kansas city was awarded the republican national co contention mention after a spirited contest with san francisco and the cell was issued for june 12 al tt smith at his fourth inauguration as governor of new york declared his candidacy for the democratic nomina tion and throughout the year tie lie to gain steadily in strength of course most of the drys in bis his party opposed him and they sought fr for a rival candidate to tabe take the tile place of IV 0 mcadoo the best they conid could find and apparently was senator jame james need reed of Ulmo url in february congress passed th tip mcnary hougen farm form relief bill and president Pre coolidge promptly toed it because be and his official eihusen considered it economically bad dor dur ing 1 the year the various agricultural organizations tried to get together oget hT on sone some measure that serve their needs and meet tile presidents objections but ballel the clatter matter came up again in tbs seventieth congress which met in to december the senate in january refused to admit frank fruck 1 I smith and W V 3 vare vote elect elt from lill illinois aud penn ss hanl respect irell became e of at lebed pol political lUcal corruption in their cam und and elections senator reed of 0 missouri Alln eurl spent considerable time tiro during the rummer summer investigating the cases and when the senate convened on oil december 5 the battle for and ennst the abnit nd nillon ion of the two men was ras resu resumed president coolidge Cool lilge der declare de clari larte filmen aa st orly farly s in he the seer 1 in favor of adequate national defense and con congress grets in its army flud ind navy cary appropriations w us fairly liberal gulag aa even bernd the chief recommendations by providing ter three llort cruisers in october admiral magruder severely criticized criticised the management of the navy in a magazine magi zino zIne article and paid the pena penalty ltv twins being hemmed from bli a con corn mand of 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