Bingham Bulletin | 1927-12-29 | Page 2 | Chronology of the Year-1927

Chronology of the I Year -1927 J K g S By E. W. P1CKARD G INTERNATIONAL Jan. 2 President Dial of Nlcuragua s.kd United State Intervention to ' ""stop-UexIcan aid to rebels. Jan. 6 African marines aiid m I lor landed at Corinto and entrained for Managua, capital of Nicaragua. Cantonese forces occupied Hrltlnh concession In Hankow; warships sent to Hi (ilace. Jan. 7 United Slates warned Mexico not to Interfere with Its policy 'n Nicaragua. Radio telephone service between London and New York opened. Jan. 13 l'eru rejected Secretary Kellogg's plan for settlement of racna. Arica dispute. Jan. 20 Mexican government accepted ac-cepted "In principle" proportion to arbitrate oil land dispute with Unit- dJifi!.al2 Secretary of Stat K el loir declared government's Intention of defending de-fending American lives and property In China. . , , First British troops landed at fihuiiithftl Jan. '31 Interallied commission turned over control of German disarmament dis-armament to League of Nations Feb. United Htates notltled by three powers that Its reservation! oft adherence to world court were rot aCKeit.'d'lt) 'President Coolldge .kfv the powers to conMder- extending limitation of naval armament to..M classee of vessels. ...,, Feb. 19 Japan accepted Coolldge naval conference plan with reserya-. t"'Fb. JO Rvfetfen'and Belgium signed pact never te,,wak war-on each other Feb. 21 Italy, relucted yoolldgov naval coafereJioe 'plan.' Feb. 23 British g,oAiernrneni,. warned Russian' Soviet- government that rt-n latlons would hp aeverid If the Intur continued its arill-Brltlsh propaganda . Feb. 24 Halted - State transport Chaumont with 1.200 ,inarlne. arrived ai Shanghai. ' - ' " "." . , j.h. as Great Britain; aceepteU Coolldge proposal Tor naval limitation conference, with certain reservations concerning cruisers. -. March lrCoruIote' American avla-Vlon avla-Vlon expedition landed In Nlcnrnguft. March 24 United Slates government ordered alj. Annirlyuna out of Interior Of China." ' " . . March ,. i2.8-Am'rlcnn " consulates along upper Yangtse closed. April 4rFrane rejected United States Invitation to naval limitation conference. '. ' . , . April 5 Italy and Hungnrv signed ,, a treaty of amity and arbitration; Sweden and Austria ratified a treaty making war illegal under all .clr-. 'TprlTe-Mnrsbnl Chans raided Soviet embassy In Peking, seizing Red cun- iilratnra and documents. ... ament within a year, which was rejected re-jected on ground that It must be preceded pre-ceded by International alliances guaranteeing; guar-anteeing; security. . Deo. 6 Council of League of Nations Na-tions met In Geneva. ..ii Hec. 7 League "f Nations council referred Polaiid-LlthURnIa quarrel to Van Blockland of Holland for a re- PDeo. 10 Premiers PUsudskl of Poland Po-land and Waldomaras of Lithuania made temporary peace agreement. FOREIGN Jan. Serious communist revolt In Sumatra reported Jan. 10 Bishop Dins and other prelates prel-ates arrested by Mexican government fur sedition. Jan. 11 Thousand natives massacred at Wanghlhpao, China, by bandits. Jho. 16 Serious antl-Christlan riot In Foochow. China. - Jan. 27 lirltlah government abol-Uhod abol-Uhod alavery In Burma. jHn 28l)r. Marx formed new Ger-.man Ger-.man cabinet, Including three prom -nent Nutionallsts. and with no Socialists. Social-ists. Jan SO First Hungarian parliament since 1'JlH met with great pomp. Mexico ordered all priests to report to government by February 19. or be ""f"' Military revolution started In Oporto, Portugal. ,.,.,., ,VI, 7 Portuguese revolutionary movement spread to Lisbon, with severe fighting: oporto recovered by government troops. HVh. 9 ltevoiutlon In Portugal re? ported suppressed. ., Feb. 14 Cantonese captured Hang- '''March 1 Marshal Sun ahd his forces quit the defense of Shanghai and Sliungtungese troops gathered there to combat the Cantonese. ... -,-March 4 French deputies voted to conscript capital In future wars. March Mexican troops executed many rebels capturod In battle Mussolini wiped out all local auton-omy auton-omy In Cyrepalca and Tripoli. March 20 Shanghai'! foreign .city taken by Cantonese-!' " ' March 23 South China Nationalists captured Nanking ftnd Chlnklang. April 7 President Flgueroa'of X hlle took two months' "vacation," turning government over to Premlef ' Ibanes. virtual dictator. - . . April .8r tluslo'v Sumga I elected Presl-, dent of Latvia. . ' " ' -' . April 11 Chancellor of Exchequer Churchill presented. "new BcHIhH budget budg-et to' meet deficit of'lllOOW.Of.. . April li Lithuanian diet -dlKsoltfed ahd mllltarv dictatorship established. Atirjl 17 Japanese cabinet resigned ''April . 18 liucup. .TumltR, :PtlhtM- Ktfviitlan cabinet .feKr4.":- Moderate Nationalist In Chjaa .set. up new giiveniment In Nanking. April 20 Mexican bandits In Jallsce altncked hnd tirned a train, massacring massa-cring about MO prisons. - - Apttl 2t Japan granted three weeks ' moratorium to lanl;s in flnnnclal d-rsls. Archbishop Mora y del Hu and aevca other lending CatlH-Htr ' prehites expelled ex-pelled from Mexico tor fomenting re-. April 24 Mexican roops killed B0 of- bandits who committed the . train massacre In Jalisco May 2 Premier. Pnlncare announced plane for wall of super-forts on France's northern frontier. . Mny 4 president Figueroa of Chile rFNfcaragua' Peace ynmn, after both sides agreed to dlsnrm. return re-turn to their farms and awfllt a regular reg-ular elect ion. President Dla proclaimed a general amnesty, . m... May 17 Vatican denounced Mussolini's Mus-solini's charter of labor. i. '.. n.unei e ected President of Jan. IS Senate rejected Lausanne treaty with Turkey. Jan. .20 Senate, by vote of 41 to 23, refused to let Frank L. Smith, aen-ator-designate from Illinois, take the oath of office pending Investigation of his qualifications. House passed army supply bill, adding add-ing (8,000,000 to budget bureau estimate. esti-mate. Jan. 29 President Coolldge, addressing ad-dressing budget meeting, opposed mill-tarlFni mill-tarlFni and pacifism but declared for adequate defense. House passed compromise radio bill Feb. 1 Senate pnssed 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. 8 President signed bill appropriating appro-priating 10,000,0u0 for fighting corn borer. Feb. 11 Senate pnssed McNary-H.iugen McNary-H.iugen farm relief bill, 47-39. Feb. 15 Hugh K. Wilson appointed minister to Swltierland, J. Butler Wright minister to Hungary and Le-land Le-land Harrison minister to Sweden. Feb. 16 Senate passed McFadden bank bill. Feb. 17 House passed McNary-Maugen McNary-Maugen farm relief bill. Kzra Bralnerd, Jr., of Oklahoma confirmed con-firmed as member of Interstate commerce com-merce commission. Feb. 18 Itadlo bill passed by senate Vincent Massey, first minister from Canada, received by President Coolldge. Feb. 24 House accepted senate amendment to navy bill appropriating money to start building of three light cruisers. Feb. 25 President Coolldge . vetoed the McNary-Jlaugen farm relief bill. Feb. 28 U. S. Supreme court canceled can-celed oil land leases given to. L Do-heny Do-heny by A. B. Fall when secretary of the Interior on ground of fraud. March I President Coolldge appointed appoint-ed radio commission consisting of O. H Caldwell, Hear Admiral W. H. CI Uullard. K. O. Sykes. 11. A. Bellows and J. V. Dillon. House passed medical whisky bill. 'Senate passed bills for elevation of baltleiihlp guns and other navy appropriations appro-priations totaling J104,lO4,OOO. March 2 Senate passed prohibition . reorganization bill. March 3 Senate ended 37-hour .-.Oil-bunter by recessHtg' until MaiVh 4. March 4 President Coolldge refused to rail extra session as congress . ad-, Journed ' Jury failed to agree in.case;of . Pauslierty, In PauRhepty-MllIer bribery trial, but convicted Miller. March J--Thurrms W. Miller, former aHun property custodian, sentenced- to tS fnonthe In -Atlanta prison and. fined . , js.OOO for .conspiracy to defraud government. gov-ernment. - , - .'.'-March 16, Harry F. Sinclair, charged With contempt of the senate- dAirlu the Teapot Dome oil scandal Investigation, found guilty by a District of Columbia Supreme 'court Jury. , . March 24 Hoy A.- HayrTes appointed acting commissioner of prohibition. - April 2 Presitlont Coolldge revoked Harding's naval oil reserves brder and turned the r-'serves back to the navy. -April 6 William Hale Thompson elected mayor of Chicago, . defeating Mayor W. K. Dever. Sacco and Vanzettl, convicted murderers, mur-derers, denied new trial by Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Supreme court. . ' President Coolldge vetoed the Phljlo-plne Phljlo-plne act for plebiscite on Independ- ""April 22 President Cool.Jee called on country for $5,OO0,0uO relief fund tor flood sufferers. .- April 25 President. Coolldge spoke at anniversary dinner of United Press in New York, outlining government' foreign policies. 1 A. n. opened In Orand Ilftpldft, Mlr-h. gept. 15 D. It. Wrisslnger resigned aa governor of federal reserve board. K. L Hawk of Sacramento, t allr, elected commander-in-chief of O. A. H., and Denver chosen for 192s encamp- Sept. IS American Legion opened Its convention In Paris. Sept. 20 Dwlght 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. Crlssinger. Sept. 22 Mayor John U Duvall of Indianapolla found guilty of political corruption. , Kdwnrd E. Bpaftord of New York elected national commander of American Ameri-can Legion; San Antonio selected for 1328 convention. spt. 24 Baltimore Ohio railroad celebrated Ita one hundredth annlver- aOct. 3 President Coolldge, opening annual meeting of American Red Cross, promised flood control and development develop-ment of Inland waterways. Ort. 4 International radio congress opened In Washington with 70 nati.ms represented. Oct. 10 U. S. Supreme court canceled Teapot Dome lease to Harry Sinclair. Oct. 12 Mayor Duvall of Indianapolis Indianapo-lis sentenced to 30 days In Jail and barred from public olllce. Oct. 1.1 One hundred and two klans-men klans-men Indicted In Crenshaw county, Alabama, Ala-bama, for floggings. H. A. Bellows resigned from federal radio board and Samuel Pickard was apiolnted to succeed him. Oct. 17 U. S. Supreme court refused to review padlock cases against Chicago Chica-go cabarets. Oct. 25 Admiral Mogruder, who criticized navy In magazine article, relieved re-lieved of hla command In Philadelphia navy yard. Oct. 28 Senator Charles Curtla of Kansas announced his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination. nomina-tion. Oct. 31 Secretary of Treasury Mel--Ion submitted to house committee plan for tax reduction of about 225,0"0,0O. Nov. 1 Fall-Sinclair trial In Washington Wash-ington halted by a Jury scandal. Nov. 2 Mistrial declared in . Fall-Sinclair Fall-Sinclair rase because of -charges of tampering with she Jury. . . ... - Corn belt-.and. 'southern agricultural conference In St. Louis -adopteil is-. is-. iutlons IndorJrltirf- McNary-Haugen bill and condemning - attitude of Bora,' Heed of Missouri 'and Bruce of .Maryland. .Mary-land. . "..vt.-'V ,t " Nov. 4 Harry Sinclair and H M.- Day charged with conspiracy to fix the Sinclair-Fall Jury,. . . . -Nov, S F. D. Sampson, Republlgan and friend of Jjorsa racing, elected gbv-ernor gbv-ernor of Kehturky. . - Nov. 10-rJudg Fead at St.' Joseph, Midi., placed House of David under a receiver and ousted Benjamin Purncll. Nov. 17 President Coolldge -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 I2f,A,Aun,eO. United States Supreme court declared. Invalid provision of Alaska dry law prohibiting possession of liquor n private home for owners' use. Nov. 22 Harry Sinclair. W. J. Rurns and four others cited for contempt of court In Teapot Dome case. Nov. 23 Charles K. 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 li. Judah of Chicago made ambassador to Cuba. Nov. 24 Hundreds of convicts In Folsom, Calif., prison revolted: two guards and seven pilsoners killed. Dec. 6 Seventieth congress met; house re-elected Speaker Longworttv Grace N. F on round-the-world nigm. U Adu'gg 3lpdtnLes"i Helton .nd Col. F F. Mlnchln. with VrnctM Low ensteln Wertheim a s to ed flight from Upavon. '"'''I?, nl. Ottawa. Out.. In monoplane feu Ra- '"se'pt 1-Monoplana St Raphael lost ,n8eAptan6-rrld. of Detroit reached C"tt.n. Old Cory. Piloted by Ber-taud Ber-taud and Hill, with P. Pnvne asps" senger. started from Old Orcnaru. Maine, for Rome. , Sept. 7-Old Glory Plane tout In At- UVLr "caK Te'rV Harbor OrnceV N F.. for London, piloted by ''s't's-Plan'sir John Carting con-" con-" sVp'f! Vo-Schle. and Brock reached ShBalloon' rsee for the Bennett cuo started from Detroit. nirr Sept 12 Wreckage of Old Olory tound In North Atlantic. R O. Hill In balloon Detroit won Cordon Bennett race, traveling 72a m8ept 14-Schlee and Brock reached aviation field near Tokyo. a,a.a Sept 15 Schlee and Brock decided to crosa the Pacific in lem.hJD-r.(. Sept 19 National air derby racea. New York to Spokane, started. Sent 21 C. W. ilolmnn w.on Class A air derby race; J. ft Charles won In CSeptB:2J-Stlnson 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 Fngland won the Schneider cup at Venice In hla Napier aupermarlne P't!ct' 10 Two French aviators. Costes and Le Brix. started flight from Par's to Buenos Aires, to establish Dial. rot'. 11 Ruth Klder end George Haldeman In plane American Oirl started nonstop flight from New York '"French aviators reached St. Louis. Senegal, 2,700 miles from Paris. Oct. 13 Miss F.lder and Haldemah forced, down by broken oil line 8u0 miles northeast of the Axorea and picked up by Dutch oil tanker . .Oct 14 Costes and Le Hrlx flew 'from Senegal to Port Natal. Brazil. (ct 23 Colonel Lindbergh completed complet-ed his 22.350-mlle air tour of the coun-try1 coun-try1 Oct 31 Colonel Lindbergh accepted position with Guggenheim Fund for .Promotion of Aeronautics. NoV. .4 CapL Hawthorne Cray, U. S A., died In balloon over southern Illinois after reaching record height. Dec- 12 Colonel Lindbergh awarded Congressional Medal of Honor. Uec- 13 Lindbergh completed nonstop non-stop fllsht from-Washlngtou to Mexico City. . ; DISASTERS f-' jan Seventy-seven . . children killed In movie theater fire . In Montreal. Canada. ' Feb1 17 Thirty-six killed by tornado In Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. : Feb. 20 Thirty killed In treat storm along' Atlantic seaboard. March 1 Sixty-nine men killed In two' mine disasters In Jvnfcland ,and Wales. March 7 Japanese earthquake and tidal wave; dead 2,485; In lured. 3.441. March 18 Tornado took 33 lives In Green Forest and Denver, Ark. April 12 Tornado destroyed .Rock-, springs, Tex., killing 59. - April 16 Explosion In Chicago killed eight persons and wrecked block of stores. Floods In Tower Mississippi valley causing Immense losses. a-ii 90 vK.ni eitiiiittnn In . lower "''Vale defeated Harvard at football. Nov 26 Notre Dama defeated Unl. verslty of Southern California at foot- iSuvw0" defeated th. Nary 1. New York. NECROLOGY Jan. 6-Capt. M. R. Tranoh, , O. M. K, governor of the Virgin Island!. Tan 7 Frank L. Stanton, poet, la AtlMW. g" J- P- Underwood of h. cago, large timber land owner. Jan. IS Arnold Daly, actor In Ntw York R F. Wolfe, publisher of Co-lumbus Co-lumbus Dispatch and Ohio StaU Joor. nal. In Columbus. Ohio. Jan. 15 David R- Francis, statesman, in St. Ixiuls . a . Jan. 17 Miss Juliette Low, founder of Girl Scouts of America, In Savannah, Jan. IS Carlotta. ai-emprase of Mexico. In Belgium. .... Jan. 21 Dr. Edward Wyllys Andrawa, eminent surgeon, In Chicago. Jan. 2-Lyman J. Gf??'?' retary of the treasury, at Point Loma, Calif. .... 4 F,,b 5 Charles Deerlng, capitalist, in Miami, Fla. . Feb 9 Dr. C. D. Walcolt, secrstarr of Smithsonian Institution. Feb. 12 Congressman A. B. Stspnsaa of North Bend. Ind. Feb. 13 Rev. Dr. Percy I Grant, noted New York divine. Col. CD. "line, railroad and Industrial .xperU In New York. Billy Bowman, veteran minstrel. In Houston. Texas. ivt, 14 tillver Dennett "rover, artist. In Chicago. William Coffin. U. I S. Consul general t01Berl"V,,K.Mo.. T Feb. 18 Commodore LIbrldgs 1. J Gerrv'of New York. ' ' . . Feb. 19 Dr. Georg Brandes, Danish CrFeb 22-BenJamin Carpenter, proml. nent Chicago merchant. Judson Har-mon, Har-mon, former governor or Ohio. March 4 Dr. Ira Remaen. presld nt emeritus of Johns Hopkins iijlwrn at Carmel, Calif rry Hrttt Jud son . president emeritus of University or Ma'rch 18-Gov. Henry I Whitfield of MMa'chP,28-W.ll H. Dilg. )n Izaak WaltonLeague. In W"h,ng.on. March 30 Perry S. Heath. father of mral free delivery system. April 10 Eliot F. Sheppard. millionaire- sportsman. In Miami Bench. Fla Dr. O. O. Sars. noted Norwegian zoologist. Young 1Corbftt'n.f"Imer featherweight champion. In JeT- April 27 Albert J. Ueverldge, ex-senator ex-senator from Indiana, orator and r,"-thor. r,"-thor. Otto Borchert pre sid; )m Nil. waukee baseball club. C. I. T ego oldest, member Chicago. Board TrM-iy 2 Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler president emeritus of University of California, in Vienmt. .,.. May 3 Col. E. K. Ayer. Chicago capitalist, philanthropist and art col. lector, in Pasadena. Calif. Uny 6 Hudson Maxim, explosive expert and Inventor, at Lake Hopat- CMa'yN25 Payne Whitney, caoltnlls; at Manhasset. L. I. ,v May 29 lames -T. an Alen. NeT York financier. In Paris. June 4 Martin Roche, noted arcN-tect arcN-tect in Chicago, Robert McKim. staK and screen star, in Hollywood. Calif. Marquess of Lansdowne. hM. . June 5 Dr. Joseph . -Schneldel-, world-fnmed oculist. In ,MI'wnUKeo W R. Stansbury, clerk of U. S. u- un 7-Hobert C. Hllllard. actor lft New York. Thomas W. Balch. authoi and editor, of Philadelphia. June 13 Coles Phillips. America artist In New York ,, June 14-Jerome K. Jerome, Engllslt author ana piaywrigin. - r Hight, last survivor of old Boston Museum Mu-seum company. In Lynn. . Mass. fn. O. E. Tripp, chairman of Westing" house company board. In New York j c. Gillmore, Inst commodore of U S navy, in Washington. June 20 Clara Louise Burnham-American Burnham-American ' author. .nJ June 27 Henry Clay Pierce, finan cler and oil magnate. In New York July 9 John Drew, leading Aracr-lean Aracr-lean actor. In San Francisco J. M Odell. vice president "Western Elettrld company. In New York. July 15 Henry White. American diplomat. In Lenox. Mass. July 20 King Ferdinand of Ru-mania. Ru-mania. A. A. Hamersclilag. former president of Carnegie Institute of juiv 29 B. F. Bush, chairman of board of Missouri Pacific. raUrond Mr Joseph Pulitzer. In Paris. Louis Abbema. noted French nalnter Aug 7 MaJ. Gen. Leonard Wood, governor general or the Philippines. '"AuRBt0ni3-Rhlnelander Waldo o . New York. James Oliver Ciirwood 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? chem. Istry at Yale, suicide. .... A it g, 16 Ogden Armour of Chicago. .,nAIugn,O20-MrS. Fannie " Blortm'fleld ; . , ', Zelslf-r. noted . planleti- In Chicago. Wilbur Nesbit. Chicago poet and art. veriisipg man. Vr, J. M. -Tanner; -Mormon church dignitary, at Leth.brldgo. .. Auk. '?S-rZ.iRhlul Tasha.; Egyptian nationalist leader: - - . . , . - Aug. 25 Cardinal Rleg y- CasanoVA of Toledo, primate of Spain.. . ' . sept 1 Amelia "Bingham. American actress. ... . . ''"'- ' . S,.nt 5 Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of Anti-Saloon Leaue. Marcus Mar-cus Loew. motion picture ma mate. In - Glen Cove. L. I. . ' ,' ' Sept. 11 J. U. Sammls. . former, -grand exalted ruler of Elks. In Chicago. Chi-cago. Col. Charles J. GJIdden. tele-lihone tele-lihone and aeronautical ' pioneer, in . , Boston. , ' '" ' Sept. 23 MaJ. Gen. Lloyd M. Brett, retired. ' Baton Ago von Mnltzan.' Herman Her-man ambassador to Washington. - 0,-t 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 from Pennsylvania. Oct 8 Bishop P. J. Muldoon of Cathollo diocese of Rockford. 111. Oct. 9 Col. J. F. Dillon, member of federal radio commission. ' "; . Oct. 11 F. D. Stout, president of Missouri Southern railroad-and Chi. cago capitalist. Oct. 22 Cardinal O Donnell. orlmaU of Ireland! Oct. 23 MaJ. Gen. J. T. Dlckman retired. ., . Oct 29 John J. Mitchell. Chicago financier. Archbishop J." G. Harty of Omaha. Rear Admiral J. M. Holm. .L".. ' S. N.. retired. Mississippi valley grew steadily worse; scores dead and 75,000 homeless. April 2! Mississippi valley floods worst In the country's history. April 30 Mine explosion nt Fairmont, Fair-mont, W. Va.. entombed and killed 94 men. ., , ; Mav 9 Tornadoes In mldule western west-ern states killed about 200. May -, 23 Gigantic earthquake In Kahsu 'province. China, ruined Liang-chow Liang-chow and other cities, killing about 100. 000. . m . May 30 One hundred killed by tornadoes in Virginia. Tennessee and Kentucky. , July 6 Thousand Chinese drowned In flood In Anhwel 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 llv-- lost 'In typhoon In Kwantung 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 175,000,000 damage done by tornado in St. Louis. Mo. Oct. 25 Italian steamship Prlnclpes-sa Prlnclpes-sa Mafaida 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 prop-efty prop-efty worth several million dollars.-. 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 iiyrd 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. It; 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 champlon- 8 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 1PC- 6 President cooirage eeni ma message to congress. Mr. Coolldge told Republican national na-tional committee he had "eliminated himself as a nomination possibility. Pec. 7 National budget of )..-957,031 )..-957,031 submitted to congress by the President. , ,., Senate refused to let Frank L. Smith take the oath of olllce as senator froiiv Illinois. Republican national committee selected-Kansas City for the 192S convention con-vention and Issued call for June 1Z. 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. perv 3 UenrV L. Stimson 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 bin 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 Plnedo, Italian aviator, flew from Cape Verde islands to Fernando Fer-nando Noronha, 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- flyers ended trip at Washington and-, were given medals by President. .. . jlay sCapt. Charles N'ungesser and Capt. Francois Coll of France, started ot. nonstop flight from Paris to New York and were lost in the Atlantic. May 20 Capt. Charles Lindbergh started nonstop flight from New ork to Paris.. : . May 21 Lindbergh' landed in Paris having made the flight in 33 hours, 21 minutes. FirBt 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 7-7 mjune 4 C. D. Chamberlln and C. A fevine In Bellanca monoplane started from New York for Europe. June ' 6 Chamberlln and Levlne landed at Eisleben. Germany, and then flew to Kottbus, 70 miles from Berlin. Established new nonstop record of 8.905 miles. . M . . , . .June 11 Lindbergh landed at Washington Wash-ington and was decorated by President Presi-dent Coolidge with distinguished fly- lnjune"l De Plnedo ended his four-continent four-continent flight at Rome June 28 Lieuts. L. J. Mnltlnnd and Albert Hegenberger hegan flight In army Fokker plane from San Francisco Francis-co to Hawaii. . . June 29 Commander Byrd and crew In plane America hopped off at Netv York for nonstop flight to Europe. charge of flood relief activities In Middle West. ... ' , . April 30 U. S. agents broke up plot to smuggle Chinese from Mexico into California by airplanes and killed one aviator. ,a May 2 V. S. Supreme court upheld the Virginia law for sterilization of mental defectives. ' President Coolldg called for a,00J).-000 a,00J).-000 more for flood relief. May 17 U. S. Supreme court upheld California nnti-sy ndicallsm law. '' May 18 Demented farmer dynamiter! schoolhouse at Bath, Mich., killing 37 children and 6 adults, Including himself him-self American Medical arsoclatlon voted that restrictions on medicinal whisky should be taken from Volstead act. May 19 Mrs. Catherine Cassler con-demned con-demned to death In Chicago for murder. Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, sentenced sen-tenced to three months in Jail and fined I5H0 for contempt of the senate. L. C. Andrews resigned as assistant secretary of the treasury In charge or prohibition enforcement and Seymour Irf)wmnn. picked for place; Dr. J. M. Doran appointed commissioner of prohibition, pro-hibition, replacing Hoy A. Haynes. May 25 Ur. O. D. Davis of t hlcago elected national moderator of Congregational Congre-gational church. , Dr. Robert E. Spt-er 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. '" , . juna 4 Gen. E. H. Crpwder resigned as ambassador to Cuba.', ' ' ' June . .6 j-Pre.Ldent Coolldge . named deWra'teis 'id -naval disarmament con-fotejc, con-fotejc, 'wlti..inlMaador Hugh L. Gib-. Gib-. son .s cliitlrttran.' ' C June 13 President Coolldge and . his entourage left Vashlngton for the summer White House in ' the. Black. Hills, South Dakota. ., June 25 l-'iftv-iive indl-cted M Los Ant'elos In connection with oil stuck Swindle. ... June 29 Sacco and anzettl re-'prli re-'prli ved for 30 days by Governor Fulltr of Massachusetts. Inly 6 Kall-Doheny bribery Indictments Indict-ments upheld by District of Columbia Supreme cotut. juy 7l!enry Ford apologized for attacks on Jews In his Dearborn Inde- Pej'ufynt8 James R. Sheffield resigned AH ambassador to Mexico. july 9Federal trade commission ordered Lasky, Zukor and Famous P!ayers-L:isky corporation to discontinue discon-tinue "unfair methods" tn moving picture pic-ture business, july j 2 North west farm conference in St Paul voted to support the Mc-Nory-Haugen farm relief measure until It becomes law. July 15 Gov. Len Small paid state of Illinois lO.'O.OOO interest refund in satlrfaction of Judgment. July 18 Saplro's $1,000,000 libel suit against Henry Ford dismissed after payment of a substantial sum. July 24 Charles Blrger, southern Illinois Il-linois gang leader, sentenced to death f( r murder; two accomplices given life Imprisonment. April 7 President Coolldge. appointed ap-pointed Henry L. Stimson to Investigate Investi-gate conditions In Nicaragua. . April 8 United States ordered 1.500 more marines to China. . - April 11 United States. Great Britain, Brit-ain, France. Italy and Japan presented Identical demand to Canton government govern-ment for apology and reparation for Nanking outrage. League of Nations preparatory disarmament dis-armament commission decided "Kfee-ment "Kfee-ment between French and British Viewpoints was Impossible. May 3 Third Pan-American commercial com-mercial conference opened In Wnsn- '"mbv'iO All Nicaraeruans ordered to surrender arms, to United States tna- rlMay 12 English pollcV1' raided Soviet trade headquarters In London and seized quantities of documents. May 27 Japan ordered 2.000 troops to China. . May 28 United States warshln on the Yangtse battled Chinese troops. May 29 Great Britain warned Esrvpl the British must control Egyptian "Tune 3 Ousted Russian representatives representa-tives departed from London. June 6 Yugo-Slavla broke off relations re-lations with Albania. June 6 Albania appealed to tongue of Nations to, avert war with luuo- Ju'ife IS League of Nations council session opened at Geneva; Uprmanv notified ambassadors council that It had destroyed forta on eastern border: June 14 Poland alarmed bv Russia's Rus-sia's concentration of Its reserves on th!,iHpuTeieover control of Egyptian army settled to satisfaction of Great Brjun!"'20-Unlted States. Great Britain and Jnpan representatives tmim ' .1 ' Coolldge conference un -naval ' armament arma-ment limitation In Geneva, each natron submitting a plan. . , v '; June 25 UntU'avJSfftt'w'rtMrates at Geneva firm aKlnt,.l!rlt.lsh ,prupM tlon for redut;rifJClii'of stttteshms and cruisers. . . 4JV. '' : June 28 JapnlSW-fit Tleneva supported sup-ported Brltlsh.laic-ori-ye40Vt'fon- vt ClX pded.r wUhUnntjd States In opposing .British denwindi as to cruisers' tn - the Geneva naval limitation conference. July 8 Japanese troops occupied Tsinanfu and Tslngtao.- Stiuntung prov Ince, China. - , .,, July 17 STndlno's hand of Mcara-guan Mcara-guan rebels attacked United States marines ma-rines at Ocotal and were routed by bombing planes, 300 .being killed July 19 British delegates to Geneva ( . conference went bime for consulta- ' ''' July 27 American Minister Sterling . 'presented his credentials to Irish Free J f 'British delegates sent back to Geneva -with instruction to stand pat on their "demands. jug 4 Naval disarmament conference confer-ence at Geneva ended in complete failure fail-ure Aug. 9 France agreed to reduce Rhineland occupational forces. Au(f 17 France and Germany signed commercial treaty.. c,..,. 1 r-nnncl of League of Na- CIJuCh'e 1 Toronto government began salt of bottled Ikiuor. Premier Avarescu of Rumania re- Ju1ie: 2 Baron Cartler de Marchienne .resigned as Belgian minister, to Lulled StJune 5 Prince Pabu Stlrbey made nremier of Rumania. June 21 Premier Stlrbey of Rumania resigned and loon Bratiano succeeded h'june' 13 William Cosgrave reelected re-elected President of IrHh Free State executive -council; De Valera. and his follower-barred from duil elreann for refusal to take the oath. ! Julv 1 Canada began celebration of sixtieth anniversary of the confedera- 11 jlilv 10 Kevin O'HIggins. vice president presi-dent and minister of JusUcs of Irish Free State, assassinated. lulv 20 King Ferdlnnnd of Rumania died and Prince Michael, six years old, wa proclaimed king under a "Autfi Eruption of Vesuvius caused Inhabitants or surrounding villages to ,1!Aug' 3 Canada's war memorial at Ott iwa dedicated by Prince of Wales Aug ll-Eamonn .de Valera and fortv-four o'her Flanna Fall party members took oath of allegiance to KOieeke0co,!.,Titlon cabinet resigned. . Au;r 12 Mexico excluded, agitators ' and bolsheviks. Revolt In I'ortugnl suppressed by K0;r,gmT4-0,n. Ch-n,- . Kai-shek e:nlr of Nanking Nationalists of China. reHl.u:n(id- 1 ' . ' Sept 13 Directorate of Vpaln modi-. fX-ir.to a semi-military ministry op-"t-rilfhig withmit a parliament.. . . ' sept 15 frlhh Free Slate elections pave government plurality. vf l votes '''"tnt1 'l8 President . HlndenburTT. at . iiv oiling' of Battle of Tannenburo memorial, repudiated Germartv 3 ' . '"sept.. J-r-Baron Ago von' aialtftin. -Gvrnuitr 'nmbassador to United Mates, killed In plan.! crash in Germany. - Sept. 25 Attempts made W bomb train of touring American Legionnaires near Nice. France. Sept 30 Leon Trotjtky expelled from ihe Conjinunlst Jr.ternationale at Moscow. Mos-cow. oclr S Gomez and Serrano. Presidential Presiden-tial candidates In Mexico, revolted and military units in Mexico City, lor-rcon lor-rcon and Vera Cruz mutinied . Oct 4 Serrano, thirteen of his chief followers and other rcvolters captured by lovnl Mexican troops and executed. Oct'. aMexican rebels led by uome annihilated by federal .force Oct 10 -New Spanish national assembly as-sembly opened. by King Alfonso. Ot 11 President Cosgrave of Irish Free State re-elected by the dail. 0ot. 24 Moscow court condemned to death throe former millionaires as spies for Great Britain. Marshal Clinng. in conjunction with Wu Pel-fu and Tang Shen-chl of Hankow, Han-kow, announced general warfare against the Nanking government. Rumanian government frustrated Dlot to put Prince Carol on the throne. Oct 31 John Luther Long. Am -1-can author and playwright. Misa Elizabeth Harrison, pioneer in kiftder. garten work. In San Antonio, Texas. Nov. 6 David G. Hogarth, English archeologlst. . Nov. 7 f. S. Latour, Guatemala 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. MNov 12 J. N. Huston, former treasurer treas-urer of United States, In Washington, Nov. 17 Mulal Yusef, sultan of Mo- rCliarles Mellen, noted railway man,, in Concord, N. H. Dr. J. J. Mulr, chaplain United States eNov!' 24 Ionel Bratiano, premier and virtual dictator of Rumania. Rear Admiral W. H. Bullard, chairman chair-man of federal radio commission. Nov. 26 John Cardinal Bonzano In Rome. . , Nov. 29 Henry W. Savage, theatrlcs.1 m producer, In Boston. Dec. 1 Herbert S. Hadley, chancellor of Washington university, St. Louis, .nd former governor of Missouri. Pec. 12 M. D. Ratchford, former president of United Mine Workers, at Massillon, Ohio. Iec. 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. Pee. 19 Willis Moore, former chief of United States weather bureau. 1 & by Western Newspaper Union t play-off for championsnip. 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 Aug"' 20 Mrs. Harry Pressler, Los Angeles, won women's western golf tllAug 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 cuo from Americans. Sept. 13 New York Yankees won American league pennnnt. 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 24 Mrs. Miriam Burns Horn won women's national golf champion- Shoct. 1 Pittsburgh Pirates won National Na-tional league pennant. Oct. 8 New York Yankees won the world's series. ., t Uct I7jjan B. Johnson retired from presidency of American baseball '"Nov" 2 E. S- Barnard of Cleveland elected president of American baseball base-ball league. , , . Nov. is University of Illinois won ed 2. 000-mile flight to Honolulu in 25 hours. 65 minutes. ,... ' July 1 Byrds plane, lost In fog over France, landed In sea near Havre; crew all swam shore July 14 E D- Smith and E. B. Bronte started flight from San Francisco Fran-cisco to Hawaii. . July 15 Smith and Bronte, out of fuel, landed on Molokal Island. Ha- W July" "2001. Charles A. Lindbergh stnrted from New York on flying tour of the nation. A 8 Lleuts. George Covell and R S W.xggener. 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: four others failed to gel away. Ap 17 Art Goebcl and Lieut. William Wil-liam Davis in plane Woolaroc landed nr.t at Honolulu, winning the Dole orize. Martin Jensen and Paul Sclilut-er Sclilut-er In plane Aloha, second. Other two planes lost, with four men and one A" 19 Capt. W. P. Erwln and A. H Eichwaldt In plane Dallas Spirit, flew from Oakland. Calif., in search of loxl planes and were themselves lost. Aug. 25 raul R. Redfern started on nonstop flight from Brunswick. Ga.. to Bio de Janeiro. Brazil. AuK. 20 Redfern apparently lost: search begun. Aug. 27 Schlee and Brock In plane Pride of Detroit started from Harbor congressman "---- - Portland. Ore, committed suicide Dy drowning st San Francisco. July 28 Secretary of the Navy Wilbur Wil-bur awarded contracts for building of four new cruisers. ... - AuR 2 President Coolldge 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 and Vanzettl, finding they had a fair trial and were guilty. Aug 5 Edward S. Shumaker, superintendent super-intendent of the Indiana Anti-Saioon league, and Jess K. 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 1250. Aug 22 Chief Justice Taft and Justice Jus-tice Stone of U. S Supreme court re-fused re-fused to Intervene in Sacco-Vanzettl President Coolldge began a week's visit in Yellowstone National park. Aug 23 Sacco and Vanzettl executed execut-ed in Massachusetts state prison. Riotous Riot-ous demonstrations In many cities. St.,,t 9 president Coolidge and party left Black Hills for Washington. Gov Ed Jackson of Indiana indl-ted on charge of conspiracy to bribe Former For-mer Governor McCray, and Mayor Duvall Du-vall of Indianapolis indicted for violations viola-tions of corrupt practices statutes. "Miss Illinois," Lois Dolander of Jo-llet Jo-llet won Atlantic City beauty contest and title of "Miss America." t;PI,t. 11 President Coolldge arrlv.d In'washington. Sept. J3 National encampment of G. tlons opened session In Geneva. Germany made final payment on rep- aratlons for third year under Dawe. P'sept 3 France accused Rakovsky, Russian minister, of urging French soldiers to revolt, and he denied th-chnrges. th-chnrges. ... Sept. 6 Eighth assembly of I.eaeue of Nations opened; Dr. A. N. Guam. Uruguay, elected president. Sept. 10 Sir Austen Chamberlain told League of Nations Great Britain would sign no more security p:icts. Sept. 15 Canada, Cuba and Finland elected to nonpermanent seals in League of Nations council Oct. 6 America assessed countervailing counter-vailing duties on certain French and German products, as result of tariff increases by those countries. France formally demanded recall of Soviet Ambassador Rakovsky Oct 13 Russia recalled Ambossador Rakovsky from France. Oct. 18 Lithuania asked League of Nations to Intervene In Its quarrel with Poland. , Oct. 31 Dr. Frledrich von Prltt-witz Prltt-witz und Gaffron selected as German ambassador to the United States. Nov. 11 Armistice day observed all over the world. France and Yueo-Slavla signed a treaty which enraged Italy. Nov 24 Italy and Albania made their friendship pa t a military alliance es a reply to the Franco-Yugo-Siavian treaty. Nov 30 League of Nations preparatory prepara-tory disarmament commission met In Geneva: Russia proposed total disarm- Oct. 30 President Konduriotis or G'.eec'e wounded t-y an assassin ,. Nov. 1 Mustapha Kemal Pasha reelected re-elected President of Turkey. Canton Nationalists announced new civilian regional government for Kwantung and Kwangsl provinces or OHna. ' . Nov 4 Brazil arranged to. get 1-6.-000.000 gold from U. ii treasury. Gen. Arnulfo Gcmez. Mexican rebel leader, captured and executed. iNov 7 soviet Russia celebrated tenth anniversary of the revolution. Nov. 11 Fascist grand council abolished the ballot and old parliamentary parlia-mentary system In Italy. Nov. 18 Plot against President Calles of Mexico foiled by seizure of arms and men at New Orleans. Mohnmmed Ben Mulal. third son of the late Mulal Yusef. elected sultan of Morocco. Pec. 5 Portuguese government established es-tablished .six gambling zones in the country. . . Dec 11 Communists seized control of Canton, China, after bloody riots. Uec 13 Nationalists regained possession pos-session of Canton: 4,000 killed in battle. bat-tle. Nationalists severed relations with Soviet Russia. DOMESTIC jan :c,ov. Al Smith of New York at his fourth Inauguration, declared himself a candidate for Democratic Presidential nomination Jan 7House passed naval appropriation appropri-ation bill without "big navy" amendments.