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Show s Chronology OF THE YEAR 1929 Compiled by E. W. P1CKARD International Jan. 2 United States and Canada atgned treaty for Joint projects at Niagara full.-. Jan. 6 Twenty nations algned new pan-America n treaty of conciliation concil-iation and arbitration. Jan. 1 6 Sal vat Ion Army high council voted to nuwl Gen. Ciatn-well Ciatn-well lfoth rh unfit. Jan. .10 J;ipnn accepted new Chl-mme Chl-mme tariff schedule, recognizing Chi-iiene Chi-iiene l:t r 1 (T aulonomy. London chancery court voided action ac-tion of Salvation Army hlh council coun-cil ousting Cen. liramwell Booth from command. Ken. 6 Cerman relchntog ratified the Kellogg anti-war treaty. Feb. 7 Kellogg treaty ratified by Polish diet. Agreement between Ttaly and the Vatican, recognizing the full sovereignly sov-ereignly of the pope, announced In Itome. Feb. 9 Russia, Poland. Latvia. Kslhonla and Rumania signed a protocol making Immediately effective ef-fective among thenmelves the terms of the Kellogg anti-war treaty. Feb. 1 1 Pact between the Vatican Vati-can and Italy formally signed. Conference cf experts on German reparations opened In Paris w Ith Owen D. Young of the United States as chairman. Feb. 13 Salvation Army hltfh council again deposed Commanding Oeneral Hramwell Booth and elected Edward J. Hfggins to succeed him. March 1 French find Danish parliaments par-liaments ratified the Kellogg treaty. March 4 Council of League of Nations met, taking up subject of racial minorities. March 18 International Jurists of League of Nations accepted formula of Klihu Root for entry of United States in World court. April 13 Allies In reparations conference demanded about $12,000,-000,000 $12,000,-000,000 from Germany to be paid over period of 58 years. April 15 Preparatory disarmament disarma-ment commission of League of Nations Na-tions opened Its meeting In Geneva. A prll 1 8 Disarmament commls-filon commls-filon rejected Russia's plan for Immediate Im-mediate reduction of armaments. April ?9 China asked the powers to surrender their extraterritorial rights. May 2 United States, In disarmament disarm-ament conference, withdrew its opposition op-position to accumulation of reserve war material. May 4 Compromise plans for German reparations offered by American delegates. Gibson's plan for limitation of arms by publicity of expenditures for war material adopted by disarmament dis-armament conference. May 6 Preparatory disarmament conference adjourned without defi nite results. May 17 Settlement of the Tacna-Arlca Tacna-Arlca dispute between Peru and Chile through President Hoover's efforts announced In Washington. Bolivia protested the terms. June 4 Young plan for reparations repara-tions accepted by commission of experts ex-perts In Paris Russian officials In China, recalled, re-called, were arrested by Chinese government; gov-ernment; Siberian frontier closed. June 7 Representatives of seven rations signed new Young reparations repara-tions plan. June 10 League of Nations council coun-cil met In Madrid. June 16 Prime Minister MacDon-" MacDon-" nld and Ambassador Dawes con ferred on naval disarmament plans. June 21 Peace agreement between be-tween Mexico and the Catholic ch.urch announced. June 26 Japan approved the Kellogg Kel-logg peace pact. July 6 England, France, Belgium Bel-gium and Germany agreed on conference con-ference August 6 to put Young plan in. operation. July 9 China ousted Russians from control of Chinese Eastern ---railway, deporting many. July 13 Germany and Belgium reached agreement for payment for worthless marks left In Belgium. July 14 Russia gave China three days to arrange amicable conference confer-ence on Manchurian embroglio. July 17 China's reply to Russian ultimatum being unsatisfactory to Moscow, diplomatic relations were eevered by the Soviet government. July 20 Russians attacked Chi- . tiese on eastern Manchurian border wTth artillery and gas. China recalled her diplomatic representatives rep-resentatives from Russia. July 21 French chamber ratified the debt settlements with United States and Great Britain. July 24 President Hoover, In ceremony tn Washington, declared Kelloeg pact In effect. Russian and Chinese representatives representa-tives began conference on Manchurian Manchu-rian trouble. July 31 International Jamboree T Boy Scouts opened at Birkenhead, Birken-head, England. Aug. 6 International conference on liquidation of World war problems prob-lems opened In The Hague. Aug. 11 Chinese quit the Manchurian Man-churian conference; more Russians deported. Aug. 16 Russian army Invaded Manchuria near Manchouli and battle resulted Aug. 29 Conference at The Hague reached agreement on division of reparations and evacuation of the Jthineland. Sept. 2 Tenth annual assembly of League of Nations opened In Geneva. Ge-neva. Sept. 4 World court accepted Boot protocol for adhesion of United Unit-ed States. Sept- 9 Delegates from 28 European Euro-pean countries heard with approval .rlands plans for a federation of continents 1 powers. Soviet forces lost three-day battle vith Chinese for possession of Po-frranWMrinya Po-frranWMrinya on the eastern Manchurian Man-churian onrder. Peru. Jugoslavia and Poland elected to council of League of Nations. Na-tions. Sept 14 British army began evacuation of Rhlneland. league of Nations adopted revised re-vised protocol for admission of United States to the World court Oct. 1 Great Britain and Russia arreed to resume diplomatic relations. rela-tions. United States and Turkey signed treaty of commerce and navigation. Oct. J Soviet troops opened furious furi-ous offensive against Chinese in Manchouli area. Oct. 4 Ramsay MacDonald prime minister of Great Britain, arrived In Washington to discuss naval limitation lim-itation with President Hoover. Oct. 7 Great Britain Invited United Unit-ed States, France. Italv and Japan to participate In naval limitation conference In London In January. Prime Minister MacDonald addressed ad-dressed the American congress, pledging naval parity. Oct. 9 United States accepted Invitation In-vitation to naval conference. President Hoover and Prime Minister Min-ister MacDonald announced a close Anglo-American understand! ng to renounce war and work together for world peace. Oct. 12 Russian forces occupied Lahasusu on the Amur river and sank three Ch inese gunboats. 300 Bailors being drowned. Oct. 15 France. Italy and Japan accepted Invitation to the naval Conference. Oct. 21 Betrothal announced of Crown Prince Humbert of Italy and PririctBs Marie J use of Belgium. Nov. 6 Delegates of 60 nations met in Pans to draft treaty for protection of business in foreign lunds. Nov. 9 Russian troops crossed Amur river and Invaded China. Nov. i:j Statutes and charter of the Bank of International Relations oigned by delegates at Haden Baden. Nov. 17 Invading Russian captured cap-tured Dalai Nor, Manchuria. Nov. 2J Russians won decided victories in west and east Manchuria. Man-churia. Nov. 2 Chinese government appealed ap-pealed to League of Nations and signatories to the Kellogg pact to stop the invasion of Manchurta; and Manchurian provincial government sent appeal direct to President Hoover. Nov. 2 Chinese government made two final proposals to Russia for settlement of Manchurian trouble. trou-ble. Nov. 20 China and Russia agreed to settle their dispute by direct negotiation. ne-gotiation. Dec. 1 Allies evacuated second zone of occupation in the Rhlneland Dec. 2 1'renidf-nt Hoover appealed to Russia and China to stop fighting fight-ing and abide by Kellogg pact. Dec. 3 Russia replied to President Presi-dent Hoover's note declaring it un-nerrr.H.iary un-nerrr.H.iary and not a friendly act. Dec. 9 American charge at Berne. Switzerland, signed world court protocol for U. S. Doc. 12 British troops of occupation occupa-tion left the Rhlneland. Domestic Jan. 1 President and Mrs. Cool-Irtge Cool-Irtge left Sapelo Island. Georgia, for Washington. Jan. 2 Electoral college officially elected Hoover and Curtis. Jan. 11 House passed bill for au tomatlc reapportionment, effective effec-tive In 1922. Jan. 15 Senate ratified the Kellogg Kel-logg anti-war treaty by a vote of 85 to 1. House passed the army supply bill. Walter O. Woods appointed treasurer treas-urer of the United States. Jan. 21 Senate approved appointment ap-pointment of Roy O. West as secretary secre-tary of the interior. Dr. C. C Little resigned as president presi-dent of University of Michigan. Oklahoma senate suspended Governor Gov-ernor Johnston from office. Jan. 26 Congress authorized the President to invite foreign nations to take part in Chicago centennial fair in 1933. Feb. 5 Senate passed 15-cruIser bill with time limit clause. Feb. 7 House accepted senato amendments to cruiser bill. Feb. 8 Senate passed the army supply bill carrying $456,000,000. and the house passed the naval appropriation ap-propriation bill. Feb. 11 E. S. Shumaker, superintendent super-intendent of Indiana A ntl -Saloon league, started serving 60-day sentence sen-tence for contempt of court. Feb. 12 Engagement of Col. Charles Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow, daughter of the ambassador ambassa-dor to Mexico, announced. Feb. 16 House passed bill for deportation de-portation of alien gunmen and bootleggers. boot-leggers. Feb. 19 President-Elect Hoover returned to Washington. The senate passed bill Increasing prohibition penalties. Feb. 25 Senate ordered engineering engineer-ing survey for Nicaragua canal. Feb. 28 House passed Jones bill Increasing prohibition penalties. March 1 House passed resolution for Nicaragua canal route survey. March 4 Hoover and Curtis inaugurated in-augurated President and Vice President Presi-dent of United States. March 5 Senate confirmed eight new members of Hoover's cabinet and ordered an inquiry into Secretary Secre-tary Mellon's right to hold over. March 7 President Hoover called congress in extraordinary session for April 15. March 11 President Hoover . ordered or-dered that all tax refunds be made public. March 20 Three University of Missouri teachers ousted In row over circulation of sex questionnaire question-naire Gov. Henry S. Johnston of Oklahoma Okla-homa removed from office by state senate court of impeachment on charge of Incompetency. March 22 President Hoover proclaimed pro-claimed national origins quotas, increasing in-creasing British Immigration. April 1 Henry J. Allen appointed senator from Kansas to succeed Vice President Curtis. April 8 U. S. Supreme court upheld up-held conviction of Harry F. Sinclair for contempt of the senate. April 10 Charles G. Dawes appointed ap-pointed ambassador to Great Britain. April 1 5 Special session of congress con-gress opened; Longworth re-elected speaker of the house. April 20 Senator James Couzens of Michigan created trust fund of $10,000,000 to aid children. April 25 Haugen farm relief bill passed by house. Dr. R. M. Hutching, dean of Yale law school, made president of University Uni-versity of Chicago. May 6 Harry Sinclair began Jail term In Washington for contempt of the senate. May 8 Senate voted. 47 to 44. for export debenture plan in farm relief bill. May 11 Des Moines university, Baptist fundamental fst insti tution. closed and faculty dismissed: students stu-dents In riotous revolt. May 14 Senate passed the Mc-Nary Mc-Nary farm relief bill. May 15 Dwlght F. Davis, former secretary of war. selected for governor gov-ernor general of Philippines. May 20 President Hoover appointed ap-pointed his law enforcement commission com-mission of 11 headed by George W Wickersham. Railroads won Supreme court decision de-cision in valuation case Involving billions of dollars. May 22 Theodore Roosevelt. Jr.. appointed governor of Porto Rico. May 24 R. H Lucas of Kentucky appointed commissioner of Internal revenue. May 27 Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Anne Morrow were married at the Morrow home in Englewood N. J. May 2S House passed the Haw-ley Haw-ley tariff bill. Mabel Willebrandt resigned as assistant as-sistant attorney general. May 29 Senate passed census-reap portlonment bill. June 3 Supreme court upheld six months' sentence of Harry F. Sin-clair Sin-clair for hiring detectives to shadow jury members. Juno 4 Hubert Work resigned as chairman of Republican committee June 5 Senate and house conferees confer-ees agreed on farm relief bill, eliminating the export debenture clause. June 6 House passed census and reapportionment bill. June 7 House adopted conference report on farm relief bill. June 8 Seventy-fifth birthday of Republican party celebrated at Ripon. Wis June 14 Senate accepted conference confer-ence report on farm relief bill and sent measure to President. June 15 President Hoover signed the farm relief bill. June 17 Congress appropriated J 1 50.000,000 for farm relief loan fund. June 18 Anti-Smith Democrats of Virginia held convention and nominated nomi-nated candidates for state offices. June 19 Congress recessed for the summer. June 25 President Hoover accepted accept-ed resignation of Ambassador H P. Fletcher from diplomatic service. June 26 Virginia Republicans nominated state slate put up by Anti-Smith Democrats. June 28 President Hoover named J. C- Stone. Kentucky; C. B. Den-man. Den-man. Missouri, and Carl Williams, Oklahoma, members of new federal farm board. July t Alexander Legge of Chicago, Chi-cago, president of International Harvester con; pan y, and C. C. Teague of California, accepted appointment ap-pointment to federal farm board the former to be chairman. July 12 C. S. Wilson of Hall. N Y., appointed to federal farm board I July 17 Fifteen state banks in , southwest Florida failed. July 22 Thirteen hundred convicts con-victs attempted to escape from Clinton Clin-ton prison, Dannenmora, N. Y., and in battle with guards three were killed. July 28 Seventeen hundred convicts con-victs In Auburn prison. New York, battled guards in attempt to escape and two were killed. July 30 Former Governor S. R McKel vie of Nebraska appointed member of federal farm board. July 31 John W. Garrett of Baltimore Bal-timore appointed ambassador to Italy. Aug. 1 Convicts In Leavenworth penitentiary mutinied, one being killed. Aug. 6 John G. Pollard nominated nominat-ed for governor of Virginia by Democrats. Dem-ocrats. Aug. 10 Fruit and vegetable growers formed $50,000,000 co-operative marketing association. Aug. 18 Farm board arranged loan of $9.100,000 to California rasin and grape growers. Aug. 1 9 Senate finance committee commit-tee made public its tariff bill. Aug. 20 Gerrlt J. Diekema of Michigan appointed minister to Holland. Aug. 31 William E. Brock appointed ap-pointed to fill out term of the late Senator Tyson of Tennessee. Sept. 1 Des Moines university ordered or-dered closed by the trustees. Sept. 6 President Hoover asked an investigation Into propagandist activities of three shipbuilding corporations cor-porations against naval reductions Sept. 9 Claudius II. Huston of Tennessee elected chairman of Republican Re-publican national committee. Maine voted against export of power by Insull companies. Sept. 10 Regular Republicans In senate defeated in first test in tariff battle; resolution adopted calling on Treasury department for all Information Infor-mation on Income In Income tax returns re-turns of tariff beneficiaries. Sept. 11 Senate voted to investigate investi-gate propagandist activities of W. B. Shearer on behalf of shipbuilding corporation. Sept. 12 Grand Army of the Republic, Re-public, In session at Portland. Me., elected E. J. Foster of Worcester. Mass., commander In chief. Sept. 16 Henry F. Guggenheim appointed ambassador to Cuba. Sept. 17 Gen. Lytle Brown appointed ap-pointed chief of army engineers with Instructions to reorganize the office. Congressman La Guardla nominated nomi-nated for mayor of New York by Republicans, and Mayor Walker renominated re-nominated by Democrats. Sept. 30 American Legion convention con-vention opened in Louisville. Oct. 2 Democratic and radical Republican senators removed flexible flex-ible tariff feature from the tariff bill. Oct. 3 Convicts In Colorado penitentiary peni-tentiary at Canon City mutinied, killed seven guards and were conquered con-quered by militia and police with gun fire and dynamite. O. L. Bodenhamer of El Dorado, Ark., elected commander of American Ameri-can Legion. Oct 4 Mayor and police chief of East Chicago, Ind., and 297 others indicted In federal clean-up of vice in northern Indiana. Dr. A. G. Ruthven elected president presi-dent of University of Michigan. Oct. 7 Trial of Albert B. Fall for oil lease conspiracy opened In Washington. Wash-ington. Theodore Roosevelt Inaugurated governor of Porto Rico. Oct. 9 Irwin B. Laughlin of Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh appointed ambassador to Spain. Oct. 15 Investigation of congressional congres-sional lobbying started by senate committee. Oct 16 Great raid made on rum-running rum-running syndicate along Atlantic coast. Federal farm board members all confirmed bv senate. Oct. 18 Charles C. Hart appointed appoint-ed minister to Persia. Oct. 19 Hundreds of aliens from all parts of the country sent to New York for deportation. Democrats and radical Republicans Republi-cans put crop debenture amendment In tariff bill. Oct 21 Golden Jubilee of Edison's Edi-son's electric light celebrated at Greenfield Village. Mich., with Mr. Edison and President Hoover among Henry Ford's guests. Seven radicals found guilty of murder of Gastonla (N. C.) police chief. Senators Reed of Pennsylvania and Robinson of Arkansas named delegates to naval conference In London with Secretary Stimson as chairman. Oct. 22 President Hoover spoke at Cincinnati at celebration of canalization ca-nalization of the Ohio river. Oct. 23 President Hoover In speech at Louisville announced great program for inland waterways. Oct. 24 Mill ion -dollar live stock co-operative formed by farmers. Tremendous crash in prices on stock exchanges. Oct. 25 Albert B. Fall found guilty of bribery In Washington. Oct. 26 Federal farm board made $100,000,000 available to farmers to help stabilize wheat prices. Oct. 28 Stock values shrink 14 billions in another big market slump. Oct. 29 Further tremendous losses In stock prices. Organization of Farmers' Nation-aJ Nation-aJ Grain corporation completed. Nov. 1 Albert B. Fall sentenced to one year In prison and $100,000 tine. Nov. 2 John A. MacMurray, American minister to China, resigned re-signed to enter faculty of Johns Hopkins university. Nov. 4 Senator Bingham of Connecticut Con-necticut censured by the senate for employing paid lobbyist. Nov. 5 Jimmie Walker re-elected mayor of New York. Democrats carried Virginia election, elec-tion, defeating Bishop Cannon's coalition co-alition ticket. Nov. 11 President Hoover in Armistice Arm-istice day address offered new peace code based on preparedness. Nov. 13 Secretary of the Treasury Treas-ury Mellon announced the administration adminis-tration would ask congress to authorize auth-orize reduction of income tax rates by 1 per cent. Nov. 1 5 President called conference confer-ence of industrial, labor and agrl-rultural agrl-rultural leaders. Nov. 1 9 Railroad executives assured as-sured the President their roads would continue their construction programs, and financial leaders reported re-ported business and banking conditions condi-tions excellent. Robert M. Hutch! ns installed as president of University of Chicago. Nov. 20 Secretary of the Navy Adams and Ambassadors Dawfs, Morrow and Gibson added to naval j conference delegation. Nov. 21 Industrial and labor j leaders conferred with President ! Hoover and pledged aid In main- ! taining business progress, with no wage cuts and no demand for wage Increase. Senate confirmed appointment of Walter E Edge of New Jersey as ambassador to France. David Balrd. Jr., appointed senator sena-tor from New Jersey to succeed Mr. Edge, Nov. 22 Special session of congress con-gress adjourned sine dfe. Nov. 23 President Hoover asked governors of all states to help speed up public works. Nov 25 Farm organization tead ers pledged their support to Hoover's prosperity program. Nov. 27 Ut Hi ties iragnate assured as-sured President Hoover their interests inter-ests would expend more than $1.-500,000.000 $1.-500,000.000 in improvements In 1930. Nov. 29 Bodies of 75 American soldiers who fell in Russia brought back for burial. Dec. 2 Regular session of congress con-gress opened. Dec. S President Hoover's message mes-sage transmit ted to congress. Congress of 4-H clubs held in Chicago. Dec 4 P. J. Sullivan of Casper. Wyo appointed United States senator sen-ator to succeed the late F. E. War- ren. President Hoover submitted the budget to congress. Dec. 5 I.eadir.g business men of nation conferred with president Hoover in Washington. House passed resolution for income in-come tax reduction of 1 per cent. Dec. 6 Senate refused to seat William S. Var of Pennsylvania. Patrick J. Hurley of Oklahoma appointed secretary of war. Marine reinforcements sent to Haiti because of disorders there. Dec. 9 Ex-Judge Pen Lindsay of Denver disbarred for unethical practice. prac-tice. Dec. 11 Joseph R. Grundy appointed ap-pointed senator from Pennsylvania. Revolt of convicts in Auburn prison. pris-on. New York, suppressed; nine killed. Dec. 12 Dr. I. S. Falk of University Univer-sity of Chicago announced his discovery dis-covery of the fiu germ. House ratified French debt settlement. settle-ment. Dec. 14 Bcnate passed tax cut resolution. Dec. 21 Congress recessed for the holidays. Dec. 30 American Historical association as-sociation and allied bodies convened In Durham, N. C. Foreign Jan. 1 General Moncada inaugurated inaugu-rated President of Nicaragua. Jan. 6 King Alexander of Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia dissolved parliament, abro gated the constitution and virtually declared himself dictator, with Gen. peter Zivcovic as premier. Jan. 13 King A ma nullah of Afghanistan Af-ghanistan abdicated in favor of hif brother, Inayatulla, and fled from Kabul. Revolt continued, rebels attacking at-tacking Kabul. Jan. 7 Afghan rebels under Habihullah Khan In control of Kabu 1. Jan. 29 Spanish government quelled a revolt In southern provinces. prov-inces. Feb. 9 Toral, assassin of President-Elect Obregon of Mexico, executed. exe-cuted. Feb. 22 Chinese Nationalist army defeated bandit rebels In big battle near Chefoo, Shantung. March 3 Revolution broke out In eight states of Mexico. Italian court of inquiry blamed Noblle for the Italia disaster in the Arctic. March 5 Mexican rebels won Monterey after bloody battle, and lost Orizaba. March 6 Mexican rebels defeated and driven from Monterey. March 8 Mexican rebels captured Juarez. March 16 General Escobar's rebel army fled from Torreon. March 23 New Chinese civil war opened. April 2 Mexican rebels defeated at Jiminez and La Cruz. April 3 Escobar's Mexican rebel army slaughtered In battle at Reform Re-form a. Chancellor Selpel of Austria and his cabinet resigned. April 9 Mexican rebels evacuated Juarez and Chihuahua City. April 13 Mussolini assumed full control to regulate capital and labor la-bor in Italy. April 21 Chinese Nationalist ' army routed the forces of Chang , Chung-chang near Chefoo. j April 30 Mexican rebels surrendered surren-dered Nogales; many rebel generals ! fleeing to United States. 1 British parliamentary elections resulted In downfall of the Baldwin Conservative government, though no party won clear majority in house of commons. June 5 King George appointed Ramsay MacDonald. Labor! te, to form new British government. June 7 Italian government and the Vatican exchanged ratifications of the Lateran treaty. June 10 Pope Plus XI promulgated promul-gated constitution of the Vatican state. July 2 Baron Tanaka resigned as , premier of Japan, and was succeeded succeed-ed by Yamaguchl. July 24 Prime Minister MacDonald MacDon-ald stopped naval construction. Mexico dropped prosecution of religious re-ligious rebels. July 25 The pope left the Vatican Vati-can for first time In 59 years. July 26 French senate ratified the war debt agreements. Premier Polncare of France resigned. re-signed. July 27 Arlstide Brland appointed ap-pointed premier of France. Aug. 5 Legula re-elected President Presi-dent of Peru. Aug. 23 Arabs attacked and slew Jews in Jerusalem and other Palestine Pales-tine places. Aug. 25 Mongol nomads In Manchuria Man-churia revolted and killed many Chinese. Continuation of race war In Palestine Pal-estine led to landing of British troops and marines; hundreds of Jews massacred. Sept. 1 2 Premier Mussolini of Italy resigned seven of the eight portfolios he had held. Sept. 25 Cabinets of Austria and Czechoslovakia resigned ; John 11 n Schober made Austrian chancellor. Oct. 4 Kingdom of Sorbs. Croats and Slovenes supplanted by kingdom king-dom of Jugoslavia with nine semi-autonomous semi-autonomous states. Oct. 8 Forces of Nadir Khan captured cap-tured Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, and Habibullah. usurping king, fled by airplane. Oct 15 Nadir Khan proclaimed amir of Afghanistan. Oct 21 J. H. Scullin, Labor party leader, became premier of Australia. Oct 22. Premier Briand of France and his cabinet resigned. Oct. 27 Reds of London rioted near American embassy because of : conviction of communists in Gas- tonia, N. C. ! Oct 30 Ontario elections won by ; Conservatives with liquor control 1 plank. ! Oct. 31 Andre Tardieu undertook to form French cabinet. Nova Scotia voted for government liquor sales. Nov, 2 Tardieu formed a government govern-ment for France. Germany voted to hold referendum referen-dum on acceptance of the Young plan. Bacha Sakao, deposted king of Afghanistan, Af-ghanistan, executed. Nov. 3 Chinese rebel army defeated de-feated the Nationalist forces in big battle. Nov. 17 Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected President of Mexico. Nov. 25 Belgian ministry resigned re-signed over language dispute In Ghent university. Dec. 3 Chinese Nationalist army facing 50,000 rebels near Canton. Dec. 5 King and queen of Italy visited the pope in the Vatican. Dec. 12 Chinese Nationalists defeated de-feated three rebel armies. Aeronautics Jan. 7 Army plane Question Mark completed at Los Angeles a continuous continu-ous flight of 150 hours 40 minutes and 16 seconds, having been refueled re-fueled In air 36 times; all records for aircraft broken. Feb. 4 Colonel Lindbergh Inaugurated Inaug-urated United States-Panama air mail service, flying from Miami to Belize. British Honduras. Feb. 5 Capt Frank Hawks made new record. 18 hours 21 minutes 59 seconds, for nonstop flight from Los Angeles to New York. Colonel Lindbergh ended second leg of his flight at Managua. Feb. 6 Lindbergh completed his mail flight to Panama. Feb. 23 George Haldeman made nonstop flight from Windsor, Ont.. to Havana in 12 hours 66 minutes. March 25 Spanish aviators. Capts. Ignacio Jiminez and Francisco Ig-lesias, Ig-lesias, flew across Atlantic from Seville Se-ville to BrlzIHan coast. May 4 National elimination balloon bal-loon race started from Pittsburgh. Pa. May 6 Balloon race won by the Navy No. I. which landed near Char-lottetown, Char-lottetown, Prince Edward Island, after a flight of about 900 miles. May 8 Lieut Apollo Soucek. U. S-N., S-N., established new altitude record of 39.140 feet. June 13 Three Frenchmen hopped off in plane Yellow Bird from Old Orchard Beach. Me.. for Paris; American plrie Green Flash wrecked in starting for Rome. June 14 French transatlantic flyers fly-ers landed near Comillas. Spain. June 21 MttJ. Ramon Franco and three companions hopped off from Spain for U. S. by way of the Azores, and were lost In the Atlantic for a week. June 27 Capt. Frank Hawks made new record of 19 hours 10 minutes 2S seconds for nonstop flight from New York to Los Angeles. An-geles. June 23 Hawks flew from Los Angeles to New York in 17 hours 44 minutes. June 2 9 Franco and companions found safe floating in their plane near the Azores. July 5 Mitchell and Newcomb at Cleveland set new worlds record for refueling endurance flight 174 hours 69 seconds. July 8 Williams and Yaneey In monoplane Pathfinder hopped off at Old orchard. Me., for Rome. July 9 Williams and Yancey landed near Santander. Spain, out of gas. July 30 Dale Jackson and Forest O' Brine in St. Louis Robin plane ended record -break ing endurance flight of 420 hours 21 minutes. Aug. 1 Graf Zeppelin started from Friedrichshafen for the United Slates with 19 passengers. Aug. 4 Graf Zeppelin arrived at Lakehurst, N. J. Aug. 7 Graf Zeppelin left Lakehurst Lake-hurst on trip around the world. Aug. 19 Graf Zeppelin arrived at Tokyo. Kaesar and Luscher, young Swiss aviators, began transatlantic flight from Portugal. Aug. 2 0 Swiss aviators lost In Atlantic. Aug. 26 Graf Zeppelin arrived at Los Angeles. Louise Thaden of Pittsburgh won women's air derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland. Sept. 1 Graf Zeppelin left Lakehurst Lake-hurst for Friedrichshafen. Sent. 4 Graf Zeppelin arrived at Friedrichshafen. Sept. 7 Lieut H. R. D. Waghorn won the Schneider cup for Great Britain, averaging 328.63 miles an hour over the 218-mlle course. Sept 10 A. H. Orlebar at Calshot. England, made record speed of 355.8 miles an- hour in the Schneider cup seaplane. 1 Sept. 23 Col. Lindbergh, accom-1 accom-1 panied by his wife, completed flight I from Miami to Paramaribo, Dutch J Guiana, opening new air mail route. I Sept 2-9 Coste and Bellonte land-j land-j ed in Manchuria, 4,846 miles from l Paris, making record long distance flight. Sept. 30 Fritz von Opel of Germany Ger-many made first flight, six miles, in rocket plane. Oct. 22 Urban F. Diteman, Jr.. of Montana started solo flight from Harbor Grare, Newfoundland, for London In small Barling monoplane, and was lost Oct. 29 National air races of 1930 awarded to Chicago. Nov. 25 Lieut George T. Cuddihy. crack pilot of the navy, killed in crash at Washington. Nov. 29 Commander Byrd and three companions made airplane flight over South pole. Disasters Jan. 15 Three hundred lives lost when Chinese steamer foundered. Jan. 17 Cumana, Venezuela, destroyed de-stroyed by earthquake; 30 killed. Jan. 22 Seventeen killed in collision col-lision between motor bus and inter-urban inter-urban car near Bellevue, Ohio. Feb. 25 Twenty-one persons killed in tornado that swept central south. March 15 Dozens of southern towns engulfed by flood; scores drowned. March 20 Twenty killed when Canadian train smashed up In Ontario. On-tario. March fl Fifty killed In mine : disaster near Parnassus, Pa. , Movie theater fire in village near Moscow, Russia, killed 114. April 10 Tornado killed about 60 , persons in northern Arkansas. 1 April. 25 Tornadoes in Georgia and South Carolina killed 63 persons. per-sons. May 2 Tornadoes In seven states took 38 lives, 19 school children being be-ing killed at Rye Cove, Va. May 3 Three thousand killed by earthquake in Persia. May 15 Poison gas from burning X-ray films and flames killed 125 in Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland. Ohio. May 19 Earthquake in northern Antolia killed three score. May 25 Scores killed by another earthquake in Turkey. June 17 Four Japanese towns destroyed de-stroyed by volcanic eruption; many killed. July 9 Twenty-three lives lost " when one British submarine was rammed and sunk by another off coast of Ireland. July 16 Chilean transport Abtao sank In storm; 41 lives lost. July 18 Nine killed In Rock Island Is-land train wreck near Stratton, Colo. Aug. 5 Explosion in Japanese coal mine killed 75. Aug 29 About 74 persons lost when Pacific coast steamer San Juan collided with a tanker and sank. Sept. 7 One hundred persons drowned when Finnish steamer capsized cap-sized at Tammerfors. Sept. 1? Fifteen lives lost when English tanker burned at Rotterdam. Rotter-dam. Freight steamer Andaste lost In Lake Michigan, 25 drowned. Sept 19 Twenty killed in Detroit cabaret fire. Sept. 25 Hurricane did vast damage dam-age in the Bahamas; 20 lives lost in Nassau. Oct. 6 Forty-four lives lost when Norwegian steamer foundered In storm. Oct. 22 Car ferry Milwaukee lost in storm on Lake Michigan: 67 drowned. Oct. 29 Fifteen lives lost when-steamer when-steamer Wisconsin foundered in Lake Michigan. Oct 31 Steamer Senator sank in Lake Michigan in collision; ten lives lost. Nov. 18 Earthquake In New England Eng-land and Canada maritime provinces prov-inces broke nine Atlantic cables and was followed by tidal wave that killed scores In Newfoundland. Nov. 28 Fire swept Nantasket Beach, Mass.. doing damage of $1, 500 000. Nov. 29 Scientific yacht Carnegt of the Carnegie institution, exploded explod-ed and burned at Apia. Samoa; Capt P. J. Ault killed. Dec. 10 Ten burned to death In movie studio fire in New York. Necrology Jan. 4 J. Horace Harding, chairman chair-man of board of American Railway Express company, in New York. Jan. 5 Grand Duke Nicholas, chief claimant to throne of Russia. Jan. 6 George L. (Tex) Rickard. sports promoter. In Miami Beach. Jan. 7 Cardinal Tosl. archbishop of Milan. Henry Arthur Jones. English dramatist. Jan. 8 Wallace Eddinger. American Ameri-can actor. Benjamin N. Duke, tobacco magnate. mag-nate. Jan. 11 Tim Murphy, retired actor. Jan. 16 Count Chinda, Japanese statesman. Jan. IS Casper Whitney, writer and editor, in New York. Sophie Irene Loeb. author and social so-cial worker, in New York. Jan. 21 Col. James Elverson, Jr.. publisher of Philadelphia Inquirer. Jan. 2 5 Oscar W. Underwood, former senator from Ala bam a. Jan. 27 James Edgar Brown noted Chicago attorney. Jan. 28 Ogden Mills, New York financier. George J. Charlton, Alton railroad rail-road executive, in Chicago. Jan. 29 Robert L. Single, president presi-dent of University of South Dakota. Feb. 6 Mary Christina, queen mother of S5in. Minnie Hawk, former American prima donna. Feb. 8 Edwin Denby. former sec- rtarv of the, npvv. in nfxni. Feb. 12 Lily Langtry (Lady d Fathe), once noted actrtss in Mont Carlo. Feb. 15 Melvln E. Stone, journalist, journal-ist, in New York. Feb. 10 Arthur Middleton. American Ameri-can baritone. Philip Lydig, New York capitalist. Feb. 24 Frank Keenan, veteran actor, in Hollywood. Rev. Newell Dwigbt Hillis, noted preacher, in Rronxville. N. Y. Feb. 2S Harvey O'Higgins, American Amer-ican author and plavwright. March 1 Harrison M. Wild ot Chicago, musician. March 6 Thomas Taggart. Indiana Indi-ana Democratic leader. Moses Clapp, former U. S. eenatoi from Minnesota. D. D. Buick. automobile pioneer, in Detroit March 17 Allen B. Pond, architect archi-tect and reform leader, in Chicago March 20 Marshal Ferdlnan Foch, supreme commander of tbi Allied armies In the World war, March 22 Gen. Maurice Kuiinin-uel Kuiinin-uel Sarrail, known as "the defendei of Verdun." March 24 Samuel Rea, formei president of the Pennsylvania railroad. rail-road. March 25 Former Governor W. R. Stubbs of Kansas. March 31 Myron T. Herrlck, American ambassador to France. Brander Ma t thews, authoi ax.d educator, In New York. Cardinal Lucid i, in Rome. April 9 Col. E Lester Jones, director di-rector of U. S. coast and geodetic survey. April 13 Count Sh impel Goto, Japanese statesman. Joseph W. Bailey, former U. S. senator from Texas. Charles H. A Id rich of Chicago, former solici tor general of U. S. Flora Annie Steel. English novelist. novel-ist. April 20 Prince Henry of Prussia, Prus-sia, brother of ex-kaiser. April 24 Edward F. Carry, president presi-dent of the Pullman company. In Chicago. April 30 Dr. A. B. Hale of University Uni-versity of Porto Rico, authority on Latin America. May 7 C. H. Cooley. sociologist, of University of Michigan. May 20 Earl of Roseberry, English Eng-lish statesman. Col. Wilds P. Richardson, U. S. A., retired, builder of Alaska's highways. high-ways. May 25 Garrett P. Serviss, writer on science, in Englewood, N. J. June 4 Harry II. Frazee, theatrical theatri-cal producer, in New York. June 5 Admiral Sir Cecil Burney of British navy. June 8 Bliss Carmen, poet, In New Canaan, Conn. June 12 Judge McKenzle Moss of U. S. court of claims. June 15 Charles F. Brush, Inventor In-ventor of the arc light. June 16 Gen. Bramwell Booth, former head of Salvation" Army, Jn London. June 17 Asa P. Potter. Boston financier. July 3 Dustin Farnum, stage and screen actor, in New York. July 4 Maj. Gen. Eli K. Cole, U, S. M. C, in San Francisco. : July 6 Rear Admiral E. W. Eb-erle, Eb-erle, retired, in Washington. July 11 Mrs. Katherine Tlngley, Theosophist leader. In Stockholm, Sweden. John S. Runnells, former head of the Pullman company. July 12 Robert Henri, American artist. July 14 Former State Supreme Court Justice I. N. Mills of New York. July 15 W. T. Francis, American minister to Liberia. July 18 Mrs. Lillian Bell. American Ameri-can author and lecturer. July 20 Judge N. J. Slnnott of U. S. Court of Claims. July 28 Henry B. Fuller, American Ameri-can novelist, in Chicago. July 30 Dr. H. C. Franken field, flood expert of federal weather bureau. bu-reau. Aug. 2 Most Rev. James J. Keane, Catholic archbishop of Dubuque. Du-buque. Aug. 3 E mile Berliner, Inventor of disc phonograph, In Washington. T. B. Veblen, economist. Aug. 5 Dr. Karl von Welsbach of Austria, inventor. Aug. 7 Victor L. Berger, Socialist Social-ist leader, in Milwaukee. Aug. 9 H. C. Witwer, author. In Hollywood. Calif. Aug. 12 Chauncey Keep, Chicago capitalist. Aug. 14 Cyril Kelghtley. English actor. Alfred Cowles, metallurgist, at Sewaren, N. J. Aug. 15 Dr. G. P. Merrill, curator of geology In National museum. Sir Edwin Ray Lank ester, British Brit-ish savant. Aug. 20 Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, U. S. N., retired. , Dr. Edward B. Craft, inventor, at Hackensack, N. J. Aug. 24 Lawrence D. Tyson, U. S- senator from Tennessee. Sept. 3 William E. Dever, former mayor of Chicago. Owen T. Edgar, last of the Mexican Mexi-can war veterans, In Washington. Sept. 4 F. F. Proctor, vaudeville theater magnate. In Larch mont. N. Y. Sept. 11 Congressman O. J. Kval of Minnesota. Sept. 12 Louise C. Wlllcox. author au-thor and editor, In Paris. Baron Tanaka, Japanese statesman. states-man. Sept 14 Jesse Lynch Williams, author and playwright. Sept. 26 U. S. Grant, son of lat President Grant, in San Diego. Sept. 28 Prof. George A. Good-enough Good-enough of University of Illinois, chairman of Western Conference faculty committee on athletics. Oct. 1 Thomas B. Mitten, noted traction expert of Philadelphia. E. A. Bourdelle, French sculptor. Oct. 2 Dr. Gustav Stresemann, foreign minister of Germany. Oct 3 Bishop John Gardner Murray, Mur-ray, head of Protestant Episcopal church in United States. In Atlantic City, N. J. Jeanne Eagles, American actress. Oct 5 W. J. Connors of Buffalo. N. Y., capitalist and publisher. Oct. 17 Edmund M. Dunne, Catholic Cath-olic bishop of Peoria. Oct. 20 Dr. H. H. Hoppe. neurologist, neurolo-gist, In Cincinnati. Stephen B. Elkins of New Yor'. Oct. 25 Rev. E. S. Shumaker, Indiana In-diana Anti-Saloon league superintendent. superin-tendent. Oct. 28 Prince Bernhard von Bu-low, Bu-low, German statesman. Senator Theodore E. Burton "of Ohio. Oct. 29 Rev. John Roach Straton of New York, fundamentalist Baptist. Bap-tist. Nov. 2 William G. Lee, former president Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. George Hannauer, president of Boston & Maine railroad. Nov. 5 Prince Max of Baden, last Imperial chancellor of Germany. Miss Mary Solar!, artist and writer. In Memphis. Tenn. Nov. 10 Dr. Frederick Monsen, American anthropologist. Nov. 13 Former Princes. Victoria, sister of the ex-kalser of Ge?TTar-j. Nov. 17 T. P. O'Connor, "father of the British house of commons. Nov. 18 James W. Good, secretary of war. John Cort, theatrical producer. Nov. 23 Georges Clemenceau. war time premier of France. Nov. 2 4 Senator F. E. Warren of Wyoming. Raymond Hitchcock, actor. In Los Angeles. Nov. 29 Father Tondorf of Georgetown university, earthquake expert-No expert-No v. 30 Dr. J. R. Campbell of Stillwater, Okla.. educator. Dec. 1 Prof. M. A. Shaw of Uni- veisity of Iowa, Dec. 2 Robert Reid, Americea mural artist. ec, 6 Congressman W. W. Grlest cf Pennsylvania-Dec. Pennsylvania-Dec. 6 Dr. M W. Stryker. former president of Hamilton college. Dec, 12 Col. Charles Goodnight, noted Texas pioneer. Brig. Gen. D. E. Aultman. U. S. A. fCcl. 1929. Western Newspaper Union.) |