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HIGHLIGHTS OF PRINCIPAL WORLD EVENTS FOR LAST \ TWELVE MONTHS GIVEN IN DETAIL BY THE TIME'!

The last twelve months of the world’s history beheld great changes in ■he United States and every other country. Nineteen thirty-three started with a hang. Japan was involved in a wrangle with Russia, plane flights were on the record and. crime was rampant. February found Adolph Hitler tightening his grip on Germany’s affairs while his activities attracted the world. Seventy thousand lives were snuffed out by a terrific Chinese earthquake. An assassin shot fire times at President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt and fatally wounded Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago.

(ihosfs of centuries looker! down on this historic e^ent— • Japanese troops, invading China, at the Great Wall. JANUARY 1— Japan refuses to sign non-aggression pact with Russia. 2 Mrs. Bello Moskowitz, welfare-political leader, dies —Bolivians rout Paraguayans in six-hour battle. 3 Two killed, twelve wounded in Illinois mine clash. —Japanese tighten hold on Shanhaikwan.—Jack Pickford, former film star, dies. 4 Mail robbers make $150,000 haul in Minneapolis.—Thirty die when $20,000,000 French ship burns. 5 Calvin Coolidge dies of heart attack at home in Northampton, Mass. —100,000 Chinese flee Shanhaikwan.—Senate subcommittee reports favorably on prohibition repeal plan. 6 Thousands flee volcanic eruptions in Chile. 9 Albert 11. Wiggin, long head of Chase National bank, retires. —Rebellion flares in Spain.—Stalin reaffirms Soviet policy. 10— Hoover asks power to widen arms embargo.—Japanese open drive on Jehol. 12— House votes to pay bounty to farmers.—Soviet expels opposition leaders from party. 15— Pope proclaims holy year, starting April 2. 16— Seven in French plane fly South Atlantic in 14 hours.—Babs Ruth refuses $60,000 contract, a $15,000 cut. 17— Philippine independence voted over Hoover’s veto. Japan makes defiant reply to League ultimatum for conciliation. 20— Scotti ends Metropolitan opera career in great triumph 21— Japan mops up Jehol border. —Roosevelt pledges government operation of Muscle Shoals. 22 Mermoz reaches Buenos Aires from Paris, in 54% hour flight. 23 Technocracy group breaks up; Howard Scott ousted from Columbia. —“Lame duck” amendment fully ratified. 24 Washington opens doors to negotiations with debtor nations. 25 A1 Capone denied freedom on habeas corpus writ. 27—England and League support Stimson peace plea. Ford blames bankers as plants close and 100,000 become idle. 2S—Massachusetts storm takes $1,000,000 toll.—Cabinet resigns in Germany; Hindenburg seeks coalition.—Roosevelt and Sir Roland Lindsay confer on British war debt. 29 Daladier seeks to form new French cabinet. 30— Adolph Hitler becomes chancellor of German coalition cabinet. 31— League committee upholds Chinese boycott of Japanese goods. ■—John Galsworthy, British novelist, dies. FEBRUARY 1— Hitler wins Reichstag dissolution; election set for March 5. 2 Frederick G. Bonfils, Denver publisher, dies.—Sandino enters Managua and confers on Nicaraguan peace terms. 3 Prices soar, then crash in wild gold speculation in London.— Senate suspends Sergeant-at-Arms Barry for article in A1 Smith’s New Outlook. 4 League rejects Japan’s terms on conciliating dispute in China. 6—Fire at Coney Island causes $250,000 loss.—German press gagged; Prussian regime displaced. 9 Cold wave grips nation; 60 reported dead.—League of Nations warns Japan not to invade Jehol province.—Mollison flies South Atlantic and lands at Natal. Brazil. 10— Hitler proclaims war on democracy at Nazi rally.—Gas blast at Neunkirchen, Saar, Germany, kills 100, injures 1000. 11— Earthquake in China reported to have killed 70,000. 13— Hawaii frees four charged with attack on Mrs. Thalia Massie. 14— Japan drafts ultimatum for China to give up Jehol.

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More than 100 died, many wore injured, and loss ran into millions in the March quake at Long Beach, Calif. 15— Assassin shoots five times at Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami; Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago shot twice. 16— Senate votes repeal, 63-23. 17— Mrs. Douglas Robinson, sister of the late President Theodore Roosevelt, dies. IS—James J. Corbett, former heavyweight pugilistic champion, dies. 19 — Wyoming is first state to provide machinery for repeal. 20— House votes. 259-121. for repeal of prohibition. Senate passes 5315,000.000 Wagner relief bill.—Zangara given ninety years in prison for Cermak shooting in Miami. 21 Hitlerites wreck Catholic meetings, injuring many.—Hymans report to League blames Japan for aggression in China. 22—Malcolm Campbell sets auto speed record of 272.10S miles an hour at Daytona. Fla. 24 Federal inquiry starts on National City bank and Insull. — impeaches Judge Louderback of California. —Indiana dry law repeal is voted. —Japan leaves League assembly after censure. 25 Chaovang, Jehol's second largest city, falls to Japanese.— Washington approves League’s action on Manchuria.—Couzens bank bill passed, signed by Hoover.—Boston Red Sox American League i baseball club sold to Yawkey and Collins. 26 Roosevelt confirms appointments of Farley and Wallace to cabinet. —Two Detroit banks taken over by Ford; end of tieup seen. —Dayton, Ohio, banks declare three-dav holiday.—Grand Duke Alexander of Russia dies in exile in France. 27 Bankruptcy relief bill passed by Senate.—Roosevelt names Ickes and Swanson to cabinet. —Banks in more than fifty Ohio cities limit withdrawals. —Incendiary fire wrecks German Reichstag building in Berlin. —Nineteen indicted on mail fraud charges in Insull crash. 28 — Roosevelt completes cabinet by naming Senator Thomas Walsh and Miss Frances Perkins. MARCH I—Alabama adopts banking holida;,; other states act. 2 Senator Thomas Walsh of Montana dies suddenly, five days after marriage. I House Democrats select Henry T. Rainey of Illinois as speaker. Bank holidays declared in five western sLates. —Japanese report

capture of capital of Jehol. 4 Roosevelt inaugurated; acts quickly to end bank crisis. 5 Hitler bloc wins majorities in Reichstag and Prussian Diet. 6 Roosevelt meets governors, sums up nation's tasks.—Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago dies of assassin’s bullet wound. 8— Jesse Isidor Straus chosen U. S. ambassador to France. 9 Roosevelt asks banking dictator powers of Congress.—Secretary of Treasury Woodin authorizes local scrip issues. 10— Roosevelt asks powers for cuts on federal and veterans’ pay. —Severe quake rocks southern California; 140 dead, 5000 Injured. 11— House passes Roosevelt economy bill. Senator Howell of Nebraska dies of heart attack. 12— Hindenburg drops German republic’s flag for imperial Nazi banner.—Bolivia renews Chaco war, takes fort from Paraguay. 14— Stock exchanges of nation reopen.—House votes 3.2 beer. 15— Record advance made in stocks as trading reopens.—Tennessee tornado kills 34; injured exceed 200.—Britain orders sharp protest to Soviet in arrest of British subjects in Russia. 16— Seventy-five per cent of banks in nation reported reopened. —Roosevelt asks farm relief, sends sweeping bill to Congress.—Senate approves beer bill, after reducing alcohol content to 3.05. IS—League council orders Peru to give up Leth .—Dr. Hans Luther named German ambassador to Washington. 19 — Towns in three states flooded by Ohio River; three die in Kentucky. 20 — New York Jewish leaders ask Washington to protest to Germany on Nazi outrages.—Roosevelt signs $500,000,000 economy measure; Senate adopts 3.2 beer report.—Zangara dies for murder of Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago.—Britain suspends Soviet trade treaty. 21— Storms rage on Atlantic coast, taking heavy toll. —Charles E. Mitchell, banker, arrested on income tax charges. 22 — Farm relief bill passed by House. —Beer bill signed by Roosevelt. 23 — Reichstag votes four-year dictatorship for Hitler regime.—Ferdinand Pecora ordered to investigate Harriman National Bank in N. Y. 24 — Charles E. Mitchell indicted on charge of evading income tax.— Babe Ruth signs contract for $52,000, hits homer. 25 — Colonel Hatfield wins Louisiana Derby. 27 Mrs. Jimmy Walker receives final divorce decree in Miami, Fla. 28— Federal pay cut of 15 per cent April 1 ordered by Roosevelt.— Hitlerites order boycott against Jews in business and schools. —Nazi mobs terrorize center of Vienna, beating Jews. —British air liner falls in Belgium; 15 killed. 29 House passes Roosevelt bill for forestry jobs for 250,000. 30— Senate votes $500,000,000 direct relief to states. —Father Coughlin’B Detroit home bombed. —Britain recalls envoy from Russia. 31— Roosevelt signs bill lifting limit on medical liquor.—Tornadoes take 48 lives in southern states. APRIL I— Roosevelt orders $400,000,000 cut in veterans’ pensions.—Nazis hold one-day boycott of Jews. —Pope opens Holy Door, starts prayer year. 3 Michigan first state to vote for repeal.—Four British flyers surmount Everest, world’s highest peak. 4 Airship Akron crashes off New Jersey coast; 73 dead or missing. 5 President Roosevelt invokes gold hoarding law. 6 Thirty-hour week bill passed by Senate.—Ruby Bates, in Scottsboro trial, repudiates story of attack. —Hitlerites seize control of German business. 7 Legal beer comes back; millions celebrate. 9 Jury convicts negro in Scottsboro trial, with death penaltj 10 — Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 81, dies at Princeton, N. J. —Michigan is first state to ratify repeal in convention. ll Resignation of Eugene Meyer as Federal Reserve governor revealed. 13 — Louisianans petition Senate to oust Huey Long.—Roosevelt loses

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Persecution of Jews in Germany reached sucli a stage in 1933, after Hitler seized power, that the whole world protested. in farm bill vote in Senate—Edward J. Kelly, Cermak friend, elected Chicago mayor. 16 — Bob Carey, noted auto racer, killed in Los Angeles crash. 17 — Senate votes down 16 to 1 silver, 43-33. —House passes arms embargo resolution. IS—Soviet sentences two Britons to prison; three to be expelled.— Jimmy Walkei> marries Betty Compton in Cannes. 19 —U. S. drops gold standard; Roosevelt seeks inflation authority.— Britain orders ban on chief imports from Russia. 21 —Ramsay MacDonald reaches Washington, confers with Roosevelt on world economic recovery.—Sumner Welles named ambassador to Cuba.—Airship Macon makes maiden flight. 24 — Premier Herriot of France meets Roosevelt for parley. 25 — Admiral Byrd resigns as chairman of Economy League.—Dr. Felix Adler, founder of ethical culture movement, dies. —House passes Muscle Shoals bill. 27 —White House announces that war debt terms will stand.—lowa farmers abduct and beat judge in foreclosure row. 25 — Senate votes farm bill with inflation; bonus defeated. —National Recovery Act drafted on “daring lines.” " 30—Tornadoes kill and injure scores in Mississippi and Arkansas.— President Sanchez of Peru assassinated MAY 1— U. S. treasury bars gold for securities holders abroad.—Troops seize 67 farmers in lowa riot zone. 2 Nazis seize unions in Reich in surprise raids. —China receives Soviet envoy after six-year break. 3 House passes inflation bill. —Muscle Shoals bill passes Senate.— German Federation of Industries agrees to Nazi contrQl. —Irish Dail end! oath to British crown. 5 House passes securities bill.—Tornadoes kill 28 in south. 6 Broker's Tip wins Kentucky Derby. B—Senate8 —Senate passes securities bill. —Dr. James Bryant Conant named president of Harvard. —Gandhi, freed from jail, starts 21-day fast. 10 — Combination farm aid-inflation bill passes Senate. —Tennessee and Kentucky tornadoes kill scores.—Paraguay declares war against Bolivia. —German students burn all “un-German” books at universities. —E. R. Black chosen to head Federal Reserve Board. 11 — Roosevelt blocks cash bonus payment; aids veterans. 12— Farm inflation bill and Wagner 5500,000,000 states’ aid bill signed by Roosevelt.—President orders 274,000 men enrolled for forestry by July 1. 13 — Head Play wins Preakness stake race. 15 — Ernest Torrence, famed film actor, dies at 55.—Floods kill 15 in Indiana and Ohio. 16— Roosevelt appeals to 54 nations to disarm. —Gaston B. Means convicted of Lindbergh ransom hoax.—Dr. John Grier Hibben, Princeton University head, killed in auto crash. 18 — French chamber approves pact with Russia. 19— Roosevelt receives bonus marchers’ committee. 21 — Four powers agree at Rome on 10-year European peace pact. 22 — Bonus army disbands in Washington. 23 — J. P. Morgan admits he and his partners paid no income tax In 1931 and 1932, at Senate banking inquiry. 24 — J. P. Morgan's “stock favor” list revealed. —Tom Mooney acquitted of "second murder.” 26 House passes Roosevelt industrial recovery bill. 27 — Chicago Century of Progress opened by Postmaster General Farley. 29 House votes gold repeal resolution, 253 to 57. —Gandhi ends fast. 30— Eleven convicts break from Kansas state prison.—Louis Meyer wins Indianapolis 500-mile auto race; three killed. 31 — Lord Derby’s Hyperion wins English Derby in record time.

Bank inquiries were started and the fall of the house of Insull teas in the air. Indiana voted to repeal the dry law. President-Elect Roosevelt began announcing appointments, and the first of the nation's bank troubles had started in Michigan. March brought President Roosevelt in control of the depression-ridden nation and the bank holiday was effective. April was marked with President Roosevelt’s strides onward to his goal of solving the depression and $400,000,000 cut in veterans’ pensions. And so it went all through the year. A dull summer wa§ enlivened by

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JUNE 2 Harold W. Dodds elected president of Princeton University.3 William Muldoon, “Iron Duke’’ of athletics, dies at 88.—Mr. Khayyam wins American Derby. 7 Germany given Olympic games by pledge of no bar on Jews. —Cyrus H. K. Curtis, famed publisher, dies. S —Max Baer knocks out Max Schmeling in 10th round.—House votes $3,459,480,908 for industrial recovery program. 10 — Johnny Goodman, Omaha, wins U. S. open golf title. 11 — Spanish flyers complete Atlantic hop at Camaguey, Cuba, covering 4553 miles. —Chicago exposition sightseeing plane crashes; 10 die. 12 — World economic conference opens in London. 13 — Senate passes industrial recovery bill. 15— Britain pays $10,000,000 to U. S. on war debt; France defaults. 16— President starts national recovery programs, signs bills. 17 — London plan to peg money is rejected by Roosevelt. IS—Dr. A. H. Compton reveals atom discoveries. 19—William Hamm, Jr., millionaire St. Paul brewer, freed by kidnapers.—Austria outlaws Nazis. 21 — Rail wage reduction put off for eight months. 22 Charles Mitchell, former bank chief, acquitted in tax fraud trial.— Hitler ousts Socialists from Reichstag and suppresses party. 26 — Spanish flyers who made ocean record found dead in wrecked plane in Mexico. 27 — Hitler dissolves Nationalist Party; Hugenberg quits cabinet. 29 “Fatty” Arbuckle, film comedian, dies at 46. —Primo Camera knocks out Jack Sharkey in sixth’ round, wins heavyweight championship. 30— Vienna Diet ousts all Nazi deputies. JULY I—John1 —John (Jake the Barber) Factor kidnaped near Chicago.—A. R. Erskine, Studebaker head, ends own life at South Bend.—Robert Gore inaugurated as governor of Puerto Rico.—Roscoe Turner sets coast-to-coast air mark, 11 hours, 40 minutes. 3—Russell Boardman, famed flyer, dies of crash injuries. s—Roosevelt5 —Roosevelt continues federal pay slash to end of year.—Centrist Party in Germany dissolves. 8 — Roosevelt names Harold Ickes to direct public works program.— Denny Shute wins playoff for British open golf title.—Helen Wills Moody wins Wimbledon tennis title for sixth time. 9 Roosevelt signs cotton textile code, first major industrial pact.—

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An assassin’s bullet, intended for President-elect Roosevelt, Struck down Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, in Miami. Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh start flight to Arctic. 13 — John Factor, free, says §50,000 ransom paid his kidnapers; two arrested for Banker Luer kidnaping, Alton, 111. 14 — Cotton crop cut adopted; processing tax ordered. 15— Balbo’s Italian air fleet reaches Chicago, after 6100-mile flight. 17 — Lithuanian flyers cross ocean from U. S., die in crash in Germany. 20 —Concordat with Germany is signed at Vatican. 22 Elliott Roosevelt and Ruth Googins wed in lowa. 23 Mollisons cross Atlantic in plane, crash at Bridgeport, Conn.—Wiley Post finishes wmrld flight, setting record of 7 days, 18 hours, minutes. —Charles Urschel, wealthy Oklahoma oil man, kidnaped.—English Davis Cup team defeats U. S. 24 Roger Touhy and three aides jailed as Hamm kidnap suspects. 26—Louise Closser Hale, noted actress and author, dies. —President mobilizes nation for recovery drive; orders federal w f ar on kidnapers. 28 — Automobile code signed; 35-hour week. 30 — England captures Davis Cup by beating France, 3-2. 31— Urschel kidnapers free Oklahoma oil man for $200,000 ransom AUGUST 1— Blue Eagle signs appear over nation as drive officially opens. 2 Carl Hubbell sets scoreless inning pitching record, 46 innings.— Fourteen thousand banks adopt NRA code for hours and pay. 3 Million-dollar flood sweeps Denver; two killed. 5 Leaking valve forces Settle down on stratosphere flight in Chicago. 6 Joseph D. Oliver, plow manufacturer, dies in South Bend, Ind. 7 Rossi and Codos, French flyers, land In Syria for distance record of 5713 miles. 9 Roosevelt appeals to Cuba for peace; Spain and Britain protest disorders.—Huge Kansas bond forgery discovered; troops guard treasury. 10— Cuban army rebels against President Machado. 12— Machado flees from Cuba in plane to Nassau, Bahamas; De Cespedes named president. 13— Roosevelt orders warships to Cuba; De Cespedes sworn in as president.—Two negroes lynched in Alabama; third carried away by mob.—Gene Sarazen wins national professional golf final. 14— Harvey Bailey, leader in Urschel kidnaping, captured in Texas. 16 — Hambletonian stake, trotting classic, won by Mary Reynolds. 18— NRA bars open shop clauses in final ruling on codes.—Roosevelt takes control of oil industry. 19— President signs lumber code. —Joe Kirkwood wins Canadian open golf title. 25 — Twenty-one nations agree on restrictions of wheat crops. 26 Samuel Insull arrested in Greece. —Frank Hawks makes VancouverQuebec dash in 17 hours. —Helen Jacobs beats Helen Wills Moody by default for national women’s tennis title. 27 — Raymond Moley quits Roosevelt “brain trust” to edit magazine.— Roosevelt signs auto code, affecting 450,000 workers.—MacDonald Smith wins Western open golf crown. 28— Senator Huey Long gets black eye at party on Long Island. 29 Roosevelt names Ickes as oil administrator. SEPTEMBER 2—New tropical storm rages; Cuban death list high.—Francesco De Pinedo, famous Italian aviator, killed in plane takeoff. —Italy and Soviet sign friendship and non-aggression treaty.—Virginia Van Wie wins U. S. women’s golf title. 4 Storm cuts across Florida, rages on to Texas; loss heavy.—Gar Wood successfully defends Harmsworth speedboat trophy. 5 Train wreck at Binghamton, N. Y. f kills 23, injures 100.— Hurricane ravages Rio Grande valley; scores dead and injured.— Henry Ford raises wages, fails to sign NRA code.—Cuban enlisted men overthrow De Cespedes regime. 8— King Feisal of Iraq dies suddenly. 10 — Grau San Martin sworn in as president of Cuba. 11— Van Orman and Trotter, missing balloonists, rescued in Canada. 16— Belmont Futurity won by Singing Wood. 17— Hurricane sweeps Atlantic coast; storm in Mexico kills 110. 15— Jean Harlow marries Harold G. Rosson, cameraman. 19— New York Giants clinch National League pennant. 20— Dr. Annie Besant, theosophist leader, 85, dies in India. 21— Soft coal wage agreement signed: affects 340,000. —Reichstag fire trial opens in Germany.—Washington clinches American League pennant. 22 Roosevelt offers farmers loan of 10 cents a pound on cotton. 25 Hurricane sweeps Tampico; many dead.—Roscoe Turner sets new transcontinental air record, 10 hours, 5 minutes. 26 Ring Lardner, author, dies.—Ten desperate criminals break Indiana state prison.—Machine Gun George Kelly and wife captured in Memphis, for Urschel kidnaping. 27 Cache of $73,250, part of Urschel ransom, dug up in Texas.— James W. Collier, author of 3.2 beer bill in Congress, die3. 29 Communists riot in Havana; 6 killed, 27 hurt.—Joseph V. McKee enters New York mayor race. \ 30— Kidnapers found guilty in Luer and Urschel cases.—Roosevelt

the activities at Washington as the President and his leaders pushed forwu, their campaign against economic ills. Kidnapings took the center of the stage for months, the crimes outcropping at various places throughout the nation with startling rapiaity. In the world of crime, lynchings followed closely on the heels oft the kidnapings that had been blocked by federal government intervention. J For weeks, the latter part of the year, the Lindberghs made{their way by air to many nations, only recently returning to their native country. In truth it was a great year. And today The Indianapolis Times gives you this valuable record of the world's great events for 1933.

approves huge federal relief program.—Soviet stratosphere balloon ascends 11.8 miles. OCTOBER 1— Roosevelt orders huge non-profit relief corporation set up. 2 Battle rages in Havana; 119 killed.—Roosevelt stands firm op. pensions in address at Legion convention. 3 Twenty-three die in Los Angeles brush fire. —Auto-motorcycle injuries fatal to "Young” Stribling, pugilist.—Chancellor Dollfuss shot in arm by Austrian Nazi. s—John D. Rockefeller. Jr., offers liquor control program.—William L. Veeck, head of Chicago Cubs, dies; Rene Adoree, actress, dies. 7 Roosevelt removes Commissioner Humphrey from Federal Trade Board.—Four get life terms for Urscliel kidnaping.—Giants win world series, beating Washington. 4-3. 8 — Morris Hillquit, Socialist leader, dies.

Revolt after revolt flamed in Cuba in 1933 and this is a typical scene of looting in Havana, when a newspaper office was wrecked. t I 9 Gus Winkler, Chicago gangster chief, slain. 11— First employers, in Indiana and New York, stripped of NRA insignia.—Transport plane crash in Indiana kills seven.—KingsfordSmitk completes flight to clip 40 hours from England-Australia record. 12— Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania acquitted in Moos* 1 lottery trial.—Alcatraz island is picked for federal prison.— Gun Kelly and wife sentenced to prison for life in Urschel kidnaping. 14— Germany quits League of Nations and arms conference. 18—Negro lynched by mob of 1000 at Princess Anne, Md. 20— Roosevelt acts for parley on Russian recognition by U. S. 21— Milo Reno officially opens farm strike. 23 Roosevelt orders buying of gold at once above world price; signs retail code; extends time for ruling on veterans’ compensation.— William N. Doak, former secretary of labor, dies.—Graf Zeppelin reaches Miami on way to World’s Fair in Chicago.—Daladier cabinet falls. 25 —Albert Sarraut named to form new r French cabinet.29 Roosevelt decides to buy gold abroad through RFC—E. H. Sothern, famed actor, dies at 73.—Paul Painleve, ex-premier of France, dies. 30— Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt opens 1933 Mobilization for Human Needs drive in Chicago. 31— Greek court rejects U. S. request for Insull extradition. NOVEMBER 2 First gold is bought in France for RFC. 3U. S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming, 76, dies. 4 Washington assails extradition treaty with Greece after Insull wins.—William G. Shepherd, war correspondent, dies. { 5 Texas Guinan dies after operation in Vancouver. 6 Mussolini takes over air ministry; sends Balbo to Africa, 7La Guardia elected mayor of New York City.—Litvinoff arrive! in New York for Soviet recognition conference. 8— Seven of Touhy gang indicted in John Factor kidnaping.—King of Afghanistan assassinated. 9 —Cuban rebels lose fort in six-hour battle; 100 killed. 10— Brooke Hart, San Jose, Calif., merchant’s son, kidnaped.—Controller General McCarl holds Ford eligible to federal contracts. 12— Chicago World’s Fair closes. —Hitler’s policy wins in German election, 20 to 1 majority. 13— Anthracite strike of 40,000 men ended. 15— Roosevelt pardons Conrad H. Mann, convicted in Eagles lottery cases—Henry Morgenthau, Jr., named acting secretary of treasury; Woodin given leave.—W. K. Vanderbilt. Jr., dies in auto crash. 16— Dr. W. I. Myers named farm credit chief, succeeding Morgenthau —Brooke Hart, kidnaped in San Jose, Calif., murdered; kidnap suspects caught. 17— U. S. recognizes Russia; Bullitt named ambassador. 20— Settle’s balloon sets official stratosphere flight mark, 62,237 feet. 21— Dr. Sprague quits U. S. treasury, assails gold policy. 22 Mrs. Rheta Wynekoop found slain in ghastly Chicago mystery. 24 A1 Smith attacks Roosevelt monetary policy.—Dr. Alice Wynekoop arrested in Chicago “operating room” murder.—McClure and 70 others found guilty in Pennsylvania liquor ring. 25 — Hitler asks new accord ending treaty of Versailles.—Camilla Chautemps chosen to head French cabinet. 27 Kidnapers of Brooke Hart lynched in San Jose, Calif.; deed condoned by Governor Rolph of California, stirring storm of protest.—Strike of 8000 workers ties up Chicago stockyards. 28— A1 Smith denies Father Coughlin’s charge that he is linked with Morgan.—Maryland troops clash with mob, carry off lynching

Lynching madness was climaxed by a double outrage by a mob which broke into the jail at San Jose, Calif. j suspects—Touhy and aides acquitted of Hamm kidnaping in St. Paul. i 29—Four Maryland men held as lynchers freed by court.—Mob in St. Joseph, Mo., lynches negro.—Roosevelt names Joseph Choate, Jr* as liquor "czar.” DECEMBER t I—Scottsboro Jury again finds Patterson guilty.—Richard B. Mellon, banker, dies. 3 —Alexander Legge, Harvester chief, dies.—Pan-American Confar* ence opened. 5 Repeal of prohibition ratified by Utah, 36th state.—Ellsworth sails from New Zealand for Antarctic flight. 6 Lindberghs fly from Africa to Brazil in 17 hours. S—Elmer Layden selected as Notre Dame football coach. 12—Connie Mack sells Grove, Cochrane, Walberg, Bishop and E~rnshaw for $300,000 and other baseball players. 15—Gan. Hugh Johnson charges U. S. law violation In Weirtou steel plant election; vote fair, legal, says steel chief. 15— Treasury Secretary Morgenthau asks drastic Income tU revision. 16— Lindberghs land in Miami; Louis Joseph Vance, famed author, burned to death.

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