Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 253, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1935 — Page 13

DEC. 31, 1935.

Reviewing Major Events in the World During 1935

JANUARY

1 — Alabama beats Stanford, 2913, in Rose Bowl game. 2 Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial In Lindbergh baby slaying. 3 Lindberghs tell story of kidnaping at Hauptmann trial—Congress meets to hear president's message—House elects Joseph W. Byrns speaker—Ethiopia invokes League covenant to appease Italy. 4 Roosevelt delivers annual message to Congress. 5 Four sent to prison in Kansas City Union Station massacre case. 6 Liner Havana hits Bahama reef; all saved. 7 Betty Gow, Lindbergh baby nurse, tells story in Hauptmann case—Roosevelt presents 1936 budget for $3,520.413,609—United States Supreme Court rules oil-control clause invalid. 9 "Jafsie” Condon identifies Hauptmann as ransom taker—Liberty League adopts platform opposing Roosevelt policies. 10— Mary Pickford given divorce from Douglas Fairbanks. 12— Amelia Earhart completes Hawaii-California flight. 13— Nazis win Saar plebiscite. 15— Jimmy Doolittle hops across United States in 11 hours, 59 minutes —Hannibal, Mo., begins year’s celebration of Mark Twain ccntenary. 16— Warden dies in thwarted San Quentin prison break—“Ma” and Fred Barker, Bremer kidnapers, slain. 17— Roosevelt offers security plan for unemployment and old age. 19—Japanese troops advance against Chinese west of Jchol. 21—Ten dead, 59 gassed in Pennsylvania mine explosion—Paul E. Wirt, fountain pen inventor, dies— Ethiopian raiders massacre 107 in French Somaliland. 23 Expert links wood in kidnapper's ladder to Hauptmann—Mail robbers seize $19,000, escape, in Fall River, Mass.—Senator Huey Long seizes control of Baton Rouge. 24 New York snowstorm takes 32 lives—Ward liner Mohawk beached after crash off New Jersey coast— House passes relief bill—ls die in Mississippi flood—22 indicted in Breme kidnaping—Musolim forms new cabinet, keeps 7 posts. 27 — Jay Gould, noted court tennis player, dies. 28— Hauptmann, cross-examined, admits many lies—Pennsylvania electric train hits 102 miles an hour. 30- Senators reject World Court by vote of 36 to 53—Seven thousand birthday balls over nation honor Roosevelt Poison liquor kills 33 at Gloversville, N. Y. 31— Richard Washburn Child, diplomat and publicist, dies.

FEBRUARY

2 North Dakota Supreme Court removes Moodie as Governor. 3 Partial eclipse of sun—Prof. Hugo Junkers, famous plane designer, dies. 4 Roosevelt signs act raising Treasury securities limit—Many hurt as French strikers clash with police. 6—Byrd Antarctic expedition leaves Bay of Whales for home. 8— Frederick B. Warde, noted actor, dies at 83 —Admiral Cary Grayson named to head Red Cross. 9 Mrs. Dwight Morrow testifies at Hauptmann trial—l 2 dead, 70 injured in Texas tornado. 11— Italy mobilizes army of 25,000 in Ethiopian crisis. 12— Dirigible Macon wrecked in Pacific—Labor demands “prevailing wage" for relief workers. 13— Hauptmann found guilty, given death sentence —Doris Duke, richest United States girl, weds J. H. R. Cromwell. 17— More than 30 convicts shoot way out of Oklahoma reformatory. 18— Supreme Court upholds government in gold clause decision. 19— Nazis behead two women for “betrayal of military secrets" — Hauptmann wins appeal move and execution stay. 21—Pilot Leland S. Andrews’ transcontinental hop in 11 hours 34 ninutes 16 seconds cut 25 minutes off record—President loses in Senate on “prevailing wages" in relief bill. 26 Babe Ruth signs with Braves and ends Yankee career. 27 Judge Nields upholds Weirton Steel in NRA labor suit. 28— Saar returns to Reich.

MARCH

2—Greek planes bomb rebel warships; Venizelos .ioins insurgents—--17 Nazis sentenced to death for Austrian putsch—King of Siam abdicates. 4 —Roosevelt asks Congress to end ocean mail contracts. 6 Cuban treasury bombed in revolutionary strike move—Former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes dies. 7 Mrs. "Baby Doe" Tabor, penniless, died in Colorado shack—lo killed, 12 injured bv dynamite blast at Utah oil well—li-year-old prince named King of Siam—Sir Malcolm Campbell sets auto sped mark of (6.816 m. p. h. r ll —House votes to repeal "pink ip" income tax publicity law—Jean n irlow wins divorce from third -is band. 12— Dr. Michael I. Pupin, famed scientist, dies—Greek revolt ended. Venizelos flees Crete—Mendieta government breaks strike in Cuba. 13— Senate votes inquiry into utilities ‘'propaganda." 14— Richard B. Harrison. 70. "De Lawd.” dice.—France indicts 19 in Stavisky sctndal; nine exhonerated. 15— Roosevelt wins in Senate vote on relief wages—2ooo arrests made in nation-wide drive on criminals— Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz. Americana, indicted in Paris spy case. 16— Germany formally creates army of 500,000 men. 19—Senate rejects proposals to cut relief bill fund—Belgian cabi-

net quits in crisis over franc— Ethiopia asks League to defend her against Italy. 20—France asks League to take up German conscription—AAA lifts lestrictions on spring wheat planting—Black dust storm chokes and paralyzes Midwest. 22 Inflation bonus approved by House by vote of 318 to 90 —The Rev. Dr. John Cavanaugh, former head of Notre Dame, dies—Soviet hands over Chinese Eastern Railway to Manchukuo. 23 Britain, France, and Italy agree o:i united front to Germany —Senate passes $4,880,000,000 wors relief measure. 25 Ethiopians again clash with Italians—Quintuplets ordered guarded against kidnap plot. 26 John Buchan named governor general of Canada. 28— "Pmk slip - ’ repeal voted by Senate, 53-15. 29 Quarter million see Reynoldstown win Grand National.

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I—Supreme Court sets aside death sentences in Scottsboro case, orders retrial.

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2—Mayor Edward Kelly re-elect-ed in Chicago landslide. s—Gov. Bibb Graves orders Negroes put on Alabama jury rolls— Desperado Raymond Hamilton captured by Texas sheriff—Cardinal Locatclli, noted Vatican diplomat, dies—Congress passes $4,880,000,000 relief bill. 7 Nazis fail to poll two-thirds vote in Danzig—Warren Delano Robbins, United States minister to Canada, dies—34 killed, 100 injured, as tornado ravages South. 8— Adolph S. Ochs, New York Times publisher, dies. 9 House passes war profits bill. 10— Roosevelt raises price of silver 7 cents over world price—Herbert Hoover's cross-country swing spurs 1936 candidacy rumor—Hundreds flee Oklahoma farms as dust storms continue. 11— Dust pall hangs over half of nation; damage huge—Anna Katherine Green, noted writer, dies —14 high school students die when train hits school bus in Maryland. 12— Nation's students stage peace strike—Senate passes bill authorizing $1,750,000,000 for HOLC. 16—Giant clipper plane starts on hop to Orient, piloted by Cape. E. ,C. Musick. ’ 17—League council unanimously votes censure of Germany—Clipper ship sets mark or. hop from California to Hawaii—Switzes set free by French court trying spy ring. 18— PWA grants to Georgia and Louisiana revoked by Ickes. 19— Social Secunty bill is voted by the House, 372 to 33 United States protests to Germany over debts. 20— Germany rejects rebuke by the League on arms—“ Send A Dime" chain letters flood nation. 21— New York Easter parade largest in history—Miner slain, nine shot at Springfield, 111., in union war —12,000,000 in China suffer in drouth famine—3o6s die in Formosa quake that wrecks 21,095 homes. 23 F. C. Walker named clearing chief for works program— Strike closes Chevrolet plant in Toledo. 24 Roosevelt raises price of silver to 77.57 cents an ounce—Senate confirms Marriner Eccles as governor of Federal Reserve Board. 26 Roosevelt makes Harry Hopkins relief chief, completing setup. 27 World price of sil\er drops; Mexico shuts banks. 29 New Haven’s streamline “Comet" hits 110-mile top speed Nazis jail chiefs of church press.

MAY

2—Filipino uprising crushed; 52 killed—France and Russia sign pact of mutual assistance. 4—Oscar H. Robson indicted for extortion in June Robles kidnaping case —New quakes raise toll in Turkey to 2000 Omaha wins Kentucky Derby. 6 Great Britain hails King George in great pageant opening King's Jubilee—Supreme Court, 5 to 4, voids railroad pensions act —Senator Bronson Cutting, N. M., among four killed in crash of airliner. 7 Senator passes Patman $2,000-

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000.000 soldier bonus bill —Roosevelt allots $2,000,000,000 for eight types of work relief. 8— Amelia Earhart lands at Newark after record 210-mile flight from Mexico in 14 hours, 20 minutes. 9 Forty-six navy seaplanes start from Honolulu for Midway Isiand. ■ 10— Admiral Byrd arrives home from Antarctic expedition—Hauptmann files appeal. 11— Dennis Chavez named to succeed Senator Cutting of New Mexico—Ethiopia threatens to mobilize unless Italy withdraws troops—Pioneers reach Matanuska Valley, Alaska—Omaha wins Preakness.

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12— Two killed in U. S. Navy's mimic war—Marshal Pilsudski, dictator of Poland, dies in Warsaw. 13— Strike in Camden ties up $50,000,000 of shipbuilding—Farmers in trek to back AAA flock into Washington—Supreme Court reaffirms jury rights of Negroes—Barbara Hutton divorced from Prince Alexis Mdivani —Lawrence of Arabia injured, wrecking cycle to save child —ltaly calls 200.000 to colors —Stock Exchange elects Charles R. Gay president. 14— Senate votes 10 months’ extension of NRA—Former Princess Mdivani weds Count Haugwitz-Re-ventlow Toledo Chevrolet strike ends—Dr. Edwin B. Frost, noted blind astronomer, dies—Mussolini warns powers to keep clear in Ethiopian dispute—Commonwealth indorsed by Filipinos. 16— Roosevelt approves new sevenpoint NRA plan—Wagner labor bill passed by Senate, 63 to 12—Bolivia and Paraguay accept invitations to peace parley. 17— Doc Barker and four others convicted as Bremer kidnapers. 18— Stanley Hausner killed as plane crashes in Detroit—4B die in crash of Soviet’s huge plane, Maxim Gorki. 19— "Lawrence of Arabia” dies of injuries suffered in cycle wreck.

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20— Roosevelt sets up sl9 to $94 a month as relief wages. 21— Ford restores $6 a day minimum wage scale—Jane Addams dies —Three auto racers killed in Indianapolis speedway trials. 22 House overrides Roosevelt’s bonus veto. 23 Senate sustains President’s bonus veto. 24 Senate passes $460,000,000 bill providing a bigger navy—Princess Ingrid of Sweden weds Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark. 25 Weyerhaeuser heir is kidnaped from Tacoma home—John Barrymore sued for divorce by Dolores Costello—Reciprocity treaty signed by Hull and Swedish envoy—Lawson Little retains British golf title — Jessie Owens clips three world marks in Big Ten track games. 27 NRA enforcement ended, as Supreme Court rules codes void— Supreme Court unanimously voids Frazier-Lemcke bankruptcy act. 28— Senate passes amended Copeland Food and Drug Bill—Dionne quintuplets mark first anniversary— Crowd of 40,000 sees Barney Ross beat Jimmy McLarnin for welter title. 29 Twenty-five thousand attend opening of California Pacific Exposition at San Diego. 30— Pope, in vigorous health, marks 78th birthday—Kelly Petillo wins Indiana polis 500-mile auto race; one driver killed. 31— Fifteen dead, 20 missing as floods ravage west—3o,ooo killed by earthquake at Quetta, India.

JUNE

1— George Weyerhaeuser Jr. freed for $200,000 ransom. 2 Nebraska flood disaster claims 79 lives—President Terra of Uraguay shot—Babe Ruth released by Braves. 3 Supreme Court holds last session in old home—Normandie arrives in New York after record Atlantic crossing of 4 days 11 hours— Ethiopias attack two Italian outposts; 30 natives slain—British rulers acclaimed on king’s seventieth birthday—Roosevelt signs farm i credit act. 4 chiefs draft new NIRA | plan—Secretary Henry A. Wallace allots $400,000,000 for roads and j crossing removal—3so drowned as I flood engulfs Mexican church. 5 Power strike in Toledo closes big industries—Royalists riot in Paris—The Aga Khan's Bahrain wins English Derby. 6 Pierre Laval forms coalition j cabinet in France—Stanley Baldwin is prime minister in British cabinet shift—Lord Byng of Vimy, World War hero, dis. 7 Stanley Baldwin replaces MacDonald. 7 House votes NIRA extension, cutting Roosevelt's power. 8— "Grass Roots” Republicans draft platform for 1936—Streamline train cuts 19 hours in Portland-Chi-cago run—Sam Parks, Pittsburgh pro, wins united States Open golf crown with 299—Omaha wins Belmont Stakes. 9 Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Waley I confess Weyerhaeuser kidnaping—

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chief, is 85—Senate, by 62-17 vote, grants seat to Rush Holt—Harmon Waley sentenced to 45 years in Weyerhaeuser kidnaping. 23—Pan-American Clipper completes Hawaii-California flight. 25 Mrs. Owen D. Young dies— Joe Louis defeats Prime* Camera. 26 Roosevelt creates $50,000,000 project for aid of youth. 27 Danno O'Mahoney wins mat title from Jim Londos. 28— Alfred Perry wins British Open golf title.

1— House defeats president, 216146, on holding company bill—Roosevelt extends old labor boards until Aug. I—Key brothers land, setting new air endurance flight record of 673 hours 33 minutes. 2 Hank O'Day, noted baseball umpire, dies —140 Japanese killed as cruise steamer sinks. 3 Andre Citroen, French industrialist, dies. 4 Ethiopia asks U. S. to make Italy observe Kellogg pact—Former Archduke Leopold of Austria dies. 5 Roosevelt signs Wagner labor bill Louisiana Legislature rushes

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through Long’s bills—John J. Bernet, railroad president, dies. 6—United States advises its citizens to leave Ethiopia—Ex-King George of Greece divorced—Helen Wills Moody beats Helen Jacobs in Wimbledon tennis final. B—John D. Rockefeller is 96 Upper New York state floods take many lives. 10— Austria wipes out anti-Haps-burg laws. 11— Twenty-five killed in Japanese quake. 12— Captains Stevens, Anderson balked as strato-bag bursts—Melvin Purvis resigns as G man head in Chicago Col. Alfred Dreyfus, French plot victim, dies. 13— United States and Soviet sign trade reciprocity accord. 15— Millions watch eclipse of moon. 16 — Federal Appeals Court holds AAA processing tax invalid. 17— Senate votes price-fixing out of AAA bill—Federal Court of Appeals upholds TV A power plan— Mrs. Harmon Waley given 20 years in Weyerhaeuser kidnaping—ltalians recapture world’s seaplane non-stop distance mark—George W. Russell, Irish poet, dies. 18— Capt. Albert F. Hegenberger, army ace, wins Collier trophy. 19— Fifty-three hurt in Sioux ■Falls packing riot. 20— Thirteen killed in crash of Dutch airplane in Switzerland— Omaha wins Arlington Classic. 21— Anne Sedgwick, Americanborn novelist, dies—Lenore Kight sets world mark to keep United States swim title. 23 Dr. Paul M. Pearson quits as Virgin Islands governor; Lawrence W. Cramer gets post—Terre Haute general strike called off. 24 Roosevelt asks legislation defining United States neutrality— Britain pledges aid to United States in averting war in Africa. 27 Italy reports 50 dead in munitions blast. 28 — Dr, B. L. Robinson, noted botanist, dies—ltaly’s conciliation plan rejected by Ethiopian emperor. 29 British win doubles, clinch Davis Cup series with United States. 30 -John G. Robinson 111, former circus owner, dies. 31 —Senate passes bill raising Spanish War pensions—Death toll reaches 100 as anew heat wave sweeps Midwest —Soviet submarine sinks; 55 die.

2—Prince Alexis Mdivani killed in auto accident. 5 Frank H. Hitchcock, former Postmaster General, dies —Typhoon kills hundreds in Fukien province, China—Franch stratosphere plane crashes from 32,800 feet; pilot killed. 6 Republicans win in Rhode Island election—Marquess of Linlithgow named viceroy of India. 7 Five-million-dollar flood ravages Ohio, kills three.

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B—Boy Scout world jamboree canceled because of paralysis epidemic near Washington—Gen. Benjamin Foulois, Army air corps chief, retired at own request. 13— Roosevelt signs bill restoring Spanish War pensions—600 Italians perish as dam bursts. 14— C. Stanley Mitchell, chairman of Bank of United States, dies— Roosevelt signs Social Security bill —Potato control voted into AAA bill by House—AAA increases wheat plantings 5.200.000 acres—Greyhound takes $33,321 Hambletonian Stake. 15— Senate passes AAA and tax bins. 16— Will Rogers and Wiley Post die in plane crash in Alaska.

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17—United States women win Wightman Cup for fifth straight year. 19—British cabinet summoned in Italo-Ethiopian crisis —New rail pension bill voted by Congress. 22 Roosevelt agrees to bar arms sales to Feb. 29—Italians warn British that sanctions would result in war —House votes ‘‘compromise” on utility “death sentence” Cotton loan of 9 cents set by AAA, plus grant to farmers—so,ooo pay last tribute to Will Rogers. 23 — One hundred fifty thousand Italian troops mass on Austrian border—Roosevelt names security and labor boards—Guffey coal bill passed by House and Senate — Roosevelt signs new banking law. 24 Compromise utilities measure and liquor control bill passed by Congress—Britain sends warships to Suez Canal. 25 United States sends strong protest to Soviet on Red activity— Thomas A. Edison Jr., son of inventor, dies. 26 John N. Willys, pioneer auto manufacturer, dies—Utilities holding company bill signed by Roosevelt— Allison and Van Ryn capture national doubles tennis honors—Congress adjourns.

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27 Russia firmly rejects United States! protest against propaganda. 28— Pope pleads against war, questions Italy’s arguments—Body of John Hamilton, last of Dillinger gang, found—James A. Moffett resigns as FHA head—s2,soo,ooo insurance paid to Will Rogers’ widow. 29 Roosevelt signs farm moratorium and rail pension bills— Astrid, queen of Belgians, killed in auto crash in Switzerland; King Leopold injured in wreck. 30— Ethiopia reported as giving big oil grant to Anglo-United States group—Guffey coal bill signed—National air races start at Cleveland; Howard wins Bendix trophy race; Cecil Allen killed —Henri Barbusse, noted author, dies. 21—President Roosevelt signs neutrality law—Mrs. Howard Ickes dies in auto crash near Santa Fe, N. M.

SEPTEMBER

2 Britain asks France to join in report to League on Ethiouia— Woman killed, 22 shot in Pelzer (S. C.) mill riots. 3 Hurricane hurls liner Dixie on reef, kills 300 veterans on Florida Keys Standard-Vacuum, revealed as backer, drops Ethiopian oil deal —Sir Malcolm Campbell sets world auto mark, 301.337 miles per hour. 4 Rescuers take 164 from stranded liner Dixie—G. C. Hanson, United States consul general, ends life on liner—Charles J. Vopicka, former United States minister to Rumania, dies. 5 Italian envoy walks out of League council as Ethiopia argues case—lo die as French planes collide in army maneuvers. 6 League names Ethiopia arbiters with Italy's acquiescence— Roosevelt tells business “breathing spell" is here. 7 Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, novelist; Edward L. Doheny, oil magnate, and Fiiliam Abbott, noted historian, die. 9 Huey Long shot by Carl Weiss, Baton Rouge doctor—ltaly refuses pledge not to act while League seeks peace—Soviet gives peasants of cooperatives deeds to their farms. 10— Huey Long dies. 11— Britain demands that League act against aggression. 12— Huey Long buried—Laura Ingalls spans continent in record time of 13 hours 34 minutes—Wilmer Allison routs Sidney Wood to win U. S. tennis title. 14— Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, 71, marries Doris Cross, 26, government nurse—ltaly rules out African compromise—Dame Madge Kendall, noted British actress, dies —Lawson Little wins national amateur golf title. 15— France promises Britain naval aid if Italian fleet attacks—Bill Tilden beats Karl Kozeluh for U. S. pro net title. 16— British close harbor at Gibraltar—Reich changes to Nazi swastika flag. 17— British home fleet sails to guard empire's “lifeline"—Manuel Quezon elected first president of Philippines. 19—Jules Cambon, famous French

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OCTOBER

1— Billion dollars shunted from PWA projects to WPA. 2 British Labor Party votes 21 to 1 for League sanctions—Roosevelt pledges that the nation will remain “unentangled"—Gen. Maiin Craig named chief of staff of United States Army—Bulgaria foils conspiracy to overthrow King Boris— War starts in Ethiopia; Italian

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planes bomb Aduwa; Ethiopia proclaims general mobilization. 4—League of Nations committee reports against Italy—French cabinet approves link with Britain in League moves. 6 Aduwa and Adigrat captured by Italians—Roosevelt warns Americans of risk in war travel—PanAmerican Clipper makes new record on California-Hawaii flight, 17 hours 5 minutes. 7 League of Nations council holds Italy guilty of aggression—United States Supreme Court holds first meeting in new $10,000,000 quarters —l2 killed in airline crash in Wyoming—6 killed, 38 hurt in Chicago factory explosion Detroit Tigers win, 4-3. from Chicago Cubs, capturing World Series. 9 Austria and Hungary balk at sanctions against Italy; Italy and Ethiopia recall envoys—Hauptmann conviction upheld by New Jersey appeals court—Dolores Costello aivorces John Barrymore—Son born to Duke and Duchess of Kent. 10— Fifty-one nations in League assembly condemn Italy. 11— League of Nations puts arms embargo on Italy—First of hundreds of earthquakes rocks western Montana. 13 — Moscow protests to Japan on Manchuria “border violations.” 14— Aksum, Ethiopia’s holy city, surrenders —Liberals make sweep in Canadian election —Memel vote for Diet 81.17 per cent German. 17— T. V. O'Connor, former Shipping Board chairman, dies— Starhemberg ousts rival, Fey, in Austrian coup. 18— Sanctions deadline of Oct. 29 voted at Geneva—William Green reelected A. F. of L. head. 19— Fifty members of League vote 1 oycott of Italian exports. 20— Gen. A. W. Greely, Arctic explorer; Arthur Henderson, head of disarmament conference, and Mrs. Perry Belmont, former society leader, die—Sidney Smith, comic strip artist, killed in auto crash. 21— Nichols seriously inj ured in air crash. 22 Controller John R. McCarl releases $1,500,000,000 for WPA projects—Hurricane in Cuba kills four, injures 29. 23 Los Angeles zone swept by devastating brush fires—Mackenzie King named Canadian prime minister for third time—Revolta beats Armour in pro golf final. 24 “Dutch Schultz" dies of assassin’s bullets—Alfred H. Grebe, radio pioneer, dies —Townsendites hold first convention in Chicago. 25 Kansas Republicans endorse Governor A. M. Landon for President. 26 Hull pledges moral support to League of Nations on peace—2ooo estimated killed in Haiti hurricane. 27 France accepts all League of Nations sanctions agaisnt Italy— Judge W. I. Grubb, who ruled NRA illegal, dies. 30—Thomas A. Edison’s widow married at Chautauqua, N. Y.— R-oosevelt and Hull warn against war trade, aiding League—Huge Boeing bomber crashes in Dayton, O.; one dead.

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NOVEMBER

1— Slight quake rocks Eastern United States—China's premier shot by assassin. 2 Italy offers concessions after sanctions are ordered Nov. 18—Chile and Argentina refuse to boycott Italian imports. 3 Moffat Johnson, actor dies— China abandons silver standard— Greek kingdom restored by plebiscite—United States Army fliers. Stevens and Anderson, set new stratosphere record.

4—Hurricane sweeps Florida; 5 dead—Stavisky trial begins. 6—Duke of Gloucester married in simple London ceremony—Evangelic’ Billy Sunday, and Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, noted scientist, die. 8— Italians take Makale and Gorahai—Senator George W. Norns of Nebraski says he will retire when his term ends—Sir Charles Kings-ford-Smitn. Australia air ace, disappears with companion in Eng-land-Australian flight—Hitler dissolves Stahlhelm. 9 Japanese troops threaten Shanghai after slaying of marine. 10— Italians’ advance of 130 miles reported in southern Ethiopia. If—Steven.-; and Anderson reach altitude of 74.187 feet on stratosphere flight—Harry Hopkins ends Federal dole in 15 states. 13— Two youths killed. 88 hurt, in anti-British riots in Egypt—President Roosevelt orders half-billion slash in budget—Scottsboro Negroes reindicted with one of race on grand jury—Frank J. Navin, head of Detroit baseball club, dies—Jean Batten first woman to fly South Atlantic alone. 14— Roosevelt signs proclamation freeing Philippines. 15— Mussolini orders counterboycott against sanctions—U. S.Canadian trade treaty signed British government wins majority of 244 in House of Commons—Reich decrees enforcement of Nuremberg anti-Jewish laws—Philippine commonwealth inaugurated, Manuel Quezon taking presidency. 16— Gen. Pietro Badoglio replaces Emilio de Bono as head of Italian forces in Africa. 17— Gale causes wide damage along Atlantic coast, in New Jersey to extent of $1,000,000. 18— Economic siege of Italy begins, League members applying sanctions—Joseph Bulova, founder of watch company, dies. 19— Italian fliers kill 2000 Ethiopians in battle with 20.000 of foe— Emperor Haile Selassie leaves by plane for front. 20— Ethiopians repulse Italians at Sasa Baneh, inflicting heavy loss— Earl Jellicoe, British World War hero, dies. 21— Bernard Deutsch. president of American Jewish congress, dies. 22 United States vessels warned against trade with Italy—China talks war if north secedes; Japan sends nine warships—China Clipper, commanded by Capt. Edwin Musick, starts Pacific air mail service. 23 John L. Lewis resigns vice presidency in A. F. of L.—Mauna Loa erupts. 24 Lincoln Ellsworth and pilot missing in flight over Antarctica. 25 King George II returns to Greece—Revolt flames in Brazil. 26 Yasu, deposed emperor of Ethiopia, dies. 27 Japanese troops enter North China, seize important rail center —Japanese empress gives birth to a son, her second. 28— Britain asks Japan to state intentions toward North China—Revolt ended in Brazil. 29 France and Britain warn Italy of unity in facing attack— Washington controls munitions as new law takes effect—Federal dole ends with total put at $3,694,000,000 —China Clipper arrives in Manila 59 hours 47 minutes after leaving Alameda, Cal., on first commercial trans-Pacific flight.

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1— Britain and France draft new peace offer to Mussolini—China balks Japan in showdown on northern autonomy—King George II of Greece, restored to throne, grants amnesty to 758 rebels. 2 Dr. James S. Breasted, archaeologist, dies at 70. 3 Landslide obliterates Ecuador village, killing 50—Princess Victoria, sister of English king, dies. 4 Franco-British peace plan offered to Italy. 5 Secretary of State Hull warns Japan to respect treaty rights in China—Gov. Hoffman reveals visit to Hauptmann in cell—Standard Oil of New Jersey denies “war trade" with Italy. 6 Italian fliers bomb Dessye; wreck palace and hospital—Hope abandoned for Kingsford-Smith. 7 Pro-Japanese state is set up in China with Nanking's help. 8— Five dead, damage heavy in Houston (Tex.) flood. 9 London naval parley opens— Hauptmann’s plea for review denied by Supreme Court—Walter Liggett, crusading editor, assassinated in Minneapolis. 10— World silver market crashes —Red Sox buy Jimmy Foxx; Tigers purchase A1 Simmons—Airliner crashes in England; 11 killed. 11— Ethiopia rejects BritishFrench peace plan. 12— M. J. Van Sweringen, younger of railway capitalist brothers, dies. 13 — Hauptmann sentenced to die during week of Jan. 13—Jose A. Barnet succeeds Col. Carlos Mendieta, resigned, as Cuban president —Joe Louis knocks out Paulino Uzcuclun in fourth. 14— President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia retires. 15— Caleb Milne IV. wealthy young actor, believed kidnaped Poll shows Landon rated leading Republican presidential aspirant— Detroit Lions rout Giants for pro grid title. 16— Republicans choose Cleveland for convention—Thelma Todd, film actress, found dead. 17— Towmsend supporter wins Michigan congressional election. 18— 272 Italians, 500 Ethiopians killed in battle on northern front— Dr. Edouard Benes named Czechoslovakian president—Sir Samuel Hoare resigns as British foreign minister; Anthony Eden named Ins successor. 19— Franco-British plan to dismember Ethiopia wrecked—British Commons upholds Baldwin. 20— Blizzard sweeps over nation. 23 —Lindberghs flee United States with son Jon. 27 Storm tightens grip on nation; temperature drops to 6.4 below zero in Indianapolis. 28— Caleb Jones Milne IV admits kidnaping hoax. 30—Marquess of Reading, former viceroy of India, dies at 75—Lieut. Gen. Hunter Liggett, United States war hero, dies at 78. i 31—Lindberghs arrive in England.

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