Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1936 — Page 2

REVIEW OF EVENTS WRITTEN INTO HISTORY IN 1936

JANUARY

Ethiopia protests to League on ombing of Swedish Red Cross sta-ion-—-Stay tops 8S. M. U, 70 Rose Bowl game “Terrible Tommy” Touhy cago gang chief, captured Veterans’ bonus bill introduced in Congress—Main U. 8. squad sails for Berlin winter Olympics—Rooset dares New Deal critics in message to Congress, 4-Nine million conscription M'vo Ethiopian bv Italians 6D duced

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children Nazi law bombed

German by new hospitals

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neutrality bill intro-Nve—-AAA ruled

rastic by Senator onstitutional R--Administration decide: to continue crop control and farm assistane J. P. Morgan and aids tell Senate neutrality nearing of rms deals and war financing—Vice imiral Hepburn named to head U {leet Democrats pick Philadelphia national convention June 23--Gilbert, actor, dies—Gomez d Cuban president. House passes bonus bill, 356-50--Soil conservation set 3s new basis of farm program-—President extends Gold Reserve Act for one

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— Hauptmann loses ciemency in New Jersey court — Farm approve AAA substitute lL. Rothafel, “Roxy” , dies—Supreme Court $200,000,000 AAA taxes re-

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Habeas corpus writ denied mann—Fliers find no trace lator Paul Redfern in South me? jungle — Arkansas air iner crash Kills 17. Japan quits naval parley — | tor Nve charges Woodrow Wil- | ified” about war-time pacts, | Governor Hoffman grants | Hauptmann reprieve until Feb, 15— !

rien Call

te, dies, Rudvard Kipling dies—Linin Ellsworth and his pilot rescued

voted in Paris,

' Robinson dies,

| power sales from Wilson Dam-—Elec-

| Senate, completing Congress’ action

parliamentary government.

7—Marilvn Miller, actress, dies— Spanish Cortes ousts President Zamora—Bleven killed in airliner crash in Pennsylvania. campaign

--G. OO P, forms “brain trust.” 10--200-inch eye for largest telescope sent across continent to Cali $4 | fornia — Ex-President 1 aids exiled from Mexico. 12-=James M. Beck, famed lawver, dies. 13-—General Hagood reinstated in U. 8. Army-—Howard Thurston, magician, dies. 14-~Major league baseball season opens, 15--Ttalians occupy Dessye, 17—League admits failure in Ethiopian peace effort—Federal Judge H. L. Ritter ousted by United States Senate In impeachment case “Turkish troops reoccupy demilitavized Dardanelles zone, 18--Federal agents capture three Hamm kidnappers. 10--Louis Howe, Roosevell's secrotary, dies—F. H. Harvey, dining

Hauptmann

13—French Royalists seriously injure Leon Blum, Socialist leader, in assault, 14-—Record United States Army fund of $3572,000.000 voted by House 15—"Machine Gun" Jack McGumn, notorious gangster, slain in Chicago -New farm aid bill passed by Senate, 56-20—-Government crushes Venezuelan uprising. 16—Mercury hits 50 below In

: \ crash, Northwest—Historian James Harvey

20-—Scores of priests and jour-

17—Supreme Court backs TVA on military

up—Germany parades might on Hitler's birthday. 23--Roosevelt asks $480,800,000 to set up security program, 24-—-Two Nova Scotia miners, entombed for 10 days, Finley Peter Dunne, “Mr, Dooley” author, dies. 26—Greatest battle of Ethiopian [war starts at Saza Baneh—Percy Hammond, drama critic, dies—Leftists win Spanish election, 27--Goering made Germany nance dictator, 28-King Fuad of Egvpt dies,

tion riots sweep Spain. 18—Neutrality measure passes —Kidd Cann acquitted of Editor Walter Liggett murder in Minneapolis—Paraguayan rebels oust President Ayala. 19—Hauptmann resentenced Arana cabinet rules Spain. 20--Gen. William L. Mitchell, aviation leader, dies—House votes Townsend plan inquiry, 22--Henry Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, dies—Top Row wins $100,000 Santa Anita han- 30-—-Ethiopians abandon Addis dicap | Ababa defense, 24—-Gen. Johnson Hagood relieved | of duty after WPA criticism—ExX- | Gov. Albert Ritchie of Marvland dies—Son bom to Barbara Hutton, 26--Bloody Japanese military coup | foiled in Tokyo—Thousands flee floods in East-—-EBEstonia returns to

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MAY

1--Roosevelt orders CCC recruited to full strength—Gangster Alvin Karpis captured, 27—-General Hagood quits Army | 2—Haile Selassie flees: Addis command--New AAA bill passes | Ababa looted and set afire—Bold both Houses—French-Soviet pact | Venture wins Kentucky derby.

Alavi; Ras

9. |

28—Italians storm Mt Sayoum crushed—I. C, C. orders

cent basic rail fare—Antonio Scotti, |

famed baritone, dies—-Chicago shifts to Eastern time,

MARCH

1—<Roosevelt signs farm bill— |

Italians shatter southern Ethiopian |

| rehearing—Italy | African peace or face oil sanctions,

Kipling — Madame Stavisky |

George V

in Antarctic acquitted in French swindle case. 18—Governor Hoffman orders new Hauptmann investigation. | 19—Fourth Scottsboro trial opens ~Tornadoes kill 17 in South. King George V dies; Edward becomes King-—Senate passes bonus | bill, 74-186, 21—Alcatraz Prison strike quelled. | 22—City-wide elevator strike ties up New York = French Premier | Laval resigns. 33—Scottshoro case verdict 75 years for Hevwood Patterson. | 24—House overrides bonus veto by | Roosevelt — Sarraut forms French | cabinet. 20—George Wickersham, famed | lawyer dies—Liberty Leaguers hear | Al Smith score New Deal, 26—Sonja Henje wins Europe's | skating crown. | 27—Bonus bill repassed by Senate | over veto, becomes law. 28—George V buried — Richard | Loeb, “thrill killer,” slain in Joliet | Prison—Gov, O. K. Allen, Louisiana, dies. 29—Landon speech launches pres- | idential candidacy. 30—Five million dance at Roose- | velt birthday party—Miners’ union | sanctions withdrawal from A. F. of | L.—Nazis celebrate three years in| power,

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31—Twenty Negro convicts die in Alabama truck blaze—Mrs. Huey P. Long named to late husband's United States Senate seat—Marshal George Xondylis, Greek “strong man,” dies.

FEBRUARY

| 1—Italians gain control of Ma- | Kale area, 2—Police smash York vice ring. 3—Miners defy Green; vote to Stand by John L. Lewis—Charles B Warren, ex-ambassador to Japan, | dies, 4—Willlam E. Borah announces | presidential candidacy. o—General strike halts all busi- | ness in Pekin, Ill. 6—Attorney General Homer Cummings refuses to reopen Hauptmann | case—Hitler opens winter Olympics before 59,000. : 8—Charles Curtis, former Vice President, dies. i 9—Germany announces she owns | colonies lost in World War: Britain disagrees, 10—Supreme Court voids Long's Louisiana newspaper tax. | 11—-Roosevelt invites Latin-Amer- | ican countries to peace pact parley. !

$12,000,000 New

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| 000.000

| industries.

race.

armies—King Edward VIII sets precedent in first broadcast. | 2—Supreme Court refuses TVA | told to make | 3—Roosevelt asks tax on $620. | Mussolini Selassie undivided profits—Italy | : moves to nationalize banks. | 4--Ttalian troops occupy Addis 4—Roosevelt beats Talmadge, 5-1, | Ababa—Churches burned in Madrid in Georgia primary—Norris Dam | riots. opened—Hindenburg makes success- | 6—U, S.-France reciprocal trade ful trial flight. { treaty signed—U, 8. golfers retain 7—Hitler sends troops into Rhine- | Curtis cup against British, land-—Brevity ties world record In| 7_public enemies Harry CampFlorida derby. | bell and William Mahan captured— designer gies: Earl Beatty. Jutland | 2PG-Capetown flight. Kero {i re THER AY, Wi any 8—Haile Selassie reaches Palestine 11—France insists Germany with- | refuge. draw from Rhineland—Paraguay | 9—2Zeppelin Hindenburg reaches N. J, on first hop to

sets up Fascist state. | Lakehurst, 12—Locarno powers charge Ger. | U: S—Mahan gets 60 years in Weyx % FN Ey | erhaeuser kidnaping. many violates treaty—Floods ravage | Population of Hation reported

East, { fas 127,521, - 13—Italians challenge Britain, a ear be

start drive on Lake Tana region, | 11—A. Mitchell Palmer, ex-At-14-—-Maine cities flooded—Spain | torney General, dies. rm by {resh riots. | 12—-Ttalians quit Geneva because 15—Serge Mdivani, “Marrying | of sanctions. Prince,” killed in Florida polo game,| 13—Frazier-Lemcke farm mort16—Spain orders modified mar-| gage bill beaten in House—Thomas tial law to curb mobs—League bars | Robinson, Stoll kidnaper, sentenced Hitler peace plan, but grants Ger- | to life. man equality. 14—Lord Allenby, 17—Reich agrees to hearing be- | Turks, dies. fore League—Flood ravages Johns-| 15—-Kurt Schusnigg seizes control town, Pa. [of Austrian government, 18—Pittsburgh marooned by 16—Bold Venture wins Preakness. floods; thousands flee deluge in| 17—Bolivian army ousts president, East—Eleutherios Venizelos, Greek seizes control. statesman, dies — Roosevelt asks billion and a half for relief. 20—Execution of Hauptmann set BR for March 3l1—Harvard's tercen- | tenary opens, | 21—Blizzards follow flood chaos in East. 22—Red Cross asks

conqueror of

flood relief ||

{| for 325,000 in 13 states—Dust storms | | rage from

California to Kansas— Italy, Austria, Hungary agree on | extended common Danubian front, | 23—Mussolini nationalizes key | 24—Hitler rejects Locarno terms! —Clements, co-founder of Town- |

| send organization, quits.

25—U, S.-Britain pledge naval parity as new treaty is signed. 26—Townsend Plan inquiry opens |

in Washington. holds Guffey coal act invalid—Hoo27—Reynoldstown repeats 1935 | yor announces he's not presidential victory in England's Grand National | candidate—50,000 strike on Mexican | railways. 20—Two hundred seventy - " Wome baie Mi, | 19—Britain recalls Mediterranean damage in 14 statos—Hitler regis- | “or DIPS. ters his greatest vote in German | 20—Gomez referendum — Italian bombs set President, Harar aflame—Thousands of Cath- 21—Dr. Francis Townsend bolts olic churches reopened in Mexico. |House hearings,

30—Hauptmann plea rejected by| go H New Jersey pardon board. ish colonial TO St: gn 31—Hauptmann gets stay of sen- | ssandal—Black Legion members actence at hour of execution. | cused of Detroit murder

| 25—Norman Thomas nominated

/third time by Socialists for PresiIdent. | 26—A. F. of L. orders Lewis’ labor 1—Labor's Non-Partisan League | group to dissolve. formed to back Rooseveit—Austria 27—Mahmoud wins Epsem derby proclaims universal military serv- —King Edward holds first formal ice. ‘dinner since accession; Ernest Simp2—Tornadoes kill 24, injure hun- sons guests. dreds in South. 28—House orders Townsend court 3—Bruno Hauptmann electrocuted | trial—French arms factory workers for slaying Lindbergh baby--Zep- | strike—Dionne quintuplets 2 years pelin Hindenburg crosses Atlantic, | old. reaches South America on first 30—Queen Mary sets new sea flight. | record of 766 miles in day—Louis 4—Emperor Haile Selassie’s army | Meyer wins Indianapolis

routed. | race. 6—Southern tornadoes kill more 31—Pope Pius XI celebrates sev- | enty-ninth birthday.

Lemke 18—United States Supreme Court

inaugurated Cuban

APRIL

than 400; Tupelo, Miss., devastated.

Calles and |

car magnate, and wife die in plane

nalists arrested in Spanish reund- |

rescued |

JUNE

1=Liner Queen Mary arrives in New York-—Two-gent rail fares in effect — United States Supreme | Court voids New York minimum wage law==Representative Zioncheck of Washington held in Capital for sanity test. 2--Cyrus H, McCormick, former harvester “king,” dies. 3--House Speaker | Byrns dies. 4¢-Rep. W. B, Bankhead (Dem, Ala.) named House Speaker—Pre'mier Leon Blum forms French eabiInet; strikes cripple nation, 6—Tony Manero wins | States Open golf title—Granville | | wins $45,000 Belmont Stakes, | 8-—John Hays Hammond Sr, | (famed mining expert, and E. H.| | Green, financier, son of Hetty | | Green, die—Avalanche balks Mt, | Everest climb, | 9—-Mussolini gives up three eabi-

Joseph W.

United |

| foreign minister. | 11—Gov. Alfred M. Landon

[Republican convention in Cleveland, 12—-French chamber passes our week bill; strikes end. 13—Rains “worth a million” break great drought through Midwest, 15—Bonus Day brings $1,500,000 to World War veterans, 18—Thirty-six churches burned in Spanish uprising. 17—United States Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida dies. 18—Maxim Gorky, famous Russian author, dies—Hundreds of scientists watch sun eclipse in Asia.

19—Rep. William Lemke (Rep, N,

40th

backed by Father Coughlin—French cabinet votes to end Italian sanctions—Max Schmeling knocks out Joe Louis in twelfth round, 20--Congress adjourns. 22—-Washington University Poughkeepsie Regatta races. 24—Arthur Outten, noted grain speculator, dies, | 26—President Roosevelt renom[inated at Democratic national convention in Philadelphia—Railway pension law and its tax act ruled unconstitutional, | 97--Roosevelt “notified” before 1 80,000 at Philadelphia—Alfred Padgham wins British Open golf championship. 80-—Liberty League announces it will enter campaign against Roose- | | velt.

wins

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JULY

1—Ajexander Berkman, anarchist ( leader, kills self.

2-Floods kill 25, cause $4,000,000 | damage in Texas—C. I. O. unions defy A. F. of L. citation—Pope orders world drive on indecent films.

3—Fred Perry wins British tennis title for third time.

| Lord Tweedsmuir, | Canada.

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| opens in Geneva.

of | Kansas nominated for President at |

D.) announces President candidacy: | [YN

trial plants, 31 = President Roosevelt, in Quebec to confer with Gov, Gen, praises tie with

AUGUST

1=Franoce asks powers to remain in Spanish war, warns against aiding rebels—Forest fires called to aid=Eleventh open in Berlin before 100,000.

3-=Financial aid to Spanish gov.

ernment pledged by 100.000 in Mos- |

cow mass meeting -— Jesse Owens {wins 100-meter final in Olympics, | tying record, 4—Rebels defeated Madrid by 80,000 Leftists, 5A. F. of L. council votes suspension of 10 C. I, ©. unions Greek general strike orushed = Lithuania and Germany reach po-litical-trade accord. 6-—Airliner crash near St. Louis kills eight—=Jeffersonian Democrats open conclave in Detroit, T-Spanish lovalist warships wreck Algeciras, cut off rebels in Morocco — Representative Marion Zioncheck leaps to death in See attle,

8-First

north eof

world Jewish congress

9—Arthur B. Reeve, noted author, dies,

10--King PFdward VIIT starts Mediterranean cruise; Mrs. Wallis Simpson among guests,

12—=Rosalind wins

13—Sensational Mary Astor-Dr, | Franklyn Thorpe case settled; daughter's custody divided. l4—Father Charles E. Coughlin opens convention of N, U, 8. J. in Cleveland, 16—A. A. U, suspends Jesse Owens for ignoring exhibition tour as Olympics end-—Massacre of 1200 charged as Spanish rebels capture Bada joz—Typhoon takes many lives, causes immense damage in Philip=pines,

Astor Zioncheck

18-—Joe Louis knocks out Jack Sharkey in third round. 19—British ban all arms ments to Spain—Hearst Seattle newspaper labor dispute,

20-United States refuses Uruguay's plea to mediate in Spanish war--Germany orders warship to Spain to resist vessel searches. 21-—-Bolivin and Paraguay sign agreement resuming relations. 22--Landon opens Eastern campaign in birthplace, West Middlesex, Pa.—Gov. Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota dies. 23—Horthy of Hungary and Hitler agree on anti-Soviet front—Soviet sentences 16 to die for plot against Stalin, 24¢Germany and Russia ban arms exports to Spain. 25—Roosevelt starts drought states tour—William Bullitt named United States ambassador to France.

27-~Secretary of War George Dern

ship suspends publication in

to Ethiopia—Helen Jacobs wins

Wimbledon tennis title.

5—Paris police battle 15,000 Right- | ists in riots.

7-—Leave of absence as Postmaster General given James A. Farley; resignation rejected—Britain asks £27,000,000 more for rearming program—Tchitcherin, Soviet statesman, dies—National Leaguers beat Americans, 4-3, in annual all-star game, 8—John D, Rockefeller Sr, 97— | Thomas Meighan film star, dies— Hitler offers pact guaranteeing Austrian independence.

9—Heat

ated. 15—~Townsend Plan convention (opens in Cleveland — Sanctions | against Italy lifted. | =King Edward VIII escapes assas- | sination attempt.

| to expropriate arms industry.

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| 18—Turkey given right to rearm

rocco rebel,

21—United States sends warships to Spanish waters. 23—Gov. Alfred M. Landon accepts G. O. P. presidential nomina- | tion—Eleanor Holm Jarrett dropped |

from United States Olympic team |

27—Alvin Karpis given life term for Hamm abduction.

4—League of Nations refuses help | gjes

| Dardanelles—Spanish forces in Mo- |

| 9—Japan

28—Spanish Leftist government | orders church property confiscated

28—Leon Trotsky interned by Norway; Russia demands expulsion. 30—Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde resigns as minister to Denmark-—-Liner Queen Mary sets new record, 3 days 23 hours, 57 minutes, for West-East Atlantic crossing.

shatters all records in| fk many parts of United States; 1023 | |

Bullitt Trotsky

SEPTEMBER

1—Roosevelt expects $1,000,000,000 rise in Federal deficit in 1937,

3—-Roosevelt and Landon confer at Des Moines drought meeting— United States golfers rout British, 9-0, retain Walker Cup.

| 4—Anarchists destroy Irun, Spain, |¢ d 16—United States Senator Louis | ’ {for second time. | Murphy of Towa killed in auto crash | oN fire when Leftists flee before

| re | . | $C. I. O. international unions

| 17--French Chamber passes bill 'vead out of A. F. of L.—Mrs. Beryl | Markham flies

across Atlantic,

crashes at Cape Breton.

7—French flier Detroyat wins Thompson trophy race, feature of

8—Princess Juliana of Holland betrothed to German prince.

rushes warships to after murder of Japclinch American

10—U. 8. orders its warships from Spanish waters — German e reaches New York in test flight over new Atlantic route.

Olympics

| Hambletonian, | harness racing classic, { [net posts; son-in-law, Count Ciano, |

| =Oatalonia seizes American indus.

| ravage great Michigan area; soldiers |

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Al Smith

| 11=Senator George W. Norris, | Nebraska, enters race for re=election as independent,

| 12-=Spanish rebals capture Tala- | vera==Alice Marble defeats Helen {Jacobs for U. 8 tennis title=Law-

| i

|son Little wins Canadian golf open. |

13=Magnus Johnson, ex-U, 8, Senator from Minnesota, dies==Hit= ler warns Communists millions of Nazis are ready for war,

14-—-Pope Pius XI Catholic church foes in Spain==Republicans win Maine elections,

15-=Oatalonia forms proletarian governing councils,

17=-Soviet warns Germany against attack==French government ends strike of 25,000 Lille textile workars,

18—Tropical storm takes tremendoug toll along 1000 miles of U. 8S. coast==Italy asks League to bar Ethiopian delegates,

19-—-T, Campbell {Fnglish aviator, dies

Black, famed

golf crown,

vention in Cleveland, O,

21==Dick Merrill and Harry Rich man end round-trip Atlantic flight— New German army opens greatest maneuvers since 1914,

23-03, A. R. convenes in Washington; 700 march in intense heat-— Ethiopia seated in League Assembly by 49-4 vote,

24-New York Giants clinch National League pennant,

25-—Harry Woodring named temporary Secretary of War,

26-—-8witzerland and the Netherlands go off gold standard-—Sub-zero weather and snow strike Rocky Mountain states,

2T-=France orders franc devalua= tion; United States joins In money stabilization accord-—-Spanish rebels capture Toledo, lift Alcazar siege.

28-—Admiral William 8, Sims, United States Navy, dies—=Seventeen inches of snow in Denver--Germany finds Lawrence Simpson, United States seaman, guilty of sedition,

20—Eleven Black Legionnaires convicted of murder in Detroit Texas floods cause millions’ loss, 30—Earl Browder, Communist presidential candidate, jailed in Terre Haute, Ind, to prevent speech -Roosevelt accepts J. G. Winant's

resignation as Social Security Board head, to fight G. O. P, charges— Three reporters leave New York in round-the-world air race.

OCTOBER

1—Al Smith cuts ties with Democrats, appeals for Landon election— Insurgents install Gen, Francisco Franco as dictator of Spain—Queen Mary of England moves to Marlborough House,

3—Pam Barton of England wins United States women's golf title— Pompoon wing 2-year-old race clas- | sic, Belmont Futurity.

| 4—Jesse I. Straus, famed phil- | anthropist, dies in New York-—Mobs | halt great British Fascist parade,

| after bitter fight, | 6—Rebels chop way nine miles | toward Madrid — Premier Julius | Gomboes of Hungary dies — New York Yankees win world series, | downing Giants in sixth game, | 7 — Karl Radek, noted Russian | writer, accused of plot by Soviet | China Clipper starts west over Pa- | cific in preview hop. 9—Rebels encircle Madrid, leaving only one gap for escape. | 10—Heimwehr dissolved; Austria bans private armies, | _11—King Bdward VIII moves to Buckingham Palace — Arab strike ends in Palestine after 24 weeks of | conflict with British and Jews, | __12—Philippine typhoon kills 400 | United States, Britain and France make gold deal to steady exchange | —United States Supreme Court re-

fuses review of New York's mint- | mum wage act—Nuvolari of Italy |

17—Rumor King Edward VIII may wed increases insurance rates | against coronation delay, | 18—Sand Merchant sinks in Lake Erie storm; 19 die—"“Ma” Streeter, famed for ‘Chicago squatter rights { fight, dies. 19—H. R, Ekins wins round the world air race of three reporters; 18 days 14 hours—President quits Madrid—Goering choslen dictator of Reich's four-year | economic plan--Carl Hubbell named [National League's most valuable | player.

| 20—Mrs. Anne Macy, Helen Kelters teacher, dies, 21--Spanish rebels open direct smash on Madrid. 22—-Senator James Couzens of Michigan oth order 300

; Be, threatens neutrality

denounces |

erash=-

20--American Legion opens con- |

tugal blockade in Spanish |

| break in Spain=Denver-Chicago Zephyr setx new world train record, {averaging 83.6 miles an hour for [1017 miles,

| 24=China Clipper retums to Callfornia, ending 16400-mile Pacific { trip=Rebel tanks lead 11-mile gain against Madrid; 150 planes menace eity, | 25=Bar] Browder rally broken up [In Tampa, Fa. 12 hurt=Belgians | arrest Rexist leaders in | Fiots,

Brussels i

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J7=Mre. Fronest S8impeon wing di«

| voree at Ipswich, England. | 28—=Japanese Emperor reviews largest fleet ever assembled in Orfent==Oapt. Sir Bdgar Britten, master of liner Queen Mary, dies, 20=Landon named leader in Lit. erary Digest poll, with 370 electoral | Votes==Protostant church admits | subjugation by Naziz in Germany 30==8trike ties up all shipping in Pacific Coast ports=-Lorado Taft, noted sculptor, dies=Rebel fiers twice bomb Madrid, Killing and wounding 190—=King Bdward VIII, | for first time, prorogues Parliament | =~James Mollison flies Atlantic in (13 hours 17 minutes, a record,

Mrs. Simpson Edward VINX

warms Hitler England will fight to protect Belgium=—8ir Basil Zaharofl, | munitions king, dies at 84

28==Navy beats Army, 7-0, before 102.000 football fans in Philadelphia =France decides to ask United States for new war debt plan,

20=<Fxperts agree Minnesota 8

nation’s ranking football team,

[ B0=Cireat throng welcomes Rooses | velt in Buenos Alres—Tire destroys | London's famed Orvatal Palace, |

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

| | 1-==8hipping strike extends to At= [ lantic coast ports, | J-=President Roosevelt re-elected, | With 523 electoral voles, S=—=Madrid shelled; rebels push to suburbs, 6=United pay rises to

in States Steel 600,000 in

leads 1

nation

| B=—German motorship Isiz sinks in Atlantic; 39 die=Federal Reserve Board reports business af highest level sinee 1930-—Hitler bhe= gins Munich celebration of his 1023 beer hall putsch,

Hirohito Hitler

0-CGeneral Motors votes $20,000,000 pay increase and bonus. 10-=Admiral Leahy named chief of naval operations—-Poland forces Germany to end support of Nazis in Danzig. 11-=Mine Workers cite Willlam Green to answer charges—Austria and Hungary greet Italian king as emperor of Ethiopia. 12—Nobel prize In literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill, 14—Engagement of Miss Ethel dv Pont and Franklin D, Roosevelt, Jr, anhounced--Air raiders kill 53 in Madrid—Germany ousts other powers from control of her rivers—Egypt adopts pact with Britain guaranteeing her freedom --Clark Howell, noted Atlanta editor, dies, 16—Distribution of Social Security blanks started across nalion; John G. Winant returns to board head--Mary Pickford engagement to Buddy Rogers announced. 17-=Charles Edison named Assist ant Secretary of Navy--First reference to Mrs, Simpson made by Laborite in Commons, 18—Resignation of Rexford GG, Tugwell as resettlement administrator confirmed -— Roosevelt starts

Tugwell Franco

|for Buenos Afres peace parley | Italy and Germany recognize rebel | regime in Spain,

20—~J, E. Davies named United States ambassador to Russia United States Supreme Court holds

tutional—Russia protests to Japan against pact with Germany.

22--8ir Fitzroy MacLean, famed Scottish clan chief, dies at 101 Denny Shute wins national pro golf title—Soviet sentences German plotter to death; Reich protests,

23-0. P. Van Sweringen, rail magnate, dies—U, 8, embassy move from Madrid to Valencia.

24—Chicago L crash kills three, injuries 65--Madrid government seizes embassies of Italy and Oermany; city badly damaged by air bombing.

25=-Philippine Siamese twins separated after one dies—3talin an-

Premier Baldwin calls on Edward VIII; believed move against Mrs, Simpson. 26—Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, noted actress, dies at 91. 27—A. F. of L. asks 30-hour week, re-elects Green as president—Eden

4 | transport

Ohio's minimum wage law consti |

nounces new charter for Russia- |

I=-Bighop of Bradford rebukes King Edward VIII for non<churei | attendance =Chis Gennerich, Roose [velt bodyguard, dies In Buenos | Alrer=Roorevell, in Buenos Aires | 8peech, urges New World to help lavert war, 2==London newspapers | King=Mrs, Simpson story undep | huge headlines=Premier Baldwin

[tells King cabinet will resign uns less he gives up romance-=-Cloverns ment limits crop Insurance to wheat [for 1037—Japan recognizes Italian | conquest of Ethiopla=John Ring ling, circus man, dies,

| 3=Royal family confers with Bde [ward VIII==British Commons Yew | fuses to pass morganatic marriage [act==Pittsburgh selected to mest [Washington in Rose Bowl football [ game,

| 4=Thirty rebel bombers [attack on Madrid-—-Mrs, [leaves London for France, [ |

H==Mrs., Simpson reaches Cannes, | France=Cordell Hull offers eights | point peace plan at Buenos Aires | parley=—Pope's condition reported “not alarming.”

T=Mrg, Simpson offers to “with= draw if 1t will solve problem" Com» mons halls Baldwin, shouts down Churehill's support of King-—Trota= ky told to quit Norway-—CGeorge A. Ball tells Congress probers $274,000 cash swung Van Sweringen rail em» pire deal,

Edward's baggage rushed away from Fort Belvedere home-<House committee holds Townsend Plan “unsound =Industrinlisty quit New Deal fight, pledge aid to idle.

10=King Edward VIIT abdieates; Duke of York, as George VI, bee comes ruler of Great Britain Japan withdraws major demands on China—Lottle Pickford, screen acte ress, dies,

11-=Edward leaves England on & naval yacht for the Continent,

12--Edward reaches Boulogne, leaves for Switzerland « Premier Chiang Kai-shek seized by rebels Canada swears loyalty to George VI ~-Braddock and Schmeling sign for June 3, 1937, fight,

13-=Nanking troops rushed to res cue of Chiang Kai-shek-—Edward occupies Rothschild castle near Vienna—Green Bay Packers bent Boston Redskins, 21-6, for pro foots ball title, y

14—Presidential electors meet, des | cide Roosevelt won--CGeorge VI | pledges self to duty in message to Parliament-Hitler orders Nazi lead« ers to halt attacks on Christianity | Loyalists beat off extensive smash | at Madrid-—Joe Louis knocks out | Eddie 8imms in 26 seconds,

15-~Japan offers to ald Nanking government, battle Communists,

16—Hope abandoned for lost alr plane, believed to have crashed in Utah with four passens gers and crew of three,

17—Edith Maxwell convicted for A second time of killing father, sone tenced to 20 vears.

“broak™

launch Simpson’

19—Interstate Commerce Commins sion refuses request of American railroads that existing freight rates be continued after Dec. 31.

21--One hundred killed in Salvas | dor earthquake, upward of 500 ine | Jured; property damage heavy «=

_| Holiday business reported 15 per

cent, better than in 1935-Supreme Court upholds neutrality legislation,

22--Britain notifies United States and Japan she is invoking Article [21 of London Naval Treaty, will [keep five “over-age” cruisers,

23—Simeon Fess, former U, 8, Senator, dies In Washington at age of 7540 are killed in gas explosion and fire at Neuva Rosita, Mexico,

24—Pope Plus attacks Communism In Christmas message from sickbed ~President Miguel Mariano Gomes of Cuba ousted by forces of Col. Ful gencio Batista, Federico Laredo Bru sworn in as new president,

25—~Arthur Brisbane, famed cols umnist, dies at 72--Gen. Chiang Kai-shek freed by Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang.

27-~Charles Mattson, 10, kidnaped; note asking $28,000 ransom left by abductor.

| 28—Ailr transport crashes om | mountainside near Saugus, Cal, [kills 12,

30--Pope suffers intense pains;

| Vatican City gloomy, | 31—Ransom paid to kidnaper of

| Mattson child, say reports; Tee lease of boy is believed near.