Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1938 — Page 8

: danvaty-Sit-down strikers hold the Fisher Body plant, Flint, Mich.

-1—Naval treaty expires, "Britain lays keels of two new pastieships; Pitt beats: Washington 21-0 in Rose Bowl.

2—-German warship fires on Spanish ‘vessel;: Andrew Mellon gives his art collection to nation. 4—Supreme. Court upholds ban on prison-made goods. 5—1937 session of: Congress convenes; 12,000 General Motors employees “in two Indianapolis plants out of work during sit-down strikes.

6—President Roosevelt tells Congress courts must adapt Constitution to new conditions; Congress Spaiiish ‘neutrality resolution Bat fails to halt Loyalist shipment. “ T—Princess Juliana’ of Holland is wed after reducing by many pounds. Dr. Glenn Frank ousted as, president of University of Wisconsin. _ 8—President Roosevelt predicts balanced budget in 1938; orders two new . battleships constructed; rising - flood waters peril Indiana towns.

10—Great Britain bars volunteers in Spanish civil-war. 11—Little Charles Mattson found slain, kidnapers unfound; President Roosevelt - asks $790,000,000 relief appropriation; M. Clifford Townsend sworn in as Indiana’s 34th Governor, “12—National- Guardsmen called out in Flint, Mich. auto strike; Roosevelt asks Congress for wide reorganization powers. 13—Martin Johnson, dies after plane crash. 17—Actress Ann Harding marries Werner Janssen -in London. - 18—British Parliament convenes to start arms program. -20—President Roosevelt inaugurated for second term in: pouring rain; pledges :more- aid for underprivileged. 21—General Motors labor peace parleys collapse in Washington. 22—Floods strike Ohio River Valley, drowning hundreds and making more than 1,000,000 homeless.

Homer Martin Gov. Murphy

: 23—Italians cheer Goering at end of Rome visits. 24—Homer Martin, auto union dent, accuses : General Motors of “double cross.” ./ 25—Harry Hopkins reveals WPA rolls will be cut by 600,000; 17 drown in-Florida bus-mishap: ~~ : 27—Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins asks - Congress for more - power to deal with strikes. 28—California Supreme Court up‘holds conviction of Tom Mooney for Day Bombing. 20—Twelve U. S. Army planes fly nonstop to Honolulu; more than 75 killed In gales: on western European coast.

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year rearmament program to cost $3,000,000,000. 13—Strike riots at Anderson, Ind. cause invoking of martial law. 14—More than 135,000 Amalgamated Clothing Workers get new three-year contract with 12 per cent pay increase. 16—President Roosevelt asks Congress to enact new farm tenancy law; all European nations agree to ban volunteers: to Spanish War. 17—Paul V. McNutt, former Governor of Indiana; named U.S. High Commissioner to the . Philippine Hin : 18—8ix killed, ten injured in explosion on battleship Wyoming. 19—Tear gas used to evict sitdowners from Fansteel Metallurgical plant, North-Chicago; six injured. 20—President Roosevelt insists there can be no compromise on court plan; Ethiopians bomb Italian officials, injured Viceroy Graziani.

23—Cutter saves 16 from sinking ship off Cape Cod. 24—Nineteen killed in Illinois bus: crash. 25—Thirteen ' killed in airliner crash ‘in Pennsylvania; sitdown strikers evacuate Chrysler plants pending negotiations. . 27—Administration adopts “handsoff” policy in labor dispute; Anderson wins Indiana high school basketball = championship, defeating Huntingburg, 33-23. 28—Veronica ‘Gedeon, beautiful artist's model, her mother, and roomer mysteriously slain “in New York City ap rtment. 29—Supreme Court upholds Washington ‘state ‘minimum ‘wage. law, revised Frazler-Lemke farm. mortgage moratorium law and bargaining sections :of Railway. Labor Act.

: April Ie

1—New sitdown strikes in General Motors plants make 30,000 idle. 2—President announces will cur-

tail Government purchases of dura-|

ble goods to favor consumer goods.

3—Strikes end in Ferd Kansas

‘Typical of 1937—Widowed by a Rebel air raid in Spain,

11—House of Representatives cuts relief bill one-third to $1,000.000,000. 12—George VI crowned King in Westminster Abbey; Elizabeth becomes queen. 13—Nine killed when British destroyer Hunter hits mine off Spanish coast. 14-C. I. O. strike in Jones & Laughlin steel plants settled; Ford opposes unions in message to 140,000 employees; Pilot Dick Merrill completes round-trip Atlantic flight. 17—Goyernment = bars proposed New York-Paris air race, commemorating Lindbergh flight. anniversary, as dangerous. 18—Justice Willis: Van Dévanter of U. S. Supreme Court ‘resigns. Senate Judiciary Committee reports unfavorably on court plan bill. 19—Duke and Mrs. Simpson sign contract to marry; two hundred Michigan communities darkened by electric strike,

City plant and General Motors Fling |’

plant. 6—Chrysler strike .ends with -col-

legtive bargaining agreement.

Mayor La Guardia Adolf Hitler

23—Italians annihilate 3000 Ethiopians who allegdly were planning to attack Addis Ababa. 24—Dr. Francis E. Townsend, oldage pension plan advocate, convicted of contempt of the U. S. House of Representatives. 25—Italians execute Ras Desta Demtu, son-in-law of. Emperor Haile Selassie, and - claim conquest of Ethiopia is complete. 26—John S. Farnsworth, former Navy! Lieutenant Commander, sentenced to 4 to 12 years for giving Navy: secrets to Japanese.

28—Eugene; Vidal resigns as direc- |

tor of the Bureau of Air Commerce. March

1—President Roosevelt signs bill enabling Supreme Court justices to retire with full pay; attack on Wayne Coy, former Indiana Welfare Director, by Peter A. Cancilla, attorney, - brings legislative action, ousting Joel A. Baker as ‘Marion County Welfare Director. 2—Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co. signs! C. I. O. contract; Italy starts arms program to match Britain's. 5—Secretary of State Cordell Hull “deprecates” insults to. Chancellor Hitler by-Mayor La Guardia of New York: 8—Chrysler ‘and Hudson plants closed by sitdown strike; Mar Cantabrico, Loyalist munitions ship, sunk by Rebel cruiser. S—Roosevelt, in fireside chat, asks nation to trust him in court plan. 10—C. I. O. announces organization drive i in textile, oil and refining

30—Hitler repudipton’ “war guilt”,

clavse in ‘Versailles treaty.

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2 Twenty ‘injured. General ‘Mot®rs strike riots at nt, Mich.; furore aroused in Tennessee over : it of oa rehe Eunice Win"stead to 22-year-old-Charlie Johns. 2—France votes . 19,000,000,000 francs to match German rearma-

ment." ~~ 3—S8trikers h old General Motors _plants in deflance of court order on of Homer Martin. :

ends. : 5— President Roosevelt sends fa- | “he 8 oe enlargement of upreme - and reorganization of entire judi-

, ’ 6—Widespread purge of alleged “Trotskyists” revealed in Soviet

fa Root, renowned states

man, dies o&—Opposition to Roosevelt Sours

sens compromise. ams Sn atilowi strike ‘ends when both sides accept truce Yams of Governor Frank "Murphy

Amelia Earhart Veronica Gedeon industries; Senate committee starts

11—State Department scolds Germany for press attacks over HitlerLa G inciden

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fe Jas a t court orders Chrysler Rem to evacuate; they refuse. 16—Sir Austen Chamberlain, renowned British statesman, dies. : 17-U. 8. Steel signs C. I. O. con~ tract. 18—More than 400 school children and teachers killed in gas explosion |pr in school at New london, Tex. 19—Wallis Warfield ' Simpson divorced in England, leaving her -| free to marry Duke of Windsor. ° 20—Amelia Earhart = crashes at Honolulu, ending her first round-the-world flight attempt. 22—Supreme Court Chief: Justice

Charles Evans ~~ Hughes condemns |

T—Angry farmers oust 500 ‘sitdowners in Hershey, Pa., chocolate plant. Find bodies of eight victims in airliner wreck in Arizona. . I. O. extends strikes to Canada; U. S. House of RepresentaIve defeat sigdown resolution, 236 149

9—Three U. S. missionaries ousted from Ethiopia. 11—Eleven rival union members felled by shots from C. I. O. office in Galena, Kas. 12—Supreme Court upholds Wagner Labor Relations Law. 13—Two Negroes, charged with murdering a white man, are tortured and lynched in Duck Hil, Miss. 15—House passes antilynch ill, 277 to 119.

King George VI Queen Elizabeth 21--C. 1. O. wins bargaining electien 2 to 1 in Jones: .& Laughlin plants. : 22—Independent steel companies defy C. I. O. B3- ohn. D. Rockefeller Sr. dies at 24—Supreme Court upholds Social Security act. 25—Government reveals “plan to place 4,500,000 more workers under Social Security law.

26—C. I. O. organizers beaten in fight at Ford plant.

27—President asks Congress to

| pass wages-hours bill.

The Duke The Duchess

16—Boston Circuit Court ‘of Appeals holds social security law invalid. 19—Former workers file complaint against Ford with labor board. 20—President revises budget, asks $1,500,000,000. for relief. 21--Troops called out in Maine shoe strike; 16 workers in: Brooklyn Jewish Hospital convicted - on charges of endangering lives of patients. ;

28—Twenty C. I. O.. strikers injured as police break up march on Chicago Republic ‘Steel plant. 30—Five killed, scores injured, in Memorial Day riot at Chicago as steel walkouts spread through Midwestern independent plants; Wilbur Shaw wins Indianapolis Me-

morial Day 500-mile auto race, sets

record of 113.580 miles an hour. . June

1—Congress overrides Roosevelt veto of bill extending veterans insurance provisions. 2—Snipers shoot at plane seeking to land food in strike-bound steel plants. 3—Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield married at. Monts, France; President asks Congress for regional planning bill, 4—Helmuth Hirsch, American citizen, executed in Germany. 6—Fred B. Snite Jr., starts 10,000-

23— Senate Judiciyry Committee | |

‘hearings on court flan end; Government files dissolution suit against Aluminum Co. of ' America. 25—Clem Sohn, “bat-man” parachutist, killed in fall: before - 100,000 spectators in France. 26--President intervenes to halt Railway Clerks’ strike; ‘Supreme Court agrees to review old-age pension law, and frees Angelo Herndon, Negro Communist. 27-—Duke of Windsor files libel suit against author anc publisher of book in England. 29 — Congress passes permanent neutrality law: to replace temporary legistation. 30-—House passes $416; 000,000 War Department bill.

1—Six thousand movie technicians

strike in Hollywood.

Oct. 5~F. D. R. hits “aggressor nations” at Chicazo.

weight title from Jimmy Braddock. 23—C. I. O. calls general labor holiday, .affecting 14,000, at War‘ren, O. 24—Tom Girdler, Republic Steel head, denounces C. I. O. before Senate committee. 25—Ohio -steel mills reopen with troop protection despite strike. 27—Roosevelt holds three-day “love . feast” with Congressional Democrats on Chesapeake ‘Bay Island; Robert Irwin, sculptor who killed Veronica Gedeon- and her mother and a male roomer, surrenders in Chicago. . 28—Three girls found strangled by man who lured them on ‘rabbit hunt” in California. -29—President criticizes both sides in steel strike, saying “A plague o’ both your houses.” 30—Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and Ethel ] au Pont married at Wilmington; De .

. July

1—Fifteen Voit in New York ony WPA dismissal riots. 2—Donald Budge wins Wimbledon tennis title; Amelia Earhart and Navigator Fred Noonan forced down

in Pacfic—never found.

-3—Secretary Perkins denounces sitdown: strikes as “unsuited” = to Americhn way of living. 5—Clipper planes span Atlantic in both directions.

7—One killed, 21 shot in strike | riots' at Alcoa, Tenn. Mae West

admits being married for years. 8—William' Green asserts C. I O. lost steel strike; independent steel companies return to normal production. : 9—Rep. Hamilton Fish; New York Republican, accuses Mrs. Roosevelt and Secretary Morgenthau of tax evasion. 10—John Montague, mystery man of golf and friend of movie stars, arrested in Hollywood on old New York state.robbery charge. 11—George Gershwin, noted jazz composer, dies in Hollywood.

Tom Girdler

12—Japanese and Chinese forces clash in North China, precipitating long and bloody hostilities, 14—Senator Joseph T.\ Robinson of Arkansas, Senate majority floor leader, dies; second Russian transpolar plane lands in California. 15—Dual explosion in Baker Mine, Sullivan, Ind., kills 20 miners. 20—Guglielmo Marconi, : inventor of wireless, dies in Rome; Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek vows China will resist “to bitter end.” : 21—Senator Barkley of Kentucky succeeds Robinson as ‘Senate majority - leader. 22—Court bill killed by 70-20 Senate vote as galleries cheer; Congress overrides President's veto on

Gov. Earle

e | farm loan bill,

Jean Harlow John Rockefeller

mile; journey from China in “iron ung.” i oasigent refuses to intervene in steel strike; Jean Barlow, film star, dies in Hollywood 8—President asks $160,000,000 for merchant a subsidies. 10—Special police smash picket lines, reopen steel plant in Monroe,

2—President ‘Roosevelt, -on yacht | pich:

in Gulf - of Mexico, signs permanent neutrality bill. 1 3—“Gone With the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer

Eee hk of Windsor and Wallis Warfield Simpson _ reunited mn

France. German. dirigible’ Hindenburg burns EL 2 Lakehurst, killing 35.

representatives from England.

.10—Glen Martin, pioneer airplane

builder, repeats historic flight of 912 Jo 8 Califomnia, -coas. to Cata-

13—C. I. O. calls strike of 9000 miners in sympathy with steel ‘strike; 15 injured in strike riot at 4 14—S8e; a. nate Judic Committee denounces bo Judiciary Com 17—President appoints tpi: strike peace committee. 19—Governor. Earle declares mar‘tial law’ ‘in Johnstown, Pa, steel

strike. . 20—Russian fliers. land. at. Van-

23—C. 1. O. unions ‘charge Administration “indifferent” to rights of labor. 25—Two “Scottsboro boys” con-

victed,’ four freed.

0. M. Sopwith’s {Endeavour I, four races in a row. 1—Thirty-seven' nations, excluding Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and China, approve Secretary ~ Hull's world peace outline. 9—Japanese officer and seaman killed by Chinese near Shanghai; Joel A. Baker .and Peter Cancilla convicted in Marion County Criminal Court on charges of assault and bebiery on Wayne Coy, fined $1000 eac 10—Five killed, five injured in Daytona Beach, Fla., plane crash. 11—Japs mass 27 ‘warships at Shanghai. . 12—Presiden’ appoints = Senator Hugo: L. Black of Alabama to Supreme Court. .13—Sigmund Levanevsky, Soviet ace, and companions lost in transpolar flight attempt, never found. : 15—Chinese . bombs kill 600, in-

F. R. D. Jr. Ethel Du Pont

cluding three Americans, in Shang- | hai

17—Senate confirms Black nomination, 63-16. 19—Mrs. Dixie Graves, wife of Alabama Governor, named to Black’s Senate seat. 21—Congress adjourns. 22—-Eight killed, 40 burned, fighting Wyoming forest fire. 23—Two hundred killed, including three Americans, when air bomb drops in Shanghai's International Settlement. 26—Japanese fliers shoot British ambassador from airplane; Andrew

21—Brothers of Verna Garr Tay=

lor indicate self-defense plea after.

slaying Brig. Gen. Henry H. Den-

hart on eve of his trial on charges

-of slaying their sister.

23—Japanese bombs kill 2000 in

Canton, China. 24—Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, commander of U, S. Asiatic fleet, says navy will protect American life and property in China ab all costs. ‘95—Mussolini receives ovation on visit to Germany; 72, wealthy Chicago retired nfafufacturer, kidnaped. 27—Twenty-three league nations condemn air ‘raids on Chinese

1—Justice Black admits former Klan membership; claims in radio speech that he resigned ‘before reaching Congress. . 83=Duke and Duchess of Windsor announce will visit America; Ed Howe, Kansas editor and *Sage of Potato Hill,” dies. 4—William Green opens a. F. of L. convention with assertion ‘must wipe out C. I. O. 5—Roosevelt in. Chicago” speech suggests “quarantine” of aggressor nations. 6—League of Nations calls .NinePower Treaty conference to settle Sino-Japanese war. 7—General Franco reprieves Har-. old Dahl, American aviator, on plea of beautiful wife, after courttial death sentence. 8—All Indianapolis milk deliveries halted by labor dispute 3 : 10—=New York Yankees World Series. from Giants, games to one. 11—Ogden Mills, former Secretary of Treasury, dies at 53; Supreme Court rejects challenge to Black appointment; A. F. of L.:authorizes C. I. O. expulsion.

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- four

Mellon, Secretary of Treasury under 1

three Presidents, dies. 27—-Japanesc Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye says American efforts to end Sino-Japanese war are “not important.” . 30-—-Chinese planes bomb U. 8S. liner President Hoover, wounding eight.

1—Secretary Hull says U. 8. ready to join any “genuine” disarmament zonference. ’ 2—Lee Miles, veteran air race pilot, killed in Cleveland crash. 3—John L. Lewis warns President Roosevelt to support C. I. O. or face labor reprisals. 4—Pirate submarine. attacks foreign shipping in Mediterranean. 5—Roosevelt bars strikes by. Federal employes. 6—Rudy Kling Wins both Greve and Thompson trophies at National jar Races. :

Mrs. Dahl Gen. Franco

12—President calls special session of Congress for Nov. 15; Al Brady and his chief lieutenant, Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr. killed in battle with G-Men at Bangor, Me.

13—A. F. of L. ‘urges boycott of Japanese goods.

16—A. PF. of L. and C. I. O. agree

to hold peace meetings; gas.explosion kills 33 in Alabama coal mine.

17—Bureau of Air Commerce in-|

stitutes rigid safety rules for flying.

18—Stock Exchange has worst decline in six years; 19 killed in

| crash of United Air Lines “Main-

liner” in Utah. 19—Federal agents enter Ross kidnaping case in Chicago after revealed $50,000 ransom paid and Ross not returned. 20—Italy and Germany: agree to

“token” withdrawal of volunteers in

26—Senate defeats sutilynching |

bill. 27-U, 8. wins Davis Cup trom Great Britain. 39.0 of Baltimore,

world’s finest and safest liner. 2—Representative Sullivan ; succeed the

~ airliner ; 13

4—Farley denies there ill be “reprisals” against court plan foes. 5—Vanderbilt’s Ranger

|america’s cup in U. 8, defeating 7. in

thor. of “Pigs Is Pigs,” dies.

>. £2 " rn a Benito Mussolini Justice Black 7—President accepts resignation

of Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady, Go Government's ace

Je mediate ™ Ttaly reject bid to

| attend “piracy” parley.

10—Stock market. breaks 2 to 20 points in greatest decline since 1933. 11--Donald Budge wins U. 8. tennis RIOD, defeating Germany’s Baron Von Cramm. 13—China appeals to: League of Nations against Japan; Ellis Butler, famous humorist and au-

16—Scientists report - finding traces. of animal life on “Island in the Sky” in Grand Canyon. 17—President . Roosevelt starts northwestern tour. . 19—Japanese planes’ attack: Chinese capital of Nanking. EE 20—Secretary Hull tells

| ican Legion convention, U. keeps

. Spain.

2 Maritime signs contract for $15,750,000 new liner. ‘24—Federal agents search : drug stores for elixir of sulfantiamide, which caused many deaths. e 26—John Montague freed on 7-year-old robbery charge in New York state. 27—Federal Reserve Board cuts margin reguirements to aid market. 29—Ge y rejects Nine-power conference bid. 30—Two Marx brothers found sully of plagiarism in use of radio

1— President Roosevelt Re | to advance $35,000,000 for corn oans. .. 2—Fiorello La Guardia re-elected ‘Mayor of New York City. 3—Balitmore Federation of Labor adopts resolution condemning Duke

Bedeaux, identified by labor with “speed- -up”

| starts at

‘System. 4—Nine-power treaty conference

Charles S. Ross,

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Also typical of 1937—Chinese sples in Japan S hire are executed.

5—Duke and Duchess of | win cancel American trip, ’

6—Italy, Japan and German in anti-Coramunist pact; Anna ©M rie Hahn convicted of poison mu in Cincinn #--Suprene Court rejects anot attack on Justice Black, who liberal bloc. in 5-4 decision.

9—Former British Prime Minist Ramsay MacDonald dies at sea. © 10—Vargas establishes himself dictator of Brazil. 11—Chinese flee: Shanghai be Japanese - drive; lunatic hec George VI during Armistice ceremonies in London. 13—Greez vessel founders storm, 21 rescued. 14—President Roosevelt agrees i help mediate Haitianborder dispute, which hasin thousands of deaths. 15—Spec al session of ] convenes; Nine-power confe votes censtire of Japan. ! 16—Roos:velt and Carnes; have teeth pulled. ; ‘17—Prince Ludwig of Hesse ries in London after five me bers of his ancient German fan killed in air crash en route tos

g. ; 19—Capt. Eyston sets new a speed record of 311 miles an hour: Utah salt ilats. 20-—Sitdowners evacuate year plant. at Akron after Davey threatens to- call troops. 32—sitdcwn ‘strikers leave tide plants on plea of auto president Homer Martin. . 24—Nine-power parley adjot former Postmaster General Albee Burleson, father of air mail, dies.% . 26—Japanese take over mails radio ‘in: Shanghai. i 28—Howse C condemns Administration farm b as “unconstitutional.” *

1—Duchess of Windsor is listed British Who's Who, together w Duke and members of British roy family. . 2—Hous? fidor action on wa hours ‘bill assured by 218 signa ] on petition; John L. Lewis and liam Green meet personally to labor peace. 3—Japaaese withdrawn from Shanghai International after angry argument with U. Marines; Rudy Kling and Haines, roted .speed flyers die Miami air race crackup. od 4—Hartey W. Barclay, trae magazine editor, defies Nati Labor Relations Board subpena produce records on critical * 5—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. L bergh arvive on surprise visit United States.

ernment’s right to prosecute Alu num Co. of America in New Yor Federal Courts. 3 7—Twenty Fo ago “Joday { ‘United Sta eclared “war Austria. 9—United Lutheran Church, resenting 2,000,000 members, Dieriial conference at Harris

11—One year ago today King : ward VIII of Great Britain cated in order to marry Wallis fleld Simpson. a ‘14—British Empire celebrates 43 birthday of King George Workers Organizing. Committee, I. O. affiliate, holds its first ann convention in Pittsburgh. 2 16—Ofiicial version of: attack Panay indicates action was erate. 17—Rep. Ludlow’s war refe: plan is disapproved by Presi 18—Pittsburgh threatened by flood; Ambassador Robert V Bingham. dies at 66. ° se 20—State Department urges Americans to evacuate 21—Senate Civil Liberties mittee reports to Congress

tice” in American industries;

1 cial session of Congress

22—Frank B. Kellogg dies on of 81st birthday. 23—Curtis Shake named to diana Supreme Court; Ford Co. cited. by NLRB for “savage union activity.” : - 24—Guvernor Townsend 8 two-month “moratorium” on 5 chase of motor vehicle licenses. = 26—United States accepts Japan’ Roe: Marquis, ywright m t novelist, dies“at a ua New scientists in convention at I apolis told that half of lobar pneumpnia victims : ‘saved by serum treatments. - 30—Dr. Wesley Clair } Jimbis. ‘University econ sor, nanied president-elect ican Association or - A

lof Seleree, .