Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1940 — Page 11

CORPUS CRISTL, Tex, Jan. 1.—People in Corpus remember reading rir that some city

in America is growing faster than Corpus—but they've

forgotten what city it is. : For alk > .

of ocean port facilities.

practical purposes, Corpus is a geodenough example of fast growth. It has more than doubled in 10 years. In 1930 it had 28,000 people. The 1940 census will show at least 60,000.

What attracted me to- look into this business was a report that Corpus, though ho more than 10th in size among Texas cities, ranked second in the amount of 1939 building. Only Houston, the 400,000 metropolis, was ahead of it. Corpus has had two new homes built every day—holidays and Sundays included—for the t two years. Suburbs stretch out thickly over Prejries for miles down , the coast. Two miles out of the city limits, a lot 100x400 feet costs you $5000. In a yet-vacant section this side of that (which the owners are holding) the land is almost priceless. One man has 320 acres still in cotton, and has turned down $250,000 for it. Two things caused all this: Oil, and the creation Corpus is now one of America’s big ports. And how: it has grown! Opened in 1926, and in its first full year of operation only 6170 tons of cargo moved out of here. .But last year was 6,718,000 00

the Dggre or oil—there are 1 wells within . Corpus’ shipping radius. This year’s building permits total more than $7,000,000. That tops its previous biggest year, 1628, by a couple of millions. 2 2 2

Storm Disaster. Recalled

The biggest a ad most interesting building job is . the bay ee ent project. It is interesting, first, because its main purpose is to keep Corpus from being destroyed some day, and second, because it isn't being done by WPA. Corpus Christi has had only one really bad storm

Our Town.

PROBABLY YOU DON'T ‘want to hear anything ‘more about 1939, but you just got to listen to me. My message today is one of hope, help and good cheer— just the thing you need after having listened to the radio news commentators of 1939. = Nothing undermined my emotions quite as much as the melancholy behaviof of news commentators in the final phase of last year. Even the cockiest onesylike Mr. H. V. Kaltenborn, for instance, who, I had every reason to believe was pretty sure of himself, ended on a series of

sour notes—notes which, strange-

ly enough, were always sung to the same tune, the refrain of ‘which_ was that nobody knows what 1940 will bring. ‘Shucks, I know exactly what 1940 will bring and I

"* don’t pretend to be much of a prophet. Certainly not

. The Long-Lost Sister

in the same same class with radio news commentators. Just the same I know of at least a dozen big events

_ every one of which will be significant enough to make the front page of every Indianapolis newspaper in

1940-111 even go further and predict that every

. prophecy of mine will be more than good enough to

merit a front page picture at least three columns wide. t 4 # ”

Among the big events scheduled for 1940, about which the news commentators know nothing, will be

& the front page newspaper account of the meeting of + two sisters who haven't seen ®ach other for 35

IS, followed up with the discovery that they had’ been living dround the corner from each other all that

: time. This will be good for a group picture accom- . panied by a carefully detailed biographical sketch.

When it comes time to unveil my prediction—like as

+ not sometime around Mother’s Day--don’t miss seeing . the surprised look on the sisters’ faces. biographical sketch, note that the reunited sisters are ° + going to spend the rest of their lives looking for a . third sister who was last heard of somewhere in

As for the

Kentucky in 1908. - It’s the cards, too, that sometime toward the

end of 1040 when the snow is on the groud, the police

1 Washington

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—In this business of writing about public affairs, one rapidly loses his respect, * fer prophets. Surveying the wreckage of their handi-

- work, he can have little faith in nrophecy, not even

_* in his own. Therefore, there is little I ean tell you

about 1940. That must unfold as it will. When we compare the

facts of today—Hitler and Stalin as allies, or London and Paris still unscathed by German bombs—who can say with any confidence what sort of world we shall look upon 12 months hence? ‘We can be little more certain about affairs at home. Will the war in Europe produce a boom here, or will it choke us with our own surpluses again, - reviving with new acuteness the 4 conditions of 10 years. ago? In this kind of world we can live only from day to ; day Yet through the shrouds of uncertainty there % is a faith that reaches out to take hold of us and av us assurance of a kind, touching not upon That but upon a fundamental. It is this, I think: t Americans have i faith in America.

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The Beginning of Defeatism

3 Candidate Dewey talked recently about the de- {| featism of the Roosevelt Administration, but he was

5 ! nearsighted. The defeatism we have suffered began

+ “after 1929, after we discovered that prosperity was : not just around Mr. Hoover's corner. It began after © we discovered that private enterprise, unchecked, EN Osop the green light for a decade, with the traffic cops all looking the other way, suddenly crashed in : the worst traffic jam of our history. It was then that * people were wondering whether our system would . survive, whether this was not the end, whether the - answer was not socialism or dictatorship. It was then

WASHINGTON, Sunday.—The New Year is a time ‘ for new beginnings and I hope that in the course rn this coming year we will come measurably closer to peace, for peace is the prelude to all the other 4 changes which must come if the great mass of people throughout the world are to look forward te greater happiness. Because of the war, we will find the problems of peace intensified. We will need to redouble our ‘efforts in order to bring about the solution of many questions that are still unsolved.

But with good will and real de-"

termination, we should be able to find some real solutions, if we . begin now to prepare our minds and hearts and go about . our work unselfishly and with determination and faith in the

3 ways of democracy.

A number of people have sent me a prayer which are desirous of having repeated throughout the

1d. We were told once to gather together to make “our common supplications to the Lord. It is probable 6aslf Wns G2 Nz Needs 10,5¢ ayers. and wloue sy

By Ernie Pyle

wv, put that one was so terrible people still haven't got over i fall. of 1919. hers was 3 It h ned in the fall © De then a tidal wave. More than 600 ere killed. Corpus went right to work to see that nothing like that happened again. The very next year they began building| a Maginot Line against the Gulf of Mexico. The state Legislature turned qver the ad-valorem

- taxes from nine surrounding counties to this project

for a period of 20 years. | That 20-year tax arrangement will be up in 1941. But already another protection project’ is under way, in fact well along toward completion. It costs a million and a half. And the state has turned over the taxés from these nire counties for another 20 years. ere is not a cent pe Federal money in it. 2

Populpr in Summer

The project consists of a 14-foot’ concrete wall, feet out from the present shoreline and Sunning for a mile right in front of the business dis- | d this wall they are pumping in silt and h dredges. it all settles down, they will have created 19 new [city blocks, with a palm-lined boulevard on the outside and three yacht basins inside. And they say no storm can ever wreck Corpus again. There’s a fiew 18-story hotel going up, fo be one of the [most super hotels in the Southwest (cost, $1,125,000). There's a new cathedral (cost, around $600,000). There’s a new power plant for the Central Power & Light Co. (cost, $1,000,000). And there's ionaires’ row of homes getting bigger and bigger. |And biggest of all—it looks as though Corpus is going| to get the Navy’s new air training station, to be half |again as big as Pensacola is now. have from 2000 to 5000" vacationists here the year roungd.. Oddly enough, summer is really a bigge vacation season than. winter, for it’s always

Cor s growth seems sound. It. is built on agriculture land cattle and oil. Local people say ‘that experts ¢ity growth and population’ movement have been here to look things over, and predict that within 50 years Corpus will be the biggest city in Texas.

‘By Anton Scherrer).

of Indianapolis will pick up a beggar and find a couple of thousand-dollar bills sewed on the inside of her

ay somebody will produce: a letter just’ Solve Une by the postman which was mailed 25 years ago. It’s going to embarrass Adolph Seidensticker like everything because this time the long-delayed letter n out to be a marriage proposal which for want answer wrecked the future of an Indianapolis

going to be the most poignant story of the year —good for at least a week—which finally comes to an

ly because of the discovery of a photograph of ji

will shew a weather-worn old man with six grown children grouped around him.

Some More Forecasts

My | predictions for 1940 also include the return of 30 cenis (plus interest for 15 years) to some corporagovernmental unit or circus by a consciencestricken Indianapolis citizen. This year I have high hopes that it will be a banker—one who suddenly remembers that something in his past needs fixing up. It’s not expecting too much. Certainly not after what a conscience-stricken Indisnapolis preacher did last

Q rain on St. Patrick's Day, but, Chow. Mrs. Fredetic Polley will manage to plant her sweet pea (2) October will be known as “Milk Month”; ost of the streets of Indianapolis will be torn up : State Fair Week; (4) “Tobacco Road” will

Christmas clegrance sales (“A Civic Event”) will start the same day (7 a. m.).

By Raymond Clapper

that President Roosevelt could have taken over and The 1933 bank panic was the pf our national despsir. rom’ the day of Mr. Roosevelt’s first inaugura- , hopes rose. They rose too high. Eventually it discovered that the problems had not been ed, and many have been disillusioned as to various ails about the Roosevelt program. More fundatal, practically everyone recognizes that we have

lems of continued unemployment in the midst business revival, and continued piling up of farm

But to call that defeatism is to misname it. or the last year, events in Europe have driven home .to Americans, I believe, the one great truth that whatever the failures in our system, it offers vidual freedom and opportunity, a way of life incomparably beyond anything that other experiments have offered.

Aware of Our Good Fortune

Hitler has showed us the horrors of dictatorship. Russia has showed us the horrors of communism. Between these two dark pages in the book of history, democracy shines out with new brilliance. Never have Americans been so aware of their good fortune. I sénse that pride and satisfaction growing every Events elsewhere in the world can only cause

pe that Americans will be too smart to be scared way from that work «bY political candidates who wring their hands and ery that they ,alone can save the country.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

es, and. yet this habit of joining to emphasize certain supplications ‘is helpful to us all. I print this ayer, with the feeling that it puts into words What any people hope for the coming year. “Let the forces of light bring imation to mankind. “Let the spirit of peace be abroad. “May men of good-will everywhere, “Join in the spirit of co-operation. “Let the spirit of forgiveness be invoked by men “Everywhere, one towards the other. “Let power attend the efforts of “The great servers of humanity.” We will hav oined us before for our New Year's Eve celebration with us tonight. Many of the family are still here.

Secretary and Mrs. Morgenthau and their farhily will

he with us, and Bishop Atwood and the Rev. Mr. Endicott Peabody of Groton School, and a few others are sure to drop in at the last minute. We will observe the usual xitual of egg-nbég and toasts as the New ear ‘is rung in. At our gathering tonight, we will be voicing the same wish that will be in the heart of every Ameran: “May the: New Year be a happy one for our

beloved country and for us, and may it bring eater :

happiness to the world as a wholel”

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many of the same people who have|

Europe’ 5

U.S Neuirality, Relief Issue,

Also Highlights

ERE .in chronological order are the major events of the year, as they happened from day to day.

JANUARY

/ a 1—Ex-Governor Frank Murphy of -Michigan named Attorney General.

3—Congress opens, is advised by

Navy board that U, S. needs 41 air, sub and destroyer defense bases.

5—President asks $875,000,000 for

-relief until July 1; names Frank-

furter to Supreme Court. T7—Tom Mooney freed.

12—Roosevelt asks $552,000,000 defense program, $321,000,000 of it . for aircraft. . 13—House rebels, slashes relief bill to $725,000,000 14—Britain, in strong note to Japan, says she will not tolerate closing of Open Door in China. 20—Hitler removes Schacht as Reichsbank head, suspends refugee negotiations. 21—Cavalier, Imperial Airways Bermuda flying boat, sinks in storm at sea; three die, 10 are saved. 25—Earthquake rocks Chile, kills 15,000 in 20 cities. Ribbentrop, Beck hail GermaiPolish non-aggression pact at Warsaw dinner. 26—Rebels take Barcelona without fight after three-day siege. 27—Senate upholds House relief cut in 47-46 vote. Roosevelt permits France to buy war planes, asks Congress to rush U. S. purchases. 30—Hitler sets colonies Reich’s next objective.

su NO SQUIIRN

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FEBRUARY

4—Ohio Valley floods leave 30,000

,|homeless in four states.

7—Ousted New. York subway workers sabotage trains, delay thousands. 9—House votes income tax on all Federal, state and local government employees. 10—Pope Pius XI dies. : 11—Japan rushes troops from all China to Soviet frontier. 13—Justice Brandeis retires at 82. 14—French air mission buys 500 U. S. planes; orders total 615.

15—House okays 3000 more army |.

planes. 18—Gqlden Gate Fair opens to

100,000 first-day visitors.

19—Peruvian cabinet ‘minister slain in unsuccessful coup attempt. Poland and Russia improve relations, sign trade treaty. 22—Senate committee boosts plane limit to 6000, votes $358,000,000 expansion bill. 23—Guam fortifications plan killed as House adopts naval base bill. 24—Senate okays $102,000,000 war

|materials bill.

_ 25—Dewey convicts Hines in Dutch Schultz racket case.

26—Loyalist President Azana re-|

signs; recognize

Paris, London Franco. :

27—Palestine Jews reject British

plan for independent Arab state. 28—Lewis names C. I. O. group

to confer with A. F. of L. on peace.

MARCH

2—Pacelli, papal state, of Pius XII. 4—Congress celebrates 150th , | birthday; Roosevelt scores religious persecution. 5—Negrin ousted; Miaja heads Madrid junta, opens combat on Communists and . parleys for peace. 7—A. F. of L. rejects C. I. Q peace plan for unified labor congress. 8—House passes reorganiztaion bill, aims at economy. 10—Slovak plot to seize independence fails; leaders jailed. Pope Pius XII crowned. = ‘14—Hitler grabs Czechosloyakia. Hungary, Rumania invade Car-patho-Ukraine. 15—Nazis occupy Bohemia, Mo-

secretary of

ravia. Hungarians meet resistance. |

16—Reich swallows three Czech provinces, Hungary gets the fourth. 17—Hitler’s demand for trade control of Rumania rejected. Britain recalls ambassador. U. S. protests through Welles. - 18—Hitler - recalls London ambassador,

20—U! S. State Department tells |

Reich it does not recognize Czech conquest. .

23—Hitler, behind “bullet-proof”

glass, refers to end of reparation of Reich's “suffering” in Memel speech.

25—New Dealers bolt leaders in

Congress, delay farm bill to swap

support for $150,000,000 relief votes.

27—French: refuse talks. with

ih Greece with two-day-old baby.

' compromise. 15—Roosevelt regiiests axis pledge]

lamed new Pope; takes name I

| with militia using machine guns.

| pact.

Oslin Floods Take Big Toll; Mooney Freed |

;

4 Corsi warn = le v.8 ship at sea, is menaced. | 7—Hitler makes first rep triation move in Latvia. Finl a gets Moscow bid. 8—YanKees win world se os over Cincinnati Reds in four straight. 9—City of Flint seized by raider Deutschland in mid-Atlantic. 10—Chrysler closes third plant in C. L 0. “slow down” row. ; 11—Pinns, in Moscow, await Soviet terms. Lithuania gets Wilno back in pact with Soviet. Iroquois arrives safely. 14—Royal Oak, British battleship, sunk in Scapa Flow by U-boat; 786 dead. : 16—Governor Olsoh of California commutes sentence of Willlam K., Billings, | 17—Turkey rejects Soviet de= mands; German planes raid Scapa

: Flow.

' Times-Acme Photo.

Europe at war kept one eye constantly in the direction of the United States. Here is one of. the outstanding photographs taken during 1939, President Roosevelt signs the amended Neutrality Act. Watching

.are, left to right:

Senator Key Pittman (D. Nev.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee;

behind him, Adolphe Berle, Assistant State Secretary; Speaker of the House William Bankhead, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Vice President John N. Garner, Senator Charles McNary (R. Ore.), Senate mi-

nority leader, and’ Senator Alben Barkley (D. Ky.), Senate majority leader.

98—Madrid surrenders; civil war ends. ; 30--Britain, France decide to defend Poland with arms if Ger-, many attacks. . o=Houss votes $100, 000,000 WPA 1

Spanish

APRIL

1-U. 8S. recognizes Franco, Presi= dent lifts embargo. :

3—Commons backs policy of aid to Nazi-threatened nations. 4—Poland agrees to British defense pact, London fears Axis may strike. T—Italians land in Albania, seize four ports. Queen Geraldine flees to

~ 8—Berlin tells Poles that AngloPolish pact is unfriendly act. 10— British fleet sails for Mediterranean to protect Greece, Turkey. 11—Poland calls army reservists; now has 1,000,000 men in service. 13--Britain, France guarantee Rumania and Greece; Poland rushes military precautions. 14—Coal miners refuse contract

for 10-year peace; orders U. S. fleet to Pacific. '17—William O. Douglas takes seat on Supreme Court. : 23— British ambassador: returns to Berlin. 24-—British cabinet votes congeription. 26—Army orders 571 new planes after President signs appropriation. | 28—-Hitler rejects Roosevelt peace sliggestion; denounces British, Polish pacts.

30—Roosevelt opens World's Fair as peace symbol; 600,000 attend.

MAY

| 1—Roosevelt sets up army unit in Caribbean to bar foe bases. 2—Hitler offers Danes nonaggression pact. : : Lou Gehrig, stricken with infantile paralysis, leaves baseball after 2130 consecutive games. 3--Soviet Foreign Commissar : Litvinov is succeeded by Molotov. 5—Poland’s Beck rejects Hitler's demands.

TO THE ROYAL PARTY

6—-Johnstown wins Kentucky Derby. 7—Pope broadcasts to Eucharistic Congress, asks peace. 11-—Russia wants Anglo-French tie on mutual aid basis only. Federal mediator ends coal deadlock; 126,000 go to work. 12—Britain, Turkey pledge mutual aid in Mediterranean. 13—Kentucky calls Nat 101 nal Guard in coal dispute. 14—Mussolini says war unnecessary; Hitler tours fortifications. 17—Soviet insists on full British military alliance. 18—Harlan miner snipers “feud”

19—Yankee Clipper opens air mail line 12 years after Lindberg hop. 20—Dies ‘Committee publishes plan linked to General Mosely. 21—Polish official chauffeur kills German in Danzig. Protests ensue. 22—Tom J. Pendergast pleads guilty to income tax evasion, gets 15 months. : 23—Submarine Squalus Sinks; 33| dead, 26 saved. 24—British agree to dnilos French - Soviet mutual assistance,

25—Bundsfuehrer Kuhn arrested on theft charge. 26—Dr. C. H. Mayo of famous clinic dies. 30—Wilbur Shaw wins Indianapolis - auto race;

JUNE

1—U. S. House votes 100-million-dollar War Minerals Defense Biil.

British submarine Thetis sinks; 99 die. : 3—Britain begins mobilization, 5—Supreme Court voids Hague ban on free speech.

7—British monarchs enter U. S. proceed to White House.

jailed. 10—Millions welcome king and queen to New York and Fair. 13—Administration Neutrality Bill offered to House.

THREE-GUN MAN

14—Lewis hits A. F. of L. leader- E ship, wrecks labor peace hopes. 15—Germany found guilty in Black Tom sabotage: case. 16—French submarine Phenix lost in Indo-China; 71 die. : 18—Six die and scores injured in tornado near Minneapolis. 19—Tax bill passed by House, ends profits levy. . 20—-U. S. protests Japanese bombing U. S. property and Kulangsu incident. 22—Senate passes business recovery tax bill. 27—Polish artillery shoots down German plane. 28—Senate adopts relief compromise to méet deadline, 29°—House votes arms embargo, defeats administration 159 to 157. 30—WPA theater closes, 7900 job-

. |less protest.

JULY

1—Bonnet warns German envoy France will defend Poland.

2—Portland, Ore. rocked by sky explosion as meteor passes Eugene. 4—President asks Senate reversal

| of House embargo action.

5—Thousands on WPA strike over increased hours. C. I. O. strikes at General Motors.

6—Kentucky flood claims nearly

100 victims,

7—Navy Secretary Swanson dies in Washington at 77. 11—Congress pigeonholes neutrality revision in adjournment drive. " 12—Miner killed, six wounded in Harlan coal outbreak. 13—WPA drops 20,000 for absence from jobs; Murphy warns strikers. 15—Kentucky mine explosion entombs miners; 28 dead.

explodes at sea. 22—Senate committee okays Bonrevelvs $2,490,000,000 lending

- 23—Washington snowslide kills six in student party of 25 mountain climbers. 24—Record drought parches East; thousands sleep on beaches in heat wave. :26—U. 'S. denounces Japanese trade treaty; Nippon hints at reprisals.

AUGUST

9—-1000 Czechs in Kladna district|

16—Three die when mercy plane| 4

15—TVA pays $78,000,000 for power to Commonwealth & Southern. 21—Reich, Soviet agree on ronaggression pact, Ribbentrop to Moscow. London staggered. 22—Britain, France reaffirm pledges to Poland, warn Germany. 23—Hitler rebuffs England, moves troops. France mobilizes,

24—Roosevelt asks Italian king to avert war. Hitler orders army ready. British Parliament votes war powers to Government. 25—Nazi raids on frontier charged by Poles. : 27—Hitler rejects proposed talks with Poles. Japanese Cabinet falls. Abe Is new premier. 28—Italy urges peace. 29—Hitler asks London pressure on Poles, keeps negotiations open.

30—London narrows issue to free Polish Degoliation, or war. Bremen sails.

31—Soviet Cabinet ratifies Nazi non-aggression pact. Britain mobilizes. |

SEPTEMBER _

1—German warship fires first shot

lof war at Poland’s Westerplatte.

29—Germans mobilize; expect to

3—Britain, France declare war, blockade Germany; Winston .Churchill heads Admiralty. Athenia sinks, 128 lost. 4—British bombers damage two German battleships as . France makes first “contact” with Germans on frontier. 5—Raosevelt proclaims U. S. neutrality,» slaps on embargo. Stocks boom. 6—Germans rapid advance. h 7—Uasboats active; French move inte | Saar. Westerplatte falls. . ench surround Saarbrucken. ne Sylt fortifications. 10—Canada declares war, following other dominions.

12—Germans ring Warsaw. Windsors return to England.

claim Cracow in

cry to Britain for aid. 15—Poles hold out in Posen, Warsaw, Kutno; take defense stand in Vistula. Russia, Japan agree on armistice in Manchukuo. 16—Britain establishes convoy system after losing 21 ships to U-boats in two weeks, 17—Russia invades Poland from east. | Polish Government flees to Rumania,

1 urageous, 22,500-ton British aircraft carrier, sunk by Nazi

U-boat; 518 lost. 2 erman divisions move west.

21--Roosevelt asks arms embargo repeal -as Congress meets In emergency session. Premier Calines¢u of Rumania is assassinated. :

LITTLE GOLDILOCKS

A 0% oN

27 Warsaw, in ruins, surrenders. Russia signs mutual aid pact

| with | Estonia, < gets bases.’

80—Mosciciki resigns Polish presiden s :

3—House coalition kills: housing | bill, heads for adjournment. Senator Robert Taft (R. 0.) announces Presidential candidacy. 4—-U. S.-Soviet trade treaty ex= tended one year. 6—Japanese bombers wreck- two British ships on Yangtse. J} 1 T—Danzig Nazi chief flies: to Hiter.

: 11—Army and Navy planes crash, 11 dead.

Roberts, Tormer ( : | winner, dies in crash. =

oer OBER

1%-Latvia * invited” to yield ‘to Soviet. Churchill bars a peace.

lics set up 8 sea safety zone at P : ama meet. - i.) 4—Russia deraands special p ileges in Ba Turkey

2 Salwiog $2,000 000-stream-liner wreck kills 22, hurts |initial .

crush Poles in 10-day ‘blitzkrieg. |

14—Nazis capture 60,000 as Poles| -

18—French give up captured: Ger= man territory. 3 19—Turkey signs 15-year military treaty with Britain, France. 23—Browder indicted in passport fraud; bailed by society matron, 24—U. S. demands RusSia release City of Flint. ; 25—Winnie Ruth Judd, Arizona trunk slayer, escapes insane hospital. 26—City of Flint quits Mur=mansk under Nazi crew to feel | way down Norwegian coast. 27—Sehate’ repeals arms embare go. . ; 28—Czechs battle Nazis in Praha. :

"WORKERS, ARISE!"

' 29—Ttaly moves toward Balkan bloc to check Russia. Chrysler strike settled. . 80—City of Flint stops at Trome soe, Norway; sails on. y Winnie Ruth Judd returns to hospital.

NOVEMBER

1—Finland defies Soviet demands. 2—House repeals arms embargo. 3—Norway interns Nazi prize crew, frees City of Flint. /7—Ham and eggs fail in California; Bigelow plan nixed in Ohio, | 8—Hitler escapes assassination in beer hall blast by 10 minutes. 11—Armistice Day. Roosevelt asks. “new and better peace.” 14—Fire sweeps Venezuelan oll town on stilts; 100 dead. 15--Snow cruiser reaches Boston after trouble-plagued jovr= ney; Byrd ship sails for Antaretie, : 17—Al Capone freed. 18—“Mine war” off England's southeast coast starts with sinking of Simon Bolivar, Dutch; 100 lost. 21--Britain extends contraband. to Reich exports. 26—Soviet charges Finns. ™ 27--Soviet urges revolt in Finland. 30--Russia invades Finland.

attack by

DECEMBER

1—Roosevelt condemns Red ine vasion. : 3—Finnish land mines kill hune dreds of invaders. Winnie Ruth Judd escapes again. 4--Russia snubs League of Na«' tions, rejects Finns’ peace bid. _ 6—Red troops hit Finns’ Mane nerheim line, meet stiff defense. 10—U. 8. grants $10,000,000 credits to land. —House opens NLRB investiga=

12—Douglas Fairbanks dies. 13—British warships engage Ade iral Graf Spee off Uruguay; Gers man loss, 36 dead; British, 72. 14—-Russia is expelled from ° League of Nations.

“1 17—Admiral Graf Spee is blown

up off Montevideo by own crew. 19—German liner Columbus scute

#7) | alea 450 miles off New Jersey Coast. °

20—Capt. Hans Langsdorff, come mander of Admiral Graf’ Spee, come ‘mits suicide. 23—President Roosevelt appoints ‘Myron C. Taylor personal ambassador to Vatican; urges Pontiff to collaborate with leaders of other faiths for peace. - 25--Finns, resisting Russians on’ : all fronts, reported fighting on Russian soil. a 26—-Italy and Holy See decide on. parallel action in behalf of peace and against spread of communism. 27--Severe earthquake ey, causing thousands

: fi and widespread devastation.

98—Pope Pius visits King of Ite aly and expfesses he pape a “strong Italy will inspire ’s belligerents to see lasting peace. ~~ * | 20--Three Britons, killed when Nazis torpedo British Warship

_| Queen ‘Elizabeth class.

30—Russia. masses 150,000” fresh for new thrust at Finland's rheim Line. 1

supply ship, harbor: new earth shocks

{relief in