Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 24, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 January 1933 — Chronology of the Year 1932 [ARTICLE]

Chronology of the Year 1932

Compiled by E.W. Pickard

INTERNATIONAL Jan. 2—Japanese troops occupied •Chinehow, Manchuria. Jan. 9—Chancellor Bruening announced Germany could no longer pay reparations. Jan. 20—Lausanne conference on reparations postponed. Jan. 25—Council of League of Na-, lions met and China demanded firm notion against Japan. Russia and Poland signed a nonaggression treaty. Jan. 28—Japanese marines seized ■Chinese quarter of Shanghai and bloody battle began. Jan. 29—China in League of Nalions council invoked strong articles -of covenant against Japan. Jan. 30—Japanese seized part of foreign section of Shanghai, despite protests of other nations. United States ordered Asiatic fleet and regiment of infantry to Shanghai. Feb. I—Japanese warships shelled the Nanking forts. United States, Gr^at Britain, France and Italy made concerted protest against Japan’s course in China, and ■offered plan for peace. Feb. 2 —lnternational disarmament conference opened in Geneva. Feb. 4—Japanese rejected peace plans of the powers, battle in Shangs hai renewed. Full division of U. S. army ordered Xo Shanghai. Harbin, Manchuria, occupied by -Japanese. Feb. 6—U. Sf 31st infantry arrived in Shanghai. Feb. 12 —Japanese resumed fierce attack on Woosung forts and Chapei. China demanded convocation of ■League of Nations assembly to consider the Japanese affair. Feb. 14 —Japan landed 12,000 troops at Shanghai. Feb. 16 —League of Nations council in a sharp note appealed to Japan to •cease hostilities against China. Secretary Stimson sent another protest to Tokyo. Feb. 17—Japan served ultimatum on ■China to withdraw her troops from Shanghai. Feb. 19 —China rejected Japan’s ul•timatum. Feb. 22—Great Britain, France and Italy signed Mediterranean peace agreement. March I—Japanl—Japan accepted League of Nations plan for peace parley in Shanghai, both Japanese and Chinese -armies to withdraw. March 3 —Both Japanese and Chinese armies were ordered to cease fighting at Shanghai; Chinese were driven back about 13 miles. League of Nations assembly met in ■Geneva to take up Sino-Japanese trouble. - < March 4—Japanese renewed attack -on Chinese; League of Nations assembly demanded withdrawal of Japanese army at Shanghai. March 11—League of Nations adopted resolution condemning Japan’s actions in China and setting up commisaion to deal with the case. March 19—International disarmament conference adjourned to April 11. April 11—Disarmament conference "TAfi Q ATT! M Afi April 19—League of Nations committee called on Japan to evacuate Shanghai “in the near future.” April 20 — Trns-Andean railway •abandoned because of Argentina-Chile tariff war. . May s—Japaneses—Japanese and Chinese signed l>eace agreement for Shanghai area. May 13 —Austria appealed to League •of Nations to save her from ruin. May 14—Mexico severed diplomatic relations with Peru. June 16—Lausanne reparations conference opened. June 17—European moratorium on Intergovernmental debts during Lausanne conference agreed upon. June 22—President Hoover offered ■Geneva conference plan to cut world armaments by nearly one-third. July 4—ltaly demanded cancellation •of all reparations and war dgbts. July 6 —Turkey accepted invitation to join League of Nations. July B—European powers agreed to •end German reparations with payment by Germany of three billion gold marks in bonds, but ratification was made dependant on reduction of war •debts by United States. July 13—New entente formed by France and Great Britain to aid Europe. July 18—St. Lawrence seaway treaty signed by United States and Canada. July 23—International disarmament -conference in Geneva adjourned, ten nations refusing to vote for resolution of “achievement.” ' July - 25 —Poland and Russia signed -peace treaty. July 26—Germany joined the Fran - co-British entente. July 29—Bolivian troops attacks I (Paraguayan frontier forts in Chaco •dispute. July 31 —Paraguay ordered general "mobilization against Bolivia. Aug. 2 —United States accepted invitation to participate in world economic conference, war debts being barred. United States and South and Central American nations warned Paraguay and Bolivia against war. . Aug. 31 —Germany, in note to "France, •demanded equality of armaments. Sept. s—Conference of Danubian nations opened in Strese. Italy. Sept. 12r—France rejected. Germany’s demand for arms equality. Sept. 15 —Manchukup recognized by Japan. Sept, 18—Great Britain rejected Germany 2 s demand for arms equality. Oct. 2—Report of League of Nations commission on Manchuria made public, calling for establishment of an autonomous, demilitarized Manchuria under Chinese- sovereignty. Oct. 3—lraqsbecame a member of the League of Nations, Great Britain surrendering her mandate. Oct. 18—Great Britain abrogated her trade treaty with Russia. Oct. 21—New Chilean government recognized by United States and Great Britain. Oct. 22—Paraguay captured Fort Arces in the Gran Chaco from Bolivians. Nov. 4 —France’s new "constructive -disarmament plan” laid before disarmament conference bureau in Geneva. Nov. 10 —John Galsworthy. English -novelist, was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Nov. 11—Great Britain. France and other nations asked postponement of payment of their war debt interest to United States and revision of the ■debts. Nov. 14—France’s plan for disarmament and security laid before the disarmament conference in Geneva. Nov. 21—Japan’s case in Manchurian affair laid before council of League of Nations. China replied. Nov. 23—European nations notified by United States they must pay war debt installment and interest. Nov. 29—France and Russia signed ■treaty of nonaggression and conciliation. Dec. I—Second British note asking -cancellation of war debts received in Washington. Dec. 2—France’s second note for war -debt cancellation received in Washington. Dec. s—Special meeting of League of Nations assembly opened to consider the Manchurian trouble. Dec. 7—British war debt plea again rejected by United States. Dec. 11 —United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany signed agreement to work for world disarmament. Dec. 13—French chamber of deputies voted not to pay the war debt install-

ment due the United States, and Premier Herriot resigned. Belgium decided to default its debt ' payment to America. Dec. 14—Germany returned to the disarmament conference in Geneva. Dec. 15—Great Britain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Czechoslovakia paid their war debt, installments due the United States. France. Belgium, Poland, Hungary and Estonia did not pay. FOREIGN Jan. 3 —Mahatma Gandhi ordered civil disobedience campaign in India renewed and was arrested. Jan. 12—French cabinet resigned. Jan. 14—Laval formed new French cabinet with Briand left out. Jan. 21—Japanese diet dissolved. Rebellion broke out in Catalonia, Spain. Jan. 23—Communistic uprising in Salvador. Jan. 24 —British convicts in Dartmoor penitentiary, England, mutinied and burned part of the prison. Martial law declared in Salvador; government troops defeated rebels. Jan. 28 —Chiang Kai-shek became premier of China. Jan. 30—Finland repealed its prohibition ’aw. Feb. 11—Premier Mussolini paid his first visit to Pope Pius XI. Feb. 14—Ricardo Jiminez elected president of Costa Rica. Feb. 16—Pierre Laval’s French government resigned. De Valera’s Fianna Vail party won Irish election. Feb. 20—Augustin B. Justo inaugurated president of Argentina. Tardieu formed government for France. Feb. 21—Soviet Russia banished Trotzky and 36 others for all time. Feb. 24—Spain’s first divorce law passed. Feb. 25—British parliament passed 10 per cent -tariff bill. March 9 —Eamon de Valera elected president of Irish Free State. Henry Pu-yi installed as head of new Manchurian state of Manchukuo. March 12—Ivar Krueger, head of Swedish match trust, committed suicide in Paris. March 13—President Von Hindenburg lead in German election but failed to get a majority vote; Hitler badly beaten. April I—Ten thousand inhabitants of Villa Santa Stefano, Italy, fled for their lives as village dropped into ancient Roman caves. April 6—Mob forced resignation of Newfoundland government. April 10 —Von Hindenburg re-elected president of Germany. April 13—Germany ordered Hitler to disband his 400,00 u shock troops, April 19—British budget introduced, continuing heavy taxation fbr another year. _ April 24 —Hitler's National Socialists won in elections in Prussia and Austria. May I—Two1 —Two British scientists announced they had split the hydrogen atom and obtained a helium atom. May 6—Paul Doumer, president ot France, assassinated by a Russian. i May B—Eusebio Ayala elected president of Paraguay. Ricardo Jiminez installed as president of Costa Rica. Communist revolt in Peruvian navy quelled. French elections resulted in wiping out Premier Tardieu’s majority by radical Socialists and Socialists. May 10—Albert Lebrun elected president of France. May 15—Premier Inukai of Japan assassinated by young militarist terrorists. f May 19 —Irish Free State Dail. Eireann passed bill abolishing oath of allegiance to the king. May 22—Admiral Saito made premier of Japan. Premier Venizelos of Greece resigned. May 26—Alexander Papanastasiou formed new government for Greece. May 30 —Heinrich Bruening, chancellor of Germany, and his cabinet resigned. May 31—Franz von Papen made chancellor of Germany, Premier Jorga of Rumania resigned. June 4 —Edouard Herriot became premier of Frince and completed formation of a Socialist cabinet. Chilean Socialists and military junta overthrew government of President Montero; Carlos Davila made president pro tem. June s—Dr. Harmodio Arias elected president of Panama. June 10—Three rich Cubans tried to assassinate President Machado with bomb. 1 - June 12—Davila resigned as head of new Chilean government. June 16 —Radical Socialist government of Chile ousted by military junta. Davila reinstated. June 24—Siam’s army and navy revolted and forced King Prajadhipok to accept a constitutional government. June 28—Irish Free State senate passed bill aboli-shing oath to the king. July 4—British government imposed retaliatory tariff on imports from Ireland. July 7 —Civilian communist rebels in Peru captured Trujillo. July 10 —Brazilian rebels captured Sao Paulo. July 11 —Peruvian revolt^at Trujillo suppressed. July 13—Brazilian revolt spread to two more states. July 20—German government decreed dictatorship for Prussia and martial law in Berlip. Premier Mussolini revamped Italian cabinet, ousting Foreign Minister Dino Grandi and others, July 21 —British imperial economic conference opened in Ottawa, Canada. Italy 31 —Hitler's Naz’s made big gains in German elections but failed to get control of reichstag. Aug. 6—New Welland ship canal formally opened by Canada. Aug. 10 —Spanish royalists started revolutionary movement but were suppressed. Aug. 13—President Von Hindenburg refused to make Hitler chancellor of Germany. Aug, 15 —Eusebio Ayala inaugurated president of Paraguay. Aug. 16 —Ten thousand Cuban physicians struck against cheap service in clinics. Aug. 18—Spain ordered exile of 92 nobles for monarchist revolt. Aug.. 20 —British imperial economic conference closed with signing of 12 trade pacts with the dominions. Ecuador congress disqualified Presi-dent-Elect Bonifaz.. Aug. 26 —Military revolt in Ecuador by supporters of Bonifaz. , Aug. 27—British cotton weavers struck. / Aug. 29—Ecuador revolt suppressed after battle. Sept. 2—President Rubio of Mexico resigned. Sept. 4 —Gen. A. L. Rodriguez elected president of Mexico. Sept. B—Spanishß—Spanish cortes confiscated estates of grandees to be distributed among the people, and granted autonomy to Catalonia. Sept. 12—German reichstag voted no confidence in the government and was dissolved by Chancellor Von Papen. Sept. 13—Chilean revolt compelled President Davila to resign. Sept. 20—Mahatma Gandhi began fast ’’unto death” as protest against Indian electoral system. Sept. 21—Count Karolyi resigned as premier of Hungary. Sept. 26—Hindus and untouchables devised electoral compromise which was accepted by British government, and Gandhi ended his fast. Sept. 27—Dr. Clemente Bello, president of the Cuban senate, assassinated. * • • Oct. 2—Judge Abraham Oyanadel . became provisional president of Chile, General Blanche being forced to resign by threatened revolt. Oct. 3 —James McNeill resigned as governor general of the Irish Free State at the instance of President De Valera. Brazilian revolt ended, the rebels surrendering. J@cL 19—Juliu Maniu formed new cabinet for Rumania. Oct. 24—Italy began celebration of ten years of Fascism. Oct. 30—Arturo Alessandri elected president of Chile. Tiburcio Andino elected president of Honduras. Martinez Mera elected president of Ecuador. Oct. 31—Lancashire cotton mill workers struck.

Nov. 3—Berlin tied up by. transportation workers’ strike. Nov. 6—German elections resulted in reichstag majority for no party. Premier Mussolini of Italy granted amnesty to political exiles. • Juan B. Sacasa elected president of Nicaragua. Nov. 14—Hundreds slain in battles between Honduran rebels and government troops. Nov. 17—Chancellor Von Papen of Germany and his eabinet resigned. Nov. 20—Adolf Hitler was offered chancellorship of Germany under conditions which he rejected. Nov. 26—Donal Buckley made governor general of Irish Free State. Dec. 2—Gen. Kurt von Schleicher appointed chancellor of Germany to form new government. Dec. 14—Premier Herriot of France resigned when parliament voted not to pay war debt installment due United States. Dec. 15—Edmund Schultess elected president of Switzerland. Dec. 16—Huge plot against Argentina government foiled and prominent men arrested. Dec. 18—Joseph Paul-Boncour formed new French cabinet. Dec. 24—Arturo Alessandri inaugurated president of Chile. DOMESTIC Jan. 4—Congress reassembled and received message from President Hoover asking quick action on relief measures. Jan. B—Ambassador Dawes announced his coming retirement .from diplomacy. Jan. 9-^-Dwight F. Davis resigned as governor general of the Philippines and Theodore Roosevelt was named to succeed him. Democrats selected Chicago for their national convention. Jan. 11—Senate passed Reconstruction Finance corporation bill. [ Jan. 12—Associate Justice O. »W. Holmes of Uriited States Supreme court resigned. Mrs. Hattie Caraway elected U. S. senator from Arkansas. Jan. 15—Hou$e passed Reconstruction Finance corporation bill. Jan. 18—Joseph C. .Grew selected as ambassador t‘o Japan. Jan. 19—Gen. \C. G. Dawes selected as president of Reconstruction Finance corporation; Secretary Stimson replaced him as chairman of disarmament conference delegation. Jan. 21—Wets lost, 15 to 55. in test vote in senate. Jan. 23—Franklin D. Roosevelt formally declared himself a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Jan. 27—Department of Agriculture supply bill passed by house: salary increases prohibited. Jan. 28—Senate confirmed Dawes. Jones and Couch as directors of Reconstruction Finance corporation. Jan. 31 —Railway presidents and unions signed agreement for 10 per cent wage reduction for one year. Feb. 3—President Hoover announced that Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon would retire from the cabinet and become: ambassador to Great Britain. Feb. 4—Ogden L. Mills appointed secretary of the treasury. Feb. 6—Conference to check hoarding of money opened in Washington. Alfred E. Smith declared his willingness to be again the Democratic Presidential candidate. Winnie Ruth (Judd, Arizona trunk murderer, convicted and sentenced to death. Feb. 15—Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo .of New Yqrk appointed associate justice of the U. S. Supreme court. House passed Glass-Steagel federal reserve teredit bill. Feb; 19—Senate passed reserve credit bill. Feb. 22—President Hoover opened the Washington bicentennial with address before joint session of congress. Feb. 27—House passed >132,000,000 federal aid highway bilk Conviction of Al Capone upheld by federal court of appeals. March I—Senate passed the Norris anti-Injunction bill. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s baby was kidnaped from Hopewell, N. J. March 3—House voted 40 million bushels of farm board wheat for jobless and for drought stricken farmers. March s—House passed treasury and post office appropriation bill carrying >1,059,778.163. March B—Roosevelt won New Hampshire primaries from Smith. Anti-injunction bill passed by the house. March 14—" Home rule” anti-prohibi-tion motion defeated in house, 187 to 227. Benjamin Cardozo sworn In as member of United States Supreme court. March 19—Senate subcommittee reported favorably the Bingham beer bill. March 22—House amended revenue bill to boost estate taxes of the wealthy. Senate ordered department appropriations cut 40 per cent. March 24 —House defeated sales tax. March 26 —House voted tax on beer materials, imported coal and oil. April 1- —House passed billion dollar tax bill, with sales tax eliminated, but with surtaxes ‘ revised. April 4 —Dr. C. C. King of University of Pittsburgh isolated Vitamin C. April 4 —House! voted independence for Philippines. April 9 —Lindbergh paid ransom, but kidnapers failed to return his baby. April 21—Gov. Ttolph of California denied pardon -for Thomas J. Mooney, convicted for Preparedness day bombing in 1916 in San! Francisco. April 29 —Lieut,! T. H. Massie, Mrs. Fortescue and Seamen Lord and Jones found guilty of manslaughter in Kahahawai murder case in Honolulu. May 2 —Supreme court refused to review AI Capone’s case; refused to aconsent to modification of the packers' consent decree of 1920; held invalid the Tiexas law by ;which negroes were barred from Democratic primaries, and upheld President ’Hoover's refusal to resubmit power hoard nomination to senate after it had been confirmed. May 3—Al Capone taken from Chicago to Atlanta penitentiary. House passed - economy bill after wrecking it. May 4—Massie case defendants in Honolulu sentenced to ten years in prison and immediately set free by Governor Judd. May s—-House passed bill for operation of Muscle Shoals. May 6—Senate passed Hale bill for treaty strength navy. May 11 —President Hoover vetoed the Democratic tariff bill. May 12—Col. Lindbergh’s kidnaped baby found murdered near the Lindbergh estate in New Jersey. President Hoover proposed billion for jobless relief. May 18 —Senate voted against 2.75 per cent beer. May 19—House passed War department supply bill carrying $392,587,000. Eastern bankers and industrialists mobilized for trade revival. May 23 —Bill legalizing and taxing beer defeated by the house. May 25—Senate again rejected legalized and taxed beer. May 31—Senate passed billion dollar revenue bill, rejecting sales tax feature, after President Hoover in person appealed for quick action. June 4—R. R. Reynolds defeated Senator Cameron Morrison in North Carolina Democratic primary. June 6 —President Hoover signed the new revenue bill. Charles G. Dawes resigned as president of Reconstruction Finance corporation. Senator Brookhart of lowa defeated for renomination by Henry Field. Samuel Insull of Chicago resigned as utilities chief and was succeeded by James Simpson. June 7—House passed the Garner two-billion-dollar relief bill. June B—Senate8 —Senate passed emasculated economy bill. June 9—Senate passed 390 million dollar army supply bill. June 10 —Senate passed relief bill to provide 311 millions in loans to states. • June 13 —Gaston Means convicted of larceny of >104,000 from Mrs. Evalyn McLean in Lindbergh case swindle. June 14—Republican national convention opened in Chicago. June 15—Republican convention adopted moderate prohibition resubmission plank.

House passed the veterans’ bonus payment bill. Five hundred million dollar home loan bank bill passed by house. June 16—Hoover and Curtis re-nom-inated by Republican convention. Everett Sanders elected chairman of national committee. June 17—Senate rejected the bonus bill. June 20—House passed 100 million dollar economy bill, including furlough plan for federal employees. June 22—Governor Roosevelt called on Mayor Walker of New York city to answer charges against him. June 23—Senate passed Wagner two billion dollar relief bill. June 24—Senate voted farm board wheat and cotton to Red Cross. June 27—Democratic national ponvention opened in Chicago. June 28—Federal economy bill passed by tfie senate. June 29—Democratic , convention adopted plank advocating repeal of Eighteenth amendment and, pending repeal, legalization of beer and wine. July I—Democrats nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt for President on fourth ballot. July 2—Democrats nominated John N. Garner for Vice President. Roosevelt flew to Chicago and was formally notified of nomination. July 7—Emergency relief bill passed by house. Prohibition party nominated W. D. Upshaw for President and F. S. Regan for Vice President. July 9—Senate passed Garner-Wag-ner relief bill. July 11—President Hoover vetoed the relief bill. July 12—Senate passed new relief bill. July 13—Relief bill passed by the house. July 15—President Hoover cut salaries of himself and his cabinet. July 16—Congress passed home loan bank bill with inflation amendment, and adjourned. July 21—President Hoover signed emergency relief measure. Interstate commerce commission approved merger of all eastern railroads, except those of New England, into four systems. July 22—President signed home loan bank bill. July 23 —Federal grain commission ordered Chicago Board of Trade closed as contract market for 60 days for violating grain futures act. President Hoover called conference on- shorter work day week. July 26—President Hoover appointed Atlee Pomerene of Ohio member of Reconstruction Finance corporation board and he was made chairman. July 28 —"Bonus army” in Washington routed by regulars and its camps burned after fight with police in which one veteran was killed and scores of policemen and veterans were injured. Charles A. Walker of Utica, N. Y., appointed to R. F. C. board by President Hoover and made president of the corporation. Governor Roosevelt received reply of' Mayor Walker of New York to the Seabury charges, denying all of them. Aug. 2—Bonus army, gathered at Johnstown, Pa., ordered disbanded by W. :W. Waters, its commander. Aug. 3—Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont resigned and Roy D. Chapin of Detroit was appointed to succeed him. Aug. 9 —U. S. Attorney G. E. Q. Johnson of Chicago made federal district judge. Aug. 10 —Army exchanges ordered to stop sales to civilians. Atig. 11 —President Hoover delivered his speech of acceptance and declared himself for change from national prohibition to state liquor control with federal safeguards. < Aug. 15—Farmers of lowa and other central west states started "strike” for higher prices for produce. Aug. 16—Second son born to Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. Aug. 18 —Vice President Curtis formally notified of his renomination. Senator J. J. Davis of Pennsylvania and six others indicted in connection with fraternity lotteries. I Agg. 24—John Bain, whose twelve Chicago banks failed, found guilty of conspiracy to defraud depositors. Aug. 26 —Business leaders, summoned by President Hoover, adopted plan for economic recovery. Aug. 31 —John W. Poole resigned as comptroller of the currency. Sept. I—Mayorl—Mayor James J. Walker of New York resigned. Hanford McNider resigned as minister to Canada. Sept. s—Farm board announced it would hold weat and cotton off market until next year. Sept. 9—Railway executives voted for 20 per cent cut in wages, effective February 1. Sept. 11 —Central states governors recommended federal financial aid for farmers. Sepi. 12—Democrats won governorship and two congress seats in Maine election. American Legion convention opened in Portland, Ore. Sept. 15 —American Legion voted for immediate cash payment of bonus and for repeal of Eighteenth amendment, and elected Louis A. Johnson of West Virginia national commander. Sept|. 18 —G. A. R. national encampment opened in Springfield, 111. Sept. 20 —Wisconsin Republicans nominated W. J. Kohler for governor, rejecting Gov. Philip La Follette; and J. B. Chapple for senator, defeating Senator J. J. Blaine. Sept. 22—Capt. W. P. Wright of Chicaigo elected national commander of G. A. R. Sept; 27 —Representative C. R. Crisp of Georgia appointed to tariff commissipp. Oct. 3—>-Four lake states asked Supreme: court to appoint commissioner to run, the Chicago sanitary: district. Castel of Senator Davis of Pennsylvania! bn lottery charges ended in mistrial. Oct. 4—Samuel and Martin Insull, former public utility magnates, indicted in’Chicago. Oct; 10—Samuel Insull arrested in Athens. Oct. I 13—-Brig. Gen. Harry Burgess resigned as governor of the Panama Canal I Zone and Lieut. Col. Julian Schley I was appointed to.succeed him. Nov,l I—-F, Lammot Belin appointed ambassador to Poland. Nov.! s—-Director of the Budget Roop begsin cutting down the national budget 4 $1f50,000.('00. American Red Cross reported three and, a half millions spent for relief in past' year. Nov. 7—Supreme court ordered new trial for seven negroes in internationally agitated Scottsboro (Ala.) case. Nov. B—Franklin D, Roosevelt and John N. Garner elected President and Vice President, Democrats sweeping the country. Noy. I 13—President Hoover invited President-elect Roosevelt to conference ori foreign war debts when debtor nations asked postponement of payments and revision. Nov. 18—Helen Hayes and Frederic March voted best film actors of the year. Nov. 21 —A. Lawrence Lowell resigned as president of Harvard university. Nov. 22 —President Hoover and Pres-ident-Elect Roosevelt conferred on the war debt situation. E. S. Grammer, Seattle, appointed U. S. senator to succeed the late Wesley L. Jones of Washington. Nov. 23—Congress leaders in conference with President Hoover rejected his war debt revision plan. Nov. 28—American Federation of Labor, in corlvention in Cincinnati, demanded the five-day week and sixhour day. Dec. 3 —Conrad H. Mann, prominent Kansas City resident, and two others convicted oT violating federal lottery law. Dec. 4—“ Hunger army" of 3,000 reached Washington 1 . Dec. s—Short session of congress opened. Ay House defeated Garner resolution for prohibition repeal by six votes. Dec. 6—President Hoover in annual message asked congress for sales tax and economy legislation. Dec. 7—President Hoover submitted budget cutting government expenses by half a billion. Dec. B—Powers of the R. F. C. extended for one year by President Hoover. , _ Dec. 9—President Hoover gave congress his plans for federal government reorganization.

Dec. 13—Move by McFadf.en of Pennsylvania to impeach President Hoover voted down by the he use. Dec.. 15 —N. W. MacChesney of Chicago nominated for minister to Canada. Dec. 17—Senate passed Philippines independence bill. Dec. 19—President Hoover told congress he was going to name commission on war debts and would seek cooperation of President-Elect Roosevelt. Dec. 21—House passed bill legalizing 3.2 per cent beer. Railway wage reduction continued for nine months by agreement. Dec. 23—Congress recessed for Christmas. AERONAUTICS \Jan. 23—Hawks flew from Mexico to Canada and return, 2,600 miles, in 13 hours 44 minutes. Jan. 25—Eddie Stimson killed in crash at Chicago. March 4 —Harmon trophy awarded to Gen. Italo Balbo of Italy as international aviation champion for 1931. May 12—Lou T. Reichers took off from Harbor Grace, N. F., on solo flight to Dublin and Paris. May 13—Reichers forced down near Ireland and rescued by steamship Roosevelt. May 20—Amelia Earhart (Mrs. G. P. Putnam) began solo flight from Harbor Grace to Paris. May 21 —Mrs. Amelia Earhart Put--nam landed near Londonderry, Ireland, the first woman ever to fly across the Atlantic alone. June I—Army balloon No. 2, piloted by Lieutenants Paul and Bishop, won national balloon race. June 3 —S. F. Hausner started flight from New York to Poland. June 11—Hausner picked up at sea after floating eight days on his plane. July s—James Mattern and Bennett Griffin started round-the-world flight from Harbor Grace, N. F. July 6 —Mattern and Griffin crossed ocean in record time, landed at Berlin and departed for Moscow. July 7—Mattern and Griffin made forced landing 50 miles from Minsk. July 22—Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau of Germany and three companions flew from Germany to Iceland on way to Chicago. Aug. 2—Von Gronau arrived at Chicago. Aug'. 18—Prof. Augusje Piccard rose in balloon to record altitude of 55,774 feet over Switzerland and Italy. Capt. J. A. Mollison began flight from Ireland across Atlantic in Moth plane. Aug. 19—Mollison landed in New Brunswick, completing first westward* solo flight across the Atlantic. Aug. 22—Mrs. Louise Thaden and Mrs. Frances Marsalis set “new women’s endurance flight record of 8 days, 4 hours. Aug. 24—Amelia Earhart Putnam set new women’s records by 19-hour nonstop flight from Los Angeles to Newark. Aug. 25—Clyde Lee and John Bockhon started flight from Harbor Grace to Oslo, Norway, and were lost. Aug. 29—J. G. Haizlip set new coast-to-coast record of 10 hours, 19 minutes. Sept. 3—Major Doolittle set new land plane speed record of 292.287 miles an hour at National Air races in Cleveland. Sept. 11—Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Hutchinson, two daughters and crew of four crashed off coast of Greenland while flying to Europe. Sept. 13—W. Ulbricht and Edna Newcomer, pilots, and Dr. L. M. Pisculi hopped off from New York on nonstop flight to Rome and were lost at sea. L Nov. 14—Roscoe Turner set new record of 12 hours, 33 minutes, for flight from New York to Burbank, Calif. Nov. 18—Amy Johnson completed London to Capetown flight in record time Of 4 days, 6 hours, 55 minutes. Nov. 19—Memorial to Wilbur and Orville Wright unveiled at Kitty Hawk, N. C. DISASTERS Jan. 2 —Fifty killed In train wreck near Moscow. > Jan. 26—British submarine lost near Portland with, crew of 161. Feb. 2—Santiago, Cuba, badly damaged by earthquakes; six killed. Feb. 4-—Seventeen killed by explosion of motorship at Marcus Hook. Pa. Feb. 26—Thirteen persons killed by avalanches near Seattle. Feb. 27—Mine explosion at Pocahontas, Va., killed 38 men. March 12 —Island of Banda Neira in Dutch East Indies, nearly destroyed by earthquakes and volcanoes, with great loss of life. March 21—Tornadoes in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee killed 358 and did great damage. March 27 —Tornado killed 9, injured 50 in Alabama. April 14—Six dead, 57 hurt, in blast in Ohio state office building at Columbus. April 25-—Tornadoes in Tennessee, Alabama and Arkansas killed nine. May 2 —Nearly a hundred killed by typhoon in Philippines. May 6 —Two million dollar Are on Cunard pier. New York. May 16 —New French liner Georges Philippar burned in Guif of Aden; 52 lives lost. June 3—Earthquake killed hundreds in Guadalajara region of Mexico. June 7—Eleven killed in apartment house fire iri Cleveland. Ohio. June 17— Explosion on oil tanker at Montreal killed 29 men. June 19 —Hailstorm in Honan province. China, killed 200. July 7—French submarine Promethee sank off Normandy coast with 63 men. July 10 —Explosion of ammunition depot in Nanking. China, killed 50. July 13—Three million dollar fire on Coney Island, N. Y. July 26 German training ship Niobe sank in storm; 69 drowned. Aug. 4—Six million dollar fire in Chicago packing house district. •— Aug. 13—Forty killed in-south Texas storm. Sept. 9—Fifty-six work.aen killed by steamer explosion at New York. Sept. 1 t —Fifty-five men killed in wreck of French Foreign Legion train in Algeria. Sept. 26—Earthquake in the Balkans killed about 235. Sept. 27—Hurricane swept Porto Rico, killing several hundred and doing vast damage. < ■_ -^ Sept. 30 —Forty lives lost in cloudburst in Tehachapi pass, California. Nov. 9—Disastrous storm in southern Cuba; 2,500 killed and great damage done. Nov. 14—Japan swept by terrific ty- ' phoon; scores of lives lost and many towns and villages wrecked. Dec. s—Japanese destroyer capsized in storm; 105 men lost. Dec. 7—Fourteen cOal miners killed by blast at Madrid, N. M. Dec. 9—Explosion in coal mine at Yancey, Ky„ killed 23. NECROLOGY Jan. I—C. O. Iselin, millionaire yachtsman of New York. Jan. 2 —Gen. Paul Pau, French war commander. Rear Admiral Cameron Winslow, U. S. N., hero of Spanish war. Jan. 6 —Julius Rosenwald, Chicago philanthropist and capitalist. Jan. 9—Frederick O’Brien, author and traveler. * Jan. 17—J. W. Langley, former Kentucky congressman. Jan. 18—Dr. J. G. McClure, president emeritus of Presbyterian seminary of Chicago. Jan. 21—Lytton Strachey. English biographer. Jan. 24—Paul Warburg. New York banker. Jan. 26—William Wrigley, Jr., of Chicago, capitalist and owner of Chicago Cubs, in Phoenix. Calif. Alfred S. Austrian, leader of the Chicago bar. Jan. 27—Lewis Cass Ledyard, noted New York lawyer. Jan. 30—William Hodge, American actor. Feb. 4—Hyrum G. Smith, presiding patriarch of Mormon church, at Salt Lake City. Feb. s—John R. Voorhis, grand sachem of Tammany, aged 103. Barney Dreyfuss, owner of Pittsburgh Pirates. ’ Feb. 15—Minnie Maddern Fiske. American actress. Henry A Blair, Chicago capitalist. Feb. 16—Sir Edgar Speyer, former British financier.

Feb. 18—Friedrich August 111, former king of Saxony; Feb. 23—Mme. Johanna Gadski, Wagnerian soprano, in Berlin. Feb. 24 —Dr. Willy Meyer, noted surgeon. in Nev York. Feb. 28—Dr. A. B. Chace, chancellor of Brown university. March 6—John Philip Sousa, noted band director. Marqh 7 —Aristide Briand, French statesman. March 14 —George Eastman, founder and chairman of board of Eastman Camera company, in Rochester, N. Y. March 18—Chauncey Olcott, American singer, in Monte Carlo. March 19—Former Congressman Richard Bartholdt, in St. Louis. March 22—Charles Livingston Bull, naturalist and painter. March 28—Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the treasury, in Washington. April I—Dr. Evan O’Neill Kane, noted surgeon, in Philadelphia. Representative A. H. Vestal, Indiana, in Washington. April 2—Rose Coghlan, actress, at Harrison, N. Y. x April 11 —Joseph Leiter, in Chicago. April 14—William J. Burns, detective, at Sarasota, Fla. April 18—Senator William J. Harris, at Washington. April 22—Gen. J. W. Keifer, former speaker of the house, in Springfield, Ohio. April 24—Bishop Frank M. Bristol of Methodist church, in Montclair, N. J. May 2—Lee Hammond, pioneer in aviation, in Jacksonville, Fla. May 4 —Rear Admiral C. M. Chester, U. S. N., retired. May 6—Paul Doumer, president of France. John W. Scott, Chicago merchant. May 7—Maj. Gen. Enoch R. Crowder, in Washington. Albert Thomas, head of international labor bureau, in Paris. May B—fe. M. Ryerson of Chicago, steel magnate. May 13—Andreas Dippel, former grand opera singer and rhajiager, in Hollywood. May 16 —Capt. Robert Dollar, dean of American shipping industry, in San Rafael, Calif. May 17 —Dr. B. J. Cigrand of Ba-' tavia, 111., founder and president of National Flag Day association. May 20—Admiral W. S. Benson, U. S. N., retired. May 23—Lord Inchcape, British shipping magnate. Lady Augusta Gregory, Irish dramatist. May 28—Edward F. Swift, Chicago packer. May 30—Rear Admiral John Hubbard. June I—Former Congressman William D. Boies of lowa. June 2—Hugh Chalmers, pioneer automobile manufacturer, at Beacon, N. Y. June 7—Dr. W. W. Keen of Philadelphia, famous surgeon. June B—Viscount Brentford (William Jdynson-Hicks), English statesman. i - ' June 13—William C. Redfield, secretary of commerce under President Wilson. ( June 19—Robert Scott! Lovett, head of Union Pacific, in New York. June 27 —Gen. F. E. Bamford, hero of Battle of Cantigny, in Charleston, W. Va. Vice Admiral DeWitt Coffman, U. S. N., retired. June 29 —Dr. G. F. Kunz, gem expert, in New York. July 2 —James N. Gamble, Cincinnati manufacturer. Dr. G. K. Burgess, director of bureau of standards, in Washington. Former King Manuel of Portugal. July 3—A. H. Scribner, publisher, in New York. July 6—Kenneth Grahame, Scottish author. ■ , . Dr. Joseph Leidy of Philadelphia, _ neurologist. H ' . July 9—King C. Gillette, safety razor inventor, in Los Angeles. —July 10—C. C. Goodrich, tire manufacturer, in York. Maine. July 13—Fergus Hume, British author. July 14—Alice Barber Stephens, American artist. July 16—Field Marshal Viscount Plumer in London. July 17—Countess Beatty, former Ethel Field of Chicago, in London. July 18—Jean Jules Jusserand, former French ambassador to Washington. Thomas Arkle Clark, former dean of men in University of Illinois. July 22 —Florenz Ziegfeld, musical comedy producer. July 24 —Alberto Saptos-Dumont of Brazil, aviation pioneer. July 26—Caleb Powers, former congressman from Kentucky. Fred Duesenberg of Indianapolis, pioneer automobile maker. Aug. 4 —James Oppenheim, American novelist and poet. Aug. s—Dr. J. Paul Goode, noted geographer. Aug. B—James Francis Burke, general counsel of Republican national committee. Aug. 11 —Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago financier and philanthropist. Aug. 18' —Junius S. Morgan of New York, in Switzerland. Aug. 22—Wilton Laeka!ye, American victor Aug. 25 —Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick in Chicago. Aug. (27— C. A. Waterman, senator from Colorado. . Sept. 6- —Sir Gilbert Parker, British novelist. Sept. 20 —Dr. Frank L. Billings, famous physician, in Chicago. Sept. 27—Former Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi. Oct. 2-—David Pingree, wealthy lumberman and philanthropist, in Salem, Mass. Oct. 4- —Gen. Sir Rudolph Slatin Pasha, in Vienna. Oct. s—Congressman J. Charles Linthicum Of Maryland. Oct. 6 —Darwin P. Kingsley, head of New York Life Insurance I company. Oct. 11-—William Alden Smith, former senator from Michigan. Oct. 18—Maurice Dornier of Munich, builder Of giant flying boat DO-X. Oct.. 19—Lindley M. Garrison, former secretary of war. Oct. 10 —Marquis Boni d|e Castellane in Paris. Oct. 29—Horace Kent Tenney, noted Chicago lawyer. i Emmett Corrigan, American actor. Get. 30 —Harold MacGratih; American author. Field Marshal Lord Methuen of England. Nov. I—William Morris, New York theatrical producer and philanthropist. Nov. 2 —Will Levington Comfort, American novelist. Nov. 16—Dr. Fenton B. Turek, eminent physician in New York. Nov. 119—United States Stenator Wesley L. Jones of Washington. Nov. 20—Dr. H. J. Doerman, presi* dent of University of Toledo. Delmar W. Call, noted manufacturer. Robert M. Cutting of Chicago, presi-dent-elect of United States Golf association. Nov. 25 —Dr. F. L. Patton, former president of Princeton university. Nov. 26—E. A. Van Valkenburg, Philadelphia journalist. Nov. 27 —Will H. Low, American artist. Nov. 29—Congressman J. C. McLaughlin of Michigan. Nov. 30—Gari Melchers, American artist. Dec. 2 —Louis J. Petit, Milwaukee capitalist. Dec. 3—Clement Studebaker, Jr., utilities magnate, in Chicago. C. R. Breckinridge, former American ambassador to Russia, in Wendover, Ky. Dec. 54 —Dr. J. C. Van Dyke of Rutgers. art authority. Dec. 6 —Eugene Brieux, French dramatist. Dec. 7] —F. T. Lovejoy, foreign steel magnate of Pittsburgh. John H. Niemeyer, American artist. Dec. B—Henry Kitchell Webster, novelist, in Evanston, TH. Dec. 10: —R. B. Williamson, vice chairman of federal power commission. Dec. 11—A. C. Loring of Minneapolis, head of Pillsbury flour mills. Dec. 13—Congressman Daniel E. Garrett of Texas. Dec t 18—Edmund Vance Cooke, poet and lecturer, in Cleveland, Ohio. Ernest Howe, noted geologist, In Litchfield, Conn. Dec. 19 —Clarence E. Whitehill, American operatic baritone. © by Western Newspaper Union.