1933 Machado, Aug. 12, to resign and flee. Carlos 1934 (June 17, 1925) convention for the superCespedes became Provisional President, vision of international trade in arms, amAug. 13: but another army revolt, Sept. 5. munition and implements of war, including put Ramon Grau San Martin in the presi aircraft and airships. dency. He resigned on Jan. 15, 1934, and June 28, The U. S. Treasury banned silver the Junta put in Carlos Hevia, who was exports. succeeded on Jan. 18 by Col. Carlos Men- June 30, In Germany, a plot by Nazi leaders dieta. and Storm Troop commanders to overAfter conferences at the White House with throw the regime of Chancellor Adolf HitMaxim M. Litvinoff, USSR Commissar of ler was discovered. There were many arForeign Affairs, President Roosevelt, on rests, executions and suicides. Ex-ChanNov. 16. declared renewal of normal diplo cellor Gen. Kurt van Schleicher, 51, was matic relations between the United States shot to death resisting arrest. His wife also and Soviet Russia. The rst ambassador, was killed. Alexander Troyanovsky, presented his cre July 1, President Roosevelt went on board the dentials on Jan. 7, 1934, at the White U. S. cruiser Houston, off Annapolis, Md., House. and started for Hampton Roads, and Ha1934 Clyde Barrow, 28, on Jan. 16, with a machine waii; landed in Portland, Oregon, on gun, wounded two guards at the Eastham August 3; and then started back East (Tex.) State Prison Farm, and liberated through the drought afficted plains states. Raymond Hamilton and four other con July 17. Strike of Minneapolis truck drivers; victs. On May 23, Barrow and his girl ended Aug. 21. chum, Bonnie Parker, 23, were shot to July 25, Nazis in Vienna, Austria, seized the death near Arcadia, La., by officers of the building used by the Cabinet, shot Chanlaw. cellor Engelbert Dollfuss, 41, to death. The On Jan. 16, Edward G. Bremer, 37, was kid police and loyal troops soon recaptured the napped for $200,000 in St. Paul, Minn. Chancellory, with some loss of life. He was released on Feb. 7, in Rochester, Aug. 1, In Port Au Prince, the United States Minn. relinquished control of Haiti. On Jan. 25, at Tucson, Ariz., police captured Aug. 19, The German people approved the John Dillinger, Charles Makley. Russell consolidation of the offices of President and Chancellor in a single Leader-Chancellor, $36,000 in money, and they were returned Adolf Hitler, which followed the death of to jail, Dillinger to Crown Point, Ind, and President von Hindenburg, Aug. 2. the others to Lima, O. Dillinger and a Aug. 21, a band of robbers took $427.950 from Negro felon, Herbert Youngblood, escaped a Rubel armed car on Bay 19th St., Brookfrom the Crown Point Prison on March 3. lyn. Dillinger was shot to death on July 22, Sept. 1, Strike orders applying to 1,000,000 outside a movie house, Lincoln Ave., Chi employees in the cotton, silk and wool cago, by U. S. Dept. of Justice agents. divisions, went into effect at 11:30 P. M., Youngblood was shot to death, Mch. 16, at issued by the United Textile Workers of Port Huron, Mich. America. The trouble was greatest in Jan. 31, The U. S. Government reduced the Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina dollar's gold weight from 25.8 grains to in the South, and in Maine and Rhode 15.5/21 grains 9/10 fine, making its gold Island. The National Guard and mobs value 59.06+ per cent of the par fixed by clashed in several states and over 20 persons the 1900 Act. were killed. President Roosevelt's personal Feb. 19, U. S. cancelled all air mail contracts. appeal ended the strike on Sept. 22. pendThe Army carried the air mail for 314 ing further arbitration. months, 'losing a dozen officers in plane Sept. 21, Hurricane winds have swept across accidents. Honshiu, the central island of Japan. FaIn Austria, Feb. 12-15. an abortive Social talities totaled 4,232; damage over $90,Democrat uprising in Vienna, Linz and 000,000 other places cost 100 lives, with 300 Oct. 5, In Spain, a revolutionary general wounded strike was called by Communist and SoFeb. 17, Albert I, 58, King of the Belgians, cialist leaders in protest against the innoted mountain climber, was killed by fall clusion by Premier Alejandro Lerroux of ing from a cliff overlooking the River three Catholic Popular Actionists in his Meuse, east of Namur. new cabinet. In the province of Catalonia Mch. 6, Dr. Alice L. Wynekoop, 63, was con an independent free state was proclaimed. victed, in Chicago, of the murder of her Sanguinary disorders occurred at Madrid, son's wife, Mrs. Rheta Gardner Wynekoop, Barcelona and other cities and industrial 22, Nov. 21, 1933, and was sentenced, Mch. centres. All of Spain was put under martial 24, to a 25-yr. prison term. law. President Luis Companys and other Mch. 22, U. S. Congress granted Philippine Catalan rebels were captured after loyal independence, later ratified by the Philip troops had shelled the public buildings at pine Legislature, effective in 1945 or soon Barcelona. Warships were sent to the coast thereafter. cities. Churches and convents were burned April 27, at Buenos Aires, the Argentine, by anti-Catholics. anti-war pact, previously agreed on at the Oct. 9, King Alexander I (45) of Yugo Slavia Pan-American conference in Montevideo, and Foreign Minister Jean Louis Barthou was signed by the United States, Bolivia, (72) of France, were assassinated in MarColombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El seilles, where the King had landed from a Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, warship, and was on the way to a diploNicaragua, Panama and Venezuela. It was matic conference at Paris. The slayer, signed on Oct. 10, 1933, by Argentina, Velichko Kerin, alias Peter Kaleman, alias Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay and Valada G. Chernozemsky, born in Bulgaria, Uruguay, in Rio. was sabred and beaten and stamped to May 10, drought and dust storms in the U. S. death, but not before he had shot Gen. mid-West are destroying winter wheat. Alfonse J. Georges and several spectators. Longshoremen and other dock laborers began Oct. 10, In Louisville, Ky., Mrs. Berry V. strikes on the U. S. Pacific and Atlantic oil coasts, marked by violence and fatalities. Stoll (Alice Speed) 26,. wife of an operator, was beaten and taken from her A general strike of union workers was home by a kidnapper who left a demand started on July 16, in San Francisco, but for $50,000. On Oct. 16, she was found by quickly fizzled; the dock strikes practically agents of the U. $. Dept. of Justice, near ended by arbitration on July 29. Scottsburg, Ind. The kidnaper, Thomas H. May 29, The Treaty of Relations between the Robinson Jr. was caught in California, May United States of America and the Republic 11, 1936 and on May 13 sentenced to imof Cuba was signed, abrogating the Treaty prisonment for life. of Relations concluded between the United Oct. 22, Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, 30, was States and Cuba on May 22, 1903. It was shot to death by U. S. officers near East ratified May 31, by the U. S. Senate and Liverpool, Ohio. was put into force on June 9. Nov. 24, In Chicago, the $100,000,000 Insuli May 31, The U. S. Grand Fleet of 81 warships mail fraud trial ended in & verdict of not and 35,000 officers and men entered New guilty for Samuel Insull and his 16 co-deYork Harbor for the first time in four fendants, all former associates in the utiliyears. ties and financial field. Included among June 14, Germany proclaimed a transfer mor them were Harold L. Stuart, Charles B. atorium, and suspended cash payments on Stuart, Stanley Field, Clarence W. Sills, her foreign debts. and Edward J. Doyle. June 15, The U. S. Senate ratified the Geneva Nov. 27, with a machine gun, George (Baby 1934 Face) Nelson (Lester M. Gillis) so! 1935 the U.S. It had cost $3,694,000,000 since death U. S. Dept. of Justice Agent Herman May. 1933. E. Hollis, and mortally wounded his as- Dec. 30, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, wife and sociate Samuel P. Cowley, near Chicago. child, arrived in Liverpool and took up The next day, Nelson's dead body was residence in Wales. found in Niles Center, wrapped in a 1936 Jan. 1, The U. S. Federal Act creating jobblanket. insurance went into effect. Dec. 9, First clash between Ethiopian and Jan. 6, The U. S. Supreme Court, 6 to 3 Italian soldiers at or near Wai Wai, on the (Stone, Brandeis, Cardozo), in an opinion disputed frontier of Italian Somaliland; read by Justice Roberts, upset the AgriculDec. 15, Italy refused arbitration as to the tural Adjustment Act, declaring it to be an frontier and demanded reparations and an invasion of rights of the States to regulate apology; 1935---Jan. 10, fighting resumed, their local activities. It specifically banned Italy mobilized 70,000 troops; a committee i the use of processing taxes to regulate crop of conciliation was agreed to; May 13, production. The minority termed the deciEthiopia protested to the League of Na sion a “tortured construction of the Contions; Oct. 3, Italian forces invaded Ethi stitution." On Jan. 13, the Court ordered opia, Adowa bombed; Oct. 4. Adigrat oc $200,000,000 of impounded processing taxes cupied; Oct. 6, Adowa occupied; Oct. 14, returned to the suing processors, and, on Aksum, the Holy City, taken; Nov. 6, Jan. 20, peremptorily ordered the taxes Makale and Gorahia occupied; 1936-March returned at once. 29, Harar destroyed; April 13, Italian forces Jan. 20, King George V, 70, died at his farm, on North Shore of Lake Tana (Tsana); Sandringham, England, and was succeeded April 15, Dessie taken; May 1, Emperor by his eldest son, Prince of Wales, 42, who Haile Selassie and family fled from Addis took title as Edward VIII. He abdicated Ababa to Jibuti, whence they went on a on Dec. 11, 1936, and was succeeded by his British cruiser to Palestine; May 5, Premier brother next in age, the married Duke of Benito Mussolini, in Rome, announced the York, who became George VI. The exwar over, Ethiopia annexed, and King Vic ruler resumed his family name as David tor Emmanuel had become Emperor of Windsor, but soon was created Duke of Ethiopia; so decreed, May 9. Windsor. He gave up the throne he said 1935 The Saar Territory, taken from Germany by because he could not marry the "woman I the Versailles World War Treaty, voted, love" Mrs. Wallis Warfield, of Baltimore. Jan. 13, to return to German ownership, Maryland, who, on Oct. 27, had gotten & on March 1. divorce at Ipswich, England, from Ernest Feb. 12, The $4,000,000 U. 8. navy dirigible, A. Simpson, an insurance agent. The decree balloon, Macon, sank in the Pacific several became absolute on May 3, 1937. On June 3, miles off Point Sur, Calif.; 2 lost. 1937, at Monts, France, the couple were Feb. 18, The U. S. Supreme Court, 5 to 4, married. held that Congress was within its power in Feb. 16, In Spain the Socialists and anarchists abrogating the gold clause in private con won the department elections. There were tracts, but had gone too far in doing so in general Jail deliveries. Soon thereafter regovernment obligations. bellion began, in Morocco, and spread to Mch. 12, The brief revolution in Greece ended. Spain, under" Gen. Francisco Franco. when ex-Premier Elentherios Venizelos fled Feb. 17. In Paraguay a revolution deposed with his wife, from Canea to the Italian President Eusebio Ayala. island of Rhodes. Venizelos, 71, died, Mch. Mch. 2, The U. S. renounced its guarantee of 18, in exile, at Paris. the independence of Panama. April 5, The $4,880,000,000 works relief bill - Mch 7, German troops began to reoccupy the was passed by both branches of Congress. demilitarized Rhineland zone. The House approved by 317_to 70. The Floods continued in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Senate adopted it 66 to 13. The bill was and West Virginia. signed by the President on April 8. Mch. 25. The U. S.. Britain and France April 11-14, Stresa Conference for peace rati signed in London, a naval arms limitation fied by Britain, France, and Italy. the treaty to go in effect on Jan. 1, 1937 and participants. to stay in force until Dec. 31, 1942. May 6, The U. $. Supreme Court upset the -- April 7, In Spain the Parliament deposed Railroad Pension Act. President N. A. Zamora. May 18, Near Moscow, the airplane Maxim June 4, In France the first Socialist governGorky, the world's largest land plane, ment took office, under Leon Blum. crashed, killing 48, every soul aboard. The June 17, In Canada their New Deal Acts were pilot of another plane, which collided with declared invalid. the Gorky in midair was killed. June 27, The Great Lakes Exposition opened June 14, Bolivia-Paraguay war in the Chaco in Cleveland, O. ceased, by truce, officially over, Oct. 28. July 13, In Madrid, Jose Calvo Sotelo, 47, a Aug. 9, President Roosevelt signed the Social monarchist leader in the Cortes (ParliaSecurity bill. ment) was removed from his home by Aug. 15, Will Rogers, 56, comedian, and Wiley Assault Guards for questioning as to the Post, 36, aviator, were instantly killed when assassination of Lieut. Jose Castillo of their Post's rebuilt airplane fell 60 feet in a fog organization. Sotelo next appeared in the 15 miles from Point Barrow. Alaska. East Cemetery as a corpse. Death was due Aug 29—The Queen of the Belgians, 29, to bullet and bayonet wounds. (Princess Astrid of Sweden) was killed by July 17, Revolt against Spain's Republican skull fracture when an automobile in which Government begins in Morocco and spreads she and the King were riding, left the road to Spain, included much of army and airskirting Lake Lucerne, in Switzerland, near force and half of navy: July 18, Jose Giral the city of Lucerne, hit two trees and became Loyalist premier; July 19, Loyalists careened into the water. defeated Insurgents in Madrid. Insurgents Sept. 2, Storms killed 300 along the Florida control cities of Cadiz, Huelva, Seville, Keys, including 200 war vets on relief at Cordoba, and Grenada; July 24, Insurgents construction camps. set up own government and, Aug. 16 take Sept. 15—Jews in Germany lost citizenship Badajoz; Aug. 27 begin aerial bombing of with political rights. Madrid; Sept. 4 they take Irun; Sept. 12 Oct. 21, Storm killed 2,000 in Haiti. they take San Sebastian, and Toledo Sept. Oct. 23, Arthur (Dutch Schultz) Flegen 28; Oct. 1, Cen. Francisco Franco proheimer, 33, and 3 companions-Otto Ber claimed head it Nationalist (Insurgent) man, Abe Frank, and Bernard Rosen Government, Oct. 21, siege of Madrid by krantz, were fatally shot in a tavern in Insurgents begun; Nov. 6 Loyalist governNewark, N. J. ment moves from Madrid to Valencia. Nov. 14, A proclamation certifying the free. Aug. 23, Convicted at Moscow of plotting to dom of the Philippine Islands and the elec kill Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders tion of officials chosen by ballot in the the following were sentenced to death: Islands on Sept. 17 was signed by President Gregory Inovieff, Leon Kameneft, T. Roosevelt a few minutes after noon. In Smirnoff, A. Evdokimoff, T. Bakaefl, 8. Manila, occurred the inaugural ceremonies Mirachkovsky, V. Olberg. K. Bermanfor President Manuel Quezon. Yure, Fritz David, Moses Lurrie, N. Yurie. Nov. 18, Economic sanctions against Italy T. Reingold, R. Pickel, V. Tervoganian, P. went into effect. supported by 52 nation Dreitzler, E. Holzmann. They were shot members of the League of Nations, and by on Aug 25, it was announced. one non-member, Egypt. The sanctions Oct. 14, In Brussels, King Leopold, in a stateended on July 15, 1936. ment to a Cabinet council, announced BelNov. 29, Federal dole (direct relief) ended in glum had severed her military alliances and 1936 was resuming her pre-war neutrality. Oct. 30, Waterfront activity in all American ports of the Pacific Coast came to a halt as 39,000 maritime workers went on strike at midnight, and picket lines were established. More than 100 ships were tied up in Pacific ports, 47 of them in San Francisco. The strike spread to New York and other Eastern and Gulf Ports. Nov. 6. In London, a protocol laying down rules for the conduct of submarines was signed on behalf of all signatories of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. No submarines may sink or disable a merchant vessel' unless all the passengers and crew first are placed in "a place of safety." Dec. 1. In Buenos Aires, President Roosevelt in a speech at the opening of the InterAmerican Conference for the Maintenance of Peace called upon the nations of the New World to unite to help the Old World avert War. The conference, on Dec. 16, adopted the collective security convention, the nonintervention protocol, and the resolution calling upon republics that have not already done so to ratify existing peace treaties. On Dec. 19, the body adopted a neutrality convention that obligates all the American countries to take a common joint attitude as neutrals in case of an outbreak of hostilities among any two of them. The gathering ended on Dec. 23, as the Foreign Ministers of Paraguay and Bolivia pledged that their countries woul settle the Chaco dispute by pacific means. Dec. 12, In China, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek was kidnapped at Sian by Gen. Chang Dec. 25. tives impeached President Miguel M. Gom- to legislation. Dec. 27. Charles Mattson, 10, was kidnapped from his home in Tacoma, Wash., was held awhile for ransom, then was murdered. The body was found, near Everett, Wash., Jan. 11, 1937. Dec. 30. In Flint, Mich., backed by the John L. Lewis Committee for Industrial Organization, (C.IO.), the United Automobile Workers of America started its campaign to include the nation's automobile industry within its ranks. It struck at the center of General Motors operations and halted activities in three of its unit plants. 1937 Jan. 1. In Spain, the Insurgent shelling of Madrid, was continued at intervals; Feb. 8, Insurgents took Malaga. The Insurgent headquarters were (military) at Burgos, and (diplomatic) at Salamanca; Bilbao, on June 19; Santander, on Aug. 25; Gijon, on Oct. 21. Warships of Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, on Mch. 13, began to police the coasts of Spain under the 27nation neutrality agreement. Gen. Franco, on April 19, set up a one-party State, dissolving the Fascist and Carlist organizations. The Insurgent battleship, Espana, was sunk, April 30, by airplanes, off Santander; May 17, new Loyalist Government formed under Premier Juan Negrin; many were killed in an Anarchist uprising in Barcelona; Oct. 28, Loyalists shifted government to Barcelona: Nov. 28, Insurgents proclaimed blockade of all Loyalist ports. Jan. 4. The U. S. Supreme Court unanimously upset the conviction and jail sentence of Dirk de Jonge, Oregon Communist, accused of violating the State's Criminal Syndicalism Law. The Court asserted that the right of peacable assembly was as fundamental as the constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and freedom of the press, Jan. 20. In Washington, on the main por tico of the Capitol, his head bared to rain, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took for the second time the oath as President of the United States. Jan. 22. Floods in the valleys of the Missis sippi, Alleghany and Ohio Rivers and their branches bega to bring death homelessness privation, property destruction and trafic tie-ups at Pittsburgh, Portsmouth, o., Huntington, W. Va., Louisville, Cincinnati, and many other places. The flood damage was more severe in Louisville, Paducah, Ky., Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. In Kentucky over 225 persons were drowned; in Illinois, 15; in Missouri, 17; in Tennessee, 10; in Arkansas, 28; and small numbers in Ohio, 1937 West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Missis sippi. Over 500,000 homes and vast areas Mo. sulted in execution of 13 of 17 defendants, 10-yr. sentence to prison. In China, Feb. 3, a military revolt in Sian, capital of Shensi ovince, brought the assassination of Gen. Wang I-Cheh, chief of the forces of the Central government of the Republic. In April, Prince Chichibue, oldest brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan made with his wife, a good-will visit to the United States, England, and the Continent. In May, the army-supported Japanese Cabinet of Hayashi resigned. Early in July the fighting in China, west of Peiping, was renewed by the Japanese. Tungchow was attacked on July 27; the Japanese on July 29, bombed Tientsin, destroying Nankai University; on Aug. 9, they took formal possession of Peiping: on Aug. 11, they landed marines at Shanghai and shelled Nankow. Thereafter there was almost continuous fighting in Shanghai, where on Aug. 14, Chinese misdi rected bombs killed several hundred civilians, and on Aug. 22, an artillery shell fell in the International Settlement, destroying a department store and killing 400 persons. The Japanese blockade of the East Coast of China began on Aug. 25, COVering 800 miles and was extended in Sept. to cover 2.700 miles. The Dollar Line ship, President Hoover, and other vessels on the Yangtze, were hit by stray Chinese or Japanese shells. Nanking, Canton, and many other places in the eastern provinces of China were attacked by Japanese planes. On Oct. 23, Suiyuan Province declared independence from China. On Nov. 8, the Chinese abandoned Shanghai as an administrative point, and the Japanese took control. Premier Chiang Kai-Shek moved his headquarters to Hankow. On Dec. 12. Japanese shells sank the U. S. gunboat Panay, with loss of 2 lives; and several American oil carriers, (the captain of one died) on the Yangtze River above Nanking. Several British craft were hit by the shells. A number of lives were lost. For these and other "accidental" bombings, the Japanese apologized and assumed financial responsibility. The United States and Britain had made strong protests. On Dec. 14th, the pro-Japanese ad. ministration in Peiping announced it had restored the city's old name, Peking. During the year many lepers were executed by the Chinese government. Jan. 30. Chancellor Hitler told the Reichstag that Germany annuls and repudiates the admission implied in her signature of the Versailles Treaty fixing upon her responsibility for the World War, and, from this time onward the German railways and the German Reichsbank are free from the obligations imposed upon them by that treaty and are restored to the complete sovereignty of the Reich. He issued a decree forbidding Germans to accept any Nobel prize in the future and establishing rival prizes for Germans only. Feb. 11. The General Motors Corporation signed a strike settlement with its em- West coasts ana. West Virginia and Kentucky. for the day. The dead numbered 293. Mch. 26. In Flemington, N. J., the perjury the 1937 indictment against Benjamin Heier, re sulting from testimony he gave for the de. fense at the trial of Bruno Richard Haupt mann. April 8. The Committee for Industrial Organization closed the General Motors Corporation plant in Oshawa and drew from Mitchell F. Hepburn, Premier of Ontario, formal notice that methods which had "brought the United States almost into a state of anarchy" would not be tolerated in Ontario. May 6. The dirigible balloon, Hindenburg, on its first 1937 trip from Germany was destroyed by fire and explosions, at 7:23 P.M., as it was about to tie up at the U. S. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. J.; 36 of the 97 passengers were fatally burned, including the commander, Capt. Ernst Lehmann, Einpress. the North Pole and established a permanent Sea route. of 1937 was opened by President Albert Le brun, accompanied by Premier Leon Blum, May 28. The official London Gazette an nounced that the King had granted letters patent to the Duke of Windsor "to hold and enjoy for himself only the title, style or attribute of Royal Highness, So however that his wife and descendants, if any, shall not hold said title, style, or attribute." June 3. In Monts, France, the Duke of Windsor married Mrs. Wallis Warfield at the Chateau de Cande. The French civil ceremony was performed by the Mayor of Monts. This was followed by the marriage service of the Church of England, by the Rev. R. Jardine, vicar of St. Paul's, Dar lington, England. In assembly, in Philadelphia, the Presby terian Church of America, 65 to 24, rejected an overture calling upon its members to recognize and practice "total abstinence" from intoxicants as the "only true principle of temperance." June 12. The Pan-American Exposition opened in Dallas, Tex. A $75,000 jeweled lock at the main gate, symbolic of international friendship, was opened by 21 girls, who inserted keys in the names of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Mexico, Texas and the United States. Steel Corporation started evacuation of its strike. equatorial air trip around the world, who had left Lae, New Guinea, on July 1. radioed at 3.20 P.M. (E. D. T.) that she was over the Pacific with a half hour's fuel supply and not in sight of land, "position doubtful." That was the last message. U. S. government war ships and airplanes searched in vain for the plane and its two occupants. Aug, 3. Wreckage of a Pan American-Grace Airways fying boat, due from Cali, Colombia, with 11 passengers and a crew of 3, was found by a navy plane 20 miles at sea from Cristobal. Among the passengers were Rex Martin and G. O. Caldwell of the Bureau of Air Commerce, and T. J. Wakely jr., of the Nat'l. City Bk. branch in Santiago, Chile. Aug. 12. President Roosevelt nominated Senator Hugo Black of Alabama, to be As 1937 sociate Justice of the Supreme Court, fulmg the vacancy caused by the retirement of Justice Van Devanter. The nomination was approved 13 to 4 (King, D., Burke, D., Austin, R., Steiwer, R.) by the Senate judiciary Committee; it was confirmed by the Senate, 63 to 16, on Aug. 17. Aug. 12. A Řussian airplane under command of Sigismund Levanevsky, left the MosCow flying field at 10:13 A.M., bound for Alaska, and the U. S. After passing over the Pole it radioed that one of its engines was dead, due to a damaged oil pipe. Sir Hubert Wilkins and other aviators flew over the Arctic regions for days in vain search for the missing plane and its occupants. In Moscow, on Feb. 27, 1939, Mikhall M. Voznesensky, ex-radio operator at the Rudolf Island station, was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for disrupting radio communications by a sit-down strike at the time Levanevsky and companions were on their flight and during the period of relief expeditions. Aug. 22. Near Cody, Wyo... 14 men were burned to death and 50 injured when fire fighters were trapped by flames in the Shoshone National Forest. The flames trapped Earl Davis, U. S. Bureau of Public Roads foreman, nine other bureau em ployees and about 40 CCC members. Sept. 19. More than 125,000 Mormon church members of the Salt Lake City region ate but one meal in order that the financial equivalent to the other meals might go to needy brothers and sisters. friend's house in Chevy Chase, Md., ex- race or creed. riner, 45, the U.S. Consul General, was shot dead by an Armenian, Mejardich Karayan, who has a family living in the United States, and who told police his molive had been revenge for a vice consul's refusal to grant him a visa. He was ex ecuted. Oct. 14. In Bartow, Fla., the jury by court order, acquitted the Tampa policemen (C. A. Brown, Jr., C. W. Carlisle, John Bridges, Arlie Gilliam, kleagle of the Orlando Klan; F W. Switzer and Sam E. Crosby), who were on trial for second-degree murder following the fatal flogging of Joseph Shoemaker when he refused a Ku Klux Klan warning to leave town. The judge ruled that the State had not proved the actual or constructive presence of any of the men at the scene of the crime. Oct. 17. A 21-passenger United Air Lines plane, west-bound, which left Cheyenne, Wyo., with 19 persons aboard, at 6:25 P.M. and was due in Salt Lake City at 8:42 P.M., crashed at 10,000 ft. altitude, into Chalk Mt., in the Uinta Range, south of Knight, Wyo. It was 15 miles south of its regular course, in a rain-snow storm. All were killed. Oct. 30. In California, the State Supreme Court, 5 to i, rejected Thomas J. Mooney's plea for a writ of habeas corpus. Nov. 3. A resolution condemning the im pending yisit of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to the United States with the announced purpose of studying labor conditions was adopted unanimously by the Baltimore Federation of Labor, a unit of the A. F of L. The stated objection was labor hostility to Charles E. Bedaux, laborefficiency expert, sponsor of the tour. author of a production-speed-up system. Nov. 10. In Brazil, at Rio de Janeiro. Presi dent Getulio Vargas's Cabinet approved and put into immediate effect a new Consti tution. Nov. 16. An airplane from Cologne bound for London hit in a fog, at 2:30 P.M., a factory chimney in descending near Ostend, Belgium; 8 passengers and 3 of the crew were killed. The passengers killed included Dowager and Grand Duchess Eleanore of Hesse bei Rhein, widow of the Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig, who died Oct. 9; Grand 1937 Duke George, 31, her son; Grand Duchess Alexander Brussels, adjourned indefinitely, land, bound from Edinburgh for Glasgow, in a snow storm, 35 passengers were killed. Dec. 11. Italy gave notice of withdrawal from the League of Nations. The non-Russian commission of inquiry on Leon Trotsky announced in N. Y. City that it had found him guiltless of the conspiracy, sabotage and other charges against him by the Stalin regime. In Soviet Russia, the Congress, first under the new constitution, was chosen by secret popular vote. Dec. 20, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled, 7 to 2, that the government has no right to di vulge intercepted phone messages. Dec. 21. The Lincoln Vehicular Tunnel under the Hudson River between 'N. Y. City and Weehawken, N. J., was opened (one tube) to traffic. Dec. 23. The Cuban Amnesty bill was signed, proceedings against ex-President Machado U. S. Court in N. Y. City. State became the State of Eire (Ireland). Columbus good-will flight to South America died when their plane crashed in the mountains near Cali, Colombia. Dec. 30. The yacht Aafje was towed to Los Angeles after her owner, Dwight Faulding, and her navigator, Jack Morgan, had been slain and cast overboard. 1938 Jan. 5. AU. S. bombing plane vanished off San Pedro, Calif., with 7 Navy men aboard; cadet flier S.P. Hawkins was lost in the search, Jan. 9. An Argentine plane crashed in Uru guay, 9 persons died, including a son of ex-President Justo of Argentina. Jan. 10. A plane from Seattle, Wash., for Chicago fell in the mountains of Montana, northwest of Bozeman; 9lives were lost. Jan. 11. The hydroplane, Samoan Clipper, from American Samoa for Auckland, New Pago. daily bombing of Barcelona; Feb. 1, Loyalist falls on Jan. 26, 1939. Jan. 12. The first session of the U. S. S. R.'s “Red Parliament' the supreme Soviet, elected under the new constitution, opened in the Kremlin Great Palace. Joseph Stalin was among the delegates. Jan. 13. A commission of the Church of England has reported that the creation narrative in Genesis is mythological, with a symbolic rather than a historic value. Jan. 18. Ecuador decreed explusion of alien Jews, except those in agriculture. in a fire at the College of the Sacred Heart. Feb. 1. Collision of U. S. Navy bombing planes killed 11 persons off San Pedro, Calir. resigned from the British Cabinet. He was Foreign Affairs. ished parliamentary government and re- for; 5,313 against. Levine, vanished_from his home in New 1938 ashore, May 29, on Long Island Sound near New Rochelle. fornia caused 81 deaths, of which 31 were in the Los Angeles area. Mar. 13. In Austria, after the resignation of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg and President Wilhelm Miklas, the new Chancellor, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, proclaimed the political and geographic union of Germany and Austria. This was ratified by a popular vote, excluding Jews, in Austria on April 10. Meantime, Chancellor Adolf Hitler, at the head of German troops, which began to cross the frontier on March 11, had taken Doesession of Austria. The Italian Grand Council, headed by Premier Benito Mussolini. voted approval. In Moscow, in the treason trials, all of the 21 defendants were found guilty, of whom Pletnev (25 yrs.) were convicted and shot, including ex- industry. E. Morgan as Chairman of the Tennessee his place. public of China set up at Nanking. Apr. 5. The 1938 N. Y. State Constitutional Convention opened in Albany. Sing Sing prison on April 12. Eire (Ireland) signed an accord under Eireann approved, on April 29. the pact. May 4. The steamship (motorship) Lafayette, was destroyed by fire at Havre, France. May 10 port, where he built and operated ships line. June 19. In a train wreck, due to a bridge collapse in a flooded creek in Montana, east of Miles City, 47 persons were killed. July 17. Douglas G. Corrigan, of Los Angeles, flew from Brooklyn across the Atlantic to Dublin, without permit or passport. July 26. In N. Y. City, John W. Wards, 26, a former bank clerk, ended an 11-hour stay on an 18-inch ledge and dived headlong to death at 10:38 P.M. from the 17th floor of the Hotel Gotham, in N. Y. City. July 29. The hydroplane Hawaii Clipper, with 15 aboard, for Manila, vanished when about 565 miles from there: 15 persons were lost. |