THURSDAY, JAN. 11, 1940 THE SKYLAND POST, WEST JEFFERSON, N. C. PAGE THREE

21— Germany charges Munich man with 22 Boss Pendergast of Kansas City giv- 21—Proportion-of civil service employees MARCH rarmers beer cellar explosion; arrests two MAY en 15 months in federal prison for reduced under President Roosevelt. income jf Urged British agents. , tax evasion. 22 U. S. court upholds wage-hour law in 20—Charles Bowser named head football . and of Great Britain 23 House farm coach Pitt. Britain declares unrestricted block- 6—King queen approves appropriation Montgomery Ward case. at sail for Canada. bill as To ade of Germany in reprisal for il- passed by senate. Supreme court voids cities' ban on Plant Trees legal mine warfare; forbids neu- |17 —King and queen of Great Britain 25—Fritz Kuhn. Nazi bund leader, in- handbills. APRIL CHRONOLOGY tral nations to trade with Germany. welcomed at Quebec. dicted in New York on theft charges. taxes for Guldahl wins Masters 27 Yankee returns 24—President suggests special 2—Ralph golf title 22 British 40 missing. 18— and start on tour Clipper from Europe. destroyer sunk. King queen of half billion increase in defense ap- at Atlanta, Ga. On Idle Acres Nazi bombers raid Shetlands, no i Canada. JUNE propriations. 17—Joe Louis, heavyweight champion, ' 5 damage done. over in- Jack 25—8i1l setting up 26 President summons budget director knocks out in first round. French boat sank two I dictatorship Roper torpedo — OF THE YEAR report dustry introduced in British parlia- 1—Senate bill term to discuss cuts. 18 Joey Archibald wins featherweight subs. passes lifting long departmental ment. bonded national debt limit above 27 declares next title from Leo Rodak in 15 rounds. Can Earn 23 more vessels sunk; total for Morgenthau congress up to Va- Eight I 29—New border war develops between $30,000,000,000. S3O, Large six 25 must lift legal debt limit. days, and Russia in Manchukuo. 2 Contract for 24 MAY of France claim 20 air vic- Japan warships costing 28— company and C. I. O. agree riety Avail- and Britain awarded Chrysler Seedlings $350,000,000 by navy depart- on basis of after auto Johnstown won tories in three days on western front. peace plants 6 Kentucky derby. ! JUNE ment. are able from Nursuries. 1939 Exiled Polish government begins tied up 53 days. 20— Joseph F. Carr, National Football 3 Former Judge Manton found guilty 29 Jury finds German-American bund league president, dies. functioning in France. 10—Bombs in mail in England injure of bribery Bulgaria permits British to establish leader Fritz Kuhn guilty on forgery 25—Henry Armstrong, welterweight, de- seven persons. s—House5 —House rejects plan to make Hyde ''The propaganda center in Sofia. and theft charges. feats Ernie Roderick, British cham- farmers of Ashe are Britain new de- Park home a memorial to President being COMPILED BY 24 In 14—Japan presents with 30— Roosevelt sends note to Russia in 15 rounds. British cruiser damaged port by Roosevelt. sharp pion, urged the mands as troops tighten blockade wins auto by of- blast from mine or submarine. asking that of cities stop. 30—Shaw Indianapolis county agent’s Tientsin. 7King George and Queen Elizabeth of bombing race, JOHN D. GRANT French attack east at 115.035 miles hour. fice “to make those repulse German Great Britain enter United States at averaging per idle and per- 20—British women and children flee DECEMBER Roberts killed. of Moselle river. Niagara Falls; officially welcomed haps 25 Berlin claims bombers hit four Brit- Tientsin to escape Japanese economic eroding acres producing ac- blocks de by Secretary of State Hull. 2 Curtiss ish London denies. plants speed building of war JUNE res warships; and tremendous 8—King and queen of Great Britain by forest trees” this Six ban on 22—King queen given planting nations protest British to Presi- planes. technical on their England. welcomed Washington by I—Lou Nova scores lockout winter WAR German trade. reception return to 3 Winnie Ruth Judd, insane slayer, and and also con- EUROPEAN dent Roosevelt; attend state dinner over Max Baer in eleventh round. spring 26 Two hundred die in 26 Soviets repulse Jap air attack on again escapes from prison in Arizona. servation eighty-seven at White House. s—Fritz 12—Centennial birthday of baseball cele- sinking of Polish liner Pilsudski and Mongol border; shoot down 25 planes. Kuhn, bund leader, sentenced payments *by doing down 98 Soviet 10—House votes big slash in payroll to for and half brated at Cooperstown, N. Y„ where a British armed ship. Germans 27 Japs report shooting prison two a years. same. taxes; benefits are increased. it originated. fight back British attempting planes in battle over Outer Mongolia. 7 Upward trend seen in several lines planes 11—King and queen end U. S. visit. of 21— Lou Gehrig, Mayo clinic to raid business. physicians Kiel canal votes drastic limitations on announce after has infan- The conservation 13—House 8— Secretary Hull protests British block- check-up, agricultural British fights for a new Europe, JULY future operations of TVA. ade. tile paralysis; playing career ended. offers an Chamberlain says. and sail for 28—Joe Louis Galento in the program every farmer 13—France two execu- 15-rKing queen home. 9 Roosevelt stops Tony Finnish guns kill four Russian sol- jails newspaper orders a special naval dis- with 19—House passes tax bill of 1,844 mil- fourth round. to make use of his diers, Soviet tives, charged receiving pay trict in Caribbean. opportunity charges. from lions; retains nuisance taxes, but 11— 27 Russia demands Finns remove sol- Germany. RFC grants $10,000,000 loan to Fin- revises levies on JULY poor, idle, eroding acres under offers 19— Danzig political police purge city of corporations. land. diers from border; Finland to 20— Senate committee boosts bar- 'Socialists. pork U. S. court bars evidence B—Alice wins British tennis the 1940 a recent let- negotiate border issue; Russia rel bill from Supreme Marble program,” 24—Chamberlain Britain will $83,848,100, as passed gained wire threatens war. ; promises by tapping. championship at Wimbledon. of Japan’s in China. by the house, to $407,855,600. ter stated. “A special allotment 28— Russia denounces nonaggression stay out way •13—Twelve naval captains promoted 11—American league wins all-star base- orders river closed to 22 House restores 37 millions previously with Finland declares ' Japan Canton to be rear admirals. ball game, 3 to 1. or payment farm has pact Finland; cut from army appropriation bill. 14— pf S3O per Russian of border attacks foreign shipping. ICC approves trainload rail rate re- 30—Dick Metz wins St. Paul open golf reports in blamed Farm bill boosted 225 millions by been 26 —Four bombings England duction. with record score of set up to be earned by s false. the house. championship i* on Irish Republican army. I 18—Garner announces candidacy for 270. Germany claims British cruiser sunk 25 Fraud bared at Louisiana university. forest trees. This pay- Democratic nomination. planting — presidential by submarine; Britain denies. 26 Gov. Leche steps down and Lieut. 29 Russian invade Finland after AUGUST AUGUST ment can be made to any farm- troops Gov. Long is sworn in in Louisiana. breaking relations; off diplomatic 3—Britain offers to mediate Japanese- $600,000 fraud laid to President 7 Elmer Layden of Notre Dame cho- er with the Finns stunned by break. of all-star co-operating agricul- Chinese war. Smith of the Louisiana university. sen head coach football 30—Russians claim 10-mile advance into DISASTERS tural who furnishes the 6—Spain executes 53 persons for com- 28— Senate adds 73 million to relief bill team. program MARS GOES TO WORK— bomb declare 14— Sox first Finland; Helsingfors; plicity in slaying of civil guard offi- and passes it. Chicago White play night Finns attacked first. Finnish cabi- trees and plants as much as four cer. 29 House hands administration defeat game in Comiskey park. French over street net after declaring war on puzzles resigns rouses 22 Lou Ambers lightweight title lesser in poilu 9—Sudden German food shortage of neutrality bill; endorses embargo regains acres, acreage propor- Russia. arms in 15-round bout with sign in captured German village. public. on shipments. Armstrong. tion”. 30— Senate lets Roosevelt’s money rule SEPTEMBER DECEMBER SEPTEMBER die by preventing legislation to ex- “Tree are now avail- seedlings 1—Finns disable Russian cruiser, with tend. s—Roscoe Turner wins Thompson tro- Hitler Still Grabbing 26 —French cabinet decree ends Com- House bill able at the State Forest Nurser- 500 aboard. passes neutrality barring phy air race third time. munist party in France. arms i®lli Russians capture Finnish port. shipments. 15—Tony Galento stops Nova in 14 ies include: 27 —Bulgaria seeks trade with Rus- longleaf, loblolly, MARCH New cabinet takes over Finnish pact rounds. gov- sia. black ernment. JULY 16—Bobby Riggs, Alice Marble win U. S. shortleaf, and slash pines, 12—German troops mass near border of 28 —Constantine Argesanu appointed Germans sink five ships of four na- pre- net titles. Slovakia. mier of Rumania. 5 Senate adopts conference report on tions. 17—Yankees cinch American league pen- locust, yellow poplar, cypress, 13— Hitler’s reviving President’s money powers. Czecho-Slovakia submits to 2 Finnish rebel cedes territory nant. at regime OCTOBE 6W. P. Buckner given two years in red cedar, and white ash $2 demands for further break-up of the to Russians. R 20—Joe Louis knocks out Bob Pastor in prison on Philippine railway bond Czech state. Finnish orders 11 rounds. per thousand. White pines, both Regular government 2Delegates of 21 republics at an inter- charges. 14—Slovakia formally secedes from win National league evacuation of all southern towns. American neutrality conference fixed 10—President gives Paul V. McNutt of 28—Cincinnati Reds one and two old, at $3 per Czecho-Slovakia and becomes inde- Sweden tightens its defenses. pennant. years a safety zone around two Americas. Indiana job as head of the newly pendent state under German protec- British tanker sunk, two German thousand.” 3 admit loss of 18.000 men created Federal Security administra- tion. beached. Japanese OCTOBER ships sunk and liner in fighting Russians. tion. The trees is Hitler seizes Bohemia and Moravia, 3 British attack German naval demand for heavy planes s—Chinese halt Japanese drive in Hu 13—Senate votes to fix payroll tax at 1 8—Yankees win world’s baseball series completing subjection of Czecho-Slo- base and score hits on German war- nan province; report 10,300 slain. per cent until 1943. in four straight and the supply limited. “Make vakia. ships. games. 10— Soviet returns Vilna to Lithuania. 14—President signs bill giving war de- 17—Bucky Walters, Cincinnati pitcher, 16—Hitler absorbs Slovakia. Hungary Finns shatter Red troops in Arctic we have appli- 11— Britain and Russia sign trade agree- partment power to hide secret new voted most valuable player in Na- your plans now; annexes part of Carpatho-Ukraine. battle. ment. equipment from spies. tional league. cation of- 27 Poland. League of nations summoned to hear SQUALUS SINKS —U. S. blanks in the county Germany puts pressure on 27 Pope Pius in encyclical assails dic- 20—House passes bill to curb bureau- 24—Joe DiMaggio wins American league Finnish appeal for aid. Mr. said. “1000 trees 28—Poland refuses German demand for tators. crats in politics. most valuable player award. i fice,” Rich Britain puts blockade against Ger- navy’s bell gets first real pathway to East Prussia. 28— Thousands arrested as Czechs and 24 House committee shelves President’s diving man exports into effect. f willplant an acre.” Nazis battle in Prague. $800,000,000 housing test NOVEMBER sinks Brit- program. rescuing 33 survivors from APRIL 4German pocket battleship ' Nation-wide lottery swindle using R. W. of the extension ish steamer Doric Star in south At- I—Al Davis stops Canzoneri in Graeber, NOVEMBER name of Will Rogers exposed. sunken submarine. Tony 4Poland joins British in war alliance. lantic. Twenty-six third round. two 25 One killed, seven shot, in battle over service, states that 500,000 inflict heavy casual- 17—Billy light 17— Germany pushes drive to take Dan- 5 Finnish flyers 2 Slovak mob wrecks shops and news- nonunion labor at Boonville, Ind. others die. Conn, heavyweight cham- in zig. guards ties on Soviet troop concentration. z pion. successfully defends title year old white pines produced French fleet Gibraltar. papers in Bratislava, Hungary. 26 United States scraps trade treaty British fleet sails to Malta. 6 Finns repulse Russian army of 200.- British threaten to abolish self-rule with Japan. against Lesnevitch in 15 rounds. Henderson are now avail- 000 on three fronts. county in India. Francis B. Sayre nominated for high JANUARY MAY 7 Russians blockade Finnish coast: DECEMBER able. to 20— Ex-kaiser narrowly escapes death in commissioner to the Philippines warn shipping. storm at Doorn. 31— 21—The airliner Cavalier wrecked at sea 7 Nazis Senate lops $1,615,000,000 from spend- 9Eddie Anderson awarded plaque as plan plebiscite in Danzig. British fighting planes beat off Ger- bill off N. J., three lost, 10 ing and passes it. Cape May, football coach of year. 8— invites five powers to Vatican man raids. saved. Pope DECEMBER 10—Green Packers New York — Bay whip to settle Polish-German dis- 8 Finns offensive on Karelian parley repel AUGUST 23—Bomber crashes on test hop at Los Giants to win football Famous pute. isthmus. 3 faces professional Lullaby Japan scarcity of food this Angeles: pilot killed. title. fortifies its eastern frontier 10—Finns report Russian attacks re- winter. 1—Army’s flying fortress flies coast to thousand killed, 50,000 injured 20—Germans 7 25—Thirty 11—Nile Kinnick, lowa "football star, against Poland. on all fronts. Peru new facilities coast in 9*/4 hours. by pelled opens great port earthquake in Chile; towns wiped named No. 1 athlete of all sports in Dies 11—League of Nations requests Russia House kills President’s lending- Composer to Callao. out in disaster. annual poll. to cease hostilities against Finland. of natiohs. bill. JUNE 11—Italy quits league spending 13—New York Yankees voted best team 12—Russia rejects league of nations 2 House slashes $161,000,000 from final FEBRUARY pro- in sport. I—Hitler pledges Germany willsupport posal to mediate conflict with Fin- spending bill. any BOSTON.—Eternal sleep came Jugo-Slavia’s border. land. 4Senate passes third deficiency bill 2—Japanese submarine sunk in colli- 20— German troops move to encircle Po- German liner Bremen runs British DOMESTIC of 189 millions. sion. to Mrs. Effie I. Sunday Canning land. blockade to home port. Agreement reached on social se- 11—Army mystery plane crashes after NECROLOGY Carlton, about 84, whose slum- 28— Britain appeals to Germany to settle 13—British ships disable and chase Ger- curity amendment cutting pay roll coast-to-coast flight at 340-mile rate. dispute by negotiations. man raider Graf Spee into South tax $900,000,000 in next three years. berous melody to the long-loved American port. 5 Congress adjourns after appropriat- MARCH JULY 14— Russia expelled from league of na- ing more than $13,000,000,000. lullaby, “Rock-A-Bye Baby” tions. 7 Former Governor Leche of Louisiana 2Two hundred killed in explosion of 6 Warsaw brought the sandman to the bed- reports 5,000 Polish families Uruguay gives Graf Spee 72 hours to and two others Indicted in hot oil munitions dump in Japan; 800 houses in East Prussia are forced to move make repairs. destroyed. babies —but quiz. side of millions of away from border. 16—Finn coast artillery sinks Russian 14 President advances 18—Ten killed in airplane crash near Thanksgiving Wash. destroyer. day one week, naming November 23. Tacoma, never to one of her own. 25—Airliner crashes in Oklahoma, AUGUST 18— Germans scuttle Graf Spee outside 15—WPA raises pay of 2,000,000 workers killing circumstances, Montevideo harbor rather than risk eight. In impoverished 13—Germany and Italy establish policy $5,000,000 a month. New York fair fight with British ships waiting out- asks bondholders for $4,820,000 to on Polish attitude called un- she died in Boston’s city hospital Danzig; side. meet debts. APRIL bearable. JVS PAPA xl hemorrh- 19— Huge Red forces storm Finns’ moun- 18—U. S. and Canada sign new pact for I —victim of a cerebral 18—Germany takes possession of 4—Four fliers killed when planes I JI military tain positions. air service. navy Slovakia. collide in maneuvers. suffered several days Germans claim 34 out of 44 British 20—Louisiana oil czar, Dr. J. A. Shaw, | age ago—- 21— 13—Twenty-eight killed, 50 in Germany announces nonaggression planes shot down in battle over Mme witness against ex-Gov. R. W. Leche, injured • in a room provided by the Amer- pact with Russia. Heligoland. kills self. train wreck in Mexico. 16—Tornadoes in Texas and 22 German troops massed near Polish British claim sinking of German 24 President for cables Arkansas, pleads peace; ” ican of Au- Louisiana cause 53 deaths and in- - Society Composers, corridor. cruiser and to two others. and of gjgffialrww - -< damage Hitler, Poles, king Italy. z 23 and Russia juries to 300. thors and Publishers. Germany sign nonaggres- 29—German liner Bremen held up at sion pact. 17. S. GUARDS NEUTRALITY New York for search. A former stage actress who 25—Britain and Poland sign war alliance. MAY POPE SUCCUMBS—The de- toured the with Japanese cabinet abandons Rome- FOREIGN —Special congressional session SEPTEMBER ' once country Berlin lineup. 23 Fifty-nine trapped in sunken sub- institutes 2—Liner Bremen allowed to from marine Squalus. vout kneel in cas- William Gillette, she 29 Poland asks British help under new "cash-and-carry” neu- depart prayer before composed New York. 24 Thirty-three rescued alive from Squa- mutual aid pact. Americans rush home ket containing the bodv the melody to the old Mother trality as 6 Roosevelt establishes naval patrol lus. 26 dead. of Pope Germans along Atlantic coast. XI. to to the Invade Poland ivar Pius Goose rhyme lull sleep from Europe, away from 11—President lifts quota on sugar to JUNE curb prices. restless baby of a neighbor. 31—Germany opens war on Poland. zone. JANUARY 12—Steel plants and railroads call back I—Missing British submarine found V to their workers. mired in mud; 99 lost. She took her composition a SEPTEMBER 13—Col. Jacob owner of the ;xdawgg: 4Twenty-two killed in Mexi- Ruppert, JANUARY 13—Congress called for September 21. persons New York Yankees. Boston music at her can theater fire. publisher 3—Britain and France declare war on WffWif 14—Borah opposes repeal of arms em- 26—Former Sen. I. France of 2 Former Gov. Frank Murphy of Mich- 16— lives wreck of Joseph teacher’s and he Germany. bargo as likelyto put American into Seventy-one lost in urging snapped igan takes oath as U. S. attorney gen- French submarine. Maryland, in Baltimore. British ship Athenia torpedoed off war. / eral. 18—Ten dead, 63 injured in Minnesota it up as a find and popularized it coast of Ireland, 1,400 aboard, 43 18—Soviet purchasing agent tells of pay- FEBRUARY Harry sworn in as Secretary tornado. lost. Hopkins ments to persons connected with its use in a road of commerce. by permitting Germany blockaded by British navy. Democratic national committee. 3 Frederick Steiwer. former senator 3 Seventy-sixth congress convenes. show. 5 Germans shell Warsaw; government W V W 20— At a conference of Republican and JULY from Oregon. s—President sends to $10,000,- and citizens flee. congress Democratic leaders Roosevelt 9—Pope Pius XI. 000,000 budget for 1940 fiscal urges 5Fifty-three drowned, 47 missing, in He had the song copyrighted. President Roosevelt proclaims U. S. year. repeal of neutrality act. 13—Rt. Rev. J. M. Francis, Episcopalian Felix Frankfurter nominated for U. flood in mountains of eastern Ken- neutrality. 21— Congress convenes in special ses- bishop of Indianapolis. • Within a few months, the sales S. Supreme court. tucky. 6 Poles appeal to Britain to rush aid. ill w sion; Roosevelt urges early repeal of 15— Charles R. Crane, former diplomat. France 12—President, in message, asks 552 mil- 12—Mystery explosion and fire damage ran to and before he died invades Germany; British arms embargo provision of neutrality 16—Dr. Clarence True Wilson, prohibi- $20,000, lions more for defense. aircraft carrier troops arrive. act. navy Ranger. tion leader. more 16—President asks extension of social 14—Twenty-eight perish in mine blast at several years later than 7 Nazi torpedoes sink five ships. RUSSIA FACES WEST—Dic- 25 American Legion convenes in annual benefits. Providence, Ky. 8— French planes bomb Siegfried line. security session in Chicago. MARCH 300,000 copies were sold. tator Stalin, com- 19— President asks legislation to end tax 17—Five killed as train hits auto in Chi- 10—German counterattack halts French Josef having 27 Sudden dissolution of war resources free public salaries and to on cago suburb. 2—Howard who found Tut’s Twice renewed, the copyright on western front. con- levy board causes surprise. Carter, King pleted a pact ivith Germany, all securities. 23—Avalanche on Mount Baker, Wash., tomb, in London. Russia rushes reserves to Polish bor- 28— Administration’s neutrality repealer allowed when the four missing. > was to lapse der. quers part of Roland and moves bill sent to the senate. kills two, 5 Former U. S. Attorney General John FEBRUARY G. Sargent. 12—German forces shut a vise on War- 29 Powerful naval fleet ordered to Ha- • music publishing firm changed into Lithuania—- 29—Gerardo former saw. Estonia, Latvia, AUGUST Machado, dictator 7—President makes new demand for waii. hands. Mrs. Carl- 13—Big '•British in of Cuba. t Investigating army lands France and then into Finland. 150 millions more for PWA after sign- 11—Nine U. S. fliers and two without loss. OCTOBER army navy ton’s finances after she ing appropriation bill with that fliers killed as two bombers crash. APRIL I shortly Polish defense cracks; Nazis move amount cut out. 2—Debate on of act 13—Fourteen killed as Miami to Rio de eastward. repeal neutrality went to the hospital, the Ameri- JANUARY 9 —House passes bill making state and in senate. Janeiro plane crashes in Rio harbor. 6 Premier Joseph Lyons of Australia. 16—Russian invade begins troops Poland to employees subject to in- order for 329 60 when 9—James Hamilton Lewis, U. S. senator can of found I—Chinese dictator municipal 4 Army places an high- , Twenty-three killed, injured, Society Composers "protect minorities.” "purges” govern- Illinois. ment ranks of 200 come tax. speed, light tanks. streamliner is wrecked in Nevada; from 17—Warsaw decides to on after “peace party” ¦ she had received few royalties fight 13—Justice Brandeis retires from the 5 Grover C. draft rail officials charge sabotage. 11—S. S. Van Dine, mystery-story writer, truce talk fails. leaders. Bergdoll, dodger, U. S. Supreme court. sentenced to 1 1,'2 in real name Willard H. Wright. 3—Japan’s cabinet resigns over poli- years prison. from the song. Massachusetts con- Poland’s defenses collapse under 15—House defense Nazi cies in China. approves $376,000,000 7 Bishop Ablewhite sent to prison for SEPTEMBER pressure. bill. fund gressmen made several atempts to Russian drives 50 Spanish rebels report capture of Ar- shortage. MAY army miles into 25—James J. Hines. chief, 25 Storm in California kills 100; dam- Poland. tesa. Tammany 10—War department orders 65,000 semi- to convicted of laws. age, $1,000,000. 26—Dr. Charles Mayo, famous surgeon. put through special legislation Red 6—Hungarians and Czecho-Slovaks fight violating lottery automatic rifles. 20—Report purge of former officials 28—Munitions plant blast in Britain border. 27—U. S. Supreme court rules sit-down 12—William Green elected president of renew the copyright for Mrs. in Polish Ukraine. along kills 15. rebels take in strikes illegal. A. F. of L. for sixteenth time. JUNE 23—French wave after wave of 15—Spanish Tarragona Carlton. repulse 17—Brazil orders rail Nazi shock drive toward Barcelona. $5,870,000 equip- 19—Miss Grace Abbott, noted welfare troops. MARCH ment from America. OCTOBER 25 French defeat Germans in two 18—Madrid rushes fresh troops to de- worker and University of Chicago big 18—President closes American ports to air battles; Bombard whole length fense of Barcelona. 2 Martin T. Manton indicted 11—Wreck of school bus at War, W. Va., professor. Ex-Judge submarines of warring nations. of Siegfried line; bomb Zeppelin 22 All citizens of Barcelona called to by federal grand jury in New York ' kills six; 71 injured. 26 Ford Maddox Ford, British author. “Old Christmas” dig trenches. 19—New house bill bans financial aid works. as bribe taker. rebels bomb Barcelona. to warring nations. 27 Warsaw surrenders to Germans after 24—Spanish Senate ex- 7 passes $358,000,000 army 20— Roosevelt sets three-mile limit for NOVEMBER JULY 20-day siege. 26 Rebels take Barcelona without a tension bill. battle. submarines. of the Is Celebrated Estonia signs alliance with Russia. 8—House bill giving President ' 14—Five hundred killed and injured when 7 Claude A. Swanson, secretary passes 23 Indiana endurance flyers descend 29—Britain defies warning by foes to 30—Hitler demands return of colonies. restricted authority to reorganize de- I fire engulfs Venezuelan oil port. navy. after 535 hours; new record. Havelock scientist and stop war. partments. 8— Ellis, philoso- Senate adopts cash and amend- FEBRUARY Lauren D. Dickinson 24 carry DECEMBER pher. At 16— Lieut-Gov. neutrality bill. Wilmington of ments to 18—J. Louis Comiskey, owner of Chi- sworn in as Michigan to OCTOBER 5 Spanish loyalist of flees governor 25 Government sues 236 railroads under 3 five islands in the Sox baseball team. army 200,000 succeed the late Frank D. Fitzgerald. Typhoon ravages cago White to France to escape trap. Sherman antitrust act. Philippines. Dr. William J. co-founder with I—Britain calls 250,000 more troops. 18—U. S. puts penalty tariff on German 28— Mayo, 6 Japan refuses to up mandated 27 —Senate votes, 63 to 30, to repeal arms of the 7Hitler makes peace proposals to Brit- i give his brother Mayo clinic. WILMINGTON. Wilmington islands Germany lost in war. imports. embargo provision of neutrality act. ain and France; seeks armistice. 23—James J. Hines, Tammany leader, 9Hitler 12—Two hundred thousand move past Bill goes to house. AUGUST last Saturday celebrated Old sets aside area in Poland for sentenced to serve four to eight I' bier of Pope Pius in St. Peter’s. 28— Carl Bevins, Missouri flyer, kidnaped Germans to be transplanted from years in prison. SPORTS 14—T. E. famed cartoonist. . own Ernest Powers, Christmas . . the day, according 14—Pope Pius buried in tomb beneath and slain in his plane by other countries. 27—U. S. Supreme court holds federal St: Peter’s cathedral. Pletch, arrested. old Julian 10—French premier Hitler’s and governments tax sal- to the calendar, on spurns peace 18—Spanish loyalists offer to surrender. state may 29 California flyers land after 726 hours SEPTEMBER terms., aries of each other’s employees. Christ was born. France occupies African area once in air—new record. North- which 12—Britain refuses peace based on Nazi 4Charles Donnelly, president of ceded to 30— U, S. assesses Germany 50 millions conquests. Italy.’ APRIL ern Pacific railway. | Between 6,000 and 7,000 peo- 20— Italy moves to place colony Libya |for Black Tom and Kingsland blasts 14—British battleship Royal Oak sunk 18—Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate. on war footing. during World war. K Pembroke Jones by sub, 786 lost. 3 C. I. O. union ordered to pay Apex I 23 Sigmund Freud, originator of psycho- pie thronged 23 General Franco hands Britain final 31 —United Mine Workers raise $3,000,000 17—German planes raid Scapa Flow, Hosiery company $711,930 damages i analysis. Park and environs despite bitter- terms for peace with Spanish loyal- for political fight in 1940. Iron Duke, training ship damaged. for sit-down strike. 24 Floyd Gibbons, war correspondent. ists. J. of President asks 276 million for added 23—British report three U-boats sunk. 4E. Kelly re-elected mayor Chi- Carl Laemmle, movie pro- ly cold weather to witness the 24 Britain and France decide to recog- defense. pioneer Germans capture American ship City cago. ducer. annual celebration. nize Franco government in Spain. Senate bill second of Flint and take it to Soviet port. passes removing recipro- NOVEMBER 26 American ship City of cal tax immunities from state and For half hour prior to the Flint, turned MARCH OCTOBER a over to Germany by Russia, sails federal salaries. 2 House votes against embargo on from Russia. William p. Douglas confirmed for bill goes to conference. 2—George Cardinal Mundelein, arch- ' all the church bells 1—College of cardinals convenes In arms; celebration 28— Germans claim 115 sunk Supreme court. neutrality bill bishop of Chicago. foreign ships Rome to elect a 3 Congress passes repeal to summon the since pope. 10— Senate rejects amendment to give 6—Count Von Bernstorf, German • in the city rang war began. 2 Franco requests Mussolini to with- and adjourns. envoy Five sunk Germans. WPA 50 millions more, then passes bill and bars fli to U. S. in 1917. freighters by draw Italian from 4President signs repeal the As they stop- troops Spain. bill. I to park. 31—Soviet demands original zones American 23—Zane noted writer of western people raise new crisis in Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli elected war to shipping. Grey, Finland. 15— President addresses peace plea to 6 court rules state cannot stories. the carillon in the pope on third ballot; takes name of Supreme ped ringing asks 10-year Alice and screen star. Pius XII. European dictators; tax HOLC mortgages. 29 Brady, stage church of the Cove- guarantee. Old defeated in Presbyterian NOVEMBER 6 Communist leaders flee Madrid zone; peace 7 age pension plans 18—War assigns Charles A. Ohio and California. of General Miaja, new chief, department IRON MANSTRIKES OUT— NOVEMBER nant rang out a program yule- 3—Norway frees City of Flint and in- loyalist Lindbergh to study U. S. aviation asks "worthy AAA willmake loans to cotton grow- terns German crew. Finland peace.” 2 famous author. prize ers on new crop. Opie Read, tide carols. defies Soviet 7 Gandhi won political for de- Lou Gehrig, "iron man of base- threat; ready to fight. victory 25—President makes first transfer under 8— sends marines to Hawaii to 8—Dr. Livingston Farrand, mixed 7 and mocracy in India, forced by four-day Navy president Carols were sung by a Belgium Holland offer to medi- reorganization act; creates three su- strengthen Pacific defense. retires New York' emeritus of Cornell university. ate fast; accepts invitation for consulta- ball,” from peace between warring nations. peragencies. Fifteen U. S. oil tankers transferred 16—Pierce Butler. U. S. Supreme court and after an Epiphany 8—Hitler tion with viceroy. j quartet escapes plot; blast in Munich 27—President asks 1,762 million more for to Panamanian registry. Yankees with justice. 12— 500,000 of infection A. Man- beer cellar kills 6 and 60. witness coronation Pope paralysis 25 James business, Father James injures Pius relief. 9 Roosevelt demands Lewis, head of Simpson, Chicago | address by 9 Dutch open defense' clash at XII. lender dikes; C. I. 0., resume peace negotiations all-time rec- Catholic church, border with 21— Lithuania returns Memel to Ger- after hanging up of St. Mary’s Germans. MAY with A. F. of L. 27 Dr. J. A. Naismith, inventor of bas- ley, French many. E. repulse night infantry raids 12—Dr. Smith, former president of L. S. ord for games played. ketball. Thomas Cooper lighted Germans. 23—Madrid offers to surrender to Gen- I—U. S. Supreme court denies appeal Mayor by U., given 8 to 24 years for univer- which others 10—French two German attacks. eral Franco. of miners convicted of Illinois bomb DECEMBER a torch from repulse 28—Madrid sity scandals. huge more surrenders, ending Spanish outrages. 15—Four merchantmen sunk in sea 14—Louis New York lawyer, dis- JANUARY Girl civil war. 11—Coal confrees on new contract Levy, 3Alfred architect. were by Boy Scouts, warfare. agree barred in Manton scandal. Granger, prominent lighted with —Southern California football team de- Princess duchess of 17—Germans shoot nine Czech students, operators. , released 2 Louise, Argyle, members and oth- 16—Al Capone, gang leader, in Rose oldest Scouts, Hi-Y seize and close APRIL Senate passed record-breaking sl,* feats Duke Bowl.' living child of Queen Victoria. 1,200 academies for from federal prison; enters Baltimore Barrow set a of 218,666,572 farm bill. 17—Edward G. elected president 4Marshal Wu Pei-fu, poet-soldier of ers who then huge pile three years. 2—Britain offers to protect Rumania. hospital. hits 12—President names Admiral Leahy gov- of the New York Yankees. Republican China. 18—Dutch liner German mine in kill in three Dr. Smith, former L. S. U. presi- JI trees ablaze in the Japanese 8,000 Chinese ernor of Puerto Rico. 25—Joe Louis, heavyweight champion, J. Butler American ambas- old Christmas North sea, sinks with 140 lives. in Wright, battles. House votes each an-: dent, attempts suicide prison. stopped John Henry Lewis in first sador to Cuba. 19— Four more ships sunk by German 16— congressman General found in anti- center of the park. 5 Albert Lebrun re-elected president other clerk at annual cost $658,500' Motors guilty round in New York. 9Col. John S. mines off England. of 17 individuals Hammond, sportsman e of France. trust suit; acquitted. without a roll call. and soldier. 20— Germans extend war at sea; 10 ves- 6 Italian invade Albania. 20—Michigan governor offers state pro- I and heat of the sels sunk since troops 17— Senate kills New Deal Florida canal who FEBRUARY 11—Douglas Fairbanks Sr., stage and the light November 18; 133 13— of near Gibraltar tection to Chrysler employees I By Massing troops screen star. dead or bill. crowd in missing. causes alarm; British barricade road want to work. {P-National Professional Football league ¦ the joined sing- 18—Senate naval ap- Charles R. Walgreen, chain drug bonfire French-Belgian treaty seen as chan- to Spain. passes $773,000,000 Foreign nations reported to be heavy re-elects Joseph Carr president for Christmas carols. nel for bill. store head. familiar France to get German coke. 27 Serbians sign pact with Croats, end- propriation buyers of copper. 10 years. ling — flies from Long Is- 18—Heywood Broun, columnist. Germany opens officers* ranks to all internal 20 Yankee Clipper Court upholds C. I. O. over A. F. of 23—Tony Galento scores technical knock- display conclud- backs ing Jugo-Slavia’s biggest land to trans-Atlan- by Western I A pyrotechnic soldiers; royalty Hitler. problem. Europe, opening L., in union fight. out over Aba Feldman. Newspaper Union.) tic air mail service. led the program.