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PERSECUTION—The world sought a new home for the wandering Jew, driven from Germany, Czecho
slovakia and Italy, battled by Arabs in the lloly Land. FLOODS—Raging torrents swept California in the
spring, Texas in the summer, New England in the autumn. POLITICS—Primary and general elections in
every state of the union focused attention on national affairs and brought Republican gains in many sec
tions. AGGRESSION——Germany’s Adolf Hiller marched through Austria and Czechoslovakia, Japan marched
through China and fought with Russia on the Siberian border.
Compiled by JOHN D. GRANT
Jan. 2—Postmaster General Farley's
annual report showed "net surplus" of
more than 12 million dollars.
Jan. 3—Congress opened regular ses
sion and received President's annual
message.
Supreme court upheld federal power
loans and grants.
Jan. 4—Representative Lester Hill
nominated for senator from Alabama.
Jan. 9—President's budget message re
vealed larger deficit, smaller revenues,
and asked a billion for national defense.
Associate Justice George Sutherland of
Supieme court announced his retire
ment.
Jan. 10—Resolution for war referen
dum amendment to Constitution burled
by house.
Jan. 11—Indiana Supreme court out
lawed marriage mills of state.
Jan. 12—House voted to widen Presi
dent’s power to cut appropriations.
Jan. 15—Stanley F. Reed, solicitor gen
eral. appointed to Supreme court by
President Roosevelt.
Jan. 18—House appropriated billion
and a half for treasury and post office
departments.
Jan. 20—Comptroller of the Currency
3. F. T. O'Connor resigned.
Jan. 21—Federal court of appeals at
Chattanooga upheld TVA competition
with private power companies.
House passed 553 million navy appro
priation Dill.
Jan. 22—Sixteen oil companies and 30
individuals found guilty at Madison.
Wis., of conspiring to violate Sherman
anti-trust law.
Jan. 25—Senate confirmed appointment
of Stanley Reed to Supreme court.
Jan. 27—Robert H. Jackson nominat
ed for solicitor general.
jan. zb—1'resiacni sem congress a pro
gram to strengthen national defense.
Jan. 31—Supreme court upheld labor
board's power to make Investigations.
Feb. 1—Housing bill Anally enacted.
Feb. 6—A. F. of L. expelled United
Mine Workers and two other C. I. O.
unions
Feb. 10—President asked congress to
appropriate $230,000,000 for relief.
Feb. 14—Farm bill Anally enacted by
congress.
Feb. 18—House passed 250 million 'dol
lar relief bill.
Feb. 18—Five United States army
planes completed 6.000-mlle flight to
Buenos Aires.
Secretary Wallace Axed marketing
quotas for cotton and tobacco.
Feb. 21—Anti-lynchlng bill withdrawn
in senate.
Feb. 23—Bituminous coal commission
revoked all Axed prices.
Senate passed $250,000,000 relief bill.
Feb 28—Spy ring selling United States
military and naval secrets to foreign
government smashed; two men and one
woman arrested.
March 2—Chairman Morgan of TVA |
asked congressional investigation of his
two fellow directors.
March 8—Interstate commerce com
mission authorized 10 per cent increase
in railroad freight rates.
March 10—President submitted to con
gress a six-year plan for developing na
tional water resources of nation.
March 14—Chairman C. F. Hosford of
coal commission resigned
March 17—Secretary of State Hull out
lined American foreign policy of co
operation for peace and preparedness to
defend international law ana order.
March 21—House passed navy expan
sion bill.
March 22—President Roosevelt ousted
A. E. Morgan from TVA. laid entire
matter before congress and appointed
Harcourt Morgan TVA chairman.
March 25—Senate voted for Joint con
gressional Investigation of TVA.
March 28—Senate passed government
reorganization bill.
March 30—House voted for TVA Inves
tigation.
April 4—House passed bill releasing
11,500,000.000 RFC funds for business
>ans.
April 5—Presidents Roosevelt and Que
zon agreed to defer Philippines' eco
nomic independence until 1960.
April 6—Senate passed army appro
priation bill carrying $491,000,000.
April 9—Senate passed revenue bill
designed to relieve business.
April 11—Senate passed bill putting
15,000 postmasterships under civil serv
ice.
April 14—President Roosevelt in mes
sage to congress asked nearly seven
billion dollars for spending and lending
program.
April 19—House passed 903 million dol
lar agriculture department bill, carrying
201 millions for road building.
April 21—Congress passed naval ap
propriation bill carrying $546,866,000.
April 25—President asked congress to
abolish Income tax exemption for gov
ernment securities and government em
ployees.
April 28—National Progressives of
America party formed by Gov. Philip
La Follette of Wisconsin and followers.
May 3—Senate passed naval expansion
bill.
House passed bill to create 24 more
federal judgeships.
May B—Labor board withdrew deci
sion against Ford company.
House passed $484,000,000 highway bill.
May 9—Senate passed billion dollar
agricultural department bill.
May 12—Three billion recovery spend
ing bill passed by house.
May 13—Enactment of naval expan
sion Dill completed.
May 16—Senate passed bill creating
aeronautics authority.
May 17—Pennsylvania Democratic pri
maries resulted In defeat for C. I. O.
candidates; Gov. G. H. Earle nominated
for senator and C. A. Jones for gover
nor. Republicans renominated Senator
Davis and named A, H. James for gov
ernor.
May 21—Presbyterian church general
assembly voted predestination sections
out of confession of faith.
May 24—House passed the wage-hour
bill.
May 25—Dr. A. E. Morgan, first wit
ness in congressional Inquiry Into TVA,
accused David LlUenthal and Harcourt
Morgan of deceit and dishonest manage
ment.
May 26—Llllenthal and Harcourt Mor
gan heard in denial of A. E. Morgan's
charges and counter-attack.
Bloody labor riots in Detroit and Ak
ron.
May 27—President Roosevelt let tax
bill become law without his signature.
May 31—Supreme court denied rehear
ing of stockyards case, rebuking Sec
retary Wallace and Solicitor General
Jackson.
President signed bill creating 20 new
federal judges.
Government reorganization bill shelved
by congress.
June 3—Senate passed the three bil
lion recovery bill.
June 9—House ousted Representative
Jenks, Republican, of New Hampshire,
and seated Alphonse Roy, Democrat.
June 14—Senate passed the wage-hour
act
June 15—Congress passed flood con
trol bill.
June 16—Congress passed relief and
pump-priming bill and adjourned.
June 20—Eighteen persons indicted In
New York as German spies
June 24—President by executive order
extended civil service to all govern
ment employees not exempted by stat
ute.
July 6—Dr. A. E. Morgan sued for
reinstatement ns chairman of TVA.
July 7—President Roosevelt began
transcontinental speechmaking tour.
July 14—President reviewed battleship
fleet at San Francisco.
Howard Hughes and four others com
pleted round-the-world flight started
July 10. setting record of three days,
19 hours, 14 minutes.
July 15—Elmer F. Andrews, New York,
appointed administrator of wage and
hour law.
orv'i tifi i y v* a nave asncu 01
cut In wheat acreage.
July 18—Douglas Corrigan of Los An
geles made solo flight from New York
to Dublin, Ireland, in 28 hours, 13 min
utes.
July IB—Governor of Iowa ordered
troops to Newton, home of strike-bound
Maytag plant.
Five officials and 12 corporations fined
in oil conspiracy case at Madison. Wis.
July 20—Government began anti-mo
nopoly suit against chief movie compa
nies
July 22—Federal court of appeals In
Chicago set aside finding of NLRB in
Fansteel corporation case.
July 28—Puerto Rico nationalists tried
to assassinate Gov. Blanton Wlnship.
Aug. 1—Justice department announces
Investigation of American Medical asso
ciation on charge of anti-trust law vio
lation.
Aug. 2—New Dealers defeated In Vir
ginia and Missouri Democratic prima
ries
Aug. 3—William C. Dodge, former New
York district attorney, linked with James
J Hines in policy racket charge.
President Roosevelt heads back heme
after fishing cruise in South Pacific.
Aug. 6—Majority Leader Alben W.
Barkley wins Democratic senatorial
nomination in Kentucky over Gov. A. B
•'Happy" Chandler.
Aug. 11—President Roosevelt asks de
feat of Sen. Walter F. George in Geor
gia speech.
Twenty-six passenger German plane
flies non-stop from Berlin to New York.
Aug. 12—Tom Girdler, Republic steel
president, blasts C. I. O , National La
bor Relations board and senate civil
liberties committee.
Aug. 13—United S'ates Nazlism and
Communism investigated by house com
mittee on un-Americanism.
Aug. 15—President Roosevelt asks de
feat of Sen. Millard Tydlngs in "fire
side chat" on social security's third
birthday.
Trial of James J. Hines on racket
charge opens in New York city.
Ford Motor company calls 24,000 back
to work.
Aug. 16—John P. Frey, A. F of L.
leader, blames Communists for sit-down
strike epidemic.
Aug. 18—President Roosevelt dedicates
new international bridge through the
Thousand Islands. St. Lawrence river.
Aug. 24 — President Roosevelt de
nounces G. O. P. for meddling in pri
maries.
Aug. 26—Secretary Hull sends sharp
note to Mexico on seizure of American
owned farmlands.
Aug. 30 — Senator Smith, Intended
purge victim, wins in South Carolina
primary.
Mc.vloo, indorsed by Roosevelt, loses
In California primary.
Sept. 6—Governor Davey of Ohio de
fies federal social security board to cut
off state's old-age assistance grants
Senator Pat McCarron defeats two 100
per cent New Dealers in Nevada pri
mary.
Sept. 7—Grand Army of the Republic
holds national reunion in Des Moines.
Sept. 9—Grand Jury Indicts S. Davis
Wilson, mayor of Philadelphia, tn gam
bling inquiry
Sept. 11— James Roosevelt undergoes
operation at Rochester, Minn.
Sept. 12—Senator Tydings wins In
Maryland primary; voters defy Presi
dent by landslide.
Judge Pecora declares mistrial in
Hines racket case.
Maine elects Republican governor and
all three congressmen.
Sept. 14—Sen. W. F. George, on the
purge list, wins in Georgia.
Sept. 20—Democrats defeat J. J.
O'Connor tn New York; G. O. P. nom
inates him.
Sept. 27—Senator McAdoo made chair
man of the Dollar ship lines under Unit
ed States control.
Sept. 29— District Attorney Thomas E
Dewey nominated as Republican candi
date for governor of New York.
Sept. 35—Gov. H. H. Lehman named
by Democrats as candidate for governor
of New York.
Oct. 4—Sweeping graft Inquiry started
in Brooklyn.
Oct. 5—Two bandits hold up two bank
employees at Ottawa, 111., and escape
wltn $(50,000 in cash.
Oct. 6—A. F. of L. votes to continue
assessments for fight against C. I. O.
Oct. 10—United States Supreme court
refuses to review conviction of Tom
Mooney, serving sentence for bombing
in San Francisco in 1916.
Oct. 13—Green re-elected president of
A. F. of L.
Oct. 14—Gustav Rumrlch, army desert
er. pleads guilty to being a German spy.
Oct. 17—Dr. Eduard Benes, former
president of Czechoslovakia, accepts in
vitation to become visiting professor at
the University of Chicago.
Oct. 18—National Eucharistic congress
opened in New Orleans.
Oct. 19—Labor hoard ordered Repub
lic Steel to reinstate 5,000 strikers.
Oct. 20—United States indicted 73 as
WPA grafters in New Mexico.
Oct. 24—Wage-hour law went Into ef
fect
Oct. 28—Big utilities pledge two bil
lion dollar expansion with federal aid.
Nov. 7—President Roosevelt sent con
gratulations to Soviet Russia on its
twenty-first birthday.
Nov. 8—Election results; Republicans
gain eight senators, 80 representatives
and governors in 11 states.
Nov 9—Rise in stocks and heaviest
trading since Oct. 21, 1937, follow elec
tion results.
Nov. 10—Col. Fulgenclo Batista, dic
tator of Cuba, welcomed to Washington.
Nov. 12—Ladies Garment Workers' un
ion, 250.000 strong, withdraws from C.
I. O.
Nov. 15—Grand Jury Indictments re
turned ip Chicago charging 97 persons
and firms with conspiracy to fix the
price of milk and Ice cream.
Nov. 16—New Deal turns to arms mak
ing to supplant Job relief
John L. Lewis retains dictatorial con
trol of C. I. O including $2,000,000 levy.
Nov. 17—Reciprocal trade agreements
signed with Great Britain and Canada.
Nov. 18—Attorney General Cummings
announced resignation from cabinet, ef
fective in January. »
Nov. 19—Roosevelt recalls Hugh R.
Wilson, ambassador to Germany.
Navy contracts for three new battle
aiuua.
Nov. 21—President Roosevelt arrived
at Warm Springs. Ga.. for two weeks
visit.
Wisconsin's retroactive income tax law
upheld by U. S. Supreme court.
Nov. 29—Capt. Ross T. McIntyre.
White House physician, named surgeon
general of the navy.
Nov. 30—Grand Jury Investigation of
graft charges against Governor Earle of
Pennsylvania and 14 others ordered.
Dec. 1—Homer Martin reveals far flung
rule of Reds over C. I. O. at Dies com
mittee hearing.
Dec. 5—U. S. Supreme court rebukes
labor board for abuse of authority.
Mrs. Elma Lauer, wife of New York
Supreme court Justice, indicted for
smuggling
Dec. 7—Anna M. Hahn, Cincinnati poi
son slayer, electrocuted at Columbus,
Ohio.
December 9—United States ambassa
dor to China recalled for conference.
Dec. 11 — President Roosevelt an
nounces plan to deed Hyde Park estate
to government to serve as a memorial
to himself.
Dec. 13—George Burns, of Burns and
Alien, pleads guilty on smuggling charge.
Dec. 18—F. D. Coster, head of Mc
Kesson & Robbins drug firm, revealed
as ex-convict, real name, Phillip Musica,
indicted in huge swindle, kills self. Three
brothers of Coster, under different
names, arrested on same charge.
Dec. 20—Confession of Anna M. Hahn,
electrocuted poison slayer, made public,
in which she confesses to four murders.
Theft of $4,000,000 uncovered as
Coster-Muslca swindle grows; huge gun
deals with foreign power linked to
swindle.
Administration grants indefinite credit
to China against gold held in U. S.
Dec. 21—Inquiry reveals use of large
part of drug fraud millions for nation
wide lobby.
Four medical associations and 21 phy
sicians Indicted on restraint of trade
charges.
Jan. 1—France embargoed arms ship
ments to Rumania and Jugoslavia.
Jan. 2—Chtang Ka'-shek heads reor
ganized Chinese government
Jan. 9—Prince Paul, heir presumptive
to Greek throne, married Princess Fred
erika Louise of Hanover in Athens.
Jan. 10—Japanese occupied Tsingtao.
Jan. 11—Submarine sank Dutch steam
er off Spanish coast.
Jan. 14—Premier Chautemps of France
and his Popular Front government re
signed.
Jan. 18—Chautemps formed new
French cabinet, asked Japan to reveal
her naval building plans.
Jan. 29—United States rejected pro
posal to co-operate with Britain. France
and Russia in supplying China with war
munitions.
Jan. 31—British steamer torpedoed and
sunk by pirate submarine off Spanish
coast.
Feb. 4—Hitler reorganized German
army high command, assumed absolute
control and made Von Ribbentrop for
eign minister.
Feb. 7—Britain warned Franco to stop
pirate attacks or face reprisals.
Feb. 14—Britain's great naval base at
Singapore dedicated.
Feb. 15—Hitler forced Austria to put
pro-Nazis in her cabinet.
Feb. 20—Hitler demanded colonies for
Germany and said Reich didn't fear war.
Anthony Eden resigned as British for
eign minister.
King Carol proclaimed fascist regime
for Rumania.
March 2—Chinese armies In Shensi
province north of Yellow river routed
by Japanese.
March 3—Twenty-one former Soviet
Russian leaders pleaded guilty of trea
son and other crimes in Moscow trial.
March 7—United States and Czechoslo
vakia signed reciprocal trade treaty.
March 9—Chancellor Schuschnigg or
dered a plebiscite on Austrian independ
ence.
Chautemps' French cabinet resigned.
March 10—Leon Blum became French
premier.
March 11—Premier Schuschnigg of
Austria resigned when German troops
invaded the country; Seyss-Inquart took
post and formed Nazi cabinet.
March 12—Hitler proclaimed the union
of Germany and Austria, scrapping the
treaty of St. Germain.
March 27—Spanish Insurgent armies
drove forward into Catalonia.
April 8—Blum's ..French cabinet re
signed.
April 10—Edouard Daladier formed
new French government.
April 16—President Benes of Czecho
slovakia announced amnesty for 4.000
political offenders.
Great Britain and Italy signed agree
ment for peaceful settlement of all their
differences.
April 19—Plot against King Carol of
Rumania by Fascists foiled.
April 22—Japan paid United States
$2,214,000 to settle Panay incident.
April 25 — Anglo-Ireland agreement
signed, settling trade disputes.
April 28—Great Britain and France
agreed to pool their armed forces in
time of war.
May 3—Hitler arrived in Rome for
conference with Mussolini.
May 4—Dr. Douglas Hyde made pres
ident of Ireland by acclamation.
May 11—Japanese captured Amoy,
South China port.
May 12—League of Nations council in
formally recognized Italy’s conquest of
c-tmopia.
May 13—New anti-Nazi government
for Hungary formed by Bela Imredi.
May 21—German and Czech troops
massed along the frontier.
May 22—Germany promised Czecho
slovakia would not be attacked.
May 30—Japanese bombed Canton for
three days, killing 800 persons and in
juring 1,400.
June 4—Japanese continued bombing
of Canton, killing hundreds.
June 11—United States government
took steps to discourage sale of planes
to Japan.
July 2—Japanese bombed Swatow,
south China port, killing many.
July 4—Chinese air base at Nanchang
raided and wrecked by Japanese bomb
ers.
July 14—Manchukuo protested inva
sion bv Russian troops.
July 19—King George of Great Britain
made state visit to Paris.
July 25—Japanese occupied Kluklang.
China, key to Hankow defense.
Aug. 1—Russian planes Invade Korea
and shell Japanese.
Aug. 7—Russia rejects Japanese terms,
offers counter plan.
Aug. 11—Russia, Japan, reach truce
in Manchukuan border conflict.
Aug. 24—Relchsfuehrer Hitler pledges
the inviolability of Hungary in meeting
with Admiral Horthy, Hungarian regent.
Aug. 28—Hitler demands powers force
Czechs to submit to him.
Aug. 27—Britain warns Hitler against
attack on Czechoslovakia.
Sept. 1—Mussolini orders out all Jews
who entered Italy qfuce the World war.
Sept. 4—France masses troops at Mag
inot line.
Sept. 6—Polish police wreck 173 ortho
dox churches; kill many.
Sept. 9—Britain again warns Hitler
against attacking Czechs.
Sept. 11—Czechs and Nazis riot in
Sudeten territory.
Sept. 12—Hitler defies Britain and
France In speech.
Sept. 14—Czech troops smash civil war
in Sudeten territory.
Prime Minister Chamberlain flies to
Germany to see Hitler.
Japan pledges armed aid to Hitler.
Sept. 15—Four-power peace parley
planned as result of Prime Minister
Chamberlain's conference with Hitler.
Sept. 18—British and French cabinets
confer on Czech situation.
Sept. 18—Britain and France yield to
Hitler's demands.
Sept. 20—Czechs accept partition.
Sept. 21—Poland and Hungary demand
slices of Czechoslovakia.
Sept. 22—Chamberlain and Hitler dis
cuss peace plan.
Czech premier and cabinet resign.
Sept. 25—President Roosevelt sends
peace appeal to Hitler.
Sept. 26—Chamberlain pledges Britain
to enforce yielding of Sudeten area if
Hitler will not make war.
Hitler warns Czechs he is ready to
fight for Sudetenland.
Sept 27—Roosevelt sends second plea
to Hitler, proposes European parley.
Sept. 28—Hitler calls four-power peace
conference, including Great Britain.
France and Italy as last effort to avert
war
Sept. 29—Conference agrees to all Hit
ler's demands: Germans take immedi
ate possession of Sudetenland. Czechs
submit.
Sept. 30—German troops begin march
into Czechoslovakia.
Czechs get new demand from Poland.
Czechs cede territory.
Oct. 4—Premier Daladler given dic
tatorial powers by French chamber of
deputies.
President Benes of Czechoslovakia re
signs.
Oct. 6—British forces kill 50 Arabs
in new Palestine clash.
House of commons endorses Chamber
lain's deal with Hitler.
Oct. 7—Powers bar plebiscite in Su
detenland: give Hitler area without vote
of people.
Oct. 8—Nazis stone palace of Cardinal
Innitzer at Vienna, injuring the cardi
nal.
Oct. 10—Chinese report 20.000 Japa
nese slain in three-day battle near Tein.
Oct. 12—Germany demands $43,000,000
from Czech gold reserve to strengthen
financial position.
Oct. 14—Hitler demands Britain limit
air force to fraction of Germany's.
Oct. 16—Germany arrests labor lead
ers as anti-Nazi agitators in new wave
UI11C91.
Oct. 18—British troops besiege Arab
rebels within old city of Jerusalem.
Oct. 20—British troops disarm Arab
rebels in Jerusalem.
Oct. 25—Duke of Kent made governor
of Australia.
Oct. 26—Japs take complete control of
Hankow.
Oct. 27—Japan approved plan to share
spoils of Chinese conquest with Germany
and Italy.
Nov. 2—British commons approved
Chamberlain's pact with Italy.
Hungary given chunk of Czechoslova
kia by Germany and Italy.
Nov. 6—Two British planes set non
stop record of 7.162 miles, flying from
Egypt to Australia
Nov. 7—King George of Great Brit
ain accepted President Roosevelt's invi
tation to visit United States.
Nov. 10—20,000 Jews thrown into pris
on in Germany as mobs destroyed their
homes and stores.
Pearl Buck. American novelist, won
1938 Nobel prize for literature: Eurico
Fermi won "physics award.
Nov. 11—Duke of Gloucester visited
Duke of Windsor in Paris: former king
to be restored to royal family circle.
Gen. Ismet Inonu becomes president
of Turkey.
Nov. 12—Germany fines Jews $400,
000,000 as penalty for murder of Ger
man diplomat by Polish Jew in Paris.
Nov. 16—31 nations ask Nazis to let
Jews enter other lands.
Nov. 21—Britain offers new homelands
for German Jews in British Guiana and
parts of Africa.
Nov. 24—Prime Minister Chamberlain
and Foreign Secretary Halifax call on
duke of Windsor In Paris.
Nov. 29—General strike began in
France: troops occupy public services.
Nov. 30—German secret police begin
purge in Nazi circles and army in drive
to silence critics.
Dec. 1—Rumanian province forbids use
of Yiddish language In public. Japa
nese air bombers kill 72; wound 200 in
raid in Kweilin. China.
Dec 4—French colonists In Tunis and
Corsica riot against Italy’s apparent
program of annexation.
Dec. 5—Germany forbids Jews to en
gage in economic affairs and bars sale
of their possessions.
Dec. 7—France and Germany sign “no
war" pact.
Dec. 8—Britain shelves Germany's de
mands for restoration of colonies.
Dec. 9—Disorders grow in French-Ital
ian row over Tunisia.
Dec. 14—British refuse to help France
In war with Italy.
Dec. 15—Chamberlain warns Italy to
keep hands off French Tunisia.
Dec. 16—Spanish rebels decree full
citizen rights to former King Alfonso.
Dec. 19—British inflict heavy losses on
Arab rebels in Palestine.
Dec. 20—France fortifies African col
onies.
Jan. 1—Admiral H. P. Jones, U. S. N..
retired.
Jan. 2—Roland R. Conklin. New York
capitalist.
Jan. 8—Henry M. Dunlap, noted horti
culturist, in Champaign, 111.
Jan. 11—Robert B. Harshe, director
Chicago Art Institute.
Jan. 16—W. H. Pickering, Harvard
university astronomer.
Jan. 19—Dr. W. K. Boyd, historian,
at Durham, N C.
Jan. 25—William Slavens McNutt,
playwright.
Jan. 27—Charles A. Corwin, artist, in
Chicago.
Jan. 29—H. Reeves-Smlth, English
actor.
Feb. 3—Armando Valdes, eminent
Spanish novelist.
Feb. 7—Harvey S. Firestone, rubber
magnate.
Feb. 14—Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
head of American Red Cross.
O O McIntyre, writer, in New York.
Feb. 20—John O. Sumner, historian, in
Boston
Feb. 24—Mrs. Irene Rucker Sherid&n.
widow of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, in
Washington.
Feb. 27—Elijah W. Halford, former
editor, and private secretary to Presi
dent Benjamin Harrison.
March 1—Gabriele d'Annunzlo. Italian
poet, playwright, soldier and patriot.
March 3—R. P. Scripps, president
Scripps-Howard newspaper chain.
March 6—Walt McDougall, veteran
cartoonist.
March 11—Dr. W. A. Wirt, educator,
at Gary, Ind.
March 13—Clarence Darrow, noted
lawyer. In Chicago.
March 28—Col. Edward M. House, in
New York.
April 10—Brig. Gen. Leon A. Mattie,
U. S. A., retired, veteran of three wars.
April 12—Feodor Chaliapin, grand op
era star. In Paris.
April 27—Albert B. Anderson of Indi
anapolis. former federal Judge.
May 6—F. D. Waterman, fountain pen
manufacturer and philanthropist, in New
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Duke of Devonshire In London.
May 16—E. T. Stotesbury, financier. In
Philadelphia.
May 18—Anton Lang, veteran Passion
Play actor, in Munich.
May 31—Louis Zangwill, English au
thor.
June 3—Marion Butler, former sena
tor from North Carolina.
June 10—Constance Fletcher (George
Fleming), novelist and dramatist.
June 14—Dr. W. W. Campbell, astron
omer and former president of University
of California.
June 17—Dr. Royal S. Copeland. Unit
ed States senator from New York.
June 19—Henry W. Keyes, former sen
ator and governor of New Hampshire.
July 4—Suzanne Lenglen. French ten
nis star.
July 9—Associate Justice Benjamin N.
Cardozo of Supreme court.
July 10—Dr. Frederick Peterson, neu
rologist and author, in Bridgeport.
Conn.
July 16— Samuel Insull, former utili
ties magnate, in Paris.
July 18—Dowager Queen Marie of Ru
mania.
July 19—Dr. Paul Rader, noted evan
gelist. in Los Angeles.
July 21—Owen wister, American au
thor.
Charles P. Howard, president of Typo
graphical union.
July 24—Obadiah Gardner, former sen
ator from Maine.
July 25—Maj. A. V. Dalrymple, last
national prohibition director.
Countess of Warwick.
Aug. 3—Pearl White, silent screen
movie heroine.
Aug. 6—Warner Oland, "Charlie Chan"
of cinema fame.
Aug. 11—Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler, wife
of automobile magnate.
Aug. 15—Daniel G. Dodge, 21, heir to
automobile fortune.
Aug. 17—Adolph Lewlsohn, 89, multi
millionaire investment broker and phi
lanthropist.
Aug. 18—Thomas K. Heath, 85, of
famed vaudeville team of McIntyre and
Heath.
Aug. 28—May Yohe, acress, in Boston.
Sept. 4—Cardinal Hayes, in New York.
Sept. 11—Prince Arthur of Connaught,
in London.
Sept. 19—Pauline Frederick, star of
stage and screen, in California.
Sept. 22—President L. D. Coffman of
the University of Minnesota, in Minneap
olis.
Sejjt. 28—Charles E. Duryea, inventor
of first automobile, in Philadelphia.
Oct. 1—Conway Tearle, stage and
screen star, in Hollywood.
Oct. 10—George W. Lederer, theatrical
producer, in New York.
Oct 12—Grand Duke Cyril, self-pro
claimed czar of Russia, in Paris.
Oct. 13—E. C. Segar, creator of “Pop
eye, the Sailor.” in California.
Oct. 17—Dr. John Barrett, ex-diplomat,
in Bellows Falls, Vt.
Oct. 22—May Irwin, famous actress, in
New York.
Oct. 27—Alma Gluck, opera star, in
New York.
Oct. 29—Pat Crowe, Cudahy kidnaper
in 1900, in New York.
Robert Woolsey, comedian, in Call
foraia.
Nov. 10—Kemal Ataturk, president of
Turkey.
Nov. 12—C. H. Mackay, Postal Tele
graph head, in New York.
Nov. 20—Queen Maud of Norway, in
London.
Nov. 21—Leopold Godowsky, famed pi
anist, in New York.
Nov. 27—Rear Admiral Edward B.
Barry, retired, in Baltimore.
Dec. 10—Professor J. W. Garner, po
litical science authority at the Univer
sity of Illinois.
Dec. 13—Gaston B. Means, superswin
dler, responsible for the Lindbergh ran
som hoax, in Springfield, Mo.
Dec. 20—Warren T. McCray, former
governor of Indiana.
Dec. 21—Mrs. Helen Shepard, daugh
ter of Jay Gould, in Margaretsville. N. Y.
Jan. 4— United States army bomber
with seven aboard lost off California
coast.
Jan. 10—Ten killed in plane crash
near Bozeman, Mont.
Jan. 11—Munitions explosion In Ma
drid killed 200.
Capt. Edwin Mustek and six others
killed in plane crash near Samoa.
Jan. 18—Forty-seven killed when Cath
olic college at St. Hyacinthe, Que.,
burned
Jan. 27—Falls View bridge at Niagara
Falls destroyed by ice jam.
Jan. 29—Munitions plant explosion
wrecked town of Segnl, Italy, and killed
27.
Feb. 2—Eleven killed in collision of
planes near San Diego.
Feb. 6—Russian dirigible crashed, kill
ing 13. f
Feb. 17—Tornado In Louisiana killed
30.
March 2—Flood in Los Angeles area
killed 04.
March 15—Tornadoes In seven states
killed 21.
March 24—Ten killed in plane crash in
Ohio.
March 30—Tornadoes in Illinois. Kan
sas. Arkansas and Missouri killed 29.
April 6—Seven men burned to death
in Chicago lodging house fire.
April 8—Storms in many states killed
40 persons.
April 20—Earthquake in Anatolia, Tur
key. killed 800.
April 22—Mine explosion at Grundy,
Va., killed 45 men.
May 1—Nineteen killed in crash of Ital
ian air liner.
May 10—Seventy-nine miners killed by
explosions in Derbyshire, England.
^May 27 Hotel Ore la Atlanta, Ga..
Air liner with 9 aboard lost in Cali
fornia mountains.
May 28—Excursion steamer Mandalay
sunk by collision off Staten island; 329
saved.
June 10—Eight army flyers killed by
plane crash near Delavan, 111.
June 14—Great Yellow river flood la
China killed 150,000.
June 19— Forty-six killed and many
injured in train wreck near Miles City,
Mont.
July 2—Destructive storms, floods and
earthquakes in Japan.
July 14—Italian airliner fell la sea;
20 killed.
July 19—Destructive earthquake in
Greece.
Eleven men killed by Baltimore water
tunnel explosion
July 24—Forty-two killed when air
fjlane crashed in crowd at Bogota, Co
ombia.
Aug. 14—Thirty-three die in German,
Mexican, English air crashes.
Aug. 15—Nine die as plane falls into
Rio de Janeiro harbor.
Triple navy airplane crashes at Camp
Kearny, San Diego, kill eight.
Aug. 22—More than 100 persons killed
and 117 Injured in train wreck in India.
Two killed and 49 injured in worst
New York subway train crash in 10
years.
Two French bombing planes collide
near Lyon, killing six.
Aug 23—Frank Hawks, famed flier
and holder of speed records, dies with
companion in plane crash at East Au
rora, N. Y.
Aug. 24—Two planes collide over Om
orl, Japan, crashing into iron foundry
and killing 28, injuring 130.
Aug. 31—One hundred killed in ty
phoon that hit Tokyo.
Sept. 1—Eleven killed In Quebec by
disasters caused by floods.
Sept. 4—Ten killed in plane crash in
London suburb.
Sept. 6—Hundreds die as Are and flood
sweep Japan.
Count of Covadonga, eldest son of ex
King Alfonso, bleeds to death following
an auto accident in Florida.
Sept. 11—Four killed in plane crash
near Danville, 111.
Sept. 21—Hurricane rips east coast;
661 dead; loss $300,000,000.
Mississippi river floods factories,
drives out lowlands residents.
Maj. Gen. Oscar Westover killed in
plane crash in California.
Sept. 29—Twenty-seven killed in tor
nado at Charleston, S. C.
Oct. 3—Richard T. Crsne III, former
diplomat, killed in hunting accident in
Virginia.
Oct. 11—Twenty-one persons dead at
forest fires raged near Minnesota-On
tario border.
Oct. 29—Fifty-six lives lost In fire at
Marseilles, France.
Nov. 19—Army bomber, traveling 200
miles an hour, crashes in rain, killing
seven.
Nov. 22—Hundreds buried by ava
lanches in British West Indies.
Nov. 29—United Air lines plane crashes
in sea off Point Reyes, Calif.; five
drowned.
Dec. 1—Twenty-two pupils and driver
killed as train demolishes school bus
near Salt Lake City.
Jan. 1—California beat Alabama in
Pasadena Rose Bowl game.
Jan. 21—Jim Braddock whipped Tom
my Farr in New York.
Jan. 30—Max Schmeling whipped Ben
Foord of South Africa in Hamburg.
Feb. 23—Heavyweight Champion Joe
Louis knocked out Nathan Mann in New
York.
Feb. 26—Glenn Cunningham set Indoor
record for “metric mile* at 3:48.4.
March 3—Glenn Cunningham ran mile
in 4:04.4, world record.
March 11—Max Baer whipped Tommy
Farr in New York.
March 21 — Chicago area Golden
Gloves boxers defeated New York team.
April 1—Heavyweight Champion Joe
Louis whipped Harry Thomas in Chicago.
April 4—Henry Picard won the Mas
ters golf tournament at Augusta, Ga.
April 16—Max Schmeling whipped
Steve Dudas in Berlin.
May 7—Lawrin, owned by H. G. Woolf
of Kansas City, won the Kentucky
Derby.
May 18—Chicago area Golden Gloves
boxers defeated European team, 5 to 3.
May 28—Charles Yates of Atlanta, Ga.,
won British amateur golf title.
June 4—British golfers defeated Amer
ican team for Walker cup.
June 11—Ralph Guldanl retained na
tional open golf title.
American wightman cup tennis team
defeated British team.
June 16—Ralph Guldahl won Western
Open golf championship.
June 22—Heavyweight Champion Joe
Louis whipped Max Schmeling of Ger
many, challenger, in one round.
June 27—Navy won the Poughkeepsie
regatta.
July 2—Helen Wills Moody won Wim
bledon tennis tourney.
July 14 — Japan canceled Olympic
games of 1940.
July 16—Paul Runyan won Profession
al golf championship.
July 26—A1 Hostak knocked out Fred
die Steele at Seattle, winning middle
weight title.
Aug. 2—Sammy Baugh, all-time out
standing passer, signs three-year con
tract with Washington Redskins pro foot
ball team.
Aug. 6—Mickey Cochrane, manager of
Detroit Tigers, dismissed.
Aug. 17—Henry Armstrong becomes
first tighter in ring history to hold three
ring titles at same time.
Aug. 27—Capt. G. E. T. Eyston drives
racing car 345.49 mph, for world record.
Aug. 31—College All-Stars defeat Wash
ington Redskins, professional football
champions, 28 to 16.
Sept. 3—Jacqueline Cochran wins Ben
dix trophy race at Cleveland, flying 250
jnph.
Sept. 4—Tony Levier wins Greve tro
phy race at Cleveland, flying 250 mph.
sept. 5—Roscoe Turner wins Thomp
son trophy race at Cleveland, flying
283.41 mph.
U. S. Davis cup tennis team retains
cup by defeating Australians at Phila
delphia
Sept. 11—Frank Frisch fired as Car
dinal manager.
Sept. 15—John R. Cobb speeds 350
mph to set new auto record.
Sept 16—Capt. G. E. T. Eyston sets
new auto speed record of 357.5 mph.
Sept. 18—Yankees win pennant in
American league.
Sept. 24—Patty Berg wins women's
championship of United States Golf as
sociation.
Sept. 26—J. Donald Budge successful
ly defended title as tennis champion.
Alice Marble regained championship
crown in United States tennis tourna
ment.
Gabby Street fired as manager of the
St. Louis Browns.
Oct. 1—Chicago Cubs win National
ICdKUC Uvimaui.
Oct. 2—Perry defeats Barnes to win
national pro tennis title.
Oct. 4—Dr. J. T. Prothro signed as
manager of the Philadelphia National
league baseball team to succeed Jimmy
Wilson.
Oct. 9—New York Yankees win world's
baseball series from Chicago Cubs In
four straight games.
Oct. 10—Burleigh Grimes fired as man
ager of the Brooklyn baseball team.
Oct. 12—Leo Durocher named manag
er of Brooklyn baseball team.
Oct. 26—Bluenose retained Internation
al fishermen’s sailing trophy by defeat
ing the Gertrude L. Thebaud.
Oct. 31—Ernie Lombardi, Cincinnati
catcher, voted most valuable player In
the National league.
Nov. 2—Jimmy Foxx, Boston Red Sox.
chosen most valuable player In the
American league.
Nov. 6—Ray Blades named manager
of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Nov. 7—Fred Haney named manager
of the St. Louis Browns.
Nov. 10—Don Budge, tennis cham
pion, turned professional.
Nov. 19—Minnesota won Big Ten foot
ball championship.
Nov. 27—Dr. Eddie Anderson, football
coach at Holy Cross, appointed to suc
ceed Irl Tubbs as head coach at the
University of Iowa.
Nov. 28—Monty Stratton, White Sox
pitcher, loses leg as result of hunting
accident.
Nov. 29—Trustees of the University of
Illinois defeated plan to oust Bob Zuppke
as football coach.
Nov. 30—Tony Musto knocked out San
dy McDonald In the sixth round in
Chicago.
Dec. 1—Gabby Hartnett signs to man
age the Chicago Cubs in 1P39
Dec. 6—Chicago Cubs trade Demaree.
Jurges and O'Doa to Giants for Bartell.
Mancuso and Leiber.
Dec. 21—Luke Sewell, White Sox catch
er. sold to Brooklyn.
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