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^ OF THE YEAR ' 193 9 1 COMPILiD BY JOHN P. GRANT EUROPEAN WAR MARS GOES TO WORK— French poilu puzzles over street sign in captured German village. Hitler Still Grabbing MARCH 12—German troops mass near border of Slovakia. 12—Czecho slovakia submits to Hitler's demands (or further break-up of the Czech state. 14—Slovakia formally secedes from Czecho-Slovakia and becomes inde pendent state under German protec tion. Hitler seizes Bohemia and Moravia, completing subjection of Czecho-Slo vakia. 18— Hitler absorbs Slovakia. Hungary annexes part of Carpatho-Ukratne. 27— Germany puts pressure on Poland. 28— Poland refuses German demand for pathway to East Prussia. APRIL 4—Poland Joins British In war alliance. 17—Germany pushes drive to take Dan zig. French fleet guards Gibraltar, British fleet sails to Malta. MAY 7— Nazis plan plebiscite In Danzig. 8— Pope Invites five powers to Vatican parley to settle Polish-German dis pute. 20—Germany fortifies Its eastern frontier against Poland. JUNE 1—Hitler pledges Germany will support Jugo-SIavta s border. 20—German troops move to encircle Po land. 28—Britain appeals to Germany to settle dispute by negotiations. JULY 8—Warsaw reports 8,000 Polish families In East Prussia are forced to move away from border. AUGUST 13—Germany and Italy establish policy on Danzig; Polish attitude called un bearable. 18— Germany takes military possession of Slovakia. SI—Germany announces nonaggression pact with Russia. 22— German troops massed near Polish corridor. 23— Germany and Russia sign nonaggres ston pact. 29—Britain and Poland sign war alliance. Japanese cabinet abandons Rome Berlin lineup. 29—Poland asks British help under new mutual aid pact. Germane Invade Poland 31—Germany opens war on Poland. SEPTEMBER 3—Britain and France declare war on Germany. British ship Athenia torpedoed off coast of Ireland, 1,400 aboard. 43 lost. Germany blockaded by British navy. •—Germans shell Warsaw; government and citizens flee. President Roosevelt proclaims U. S. neutrality. 9—Poles appeal to Britain to rush aid. France Invades Germany; British troops arrive. 7—Nazi torpedoes sink five ships. 9—French planes bomb Siegfried line. 19— German counterattack halts French on western front. Russia rushes reserves to Polish bor der. 12— German forces shut a vise on War saw. 13— Big British army lands In France without loss. Polish defense cracks; Nazis move eastward. 19— Russian troops tnvade Poland to "protect minorities." 17—Warsaw decides to fight on after truce talk fails. Poland's defenses collapse under Nazi pressure. Russian army drives 90 miles Into Poland. 20— Report Red purge of former officials in Polish Ukraine. 23—French repulse wave after wave of Nazi shock troops. 23—French defeat Germans In two big air battles; Bombard whole length of Siegfried line; bomb Zeppelin works. 27—Warsaw surrenders to Germans after 20-day siege. Estonia signs alliance with Russta. 29—Britain defies warning by foes to stop war. OCTOBER 1—Britain calls 250.000 more troops. 7— Hitler makes peace proposals to Brit ain and France; seeks armistice. 8— Hitler sets aside area In Poland for Germans to be transplanted from other countries. 10— French premier spurns Hitler’s peace terms. 12— Britain refuses peace based on Nazi conquests. 14— British battleship Royal Oak sunk by sub, 786 lost. 17—German planes raid Scapa Flow, Iron Duke, training ship damaged. 13— British report three U-boats sunk. Germans capture American ship City of Flint and take It to Soviet port. 19—American ship City of Flint, turned over to Germany by Russia, sails from Russia. (8—Germans claim 115 foreign ships sunk since war began. Five freighters sunk by Germans 11— Soviet demands raise new crisis In Finland. NOVEMBER 3—Norway frees City of Flint and tn terns German prize crew. Finland defies Soviet threat; ready to fight. f—Belgium and Holland offer to medi ate peace between warring nations. •—Hitler escapes plot; blast in Munich beer cellar kills 6 and injures «0. •—Dutch open defense dikes; clash at border with Germans. French repulse night Infantry raids by Germans. 10—French repulse two German attacks. IS—Four more merchantmen sunk in sea warfare. 17— Germans shoot nine Czech students, seize 1,200 and close academies for three years. 18— Dutch liner hits German mine In North sea. sinks with 140 lives. 10—Four more ships sunk by German mines off England. 10—Germans extend war at sea; 10 ves sels sunk since November 18; 133 dead or missing. French-Belglan treaty seen as chan nel for France to get German coke. Germany opens officers’ ranks to all soldiers; royalty backs Hitler. 11—Germany charges Munich man with beer cellar explosion; arrests two British agents. Britain declares unrestricted block ade of Germany In reprisal for Il legal mine warfare; forbids neu tral nations to trade with Germany. 22— British destroyer sunk. 40 missing. Nazi bombers raid Shetlands. no damage done. French report torpedo boat sank two subs. 23— Eight more vessel* sunk; total for six days, 23. France and Britain claim 20 air vic tories In three days on western front. Exiled Polish government begins functioning in France. Bulgaria permits British to establish propaganda center In Soda. 24— British cruiser damaged in port by blast from mine or submarine. French repulse German attack east of Moselle river. 23—Berlin claims bombers hit four Brit ish warships; London denies. Six nations protest British ban on German trade. 26— Two hundred eighty-seven die In sinking of Polish liner Pllsudski and a British armed ship. Germans fight back British planes attempting to raid Kiel canal. British fights for a new Europe. Chamberlain says. Finnish guns kill four Russian sol diers, Soviet charges. 27— Russia demands Finns remove sol diers from border; Finland offers to negottate border issue; Russia threatens war. 28— Russia denounces nonaggression pact with Finland; Finland declares Russian reports of border attacks false. Germany claims British cruiser sunk by submarine; Britain denies. 29— Russian troops Invade Finland after breaking off diplomatic relations; Finns stunned by break. 30— Russians claim lO-mlle advance into Finland; bomb Helsingfors; declare Finns attacked first. Finnish cabi net resigns after declaring war on Russia. DECEMBER 1— Finn* disable Russian cruiser with 500 aboard. Russians capture Finnish port. New cabinet takes over Finnish gov ernment. Germans sink (lve ships of four na tions. 2— Finnish rebel regime cedes territory to Russians. Regular Finnish government orders evacuation of all southern towns. Sweden tightens its defenses. British tanker sunk, two German ships sunk and liner beached. 3— British planes attack Cerman naval base and score hits on German war ships. Finns shatter Red troops in Arctic battle. League of nations summoned to hear Finnish appeal for aid. Britain puts blockade against Ger man exports into effect. 4— German pocket battleship sinks Brit ish steamer Doric Star in south At lantic. 6— Finnish flyers Inflict heavy casual ties on Soviet troop concentration. 8—Finns repulse Russian army of 200. 000 on three fronts. 7— Russians to blockade Finnish coast; warn shipping. British fighting planes beat off Ger man raids. 8— Finns repel offensive on Karelian isthmus. 10— Finns report Russian attacks re pelled on all fronts. 11— League of Nations requests Russia to cease hostilities against Finland. 12— Russia rejects league of nations pro posal to mediate conflict with Fin German liner Bremen runs British blockade to home port. 13— British ships disable and chase Ger man raider Graf Spee into South American port. 14— Russia expelled from league of na tions. Uruguay gives Graf Spee 72 hours to make repairs. 10—Finn coast artillery sinks Russian destroyer. It—Germans scuttle Graf Spee outside Montevideo harbor rather than risk fight with British ships waiting out side. 18—Huge Red forces storm Finns' moun tain positions Germans claim 34 out of 44 British planes shot down in battle over Heligoland. British claim sinking ot German cruiser and damage to two others. FOREIGN RUSSIA FACES WEST—Dic tator Josef Stalin, having com pleted a pact with Germany, con quers part of Poland and moves into Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania— and then into Finland. JANUARY 1—Chinese dictator “purges" govern ment ranks of 200 "peace party" leaders. 3—Japan’s cabinet resigns over poli cies in China. Spanish rebels report capture of Ar teaa. •—Hungarians and Czecho-Slovaks light along border. 19— Spanish rebels take Tarragona in drive toward Barcelona. 18—Madrid rushes fresh troops to de fense of Barcelona. 22— All citizens of Barcelona called to dig trenches. 24—Spanish rebels bomb Barcelona. 26—Rebels take Barcelona without a battle. 30—Hitler demands return of colonies. FEBRUARY 9—Spanish loyalist army of 200,000 flees to France to escape trap. •—Japan refuses to give up mandated islands Germany lost in war. 12—Two hundred thousand move past bier of Pope Pius in St. Peter’s. 14—Pope Pius buried In tomb beneath St. Peter's cathedral. 18—Spanish loyalists offer to surrender. France occupies African area once ceded to Italy. 20— Italy moves to place colony Libya on war footing. 23— General Franco hands Britain final terms for peace with Spanish loyal ists. 24— Britain and France decide to recog nize Franco government in Spain. MARCH 1— College of cardinals convenes In Rome to elect a pope. 2— Franco requests Mussolini to with draw Italian troops from Spain. Cardinal Eugenio Pacellf elected pope on third ballot; takes name of Pius XII. •—Communist leaders flee Madrid zone; General Miaja. new loyalist chief, asks “worthy peace." 7— Gandhi won political victory for de mocracy in India, forced by four-day fast; accepts invitation tor consulta tion with viceroy. 12— 500,000 witness coronation of Pope Pius XII. 21—Lithuania returns Memel to Ger many. 23—Madrid offers to surrender to Gen eral Franco. 28—Madrid surrenders, ending Spanish civil war. APRIL 2—Britain offers to protect Rumania. Japanese kill 8.000 Chinese in three battles. 8— Albert Lebrun re-elected president of France. •—Italian troops Invade Albania 13— Massing of troops near Gibraltar causes alarm; British barricade road to Spain. 27—Serbians sign pact with Croats, end ing Jugoslavia's biggest internal problem. MAY 6—King and queen of Great Britain ■all for Canada. 17— King and queen of Great Britain welcomed at Quebec. 18— King and queen start on tour of Canada. 25— Bill setting up dictatorship over In dustry Introduced in British parlia ment. 29—New border war develops between Japan and Russia in Manchukuo. JUNE 10—Bombs in mail In England Injure seven persons. 14—Japan presents Britain with new de mands as troops tighten blockade at Tientsin. 20—British women and children flee Tientsin to escape Japanese economic blockade. 22—King and queen given tremendous reception on their return to England. 26— Soviets repulse Jap air attack on Mongol border: shoot down 25 planes. 27— Japs report shooting down 98 Soviet planes In battle over Outer Mongolia. JULY 13—France jails two newspaper execu tives. charged with receiving pay from Germany. 18—Danzig political police purge city of Socialists. 24—Chamberlain promises Britain will stay out of Japan's way In China. Japan orders Canton river closed to foreign shipping. 26—Four bombings In England blamed on Irish Republican army. AUGUST 3—Britain offers to mediate Japanese Chlnese war. 8—Spain executes 53 persons lor com plicity In slaying of civil guard offi cer. 3—Sudden German food shortage rouses public. SEPTEMBER 26— French cabinet decree ends Com munist party In France. 27— Bulgaria seeks trade pact with Rus sia. 28— Constantine Argesanu appointed pre mier of Rumania. OCTOBER 2— Delegates of 21 republics at an Inter Amerlcan neutrality conference fixed a safety zone around two Americas. 3— Japanese admit loss of 18,000 men in fighting Russians. 8—Chinese halt Japanese drive In Hu nan province; report 10,300 slain. 10— Sovlti returns Vllna to Lithuania. 11— Britain and Russia sign trade agree ment. 27— Pope Pius In encyclical assails dic tators. 28— Thousands arrested as Czechs and Nazis battle in Prague. NOVEMBER 2—Slovak mob wrecks shops and news gapers In Bratislava, Hungary. ritlsh threaten to abolish self-rule in India. 20—Kx-kaiser narrowly escapes death In storm at Doom. DECEMBER 3—Japan faces scarcity of food this winter. Peru opens great new port facilities to Callao. 11—Italy qulta league of nations. DOMESTIC U. S. GUARDS NEUTRALITY —Special congressional session institutes “cash-and-carry” neu trality as Americans rush home from Europe, atvay from war zone. JANUARY J—Former Gov. Frank Murphy of Mich igan takes oath as U. S. attorney gen eral. Harry Hopkins sworn In as Secretary of commerce. 3—Seventy-sixth congress convenes, fr—President sends to congress $10,000, 000,000 budget for 1940 fiscal year. Felix Frankfurter nominated for U. S. Supreme court. 12— President, In message, asks 552 mil lions more for defense. 16—President asks extension of social security benefits. 19—President asks legislation to end tax free public salaries and to levy on all securities. FEBRUARY 1— President makes new demand for 150 millions more tor PWA after sign ing appropriation bill with that amount cut out. 9— House passes bill making state and municipal employees subject to In come tax. 13— Justice Brandels retires from the U. S. Supreme court. 15— House approves $376,000,000 defense bill. 25—James J. Hines, Tammany chief, convicted of violating lottery laws. 27—U. S. Supreme court rules sit-down strikes Illegal. MARCH 2— Ex-Judge Martin T. Manton Indicted by federal grand Jury In New York as bribe taker. 7— Senate passes $358,000,000 army ex tension bill. 8— House passes bill giving President restricted authority to reorganize de partments. 16— Lieut-Gov. l.auren D. Dickinson sworn In as governor of Michigan to succeed the late Frank D. Fitzgerald. 18—U. S. puts penalty tariff on German imports. 23—James J. Hines. Tammany leader, sentenced to serve four to eight vears In prison. 27—u. S. Supreme court holds federal and state governments may lax sal aries of each other's employees. APRIL 3—C. I. O. union ordered to pay Apex Hosiery company $711,930 damages for sit-down strike. i—E. J. Kelly re-elected mayor of Chi cago. Senate passes bill removing recipro cal lax Immunities from state and federal salaries. William O. Douglas confirmed tor Supreme court. 10— Senate rejects amendment to give WPA 50 millions more, then passes original bill. 15— President addresses peace plea to European dictators: 9«ks 10-year peace guarantee. 18—War department assigns Charles A. Lindbergh to study U. S. aviation facilities. 25—President makes first transfer under reorganization act; creates three su peragencies 27—President asks 1,762 million more for relief. MAY 1—U. S Supreme court denies appeal of miners convicted of Illinois bomb outrages. 11— Coal confrees agree on new contract with operators. Senate passed record-breaking $1, 218.666.572 farm bill. 12— President names Admiral Leahy gov ernor of Puerto Rico 16— House votes each congressman an other clerk at annual cost of $658,500 without a roll call. 17— Senate kills New Deal Florida canal bill 18— Senate passes $773,000,000 naval ap propriation bill. 20—Yankee Clipper files from Long Is land to Europe, opening trans-Atlan tic air mail service. 22— Boss Pendergast of Kansas City giv en 15 months In federal prison for Income tax evasion. 23— House approves farm appropriation bill as passed by senate. 25—Fritz Kuhn, Nazi bund leader, in dicted In New York on theft charges. 27— Yankee Clipper returns from Europe. JUNE 1— Senate passes bill lifting long term bonded national debt limit above *30,000,000,000. 2— Contract for 24 warships costing $330,000,000 awarded by navy depart ment. 3— Former Judge Manton found guilty of bribery. 5—House rejects plan to make Hyde Park home a memorial to President Roosevelt. 7— King George and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain enter United States at Niagara Falls; officially welcomed bv Secretary of State Hull. 8— King and queen of Great Britain welcomed to Washington by Presi dent Roosevelt; attend state dinner at White House. 10— House votes big slash In payroll taxes; benefits are increased. 11— King and queen end U. S. visit. 13—House votes drastic limitations on future operations of TVA. 15—King ana queen sail for home. 19— House passes tax bill of 1,844 mil lions; retains nuisance taxes, but revises levies on corporations. 20— Senate committee boosts pork bar rel bill from $83,848,100, as passed by the house, to $407,855,600. 22—House restores 37 millions previously cut from army appropriation bill. Farm bill boosted 225 millions by the house. 25— Fraud bared at Louisiana university. 26— Gov, Leche steps down and Lieut. Gov. Long is sworn In In Louisiana. $600,000 fraud laid to President Smith of the Louisiana university. 28— Senate adds 73 million to relief bill and passes It. 29— House hands administration defeat of neutrality bill; endorses embargo on arms shipments. 30— Senate lets Roosevelt's money rule die by preventing legislation to ex tend. House passes neutrality bill barring arms shipments. JULY 5— Senate adopts conference report on reviving President's money powers. 6— W. P. Buckner given two years tn prison on Philippine railway bond charges. 10—President gives Paul V. McNutt of Indiana Job as head of the newly created Federal Security administra tion. 13— Senate votes to fix payroll tax at 1 per cent until 1943. 14— President signs bill giving war de partment power to hide secret new equipment from spies. 20—House passes bill to curb bureau crats In politics. 24— House committee shelves President's $800,000,000 housing program. Nation-wide lottery swindle using name of Will Rogers exposed. 25— One killed, seven shot, In battle over nonunion labor at Boonville, Ind. 26— United States scraps trade treaty with Japan. Francis B. Sayre nominated for high commissioner to the Philippines. 31—Senate lops $1,615,000,000 from spend ing bill and passes It. AUGUST 1— Army's flying fortress flies coast to coast In fly* hours. House kills President's lending spending bill. 2— House slashes $161,000,000 from final spending bill. 4— Senate passes third deficiency bill of 189 millions. Agreement reached on social se curity amendment cutting pay roll tax $900,000,000 In next three years. 5— Congress adjourns after appropriat ing more than $13,000,000,000. 7— Former Governor Leche of Louisiana and two others indicted in hot oil quiz. 14 — President advances Thanksgiving day one week, naming November 23. 15— WPA raises pay of 2,000,000 workers $5,000,000 a month. New York fair asks bondholders for $4,820,000 to meet debts. 18—U. S. and Canada sign new pact for air service. 20—Louisiana oil czar. Dr. J. A. Shaw, witness against ex-Gov. R. W. Leche, kills self. 24—President pleads for peace; cables Hitler, Poles, and king of Italy. 29—German liner Bremen held up at New York for search. SEPTEMBER 2—Liner Bremen allowed to depart from New York. 6—Roosevelt establishes naval patrol along Atlantic coast. 11— President lifts quota on sugar to curb prices. 12— Steel plants and railroads call back their workers. 13— Congress called for September 21. 14— Borah opposes repeal of arms em bargo as likely to put American into WAT. 18— Soviet purchasing agent tells of pay ments to persons connected with Democratic national committee. 20— At a conference of Republican and Democratic leaders Roosevelt urges repeal of neutrality act. 21— Congress convenes In special ses sion: Roosevelt urges early repeal of arms embargo provision of neutrality act. 25—American Legion convenes In annual session in Chicago. 27— Sudden dissolution of war resources board causes surprise. 28— Administration's neutrality repealer bill sent to the senate. 29— Powerful naval fleet ordered to Ha waii. OCTOBER 2—Debate on repeal of neutrality act begins In senate. 4— Army places an order for 329 high speed, light tanks. 5— Grover C. Bergdoll. draft dodger, sentenced to 714 years in prison. 1—Bishop Ablewhlte sent to prison for fund shortage. 10—War department orders 65,000 semi automatic rifles. 12—William Green elected president of A. F. of L. for sixteenth time. 17—Brazil orders $5,870,000 rail equip ment from America. 15— President closes American ports to submarines of warring nations. 19— New house bill bans financial aid to warring nations. 20— Roosevelt sets three-mile limit for submarines. 23— Indiana endurance flyers descend after 535 hours; new record. 24— Senate adopts cash and carry amend ments to neutrality bill. 25— Government sues 236 railroads under Sherman antitrust act. 27— Senate votes. 63 to 30, to repeal arms embargo provision of neutrality act. Bill goes to house. 28— Carl Bevins, Missouri flyer, kidnaped and slain in his own plane by Ernest Pletch, arrested. 29— California flyers land after 726 hours in air—new record. 30— U. S. assesses Germany 50 millions for Black Tom and Kingsland blasts during World war. 31— United Mine Workers raise $3,000,000 for political fight in 1940. President asks 276 million for added defense. NOVEMBER 2—House votes against embargo on arms: bill goes to conference. 5— Congress passes neutrality repeal bill and adjourns 4—President signs repeal bill and bars war zones to American shipping. 6— Supreme court rules state cannot tax HOLC mortgages. 7— Old age pension plana defeated in Ohio and California. AAA will make loans to cotton grow ers on new crop. 8— Navy sends marines to Hawaii to strengthen Pacific defense Fifteen U. S. oil tankers transferred to Panamanian registry. 9— Roosevelt demands Lewis, head of C 1. O.. resume peace negotiations with A F. of L. 12—Dr. Smith, former president of L. S U., given 8 to 24 years for univer sity scandals. 14—Louis Levy. New York lawyer, dis barred in Manton scandal. 16—A1 Capone, gang leader, released from federal prison; enters Baltimore hospital. Dr. Smith, former L. S. U. presi dent, attempts suicide in prison. General Motors found guilty in anti trust suit; 17 individuals acquitted. 20—Michigan governor offers state pro tection to Chrysler employees who want to work. Foreign nations reported to be heavy buyers of copper. Court upholds C. I. O. over A. F. of L., In union fight 21— Proportion of civil tervlce employee* reduced under President Roosevelt. 22— U. S. court upholds wage-hour law In Montgomery Ward case. Supreme court voids cities' ban on handbills. 24—President suggests special taxes for half billion increase In defense ap propriations. 28—President summons budget director to discuss departmental cuts. 27— Morgenthau declares next congress must lift legal debt limit. 28— Chrysler company and C. I. O. agree on basis of peace after auto plants are tied up 53 days. 29— Jury finds German-American bund leader Fritz Kuhn guilty on forgery and theft charges. 30— Roosevelt sends sharp note to Russia asking that bombing of cities stop. DECEMBER 2— Curtiss plants speed building of war planes. 3— Winnie Ruth Judd. Insane slayer, again escapes from prison in Arizona. 8—Fritz Kuhn, bund leader, sentenced to prison for two and a half years. 7— Upward trend seen in several lines or business. 8— Secretary Hull protests British block ade. 9— Roosevelt orders a special naval dis trict in Caribbean. 11—RFC grants $10,000,000 loan to Fin land. U. S. Supreme court bars evidence gained by wire tapping. 13— Twelve naval captains promoted to be rear admirals. 14— ICC approves trainload rail rate re duction. 18—Garner announces candidacy for Democratic presidential nomination. DISASTERS SQUALUS SINKS —V. S. navy's diving bell gets first real test rescuing 33 survivors from sunken submarine. Twenty-six others die. JANUARY 21—The airliner Cavalier wrecked at sea oft Cape May, N. J„ three lost, 10 saved. 23—Bomber crashes on test hop at Los Angeles; pilot killed. 25—Thirty thousand killed, 50.000 Injured by earthquake In Chile; towns wiped out in disaster. FEBRUARY 2—Japanese submarine sunk In colli sion. 11—Army mystery plane crashes after coast-to-coast flight at 340-mlle rate. MARCH 2—Two hundred killed in explosion of munitions dump in Japan; 800 houses destroyed. 18—Ten killed In airplane crash near Tacoma. Wash. 25—Airliner crashes In Oklahoma, killing eight. APRIL ♦—Four navy fliers killed when planes collide In maneuvers. 13—Twenty-eight killed, 50 injured tn train wreck in Mexico. 18—Tornadoes in Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana cause 53 deaths and in juries to 300. MAY 23— Fifty-nine trapped In sunken sub marine Squalus. 24— Thirty-three rescued alive from Squa lus, 26 dead. JUNE 1—Missing British submarine found mired in mud; 99 lost. ♦—Twenty-two persons killed in Mexi can theater fire. 18—Seventy-one lives lost In wreck of French submarine. 18—Ten dead, 63 injured In Minnesota tornado. JULY 5—Fifty-three drowned, 47 missing, in flood In mountains of eastern Ken tucky. 12— Mystery explosion and fire damage navy aircraft carrier Ranger. 14—Twenty-eight perish in mine blast at Providence, Ky. 17—Five killed as train hits auto in Chi cago suburb. 23—Avalanche on Mount Baker. Wash., kills two, four missing. AUGUST 11—Nine U. S. army filers and two navy fliers killed as two bombers crash. 13— Fourteen killed as Miami to Rio de Janeiro plane crashes in Rio harbor. Twenty-three killed, 60 injured, when streamliner is wrecked In Nevada; rail officials charge sabotage. SEPTEMBER 25—Storm in California kills 100; dam age. $1,000,000. 28—Munitions plant blast in Britain kills IS. OCTOBER 11—Wreck of school bus at War. W. Va.. kills six; 71 Injured. NOVEMBER 14— Five hundred killed and injured when fire engulfs Venezuelan oil port. DECEMBER 3—Typhoon ravages five islands In the Philippines. SPORTS IRON MAN STRIKES OUT— Lou Gehrig, “iron man of base ball,” retires from New York Yankees with paralysis infection after hanging up all-time rec ord for games played. JANUARY 3—Southern California football team de feats Duke in Rose Bowl. 17—Edward G. Barrow elected president of the New York Yankees. 25—Joe Louis, heavyweight champion, stopped John Henry Lewis in first round in New York. FEBRUARY 0—National Professional Football league re-elects Joseph Carr president for 10 years. 23—Tony Galento scores technical knock out over Abe Feldman. MARCH 20—Charles Bowser named bead football coach at Pitt. APRIL 2—Ralph Guldahl wins Masters golf title at Atlanta, Ga. 17— Joe Louis, heavyweight champion, knocks out Jack Roper In first round. 18— Joey Archibald wins featherweight title from Leo Rodak In 15 rounds. MAY 8—Johnstown won Kentucky derby. 20— Joseph F. Carr, National Football league president, dies. 25—Henry Armstrong, welterweight, de feats Ernie Roderick. British cham pion, In 15 rounds. 30—Shaw wins Indianapolis auto race, averaging 115.035 miles per hour. Roberts Killed. JUNE 1—Lou Nova scores technical knockout over Max Baer in eleventh round. 12—Centennial birthday of baseball cele brated at Cooperstown, N. Y„ where it originated. 21— Lou Gehrig, Mayo clinic physicians announce after check-up, has Infan tile paralysis; playing career ended. 28—Joe Louis stops Tony Galento in the fourth round. JULY 8—Alice Marble wins British tennis championship at Wimbledon. 11—American league wins all-star base ball game, 3 to 1. 30—Dick Metz wins St. Paul open golf championship with record score of 270. AUGUST 7—Elmer Layden of Notre Dame cho sen head coach of all-star football team. 14—Chicago White Sox play first night £ame In Comiskey park. ou Ambers regains lightweight title in 15-round bout with Armstrong. SEPTEMBER 5—Roscoe Turner wins Thompson tro phy air race third time. 15—Tony Galento stops Nova In 14 rounds. 16—Bobby Riggs, Alice Marble win U. S. net titles. 17—Yankees cinch American league pen nant. 20—Joe Louis knocks out Bob Pastor in 11 rounds. 28—Cincinnati Reds win National league pennant. OCTOBER 8—Yankees win world's baseball series in four straight games. 17—Bucky Walters, Cincinnati pitcher, voted most valuable player in Na tional league. 24—Joe DiMaggio wins American league most valuable player award. NOVEMBER 1—A1 Davis stops Tony Canzonerl In third round. 17—Billy Conn, light heavyweight cham pion. successfully defends title against Lesnevitch in 15 rounds. DECEMBER 9—Eddie Anderson awarded plaque as football coach of year. 10—Green Bay Packers whip New York Giants to win professional football title. 11—Nile Klnnlck, Iowa football star, named No. 1 athlete of all sports in i annual poll. IS—New York Yankees voted best team in any sport. NECROLOGY ■lPIVS PAPA XI, POPE SUCCUMBS—The de vout kneel in prayer before cas ket containing the body of Pope Pius XI. JANUARY 13—Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New York Yankees. 26—Former Sen. Joseph I. France of Maryland, in Baltimore. FEBRUARY 3—Frederick Steiwer, former senator from Oregon. 9—Pope Pius XI. 13—Rt. Rev. J. M. Francis, Episcopalian bishop .of Indianapolis. 15— Charles R. Crane, former diplomat. 16— Dr. Clarence True Wilson, prohibi tion leader. MARCH 2—Howard Carter, who found King Tut’s tomb, in London. 5— Former U. S. Attorney General John G. Sargent. 29—Gerardo Machado, former dictator of Cuba. APRIL 6— Premier Joseph Lyons of Australia. 9—James Hamilton Lewis, U. S. senator from Illinois. 11—S. S. Van Dine, mystery-story writer, real name Willard H. Wright. MAY 26—Dr. Charles Mayo, famous surgeon. JUNE 19—Miss Grace Abbott, noted welfare worker and University of Chicago professor. 26—Ford Maddox Ford. British author. JULY 7— Claude A. Swanson, secretary of the navy. 8— Havelock Ellis, scientist and philoso pher. 18—J. Louis Comiskey, owner of Chi cago White Sox baseball team. 28—Dr. William J. Mayo, co-founder with his brother of the Mayo clinic. AUGUST 14—T. E. Powers, famed cartoonist SEPTEMBER 4—Charles Donnelly, president of North ern Pacific railway. 18—Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate. 23— Sigmund Freud, originator of psycho analysis. 24— Floyd Gibbons, war correspondent. Can Laemmle, pioneer movie pro ducer. OCTOBER 2—George Cardinal Mundelein, arch bishop of Chicago. 6—Count Von Bernstorf, German envoy to U. S. In 1917. 23—Zane Grey, noted writer of western stories. 29—Alice Brady, stage and screen star. NOVEMBER 2— Opie Read, famous author. 8— Dr. Livingston Farrand, president emeritus of Cornell university. 16—Pierce Butler, U. S. Supreme court justice. 25— James Simpson. Chicago business leader. 27—Dr. J. A. Naismlth. Inventor of bas ketball. DECEMBER 3— Alfred Granger, prominent architect Princess Louise, duchess of Argyle, oldest living child of Queen Victoria. 4— Marshal Wu Pei-fu. poet-soldier oi Republican China. J. Butler Wright, American ambas sador to Cuba. 9— Col. John S. Hammond, sportsman and soldier. 11—Douglas Fairbanks Sr., stage and screen star. Charles R. Walgreen, chain drug store head. 18—Heywood Broun, columnist. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Dental Patients Needn’t Fear Physical Pain By DR. JAMES W. BARTON **TTNTIL recently ‘pain less’ dentistry was largely a myth, a phrase used by charlatans and quacks to lure unwilling victims into their fly-by night offices. But today, every major dental operation can be per formed without the least pain a to the patient. Much of the w suffering due to operative dentistry—filling and remov ing teeth—is today altogether unnecessary.” I am quoting Frederick Ft. Adams, D. D. S., New York, in Hygeia. Unfortunately most individ uals do not know that dentists can do so much work about the teeth and gums without causing pain and so allow these harmful conditions to become worse rather than visit their dentist. ‘‘Though physical anguish has been up rooted at last, the difficult matter of doing away with fear and ‘imagined’ suffering remains un Dr. Barton solved. I think more people are deterred from making needed visits to their den- f tists because they * fear they may be hurt than for all oth er reasons com bined. “A new anaesthet er reasons corn name) has been de veloped quite re cently. Already over 8,000,000 injections of this new drug have been made, and it gives every indication of be ing a decided improvement on any other anaesthetic now available to the dentist. Not only is the onset of anaesthesia swifter, but this new preparation is more thorough; ap parently entirely safe, and so stable that boiling will not spoil it. Broken Into Harmless Substance. “What is more no bad effect on the heart has been observed in any of the nuftnerous trials. Nor does this new drug ‘accumulate’ in the body, for when the blood stream carries it to the liver, it is broken down into almost completely harm less substances." Your dentist and physician will tell you that when infected gums and teeth are too long neglected, the removal of teeth, too far gone to be worth trying to save, may cause injury to the gums and surrounding tissues so that the "open" blood ves sels may carry infection to joints and heart, causing rheumatism and heart disease. * * • X-Rays Used to Treat Carbuncles \X7'HEN we think of carbuncle we ** have in mind a number of boils occurring in a group. Appar ently a little infection or boil starts at the bottom of a hair root, ap proaches the skin surface, and for some reason cannot get through at first. The infection then travels be- ,1 neath the skin to the next hair and jfl again approaches the surface. This happens a number of times so that there may be as many as six or more boils all ready to break through the skin in what appears to be one large lump. Physicians and surgeons are very careful in their treatment of car buncles, particularly about the face, as the poisons imprisoned may prove dangerous to life if carried to distant parts, particularly the brain. X-Rays Prove Valuable. Dr. F. W. O’Brien, Boston, in the New England Journal of Medicine, points out that the death rate among 130 hospital patients with severe car buncle receiving X-ray treatment alone or together with surgery was 3 per cent. There were no deaths among 57 patients with carbuncle on the face treated with the X-ray alone. There was no evidence that the diabetic patient, in whom car buncles are common, could not un dergo X-ray treatment safely. The patients who were treated early, only by X-rays, recovered in a shorter time than did the others who were treated by surgery, or by surgery and X-ray. It is certainly gratifying to learn that another distressing and at times dangerous ailment is being treated so successfully by X-rays. When first the X-rays were discov ered their usefulness was to make sure that a bone was broken or to locate some object in the stomach or other organs and tissues. A point that must be remembered, however, is that X-ray is now a spe cialty in medicine, just as any other specialty. It does not consist in just taking pictures. It requires knowledge and skill to interpret the findings and to know exactly how much of the X-ray to prescribe, and the distance and angle from the skin surface. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.)