MONTHLY AND ANNUAL PRECIPITATION AT NEW YORK (INCHES). YEAR. Jan. Feb. Mar. April. May. | June. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. An'ual The heaviest rainfall in twenty-four hours at New | on Oct. 8-9, 1903; the next heaviest was 6.17 inches Stations. Abilene, Tex nw Veloc'y. tion. Day. Year. VELOCITY OF WINDS (PER HOUR) IN THE UNITED STATES. Albany, N. Y Alpena, Mich. Atlanta, Ga. Bismarck, N. D Boston, Mass. Buffalo, N. Y Charlotte, N. C. Chattanooga, Tenn. Chicago, Ill. Cincinnati, Ohio.. Cleveland, Ohio. Denver, Col.. Dodge City, Kan 6 Detroit, Mich Dubuque, Iowa. Duluth, Minn Eastport, Me. Jacksonville, Fla Knoxville, Tenn Louisville, Ky.. Lynchburg, Va 75 Mobile, Ala. Montgomery, Ala... Philadelphia, Pa. Portland, Me. Red Bluff, Cal St. Louis, Mo. Salt Lake City, Utah Toledo, Ohio. Vicksburg, Miss...... 96 Wilmington, N. Č.... WHAT IS AN ATOM? (By C. G. Abbott in a Report of the Smithsonian Institution.) The atoms of all substances are built of what we might call the same kinds of bricks. There are two kinds in every atom, one kind called protons, which are positive electrical charges, and the other called electrons, which are negative electrical charges. Of these, all of the protons are clustered at the center or nucleus of the atom, but some of the electrons lie in outside orbits, or if not properly orbits then vibrating semi-stable configurations of definite radii as measured from the nucleus. It is not difficult to detach electrons from the atoms of many kinds of chemical elements. This can be done by heating, by electrical means, and by bombardment of radium or X-rays. Sometimes the electrons pass in this manner only from one orbit or position of configuration to the next, but sometimes they are driven quite out of the sphere of influence of their atom, become temporarily free electrons, and are captured by some other atom after wandering free for a brief time. In these separations and approaches of electrons from orbit to orbit reside the absorption and production of light rays and of all such rays, including the infra-red, the visible, the ultra-violet, and the X-rays. The diameter of an atom-that is to say, the THE ACE OF (For the ALMANAC by the late John M. Ideas regarding the age of the earth as a planetary body have vastly expanded since the determination of the rate of radium disintegration, coupled with a better conception of the time requirements for the slow processes necessary to the development of life. There is no way of accurately measuring either of these procedures, and as for the rate of life processes, there probably never will be. Geologists have attempted to estimate lengths of time required for the performance of certain specific earth works, such as the building of a given coral reef, the erosion of a certain river gorge like Niagara Falls, the retreat of cliffs or the building up of ocean sediments. But all such efforts at even an approximation to a rate for terrestrial processes, have concededly fallen down because of the exceeding intricacy of the factors entering into the simplest of nature's procedures. The Life began in simple unicellular expressions; out of such initiative expressions have come, by combination and adjustment, all subsequent and consequent multi-cellular animals and plants. earliest records of the rocks should show a preponderance of the elementary forms of life, so far as the sediments making those rocks have been competent to preserve them. They may have been; but these earliest sediments have been so altered by crystallization resulting from movements in the earth's crust, that only imperfect evidences of this life, mostly accumulations of carbon and hydrocarbon, have been found. This loss of record does not impeach the very obvious fact that the character of life becomes ever simpler, the older the rocks in which it is found. With the foregoing condition precedent, which is not a matter of testimony but of evidence, perhaps the most impressive conceptions of the length of time required for the development of the life on the earth are afforded by such illustrations as the following: 1. In the Cambrian Formation which lies close to the base of the entire series of sedimentary rock formations, Walcott has uncovered an extraordinary array of fossils of surprisingly fine preservation and representing a wide variety of invertebrate groups, many of them of highly specialized structure. The crustaceans, of the order of the trilobites and shrimps, are profusely developed. A crustacean has a highly perfected anatomy, fully equipped with general organs of digestion and circulation, a specialized nerve system, organs of sight and touch, perfectly adapted organs of locomotion, etc. All these intricate structures the animal must have acquired very slowly by the processes of acquisi THE MEANING OF An acre of ground contains 43,560 square feet. Consequently, a rainfall of 1 inch over 1 acre of ground would mean a total of 6,272,640 cubic inches of water. This is equivalent to 3,630 cubic feet. As a cubic foot of pure water weighs about 62.4 pounds, the exact amount varying with the density, it follows that the weight of a uniform coating of 1 inch of rain over 1 acre of surface would be 226,512 pounds, or 1134 short tons. diameter of the sphere within which all the protons and electrons of a single atom find themselvesdoes not exceed one ten-millionth part of the diameter of an ordinary bird shot. Hence a single atom is quite too small to see even with a microscope. Moreover, an atom, as we have remarked, is not solid, but itself composed of a number of particles-the protons and electrons -well separated. Indeed, these constituents of the atom are excessively small compared to what we have just described as the diameter of an atom. A single electron is only one fifty-thousandth part of the diameter of an atom. Comparing this to one of the planets, the diameter of Mars bears roughly the same ratio to the diameter of its orbit that holds between an electron and an atom. Similarly the nucleus of a heavy atom, like that of lead, containing many protons and electrons, bears somewhat the same proportion to the whole atomic volume that our sun, 865,000 miles in diameter, bears to a sphere just inclosing the orbit of the planet Jupiter. From these figures we see that the inclosure we call an atom is almost wholly given up to free space. The occupied parts form hardly any greater volume, proportionally, than the sun and planets do to the solar system. THE EARTH. Clarke, New York State Geologist.) tion, adaptation and adjustment from its primitive ancestors. And yet we find it standing at the very threshold of the preserved record of terrestrial life. The group and the geological age to which it belongs reveal no trace of the higher life forms presented by the vast vertebrate kingdom. 2. Very much the same is true of the plant world. Terrestrial life, both animal and plant, came out of the sea. It is the opinion of paleobotanists that the plant life which emerged from the sea to the land, "the flora of transmigration," made its trek in days before the Cambrian time, and that these plants were algae of a higher order in respect to perfection of reproduction organs than any of the modern algae now living. The fossil trees of Gilboa, N. Y., from the Devonian rocks, a period vastly later than the Cambrian, were majestic seed ferns of a high degree of development and of commanding size. Their ancestors are as yet almost wholly unknown, but they had to arrive at their advanced attainment by the inconceivably slow procedures which nature requires in organic development. Such facts convey an imperfect notion of the vast ages required for the development of life on the earth. The molecular disintegration of the minerals of urantum and thorlum results in eventually producing lead. Lead derived from these sources has a specific gravity different from that of ordinary lead. If then, a mineral deposit known to be of Devonian age contains a uranium mineral accompanied by lead which has been derived from it, the length of time from the formation of that mineral-bearing Devonian bed to the present is at least as long as the time required for the change from the uranium molecules into lead. This rate of change has been measured and it is known that in one year a gram of uranium would generate 1.25 x 10-10 grams of lead, and at this rate one gram of lead would be produced in 8,000 million years. On the basis of such evidence, which is of course subject to review and more precise statement with fuller knowledge, the length of time represented by the entire body of the unchanged rocks of the earth is 667 million years, and if to this be added the time necessary for the accumulation of the rocks of the Pre-cambrian age, some of which are sedimentary and some igneous, the figure rises to 1,497 million years. These time estimates for the age of the earth are in harmony with the vastly expended conceptions of time and space which have been emphasized by modern astronomers. Record of the Year. Chronology, Dec. 12, 1925-Dec. 12, 1926. 1925-DECEMBER De 13-At Teheran, Persia, the Constituent As- De 13-At Geneva, Ill., H. W. Jeske, a teller 15-The U. S. House of Representatives voted repeal publicity of income tax returns. -Battling Siki (Louis Phal) Senegal boxer, was hot and killed at N. Y. City. -Melle Dunham of Maine, fiddled old fashioned dance muste for Mayor Hylan at the N. Y. City Ball. Safety at Philadelphia, was asked by Mayor -3 children were trampled to death and several -All reference to evolution has been eliminatedAt Mexico City, the Chamber of Deputies ap- Der 16-A plot against the life of Gustav Stresemann, German Foreign Minister, has been unearthed. The police have arrested two German Fascists. proved the anti-foreign land bill with the amend- Dec. 24-Holy Year came to an end with the closing Chicago Dally News was bought for $14,000,000, from the estate of Victor F. Lawson, U. S. Court Martial at Ailantic City, N. J., by a syndicate controlled by News employees. found 12 members of the Coast Guard guilty of smuggling liquor. COL. WM. MITCHELL GUILTY. Dec 17-Col. William Mitchell, former Assistant Chief of the Army Air Service, was found guilty by an army court-martial of violating the 96th Article of War, and was sentenced immediately-The to suspension from rank and command. with forfeiture of all pay and allowances for five years. The War Dept. Board of Review approved the tence, Jan. 19, 1926, and Pres. Coolidge, Jan. 25 upheld suspension but allowed Mitchell his alowances and half his pay. Col Mitchell resigned from the army, Jan. 27, effective, Feb. 1. Japanese troops occupied Mukden, Manchuria. -The Italian Chamber of Deputies ratified the-Prof. Gregorius Itelsohn, 74, writer and scientist debt funding agreement with the U. 8. Har Haeberlin, Vice Pres. and Minister of ice, was elected Pres. of the Swiss Confederfor 1926. Bill, 57, regarded as "the oldest horse in the rld," dropped dead on the farm of his owner, -Robbers killed a pay-roll guard of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co., at Mollenauer, Pa., and got $47,900. was attacked by anti-Jewish mob at Berlin; he died May 6, 1926. Dec. 25-The ex-German Emperor celebrated Christmas at Doorn, Holland, by preaching on the Nativity and distributing gifts from an evergreen tree which he had chopped. C. Sonder, in Harmony Township, Warren-A despatch from Mukden says that Gen. Kuo County, 8 miles from Washington, N. J. 18-Princess Maria Victoria de Pignatelli of haty was killed in an automobile accident near navaca, Mex. Her husband, Prince Valerio de Pignatelli, descendant of Fernando Cortez, as seriously injured. -The 1. 8. Submarine S-19, dived off Montauk Point, N. Y., remained 30 minutes at a depth of 100 feet: remained 30 minutes at 150 feet down: De stayed half an hour at a depth of 200 feet: tally rising to the surface 8 miles from where t dived. Sung-ling, who fled after his army was defeated by that of Marshal Chang Tso-lin, and his wife were captured while hiding in a cellar and that the captors cut off Kuo's legs and his wife's arms and then shot and killed them both. Afterward, Kuo and his wife were decapitated. Marshal Chang ordered that their heads be placed on the grave of one of his favorite Generals who had been executed by Kuo. Dec. 26-The new Turkish Civil Code transfers divorce actions to the courts. Lee 19-Benj. T. Watkins, Vice Pres. Nat'l Real Estate B'd, killed himself at Atlanta, Ga. -At Indianapolis, John Marcus of St. Louis found guilty with 22 others of conspiracy to violate the Nat Prohibition Law, was sentenced to 15-U. 8. Circuit Judge Hough, at N. Y. City granted months' imprisonment. -Radium polsoning killed Miss Marjorie Carlough, at F. Orange, N. J, the seventh death among workers in a radium factory. -Lindsay Coleman, a Negro, was lynched at Clarksdale, Miss., a few minutes after a Circuit Court jury had acquitted him of the murder of C. Nichols, manager of a plantation store. Later the court fined Sheriff W. S. Glass $500. -The body of Miss Lena Leblanc, a factory worker, was found in a pond at Leominster, Mass. Aupay Indicated the girl had died from the swelling of the thymus gland in her throat, caused by right from seeing a man in the woods. 20-Police and citizens at Haines City, Fla.. kiled Odom Dunlap, a Negro, after he had killed Owen Higgins, a banker. King All of the Hedjaz, eldest son of King Hussein, who was forced to abdicate in October, 1924, has himself abdicated, owing to the collapse of the defenses of Jeddah, invested by Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd. Dec. 21-The British House of Commons, 239 to 4 the Laborites had walked out), approved the League of Nations award on the Iraq boundary dispute 22-Frank A. Munsey, 71, newspaper owner and financier, died at his home, N. Y. City, after operations for appendicitis and peritonitis. He left most of his estate to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. -Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, Director of Public GERALD CHAPMAN IN COURT. Gerald Chapman permission to appeal from the adverse decision of Judge E. S. Thomas of Conn., who on Dec. 14 refused a writ of habeas corpus. The appeal for intervention was refused. Feb. 15, 1926, by the U. S. Circuit Court at N. Y. City. Gov. Trumbull of Conn., on Feb. 25, reprieved Chapman to April 6. The U. S. Supreme Court, March 15, refused to intervene. The Conn. Board of Pardons refused his plea, April 5, for life imprisonment. He was hanged April 6, at the State Prison, Wethersfield. -Oskar Hoffman, a student in chemistry at Columbia Univ., and his sister, Selma Hoffman, were found dead in the brother's furnished room, W. 104th St., N. Y. City. A deadly gas had killed them. The poisonous vapor had been formed in a Christmas night experiment by Hoffman. Dec. 27-Cold wave killed 7 at N. Y. City: 1 at Yonkers: 1 at Worcester, Mass.: 3 at Providence, R. I. 12 at Chicago, and a score at other places. The temperature fell to 7 degrees above zero at N. Y. City and 28 Delow zero at Tupper Lake, N. Y. Fire did $1,000,000 damage at Chicago, and destroyed, at Portland, Me., the Edward J. Lawrence, the last 6-mast ship on the Atlantic Coast. She was built in 1908, cost $150,000, was 320 feet long, 50 feet wide, and had a gross tonnage of 3,350. Dec. 28-The birthday of Woodrow Wilson was celebrated with dinners in 500 American cities and at gatherings of foreign residents. At a dinner at the Hotel Astor, N. Y. City, attended by Mrs. Wilson, speakers included Ignace Jan Paderewski and Dr. H. A. Garfield, Pres. of Williams College. -The U. S. Govt. put Wilson memorial postage stamps on sale. -A bomb wrecked the R. C. Archbishop's palace at Lisbon, Portugal. -No one can be blamed for the wreck of the Navy dirigible Shenandoah and the loss with her of Lieut -Com. Zachary Lansdowne and 13 othe officers and men, the naval court of inquiry which investigated the disaster has concluded. Jan. 2-The Italian cabinet decreed the creation of the Royal Academy of Italy. -Cultivation of marihuana, a dope producing-The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of plant, has been outlawed in Mexico by the Federal Govt. -Miss Edith Burton, 27, stenographer and choir singer, was killed at her home, on Poplar St., Brooklyn, by H. W. Cowan, 54, who shot and blinded himself. He was convicted of murder, March 23, 1926. Soviet Russia was enlarged from 7 to 9 members. and ex-War Minister Leon Trotsky was elected a member. L. B. Kamenetf was deposed. -At Pensacola, Fla., 12 known dead and 17 in jured was the toll of an explosion and fire which did damage to the pine extracting plant of thi Newport Rosin and Turpentine Co. Dec. 29-On the ground that the indictment charg--Police Commissioner G. V. McLaughlin, N. Y ing Sen. Burton E. Wheeler of Montana with City, abolished the Special Service Division o criminal conspiracy in oil land cases does not 383 men, created a year ago. charge any violation of any U. S. law, Justice-At Chicago, the conviction of Col. Charles R Bailey in the Supreme Court of the Dist. of Col. quashed the case. Justice Bailey also quashed identical indictments against former Solicitor Edwin S. Booth of the Interior Dept. and Gordon Campbell, a Mont. oil promoter. hos Forbes, former Director of the U. S. Veterans Bureau, and John W. Thompson, St. Louis con tractor, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the Govt. in letting contracts for veterans' pitals, was upheld by the U. S. Circuit Court o Appeals. Federal Judge G. A. Carpenter sen tenced each to two years in the penitentiary and a fine of $10,000. -James J. Walker was sworn in as Mayor of N. Y. City, his term to begin at midnight of Dec. 31. -Under an act which will go into effect in Great Britain early next year, dealing with the administration of estates whose owners die intestate, elder sons will possess no advantages over younger-Ghouls broke into the vaults of the Saints Peter sons. The act gives male children no preference over female. Jan. 3-Greek Premier, Pangalos, declared himsel and Paul Church, near Potsdam, unsealed the coffins of the Countess of Hesse and the "Red Princess," removing the gold plated crowns. -Cardinal Mercier, 74, was operated on at Brussels, Belgium, for stomach trouble. He died Jan.-Capt. Arthur Brower, who broke the bank at 23, 1926. -Fire destroyed the Mobile, Ala., Country Club, and killed J. G. Campbell, pro golfer and his wife. Monte Carlo 3 times in one night, died at London -Storms swept the (French) Society Islands ir the Pacific, killed a score, and destroyed roads, bridges and houses. BERLIN-MACKAY WEDDING. Jan. 4-Irving Berlin, writer of songs, and Mist Ellin Mackay, daughter of Clarence H. Mackay, Pres. of the Postal Telegraph Co., were married at the Municipal Building, N. Y. City. Jan. 5-In the Clymer St. Police Station, Brooklyn, Samuel Kranîn, 32, a glazier, was shot twice and fatally wounded by Patrolman John J. Brennan, an officer on reserve duty. Kranin had just picked Brennan out of a line-up as the policeman who had attacked him in his store on Bedford Ave. Brennan, 28, married, was convicted, Jan. 27 of first degree murder. -Hundreds of lives have been lost in floods in Central Europe and along the Roumanian frontier. -Gen. Hsu Shu Cheng, popularly known as "Little Hsu," was shot and killed on the railway station platform at Langfang. The assassin was Lu Cheng Wu, a Captain in the Kuominchun (National People's Army), son of Gen. Lu Chien Chang, whom Little Hsu shot in Lu's garden at Tientsin while a dinner guest there in 1918. MAYOR HYLAN SEEKS PENSION. Dec. 30-John F. Hylan resigned as Mayor of N. Y. City and the B'd of Estimate voted him an annual pension of $4,205.99. The Mayor quit a day ahead of time-his resignation taking effect-Paul Cassirer, art dealer, fatally wounded himself at the close of Dec. 30-in order to comply with the pension law. Police Commissioner Enright did the same, his pension being $5,000 a year. The Supreme Court ruled against the pensions and the cases were appealed. -At Chicago, Albert C. Eycleshymer, 80, Dean -A. J. Hellman of St. Louis, ex-U. S. Internal at Berlin, Germany, after signing a property settlement with his wife, Tilla Durieux, actress. Jan. 6-Gov. Smith, at opening session of the N. Y. Legislature, urged biennial sessions, and 4-year term for Governor and State Senators. Jan. 7-Canada's 15th Parliament opened, Ottawa, and elected Rodolphe Lemieux as Speaker of the House of Commons, which consists of 116 Conservatives, 101 Liberals, 25 Progressives, Laborites, and 1 Independent. prison sentences and fines in the Federal Court-At San Francisco, William E. Wolfe, found guilt at Indianapolis, after conviction of conspiracy to violate the Nat'l Prohibition Law in connection with the removal of whiskey from the Jack Daniel Distillery in St. Louis. Dec. 31--New Year's Day was rung in at Phila. by the Liberty Bell at Independence Hall. The bell had been silent since 1835. The evening was "wet" at N. Y. City despite 150 U. S. Prohibition Enforcement agents: 13 of 15 alcohol denaturing plants were ordered closed. -The Pope proclaimed the new religious festival of the Kingdom of Christ. -Premier Mussolini Invested Sen. Filippo Cremonesi as first Gov. of Rome and ordered him to restore the city, in 5 years, to its ancient power and beauty. 1926-JANUARY Jan. 1-Germany began to drink 16 per cent. bock beer, for the first time since 1915. The alcoholcontent limit in 1925, under the law, was 11 per cent. -Dance music and New Year's greetings broadcasted from London and rebroadcasted from N. Y. City, were heard at the latter city, and all over the world. -200 were hurt in the collapse of a grandstand at Pasadena, Cal., during the Tournament of Roses; 6 later died of injuries. -Crown Prince Carol of Roumania renounced his in U. S. Dist. Court of sending through the mail printed matter indirectly threatening the Pres was sentenced to 10 years in Federal Prison. -Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of the present W. K. Vanderbilt, was married to Earl E. T Smith, son of Sydney J. Smith, at N. Y. City. Jan. 8-Floods in the Seine River have done $18, 000.000 damage at Paris and elsewhere. Thomas King, 28, chauffeur, killed with a base ball bat his wife and 3 children and then killed himself in a flat on Manhattan Ave., N. Y. City. -Mrs. Charles R. Warren of Elmhurst, L. identified the wreckage of a seaplane picked up 30 miles off Barnegat by the steamship Alegrete as that of the plane in which her husband and George Hand, à pilot, had left N. Y. City o Dec. 28, 1925. Jan. 9-Over 400 have been killed by floods in the State of Nayarit, Mex., in Santiago River valley. -At Washington, D. C., Dr. Helmuth P. Holler President of the Oriental University, was sentenced to 2 years in prison and to pay $1,000 fine on charge of conspiracy to use the mails to defraud Dr. Robert Adcox and Dr. Sam Kaplan, co defendants, were sentenced to 40 days each in ja Jan. 10-W. C. Durant, auto manufacturer, was injured and the chef and steward on his private car were killed, also a Nogro fireman, in a rest end train collision at Frontenac, Fla. rights to the throne. The Nat'l Assembly, Jan.-20 robbers boarded a passenger train at Guadala 4, named Carol's son. Michael, 4, heir apparent. -3,160 attended Pres. Coolidge's New Year's reception at the White House. -King Tut's coffin was put in the State Museum at Cairo, Egypt; the mummy was left in the tomb at Luxor. jara, Mex., killed 50 Mexican passengers and guards and burned the cars; 8 of the bandi were caught by troops, Jan. 11, and killed. -At Chicago, Prince Paul of Greece attended memorial services for his grandfather, the late King Constantine. In 10-The Danish Labor Cabinet has ordered all -rado Siles took oath as President of Bolivia; -The body of the Dowager Queen of Italy, Merhita, was buried in the Pantheon at Rome. -Helen Keller, who is deaf and blind, called President Coolidge and putting her arms ayed him, with her finger tips upon his lips, helf a brief interview. -L. S. Supreme Court refused to stay judgtagainst Congressman J. W. Langley of A he resigned from the House, entered prison -The Whittemore gang of robbers held up 2 diawad merchants at 5th Ave. and 48th St., N. Y. ay, and got over $100,000 in gems. -The Walker anti-Klan Law does not stitute an unreasonable and aribtrary exercise, who attended the main dinner at the WaldorfAstoria, N. Y. City. Jan. 20-The Supreme Court, at N. Y. City, diɛmissed the suit of minority stockholders to recover $200,000,000 from former directors of the old Denver and Rio Grande R. R. Martin J. Durkin of Chicago was captured_by police on a train nearing St. Louls from San Antonio, Tex. -Gov. Smith commuted to life imprisonment the Jan. 21-British Sudan officials opened the Sennar the legislative authority, the N. Y. State Court-Robbers killed Frank Brannan, an American Appeals ruled. AY LASSITER HEAD OF TACNA-ARICA COMMISSION. -President Coolidge appointed Gen. Wm. Lassi. Commander of the American forces in the Panama Canal Zone, to be President of the Tacna Plebiscitary Commission, succeeding Gen. AJ. Pershing, who will return to Washington. 17-10 of 101 miners, mostly negroes, were rescued after an explosion in the Degnon McCanell coal mine near Wilburton, Okla. -Pre Carlos Solorzano of Nicaragua resigned. 14-The Austrian Cabinet resigned and Premier Ramek formed a new one. As extradition treaty between the U. 8. and ba, including violations of narcotic, bankruptcy and customs regulations, was signed at Havana. e at Quebec destroyed the old wing of the eau Frontenac Hotel, overlooking the St. Arence River. -merger of Rhine and Rubr steel industries, The combined capital is estimated at more than $130,000,000, was formed at Essen under the se of the United Steel Works. - Virginia Legislature rejected the proposed labor amendment to the U. S. Constitution. 15-Pres. Coolidge dismissed the Chilean spel from the decision of the Plebiscitary Comen, of which Gen, John J. Pershing was Presifixing the, date for the Tacna-Arica plebisand the time and places for registration and 257 to 133 the House of Representatives gave pproval to the debt settlement under which Italian Govt. pledged itself to discharge its rld War debt of $2,042.000.000 to the U. S. by al payments running over a period of 62 years. ey adopted the Swiss Civil Code; ends polygcay gives equality to minorities. -Emiliano Chamorro was inaugurated Presiof Nicaragua, in place of Carlos Solorzano, rescued. The U. 8. House ratified World War debt funding reements with Belgfum, Czechoslovakia, RouBala, Esthonia, and Latvia. 17-5 were killed when a trolley car bound for Pittsburgh tumbled into the Ohio River at McLet's Rocks, Pa. - Galveston, Tex. W. E. Maxon, Assistant Railway Express messenger at Hackensack, N. J., and got $6,395. Jas. Lynch of N. Y. City, was convicted of the murder, Feb. 24, and 4 accomplices, including Theo. Palmer, cashier at the office, got terms in prison for robbery. -Several tombs of former Emperors and Empresses of Russia in the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul have been opened by the Soviet authorities and the crowns, jewels and other objects deposited therein removed to the local museums at Leningrad. -The headless, limbless body of Miss Anna M. Dietrich, 34, of Norwood, Pa., was found in woods near Media, Pa. David L. Marshall, chiropractor, of Bywood Heights, was convicted of 2d degree murder, March 23, 1926. Jan. 22-Atty. Gen. John G. Sargent, in his first -The Italian Chamber of Deputies approved the Jan. 23-Several lost their lives in burning of La- Jan. 24-Broadcasting between the U. S. and Europe was stopped by S. O. S. radio calls when the Norwegian steamship Solvang, sugar laden, sank in collision with the steamship Vacuum, an oil tanker, off the Delaware Breakwater; 2 of the Solvang's crew drowned. -Herbert Bramall, 37, a butler, was slain at the home of J. R. Deering on W. 54th St., N. Y. City. SS. ANTINOE'S CREW RESCUED. Jan. 25-Broadcasting between the U. S. and Europe was stopped by S. O. S. calls from the steamships Antinoe and Laristan, storm struck in mid Atlantic; 2 of crew of life boat from the U. S. Huer Pres. Roosevelt were drowned in effort to rescue crew of Antinoe, but Capt. Fried stood by for 4 days and finally rescued the whole 24 of the Antinoe's crew. She reached Queenstown Jan. 30 and Plymouth Jan. 31, where great public ovations were given. U. S. House, Jan. 30, voted thanks to Capt. Fried of Roosevelt and the rescuing life boat crews. King George awarded gold medal, Feb. 3, to 20 officers and men of Pres. Roosevelt. The Roosevelt arrived at N. Y. City Feb. 15 and got a big welcome. Jan. 26-Broadcasting between the U. S. and Europe was interfered with by the aurora borealis. -The Pa. State Board of Pardons commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of W. C. Cavaller, 15, who killed and robbed his grandmother, in Schuylkill County. train-Bolling Field, Washington's Army Air Service flying field, narrowly escaped destruction by fire. The large engineering hangar, where planes" are assembled and tuned up, was destroyed, together with 9 airplanes, 44 motors and valuable machinery. The estimated damage is $400.000. Jan. 27-His horse dropped dead and threw him while the Prince of Wales rode in a fox hunt in England. The next day he was thrown from a hunting horse and his collar bone was broken. -At London, Count Volpi, the Italian Minister of Finance, and Winston Churchill. the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, signed the AngloItalian debt settlement. del Guggenheim established a fund of $2,50,000 for the promotion of aeronautics. were killed, 100 hurt, in rear end "L" sion on Williamsburgh Bridge, in which woolen car was telescoped." 19-A. Harry Moore, Dem., of Jersey City, was augurated Governor of New Jersey. He de red the Anti Saloon League, urged modtation of Volstead act and advocated State eration of hard coal mines in competition with the private owners. - good grounds exist for prohibiting the use fethyl gasoline in automobiles, a special committee appointed last May by Burg. Gen. H. 8. Camming of the U. S. Public Health Service reported. - Rudolph Valentino, the former Winifred Hednut, obtained a final divorce decree from a Paris court against her husband, the motion picture star, for desertion. ting at tables in 67 cities in the U. S., Cuba, Canada, England and Hawaii, 20.000 graduates of the Mass. Institute of Technology attended a altaneous phantom radio dinner." With the posible exception of those in Hawall, all heard the same speeches and the same music as the 700 By a vote of 76 to 17 the Senate voted to have the U. S. Join the World Court under the Swanson reservations. Jan. 28--Emil Klatt and Luigi Rapido, murderers, of Dobbs Ferry and Ogden, were put to death at Sing Sing Prison, N. Y-the first job of the new electrocutioner, who succeeds John Hulbert. -The body of Hans Fuhrmann, U. S. prohibition enforcement agent, was found in his room at a hotel. N. Y. City. |