1918 Three French soldiers, Corporals Rene

strike, Oct. 31. Beaufils and Jean Duroca, and Machine 1920 The League of Nations came automatically Gunner Pierre Seyler, were the last lives

into existence under the Versailles (World lost in France in the World War. They

War) Peace Treaty when representatives of fell at Dom-le-Mesnil, on the Meuse, one

13 nations met at Geneva on Jan. 10 and minute before the bugles sounded "Cease

began the organization. The first Assembly firing' at 11 A. M., Nov. 11, 1918.

met in November, that year, when delegates Allies capture Cambrai, le Cateau and Ron

from 42 countries admitted 6 others. croy, Oct. 9; Allies occupy Ostend, Bruges Frederick A. Parmenter, shoe factory payand Lille, Oct. 17: Germans in third peace

master at South Braintree,

Mass.,

was note accept President Wilson's terms and

robbed of $15,000 and shot to death. Nicola recall submarines to their bases, Oct. 20;

Sacco and Bartolomeo Venzetti, anarchists British and Italians cross the Plave, Oct.

from Italy, were convicted, July 14, 1921, 27; armistice granted to Turkey, Oct. 30;

of the murder of Parmenter and were Hungarian Republic proclaimed in Buda

executed Aug. 23, 1927. pest, and Republic of German Austria in International Court of Justice adopted by Vienna, Nov. 1; Austria accepts truce

League of Nations, Aug. 2. terms, Nov. 4; United States troops reach The Nineteenth Amendment, giving suffrage Sedan, Nov. 7; revolution in Kiel and

to women, was proclaimed in effect, Aug. Hamburg, Nov. 7; Bavaria proclaimed a re

26. public, Nov. 8; the Kaiser abdicates, Nov. Wall St., N. Y., bomb explosion, killed 30; 9; he flees to Holland, Nov. 10; armistice injured 100; did $2,000,000 damage. Sept. in World War signed in Marshal Foch's

16. railway coach, near Rethondes, in the for- 1921 President Harding signed Joint resolution est of Compiegne, France, 3 miles east of

(passed by House, June 30, by Senate July the town of Compiegne, and 21 miles

i) of Congress declaring peace with Gernorthwest of Senlis, Nov. 11; German fleet

many and Austria, July 2. The treaty was surrenders to British, Nov. 21; United

signed Aug. 25, in Berlin, by United States Státes troops enter Mainz, Dec. 6: Ameri

and German representatives; was ratified can troops crossed Rhine, Dec. 13.

Sept. 17 by the German National Council; Malbone St., Tunnel rall wreck (Brighton

ratified by the United States Senate (66 line, Brooklyn); 97 killed, 100 hurt, Nov. 2.

to 20) on Oct. 18. 1919 Peace Conference opened informally in Paris, Arkansas River floods and rain swept away Jan. 12; formally inaugurated in Versail.

665 houses in Pueblo, Col., property loss les, Jan. 18;. treaty signed at Versailles,

over $20,000,000; 106 dead, June 3-4. June 28; by the Treaty Plenipotentiaries of Collapse and explosion of dirigible balloon, Germany and the Allied Powers: Presi

ZR-2 over Hull, England; 62, including 17 dent Wilson gave the treaty to the Senate,

U. S. Naval men, were killed, Aug. 24.
July 10; ratified by the German National Explosion of a new gas plant in Oppau, on
Assembly, July 10; by the British Par.

the Rhine, Germany, killed hundreds and liament, July 25; and by King George,

destroyed property worth millions, Sept. 21. July 31; by the King of Italy, Oct. 7; by Gerald Chapman and

George ("'Dutch") France, Oct. 13, and by Japan, Oct. 27;

Anderson, on Oct. 24, held up a mail wadefeated in the United States Senate, Nov.

gon at Broadway and Leonard St., N. Y. 19.

City, and stole 4 sacks of registered mail, The German National Assembly, at Weimar on

containing $1,454,129, of which $100,000 Aug 11. promulgated the constitution,

was cash and negotiable securities. They which, in Article 48, provided that the

escaped, but were caught and convicted. President's control of the army was subject

and on Aug. 23, 1922, were sentenced to 25 to the responsibility of the Chancellor. How

years in the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. ever, in the event of civil disorder the Chan

Chapman escaped, on Mch. 27, 1923; Ancellor could act on his own initiative, “i1

derson on Dec. 1923. The atter was necessary, with the help of the armed

killed in the midwest Oct. 31, 1926. ChapIt was also provided that the

man was hanged in the Conn. State Prison, Chancellor could suspend a number of the

Wethersfield, on April 6, 1926. He had articles of the Constitution which guaran

been convicted of killing a policeman in teed the liberties of the citizens, freedom of

a store robbery at New Britain.
speech, writing and public meeting. This
Hitler was able to do upon the burning of

Limitation of Armaments Conference met in the Reichstag: and his dictatorship there

Washington, Nov. 11, 1921-Feb. 6. 1922, after was founded on Article 48.

Its terms expired Dec. 31, 1936. The Communist International, or Comintern.

1922 Roof of Knickerbocker (movie) Theatre colwas organized in March, in Russia. Karl

lapsed in Washington, D. C., 98 died from Marx, in Germany in 1862, had formed the

injuries, Jan. 28. International Working Men's Association, Dirigible balloon Roma (built in Italy for which existed until 1874. The Second

the United States) exploded, by contact International dated from 1889.

with electric wires, descending at HampIn Amritsar, religious metropolis of the Sikhs.

ton, Va.; 34 died of injuries, Feb. 21.

The in Punjab Province, British India, April 11,

Portuguese aviators, Admiral Cago & mass meeting of protest against the arrest

Coutinho and Commander Saccadura Ca

bral, left Lisbon, Portugal, March 22, arof agitators refused to disperse and was fired upon by British soldiers under Gen. Dyer;

riving at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19, at least 400 persons were killed and over

with stops at Cape Verde and Natal, coy1,000 wounded.

ering 4,293 nautical miles. This was the

first airplane crossing of the South AtThree U. S. Navy seaplanes left Trepassy,

lantic. Newfoundland, May 16; one, the N-C 4.

Fourteen republics of Russia combined, in reached the Azores, May 17; Lisbon, May

convention in Moscow, as the Union of 27; Plymouth, England, May 31: Harry

Soviet Socialist Republics, Dec. 20. InC. Hawkes and MacKenzie Grieve fell in

cluded were the White Russian, the Ukrainmid-ocean on an attempted flight. May 18, from Newfoundland

ian, and the Trans-Caucasian Soviet Reto Ireland, but

publics.
were rescued: John Alcock and A. W.
Brown made, June 14-15. a non-stop air

1923 French and Belgian troops began occupation

of the Ruhr, Jan. 11.
fight from Newfoundland to Ireland: a
British dirigible balloon, R-34, left Scot-

On May 17, 76 persons, 41 of them children.

were burned or crushed to death at the land, July 2, and descended in Mineola,

Cleveland Rural Graded School in CamL. I., July 6. It left for England. July 10. and arrived there July 13. The U. 8. trans

den, s. C. continental air flight, New York to San

Earthquake, followed by fires and tidal waves, Francisco and return, Oct. 8-18, was won

destroyed part of Tokio and Yokohama. by Lieut. W. B. Maynard and Lieut. Alex.

99,331 were killed. Sept. 1. Pearson.

The revolt in Bavaria, organized by Gen.

Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler, ended on The Wartime Prohibition Law, designed as a

Mar. 9. when the Beer Putschists marched measure to conserve grain during the war.

in Munich. Ludendorff was captured but was enacted in November, 1918, and be

later was paroled. Hitler was wounded. came effective June 30, 1919.

several others died, in the fighting. Hitler Mayaguez Theater fire, June 20, San Juan,

was captured Nov. 12 and imprisoned. P. R.; 150 died.

1924 Nikolai Lenin (M. Vladmir Ilich Ulianov. Steel workers strike all over U. S., beginning

Lenin) 54, head of the Soviet Russian Sept. 22: railway strike in England began

government, died on Jan. 21, of apoplexy, 11 Sept. 27; soft coal miners in U. 8. began

Gorka, 20 miles S. E. of Moscow. He ha!

forces."

1924 been seriously ill since May, 1933). For some | 1927.600 U. S. marines and several war vessels

time he had been progressively paralyzed. were ordered to Nicaragua, Jan. 6, to proThe death certificate of Dr. Otfried Foers

tect American interests. The marines were ter, of Breslau, named the trouble as ar

withdrawn early in 1933. terio-sclerosis, Lenin's father had died Civil War in China caused over 400 British comparatively young from the same cause.

troops to be landed in Shanghai, Jan. 27; Allies and Germany, in Agreement of London,

1,200 U. S. marines got there on March 5, accepted Dawes Reparation Plan, Aug. 16;

and Japan, France, Spain, Portugal and French troops began evacuation of Ruhr

Holland put over 15,000 soldiers ashore. At Aug. 18; the Agreement was formally signed

Nanking, March 23, Cantonese troops Aug. 30, at London by Germany and the

shelled the burning Standard Oil plant, powers concerned, and Owen D. Young of

and killed several foreigners, including Dr. the United States assumed duties as Agent

J. E. Williams of Shawnee, O., Vice PresiGeneral of Reparation Payments.

dent of Nanking University. N. F. Leopold. Jr., 19, and Richard Loeb, 19, The U. S. Supreme Court voided the Doheny kidnapped for ransom and killed Robert

oil reserve leases Feb. 28. President CooFranks, 13, in Chicago, May 22; they

lidge cancelled the Naval Reserve oil leases, pleaded guilty, July 21, and were sen

March 17. tenced to prison for life. Loeb was killed Albert Snyder, art editor of "Motor Boating." by a fellow convict, Jan. 28. 1936.

was killed, March 20, in his home, Queens The Prince of Wales began his American

Village, L. I., N. Y His wife, Ruth Brown tour in N. Y., Aug. 29; and left there for

Snyder, and her lover, Henry Judd Gray, England, Oct. 25.

married, a corset salesman, of E. Orange, The ZR-3, dirigible (Los Angeles), left Fried

N. J., confessed, and were convicted, May 9, richshafen, Germany, Oct. 12, 12:35 A. M.;

of murder. They were executed in Sing arriving in New York, Oct. 15, 8:3:40 A, M.;

Sing, Jan. 12, 1928. reached Lakehurst, N. J., 9:55 A, M.

Floods in the Mississippi River and its lower On Christmas Day, in the Babb Switch

branches began early in April and for six School, Hobart, Okla., 35 parents and

weeks inundated 20,000 square miles in Arkschool children perished in a fire that

ansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, started when a candle ignited a holiday

Tennessee and Kentucky. The property tree.

loss was put at $270,000,000; over 4.000.000 1925 A storm in Missouri, Southern Illinois and

acres of crops were destroyed, also 25,000 Indiana killed over 830 persons, injured

horses, 50,000 cattle, 148,000 hogs, 1.300 3,800; property loss $10.000.000.

sheep, and 1,300.000 poultry; 600,000 persons 200 were killed by the explosion of bombs in

were made for a time homeless, and several the Cathedral of Sveti Kral. in Sofia, at

hundred were drowned. Tornadoes killed 22 the funeral of Gen. Georghieff, who was as

in Illinois, April 19, and 250 on May 9 in

Arkansas, sassinated April 14.

Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Earthquakes in Japan killed 381, and caused

Louisiana, Missouri, Texas and Wyoming $50,000,000 property loss, May 23.

Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh, alone in his Earthquakes partly destroyed the city of

monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. hopped Santa Barbara, Calli., June 29.

off, May 10, at San Diego, Calif. He reached John T. Scopes, in court'in Dayton, Tena..

St. Louis May 11; left there May 12 and was found guilty of having taught evolution

landed the same day at Mineola. N. Y. in the local High School and was fined $100

He left there on May 20, reached Paris

May 21, flew to Brussels, May 28; Brussels and costs, July 24. William J. Bryan, chief counsel for the prosecution, died in Dayton

to London, May 29; England back to Paris.

June 3; Paris to Cherbourg, June 4, where on July 26. Clarence Darrow, chief defense counsel, died March 13, 1938.

he boarded the U.S. Navy Cruiser, MemThe 2 Nine Power Treaties of the Washing

phis, on the deck of which was the boxedton Arms Conference were ratified in Wash

up Spirit of St. Louis. The ship arrived

on June 10 at the Virginia Capes; Lindington by the U. S., France, Japan, Italy, Great Britain, China, Portugal, Belgium

bergh was welcomed June 11, by President

Coolidge, in Washington, in New York and Holland, Aug. 5. The U. S. Navy rigid dirigible airship Shen

City on June 13, by Mayor J. J. Walker

and Gov. A. E. Smith; he returned to andoah (which had left Lakehurst, N. J.,

Washington and on June 16 flew his Spirit on Sept. 2, bound for St. Paul) was torn

of St. Louis to Mineola, N. Y., and was to pieces at 5 A, M., Sept. 3, by a thunder

welcomed in Brooklyn. On June 17 he flew squall while passing over Ava, Ohio: 14

to St. Louis. Later (Dec., 1927-Feb., 1928) of the crew were killed, including Lieut.

he flew Com. Zachary Lansdowne, Sept. 3.

from Washington, non-stop, to

Mexico City, thence to Panama and South Germany ratified the Locarno treaties, Nov.

America, and to St. Louis. In 1931-32, he 27. They were ratified by Great Britain,

and his wife flew to Ottawa, thence to AlGermany, France, Belgium, Italy, Poland,

aska, Japan, and China. In 1933 (July-Dec.) and Czechosloyakia, in London, Dec. 1.

the couple toured in their plane Greenland. They went into effect on Sept. 14, 1926.

western Europe, upper South America and 1926 The anthracite strike, which began Sept. 1,

the West Indies. 1926, was secretly settled, in Philadelphia,

A tornado at St. Louis killed 87. injured Feb. 12; work resumed Feb. 18.

1,500, and destroyed 1,000 houses, Sept. 29. A general British strike, due to coal miners'

Rains and floods, beginning Nov. 2, and laststrike and lockout, and involving 2,500,000

ing several days, devastated the river val. workers, began May 3; called off May 12.

leys of New England, particularly in but the coal miners stayed out for months.

Vermont, and the Canadian Province of The Sesquicentennial Exposition, in Phila

Quebec. Over 120 persons were killed in delphia, opened, May 31. It closed Nov. 30.

Vermont. 21 were killed, 80 buildings wrecked, and $85,- 1928 Pan-American Conference in Havana, Cuba: 000,000 of property and ammunition de

opened by_President Coolidge, Jan. 16: stroyed by explosions and fires when light.

adjourned Feb. 20. ning struck the navy munitions reservations Trotsky, Kameneff, Zinovieff, Rakovsky, and at Lake Denmark, N. J., July 10.

Radek exiled by the Soviets from White The Assembly of the League of Nations, in

Russia, Jan. 16.
Geneva, Sept. 8, unanimously admitted The St. Francis water-supply dam, 40 miles
Germany to the League and to a permanent north of Los Angeles, collapsed; 450 lives
Council seat and increased the non-perma-

lost, 700 houses swept away. nent members of the Council from 6 to 9. A hurricane swept over the West Indies and A tropical hurricane from the ocean swept

Florida, Sept. 12-17, killing 60 on the Leethe east coast of Florida, and into Alabama

ward Isles, 660 on Guadeloupe, 200 on Puerand Mississippi, Sept. 18, killing 372:

to Rico, and 1500 to 2500 in Florida. Dam6,281 were hurt, 17,884 families temporarily

age, $85,000,000 in Puerto Rico, $25,000,000 made homeless, 5.000 homes were destroyed

in Florida, $7,000,000 elsewhere. The greatest damage was in Miami and its

Soviet Russia inaugurated the Five-Year suburbs. Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood,

Plan of agricultural and industrial developDania and Hialeah, where the dead num

ment, Oct. 1. bered 250. 110 bodies were found at Moore

The balloon, Graf Zeppelin, under Capt. Haven. In the Bahamas, at Turks and

Hugo Eckener, with crew of 38 and 20 Caicos Islands 17 were killed; over 10 died

passengers. left Friedrichshafen, Germany, at Bimini.

on Oct. 11, and on Oct. 15, reached N. Y A hurricane killed over 600 in Havana and

City and anchored at Lakehurst, N. J. other places in Cuba, Oct. 20. On the Isle

She left there Oct. 29, and reached Friedof Pines, 40 were killed.

richshafen on Oct. 31.

1929 landed once in the mountains to refuel. 1929 landed once in the mountains to refuel. in N. Y. City. Nov. 4. and died Nov. 6.

Following a strike, on Dec. 4, at the CusU. S. President-elect Herbert Hoover, wife

toms Office, U. S. Marines declared marand party, made a tour of Latin America.

tial law in Port-au-Prince, and in Cape They left San Pedro, Calif., on the battle

Hatien, Haiti; 500 more marines were ship Maryland, on Nov. 19, there on Dec.

sent to Haiti; on Dec. 6, marines killed 18; in Rio de Janeiro, on Dec. 21, reaching

5 and wounded 20 in a force of 1,500 peasNorfolk and Washington on Jan. 6. 1929.

ants advancing on Aux Cayes. 1929 The Jones Law, an amendment making more Long-term armed felons in the State Prison drastic the National Prohibition Act, was

at Auburn, N. Y., captured Warden Edgar passed by the Senate 65 to 18, on Feb. 19:

S. Jennings and several guards on Dec. by the House, 283 to 90 on Feb. 28. and

11. Six convicts were shot to death. George approved by President Coolidge on March 2.

A. Durnford, chief keeper, was killed. The Papal state, extinct since 1870. was re- 1930 Floods and rains in the valley of the River created under the name of the State of

Tarn in Southern France, Mch. 5, killed Vatican City, under the terms signed at

over 400. and destroyed 4,000 homes. and Rome, Feb. 11. They went into effect

also other structures, mostly at Montauban May 1.

and at Moissac. In Mexico & revolution under Gen. J. G. Fire, April 21, killed 320 convicts in the Escobar began in March. Roman Catholic

Ohio State Penitentiary, Columbus. leaders denied complicity. The rebellion The London Naval Reduction Treaty was ended in May; 4,000 killed, 11,000 wounded.

signed there, April 22. The Senate ratified Fire, explosion and chemical fumes from X

the treaty on July 21, and the President ray Alms (nitrogen-dioxide) killed 124 at

signed it on July 22. It was proclaimed the Cleveland, O., Clinic Hospital of Dr.

by President Hoover in effect on Jan. 1, George W. Crile, May 15.

1931. Its terms expired on Dec. 31, 1936. Settlement of the dispute between Chile and The Allied Reparation Commission estab. Peru over the provinces of Tacna and Arica

lished under the Treaty of Versailles to colwas announced by President Hoover award

lect the war indemnity from Germany ing Tacna to Peru and Arica to Chile. The

ended its labors at a meeting at Paris, May treaty was signed in Lima, June 3.

17, simultaneously with the conclusion of Convicts revolted in Clinton State Prison,

the Dawes plan regime and the official comDannemora, N. Y., July 22; three guards

mencement of the Young plan. killed; part of prison plant burned.

The Bolivian government was overthrown, President Hoover, on July 24, proclaimed

June 22, by rebels; the Peruvian Govt., the Kellogg- Briand Anti-War Treaty in Aug. 22-27: the Argentine Govt., Sept. 6: effect (at 1:22 P. M.) under which 62 lead

the Brazil Govt., Oct. 24. ing powers pledge themselves to renounce The last French soldiers of the army of ocwar as an instrument of national policy.

cupation at the Kehl bridgehead of the At the State Prison at Auburn, N. Y.. on

Rhine were withdrawn, June 28, to StrasJuly 28, the convicts rioted, seized the

bourg, and Baden W&S entirely freed prison arsenal and distributed arms.

Evacuation of the Rhineland was completed Guards, state troopers and militiamen.

on June 30. drove the prisoners to cover with machine Joseph F. Crater, a justice of the State Suguns, rifles and tear bombs. The damage

preme Court, N. Y. City, vanished on the to property was $450,000. Two prisoners

night of Aug. 6. were killed.

A hurricane, on Sept. 3, struck the City The Graf Zeppelin_dirigible balloon, with 20

of Santo Domingo and nearby country: passengers, left Friedrichshafen, Germany,

2,000 were killed, 6,000 injured, with dam. on Aug 14, and went east around the

ages estimated at $40.000.000. world, over Russia, and Asia, at Tokio

The British dirigible balloon, R-101, on Oct. (Aug. 19) over the Pacific at Los Angeles

5. hit a wooded hill, and burned up. near (Aug. 26); at Lakehurst, N. J. (Aug. 29)).

Allone, France, on the way from Croydon to She had left Lakehurst on Aug. 8. She left

India; 47 killed. there on Sept. 1, and landed at Friedrichs- In Belgium, in the Valley of the Meuse, behafen on Sept. 4.

tween Liege and Huvann, dense fogon A mutiny, on Oct: 3, of convicts at the Colo

Dec. 5, killed 75 persons and many cattle. rado State Penitentiary. at Canon City, The Bank of United States, at N. Y. City. lasted until Oct. 4, when the four leaders of

was closed, Dec. 11, by the State authe revolt killed themselves and the rest

thorities. surrendered. Seven guards and five felons 1931 The Panama Republic's government, headed were killed. The chapel, mess hall, and

by F. H. Arosemena, was overthrown: 10 two cell-houses were burned.

were killed, Jan. 2. Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the In

Constitutional guarantees were restored, Feb. terior, was found guilty in the Supreme

8, in Spain. They had been suspended by Court of the District of Columbia of ac

Premier Rivera on Sept. 23, 1923; the nacepting a bribe of $100,000 from Edward

tional election was held on April 12: King L. Doheny in the leasing of the Elks Hills

Alfonso fled from Madrid on April 14, and naval oil reserve during the Harding Ad

a republic was proclaimed; a new Parliaministration. He was sentenced, on Nov.

ment was elected on June 28, and Alcalo 1, to $100,000 fine and a year in prison,

Zamora was chosen president.
which he entered
20. 1931.

The Peruvian Government was upset by Late in October the prices of stocks began to

revolution, on Mch. 1; that of Chili, on go downwards, and this movement at New

July 24; Paraguay, Oct. 26; Salvador, Dec. 3 York and elsewhere continued through the

Earthquakes killed 1,000 in Managua, Nicarrest of the year, with occasional brief ral

agua, Mch. 31, and destroyed many buildlies. Declines in stock values up to the

ines end of 1929 reached $15,000.000.000: It was The King and Queen of Siam and party artestified in 1932 before a U. S. Senate Com.

rived in Victoria, BC.. on April 16: on mittee that the 1929-1931 stock losses af.

April 22 they settled in Scarborough, near fected 25,000,000 persons, and totaled $50.

N. Y. City, and the King had a cataract 000.000.000

removed from his eye, on May 10: they The Atlantic coast, from N. Y. City north

left on July 28 for Canada and Siam. ward to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia

President Hoover, on June 20, proposed å lwas shaken, on Nov. 18, by an earthquake

year moratorium on intergovernmental A tidal wave swept the south coast of the

debts, to begin July 1. This took effect. Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland, drowning

A tidal wave, on Sept. 10, killed 1.200 perover 40 persons.

sons in Belize, British Honduras, and Commander Richard E. Byrd started from

destroyed buildings. his base, Little America, in the Antarctic, Great Britain, on Sept. 21, suspended the at 3.29 (10.29 p.m. New York time), Nov

gold standard for 6 inonths. She was fol28, on a 1,600-mile flight to the South Pole

lowed by Denmark, on Sept. 28. and Finand back, with Bert Balchen as pilot, Har.

land on Oct. 12; Japan, Dec. 13. old I. June as radio operator, and Capt. Jack (Legs) Diamond, was assassinated in Ashley C. McKinly as photographer, in the

Albany, N. Y., Dec. 8, a day after his ac. tri-motored airplane he took to the Ant

quittal of kidnapping arctic. The party got back on Nov, 29, at 5.10 1932 Joseph Kahahawal, a Hawaiian, on trial in p.m. (N. Y. time), and reported that they

Honolulu on a charge of attacking the wife reached the Pole on Nov. 29, about 8.55 a.m.

of Lieut. Thos. H. Massie, a naval officer (N. Y. time) dropped & U. S flag there

on the U. S. N. receiving ship. Alton, was (it was 16° below zero); circled over the

kidnapped and slain, Jan. 8, after the jury polar plateau, and, on the return journey,

had disagreed.

640

1932 In Shanghai, Chinese gangsters, on Jan. 15, 1932 counsel to the legislative committee in its slew a Buddhist priest from Japan, Hideo

inquiry into the city government. Walker Minakami. This was the first of a series

had been & witness before that committee. of troubles which led, on Jan. 27, to the After passing over the Virgin Islands, where landing of Japanese marines, and warfare.

15 persons were killed, a hurricane ripped The Spanish Parliament, Jan. 19, by decree

across Puerto Rico, Sept. 27, killing 245, dissolved the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).

injuring 3,329; destroying 36,249 buildings, The Jesuits were, by decree of the Franco

damaging 30.046; and leaving over 41,000 government, in January, 1940, readmitted

families in need of food; property loss. to Spain, and their property was restored.

$30,000,000. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., 19 months

Earthquakes on Dec. 26, killed 70.000 persons old (born at Englewood, N. j., June 22,

in the Kaoti district of the northwest Prov

ince of Kansu, China.
1930), was kidnapped, between 8 and 10
p..., Mch. 1, from the new Lindbergh 1933 The U. S. Marines withdrew from Nicaragua
home near Hopewell, N. J., in the Sourland

on Jan, 2, and on Feb. 2. Gen. Sandino

ended his rebellion.
Mountain region, northwest of Princeton.
The body, reduced almost to @ skeleton,

An epidemic of "bank holidays" in the
was found on May 12, in a thicket near a

United States began on Feb. 14, in Michiroadway, less than 5 miles from the babe's

gan, when Goy. W. A. Comstock ordered home, and between Hopewell and Prince

all banks in that State closed for 8 days.

All banks in the United States were closed
ton. The discovery was made by a negro
teamster who had stopped his wagon and

by proclamation of President Roosevelt be-
had stepped into the woods on an errand.

ginning on March 6. The Stock and ComMeantime, John F. Condon, for Col. Lind

modity Exchanges in New York City and bergh, had paid $50,000 in Bronx Borough

elsewhere also closed, beginning March 6.

The

and reopened mostly on March 15.
to an alleged agent of the kidnapers, and
Gaston B. Means, Washington, had col-

banks reopened, such as were fit, gradually.

from March 9, onward.
lected $100.000 from Mrs. Evelyn Walsh
McLean, on the promise to restore the

The movement to collect hoarded gold from
Lindbergh baby. Means was sent to prison,

the people commenced early in March.

Congress on the 9th, in special session On Sept. 10, 1934, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, 35, married, father of a baby boy.

granting the President dictatorial power

over all forms of money, çarpenter, paroled German convict who had

A presidential entered the United States unlawfully, at

ban on gold exports began on April 19. On N. Y. City. in 1923, was arrested near his

June 5 the President signed an Act of

Congress home in the Wakefield

the

outlawing section of the

gold-payment Bronx, after he had passed a ransom bank

clause in all monies, and other public and

In October the Govern

private contracts.
note at a gasoline filling station; over $14.-
000 of the ransom money was found hidden

ment commenced to buy domestic and forin his garage.

the market price, for He was indicted in

eign gold above

the Bronx on Sept. 26, on an extortion charge;

the purpose of raising commodity prices.

Minnesota, on Feb. 24, banned mortgage on Oct. 8, he was indicted in Hunterdon County.

foreclosures on N.

The
J.,

farms and homes.
on burglary-murder
a

to other States.
movement spread

The charge; on Jan. 3, 1935, he was put to trial in Flemington and was identified by

Minnesota action was sustained by the Col. Lindbergh, by Condon and others; a

U. S. Supreme Court in a 5-to-4 decision. part of the kidnap ladder was sworn

The German Reichstag (Parliament) Build

to have come from his attic: he denied his

ing, in Berlin, was destroyed on Feb. 27 by guilt under oath and testified he got the

fire. The Supreme Court found Marinus ransom money from the late Isador Fisch

van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist. The jury, on which several women served

guilty, and he was beheaded on Jan. 10, convicted Hauptman Feb. on

1934, in Leipzig, in Saxony.

13. anc Supreme Court Justice T. W. Trenchard

Earthquakes in Southern California on Mch. sentenced him to die in the week of Mch

10, at Long Beach and near by, killed 130 2. An appeal was taken to the State Cour!

persons and caused $50,000,000 damage. of Errors and Appeals, which sustained the

The U. S. Navy dirigible balloon, Akron, was conviction. The U. S. Supreme Court re

beaten down in a storm, on April 4, off fused to interfere. Governor Harold G

Barnegat, N. J.; 73 persons were drowned, Hoffman gave Hauptmann a month's re

including Rear Admiral W. A. Moffett, the prieve, characterizing the trial in Fleming.

Aviation Chief. ton as unfair, and adding that such

The World Economic Conference opened, in crime suggested an accomplice. The State

London, June 12, but came to naught.
Board of Pardons refused to commute th:

Spain, by Parliamentary edict, on May 17, sentence. He was executed on April 3

disestablished the church. 1936.

The Century of Progress Exposition opened in Congress, Mch. 2, passed a joint resolution

Chicago, on May 27, and closed at midnight proposing to the States an amendment to

of Nov. 12; it reopened in 1934 on May 26 the Federal Constitution, under which con.

and closed on Oct. 31; attendance (1933) gress would meet each year on Jan. 3, ang

22,320, 456; (1934) 16,306,090-total, 38,626,the terms of the President and Vice-Presi

546 dent would begin on Jan. 20. It wa:

The U. $. Congress, on June 13, passed the adopted by the States.

National Industrial Recovery Act (signed

June 16) which, with the Agricultural Ad. Ivar Kreuger, 52, unmarried, Swedish "match king,” shot himself to death, Mch. 12, in

justment Act (signed May 12) gave the

President control of agriculture and inParis.

dustry. The N. R. A. was killed by the Revolution, June 4, in Chili.

U. S. Supreme Court on May 27, 1935, and - In Siam, a bloodless revolution changed the

the A. A. A. processing taxes on Jan. 6. 1936. government from an absolute into & lim

In Germany, on June 22, the Hitler Governited monarchy, June 24.

ment began to proscribe all political parties Zachary S. Reynolds, 20, a son of R. J

except the National Socialist German Reynolds. cigarette manufacturer, wa

Labor Party (Nazis), beginning with the found shot to death, July 6, in his home,

Social Democratic Party. At the same time Winston-Salem, N. C.

the campaign was under way to reduce by The Lausanne Reparations Conference ad

law the percentage of Jews in government journed, July 9, after agreeing that Ger

life, in industry, and in the professions, many can settle in full for $714,000,000.

Kidnapping, in Albany, July 7, of John J.

O'Connell, Jr., was followed by that of A treaty was signed in Washington between

Charles F. Urschel (July 23, Oklahoma Canada and the United States, July 18, for

City); Jake the Barber, Chicago; and the proposed development of the St. Law.

others. At San Jose, Calif., Nov. 9, Brook rence waterway into an ocean lane and

L. Hart, a young merchant, was seized, power project.

bound, beaten, and flung into San FranThe British Imperial Economic Conference

cisco Bay, following a demand for ransom. opened in Ottawa, Can., July 21. It finally

A mob on Nov. 26, after the body was agreed on tariffs to mutualize the trade

found, broke into the jail, and dragged of the Empire.

forth and hanged Thomas H. Thurmond James J. Walker, resigned, Sept. 1, as Mayor

and John Holmes. of N. Y. City, and went to Europe. That In Rome, July 15, a 10-yr. peace pact was ended the charges on which he was being

signed by Italy, France, Germany and tried before Gov. Roosevelt on removal pro

Great Britain. ceedings, initiated by Samuel Seabury, An army revolt in Cuba caused President