The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-28
Review Of Year
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 Aug. 31-United States aviators flew from Greenland to Indian Harbor, Lab rador.
 Sept. Limited States flyers landed at Portland, Maine, because of fog.
 Sept. 8-Republcans won Maine cleo tion, Ralph o. Brewster being elected governor, and Senator Fernald re elected.
 World flyers reached New York. Sept. 9-President Coolidge greeted the world flyers at Washington. Sept. 10--Leopold and Loeb, brutal young murderers of Chicago, given life imprisonment.
 Sept. 12-First Defense Day tests participated in by many millions.
 Cept. 13-General Pershing retired.
 Sept. 15-American Legion conven. ton opened in St. Paul.
 Sept. 19-James H. Drain, Washing. ton. elected commander of American Legion.
 Sept. 25-New York republicans nominated Theodore Roosevelt for gov. ernor.
 Sept. 26-Gov. Al Smith and entire state ticket renominated by New York democrats.
 Sept. 2S-American flyers arrived at Seattle, formally completing the cir cult of the globe in five months and twenty-twO days.
 Oct. 14-United States Senator Frank Brandegee of Connecticut committed suicide in his Washington home.
 Oct. 15-ZR-3, America's German. built airship,S, arrived at Lakehurst N. J.
 Oct. 20-United States supreme court decided federal courts cannot refuse jury trials in contempt cases arising out of labor disputes.
 Oct. 24.-Income taxes made public causing widespread protest.
 Nov. 1.-Pneumonic plague broke out in Los Angeles. Many deaths.
 Bloody roits in Niles, Mich., be- tween Ku Klux Klan and Knights of Flaming Circle; state troops sent.
 Nov. 4.-Republicans swept the coun- try in national elections except the solid south, Coolidge and Dawes elected by 10.00O,O00 plurality, with 3S2 votes in electoral college to 136 for Davis and Bryan and 13 for La Toilette and Wheeler. New congress republican.
 Nov 7.-New York law compelling incorporated secret organization to make membership public upheld as con- stitutiOnal.
 President Coolidge appointed a com mission to formulate farm legislation.
 Nov 11.-Theodore Douglas Robin son appointed assistant secretary of the navy.
 Nov. 1S.-W. NJ. Butler appointed senator from Massachusetts to succeed the late Henry Cabot Lodge.
 Congressman Hill of Maryland ac- quilted in cider and wine-making trial.
 Nov. 1S.-John Van A. MacMurray made assistant secretary of state.
 Nov. 22-Secretary Wilbur's annual report showed the navy was steadily and rapidly deteriOrating.
 Nov. 23.-Loe Koretz, Chicago swim dler, caught in Halifax, N. s.
 Nov. 24.-Former Postal Inspector w. J. Fahy convicted of $2,OO0,O00 mail robbery near Chicago.
 Nov 25.-United States indicted New York Herald Tribune and publisher and managing editor of Kansas City Jour nal-Post for printing income tax re- turns.
 Nov. 2S.-Republican senators ex- cluded La Toilette, BrOokhart, Ladd and Frazier from committee assign ments and party councils; Senator Cur tis chosen senate leader.
 Nov. 29.-Secretary Weeks reported the army was unprepared to repel at tack and air force was deficient.
 Dec. 1.-Short session of congress opened.
 Dec. 2-President Coolidge sent bud