The Republican., 1925-12-31


March l6-Senate again rejected Presi-
dent Cooli1ses nomination Of Warren -
be attorney general by vote of 4G to 80.
March g5-Fresi1eut Coolidge appointed
Thomas F. WoOdlock Of New York as
member of the Interstate CONNER se
commission
March 3o-Brig. Gen William Mitchell
ordered to Texas flying field. reverting
March Sl-Unitcd States shipping board
sold its five Pacific ships for $5,G25,0o0 to
Dollar interests.
April 2-Indictments against Fall, Sin
clair and the Dohenys dismissed on
| teChniCality.
April III. S. S. Saratoga, largest air
plane carrier. launched.
April Ex-senator Wheeler of Montana
went to trial in Great Falls for illegal
use of his influence as senator.
April 23-District of Columbia judge
suspended consent decree by which big
Five packers agreed to divorce them
selves from unrelated lines.
April Ex-senator B X. Wheeler acquit-
ted in trial at Great Falls. Mont.
April 27-War game at Hawaii ended
without official decision.
April 29-Solicitor General J. NJ Beck
resigned
May S-w T. Van Orman won national
balloon race with Goodyear III.
May 4-International Council of Women
| convened in Washington
May 5-Secretary Wilbur ordered avia-
ton, training for all cadets Of Annapolis
Coast guard fleet began intensive war
on the Atlantic coast rum fleet
May 13-Glenn Frank. editor OF Cen
tury magazine, elected president of Uni
versity OF Wisconsin.
Mgr. ]. F. Noll of Huntington, Ind.
made bishop Of Fort Wayne.
May 2l-Presbyterian general assembly
met In Columbus Ohio, and elected Dr.
c. R. Erdman Of Princeton seminary
moderator.
May 25-J T. Scopes indicted in Day
ton, Tenn, for test case of state law
against teaching of evolution theory.
Governor Baker of Missouri appointed
G. Fl. Williams United States senator to
fill out term of late Selden S. Spencer.
May 27-Grand jury in Washington re-
turned new indictments against Fall.
Sinclair and Doheny.
Shipping board voted to scrap 200 YES
sells.
naval oil reserve and Hawaii contracts
vOlded by federal court in Los Angeles.
May 29-Federal grand jury in Chi
cago indicted 269 furniture making con-
Germs and individuals for combining in
restraint of trade and commerce.
June 5-William d. Mitchell. St Paul
Mimi, appointed solicitor general
June @President Coolidge addressed
Norse-Amerlcan centennial celebration in
St. Paul MINI.
June 4-President Coolidge declared
himself against reduction in sugar duty.
June l7-MacMillan expedition to ex-
June lS-Forty-nine Chairmakers pleaded
guilty to trust charges and were fined
June 1y-Federal Judge Kennedy at
Cheyenne, WyO., decided the Teapot
Dome oil reserve lease to the Sinclair
company was legal and proper.
June 23-Presdent Coolidge moved to
summer White House at SWampsCott
Mass.
Sweeping REORGANIZATION plan for fed,
eral prohibition enforcement announced
by Treasury department.
June 50-lCe box manufacturers in
dicted for antitrust law violation pleaded
guilty and We're fined by Federal Judge
Cliffe in Chicago.
Mrs. Edith y. Rogers of Lowell. Mass.
elected TO congress to succeed her nus
band, the late John Jacob Rogers.
July i-Overnight air mail service be
tween New York and Chicago estab-
lished.
Dr.. f. E. Clark, founder and for A
years president of Christian Endeavor,
resigned and was succeeded by Dr. D. A.
Polling,
July l0-E. B. Brousard. Utah. ap-
pointed to tariff commission
Scopes anti-evoluttOn law trial
opened in Dayton, Tenn, with w. ].
Bryan aiding prosecution.
Eighty-three furniture manufacturers
and were Tined SlSSo0o.
July 2r-Scopes convicted IN Dayton
evolution trial and fined 800.
July 25-New indictments returned i'm
Chicago against 155 furniture manufac-
turers for violating antitrust laws.
William Jennings Bryan died suddenly
in Dayton, Tenn.
July 3l-WiIllam J. Bryan Inferred in
Arlington National cemetery
Aug 4-Ford's bid of $1,7O60O0 for 200
United States shipping board vessels ac-
Aug. 12-Mational crins commission
organized in New York by prominent
Aug. ls-NIax Mason, mathematics pro-
In, I'rirT Of
ted president Of University Of Chicago.
Aug. 19-MacMillan expedition aban-
loned exploration Of polar regions by
airplane for the season.
Aug. 2O-SeGretary of Agriculture
Erdine ousted DR.. H G. Taylor, chief of
bureau Of agricultural economics
Aug. 21-Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Andrews announced appoint
ment Of "a prohibition district .-dminis-
traitors.
Aug. 29-Powsr production started at
Muscle Shoals.
Aug 3l-Two navy planes began the
flight from San Francisco to Honolulu:
broke down 300 miles cut.
Fifty-ninth annual encampment of the
G. A. r. opened in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Senate recount of Iowa senatorial cleo
ton votes showed Brookhart 1S4 votes
ahead of Stech.
Sept. l-Secon,i navy plane forced down
near Hawaii by lack of fuel and lost
in stormy sea. with crew Of FIVE. Found
ten days later
Sept. 3-Na%J dirigtble Shenandoah
destroyed by storm in Ohio, Lieut.
Com Zachary Lansdowne and 13 others
killed
John b. Inmaa of Springfield, Ill, elect
ed commander IN chief of G. A. r.
Sept 5-Col. William Mitchell severely
criticized army and navy air service.
Sept. 10-Prasident Coolidge returned
to Washington from vacation.
Sept. 12--President Coolidge named
Board of nine. to investigate air defense
Sept. 15-James Walker; Tammany
candidate, nominated for mayor of New
York by Democrats, defeating Mayor Hv.
ian; F. d. Waterman nominated by the
r. NJ. La Toilette. Jr.. nominated by.
Wisconsin Republicans for United
States senator: w. G. Bruce nominated
by Democrats.
Sept. 17-Presidents air investigation
board held irst session.
Secretary Kellogg Canneled wise OF
Saklatvala,. British Communist and delo-
gate to Interparliamentary union.
of active service in army because OF ltIs
criticisms of air service.
Sept. 29--R. M La Toilette, Jr.. elected
United States senator from Wisconsin.
Col. william Mitchell. testifying be-
fore aircraft board, upheld his severe
criticisms of army and navy air services
and offered defense plans.
Oct shipping board resumed full
control of Fleet corporation.
Oct 3-F. ]. Thompson resigned from
shipping board.
Oct. 6-Convention IF American Legion
opened in Omaha.
Oct. 6-President Coolidge addressed
American Legion convention, urging toll
erance, and adequate defense without