Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-01-01

MAftN 10 Senate ratlned the IHlu o
PluCa treaty which fNed ownership OF II
land With Republic OF Cuba.
March ID Senate again rejected preai
d.hl toolidge'H nomination Of Warren
he attorney general by vote Of ~ 10 81
March 70 President Coolidge nppointct
Thomas r. woodlook OF New York AZ
member OF the interstate CONNER %
commission
March %-BrS. Gen willlsm Mitchell
ordered TO Texas nylng Held. revertlnn
March Situated States shipping board
sold Its hpe Pacific ships Tor b,6a5cOo To
Dollar interests,
April S-indietmens against Fall, Sin.
clair and the Dohenys Dismissed on n
April 1NG. s, 8. 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 aS-District OF Columbia fudge
suspended .consont decree by which big
Five" rackera agreed to divorce them
selves from unrelated lines,
April Ex-senator u Il, Wheeler acuuit-
tod IN trial at Great Falls. Mont.
April GmWnr gQina Mt Hawaii ended
without official decision.
April 2s-Solicitor General j. N, Beck
resigned.
May S-w, T. Van orman won national
balloon. race with Goodyear III.
May t-internatlonal Council OF Women
convened In Washington.
May b-Secretary Wilbur ordered avia-
uoh training for all cadets of Annapolis
academy
Coast guard fleet began Intensive war
on the Atlantic coast rum fleet
May l3-Glenn Frank, editor OF Cen
fury MAGAZINE. elected president OF uni
versity OF Wisconsin
Mgr. ] II. Noll Of Huntington Ind.
made bishop OF Fort Wayne
May 2l-presbyterian general assembly
met IN Columbus. Ohio, and elected DIR.
G. r. Erdman OF Princeton seminary
May 25-J r Scopes indicted In Day.
ton. Tenn, for test case OF state law
AGAINST teaching of evolution theory,
Governor Baker of Missouri appointed
g. II, Williams United States senator 10
MI out term of late solden S Spencer
May T-Grand jury In Washington re-
turned new indictments against Fall
Sinclair and Doheny.
May 2s-Doheny leases in Elk Hills
naval oil reserve and Hawaii contracts
voided by federal court In Los Angeles,
May es-Federal grand Jury in Chi
caRo Indicted 2B9 furniture making con-
Germs and individuals for combining in
restraint Of trade and commerce
June civilian ID, Mitchell st Paul.
MINI. appointed solicitor general
June S-Presldent Coolidge addressed
Notse-American centennial celebration In
st. Paul MINI.
himself AGAINST reduction In sugar duty.
June E-MaeMllan expedition TO cY-
plore Crocker land called from Boston.
June ls-Forty Inc charmaKers pleaded
June ls-Federal Judge Kennedy at
Cheyenne, Wyo., decided the Teapot
Dome oil reserve lease to the Sinclair
company was legal and proper
June 2S-Preadent Coolidge moved to
summer White House at Swampscott,
Mass
sweeping REORGANIZATION plan for fed,
eral prohibition enforcement announced
by Treasury department
June 90-lce box manufacturers IN
dicted for anti.trust law violation pleaded
guilty and were fined by Federal Judge
Cliffe In Chicago.
Mrs. Edith N. Rogers of Lowell. Mass.
elected to congress TO succeed her hus-
band. the late John Jacob Rogers
July l-overnight air mail service be-
tween New York and Chicago estab-
DR.. F. E., Clark, founder and for a
resigned and was succeeded by DR. ID. A,
Polling,
July lo-E. B. Brousard, Utah. ap-
pointed TO tariff commission
Scopes anti-evolutlon law trial
opened In Dayton, Tenn, with w. j.
Bryan aiding prosecution,
Eighy-three furniture manufacturers
pleaded guilty of violating antitrust law
and were fined s1SS,cOo
July 2l-Scopes convicted in Dayton
evolution trial and fined 500,
July 2s--New indictments returned in
Chicago against 10, furniture manufac-
turerg for violating antitrust laws
William Jennings Bryan died suddenly
in Dayton, Tenn.
July Si-William j. Bryan Inferred in
Arlington National cemetery
Aug. i-Ford's bid of S,7C6,oOO for 200
United States shipping board vessels &C.
cepted
Aug. l2-National crime commission
organized in New York by prominent
men.
Aug lS-Max Mason, mathematics pro-
ted president Of University Of chicaso.
Aug. l9-MacMillan expedition aban-
doned exploration OF polar regions by
airplaue for the season.
Jardine ousted DR.. * G. Taylor. chief Of
bureau of agricultural economics.
Aug, 2l--Assistant Secretary OF the
| Treasury Andrews announced appoint
ment OF "a prohibition district ,dminis
Aug, 2e-Power production started at
Muscle Shoals.
Aug. sl-Two navy planes began. the
| flight from San Francisco to Honolulu;
one broke down 800 miles out
Fifty ninth annual encampmept of the
! G. A, r. opened in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Senate recount OF Iowa senatorial cleo
| tioD votes showed Brookhart 1874 votes
ahead of Steck.
Sept. i-second navy plane forced down
near Hawai- by lack of fuel and lost
in stormy sea, with crew of Ave. Found
Sept. s-Navy dirigibe Shenandoah
destroyed by storm in Ohio. Lieut.
| Com. Zachary Lansdowne and 10 others
| killed
John B. lnman 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 lo-President Coolidge returned
| to Washington from vacation
Sept l2-President Coolidge named
| board of nine to investigate air defense
Sept l5-James Walker. Tammaay
| candidate, nominated for mayor of New
York by Democrats, defeating Mayor H"-
Ian f. D. Waterman nominated by the
| Republicans
II NJ La Toilette. Jr., nominated by
Wisconsin Republicans for United
by Democratic,
| Sept. l7-Presidents air investigation
I board held first session
Secretary KELLOGG canceled wise OF
Saklatvala, British Communist aud dele
! gate to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS union.
Sept. la-Col william Mitchell relieved
| of active service in army because Of his
| criticisms OF air service,
Sept. Or. NJ La Toilette. Jr., elected
! United States senator from Wisconsin
Col WlltIa,n Mitchell, testlfying be-
| fore aircraft board upheld his severe
| crlticisms OF army and navy air services
and offered defense plans.
Oct 1-shlpplng board resumed full
control of Fleet corporation.
Oct 3-F, j Thompson resigned from
shpplng board