New Britain herald., 1927-12-29
January

in China with riots in FoochoW. la--High Commissioner Landis ex onerates q bal players accused 0 throwing games.
 iS-Tennessoe supreme court ID golds famous monkey law"
 ls--George Young wins Catalina Island chanel marathon swim,
 February
 f-r S. marine battalion order ed 10 China 10 protect American lives
 3-Revolution breaks out in Lis con, Portugal, but is soon put down
 l6-Chinese Nationalists captur, Hangchow.
 eS-u. S Supreme Court cancels Doheny's Elk Hi,l. lease as fraudu, lcnt.
 March
 4-Col Thomas W, Miller former alien property custodian, convicted 0, conspiracy to defraui the gov srnment. Harry Daugherty is ac' quilted.
 7-Earthquakes kill 5000 near Osaka and Kobe. Japan.
 16-Harry F. Sinclair found gull v of contempt Of the senate for re- tusing to answer questions about Teapot Dome.
 21-Chinese Nationalists capture Shanghai.
 24-u. s. and English warships rescue foreigners from attack of Chinese at Ranking, shelling the native quarter.
 aa-New auto speed record of POS mile. per hour set by Maj. H. o. D. Sesgrave at Daytona Beach, Fla.
 April
 s-Willlam Hale Thompson cleo .ed mayor of Chicago.
 9-Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Nanzetti sentenced to death for al ezed murder of paymaster and guard six years before.
 l2-Tornado at Rock Springs Tex, destroys town and takes 56 lives.
 Mississippi river reaches food stage from St, Louis to Cairo III.
 17-Levees break in Arkansas and .s.oO0 are made homeless.
 19-Tornadoes kill 45 in Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. 3o-Poydras levee, Louisiana, dynamited to save New Orleans; 'o,- 900 now homeless, 15o dead in Mississippi flood.
 5-Nicaraguan liberals accept terms of Henry l.. Stimson, Presl- dent Coolidge's special representa- live, and lay down their arms.
 Poplar Bluff. Mo, and several Texas towns hit by tornado; 2oo dead.
 13-Louisiana sugar bowl' dis trict flooded: Secretary Hoover an nouuces flood refugees now total 5oo.00o.
 1s-Maniac bombs school at Bath, Mich: A children killed.
 an-Prohibition bureau shakeup secs Seymour bowman and Dr. lanes Doran succeed General Lln- coin C. Andrews and Major Roy Haynes.
 l-Goysrnor Alvan T. Fuller or Massachusetts names special com mittee to review Sacco-Nanzetu case.
 1-Ontarios dry law comes to an end after II years.
 14-Soviet Russia executes loo after scare over foreign spies
 oO-President Coolidge's naval disarmament conference opens in Geneva.
 7-Henrv Ford retract. his anti Jewish campaign, Hone thousand people Killed by earthquakes in Palestine.
 1s-Socialists mob seizes Vienna; 70 killed. 1,5o0 hurt in street riot ing. oo-Kins Ferdinand of Rumania dies. .s-Earthauake in kansu prov juce, China, cause huge loss Of life. so-D. c. Stephenson begins his ,.xpose of political corruption before an Indianapolis grand jury
 August s-President Coolidge announces ne does not choose to run for presi- ient in 1928, Ex-Governor Fuller of Massachu- Sett. declines to intervene in Sacco- Nanzetti case. 4--Geneva naval conference ends m a deadlock. 7-Naior General Leonard Wood, governor general of the Philippines, iies. l5-Elber' IT. Gary, chairman Of tho board of the T., $. Steel Corpora non, dies. 2o-sacco and Nanzetti executed ! .t charlestown prison, Massachn- 7, -ett..
 september 5-Waync F. Wheeler, general .ounsel for the Auti-Saloon Leagne' i, .le.. a-Goyernor Ed Jackson of 1n- ffana and Mayor John'puvall of i indianapolis indicted on charges Of attempted bribery,
 l9-American Legion convention ! opens in Paris.
 22-Geua Tmn"y beats Jack , Dempsey at Chicago and retains his ltle.
 2o-Ninety die in St. Louis torna- la; c,5oo homs destroyed.
 October ! S-Gens, Arnulfo Gomez and Francisco Serrano, presidential cdn- Iidates in Mexico. revolt. 4-Mexican revolt crushed; Gen. , .~al Serrano executed
 s-New York Yankees win !. ourth straight game from Pits ,urgh Pirates and take world cham 'ionsllip.
 1o--u. s. supreme court cancels