New Britain herald., 1929-12-31
Day-by-Day Review of Past Year Shows Progress to World Peace
 O&setting Reactionary Trends

| N''t iiO publlC bil IdlluS VIII De SOlu or leased, except on mandate from Congress.
 14-PubliCity on tax refunds in excess of S20,OOo ordered by Pre3i- dent Hoover.
 14-Disastrous floods in Alabama, Georgia and western Florida. l 17-Fourteen passengers killed when a plane crashes at Newark, N J. Most serious accident in history of aviation.
 20-Marshall Foch dies.
 20-Governor Henry Johnston Of 1 Oklahoma, found guilty of incompe- tencc by the state senate, is rc- moved from office.
 22-Though opposed to it. prcsi- dent Hoover proclaims laws estab- l fishing national origins as the ba ,j,, Of immigration restriction quotas: was passed by Congress in 1924, but twice postponed.
 22-Canadian steamer. I'm Alone, alleged to be a rum runner, is sunk iH Gulf of Mexico by coast guard.
 24-Mussolni wins Italian elec- ton, S,65o,000 to l36,000.
 24-William Fox announces that in the future only sound films will be made by his company.
 26-Trading on New York StonK l-Xchange sets new record of S,24t.- TAO shares, with call money at 20 per cent. and declines in all stock prices. Charles E. Mitchell, president ol the National City Bank, pledges 1 $2o, 100000 of the banks funds to | the call loan market as a means of stopping price declines and his ac- tion is severely attacked by Senator Glass.
 3o-Henry l.. Stimson becomes secretary of state.
 3l-Myron T. Herrick dies.
 APRIL
 o--NiSConSin votes 10 repeal state prohibition law by to 1 ma jority.
 Ex-Governor Hucy P. Long is lmpeached by Louisiana House.
 9-CharIcs G. Dawes named am , bassadOr to Great Britain.
 12-linancial experts of the allies with Owen D. Young, American. as Chairman-agree on revised Ger man separations, averaging from G,000,000 10 S576,000,o00 annu- ally over 5S years. Germany proposes to abolish airplancs and poison gas in warfare.
 1S-Farm relief up in special session of Congress, and Senate com mittcc approves debcnture plan, de- spite lIoovcr's opposition.
 30-Night air mail service from coast to coast started.
 May
 1--Fifteen killed and 73 wound- cd in Communist May Day riots in Berlin.
 4-Five-day week granted 15o,- 900 building trades workers in New York.
 iIhl ] IolilNltill bfSlllS JU- day jail term at Washington.
 6-New free balloon distance record of goo miles set by Lieutenant Thomas w. G. Settle and Ensign William Bushnell in flight from Pittsburgh to Prince Edward Island Old record 572 miles.
 S-Navy Lieutenant Apollo Sou eek sets new altitude record ot 39,l4O feet at Washington.
 9-Partial proof on Einsteir theory found in observation of suns eclipse in Philippines.
 15-More than 100 persons die in fire at Cleveland, O., Clinic Hos- pital. Fire started in storage room for N-ray films and a poison gas was generated.
 17-Graf Zeppelin on second flight 10 United States makes emer. gency landing at Toulon, France after motors. fail.
 17-ImpeaChmcn charges against Governor Long fail; more than one. third of the state senators announce in advance of trial that they vii vote to acQuit.
 2O-C. $. supreme court over, rules Interstate Comcmrcc Commis sion's valuation and rate making formula in famous St Louis X O'Fallon test case. President Hoovel names law enforcement investigat ing commission.
 23-Theodore Roosevelt accept. appointment as governor of Porto , Rico.
 27-Whcat price drops below 5, for first time since 1915.
 2S-Germany and allies agree or separations payments of s9,000. 900, ,000, to be paid in 59 years, bu interest brings the sum up to s27, 900, 1000.
 3-Labor party headed by J , election.
 3-Chile and Peru sign treat, binding Tacna-Arica boundary dis pute.
 7-Papal state comes into ex istence with ratification of treat between Italy and Vatican.
 14-Senate and House finall, agree on farm relief legislation with out debenture, as favored by Presi dent Hoover. ' 1.-The Yellow Bird Frenc7 monoplane. lands safely in Spail after flight of BPS miles from Ol' Orchard. Me, with young Americal l stowaway aboard | 15--Prohibition enforcement cos ] S213,17S,4S5 during the last min years. Commissioner Doran an U nounces.
 1S-Ambassador Dawes an, Prime Minister Macdonald declar . for naval reductions by statesmen