The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-01-01
DOMESTIC

Jan. o-President Hoover asks
congress for so more coast guar
vessels for prohibition enforcement
Jan. l0-Sixtieth anniversary I
founding OF Standard Oil compAn
celebrated In Cleveland
Jan. 11-Representatiye J.
Robinson of Kentucky sworn in 9
senator to succeed F. III. Sacket
resigned.
Jan. ls-crime commissions pre-
congress. and President Hoove
| recommended measures to strength
en- the dry laws.
Jan. 1s-Fiiipinos asked senat
| for immediate independence or B
investigating commission.
Anti-Saloon league opened IL
twenty-fourth annual convention I
Detroit.
Jan. le-Senate voted to retail
present duties on sugar
Jan. lS-House passed treasur,
appropriation bill carrying $4,000.
600 for prohibition bureau.
Jan. 20-Ralph II. Booth of Michi
gan appointed minister to Denmark
American legation to Poland ele
waited to an embassy.
Jan. 22-House voted for six NOR,
federal prisons.
Jan. 24-Senate put hides. leather
and shoes on free list.
Jan. 27-Chairman Legge of farm
board warned farmers to reduce
production.
Jan. 2S-Fred NJ. bearing of Mis-
souri, appointed ambassador to Peru
Feb. s-William Fl. Taft resigned
as chief justice of the u. s. Supreme
court, and President Hoover ap-
pointed Charles Evans Hughes to
the position.
Feb. - Federal farm board
launched emergency plan of surplus
control corporation to check decline
of wheat prices.
Feb: president Hoover named
commission to investigate conditions
in Haiti. with w. C. Forbes as
Feb. S-President Hoover left
Washington for a weeks fishing at
Long Key. Fla
House passed bill transferring
prohibition enforcement to Justice
department
Herman Bernstein of New York
Feb. 10-FederaI grand jury in
Springfield. ILL.,, indicted Flelsch-
mann Yeast company and Corn
Products Refining company for vio-
lating prohibition law. Scores of
individuals and small concerns In
dicted in Chicago for misusinE in
uuSIrlal ateohol.
Feb. 1s-senate confirmed ap-
p0intm n 1T 81 sf Hughes as chief JUS
Feb. 20-Dr. Harry W. Chase.
president of University of North
Carolina. elected president of Uni
yersity of Illinois.
President Hoover reappointed en-
tire federal radio commission.
Feb. 24-Charles Evans Hughes
sworn in as chief justice of SUI
preme court OF U. s.
Congress appropriated 100000
for loans to farmers in flood dis
tricts OF South and West.
March Farm board announced
It would no longer buy wheat at
fixed price.
March 4-Former President Cool
Idge dedicated the great Coolidge
lam in Arizona.
oassador to Poland.
March 6-Senate voted increased
tariff on Cuban sugar.
March 10-W. H. Taft buried at
Arlington.
March 12-senate voted farm
board 800. 900. 600 in deficiency bill
March 14-Secretary Mellon an
bounced tax refund of approximate
y s33.000,000 to U. s. Steel corpora
March 19-Sir Ronald Lindsay.
lew British ambassador. arrived In
Washington.
Red Cross building at Washington
dedicated to women patriots of
World war.
March 21-President Hoover ap-
,ointed Federal Judge James ].
Parker of North Carolina TO su-
rene court.
John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. estah-
ished t16,oOO.OoO fund for western
Iational park forests.
March RE. L. Doheny acquitted
4 giving 100000 oil bribe.
March 24--Tarifr bill passed by
enate, 1871.
United States and Canada nego-
lated treaty to halt smuggling.
March 26--Rt. Rev. James De
Wolf Perry, bishop OF Rhode Is
and, elected primate of the Epis-
March 29-Thirty-six Los Angeles
usiness leaders indicted for usury
onspiracy in Julian oil case.
April 2-House passed resolution
or commission to study universal
raft plan.
Tariff bill sent to conference.
Taking of fifteenth decennial CEN
us begun.
April 4-senate passed bill for
government operation of Muscle
hoals project.
April THE house passed the
'orter bill creating bureau of
atrocities,
April s~-Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCor-
nick nominated for senator by Re-
ublicans of Illinois, defeating Sem
tor Deneen.
April 11-w: 2. Foster and four
Their Communists convicted in New
-ork of melting a riot.
April 14-Supreme court decided
'hicago lake water diversion case
n accordance with the findings of
hughes as special master.
April 15-Roland w. Boyden Sc
ected to succeed c. E. Hughes as
american member of permanent
curt of arbitration at The Hague.
April 21--Senate judiciary COM
rmation of Judge. J. J. Parker as
ssociate justice of Supreme court.
April 22-Frederick H. Payne APP
ointed assistant secretary of war.
April 23-Women's Organization
or National Prohibition Reform
onvened in Cleveland, Ohio.
April 24-House passed Sill, 000,-
90 rivers and harbors bill, provid-
ne for completion of Illinois wa
erway project
Senate shelved the Harris immi-
ration bill for the session.
April 2S--Senate passed two I'M
Employment relief measures.
Naval conference delegates ar
lived at New York.
President Hoover asked congress
o speed up action on law enforce
1ent legislation.
April 30-President Hoover re-
eived copy of London naval treaty /
rom Secretary of State Stimson.
May president Hoover sub
1itted budget for $10,6 900 to be-
in work on Boulder dam project.
May 3-House defeated export de-
enture plan and voted for flexible |
ariff provisions.
May 5-Supreme court upheld |
eixure of all apparatus used in pro-
uction of illegal beverages
May denomination of Judge John |
Parker of North Carolina as as
ociate Justice of the Supreme court
elected by senate, 80 to Al.
General conference of Methodist
bprrt Qnttth In