The Ely miner., 1932-01-01

Dec. Sherman government decreed
nearly all costs of living.
Sanchez Cerro inaugurated president
| of Peru.
Dec. 1o-Zamora was elected con-
| stitutional president of Spain.
Dec. 11-Japanese cabinet resigned.
Smetona reelected president of Lith-
uania.
| Seiyukai party. made premier of jap
an.
Dec. 13-Japan suspended the gold
Dec. 15-Chiang Kai-shek resigned
as president of China. Lin Sen sue
ceeded him.
Dec. 17-Giuseppe Motta elected
president Of Switzerland.
DOMESTIC
Jan. 1-President Hoover proclaimed
| the London naval treaty in effect.
Jan. 2-George Akerson, secretary to
President Hoover, resigned.
and house passed bill appropriating
S45,0O0,000 for drought relief; senate
| increased amount by $15,0O0,00O for
Chicago packers permitted to enter
wholesale food business, but not retail,
by modification of the consent decree.
Jan. 9-Senate asked President to
resubmit three nominations to power
commission.
Jan. 10-President Hoover refused to
return power commission appointments
to the senate.
Senate passed Jones bill for federal
aid for state work in caring for moth
ers and children.
Jan. 1s-All members of new tariff
commission confirmed by senate.
Jan. l5-House passed army appro-
priation bill carrying $446.024.000.
United States bought new embassy
site in Rome for s1,0oo.oo0.
Jan. 16-Senate passed $50, 1000
bill for modernizing three battleships.
Jan. 17-Senate voted for $4,000, 900
gift to Red Cross for free food.
jan 1S-President Hoover named
Red Cross relief drive committee head
ed by Calvin Coolidge.
Jan. I9-Wickersham commission re-
port on prohibition delivered to Presi-
dent Hoover.
women's conference on cause and
cure of war opened in Washington.
Jan. 20-Wickersham report, trans
saradSle nr..sd Of fiases ibe iiauor % question.
Jan. 28-Red Cross rejected proposed
federal appropriation of $25.ooo.ooo for
drought relief.
to Italy for remarks derogatory to
Mussolini made by Gen. Smedley But
ler, who was ordered court martialed.
Jan. 30-House rejected senate's $685.
100000 food appropriation.
Feb. 4-Senate reconfirmed Garsaud
and Draper as members of power
board but rejected George Otis Smith.
lief matter reached by congressional
leaders by adding s20.000.0O0 to loans
fund.
and his trial called off.
Feb. 13-House passed $349 200, 900
naval appropriation bill.
Feb. l4-Interior department appro-
priation carrying $20,000,000 for
drought relief passed by congress and
signed by the President.
Feb. 16-House passed bill increasing g
loans on veterans bonus certificates to
Feb. 1S-Senate rejected treaty with
Canada for preservation of Niagara
falls.
! Feb. 1s-Bonus loan bill passed by
Feb. 2O-House adopted conference
report on bill for government operation
of Muscle Shoals.
Feb. 21-Senate passed s35s,0oo 900
naval appropriation bill, adding funds
for eleven destroyers.
Feb. 23-Senate adopted Muscle
Shoals measure; house passed the wag-
ner employment agency bill.
Feb. 24-United States Supreme
court again upheld validity of the
Eighteenth amendment.
ing of lame duck" session of con-
Feb. 2s-President Hoover vetoed the
veterans bonus loan measure and the
House appropriated s3o,00O,0oo to
modernize three battleships
Feb. 27-New York World newspa-
pers sold to Scripps-Howard syndicate.
Bonus loan bill was repassed by the
senate and became law.
AL Capone. liquor gang leader Of
Chicago. sentenced to six months in
Jail for contempt of court by Federal
Judge Wilkerson.
March 1-Treasury offered securities
for $1,7O0,Oo0,o0O for bonus loans.
March 2-House voted for 80 per
cent cnf in iunmiprafinn
March .3-President Hoover vetoed
the Muscle Shoals bill and the senate
sustained the veto.
March 4-Congress made Star
Spangled Banner" the national anthem.
Seventy-f1rst congress adjourned
Combination of western firms offered
low bid for Boulder dam contract
March 6-Alexander Legge resigned
as chairman of federal farm board and
was succeeded by James c. Stone.
March 13-Massachusetts legislators
asked congress for constitutional con-
vention on prohibition repeal.
March 14-Convicts in Illinois peni-
tentiary at Joliet mutinied; two killed.
March 16-Theodore G. Joslin. Bos.
ton newspaper man, appointed secre-
tary to President Hoover.
March 17-Formal charges filed
against Mayor Walker of New York.
March 18-Rioting convicts in Illi-
nois penitentiary at Statewide burned
the mess hall and other buildings.
Sam H. Thompson of Illinois appoint
ed HSDDcT OI ISOeTdi IdT1n DOdTu.
March 19-President Hoover sailed
on battleship Arizona for Porto Rico
and Virgin Islands.
Nevada legislature legaIized gam
bling.
Plot to wreck the navy's new dirig-
ible, building at Akron, discovered.
March 20-Birth control indorsed by
committee representing q Protestant
churches of America.
March 22-Federal farm board an
nounced stabiiization of wheat prices
would end with marketing of 1880
crop.
March 23-President Hoover landed
at San Juan, Porto Rico.
New York legislature voted to In
government and lower courts.
March 25-President Hoover spent
day at st. Thomas, Virgin islands.
| hibition and search and seizure laws.
March 29-President Hoover re-
turned from caribbean cruise
April Methods of collecting crime
| statistics condemned by Wickersham
commission
April s-Leo Brothers found guilty
by jury in Chicago of murder of Al
fred Lingle. Chicago Tribune reporter;
punishment fxed at fourteen years in
prison.
April anton J. Cermak, Democrat.
elected mayor OF Chicago
April 13-Governor Emmerson of Illi-
nois vetoed dry law repeal measure.
Former Congressman Harry E. Row
bottom Of Indiana convicted of sale Of