Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-01-21
chr0n o1ogy
Of the Year
1931=
Compiled BY
T.. w. Pick ard
DOMESTIC

Jan. 5-COHRTeSS resumed DU6fnGSS
and house passed bill appropriating
100000 for drought relief; senate
increased amount by $15.00O.000 for
food loans.
ubmit three nominations to power
commission.
Jan 10-President Hoover refused to
return power commission appointments
Jan. 15--House passed army appro-
priaton bill carrying s446.024000.
Jan. i6-Senate passed 100000
bill for undermining three battleships.
gift to Red Cross for free food
Jan 1S-President Hoover named
Red Cross relief drive committee head
ed by Calvin Coolidge.
Jan. l9--Wickersham commission re-
port on prohibition delivered to Presi-
dent Hoover.
Jan 2o-wiekersham report, trans
straddle of the liquor question.
Jan. z9-secretary Stimson apologized
to Italy for remarks derogatory to
Mussolini made by Gen. Smedley But
ler, who was ordered court martialed
Feb. 4-Senate reconfirmed Garsaud
and Draper as members of power
board but rejected George Otis Smith.
Feb. 6-Compromise in drought re-
lief matter reached by congressional
leaders by adding $2o,ooo,oO0 to loans
fund
Feb. 8-General Butler reprima ed
Feb. 13-House passed s349, 000, 900
naval appropriation bill.
Feb. l4-Interior department appro-
drought drought relief passed BY 6Von,yrU Congress- and Ind
signed by the President.
Feb 16-House passed bill increasing
loans on veterans bonus certificates to
so per cent
Feb 1S-Senate rejected treaty with
Canada for preservation of Niagara
falls.
Feb 19--Bonus loan bill passed by
the senate.
Feb. 20--House adopted conference
report on bill for government operation
of Muscle Shoals.
Feb 21-Senate passed s35S, 900, 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.
House passed resolution for abolish
ing of lame duck" session of CON
gresS.
Feb 26-President Hoover vetoed the
veterans bonus loan measure and the
house repassed il.
House appropriated s30O0O,OOO .
modernize three battleships.
Feb 27-New York World newsp;
pers sold to Scripps- Howard syndicat,
March 2-House voted for 80 per
cent cut in immigration.
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-first congress adjourned.
March 6-Alexander Legge resigned
as chairman OF federal farm board and
was succeeded by James c. Stone.
March 1S-Rioting convicts in Illi-
n ~ Ton fiar tnto "A
the mess hall and other buildings.
Sam Fl. Thompson of Illinois appoint
ed a member of federal farm board.
March 19-President Hoover sailed
and Virgin Islands.
Nevada legislature legalized gam
bling.
March 2o-Birth control indorsed by
committee representing 27 Protestant
churches of America.
March 22-Federal farm board an
would end with marketing Of 1880
crop.
March 23-President Hoover landed
at San Juan, Porto Rico.
New York legislature voted to in
vestigate conditions in New York city
government and lower courts.
March 25-President Hoover spent
day at st. Thomas, Virgin islands.
turned from Caribbean cruise.
April Methods of collecting crime
statistics condemned by Wickersham
commission.
April 7-Anton j. Cermak, Democrat,
elected mayor of Chicago.
April 22-King of Siam, with his
queen, came to United States for an
eye operation.
Nay 4-InternatiOnal Chamber OF
Commerce met in Washington.
May 11-President Hoover ordered
drastic reductions in expenses of all
May 15-Harvey Fl. Bundy of Mich
igan appointed assistant secretary of
state
May 1S-Supreme court upheld legal
ity of the Hoover dam act.
Red fiag' clause of California anti
communist statute held invalid by Su-
preme court.
brated its fftieth anniversary.
May 25-Supreme court ruled for
eigners seeking citizenship can ex-
press no res reservations about bearing
May 2S-Presbyterian general assem-
bly, opened in Pittsburgh and elected
Dr., Lewis s. Nudge of Philadelphia
m moderator.
May &C. c. league resigned from
federal farm board and w f. Schill-
ing was reappointed.
May 30-President Hoover delivered
Memorial day address at Valley Forge,
May 31-Secr etary Mellon announced
an $S00.000,000 bond issue.
June 1-Minnesota's press gag law
held unconstitutional by United States
Supreme court.
Supreme court refused to review the
case Of Albert 3. FAN.
June 5-Al Capone, Chicago gang
leader, indicted for income tax eva
Sions.
June 6-President Hoover ordered
abandonment of Guam naval station.
June Report by Wickersham com
mission blamed excessive crime on
system of prosecution.
June 9--Tennessee lower house
voted against impeachment Of Gov. H.
H. Horton.
June 12-Al capone and ss Others
indicted by federal grand jury at Chi
cago for conspiracy to violate prohibi-
tior laws.
June 15-President Hoover addressed
the Indiana Republican Editorial as
sociation in Indianapolis, predicting
renewal of prosperity.
farm board.
June 16-President Hoover, former
President Coolidge and other notables
took part in dedication of the Harding
at Marion, Ohio.
AL Capone pleaded guilty in Chicago
to income tax evasion and prohibition
law violation indictments.
June 17-President Hoover spoke at
dedication of remodeled Lincoln tomb
Railways Of country asked inter
state commerce commission to author
ize is per cent increase in freight
rates.
June 23-Dwight Davis resigned as
governor general of Philippines, ef-
fective June 80.
July John r. Coen of Sterling,
Colo, elected grand exalted ruler of
the Elks.
July 11-Suspension of sentence de-
MED Albert B. Fall.
July 13-Gen. B. ID. Foulois appointed
chief of army air corps, effective De-
cember 20.
July 15-Criminal court procedure
criticized in a report from Wicker
sham commission.
Mexico penitentiary.
July 24-Federal court of appeals up
held conviction Of Ralph Capone on
Income tax fraud charges.
July 26-Report by Wickersham
declared American prison
system a failure in almost every sense.
July 2S--United States Steel corpora |