The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1932-01-01

BY tho senate.
report on bill for government opera
ton of Muscle Shoals.
Feb. 21-Senate passed 1858 ,000,-
900 naval appropriation bill, adding
funds for eleven d%estroyers.
Feb. 23-Senate adopted Muscle
Shoals measure; house passed the
Wagner employment agency bill
Feb. 24-United States Supreme
court again upheld validity of the
Eighteenth amendment.
House passed resolution for abol-
ishing of lame duck" session Of
congress-.
Feb. 26-President Hoover vetoed
the veterans bonus loa measure
and the house repassed it.
House appropriated $780, 900, 900 to
modernize three battleships.
Feb. 27-New York World news
papers sold to Scripps-Howard syn
Bonus loan bill was repassed by
the senate n became law.
Al Capone, liquor gang leader Of
Chicago, sentenced to six months in
jail for contempt of court by Fed
eral Judge Wilkerson.
March Treasury offered Securt-
ties for $1,000, 900. 900 for bonus
loans.
March 2-House voted for 90 per
cent cut in immigration.
March 3-President Hoover We
toed the Muscle Shoals bill and the
senate "uSlaIne the Veto.
March 4-Congress made "Star
S~pangled Banner" the national an
them.
Seventy-first congress adjourned.
March 6-Alexander Legge re-
signed as chairman of federal farm
board and was succeeded by James
c.. Stone.
March 17-Formal charges filed
March 1S-Rioting convicts in Illi-
nois penitentiary at Statewide
burned the mess hall and other
buildings.
Sam H. Thompson of Illinois. ap-
pointed a member of federal farm
board.
March 1s-President Hoover sailed
on Battleship Arizona for Porto Rico
and Virgin Stands.
Nevada legislature legalized gam
bling.
March 2O-Birth control Endorsed
by committee representing 81 Prot
estant churches of America.
March 22-Federal farm board an
ounce sterilization of wheat
prices would end with marketing of
March 23-President Hoover land
ed at San Juan. Porto Rico.
New York legislature voted to
investigate conditions in New York
city government and lower courts.
March 25-President Hoover spent
day at st. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
March 29-President Hoover re-
turned from Caribbean cruise.
April Methods of collecting
crime statistics condemned by Wick
ersham commission.
April Anton j. Cermak, Demo-
crat, elected a of Chicago.
April 22-King of Siam, with his
ueen, came to United States for
an eye operation.
May 4-International Chamber of
Commerce met in Washington.
May 11-President Hoover or
dered drastic reductions in expenses
of all executive departments; =,
Michigan appointed assistant secre-
May 1s~supreme court upheld
leggf ReG 8 If the cl H9oser of da G%al fsti
anti-communist statute held invalid
by Supreme court.
May 21-American Red Cross cele-
brated it's fftieth anniversary.
May 25-Supreme court ruled for
eigners seeking citizenship can ex-
press no reservations about bearing
arms for the country.
May 2S-Presbyterian general as
ssantdg n opened ned IN g M %Rittsbu re pb and
delphia moderator.
May. 29-C. G.. league resigned
SchilIing was reappointed.
May 30-President Hoover deliv-
- GU ~ CO. 49, 49, = &1
MAY 0fs si[secretary Mellon an
nounced an $500, OO0, 900 bond issue.
June 1-Minnesota's press gag
held unconstitutional by United
States Supreme court.
Supreme court refused to review
the case of Albert B. Fall.
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
commission blamed excessive crime
system of prosecution.
June 9-Tennessee lower house
voted against impeachment of Gov.
H. Horton.
Indicted by federal grand jury, at
prohibition laws.
June 15-President Hoover adj
the Indiana Republican Edi-
.orial association in Indianapolis,
a renewal of prosperity.
S. R. McKelvie resigned from fed
,ral farm board.
June 16-President Hoover, for
ner President Coolidge and other
he Harding memorial at Marion,
ohio.
AL Capone pleaded guilt in Chica-
20 to income tax evasion n pro-
llD1IlOH law NlO1dIlOH indictments.
June 17-President Hoover spoke
It dedication of remodeled Lincoln
omb in Springfield, III. ]
Railways of country asked inter- D.,
tate commission to au-
horize Is per cent increase in |
June 28-Dwight Davis resigned {
s governor general of Philippines, i
June 80. .
July John R. Coen of Sterling, |
elected grand exalted ruler Of
Elks.
July 11-Suspension of sentence
enied Albert B. Fall.
July 13--Gen. B. D. Foulois ap- !;
chief of army air corps, eff /
active December 20. e
July 15-Criminal court procedure q
riticized in a report from Wicker :
ham commission. |
July 2O-A. B. Fall entered the i
'ew Mexico penitentiary. i
July 24-Federal court of appeals 0
pheld conviction of Ralph Capone h
n income tax fraud charges. II
July 26-Report by Wickersham s
declared American pris- D
n system a failure in almost every II
ense. S
July 2S-United States Steel cor :
directors reduced dividend y
ate and authorized lowering Of s.
alaries.
July 2s-Centenary of McCor-
reaper celebrated at Blacks
Aug. &C. B.. Curtis appointed 81
mister to Salvador and Arthur e
choenfeld minister to Dominican !
u
Aug. 4-Governor Murray closed fc
% Oklahoma oil wells and + o
martial law, demanding q =
~ "a horra1