The Coolidge examiner., 1932-01-08

report on prohlDltlon delivered 10
President Hoover.
Jan. 2O-Wickersham report, trans
mitted to congress, found to be a
straddle of the liquor question.
Jan. 29-Secretary Stimson apollo
giZed to Italy for remarks deroga-
tory to Mussolini made by Gen:
Smedley Butler. who was ordered
Feb. 4-Senate reconfirmed Gar
saud and Draper as members OF
power board but rejected George
Feb. 6-Compromise in drought
relief matter reached by congress
sional leaders by adding $20,00O,-
900 to loans fund.
Feb. 8-General Butler reprimand-
ed and his trial called off.
900 naval appropriation bill
Feb. 14-Interior department ap-
preparation carrying $20,000,000 for
drought relief passed by congress
and signed by the President.
Feb. 16-House passed bill in
SefainS loans 6 SO on per yss5anS bonus
Feb. 1S-Senate rejected treaty
with Canada for preservation of
Niagara falls.
Feb. 19-Bonus loan bill passed
by the senate.
Feb. 2O-House adopted conference
report on bill for government opera
tion Of Muscle Shoals.
Feb. 21-Senate passed $358,000,-
900 naval appropriation bill, adding
funds for eleven destroyers.
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-
frk 1f no,r 1ttr
congress.
Feb 26-President Hoover vetoed
the veterans bonus loan measure
and the house repassed it.
House appropriated $30,000,000 to
modernize three battleships.
Feb. 27-New York World news
papers sold to ScrippsHoward syn
dicate.
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 Fed
eral Judge Wilkerson.
March 1-Treasury offered securi-
ties for s1,70o, 100000 for bonus
loans.
cent cut in immigration.
March 3-President Hoover We
toed the Muscle Shoals bill and the
senate sustained the veto.
March 4-Congress made Star
Spangled Banner" the national an
them.
Seventy-frst congress adjourned.
March 6-Alexander Legge re-
signed as chairman of federal farm
board and was succeeded by James
G. Stone.
March 17-Formal charges filed
against Mayor Walker of New York.
March l8-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
March 19-President Hoover sailed
on Battleship Arizona for Porto Rico
and Virgin Islands.
Nevada legislature legaliZed gam
bling.
by committee representing 27 Prot
estant churches of America.
March 22-Federal farm board an
nounced stablzation of wheat
prices would end with marketing of
1890 crop.
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.
turned from Caribbean cruise.
April Methods of collecting
crime statistics condemned by Wick
ersham commission.
April 7-Anton J. Cermak, Demo-
crat, elected mayor of Chicago.
April 22-King of Siam, with his
queen, 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.
May 15-Harvey H. Bundy Of
Michigan appointed assistant secre-
tary of state.
May 1S-Supreme court upheld
legality of the Hoover dam act.
Red flag" clause of California
anti-communist statute held invalid
by Supreme court.
May 21-American Red Cross cele-
brated its fftieth anniversary.
May 25-Supreme court ruled for
eigners seeking citizenship can ex-
press no reservations about bearing
arms for the country.
May 28-Presbyterian general as
sembly opened in Pittsburgh and
elected DR.. Lewis S. Nudge of Phila-
delphia moderator.
May. 29-C. C. league resigned
Schilling was reappointed.
May 30-President Hoover deliv-
cred Memorial day address at VAL
May 3i-Secretary Mellon an
nounced an s8OO,OO0,Oo0 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 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 7-Report by Wickersham
commission blamed excessive crime
on system of prosecution.
June 9-Tennessee lower house
voted against impeachment Of Gov
June PA capone and 6S others
Chicago for conspiracy to violate
prohibition laws.
June 15-President Hoover ad-
dressed the Indiana Republican Edi-
torial association in indianapolis,
predicting a renewal of prosperity.
S. r. McKelvie resigned from fed
eral farm board.
June 16-President Hoover. for
mer President Coolidge and other
notables took part in dedication of
the Harding memorial at Marion,
Ohio.
AL Capone pleaded guilt in Chica-
go to income tax evasion and pro-
hibition law violation indictments.
June 17-President Hoover spoke
at dedication of remodeled Lincoln
tomb in Springfield. Ill
Railways of country asked inter-
state commerce commission to au-
thOriZe Is per cent increase in