Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-01-07
Bonus loan bill was repassed by the

Bonus loan Dill 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 Treasury offered securities
for 81, 100000 for bonus loans.
March 2-House voted for 80 per
cent cut in immigration.
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 I'LL,
nolS penitentlary at Statewide burned
the mess hall and other buildings.
Sam H. 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 Endorsed by
committee representing q Protestant
churches of America.
March 22-Federal farm board an
nounced sterilization 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
vestigate conditions in New York city
government and lower courts.
March 25-Presdent 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 Wickersham
commission.
elected mayor of Chicago.
April Fixing of Siam, with his
queen, came to United States for an
eye operation.
May 4-International Chamber OF
Commerce met in Washington.
May ll-President Hoover ordered
drastic reductions in expenses of all
executive departments.
May 15-Harvey H. Bundy Of Mich
igan appointed assistant secretary Of
state
May lS-Supreme court upheld legal
ity of the Hoover dam act.
Red flag" clause of California anti
communist statute held invalid by Su-
preme court.
May 21-.American Red Cross cele-
brated its fiftieth 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 assem-.
bly, opened in Pittsburgh and elected
DR.. Lewis S. Nudge of Philadelphia
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.
Pa.
May 31-Secr etary Mellon announced
an SS00.OOO,O0O 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.
leader, indicted for income tax eva
Sons.
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 l2-Al Capone and IS others
indicted by federal grand jury at Chi
cago for conspiracy to violate prohibit
tior laws
June 15-President Hoover addressed
the Indiana Republican Editorial as
ISOLATION in Indianapolis. predicting
renewal of prosperity.
r. McKelvie resigned from federal
farm board.
June 16-President Hoover. former
President Coolidge and other notables
took part in dedication of the Harding
memorial 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
in Springfield, Ill.
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.
I,,l IAh Of
Colo, elected grand exalted ruler Of
the Elks.
july l1-Suspension of sentence de-
MED Albert B. Fall.
chief of army air corps, effective De-
cember 20.
July l5-Crminal court procedure
criticized in a report from Wicker
July ga B. Fall entered the New
Mexico penitentiary.
July 24-Federal court of appeals up
held conviction of Ralph Capone on
income tax fraud charges.
July 26-Report by Wickersham
commission declared American prison
system a failure in almost every sense.
july 2S-United States Steel corpora
ton directors reduced dividend rate
and authorized lowering of salaries.
July 29-Centenary of Mccormick s
reaper celebrated at Blacksburg. Va.
Aug. &C. B. Curtis appointed min
lister to Salvador and Arthur Schoen-
field minister to Dominican republic.
Aug. 4-Governor Murray closed the
oklahoma oil wells and proclaimed
martial law. demanding a price of 81 a
barrel
Aug. Farm board rejected offer
from Germany for it's cotton holdings.
Wickersham commission report crit
icised deportation methods.
Frank Evans of Utah appointed
member of federal farm board
Aug S-Navy's drigible Akron
christened by Mrs. Hoover.
Aug 12-Farm board asked cotton
planters to pillow under one-third of
crop.
Aug. 17-Five large Toledo banks
closed their doors.
Texas oil wells closed and martial
law in the fields proclaimed.
Aug 19-President Hoover named W.
S. Clifford head of unemployment re-
lief body.
Aug. 21-Farm board traded 25,OOO,-
900 bushels of wheat to Brazil for l.
O5O,OOO bags of coffee.
Contract let for Chicago's $4,000. 900
post office building
Aug 25-Col. Luke Lea of Tennes-
see, publisher and former senator, con-
victed of bank fraud and sentenced to
prison.
Aug. 3l-Farm board announced 1t
was through buying wheat and cotton
for sterilization.
Sept. 4-Sale Of 100000 bushels of
farm board wheat to China announced.
Veterans Of Foreign Wars voted for
repeal of dry law.
Sept 8-Alphonse Capone withdrew