The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-01-05


gress he was going to name commits
sion on war debts and would seek CO.
operation of President-Elect Roosevelt.
Dec. 2l--House passed bill legalizing
80 per cent beer.
Railway wage reduction continued
for nine months by agreement.
Dec. 23-Congress recessed for Christ
mas.
AERONAUTICS
Jan: 23-Hawks flew from Mexico to
Canada and. return. $500 miles. in 1s
Jan. 25MEddie stimson killed in
crash at Chicago.
March 4-Harmon trophy awarded
to Gen. Italo Balbo of Italy as inter-
national aviation champion for 1881:
from Harbor Grace, n. F.. on solo
flight to Dublin and Paris.
May 13-Reichers forced down near
ireland and rescued by steamship
May 2O-Amelia Earhart (Mrs. G: P.
Putnam) began solo flight from Har-
Dor Grace to Paris.
May 21-Mrs. Amelia Earhart Put
nam landed near Londonderry, Ire
land, the first woman ever to fly
across the Atlantic alone.
June Army balloon No: 2. piloted
by Lieutenants Paul and Bishop. won
national balloon race.
June SIS. F. Hausner started flight
from New York to Poland.
June 11-Hausner picked up at sea
after floating eight days on his plane.
July 5-James Mattern and Bennett
Griffin started round world flight
from Harbor Grace, N. F.
July 6-Mattern and Griffin crossed
ocean in record time. landed at Ber-
lin and departed for Moscow.
July 7-Mattern and Griffin made
forced landing SO miles from Minsk.
July 22-Capt Wolfgang Won Gro
nau of Germany and three companions
flew from Germany to Iceland on way
to Chicago.
Aug. 2-Von Gronau arrived at Chi
cago.
Aug. ls--Prof. Auguste Picard rose
in balloon to record altitude of 55,774
feet over Switzerland and Italy.
Capt. J. A. Mollison began fight
from Ireland across Atlantic in Moth
Aug 1s-Mollison landed in New
Brunswick. completing first westward
solo flight across the Atlantic.
Mrs. Frances Marsalis set new wom-
ems endurance flight record of days.
hours.
new women's records by 19-hour nom
stop flight from Los Angeles to New
ark
Aug. 25-Clyde Lee and John Book
hon os started fight from Har 1oo, Grace
Aug. 29-J. G. Haizlip set new coast
forecast record of 10 hours. 10 minutes
Sept. 3-Major Doolittle set new land
plane speed record of 292.2S7 miles
land.
Sept. 11-Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Hutch
inson, two daughters and crew OF
four crashed off coast OF Greenland
Sept. iseW. Uibricht and Edna
Newcomer. pilots, and DR.: l.. NJ. Pts
Gull hoped off from New York on nom
stop fight to Rome and were lost at
Nov. 14-Roscoe Turner set new
record of IL hours, 33 minutes, for
flight from New York to Burbank,
Nov. 1s-Amy Johnson completed
London to Capetown flight in record
time Of I days. hours. SIS minutes.
9 G, ., Wright unveiled at Kitty
DISASTERS
Jan. Fifty killed in train wreck
Jan. 2s-British submarine lost
Feb. 2-santiago, Cuba, badly dam
aged, by. earthquakes. six killed.
sion Of motorship at Marcus Hook. Pa.
Feb. 26-Thirteen persons killed by
avalanches near Seattle.
Feb. 27-Mine explosion at Poca-
hontas, Va, killed SO men.
March 12--Island of Banda Neira in
Dutch East Indies, nearly destroyed by
earthquakes and volcanoes. with great
| loss of life.
March 2i-Tornadoes in Alabama,
Georgia. Kentucky. South Carolina and
Tennessee killed 35S and did great
damage.
March 27-Tornado killed 9. in
| jured so in Alabama.
April ASK dead, 81 hurt. in blast
| in Ohio state office building at CO.
| lumbus.
Alabama and Arkansas killed nine.
May 2--Nearly a hundred killed by
typhoon in Philippines.
May 1.-TWO million dollar fire on
| Cunard pier, New York.
May 1G--New French liner Georges
| Philippar burned in Gulf of Alden; SO
| lives lost.
June 3-Earthquake killed hundreds
| in Guadalajara region of Mexico.
June ELEVEN killed in apartment
| house fire in Cleveland Ohio.
June 17-EXplosion on oil tanker at
Montreal killed 90 men.
June 19-IiailstOrm in Honan prov
| ince, China, killed 200.
July 7-French submarine Promethee
sank, off Normandy coast with 63 men,
July l0-Explosion of ammunition
| Coney Island, N. Y
July 26--German training ship Niobe
sank in storm; 60 drowned.
Aug. Ask million dollar fire in
| Chicago packing house district.
Aug. 13-Forty killed in south Texas
storm.
Sept 9--Fifty-six workmen killed
by steamer explosion at New York.
Sept. 14-Fifty-Gve men killed in
wreck of French Foreign Legion train
| in Algeria.
Sept 2G-Earthquake in the Balkans
killed about 235.
Sept. 27-Hurricane swept Porto
Rico killing several hundred and do
| ing vast damage.
Sept. 30-Forty lives lost in cloud
burst in Tehachapi pass, California
Nov. 9-nisastrous storm in south
ern Cuba; $500 killed and great dam
age done.
Nov. l4-Japan swept ny terrific ty-
phoon: scores Of lives lost and many
| towns and villages wrecked.
Dec. 5--JapaneSe destroyer capsiZed
| in storm; los men lost.
Dec. Fourteen coal miners killed
by blast at Madrid, N. NJ.
Dec. 9-Explosion in coal mine at
Yancey. KY. killed 23
NEUROLOGY
Jan. &c. o. Iselin, millionaire
yachtSman of New York.
Jan. 2-Gen. Paul Pau. French war
commander.
Rear Admiral Cameron winslow. u
s. N, hero of Spanish war.
Jan. 6-Julius Rosenwald, Chicago
philanthropist and capitalist.