Evening star., 1933-12-31

bition repeal amendment.
Senate passed bill for Federal regula-
ton of securities.
May 9-House defeated price fixing
amendment to farm bill.
May 10-Farm relief-inflation meas
ure finally enacted by Congress.
May 16-Gaston B. Means and Nor
man Whitaker convicted of conspiracy
to defraud Mrs. Eyalyn Mclean in Lind
bergh kidnapping case.
May administrators S3,300,000,-
GOO bill for public works and industrial
control introduced in Congress.
May 24-Senate refused to impeach
Judge Harold Louderback of California.
May 25-Senate passed Glass bank
ing bill with deposit guarantee amend
ment.
May 26-Public works-industry con-
troll bill passed by the House.
Nav 27-Senate passed railway con-
troll bill.
A Century of Progress Exposition
opened in Chicago.
May 29-House passed bill abrogatlng
gold clause in all obligations.
May 31-Roosevelt farm credit sys-
tenn approved by the House.
June 2-Senate limited reductions in
veterans bonus payment to % per cent.
June 3-Senate passed the gold clause
aDrOgdllOl Oil.
June 4-Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration granted loan of $4,000 600 to
China to buy American wheat and
cotton.
June 5-Illinois voted for ratification
| of prohibition repeal amendment.
House passed railway control bill.
June 6-Indiana voted for repeal ratl-
/ fication
June 8-Robert P. Skinner appointed
Ambassador to Turkey.
June 9-Senate passed public works.
industry control bill.
! June lO-President sent to Congress
! Government reorganization orders saw
ing about s25,O00.Ooo.
| Prof. William E. Dodd Of University
/ of Chicago made Ambassador to Ger
many. John Cudahy of Milwaukee Am
bassador to Poland. Lincoln MacVeagh
of Connecticut Minister to Greece.
I June 13-Massachusetts voted for re-
peal.
June l4-Senate passed independent
Offices bill with amendment concerning
/ veterans costs opposed by President
June s. Congress yielded to the
President on the veterans compensa-
/ ton issue. passed the independent OIL
/ fees bill and adjourned.
/ June 2O-Iowa. New Hampshire and
Connecticut voted for ratification OF
repeal amendment.
June 2l-Railroads and rail labor
agreed to continue 10 per cent wage
June 27-CaIifornia and West Vir--
einia voted for ratification OF repeal
amendment.
july 8-Secretarv Ickes made general
director OF Public Works AdIninistra-
ton.
july 9-President Roosevelt signed
cotton textile industry code
July 1s-Alabanla and Arkansas vot-
ed for repeal of prohibition
July 20-President Roosevelt issued
master code" for all business, raising
wages and shortening hours.
Tennessee voted for ratification OF
repeal
Gen. Italo Balbo of Italy and officers
of his air armada received by President
july 2i-Oregon voted for prohibition
repeal
August president Roosevelt named
RAYMOND Moley to lead Federal war on
kidnapping and racketeering-
Boards to enforce trade codes named
for all States.
August Pennsylvania coal strike
truce arranged by Gen. H. S. Johnson.
August 8-Arizona voted for prohi-
bition repeal
August l6-Sixty thousand garment
workers of New York area struck for
elimination of sweatshop conditions.
August 19-MisSOuri voted Tor prohl-
btion repeal.
President Roosevelt signed oil, steel
and lumber codes.
August 26-President Roosevelt ap-
proved automobile code.
Texas voted for prohibition repeal
August q = Assistant Secretary OF
State Moley resigned TO conduct new
magazine.
August % - Secretary Wallace set
wheat acreage reduction for 1884 at 10
August 2e-Washington State voted
for repeal.
September ! - Secretary Swanson
signed contracts for 81 warships.
September 5-Vermont voted for pro-
hibition repeal.
September 6-President Roosevelt ap-
pointed H. H. Sewer Ambassador to
Chile
September 11-Maine voted for pro-
hibition repeal.
September 12-Maryland, Minnesota
and Colorado voted for prohibition re-
peal.
dustry agreed upon.
September 19- New Mexico and
Idaho voted for prohibition repeal.
September 21-R. c. Martin of Los
Angeles elected commander in chief OF
c. A. R.
September 3O-Eleven kidnapers con-
victed in Oklahoma and Illinois.
October 2-President addressed Amer
ican Legion at opening OF its conVen-
ton in Chicago.
Uirri,1io upfod in foUOr nf
prohibition repeal
October 4-MrS. Isabelle Greenway
elected to Congress in Arizona.
October edward A. Hayes Of De-
catur, ILL.,, elected national commander
of American Legion.
October 1O-Flori6a voted for pro-
hibition repeal.
October Ex-senator J. J. Davis Of
Pennsylvania acquitted of Moose lot
terry charge.
William Green reelected president of
A F. of L.
october ia. F. of L. voted boy
colt of Germany.
October 15-President Roosevelt an
! nounced program for liquidation Of
closed banks.
October 17-President Roosevelt Or
dered prison and fines for violators OF
N. r. A. agreement.
october 19-National Farm Holiday
Association called a farm strike
October 23-Code for retailers signed
by the President.
October 25-Government began buy
ing gold above market price, carrying
out Presidents new monetary program.
October 29-President Roosevelt de-
cided to buy gold in the world market.
November 4-Government announced
plan to buy S5O,OOO,000 worth of pork
products for relief.
November = Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Kentucky and Utah approved of pro-
hibition repeal, and the eighteenth
amendment was voted out of the Con-
stitution. North and South Carolina
voted against repeal.