Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-01-05


IL per cent bier.
Railway wage reduction continued
for nine months by agreement.
Dec. 25-Congress recessed for Christ-
mas
AERONAUTICS
Jan. z3-Hawks heW from Mexico 10
Canada and return. 2,soe miles. In III
hours a. minutes
JAIN 25-Eddio =Stimsen@kiiiedZ
crash at Chicago.
March Harmon trophy awarded
to Gen. Italo Balbo of Italy as inter-
national aviation. champion for 1881.
May i2-Lou T. ReIchers took on
from Harbor Grace n n. F. on solo
May la--Reichers forced down near
Ireland and rescued by steamship
Roosevelt.
May 2o--Amelia Earhart tMrs. @: P.
Putnam) began solo flight from Har-
May 2f--Mrs Amelia Earhart Put
nam landed near Londonderry. Ire
land the first woman ever to ny
across the Atlantic alone.
juno Army balloon No. :. ptloted
by Lieutenants Paul and Bishop. won
national balloon race.
June SIS. r. Hausner started niEht
from New York to Poland.
June Ii--Hausner picked up at Hez
after floating eight days on his plane.
July b-Janes Mattcrns and Bennett
Griffin started round the-world flight
from Harbor Grace. N. F.
July 6-Mattern and Grimm crossed
ocean In record time. landed at Ber-
lin and departed for Moscow.
July 1-Mattern and Grffin made
forced landing so miles from Minsk.
July 12-Capt. Wolfgang Won Gro
nau OF Germany and three companions
flew from Germany to Iceland on way
to Chicago.
Aug. 2-Yon Gronau arrived at Chi
cago
Aug. fs-Prof. Auxuste Picard rose
In balloon to record altitude OF 65.f74
feet over Switzerland and Italy.
@Capt. j. A. Mollison began flight
from Ireland across Atlantic In Moth
plane.
Aug 1s-Moliison landed I'm New
Brunswick. completing first westward
solo flight across the Atlantic.
Aug. 23-Mrs. Louise Thaden and
Mrs. Frances Marsalis set new wom-
ems enduranca fight record OF ) days.
Aug. 24-Ameiia Earhart Putnam set
new women's records 1s-hour nom
stop flight from Los Angeles to New
ark
Aug. zs-Clyde Leo and John Book
hon started flight from Harbor Grace
to Oslo, Norway, and were lost
Aug. 29--J. G. Haizlip set new coast
forecast record OF 10 hours. 10 minutes
Sept. s--Major nonlittle set new land
plane speed record Of 1s1.147 miles
an hour nj National Air races In Cleve-
| land.
Sept. 1I--Mr. and Mrs. O.. r. Hutch.
inson. two daughters snd crow OF
four crashed of coast of Greenland
while flying to Europe.
Sept. i3-W. Hfbricht And Edna
| Newcomer. pilots. and Or. L N. Pts
| Gull hoped OF from Nav York on non
stop flight to Roma And were lost At
/ sea.
Nov. i&-Roscoe Turner set new
record of Ia hnurr, Il minutes, Tor
flight from Now York t Burbank,
| Calf
Nov. Is--Amy johnson completed
london to capetswn flight la record
| time OF days. hours. IS m1nates.
| Nov. ls-MemoriaI t. Wilbur and
orville Wright unveiled It Kitty
DISASTERS
Jan. Fifty killed In train wreck
Jan. ss-Hritish submarine los,
| near Portland with crew of ISL.
/ Feb. a--santiaEo. Cuba. badly dam.
Hged by earthquakes. six killed.
Feb. Seventeen killed by erpIo-
sion of motorship At Marcus Hook. p
Feb. c6-Thirteen persons killed b.
/ avalanches near Seattle.
/ Feb. 27--Mine explosion ut Poca-
| hontas. Va. killed 81 men.
March i2--Island of Banda Neira ir
| Dutch East Indies. nearly destroyed By
earthquakes and volcanoes. with grea'
March 2i-Tornadoes In Alabama
| Georgia, Kentucky. South Carolina and
| Tennessee killed ass and did greai
March 27-Tornado killed .. In
jured 80 In Alabama.
April l4-Six dead, 81 hurt. In bias
In Ohio state office building at Co
lumbus.
April z5-Tornadoes In Tennessee
Alabama and Arkansas killed nine.
May NEARLY hundred killed b,
typhoon. In Philippines
May 6-Two million dollar fire OF
l. Ennard pier. New York.
May l6--kew French liner George
Philippar burned In Gulf OF Alden; s.
| lives lost.
June 3--Earthquake killed hundred
Il In Guadalajara region of Mexico.
June ELEVEN killed In apartment
house fire n Cleveland. Ohio.
June TEX plosion on oil tanker a
Montreal killed 20 men.
June 1a--Haiistorm In Honan prov
lnce, China. killed 200.
July French submarine Promethe
sank or Normandy coast with So mer
July To- Explosion OF ammunition
depot In Marking China, killed Sc
July ls-Three million dollar fire o
Coney Island, NJ. Y
July fisherman training ship Mob
sank In storm, 90 drowned.
Aug. six million dollar fire 1
| Chicago packing house district.
Aug. Ia--Forty killed In south Texa
storm.
Sept. 9--Fifty- six workmen klNe
! by steamer explosion at New York.N
Sept. Fifty five men killed I
wreck OF French Foreign Legion trai
In Algeria.
Sept 2s-- Earthquake in the Balkan
Killed about 235e
Sept. 2T-HurrIcane swept Port
4 Rico, killing several hundred and dc
ing vast damage.
Sept. a0--Forty lives lost in cloud
burst In Tehachapi pass, California
Nov. a--Disastrou- storm In south
ern Cuba: 1880 killed and great dam
| age DONE
Nov. i4--Japan swept by terrific ~
phnon. scores Of lives lost and man
towns and villages wrecked.
Dec 5---Japanese destroyer capsze
In storm. 05 men lost
Dec. 7-Fourteen coal miners kille
by blast at Madrid NJ M.
Dec e--Explosion In coal mine
Yancey. XIV. killed %.
NEUROLOGY
Jan. &c. O. Iselin, miliionaii
yachtsman of New York
Jan. 2--Gen. Paul Pau. French WI
commander.
Rear Admiral Cameron Winsow.
8 NJ hero OF Spanish war.