Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-01-05

independence bill.
Dec. is--President Hoover told con-
gress he was going to name commas
sion on war debts and would seek CO.
operation of President Elect RooseveIt.
Dec. 21--House passed bill legalizins
Railway wage reduction continued
for nine months by agreement.
Dec. 23-Congress recessed for Christ
mas.
AERONAUTICS
Jan. 20 Hawks few from Mexico 70
Canada and return. 1850 miles. In IL
hours a minutes. ..n.. !.
Jan. 25-Eddie Stimson killed IN
crash at Chicago.
March Harmon trophy awarded
to Cen. Italo Balbo of Italy as inter- s,
from Hafbor Grace, N. F., on solo
fight to Dublin and Paris.
May ls-Reichers forced down near ar
Ireland and rescued by steamship
May 2o-Amelia Earhart (Mrs. G. P.
Putnam began solo flight from Har-
1 Dor Grace to Paris.
/ May 21-Mrs. Amelia Earhart Put
/ nam landed near Londonderry, Ire
land, the first woman ever to ny
across the Atlantic alone.
June Army balloon No: Z, piloted
by Lieutenants Paul and Bishop. won
national balloon race.
June SIS. F. Hausner started fight
June 11-Hausner picked up at sea
| after floating eight days on his plane.
July 5-James Mattern and Bennett
Griffin started round-t he-world flight
| from Harbor Grace, N. F.
/ July s-Mattern and Griffin crossed
| ocean in record time. landed at Ber-
lin, and departed for Moscow:
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
Aug. 2Svon Gronau arrived at Chi
cago.
in balloon to record altitude of 55,774
feet over Switzerland and Italy.
Capt. J. A. Mollison began flight
from Ireland across Atlantic in Moth
| plane.
Aug. 1s-Mollison landed in New
Brunswick. completing first westward
solo fight across the Atlantic.
Aug. 22-Mrs. Louise Thaden and
| Mrs. Frances Marsalis set new wom-
ems endurance flight record of days.
Aug. s4-Amelia Earhart Putnam set
stop flight from Los Angeles to New
! ark.
Aug. 25-Clyde Lee and John Book
| hon started flight from Harbor Grace
| to Oslo, Norway, and were lost.
Aug. 81. G. Haizlip set new coast
forecast record of 10 hours. 10 minutes
Sept 3-Major Doolittle set new land
plane speed record of 2s2.2S7 miles
an hour at National Air races in Cleve-
land.
Sept. 11-Mr and Mrs. G. R. Hutch
four crashed off coast Of Greenland
Sept. 1s-W. Uibricht and Edna
eS poft from aP New PF York on
stop flight to Rome and were lost at
! sea.
Nov. 14-Roscoe Turner set new
flight from New York to Burbank.
Calf
Nov. 1s-Amy Johnson completed
time Of days, hours. IS minutes. i'
4 Nov. 19-Memorial to Wilbur and
0rville Wright unveiled at Kitty
DISASTERS
/ Jan. Fifty killed in train wreck
Jan. 26-British submarine lost
Feb. 2-Santiagc, Cuba, badly dam
aged by. earthquakes. six killed.
Feb. + Seventeen killed by explo-
Feb. 26-Thirteen persons killed by
avalanches near Seattle.
Feb. 27-Mine explosion at Poca-
March 1s-island Of Banda Neira in
Dutch East Indies, nearly destroyed by
earthquakes and volcanoes with great
March 2i-Tornadoes in Alabama,
Georgia, Kentucky. South Carolina and
Tennessee killed 35S and did great
damage.
March 27-Tornado killed .. in
jured so in Alabama.
April 14-Six dead. 81 hurt, In blast
in Ohio state office building at CO.
April 25-Tornadoes in Tennessee.
Alabama and Arkansas killed nine.
May NEARLY hundred killed by
typhoon. in Philippines.
May 1.-TWO million dollar fire on
Cunard pier, New York.
May 16-New French liner Georges
Philippar burned in Gulf of Alden; 81
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 30 men.
June 19-Hailstorm in Honan prov
ince China, killed 400.
sank off Normandy coast with 60 men.
July 10--Explosion Of ammunition
depot in Marking. China. killed 50.
July lS-Three million dollar fire on
July 2s-German training ship Niobe
sank in storm; So drowned.
Aug. six million dollar IRE 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 five men killed in
wreck of French Foreign Legion train
in Algeria.
Sept. 26-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-Disastrous storm in south
ern Cuba; $500 killed and great dam.
age done.
Nov. 14-Japan swept by 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. M
Dec. 9-Explosion in coal mine a,
Yancey, KY. killed 49,
NEUROLOGY
Jan. &c o. Iselin, millionaire
yachtsman of New York