The Coolidge examiner., 1936-01-03

FeD. S-Redr AunlTdl SdIy l.
Grayson named chairman of Red
Cross.
Feb. 13-Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann found guilty of numbering
Lindbergh baby; sentenced to death.
Congress voted to end federal pay
cuts.
Feb. 14-Robert E. Wood, Chicago.
named to head advisory committee
on S4SSO, 100000 work relief plan.
Feb. 16-Thirty- convicts shot
way out of Oklahoma reformatory
guard killed. and eight prisoners
wounded.
Feb. 1S-Administration won in
Supreme court gold clause decisions
by to 4 vote.
Feb. 22-House passed largest
peacetime army bill, appropriating
$37S,000,0G0.
March 3-President asked congress
for outright subsidy to merchant
marine to replace present mail con-
tract and building loan system.
March 5-S. Clay Williams resigned
as head of NRA board.
March 10-Government moved to
replace all national bank currency
with money based on gold taken by
treasury.
March 11-House repealed pink
slip income tax publicity feature.
March III. Crawford Biggs' So
4,
March 2O-AAA dropped restric-
tions on planting of spring wheat,
fearing food shortage.
March 21-House accepted Patman
currency imitation plan to pay SOL
diers' bonus.
March 22-President asked con
gress to pass stricter food and drug
bill.
March 23-Senate passed works
relief measure,
March 24-President gave his ap-
proval to proposed constitution for
Philippines.
March 26-President left on fishing
trip off the Bahamas.
Senate passed S9O5, 900. 600 treasury
bill.
March 27-House voted S3S,00O,000
to strengthen navy shore bases.
March 2S-Senate voted for repeal
of income tax publicity feature.
March 30-Coal miners and opera
tors agreed to continue wage scale
until June 16.
April limited States Supreme
court again reversed conviction and
death sentence of two negroes in ia
nous Scottsboro case.
Five per cent pay raise for rail-
way workers went into effect.
April 5-Conference, report on work
relief bill accepted by senate and
April S-President Roosevelt ended
his fishing trip and signed the work
relief bill.
- April 9-House passed Mcswain
war profits bill.
Senate passed the navy public
works bill carrying $3S, 100000.
April 19-House passed admins
tration's social security bill.
April 23-Frank Walker named di-
rector of National Emergency coun-
Gil and chief adviser in work relief
expenditures
alton of three new agencies for work
relief program. and named eight
classes of projects.
April 25-Secretary Ickes named
head of works allotment division.
April 26-Harry Hopkins made
head of works progress division.
April 29-Supreme court ruled in
favor of Arizona in Parker dam
case.
May 2-United States Chamber of
Commerce adopted resolutions oppos-
ing legislation asked by the admin
istration.
May ICELAND Harrison appointed
minister to Rumania.
May 6-Supreme court declared
railway pension act unconstitutional.
May 7-Senate passed the Patman
bonus bill.
Conviction of ex-Gov. William
LANCER of North Dakota and four
others for conspiracy to misuse fed
eral relief funds reversed by Fed
eral Court OF Appeals.
May 9-House passed the omnibus
banking bill.
May 11-President Roosevelt estab-
lished rural electrifcation division,
headed by Morris L. Cooke.
Dennis Chavez appointed senator
from New Mexico.
May l4-Senate passed bill extend
ing NRA until April l. 1886.
Longs resolution for investigation
of Farley rejected by senate.
May 15-Representative Michael l..
Igoe appointed United States district
attorney at Chicago.
May 16-Senate passed the Wagner
labor relations bill
May 1S-Audit by Comptroller
General McCarl disclosed great waste
in IVA
May 2O-President fixed wages and
hours for work relief program.
Norman Armour appointed Ameri-
can minister to Canada.
May 22-President Roosevelt, ap-
pearing personally before joint ses-
sion of congress. vetoed the Patman
bonus measure. The house immedi-
ately re-passed it.
May 23-Senate sustained Presi-
dents veto of bonus act.
May 24-Senate passed $3.50. 100000
navy appropriation bill.
May 27-United States Supreme
court unanimously ruled the code
structure and wage and labor hours
prOvisiors of NRA were unconstitu-
tiOnal.
Frazier Lemke farm mortgage
act held invalid by Su-
preme court.
President Roosevelt's removal of
the late William e. Humphrey as
trade commissioner declared invalid
by Supreme court.
May 2S-Senate passed Copeland
food. drug and cosmetic bill
May 29-California Pacific exposi-
tiOn at San Diego opened
May 31-President Roosevelt sug-
gested revision of Constitution to
give economic control to federal gov
ernment.
June Young George Weyerhaeu-
ser, kidnapped from Tacoma, freed on
payment of 100000 ransom.
June 5-Electric power strike in so
Illinois cities ended in compromise.
June 7-House passed bill' extend
ing skeletonized NRA until April l,
1886.
June 9-H. NJ. Valley and wife
were arrested in Salt Lake City for
kidnapping and con-
fessed.
June '10-Republicans of ten mid
west states opened grass roots" con-
ference in Springfield. condemning
the New Deal
June 11-Senate passed the pub
lie utility bill.
June l2-President Roosevelt pre-
sented diplomas to 276 West Point
graduates.
June l3-Senate passed resolution
skeletoniZed NRA to
April l.
June 14-Secretary of War Dern
General Foulois of air
mail charges.
June 16 President Roosevelt
named new NRA board with James
l.. O'Neill as administrator.