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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-01-07

Ct Aeazar at Toledo. killing many rebel
Sept. 25-French government decided to
anandon gold standard and devaluate the
Sept. 27-Spanish rebels captured Toledo
and rescued the Alcazar garrison.
Oct. 1-Gen. Francisco Franco became
mead OF the Spanish insurgent junta.
- austria, repudiating the treaty Of ST.
German, called 5000 youths for compulsory
military training.
French parliament passed franc devalua-
Oct. 4-Serious riots in Paris between
communists and nationalsts.
oct. 5-Italy devalued the Ira.
oct. l1-Arab general strike in Palestine
against Jewish immigration called off.
alliances.
M Oct SGeM;7;Spanish rebel planes bombed
Military coup forced reorganization of
Iraq government.
Nov. 3-:King Edward Of England opened
parliament. pledging the nation to peace.
Nov. -Spanish insurgents captured Ma
drid suburbs.
Nov. spanish government fled from
Madrid to Valencia.
Nov. 15-Spanish rebels forced crossing
ton of Madrid.
Nov. lls-Roger Salengro, French minister
mitted suicide.
General Franco. Spanish rebel chief. de.
ciS MeH5 blockade DC of Barcelona.
NOV: 24-Dictator Stain presented new
constitution to Russia.
NOV. 28-Military revolt in Quito. Ecua-
oor, suppressed by government.
Dec. l-SpaniSh loyaliStS launched great
OFFENSIVE against Fascist insurgents.
Germany decreed death penalty for those
who hoard wealth abroad.
new Russian constitution approved by
soviet congress.
British house of lords defeated bill to
permit mercy Killings"
Dec. &British Prime Minister Baldwin
pleaded with King Edward to accept cabi.
nets advice to relinquish his intimacy with
Mrs. Wally Simpson.
Renewed rebel air raids on Madrid killed
hundreds.
Coup d'etat in Greece foiled by govern.
ment.
Dec. SKIING Edward defied cabinets de.
mand that he choose between the throne
and Mrs. Simpson.
Dec. 5-Pope Plus stricken with paralysis
RuSSia's new constitution given final ap.
proval by all.union congress of soviets.
Dec. 6-Mexico offered to let Trotzky,
Russian exile, reside in that country.
Dec: Mrs. Wallis Simpson announced
her willingness to renounce her association
with King Edward of England to end the
crisis.
Dec. 1o-King Edward of England abdi-
gated in favor of his brother, the duke of
York.
Dec. 11-British parliament and the do
ninions accepted Edwards abdication and
the accession of George VI.
Dec. 12-George vi was proclaimed king
of Great Britain and made Edward duke Of
Windsor.
Dictator Chang Kai shek of China
kidnapped in Sianfu by mutinous troops of
Marshal Chang.
Dec: 17--Giuseppe Motta elected president
of Switzerland.
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AERO

Jan. 13-Howard Hughes flew from Los
Angeles to Newark in record time, 8 hours
q minutes 10 seconds.
Jan. 14-Au air lines of United States
united with Col. E. s. Gorren as president.
Jan. 16-Lincoln Ellsworth and Herbert
Hollick-Kenyon, missing seven weeks on
antarctic flight. found safe In Little Amer.
lea.
denburg. started its first transatlantic trip
May 6-Zeppelin Hindenburg started on
first flight to United States.
May 9--Dirigble Hindenburg arrived at
May 1CDirigible Hindenburg completed
flight from Lakehurst to Frankfurt.on-M Main
in 48 hours 10 minutes.
July Ar. c. Dupont set new glider mark
July 3O-Plans announced for trans-At.
lantic air mail and passenger service be.
tween Great Britain, Canada, Irish Free
State and Newfoundland.
Aug. Slight killed in crash Of Chicago &
Southern airlines plane. ,,,
Sept. Harry Richman and Richard Mer-
rill took off from New York for London:
Sept. 3-Richman and Merrill landed
safely in Wales, out of gas.
Sept. 4-Louise Thaden won Bendix tro.
ply.
Sept. - Mrs Beryl Markham. first
woman to fly Atlantic alone from east to
west, made forced landing in Nova Scotia.
Sept. michel Detroyat Of France won
Thompson trophy race at Los Angeles meet.
England across Atlantic, landing in New
foundland.
Oct. &c. W. A. Scott won England-Jo-
Oct. Kurt Bjorkvall, attempting flight
from ocean off Irish coast.
Oct. 30-Capt. ]. A. Mollison flew from
Newfoundland to London in record time.
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June 1s-Louis knocked out in twelfth
round by Schmeling.
July 4Helen Jacobs won Wimbledon d.
tie.
.varof set world record for pole vault at
July 7ENational league all-stars defeat
July Is-Paul Leslie won western ANA.
July 23-Eieanor Holm Jarrett. swimming
champion, dropped from American Olympic
team for breaking training.
July 29-TWo men ouSted from American
Olympic boxing team for breaking training
July 81 Japan awarded the Olympic
Games of 1910.
Aug. 1-Oiympic Games at Berlin Off
Jesse Owens, America. broke world rec
ord for 100 meters at Berlin.
Aug. 5-Owens won his third Olympic
championship
Aug. 8-Morris of America won Olympic
decathlon.
Aug. 9-American track team won olym-
pic championship with 200 points.
Japanese won Olympic marathon.
Aug. 16-Olympic games at Berlin ended
with Germany in first place and United
States second.
Aug. 18-Joe Louis knocked out Jack
Aug. 31--Mako and Bulge won the ma
tional doubles tennis title.
Sept. 2-New York Yankees won Ameri-
can league championship.
Sept. 3-American Walker cup golf team
defeated British team.
Lou Ambers won lightweight title from
Tony Canzoneri.
Sept. 12-Perry of England and Alice
Marble of California won national tennis
Lawson Little won Canadian open golf
title.
Sept. 1o-Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati
won national amateur golf title.
Sept. 24-New York Giants won National
league championship.
Sept. 26-Argentine polo players defeated
American team for the title.
Oct. 3-Pamela Barton of England won
American womcn's golf championship.
Oct. 6-New York Yankees won World
Series from New York Giants.
Oct. IL - Tazio Nuvolari, italy, won
George Vanderbilt 800 mile automobile road
race.
Nov. 2-Johnny Goodman of Omaha won
Mexican amateur golf title.
Nov. Northwestern university won Big
Ten football championship.
Nov. 21-Yale defeated Harvard at foot.
ball.
Nov. 22-Denny Shute won United States
pro golf championship.
Nov. Killarney Ross retained weller.
weight title by beating Izzy JannaZzo.
Nov. 28-Navy beat Army at football.
Dec. 12-Welker Cochran won three-cush.
ion billiards championship in Chicago.
Dec. 13-Green Bay won professional foot.
ball title,
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lany and Russia. signed agreement to

many and Russia, signed agreement to
''humanize" submarine warfare.
Nov 12-Nobel prize in literature awarded
in physics physics to Prot. Carl D. Anderson Of
California and Prof v. C. Hess of Austria;
in chemistry to Prof Peter Debye of Berlin.
Nov. 14-Germany denounced navigation
clauses of Versailles treaty, resuming SOW.
ereignty over her internal waterways.
Nov. 18-Germany and Italy recognized
Francois Fascist government of Spain.
Nov. "a = Nobel peace prize for 1885
awarded to Carl Won Ossietsky, German pac-
Argentine foreign minister.
Nov. Is - Germany and Japan signed
agreement to fight spread of communism.
Nov. q - Spanish government asked
peace caused by recognition of rebels by
Italy and Germany.
President Roosevelt addressed Brazilian
parliament at Rio.
Chinese revealed Japanese plan to create
Inner Monaghan puppet state.
Nov. 29-League of Nations council called
to deal with Spanish war matter.
Nov. 30-President Roosevelt arrived at
Buenos Aires.
Dec. 1-Pan-American peace congress in
Buenos Aires opened with speech by Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Great Britain charged that Germany had
sent 5000 armed soldiers to aid Spanish
Dec. Nicaragua recognized the Franco
government in Spain.
Dec. 3-President Roosevelt visited Mon
China demanded removal of Japanese ma.
rineS from TSingtao.
Dec. 9-France and Britain proposed plan
for mediation in Spanish war.
Dec. 12-TWenty-one American nations
signed resolution for peace and security at
the Buenos Aires conference.
Italy and Germany signed trade accord
relating especially to the Danubian states.
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SPORTS

Jan. stamford beat Southern Methodist
in Rose Bowl football game at Pasadena.
Jan. 11-Willie Hoppe won three-cushion
billiards championship. from Cochran.
Jan. 17-Joe Louis knocked out Charley
Retzlaf in one round in Chicago.
Feb. 6-Olympic winter games opened at
Garmisch.P rtenkirchen, Germany.
Feb. 16-NorWay won Olympic winter
games; United States fifth.
March Purdue and Indiana tied for Big
Ten basketball title.
March 14-University of Michigan won
Big Ten indoor track championship.
April cambridge beat Oxford in annual
April 6-Horton Smith won the Masters
April l4-Major league baseball season
May Bold Venture won Kentucky
May 6-American women's golf team tied
May 8-Canzoneri defeated McLarnin in
May 1I-Petey Sarron of Birmingham
won featherweight title from Freddie Mil
May 17-Bold Venture won the Freak
May 2s-University of Indiana won Big
Ten outdoor track championship.
May 30-Louis Meyer won Indianapolis 500
mile auto race.
United States. from Davis cup play.
June 3-University of Michigan won Big
Ten baseball championship.
June 6-Tony Mareno won national open
.,, June i IS. s1,' Opal Hill won wOmen's
Don Lash broke worlds record for two
miles.
American women's tennis team won
Wightman cup from British.
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DISASTERS

Jan. e-Earthquake killed several hundred
persons in Colombia.
freighter Iowa foundered at mouth of Co.
lumbia river.
Jan. 14-American Airlines plane crashed
in a swamp in Arkansas, killing II.
March Industrious floods in northeast.
ern states.
eastern states killed scores of persons and
caused many millions of loss to property.
March 26 = Fourteen persons killed In
plane crash in Mexico.
April 5-Tornado at Tupelo, Miss. killed
Army bombing plane crashed on Blue
mountain, Penn, five killed.
April 6-Tornado killed more than $50 at
April 74Eleven killed when TWA air
liner hit mountain near Uniontown. Pa.
June 3O-Forest fires swept million
acres in Kentucky.
July 4EIndependence day deaths smashed
record with 444 killed over nation.
July 29-Fifteen men drowned when sand
motorship upset at Chicago.
4a n f Ess se e Eas crash at PS of m
& Southern Airlines plane.
Aug. -6-Explosion in British coal mine
killed 81 men.
In train wreck near louisville, Quebec.
Aug. 2a-Typhoon in Corea killed nearly
Aug. sl-Twenty.eight men killed in Ger
Sept. 5-Ten persons killed in crash of
sightseeing plane near Pittsburgh, Pa.
Sept; 13-Avalanche at Loen. Norway.
Sept. 16-Dr. Jean charcot. famous
French polar explorer. and 50 others
drowned In shipwreck
Sept. 27-Forest fires in southwestern Ore
gon virtually destroyed Bandon and at.
tackled three other towns: nine known dead.
Oct; 6-Ten miners killed at Mullan. Ida
Oct. IieWore than 800 killed by typhoon
in the Philippines.
Oct. 17-Nineteen drowned when Canadian
ship Sand Merchant foundered in Lake Erie.
Oct. 18-Destructive earthquake in north.
eastern Italy killed Is.
Nov. 8-Hamburg- American motorship Isis
foundered off Lands End, England; 80
Nov. i6-Explosion of French powder
plant near Marseilles killed "a and injured
200
Nov. 1s-Thousand killed when dam in
Japan burst.
Nov. 30-Crystal palace. London, burned.
freighter Elsa foundered.
Dec. 4-Nearly $50 killed in food in north
ern Luzon, Philippines.
Dec. More than 200 drowned In flood In
Turkey.
Dec. 9-Dutch airliner crashed in Eng
land, killing IA, including Juan de la CT
erva, inventor of the autogyro.
Dec. 15-Western Air Express plane lost
in Utah with seven persons.
Dec. 19-San Vicente, Salvador, wrecked
by earthquake; several hundred killed.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
REPUBLIC WORKER HELD
IN STRIKE RIOT DEATH

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, July 29.-Fritz Swan
son, ~, Republic Steel Corp. employe,
was under bond OF $1,000 pending ar
raignment today in connection with
the automobile killing of John Orecny,
As. c. I. O. striker, during last Mon
days rioting at the company's Corri-
gan-McKinney plant.
Swanson was taken into custody
last night at the home Of relative
at Cfauncey, near Athens, in Southern
Ohio.
A charge Of manslaughter has been
filed against Swanson
While a hearing yesterday on Re-
public petition for an injunction lim-
iting the number of pickets in the
mill area was delayed to give c. I. o.
counsel a chance to prepare a de-
fense, suits seeking damages Of $780,
900 were filed here against the COM
pany as result of fatalities in
Youngstown and Massillon clashes.
c. l. o. heads considered a request
by city officials that a mass meeting
scheduled for tonight on the city's
public square be transferred to some
other place to prevent a traffic tie-up.
Speakers on the program include
Homer Martin, United Automobile
Workers president. and Haywood
Broun. American Newspaper Guild
president.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
.SM|[ES0F ELDERS
GREET ACQU|TTAL
Wife Weeps for Joy as Hus.
band Is Cleared of
Threat Charges. +
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GREENFIELD. Mass. July 90
Admittedly happy over the acquittal
he always was confident" would re-
suit, Thomas E. Elder. former dean
of Mount Hermon School. turned to-
day to the quiet Of his New Hamp-
shire chicken farm, cleared Of the
States charge that he threatened to
kill Stephen Allen Norton, his former
colleague
The tanned face of the bushy-
browed 55-year-old educator. wan and
tired with the strain of the week
long trial, lighted with a wistful smile
when the foreman of the farmer
business man jury announced the ver-
dict Of mot guilty last night.
The jury. in four hours delibera-
ton, acquitted Elder on both counts.
assault with intent to kill and assault
upon Norton with a gun, putting him
in fear of bodily harm. Conviction
on both counts would have meant =
maximum 10-year Imprisonment.
Norton, the States principal wit
ness, identified Elder, his former as-
sociate at Mount Hermon as the man
who accosted him In front of his
home on moonlit Spring night
three months ago and threatened him
with a shotgun.
Norton, retired cashier of the
school whose headmaster, Elliott
Speer, was slain in an unsolved mur-
der three years ago, admitted on the
witness stand that he once had spied
on Elder through a peep hole and
accused him of kissing and embrac-
ing his pretty stenographer
Pert and pretty Evelyn Dill, the
stenographer, took the witness stand
to make a fiat denial of Nortons
''peep-hole" testimony.
Elder likewise denied 1t On the
stand.
He testified that Norton prayed to
God and me" for forgiveness for his
false accusation" and said Norton de-
scribed himself as "a sort Of Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde, 4 snooper"
Norton returned to the witness star
to deny he ever had made such a re-
traction, or ever described himself as
a dual personality.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
TRUCKS RUSH FOOD
ASSTR|KE IS ENDED
Buffalo Union Halls Big VIC
tory-Acute Shortage
Avoided,
~ the Associated Press,

~ ths Associated Press.
BUFFALO, N Y, July 29-Union
drivers hoped back on their trucks
today to rush groceries to store shelves
emptied by an eight-day strike that
won wage increases and preferential
shop.
The 1000 drivers, members of a
teamsters' union affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor. ac-
eepted a compromise contract with A
Buffalo wholesale provision dealers
5ust as the staple food shortage became
Aacute. Housewives did without some
foods and paid higher prices for others
during the food embargo imposed by
ehe striking truck drivers.
Negotiators continued efforts to set
tie = strike of 1000 c. I. o. union
butchers in three of the citys four
, major packing plants, which impaired
the fresh meat supply and caused a
price hike on some cuts. Storage sup
plies were expected to meet the de-
mand until Friday, when packers are
to answer the unions request for a
closed shop and pay increases up to
rs per cent.
Hailed as Great Victory"
City Councilman John N. Doyle,
member of the Union Negotiating
Committee. hailed the settlement. ap-
proved at mass meeting last night as
the greatest victory scored by union
local in 36 years"
The settlement is gratifying to all
concerned and the terms are just and
fair to both employees and employers, u
, said Raymond w. Wattles, spokesman
for the wholesalers. He urged all work.
ers to return at once.
The contract gave the union pref
erentlal shop, minimum wage of
$500 for unskilled workers laboring
48 hours week, blanket per cent
pay hike for all those who have had
no increase since aMrch l, time and a
half for overtime and one-Week yaca-
tions with pay annually.
Rev. DR.. john P. Boland chairman
OF the State Labor Rela tions Board
who sat with negotiators through five
days Of Wrangling, called the agree
ment fair and satisfactory" He
congratulated the strikers on orderly
picketing.
Warned Other Truckers.
The strikers maintained their en-
/ barge with flying pickets,' who
cruised in GAYS, overlook non-co-oper-
ating truckers and warned them to
turn back.
Sugar stocks grew so short some re-
tailers rationed out l-pound parcels to
make the supply go around. Butter
' rose cents pound in the eight-day
period, eggs gained an average of j.
BY shopping from store to store
cooks generally found what ey need
ed. Three big chain groups ran out
of produce, but had sufficient staples
1t was the other way around among
Independents.
Eggs, butter and cheese which seeped
in from nearby Western New York
farms prevented an acute shortage
Some shoppers made purchases in
nearby villages.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
Buildings Stolen
just as Broker Goes
Out to Make Sale
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, July 29.-Police
worked on a mystery of three
stolen" buildings.
Weymouth Finn, real estate
broker, discovered the theft"
when he took a prospective Gus
toner to the Walnut Hills section
Of Cincinnati to inspect the
structures.
Finn's chagrin knew no bounds
when he found the premises bare
OF buildings and colored truck
driver hauling away the last of
the bricks that had gone into
buildings Finn valued at $4,000.
Police Lieut.. John Kleemeier
said a colored man detained for
investigation admitted he sold the
buildings for Sl3l, but insisted
another man instructed him to
raze the structures.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
SPEED RECORD CLAIMED
1acqueline Cochrane Said to Have
! Broken Women's Air Mark.

LOS ANGELES, July 20 (P.-A
World airplane speed record for women
Easclaimed today by National Aero
nautical Association timers for Jac-
pueline Cochrane
Miss Cochrane averaged slightly
better than 1879 miles an hour over
l00-kilometer course yesterday. The
former record was held by Louise
~haden at 1875 miles an hour.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
WHAT
wAFFLES!

Delicious waff1es with that grand
Southern goodness! So easy to
have with FIXT WAFFLE MIX.
The EGGS, pure vegetable short
ening, and all other ingredients al
ready mixed! Just add water. You
can't fail! Always crispy, golden
brown waf-
fles. Ask your mm
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Religious School
! 0 open Monday

Dr. ]. II. move, professor ii
Boneblake Theological Seminary, J.
lean Of the Dayton Community
School which viii begin its twenty
second year for religious workers
Registration Of students will be-.
lin Monday, September 20, in the
Central Presbyterian Church, on St
Clair street, opposite Library Park
Rcgistation fee for each terms work
ii $l.25, Students are requested Y
he present at the opening session q
The school. otherwise two hours q.
class work will be missed and credit
annot be given.
Announcing the courses, the KeS
Frank Shuts, executive secretary s.
the sunday School Council Of :
ligious Education, stated that tiiS
program Of instruction has been
planned 50 that the new class viii
be able to complete the entire cur
.icnlum fal, the certificate Of progress
sc the International sunday Schoo
Council al the end of two years
work.
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Mrs. Rein Talbot 5
Brother Dies

Mr.. Edward Douglas Curry died
last Saturday at the home Of his
sister, Mrs. Ida Talbot. $50 sprague
street after an illness Of three
months. Funeral services were
held Monday morning from the Lor--
ritts Funeral home. Burial was
made at his home in Greenfield, Ind.
Rev. j. T. Farley, pastor of Wayman
A.M.E. church Of which Mr.. Curry
was member, conducted the brief
but impressive services.
Deaeoness Mariah Gaines, Mrs.
Johnson, and Mrs. Bessie Pullan ae--
eompanied the family 70 Greenfield
The Barber's Union Of which Mr..
Curry was member,heid Impress
i've services at the grave.
He is survived by two children,
two sisters, Mrs Ida Talbot and
Mrs. Laura Ellison Of Dayton.