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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-12-28
NOVEMBER

s-Norway frees City OF Flint and interns
German prize crew. Finland defies So
Wet threat; ready to fight.
1-Belgium and Holland offer to mediate
peace between warning nations.
b-Hitler escapes plot; blast in Munich
beer cellar kills and Injuries 60.
s-Dutch open defense bikes; clash at bor-
. der with Germans
i9-Erench repulse two German attacks.
Ao-Four more merchantmen sunk in sea
warfare.
H-Germans shoot nine Czech students.
seize l,20O and close academies for three
years.
lS-Dutch liner hits German mine In North
a. sea: sinks with 140 lives.
H-Four more ships sunk by German mines
off England.
zO-Germans extend war at sea: 10 vessels
sunk since November 10: 1873 dead or
. missing.
A-Germany charges Munich man with beer
cellar explosion; arrests two British
agents
Britain declares unrestricted blockade
OF Germany in reprisal for Illegal mine
( warfare: forbids neutral nations to trade
! with Germany.
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28-Chrys1er company and c. I. o. agree on
basis of peace after auto plants are tied
up So days.
29-Jury finds German-American bund lead.
er Fritz Kuhn guilty on forgery and
theft charges.
30-Roosevelt sends sharp note to Russia
asking that bombing of cities stop.
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DOMESTIC

u. S. GUARDS NEUTRALITY
Special congressional session insti-
tutes "cash-and-carry" neutrality as
Americans rush home from Europe,
a,Oay from toar zone.
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SPORTS

IRON MAN STRIKES OUT
Lou Cehrig, iron man of base
ball." retires from Ne,U York Yam
KEGS tUith paralysis infection after
hanging up aA-time record for
games played.
JANUARY
2-Southern California football team de-
feats Duke in Rose Bowl
,S-Bgdge defeats Vines in pro tennis debut;
the New York Yankees.
25-Joe Louis, heavyweight champion
stopped John Henry Lewis in first round
in New York
FEBRUARY
5-Ken Bartholomew wins national skating
title.
9-National Professional Football league
re-eects Joseph Carr president for 10
23-Tony Galento scores technical knock.
out over Abe Feldman.
MARCH
2O-Charles Bowser named head football
coach at Pitt.
APRIL
2-Ralph Guldahl wins Masters golf title at
Atlanta, Ga.
l6-Boston WINS Stanley cup. defeating To.
ronto in hockey playoffs.
17-Joe Louis, heavyweight champion.
knocks out Jack Roper in first round.
18-Joey Archibald wins featherweight title
from Leo Kodak in Is rounds.
MAY
6-Johnstown won Kentucky derby.
20-Joseph F. Carr, National Football league
president. dies.
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OCTOBER

britain calls ESQ, 900 more troops
EDaladier says France will fight until
victorious.
Hitter makes peace proposals to Britain
and France; seeks armistice.
Glitter sets aside area in Poland for
Germans to be transplanted from other
countries.
lO-French premier spurns Hitlers peace
terms
Finnish civilians ordered to leave dan
ger zone near Soviet frontier.
R-Britain refuses peace based on Nazi
conquests.
l4-British battleship Royal Oak sunk by
sub. 1856 lost
i6-Nazi raid navy base in Scotland; l6
killed
H-German planes raid Scapa Flow; Iron
Duke, training ship. damaged.
2O-Brtish repel another NaZi air raid
over Edinburgh,
2S-Brtish report three U-boats sunk
Germans capture American ship City OF
Flint and take 1t to Soviet port.
24-Four British. one Greek ship sunk by
Germans.
Nazi sea raiders slip through blockade;
prey on shipping.
BelgianS demand British ease blockade.
z6-American ship City of Flint, turned over
to Germany by Russia. sails from Rus
STA.
2S-Germans claim lis foreign ships sunk
since war began.
3l-Soviet demands raise new crisis in Fin
land
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JUNE

1O-Bombs in mail in England injure seven
persons.
1EJapan presents Britain with new de-
mands as troops tighten blockade at
Tientsn.
22-King and queen given tremendous re-
ception on their return to England.
26-Soviets repulse Jap air attack on Mon
gol border: shoot down Is planes
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SQUALUS SINKS-U. S. nauy's
diving bell gets first real test rescu-
ing 80 SURVIVORS from sunken sub
marine. TtUenty-si1 others die.
JANUARY
21-The airliner Cavalier wrecked at sea off
Cape May, N. ]. three lost. 10 saved.
23-Bomber crashes on test hop at Los
Angeles; pilot killed.
25-Thirty thousand killed, $4,000 injured by
earthquake in Chile; towns wiped out in
disaster.
FEBRUARY
Japanese submarine sunk in collision
11-Army mystery plane crashes after
coast-to-coast flight at 340mile rate.
MARCH
2-Two hundred killed in explosion of mu.
nitions dump in Japan; 300 houses de-
18-Ten killed in airplane crash near Ia.
coma, Wash.
25-Airliner crashes in Oklahoma killing
eight.
APRIL
flour navy fiers killed when planes col
Tide in maneuvers.
13-TWenty- eight killed, so injured in train
wreck in Mexico.
1O-1OIIldQOeS Ill AIhdHSdS, Texas ana LOU
isiana cause SO deaths and injuries to
300.
MAY
23-Fifty;nine trapped in sunken submarine
24-Thirty- three rescued alive from Squalls.
&c dead.
JUNE
missing British submarine found mired
IN mud; SO lost.
4Twenty two persons killed in Mexican
16-Seventy,one lives lost in wreck of French
submarine.
1s-Ten dead SO injured in Minnesota tor.
nado.
JULY
5-Fifty- three drowned. AZ missing, In food
in mountains of eastern Kentucky.
12-Mystery explosion and fire damage navy
aircraft carrier Ranger.
14-TWenty eight perish in mine blast at
Providence, KY.
17-Five killed as train hits auto in Chicago
suburb.
23-Avalanche on Mount Baker Wash, kills
two. four missing.
AUGUST
11-Nine U. s. army fiers and two navy
fiiers killed as two bombers crash
13-Fourteen killed as Miami to Rio de ia.
ty-three killed, 60 injured when stream.
liner is wrecked in Nevada.
SEPTEMBER
25-storm in California kills 100; damage
ST 1000 900.
2s-Munitions plant blast in Britain kills Is.
OCTOBER
11-Wreck of school bus at War, W. Va,
kills six; II injured.
NOVEMBER
14-Five hundred killed and injured when
fire engulfs Venezuelan oil port.
DECEMBER
3-Typhoon ravages FIVE islands in the Phil
ippines.
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JANUARY

2-Former Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan
takes oath as U. S. attorney general.
Harry Hopkins sworn in as secretary of
commerce.
3-Seventy-siXth congress convenes.
5-President sends to congress $4,000 000,-
900 budget for 1910 fiscal year.
Felix Frankfurter nominated for u S.
Supreme court.
12-President. in message, asks $50 millions
more for defense.
16-President asks extension of social secu-
rity benefits.
19-President asks legislation to end tax
free public salaries and to levy on all
securities
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13-France jails two newspaper executives,
charged with receiving pay from Ger
many.
19-Danzig political police purge city of
Socialists.
24-Chamberlain promises Britain will stay
out of Japans way in China.
26-Four bombings in England blamed on
Irish Republican army.
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23-General Franco orders return Of prop
erty which Spanish republic took from
former King Alfonso
2EPresident of Bolivia assumes dictatorial
powers.
2I-Serbians sign pact with Croats ending
- JugoslaVia'S biggest internal problem.
Su-Paraguay elects General EStigarrihia,
Chaco war hero. president.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-12-28
SEPTEMBER

5-Roscoe Turner wins Thompson trophy
air race third time.
l5-Tony Galento stops Nova in IA rounds.
l6-Bobby Riggs, Alice Marble win U. S.
17-Yankees cinch American league pen.
nant.
20-Joe Louis knocks out Bob Pastor in IL
rounds.
25-Billy Conn, light heavyweight champion,
defended his title against Melio Bettina
in Is rounds
B-Cincinnati Reds win National league PEN
nant
3o-Frankie Frisch appointed manager of
the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Z2-BoSS PenQergaSt OF Kansas City given
Is months in federal prison for income
tax evasion.
23-House approves farm appropriation bill
as passed by senate.
25-Fritz Kuhn. NaZi bund leader. indicted
in New York on theft charges.
Draft Dodeer Bergdoll returns to the
United States from Germany and is
~ made military prisoner.
27-Yankee Clipper returns from Europe.
JUNE
l-Senate passes bill lifting long term bond
ed national debt limit above S3O,O00,-
2-Contract for "a warships costing $780,
100000 awarded by navy department.
3-Former Judge Manton found guilty of
5-House rejects plan to make Hyde Park
home memorial to President Roose-
welt.
king George and Queen Elizabeth of
Great Britain enter United States at
Niagara Falls; officially welcomed by
Secretary of State Hull.
8-KIng and queen of Great Britain well
coined to Washington by President
Roosevelt; attend state dinner at White
1O-House votes big slash in payroll taxes;
benefits are increased.
liking and queen end U. S visit.
12-Senate votes S225,000 to department of
commerce to employ experts.
U. S. monetary gold stock passes Is
billion mark.
13-HOuse votes drastic limitations on future
15-King and queen sail for home.
l9-House passes tax bill of 1874 millions:
retains nuisance taxes, but revises lev
les on corporations.
20-Senate committee boosts pork barrel bill
from 83,848 100. as passed by the house.
to $407, 1855. 600.
21-Widespread WPA graft charged in Lou
isiana; Governor Leche resigns.
F. Ryan Duffy nominated for federal
bench in Milwaukee.
25-Fraud barred at Louisiana university.
Ex-Governor Leche steps down and Lieu
tenant Governor Long is sworn in in
Louisiana.
5000 900 fraud laid to President Smith
of the Louisiana university.
28-Senate adds 70 million to relief bill and
passes it.
29-House hands administration defeat of
neutrality bill; endorses embargo on
arms shipments.
30-Senate lets RooSevelt's money rule die
by preventing legislation to extend
House passes neutrality bill barring
arms shipments.
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NOVEMBER

2-Opie Read, famous author
8-Dr. Livingston Farrand, president emer-
titus of Cornell university.
16-Pierce Rutler u S Supreme court
25-James Simpson. Chicago business leader.
27-Dr. J. A. Nasmith. inventor of basket
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MAY

SLityinov dismissed as foreign commissar
of Russia.
Skiing and queen of Great Britain sail
for Canada.
14-Moscow short of food; army ordered to
save on motor fuel
16-TWenty million dollars reported paid to
Hitler to release Baron Louis Rothschild.
liking and queen of Great Britain well
coined at Quebec.
18-king and queen start on tour of Canada.
One hundred Jewish youths injured in
clashes with police in Jerusalem.
22-Dionne quintuplets greet queen with hug
and kiss as British sovereigns visit
Toronto.
24-German troops in Spain leave for home.
25-Bill setting up dictatorship over industry
29-NeW border war ft deveops Between japan
and Russia in Manchukuo.
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MARCH

2-Ex-Judge Martin T. Manton indicted by
federal grand jury in New York as bride
taker.
7-Senate passes $3.50. 900 army extern
sion bill.
8-House passes bill giving President re-
stricted authority to reorganize depart
mentS.
16-Lieut-Gov. Lauren D. Dickinson sworn
in as governor of Michigan to succeed
the late Frank D. Fitzgerald.
18-U. S. puts penalty tariff on German i'm
ports.
23-James J. Hines Tammany leader, sen.
fenced to serve four to eight years in
prison.
27-U. S. Supreme court holds federal and
state governments may tax salaries of
each others EMPLOYEES
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DISASTERS

SQUALUS SINKS-U. S. Mays
dining bell gets first real test rescu-
ing 80 SURVIVORS from Sunken sub
marine. TtUenty-Si1 others die.
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DECEMBER

2-Curtiss plants speed building of war
planes.
3-Winnie Ruth Judd, insane slayer, again
escapes from prison IN Arizona.
5-Fritz Kuhn, bund leader, sentenced to
prison for two and a half years.
Upward trend seen in several lines of
business.
8-Secretary Hull protests British blockade
9-Roosevelt orders a special naval dis
trict in Caribbean.
l1-RFC grants SlO,OOO,0O0 loan to Finland
U. S. Supreme court bars evidence
gained by wire tapping.
13-Twelve naval captains promoted to be
rear admirals
H-ICC approves trainload rail rate re-
duction.
18-Garner announces candidacy for Demo.
cratic presidential nomination.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-12-28
FEBRUARY

4-Britain increases plane orders in U. S.
to $50.
Spanish loyalist army of 200, 900 fees to
France to escape trap.
6-Japan refuses to give up inundated Is
lands Germany lost In war.
12-TWo hundred thousand move past bier
of Pope Plus in st. Peters.
14-Pope Plus buried In tomb beneath st.
Peters cathedral.
l8-Spanish loyalists offer to surrender.
France occupies African area once
ceded to Italy.
2O-Italy moves 10 place colony Libya on
war footing.
23-General Franco hands Britain final
terms for peace with Spanish loyalsts
2+Britain and France decide to recognize
Franco government IN Spain.
Polish students attack German embassy
in Warsaw.
2s-Commons approves Chamberlain's o. K.
of Franco
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-12-28
FEBRUARY

7-Presdent makes new demand for $50
millions more for PWA after signing
appropriation bill with that amount cut
off
Blouse passes bill making state and mu-
nicipal employees subject to income
tax.
13-Justice Brandeis retires from the U. S.
Supreme court.
15-House approves s376, 1000, 900 defense bill
25-James j. Hines, Tammany chief. con-
victed of violating lottery laws.
N-U. S. Supreme court rules sit-down
strikes illegal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-12-28
OCTOBER

2-George Cardinal Mundelein. archbishop
of Chicago.
Sen. M M. Logan of Kentucky.
Stay Templeton, actress.
6-Count Won Bernstorf. German envoy to
u. S. in 1917.
l3-Ford Sterling. movie comedian.
23-Zane Grey. noted writer of western
stories.
29-Aiice Brady, stage and screen star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-12-28
AUGUST

13-Germany and Italy establish policy on
Danzig: Polish attitude called unbear-
able.
I5-Nazis declare Danzig must return to
Germany before August 81
l8-Germany takes military possession of
SloVakia.
2l-Germany announces nonaggression pact
with Russia
22-German troops massed near Polish cor
ridor.
23-Germany and Russia sign nonaggression
pact
25-Britain and Poland sign war alliance
Japanese cabinet abandons Rome-Berlin
lineup.
29-Poand asks British help under new mu
tual aid pact
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MARCH

1-College of cardinals convenes in Rome
to elect pope.
2-Franco requests Mussolini to withdraw
Italian troops from Spain.
Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli elected pope on
third ballot: takes name of Plus XII.
5-Leader of Spanish loyaliSt army seiZes
control of Madrid government.
6-Communist leaders flee Madrid zone;
General Miaja, new loyalist chief. asks
worthy peace.
7-Gandhi won political victory for democ-
racy in India, forced by four-day fast;
accepts invitation for consultation with
Viceroy.
Loyalist planes bomb centers of commu-
mist revolt in Madrid.
8-Francos fleet blockades all Spanish 10y.
alist coast.
$500, 900 witness coronation of Pope Plus
XII.
21-Lthuania returns Memel to Germany.
22-Rumania and Germany sign trade pact.
23-Madrid offers to surrender to General
Franco
27-Japanese capture Nanchang.
28-Madrid surrenders. ending Spanish civil
war.
29-France fatty refuses Mussolini's colonial
demands.
3O-Russia rejects British plea to join front
against aggressor nations.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-12-28
AUGUST
At. E. Powers, famed carte
SEPTEMBER

4Charles Donnelly. president of Northern
Pacific railway.
18-CharIes M Schwab, steel magnate.
23-Sigmund Freud, originator of psyche
analysis.
24EFloyd Gibbons, war correspondent.
Carl Laemmle. pioneer movie producer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-12-28
OCTOBER

8-Yankees win worlds baseball series in
four straight games
I7-Bucky Walters, Cincinnati pitcher voted
most valuable player in National league.
l9-Chicago White SOX defeat Cubs in city
baseball series
24-Joe DiMaggio wins American league
most valuable player award.
29-Harry Thomas, heavyweight fighter, re.
veals fixed fights
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-12-28
EUROPEAN WAR

MARS GOES TO WORK.
French poiIu pushes oUer street
sign in captured German Uiliage.
Hitler Still Grabbing
MARCH
12-German troops mass near border of
1s-Czecho. Slovakia submits to Hitler's de-
mands for further breakup of the Czech
state.
l4-Siovakia formally secedes from Czecho-
Slovakia and becomes independent state
under German protection.
Hitler seizeS Bohemia and Moravia,
completing subsection of Czecho-Slo-
l6-Hitier absorbs Slovakia Hungary an
nexes part of Carpatho-Ukraine.
27-Germany puts pressure on Poland.
28-Poland refuses German demand for
pathway to East Prussia.
APRIL
4-Poand joins British in war alliance
17-Germany pushes drive to take Danzig
French fleet guards Gibraltar. British
feet sails to Malta.
MAY
7-Nazis plan plebiscite in Danzig
8-POpe invites five powers to Vatican par
ley TO settle Polish-German dispute.
20-Germany fortiies its eastern frontier
against Poland.
JUNE
Hitler pledges Germany will support
Jugoslavia's border.
20-German troops move to encircle Poland
28-Britain appeals to Germany to settle
dispute by negotiations.
JULY
6-Warsaw reports 5000 Polish families in
East Prussia are forced to move away
from border.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-12-28
SEPTEMBER

2-Liner Bremen allowed to depart from
New York.
6-Roosevelt establishes naval patrol along
Atlantic coast.
11-President lifts quota on sugar to curb
prices.
12-Steel plants and railroads call back their
workers.
13-Congress called for September 81.
14-Borah opposes repeal of arms embargo
as likely to put America into war.
l8-SoViet purchasing agent tells of pay
ments to persons connected with Demo-
cratic national committee.
20-At a conference of Republican and Dem
ocratic leaders Roosevelt urges repeal
of neutrality act
21-Congress convenes in special session.
Roosevelt urges early repeal of arms
embargo provision of neutrality act
25-American Legion convenes in annual
session in Chicago.
27-Sudden dissolution of war resources
board causes surprise.
28-Administration's neutrality repeater bill
sent to the senate.
29-Powerful naval fleet ordered to Hawaii.
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2-Debate on repeal of neutrality act begins
in senate.
Army places an order for 329 high
speed, light tanks.
5-Grover c. Bergdoll, draft dodger. SEN
fenced to ia years in prison
bishop AbleWhite sent to prison for fund
shortage.
1O-War department orders IS. 900 semi-auto.
matte rifles.
12-William Green elected president of A.
F. of L. for sixteenth time.
I-Brazil orders S5.870.000 rail equipment
from America.
18-President closes American ports to sub
marines of warning nations.
l9-NeW house bill bans financial aid to
warning nations.
20-RooseVelt sets three-mile limit for sub.
marines.
23-Indiana endurance flyers descend after
535 hours; new record.
24-Senate adopts cash and carry amend.
mentS to neutrality bill.
25-Government sues 236 railroads under
Sherman antitrust act.
27-Senate votes. So to 30, to repeal arms
embargo provision of neutrality act. Bill
goes to house.
28-Carl Bevins, Missouri flyer. kidnapped
and slain in his own plane by Ernest
Pletch, arrested.
29-California flyers land after 726 hours in
air-neW record.
30-U. S. assesses Germany so millions for
Black Tom and Kingsland blasts during
World war.
31-United Mine Workers raise So 900 900 for
political fight in 1910.
President asks 276 million for added
defense.
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AUGUST

3Britain offers to mediate Japanese Chi
neSe war.
6-Spain executes SO persons for completely
in Staying of civil guard officer.
9-Sudden German food shortage rouses
public.
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SEPTEMBER

26-French cabinet decree ends Communist
party in France.
27-Bulgaria seeks trade pact with Russia
28-Constantine Argesanu appointed premier
of Rumania.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-12-28
APRIL

2-Britain offers to protect Rumania.
Japanese kill 5000 Chinese in three bat
ties.
4Turkey asks for part of Syria; French
dispatch warship.
5-Albert Lebrun reelected president Of
France.
6-Italian troops invade Albania.
8-Mussolini sets up puppet government in
Albania.
9-British and French fleets reported
massed off coast of Greece.
l3-Massing of troops near Gibraltar causes
alarm; British barricade road to Spain.
1s-Hitier appoints Franz Won Papen ambas-
sador to Turkey.
Russia faces famine; 80 per cent Of
grain crop destroyed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-12-28
APRIL

SC. l. o. union ordered to pay Apex
Hosiery company 1880 damages for
sitdoWn strike.
4-Jack Benny. radio comedian. fined
$4,000 for smuggling.
William o. Douglas confirmed for Su-
preme court.
1O-Senate rejects amendment to give WPA
so millions more, then passes original
bill.
15-President addresses peace plea to Euro
pean dictators; asks 10-year peace guar
antee.
18-War department assigns Charles A.
Lindbergh to study U. S. aviation facili-
ties.
25-President makes first transfer under re-
organization act; creates three SUPER
agencies
27-President asks 1.762 million more for
relief.
MAY
1-U. S. Supreme court denies appeal of
miners convicted of Illinois bomb out
RACES.
l1-Coal conferees agree on new contract
with operators.
Senate passed mountaineering $1.2l8,-
666,572 farm bill.
l2-President names Admiral Leahy COVER
nor Of Puerto Rico.
l6-House votes each congressman another
clerk at annual cost of $65S,5o0 without
a roll call.
l7-Senate kills New Deal Florida canal bill.
l9-Senate passes S773 100000 naval appro
pration bill
Jerome Frank elected chairman Of SEC.
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NEUROLOGY

kneel in prayer before casket con-
tanning the body of Pope Plus XII.
JANUARY
11-Prof. Herman Olphant, treasury de-
partment counsel in Washington.
l3-Gol. Jacob Rupert owner of the New
26-Former Sen; Joseph I. France of Mary
land, in Baltimore.
29-Wiiliam B. Yeats, Irish poet and play
wright, in France.
FEBRUARY
.9-Pope Plus XI.
13-Rt. Rev. J. M. Francis. Episcopalian
bishop of Indianapolis.
15-Charles r. Crane, former diplomat.
16-Dr. Clarence True Wilson, prohibition
leader.
MARCH
2-Howard Garter. who found King Tut's
5-Former U. S. Attorney General John G.
Sargent.
6-Frank W. .Stearns close adviser to Pres.
2s-Gerardo Machado. former dictator of
Cuba.
APRIL
2-George F. Harding Republican national
committeeman for Illinois.
6-Premier Joseph Lyons of Australia.
9-Ja Hamilton Lewis, U. ). senator
from Illinois.
lis. S. Van Dine, mystery-story writer,
real name Willard H. Wright.
MAY
26-Dr. Charles Mayo. famous surgeon.
JUNE
6-George Peabody Gardner. fnancier. in
Boston.
19-Miss Grace Abbott noted welfare work.
er and University of Chicago professor.
26-Ford Maddox Ford. British author.
JULY
7-Claude A. Swanson. secretary of the
navy.
s-Havelock Ellis. scientist and philoso-
pher.
l1-Rep. Sam D. McReynolds of Tennessee.
81: Louis Comiskey, owner of Chicago
White Sox baseball team.
23-Dr. William J. Mayo, co-founder with
his brother of the Mayo clinic.
31-Former Federal Judge F. A. Geiger Of
Milwaukee.