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The Omaha guide., 1939-12-30

z1-Proportion Of civil service employees
reduced under President Roosevelt.
2z-U. 5. court upholds wage-hour law In
Montgomery Ward case.
Supreme court voids cities ban on
handbills.
2z-President suggests special taxes for
half billion increase In defense ap'
propriations.
26-President budget director
to discuss departmental cuts.
X-Morgenthau declares next congress
must lift legal debt limit.
z8-Chrysler company n c. l. o. agree
on basis Of peace after auto plants
are tied up So days.
2oEury finds German-American bund
leader Fritz Kuhn guilty on forgery
and theft charges.
30-Roosevelt sends sharp note to Russia
asking that bombing of cities stop.
DECEMBER
2-curtiss plants speed building of war
planes.
3-Winrie Ruth Judd. insane slayer.
again escapes from prison In Arizona.
o-frftz Kuhn, bund leader, sentenced
to prison for two and a half years.
Upward trend seen In several lines
of business.
s-Secretary Hull protests British block.
ade.
e-Roosevelt orders a special naval dis.
trict In Caribbean.
11-RFc grants $40. 600. 900 loan to Fin.
land.
U. S. Supreme court bars evidence
gained by wire tapping.
l3-Twelve naval captains promoted
to be rear admirals.
ACC approves trainload rail rate re-
duction.
18-Garner candidacy for
Democratic presidential nomination.
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3-Ahred Granger. prominent architect.
Princess Louise, duchess of Argyle,
Oldest living child of Queen Victoria.
@Marshal WI Pei-fu. poet-soldier of
Republican China.
J. Butler Wright. American ambas.
sador to Cuba.
eECol; John S. Hammond. sportsman
and soldier.
11-Douglas Fairbanks ST.. stage and
screen star.
Charles r. Walgreen. chain drug
store head.
lS-Heywood Broun. columnist.
released by Western Newspaper Union.l
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TODAY'S
H H
COLUMN

dental operation can be per-
formed without the least pain
to the patient. Much of the
suffering due to operative
dentistry-filling and remov-
ing teeth-is today altogether
Unnecessary"
l am quoting Frederick R.
Adams, D. D. S., New York,
in Hygeia.
Unfortunately most individ-
uals do not know that dentists
can do so much work about
the teeth and gums without
causing pain and so allow
these harmful conditions to
become worse rather than
visit their dentist. Though
physical anguish has been up
rooted at last, the difficult
matter of doing away with fear and
imagined suffering remains un-
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spanish loyalist army OF 200. 900 fees
to France to escape trap.
~6Japan refuses TO give up inundated
islands Germany lost in war.
1.-Two hundred thousand move past
bier of Pope Piu In st. Peters.
14-Pope Plus buried in tomb beneath
st. Peters cathedral.
18-Spanish loyalists offer to surrender.
France occupies African area once
ceded to Italy.
20-Italy owe to place colony Libya
on wal footing.
23-General Franco hands Britain hnal
terms for peace with Spanish loyal.
lists.
24-Britain and France decide to recog.
nize Franco government in Spain.
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JANUARY

l-Chinese dictator ''purges'' govern
ment ranks of 200 peace party"
leaders.
3~-Japan's cabinet resigns over poll.
cies In China.
Spanish rebels report capture OF AT.
tesa.
~6-Hungarians and czecho.S lovaks hght
along border.
15-Spanish rebels take Tarragona In
drive toward Barcelona.
15-Madrid rushes fresh troops to de-
Tense of Barcelona.
22-All citizens Of Barcelona called to
dig trenches.
24-Spanish rebels bomb Barcelona.
26-Rebels take Barcelona without q
battle.
Schiller demands return of colonies.
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MARCH

MARCH
2o-charles Bowser named head football
coach at Pitt.
APRIL
2+Ralph Guldahl wins Masters golf title
at Atlanta. Ga.
17-Joe Louis, heavyweight champion,
knocks out Jack Roper IN first round.
1s--Joey Archibald wins featherweight
title from Leo Kodak IN ID rounds.
MAY
6-Johnstown won Kentucky derby.
2O-Joseph F. Carr, National Football
league president, dies.
25-Henry Armstrong. welterweight, de-
feats Ernie Roderick. British cham.
pion, In IS rounds.
30-Shaw wins Indianapolis auto race
averaging 115.035 miles per O
Robert killed.
June
Lou Nova scores technical knockout
over Max Baer in eleventh round.
12-Centennial birthday Of baseball cele-
brated ct cooperstown. N. Y. where
Ii originated.
2l-Lou Gehrig, Mayo clinic physicians
announce after check-up. has infan-
tile paralysis playing career ended.
28-Joe Louis stops Tony Galento in the
fourth round.
JULY
B-Alice Marble wins British tennis
championship at Wimbledon.
11-American league wins all-star base
ball game. 3 to !.
5OEDick Metz wins st. Paul open gon
championship with record score OF
270.
AUGUST
Elmer Layden Of Notre Dame cho-
sen head coach of all-star football
14-Chicago White Sox play first night
game In Comiskey park.
22-Lou Ambers regains lightweight title
In 15-round bout with Armstrong.
5-Roscoe Turner wins Thompson tro-
ply air race third time.
15-Tony, Galento stops Nova In Il
ie-Bobby Riggs. Alice Marble win U. S.
17-Yankees cinch American league pen
nant.
2o-Joe Louis knocks out Bob Pastor In
2e-cincinnati Reds win National league
pennant.
OCTOBER
yankees win worlds baseball series
In four straight games.
17-Bucky Walters, Cincinnati pitcher.
voted most valuable player in Ma
tional league.
24-Joe DiMaggio wins American league
most valuable player award.
NOVEMBER
AL Davis stops Tony Canzoneri In
third round.
17-Billy Conn, light heavyweight cham.
pion, successfully defends title
against Lesnevitch In Is rounds.
DECEMBER
eddie Anderson awarded plaque as
football coach of year.
10-Green Bay Packers whip New York
Giants to win professional football
title.
11-Nile Kinnick. Iowa football star.
named No. l athlete of all sports In
annual poll.
13-New York Yankees voted best team
In any sport.
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AUGUST

3-Britain offers to mediate Japanese.
Chinese war.
6-Spain executes SO persons for com.
plicity In Staying OF civil guard Off
Ger.
e-Sudden German food shortage rouses
public.
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JANUARY

2-Southern California football team de.
feats Duke in Rose Bowl.
17-Edward c.. Barrow elected president
of the New York Yankees.
25-Joe Louis. heavyweight champion,
stopped John Henry Lewis In first
round In New York.
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Dental Patients
Needn't Fear
Physical Pain

By DIR. JAMES W. BARTON
ssT Until recently pain
less dentistry was
largely a myth, a phrase used
by charlatans and quacks to
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SEPTEMBER

26-French cabinet decree ends Com.
munist party In France.
27-Bulgaria seeks trade pact with Rus
sia.
28-Constantine Argesanu appointed pre-
mier of Rumania.
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SPORTS

IRON NAN STRIKES OUT
Lou Cehrig, iron man of base
ball." retires from NeU York
Yankees ,oith paralysis infection
after hanging up all-time rec
ord for games played.
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SEPTEMBER

2-Liner Bremen allowed to depart from
New York.
6-Roosevelt establishes naval patrol
along Atlantic coast.
ll-President lifts quota on sugar to
curb prices.
12-Steel plants and railroads caI back
their workers.
13-Congress called for September 81.
14-Borah opposes repeal of arms EN-.
barge as likely to put American into
war.
18-Soviet purchasing agent tells of pay
mentS to persons connected with
Democratic national committee.
20-At a conference of Republican and
Democratic leaders Roosevelt urges
repeal of neutrality act.
21-Congress convenes In special ses-
sion: Roosevelt urges early repeal of
arms embargo provision of neutrality
act.
25-American Legion In annual
session In Chicago.
27-Sudden dissolution of war resources
board causes surprise.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. neutrality repeater
bill sent to the senat
29-Powerful naval fleet ordered to Ha-
Vuafi
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2--Slovak mob wrecks shops and news.
papers In Bratislava, Hungary.
British threaten to abolish self.rule
In India.
20-Ex.kaiser narrowly escapes death In
storm at Doom.
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SQUALLS SINKS-U. S.
Mays diuing bell gets first real
test rescuing 80 SURVIVORS from
sunken submarine. TUenty-six
others die.
JANUARY
21-The airliner Cavalier wrecked at sea
off Cape May. N. j.. three lost. 10
saved.
23-Bomber crashes on test hop at Los
Angeles; pilot killed.
25-Thirty thousand killed, So 900 injured
by earthquake in Chile; towns wiped
out in disaster.
2-Japanese submarine sunk in COLI.
sion.
11-Army mystery plane crashes after
coast-to-coast flight at 340-mile rate.
r
1.-TWO hundred killed In explosion Of
munitions dump in Japan; 300 houses
destroyed.
1s-Ten Killed in airplane crash near
25-Airliner crashes In Oklahoma. killing
eight.
APRIL
4-Four navy fiers killed when planes
collide in maneuvers.
13-Twenty-eight killed, so injured In
train wreck In Mexico.
16-Tornadoes in Arkansas, Texas and
Louisiana cause So deaths and in.
juries to 300.
MAY
23-Fifty-nine trapped in sunken SUBJ
marine Squalls.
24-Thirty:three rescued alive from Squa.
JUNE
missing British submarine found
mired in mud; 80 lost.
@Twenty-two persons killed In Next
a theater fire.
1e-seventy-one lives lost In wreck of
French submarine.
18-Ten dead. So injured in Minnesota
tornado.
JULY
5-Fifty.thre drowned. AZ missing, in
flood In mountains OF eastern Ken
lucky.
navy aircraft carrier Ranger.
l4-Twenty-eight perish in mine blast at
Providence, Ky.
If-f1Ve klleu as tram nlLS auto IN I'LL
cago suburb.
23-Avalanche on Mount Baker, Wash,
kills two. four missing.
AUGUST
1l-Nine u. S. army aiers and two navy
fiers killed as two bombers crash.
l3-Fourteen killed as Miami to Rio de
'Janeiro plane crashes In Rio harbor.
Tw~enty-three killed. so injured. when
streamliner is wrecked In Nevada;
rail officials charge sabotage.
25-Storm in California kills 100: dam.
age, 81. 000. 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
Philippines.
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eENational Professional Football league
reflects Joseph Carr president for
10 years.
23-Tony Galento scores technical knock.
out over Abe Feldman.
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EUROPEAN WAR

MARS GOES TO YORK
French poiiu puzzles over street
sign in captured German Village.
Hitler Still Grabbing
II
12-German troops mass near border of
Slovak1a.
I3-Czecho- slovakia submits TO Hitler's
demands for further breakup Of the
Czech state.
14-Slovakia formally secedes from
Czecho-Slovakia and becomes indie
pendent state under German protec-
Hitler seizes Bohemia and Moravia.
completing subsection of Czecho-Slo-
vakia.
t6-Hitler absoros Slovakia. Hungary
annexes part Of Carpatho-U Ukraine.
z7-Germany puts pressure on Poland.
2B-Poland refuses German demand for
pathway to East Prussia.
APRIL
4-Poland joins British In war alliance.
Veterinary pushes drive to take Dam
zig. French feet guards Gibraltar.
British feet sails TO Malta.
MAY
7-Nazis plan plebiscite In Danzig.
e-Pope invites five powers TO Vatican
parley to settle Polish-G dis
pute.
2oLCermany ~fortiies Its eastern frontier
against Poland.
JUNE
Hitler pledges Germany win support
Jugo-Slavia's border.
zo-German troops move to encircle Po-
land.
2s--Britain appeals to Germany to settle
dispute by negotiations.
JULY
e-Warsaw reports 5000 Polish families
In East Prussia are forced to move
away from border.
AUGUST
13-Germany and Italy establish policy
on Danzig; Polish attitude called UNI
bearable.
16-Germany takes military possession of
Slovakia.
21-Germany ~nnounee nonaggression
pact with Russia.
22-German troops massed near Polish
corridor.
2S-Germany and Russia sign %nonaggres-
sion pact.
25-Britaln and Poland sign wal alliance.
Japanese cabinet abandons Rome
Berlin lineup.
29-Poland asks British help under new
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APRIL

sc. I. o. union ordered to pay Apex
Hosiery company Sill $50 damages
for sit-down strike.
4-E. j. Kelly reelected mayor of Chi
cago.
Senate passes bin removing recipro-
cal tax immunities from state and
federal salaries.
William o. Douglas confirmed for
Supreme court.
i0-Senate rejects amendment to give
WPA so millions more. then passes
original bill.
15-President addresses peace plea to
European dictators: asks 10-year
peace guarantee.
18-War department assigns Charles A..
Lindbergh to study u. S. aviation
facilities.
25-President makes first transfer under
reorganization act: creates three SUI
-peragencies.
27-Presldent asks I.762 million more for
relief.
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DISASTERS

SQUALLS SINKS-U. S.
Mays diving bell gets first real
test rescuing 80 SURVIVORS from
sunken submarine. Tioenty-six
others die.
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zz-Boss pendergast OF Kansas City CIV.
en- IS months in federal prison for
income tax evasion.
z3-House approves farm appropriation
bill as passed by senate.
z5-Fritz Kuhn. Nazi bund leader. In.
dicted in New York On theft charges.
27-Yankee Clipper returns from Europe.
JUNE
1-Senate passes bill lifting long term
bonded national debt limit above
$50, 900. DOC. 900.
z-Contract for "a warships costing
$3.50, 600. 900 awarded by navy depart
s-Former Judge Manton found guilty
5-HoTse rejects plan to make Hyde
Park home a memorial to President
liking George and Queen Elizabeth OF
Great Britain enter United States at
Niagara Falls. officially welcomed
8EKing and queen of Great Britain
welcomed TO Washington by Presi.
dent Roosevelt; attend state dinner
at White House
10-House votes big slash in payroll
taxes; benefits are Increased.
liking and queen end u. S. visit.
13-House votes drastic limitations OF
future operations OF IVA.
liking and queen sail for home.
19-House passes tax bill of l,844 mil.
lions: retains nuisance taxes. but
revises levies on corporations:
20-Senate committee boosts pork bar.
rel bill from $83, o48, 100, as passed
by the house. to s407 ,855, 800.
22-House restores 81 millions previously
cut from army appropriation bill.
Farm bill boosted as millions by
the house.
25-Fraud barred at Louisiana university.
26-Gov. Leche steps dow and Lieut..
Gov. Long is sworn in in Louisiana.
$500, 900 fraud laid to President
Smith Of the Louisiana university.
28-Senate adds 10 million to relief bill
and passes 1t.
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 ex-
tend.
Hous passes neutrality bill barring
arms shipments.
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JULY

13-France jails two newspaper execu-
tives. charged with receiving pay
from Germany.
19-Danzig political police purge city of
Socialists.
24-chamberlain promises Britain VIII
stay out of Japan's way In China.
Japan orders Canton river closed to
foreign shipping.
26-Four bombings in England blamed
on Irish Republican army.
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MARCH

1-College Of cardinals convenes In
Rome TO elect a pope.
2EFranco requests Mussolini to with.
draw Italian troops from Spain.
Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli elected
pope on third ballot: takes name of
Plus XII.
6-Communist leaders flee Madrid zone:
General Miaja. new loyalist chief,
asks worthy peace"
7-Gandhi won political victory for de.
mocracy In India, forced by four-day
fast: accepts invitation for consulta.
ton with viceroy.
$500, 600 witness coronation of pope
Plus XII.
21-Lithuania returns Memel TO Ger
many
23-Madrid offers to surrender 70 Gen.
eral Franco.
2S-Madrid s~urrenders. ending Spanish
civil war.
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2-Opie Read. famous author.
8-Dr. Livingston Farrand, president
emeritus of Cornell university.
16-Pierce Butler. U. S. Supreme court
justice.
25-James Simpson, Chicago business
leader.
27-Dr. J.: A. Naismith. inventor Of bas.
ketball.
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DECEMBER

3-Japan faces scarcity OF food this
winter.
Peru opens great new port facilities
to Callao.
11-Italy quits league of nations.
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2-Debate on repeal OF neutrality act
begins In senate.
Army places an order for 500 high
speed. light tanks.
1Grover c. Bergdoll. draft dodger.
7-Bishop Ablewhite sent to prison for
10-War department orders s.. 200 semi.
automatic rifles.
l2-William Green elected president of
A. #. of l.. for sixteenth time.
17-Brazil orders SIS. $40. 900 rail equip
ment from America.
18-President closes American ports to
submarines of warning nations.
lo-NeW house bill BANS financial aid
to warning nations.
20-Roosevelt sets three-mile limit for
submarines.
2S-Indiana endurance flyers descend
after S35 hours; new record.
24-Senate adopts cash and carry amend
ments to neutrality bill.
2S-Government sues 236 railroads under
Sherman antitrust act.
27-Senate votes, SO to 80, to repeal arms
embargo provision of neutrality act.
Bill goes to house.
2B-Carl Bevins. Missouri flyer, kidnapped
and slain in his own plane by Ernest
Pletch. arrested.
295California flyers land after 726 hours
in air-new record.
sou. s. assesses Germany SO millions
for Black Tom and Kingsland blasts
during World war.
31-United Mine Workers raise IS, 600, 900
for political fight in 1910.
President asks 276 million for added
defense.
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MAY

III. s. Supreme court denies appeal
of miners convicted of Illinois bomb
outrageS.
i1-Coal confrees agree on new contract
with operators.
Senate passed record-breaking ST..
218. EST, 5T2 farm bin.
i2-President names Admiral Leahy gov
ernor Of Puerto Rico.
l6-House votes each congressman an
other clerk at annual cost Of S65S 500
without a roll call.
17-Senate kills New Deal Florida canal
bill.
ls-Senate passes s773. OO0. 900 naval APP
preparation bill.
20EYankee Clipper flies from Long Is
land to Europe. opening trans-Atlan.
tic air mail service.
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NEUROLOGY

POPE ~SUCCUMBS-The de-
uout kneeI in prayer before cas-
ket containing the body of Pope
Plus XII.
u
13-Col. Jacob Rupert. owner Of the
New York Yankees.
26-Former Sen. Joseph I. France of
Maryland. in Baltimore.
sEFrederick Steiwer. former senator
from Oregon
9-Pope Plus XII.
bishop of Indianapolis.
15-Charles R. Crane, former diplomat.
l6-Dr. Clarence True Wilson. prohibit
ton leader.
r
Howard Carter. who found King Tut's
sFormer U. S. Attorney General John
G. Sargent.
2s-Gerardo Maehado. former dictator
of Cuba.
APRIL
6Premier Joseph Lyons Of Australia.
eames Hamilton Lewis. U. S. senator
from Illinois.
lis. S. Van Dine, m~ystery-story writer.
real name Willard H. Wright.
MAY
2s-Dr. Charles Mayo. famous surgeon.
JUNE
19-Miss Grace Abbott, noted welfare
worker and University of Chicago
professor.
26-Ford Maddox Ford. British author.
JULY
Claude A. Swanson. secretary Of the
sIHavelock Ellis. scientist and philosO-
18-J. Louis comiskey. owner of Chi.
cago White Sox baseball team.
28-Dr. William j. Mayo, co-founder with
his brother of the Mayo clinic.
AUGUST
1T. E. Powers. famed cartoonist.
SEPTEMBER
+Charles Donnelly, president of North.
ern Pacific railway.
18-Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate,
23@Sigmund Freud. originator Of psyche
24=Floyd Gibbons, wal -orrespondent
Carl Laemmle. pioneer movie pro.
Queer.
OCTOBER
George Cardinal Mundelein, arch.
bishop of Chicago.
6-Count Won Bernstorf, German envoy
to u. S.. in 1917.
23-Zane Grey, noted writer of western
stories.
2e-Alice Brady. stage and screen star.
NOVEMBER
2-Opie Read, famous author.
8-Dr. Livingston Farrand, president
emeritus of Cornell university.
l6-Pierce Butler. u. S. Supreme court
justice.
25-James Simpson. Chicago business
leader.
27-Dr. J., A. Naismith. inventor of bas.
ketbal.
DECEMBER
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OCTOBER

George Cardinal Mundelein, arch.
bishop of Chicago.
6-Count Won Bernstorf. German envoy
to u. S. in 1917.
2S-Zane Grey. noted writer of western
stories.
2e-Alice Brady. stage and screen star.
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Elmer Layden Of Notre Dame cho-
sen head coach of all-star football
team.
14HChicago White Sox play first night
game in Comiskey park.
22-Lou Ambers regains lightweight title
In 15-round bout with Armstrong.
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skiing and queen OF Great Britain
sal for Canada.
fixing and queen Of Great Britain
welcomed at Quebec.
liking and queen start on tour OF
Canada.
25-Bii setting up dictatorship ove In
dustry introduced In British parha.
ment.
zo-New border war develops between
Japan and Russia In Manehukuo.
JUNE
10ABombs in mall In England injure
seven persons.
14-Japan presents Britain with new de-
mands as troops tighten blockade
at TientsIn.
20-British women and children fee
Tlentsin TO escape Japanese economic
blockade.
Fixing and queen given tremendous
reception on their return to England.
26-Soviets repulse Jap air attack on
Mongol border: shoot dow rs planes.
27-Japs report shooting down SO Soviet
planes in battle over Outer Mongolia.
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2-Britain offers TO protect Rumania.
Japanese kill 1900 Chinese In three
battles.
S-Albert Lebrun reelected president
of France.
6Italian troops invade Albania.
13-Massing OF troops near Gibraltar
causes alarm: British barricade road
to Spain.
z7-Serbians sign pact with croats, end.
ing Jugo-Slavia's biggest internal
problem.
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SEPTEMBER


8-Yankees win worlds baseball series
in Jour straight games.
17-Bucky Walters, Cincinnati pitcher.
voted most valuable player in Ma
tional league.
24-Joe DiMaggio wins American league
most valuable player award.
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JULY
AUGUST
At. E. Powers. (;
SEPTEMBER

+Charles Donnelly. president of North.
ern Pacific railway.
18-Charles M. Schwab, steel magnat
23-Sigmund Freud. originator of psyche.
analysis.
24-Floyd Gibbons. war correspondent.
Carl Laemmle. pioneer movie pro.
Queer.
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lure unwilling
victims into
y
night offices S.
B u t O d a Y,
eVery.major
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JUNE
JULY

B-Alice Marble wins British tennis
championship at Wimbledon.
11-American league wins all-star base
ball game, 3 to l.
30-Dick Metz wins st. Paul open golf
championship with record score OF
270
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JANUARY

21-The airliner Cavalier wrecked at sea
off Cape May. N. J.. three lost. II
saved.
23-Bomber crashes on test hop at Los
Angeles; pilot killed.
25-Thirty thousand killed, so, 900 injured
by earthquake in Chile; towns wiped
out in disaster,
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JUNE

missing British submarine foun,
mired in mud; 80 lost.
%Twenty-two persons killed In Mex
can theater fire.
16-Seventy-one lives lost In wreck O
French submarine.
18-Ten dead. 63 injured in Minnesot
tornado.
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AL Davis stops Tony Canzoneri In
third round.
17-Billy Conn, light heavyweight cham.
pion, successfully defends title
against Lesnevitch In Is rounds.