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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-05
SPORTS

IRON MAN STRIKES OUT
Lou Cehrig, iron man OF base
ball." retires from, NetU York Yam
KEGS with paralysis infection after
hanging up alI-tin.e record for
games played.
JANUARY
a-southern California football team de-
feats Duke in Rose Bowl.
3-Budge defeats Vines In pro tennis DEBUT:
17-Edward G. Barrow elected president OF
the New York Yankees.
25-Joe Louis. heavyweight champion;
stopped John Henry Lewis In first round
In New York.
FEBRUARY
s-Ken Bartholomew wins national skating
National Professional Football league
re-elects Joseph Carr president for III
2s-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
16-Boston wins Stanley cup. defeating To-
ronto in hockey playoffs.
knocks out Jack Roper In first round;
lR-Joey Archibald wins featherweight title
from Leo Kodak In IS rounds.
MAY
e-Johnstown won Kentucky derby.
2O-Joseph F. Carr. National Football league
i. president. dies.
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23-Davy Day. welterweight, stopped Pedro
Monfanez in the eighth round,
25-Henry Armstrong, welterweight defeats
Ernie Roderick. British champion m -
so-Shaw wins indianapolis auto race, nv.
eraging 1l5.oSs miles per our. Roberts
JUNE
e-Giants make Ave home runs In one In
ming for record: rout Reds.
6rated at cooperstOwn. N. =. where Il
ai-IoSS 'e Gehfig. Mayo clinic physicians am
nounce after check-up, has infantile pa.
raiysis; playing career ended.
23-Joe Louis stops Tony Galento In the
Yankees break record with Is home runs
In two games on same day.
JULY
s-Alice Marble wins British tennis cham.
9 pionship at Wimbledon.
11-American league wins all-star baseball
game, 3 to l.
pionship with hi record sc score 81 27o.
AUGUST
22-Lou Ambers regains lightweight title
an n M i5'round bout with Armstrong: u
champions, defeated the All-Stars. to
0. before $1,000 people In Chicago.
SEPTEMBER
5-Roscoe Turner wins Thompson trophy
air race third time.
15-Tony Galento stops Nova in IA rounds.
16-Bobby Riggs. Alice Marble win U. $.
l7-Yankees cinch American league PEN
2o-Joe Louis knocks out Bob Pastor in II
25-Biiiy Conn, light heavyweight champion.
defended his title against Melio Bettina
28-Cincinnati Reds win National league pen.
nant.
30-Frankie Friseh appointed manager Of
the Pittsburgh Pirates.
OCTOBER
e-Yankees win worlds baseball series In
:, four straight games , ..x .....s
most valuable player in National league.
19-Chicago. White Sox defeat Cubs In city
baseball series.
A-Joe DiMaggio wins American league
2s-Harry Thomas, Heavyweight fighter. re.
veals fixed fights.
NOVEMBER
1-Al Davis stops Tony canzoneri In third
N-Billy Conn. light heavyweight cham:
Eesnevitch in Is rounds. rounds 'i''' A1'''
DECEMBER
eddie Anderson awarded plaque as
football coach of year.
10-Green Bay. Packers whip New. York
:, Giants to win professional football title:
No, athlete of all sports In annual
ls-New York Yankees voted best team In
any sport.
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2s-General Franco orders return Of prop.
erty which Spanish republic took from
former King Alfonso.
24-President of Bolivia assumes dtctatoriai
x7-serbians sign pact with croats, ending
Jugoslavia's biggest internal problem.
so-rsrsguay elects heca General Estsarribia
MAY
s-Iityinoy dismissed as foreign comnissar
eKins ana queen Of Great Britain sail
i4-Moscow short Of food: army ordered to
save on motor fuel.
l6-Twenty million dollars reported paid to
:. Hitler to release Baron Louis Rothschild
coined at Quebec.
liking and queen start on tour Of Canada.
One hundred Jewish youths injured In
clashes with police in Jerusalem.
and kiss as British sovereigns visit
24-German troops in Spain leave for home.
25-Bill setting up dictatorship over industry
introduced in British parliament.
20-New border war develops between Japan
and Russia In Manchukuo.
JUNE
l0-Bombs in mail in England injure seven
l4-Sapan presents Britain with new de.
mands as troops tighten blockade at
liking and queen given tremendous re-
ception on their return to. England:
26-soyiets repulse Jap air attack on Mon.
JULY
13-France jails two newspaper executives.
charged with receiving pay from Ger.
is-pansig political police purge city of
24-Chamberiain promises Britain will stay
out of Japan's way In China.
26-Four bombings in England blamed on
Irish Republican army.
AUGUST
3-Britain offers to mediate Japanese-Chi-
e-Spain executes 50 persons for completely
IN slaying Of civil guard officer ..,...
public. M
SEPTEMBER
26--French cabinet decree ends Communist
party in France. t4.-,l
27-Bulgaria seeks trade pact with Russia.
of Rumania.
OCTOBER
a-Delegates Of 81 republics at an inter.
American neutrality conference fixed q
SdIeLy zone around TWO Americas.
3-Japanese admit loss of $1,000 men In
fighting Russians.
6-Chinese halt Japanese drive In Human
province; report 10, 800 slain.
10-Soviet returns Wilma to Lithuania.
11-Britain and Russia sign trade agree.
ment.
27-Pope Plus in encyclical assails dictators.
28-Thousands arrested as Czechs and Nazis
battle In Prague.
NOVEMBER
2-Slovak mob wrecks shops and news.
papers in Bratislava, Hungary.
British threaten to abolish self-rule in
India.
2o-Ex-kaiser narrowly escapes death In
storm at Doom.
DECEMBER
3Japan faces scarcity Of food this winter.
Peru opens great new port facilities to
Callao.
11-Italy quits league Of nations.
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- British destroyer sunk, 40 missing.
Nazi bombers raid Shetlands. no dam
French report torpedo boat sank two
as-Eight more vessels sunk: total for six
France and Britain claim 20 air vic.
tories in three days on western front.
Exiled Polish government begins func.
toning In France.
24-British cruiser damaged in port by blast
from mine or submarine.
25-Berlin claims bombers hit four British
warships; London denies.
Six nations protest British ban on Ger
man trade.
26-Two hundred eighty-seven die in Brit.
ish armed ship. Germans fight back
British planes attempting to raid kiei
Britain fights for new Europe. Cham
Finnish guns kill four Russian soldiers.
Soviet charges. n
27-Russia demands Firms remove soldiers
from border: Finland offers to negotiate
border issue; Russia threatens war.
28-Russia denounces nonaggression pact
with Finland; Finland declares Russian
reports of border attacks false.
Germany claims British cruiser sunk by
submarine; Britain denies.
29-Russian troops invade Finland after
breaking off diplomatic relations; Firms
stunned by break.
3o-Russians claim lo-mile advance into
Finland; bomb Helsingfors.
DECEMBER
films disable Russian cruiser with 500
aboard.
Russians capture Finnish port.
New cabinet takes over Finnish govern.
nent.
2xFinnish rebel regime cedes territory to
regular Finnish government orders
evacuation of all southern towns.
Sweden tightens its defenses.
3-British planes attack German naval
base and score hits on German war;
ships.
Firms shatter Red troops in Arctic
battle.
League Of nations summoned to hear
Finnish appeal for aid.
Britain puts blockade against German
exports into effect.
4-German pocket battleship sinks British
steamer Doric Star in south Atlantic.
eFinnish flyers infiict heavy casualties
on Soviet troop concentration.
6-Finns repulse Russian army of 100000
on three fronts.
British fighting planes beat off German
raids.
sEFinns repel offensive on Karelian
l0-Finns report Russian attacks repealed
ll-Ieague q Nations requests It's, Russia to
posal to mediate conflict with Finland
German liner Bremen runs British
blockade to home port.
13-Rritish ships disable and chase Ger.
man raider Graf Spec into South Amer.
lean port. ,.s--'
14-Russia expelled from league Of nations
Uruguay gives Graf Spec 72 hours to
make repairs.
16-Finn coast artillery sinks Russian de.
stroyer.
18-Germans scuttle Graf Spec outside
Montevideo harbor rather than risk
fight with British ships waiting outside.
19-Huge Red forces storm Firms noun.
tain positions.
Germans claim "a out of A British
planes shot down in battle over Heligo.
land.
British claim sinking OF German cruiser
and damage to two others.
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NEUROLOGY

POPE SUCCUMBS-The deuoue
kneel in prayer before casket con-
taining the body Of Pope Plus XII.
JANUARY
11-Prof. Herman Oliphant, treasury de.
partment counsel, In Washington.
13-Col. Jacob Rupert owner Of the New
York Yankees.
26-Former Sen. Joseph I. France Of Mary.
2s-Wiiiiam B. Yeats. Irish poet and play.
. wright In France.
FEBRUARY
Pope Plus XII. -.
15-Char1es R. Crane. former diplomat.
16-Dr. Clarence True Wilson. prohibition
MARCH
Howard Carter. who found King Tut's
tomb, in London.
+Former U. S. Attorney General John G.
6-Frank w. stearns. close adviser to Pres.
ident Coolidge.
2s-G G.,ra Machado. former dictator OF
APRIL
George F. Harding. Republican national
committeeman for Illinois.
6EPremier Joseph Lyons OF Australia.
9-James Hamilton Lewis. U. S. senator
from Illinois.
Sea + na xae W R n a. MTzisht WRITER
MAY
2s-Dr. Charles Mayo. famous surgeon.
JUNE
sGeorge Peabody Gardner. anancier. In
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
eHavseiock Ellis. scientist and philosO-
Hep. Sam D. McReynolds of Tennessee.
18-J. Louis Comiskey. owner OF Chicago
28-Dr. William J.. Mayo. co-founder with
his brother of the Mayo clinic.
31-Former Federal Judge +. A. Geiger OF
AUGUST
At E. Powers. famed cartoonist.
SEPTEMBER
4Charles Donnelly. president Of Northern
1s-charles M Schwab. steel magnate.
23-Sigmund Freud. originator OF psyche
24-Fioyd Gibbons. war correspondent.
Carl Laemmle. pioneer movie producer.
OCTOBER
2+George Cardinal Mundelein. archbishop
Sen. NJ N. Loeansof Kentucky.
Stay Templeton. actress.
Count Won Bernstorf. German envoy to
u. S. in 1917.
13-Ford Sterling. movie comedian.
23-Zane Grey. noted writer OF western
2s-Aiice Brady. stage and screen star.
NOVEMBER
2-Opie Read, famous author.
8-Dr. Livingston Farrand, president emer.
l6-Pierce Butler. U. S. Supreme court
25-James Simpson, Chicago business leader.
| 27-Dr. j. A. Naismith. inventor of basket
ball.
DECEMBER
| 3-Alfred Granger prominent architect.
Princess Louise. duchess OF Argyle. old
est living child of Queen Victoria.
| 4-Marshal WI Pei-fu. poet-soldier of Re-
). Butler Wright American ambassa-
s-coi John s. Hammond. sportsman and
soldier.
ll-DougIas Fairbanks ST.. stage and screen
Charles R. walgreen. chain drug store
head.
| Hollywood Broun. columnist.
! lReleased by Western Newspaper Union-J
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S1-Germany opens war on Poland.
SEPTEMBER

S-Britain and France declare war on
British Ship Athena torpedoed of coast
of ireland, ], 400 aboard, 43 lost.
Germany blockaded by British navy.
5-Germans shell Warsaw: government and
citizens fee.
President Roosevelt proclaims U. s.
neutrality.
6-Poles appeal to Britain to rush aid.
7-Nal torpedoes sink five ships.
8-French planes bomb Siegfried line.
1O-German counterattack hats French on
western front.
Russia rushes reserves to Polish border.
12-German forces shut wise on Warsaw
13-Big British army lands in France with
out loss.
Polish defense cracks: Nazis move east
1s-Russian troops invade Poland to pro.
tect minorities."
17-Warsaw decides to fight on after truce
talk fails. q. G. - y
Poiandss defenses collapse under Nad
Russian army drives So miles into Po.
2o-Report Red purge of former officials IN
Polish Ukraine.
2s-French repulse wave after wave Of Nazi
IS f. defeat Germans in two big air
battlas:. borabard whole length of Sieg-
fried line; bomb Zeppelin works.
N-Warsaw surrenders to Germans after
20-day siege. '1 49,
2s-Britafn defes warning by foes to stop
war.
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FOREIGN

RUSSIA FACES VEST = Die
tator Josef Stain, having completed
pact with Germany, conquers
part of Poland and moves into Es-
tonia, Latuia, Lithuania-and then
into Finland.
JANUARY
1-Chinese dictator ''purges' government
ranks Of 200 peace party" leaders.
3-Japan's cabinet resigns over policies In
Spanish rebels report capture Of Artesa.
6-New Japanese premier declares war In
6-Hungarians and czecho-slovaks fight
1o-Britsin promises to support France
l5-Spanish rebels take Tarragona in drive
toward Barcelona.
of Barcelona.
22-An citizens Of Barcelona called to dig
trenches.
26-Rebels take Barcelona without a battle.
30-Hitler demands return OF colonies.
FEBRUARY
Britain increases plane orders in U. s.
to go. .e-- - :.
spanish loyalist army OF 200 900 fees to
France to escape trap.
eEJapan refuses to give up inundated ID.
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. :, as.5's.
o African &c sres
2o fadso moves &c s q place colony Libya ON
2s-General Franco hands Britain final
terms for peace with Spanish loyalists.
24-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.
college of cardinals convenes in Rome
2-Franco requests Mussolini to withdraw
Italian troops from Spain.
G tSrd ha Eugene Pase ei t p,;s p9Rs
control Of Madrid soyernment. ~
eCommunist leaders fee Madrid zone;
General Miaja: new ioyalist chief asks
7-Gandhi won political victory for democ.
racy in India, forced by four-day fast;
accepts invitation for consultation with
Loyalist planes bomb centers Of commu.
mist revolt In Madrid.
6-Franco's fleet blockades al Spanish 10y.
alist coast. --t---t
l2-5OO, 900 witness coronation of Pope Plus
XII
21-Lifhuania returns Memel to Germany.
22-Rumania and Germany sign trade pact.
23-Madrid offers to surrender to General
Franco.
N-Japanese capture Nanchang.
28-Madrid surrenders. ending Spanish civil
2s-France fatty refuses Mussolinrs colonial
3O-Russia rejects British plea to Join front
against aggressor nations. 4.
APRIL
2-Britain offers to protect Rumania.
Japanese kill 5000 Chinese in three bat
ties
4-Turkey asks for part of Syria: French
dispatch Warship.
5-Albert Lebrun reelected president Of
France.
6-itaiian troops invade Albania.
8-Mussolini sets up puppet government IN
Albania.
s-British and French fleets reported
massed off coast of Greece.
13-Massing of troops near Gibraltar causes
alarm: British barricade road to Spain
l8-Hitler appoints Franz Won Papen annbas
sador to Turkey.
Russia faces famine: 30 per cent Of
grain crop destroyed.
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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 $40, 000. 000,.
600 budget for 1910 fiscal year.
Felix Frankfurter nominated for U. s.
Supreme court.
12-President, in message. asks $50 millions
more for defense.
l6-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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FEBRUARY

T-President makes new demand for 1850
millions more for PWA after. signing
appropriation bill with that amount cut
of.
e-House passes bill making state and mu.
nicipal employees subject to income
tax. ~
ls-Justice Brandeis retires from the U. s.
Supreme court.
15-House approves $376, 000, 900 defense BILL
25-James j. Hines, Tammany chief, con.
victed of violating lottery laws.
gu. S. Supreme court rules sit-down
strikes illegal
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DOMESTIC

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

s-Norway frees City Of Flint and interns
German prize crew. Finland defies So
Wet threat: ready to- fight.
J-Belgium and Holland offer to mediate
peace between warning nations.
e-Hitler escapes plot; blast In Munich
beer cellar kills and INJURIES 90.
0-Dutch open defense dikes: clash at bor-
der with Germans.
10-French repulse two German attacks.
15-Four more merchantmen sunk In sea
warfare
17-Germans shoot nine Czech students.
seize 100 and close academies for three
l8-butch liner hits German mine In North
sea; sinks with 40 lives.
l9-Four more ships sunk by German mines
of England.
2O-Cermans extend war at sea; 10 vessels
sunk since November IS: 1873 dead or
missing.
2l-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. 81 la. - 49,
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OCTOBER

britain calls ESQ. 600 more troops.
4-Daladier says France win fight until
victorious. ~s,~
7-Hitier makes peace proposals to Britain
and France seeks -armistice.
0-Hitier sets aside area in Poland for
Germans to. lhe transpianted. from other
10 fSsHt:hs 7premisr spurns Hitler's peace
finnish ci4iliannsS ordered to leave dan.
ger zone near Soviet frontier, :.
12-Britain refuses peace based on Nazi'
l4-Sritish battleship Royal oak sunk BY
l6-Nazi raid navy base In Scotland: Is
killed.
l7-German planes raid Scapa Flow: Iron
Duke, training Ship damaged.
20-British repeI another Nazi air raid
over Edinburgh.
2s-British report three U.boats sunk.
Germans capture American ship City of
Flint and take It to Soviet port.
24-Eaur British. one Greek ship sunk by
Germans.
Nazi sea raiders slip through blockade:
R Tsiy Hn sdn e@Rnana British ease blockade.
26-American ship City of Flint. turned over
to Germany by Russia. sails from Rus
2s-Germans claim us foreign ships sunk
since war began.
s1-Soviet demands raise new crisis In Fin.
land.
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EUROPEAN WAR

MARS GOES TO WORK
French poilu puzzles over street
sign in captured German uilidge.
Hitler Still Grabbing
MARCH
12-German troops mass near border Of
ls-czecho:S loyakia submits to Hi tle de,
sIsysaa formally ssceass from Gze ssss:
SISyakie ano s'a''
completing subsection Of Czecho-slo.
l6-Hitler absorbs sfovakfa Hungary an.
nexes part OF Carpatho.Ukralne.
27-Germany puts pressure on POLAND. g..
28-Poland refuses German demand for
pathway to, East Prussia.
APRIL j, .a.se.lgt. 8ll
4-Poland joins British in war alliance.
I7-Germany pushes drive to take panzig.
fleet sails to Malta. -
May il i5n52 900
7-Nazfs plan plebiscite in Danzig.
81Pope invites five powers to Vatican par
2o-Germany fortiies It's 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
e-Warsaw reports 5000 Polish families in
East Prussia are forced to move away
from border.
AUGUST
l3-Germany and italy establish policy on
Danzig: Polish attitude called unbear-
able. .s'-s
15-Nazis declare Danzig must return to
Germany before August 81.
18-Germany takes military possession OF
2l-Germany announces nonaggression pact
with Russia. -.
22-German troops massed near Polish cor.
rider.
2s-Germany and Russia sign nonaggression
25-Britain and Poland sign war alliance.
Japanese cabinet abandons Rome-Berlin
lineup.
tual aid pact
c.snne EnunJo pn1rnA
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2-House votes against embargo on arms:
bill goes to conference.
3-Congress passes neutrality repeal bill
and adjourns.
4-President signs repeal bill and bars war
zones to American shipping.
6-Supreme court rules state cannot tax
Hole mortgages.
7-Old age pension plans defeated in Ohio
and California.
AAA will make loans to cotton growers
8-Navy sends marines to Hawaii to
strengthen Pacific defense.
Fifteen u. S. oil tankers transferred to
Panamanian registry.
9-Roosevelt demands Lewis. head OF G. !.
O.. resume peace negotiations with A.
F. of L.
12--Dr. Smith. former president Of L. s. u.
given to "a years for university scan.
dals.
l4-Louis Levy. New York lawyer. disbarred
in Manton scandal.
16-Al Capone, gang leader. released from
federal prison: enters Baltimore hospi-
tai.
21-Proportion Of civil service employees
reduced under President Roosevelt.
22-U. S. court upholds wage.hour law IN
Montgomery Ward case.
Supreme court voids cities ban on hand.
bills.
2T-Morgenthau declares next congress must
Lift legal debt limit. .s
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MARCH

2-Ex-Judge Martin T. Manton indicted by
federal grand jury In New York as bride
-s s;aS Ell passes ssSs'ooo'ooo army extern
s-House passes bill giving President re.
stricted authority to -reorganize depart
l6-Lieut.Gov. Lauren D. Dickinson sworn
in as governor Of Michigan to succeed
the late Frank b. Fitzgerald.
1s-U. $. puts penalty tariff on German i'm.
23-Sarnes J. Hines, Tammany leader. sen.
fenced to serve four to eight years In
2-G. S. Supreme court holds federal and
state governments may tax salaries of
each others employees.
APRIL
sc. I. O. union ordered to pay Apex
Hosiery company s7ll.sSO damages for
Jack Benny. radio comedian. fined
$4,000 for smuggling.
William Q: Douglas confirmed for su'
l0-Senate rejects amendment to give wPA
so millions more. then passes original
bill
iS-President addresses peace plea to Euro.
pean dictators; asks 10-year peace guar
ls-War department, assigns Charles char, A; A
ties.
25-President makes first transfer under re.
organization act: creates three super.
27-Pfssidsnt asks i.7ea million more for
relief.
MAY
i-U. s. Supreme court denies appeal Of
miners convicted OF Illinois bomb out
ll-coai conferees agree on new contract
Senate passed record.breaking sl.2ls..
666 572 farm BILL
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OCTOBER
NOVEMBER

2-Opie Read, famous author.
8-Dr Livingston Farrand. president emer.
titus of Cornell university.
16-Pierce Butler. U. S. Supreme court
Justice
25-James Simpson, Chicago business leader.
27-Dr ]. A. Nasmith. inventor of basket
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SEPTEMBER

26-French cabinet decree ends Conmunis
party in France. 4r.t
27-Bulgaria seeks trade pact with Russia
28-Constartine Argesanu appointed premie
of Rumania.
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l0-Bombs In mail in England injure seven
persons.
l4-Japan presents Britain with new de.
mands as troops tighten blockade at
Tientsin.
liking 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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AUGUST

3-Britain offers to mediate Japanese.Chi
nese war.
6-Spain executes SO persons for completely
in Staying of civil guard officer.
Sudden German food shortage rouses
public.
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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.
Chamberlain promises Britain will stay
out of Japan's way in China.
26-Four bombings in England blamed on
Irish Republican army.
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AUGUST

4-Charles Donnelly. president of Northern
Pacific railway.
18-Charles M Schwab. steel magnate.
analysis.
24-Floyd Gibbons. war correspondent.
Carl Laemmle. pioneer movie producer.