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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-01-04
DISASTERS

SQUALLS SINKS-U. S. Nays
diving bell gets first real test rescu-
ing 80 suruivors from sunken sub.
marine. T,uenty-six others die.
JANUARY
21-The airliner Cavalier wrecked at sea of
Cape May. N. J. three lost, 10 saved.
23-Bomber crashes on test hop at Los
Angeles: pilot killed.
earthquake in Chile: towns wiped out in
disaster.
FEBRUARY
2-Japanese submarine sunk in collision.
H-A Army mystery S. S,. plane "a. crashes after
MARCH
1.-Two hundred killed in explosion of mu.
nitions dump in Japan: 300 houses de-
stroyed.
ls-Ten killed in airplane crash near Ia.
25-Airliner crashes in Oklahoma killing
eight.
APRIL
-Four navy fliers killed when planes col
Tide in maneuverS.
13-Twenty.eight killed. SO injured In train
wreck in Mexico
16-Tornadoes in Arkansas, Texas and Lou.
isiana cause So deaths and injuries to
300.
MAY
23-Fifty;nine trapped in sunken submarine
SQualuS.
24-Thirty- three rescued alive from Squalus.
26 dead.
JUNE
in mud; SO lost.
tTwenty.two persons killed in Mexican
theater fire.
l6-Seventy .one lives lost in wreck of French
1s-Ten dead So injured in Minnesota tor.
nado.
JULY
5Fifty-three drowned. Al missing in food
in mountains of eastern Kentucky.
12-Mystery explosion and fire damage navy
aircraft carrier Ranger.
N-Iwenty-eight perish in mine blast at
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
f1ers killed as two bombers crash.
13-Fourteen killed as Miami to Rio de ia
metro plane crashes in Rio harbor. Twen-
ty.three killed, go injured. when stream
liner is wrecked in Nevada.
SEPTEMBER
25-Storm in California kills 100: damage.
81, 900. 900.
28-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
3Typhoon ravages five islands in the Phil.
ippineS.
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38-Chrysler company and c. I. o. agree on
basis Of peace after auto plants are tied
up So days.
z9-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.
DECEMBER
2Curtiss plants speed building of war
planes.
3Winnie Ruth Judd, insane slayer. again
escapes from prison in Arizona.
Fritz Kuhn. bund leader. sentenced to
prison for two and half years.
Upward trend seen In several lines oi
business.
eSecretary Hull protests British blockade
9-Roosevelt orders q special naval dis
11-RFC grants $40. 1000. 900 loan to Finland
U. S. Supreme court bars evidence
gained by wire tapping.
13-Twelve naval captains promoted to be
rear admirals.
4-ICC approves trainload rail rate re-
duction.
18-Garner announces candidacy for Demo
cratic presidential nomination.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Shawl of Moose
Lake, were Sunday callers at the
home of Mrs. Laying.
Mr.. and Mrs Hughes of Moose
Lake, were Sunday visitors at the
Edna Zern home
Robert Picha was visitor in Bruno
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlton Stafford and
F. 0. Pearson drove to Minneapolis
Sunday to see Mrs. Pearson who is
in hospital there They found her
feeling fine and expecting to leave
the hospital soon.
The Bruno Conservation club will
hold its annual supper Monday, JAM
8, at the school building. All mem
bers and those desiring to join are
urged to attend
is spending week with her mother,
Mrs. Fred Rupp.
MIR. and Mrs. Pat Murphy and Fred
and Mary Murphy were in Coleraine
and Grand Rapids Friday to visit the
Gray families
Lloyd Gault of Wrenshall, drove
to Bruno Wednesday of last week and
took his grandmother home with him
to spend Thursday and Friday there
On Friday evening he and his BROTH
er, August, brought her home and
stayed until Saturday and helped
Mr.. Gault cut up his pile of wood.
Buddy Elwell and Phyllis Plai-
sted spent Sunday and Monday visit
ing in the Twin Cities.
Donald Rose of Moose Lake spent
Saturday and Sunday with home
folks
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12-British destroyer sunk. 40 missing.
Nazi bombers raid Shetlands. no dam.
age done.
French report torpedo boat sank two
subs
23-Eight more vessels sunk: total for six
days, Is.
France and Britain claim 20 air vic.
tories in three days on western front.
Exiled Polish government begins func-
tioning in France.
24EBritiSh 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 kiel
canal.
Britain fights for a new Europe. Cham
berlain says.
Finnish guns kill four Russian soldiers.
Soviet charges.
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.
30-Russians claim 10-mile advance into
Finland bomb Helsingfors.
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DECEMBER

films disable Russian cruiser with 500
aboard.
Russians capture Finnish port
New cabinet takes over Finnish govern
2-Fnnish rebel regime cedes territory to
Russians.
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
5-Finnish flyers infiict heavy casualties
on Soviet troop concentration:
6-Finns repulse Russian army of 100000
7-Russians to blockade Finnish coast:
British fighting planes beat off German
raids.
s-Finns repel offensive on KareIian
lO-Finns report Russian attacks repealed
1l-League of Nations requests Russia to
cease hostilities against Finland.
12-Russia rejects league OF nations pro-
posal to mediate conflict with Finland.
German liner Bremen runs British
blockade to home port.
13-British ships disable and chase Ger
man raider Graf Spec into South Amer.
lean port
14-Russia expelled from league of nations.
Uruguay gives Graf Spec " 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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23-Davy Day. welterweight. stopped Pedro
Montanez In the eighth round.
25-Henry Armstrong, welterweight, defeats
Ernie Roderick. British champion. In Is
30-Shaw wins Indianapolis auto race, av.
eraging 115035 miles per our. Roberts
killed.
JUNE
6-Giants make five home runs I'm one in.
ming for record; rout Reds
12-Centennial birthday Of baseball cele.
brated at Cooperstown. N. T.. where 1t
21-Lo1 Gehrig. Mayo clinic physicians an.
nounce after check.up. has infantile pa
ralysiS: playing career ended.
23-Joe Louis stops Tony Galento in the
fourth round.
Yankees break record with IS home runs
in two games on same day.
JULY
8-Alice Marble wins British tennis cham
pionship at Wimbledon.
I-American league wins all-star baseball
3O-Dick Metz wins ST. Paul open golf cham.
pionship with record score Of 20.
AUGUST
in 15-round bout with Armstrong.
30-NeW York Giants, professional football
champions. defeated the All-Stars. to
0. before $1,000 people in Chicago.
SEPTEMBER
1Roscoe Turner wins Thompson trophy
air race third time.
15-Tony Calento stops Nova in IA rounds
l6-Bobby Riggs. Alice Marble win U.
17-Yankees cinch American league pen
nant.
2o-Joe Louis knocks out Bob Pastor in II
rounds
25-Billy Conn, light heavyweight champion.
defended his title against Melio Bettina
in Is rounds.
z8-Cincinnati Reds win National league pen
nant.
3o-Frankie Frisch appointed manager of
the Pittsburgh Pirates.
OCTOBER
6-Yankees win worlds baseball series In
four straight games.
l-Bucky Walters, Cincinnati pitcher, voted
most valuable player in National league.
lsNChicago White Sox defeat Cubs in city
24-Joe DiMaggio wins American league
most valuable player award.
29-Harry Thomas. heavyweight fighter. re.
veals fixed fights
NOVEMBER
AL Davis stops Tony Canzoneri in third
r-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.
No: l athlete of all sports in annual
13-New York Yankees voted best team In
any sport.
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BRUNO LUTHERAN PARISH
Elmer J. johnson, pastor.

Elmer J. Johnson, pastor.
Services Sunday: Oak Lake, 1O:45
a. M; Bruno, 2 p. M, and Vilstad,
8 p. m.
The annual meetings will be held as
follows: At Oak Lake Thursday at
p. m. in the Rev. Elmer j. john
son home; at Nickerson Friday at
p. m. in the Gust Bohlin home; and
in Bruno Friday at 8 p. m. in the
church.
The Bruno Luther League will
meet in Leroy Miller's home Tues
day, Jan. 9, at 8 p. m and the Vii
stad Luther League will meet in the
church Wednesday, Jan. 10, at p. m.
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Germans Inuade Poland
Sl-Germany opens war on Poland.
SEPTEMBER

sBritain and France declare war on
Germany.
British ship Athena torpedoed off coast
of Ireland / 400 aboard 43 lost.
Germany blockaded by British navy.
SGermans shell Warsaw: government and
citizens fee.
President Roosevelt proclaims U. S.
neutrality.
6-Poles appeal to Britain to rush aid.
7-Nazi torpedoes sink five ships.
8-French planes bomb Siegfried line.
1O-German counterattack halts French on
western front.
Russia rushes reserves to Polish border.
12-German forces shut a wise on Warsaw.
13-Big British army lands in France with
out loss.
Polish defense cracks: Nazis move east.
ward.
le-Russian troops invade Poland to PRO
tect minorties''
17-Warsaw decides to fight on after truce
talk fails.
Poland's defenses collapse under Nazi
pressure.
Russian army drives so miles into Pc.
land.
2o-Report Red purge of former officials in
Polish Ukraine
23-French repuse wave after wave of Nazi
shock troops.
25-French defeat Germans in two big air
battles; lombard whole length of Sieg-
fried line; bomb Zeppelin works
N-Warsaw surrenders to Germans after
20-day siege.
29-Brtain defies warning by foes to stop
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SPORTS

F.: IRON Min STRIKES OUT
Lou .Cehris,. :.iifoh srnn of. base.
:tal.' retires from N6,b, Yerk:Yan.
KEGS ,oith paralysis infection after
hanging up aH-time record for
games played.
JANUARY
2-Southern California football team de.
feats Duke in Rose Bowl.
.3-Budge defeats Vines in pro tennis debut:
N- the New y York f! YANKEES. .e0 president Oh
25-Joe Louis. heavyweight champion,
stopped John Henry Lewis in first round
In New York.
FEBRUARY
5-Ken Bartholomew wins national skating
s-Natonal Professional Football league
reflects Joseph Carr president for 10
23LTony Galento scores technical knock.
out over Abe Feldman.
MARCH
2O-Charles Bowser named head football
coach at Pitt.
APRIL
2Ralph 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
l8-Joey Archib aid 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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DOMESTIC

u. S. GUARDS NEUTRALITY
Special congressional session insti.
tutes "cash-and-carry" neutrality as
Americans rush home from Europe,
aCay from ,Uar zone.
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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, 900 900, :.
600 budget for 1910 fiscal year
Felix Frankfurter nominated for u. S.
Supreme court.
12-Presdent, in message. asks $50 millions
more for defense.
16-President asks extension of social secu.
rity benefits.
19-Presdent asks legislation to end tax
free public salaries and to levy on all
securities
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st. PauPs Ev. Luth. Church, Bruno
missouri SynOd)

Sunday, Jan. Z, 2 p. m, Sunday
school; 2:30 p. m, divine worship in
the English language.
The annual voters meeting Of the
congregation will take place after
the close of the service on Sunday.
r. A. BRAMMER, Pastor.
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FEBRUARY

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.
18-Spansh loyalists offer to surrender.
France occupies African area once
coded to Italy.
2O-Italy moves to place colony Libya on
war footing.
23-General Franco hands Britain final
terms for peace with Spanish loyalsts.
2fBritain and France decide to recognize
Franco government IN Spain.
Polish students attack German embassy
in Warsaw.
28-Commons approves Chamberlain's o. K
of Franco
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FEBRUARY

7-President makes new demand for $50
millions more for PWA after signing
appropriation bill with that amount cut
off
9-House passes bill making state and mu.
nicipal employees subject to income
tax.
13-Justice Brandeis retires from the u S.
Supreme court.
25-James j. Hines, Tammany chief, con.
victed of violating lottery laws.
2-U. S. Supreme court rules sit.down
strikes illegal.
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MARCH


1-College of cardinals convenes in Rome
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
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;
8-Franco's fleet blockades all Spanish 10y.
alist coast
$500, 900 witness coronation of Pope Plus
XII.
2l-Lithuania returns Memel to Germany.
22-Rumania and Germany sign trade pact
23-Madrid offers to surrender to General
27-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.
APRIL
2-Britain offers to protect Rumania.
Japanese kill 5000 Chinese in three bat
4-Turkey asks for part of Syria; French
dispatch warship.
5-Albert Lebrun reelected president of
France.
e-Italian troops invade Albania.
8-Mussolini sets up puppet government In
Albania.
9-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 ambas.
sados to Turkey.
Russia faces famine: 80 per cent of
grain crop destroyed.
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erty which Spanish republic took from
former King Alfonso
A-President of Bolivia assumes dictatorial
27-Serbians sign pact with Croats. ending
Jugoslavia's biggest internal problem.
30-Paraguay elects General Estigarribia.
Chaco war hero. president.
MAY
@Lityinov dismissed as foreign commissar
SKIING and queen of Great Britain sail
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.
liking 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
24-German troops in Spain leave for home.
2s-Bill setting up dictatorship over industry
2s-MeW border " war develops R Between Japan
and Russia In Manchukuo.
JUNE
lo-Bombs in mail in England injure seven
14-Japan presents Britain with new de.
mands as troops tighten blockade at
Tientsin.
22-King and queen given tremendous re.
26-Soviets repulse Jap air attack on Mon.
gol border: shoot down Is planes.
JULY
l3-France jails two newspaper executives.
charged with receiving pay from Ger
1s-Danzig political police purge city of
24-Chamberlain promises Britain will stay
out of Japans way In China:
26-Four bombings in England blamed on
Irish Republican army.
AUGUST
3-Britain offers to mediate Japanese.chi.
Spain executes SO persons for completely
in Staying of civil guard officer.
9-Sudden German food shortage rouSeS
public.
SEPTEMBER
26-French cabinet decree ends Communist
party in France.
%-Bulgaria seeks trade pact with Russia:
DEMONSTRATING ArgeSanu appointed premier
of Rumania.
OCTOBER
2-Delegates of 81 republics at an inter.
American neutrality conference fixed
3-Japanese admit loss of $1,000 men In
fighting Russians.
5-Chnese halt Japanese drive in Human
province; report 10 300 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 Bradshaw, Hungary.
British threaten to abolish sef-rule In
India.
20-Ex-kaiser narrowly escapes death in
storm at Doom.
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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OCTOBER

britain calls ESQ 900 more troops
+Daladier says France will fight until
victorious.
HITLER makes peace proposals to Britain
and France: seeks armistice.
9-Hitler sets aside area in Poland for
Germans to be transplanted from other
countries.
Io-French premier spurns Hitler's peace
terms
Finnish civilians ordered to leave dan
ger zone near Soviet frontier.
12-Britain refuses peace based on Nazi
conquests.
1ABritish batteship Royal Oak sunk by
sub, 786 lost.
16-Nazi raid navy base in Scotland: l6
killed.
ALDERMAN planes raid Scapa Flow: Iron
Duke. training ship. damaged
20-British repel another NaZi air raid
over Edinburgh.
23IBritish report three U-boats sunk.
Germans capture American ship City Of
Flint and take il to Soviet port.
A-Four British. one Greek ship sunk by
Germans.
Nazi sea raiders slip through blockade:
prey on shipping
Belgians demand British ease blockade.
26-American ship City of Flint, turned over
to Germany by Russia sails from Rus
STA.
28-Germans claim lis foreign ships sunk
since war began.
S1-Soviet demands raise new crisis in Fin.
land
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NEUROLOGY

POPE SUCCUMBS-The deuout
kneel in prayer before casket con-
tanning the body of Pope Plus XII.
JANUARY
11-Prof. Herman Oliphant. treasury de.
13-Col. Jacob Rupert. owner Of the New
York Yankees.
26-Former Sen; Joseph l. France of Mary.
land. in Baltimore.
2s-William B. Yeats, Irish poet and play.
wright, in France.
FEBRUARY @
,ss-PPope Plus xI; $780,, -
bishop of Indianapolis.
15-Charles r. Crane. former diplomat.
16-Dr. Clarence True Wilson. prohibition
leader
MARCH
2-Howard Carter. who found King Tuts
tomb. in London.
SFormer U. S. Attorney General John G.
6-Frank W. stearns. close adviser to Pres.
ident Coolidge.
29-Gerardo Machado. former dictator of
Cuba,
APRIL ss.@
Committeeman for Illinois.
6-Premier Joseph Lyons of Australia.
lis. S. Van Dine. mystery .story writer.
MAY
2e-Dr. Charles Mayo. famous surgeon.
JUNE
6George Peabody Gardner. financier. in
le-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
s-Havelock Ellis, scientist and philoso.
1I-kep: Sam D. McReynolds of Tennessee
18-J. Louis Comiskey, owner of Chicago
White Sox baseball team.
28-Dr. William ]. Mayo. co-founder with
-, his brother of the Mayo clinic;
Milwaukee.
AUGUST
At E. Powers. famed cartoonist
SEPTEMBER
CHARLES Donnely. president of Northern
1s-charIes M ScRwab steel magnate.
23-Sigmund Freud. originator of psyche.
analysis.
2+Floyd Gibbons. war correspondent
Carl Laemmle. pioneer movie producer.
OCTOBER
2George Cardinal Mundelein. archbishop
Sen. M M. Logan of Kentucky.
Say Templeton actress
s-Goust Won ,o Rernstorf. German envoy to
l3-Ford Sterling, movie comedian.
23-Zane Grey. noted writer of western
stories.
2s-AIice Brady. stage and screen star.
NOVEMBER
2-Opie Read. famous author
8EDr. Livingston Farrand, president emer.
titus of Cornell university.
16-Pierce Butler. U. S. Supreme court
25-James Simpson Chicago business leader.
27-Dr. ]. A. Naismith. inventor of basket
ball
DECEMBER
3Alfred Granger. prominent architect
Princess Louise. duchess of Argyle, old.
est living child of Queen Victoria.
tMarshal Wy Pei-fu. poet.soldier of Re.
). Butler Wright. American ambassa.
dor to Cuba.
soldier.
ll-pouglas Fairbanks ST.. stage and screen
Charles R. walgreen. chain drug store
Hollywood Broun. columnist.
tReleased by Western Newspaper Union.)
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NOVEMBER

SNorway frees City of Flint and lnterns
Wet threat; ready to fight
7-Belgium and Holland offer to mediate
peace between warning nations
S-Hitler escapes plot: blast in Munich
beer cellar kills and Injuries CO.
9-Dutch open defense bikes: clash at Dor.
der with Germans.
10-French repulse two German attacks
15-Four more merchantmen sunk in sea
warfare.
l7-Germans shoot nine Czech students.
seize l 200 and close academies for three
years.
l8-Dutch liner hits German mine In North
sea; sinks with 40 lives.
19-Four more ships sunk by German mines
off England.
20-Germans 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.
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JANUARY

1-Chinese dictator "purges' government
ranks of 200 peace party" leaders.
3-Japan's cabinet resigns over policies in
China.
Spanish rebels report capture Of Artesa.
5-New Japanese premier declares war in
China must 60 on.
6-Hungarians and Czecho.Slovaks fight
along border.
10-Britain promises to support France
against Italy in clamor for part of
French empire.
15-Spanish rebels take Tarragona in drive
toward Barcelona.
l8-Madrid rushes fresh troops to defense
of Barcelona.
22-All citizens of Barcelona called to dig
trenches.
2+Spanish rebels bomb Barcelona.
26-RebelS take Barcelona without a battle.
30-Hitler demands return of colonies.