The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
n 900
A Resume of Last
Years News
Events
Major news stories of 1889.

ooi hcNs STORIES OF 1883.
Jan. president Roosevelt. /,
message to congress. outlined pro
gram to protect American inst
buttons" and the solidarity of tn,
Western hemisphere.
Jan. Thomas ]. Mooney par
doned by Gov. gilbert L. Olson.
Jan. 24-South Central Chill,
devastated by earthquakes: thou
sands died.
Feb. 10-Pope Plus xI died, al
q.
Feb. as Tammany Leader
James J. Hines convicted of lot.
terry conspiracy.
March 2-Eugenio Cardinal Pa.
cell, Vatican secretary of state
elected pope, took name Plus XII
March 14-Hitler dissolve
Czechoslovak republic; Bohemia.
Moravia made reich protectorate
March 18-Stratoliner crash a,
Alder, Wash, killing 10 men,
March 22-Germany absorbed
Nemel.
March 3l-Britain pledged full
military support to Poland against
aggression by Germany.
April Italy invaded Albania.
April 17-Supreme court up
held the new Agriculturaly Ad-
justment act.
April 26-Britain a n o u n d
transcription.
May THE Rome-Berlin axis
became a military alliance.
May 16-New Deals food stamp
plan begun experimentally at
Rochester, N. Y.
May 22-Thomas J. Pendergast,
Kansas City political boss, pleaded
guilty to income tax evasion.
May 2S-Navy submarine Squa-
lus sank off Portsmouth, N. H.; 26
lost; 33 rescued.
June MARTIN T. Manton, sem
Tor judge of the U. S. circuit court
OF appeals, convicted of selling
justice.
June 8-Britain's King George
and Queen Elizabeth entertained
ut White House after Canadian
tour.
June 28-Joe Louis knocked out
Tony Galento.
July 26-United States de-
nounced trade treaty with Japan.
Sept. Germany invaded Po-
land.
Sept. l. President Roosevelt
pledged himself to keep America
out of war.
Sept. S-Britain and France
announced they were at war with
Germany, British liner Athena
sunk with loss of 142 lives.
Sept. I7-Russia invaded Po-
land; British aircraft carrier
Courageous sunk with loss of 51o
lives.
Sept. 2I-Congress convened In
special session.
Sept. 27-Warsaw surrendered.
Sept. 29-Russia and Germany
divide Poland.
Oct. 8-New York Yankees won
fourth successive World series
Oct. IO-Lithuania, following
example of Latvia and Esthonia,
submitted to Soviet demands.
Oct. 14-British battleship Royal
Oak sunk with loss of 1856 lives.
Oct. 19-Turkey signed military
alliance with allies.
Nov. Especial session of con-
gress adjourned after repeating
arms embargo.
Nov. Norway released U. 3.
freighter City of Flint and in
termed German prize crew.
Nov. 7-''Ham and Eggs and
Bigelow pension plans defeated In
California and Ohio.
Nov. 8-Hitler escaped bomb ex-
plosion at Munich Nazi shrine.
Nov. 12-Pacific Mort hwest
shaken by earthquake.
Nov. 20 - Russia severed diplo-
matte relations with Finland.
Nov. 29-Fritz Kuhn, leader OF
German-American bund, convicted
of grand larceny and forgery.
Nov. sO-Russia invaded Finland
by land, sea and air.
Dec. IS British warships en-
ragged Admiral Graf Spec off Uru'
Ruay: Germans lost So dead, Brit
Ssh II.
Dec. l4-Russis dropped from
League of Nations.
Dec. 17-Admiral G 3 pe
blown up off Montevideo by owr
crew.
Dec. 10 German liner Column
hus 30 5s1 tons. scuttled $50 milei
off New Jersey coast.
Dec. 2o-Capt. Hans Langsdorff
commander of Admiral Graf spec
committed suicide.
Dec. 2s-President Roosevelt ap'
pointed Myron C. Taylor persona
Ambassador to Vatican; urged th'
pontiff TO collaborate with Leaders
of other faiths for peace.
Dec. as Firms, resisting Rus
slams on all fronts, reported ngn.
ing on Russian soil.
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