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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-02
FEBRUARY

Japan prepares for difficulties" In re-
lations with United States.
11-Belfast police fight 1000 I. R. A. rioters
two hours.
2e-Welles hands Mussolini message from
2s-Ancient Egyptian kings tomb yields
vast riches.
MARCH
germany stops deportation of Jews to
13-Sir Michael O'Dwyer British India lead.
er. assassinated by native gunman.
19-French cabinet resigns In body.
20-Paul Reynaud seeks to form new cab1.
net for France.
26-Russia recalls ambassador to Paris.
APRIL
1o-Iceland takes control of own foreign
affairs.
1s-Jugo.Slavia smashes Nad plot to over.
turn government.
MAY
3o-Rumania votes state control over all
businesses.
JUNE
22-Workers' coup results in new govern.
ment for EstOnia.
JULY
e-Duke of Windsor appointed governor Of
14HFulgencio Batista elected president of
Cuba.
23-Dr. Benes heads new Czech regime rec.
ogniZed by British
American republics approve program to
resist Nazi influence in Western hemi-
sphere.
AUGUST
2yapan protests U: S. ban on aviation oil.
Army as spies.
7-Rumania passes severe new law against
Jews.
17-Duke of Windsor is sworn In as cover.
nor of Bahamas.
2O-Trotsky attacked by axman in home in
30-Rumania loses half of Pennsylvania to
Hungary.
SEPTEMBER
3Assassins attempt to kill King Carol In
liking Carol yields power and picks die
SKIING Carol abdicates in favor of his son
12-Mexico names Gen. Avila Camacho pres
ident-elect.
1+Rumania now a totalitarian state under
22-Japs invade indo. China: fight French.
OCTOBER
10-Assassins slay Jap mayor of Shanghai.
American charge d'affaires at Berlin
ordered nome.
NOVEMBER
16-Survey plane hops to British Honduras
in hours, 35 minutes.
30-Cuba captures seven Japs in fish boats
with maps of U. S. bases.
DECEMBER
1-Gen. Manuel Avila Camacho sworn in
as president of Mexico. pledges to de-
fend Americas.
18-Actual work started on Latin-America
air and naval bases.
20-Five thousand Cuban workers on naval
base 60 on strike.
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NEUROLOGY

IDAHO'S BORAH DIES-BriLliantLy
uniformed pallbearers carry the body of
Senator William E. Borah from the Idaho
state capitol at Boise. to his last resting
place.
JANUARY
SNRufus c. Dawes. president of Chicago's
Century OF Progress.
Ex-senator William E. Borah of Idaho.
FEBRUARY
samuel H. Vauclain. locomotive builder
11-Lord Tweedsmuir John Buchan). gov.
26-George M. Reynolds. retired Chicago
banker.
MARCH
DIR; Karl Muck. famous wagnerian mu-
Hamlin Garland. author.
6-Maxine Elliott famed actress
Edwin Markham. author of THE Man
With the Hoe
15-Samuel Untermyer. lawyer.
APRIL
William Horlick Jr.. matted milk mil.
1O-Mrs. Patrick Campbell. actress.
20-Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Sr.
21-Walter Kohler. former governor Of Wis
28-Mme Tetrazzini. famous soprano.
MAY
2-George Craig Stewart. Episcopal bishop
13Emma Goldman. exiled radical leader.
JUNE
s-Hugh Rodman. admiral U. S. navy. re-
22-Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler. former U. s.
Marine chief
3o-John E. Andrew. national commander
of G. A. r.
JULY
ben Turpin,, crosseyed comedian.
l4-Robert Wadlow. 22-year-old Alton (Il.)
giant.
AUGUST
SDr Frederick A. Cook. who claimed dis.
covery of North pole.
6-Talbot Mundy. author.
18-Walter P. Chrysler Jr.. motor car man.
21-Leon Trotsky. exiled Bolshevist leader.
in Mexico. murdered.
22-Sir Oliver Lodge. English scientist and
spiritualist.
2s-Duke Of Guise. pretender to the French
throne.
SEPTEMBER
ADavid F. Houston. former secretary Of
Gatti.Casazza. grand opera impresario.
l4-William B. Bankhead. speaker of the
house of representatives.
29-Courtney Ryley Cooper. writer (suicide).
OCTOBER
6-Henry Horner. governor of Illinois.
Sir Wilfred Grenfell. good Samaritan Of
Labrador.
12-W H. Dietrich. former senator from ILL.,
nois.
23-George B. Cortelyou. fnancier and for.
mer cabinet member.
NOVEMBER
10-Neville Chamberlain. former prime min
lister of Great Britain.
Sen. Key Pittman of Nevada.
24HViscount Craigavon. prime minister Of
Northern Ireland.
Prince Salonji. last of Japanese elder
statesmen.
2s-Lord Rothermere. British journalist.
DECEMBER
5-Jan Kubelik. violinist
12-Lord Lothian. British ambassador 70
u. S.
l9-Kyosti Kallio. foremost Finnish states.
man.
tReleased by Western Newspaper Union.l
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3l-Senator Lundeen Of Minnesota and "A
others die in plane crash In Virginia
during a storm.
OCTOBER
12-Tom Mix of silent movie fame killed In
auto accident
NOVEMBER
4-Airliner hits mountain In Utah during
snowstorm; 10 killed.
Tacoma bridge, third largest In world.
collapses: no lives lost.
10-Earthquake In Rumania takes 1000
lives.
11-Devastating windstorms sweep coun.
try from the Dakotas to Ohio 100
killed, damage in the millions.
12-75 sailors lose their lives in storm on
Lake Michigan.
29-Mine explosion at Cadiz. Ohio. traps
81 miners.
DECEMBER
Giant air transport crashes at Chicago
airport: 10 dead. injured.
18-Crash of U. S. army bomber kills six.
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1-Congress passes excess profits tax bill.
3LCongress passes III billion dollar war
tNavy orders out 1881 feet and marine
s-State department urges Americans to
leave the Orient because of Japanese
Senate passes bill to release large
amount Of foreign funds.
12-President Clarence A: Dykstra of the
University of Wisconsin, granted leave
Of absence to serve as director of the
1-Joseph H. Ball named to succeed sena.
tor Lundeen. deceased. as senator from
IGNORE than IS million registered for draft
22-U. s. SEXES 100 planes built for Sweden.
26-Hull warns axis to keep hands off col
N-Joseph B. Kennedy. ambassador to
Great Britain. returns and confers with
2s-Drawing for draft begins.
NOVEMBER
sNForty.hour week abandoned on defense
MAEight theological students in New York
sentenced to year in prison for draft
evasion.
ls-strike closes plane plant working on
military orders in California.
16-Navy announces 1t will accept 17-year-
1s-Iewis I resigns as chief of c. L. o.
2o-U. s. transfers giant bombers to Britain.
Ex-senator Holt asks investigation of Brit.
ish propaganda.
Phillip Murray succeeds John L. Lewis
as chief of the c. l. o.
23EAttorney General Jackson says evidence
shows that Reds caused plane plant
strike in California.
ADMINISTRATION of food prices started.
26-Senate passes Walter.Logan bill to curb
powers of government agencies.
27-Roosevelt sets aside so million dollars
to condition naval bases.
DECEMBER
1-Joseph p Kennedy resigns as ambassa.
dor to Great Britain.
2-Walter-Logan bill passes house.
6-Britsh and U. S. treasury heads con-
fer on finances.
Strike closes IS Pacific northwest lum.
Der mills
9-Treasury puts tax on newest issue of
notes.
lO-British reject Hoover plan to feed Nazi.
conquered countries.
l1-Lord Lothian, British ambassador to
u S.. asks for more help for Britain.
17-U. S. gets new request for aid to Britain
18-President vetoes Walter-Logan bill.
20-Navy awards so millions in plant expan-
sion contracts
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JAN UARY

3-Third session of the 10th congress as.
sembles. Message asks for additional
taxes to finance expenditures for ma
tional defense.
Archbishop Samuel A. Stritch of Milwau.
kee named archbishop of Chicago:
+President sends eight and a half billion
budget to congress.
Attorney General Frank Murphy named
James Cromwell named minister to
Canada.
Robert H. Jackson named attorney gen.
eral.
s-Third term not mentioned at Jackson
Clarence E. Gauss named first U. 8.
minister to Australia.
9-Federal debt passes AZ billion mark;
12-House Votes 1854. GIL. 2s2 for emergency
defense.
l6-President sends proposal to congress for
financial assistance to Finland.
House committee trims "a millions of
first appropriation bill
Senate confirms Frank Murphy's ap.
pointment to the Supreme court
18-American exporters lose market OF $6O.'
22-Official Washington pays tribute to Sen.
ator Borah at state funeral In the SEN
ate chamber.
Earl Browder Communist leader. sem
fenced to four years In prison and fined
$1,000 for passport fraud.
24NSenate committee approves bill paving
way for $40, 200 900 loan to Finland
30-Witness tells of plot to link Dies with
Fascists with forged letters.
FEBRUARY
2-House passes farm bill slashed.
S-Chicago gets Democratic national con-
7-Senate committee approves bill to per:
NIT additional loans to Finland and
China.
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DECEMBER

Southampton turned into an inferno by
NaZi air raids.
Greeks capture strategic points on CEN
trail front
2-Ten merchant ships attacked west of
Ireland by U-boats and planes.
Greece reports new Italian rout near
Ionian sea.
3-Nazis claim sinking of 20 British ships.
4-British cabinets conduct of war criti.
ciZed in commons.
Italians withdraw from two bases.
British told they will get $50 U. 5.
merchant vessels.
5-Greeks drive into two Italian bases;
both in flames.
Twenty U. S. flying fortresses released
to Britain.
Commons smashes peace move, 341 to 4.
Greeks occupy Porto Edda and pursue
Italians northward.
8-British cruiser sinks German freighter
off Cuba
Argyrokastron falls to Greek troops.
9-British capture 80. 900 Italian troops.
British bombers smash at Bordeaux
U-boat raiders.
10-British trap Italian forces in Egyptian
desert.
11-British capture main Italian base of
Sidi Barrani.
13-British drive Italians out of Egypt.
1+Petain Gusts Laval; names Flandln, Hit
ler'S friend. foreign minister.
Greeks smash Italian mountain defenSeS.
16-Italians lose two more bases In African
war.
18-Nazi troops mass at two Italian ports.
19-British close in on Bardia, Libya.
20-Nazis reported flying Italian soldiers to
Albania.
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NATIONAL ELECTION

THIRD TERN TRADITION BROKEN
First U. S. executive to be elected three
times, FDR is pictured here as he, Mrs.
Roosevelt with Vice President and Mrs.
Henry Wallace, arrived in Washington
shortly following the election.
JUNE
24Republican national convention meets in
Philadelphia.
27-Wendell Willkie of New York named as
candidate for President
Ex-senator Charles L. McNary named for
vice president.
JULY
15-Democratic national convention meets
in Chicago.
17-President Roosevelt unanimously nom.
mated for third term.
18-Henry A. Wallace named for vice pres.
ident.
NOVEMBER
5-Roosevelt and Wallace carry 80 states
in national election. with total of 449
electoral votes.
Willkie and McNary carry 10 states.
with 81 electoral votes.
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SPORTS

REDS WIN World SERIES-Base.
balls major prise-the Worid Series cham
pionship-,0as taken by National League
Cincinnati Reds as they defeated the De.
trOif Tigers in a seven game series. Above
-jubilant Reds are pictured in clubhouse
after victory.
JANUARY
1-USC defeats Tennessee in Rose bowl
football game. IA to o.
11-Clark Shaughnessy appointed football
coach at Stanford for FIVE years.
1+Landis frees 90 baseball players in $780,.
900 ruling.
2hArmstrong keeps welterweight title. stop.
ping Montanez in ninth.
29-Jock Sutherland appointed coach of the
Brooklyn professional football team.
FEBRUARY
s-Joe Louis wins over Arturo Godoy in Is
rounds
MARCH
4Purdue wins Big Ten basketball title
29-Joe Louis knocks out Paychek in second
round.
APRIL
6-Willie Hoppe wins three.cushion billiard
championship, winning all 20 games.
l3-NeW York Rangers win Stanley cup in
hockey.
l6-Baseban season opens: Bob Teller,
Cleveland. pitches no-hit game against
Chicago White SoX.
1s-Kid Mccoy. old-time boxer. commits
suicide.
MAY
+Gallahadion. IS to 1. wins Kentucky
1o-Lew jenkins stops Ambers in third
round.
2s-c e; Wood wins Metropolitan open with
3O-Wilbur Shaw wins 5OO.mile automobile
race at Indianapolis.
JUNE
5-Altus Allen knocked out Johnny Pay.
chek in tenth round.
6-Buddy Baer knocks out Valentine Cam.
polo in first round.
9-Lawson Little beats Gene Sarazen In ma.
tional open golf playof.
12-Dodgers get Joe Medwick and Curt Da.
Wis from Cardinals.
3O-Babe Didrickson zaharias wins women's
open golf title.
JULY
Jack Dempsey knocks out wrestler In
9-National league all.stars defeat Ameri.
can league all-stars 4 to 0.
H-Armstrong stops jenkins in sixth round.
AUGUST
CDR. Eddie Anderson elected head coach
of the All-American football team.
29-Green Bay Packers defeat College All.
Stars As to %.
SEPTEMBER
2-Byron Nelson wins professional golf title
6-Bily Conn knocks out Bob Pastor in
Is rounds.
14-Dick Chapman wins American amateur
ls-cincinnati Reds clinch National league
2e-M MAJ BaeI stops Pat comiskey in the
27-Detroit Tigers clinch pennant in Ameri.
can baseball league.
OCTOBER
5-Fritzie Zivic wins welterweight boxing
crown from Armstrong
6-Chicago White Sox win city baseball Sc
ries from Chicago Cubs.
8-Cincinnat wins worlds series. defeating
Detroit games in z.
NOVEMBER
l3-Frank Mccormick of Cincinnati voted
most valuable player in the National
"Gabby" Hartnett let out as manager
of the Chicago Cubs.
A-James T. Gallagher named general
manager of the Chicago Cubs.
17-Jimmy Wilson appointed manager of the
Chicago Cubs.
DECEMBER
s-Chicago Bears defeat Washington Red
skins for professional football champion
12-Three-cornered trade between Boston
Red Sox. Washington and Cleveland in.
wolves seven players,
16-Joe Louis wins over Al Mccoy on tech
meal knockout in sixth round.
l7-Ohio State accepts resignation OF Francis
Schmidt. football coach.
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JULY

1-Germans occupy two British islands In
channel Rumania renounces Anglo
French guarantee of her independence.
eBritish navy acts to take over scattered
units of French fleet. attacking ships that
@British report Seizure of $50 French
naval vessels.
Waves of German raiders blast at new
6-The French government at vichy. DOM
mated by Berlin. breaks of relations
eFrench naval squadron at Alexandria
yields to British.
9-British and Italian fleets battle in Med
Waves of German bombers attack Eng.
land; British strike back.
France votes dictatorship.
14LChurchill declares Britain ready to fight
for years.
15-Gibraltar raided four times.
British fiers raid parts of Germany.
19-Hitler calls on Britain to give up the
war or face destruction OF the empire.
21-Lithuania. Latvia and Estonia. under
pressure from Moscow. vote to join the
23-France SEXES Daladier and former
2s-Germany launches mass air raids on
Britain.
AUGUST
british fiers bomb Germans massed
on channel coast for invasion:
6-Italians invade British Somaliland.
7-British liner torpedoed in convoy: 4S5
saved, 20 lost.
italians march into leila. port on Gulf
of Alden: capture two towns in British
Somaliland.
12-"Air blitzkrieg'' has started. Britain told.
as Nazis launch third day of mass raids
Italians mass on Egypt
13-Naz aerial Blitzkrieg covers Britain:
industrial heart bombed.
France indicts war guilt chiefs.
17-Germany announces total blockade Of
waters around England.
l9-Italy conquers British Somaiiland.
20-Churchill announces plan to lease bases
to United States on British territory in
Western hemisphere.
N-Axis orders parley after armed clashes
in Balkans
&c Germany and Italy force Rumania to
CODE 10y; Of Pennsylvania to Hungary.
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SEPTEMBER

lo-British bombs hit Reichstag building in
heart of Berlin.
11-Buckingham palace in London damaged
by air bombs.
12-Italy opens drive against Egypt.
14-Italy invades Egypt: takes two towns.
ing Egypt.
23-British warships shell West African
port of Dakar.
24-British bomb Berlin for three hours.
25-Germans depose King Haakon; end Nor.
wegian monarchy.
2-Germany. Italy and Japan sign war al.
lance.
OCTOBER
asritish planes bomb Krupp plant in
s-Neville Chamberlain resigns from Brit.
ish cabinet.
4Hitler and Duce confer on war crisis.
Serve notice there will be no let up
on Britain.
7-German troops enter Rumania.
15-British cruiser sinks three Italian de-
stroyers.
17-British reopen Burma road.
18-Axis demands on Greece include abdica.
ton of king, pro-axis government and
yielding of land.
23-Six weeks of attacks baked invasion.
Hitler Hitler" and Franco meet at French Dor.
der.
Spain arrests former King Carol and
Magda.
27-Greece and Italy declared at war.
Canadian destroyer sinks after collision
with merchantmen; 140 lost.
28-British put war resources at disposal of
Greece.
so-Greeks put up stout defense against
Italians.
31-First Greek counterattack shoves back
Italians.
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NOVEMBER

british land troops on Greek territory.
5-TWo U-poatS sunk by British.
6-British cut Gibraltar off from Spain.
British seize "a ships of Russian.Baltic
nations
s-Greek troops tighten net on Italians in
Albania.
10-ltaians routed in mountains by Greeks.
Intense bomb attack made on London
1l-Greece reports Italians fleeing toward
Albania
British Aiers drop bombs on two con-
tinentS.
12-British armed merchantmen, afre and
sinking fights off German warship and
saves % ships in British convoy.
13-British destroy six Italian warships in
port of laramie: two Italian supply ships
sunk in another engagement
15-Germans drop 10000 fire bombs on
Coventry. England. 1000 killed.
Greeks capture TOO Italians.
16-Greeks claim wide gains against re-
treating Italians.
19-NaZiS pound Birmingham.
20-Hungary enters axis, making 1t four.
power war on Britain.
21-Greeks drive deep into Albania: hem
in two vital Italian bases.
Liverpool raided twice in night bomb
ing attack.
22-Turkey proclaims martial law in prep
aration for war. ,
Italians in rout after Greeks take
Koritza.
24-British vessel attacked by raider in At.
lantc.
Greek troops advance in three sectors:
British bombers attack German and
Italian cities.
26-Britain offers, guarantees to Bulgaria.
Bristol raided by NaZ bombers.
27-Sixty -four Rumanian political leaders ex.
ecuted in Nazi purge.
Italian fleet attacked and pursued by
British.
29-Rumanian troops shell Iron Guard
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APRIL

fWinston Churchill given general super
vision over Britain's fighting strength
tGermans occupy Denmark. which sub.
nitS. and invades Norway, which re-
sists. Oslo. the capital, is taken.
12-Germans capture more Norwegian ports,
while British fleet tries to cut supply
line across Skagerrak.
26-BrltiSh expedition arrives on Norway
coast and is battered by German bomb
erS.
30-Germans capture Dombaas. key rail
town in Norway
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FOREIGN

PAN AMERICAN CONFERENCE
General scene Of assembled delegates from
81 American Republics participating, as
this important defense congress opened
in Hapana, Cuba.
JANUARY
22-Japanese warn America against exert.
ing pressure.
28-Japan tightens blockade on British.
French concessions at Tientsin.
3l-China proposes that six-year-old boy be
named ruler of Tibet.
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FEBRUARY

l-Russians start heavy assault on the Man.
nerheim line
9-President sends Sumner Welles to confer
with rulers of Britain. France. Italy and
Germany.
I6-Sweden rejects Finnish plea for aid with
troops.
17-British raid German prison ship in Nor.
2APrime Minister chamberlain declares
Britain never will conclude peace with
preSanf Reich rr,larS
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EUROPEAN WAR

SW ASTIKA OYER PARIS-Mark of
the Nasi conqueror, the siOasfika, floats
orer crushed Paris foIloioing inrasion.
Famed Eifel Toper can be seen in back
ground.
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MARCH

1-Russians enter Vipuri, key Finnish city.
11-Allies offer full aid to the Firms.
12-Soviet-Finnish peace treaty signed, Rus
STA getting Karalian isthmus and naval
base at Hangos.
l7-Nazi bombers raid British anchorage at
Scapa Flow.
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JANUARY

S-Finland claims destruction of Russian
division.
20-Winston Churchill warns Europes neu-
trails they cannot keep out of war and
asks them to join the allies.
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TOW
MA \

eNOINeSidH army III central norway
seeks peace as British and French with.
draw.
11-Allies rush aid to low countries: Church.
Ill succeeds Chamberlain as prime min
IADutch armies cease resistance.
16-Nazis mass for Balkan raid; believed
aimed at Rumanian oil.
19-Weygand replaces Gamelin as French
commander: Germans within 80 miles
of Paris.
-7l-Germans reach French channel coast.
cutting off sh.Belgian forces.
22-Britain votes dictatorship: Churchill
given supreme power labor and wealth
Allies check German drive on 2OO.mile
front.
French and Belgian troops.
25-Germans claim Calais.
France shakes up general staff.
N-Belgum gives up on orders OF King
3o-Battered British troops reach England
Belgian cabinet deposes Leopold for
surrender.
JUNE
+Nazis take Dunkirk; Hitler vows to de-
Last allied troops leave Dunkirk
stFrench forced back by onslaught of
million Germans:
s-Allies evacuate Narvik: Norway surren.
1o-Italy declares war on the allies. Ger
mans cross the Seine.
13-French decide not to defend Paris. Ger
man troops march in.
14+Germans attack Maginot line in effort
to trap million French.
l7-Petain becomes premier of France and
asks Germany for armistice. Britain
declares it will fight on alone.
2o-Germans pick Compiegne, scene Of
1918 armistice. for parley.
22-France signs German armiStice.
23Nazi terms strip France of arms and
land; navy irteTned
French government repudiated by Brit.
ain.
2+Germany ends war on France; cease
firing order issued.
26-Soviet and Rumania planes clash
27-Rumania cedes Bessarabia and north.
ern Bukovina to Russia.
28-French colonies in Asia and Africa
give up fight.
Rumanians fight Red troops. kill many.
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DECEMBER

s-Chicago Bears defeat washington Red
ship 70 to O.
12-Three-cornered trade between Boston
Red Sox. Washington and Cleveland in
wolves seven players.
l6-Joe Louis wins over Al Mccoy on tech
nical knockout in sixth round.
l7-Ohio State accepts resignation OF Francis
Schmidt. football coach.
2O-Captain Wood leaves Army coaching job.
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1-Roosevelt calls up GO, 500 National Guard
for year service with U. S. army.
3-President announces exchange Of so de.
stroyers to Great Britain for air and
naval bases in British Western hemi.
sphere possessions.
+Secretary Hull renews warning to Japan
on Indo-Chna.
6-Congress passes 5l4 billion defense bill.
7-House passes draft bill: sets ages at 81
to As
9-Navy orders 200 warships.
14HConscription bill passes congress.
16-War department calls out IS 900 more
Guardsmen.
Sam Rayburn elected speaker of the
house to succeed Bankhead.
19-Senate passes excess profits bill.
House votes third of a billion to house
draft army.
20-Marc de Tristan. three-year-old son of
Count Marc de Tristan, kidnapped In
Hillsboro. Calf; held for $780, 900 ram
som.
2l-Census bureau reports population of
u. S.. 13l, 409, 881.
22-Two hunters capture kidnaper and res.
cue Marc de Tristan in California hills.
26--Roosevelt bars export of scrap metal to
Japan.
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SEPTEMBER
DECEMBER

1-Gen. Manuel Avila Camacho sworn in
as president of Mexico. pledges to de-
fend Americas.
18-Actual work started on Latin America
air and naval bases.
20-Five thousand Cuban workers on naval
base 60 on strike
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SEPTEMBER


13-Frank Mccormick of Cincinnati voted
most valuable player in the National
league.
"Gabby' Hartnett let out as manager
of the Chicago Cubs.
l4-James T. Gallagher named general
manager of the Chicago Cubs.
17-Jimmy Wilson appointed manager of the
Chicago Cubs