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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-04-24

ious instruction.
A week from this Sunday, on
May 4th, 2:30 p. m, Walter League
Conference in Long Prairie.
J. F. Schumacher, Pastor.
Methodist Church
9:45 a. m. Sunday school. 11:00
a. m. worship. The Rev. Ray B.
Tibbetts. pastor Of the Congrega-
tional Church in Benson, will be
the guest preacher.
Special music will be furnished
by the State Home School choir Of
30 voices. They will sing several
numbers from their Easter Can
tata. You will enjoy this fine choir.
You have cordial welcome.
$50 p. m. Epworth League.
M. L. Brann, Pastor.
Episcopal Church
Rev. r. M. Harris, Rector
Sunday Church school 9:45 a. m.
Morning prayer and sermon Hoo
a. m. Thursday: Religious instru-
ton 8:45-11:45 a. m.
This church extends a cordial in
vitation to all who desire to come
and worship with us.
st. Paul's Lutheran Church, Unity
German service 800 p. m.
A. G. Kratzke, Pastor.
Trinity Lutheran Church,
Grove Lake
Divine service 900 a. m. Sunday
school 1000 a. m.
A. c. Kratzke, Pastor.
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Gospel Tabernacle

Second ana Elm 81.
Sunday school 1000 a. m. Morn
ing Worship HOO a. m. Evangelis-
tic service 800 p. m.
Mid-Week Services: Prayer meet
ing Tuesday night, 800 p. m. Fri
day night c. A., 800 p. m.
Everybody welcome.
A. w. Nelson, Pastor
Lutheran Church of the MICA.
Carmen p. Thronson, Pastor
Services Sunday, $3.50 "a. m. Sun
day school Sunday, 1890 a. m, Mrs.
c. Torkelson, superintendent.
Confirmation class Saturday at
200 p. m.
Little Sank (Long Bridge) Luth-
cram Church
Carmen p. Thronson, Pastor
Services Sunday $50 a. m. Sun
day school Sunday, 1890 a. m, Miss
Emma Void, superintendent.
$50
Film and Bethel Churches
Friday, April Is, 800 p. m, an
nual meeting Of Bethel Aid at Mrs
Berg's. Saturday, 1000 a. m, con-
firmation class meets.
Sunday, April ~, 1000 "a. m, Eng.
lish service at Bethel followed by
Sunday school and Bible classes
1890 a. M, Elm Sunday school
and Bible classes. 1870 a. m.
Morse service at Elm. 2:30 p. m.
service at Sarepta Home. 500 p
M, Y. p. service at Elm. Welcome
Church Of Our Lady Of The Angels
Sunday, Low Mass at 8 o'clock
High Mass at 10 o'clock.
Rev. John Bettendorf
st. Paul's Church
Sunday, Low Masses at $50 and
800 a. m. High Mass at 1000 a. m.
Msgr. A. Plachta, Pastor.
Seventh-Day Adventist
Sabbath school at 1000 a. m.
Services 11:15 a. m. every Saturday.
Everybody welcome at all services.
$50
Zion Lutheran Church
900 a. m. divine service. 1000
a. m. Sunday School and Bible
classes. HOO a. m. divine service.
1890 and $3.50 p. m. the Lutheran
Hour, DR.. Walther Maier. $3.50 D.
m. Sunday school teachers confer
ence Of our circuit in Rev. Eifert's
church, Long Prairie Township.
Thursday forenoon, religious in
struction. Friday, 7:30 p. M, s.
s. Teachers Study and Training
course. Saturday, $50 a. m, relig-
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&D.S0CIETY
Attended VIEW. District Meeting
At Little Falls Sunday

Attended VIEW. District Meeting
At Little Falls Sunday
Attending from this city a Sixth
District meeting Of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars and the Auxiliary
at Little Falls were: Elmer Hyla-
man, Gilbert Halverson, John Kane,
Bert Martin, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. N.
Jackson, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Pend
roy, Mrs. Avis Halverson, Mrs.
Wenzel Menzhuber and Mrs. Elmer
Hylaman. The meeting was held
in the afternoon and the group at
tended a joint installation Of Bern
ard B. johnson Post and Auxiliary
that evening. Mrs. Menzhuber, Of
this city, Sixth District president,
was the installing officer for the
Auxiliary.
Birthday Party
A belated birthday anniversary
was enjoyed last Saturday after
noon when Mrs. Andrew Sorenson
entertained the members Of her
birthday club. Whist was played
at two tables and at five o'clock
the hostess served delicious sup
per. She was given a GIFT in honor
Of the occasion.
Past Matrons Club
The Past Matrons Club, Order
of the Eastern Star, will he enter
tanned by Mrs. Ira L. Plummer at
her home on Grove Lake Avenue
Friday afternoon. The meeting
will begin with 1:30 o'clock
luncheon.
Circle Two Today
Members Of circle two of the
Congregational Women's Fedora
ton will meet at the church this
afternoon, Thursday. Mrs. F. w.
Koterba, Mrs. J. B. Geuting and
Mrs. William Cummings are host
esSes.
Entertained at Luncheon
Mrs. Paul Besser was hostess
Tuesday afternoon when she enter
tanned guests at three tables at a
luncheon.
Easter Dinner Guests
In a social item last week sew
eral errors were inadvertently
made and the corrected item ap-
pears herewith: Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Botz entertained at their
home for a group at dinner on
Easter Sunday. Their guests were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Botz and son,
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Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Botz and family
and Mr.. and Mrs. John Gritzmach.
er and family, Of this city, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Schaefer and daught-
ers Of Minneapolis, Mr.. and Mrs
Ewald Schaefer and daughters and
Henry Schaefer, Of Grey Eagle
Arthur Drager, New London, Elsie
Drager, of st. Cloud, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Clubhouse and sons, OF
Staples.
Brownie Scouts Start
Nature Hike Study
Brownie Scouts of Troop No. 1,
Mrs. Ward Roberts, leader, this
week start on their nature hike and
study. They are now registering
and getting their pins denoting
membership. They are also COM
pleting their sewing, such as en-
broidery and rug work.
Degree Of Honor Meetings-
A meeting of the Juvenile Degree
Of Honor will be held Saturday
afternoon at 2:30 at the home OF
the Juvenile director, Phyllis
wruck. The adult meeting will be
held Monday evening at the home
of Mrs. Dennis Mahigan. At this
meeting the members will work on
the Red Cross sewing project.
ID. Of I. Convention
A convention Of the Daughters
Of Isabella will be held in st. Cloud
on May Bird and 4th, at the st.
Cloud Hotel. Registration will be
in the hotel lobby from IL to 2
p. m. Saturday, May 3rd. Mrs.
Regina Book, regent of the local
circle, will attend as the delegate
from this city, and she will be &C
companied by a large number of
circle members. The banquet pro-
gram on Sunday, May 4th, will be
as follows:
Salutation: Mrs. Evaline Murphy,
regent of st. Cloud circle.
POSTMASTER: Msgr. Edward Nah
owald.
Music: Isabella Chorus, Alice
Barg, director.
Greetings: Mayor Phil Collignon,
Joe F. Hicks, Grand knight X.
Of Columbus, Ed. Stockinger, Sec
rotary Chamber Of Commerce.
Message: Mrs. George Kozlik,
state regent, Duluth.
The Ninth National Eucharistic
Congress: Rev. Rudolph Bandas.
Remarks: His Excellency The
Most Rev. Joseph F. Busch, Bishop
of st. Cloud.
Following are st. Cloud members
chairmen for the convention: Cen
eral chairman, Mrs. Patrick j.
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NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION

NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION
Notice is hereby given, that
special election will be held in
Sank Centre Township, of Stearns
County, at Community Club rooms,
on the LIST day of May, 1871, from
9 a. m. to p. m, for the purpose
Of voting on the proposition of is
suing to the State Of Minnesota
the bonds of said municipality in
the aggregate sum of $25,OO0.O0,
bearing interest at the rate Of three
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per centum per annum, the pro-
ceeds thereof to be used for the
following purpose: $4,000 for re-
building roads and to be number
ed and to mature as set forth in
the resolution now on file In the
office of the clerk.
Dated April Is, 1911.
Emil Polipnick
ado Evert Borgmann
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EPISCOPAL CHURCH RUM
MAGE SALE SATURDAY, APRIL
'26th, AT MAIN STREET GAR
AGE. Adv.
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Donavon Jacobson and friend
from Minneapolis came up Sunday
morning and spent the day at the
Ole Trones home.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton w. Stegner
autoed to Duluth where they spent
the weekend visiting their daugh-
ter, Lucille, now in nurses training
at st. Luke's hospital.
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AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER

10-Assassins Stay Jap mayor of Shang
American charge daffaires at Be
ordered home.
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DECEMBER

1-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. S.
merchant vessels.
5-Greeks drive into two Italian bases;
both in flames.
Twenty us. flying fortresses released
to Britain.
Commons smashes peace move 341 to 4.
6-Greeks occupy Porto Edda and pursue
Italians northWard.
British cruiser sinks German freghter
off Cuba.
Argyrokastron falls to Greek troops.
British bomberS smash at Bordeaux
U-boat raiders.
1o-British trap italian forces in Egyptian
desert.
11-British capture main italian base Of
Sid Barrani.
13-British drive italians out of Egypt.
14-Petain Gusts Laval; names Flandin, Hit.
ler's friend, foreign minister.
Greeks smash italian mountain defenSes.
16-Italians lose two more bases in African
war.
l8-Nazi troops mass at two Italian ports.
l9-British close in on Bardia, Libya.
20-Nazis reported flying Italian soldiers to
Albania.
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lists with defenes contracts. Under
such conditions, it would seem inevi-
table that the deraands on the WPA
will be vastly Eeduced; that the ne
cessity for applSpri@eing two billions
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achieved. If it were not for the huge
deficits and the great debt caused by
the WPA, we would be in position to
finance this vast armament without
quite SO heavy and without real
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OCTOBER

1-Congress passes excess profits tax bill.
3-Congress passes ia billion dollar war
spending bill.
reserVists.
Estate department urges Americans to
leave the Orient because of Japanese
crisis.
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
draft.
14-Joseph H. Ball named to succeed sena-
tor Lundeen, deceased, as senator from
16-More than 16 million registered for draft
in nation.
22-U. S. seizes 100 planes built for Sweden.
26-Hull warns axis to keep hands off col
onies
27-Joseph B. Kennedy, ambassador to
Great Britain, returns and confers with
29-DraWing for draft begins.
NOVEMBER
9-Forty.hour week abandoned on defense
jobs.
14-Eight theological students in New York
sentenced to year in prison for draft
evasion.
15-strike closes plane plant working on
military orders in California.
16-Navy announces it will accept 17-year-
old recruits.
18-Lewis resigns as chief of C. I. o.
19-House refuses to adjourn by vote OF
20-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. 1. o.
23-Attorpey 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
Joseph P. Kennedy resigns as ambassa.
dor to Great Britain.
2-Walter-Logan bill passes house.
6-British 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.
1O-British reject Hoover plan to feed Nazi-
conquered countries.
11-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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fill them. The country is in for a
period of prosperity; tn pugh, interest
ing enough, it is going to be practi-
cally profitless prosperity for indus
try-particularly for those Industrial
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Ex-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-Airlner 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
fGiant air transport crashes at Chicago
airport; 10 dead, injured.
18-Crash of U. S. army bomber kills six.
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NOVEMBER

2-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
8-Greek. troops tighten net on Italians in
Albania.
1O-Italians routed in mountains by Greeks.
Intense bomb attack made on London.
1l-Greece reports Italians fleeing toward
Albania
British fiiers drop bombs on two con-
tinents.
12-British armed merchantmen, afire and
sinking. fights off German Warship and
saves 20 ships in British convoy.
l3-Brltish destroy six Italian Warships In
port Of Taranto; two Italian supply ships
sunk in another engagement.
15-Germans drop 10000 fire bombs on
Coventry. England, 1000 killed.
Greeks capture 700 Italians.
16-Greeks claim wide gains against re-
treating Italians.
19-NaZS pound Birmingham.
20-Hungary enters axis, making it 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.
Bombs damage thousands of homes
Italians in rout after Greeks take
Koritza.
24-British vessel attacked by raider in At
lantic.
Greek troops advance in three sectors.
British bombers attack German and
Italian cities
26-Britain offers guarantees to Bulgaria.
Bristol raided by Nazi bombers.
27-Sixty-four Rumanian political leaders ex-
ecuted in NaZi purge.
italian feet attacked and pursued by
British.
29-Rumanian troops shell Iron Guard
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MAY

3-NorWegian army in central Norway
seeks peace as British and French with
draw.
11-Allies rush aid to low countries; Church.
i'll succeeds Chamberlain as prime min.
lister.
14-Dutch armies cease resistance.
16-Nazis mass for Balkan raid; believed
aimed at Rumanian oil.
19-Weygand replaces Gamelin as French
commander; Germans within 30 miles
of Paris.
21-Germans reach French channel coast,
cutting off British-Belgian forces.
22-Britain votes dictatorship; Churchill
given supreme power; labor and wealth
to be drafted
Allies check German drive on 200-mile
front.
24-Germans tighten net around British.
French and Belgian troops.
25-GermanS claim Calais.
France shakes up general staff.
27-Belgium gives up on orders of King
Leopold.
30-Battered British troops reach England
from Flanders.
Belgian cabinet deposes Leopold for
surrender.
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JANUARY

3-Third session Of the 18th 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.
4President 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
8-Third term not mentioned at jackson
day dinner.
Clarence E. Gauss named first U. S.
minister to Australia.
9-Federal debt passes AZ billion mark:
nears limit.
12-House votes s264.6l1252 for emergency
defense.
16-President sends proposal to congress for
financial assistance to Finland.
House committee trims "a millions off
first appropriation bill.
Senate confirms Frank Murphy's ap-
pointment to the Supreme court.
18-American exporters lose market Of $780,
000,0 600 year through British war ban
on tobacco.
22-Oficial Washington pays tribute TO SEN
ator Borah at state funeral in the SEN
ate chamber.
Earl lBrowder, Communist leader, sen.
fenced to four years in prison and fined
$1,000 for passport fraud.
24ESenate committee approves bill paving
wayifor $40 900. 900 loan to Finland.
30-Witness tells of plot TO link Dies with
Fascists with forged letters.
FEBRUARY
2-House passes farm bill slashed
5-Chicago gets Democratic national con-
Vention.
7-Senate committee approves bill to per.
nit additional loans to Finland and
China
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AUGUST

4-British fiers bomb Germans massed
on channel coast for invasion.
6-Italians invade British Somaliland.
british liner torpedoed in convoy; ASS
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-Nazi aerial Blitzkrieg covers Britain;
industrial heart bombed.
France indicts war guilt chiefs.
T-Germany announces total blockade al
waters around England.
19-Italy conquers British Somaliland
20-Churchill announces plan to lease bases
to United States on British territory in
Western hemisphere.
T-Axis orders parley after armed clashes
in Balkans.
3d. Germany and Italy force Rumania TO
cede part of Pennsylvania TO Hungary
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DISASTERS

MUNITION INDUSTRY BLASTS
Several munition plants t0orkig on U. S.
defense orders Were rocked by potUder ex-
plosions. Here is part Of the Splintered
Ureckage after blast at the Kenuil, N. j.,
plant of the Hercules Ponder Co., in
tUhich Al toere killed.
JANUARY
9Eighteen lives lost in Minneapolis apart
ment hotel fire.
1871 lives lost in West Virginia mine ex-
ploSion.
23-Army bomber crashes in rainstorm; four
killed.
FEBRUARY
15-Wild blizzard grips East; II dead
20-Fire sweeps circus in winter quarters at
Rochester, Ind 100 animals perish.
MARCH
12-Tornado kills 10 in South; heavy loss.
16-71 trapped in mine at st. Clairsville. o.
APRIL
1870 dead, 100 injured in train wreck at
Little Falls, N. Y.
21-Eleven killed when two cars hit head-on
in Minnesota
23-Dance hall fire kills PAT Negroes in
NatcheZ, Miss.
29-Tornado in Illinois kills 16.
MAY
24-Earthquakes kill 249 in Peru. 5000 In
jured.
JUNE
17-Eleven army hiers killed when two army
bombers collide in New York
JULY
2-Train hits auto in Chicago six killed.
1913 killed in coal mine blast at Sonman,
Pa.
31--4l die when railroad coach crashes
freight near Akron. Ohio.
AUGUST
12-Hurricane batters the coast of Geor.
gia and South Carolina; IS dead; dam
age in the millions.
48 Dead. hundreds injured in blast of
munitions plant at Kenvil, N. j.
14-Sixteen lives lost in floods in four
southern states.
15-Dr. Glenn Frank and son killed in auto
accident at Greeneaf. Wis.
23-Nine killed in crash and explosion of
army bor1ber' near Denver.
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FEBRUARY
danger of initiation.

danger Of initiation.
Within the next two years the arm
anient expenditures are going to Gre
ate an immense amount Of work.
There will be more ip' men to
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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 tUith Vice President and Mrs.
Henry Wallace, arrived in Washington
shortly tolLowing the election.
JUNE
24-RepubIcan 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
T-President Roosevelt unanimously NOM
mated for third term.
1S-Henry A. Wallace named for vice pres
ident.
NOVEMBER
5-Roosevelt and Wallace carry SO states
in national election, with total of 449
electoral votes.
Willkie and McNary carry 10 states,
with 80 electoral votes.
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DECEMBER

8-Chicago Bears defeat Washington Red
skins for professional football champion.
ship 70 to 0.
12-Three-cornered trade between Boston
Red Sox Washington and Cleveland in
wolves seven players.
16-Joe Louis wins over Al Mccoy on tech
nical knockout in sixth round.
17-Ohio State accepts resignation of Francis
Schmidt, football coach.
20-Captain Wood leaves Army coaching job.
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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 Hauand, Cuba.
JANUARY
22-Japanese warn America against exert.
ing pressure.
26-Japan tightens blockade on British
French concessions at Tientsir.
31-China proposes that Sky 4 boy be
named ruler of Tibet
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APRIL

4-Winston Churchill given general super.
vision over Britain's fighting strength.
9-Germans occupy Denmark, which SUBJ
mits, 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.
16-British expedition arrives on Norway
coast and is battered by German bomb
erS.
3O-Germans capture Dombaas. key rail
town in Norway.
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NOVEMBER

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

1-Russans start heavy assault on the Man.
nerheim line.
9-President sends Sumner Welles to confer
with rulers of Britain, France, Italy and
Germany.
16-Sweden rejects Finnish plea for aid with
troops.
17-British raid German prison ship in Nor
Wegian waters, rescuing 326 captives.
4-Prime Minister Chamberlain declares
Britain never will conclude peace with
present Reich rulers.
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A holiday toll of at least 400 vio-
lent deaths was recorded on Christ
mas and Christmas>Eve. Traffic acc
dents account s'7N It the fato
ties,
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JULY

l-Germans occupy two British islands in
channel. Rumania renounces Anglo
French guarantee of her independence.
3-British navy acts to take over scattered
units of French fleet, attacking ships that
refuse to surrender.
4-British report seizure of $50 French
naval vessels.
Waves of German raiders blast at new
British naval base.
5-The French government at Vichy, DOM
mated by Berlin, breaks off relations
with Britain.
6-French naval squadron at Alexandria
yields to British
9-Britsh and Italian fleets battle in Med
iterranean.
Waves of German bombers attack Eng
land; British strike back.
France votes dictatorship.
14-Churchill declares Britain ready to fight
for years.
l5-Gibratar raided four times.
British fiiers 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
Soviet Union.
23-France seizes Daladier and former
aides.
29-Germany launches mass air raids on
Britain.