The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1928, Page 9

MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1928 As if Copyright, NEA- April 10—George H. Wilkins and Carl Eielson fly from Alaska to Spitzbergen. May, 24—Dirigible Italia, comma Jan. 27—Dirigible os Angetes lands on deck of U. S. S. Saratoga at sea to refuel. NW S oe . ; as Copyriaht, NEA! March 13—Capt. Walter Hinche . . < Sh A EUR June 18—Amelia Earhart, with liffe nnd Miss Elsic Mackay lost at June 10—Monoplane Southern Cross reaches Australia after record: two male companions, files across “sea in transatlantic flight. breaking flight from San Francisco. Atlantic. Mov. 1—-Dirigible Graft Zeppelin reaches Friedrichshafen, Germany. after flight to New York and return. feb. 8—Col. Charles Lindbergh ends “good will” flight’ over Latin America in Havana. & JANUARY 1—Five U. S. marines killed, 23 wounded, in an attack on Sandino’s forces in Nicaragua. 3—One thousand more marines are sent to join ex- peditionary troops pursuing Sandino. 4—Gov. Fuller of Massachusetts urges revision of judicial procedure as a lesson drawn from the Sacco- Vanzetti case. > 11—Thomas Hardy, famous British author, dies. 15—President Coolidge arrives in Havana for sixth Pan-American Congress. m 16—Leon Trotzky, Russian revolutionary leader, goes \ _* into exile in eastern Russia. 19—U. 8. Senate declares the seat of Senator-elect Frank L. Smith of Illinois vacant. 21—Colonel George W. Goethals, builder of Panama Canal, dies. 27—Dirigible Los Angeles sets a new record by ‘land- ing on the deck of the airplane carrier Saratoga at sea to refuel. oo Blasco Ibanez, famous Spanish novelist, es. FEBRUARY 3~U. S. Senate arrests Colonel Robert W. Stewart for refusal to testify. 8—Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana is put on trial on charges of bribery. 8—Colonel Charles A. Linbergh completes his 17,860- mile good will flight over Mexico and Central America by landing in Havana. 14—The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, British states- man and liberal leader, dies. 16—U. S. Senate directs trade commission to inves- tigate the “power trust.” 16—Governor Jackson freed of bribery charge because of statute of limitations. 22—Herbert Hoover tells Senator Borah he favors strict enforcement of the prohibition law and opposes its repeal. 24—Japan’s new universal suffrage law brings 9,7C0,- 000 voters to the polls in a general election. 26—Moffat tunnel under the Colorado Rockies is com- pleted. 27—Five more marines are killed in a surprise attack . . at Ocotal, Nicaragua. 28—Dirigible Los Angeles makes 2,265-mile flight to Panama from New Jersey. 29—Marshal Armando Diaz, commander of the Italian army during the World War, dies. MARCH 1—Will Hays tells the Senate investigating committee of Harry F. Sinclair's gift of $260,000 to the Republican campaign fund. 1—Henry L. Stimson is inaugurated governor-general of the Philippines. 2—Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. .6—Charles Levine makes first non-stop flight from ‘New York to Havana. 13-8t. Francis dam in the Santa Clara valley of Cal- ifornia bursts, flooding the valley and taking between ‘200 and 500 lives. 13—Captain Walter Hinchliffe and Elsie Mackay be- gin their ill-fated attempt to fly the Atlantic from Eng- land. 17—House of Representatives votes $274,000,000 for new cruisers. 27—Ambessador Morrow's efforts to solve the Mexican problem reach a climax with the announcement that Mexico will recognize foreign oil titles acquired prior to adoption of the 1917 constitution. 29—England’s House of Commons reduces the age limit for women voters to 21 years. 30—George Haldeman and Eddie Stinson set a new airplane endurance flight record of 53 hours 36 minutes at Jacksonville, Fla. 30—Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio, opposing Her- bert Hoover for the Republican presidential nomination, drops dead at a political rally at Delaware, O. APRIL 4—Great Britain announces removal of the Stevenson rubber restriction act. 5—Chauncey Depew dies. 10—Illinois voters, in Republican primaries, admin- ister sharp defeat to political machines of Governor Len Small and Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chi- cago. 10—Harry F. Sinclair goes on trial in Washington for conspiracy to defraud the government in the Teapot Dome oil leases. 12—Sandino, Nicaraguan bandit, seizes two American gold mines. 13—KoehJ, Von Huenefeld and Fitzmaurice land at Greenely Island, off the Labrador coast, in the plane Bremen, making first successful east-west flight across the Atlantic. 1 of State Kellogg begins negotiations for a treaty to outlaw war. 15—President Coolidge signs the $325,000,000 flood con- trol bill. 16—George H. Wilkins and Lieutenant Eielson land at Green Harbor, Spitzbergen, after a 2,200-mile flight over the North Pole region from Alaska. 21—Sinclair is acquitted of conspiracy charges. 24—Chinese Nationalist army begins its final offensive against the Pekin government forces, going into action near Tsinan-fu, capital of Shantung province. 25—Floyd Bennett, Byrd’s companion on his flight to the North Pole, dies of pneumonia contracted in an ef- fort to carry aid to the stranded Bremen flycrs at Greenely Island. * MAY 3—Nationalist Chinese troops clash with Japanese sole diers at Tsinan-fu. 4—Senator Thomas J. Walsh announces his with- drawal from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. 11—Japanese take contro] of Tsinan-fu after a three- day battle with Nationalist troops. 16—House of Representatives passes the bill calling for government operation of Muscle Shoals. 18—Japanese government warns Chinese Nationalist leaders it will allow no fighting in Manchuria. 19—Explosion in coal mine at Mather, Pa., kills 197 miners. 23—President Coolidge vetoes the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. 2 peaniin 24—The dirigible Italia, commanded’ by General Um- berto Nobile, flies over the North Pole. June Té—Herbert Hoover wins G. O. P. presiiential nomination. ‘Francis dam breaks and floods Santa Clara valley, California; over 200 die.. ToT ie 26—Mrs. Florence Knapp, former secretary of state in New York, 's convicted of grand larceny of state funds, 27—The dirigible Italia crashes on the ice on its way back from the North Pole. 29—Congress adjourns. JUNE 3—Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian war lord, evacuates Pe- kin before the advancing Nationalist troops, and is killed by a bomb which wrecks his train. 8—The Chinese Nationalists occupy Pekin, ending the revolution. @—Members of the crew of the wrecked dirigible Italia, stranded on the ice, open radio communication with their base ship. 10—The monoplane Southern Cross reaches Sydney, Australia, after a 7800-mile flight over the Pacific from Pea Calif—the longest flight over water ever made. 12—Republican National Convention meets at Kan- sas City. 14—Herbert Hoover wins the Republican nomination for the presidency, getting 837 votes on the first ballot. 14—Mrs, Emmeline Pankhurst, famous British “‘mili- tant” suffraget leader, dies. 18—Amelia Earhart and two male companions land in Burry, Wales, in their plane Friendship, Miss Ear- hart being the.first woman to fly across the Atlantic. 21—Herbert Hoover names Dr. Hubert Work as his campaign manager. 24—General Nobile is rescued from the ice pack by Lieutenant Einar Lundborg. 24—Johnny Farrell beats Bobby Jones for the national open golf championship at Olympia Fields, Chicago. are national convention meets at Houston, ex. 28—Governor Alfred E. Smith wins the Democratic Hengelo for the presidency, getting £49 votes on the JULY 1—General Alvaro Obregon is elected president of Mexico. 4—Captain Alfred Loewenstein, famous Belgian finan- cier, falls or leaps to his death from his private air- plane over the English channel. 7—Chilean transport Angamos sinks in the Bay of Aranco, drowning 296. &—Chinese Nationalists announce. that the “unequal prise with foreign powers will be abrogated as they expire. 10—Japanese announce trouble with Nationalists is over, and recall 7,000 soldiers from Shantung. 1l—John J. Raskob named by Governor Smith as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. 12—The Soviet ship Krassin rescues seven of the wrecked Italia’s crew. 13—Captain Emilio Carranza, Mexican flyer, is killed when his plane crashes in New Jersey. 14—Herbert Hoover quits the Department of Com- merce and starts west to open his presidential campaign. 11—Alvaro Obregon, president-elect of Mexico, is as- sassinated. 19—Dry southern Democrats meet at Asheville, N. C., and announce that they will support Herbert Hoover for the presidency. 21—Ellen Terry, famous English actress, dies at the age of 80. 25—The Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Ang- lican church, resigns. 27—The United States recognizes the Chinese Na- tionalist government. 31—Gene Tunney announces his retirement as heavy- weight champion. “aa a AUGUST. 2—Captain Frank Courtney, forced down at seo in an attempted flight from the Azores to Newfoundland, is rescued by a steamship. 6—Thirty-one sailors drown when the Italian subma- rine F-14 is rammed and sunk by ® destroyer during maneuvers in the Adriatic. 7—Maurice Drohin, famous French aviator, is killed in an airplane crash near Paris. 11—Herbert Hoover delivers his speech of acceptance at Palo Alto, Calif. 19—Bert Hassell and Cramer, his aide, take off at Rockford, Ill., on a projected flight to Sweden. 20—George B. Harvey, former ambassador to Great Britain, dies. 20—Art Goebel sets a new record by making a non- stop flight from Los Angeles to New York in 18 hours 58 minutes. 22—Governor Alfred E. Smith delivers his acceptance speech at Albany, N. Y. 24—Sixteen are killed and 100 hurt when a New York subway train is deratled and wrecked. 25—Commander Byrd's flagship, the City of New York, sails for New Zealand in preparation for his South Pole flight. 27—The Kellogg treaty for the outlawry of war 13 signed at Paris. ss i SEPTEMBER 1—Ahmed Zogu, premier of Albania, is made king. 1—President Calles of Mexico announces that he will not serve as provisional president. 1—Certainty of the death of Roald Amundsen comes when part of his wrecked seaplane is found off the coast of Norway. 2—Hassell and Cramer, missing on the Atlantic flight, turn up safe and sound in Greenland. 8—Charles Evans Hughes is made a judge of the World Court. raps sweep the “barometric” Maine elec- tion. 13—Hurricane sweeps Porto Rico, taking 250 lives and making 700,000 homeless. 11—The Porto Rico hurricane ravages the Florida coast, with deaths estimated at 2000, 18—Governor Smith opens his first western campaign tour. 25—Emilio Portes Gil is named provisional president of Mexico. et Hoover opens his ‘first eastern campaign ir. 28—Notes to Paris and London from the U. 8. gov- ernment reject the Franco-British naval agreement. OCTOBER 3—French submarine Ondine is rammed and sunk by a Greek ship off the coast of Portugal, with the entire crew of 43 officers and men drowned. June. 24—Johany Farrell beats June Alfred Sma Bobby Jones for open golf cham- Democratic presidential nomini- + plonship. thon. 4 6—U. 8. polo team win its international match with the Argentines. i 9—Chiang Kai-shek is elected president of the Chi- nese Republic. 9—New York Yankees win world series from St. Louis) Cardinals, taking four straight games. 10—Governor Alfred E. Smith begins his second cams) paign tour in the west. 15—German dirigible Graf Zeppelin reaches hurst, N. J., after a perilous flight from drichshaf Germany. 15—Herbert Hoover carries his eastern campaign Boston. aoe Barr McCutcheon, widely-known novell dies, 25—Captain C. B. D. Collyer, flying the Yankee Doodle, sets a new record by making a n ° flight from New York to Los Angeles in 24 hours 51 min: utes. 27—Herbert Hoover promises to call an extra of Congress, if he is elected, to provide farm relief. 28—Figures compiled at Washington show 43,000, citizens have registered to vote in the presidential elec tion. NOVEMBER 1—Dirigible Graf Zeppelin reaches Friedrichshafen Germany, cn its return flight from the United States, 4 Nicaragua holds an election under supervision q U. S. marnes and elects General Moncado, the Lib candidate, president. 6—Herbert Hoover is elected president of the Unit States, breaking the Democratic “solid south” and roll ing up a record-breaking vote. 8—Mount Etna, in Sicily, erupts, wiping out villages and making many people homeless. a 8—Jose de Leon Toral, assassin of General Obrego} is sentenced to death at Mexico City. 9—Herbert Hoover announces he will make @ will t- -» o? Latin America before he takes office, 9—Julius Maniu, head of the Peasant party, is premier of Rumania. 13—Steamer Vestris founders off Virginia capes the loss of 110 lives. 19—Herbert Hoover sails from San Pedro, Calif., his good will tour. 20—Colonel Robert W. Stewart is acquitted of p jury in his testimony before the Senate oil committ 23—Thomas Fortune Ryan, famous financier, dies. 26—Admiral Von Scheer, commander of the G fleet in the battle of Jutland, dies. i Wis DECEMBER 1—Emilio Portes Gil takes office as provisional } ident of Mexico. 2—More than 160 lives are lost in earthq Chile. 3—Oxygen is administered to King George V of. land, critically ill with pleurisy. 4—Congress convenes and hears President Cool outline his legislative program. | 9—Bolivia and Paraguay break diplomatic tf | following clash of frontier troops. 10—Prince of Wales reaches London after hurried } from South Africa, from where he was recalled by, illness of ~ father, ‘ov. S—Jose Toral, aesaaslt sentenced to Ges.