The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1931, Page 7

Pro re hy Splea' a Pa a een ee ees r 1 ee ee rere fee d 00 00 re re ie _ Biggest News Stories how World Gets Smaller Capitals Drawn Closer To. gether; War, Deaths, and Murders in Spotlight New York, Dec. 31—()—The world ian will find as he thumbs the 365 pages of 1931's story. He will find that London and Paris and Washington and Tokio and all the great capitals of the world are @ bit closer together as he notes the quick reaction that news from one has had on the others, And likewise he will learn that Mos- cow and Siberia and Alaska and the outlands of the world have been drawn into closer communion now that it takes only a few days to get around this old earth. The big stories of 1931, the historian will note, have had a distinctly inter- national flavor, with world-wide re- action, as he assesses the political, so- cial and economic values of the out- standing events of the year. Take the Hoover debt moratorium, for instance. The effect was interna- tional, as likewise was the effect of other outstanding economic moves. War Takes Spotlight War always occupies a conspicuous} Place on the historian’s calendar, and So the Sino-Japanese conflict in Man- has become a bit smaller, the histor- | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, of ’31 PROGRESS OF SCIENCE IN 1931 BODES MORE FOR COMING YEAR Se " Oho aa eee Death of Edison and Michelson | Japener, Steat, sclentists—like _ Sir \James Hopwood Jeans of i Were Great Losses to Re- land Dr. Harlow Shapley of the Bees search, However |Vatd Observatory—have insisted on a constantly expanding universe that is | breaking up at a rapid rate. | * * & ———_—_—_____ By ISRAEL KLEIN ROM the progress} The astronomers got a selence made in/When Dr. E. F, Carpenter ine tee 1931 one may seg | Versity of Arizona Teported that the promise of even! Universe is not so great as they greater advance. | thovc'’ it was, that the distant stars ment in knowledge | Were not so far off as believed, He in 1932. said that the light from these stars Great events|Passéd through some light absorbing transpired and im-| Matter in the Milky Way before portant discoveries Teaching the earth, thus reducing were made. Off-| their apparent brightness. setting these were Interesting and important was the two irreparable | announcement of a new planet, and losses, the deaths | maybe two or three, made by Profes- of Thomas A. Edi- Sor William H. Pickéring. Dr. Pick- son and of Dr. A,'ering says the new planet, which he A. Michelson, vet- terms “P,” is almost twice as far off KLEIN eran investigator as the most recent planet, Pluto, or into the speed of light. from 5,000,000,000 to 9,000,000,000 miles Another serious loss was that of Dr. from the sun; that it is 44,000 miles in Alfred Wegener, a German scientist | diameter and that its year is equal to who lost his life in the cold wastes | 656 earth years. of Greenland where he was seeking) Astronomers were able to view the facts to support~his theory that the |Tare shower of Leonid meteors which churia will have its allotment. Here, again, the effect has been 10 Biggest Stories Of Year Selected (Selected by Charles Honce, Exec- utive News Editor, The Associated Press) 1—Hoover moratorium. 2—Sino-Japanese conflict. 3—Post-Gatty world flight. 4—Edison death. 5—Rockne death. 6—Alfonso’s abdication. 7—Starr Faithful death mys- tery. 8—Stratosphere experiment. §—Bryan Untiedt, boy storm hero. 10—Al Capone conviction. Runners-up: Change of govern- ment in Britain and dropping of gold standard; Lindbergh flight; Managua earthquake; Belize hur- ticane; Gandhi's London visit; Wickersham report; Grandi and Laval visits to Washington; Na- tional Credit Corporation; King of Siam’s visit; Collings murder case. world-wide because the contest is one of the greatest threats to world peace since the great war, and one of the greatest tests of the power of the League of Nations to settle interna- tional disputes. Two young men in a hurry, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, demonstrated what we always have been saying but hadn't quite been able to prove—that the world is a small place after all. In circling the globe in under nine days, Post and Gatty carved another niche in the aviation hall of fame. 1931 Not Without Deaths Death always has its place in the scheme of things and 1931 was no ex- ception. The year saw the passing of one of the great men of all times—a man who made the world a more com- fortable and desirable place to live— * Ok a serles of discussions among astron- omers. These already have resulted fin @ modification of one phase of the Einstein theory and may cause fur- ther changes among scientists in their beliefs about the universe. Hubble, at Mt. Wilson Observatory, that the universe is continually ex- panding and changing its shape, that Einstein had to drop his theory of symmetrical, spherical space in which he said the universe existed. that of Edison's because of the elc- ment of surprise. The historian of 1931 also can add another paragraph to the lengthening jchapter on the twilight of the kings jas he records the abdication of Al- fonso of Spain. And Murders, Too Murder we have with us always. The body of a young woman was found on {the sands of a Long Island beach and of the great mysteries of the year— still unsolved, it might be remarked. Papers screaming headlines for wecks —and then ended just where it had started. The picture now shifts to Europe where a Swedish scientist, Auguste Piccard, has gone up into the blue to find out about the stratesphere. An- other bizarre story of great human in- terest. ‘The historian may overlook the he- roism of Bryan Untiedt, the Colorado boy storm hero. But Bryan's action and his trip to Washington to re- ceive the congratulations of his pres- ident gave a tug at the hearts of many readers. No record of the big stories of 1931 would be complete without mention of the terrific assault against gangland The visit, last winter, of Dr. Albert | sewn the great relativist, started | It was on the basis of the discovery | made by Dr. Richard C. Tolman of | California Tech and Dr. Edwin P.| in a few days there had developed one | The Starr Faithful casc gave news- | Thomas Alva Edison. {culminating in the conviction of the The tragic death of Knute Rockne in an airplane crash overshadowed “big shot” of all gangsters—Al Ca- pone. continents are slowly drifting apart. | appear only once in 33 years and in , 1981 were seen to best advantage since 1866. * ee Progress has been made in tnves- |matter, the atom. Dr. Robert J. Van de Graaff of Princeton announced a simple and inexpensive method of. | building a generator capable of devel- oping 20,000,000 volts, which might be the way toward actual cleavage of the atom and even transmutation of ele- ' ments. Discovery of the last unknown ele- ment, No. 85, was announced by Pro- fessor Fred Allison of Alabama Poly- technic Institute. He calls it eka- iodine, and says it is so rare that only one part in a billion of its containing ore can be recovered. Chemists had much to talk about in the ward of a coveted $1,000 prize to young Professor Linus C. Pauling of California Institute of Technology, “the most promising young chemist in the United States.” His particular work is understandable only to a very few, yet great results arc expected. It applies to the structure of crystals and the invisible forces that bind ichemicals together. soe Oe Evolution maintained a high place {in the interest of scientists. | Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, director of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, announced that his investigation into the development of thousands of elephants’ teeth in museums the world over convinced him that evolution procteded stead- ily and not in jumps; that it devel- oped outward from a single germ plasm, and that variations of species were merely the results of an original creative pattern which was within the germ from the beginning. Furthermore, he added, man can be traced much farther back than the Java ape man of 500,000 years ago, to the Piltdown man of 1,125,000 years ago. In addition to all these theories and discoveries, science made real contri- butions to the practical side of life. Dr. J. C. McCiennan of the Uni- versity of Toronto announced a secret tigation into the most minute part of |Sueis, "C&r the boundary of Vene- alloy which, under low bes could conduct electricity without loss. Some day it may save the electrical industry millions of dollars annually. In Rochester a photograph was tak- en in the dark—to observers—in in- fra-red light, A the sensitised plate! os In New York, Alfred Lee Loomis, & ‘scientifically-minded banker, and ae aoa N. Harvey of Princeton lowed a “ pe - centrifuge” through which they can see the struc ture of tiny live cells as they are whirled about 8,000 times a minute, In the Bell Laboratories, at New York, Dr. F, F. Lucas developed the Most powerful microscope in the world 17,'° Magnify objects 12,000 times and aid in the study of metals. Synthetic rubber, after 25 years of research by a priest at Notre Dame university, finally became an actu. ality and is now being manufactured. ‘There was announced a new X-ray Photo method which will reveal the Sex of an unborn child three months before birth, and another X-ray pro- cess which enables one to view bone structures or foreign substances in a body in three dimensions rather than as a mere shadow. * OK Exploration was another scientific field that demanded great interest. Professor Auguste Piccard of the University of Brussels ascended in a sealed aluminum ball raised by a bal- loon to above 52,500 feet over the Swiss Alps, the highest altitude at- tained by man. Sir George H. Wilkins, using an old revamped submarine, was only par- tially successful in attempting to ex- Plore the undersea regions of the Arctic. He got within 400 miles of the North Pole but had to turn back be- cause of his disabled submarine. Dr. Herbert 8. Dickey, on his fifth attempt up the treacherous Orinoco river in Brazil, finally located its | zuela, . * ke OK Among interesting news events were the Niagara Falls break, the result of @ constant slow process of erosion, and the approach of the small planet. Eros to within 16,000,000 miles of the earth, the nearest it has come in the past half century. Science's greatest tragedy in 1931 was the death of 76 infants and the serious illness of 167 others in a hos- pital for tubercular children in Ger- many. They got what is believed to have been a contaminated dose of anti-tuberculosis serum, Science solved the mystery of the “poison fog” that swept over the Meuse Valley in Belgium lest Janu- ary, poisoning hundreds, many of whom died. The official solution is that sulphuric acid and other poison- ous particles emitted from the chim- neys of factories came into contact with the globules of water in the na-4 jtural fog and were carried over the valley like @ heavy poisonous blan- ket. AIR LINE GROWS Berlin.—In nine years the German- j Russian air line “Derluft” has carried 13,363 passengers, 729,648 pounds of |baggage and freight, 261,765 pounds of mail, and has flown a total of 3,003,- | 700 miles. Its first year of operation —1921—it flew 91,962 mil2s and car-j jbaggage and freight and 2,307 pounds; jof mail. In 1930 it flew 577,252 miles, | ‘carried 2,941 passengers, 137,704 pounds of baggage and freight and 60,042| pounds of mail. \ THE GOOD OLD WAY | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1931 AGRICULTURE WILL BEGIN COMEBACK IN 1932, HYDE THINKS Secretary Points Out How Vi- cissitudes of 1931 Robbed Tillers of Soil Washington, vec. 31.—(%)—The farmer's own sudden realization of the maladjustments which affect his eco- nomic disparity is counted upon by Secretary Hyde to start agriculture back to the prosperity of which it so largely was robbed by the vicissitudes of 1931. From June 1929, to June 1931, the Prices of products the farmers sell declined 41 per cent, whereas the prices of goods they buy fell only 16 per cent. Industry cushioned its price decline by curtailed production. The June, 1931, output of manufactured articles was 35 per cent smaller than the dune, 1929, while the total crop acre- Agriculture Aims For 1932 Described (By The Associated Press) Looking back over 1931, agricul- ture surveys a none-too-rosy year of falling prices for its produce. But the dawn of 1932 brings with it a ray of hope for brighter days— largely attributed to tlie fact that the farmer learned the value of or- ganization during the last year. ‘Through unity, farm leaders hope to improve conditions in 1932. ¢ Here are some of the aims of ag- riculture for the coming year as outlined by E. A. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau fed- eration: 1, Better functioning of the ag- ricultural marketing act through “ of the cqualization fee princi- ple, 2. Restraint and regulation of speculative influences. 3. More liberal credit facilities, 4. Stabilization of price, levels. 5. Solution of the taxation prob- Jem, 6. Cooperation of business with agriculture. age, which in 1930 had increased 0.5 per cent over 1929, showed no mate- rial reduction in 1931. Declined 25 Per Cent During the same time the value of agricultural exports has declined 25 per cent and the domestic demand fallen to an extent rarely before equaled in so short a time. While the nature of agriculture is such that limits the promptness with which farmers can readjust. produc- tion, the secretary feels that, hereto- fore they have not been convinced of the urgent necessity. “The situation has changed so much since,” he says, “that it seems impos- sible to doubt that they are convinced now. If they are, voluntary action are not, legislative action will mect with resistance.” Since surplus difficulties now large- ly are export difficulties and the com- modities most depressed those which sell heavily in foreign markets, Mr. Hyde says it is fundamental to do- | Kalamazoo, Mich.—Howard J. Coo-|mestic recovery to understand the {per equipped himself as his ancestors} progress Europe is making toward did and went out to bag himself a deer with a bow and arrow. He feeding herself. Dependent on Europe brought in a fine buck, killing him’ Because of tremendous agricultural with one arrow. expansion to feed embattled nations, 1931 Passes In O'Neal Confident Agriculture | Has Reached Bottom and Will Begin Rise | By E. A. O'NEAL President, American Farm Bureau Federation As 1932 opens I am confident that agriculture has reached the bottom. Already a tremendous factor is at work which, with wise statesmanship to assist, will pull the nation’s basic industry back again to the place where the full force of the farmer's influence can be exercised for the re- rium, How severe the suffering of our {farmers has been is suggested by the jfact that the year 1931 saw the prices of many of our staple agricul- ‘ural crops reach the lowest point snown in a generation. And yet, ironical as it is, the world’s supply of these staple crops is less \than normal, if the law of supply and demand could operate. Organization Has Value Out of the very severity of the blows which have been the farmers’ lot has been born the factor which Spells our salvation. We have learned the value of organization. |. The very desperation of our situa- tion has brought the various groups \together in a concerted effort to ob- tain national aid. Farmers have become organization |conscious this last year to a degree never before known, and it is through the power of organization that we vi- sion the rainbow of hope for an up- turn in our situation. In a unified agriculture we shall have sufficient force to bring about. adoption of the measures which we feel are needed at the present time. For somewhat more than two years agriculture has been watching the ad- ministration of the agricultural mar- keting act. Equalization Fee Need With an amendment to permit use of the equalization fee principle we are confident this great measure can be made to function to the full bene- fit of our industry and with the cost resting only on the farmers’ shoul- +} ders, Farmers also are. looking to the time when the speculative influences that restrained and regulated. The year 1932 should sae a great advance made in that sector of our field operations to establish equality for agriculture. Agriculture is seeking certain ur- gent changes in the national finan- cial structure so more liberal credit facilities may be available to us who feed and clothe the nation and sup- the war left the American industry pean market. But, as carly as 1927, the cultivated area of Europe, outside ited 338 passengers, 40,142 pounds of | should do what is required. If they | Russia, was back to 97 per cent of the pre-war average and the need for American products decline propor- tionately. The action by southern states to jlimit the 1932 cotton acreage is seen as evidence of realization at last that the law of supply and demand must be observed. There is further indication in the voluntary reduction in winter wheat; acreage for 1932, in country buying of fewer meat animals to fatten and in more dairy cattle going to slaughter. fay pt Lae Organization Sure to Help Farmers Out of 1931 Ruts covery of national economic cquilib- | Values Tumbled Like Dominoes During | 1931 to Bely Prophecies of Experts = ’ | Prices of staple commodities, in the \Currency and Banking Disturb-| aggregate, fell back to pre-war levels Domestic business during the first, ances AW Over World Have |initar tie year enjayen a ratiee tin Dragged Condition seasonal spurt, but in May a cloud. which il n 'm particularly omi- nous then e over Austria, with New York, Dec. 31.—(/ )—Values | the fir ial difficulties of the ‘credit tumbled like rows of dominoes, dis-|Anstalt, famous bank of the Viennese rupting the world’s business and bely- | House of Rothschild. ing prophecies of an early upturn in | were soon felt in Germany. |the economic cycle in the year 1931. | Currency and banking disturbances, national debt moratorium gave the jin various parts of the world have |world fresh hope, but the central jdtagged out the unsettlement to a/European situation had a backwash |Point which places it with the dep: on London, traditional world banking jSions of 1876-79 and 1896-98 as one|center, and on Sept. 20 the pound {of three of the most troublesome Pe- | sterling was dis! |riods of the past half century. \ base. (eee free ene j The year 1931 closes and 1932 be-| In gins with mighty efforts being exerted {both at home and abroad to unclog the channels of credit and reopen the he meantime, there had been a the United State: Railroad credit became imperiled, as revenues shrunk streams of trade. to levels threatening the status of | Conservative economists assert that |their bonds as legal investments for the one thing certain about a cyclical | institutions and trustees, depression is that it eventually ends,| ‘The sharp shrinkage of values and many leaders find solid ground spread to real estate, and mortgage for hope in the fact that the situation | defaults became a serious burden tq is being faced more frankly. |the banking structure. December of 1930 was widely des-| London's lapse from gold resulted {ignated for a few months as the bot-/in substantial losses tom of the slump. At the end of last | banks having large sterling balances, jyear Standard Statistics company’s! such as the Bank of France, and pre- jindex of industrial production in the jcipitated a scramble for United States United States had fallen about 30 per gold. This aggravated our own state Jeent below normal, as calculated on/of nerv | the average rate of growth over a! At this stage the deflation seemed |long period of years. to be working in a vicious circle, per- i The index in 1931 fluctuated, then petuating itself. President Hoover |fell in the autumn to a level about 40! proposed an emergency program, in- per cent below the indicated normal. | cluding formation of the $500,000,000 |, Stecl production, building construc-| National Credit corporation to. thaw Repercussions - President. Hoover's one-year inter- 4 recurrence of banking difficulties in ” to European , affect our business adversely can be! excessively dependent upon the Euro- | {tion and the movement of revenue freight in the United States in 1931 shrunk to levels not expericnced since the slump of a decade ago. Stock and bond prices lost billions of quoted value. out frozen asests of banks. This gave financial markets a sharp boost during October, but much of the recovery Was lost in the latter weeks of the year, when industry usually slackens. ply a huge portion of the raw mate- Yials which compose its commerce. We are asking that means now available be put to work to stabilize price levels and establish once more jthe honesty of our unit of value, the | dollar, : Attack on Taxation We are asking a national attack on the common problem of excessive and | unjust taxation. There are other de- tails in our program, which, when ac- complished, will be of benefit, not to agriculture alone, but equally to all other phases of our national economic life. This is not-the time for bitter op- |position, inspired by the self-inter |of small groups. ‘The crisis demar |@ sympathetic national understanding {of agriculture’s aims. Business must cooperate. Farmers are a resolute lot. ‘The | Very character of our arduous foil with | the forces of nature has bred a stub- jborn spirit of determination that |brooks no opposition once we are |aware of what we want. | And it is through the power of or- ganization that this knowledge is spreading That is why 1932 is bound to be a big year for agricuiture. PLAN MANY PORTS Washington.—There are now about Commerce reports. These fields are valued at about $135,000.000. Com- mercial airports, totaling 663, are the largest group. with municipal airports numbering 645 second At present more than 500 new airports are being plannce. DO YOU PREFER? Belgrade.—In censoring present day female clothes, the Archimandrite |Stankovitch, head of the Servian Or- thodox church, protested against the lindecency of modern dress. Especial- ly did he object against married women using modern dress to add to heir beauty. “Married women have 10 need to beautify themsele vives have no special reason to worry Ry A VISIT Pomona, Calif.—If George Belcher had been home, he would have ‘thought he seeing things. As it was, however, George absent |when Barnacle Bill came to visit him. |Not finding anyone home, Bill com- {meneed to knock. He knocked on {wincdows—and broke them. Police |eame and escorted him—not to jail, but. to the ocean. For Bill wa wandering seai The Diesel oil engine has no spark 2,000 airports and landing fields in the United States, the Department of * January President Hoover proclaims Lon- don naval treaty in effect. 3—Marshal Joseph France, dies. i 6—Ten of 12 Italian seaplanes led by - Italian Air Minister Italo Balbo arrive at Natal, Brazil, after 1,600- | & 1 poftre, 78, of} in 1917-1918, dies. 26—The New York World, Pulitzer pa- per since 1883, is sold to Scripps- Howard interests for $5,000,000. 27—Senate passes war veterans’ bonus bill over president's veto, and it becomes a law. 28—England, France, Italy reach an accord on naval limitation ques- tions. mile flight over ocean. Two planes | = crash, killing five. | 8—Pope issues 16,000-word encyclical | Knute Rockne, Notre Dame foctball coach, killed in air transport crash near Emporia, Kan., March 31. condemning trial marriage, di- vorce and birt Soni ei eague of Nations conside! = te ge Briand’s plan for a “United States of Europe.” : 19—Wickersham Commission report on prohibition enforcement Bo0s to président after 19 months’ rev search. t2—Anna Paviowa, 45, world’s leading ballerina, dies. @5—Mahatma Gandhi released from British prison in India after nine months. t9—Secretary of State Stimson apolo- gizes to Italy for remarks made by Maj.-Gen. Smedley Butler at Philadelphia about Mussolini. - ¥0—Pierre Laval becomes. premier of France. 4 ¢—__—. February a ——————____—___—_—. ‘3—New Zealand earthquake kills 150, injures 1,500. Fire tie Malcolm Campbe!! breaks d's automobile record by driv- ing 245 miles per hour at Daytona Beach, Fla. Record was 231. 6—Pundit Motilal Nerhu, Indian leader and associate of Gandhi, ¢—Gongressional leaders in accord with president announce $20,000, 000 farm relief fund. 12—Pope Pius for the first time ad- dresses the world by radio. 50, stage and ‘von Capelle, 78, 18—Louis Wolheim, screen actor, dies. ?—Admiral Edouard March | president Sanchez Cerro of Peru resigns under army and navy pressure. 4—Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin sign accord to end Gandhi's cam- paign of “civil disobedience.” 16—The sealing steamer Viking, on movie expedition, explodes off Newfoundland, killing 20. 18—President departs on Caribbean cruise. 18—1,800 prisoners riot at Joliet (III. prison. 21—Germany announces trade pact | with Austria. , ‘o7—Arnold Bennett, 63, British au- thor, dies. 31—Knute Rockne, 43, Notre Dame football coach, and seven others, killed in airplane near Emporia, Kan. Q oe ag April A “anton Cermak, Demoorat, elected aod mn. Cermak, Di i pes of Chicago, defeating Big il Thompson. ann Peneorin: 61, speaker of the House of Representatives, | ig Wakatouls becomes premier of n. ; ice Alfonso and Spanish royal family flee to France. 16—U. 8, warships Memphis an ramento rushed 22—United States Spanish republic. id Sac- to Nicaragua. recognizes new Max Schmeling, world heavyweight champion, knocks out Young Stribling in 15 rounds at Cleveland, July 3. 30—Mysterious explosion wrecks na- who directed German U-boat drive val chemical plant at Rio de Ja-| neiro, killing 150, injuring 300, ee | May ! EE) 1—One million Communists parade past tomb cf Lenin in Moscow's May day celcbration. 1—Former Governor Alfred E. Smith dedicates Empire State building in New York, tallest structure in the world. 2—George F. Baker, 91, dean of Wall | . Street bankers, dies. | 4—Mustapha Kemal elected to third | four-year term as Turkey's presi- dent. | G—President Doumergue of France | opens French Colonial Exposition at Paris. | 9—Dr. Albert A. Michelson, 78, re- | nowned physicist, dies. 13—Paul Doumer is elected president i of France. 13—Republican government of Spain decrees seizure of King Alfonso’s personal property. e 14—David Belasco, 76, theatrical pro- ducer, dies. 30—President Hoover makes Memo- rial day address at Valley Forge. te June —» le. ..| 1—Supreme court upholds freedom of press, declaring Minnesota press | law unconstitutional. | 3--Wheat reaches 57 cents a bushel, \qhirty die in fire at Home for Aged of Little Sisters of Poor, at Pitts- | burgh, July 25. lowest Chicago quotation since 896. /16—Al Capone pleads guilty to three federal income tax charges in | Chicago. | 16—President Hoover speaks at the | dedication of Harding memorial at Marion, O. /19—Lissant Beardmore, a Canadian, | makes the first motorless sail- plane flight across the English Channel. 20--President Hoover proposes one- year moratorium on debts. | bergh in Tokio, having left Washing- i ton, D. C., July 27, on flight to Orient. 23—Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take’ | off from Roosevelt, Field, N. Y.,; | Bight days, 15 hours and 51 min- i utes later they landed at Roose- | velt Field, having flown more 1 than 15,000 miles at an average speed of 145.8 miles an hour. |*6—Professor Albert Einstein ex- | pounds new theory of universe in- creasing in size like soap bubble. |Colonel and Mrs, Charles A. Lind- | \26—Trader Horn (Alfred Aloysius | Smith), 79, adventurer and au- | thor, dies. | | —* | July | 3—Max champion, Stribling. 4—Kight dead, 368 seriously injured | in celebrating 155th anniversary of nation’s independence. 4—Prohibition agents announce Al Capone's liquor system covers one- quarter of the country. | 6—Rudy Vallee and Fay Webb wre! | married. | 7—Dr. Edward Goodrich Acheson, | | scientist, dies. | 9—Soviets offer to buy 250,000 bales | |” of cotton turned down by federal | farm board. 13—Prohibition report for fiscal years | | ending June 30 shows more than; 00,000 arrested for violations, @ new high. 13—President Hindenburg orders Ger- man banks closed because of fi- nancial crisis. | |20—Albert B. Fall enters New Mexico | | state prison at Santa Fe. ;20—Seven Power Conference to seek | relief for Germany opens in Lon- don. | o4-Grat Zeppelin starts on scientific flight to Arctic, carrying party of Americans. |25—Thirty die in fire of Home for} Aged at Pittsburgh. |26--Princess Teana of Rumania is Schmeling, knocks out heavyweight Young on their round-the-world flight. |27—Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. R wed to Archduke Anton von Hapsburg of Austria. Lind- bergh start from Washington on flight to Orient. | 30—Russell Boardman and John Po- Jando fly to Istanbul, Turkey, set- ting new distance record, 5,914.5 miles. 31—Wheat reaches new low for all time, 48 cents. August Smee i i er |\—Wickersham report charges n: tion-wide breakdown of police system. 5—German banks open for normal business for first time in three weeks. 4 8—Cotton for October delivery sells for 6.7 cents a pound, lowest price since 1905. 8—Mrs. Hoover christens navy dirigi- ble, Akron. 9—Revolution breaks out in Cuba. 17—One thousand militiamen close 1,631 oil and. gas wells in east Texas by order of Governor Ross Sterling. 18—Mrs. Bessic McCoy Davis, original Harry Powers, “bluebeard” sksyer, ar- rested in Clarksburg, W. Va., Aug. 25. Yama Yama girl and widow of Richard Harding Davis, dies. 18—Paul Whiteman, 41. is wed to Margaret Livingston, 29. His fourth marriage. 19—Walter 8. Gifford appointed un- employment relief chairman by Hoover. |25—National government with Ram- | say MacDonald as head an- nounced in England. 25—Harry Powers, “bluebeard” slayer, arrested at Clarksburg, W. Va. 25—Yuko Hamaguchi, 61, former pre- micr of Japan, dies. 26—Revolution bisaks out in Portu- al. 26—Frank Harris, 15, author and critic, dies. 27—Big German.seaplane DO-X ar- rives in New York. | | ;U. S. 5. Akron, naval dirigible, big- gest airship in the world, launched at i Akron, O., Sept. 23. |31—Sir Hall Caine, 78, Victorian lit- | erary figure, dies. ee } September 2—King Alexander ends dictatorship | of Jugoslavia. | 2-Italo-Vatican clash is settled. 4-—Major James A. Doolittle estab- | lishes_ new transcontinental air- plane record, 11 hours, 16 min-| utes, 10 seconds. 4—President Hoover announces China will buy 15,000,000 bushels of farm board’s wheat surplus. |14—Aimec Semple McPherson, 38, 1s | wed to David Hutton, 30. 15—"Mutiny” breaks out in British navy, objection to pay cuts. 15—Mahatma Gandhi, in London, makes demand for India’s free- dom. 18—Hostilities break out between China and Japan in Mukden, Manchuria. . 19—David Starr Jordan, 80, first pres- | "ident of Leland Stanford univer- | sity, dies. | | i} i | Chinese clash in Man- | Japanese and a threatening world | ‘churia, Sept. 18, ! crisis, 18—Gene Tunney, V1 o | jplugs. ‘The fuel is ignited by heat 'gencrated by the high compression. 23—Mammoth navy dirigbile, Akron, is launched and makes successful maiden flight. 24--American Legion in convention at Detroit votes for national refer- endum for repeal or modification | of prohibition laws. ~ 24—Philippine legislature memorial- izes congress to grant Philippines immediate independence. | 29—New world’s speed record, 404. miles an hour, set by Flight Lieu. tenant G. H. Stainforth near Cal shot, England, | October | 5—Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Hern- | | * i “don fly the Pacific. 5—Senator Dwight W. Morrow, 58, of 1 New Jersey, dies. | 6—President Hoover announces na- | : _ tional credit plan. | | %—Daniel French, 82, famed sculp- | i tor, dies. 16—Divorce, never before permitted in | Spain, is voted by National As-/ sembly. | | 18—Hoover speaks at Yorktown cele- | bration. | 18—Thomas A. Edison, inventor, dies. | '\22—Premier Pierre Laval of France! arrives in America. 23—Winnie Ruth Judd, alleged trunk | | murderess, surrenders in Los An- |. geles. j |24—League of Nations asks Japan to, withdraw her troops from Man- churia. 25—A! Capone sentenced to 11 5 | in prison, $50,000 fine, and $100, 000 costs. |26—Charles A. Comiskey, 73, owner of , Chicago White Sox, dies. 28——William H. Gardiner, president | of Navy League, charges Presi- dent Hoover with “abysmal igno- to serve out unexpired term of her late husband as. senator for Ar- kansas, first woman to become regular member of Senate. 22—Constance Bennett, stage and film star, marries Marquis Henry de la Falaise de la Coudraye, for- mer husband of Gloria Swanson. 26--One thousand three hundred In- dians trapped in New Mexico blizzard, several die. | 28—Robert Ames, 42, stage and screen actor, dies suddenly. / ee December > 1—Mayor James J. Walker of New York pleads,for freedom for Tom Mooncy in San Francisco, 5-—Vachel Lindsay, 52, poet, dles.* 6—Lowell R. Bayles, 31, flying for world land speed record, killed in crash at Detroit, 5 T—Seventy - second congress con- venes with Democratic majority Winnie Ruth Judd, Phoenix, Ariz.. trunk slayer, surrenders in Los An- geles, Oct. 23. ance.” in house for first'time in 13 years. o sly Culbertzon aud Sidney Lenz ca ae start 150-rubber bridge tourna- November ment, oF *, 9-—John N. Garner, Democrat of | 3—“General” Jacob S, Coxey elected Texas, elected speaker of the | mayor of Massillon, O. house. : | 4—Lloyd George resigns as head of 10—Jane Addams, Chfcago _sociai Liberal party in England. | worker, and Nicholas Murray 6—Senator T. H. Caraway of Arkan- | Butler, president of Columbia, sas dies, awarded Nobel Peace prize. | 9—Prince Nicholas of Rumania { elopes and marries a commoner, Jana Lucia Deletj, precipitating a squabble in Rumanian royal fam- ily. i 12—Presdient Hoover announces next | | year's naval budget is cut $59,000,- | 000, | |16—Dino Grand, foreign mintster of | Italy, arrives in United States for | conferences with President Hoo- | ver. retired world heavyweight champion, becomes father of son. |20—Mrs. Hattie Caraway appointed | 1l—Harry “bluebeard,” Clarksburg. 11—Six convicts make prison break from federal penitentiary at Leav-. enworth, Kas., kidnaping Warden Thomas B. White. 14—Chiang Kai-shek resigns as presi« dent of China. 16—Republicans choose Chicago for 1932 national convention. 18—House of representatives approves debt moratorium. 22—Senate approves debt moratorium. 22--Fntire Chinese government re- signs, 0 's, West Virginia found guilty at Se sia 32688! -y ul ce od re mn $-J,