Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1924, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., WEDNESDAY, -DECEMBER 31, 1922 17 Yearof 1924, Almost Free of War, letnesses ManyProgresswe Steps Toward Peace Adoption of Dawes Plan Marks | JKS o 5 ‘, : Many National Leaders Cross Beginning of Ruhr Agreement ‘ e N Over Inio “Land of Rest” Elections in Various Countries Hold First ‘ FNY ) VV ) £y : ‘ Wilson, Lenin, Lodge, Brandegee, Colt, Importance—World Flight ' B e _ s |l ' Stinnes, Wallace, Murphy and Leads in Aviation. ’ . _ / ' i § Gompers Claimed by Death. BY EDWARD W. PICKARD, caused protests from Tokio snd boy- - 7 s d mine explosion at Wheeling, W. Va.. Danish-American diplomat; Sir Hor- ANY events of great moment |COtts and threats against Americans LE, fatal'to 111; April 30, destructive and | ace Nugent, English statesman. e Sk s Sl g £ P 3 i fatal tornadoes In Southern Statesi| In May: ‘N M. Byllesby, financler s i y el 9 ¢ ay , tornadoes in South, e 5; | an engineer; Dean C. Worcester, € these In importance un- | Mowul ONl-Iswme Settied by League. 52 3 2 May 28, Bucharest arsenal blew up|scientist; Kate Claxton, actress; Mr foubtedly was the formula-1 They insisted the agreement must ! = with great loss of life; May 31, 22| Hubert Work, wife of Secretary of nto onetrmy Saontion and putting |, Ul that any nation might ask = . 7 | inmates of defective girls' school in | Interior; Katie Putnam, veteran act- the pavment of German reparations|the league to arbitrate internal af- ; | California burned to death; June 12, |ress; H. H. Windsor, publisher of and indireetly the finanelal and ecos|fairs of any other nation, and the : turret explosion on_battleship Mis- | Popular Mechanics; George Kennan, Bomic Tegeneration of that country |leaEUe assembly yielded to them and 2 sissippt killed ‘48; June 28, tornado|traveler and writer; Baron Constant and Burope generally. The auccess adopted the protocol with such = killed 150 and did vast damage at|d'Estournelles of France; Sir Bd- ot piarohe Eenerally. The success|amendment. Assent of the legisla- Lorain, Ohio; in August thousands|ward Goschen, British diplomat; Vie- Of ihis seheme means much for the | {0C"0dies of all member nations, of Killed in floods in China and Formosa | tor Herbert, ser; Aaron Hoff- gotireichlizen wogld: | & been| (Cirae, was requisite, and as. time and 80 lives lost in Virgin Islands|man, playwright; Cambon, PR 3 Y by Americans, it adds| went on it became evident this could - hurricane; September 16, mine ex-|French diplomat. o e prestige of America. e bl Ve Eritian raris- plosion at Sublet, Wyo. killed 3%;, In June: F . C. Stunz of ars were few and not especially | pot P¢ BVCCNES R e “almost — September 21, storms in Wisconsin | Omaha Bronson, president Na- tmpontant internationally. The out- | corv iy ' SVA8) P AROG, IO o nada, fatal to 68; October 20, 14 killed by | tional Editorial Association; Peter standing ones were the civil war for| sAystralia and New Zealand were bit- = IR explosion on U. S. S. Trenton; No-|Clark Macfarlane, author; Frank G. the control of the goverment of China, | terly epposed. = ; : vember 12, hundreds of lives 10st in|Carpenter, traveler and writer, the attempt of Spain to conquer the| In October Great Britain and Tur- ReConiivetoimes o) earthquakes in Java; November 14| In July: A. A. Adece, Second Assist- rebellious trinesmen of Morocco, he | ey’ were at swords' points over the A and 16, destructive conflagrations in |ant Secretary of Stafe; Calvin Cool- suppression of a rebellion in Mexico|old Mosul ofl felds dispute, but they ! i ) ersey City, N. idge, jr., son of the President; Pal- and a longldrawn-out revolutionary | submitted the matter uvo the League ¢ . o mer Cox, author and artist; Ferruc- movement in zil. There were also|of Nations council, which ordered A | 7 = < £ cio Busoni, composer; Edward Peple, several of the always-to-be-expected | the status quo be maintained for the > N7/ dramatist. nternecine conflicts In Central America. | present. 2 Neerology In August: George Shiras, former On the whole Mars had rather an| Another international confreence - ; justice of United States Supreme idie year. For n time the alarmists|opened in Geneva in November for = ot and | Court; Joseph Conrad, author, ‘in ' | of war between the United|the purpose of devising some way of women who were claimed by death|England; ex-Senator C. Cownaend « and Japan over the Japan reguiating the trafiic in opium. during the year these were the more|0f Michigan; Mary Stuart Cutting 1sion clause in the new American| America was represented by Repre- famous: In January, Mrs. Martha |Uovelist; Mrs. Joseph Jefferson, wid- ration law, but the crisis was|sentative Porter of Pennsylvania and P 3 Foote Crowe, author and educator;|0W of the actor; Dr. Richard Green ssedsafely for the tima st leasty |omme and they presented a plan Rev. 8. Baring Gould, English author; | Moulton, educator; Senator Le Baron which may ultimately operate to former Senator Nathan B. Scott of |B. Colt of Rhode Island; Mrs. Lucy ction Holdx suppress the opium evil, though it West Virginia; John Leyland, Eng- |l’age Gaston, anti-cigarette crusader; Spotlight During Year. was fought by India and other na- - i lish naval authority; Alfred Gruen-jCharles B. Lewis (“M. Quad™), hu- Gireat Britian experienced the mov-|tions that profit from the poppy and = . S feld, Austrian composer; A. ¥. Adams, [ morist; Adolph Seeman, pioncer cir- £k under a labor govern-|its profuct. 3 impressario of musiclans; Dr. Basii|cus "‘:":zc—x‘r‘]*l":' ‘;;l"“’“‘:;'{" e nt which was fairly successful un- 2. o8l i Gildersleeve, American savant; for-| In Sepf R e i e i Tnbesl -rr:t:;e::e Signed Dum mer Senator W. V. Allen of Nebraska, |noted harness driver: Darfo ] ot WherauponblE s oustaa ) the ) i . George Cram Cook. author and play- |automobile racer: Maria T. Daviess, atives winning the parlia-| Sir Lee Stack, sirdar of the Egyp- wright; Dr. Maurice Francis Egan,|avthor; Frank Chance, noted base elections by large majorities. | tian army and governor general of . = diplomat and author; Nicolai Lenin,|ball player and manager; Charles Baldwin again became prime|the Sudan, was murdered by Egyp- 4 premier of Russia; Gen. Lee Christ- |Zeublin, educator; ex-Gov. W. I. During the first quarter of| tlan nationalists in November. The g oL mas, soldier of fortune; W. C. Fox,|Douglas of Massachusetts; J. W. the Soviet govermment of| British government, swiftly moving W e o &= former Minister to Ecuador; Grand |Schaeberle, astronomer; James Car- it won recoanition from almost | Warships and troops to strateglc po- e El_emb Duchess Marfe of Luxemburg: W. W.|ruthers, “wheat king anada; ex- T T ™t | Sitions, demanded an_apology, in- . CHAs. FaaRrvy Appleton, publisher; Theophile Braga, [Senator R. J. Gamble of South Da- 3 Statee bt the Seviet lehders | demnity of $2,300,000, punishment of v ; . Al former president of Portugal; George | kota; Representative W. R. Greere hied o Heca from their bol.|the assassins, and, most lm:orun:i. S Y CASTON Manlerre, leading realtor of Chicago; Massachusetts; Brig. Gen. C. E. Ik Drinciples. Socialists eaptured | concessions concerning the Sudan ap ? : ToE James “Private” Dalzell. ver, President Harding's physi- ChvecnmEnt of Fianee At Mo |iheaTent s ICHEAtIoN pro]?c( there. 7 i ! In February: Dr. L. S. McMurtry, |cian; Estrada Cabrera, ex-President Became premier. President Mus.|LrSDler Zaglonl-Raskiy: rexlgnod (il noted surgeon; Woodrow Wilson, [of Gua ala; Charlotte Crabtree Tha Feamal ot arkey e Dictaiar | Ziwar, his wuccessor, yielded to. s twenty-eighth President of United veteran actress; H. L. Bridge- Musaoliol 6f Italy were subjécted fo) (20 /busiiie. FHe Foet of fw Sha W States; Rear Admiral T. O. Selfridge; | man York publishe ; Btacks tiom politicer smpe.| o NERE SStaaI B0 S ECA bevo . Col. William Lightfoot Visscher, sol-| In October William Price, Ca- e i Iw a “Jn"‘_ which was claimed by both nation: B . NEE HARDING dier and writer; Pierce Anderson, nadian capitalist; -Gov. Warren Be ‘]-“‘ were forceq to more-liber: Among the more important treaties 9% a E Fr Chicago architect; Dr. Jacques Loeb, | Garst of Towa; Dr. W. A. Shanklin, es : signed during the year were the An- > Ty biologist; Rev. Mother Vincent de|edu In the United States the biggest|glo-American liquor search and ship s ,,"’"’fm e Clance Paul, superfor general of Gray Nuns | . t of the vear was the national|jiquor pact, a treaty of friendship e of the Sacred Heart; Bishop Alexan- | ciion, together with the sensation- | between Italy and Jugoslavia; an der B. Garrett in Texas; Bishop J. E. Democratic convention which re-| American-Canadian treaty designed oM o =, Gunn of Mississippl; R. F. Goodn .mf d in the nomination of John W.| (o suppress smuggling of liquor and Ges [ oR millionaire lumberman of Wisconsin; s and Charles W. Bryan, and the | narcotics; one providing for the evac- " e & Representative H. G. Dupre of Louisi- vendent candid of nator La- | uation of Santo Domingo by the %, ana ex-Representative J. L. Slayden it and Scnator Wheeler on a| United States military 1urvcs,\an:l = ? | . 090, of Texas; George Randolph Chester, al platform Despite the oil re-| commercial treaty etween Austr! == HONORED' — r; Mre. Lydia Coonle; Ward, i < Fve seandal that had laid the Re.|and Crechoslovakia. The Labor gov- 4 oF. . R aTter g % o G e 3 publ idministration open to at-|ernment of Britain negotiated trade NERAL In March: Ex-Representative J. M. ’\'(: SRt tel Foe kado; Junn 8 voters of the land, by a|and general treaties with Soviet Rus- e ) Levy of New York: W. . Les, Chi.| "WTIENt, journalist: Secretary of Asri- pluridits of about 10,000,000, decided |sia, but these Were rejected by the = . ? B cago publisher; A. H. Smith, president | St e Henry G Wallace; Laura Jean in the presidential office, with Charles | Power. eSSt e A o T A vl o P | Dol anthority: Gen, W. B Haldeman: |t Danglls, Greek soldier and states- | e =ty =54 : y - el ra ol e g JStates | commander of United Confederate During the long months of the s Affai 4 9 Yy [t Eoud e Broae iy o PXCRL |y e raiaii B. Forgan, Chicago Jusiness e United % 2 Set SIAh S OEee or; B | Bell orican d V!4I|y'\||:m|~l\vr| t;‘.mthml.‘.;-: Foreign airs E. Baker and G. W. Juck; Dr. W, 0 :-mk‘:v“)vd.\. rd Bell, American dip- XL languiaad B0C Iomedints - COPYRIGHT THE INTERRATIONAL STNDICATE. Stillman, head of American Humane | 2Wa% M S5 Tawis /publisiec: New time there beman| With the aid of the Liberals in Association; Dean X. R et S S aroaistuiay: o in secnritice on | Parliament, the Labor government of oty oof Hial O S deson BiEnee author S Until Autumn| Great Britain functioned through | traordinary demonstrstion and his | River provinces, and Feng showed [chlefs of the Federation of Labor.|La Follette became the candidate of | Fuessle. novelist; Barney Barnard N = K oE most of the year. It took office on|tomb has become the natlonal shrine. |signs of revolt, so the fighting was |and, apparently against his will, by & third party that called itself the|Ccomedian; Gen. Robert Nivelle, de-| In November: Kai Neilson, Danish January 22 with Ramsay MacDonald{inister of War Trotsky seems to be | still going on in a desultory fashion |the Soclalist party. Senator Burton|Progressive. He was indorsed hy the | ender of Verdun; Dr. T. C. Menden- |[Sculptor; T. E. Cornish, first president as prime minister. Its policies were|at outs with the other big men of the |when the year closed. K. Wheeler of Montana was given|John W. Langley of Kentucky was found | "2l educator; James McNally, Chi-|0f Bell Telephone S erator fairly moderate, but several of its|government, and it was reported that| On this side of the Atlantic there{second placeson the ticket. There |guilty of a liquor removal plot and re- | 380 Publisher; Sir Charles Stanford, | Cornelius Cole o3 California; Ferdi- e ent live “fock raisine, | bills were beaten, motably thoSe for | he was soon to be forced out of office. | was the long-drawn-out rebellion in|were several other candidates, as [ceived a sentence of two years. Irish composer; Dr. P. A. Baker, gen-|nand Peck, pioncer Chicagoan; branches except live stock ralsing| ;o aiq of the poor and for the na-|In September there was a serious re- | the state of Rio do Sul, Brazil, the |usual, who cut no figure in the re-| The Grand Army of the Republic met | °72l Derintendent Anti-Salogn|briel Faure, Franch:composer; Gen. came naturally with substantial rises| yjonalization of mines. It did not re-|volt against Soviet rule in Georgia | chief effect of which elsewhere was [sults. The evident plan-of the La|in Boston and elected Dr. L. F. Arens- | 2048U€; Glen MacDonough, musical [Anson Mills; Senator Henry Cabot {n the prices of gralns and other| gon pecause no party then had aland Azerbaljan which was ruthlessly | the increase in the price of coffee; | Follette following was to cause a|berg of Pennsylvania commander-in- | COMedy librettist. Lodge of Ma tts; ex-Gov. V produce. majority In Parliament. However, | suppressed by the Bolshevik troops. |and, early In the year, an attempted | deadlock in the electoral college and |chief. The American Legion held its |, A% APrili Charles A Munn, pub-|K. Kitchin of North Carolina; Presi- ight Leads people rebelled against the| ‘The Turkish Assembly voted on|zevolution in Mexico, which caused |throw the election Into Congress. convention in St. Paul, Minn., James A | ""“‘:I Scientific American; ex-Sena- |dent Samuel Plantz of Lawrence Col- Accomplishments. ties with Soviet Russia, which| yarch 3 to depose the caliph and | the federal government a lot of trou- | When the votes of the Nation were | Drain of Washington, D. C., being elect- | 10T, A Smith of Arizona; Hugo|lege. Apploton, W Montagu, ¢ 103 MacDonald negotiated, and on Oc-|gaholish the caliphate, and the next|ble. Gen. Plutarco Calles was elected | counted on the night of November 4 |ed commander. | Stinnes, German industrial magnate: | English statesman; Rice, the ctacular event of 1924 was| toper § the House of Commons refused | day -the caliph left for Switzerland. | President of Mexico and was inaugu- |it was found that Coolidge had car-| Congress began the ehort session on | \Villiam Bavard Hale, American jour- |atrical producer J. P. Morgan successtul flight of three Ameri-| him a vote of confidence. Parliament | president Mustapha Kemal worked |rated on December 1. Gonzales Cor- | ried 35 States, with 352 votes in the | December 1. President Coolidge in his | R2listi Louis H. Sullivan, eminent|sr: A. N. McKay, editor Salt Lak Army airplancs around the globe. | was at once prorogued and the gen-|hard for the prosperity of his coun- | dova was elected President of Ecua- |electoral college; Davis had carried | message urged economy and tax reduc. | Clicago architect; Leyendecker. | Tribune; Cardi gue of Irelan 1 fter their return the huge | eral election set for October 29. At|try but his dictatorial méthods |dor, Horaclo Vasquez of Santo Do- [12 States, all in the “Solid South,” |tion and measures to relieve agriculture, ‘{r_“" Elenora Duse, Ttalian actress: | Thomas HEE moving: plctirepros I ZR-3, built by Germany as|the polls the Conservatives Won an|prought about a powerful combina- | mingo, Carlos Solorzano of Nicaragua |with 136 electoral votes, and La |declared himself in favor of further re. | Jarie Corelli, English novelist; Lin-|duc . Stack, sirdar of sarations for the United States,|overwhelming victory, getting 413 of | tion of his opponents that gave him |and Gerardo Machado of Cuba. There | Folletta had won only the 13 elec. |duction of armaments, adherence to the | 901 W. Bates, American waterway | Egy Mrs. Warren G mide a safe (rip across the Atlantic. | the 615 seats in the House. The|mych trouble. In November this|was a rebellion in Honduras in the |toral votes of Wisconsin. Coolidge's | Permanent Court of International Jus- | ©XPe¥ Karl Helfferich, German | : virchild, former Sec- Liberal party seemed almost wibed| group forced the resignation of Pre- | Spring that was ended through the | popular plurality was neary 10,000, | tice, against joining the League of Na- | Joncomani I Sloat Fassett, ¥ of the Treasurs Duke of Bonu- out and the Laborites suffered heavy | pjer Jsmet Pasha, the Presidents |intervention of the United States, and | 000, The Republicans also won com- | tions and against cancellation of ‘“r‘ political _leader; G. Stanley|fort: Giacomo Puceini, Italis : losses. Stanley Baldwin was selected | right-hand man; he was succeeded by {a treaty of peace by the Central Amer- | pleto control of the next Congress. |debts owed the United States by other | 1hill Ps¥chologist: Charles 1. Mur-|poser. International to be prime minister again and on| pethi Bey. jean nations was signed. In Chile a Siaétans 9 phy, head of Tammany Hall; ex-Gov. | e o November 6 his government took military group came to the fore and | Two Women 3 E. L. Norris of Montana; Niels Gron, | (C°PTFi#ht: 1024, by the McClure News, Synd R A Ry S [0 ¥ aRakis Rtexyait caused President Alessandri to resign. | Elected as Governors. _— s, T Brings Arabian Crisis. However, the Senate refused his r Among the interesting results of ‘v,,",'"",f" | Chele whrbis radical religionists, the | ignation and gave him six months | the day was the election of two Industry and Labor COOLIDGE AD’”H\ISTRATION GETS The coamission of experts ap-| o the great rellef of France, 8 ibinin: SEudjEeBlen tsave In Burovk: SDHEAS AR SYATROTE . Ctneon § ey 7 ~ ; o the - | against the rule of King Hussein o o el 4 the rep: s commission | A uten Chamberlain was made for- | {Se Hedjan and that menarch abdi- i Mee Mishon “R:E:‘:f“\:to?:l:\: Labor in the United States had a BUSII\ESS LEADERQ’ B‘CKI tien. Charles G. Dawes | gjgn secretary instead of Lord Cur-| ..teq on Octaber 3 at the demand of | D stic Affai | Al Smith gave an impressive demon. | ProsPerous and in general a quiet year = £ n its work January 14| 203" Winston Churchill, a free trader | tne citizens of Mecoa and Jeddab. omestic airs | Stration” of his moprasity by oven. | There was not one general strike ; wages examination ermany’s ca- | ing determined foe of socialism, Was | i All, his son, was put on the | coming a huge Renublican plurality | Maiitained their high level and in many to pay. It functicned rapidly and | amed chancelldr of the exchequer. | hrone, Lut had no better success| Politics consumed a vast amount of |in New York State and defeating | 'Stances were increased. The New | such circumstances, ought wecision, formulated what has | A sensational episode of the campai=n | than his father, for in the middle of | time and energy in the United States, [ Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., for the gov- | YOk Central Railroad Co. increased the | CHICAGO. December : 31.—Business | 8reat own as the Dawes plan, and sub- | vag the publishing of the “Zinoviefl | Gctober Wahabis occupied M S5ils fhel - alle orerT Fon velnihove | exneitiln 3 G = pay of 15.000 employes on January 22 on the upsrade, bankers and busi- he fore, litions have pio- d it report on April 9. Two days | jettor.” purporting to be directions | pr Millspaugh, administration gen- | was little doubt from the first that| Seandal resulting from the leasing | CNiCAE0 teamsters won an’ increase ness men azreed in optimistic fore- | duced a wid 8 optimis rothis was accepted by the repara- | from the head of the Third Inter-|era] ‘of finances for Persia, was only |the Republicans would nominate Pres-|of naval ol reserve lands furnished | 0TUary by a ehort strike, and so did | casts for 1925, issued as their last | The unfavorabic commission, and on April 15 it was | pationale to English communists. 10| noderately successful in increasing | ident Coolidge to succeed himeelf.| material for bitter attacks on the ad- | S'eral other local unions later. Wages | word of the old year. | fewer now than gved by the German and British | prepare for revolution. It was Te- | the revenues of the country, his ef- | Jioth Sematos Hiram Johnson and | ministration and for long investiga. | ©f VArious classes of railway employe Optimistic statements of anticipa- |Jn recent vears ments. Belgium. Italy and Japan | pudiated by the Soviet government as | fores being obstructed by many pow- | ganlor Robert M. La Follette were |tions by senatorial committees. Albect | Were raised during the year by the Fed- | tion of increased prosperity in the James Sir president of M Iton Aprl 26 but Franc.|an “impudent forgery’ and an apol-|erful Persians, and also by the repre- | candidates in the preferential pri-|B. Fall, former Secretary of the In-|ral board. Oniy the textile workers of inew vear were accompanied by ad- |*h: 0., 'said v political reasons, withheld | ogy was demanded. MacDonald said | sentatives of Soviet Russia. In | 0GR M (M PECCTEREE L POTL T T hadly involved, and others | Maine sufiered a reduction, in Novem- | jurations to work hard, and “arn;mu" h h can be no the many notable men or; Charles L. Hutchinson, Chi- cago banker and art patron; Anatole France, dean of French letters; E. L. Larkin, astronomer; Dr. I. C. Seelye, first president of Smith College; Sen- ator Frank Brandegee of Connecticut; | H. H. Kolhsaat, former Chicago news per publisher; Admiral Sir Percy tt, British gunnery expert; F. was in the men spent much rying to devise measures to re- it, but this relief, for all its n com- By the Associated Press. to be vor seem to | other tin question SPPRowel forthe-thng hielng: he believed it authentic and so did| parch the Parliament deposed the 4 h 4 ber. Silk workers of Paterson, N. J..|against too much optimism. A sane 18 Alatticely ob (e by Mcanwhile American bankers estab- | the Baldwin government. But a little | Span. whe spent all his time in most no delexates and the latter only I‘vl’,’,‘{,;‘“"511’?;’;.5?“3253"' N e s et diiTthg e T S g e s S oatinctly on the up. hed unlimited credit facilities for the | laer some monarchists were arrested | prance, and put his infant son on the ‘, oo ,""";’ i ’.“"’;i“ "3-1 e ”’::’;‘: Prestdent.Ooolidge and rn"r"e“ ook | Workers of both New York and Chicago. | in most forecasts with confidence in | FeAson to believe that we arc ente v 4:\‘llr|‘ 1 gold nrl\"xv\ml lv:u\kh :ul:l [ndfiprl:‘r‘\ on llhl-mcharget:f lr;rgll]ng throne. Maj. Robert Imbrie, Ameri- ::"J;‘nfl’-’”"wn'}"‘ Fr’a‘nk“"“: Ql‘""d”“ tevs £o' Drbir fhe: sHfleY 10 Nustice = '!l;he American Federation of Labor | the railroads being able to contribute [I"8 @ new era, which will take i’. Morgan promised American banks | and sending ou s and other similar | can vice consul in Teheran, was mur- | °0 7 Pran T . o, ReSOREE the relortctr Taaschbe raise half of the $200,000,000 loan | documents for the purpose of StIring | Gered by fanatics on July 18, and the | 2% chalrman. The Wisconsin dele ito, S 3 rmany provided for in the Dawes | up trouble. Government had to | Bation Dresented La Follette's sub-|Proceedings are still going on. Com- Eingtaails sntet ferlons tookbiatin- | MEmEOs O oid e stitute plgcform, which had no sup- | Kfcss Eave considerable time to the| Gompers was reeiected president. He | oral suring a splendid tone to business in Seported Germans Allowed to Return. ::.r-:;:ny'r;?:“fl.?rga::d b:h;r:.e;;:vl"'h; indemnity and punish the assassins. |DOTt outsRe that delegation, and it| |0 00 (G, TRATGCR TO0, Preatares ?c,:;(r?..mr:rr t‘:: (};Lef;:i:‘\‘:‘;nln;ol\:::‘ “The country is assured a wise,| ScNCFal IS the foundation for this T June France permitted 210,000 de- | yvear, and so, unfortunately, did the!|German Budget Coolidge was nominated on the first [Ured by the Democrats and insuc- [ g0 Fo ), o0t able and helpful admiinistration at| “The wise and successtul admint »oted Germans Lo return to the Ruhr, | cost of living. In February there|Is Finally Balanced. ballot, the vote being: Coolldge, 1,065 ‘I"_‘I';(vll(flluhll(cmn. A soldiers’ bonus Washington,” said George M. Rey-!tration of our financial institutions | President ibert pardoned Germans | was a great dockers' strike which| Germany's Reichstag was dissolved | La Follette, 34: Johnson, 10. nic | bill also was passed. The President | Organized Labor nolds, chairman of the board of the| i a matter for which. bustece s victed of heiping the Erench in the | threatened to cut oft most of the | March 15 and & hot campalgn ensued, | 0. Lowden of Illinois was nominated | Vetoed it, but both Iouse and Senatc| Wins in Court Decision. Continental and Commercial National | can be espocially graterul Toduy £ upied regions. On July 15 Owen D. | country’s food supplies. But, through | the Nationalists planning to restore | for Vice President, but declined, and ‘;"""‘ndro the veto. An immigration| of etrikes in other countries the most Bank. “As a rule, good crops have|banking and mercantile credic eitn, nE of San Francisco accepted the ) the efforts of MacDonald and his col-| the monarchy. Tn the elections the jthe place was given to Gen. Charles, DUl DETBRS (IONETESS contained alimportant were those of the dockers been harvested and farm products are | ation is fundamentally sound tion of fiscal agent of the Dawes |Jeagues, it was soon settled. Social Democrats easily won. The [Gates Dawes of Chicago, clause that would exclude the Japan- | kingland, postal employes of Canada in | Pringing high prices. Thus the pur-| “Business in 1924 was fairly gooa® the same da$ the ed p g 5 cabinet of Chancellor Marx resigned | The Democrats convened in New |€5¢. and the Ambassador from Tokio| june, Silesian factory workers in July | chasing power of the farmer has been | considering the amount of effort thet t in London to discuss the oper- | Erench Change May 27, but he was retained in, office. | York on June 24 and did not complete | Protested against this and so vexed | and plantation workers of Hawail in |largeix restored. There has been de- | husiness man put forth ™ caid foav g tion of the scheme. Later they invited | Government Twice, Again in October the Reichstag was | thair work until the eafly morning |CONETess that the measure was | September. There was also a general | cided recovery in iron and steel and N. Hurley, former head of tie e rmany to send a delegation. and the | France changed her government| gjssolved, Marx having fafled to re- |of July 10—the most protracted na- “r"""'fid passed and signed by the|grike of union labor in Cuba in Feb- {other barometric industries. There is|States Shipping Board. and a Chieme ference resulted in complete agree- | twice. Premier Poincare was not in | organize the ministry satisfactorily. |tional convention in the history of = rcsident ruary. every reason to believe that the manufacture 1925 will be bhetter nt. France promised to evacuate the | sympathy with the movement to re- | Thereupon he cut loose entirely from | American politics. Nearly a score of | World FHght In July the Federal Trade Commis- |roads are not to be unduly hara our execntives themselves will specid vhr within a year. and almost immedi- | store friendly relations with Ger- | (he Nationalists. New elections were | names were presented for the presi- | Started by Four Planes. sion ordered all steel companies to aban- | or throttled in the future. Therefore, [ up and set a pace for the employes ately began to zet her military and civil | many, =nd on June 1 he resigned.|neld December 7. On November 7 the | dential nomination, with William G # ldon the “Pittsburgh plus” system, !these great aids to prosperity are in |oflice and factors 5 forces out of the region, | ¥rancois-Marsal formed a ministry | German budget was balanced for the | McAdoo and Gov. Al Smith of New | , Four airplanes manned by eight!which was eaid to work injustice to the | position to furnish eflicient transpor “Let us concentrate and put forth The Londen agreement was ratified by | which lasted only a few days, and | first time. since the war. o York leading. The former was cred- {'™MY Dilots started on a flight | Middle Weet. The commission also ac- | tation and buy liberally of equipment, | that extra effort that we all hold in re- the Parliaments, th man Reichstag | then President Millerand also gave up | The Fascisti won the Ttailan elec- | jped with support from the Ku Kiux around the world from Santa Monica. ! cused the Aluminum Co. of America of | materials and supplies. Their contri- |serve and 1925 balance sheets will speak picsed the bills necessary for the opera- | his office. The radical Socialists—1 tions on April 6, but the tide againet Klan and the latter is & Roman | UAalil. on March 17. 1In the Alaskan | questionable practices, bution to business activity, under for themselves.™ 3 Lon of the plan and the pact was for. | who are not so radical there as In|Fascigm rose steadlly. Signor Mat-|Cafholic, therefore (he religious is- |Lavds the commander, Maj. Martin | Organized labor won a great victory | mally signed onl 4 ugust 30. s the some countries—took charge and|teotti, a Soclalist deputy, was Kid- |sue became deplorably prominent, {200 his plane came to grief and the |on October 20, when the Supreme Court | & o nly scheme yet put forward upon which | made Edouard Herriot premier, after | naped and murdered by Fascisti in {other planes continued the flight. |of the United States ru'ed that Federal E[/ROPE S ECOIVOI‘IIC RECOVERY i variou: v\.:\m ;w::.:l \:i;:}; nu‘r:r: |‘:: | ;‘.::;:vdne"[l)om(;:g:emnwb hca;:) ;le(‘,l!d‘.lu‘ne and ‘Pren\lc' Mus!:“ni faced a | Democratin Aveid Troublesome Issue. | \\Ill‘l:gma:;'er\;wl:sllu(:;s u:d some e:-«couns must grant jury lrl(alz; ‘:n (‘t;‘n- 4 doption was bailed the wor ver as | P 3 September France | crisis, which he survived only by the 2 e ale e ences, the flyers made | tempt cases growing out of labor d the beginning of the recuperation of | turned out a balanced budget for the | most ‘enersetic action. He dissolved st;ru"g’flfl;":‘v’:lf":wn p‘:,lm,"ei‘[’,le":,‘l"l’,’) [their way to Japan, China, Indla, and | putes. REFLECTED IN EXCHAI\GE LIST 2 & uable services of her chancellor, M. | prominent supporters were ousted. | °¢ Sorkgye s ""’ G :“", “hf‘h‘;!'rhe two remaining planes 'ut‘ceas-i:::‘::ndnlo Siie Janer 1A Nuvewtier the | : Germany Rexins Dawes Plan Seipel, who resigned because’ of a|His opponents were kept fairly quiet | Jaanitely 1o favor of American mem. |78lly flew to Greenland and thence | National Grange went on record as op- | % ton“ion, moyeyed capital, afid ‘auring Payments. general railway strike for higher | until November, when, confronted by |ACHDitely in favor of American mem- i}, ~Aviators of several other na- posed to this amendment. NEW YORK, Docember 31.—The |the numerous crises that developed (iermany began making payments un- | Wages and other unsatisfactory con- | another attack in Parliament, Mus- gz’(;h“:‘ue{f;‘o',:',“ w‘:""’;“{,‘:h'r’; l’;“:“c‘;"n‘; tions attempted the same feat, but market _improvément in foreign ex-|0ver the reparations problem, prior to fer the Dawes plan _on September 2. |ditions due largely to the greedy |solinl frankly admitted the faults of | 21\ BHETTONT RS PETOIE LIS COFC fall failed. 5 changes this year was generally con- f‘;” Aadoption of the Dawes report Kext day Seymour Parker Gilbert, a | profiteers of Vienna. He was suc- | the Fascists and promised to punish | Yen-iof ' = WEOTILY vePorts fhd| Curtis D. Wilbur of California be- Bilinetine strued by bankers as reflection of the |Shifting ‘of funds from New York (o joung American financial expert, was | ceeded by Rudolph Ramek. At one | their excesses and to curb their ut- deh;“" Y e ot e e he | Came Secretary of the Navy on March progress made in the economic reha-|uofdon to take advantage of -the I ppointed agent general of reparations, | time or another during the year the | terances, beglnning with himself. S . el 14, when Mr. Denby retired. Attorney bilitation of Burope through the adop- |hiEher interest rates in the British ca snd on October 10 the big loan to Ger- | governments of Japan, Belgium, Al- [ o0 (0 an and not to declare for league |General Daugherty resigned March 28 | while there was in 1924 no such |tions’ of the Dawes plan. ital also was a factor in the advance. many was offered to the world. It was |bania, South Africa, Jugoslavia, Fin- n”k‘: e membership. at the request of the President because | torrific disaster as the Japanese| Three Kuropean currencies, Swedish| French —exchange, which touched promptly heavily oversubscribed in most i]nnd and Portugal also changed | Breaks Out in C) Balloting for a_presidential nom- his official actions were assailed and un- | earthquake of the previous year, the [Crowns Swiss francs and Dutch guil- |42 cents in March, the ‘lowest price Pountries. German industry responded | hands. China’s civil war for 1924 broke out | IN€¢ began June 30 and it was Im-|der investigation. He was succeeded by |1ist of quakes, conflagrations, mine |ders, returned to parity, and were oc- |In recent history, rallicd to 6.85 cent« Instantly, and the smooth and efficient Greece went further than that.|September 3 in the Shanghai region | Mediately apparent that there was a | Harlan Fiske Stone of New York. Sec- explosions, tornadoes and other visi- |casionally quoted at a small premium, |in the next six week: s following the speration of the Dawes plan seemed as- | Venizclos formed a ministry in Jan- | between the armles of Chekiang and | deadloek, for mneither McAdoo nor |retary of Agriculture Wallace died | tations was long and the loss of life | The Canadian dollar also was quoted |anmouncement that J. b. Morgan & Co, Stred. uary, was succeeded by Karfandaris | Kiangsu provinces, the former being [SMith would give way unless the|October 25, and Howard Gore Was|was heavy. The Red Cross was kept |at & premium for the first time since |had placed a credit of $100,000,000 at " Several attempts were made during | in February, and he was followed by { backed by Gen. Wu Pei-fu, miljtary |Other would do the same. Day after |named to fill the post until March 4. busy throughout the year. The worst [1922. the disposal of the Bank of France in the year to forward the further re-| Papanastasion in March.% On March | chleftain of the Peking government, {42y the voting went on, most of the Watoin Nased of these occurrences were as follows: eIl a B etk e order to permit it to combat the offen- luetion of armamnets by agreement, |25 the assembly, ignoring the pro-|and the latter having the moral sup- | Other aspirants dropping out one by Wavrem ‘ame TRRUATE. 3. Jeotosion qp Htavch feco] s i b e 3 |sive against the franc, which had becn but nothing definite was accom- | tests of Great Britain, voted to de-|port of Marshal Chang Tso-lin of | one. As the one hundredth ballot | Ambassador to Mexico. tory in Pekin, TIL, 36 killed; January | Sterling exchange, which had been |launched by speculative Interests, tak- Jlished until September, when Prime|pose the Glucksbours dynasty and ; Manchuria. The Chekiang troops | drew near the vote for John W.| & Friendly relations with Mexico hav- | 19, British submarine with crew of 43 fduoted as Jow as $4.24% last January, |ing advantage of France's vulnerable Minister MacDonald of Great Brit-|established a republic, subject to a|were victorious after a long cam- |Davis began to grow. On the one |ing been restored, Charles B. Warren | suynk in collision; January 15 and 16,]rose above $4.70 this month to within a flngnclfn position. So rapid was_the S bmitted to the League of Na- | plebiscite. The people voted in favor paign, but meanwhils Chang had |hundred and third ballott the break | Was appointed Ambassador in February. | severe earthquakes in Japan, India |Couple of cents of the peak price estab- ladvance in this currency that the Bank Gions his plan for an international | of the republic on April 13 and the | moved on Peking and defeated his old | came and Davis obtained a nvi]urlly.’l‘"l" he resigned, and James R. Shef- | and Colombia; January 26, coal mine |lished in the Winter of 1922-23, which |of France found it necessary to sell jgreement for security, arbitration |royal family went into exile. enemy Wu, partly through the treach- [ The nomination was then made unan- | field of New York was named. CyTus |explosion at Shanktown, ; do|was the nearest approach to parity|francs and go short of its own cur and disarmament. The discussion | ary of the latder's chief general, Feng |imous. Out of a dozen names put | Woods, Ambassador to Japan, resigned | killed; February 5, 42 killed when |since the war. The final stage of this |rency in order to prevert the disrupe \was heated, and Japan refused to ad- S | us its convention in EI Paso, Tex |to the general prosperity, sound cred- | int0 a period of prosperity. Confi- Communism and the labor party move- |it, improved agricultural conditions|d€nce in the sanity and solidarity ment were again squelched, and Samuel | and a good tone to business in gen- | °f Our national administration, in- Loatain Dewis Yu-hsiang. President Tsao Kun resign- | up for vice presidency Mr. Davis|in May, and in August Edgar A. Ban- [pond broke through into iron mine |advance, coming at a time when the |tion of French export business. Te= o because the plan prohibited|@ccurs January 1. ed, Feng took possession of Peking, |selected that of Charles W. Bryan, |croft of Chicago was given that post. |near Crosky, Minn.; March ex-|normal course of exchange is down- |ward the close of the year the reey hete based on internal policies of | Nikolal Lenin, the master mind of | but was practically eliminated by |Governor of Nebraska and brother of | HUgh S. Gibson was made Minister to | plosion of TNT at Nixon, N. J., killed | ward, due to unusually heavy grain|seemed stabilized between 5% and 5% lons. Jer delegates did mot con-|Soviet Russia, who had been inca-|Chang, and the Manchurian made |Willilam J., and he was nominated. |Switzerland in March. 18; March 4, San Jose, Costa Rica,|and cotton shipments, represented the |cents. Teal the fact that they were refer-|pacitated for a long time, died: on |Tuan Chijui head of a_provisional s Gov. McCray of Indiana got ifto finan- | half wrecked by quake; March & |return of British capital, which had| The omly important new coin to ring especially to the Japanese oX:| January 21 and Alexis L Rykov was | overnment, Meanwhile Wu had not | Ln Follette Enters : _ | cial difficulties and was convicted of us- | mine explosion at Castle Gate, Utah.| migrated to America when the labor |make its appearance in international Stusion clanve of the American immi-| chosen to cuccecd him as premier. | civen up entirely, bul transterred his | Dists as Independont. inz the mails to defraud and aentcnced | ¥illad 175 M--ch 98 londslide near covernment came into power in Eng- |trading was the Polish zloty, quoted Sration ahick alrcady had.The {unersl of Leain Was an eXx- ,op-ratioss to the Ya-g:sc and Tedow | voase hle was Soing on Senator (10 iv 2, BB L VS ] Sl B, aniny, amsaten 3005 ADTiL it b feal or adierse legisla-4w.ound 191-5 ccats.