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Illinois Valley News, Thursday, December 30, 1913
I
13- Italy formally dc*clares war on Ger
many. by action of Premier Mar
shal Badoglio
14— In great raid on Schweinfurt. Ger
many, important ballbearing fac
tories are destroyed, at a cost of 60
Flying Fortresses.
23—Melitopol, key city of German de
fense in south Ukraine, falls to Rus
sians
25—Russian troops recapture Dneprope
trovsk, important industrial city.
29 U. S and New Zealand troops land
on Treasury Islands, in Northern
Solomons
THE YEAR'S TEN
'HIGHEST EVENTS
SELECTE!» By: BAUKHAGE
(WNU Washington Correspondent )
I—MILITARY:
Russian summer-fall offen
sive.
< b) Pacific offensive (Attu.New
November
2—U. S. marines Invade Bougainville Is
land in northern Solomons
4—RAF’ planes drop more than 2,000
tons of bombs on Dusseldorf. Ger-
Ger
many.
• - Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, retaken
by Russians
7- British Eighth army advances In It
aly. taking eight towns.
11—Nazis scuttle ships, blast installations
to block harbors >f Leghorn and Pes
cara
13—Russians capture Zhitomir. Important
rail center of southern front; Chinese
forces report gains along Yangtze
river.
1» -Greatest raid in history blasts Ber
lin, dropping 2.500 tons.
23 Another huge air attack smashes Ber
lin. One-fourth of city said to be
razed.
Makin island, member of Gilbert
group, is taken by U. S. combined
forces.
26 Russians rip 37-mile-wide gap in
Nazi lines north of Gomel.
27—Marines take Tarawa, one of Gilbert
islands, after "toughest fighting" in
their historv
30 British Eighth army bursts through
Nazi lines in Italy, approaching Rome.
7/i<* year be^an it ith these ini
portant events:
January
1 -Russian»
capture Velikye
Luki, great railway center.
G 78th Congress convenes.
23 British troops enter Tripoli,
capital of Libya.
25- Advancing Russians take
Voronezh, Nazi anchor.
Surrender”
2« -‘’Unconditional
agreement of Casablanca
conference announced.
(ti)
Russians recapture Velikye Luki,
railroad center
4 U. S Department of War Informa
tion announces 61,126 service casual
ties to date.
12 U. S. planes based in Africa bomb
Naples, Italy
■Biitish only 40 miles from Tripoli.
I’,i itllh i nter Ti ipoli, Lib, an capital
Voronezh, big Nazi stronghold, falls
to Russians
26—"Unconditional
Surrender"
agree
ment of Casablanca announced.
1
February
Last German troops surrender tn
Stalingrad; U. S. Naval forces repel
major Japanese attacks in Solomons
area
6 Allied headquarters establish sepa
rate U S. command for North Africa.
9 -Last Japs withdraw from Guadal
canal.
Rostov and Voroshilovgrad captured
by Russians.
15- Russians take Kharkov. Important
base.
16 Cruiser Chicago is sunk by Japs;
U S Navy reports 15 Jap snips hit.
26 -U S tlyeis raid Kiska in Aleutians
2
March
3— Rzhev retaken by Russian».
4 Allied bombers destroy Jap convoy
of 22 ships.
11 British attack Mareth line In Tunisia
17 American forces take Gafsa in Tu-
ntffla.
20 Chinese check Jap drive In Hupeh-
Hunan region.
24 Advancing Russians retake Abinsk
and other towns near Smolensk
26 U. S and Biitish troops advance in
Tunisia.
31 British take Matouia and two other
cities in Tunisia.
April
Fot tresses raid Cagliari, Sardinia;
Chinese drive Japs back into Burma
1
4 Chinese reta ke < íhuchischuan
5- Allies bomb Naples. Kiel, Antwerp.
Brest
1 : Bremen and other north
cities bombed in "biggest
20 Russians attack on Kuban
li Japanese execute U. S. flyi
23 U S Naval forces occupy
islands, southwest Pacific
M.n
6
7
14
19
30
31
Lt Gen Jacob Devers is named U S
commander of European theater.
Bi < i !«• falls to Americans: British
first army takes Tunis
I ast resistance ends in North Africa
U S bombers raid Pantelleria. Itali
an Island fortress
Guerrilla warfare spreads tn Balkan»
laps admit toi s ot Attu
French Alexandria fleet joins Allies
J uno
9
11
1 tallan
Island fortress
12
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land on
Rendeva.
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Cat
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15
ans drive Into Ukraine
i enter Messina. Island of Vela
I
Ila in Solomons taken
tar.ee ends on Sicily
and Canadian troop» occupy
K’ska
Quebec c
reni
on war
ends.
British Admiral Mountbatten made
chn f of Allied Southeast Asia com-
tnand
Russians retake Taganrog. Nazi an-
( Moscow-Cairo-Teheran ).
(b) Formation of the VNRRA.
III—DOMESTIC
(a) Passage of the Connally
Resolution.
(b) Administration moves to
right (OPA, Food Adminis
tration, War Mobilization,
Stabilization, Economic
Warfare).
(C) Republican political gains.
(d Congress revolts against an
ti-inflation program (sub
sidies, reduced tax bill, res
olution favoring railroad
wage increase).
day»
ba»»
4—Explosion and fire in munitions plant
at Elkton. Md . kills 13 and Rijures
60
15—A tornado injures about 200 men.
and destroys 41 buildings valued at
$175.000 at Fort Riley. Kan.
21— Spreading floods in Mississippi val
ley take twelve lives, and leave
108 000 homeless.
24—Death toll in flooded region of lower
Mississippi valley reaches 17, and
160.000 are estimated to be without
shelter.
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January
1—New Year's Day football results:
Rose Bowl—Georgia 9, U. C. L A 0;
Sugar Bowl—Tennessee 14. Tulsa 7;
Orange Bowl—Alabama 37, Boston
College 21; Cotton Bowl—Texas 14.
Georgia Tech 7; Sun Bowl—Second
Air Force 13. Hardin-Simmons 7;
Ka/n.r Stadium—East All-Stars 13.
West All-Stars 12.
17—Ted W'illiams. formerly of Boston
Red Sox. named "player of the year."
21 -Dodgers sign Cooney. Waner. Sisler;
Yankees get Nick Etten
I’ ebruary
20—William Cox. New York sportsman,
purchases Philadelphia Phillies for
about $230.000 from National League.
24 Bucks Harns signs to manage Phil
adelphia ball club.
13—Greg Rice runs fastest 2 miles at
K of C meet, in 8:52.7
tstration; President Roosevelt gives [ 17—Philadelphia team wins the Golden
last minute reprieve to Max Stephen,
Gloves championship in New York.
sentenced to death for aiding escape
18 Detroit wins national hockey league
of a Nazi flyer
title.
7 -Gen
Henn Giraud, French com
20— Cornelius Warmerdam sets new pole
mander ut Northwest Africa, arrives
vault record of 15 feet, 8*? inches.
in Washington.
15 The Board of Economic Warfare Is
April
abolí ‘ i d. and its fiMctions trans
ferred to the Reconstruction Finance 1 8-Detroit Red Wings defeat the Boston
Corporation;
Chester
Bowles
is
Bruins, 2-0 to capture the Stanley
Cup.
named general manager of the Office
of Price Administration.
May
19 Worlds largest pipeline, the
Longview,
Inch,"
_____
running
from
___
_
Texas, to Phoenixville,
‘ ^..'.4ville, Pa.,
Pa is opened, 1 1—Count Fleet wins Kentucky Derby,
in 2;04.
21 John Lewis, as president of United
8 C < unt Fleet w ins Preakness, in 1:57.2.
Mine Workers, signs two-year con-
21
—
Bob
Montgomery outpoints Beau
tract with Illinois Coal Operators
Jack to. gain lightweight title.
A s elation; War Department reveals
65,058 prisoners of war in country.
June
28 Navy asks for more WAVES, stat-
. i' that enrollment must reach
23 Guilder Hao’g outruns Greg Rice to
91,000 by end of 1944; Coffee rationing
win 5.000 meter race.
ended by OPA: Blue Network of
26 Fianciseo Seguia wins Nat'l Col-
Radio Corporation of America sold. |
legiate tennis title, defeating Tom
Brown Jr
\llgU8t
23- Whirlaw ay, 5 year old race horse,
retired
2 Race riot sweeps New York, result
ing in death of five negroes, and in
July
juries to 500; Drafting of pre Pearl
Hatbor fathers set to begin on Oc
2— Patty Btrg defeats Dorothy Kirby
tober 1.
for Women s Western Open Golf
6 June personal income« totaled $12,-
Championship.
162.000 000, a new record.
10
—
Guilder
Hagg
establishes
8 53.9
13—Gasoline ration in Midwest and South
American record for 2 miles.
January
west reduced from four to three
13
—
American
League
team
wins
annual
gallons per coupon.
1 President Roosevelt calls for unity
All Star game, 5 to 3.
14 The War Manpower Commii*6ion es
among Allies, stresses "the supreme
26—Harold
McSpaden
defeats
Buck
tablishes new list of 149 critical oc
necessity of planning what is to
Whitney by 1 stroke to win All-Ameri
cupations for first priority in draft
come after the war."
can
golf
title,
Patty
Berg
takes
deferments
Samuel
6 78th Congress convenes;
women s title.
19 The army must be raised to 8,200,000
Rayburn speaker of house for third
men by January 1, 1944. and the navy
term. Pleasure driving banned in
August
to 2.861,000. the War Manpower
eastern states; Fuel oil ration re
Board announces.
8— Ryder Cup golf team, captained by
duced 25 per cent.
23 The Gulley Coal Act, passed In 1937,
Craig Wood, defeats Walter Hagen s
11- U S .111(1 Britain relinquish extra
to stabilize coal prices, expires. No
team.
territorial rights in China
move
made
to
renew
it.
9
—
Howard Schcnken wins the contract
12 -OPA sets corn ceilings at approxi-
budge master's championship for
mately $1 a bushel
fifth
time
by which men can
28 -Joint draft system,
.
25 —College All-Stais defeat the Wash
The exchange ship Gripsholm sails
be inducted into navy, marines and
ington Redskins, professional football
with 1 310 Japanese, to be exchanged
coast guard as well as army, an-
champions, 27-7.
i
i
\ ericans at Goa, Portu
nounced.
gese India; Churchill and Roosevelt
September
confer in Washington.
I ( lit llil I V
4 William Jeffers, director of the na-
6—IJeut. Joseph Hunt takes the nation
National income In IMS was $113.- '
Ron's i ubber pi of i am, resi 'ns.
al amateur tennis championship.
824 (MM).000 as c< oiipai cd w ith $94, •
6 Churchill asks Anglo-American alli
18
— The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the
500.000.000 in 1941
ance
Chicago Cubs. 2 1. clinching the Na
» Roosevelt orders 48 hour work; week 7- Republican Postwar Advisory Coun
tional league pennant.
minimum in labor shortage areas,
cil meets at Mackinac Islai d, Mich,
19— Detroit Lions beat the Chicago Card
rationed,
effective
foods
20 Dried
i'
a for 15 billton dollar third war
inals in professional toolball opener
March 1
loan opened by presidential address.
25—The New York Yankees take the
!3 Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
14 Col William Coleman is convicted
American League pennant for the
nds w heat quotas.
by a military court for drunkenness
14th time.
and careless use of fireanns, de
March
moted to captaincy.
October
16 U S casualties total 105 205. OWI
2 -U S and Chile representatives sign
3— Final baseball standings: St Louis
reveals; 20,104 dead. 28,226 wound
lend lea se a g revment
Cardinals, won 105. lost 49. for a
ed. 32.905 missing. 23,970 prisoners;
; Draft classification
411’ ’ foi men
percentage of 682 The New York
Rep
James
Curley.
Mass
.
and
five
between 38 and 45 ended.
Yankees won 98. lost 56, for a per
others indicted on charges of having
Lend-lease extension to July, 1944,
centage
of 636
accepted
retainer
fees
to
obtain
war
signed by President
8
—
Columbus.
O . American Association
contracts
Establishment
of
naval
base
at
Casa
24
team,
defeats
Syracuse. N Y . In
17 President Roosevelt reports to Con
blanca announced by navy
ternational
league team, to capture
gress
on
Quebec
conference.
25 -Chester Davis named food chief
"little world series" title
20 Army and navy chiefs of staff ask
29 A "critical shoitage of doctors is
10—Yankees win World Series, defeating
full draft quotas, and state delay in
developing.' an OWI survey reveals
Cardinals, four games to one.
drafting fathers will prolong war
24—Ossie Biuece signs two-year contract
23 Shoe ration stamp becoming valid
\ pi ll
to manage Washington Senators, and
November 1. must last six months.
Leo Durochcr signs to run Dodgers
8 Pi evident moves to check Inflation
25 Edward Stettinius Jr moves from
in 1944
by executive older freezing wages
lend lease administrator to succeed
and forbidding wat workers to change
Sumner Wells as undersecretary of
November
Jobs
state.
29 Senator» repoit on war tour.
10 F< < d cot ceiling prices raised from
2—Stanley Musial St Louis Cardinal
81.02 a bushel to $1 07
outfielder, named most valuable plav-
< Irtobrr
11 /X bill permitting the national debt
er in National League
limit to rise to 210 billion dollars,
4 Treasury asks for ten and a half
4
—
Spurgeo (.'hardier. New X'ork Yan
and a ink i icpcaling the 825,000 net
billions in new tax revenue
kees pitcher, chosen most valuable
s ilary limit becomes law without
in American League
7 Mi l ger of Western Union and Postal
Pi evident s signature
Telegraph companies is completed
14—U <»f S. uthern California and the U
20 Pi< -nt« 4 Roosevelt confers on war
• .■
f
11 Censorship of weather news is lifted.
and p<
postwai problems with Presi
12- National l abor Relations Board rules
19—Beau Jack regains lightweight title,
dent Camacho of Mexico
outpointing Bob Montgomery
that labor unions have a moral re
30 Soft coal mmeis of United Mine
2? -G eat Lake* defeats Notre Dame (19-
sponsibility not to strike in wartime.
Workers
kers
uni n
unti
reject
President
13 American Federation of Labor votes
14' m \eat s biggest football upset
Roosevelt
sevel s oid. i
1' S breaks re-
to take United Mine Woikers back
th Martinique
December
into fold.
18 Third war loan passes goal of 15 bil-
12— Chicago Bears win western pro foot
Max
lion dollars by nearly
__ ______________
four billions _
ball ch impionship
The 48 hour week for war industries
takes
over
1 F
13— Ned Dav regan * title as All Star
is extended to 30 more localities
National B 'whng champion
Zinc-steel pennies are to be discon
es 53
5
pi
tinued. Treasury announces.
f
'm ral
28 Wi'ucat coal strikes referred to
(or
11
President by War Labor Board.
29 -Jams and jellies are placed on ra
and
V
13
•f»,
tinned ist. other items raised, a few
low er ed.
it .i
hour
26
January
No* rmbrr
u nt
w ith
ooo mem
A FL
J unt*
I Na
•U’’**1
' cv
the
»( I
avy
V
Pi
aft
T
30
in
w hits
ed by
than 24 t
nine killed.
t be t u
supy
21
28
go
root
de-
per-
■ds Ches
A dmims
June
6—Navy reports 84 men killed when an
ammunition ship collides with tanker
off Port Arthur, Tex.
July
March
1—RAF and U S bombers continue
massive raids, hitting Dusseldorf
region
meets
with
Pnsident
Roosevelt
Churchill and. Chiang Kai-shek in
Cairo. Egypt. Agree to "strip Japan
of her stolen empire."
and
Stalin
6—Roosevelt.
Churchill
meet at Teheran, Iran, reach "com-
plete agreement on measures to
crush v»»
ciU3ii
Germany";
ini.zny , U.
v. S naval task
foice raids Marshall Islands.
7 Chinese admit loss of Changteh, im
portant city in "rice bowl."
Allies all "aid
9 Turkey promts*
short of war"; Chinese recapture
Changteh.
13 Russian troops regain initiative in
Kiev area;
British Eighth army
cracks Nazi line in Italy, captur-
ing 6.(MM)
14 President Roosevelt, returning from
conferences, visits Malta and Sicily.
!.. American planes raid Greece; U. S.
heavy bombers smash Jap base on
New Britain Island.
16 Prime Minister Churchill stricken by
pneumonia. German bombers sink 17
United Nations merchant ships.
17- American Sixth army lands at Ara-
we. on New Britain island, southwest
Pacific
8
-Japs withdraw
Guinea
1 Allied forces invade mainland of
Italy near Reg gu» Calabria
Allies capture Palmi Deltanova
-ITALY St RR KNDFRS UNUONDl-
T1ONALIA
S taimo, steel center.
falls to Russia
British trtxp»
est Allied ra
France
10- -Germans •eue
»cue Hot
11- Allies take Salem
surrenders
>4—Salamaua falls to V
and Aus
Italian forces
16-Ni voressiisk recaptutrd by Russians
24- Nazi troops evacuate Corsica
28- Biitish take foggla
May
1—Ration values of meats reduced 30
per cent.
3— U. S plane output for November an
nounced as 7.789
4— Arn.y will retire 25.000 officers, re
ducing total to 625.000
7—Biggest U S battleship, the 45.000-
ton Wisconsin, is launched.
10— Non-operating rail workers get sen
ate approval for eight cent per hour
raise.
11— Senate
military committee plans
graduated discharge pay for service
men. ranging from $200 to $500
16— President Roosevelt returns to capi
tal; senate committee votes to retain
food subsidies for 60 days.
17— OPA promises lowering of meat ra
tion points.
II—DIPLOMATIC:
(a) The four-power conferences
I hrriiibrr
January
Guinea, Solomons, Gil
berts).
Italy surrenders.
Air offensive against Ger
man cities.
December
22— Maj Gen
William Upshur, Capt.
C irles Paddock, both U. S M. C
officers, and four other persons are
killed in Navy plane crash near
Sitka. Alaska.
27— Three soldiers who became lost In
desert maneuvers near Yuma, Ariz.,
die of thirst.
28 Hurricane sweeping over Texas Gulf
coast kills 13 persons. Damage esti
mated at 10 million dollars.
.August
1—Ten persons, including Mayor Wil
liam Baker and Maj. William Robert
son. die when Army glider crashes
in demonstration flight in St. Louis.
2 —Five Negroes killed, more than 500
wh’te and colored injured in race
rioting in New York city’s Harlem
district.
5— Fourteen persons are drowned in a
"flash" flood in central West Vir
ginia.
28— Twenty-one miners are killed In gas
explosion at Sayreton, Ala.
30—Twenty-nine persons are killed and
150 injured in wreck of crack Dela
ware. Lackawanna and Western R
R. train near Wayland, N. Y.
Sfptember
6— Eighty persons killed and 17? injured,
when Congressional Limited of the
Pennsylvania R. R. is derailed near
Philadelphia
7— Twentieth Century Limited train of
New York Central R. K. is derailed
near Canastota. N Y . killing three;
Houston. Tex . hotel fire takes lives
of 50 men
17—Explosion of depth charge» at the
Naval Air Station. Norfolk, Va takes
25 lives About 2<)0 are injured
20—Twenty-five soldiers die when Army
transport plane crashes near Max
ton. N. C.
October
16—Crash of airliner 47 miles west of
Nashville, Tenn., takes 10 lives.
23—Navy announces that 88 seamen died
when two tankers collided off Palm
Beach.
November
23—Six children die in farm home fire
near Chicago.
December
13—Twenty marines killed. 29 injured in
Hawaii when collision of navy planes
releases bomb.
16—Sixty-nine killed. 50 injured in colli
sion of two fast trains near Buie,
N. C. Forty-eight of the dead were
servicemen.
REICH BOMBED
MATHS
J anua ry
5— Famed Negro scientist, Dr. George
Washington Carver, 78
6— President emeritus of Harvard U .
Dr. Abbott L. Lowell. 86
10—“Message to Garcia" heio. Col An
drew S. Rowan, 85.
23—Alexander Woollcott, 56, "The Town
Crier" of radio, author, critic, play
wnght, actor.
<w®SETTl£MENT
INSTALLATIONS
’JAP
AIR
FIELD
\
■ Vi* t-"'
February
7— Dr Attilio H Giannini. 68. physician,
banker, motion picture executive,
civic leader.
19— Lynn Overman. 55. comedian.
March
10—Poet and author Stephen Vincent
Benet. 44. Pulitzer prize winner with
"John Brown's Body."
20— Former governor of Illinois, Frank
O. Lowden. 82
28—James A Farrell, 80. president of
the United States Steel corp.
April
22— Luren D Dickinson. 84 former gov
ernor of Michigan, foe of high life."
28 —Maj Gen
Robert Olds. 46. com
mander of the U. S. Second Army Air
Force.
1
Mav
11 —Maj Gen Stephen O. Fuqua. 68. chief
of infantry in U S Army. 1928-32.
20— Adm Henry A Wiles. 76. Pacific
fleet commander. 1927-29
26— Edsel B Ford. 49. president of Ford
Motor Co
GUADALCANAL^
June
4—Maj Kermit Roosevelt. 53. son ol
the former President, on active duty
in Alaska
16—Dr Albert Bushnell Hart, noted his
torian and Harvard U. professor,
at 88
23— Rear Adm Neil E Nichols. 63. for
mer commandant of Boston Navy
Yard.
Julv
14— Actress Beverly Sitgreaves. 76.
27— Rev Finest Lynn Waldorf. 67. bishop
of the Methodist church, Chicago
area
24— Opera star Marie Gay Zanatello, 64
.August
1—President of China, Lin Sen, 79
scholar and artist.
15— Lieut. Gen William M Wright 79.
commander of two divisions tn World
War I
21— Dr
William Lyon Phelps. 78, of
Yale university
6 Fire kills six at id Injures 100 in Cltl-
C.lg.» bow i
Fvdetal government seizes 3 000 coal
-Ti irG : Ac \
21-
e w hen a
mines In which strike»
i*S air halting |
t ..
crashes in the jungle
production.
September
near
Sum
nam.
Dutch
Gu
lana
2 Election, of various state and na
Brig Gt:
26
Cai
6—Former ambassador to Poland. John
ile
Wash
i
and
nine
tional official« reveal H< publican
C Cudahy. 55
other arn
an army
trend
9—Rear Aom Walton Sexton. 66 for-
transport
;
that
came
down
near
3 I'nitcd Mu e Workers ordi' ed to re- ,
r er chairman of the Naw General
1
A a
turn to work as president John l.e»i,
Board
31--Twenty c >
:sons di» in sanitar-
accents rew w ’ ,e agree1
giving
21
—
British
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
luu tire ti
mine is $.»<♦ 74 for 48-nour ’
Sir
Kingsley Wood, 62
5 -Senate votes postwar cc aboration
F. bruni V
with other nations 85 to 5
October
6 Fifteen non-operftting rail: id urn-»
il--Eighteen l<
?s when a Liberator
reject wage increase offer« ed b\ einer-
6—Patrick Nash. 8<* political leader of
bomber
cr
tn
New
f.<u
dland
gency committee, Bernarc d Baruca is
Democrats in C< ok Countv. Ill.
18 -Twentx eig
when four engine
appointed chief of a new unit of the
11—Samuel H Church, 65 pre».dent Car-
bomber cr
î.'la ne into a pack-
Office of War Mobilization
re«:ie I -»titut«
Ing plant u ■ S<
’e W.iwh
National Latx»r Relations I
K>—Ben Bernie 53. band leader.
22 \ank« e C.
Gishes and sinks w
William Davis says board
Tagus nvz•r Lisibon Peitugal.
to wage stabilization pro*
November
bert Lehman is apnoinu
Manli
grrrral of the United Nat
0—Dr Je»x G BuUuwa. de»*loper of
and Rehabilitation Admin
pnei
■ a r ¡'’.I1
a* 64
2 Nineteen t odies recovered In coal
13 Interned Janane«» at Tule Lake.
31—Ren J W ( ) Her H —Penn )
er at Bear Creek. M t « 32—Rep H B Ste 4211 iD -Ala )
Calif . stage another demonstration.
21-Flood wate rs spread over a wide
1' S war expenditures from Julv.
area in G<c.'icia. Mis-i'Slppi, Ala-
BH0 through October 194 total 138
IVcenibcr
bama and
M it S.W
billion dollars
persons ren roved by Red Cross
18 X inv officials reduce budget by 13
lS-Msn - Mel ntvre. 65. f >r 20 yea
secre’.arv to President Roosevelt at
■ '
April
X
to treasury
A subsidy of 100 million dv ars is al-
14- E C
Billy '■ Ha»es 59 wellkrm
13—Omaha airport and village of Carter
I »sea ted to stabilize price A flour
track coach of Indiana V . the Re
Lake. low* flooded when Missouri
20 Jaruan draft call to be twice as
D:
W
A Brown. 77 Pre-b
river dikes break
large as War Manpower commission
tcrian minis ter. one ot founders u<
14-Seven Sea Scouts drowned, and
estimated
World
Counc
‘
11
of Churches
three
missing
when
cabin
cruiaer
25—Hous» votes against esters »n of con
Reteased by We >‘<T’
found«rts <fl Long Ii.and
Vft.tak
sumer subsidies.
1
COAL STRIKES
l he year dreti to a close tcith
these important events:
De< ember
1— Rnovevelt. Churchill, Chiane
Kai-*hck pledge to strip Japan
of imperialistic gain«.
Evchangi »hip Gripsholm ar*
rive« with 1.2J3 American re
patriate« from Far East.
2— Father«’ draft bill delay» dur
ing absence of President.
16— Pre«ident Roosevelt returns to
Amerit a following five week«'
diplomatic trip.
17— %rmy announce« successful
landing on Japanese base in
>ew Britaus.