The Cedarville Herald, Volume 53, Numbers 1-26

THE renARVRXE IIERA.I D, JANUARY 8, i m ' EVENTSOF1929 PASSINREVIEW (fentinucd from page 3) 10,000 laborers were to be transported from that’country to France. In October I5riand> support in the chamber of deputies dwindled, and on the 22nd of that month be and his . cabinet resigned. Eduard Daladier tried In vain to form a new govern- rnent, und the job was then done suc­ cessfully by Andre Tardieu. Briand remained In the cabinet as foreign minister and it seemed that bis poli­ cies would be carried forward by the Tardieu.government. Fascism Grow* * Stronger. Premier Mussolini of Italy, quite scornful of his detractors, further strengthened the power of Fascism, if that were possible. The new legisla­ ture was set up eariy in the year, and In April the Duce assumed full control of the regulation of capital And labor. Not having much confidence In disarm­ ament. conferences, the premier took steps to make Italy’s armed forces mare.efflclent and declared that while the nation desired peace with all the world, i t was spiritually prepared to face any crisis. The settlement of the old quarrel with the Vatican was a feather ..in his cap, but later develop­ ments showed that much bitterness re­ mained. In December the king and queen paid their first visit to Pope Plus XI In the Vatican. * Afghanistan achieved the front page at various times during the year. King Amunallah found that the western re- iforins he tried to introduce were caus­ ing such violent opposition that he re­ scinded them in January and abdicated In favor of his brother. The rebellious .tribesmen were still not satisfied, and under the leadership of one Habibullah Khan, they captured Kabul, the capi- tal, and drove out the new king. Ha- bihullah,' who really was Bacha Sakao, a bandit, assumed the crown and last­ ed until October, when Nadir Khan oq- , cupied Kabul and proclaimed himself king. Bacha was taken prisoner and executed. • Race War in Palestine. Palestine was the scene of a bloody uprislng-of the Arabs against the Jews in August and many of the latter race were massacred in Jerusalm and other places. The immediate cause of the , outbreak was a dispute over the Wall­ ing Wall which the Jews have used for centqries as a place of prayer; but it goes back to the deep resentment of \ the Arab against the British man­ date and the predominance of Jewish Influence In the government of a coun­ try which they consider belongs to them. The local authorities were un­ able to stop the fighting, so- the Brit­ ish stepped in with warships; troops and airplanes and speedily forced the belligerents to cease their killings and depredations. The situation in the ' Holy Band .was still considered so se­ rious that Che British government sent out a commission of inquiry!„ China’s Nationalist government, be- , sides the quarrel with Russia, had to contend with the seemingly unending civil warfare that keeps the huge na- . tlon relatively powerless. This con­ flict died down and revived several times during the twelvemonth, .and In December reached perhaps its most se­ rious stage.' Mexico’s annual revolutionary'out­ break come In March and spread rap­ idly in. eight or ten' states, becoming really formidable though belittled by President Portes Gil* The rebels were under the general leadership, of Esco­ bar, while General Calles, minister of war, led the government; forces in per? son. For weeks there was bloody fighting in Orizaba, Monterey, Juarez, Manzanillo, Jimlnez and Torpeon, with fortune favoring first one/ side and then the other. Gen. Jesus Aguirre, rebel leader In Vera Cruz, was cap. tured and executed, and. on April 3 the federal forces won a great victory at Reforms. By the end of "April the rebellion was In collapse, and! generals by the dozen were fleeing across the United States border. With this off Its hands, the government proceeded to squelch the “religious rebels” who had been active along the west coast. The Presidential election was held on November 17 and resulted In vic­ tory for Pascual Ortiz Rubio, candi­ date of the Grand Revolutionary or government party, over Vasconcelos of the Anti-Re-election party. The elec­ tion itself was reasonably quiet but was preceded by sanguinary riots in many cities. DOMESTIC D URING the last two months of its life the Seventieth congress parsed a number of necessary and wise measures, Including the army and navy supply bills, the bill authorizing the construction of fifteen cruisers, and one providing for deportation of alien < gunmen and bootleggers. Resolutions were adopted ordering a. survey of the Nicaragua canal route and giving fed­ eral approval to the Chicago centen­ nial exposition of 1933, and the senate ratified the Rellogg-Brjand pact out­ lawing war, Another measure passed both bouses that was looked upon by a considerable part of the citizenry as neither necessary nor wise. This was the Jones bill to punish offenders against the Volstead low by a maxi­ mum of $10,000 fine or five years in prison or both. The bitter opposition of the wets was appeased somewhat by an ame. bnent stating that congress did not Intend th^t such severe pen­ alties should be impose** lor slight or casual violations; Then came Herbert Hoover, who, with Charles Curtis as vice president, was Inaugurated as chief executive on March 4. in a vigorous inaugural ad- 'dress the new President promised that his campaign pledges would be ful­ filled, and dwelt especially on the prob­ lems of law enforcement, farm relief, rand the tariff, He announced that the first of these would b« subjected to * searching investigation by * nations! commission which he would appoint, and urged congress to do its duty in respect to the others. Mr. Hoover’s cabinet was headed by Henry L, Stimson as secretary of stute and contained two hold-overs—Hem;- tary of the Treasury Motion and Sec­ retary of Labor Davis. Tbf names of Mellon, and Davis were, not submitted to the senate for continuation, and a little later the foes of the head of the treasury tried In vain to Impeach liis right to bold the portfolio. Farm Relief and Tariff, The President called congress to meet in special session on April is. asking that it confine itself to passing bills for the relief of agriculture and revising the tariff especydly for the benefit of farmers and industries that bad not been prosperous. The house in ten days passed the Haugen farm relief bill; and on May 28 it gave its approval to the Hawley tariff measure which revised most of the schedules and generally Increased duties. In the senate the Republican radi­ cals and the Democrats insisted on putting In the McNnry farm relief measure a provision for the debenture or export 'subsidy plan, though they knew this would not be accepted by President Hoover, t o this shape the bill was passed on May 14, and for a month the house and senate confer, ees struggled over it, the house finally winning and the debenture scheme be­ ing eliminated. Mr. Hoover signed the measure on June 15, and soon after named the members of the federal farm board authorized by the act. Alexander .Legge of Chicago, president of the International Harvester com­ pany, was appointed chairman and the board proce< Jed to promote the for­ mation of farmers' co-operatives, which would be aided with loans from a revolving fund of $150,000,000 that had been voted by congress. This ■work continued throughout the year, meeting with general! approval. . With the question of tariff revision the senators got tangled up in a fight that seemed Interminable, A coalition of Democrats and radical Republicans was formed that succeeded in tearing to pieces the bill reported by the sen­ ate committee which, resembled that passed by the house. This anomolous majority professed to be acting for the farmers and even inserted In the tariff measure the export debenture plan. The re-writing of the bill could not be completed before Thanksgiving, and so was passed on to th^ regular session that opened on December 2. In their spare time during the au­ tumn the senators investigated the ac­ tivities of lobbyists, especially those concerned with tariff rates, and from some witnesses, notably Joseph Gran* 'dy of Pennsylvania, they heard com­ ments on them and their doings that were not pleasing. President Hoover on Mny 20 ap­ pointed his commission on law en­ forcement, consisting of eleven emi­ nent men and women with George IV. WIckersham as chairman. It was un­ derstood this commission would take several years for Its Investigation, making recommendations from time to . time, Stock Market Collapse, The great debacle mentioned in the Introductory paragraphs came In late October and continued for two weeks. It was the culmination of many months o f freti7.I»< i earohllne bv amateur spec­ ulators In a sensationally rising mar­ k e t Prices fell rapidly and paper profits of about seventy billion dollars vanished. The"-government could do nothing to check the collapse, but when normal levels, bad been reached President Hoover came forward '.with * program for the stabilization of busi­ ness and Industry and the continuation of prosperity' the country had been en Joying. He called groups of, leuders In all lines to conferences lb Wash ington and received from them assur ances that they, and their organizations would co-operate with his plans. At n final meeting of big industrialists and financiers a permanent committee was named to watch out for weak spots In business and apply remedies. In his message read to the first reg­ ular session of the Seventy-first con­ gress thePresident expressed the confidence that the measures tak­ en had re-established confidence and that a very large degree of- un­ employment had been prevented. He recommended Increased expedl- tures for waterways, bulldtngs, and Other public works, and asked con. gress to authorize the income tax cut of 1 per cent, effective for one year. The President also dwelt at length on the matter of lav? enforcement, declar­ ing it to be the most Important issue before the people and recommending various changes to help the enforce­ ment of prohibition. The house speedily passed the tax re­ duction resolution and the senate ac­ cepted it In due time. One of the first acts of the upper house was the adoption of a resolution which denied a seat in the senate to William 8. Vare of Pennsylvania on the ground of corruption and fraud in his nomi­ nation and election three years pre­ viously, Governor Fisher promptly appointed Joseph Grundy to fill the vacant sent, and he was sworn in aft­ er lMag severely castigated by a num­ ber of senators, Itiotous demonstrations against Pres­ ident Borno of Haiti ahd his American advisers broke out In Dec'einbor. The United States marines were con­ strained to shoot down a few natives, and President Hoover asked congress to authorize the appointment of a com­ mission to study the unsatisfactory conditions on the Island. Secretary of War James W, Good died on November 18, and Patrick ,T. Hurley of Oklahoma, who had been assistant secretary, was given the portfolio. Mr, noover'* diplomatic appoint- meat* were highly commended. He sent Gen, Charles Gates Dawes to London, Senator Walter E. Edge to Paris, John W. Garrett to Rome, Ger- ritt J. Dlekema to Brussels, Henry F. Guggenheim to Cuba, Irwin B. Lnugh- iln to Madrid, Charles t \ Hart to Per. sia, and A. B. Gelssier to Siam. Dwight F. Davis, former secretary of war, was appointed governor general of the Phil­ ippines; Theodore Roosevelt, Jr„ was made governor of Porto Rico, and Lawrence M. Judd governor of Hawaii, There were echoes from time to time of the til scandals, The Supreme court upheld the conviction of Harry F, Slnduir for contempt of the senate and of court and he was In prison from May <5 until November 20v Albert B, Fall, former secretary of the interior, was found guilty of bribery in the oil lease cases and was sentenced to one year in prison and $100,000 fine. The annual convention of the Amer­ ican Lpglon was held In Louisville, and O, L, Boilenhamer of Oklahoma was elected commander. The Grand Afipy of the Republic met In Portland. Maine, and chose E. J. Foster of Wor­ cester, Mass., as its commander In chief. An interesting event was the cele­ bration on October 21 of the golden Jbbilee of En on’s electric light. The entire civilized world recognized the occasion but the big doings were at Henry Ford's reconstructed old-time village near Detroit, President Hoo­ ver. Mr; Edison and a host' of other notables being the automobile manu­ facturer's guests. While in tiie Middle West the Pres­ ident took part in the celebration of the completion of canalization, of the Ohio river, delivering addresses at Cincinnati and Louisville. There' were two elections that attract­ ed especinl attention. In Virginia the regular Democrats defeated a coalition of Republican* ..and anti-Smith Demo­ crats led by Bishop Cannon. In New York Jimmie Walker was re-elect­ ed mayor, easily heating Congressman La Guardia and other aspirants.. Oth­ er electiofts in various parts of the country indicated that- the Democratic party was regaining strength. AERONAUTICS M OST spectacular of the year’s events in aeronautics was the flight of the huge German dirigible Graf Zeppelin in August and Septem­ ber ■from Friedrlehshafen to Lake- hurst, N. J.. and thence eastward around tlie world, with stops only at Fried- richshafen, Tokyo, Los Angeles and Lakehurst, On September 4 the big ship arrived safely at its home port In Germany. The trip was made with­ out mishap though a severe storm was encountered soon after leaving Jarfan. Plans were laid to use the; dirigible in Arctic .exploration. The Atlantic was crossed three times by airplanes. Jiminez and Igleslas, of Spain flew from Seville to the Brazil­ ian coast late in March; and In June three French .pilots in the plane Yel­ low Bird crossed frotu Old Orchard. Beach, Me.,, to the coast of Spain. Next month Williams and Yancey, Anierlcan Byers, hopped off from Old Orchard •Beach for Rome, but they were forced to land near Santander, Spain, toy lack of gas;’ la'ter they- completed their trip. All other attempted transatlantic flights were failures, some of them tragedies. , Setting New- Record*. All records for sustained flight were tyoken In January by the army, plane Question Mark which remained tip 150 hours and 40 minutes, being refueled in the air 36 times. In May this was surpassed by ’ Robbins and Kelley of Forth Worth, Texas, whose endurance flight lasted 172'hpurs and 31 minutes. In July Mendel) and Reinhart at Cul­ ver City, Calif., put both records in the shade with a mark of 246 hours and 43 minutes, and then, later In the same month, Dale Jackson and Forest O’Brlne, In the St, Loills Rabin plane, settled the contest for the year by remaining aloft for 420 hours and 21 minutes. Lieut. Apollo Soucek of the United States navy established a new altitude record of 39,140 feet Capt. Frank Hawks Hew from Los Angeles to New York In Yt hours and 44 min­ utes, and George Hnldeman IJew from Windsor. Out., to Hava la In 12 hours and 50 minutes. . . ‘ The Schneider cup race for sea­ planes was won by Lieutenant Wag- horn of England, who averaged 328.03 miles an hour over the 218 mile course. A few days later A. H. Orlehar drove the same plane at the record speed of 855.8 miles. Over in Germany a plane propelled by rockets was *given Its first tryout, Fritz von Opel lTying six miles. The Germans also boasted or the biggest alrplune, the Dox, which made successful flights carrying 169 persons. The American national air races were held at Cleveland In August. In connection with them the women, who were becoming very active In avia tlon, had an air derby from Santa Monica, Calif., to Cleveland. Louise Tlmden of Pittsburgh was the win­ ner. The races for 1080 were awarded to Chicago. ‘ \ Col. Charles A, Lindbergh was a busy man during the year, and after his marringe to Miss Anne Morrow In May lie usually was accompanied on his lliglils by his, bride. In February the colonel Inaugurated the United Stiifos-l’mmmu air mail service, mid in .September lie and Mrs. Lindbergh opened another new route h.v a flight from Miami to Puramnrllio, Dutch Gtilntifl. On the way home they stopped to make (llgliis over the Jun­ gle of Honduras arid Yucufmr to plio. tngmph hitherto unexplored Aztec ruins. ! *............................................. .......... F U R N I T U R E REPAIRED and UPHOLSTERED At Prices I n Reach Of Everybody CharliesR.Hoerner Cdurlllt 1 « Cor. Mourn ......M,H"m.... ......................... ... On ThtmJatfriat flay Ca»ma*4*r I Richard Byrd and three number* eC ( hi* expedition made a diflJeuJt and hazardous airplane flight over the great Antarctic plateau in the course of which they looped the South pole," returning in safety to their base in Little America. Byrd thu* became the first man to fly over both poles. c NECROLOGY J S OME of the greatest actors in the drama we call the World war were taken by death during the year. France lost Marshal Ferdinand Foch, supreme commander o f the allied armies; Georges Clewenqeau, the “Ti­ ger.” premier during tire later years of the war, and .General, Sarrall, the defender of Verdun. Among tlie Ger-;' mans who passed were Field Marshal Liman vou Sanders, commander of the German forces in Turkey, and Dr. Gustav Stresemann, . the eminent statesman who was German foreign minister at the time of his death. My­ ron T. Herrick, beloved American am­ bassador to France during the great conflict and ut the time of his demise, passed away In March. Three United States senators, Theodore E. Burton of (Hilo, L. U. Tyson of Tennessee and F. E.‘ Warren of Wyoming, and James W, Good, secretary of war, were among America’s noted dead. Other noiables who died In 1929 were: In January: Grand Duke Nicholas, elder claimant to throbe of Russia; George L. (Tex) Rickard, sports pro­ moter; Henry Arthur Jones, English dramatist; Casper Whitney, author and editor; Former Senator Oscar W. Uiiderwood of Alabama; Ogden Mills, New York financier;' Count Chinda. Japanese statesman; Sophie Irene Loeb, author;. R. L. Single, president of University of South Dakota. In February; Marla Christina, queen mother of Spain; Edwin Denby, former secretary of the navy; Lily Langtry, Lady de Bathe; Melville E. Stone, journalist; Vice Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman of England ; Frank Keen­ an, actor; Mrs. Ogden Goelet of New York; Rev. NaweH'Dwight HllUs, pul­ pit orator; Harvey 0 ’Hlgglns. author and playwright. In March; Harrlspn M. Wild, must-, clan; Thomas Taggart; Indian Demo-' cratlc leader; Moses Clupp, former senator from Minnesota ; D. D. Buick, automobile pioneer; Alien B. Pond, architect; Samuel Rea, former presi­ dent of the Pennsylvania railway ; Ex- Gov. W. K, Stubbs of Kansas; Brand- er Matthews, author; In April: E. Lester Jones, director of United States coast and geodetic survey; Count Shtmpei Goto, Japanese statesman; J, W, Bailey, former sen- ( ator from Texas; Flora Anftte Steel, > English' novelist! Lord Revelstoke, j British banker; Prince Henry of Prus­ sia, brother of the ex-kaiser; E. F. Carry, president of the Pullman com­ pany. In Ma yEdwa r d Payson Weston, famous pedestrian; Earl|of Roseher- ry, English statesman; Garrett P. Servlss, writer < on science; Wallace Treat. American diplomat; Maj. Har­ ry A, Smith,'Ui S! A.; W. B. Thomas, Boston capitalist. to June: Admiral Sir Cedi Burney ef British navyt BUxs Ceram. poet; Count Julius Andrew, JHnngadaa statesman; Charles F. Brush, Invent­ or of the ere light; Gen. Bramwell Booth, former head of the Salvatloe Army; Don Bondcault, actor; Duarte Felix, Brazilian journalist to July: Dutsin Farnum, stage and screen actor; Maj. Gen, Ell K. Cole, marine corps; Rear Admiral E. W. Eberie, U. S- N,; Mrs, Katherine Ting- ley, Theosophist leader; Robert Henri, American artist; Mrs. Lillian Belt author; Henry B. Fuller, novelist; Judge N. J. Sinnott of United States Court of Claims. In August : Archbishop J. J, Keane of Dubuque; Emile Berliner, phono­ graph Inventor; H. C. Wltwer, author; Clmucey Keep, Chicago capitalist; Cyril Kelghtley, English, actor; Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, British savant; Rear Admiral A. P. Niblaek, U. S. N.; Dr, J. *W, Jenks, president of Alex­ ander Hamilton Institute. In September: W. E. Dever, former mayor of Chicago; Owen T. Edgar, last of the Mexican war veterans;! Congressman O, J, ICvaJe of Mlnne-l goto; Jesse Lynch Williams, author; j Cardinal Dubois, archbishop of Paris; ! Miller Huggins, manager "of New York Yankees; U. S. Grant, son of the late President Grant; Baron Tanaka, Jap-| nnese statesman. I In October : B. A, Bourdelle, - French sculptor; Dr, Gustav Strese-, maun, German foreign minister; Bish­ op J. G, Murray, head of Protestant Episcopal church; Jeanne Eugels, actress; W. ,7. Connors, Buffalo cap­ italist; Bishop Edmund M, Dunee of Peoria ; Mrs. Lemlra Goodhue, mother of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge; Rev. E. S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Saloon league chief; Rev. John Roach Stratton of New York, noted fundamentalist; Sir Graham Balfour,'British author. Ip November: W. G* Lee, former president of Railway Trainmen; Prince Max of Baden, Inst Imperial chancellor of Germany; T. P. O’Con­ nor, “father". of the house of com­ mons ; John Cort, theatrical producer; Rear Admiral Henry W. Lyon; Daniel F. 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