The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 2, No. 17, Ed. 1, Friday, January 5, 1940 Page: 1
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pletn resume of outstanding nation-
al and world events illustrated with
highlights of 1939
This issue of The News should be
filed away for future reference
DISASTERS
SQVAHUS SINKS V S
navys diving bell gttt first real
test rescuing 33 survivors from
sunken submarine Twentysix
others die
JANUARY
21 The airliner Cavalier wrecked at sea
olT Cape May N J thiee lost 10
caved
23 Bomber crashes on test hop at Los
Angeles pilot killed
25 Thirty thousand killed SO Oil injured
by earthquake in Chile towns wiped
out in disaster
FEBRUARY
2 Japanese submarine sunk In colli-
sion
11 Army mystery plane crashes after
coasttocoasV flight at 240 mile rale
MARCH
2 Two hundred killed in explosion of
munitions dump In Japan uuo houses
destroy ed
18 Ten killed In airplane crash near
Tacoma Wash
25 Airliner crashes in Oklahoma killing
eight
APRIL
4 Four navy fliers killed when planes
collide In mancuveio
13 Twcntycipht killed 50 injured In
train wreck in Mexico
IS Tornadoes In Arkansas Texas and
Louisiana cause W deaths and in-
juries to 300
MAY
23 Fifty nine trapped In sunken sub-
marine Squalus
24 Thirty three rescued alive from Squa
lus 20 dead
JUNE
1 Missing British submarine found
i mired In mud 00 lobt
i 4 Twenty two persons killed In McxI
can theater ire
15 Seventyone lives lost In wreck of
French submarine
16 Tri dead CJ Injured In Minnesota
tornado
JULY
5 Fiftythree drowned 47 missing In
P In mountains of eastern Ken
12 ry explosion and fire damage
navy aircraft carrier Rangrr
lj Twentyelffht perish In mine blast at
Providence Ky
IT Five killed as train hits auto In Chi-
cago suburb
23 Avalanche on Mount Baker Wash
Hills two four missing
AUGUST
11 Nine U S army fliers and tvo navy
fltors killed as two bombers crash
W Fourteen killed as Miami to nio de
Janeiro plane crashes in Bin harbor
Twentythree killed CO Injured when
1 streamliner ts wrecked In Nevada
rail officials chares sabotage
SEPTEMBER
25 Storm in California kills 100 dam-
age 91000000
t Munitions plant blast tn Britain
kills 13
OCTOBER
11 Wreck ol school bus at War W V
kills six 71 Injured
NOVEMBER
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Vol II
EUROPEAN WAR
MARS GOES TO WORK
French poilu puzzle over street
sign in captured German village
Hitler Still Grabbing
MARCH
13 Czechoslovakia submits to Hitlers
demands for fuither breakup of the
Czech slate
14 Slovakia formally secedes from
Czccho Slovakia and becomes lnde
fcndcnl state under German prulec
Ion
Hitler fccs Bohemia and Moravia
completing subjection of Ccccho bio
vakia
15 Hitler absorbs Slovakia Hungary
annexes part of Carpatho Ukraine
27 Germany puts pressure im Poland
28 Poland refuses German demand for
pathway to East Prussia
APRIL
4 Poland British In war alliance
17 Germany pushes drive to take Dan
zlg trench licet guards Gibraltar
British fleet sails to Malta
MAY
7 Nazis plan plebiscite In Danzig
8 Pope Invites five powers to Vatican
parley to settle Polish German dis i
putc i
20 Germany fortifies Its eastern frontier
against Poland I
JUNE I
1 Hitler pledges Germany will support
Jugoslavia a border
20 Gtrman troops move to encircle Po-
land
28 Britain appenls to Germany to settle
dispute by negotiations
JULY
B Warsaw reports 5 000 Polish families
in East Piussta are forced to move
away from border
AUGUST
13 Germany and Italy establish poltcy
on Danzig Pullsn attitude called un-
bearable
18 Geimany takes military possession ol
Slovakia
21 Germany announces nonaggrcsslon
I with Russia
Sac troops massed near Polish
corridor
23 Germany and Russia sign nonaggres
slon pact
23 Britain and Poland sign war alliance
Japanese cabinet abandons Rome
Bel lin lineup
29 Poland bsks British help under new
mutual aid pact
Germans invade Poland
31 Germany opens war on Poland
SEPTEMBER
3 Britain and France declare war on
Germany
British ship Athenla torpedoed off
coast of li eland 1400 aboard 43
lost
Germany blockaded by British navy
5 Germans shell Warbaw government
and citizens flee
President RouSLvelt proclaims U S
neutrality
5 Poles appeal to Britain to rush old
France Invades Germany British
troops arrive
7 Nazi torpedoes sink five ships
8 French planes bomb Siegfried line
10 German counterattack halts French
on western front
Russia rushes reserves to Polish bor-
der
12 German forces shut a vise on War-
saw
13 Big British army lnds In Frame
without loss
Polish defense cracks Nazis move
eastward
15 Russian troops Invade Poland to
protect minorities
17 Warsaw decides to fight on after
truce talk ails
Poland s defenses collapse under
Nazi pressure
Russian army drives 60 miles into
Poland
20 Report Red purge of former officials
In Polish Ukraine
23 French repulse wave after wave ol
Nazi shock troops
25 French defeat Germans tn two big
air battles Bombard whole length
of Siegfried line bomb Zeppelin
works
27 Warsaw surrenders to Germans after
20 day siege
Estonia signs alliance with Russia
29 Britain defies warning by foes to
stop war
OCTOBER
1 Britain calls 230000 more troops
f BiUer makes peaev proposals to Brit
iS and France seeks armistice
ftWHider acts aside area fai Poland for
Germans to bo transplanted from
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10rPtcncD premier spurns Hitlers pear
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The Only Paper With Complete Coverage in Both City and Country
CANADIAN TUX AS FRIDAY JANUARY 5 1940
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Iron Duke training ship damaged
23 British report three U boats sunk
Germans capture American ship City
of Flint and take it to Soviet port
25 Amcrlcnn ship City of Flint torncd
I over to Germany by Russia sails
1 from Russia
28Germans claim 115 foreign ships sunk
1 ttlnce war began
Five freighters sunk by Germans
31 Soviet demands raise new crisis in
I Finland
NOVEMBER
3 Norway frees City of Flint and in-
terns German prize crew b inland
defies Soviet threat ready to fight
7 Belgium and Holland offer to medi-
ate peace between warring nations
8 Hitler escapes plot blast in Munich
beer cellar kills 6 and Injures ill
9 Dutch open defense dikes clash at
border with Germars
French repulse night Infantry raids
by Germans
10 Trench repulse two German attacks
13 Four more merchantmen sunk In sea
warfare
17 Germans shoot nine Czech students
seize 1200 and close academies for
three jears
18Dutch liner hits German mine in
North sea sinks ulth 140 lives
19 Four more ships sunk by German
mines of England
20 Germiins extend war nt sea 10 ves-
sel sunk since November III 133
dead or inlssirg
French Belgian treaty seen as chan-
nel for Prance to tcl Gertnnn coke
Germany opens ottloers rnnks to all
nlrtitMS ro 11 h r a IiMf > T
21 Proportion of civil service employees
reduced under President Roosevelt
22 U S court upholds wage hour law In
Montgomery Ward case
Supreme court voids cities ban on
handbills
24 President suKRests special taxes for
half billion increase In defense ap
propria lions
20 President summons budfet director
to discuss departmental cuts
27 Morgcnthau declares next congress
must lift legal debt limit
28 Chrvslcr company and CIO agree
on basis of peace after auto plants
are tied up SJ days
29 Jury finds GermanAmerican bund
leader Fritz Kuhn guilty on forgery i
and theft charges
30 Roosevelt sends sharp note to Russia
asking that bombing of cities stop i
DECEMBER I
2 Curtiss plants speed building of war-
planes
3 Winnie Ruth Judd insane slayer
again escapes from prison In Arizona
S fcritz Kuhn bund lender sentenced
to prison for two and a half years
7 Upward trend seen In several lines
of business
8 Secretary Hull protests British block
I ade
I 9 Roosevelt orders a special naval dls
I trie In Caribbean
11 Itrc grants 10 000000 loan to Fin
I Hnd
U S Supreme court bars evidence
gained by wire tapping
13 Twelve naval captains promoted
I to be rear admirals
14 ICC approves tralnload rail rate re-
duction
18 Garner announces candidacy for
1 Democratic presidential nomination
NECROLOGY
POPE SVCCUMllS The de
vout hneel in prayer before rni
het containing the body of Pope
Pius XL
JANUARY
13 Col Jncob Ruppert owner of the
New York Yankees
28 Former Sen Joseph I France ot
Maryland In Baltimore
FEBRUARY
3 Frederick Stelwer former senator
from Oregon
9 Pope Plus XI
13 Rt Rev J M Francis Episcopalian
bishop of Indianapolis
45 Charles II Crane former diplomat
10 Dr Clarence True Wilson prohibi-
tion loader
MARCH
2 Howard Carter who found King Tuts
tomb In London
8 Former U S Attorney General John
G Sargent
29 Gerardu Machado former dictator
of Cuba
APRIL
6 Premier Joseph Lyons of Australia
9 James Hamilton Lewis U S senator
from Winns
11 S S Van Dine mystery story writer
reI name Wlllard II Wright
MAY
25 Dr Charles Mayo fimous surgeon
JUNE
Ift MUi Grace Abbott noted welfare
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JULY
7 Claude A Swanson secretary ol the
navy
8 Havelock Ellis scientist and phlloso
ShorLouis
Louis Comlskcy owner of Chi-
cago White Sox baseball team
28 Dr William J Mayo co founder with
his brother of the Mojo clinic
AUGUST
14 T E Power famed cartoonist
SEPTEMBER
4 Charles Donnellv president of North-
ern Pacific railway
18 Charles M Schwab steel magnate
23 SiRmund Freud originator of psycho-
analysis
24 Floyd Gibbons war correspondent
Carl Lacmmlc pioneer movie pro-
ducer
OCTOBER
2 George Cardinal Mundeleln arch-
bishop Of ChiCJRO
6 Count Von Bcrtutorf German envoy
lo U S In 1017
23 Zinc Grey noted writer ol western
Btories
29 Alice Brady stage and screen star
NOVEMBER
2 Ople Ileatl I imous author
8 Dr Livingston Kairnnd president
emeritus of Cornt 11 university
10 Pierce Butler U S Supreme court
justice
23 James Simpson Chicago business
leader
27 Dr J A NaismUh Inventor of bas-
ketball
DECEMBER
3 Alfred Granger prominent architect
Princess Louise duchcBS of Argvle
oldest living child of Queen Victoria
4 Maishal Wu Pet fu poet soldier of
Republic a i China
J Butler Wright American ambas-
sador to Cubn
9 Col John b Hammond sportsman
and soldier
11 Douglas Fairbanks Sr stage and
screen st tr
Charles R Walgricn chain drug-
store hear
18 Heywond Broun columnist
FOREIGN
russm r u i > s wcsT Dic-
tator Josef Stalin having com
pletiU a pact n ith Germany con
tjtiers part of Poland and mopes
into Estonia Latvia Lithuania
and then into Vinland
JANUARY
1 Chinese dictator purges govern-
ment ranks of 200 peace party
lenders
3 Japans cabinet resigns over poll
c es In Chim
Snanlsh rebels report capture of Ar
tcFa
6 Hungarians and Czechoslovaks fight
alontj border
13 Spanish rebels take Tarragona In
drive toward Barcelona
18Madrid rushes fiesh troops to de-
fense of Barcelona
22 All citizens of Barcelona called to
dig trenches
24 Spanish rebels bomb Barcelona
2tt Rebels take Barcelona without a
battle
30 Hitler demands return of colonics
FEBRUARY
6 Spanish loyalist army of 200 000 flees
to France to escape trap
ft Japan refuses to give up mandated
Islands Germany lost In war
12 Two hundred thousand move past
bier of Pope Plus in St Peters
14Pope Plus buried In tomb beneath
St Peter cathedral
18 Spanish loyalists offer to surrender
France occupies African area once
ceded to Italy
20 Italy moves to pjace colony Libya
on war footing
23 General Franco bands Britain final
terms for peace with Spanish loyal-
ists
24 Britain and France decide to recog
nlze Franco government in Spain
MARCH
1 College of cardinals convenes tn
Rome to elect a pope
2 franco requests Mussolini to with-
draw Italian troops from Spain
Cardinal Eugenfo Pacelll elected
pope on third ballot takes name of
Pius XII
6 Communist leaders flee Madrid tone
General Mtaja new loyilurt chief
asks worthy pace >
T Gandhi won political victory for dc
mocracy In India forced by fourday
fast accepts invitation for consults
tlon with viceroy
12 500 ooo u Itneat coronation of Pope
Pius XII
21 Lithuania return Memtl to Ger-
many
ISMadrid effera to aurrender to Gen-
eral Franco
23 Madrid surrenders eodln Spanish
civil war
APRIL
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6 Albert Lebrun re elected president
of France
8 Italian troops Invade Abum a
13 Massing of troops near Gibraltar
causes alarm British hirrteade road
to SDiln
27 Serbiaps sen pact with Croats end
In Jugoslavia s biCLrsl internal
problem
MAY
6 King and nueen of Great Britain
sail tor Canada
17 King and qurpn ol Gicat Britain
welcoimd at Quebec
IS1 King and queen start on tour of
Canada
23 BUI setting up dictatorship over In-
dustry Introduced in British parlia-
ment
29 Neu border war dev ops between
Japan and Russia in Manchukuo
JUNE
10 Bombs In mail In England Injure
seven persons
14 Japan presents Britain with new de-
mands as troops tighten blockado
at Tientsin
20 British women and children flea
Tientsin to escape Japanese economic
blockade
22 King and queen given tremendous
reception on their return to England
28 Soviets repulse Jap air attack on
Mongol border shoot down 2t planes
27 Japs report shooting down 01 Soviet
planes in battle over Outer Mongolia
JULY
13 France Jails two newspaper execu-
tives charged with receiving pay
from Germany
19 Danzig political police purge city of
SocialTsts
24 Chamberlain promises Britain will
stay out of Japans way In China
Japan orders Canton river closed to
foreign shipping
25 Four bombings In England blamed
on Irish Republican army
AUGUST
pllclty In slaying of civil guard offi
cer
9 Sudden German food shortage rouses
public
SEPTEMBER
25 French cabinet decree ends Com-
munist party In France
27 Bulgaria seeks trade pact with Rus-
sia
28 Cons tan tine Argesanu appointed pre-
mier of Rumania
OCTOBER
2 Delegates of 21 republics at an Inter
American neutrality conference fixed
a safety zone around two Americas
3 Japanese admit loss of 18 000 men
In righting Russians
5 Chinese halt Japanese drive in Hu-
nan province report 10 310 slain
10 Soviet returns Vitna to Lithuania
11 Britain and Russia sign trade agree-
ment
27 Pope Plus In encyclical assails dic-
tators
28 Thousands arrested as Czechs and
Nazis battle tn Prague
NOVEMBER
2 Slovak mob wrecks shops and news
In Bratislava Hungary
Bipers threaten to abolish selfrulo
in India
20 Exkaiser narrowly escapes death In
storm at Doom
DECEMBER
3 Japan faces scarcity of food this
winter
Peru opens great new port facilities
to Callao
Jl Italy quits league ot nations
SPORTS
IRON MAN STRIKES OUT
Lou Gehrig iron man of base-
ball retires from New York
Yankees with paralysis inpclion
after hanpng up alltime rec-
ord for frames played
JANUARY
J Southern California football team de
feall Duke In Hose Bowl
17 Edward G Barrow elected president
of the New York Yankees
IS Joe Louli heavyweight champion
stopped John Henry Lewis In first
round tn new York
FEBRUARY
9 National Professional Football league
re elects Joseph Carr president for
13 Tony Gaiento scores technical knock-
out over Aba Fetdman
MARCS
I 80 CharlesBowser named head
L eoach at put
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