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30—Orville Wright, 76, co-inventor of
heavier-than-air plane.
February
9—Burns Mantle, drama critic, N. Y.
Daily News editor of early collection
of best plays.
23—Dr. John Robert Gregg, 80, inventor
of Gregg system of shorthand.
24—Will Irwin, 74, newspaperman, novel-
ist and playwright.
29—Robert McCowan Barrington Ward,
57. London Times editor since 1941.
March
Lives" wins dally film poll as the
best 1947 picture.
24—California observes 100th anniversary
of discovery of gold by Jas. M. Mar-
shall in Coloma.
26—Gen. Omar Bradley formally nomi-
nated by President Truman to suc-
ceed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as
Facts and Fancies
Of New Year 9s Day
New Year’s with its open houses,
parties, exchanging of New Year’s
cards, horn tooting, Auld Lang Syne
and New Year’s resolutions, is one
of the oldest celebrations. As a
holiday it has been observed since
ancient times, and has been marked
throughout history by the giving of
gifts and the exchange of greetings
and good wishes.
Santiago and Barce-
lona, kills 31 persons,
including entire San-
tiago baseball team.
28—Thirty-two persons killed, including
28 Mexicans, when DC-3 explodes
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tractive design with slender stems
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ted that not many of the new pipes
have been sold, but the shopkeep-
ers reason that if the cigarette
famine continues more women
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1—Bowl football games
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Beliefs Still Exist
Over England and Scotland, in
the villages of the plains and high;
lands, ancient New Year supersti-
tions still exist.
It is considered unlucky to wear
old clothes on the New Year; bad
luck falls on a house if anyone goes
out before someone has entered. If
the first comer—“first foot,” the
natives call it—be a man, good luck
will bless the house; if a woman or
a fair-haired man, the luck is evil.
So widespread is this belief that in
many villages the dark-haired men
of the community make it a regu-
lar business to go from house to
House to “take the New Year in.”
In Herefordshire, at midnight, the
girls rush to the spring. The one
who gets the first drink, or the
"cream of the well,” is sure of a
handsome husband.
Unlucky, too, is the good woman
who gives away a light on New
Year’s day. Where a brand goes
out, the evil fays come in. The
most tender-hearted woman will see
her neighbors shiver in a fireless
house rather than give away a light
on the New Year.
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January
6—80th congress con-
venes.
8—Begin hearings on
the Marshall plan.
5—Hurricane causes 11 deaths and 10
million dollars damage in Cuba, then
does great damage in Miami.
6—A B-29 bomber, struck by lightning,
explodes over Waycross, Ga. Nine
killed.
30-31—Twenty persons died and hundreds
were made ill, apparently as a re-
sult of smog, (blend of smoke and
fog) which blanketed Donora, Pa.
November
16—Search abandoned for Air Forces B-29,
missing since Nov. 6 en route from
Okinawa to Guam.
25—Thanksgiving Day accidents take toll
of 114 lives, compared with 128 in 1947.
Saint Sylvesters Feast
Day Marks End of Year
The feast of St. Sylvester, who
was Pope from 314 A. D. until his
death in 335, is observed by the
Roman and Anglican churches on
December 31.
In Germany and Belgium the
morning of St. Sylvester’s Day is
commemorated religiously, while
the afternoon and evening are de-
voted to various kinds of horseplay
in anticipation of the coming New
Year.
January
1—Bing Crosby named
top money - making
star for 8th consecu-
tive year.
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foreign aid.
October
1—Panama’s new president, Domingo
Diaz Arosemena, is inaugurated.
8—Norway, Cuba and Egypt are elected
by the U. N. general assembly in
Paris to replace Belgium, Columbia
and Syria on the security council for
two-year terms.
9—Russia’s disarmament plan, offered
at the Paris U. N. meeting, is chal-
lenged by the U. S.
November
1—Chinese Communists completed their
rout of the Nationalists in Manchu-
ria and subdued the last resistance
in Mukden.
11—A million men locked in battle on a
200-mile front in the Suchow area in
the Nationalist - Communist war in
China. ...
12—Hideki Tojo and six co-defendants in
the principal Japanese war crimes
trial are sentenced to death by hang-
ing
13—Herbert Evatt, president of the U. N.
general assembly, and Trygve Lie,
U N. secretary-general, appeal di-
rectly to the Big Four to settle the
Berlin dispute by direct negotiation.
14__a son is born to Princess Elizabeth of
England and Prince Philip, Duke of
Edinburg.
26—Mme. Chiang Kai-shek announces she
will visit the U.S.
December
1—Mme. Chiang Kai-shek arrives in
U S., allegedly to press for three-
billion-dollar military and economic
loan to China during next three years.
12—United Nations assembly ended its 12-
week Paris session by endorsing the
Korean government of Dr. Syngman
Rhee and continuing the U. N. Korean
commission for another year.
14—Ernst Reuter, mayor of western Ber-
lin, proposes that western allies re-
organize the kommandantura with-
out the Russians and abolish the
boundaries between American, Brit-
ish and French sectors.
Sen. Alben W. Barkley, 70, of Ken- l
tucky, are nominated for president
and vice-president by the Democratic
national convention in Philadelphia.
22—The Wallace third party, meeting in
Philadelphia, officially names itself
the Progressive Party, and nomi-
nates Henry Agard Wallace and Sen.
Glen H. Taylor of Idaho as its candi-
dates for president and vice-presi-
dent.
26—Congress convenes in a special ses-
sion called by President Truman.
30—Elizabeth Bentley, confessed wartime
Communist spy, makes startling dis-
closures before a senate expenditures
subcommittee.
near Coaling, Cal.
29—Army funeral ship, Joseph V. Con-
nolly, partly destroyed by fire, sinks
while being towed to New York.
30—Air Marshall Arthur Coningham,
52, and 31 others killed in plane crash.
February
22—Two truckloads of explosives are
blown up, devastating a three-block
business section in Jerusalem.
27—Nineteen persons aboard an Indian
National Airways plane en route from
New Delhi to London killed in crash.
March
12—Thirty persons killed when Northwest
Airlines DC-4 crashes on Mt. Sanford,
Alaska, en route from Shanghai to
St. Paul.
18—Ten A. F. flyers killed when a B-29
crashes at MacDill field, near Tam-
pa, Fla.
19—At least 42 persons killed and more
than 300 injured in a series of tor-
nadoes which struck nine states from
Texas to central New York.
April
13—More than 3,000 families are evacu-
ated when Ohio river overflows.
15—Thirty persons (19 Americans) killed
when PAW plane crashes in Erie.
20—Cooper mine explosion near Aguas
Caliente, Peru, kills 41 miners.
May
3—Tornadoes kill at least 23 persons in
midwestern states.
30—Flooded Columbia river claims 23
lives, causes great damage in Oregon,
Washington, Idaho. Devastates Van-
port City, Ore.
July
1—Series of earthquakes destroy about
70 per cent of the Japanese industrial
city of Fukuk (population 85,000) and
surrounding towns of Honshu.
2—Transport plane used by the Mexican-
American foot and mouth disease
commission crashes on Mt. Orizaba.
16 killed.
4—Thirty-nine killed when Swedish
DC-6 airliner (32 aboard) collides
with R.A.F. York transport (7 aboard)
near London.
27—Thirteen coal miners killed in explo-
sion in Princeton, Ind.
August
12—Thirteen men killed when B-29
crashes after take-off near Roswell,
N. M. A navy weather reconnaissance
plane with 12 aboard crashes and
burns same day on Rota Island, 50
miles north of Guam.
20—Seventeen U. S. air force men killed
in B-29 crash at Rapid City, S. D.
September
6—Labor Day holiday deaths from ac-
cidents in the U. S. over three-day
period total 407.
14—Forty U. S. soldiers killed and 60 in-
jured in troop train wreck in Korea.
17—Floods in Japan leave 541 dead and
600 missing.
October
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warmth to your living room,
decorate with these modern sec-
tional bookcases. You can build
and install them yourself at small
cost. As decorative as they are
convenient, these cabinets can be
placed along one wall, around a
corner as illustrated, or the cen-
ter sections can be placed along
opposite walls.
The full size pattern offered below
simplifies building these cabinets in a
minimum of time. No special tools or
skill are required. All materials pattern
specifies can be purchased at lumber
yards everywhere at small cost com-
pared to the price one pays for ready
made, unpainted sectional cabinets. Al-
most anyone can build these cabinets by
following the simplified building proce-
dure outlined on the pattern. It not only
lists materials to buy but also specifies
when and where each is used.
For an economical solution to your
bookcase and record cabinet problem
build one or more of these units. Send
50 cents for Bookcase Pattern No. 42 to
Easi-Bild Pattern Company, Dept. W,
Pleasantville, N. Y.
10—Senate passes two-year peacetime
draft bill.
21—Twenty-fourth Republican convention
meets in Philadelphia. Gov. Dewey
of New York nominated for the presi-
dency on fourth day, with Gov. Earl
Warren, of California, as his running
mate.
24—President Truman signs second
peacetime selective service bill.
July
5—Gen. Eisenhower reiterates he will
A El1 January
4—Dr. Robert Ernest
ENe .29 Hume, international-
F 4) ly known authority
—----K— on living relations.
__ 8—Charles Michelson,
79, pubUcity director of the Demo-
cratic national committee, 1929-43.
15—Josephus Daniels, 85, World War I
navy secretary.
30—Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, spiritual
leader of the Hindus; slain by Hindu
nationalist in New Delhi.
8—Emily P. Bissell, 86, founder of U. S.
Christmas seal drive in 1907.
25—Adm Jose Reeves. 76, commander-
in-chief of U. S. fleet, 1934-36.
April
5—Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 73.
7—Rep. Orville Zimmerman, 67 (Dem..
Mo.), member of house since 1935.
15—Manuel Acuna Roxas, 56, first presi-
dent of Philippine Republic.
28—Tom Breneman, 48, star of radio's
“Breakfast in Hollywood."
May
15—Msgr. Edward Joseph Flanagan, 61.
founder of Boys Town.
27—Rudolph H. Wurlitzer, 74, ex-prest-
dent of the musical instrument com-
pany.
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hourly raise.
10—Air force reveals that rocket-powered
Bell X-1 has been flown faster than
speed of sound.
July
5—Geo. I. Hall, of New York, elected
Grand Ruler of BPOE in Philadel-
phia.
13—John L. Lewis and 18 steel companies
sign a contract ending strike of 40,000
UMW miners.
18—President Truman orders all men be-
tween 18 and 25 to register August
30 to September 18 for military serv-
ice.
30—Combined navy; air force shelling,
bombing and torpedoing sinks battle-
ship Nevada in Pacific.
31—Idlewild airport—4,900 acres—dedi-
cated in New York.
August
6—First around the world flight by B-29’s
is completed when two of the bomb-
ers land at Davis-Monthan base, near
Tucson, Ariz.
8—Census bureau estimates U. S. popu-
lation at 143,414,000, as of July 1,
1947, 8.9 per cent higher than the 1940
census.
17—Vanport, Ore., devastated by flood
May 30, is sold for salvage for $178,-
591. Original cost, 26 million.
September
11—Miss America of 1948 chosen in At-
lantic City: Beatrice Vella Shopp, 18,
Hopkins, Minn.
13—Rep. Margaret Chase (R., Me.) elect-
ed to U. S. senate by a record ma-
jority.
October
5—UMW announces beginning of a pro-
gram to guarantee all 400,000 mem-
bers and families free medical and
hospital service.
13—Capt. Colin P. Kelly, Jr., first U. S.
hero of World War II, is buried in
his home town, Madison, Fla.
14—U. S. Judge Luther M. Swygert of
Indianapolis holds the A.F.L. Int.
Typo. Union in contempt
November
4—Profs. Auguste Piccard and Max
Cosyns abandoned plans to make
two-and-one-half-mile deep-sea dives
after their special bathyscaphe was
damaged off the Cape Verde islands.
6—White House was closed indefinitely
to social engagements and sightseers
until extensive repairs to the man-
sion could be completed.
12—Trial of 12 top U. S. Communist lead-
ers postponed for fourth time because
of illness of William Z. Foster, Com-
munist party chairman.
22—U. S. air force ends efforts to make
rain by seeding clouds with dry ice
after nine months of experiments
prove inefficacy of procedure,
December
7—Secretary of State George Marshall
undergoes appendectomy.
13—Astronomers at Mt. Wilson observa-
tory announced discovery of a new
minor planet traveling a route within
140 million miles of Earth.
22—Princess Elizabeth’s son christened.
1,
June
6—George Evan Roberts, 90, director of
U. S. mint, 1898-1907, 1910-1914.
10—Lewis Schwellenbach, 53, secretary
of labor since 1945.
July
2—Richard Gerard Husch, 72, author of
Sweet Adeline’s lyrics.
5—Film actress Carole Landis, 29, sul- :
cide in her Hollywood home.
15—Gen. John J. Pershing, 87, command-
er-in-chief of the AEF in World War
I and only man holding rank of Ten-
era! of the Armies.
23—David Wark Griffith, 73, pioneer film
producer, and producer of "Birth of
a Nation.”
24—Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson, 63,
editor-publisher of Washington Times-
Herald.
August
8—May DeSousa, 66, former light opera
star.
13—Geo. F. Shafer, 59, Rep. governor of
North Dakota.
16—George Herman (Babe) Ruth, 53, the
“Sultan of Swat,” who set or tied 76
baseball records.
27—Charles Evans Hughes, 86, former
chief justice of U. S.
September
1—Charles A. Beard, 73, historian, au-
thor of more than 30 books on Amer-
ican history.
11—Mohammed All Jinnah, 71, founder
of Moslem Pakistan.
15—Jacques Gordon, 49, violinist and con-
ductor, former child prodigy.
30—Mrs. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt,
87, widow of President Theodore
Roosevelt
October
3—Thomas Augustine Daly, 77, poet, hu-
morist, lecturer and journalist.
10—Mary Eaton, 46, former New York
musical comedy star.
31—Mary Nolan, 42, film actress and
Ziegfeld Follies beauty who won
fame as Imogene (Bubbles) Wilson.
November
9—Edgar Kennedy, 58, film comedian,
one of the original "Keystone Kops,"
of cancer, in San Fernando, Calif.
23—Lewis R. (Hack) Wilson, 48, all-time
National league home run king, (56
for Chicago in 1930). in Baltimore.
December
3—Carl Lorenz Hagenbeck, 40, head of
leading German circus family, in
Hamburg.
9—House grants $200,000 to un-American
activities committee by a 337-37 vote.
10—B-29 drops a 42,000-pound non-explo-
sive bomb, largest ever made .in test
at Muroc, Cal.
April
5—President Truman names Paul Gray
Hoffman, president of Studebaker
corporation, to supervise ERP.
20—Walter P. Reuther, president of CIO
United Auto Workers, badly wounded
by unidentified assailant.'
24—Commission of the Churches of In-
ternational Affairs is established in
New York City.
May
a—Columbia breaks off diplomatic rela-
tions with Russia.
5—Gov. Dewey of New York stumps
Oregon.
18—President Truman invokes Taft-Hart-
ley law to avert long-distance tele-
phone strike.
SB—Chrysler ends its 17-day strike.
Grants 13c hourly raise.
June
2-3—Senator Taft of Ohio tours North
Carolina in election campaign.
8—C.I.O. Packinghouse Workers in Chi-
cago ends its 82-day strike of 8,000
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Star. East 40, West 9.
8—Joe Louis signs with 20th Century
Sporting club to defend his heavy-
weight title in New York bout June
23 against Joe Walcott.
12—Detroit Lions sold for about $200,000
to a Detroit syndicate.
February
7—Gilbert Dodds runs fastest indoor
mile ever timed in Boston (4.08.1).
24—Featherweight title is retained by
Willie Pep, who knocks out Humbert
Sierra of Cuba in Miami.
27—Jersey Joe Walcott signs for a re-
turn Joe Louis bout June 23.
March
7—Willie Hoppe, 60, of Chicago, retains
world’s three-cushion billiard title de-
feating Ezequiel Navarra in a chal-
lenge series.
25—Guy Lombardo sets U. S. goldcup
speedboat record of 113.208 MPH at
Miami Beach.
April
2-3—Joe Verdeur of Philadelphia sets new
world swimming record of two mins.
30.5 secs, in the 220-yd. breaststroke
at AAU indoor championships in New
Haven, Conn.
17—Harrison Dillard sets world secord of
13.6 secs, in 129-yard high hurdles and
Charles Fonville a world shotput mark
of 58 ft. V-inch in Kansas Relays, in
Lawrence.
19—Major league baseball season opens.
May
15—Preakness Stakes (72nd annual, $134,-
870) is won by Calumet Farms “Cita-
tion” in Baltimore.
25—Ben Hogan, 35, of Hershey, Pa., de-
feats Mike Turnesa of White Plains,
N. Y., 7 and 6, in the finals of the
Professional Golfers ass’n. champion-
ship in St. Louis.
June
10—Tony Zale, 34, regains world middle-
weight title by knocking out Rocky
Graziano, 26.
12—Ben Hogan wins national open golf
championships in Los Angeles, with
278 strokes, tourney record.
25—Joe Louis, 34, retains world’s heavy-
weight title by knocking out Jersey
Joe Walcott in 11th round.
July
3—Princeton's 150-pound crew wins the
Thames Challenge Cup at the Henley
Royal Regatta on Henley-on-Thames,
England.
11—Lloyd Mangrum wins the $10,000 Co-
lumbus open golf championship.
29—King George VI formally opens
Olympic games in London’s Wembley
stadium.
August
9—Home pro Lloyd Mangrum wins
$22,500 in prizes in winning the All-
American tourney Aug. 6, a world
championship event Aug. 7 and Tam
O’Shanter professional tournament
Aug. 9, in Chicago.
14—Summer games of the 14th modern
Olympiad end in London after a 16-
day program.
September
4—Paul Mantz wins Bendix trophy third
time in air race from Long Beach,
Calif., to Cleveland, averaging 447.80
MPH.
13—Rolland R. Free of Hollywood sets
world’s motorcycle speed record of
150.885 MPH on Bonneville salt flats,
Utah.
October
2—Three-year old “Citation" wins the
$108,800 “Gold Cup” race at Belmont
Park, N. Y.
11—A 4-3 victory in Boston gives the
Cleveland Indians the 1948 world
series championship over the Boston
Braves.
13—National hockey season opens.
November
26—Rocky Graziano, former middleweight
boxing champion, suspended by Na-
tional Boxing association after he
withdrew from scheduled fight with
Fred Apostoli.
27—Undefeated Army and consistently de-
feated Navy fought to 21-21 tie in an-
nual football classic.
December
12—Chicago Cardinals defeat Chicago
Bears 24-21 in season’s top pro foot-
ball game.
February
3—Eric Johnson re-elected president of
Association of Motion Picture Di-
rectors.
9—President urges congress to continue
for two more years the 500 million-a-
year programs of federal aid to states
for highways.
19—Army reports that World War II cost
U. S. $353,235,000,000 ($2,460 a second).
23—Pope grants ex-King Michael of Ro-
mania dispensation to marry Danish
Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma.
March
August
2—President Truman appoints three-
man displaced persons commission
to administrate the DP act, under
which 200,000 persons are to be ad-
mitted to the U. S.
7—Congress adjourns its two-week ex-
tra session
19—U. S. demands ouster of Jacob Loma-
kin, Soviet consul general in New
York.
September
2—West coast ports paralyzed when CIO
Intl. Longshoremen’s union go on
strike.
6—President Truman launches his re-
election campaign.
18—Sen. Alben W. Barkley, President
Truman’s running mate, begins two-
week 15-speech tour of eight eastern
states.
October
2—Population of the U. S. as of July 1
was estimated at 146.114,000 by U. S.
census bureau.
4—Railroads grant 10-cent hourly wage
increase to railway conductors and
trainmen.
11—Former interior secretary, Harold L.
Ickes, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
endorse President Truman for re-
election.
16—President Truman orders reserves
brought up to full strength.
November
2—President Harry S. Truman, 64,
Democrat, astounded the political
werld by defeating Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey, 42, of New York, for re-elec-
tion. The Democrats also swept back
into control of both houses of con-
gress and won 20 out of 32 governor-
ships.
4—Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R., N. J.)
invoked his constitutional rights and
refused to testify before a federal
grand jury on charges that he had
padded his congressional office pay-
roll and collected kickbacks.
7—President Truman arrives in Key
West, Fla., for a two-week post-elec-
tion vacation.
18—First major blizzard of season sweeps
through north central states, killing
13 persons.
25—Striking Longshoremen on both coasts
return to work as shipping strike ends.
December
3—Microfilm copies of secret state, war
and navy department documents
found in hollow pumpkin on Maryland
farm are introduced as evidence in
house un-American activities commit-
tee’s spy investigation.
10—Whittaker Chambers, confessed for-
mer Communist courier and key fig-
ure in Communist espionage probe,
resigned his position as a senior edi-
tor of Time magazine.
14—GOP Sen. Arthur Vandenberg is
mentioned as possible successor to
ailing George C. Marshall as secre-
tary of state.
LM--— way.
6—U. S. aid mission in
Athens hands Greek army and na-
tional guard an additional 15 million
to raise army to 132,000.
13—Nationwide strike of 60,000 bank em-
ployees in Italy ends. Salaries raised
15 per cent.
18—Mohandas K. Gandhi ends 121-hour
fast in New Delhi.
23—Union of Western nations endorsed by
U. S. state department.
30—Gandhi shot in New Delhi by Hindu
nationalist.
February
1—Russia protests that low-flying B-17’s
are making inspections of Soviet ships
in the Yellow sea and Sea of Japan.
2—New Italian trade and friendship
treaty signed in Rome.
7—France and Spain agree to re-open
their frontier, officially closed for two
years.
28—Russia gains complete control over
Czechoslovakia through Czech Com-
munist party in bloodless coup, in one
week.
March
4—Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R., Ind.)
states that strikes cost 920 million in
wages in 1946 and 281 million in 1947.
6—State Secretary Marshall and Defense
Secretary Forrestal urge authoriza-
tion of additional 275 million dollar
military assistance to Greece and
Turkey.
19—U. S. abandons its support of parti-
tion of the Holy Land.
24—President Peron of Argentina says
that Argentina will not ban Commu-
nist party.
31—Russia starts battle of blockades
against other allies in Berlin.
April
1—Secretary Marshall tells ninth inter-
national conference of American
states in Bogota that ERP must take
precedence over aid to Latin America.
2—Britain refers Holy Land dispute to
U. N.
9—Outbreak of rioting interrupts Bogota
conference.
12—Bronze statue of Franklin D. Roose-
velt is unveiled in London.
28—Finnish parliament approves Russo-
Finnish defense treaty.
May
7—First Congress of Europe is held in
The Hague.
13—Arab League proclaims in Damascus
that a “state of war” exists between
its members and the “Jewish rebels
of Palestine.”
14—Israel, first Jewish state in the Holy
Land since 70 A. D., is proclaimed by
the Jewish National Council meeting
in Tel Aviv.
26—Gen. Jan Christian Smuts and his
United Party are defeated in a South
African election.
June
7—Dr. Eduard Behes, 64, elected Czech
president for life in June, 1946, re-
signs.
11—Cease-fire order takes effect on Pal-
estine’s fighting fronts under four-
week truce.
12—Senate appropriations committee re-
stores 1.011 billion of the 1.256 billion
cut by the house from ERP.
24—Soviet occupation forces ban all ship-
ments from western Germany to Ber-
lin.
July
6—Britain, France and U. S. demand in
nearly identical notes that Russia lift
its blockade of Berlin.
9—Holy Land truce, which began June
11, expires, and all three principal
fronts again flame into action.
12—British lend-lease account with the
U. S. is closed out.
27—Maj. Gen. Hershey announces that
the new draft will take 25-year olds
first and youngest men last.
29—Yugoslav Communists re-elect Mar-
shal Tito as head of the politiburo.
30—Envoys of Western Big Three begin
series of official talks in Moscow.
31—Another U. S. tribunal in Nuernberg
sentences 11 of 12 Krupp munitions
directors to prison.
August
2—Secret plan for control of Danube wa-
terways is presented to the Danube
conference in Belgrade.
7—Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, 52, Russian
chemistry teacher, plunges from
third-floor window of Russia’s New
York consulate to escape Reds.
12—Anglo-U. S. airlift to Berlin achieves
the 4,500-ton-a-day goal.
15—Democratic republic of Korea is for-
mally proclaimed.
September
3—Chile’s Communist party is outlawed
under act of congress.
4—Queen Wilhelmina ends 50-year reign
over Netherlands, in favor of daugh-
ter Juliana. , „ .
5—Pope Pius XII broadcasts his first
speech to German Catholics since the
war. . . _
14—Gen. Lucius D. Clay predicts in Ber-
lin that a winter-long siege is in pros-
17—Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte,
U. N. mediator for Palestine, assas-
sinated. .. .. „ „
21—Third annual session of 58-nation U.N.
general assembly opens in Paris.
S / —open to girl# under 35,
—A high-school graduates and
/ —M college girls.
LM —more opportunities every
year for the graduate nurse.
Top Ten Spot News
Stories of 1948
(As selected by nation's weekly
editors in Publishers' Auxiliary
poll-)
President Truman and Demo-
cratic party score upset election
victory.
Russians blockade Berlin, caus-
ing inauguration of airlift, height-
ening the "cold war."
Count Bernadotte assassinated
during U. N. mission in Palestine.
Southern Democrats rebel to
form states' rights or "Dixiecrat"
party.
War in China nears climax with
Communist troops marching to ap-
parent victory and U. S. officials
refusing to grant additional aid
to Chiang Kai-shek.
High cost of living plagues
Americans and their business with
fourth round of wage boosts seen
in offing.
Oksana Kasenkina leaps from
Russian consulate window in des-
perate effort to escape impending
return to native land, creating in-
ternational episode.
Mohandas Gandhi assassinated
by Hindu extremist, terminating
life of service to India and cause
of freedom.
United Nations proceedings
bring info open many interna-
tional problems and emphasize
conflict between East and West.
Eightieth congress sets legisla-
tive background for party posi-
tions during election campaign.
Principal witness is
State Secretary George Marshall.
19—Bernard Baruch presents senate for-
eign relations committee with his
startling “peace mobilization” pro-
gram.
23—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, chief of
staff, withdraws from Republican
presidential race.
February
3—National Airlines’ 145 pilots strike
before midnight over dismissal of
pilot two years ago.
4—Defense secretary Forrestal consoli-
dates navy and air force transport
systems into military air transport
service.
23—Sen. Glen H. Taylor (D., Ida.) quits
party to become Henry Wallace’s
running mate.
24—Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers goes on
trial on charges of suborning perjury
in senate investigation.
March
1—House un-American activities com-
mittee accuses Dr. Edward U. Con-
don, director of the national bureau
of standards, of being "one of the
weakest links in our atomic secu-
rity."
16—FBI declares it has cleared 1,005,944
federal employes in loyalty pro-
gram.
24—Gerhart Eisler sentenced to one to
three years imprisonment in Wash-
ington for passport fraud.
April
2—Both houses of congress override tax
cut veto, pass omnibus foreign aid
bill and adjourn for week.
10—House speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
intervenes in the 27-day strike of
400,000 soft-coal miners, and soon
afterwards an important agreement
is announced.
20—John L. Lewis is fined $20,000 and
UMW $1,400,000 for contempt of fed-
eral court order.
30—Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg succeeds
Gen. Carl A. Spaatz as air force
chief.
May
2—Gen. Dwight Eisenhower retires from
the army.
8—President Truman celebrates his 64th
birthday.
10—Three railroad brotherhoods call off
threatened nation-wide strike after
President Truman orders army to
seize roads.
19—House passes Mundt-Nixon Commu-
nist-control bill, 319-58.
21—N. Y. Gov. Dewey wins Oregon presi-
dential primary over Harold E. Stas-
. sen.
June
2—Senate votes to admit 200,000 Euro-
Bishop Hall’s “Satires,” pub-
lished in 1598, tell how every tenant
at the dawn of the New Year pre-
Rented his lord with a fat capon;
and Ben Jonson, in his “Christmas
Masque” introduces among his cast
of characters “New Year’s gift in
a blue coat, serving man like, with
an orange and a sprig of rosemary
on his head.”
Oranges and nutmeg, gilded and
decorated apples, were frequent
gifts exchanged among the poorer
people. Ladies of fashion delighted
in pins, invented during the Six-
teenth century to take the place of
clumsy wooden skewers. Here we
have the origin of our own “pin
money”—a gift of money given in
place of pins.
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