The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 12, No. 17, Ed. 1, Friday, December 30, 1949 Page: 3
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TRTOAY DEC 30 1349
10 YEARS AGO
IN THE NWS
CHRONOLOGY OF THE
YEAH 1S39
The United States navys new
diving bell got its first real test
rescuing thirtythree survivors
from the sunken submarine
Squalus Twentysix others died
Thirty thousand were killed
and fifty thousand Injured b-
an earthquake In Chile
The armys mystrey plane
crashed after a coasttocoast
flight at 340 miles an hour
In Mexico twentyeight were
Jellied and fifty Injured In a
train wreck and twentytwo
persons were burned to death
in a Mexican theatre fire
Tornadoes in Arkansas Tex-
as and Louisiana caused fifty
three deaths and Injuries to
three > hundred during April
Ten were killed and sixty
three injured in Minnesota by a
tornado on June 18
A storm in California on Sep-
tember 25 killed one hundred
persons and caused property
damage amounting to a million
dollars
German troops were massed
near the border of Slovakia on
Marph 12 Gernjany took mili-
tary possession of Slovakia on
August 18
Britain and France declared
war on Germany on September
3 Two days later President
Roosevelt proclaimed United
States neutrality
Hitler made peace proposals
to Britain and France on Octo-
ber 7 The French premier
spurned the peace terms on the
10thand Britain refused peace
based on Nazi conquests on the
12th
Belgium and Holland offered
to mediate peace between the
warring nations November 7
Lou Gehrig retired from the
New York Yankebs with paral-
ysis infection after hanging up
an alltime record for games
played
The years deaths Included
Pope Plus XI S S Van Dine
mystery story writer Sigmund
Freud originator of pscho
analysis Dr Charles Mayo and
his brother Dr William J Mayo
founders of the Mayo clinic
Floyd Gibbons war correspon-
dent Zane Grey noted writer
Of western stories Douglas
Fairbanks Sr stage and screen
star Charles R Walgreen the
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New Year cheer
May
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If we ever get back to land youre going to join tho
Boy Scouts and learn to tie knoUl
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For tliere is a New
Year upon us
bright and
unspoiled May
it remain so
for you
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Take your signals
for 1950 from
the bowl football
games Fight
hard and clean
Compete with all
you ve goL
FRANK COLE
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Well be-
thinking well of you
when the
midnight bells peal
in the glad
New Year
Jhecfalr
NEWYnARI8Sin
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Miller, Othello Ontje. The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 12, No. 17, Ed. 1, Friday, December 30, 1949, newspaper, December 30, 1949; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth47637/m1/3/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.