OCTOBER 2. The Spanish in Morocco occupy Ajdir, Abd-el-Krim's capital. 3. The Navy airplane carrier Lexington is launched at Quincy, Mass. In Baltimore, the General Baking Corporation is organized with Paul H. Helms as President. 5.-The French debt commission, under Finance Minister Caillaux, which arrived in Washington on Sept. 23, sails for home with a temporary adjustment which is later rejected by the French Government. 8.-Col. Mitchell declines to testify in the Shenandoah inquiry on the ground that it might prejudice him before his prospective court-martial. 10.-The Czechoslovak debt of $115,000,000 is adjusted at Washington: $3,000,000 to be paid the United States for 18 years and $6,000,000 for 44 years. 13. John W. Weeks retires as Secretary of War and is succeeded by Acting Secretary Dwight F. Davis. In Persia, the National Assembly (the Mejliss) deposes the Shah, who is in Paris, and the Kajar dynasty, by a vote of 80 to 5. The Premier becomes dictator and then Shah. He is a Persian Cossack named Reza Khan who has risen to power from the ranks. NOVEMBER 2. A new Italian debt funding commission, headed by Count Volpi, Minister of Finance, opens negotiations at Washington. On Nov. 12 it agrees that Italy shall pay $2,407,000,000 in sixty-two years, and on the signing of the agreement, two days later, pays the first installment of $5,000,000, not due till June. 3. In the State and municipal elections the outstanding features are: New York ratifies four constitutional amendments and reduces its Republican majority in the Assembly; in Ohio, three constitutional amendments are defeated; Democratic Governors win in New Jersey and Virginia by large At Locarno, Switzerland, Great Britain, pluralities; in New York City, James J. France, Italy, and Belgium adopt a security Walker (Dem.) is elected mayor by 400,000 treaty with Germany and Poland and Czecho-plurality, while Boston elects its first Repubslovakia negotiate defensive pacts with France lican mayor in eighteen years-Malcolm E. and arbitration pacts with Germany, as do Nichols with a plurality of 21,000. France and Belgium, and Germany is to enter the League but will not be obliged to execute its military directions on account of her disarmed condition. These important treaties were completed and initialed on Oct. 16, by the Foreign Ministers of all the signatories, and signed at London with great ceremony, Dec. 1. 15.-Col. Hanford MacNider succeeds Dwight F. Davis as Assistant Secretary of War, the latter having been made Secretary. The "Pirates" win the World Series from the "Senators" by four games out of seven. William Green is re-elected President of the American Federation of Labor. 16. According to the Census Bureau, the number of active farms in the country have been reduced by 75,735 since 1920, with a decrease in New York of 4,433. There is an increase in the New England States. The Prince of Wales reaches London after his tour to Africa and South America, 19. The Greco-Bulgarian frontier quarrel begins by the Greeks invading the Bulgarian border near Demirhissar on the ground that Macedonian Comitajis had raided a Greek village-Greece issues an ultimatum and Bulgaria appeals to the League of Nations, the Council of which is quickly summoned by President Briand. There is an investigation by the Council, which on Dec. 16, it finds Greece to blame and orders her to pay an indemnity to Bulgaria. 27. The French Cabinet resigns, and, after dropping M. Caillaux as Finance Minister, is reconstructed by Premier Painlevé, receiving a vote of confidence on Nov. 3: 221 to 13. 28. Col. William Mitchell is placed on trial before a court-martial on the charge of having broken certain Articles of War by his criticisms; he pleads not guilty. 30.-In Syria, Damascus is bombarded by the French, doing great damage to the historic quarter, bodies of slain Moslems are paraded as an example, and General Sarrail, the French High Commissioner, is recalled. 31.-New York City adopts a 1926 budget carrying $437,000,000. 4. In New Zealand, the prohibition referendum is defeated: 310,000 to 275,000. 5. The Anti-Saloon League holds a conference in Chicago on the "enforcement crisis." 7. After a flight in one plane of 34,000 miles from Rome to Tokio and return, Commander Francesco de Pinedo is welcomed back in the Eternal City. 8. New York City celebrates the publication of the first local newspaper by William Bradford, in 1725. 10.-New York notables give a dinner to Charles E. Hughes, who eloquently advocates the United States joining the World Court. 13. The Mexican Chamber passes the Land bill regulating Article 27 of the Constitution in a way to arouse resentment in Washington in the following year. 14. Australian elections return Stanley M. Bruce to power in spite of strong radical opposition. 15. In the Czechoslovak elections the coalition Government wins 159 seats and the Opposition controls 141. 16. At Prague a new element, "Dvimigan," is identified by Profs. Heyrovsky and Dolejsek. 16-27.-In China, Chang Tso-lin's Shanghai troops mutiny in favor of Wu Pei-fu operating from Peking, and Feng Yu-hsiang threatens his old ally, Chang, who retreats on Mukden. The Peking conference agrees to the American-Chinese plan for abolition of the likin-a tax on inter-provincial commerce. 17. Mrs. Margaret Ross Lansdowne, widow of the Commander of the Shenandoah, testifies before the Court of Inquiry that a naval officer (Capt. Paul Foley) made an effort to direct her testimony in regard to her husband's opinion of the fatal flight. The Court exonerates Capt. Foley on Nov. 20. 19. Charles E. Hughes is made chairman of the New York State Reorganization Commission for short-ballot reform. 20. In Italy, the Senate passes the bill against secret societies which particularly applies to Freemasonry. 21. The World Court recognizes the competency of the League's Council to render a decision in the Mosul case, although Turkey is not to be handicapped by the presence of the British member. 23. Col. Mitchell takes the stand in his own defense arguing that his attacks on the air administrations were justified and supported by the evidence of witnesses. 27. For settlement of the anthracite strike, Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania proposes a five-year agreement with no price increase, while a commission shall decide on the wage increase. This is accepted by John L. Lewis for the striking miners but rejected by the mine owners, who refuse to negotiate on that basis, asking an immediate resumption of work at pre-strike wages and arbitration, which the miners continue to decline. In Italy, the Chamber, which reconvened on Nov. 18 and passed bills strengthening the power of the Premier (one making him responsible only to the King and another requiring his approval on all projects of law) abolishes local self-government for 7,500 communities- -communes of fewer than 5,000 population, over which podeste are to be placed responsible to Rome. 29. Prussia grants William of Hohenzollern, as former King of Prussia, 30,000,000 marks, 180,000 acres of land, three palaces in Berlin and a palace at Babelsburg, besides other real estate in the capital. For his work in inspiring the Locarno treaties the British Foreign Secretary, Austen Chamberlain, is made a Knight of the Order of the Garter by King George. 30.-State laws were increased 13,018, in the present year, and 32 per cent, of the 40,980 bills presented in 39 states were adopted. The Secretary of Labor's annual report shows that in the fiscal year, 1924-25, 294,314 immigrants were admitted as compared with 706,896 for the previous year. DECEMBER 1.-Prohibition Commissioner Andrews decrees regulations still further limiting the sale of sacramental wines. 2. The President's Aircraft Board of experts recommends assistant secretaries of War, Navy, and Commerce to handle aviation, thus rejecting Col. Mitchell's proposal for a unified air Department, A civilian Cabinet is formed by General Primo de Rivera in Spain from the party of the dictatorship-the Patriotic Union. 3.-Col. Merch Stewart is appointed commandant at West Point. The Irish Boundary Commission's decision leaves the North Ireland-Free State border in statu quo, but the British Government assumes certain monetary obligations for damages and pensions, 4.-Aristide Briand, who returned to power in France after Premier Painlevé's defeat on Nov. 22, has his bill for an inflation of 7,500,000,000 frs. passed by the Senate 205 to 26-and the bill becomes law. 6.-The German-American Claims Commission settle Lusitania claims to a total of $2,409,443, making a total of all claims awarded, $167,663,102. 7.The Massachusetts Attorney General inpolitical favoritism vestigates charges of among the courts of Boston. First session of the Sixty-ninth Congress opens and Nicholas Longworth (Rep., Ohio) is elected Speaker of the House: 229 to 173. 8. The President's message, urging tax reduction, the sale of the Muscle Shoals plant and Government ships, legislation control of public utilities in emergencies, and undersecretaries for the War, Navy, and Commerce Departments, as recommended by his expert Board for the control of aviation, is read in each House. 9. The President's annual budget mes sage calls for $3,494,222,308 and estimates the 1926-27 surplus at $330,307,894. 10. In his annual report Secretary of the Treasury Mellon declares that over 80 per cent. of national expenditures are for past wars. In Italy, the Chamber passes a law making the Fasciste labor syndicates and the employers associations the sole parties to be heard in industrial disputes and making arbitration by them obligatory. 13. In Pennsylvania, Governor Pinchot calls a special session of the legislature to revise the coal, banking, building, and loan laws and approves the Tri-State project for the utilization of Delaware River water. 15-31.-In China, the Japanese transfer 1,000 troops from Korea to Mukden and send 3,500 to protect the South Manchurian railway-the International Commission of Inquiry into the Shanghai riots of May 30 blames the police of the foreign settlement and the municipal council gives $75,000 to the relatives of the victims-Gen. Chang Tso-lin defeats Kuo Sung-ling and executes him as a mutineer-Feng Yu-hsiang, the "Christian General" who controls Peking, captures Tientsin-the former Anfu leader, Gen. Hsu Shu-cheng, is assassinated by Captain Lu Cheng-wu. The League Council decides the Mosul boundary question in favor of the British mandate of Iraq. 16. In France, Senator Paul Doumer is made Finance Minister and Senator Berenger is appointed Ambassador at Washington with authority to reopen the debt negotiations begun by Joseph Caillaux in September. 17. In Switzerland, Henri Haeberlin is elected President of the Confederation. A Russo-Turkish defensive treaty in resentment for the Locarno treaties and the Mosul settlement is signed in Paris. Col. Mitchell is found guilty on all counts: suspended for five years with loss of pay and allowances. The Pope confers the red hat on five Car dinals, including of Patrick O'Donnell Armagh, Ireland. 18. The House passes the Revenue bill reducing taxes $325,736,000 including $193,575,000 from the income-tax. 21.-Senator Pepper (Rep., Penn.) reverses himself and approves of the World Court for the United States. 22.--In Philadelphia, Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, having resigned from the Marine Corps, is dismissed by Mayor Kendrick as Director of Public Safety and succeeded by George W. Elliott. Russian trade figures show, for 1925, im ports from the United States, in spite of this country's non-recognition, three times the value of those of 1913, with cotton leading at $50,000,000, food stuffs at $33,000,000, and machinery at $14,000,000. Secretary Hoover condemns those countries which seek to restrain trade by monopolizing | strike, although Alvan Markle submits a plan their natural products and starts a movement that considers the public's point of view. for rubber plantations in American depend- River floods in Belgium and France cause encies and for the conservation of the rubber vast loss of property and a few lives. tire industry. 29.-Indictment against Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana is quashed at Washington. The State Census estimates the population of New York City at 5,873,356, an increase of 253,308 in five years. 23. The Pope, in an encyclical, institutes a new festival-the Feast of the Kingdom of Christ. 24.--Frederick C. Hicks, who recently dropped dead in a Washington theatre, is succeeded by Howard Sutherland of West Virginia as Alien Property Custodian. Pope Pius XI ends the Holy Year. 26. An American opera sung in English is acclaimed in Chicago: "A Light from St. Agnes" by W. Franke Harling. 29-31.-The coal conference at New York comes to no settlement in the anthracite A bit of unofficial gossip in a Stockholm paper is commented on seriously all over the world; it is that Princess Astrid, niece of the King of Sweden, will visit Buckingham Palace, London, as the prospective fiancée of the Prince of Wales. 31.-The German Reich has acquired $220,000,000 of the Hohenzollern properties, while it is estimated that, aside from their thrones, the war losses to the family were $25,000,000. In Rumania, Crown Prince Carol renounces succession and family and is succeeded as heir apparent by his four-year old son, Michael. A NECROLOGY AASEN, NEILS W., 48.-Stoughton, Wis., December 30; inventor of a hand grenade. ADAMS, JOHN WOLCOTT, 51.-New York, June 3; artist. ADAMS, RICHARD H., 89.-New York, July 13; German-American importer. AGNUS, GEN. FELIX, 86.-Baltimore, Md., October 31; Civil War veteran and editor. AIKEN, PROF. CHARLES F., 62.-Boston, July 8; author and educator. AILES, MILTON E., 58.-Harpers Ferry, W. Va., October 30; financier and banker. ALEXANDRA, QUEEN DOWAGER OF ENGLAND, 80.-Sandringham House, Norfolk, Eng., November 20; mother of George V and widow of Edward VII. ALICE, DOWAGER PRINCESS OF MONACO, 67.Paris, France, December 22; divorced wife of late Prince of Monaco. ALLEN, GEORGE Y., 32.-Monmouth Junction, AMES, CHARLES H., 31.-Bellefonte, Pa., October 2; air-mail pilot. AMMONS, ELIAS MILTON, 65.-Denver, Col., May 20; former Governor of Colorado. AMORY, JOHN M., 82.-Larchmont, N. Y., November 17; former stock broker. ANDERSON, ROY S., 46.-Peking, March 12; authority on Chinese affairs. ATHA, BENJAMIN, 82.-Newark, N. J., October 24; pioneer steel manufacturer and banker. ATKINSON, GEORGE W., 80.-Charleston, W. Va., April 4; former Governor of West Virginia. ATWOOD, COL. JAMES M., 90.-Plymouth, Mass., October 12; Civil War veteran who directed land battery in Monitor-Merrimac fight. AUDSLEY, GEORGE A., 86.-Bloomfield, N. J., June 20; architect and author. AUDUBON, MARIA R., 82.-Salem, N. Y., December 22; writer, granddaughter of J. J. Audubon. B Germany, BACON, MRS. NATHANIEL T., 63.-Peacedale, nooga, Tenn., September 2; soldier and BANCROFT, EDGAR ADDISON, 67.-Karuizawa, HARRY H., 60. Constantine, Mich., May 7; Major-General U. S. A. BARATELLI, CHARLES C., 40.-Milford, Conn., November 11; sculptor. BARBE, DR. WAITMAN, 61.-Baltimore, Md., October 30; Professor of English in Uni versity of West Virginia. BARBER, DONN, 53.-New York, May 29; architect. BARNEY, HIRAM, 39.-New York, July 4; banker and international lawyer. BARNEY, J. STEWART, 57.-New York, November 22; architect and landscape painter. BARTLETT, PAUL W., 59.-Paris, France, September 20; sculptor. BARTLETT, WILLARD, 78.-Brooklyn, January 17; former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals. BASFORD, GEORGE M., 60.-New York, Octo. ber 26; railroad publicist. BAXTER, COL. A. E., 80.-New York, October 6; Republican leader and lawyer. BEARDSLEY, WILLIAM H., 73.-New York, December 13; President of the Florida East Coast Railway. BEAUCHAMP, REV. DR. WILLIAM M., 95. Syracuse, N. Y., December 13; Episcopal clergyman, historian and archeologist. BECK, SIR ADAM, 68.-London, Ontario, August 15; Canadian political leader and industrialist. BECK, WILLIAM, 55.--Chicago, November 30; BEEKMAN, KATHERINE M. (MRS. WILLIAM B. BEGGS, JOHN I., 78.-Milwaukee, Wis., October 17; traction leader and pioneer in electric transit. BEGIN, CARDINAL LOUIS NAZAIRO, 85.-Quebec, June 16; English poet, essayist and biographer. BENZIGER, NICHOLAS C., 66.-Summit, N. J., October 18; publisher of Catholic books. BERNETTA, CLARA.-New York, September 13; singer and teacher. BERNTHALER, CARL, 46.-Pittsburgh, Pa., November 2; organist, pianist and orchestra leader. BEVINS, CHARLES L., 81.-Newport, R. I., December 20; architect. BICKNELL, G. A., 78.-New Albany, Ind., January 27; Rear Admiral U. S. N. BICKNELL, THOMAS W., 91.-Providence, R. I., October 6; historian, educator and lecturer. BIRD, CHARLES A.-Hornell, N. Y., November 11; theatrical manager. BIRMINGHAM, JAMES F., 58.-New York, November 12; publisher. BISHOP, DR. ELWELL A., 73.-Brooklyn, N. Y., December 21; educator. BLAKELY, GILBERT S., 60.-New York, October 20; educator. BLANCHARD, CHARLES A., 77.-Chicago, December 20; educator and President of Wheaton College. BOLLING, MRS WILLIAM.-Washington, November 21; mother of Mrs. Woodrow Wil son. BOOTH, JOHN R., 98.-Ottawa, Ontario, December 8; pioneer Canadian lumber manu. facturer. BORDEN, GEN. GEORGE P., 81.-New York, April 26; Indian fighter. BORLAND, REUBEN, 57.-Yonkers, N. Y., December 12; merchant. BORST, HENRY V., 68.-Albany, N. Y., November 26; former New York Supreme Court Justice. BOURGEOIS, LEON, 74.-Oger, France, September 29; former Premier of France and "Spiritual Father" of the League of Nations. BOURN, AUGUSTUS O., 92.-Bristol, R. I., January 29; former Governor of Rhode Island. BOWERS, GEORGE M., 63.-Martinsburg, W. Va., December 8; former Congressman from West Virginia. BOWNE, JACOB T., 78.-Springfield, Mass., October 15; pioneer in Y. M. C. A. education, BOYDEN, ALBERT A., 50.-New York, May 2; editor and humanitarian. BRADLEY, JAMES, 67.-New York, August 20; B.-Portland, Me., August 23; missionary in South Africa. BRINE, MRS. MARY DoW.-New York, July 20; author and poet. BRIGHT, FRED E., 68.-Greenwich, Conn., October 7; inventor and manufacturer. BRILL, DR. NATHAN E., 65. New York, December 13; professor of Clinical Medicine at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. BRITTON, EDWARD E., 61.-Washington, November 9; newspaper correspondent and publicist. BROADHEAD, SHELDON B., 79.-Jamestown, N. Church in pastorate of Henry Ward Beecher. BRUNNER, ARNOLD W., 67.-New York, February 14; architect. BRYAN, WILLIAM JENNINGS, 65.-Dayton, Tenn., July 26; statesman, orator and reformer. BUCK, REV. FLORENCE, 45.-Boston, October BURKE, THOMAS, 77.--New York, December 4; Former Chief Justice of the Territory of Washington. BURKE, WILLIAM J., 63.-Pittsburgh, Pa., November 7; former State Senator and Congressman from Pennsylvania. BURNETT, EDWARD, 76.-Milton, Mass., November 5; former Congressman. BURTON, DR. ERNEST D., 69.-Chicago, May 26; President of the University of Chicago. BURTON, MARION L., 50.-Ann Arbor, Mich., February 18; President of the University of Michigan. CABLE, GEORGE W., 80.-St. Petersburg, Fla., January 31; author. BUSBEY, L. WHITE, 73.-Washington, October 31; Republican politician and newspaper correspondent. BUSWELL, FREDERICK C., 65.-Hackensack, N. J., November 28; insurance authority. BUTLER, BENJAMIN F., 66.-New York, November 2; agriculturist, merchant' and member of old New York family. BUTSCH, DR. JOHN L., 47.-Cloverland, Ind., September 8; surgeon and first holder of degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Surgery. C CADWALADER, JOHN, 81.-Philadelphia, March 11; lawyer and capitalist. CADY, CHAUNCEY M., 71.-Stratford, Conn., November 5; former missionary and college professor. CALKINS, DR. WOLCOTT, 93.-Newton, Mass., CAMPBELL, PALMER, 68. Bernardsville, N. CAMPBELL, REV. THOMAS J., 77.-Monroe, N. Y., December 14; Jesuit, historian and educator. CANNIFF, WILLIAM H., 77.-Cleveland, O., CANNON, DR. GEORGE E., 56.-Jersey City, N. 61.-Friebourg, Switzerland, November 3; Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Helena, Montana. CARTER, DR. HENRY R., 73.-Washington, September 14, Assistant Surgeon-General of the United States. CARTER, PROF. THOMAS F., 43.-New York, August 6; head of Chinese Department of Columbia University. CARTER, MAJOR-GEN. WILLIAM H., 74.Washington, May 25; soldier. |