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Page * i, May we.Took ahead with you to a very prospei*- J'dns and V«TV happy 1030! BETTY NIELSEN - --^-Dresses and Accessories--^-- verside tMve -- '* \v-' • : w/tmm We thank you fo? your upairo^age during the past year and wish yx*u,a New Year filled with contentment and prosperity. CENTRAL MARKET Wm. Pries & Son r- Green Street HcHenry M y/.'/m hivpph lifU) mR-rat onwn If 1939 is the best year you've ever had, it wili : be the fulfillment of our wish for yon! v KARLS' CAFE DeLuxe Fountain Service Riverside Drive --: McHenry, 111. • ' •• The year has been < good to ns .. . we hope it was good to yon, too. Bnt now the important thing is to wish you' even better things to come! We're chirping out our " greetings--may your New Year be a good and happy J one. nil tAMl OtlUR, ;• TONYAN CONSTRUCTION CO. • /General Contractors \ • Telephone 152 *• • West McHenry A bright star is shining from our windows to say -- a Happy New Year to you and yours. " _ & Insurance a? •MW r ' These Were Among Highlights in the Year's News . C L T J * ® » o r l d t o u g h i a new Iwmefor the wandering Jpw, driven from Germany, Ctechoslovukia mnd Italy, battled by Arab, in the Holy Land. FLOODS-- Raging torrent, swept California in the ,pring, Texas in the summer, 7W England in the autumn. POLITICS-- Primary and general election, in every state of the union focused attention on national affair, and brought Republican gain, in many tection,. AGGRESSION--Germany's Adolf Hitler marched through Austria and Czechoslovak in, Japan marched through China and fought with Rustia on the Siberian border• Compiled by JOHN D. GRANT ian u Jan.1 o\fer Jan. Jan. 2--Postmasiti Genera) Farley's annual report showed "net surplus" of more than 12 million dollars. Jan. 3--Congress opened regular session and received President's annual message. Supreme court upheld federal power loans and grants. Jan. 4--Representative Lester Hill nominated for senator from Alabama. Jan. 5--President's budget message revealed larger deficit, smaller revenues, and asked a billion for national defense. Associate . Justice George Sutherland of Supreme court announced his retirement. Jan. 10--Resolution for war referendum amendment to Constitution buried by house. Jan. 11--Indiana Supreme court outlawed fharriaee mills of state. 12--House voted to widen President's to cut appropriations. 15--Stanley F. Reed, solicitor general, appointed to Supreme court by President Roosevelt. Jan. 18--House appropriated billion and a half for Treasury and Post Office departments. Jan. 20---pomptroller of the Currency J. F. T. O'Connor resigned. Jan. 21--Federal court of appeals at Chattanooga upheld TVA competition with private power companies. House passed 553 million navy appropriation bill. Jan. 22--Sixteen oil companies and 30 Individuals found guilty at Madison. Wis., of conspiring to violate Sherman anti-trust law. Jan. 25--Senate confirmed appointment of Stanley Reed to Supreme court. Jan. 27--Robert H. Jackson nominated for solicitor general. Jan. 28--President sent congress a program to strengthen national defense. Jan. 31--Supreme court upheld labor board's power to make investigations. Feb. 1--Housing bill finally enacted. Feb. 6--A. F. of L. expelled United Mine Workers and two other C. I. O. unions. Feb. 10--President asked congress to appropriate $250,000,000 for relief. Feb. 14--Farm bill finally enacted by congress. Feb. 16--House passed 250 million dollar relief blU. Feb. 18--Five United States army planes completed 6,000-mile flight to Buenos Aires. Secretary Wallace fixed marketing quotas for cotton and tobacco. Feb. 21--Antl-lynchlng bill withdrawn In senate. Feb. 23--Bituminous coal commission re> voked all fixed prices Senate passed $250,000,000 relief bill. Feb. 26--Spy ring selling United States military and naval secrets to foreign government smashed; two men and one woman arrested. March 2--Chairman Morgan of TVA asked congressional Investigation of his two fellow directors. March 8--Interstate commerce commission authorized 10 per cent increase In railroad freight rates. March 11--President told TVA directors to compose their differences or' rest March 14--Chairman C. F. coal commission resigned. March 17--Secretary of State Hull outlined American foreign policy of co-operation for peace and preparedness to defend international law and order. March 21--House passed navy expansion bill March 22--President Roosevelt ousted A. E. Morgan from TVA, laid entire matter before congress and appointed Harcourt Morgan TVA chairman. March 25--Senate voted for Joint congressional Investigation of TVA. March 28--Senate passed government reorganization bill. March 30--House voted for TVA Investigation. .April 4--House passed bill releasing (1.- 500,000,000 RFC funds for business loans. April 5--Presidents Roosevelt and Quezon agreed to defer Philippines' economic independence until I860. --Senate passed army appropriation bill carrying 9491.000.000. April S--Senate passed revenue bill designed to relieve business. April 11--Senate passed bill putting 14.000 postmasterahipe under civil service. April 14---President Roosevelt in message to congress asked nearly seven billion dollars for spending and lending program. April 19--House passed 903 million dollar Agriculture department bill, carrying S01 millions for road building. April 21--Congress passed naval approwimg $546,r sign Hoossffooir d of ation bill carryl 1.868,000. April 25--President asked congress to abolish Income tax exemption for government securities and government employees. April 28--National Progressives of Amer* ,(ia.E?rty 'orrned by Gov. Philip La Follette of Wisconsin and followers. May 3--Senate passed naval expansion bill. House passed bill to create 24 more federal Judgeships. May 6--Labor board withdrew decision against Ford company. House passed $484,000,000 highway bill May 8--Senate passed bttUaa dollar Agricultural department bill. May 12--Three billion recovery spending bill passed by house May 13--Enactment of naval expansion bill completed. May'16--Senate passed blll'creating aeronautics authority. May 17--Pennsylvania Democratic primaries resulted in defeat for C. I. O. candidates; Gov. G. H. Earle Terminated for senator and C. A. Jones for governor. f(epublicans renominated Senator Davis and named A. H. James for governor. May 21--Presbyterian church general asm mbl.v voted predestination sections oul of confession of faith. May 25--Dr. a. E. Morgan, first witness in congressional inquiry into TVA, accused David Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan of deceit and dishonest management May 26--Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan heard in denial of A. E. Morgan's charges find counter-attack Bloody labor riots in Detroit and Akron.' May 27--President Roosevelt let tax bill •if'ime law without his .signature. Ma:/ 51--Supreme court denied rehearing of stockj.-.rds case, rebuking Secretary Wallace and Solicitor General Jackson. President signed bill creating 20 new federal judges. Government reorganization bill shelved by congress. June 3--Senate passed the three billion recovery bill. June 9--House ousted Representative Jenks. Republican, of New Hampshire, and seated Alphonse Roy, Democrat. June 14--Senate passed the wage-hour act. June 15--Congress passed flood control bill. June 16--Congress passed relief and pump-priming bill and adjourned. June 20--Eighteen persons indicted In New York as German spies. June 24--President by executive order extended civil serviee to all government employees not exempted by statute. July 6--Dr. A. E. Morgan sued for reinstatement as chairman of TVA. July 7--President Roosevelt began transcontinental speechmaking tour. July 14--President reyievved battleship fleet at San Francisco. Howard Hughes and four others completed round-the-world flight started July 10. setting record of three days, 19 hours. 14 minutes. July 15--Elmer F. Andrews. New York, appointed administrator of wage and hour law. Secretary Wallace asked 31 per cent cut in wheat acreage. July 18--Douglas Corrigan of Los Angeles made solo flight from New York to Dublin, Ireland, in 28 hours, 13 minutes. July 19--Governor of Iowa ordered troops to Newton, home of strike-bound Maytag plant. Five officials and 12 corporations fined in oil conspiracy case at Madison, Wis. July 20--Government began anti-monopoly suit against chief movie companies. July 22--Federal court of appeals in Chicago set aside finding of NLRB in Fansteel corporation case. July 25--Puerto Rico nationalists tried to assassinate Gov. Blanton Winshlp. Aug. 1--Justice department announces investigation of American Medical association on charge of anti-trust law violation. Aug. 2--New Dealers defeated in Virginia and Missouri Democratic primaries. Aug. 3--William C. Dodge, former New York district attorney, linked with James J. Hines in policy racket charge. President Roosevelt heads Dack home after fishing cruise in South Pacific. Aug. 6--Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley wins Democratic senatorial nomination in Kentucky over Gov. A. B. "Happy" Chandler. Aug. 11--President Roosevelt asks defeat of Sen. Walter F. George in Georgia speech. Twenty-six passenger German plane flies non-stop from Berlin to New York. Aug. 12--Tom Girdler, Republic Steel president, blasts C. I. O., National Labor Relations board and senate civil liberties committee. Aug. 13--United States Nazllsm and Communism investigated by house committee on un-Americanlsm. Aug. 15--President Roosevelt asks defeat of Sen. Millard Tydlngs in "fireside chat" on social security's third birthday. Trial of James J. Hines on racket charge opens in New York city. Ford Motor company calls 24,000 back to work. Aug. 16--John P. Frey. A. F. of L. leader. blames Communists for1 sitdown strike epidemic. Aug. 18--President Roosevelt dedicates new international bridge through the Thousand Islands. St. Lawrence river. Aug. 24--President Roosevelt denounces G. O. P. for meddling in primaries, idi ... seizure of lands. Secretary Hull send6 sharp note to Mexico on American-owned farm- Aug. 30--Senator Smith, intended purge victim, wins in South Carolina primary. McAdoo, indorsed by Roosevelt, loses In California primary. Sept. 6--Governor Davey of Ohio defies federal social security board to cut off state's old-age assistance grants. Senator Pat McCarron defeats two 100 per cent New Dealers In Nevada primary. Sept. 7--Grand Army of the Republic holds national reunion tn Des Moines. hlladelphla. in gambling Sept. 9--Grandlury indicts S. Davis Wilson. mayor of Phi Inquiry. Sept. 11--James Roosevelt undergoes operation at Rochester, Minn. Sept. 12--Senator Tydlngs wins in Maryland primary: voters defy President by landslide. Judge Pecora declares mistrial la Hines racket case. Maine elects Republican governor and all three congressmen. Sept. 14--Senator W F. George, oiv the purge list, wins in Georgia. Sept. 20--Democrats defeat J. J. O'Connor in New York; G. O. P. nominates him. Sept. 27--Senator McAdoo made chairman of the Dollar ship lines under United States control. Sept. 29--District Attorney Thomas E Dewey nominated as Republican candidate for governor of New YorV Sept. 30--Gov. H. H. Lehman named by Democrais as candidate for governor of New York. .Oct 4--Sweeping graft inquiry started,in Brooklyn. (Continued on page two) Oct, 9--Two bandits hold up two bank employees at Ottawa. HI., and, escape with $60,000 in eash. Oct. 6--A. F. of L. votes to continue assessments for fight against C. I. O. 7 Oct. 10--United States Supreme coutt refuses to review conviction of Tom Mooney, serving sentence for bombing in San Francisco in 1916. 7 Oct. 13--Green re-elected president of A. F. of L. Oct. 14--Gustav Rumrlch, army deserter. pleads guilty to being a German spy. Oct. 17--Dr. Eduard Benes, former president of, Czechoslovakia, accepts invitation to become visiting professor at the University of Chicago. Oct. 18--National Eucharistlc congress opened in New Orleans. Oct. 19--Labor board ordered Republic S,teel to reinstate 5,000 strikers. Oct. 20--United States indicted 73 as WPA grafters in New Mexico. Oct. 24--Wage-hour law went Into effect. Oct. 28--Big utilities pledge two billion dollar expansion with federal aid. Nov. 7--President Roosevelt sent congratulations to Soviet Russia! on its twenty-first birthday. ) Nov. 8--Election results: Republicans gain eight senators, 80 representatives and governors in 11 states. Nov. 9--Rise in stocks and heaviest trading since Oct. 21. 1937. follow election results. Nov. 10--Col. Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, welcomed to Washington. i Nov. 12--Ladies Garment Workers' union. 250 000 strong,- withdraws from C. I. O. Nov. 15--Grand jury indictments returned i in Chicago charging 97 persons and firms I with conspiracy to fix the price of milk and ; ice cream. | Nov. 16--New Deal turns to arms making I to supplant job relief. i ' John L. Lewis retains dictatorial control I of C. I. O , including $2,000,000 levy. Nov. 17--Reciprocal trade agreements i signed with Great Britain and Canada. 1 Nov. 18--Attorney General Cummings announced resignation from cabinet, effective in January. Nov. 19--Roosevelt recalls Hugh R. Wilson, ambassador to Germany. Navy contracts for three new battleships. Nov. 21--President Roosevelt arrived at Warm Springs, Ga., for two weeks visit. Wisconsin's retroactive Income tax law upheld by U. S. Supreme court. Nov. 29--Capt. Ross T. Mclntyre. White House phvsician. named surgeon general of the navy. Nov. 30--Grand jury investigation of graft charges against Governor Earle of Pennsylvania and 14 others ordered. Dec. 1--Homer Martin reveals far flung rule of Reds over C I. O. at Dies committee hearing. Dcc. 5--U. S. Supreme court rebukes labor board for abuse of authority. Mrs. Elma Lauer, wife of New York Supreme court justice, indicted for smuggling. Dec. 7--Anna M. Hahn, Cincinnati poison slaver, electrocuted at Columbus, Ohio. Dec. 9--United States ambassador to China recalled for conference. s Dec. 11--President Roosevelt announces plan to deed Hyde Park estate to gove: ment to serve as a memorial to himsi Dec. 13--George Burns, of Burns and len. pleads guilty on smuggling charge. Dec. 16--F. D. Coster, head of McKesson & Robbins drug firm, revealed as exconvict, real name. Phillip Muslca, Indicted In huge swindle, kills self. Three brothers of Coster. under different names, arrested on same . charge. Dec. 20--Confession of Anna M. Hahn. electrocuted poison slayer, made public, in which she confesses to four murders. Theft of $4,000,000 uncovered as Coster- Musica swindle grows; huge gun deals with foreign power linked to swindle. Administration grants indefinite credit to China against gold held in U. S. Dec. 21--Inquiry reveals use of large part of drug fraud millions for nation-wide lobby. Four medical associations and 21 physicians indicted on restraint of trade charges. FOREIGN Jan. 1--France embargoed arms shipments to Rumania and Jugoslavia. Jan. 2--Chiang Kai-shek heads reorganized Chinese government. Jan. 9-- Prince Paul, heir presumptive to Greek throne, married Princess Frederika Louise of Hanover in Athens. Jan. 10--Japanese occupied Tslngtao. Jan. 11--Submarine sank Dutch steamer off Spanish coast. Jan. 14--Premier Chautemps of France and his Popular Front government resigned. Jan. 29--United States rejected proposal to co-operate with Britain, France and Russia in supplying China with war munitions. Jan. 31--British steamer torpedoed and sunk by pirate submarine off Spanish coast. Feb. 4--Hitler reorganized -German army high command, assumed absolute control and made Von Rlbbentrop foreign minister. Feb. 7--Britain warned Franco to stop pirate attacks or face reprisals. Feb. 14--Britain's great naval base at Singapore dedicated. Feb. 15--Hitler forced Austria to put pro- Nazis In her cabinet. Feb. 20--Hitler demanded colonies for Germany and jaid Reich didn't fear war. Anthony Eden resigned as British foreign minister. s King Carol proclaimed fascist regime for Rumania March 2--Chinese armies In Shensl province north of Yellow river routed by Japanese. March 3--Twenty-one former Soviet Russian leaders pleaded guilty of > treason and other crimes in Moscow trial. March 7--United States and Czechoslovakia signed reciprocal trade treaty. March 9--Chancellor Schuschnlgg ordered a plebiscite on Austrian Independence. , Chautemps' French cabinet resigned^ ' March 10--Leon Blum became French premier. March 11--Premier Schuschnlgg of Austria resigned when German troops invaded the country; Seyss-Inquart took post and formed Nazi cabinet. March 12 Hitler proclaimed the union of Germany and Austria, acrappfog fee treaty of St. Germain. v For the first time in 66 years death visited the Chapin family of Battle Creek, Mich., a few days ago, when Dr. S. N. Chapin, 44, passed away. He is survived by his widow and tWo children, both parents, 10 brothers and sisters, and their 26 children and five grandchildren. Tbe worm war Almost twice as many men were killed in the World war as in all the wars from 1790 to 1913. In London, a British sailor on shore leave sought to pass the time by (taking a "mystery tour" on a sightseeing bus. Taking a nap on the way, he awoke as the bus stopped outside the Portsmouth dockyard, where he was taken with the rest of the party to look over his own ship. < . - v , "Deficiency Diseaaaa" '• "Deficiency diseases" are those due to absence- of certain vitamins in the diet. Dr. Krause of Kansas City advises that if every person who gets a cold would go to ed and stay there for two or,three days his suffering would be shortened and spread of the disease would be less likely. Many of us have known that a long time, but few follow the advice- given. Fibers in Pound of Cotton A single pound of cotton may contain as many as 100 million fibers. •>4 SEASON'S CREEKS TO ALL • >1939 Our greeting for the Year, is sincere| may each of the 365 days %ee a hope realized , . , a* ; . |wish come true. • - v McKENRY CO, FARMERS CO-OP, ASS'N. John A. Bolger, Mgr. THisis .(v*-V V TO- fenew oB^ friend* ips for a coming year .. ... V- • may it bring to you everything yoii desire, good health and happiness. B--»f« Forgetting old cares, facing the New Year with ftew hopes . . . may they be realized for you! McHENRY FLOUR MILLS Wm. Spencer, Prop. It m owe hope thaT you may have a New Year filled and running ov^r with the good things in life, including good health, abiding prosperity and abounding happiness. HrC. KAMHOLZ Main Street Hardware West McHenry We've built up a reputation for dependability which you have enjoyed-- and will again in 1939. JOHN J. VYCITAL iak--Hardware -- Green Street As the holiday season oomes with Itgi good will1 and good cheer our thoughts turn to those whoa#; "patronage bit ao&ftiit'jie, us during the jgast year. Please accept our grateful thanks and friendly good wishes. May the New Year bring yo® Happiness and success. > ; F. Ferwerda JU