4

Bernard Snow (II) 82
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 81

3

William Nephi Lowe 69
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 59
Charles Eben Snow 54
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 57
Martin Peterson 73
Elisha Peck Jr. 67
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 62

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 35
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 32
Harry Chester Peterson 36
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 36

General

Population: 2.26 Billion*

• Entertainment: Films include Pygmalion, Le Quai des Brumes, The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock), Bank Holiday, You Can't Take It With You
  Musicians include Honegger, Bela Bartok, Gian Carlo Menotti, Richard Strauss, Werner Egk, Kurt Weill, Walter Piston
  Benny Goodman adds big band style to swing
  Writers include William Faulkner, Graham Greene, Thornton Wilder (Our Town), Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Archibald MacLeish, Lewis Mumford, John Dewey, George Santayana
  French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre publishes Nausea
  Australian-born Errol Flynn stars in The Adventures of Robin Hood
  Lambeth Walk becomes fashionable dance
  Popular Songs include "A Tisket A Tasket", "Jeepers Creepers", "You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby"
• Fashion: Levi registers cloth pocket tab as trademark
• Medicine: Penicillin discovered
• Science: Fission reaction discovered
  Franz Boas writes about general anthropology
  Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld writes about the evolution of physics
  Lancelot Hogben writes about science for the citizen
  Grote Reber receives short waves from Milky Way
  Karter Salomon and Fritzsche chemically identify vitamin E
  Isolation of pyridoxine (vitamin B6)
• Technology: Perlon invented
• Deaths: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Constantin Stanislavsky, Clarence Darrow, Poisoned rice cakes kill 15

Africa

• Madagascar: Coelacanth rediscovered between island and South Africa

Americas

• General: Pan American conference adopts declaration against outside aggression
• Argentina: Hungarian journalist Lazlo Biro and brothers invent ballpoint pen
• Mexico: Oil nationalized and British Oil companies taken over

Asia

• General: Fighting between Japan and Soviets on Manzhouguo-Soviet border
• China: Chinese-Japanese war - Japan wins victories and captures Canton (Guangzhou) and Hankou
  Yellow River flood kills between 500,000 and 700k
  1000 die when Chinese steamship Kiang Hsin bombed by Japanese
  Japanese enter Tsingtao install Chinese puppet government in Nanking withdraw from League and take Canton and Hankow
• Indonesia: Offshore quake measures 8.5
• Japan: Takata notes connection between sunspot and illness cycles in humans

Europe

• General: Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signs Munich Pact agreement with Hitler at Munich and claims he had won "peace with honor," settles Germany's occupation of the Sudetenland
• Austria: Munich Pack - France and Britain allow Hitler to partition CzechoslovakiaChancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg of Austria resigns – succeeded by Artur von Seyss-Inquart a Nazi supporter
  
  Neville Chamberlain predicts "peace in our time" while signing agreement with Adolph Hitler
  Hitler invades as invited - compels union with Germany (Anschluss)
• Czechoslovakia: After Hitler declares he has no interest in the land, pressure made to surrender to Germans
  Sudenten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand autonomy – first Czechoslovakia crisis - Germany occupies Sudetenland
  Emil Hacha installed as puppet President
• Hungary: Annexation of south Slovakia
• Italy: Mussolini and Hitler meet in Rome
  Anti-Jewish legislation enacted
• Germany: Hitler appoints self war Minister
  Pogroms in Germany
  Oskar Kokoschka leaves Germany and settles in England
  Widespread riots against Jews (Kristallnacht)
• Great Britain: Eden resigns in protest against Chamberlain's policy – Churchill leads country's outcry
  SS Queen Elizabeth launched
  Women's Voluntary Services founded in Britain by Lady Reading
  King George VI visits Paris
  Gas masks issued to British civilians during the Munich crisis
  British passenger liner Queen Mary crosses Atlantic in under four days
  British surgeon Philip Wiles develops artificial hip replacement
• Soviet Union: Stalin purges army
  USSR show trials condemn Bukharin Rykov and Jagoda
• Spain: Franco recaptures Teurel takes Vinaroz and begins offensive in Catalonia
  Civil war

Middle East

• Palestine: Conflict between Jews and Arabs
• Turkey: Death of Turkish statesman Kemal Ataturk and Ismet Inonu becomes president

Pacific

President:

Pres: Franklin D. Roosevelt

General

• Business: CIO separates from AFL
  40-hour workweek established
  Child labor abolished in US
  US minimum wage law instituted – set at 25 cents per hour
• Culture: NAACP appoints Thurgood Marshall as special counsel
• Entertainment: War of the Worlds creates national panic
  "Information Please" quiz show debuts on radio
  Artists include "Whistle While You Work" Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Andrews Sisters, (Shortenin' Bread and Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen)
  Ella Fitzgerald has first major hit
  Louis Armstrong records "When the Saints Go Marching In"
• Law: Food and Drug Cosmetic Act passes
  Fair Labor Standards Act passed
  New AAA passed
• Politics: President Roosevelt sends appeal to Hitler and Mussolini to settle European problems amicably
  Martin Dies chairs House Un-American Activities Committee
  President Roosevelt recalls American ambassador to Germany - Germany recalls ambassador to US
• Medicine: Typhoid Mary dies
• Travel: Howard Hughes flies around world

East

• General: Killer hurricane in New England kills over 680
• Massachusetts: Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer design Haggerty House in MA
  Harvard grants honorary degree to black singer Marian Anderson
• New York: Hurricane hits Long Island
  The Cloisters built in upper Manhattan as branch of Metropolitain Museum
  John Warde jumps after almost 12 hours on ledge of Gotham Hotel in New York

Midwest

• Missouri: US Supreme Court rules that U of MO Law School must admit Negroes due to lack of other facilities in area

South

• Louisiana: Tom "Tennessee" Williams arrives in New Orleans
• South Carolina: Epidemic of tornadoes in South Carolina kills 32 - Five in Charleston

West and Pacific

• Alaska: 8.2 quake
• Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright builds Taliesin West in Phoenix
  Bartlett Dam in AZ completed
• Hawaii: 6.8 quake
• Montana: 49 die when cloudburst derails train
• Utah: First local ski lift opens

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 784,764

Temples: 7

Other

• First Deseret Industries opens to provide work
• Genealogical Society of Utah microfilms Church and temple records
• Church education emphasized
• Church schools brought under 1st Presidency leadership