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1915 A German firm, licensed to use Tesla's radio patents, builds a radio station for the U.S. Navy on Mystic Island near Tuckerton, New Jersey, equipped with the famous Goldschmidt high frequency mag- netic reflecting alternator. The station is closed by the government in 1917. 1915 Britain begins creation of chemical warfare compounds. British use chlorine gas against the Ger- mans, killing British h troops as the wind shifts. Britain comes up with impregnated clothing as as a defense. 1915 Canada experiences a period of Prohibition until 1919 to create financial reserves and bootlegging network for upcoming U.S. prohibition. 1915 Allied war orders take up the slack in U.S. economy. Purchasing agent for the Allies in the U.S. is 1916 Walter S. Gifford organizes the U.S. Council on National Defense, formed to involve the U.S. in World War 1. Gifford later becomes president of ATT, a chairman of the board of the Carnegie Institu- tion, and an officer of the Rockefeller Foundation. 1916 FDR is Secretary of the Navy in the United States, and orders Navy contracts in advance of U.S. entry into World War 1. 1917 Carnegie’s schooling system is brought to New York by William Wirt and tried in twelve schools that were predominantly Jewish. Jewish immigrants, realizing what was being perpetrated, riot for three weeks. Over 200 school children were jailed. (Ref: The Great School Wars, Diane Ravitch) (See also 1910, 1930) 345 Appendix F: General Chronology of Events 1915 David Rockefeller born. Klu Klux Klan revival. 1915 German spies caught in Russia trying to spread plague bacteria. 1915 J.P. Morgan organizes control of U.S. newspaper businesses. 1915 Tetanus epidemics in trenches of World War I. 1915 Author Margaret Singer jailed for writing book limiting family size. 1915 Germans announce a submarine blockade of British Isles. 1915 Britain mines the North Sea and imposes a naval blockade on Germany. 1915 The ship Lusitania leaves New York with a shipment of explosives and is sunk by a German sub- marine. American lives are lost. 1916 1.G.Farben official Werner Daitz first describes “national socialism.” 1916 The first evidence of brown mottling of teeth is reported in the United States. 1916 Walter Rathenau in Germany works to establish world socialism. He would eventually be mur- dered. 1916 French ship Sussex sunk, injuring Americans on board. 1916 Introduction of graduated income tax in the U.S. 1916 British War Office purchases 7,000 acres in Porton Down for a chemical warfare installation. 1917 Constituents try and force Harrison Drug Control Act on Coca-Cola and are defeated. 1917 Freud writes “Introduction to Psychoanalysis.” 1917 Wagner von Jauregg treats syphilitic paralysis by injecting malaria. 1917 Congress passes the Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917. The U.S. was at war with Germany. 1917 Congress passes the Espionage Act of 1917. Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation