The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-27

scarcely naQ the new year gotten
well under way when the nation was
stunned by the most spectacular
crime in its history, the thing that
couldn't happen. On the misty, driz-
Fly night Of March l, kidnapers skunk
to the hill on lonely Sourland Noun
tain in rural New Jersey where
Charles Lindbergh and Ann Morrow
had built their home. Placing a lad
der against the house, stealthy hands
removed baby Charles from his crib
and vanished. A frantic manhunt
developed no real clew. The nation
was brought to the humiliation of
dealing with the underworld in a vain
effort to protect its own. False clews,
costly hoaxes Zone cost Lindbergh
$4,000 In bills tossed melodramati-
cally over a wall into q cemetery
cruelty false hopes, and dime novel
episodes followed one another. Then
on May IL the buried remains of the
child's body were found near the
home. The year closed without the
guilty being discovered. In August,
second son, Jon, was~born to the
Lindberghs.
MURDER IN HAWAII
Echoes still sound through Hawaii
In demands for reform Of the terri
torial government as the result of a
murder. Joe Kahahawai, half-breed,
had been acquitted Of a charge of
raping Mrs. Thalia Massie, wife Of a
U. S. naval officer. He was then alb
Quoted and shot to death by Massie,
Mrs. Granville Fortesque, husband
and mother Of the injured girl, and
two U. s. sailors. All were convicted
OF granddaughter, sentenced to prison,
served one hour, when sentence was
committed.
Sensational was the suicide Of
Smith Reynolds, playboy son Of to-
bacco millions, and the absolution Of
Libby Holman, Broadway blues singer
and his wife, Of any connection with
his death when charges against her
were dropped.
When iron gates changed behind AL
Capone, Chicago racketeer, at Atlanta
federal penitentiary on May 1, many
saw the beginning Of society's victory
over the racket, already as hard hit
by the depression as legitimate bust
ness.
Politics permeated the national
scene. It was high time. The public
debt had mounted before the end Of
the fiscal year to more than 20 bill
lions. Congress early In the year
ratified the one-year moratorium,
created tho Home Loan Bank system,
passed the Glass-Steagall currency
bill, doubled income taxes and
brought back wartime nuisance
taxes" outlawed the yellow dog"
contract, and started the Lame Duck
Amendment on its way. But all these
measures failed to bring halt the in
come expected, and when congress
reassembled In December, what was
perhaps its last Lame Duck" session
had not only the troublesome liquor
question to deal with, but had the
budget to balance all over again. The
close Of the fiscal year in June
showed q deficit Of nearly three bill
lions, and Dec. Is saw almost q bill
lion and half piled up on the deficit
for fiscal 1928.
YEAR OF PROTEST
Throughout the world 1t was q
year Of turmoil, Of stress and strain
which broke through the surface In
termittently. The United States
never saw so many mass demonstra-
tons before. In January Father Cox
began by leading 10000 men from
Pittsburgh past the capitol. The
great outpouring Of New York's
thirsty was led In a Beer Parade"
by Mayor Jimmy Walker In May. BY
early June the bonus army was on its
way to Washington, stopping trains,
rides and food. BY the
time the proposal for prepayment
Of the bonus came up in congress,
10000, mostly ex-service men, were
there. When the house passed, but
The senate rejected their demand,
they refused to leave. Hot August
came, and the order to evict the
'bonuseers." Their clash with local
police brought revolver shots; two
'bonuseers" lay dead, and United
States infantry came sweeping on
through Washington with tear gas,
bayonets and tanks. Americas pres
ent soldiers drove Americas past SOL
diers from the capital at bayonet
point.
Before August had ended, embat-
tied farmers in Sioux City tried by
violence to block roads which brought
milk and hogs to the city. hoping to
raise prices. Sporadic violence
brought little result.