The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-02
Lndbergh Case Is First In Last Years Biggest News
Bonus March aud Election
 Rdnk Nest Among Stories
By CHARLES HONCE (Executive News Editor, The
 Associated Press)

thirty-two gave to the world one of the most incredible, and prob ably the most outstanding story of modern journalism-th Kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby.
 Governments fell, nations warred, industrial empires toppled, and yet the stealing of an infant from his crib in the Lindbergh home in the lonely Sourland Hills of New Jer- sey, pulled on the heart strings of a world as probably no other hap pening in recent decades.
 Seventeen editors, over wh s c desks flow 75,O00,O0O words of copy year, were unanimous iii selecting the Lindbergh horror as first on list of outstanding news stories of 1882.
 In this one tragic news record wers wrapped terror, pathos, rnys- tery, crime, famous names, tangled motives, hysterical search, cruel hoaxes, fantastic figures and in- credible adventures-all the els- inents of a cause celebre.
 Three other outstanding news eyents-tha gathering and dispersal of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, the American election of November recording a Democratic landslide, and the suicide of Ivar Kreuger, the Swedish match king, with the subsequent collapse of the Kreuger companies were given almost equal prominence in the editorial poll.
 The bonus march on Washington assumed world notice when blood was shed in a clash between the B. E. F. and the police and when the Army was called out to evict the demonstrators.
 Election Ranks High
 Many governments of the world have changed hands in the depres- sion years and the United States followed the trend in the Demo- cratic avalanche which swept Re- publicans out of office from Presi- dent down
 Kreuger's suicide revealed an amazing story of the match kings manipulation of unbelievable sums of money, of crooked international finance on a colossal scale. Almost coincident with the Kreuger deba- cle came the collapse of the huge industrial empire built up from Chicago by Samuel Insull, utility magnate and patron of the arts, followed by governmental efforts to extradite him from Greece.
 OIympics Big News
 The biggest sports story of the year-the Olympic Games at Los Angeles also jumped into the class of the biggest news stories of 1892. Record breaking reached it's apogee at this gathering of the great men and women athletes of all nations.
 Streaming headlines hammered a month or more of sanguine fighting between Chinese and Japanese forces in the war that was not a war at Shanghai. In this Far Eastern conflict the dogged defense of the Chinese 18th Route Army had dramatic reader appeal.
 Debonair Jimmy Walker, idol of New York, stepped out of the 1892 political picture with his sudden resignation as Mayor in the midst of a legislative hearing before Gov ernor Roosevelt on his conduct in office. The hearing assumed na- tional significance as the Governor was then candidate for the Demo- cratic nomination for President.
 Under exotic Hawaiian skies was enacted the elemental Massie drama of assault and bloodshed culminat- ing in a trial which was followed with absorbed interest on the main land.
 Steadily women are duplicating the daring feats of men; Amelia Earhart equalled another man. made record in her solo flight to Europe. With her tousled head of hair Europe welcomed her as the feminine Lindbergh.
 Rated alongside the story of her flight was the imprisonment of Al Capone. racketeer extraordinary, about whose pudgy frame have closed the gates of Atlanta Peni- tentiary.
 Without doubt the great under lying news throughout the year was the struggle against economic conditions, probably transcending in the public mind all other events.