The Bismarck tribune., 1934-12-24
you SURVIVED ALL THIS IN '34E
Year Filled With Violence and
Swift Parade Of Highly
important Events d..

Only by looking backward now over
the year can realization be achieved
of the happenings Of 1884 and what
they brought to America. Here are
the 40 biggest stories" Of 1884:
New Deal
First, the New Deal In all Its
phases, continued story" running
throughout the year. No other single
story affected the pocketbook and the
very life and future of every Ameri-
can 50 distinctly as did that OF the
measures which the government at
Washington kept putting in effect
throughout the year.
Russia recognized, dollar devalued
to So cents, airmail system overhaul
ed, farm crop restrictions, rising de-
mand for changes in the NRA and
its reorganization, stock market con-
troll, the effort to revise tariffs, un-
precedented powers given the presi-
dent, naturalization Of silver, the
drawing of definite plans for social
security program-all these things
vitally affected the America of to-
day and tomorrow.
2-Dillinger Dies
Most sensational. however, In
sensational year. was the shooting
down of John Dillinger before Chi
cago movie theater, just as he had
shot down so many others in his
meteoric career of crime and gunplay.
Cooperation in this event of Fed
eral Department OF Justice investiga-
tors and local police marked new
era in crime suppression in the coun-
try, an era which began auspiciously
In 1884 with the similar deaths of
other professional outlaws: Clyde
Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Tom Car
roll, Pretty Boy" Floyd. Charles
Makley, and "Baby Face" Nelson.
Further perfection of this anti
crime machinery marked the years
end, both in technical methods and
legal procedure.
@Drouth Ravages
Creeping into the nations cons
ciousness during the hot summer days
came the drouth. gradually assum-
ing the proportions of national
catastrophe, as one blazing day fol-
lowed another without rainfall over a
wide area Of the grain and stock
country of midwest and northwest.
Thousands Of farmers were absolu-
tely destitute as their cattle gasped
and died and their crops withered and
burned under the parching sun.
Loss was estimated in money at
five billions, and tremendous bur-
den of drouth relief was added to
that already being carried because of
general unemployment. Loss to crops
and herds threw temporarily out of
gear much Of the AAA crop program,
and affected prices.
4IQuintuplets Live
Like q bright spot in a rather
dreary and violent year came word
from the tiny, Ontario village of Cor
bell that the Dionne family of poor
French Canadian farmers had pro-
duced quintuplet babies. Rare in
medical annals, survival of such quin-
tuplets was unheard of.
But through the firm, gentle de-
votion Of DR.. A. r. Dafoe, country
doctor, and the kindly interest Of a
whole continent In the wonder. all
five Of the little girls passed safely
through their critical early days, and
as the year ended were healthy,
bright children with every chance Of
normal future development.
5Lindbergh Break
TWO years had passed since the ma
ton had been Mortified by the kid
naping and murder of the infant son
Of Charles Lindbergh. So far as was
generally known, the investigation
assigned for life" to expert federal
detectives) was making little or no
progress.
with dramatic suddenneSs, then,
came the arrest Of Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, Sullen German army
veteran and New Jersey carpenter.
In his possession and concealed about
his home were large amounts of the
Lindbergh ransom money. attempts to
spend which had led to his arrest.
Immediately there got under way
elaborate preparations by both pro-
secution and defense to determine at
his approaching trial whether this
deepest mystery and most shocking
crime had been solved by the relent-
less persistence OF federal sleuths.
eLiner Burns
About $3.50 on the morning Of Sept.
8, the dread SOS signal came crack
ling out Of the darkness over the wa
ters Oft the Jersey coast. The MORO
Castle. crack New York Havana Ward
liner, was afire.
In his cabin aboard the burning
ship lay the body Of Capt. Robert r.
Willmott, dead only IL hours before
OF q sudden attack Of heart disease.
Command had passed to William
+. Warns, mate, later to be indict-
ed for inadequate handling Of a cri-
tical situation. The fire, whose origin
has never been determined, spread
with horrifying speed, and before the
confused officers Of the MORO Castle
had beached her off Asbury Park, 135
OF the passengers and crew were dead.
either burned to death when trapped
aboard the ship, or drowned when
they went overheard without suffici-
ent lifeboat or life preserver protec-
ton.
Various investigations OF the dis
aster dragged through the year, with
promise Of better laws to protect
steamship passengers as q result.
7-Strikes Rage
Strike violence reached q new peak
as industry and organized labor strug-
gled to interpret the legal rights and
the practical working out of Section
IA Of the MIRA, giving labor the
right to collective bargaining.
The San Francisco general strike
was the first general strike In q great
American city In more than 10 years.
All organized labor In all trades join
ed In IN effort to paralyze the city
In support Of q strike by longshore-
men on the waterfront.
Yof four days San Francisco was
chained, forced to eat. travel, and
work . the strikers decreed: then
tho strike began to break up after
four men had been killed IN sporadic
1ioting which centered mostly on the
docks.
No le1g significant, however, was
the industrial strike Of the United
Textile Workers IN an effort to tie
un the whole textile industry by a
,walkout q 10000 employees in many
towns alo1oR the Atlantic seaboard