The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-02
sNe,v DeaI Is Voted Biggest Story Of Year Just Closed
 With Rise of Adolf Hitler Next n List of Fen Erens

with large loss of life, the Cali fornia earthquake, the Kidnapping situation in general and the sudden death of former President Coolidge completed the list of 10 out standing stories.
 Within a shade of making the main compilation were such stor- ies as the Cuban revolution; the Senate stock inquiry, particularly the appearance of J. P. Morgan; the defeat of Tammany in the November mayora1ty in New York the United States leaving the gold standard and the world economic conference in London.
 Rather widespread interest in the defeat of Tammany was indicated from many sections of the country It appeared on lists of the first 10 stories sent in by number of papers, including the Kansas City Star, Buffalo Evening News and the Indianapolis News.
 Best Ten Omit Pliers
 American editors and readers ap- parently are now accepting the marvels of aviation as matter of course, for, while all the out standing flights of the year were mentioned, none qualified in the first 10 stories.
 Of the aviation stories, Balbos flight to the Century of Progress at Chicago received the most men, ton, Posts world flight was second and the Lindbergh leisureIy tour of the air lanes was third. MT Craig of Philadelphia mentioned the conquering by air of Mt. Ever est, the worlds highest mountain as noteworthy air feat of the year
 To give further insight into the type of stories newspaper editors consider outstanding here are oth- CTS receiving notice. the western farm revolt; Chicago's Century of Progress; the Kansas City gan2 massacre; Japanese penetration Of Asia Insull extradition hearings; veterans cuts; the August hurri- cane; the Ford-Johnson contra versy; the lynching epidemic and the stand of Governor Rolph of California: the California brush fire and the Kansas prison escape.
 Chichagoans Pick Fair It might be noted that in any list of stories selected from an in- dividual newspapers stan point certain local situations produce the news of outstanding regional in- terest.
 For instance, in composite list ing by the staff of the Chicago Daily News the Century of Prog ress made it's appearance and like wise the Insul1 extradition hearing in Athens.
 AAA WI Atdh doodS 1ilN1tlOI Wd- second on the News list. as well as second on the list of the Chicago Daily Times, which also put Balbo's flight to Chicago well to the front : Special local interest probably would account also for the appear ance of entries such as the Ford Johnson controversy, Kansas City massacre and Kansas priso-i es- cape.
 For fear that some of the moro unusual stories in the scientific field and in the realm of human interest might escape mention Moses Strauss of the Cincinnati. Times-Star. said:
 Apart from the stories that ev- ervone would be inclined to pick let me suggest these: 900 word newspaper. vitamin theory outside of natural foods exploded. Hit'er's recent 265.000 audiences, air con- ditioni1lg of private homes. thin ness of ozone layer. CCC for wom- en. photos by in>a-red rav Mcr West figure. Huey Longs lickino changing name of Hoover dam
 Presentation Important f Sevellon Brown of the Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin di- racted a portion of his comment on the manner in which story is preSanted
 "The Los Angeles earthquake