The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-31
Year Filled withV Violence And Swift Parade of
 Important Events

THE year 1884 passed witl A feverish tempo, dramatic events piling on one another so fast that it has been hart to realize what a significant and important year it was.
 Only by looking backward now over the year can realiz. ation be achieved of the hap. penings of 1884 and what they brought to America Here are the "10 biggest stories" of 1884:
 NEW DEAL
 First. the New Deal fin all its phases, continued. story" run ming throughout the year. No other single story affected the pocketbook and the very life and future of every American so dis tinctly as did that of the meas ures which the government at Washington kept putting in effect throughout the year.
 Russia recoe nized, dollar de- valued to 59 cents, airmail system overhauled, farm crop restrictions, rising demand for changes in the MIRA and it's reorganization, stock market control, the effort to revise tariffs. unprecedented powers giv- en the president, standardization of silver, the drawing of definite plans for a social security program--all these things vitally affected the America of to-day and tomorrow.
 -DILLINGER DIES
 Most sensational, however, in a sensational year, was the shooting down of John Dillinger before a Chicago movie theater, just as he had. shot down so many others in his meteoric career of crime and gunplay.
 Co-operation in this event of Federal Department of Justice investigators and local police marked new era in crime sup precision in the country, an era which began auspiciously in 1884 with the similar deaths of other professional outlaws: Clyde Bar row 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 meth- ods and legal procedure.
 S-DROUTH RAVAGES
 Creeping into the nations con- sciousness during the hot summer days came the drouth, gradually assuming the proportions of a na- tional catastrophe, as one blazing day followed another without rain fall over a wide area of the grain and stock country of midwest and northwest.
 Thousands of farmers were ab- sosutely destitute as their cattle gasped and died and their crops withered and burned under the parching sun.
 Loss with estimated in money at five billions, and a tremendous burden of drouth relief was added to that already being carried be- cause of general unemploymenS. Lsss to crops and herds threw temporarily out of gear much of the AAA crop program. and af- fected prices.
 4-QUINTUPLETS LIVE
 Like a bright spot in a rather dreary and violent year came word from the tiny Ontario village of Corbeil that the Dionne family of poor French Canadian farmers had produced quintuplet babies. Rare in medical annals. survival of such quintuplets was unheard of.
 But through the firm, gentle de- votion of pr A. R. Dafoe, coun- try doctor, and the kindly interest of . whole continent in the won der, all five of the little girls passed safely through their crit ical early days, and as the year ended were healthy, bright chill dren with every chance of normal future development,
 5-LINDBERGH BREAK"
 Two years had passed since the nation had been mortified by the Kidnapping and murder of the in- fant son of Charles Lindbergh. So far as was generally known, the investigation (assigned flor 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 carpen- ter. In his possession and con- cealed 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 prosecution and defense to determine at his approaching trial this deepest mystery and most shocking crime had been solved by the relentless persistence of federal sleuths.
 6-LINER BURNS
 About 3:30 on the morning of September 8, the dread sos signal came cracking out of the darkness over the waters off the Jersey coast. The Morros Castle, crack