Evening star., 1934-12-31
NEW NAMES MAKE
HEADLINES |NYEAR
Crashing Events Impress
LittIe.KnoWn Persons on
PubIic'S Mind.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 31.-The
headlines Of 1884 unrolled a profu-
sion Of new names.
Names make news" is a Journal
istic adage, but 1884 reversed it. News
big news-pushed scores of names
onto the front page and kept a gen.
erous handful of them there until
they were as familiar as the name
Of the family physician.
From the march of the Cardinals
to the worlds base ball championship,
the Midwestern crime wave. the de-
velopments in the Lindbergh baby
kidnapping and murder case. the
tempest IN a teapot" investigation Of
the brain trust" and a dozen ether
| news events, new names emerged
slowly or burst like rockets on Page
OF the dailies. No longer was iden-
tification necessary. Within no time
at all the head writer's were unfurl-
ing such banners as 'Hauptmann Held
for Murder"-"Dizzy Dean Downs De-
troit "Dillinger Dies in Federal
Irap"-or Writ Willing to Testify"
Hauptmann Arrest StartIes.
Outstanding, of course, was Bruno
Richard Hauptmann, the alien car
penter, around whose Bronx home
the 21ayear-old investigation of the
kidnapping and murder of Charles A.
Lndbergh, jr., suddenly settled with
the fury Of a tornado. Only in his
home town in Germany apparently
had Hauptmann's name appeared in
public print until a New York filling
station operator became suspicious of
a gold note with which Hauptmann
paid for some gasoline.
On into 1885 the name Of Haunt
mann is scheduled to hold its share
OF the headlines. AS soon as the new
year has made it's turn the State of
New Jersey will open its effort to
prove that Hauptmann committed the
crime Of the century"
Jerome Herman Dizzy" Dean was
too big a fayorite with the sports
writer's and too good a pitcher not to
,, nave made his bow in the headlines
before the world series. In August.
in fact, when he instigated and per-
petrated one-man strike for hipher
pay for Brother Paul, the story moved
outside base ball circles. But by the
time the series was over and Dean
had surpassed even his own expecta-
lions, base balldcm's new favorite was
permanently launching.
Bad Man" Slain.
In police circles and in numerous
localities Of the Northern Middle West
John Dillinger was notorious when thu
year opened. His capture with three
companions at Tucson, Ariz, and his
subsequent wooden pistol" escape
from the Crown Point, Ind, county
| jail catapulted him into the national
news category. From that point on
, he continued the thorn in the side of
the Department of Justice and the
Nations NO. bad man" until that
/ night in July when he relaxed his
vigil and went to movie. His death
In the gunfire from ofFicialdon's am.
bush was the highlight of an anti
crime drive which has carried more
gansslers to death from the guns Of
justice than in any other year.
DR.. William A. Writ might still be
comparatively little known Gerry,
Ind, pedagog had he not undertaken
| to publish his Charges" against the
brain trust" These charges, con-
cerning an economic revolution with
Roosevelt as its Kerensky," set the
! Washington political pot to boiling
over an investigation that filled the
front pages for weeks until the House
| committee finally issued a report that
| the charges Of DR.. Writ were un.
founded"
Science Honofs Doctor.
Had the Dionne quintupletS never
been born DR.. Allan Roy Dafoe prob
ably would have ended his life a sim
cere. intelligent country doctor re-
| markably like character from recent
fiction. His fight for the lives of the
five Dionne babies since he received
/ that before-dawn hurry call" at his
home in Calendar, Ontario, May %
has drawn almost as much attention
from science as from the public. In
that wooded North country now is a
tiny hospital that bears his name and
houses only five patients-the Dionne
quintuplets.
Headlines come early in life to some.
Two youngsters this year have drawn
more than many famous figures ever
receive. There is Gloria Vanderbilt,
10 years old. who went into Central
Park one day to feed the pigeons and
precipitated charges by her mother
in habeas corpus proceeding against
| Do tI,2% I,o
daughter had been spirited away"
After nearly three months, prepara-
tions for another court battle over
custody of the child are being made
by Mrs. Vanderbilt.
The other youngster is none other
than darling of the movies, 5-year-
old Shirley Temple, who was drafted
into the cast of Stand Up and Cheer
and elevated to stardom because au-
diences did just that when the film
was shown.
Richberg Gets Spotlight.
Donald Randall Richberg has beer
in the public prints for many years
Even before his appointment as gen.
eral counsel Of the N. r. A, he had
wedged generous niche in Americas
who's Who" But it was not until
1884 that his name began to emerge
as one of the most prominent figure:
in the New Deal"
There are scores Of others whose
names have popped into prominence
the kidnap victims, Edward G. Bremen
Mrs. Berry Stoll, T. S. Gettle, JUNE
Robles; there is Melvin Purvis, Fed.
eral agent, who has been credited witt
a big role in the eradication of Dill.
linger, Baby Face" Nelson anc
pretty Boy" Floyd; there are Capt
Ivan Poderjay, who is to be brought
from Austria for questioning in con.
nection with the disappearance ot
Agnes Tufverson, and DR.. Alice Wyne'
koop, now serving a sentence for tn:
murder Of her daughter-in-law.