The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-07
THE STORY OF 1884
By JACK s1fNNETT

AnneS or 1854 unrOltcd a pfOIuSlOll 9f new names.
 'sNames make news" is journal istic adage but 1884 reversed it. News-big news-pushed scores of names onto front pages and kept a generous 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 baseball champion ship, the midwestern crime wave, the developments in the Lindbergh bahya Kidnapping and murder case, the tempest in teapot" investi- gation of the brain trust" and a dozen other news events, new names emerged slowly or burst like rockets on Page l of the dailies. No longer was identification neces- sary Within no time at all the head writers were unfurling such banners as 'Hauptmann Held for Murder Dean Downs De- troit Dies in Federal Trap'-or "Wirt Willing To Tes- tify."
 Arrest of Hauptmann
 Outstanding, of course, was Bru- no Richard Hauptmann, the alien carpenter, around whose Bronx home the 2ha -year-old investigation of the Kidnapping and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., suddenly settled with the fury of 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 Haupt- mann is scheduled to hold it's share of the headlines.
 Jerome Herman Dizzy" Dean was too big favorite with the sports writers and too good a pitcher not to have made his bow in the headlines before the World Series. Tn August, in fact, when he instigated and perpetrated one man strike for higher pay for Brother Paul, the story moved out side baseball circles. But by the time the series was over and Dean had surpassed even his own expec- fotior,c 1,acoha11doy,,,e ,aauy fauo,-it o was permanently launched.
 "No. Bad Man"
 In police circles and in numer- ous localities of the northern mid dle west, John Dillinger was notor- ious when the year opened. His capture with three companions at Tucson, Ariz., and his subsequent wooden pistol' escape from the Crown Point, Ind, county jail cat apulted 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. l bad man" until that night in July when he relaxed his vigil and went to a movie. His death in the gunfire from official dom's ambush was the highlight of an anti-crime drive which has car- ried more gangsters to death from the guns of justice than in any other year
 Dr. William A. Wirt might still be comparatively little known Gary, Ind, pedagog had he not undertaken to publish his charges" against the brain trust" These charges, concerning an economic revolution with Roosevelt as it's Kerensky,' set the Washington po- litical pot to boiling over an inves- tigation that filled the front pages for weeks until the house commit tee finally issued report that the charges of Dr. Wirt were un- founded"
 Youngsters in News
 Had the Dionne quintuplets nev- CT been born, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe probably would have ended his life a sincere, intelligent country doc tor, remarkably like a 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 Callan- der, Ont, May 28, has drawn al- most as much attention from sci- ence as from the public. In that