The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 10, 1938, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA l;MPIRl: MON . AP Editors Name Year's Top News Stories And Photos Honce Puts Court Fight First —But Withholds His Verdict On Imporiance Of Recession THE 1837 NEWS YEAR 2oosevelt looses supreme court battle; Senator Robinson dies; Senator Black appointed to bench amid Ku Klux Klan controversy Labor splits and then n production indus h. War invades twvo ¢ forming ~ove: to make up; CIO invades mass ; sit-down strike appears. nts as nations engage in new busi- Roosevelt inquires ness of “axe about “quarantine.” Zeppelin Hindenburg destroyed in sensational tragedy of the air. Business recedes and administration moves to check decline. Duke of Windsor, ex-king, takes American for bride. Nearly 300 children die in New London, Texas, school explosion. Amelia Earhart disappears in Pacific on round-the-world flight. England crowns a king; democratic America. Ohio and Mississippi rivers rampage; lands. a royal spectacle of interest to misery in the low- Other significant happenings: death of John D. Rockefeller; LaGuardia-Dewey victory over Tammany in New York and emergence of American Labor party with balance of power; Russian polar flights; death of 19 n western air crash; illness and recovery of Pope Pius XI; Gedeon triple murder in New York; Soviet Russian liqui- dations; forming of totalitarian state in Brazil; death of Andrew Mellon; Roo%e\'elt du Pont wedding; campaig against venereal diseases; Mattson kidnaping; War Ad- miral surpasses sire, Man ()' War, in triple track victory. By C. E. HONCE Associated Press News Editor NEW YORK.—The extraordinary news year of 1937 ends with probably one of the big stories of the twelve-month in the making, although still not clearly defined—the busi- ness recession and current administrative steps to scotch it. Such a story—first brought to e sharp general attention by another| F severe stock market drop—really is| ,; difficult to fit into any cut-and-| dried list of the “ten biggest stories of the year.” It hardly can be placed first be- cause presently the recession may | peter out and in future years be- come little more than a footnote, in history; likewise it cannot be! placed last because of its poten- tialities. Therefore it seems best to list| it in a special tentative category as something still in the lap of the| gods. When the story finally is told there will be told with it one equally as interesting—the extent to which the New Deal, foe of “eco- nomic royalism,” will have cooper- ated with big business in recovery movees {tions act was one. Supreme Court Fight It appeared Rodsevelt had won Leaving the sphinx to answer this|y;inout court reorganization. In ad- riddle, there is little difficulty ingition Justice Van Devanter had picking the outstanding story of the | oireq and Senator Robinson, New year on which the curtain all"mdyl]:!eal leader, was slated for the su- has gone down after some of the ,rome pench, When Robinson died most. dramatic, colorful and sensa- /the plum went to Senator Hugo L. tional scenes the American puhhc,BlMk and a new climax was pro- ever -has witnessed. |vided as Senator Black returned The Supreme Court struggle and|fom aproad to tell the world in a its incredible aftermaths are his-|p.,4io address of his one-time con-! tory that will occupy many Pagesnection with the Ku Klux Klan. | C. E. HONCE | holding of the Wagner labor rl']a- in the future story of America.| punning concurrently with the When President Roosevelt in Feb-lgypreme Court drama was an- ruary presented his program for|giher sensational play of many court revision “court packing”lscenes, this time in the economic his opponents immediately lermed-neld and affecting millions of Am- it—skies were clear and fair sailing!ericans whether participants or appeared ahead. | merely lookers on. | ‘k‘z““ asl W;:: S“Cr“sid‘:: wezl‘:l th:} This was the tremendous labor g g "f g gh ; battle, both external and interne- squaly b“,t a veritable hurricane.{ ;. “pacred by the Wagner act, | Democratic ranks were split while labor took to the field with ban- Republicans contentedly remained| . . ¢ i was a divided labor. I in the background twiddling thumbs ¥ s Wars Ooonented \ Staunch liberals such as Senator hon 5 Burton K. Wheeler abandoned the z’;g‘;’nm’?;;":yfi:a{Sfi:t;?;nor' ship. The pil Gt i - e-pilan fedajnr: Joaeph Lewis, broke with the American| Robinson, was struck down. Finall; Y| Pederation of Labor, went out to| came disaster. HeLs ! But there was still more to come, | unionize horizontally the mass pro-| duction industries; called, some-| During the months the battle was | on, the Supreme Court, which Mr,|times won and sometimes lost strikes | in the steel, automobile and other Dooley said “follows the election i returns,” was handing down decis-|huge businesses; perfected the sit- down strike as a labor weapon;! ions about which not even a New Dealef could complain — the up-{Signed a contract with Big Steel, | and ended the year fencing with/ AFL in peacé maneuvers. Strikes| cecseeccsscss e ® 10 TOP STORIES * OF 1936 Roosevelt's reelection. The Simpson case and Ed- ward VIII's abdication. Wars: Ethiopian and Span- duced bitterness and bloodshed, par- i |ticularly in the Chicago steel dis-| trict, but comparative calm ruled| |as the year ended. 1 Nations at War America is far from war and the, alarms of war, but in a world grow- ing constantly smaller it realizes = campaign and » [ ish. 5 that it has some possible future b E.x:::uon of Bewnp Wappt- |stake in the lining up of nations around the globe. | The Spanish civil war is a great story in itself, but now it has be- |come a move on the larger inter- national chess board. | The Japanese invasion of China Ed The Mary Astor child cus- tody court fight. Floods and drought. Eleanor Holm's expulsion from the Olympic team. ae 8. Max Schmeling’s knockout ®|jjewice is a big story, but it also of Joo Lokle, |may only be the first act of a 9. C'll:‘. s split from the AF. ® greater drama. of Congressman Zioncheck's ® | peinz fought on almost opposite antics and, then, suicide. ® sides of the world, and yet events ooo-o---oo"‘mmmbedmwmLhemcloscr of all kinds earlier in the year pro-] P | These two undeclared wars arei AY, JAN. 10, | 938. LABOR DRAMA at its peak was caught by Carl Linde, Chicago AP staff photegra- pher, in this el when police cla The picture symbolizes DISASTER never demanded greater courage frem a photographer than at the moment shown here. ew York staff was poised when the This is one of a series of his st before the sky giant crumpled. Becker of the AP ! Hindenburg caught fire. pictures, j g eup of the battle in which two persons were killed and many injured shied with steel strike ayv their bosses and among themselves. femonstrarers in Scuth Chicago labor ve 'n Memorial day. iolent in which workers fought both against Murray Tiuray Shanghai. River, i dr America the ferocity WORKII\(. ON THE LEVEE at South Memphis to hold back the rising crest of the pmve as a news cameraman. ture: a great picture of a together. Already they are connected tri- angularly by three of the lines which the powers now call “axes.” One runs from Berlin to Tokyo, another from Berlin to Rome. And Rome has just completed the triangle to ‘Tokyo through recognition of Man- choukuo. On the other side “axes” are being formed too. One runs from London to Paris and ano’her from Paris to MOsCOW. The United States is separated from the wars by two oceans, but President Rocsevelt already has asked what can be done about a | “quarantine.” Tragedies of the War In assessing great stories there are at least three sets of glasses through which they can be con- ppi River flood, these negro convicts were put into a dynamic composition which the phn!ugrdpher—.lohn Lindsay of the AP New York staff—an artist as well Here you have the two elements which make a great news pic- great story. sidered. There are stories which will have an effect on history; there are others which make great read- ing, such as the wedding of the| It is a democratic country but Duke of Windsor to the American with a nostalgia for pomp and dis- woman, Wallis Warfield; and there play; therefore the coronation of are still others of horrifying propor- George VI of England received ad- tions, but only one-day wonders in miring attention. the stream of history. e e iso 1o The latter was exemplified by the woman the Pa- at the loss of the daring | tlier, Amelia Earhart, in cific. love a lover; {and when that lover is an ex-king destruction of the Zeppelin Hinden- | j¢ is a story for the year if not burg at Lakehurst, N.J. fon tha ages: That same terror engendering| No two persons could be expected interest attached to another great American tragedy of the year—the explosion in the New London, Texas, school that stunned a community as to agree on the ten biggest stories of a year. Many will say that the LaGuardia-Dewey victory against Tammany and the emergence of the 297 of its children died horril American Labor party as a balance In the same category were the of power in New York City was one Mississippi and Ohio River floods. of the most significant stories of the America is ever one to applaud’ périod. high individual endeavor; is gricved Others will see in the passing turned Ii‘\:f.?;qhtmq Violence £NA Ul l 3y THE AP FEATURE SERVICE ! There never was a news picture editors pict will tell you that. The 3. Pict ures, reasons of journalism; its edi tographers and till are learning abie them s previous achive- new eact produced a kind of bi disasters ar great 2. Ti year of the wars, h make tories th new picture St —the kind of luck that sraphers on the scen cameras loaded and read wot, when the H «ploded in their face m hundreds of photo cross his desk d Stanley, in charge of Associ- ated Press News Photo Service, the five on this page as out ng news pictures in picture reporting’s greatest ) Four describe, better whic! than word RO IR AL S, T R L A W R loose in the Far East. a vivid picture. Farr’s jaw last August. !of John D. Rockefeller the end of an era. Then there are the strange considered. And the rise of a enburg Edward Selects Five mkind, Nature who are likely to get pretty blase about news | re-reporting is still a young| tech- | THE HORROR OF WAR when modern weapons strike is reflected in this picture from | A Chinese air bomb, intended for a Japanese gunboat in the Whangpoo canght just at the moment it exploded en a British wharf. matic than some later pictures from the war. this was one of the very fi A plclure beat. HUMAN FURY unlea:ted hefore the camera also makes No words could describe so accurately the power of Joe Louis’ left as it connected with Tommy More proof that John Lindsay can cllck his shutter at the right split-second. | liquidations in Soviet Russia to be | totalitarian state in Brazil. Does the | latter represent the spread of fas- cism to the Americas, or is it simplj | Alabama the same old type of South Ameri- can dictatorship with a new name? And a sports follower likely would Say that the feat of War Admiral in winning the Derby, the Preak- and the Belmont stake and thus surpassing the reccrds of his famous sire, Man O'War, was worth a place on any man’s list. So there it is. Tt will be noticed that no mentior is made of the bombing of the Pan- ay. This incident occurred Decem- ber 12 and the news features wer} taken classified up to December 10. ness | 5 AMERICAN GOLF HITS IT HIGH DURING SEASON Use of Unfii}ed Arsenals Will, However, Be Barred, 1938 By BILL BONI NEW YORK — There's a strong possibility that the year 1937 will |20 down in the history of American golf as the last campaign in which championship aspirants were per- mitted the use of unlimited arsenals. On January 1, 1938, the United States Gold Association rule cutting championship equipment to 14 clubs went into effect. While they had the chance, the 1937 club swingers made good use of the weapons at their disposal. | They blasted all butone of the 1936 national title-holders loose from + | their moorings, drew sufficient gal- |leries to give the U.S.G.A. a “pleas- |ingly profitable” year, contested U. |S. titles in areas that never before had witnessed a championship, and gained the first Ryder cup victory |ever won by a visiting team. Lone repeated champion, and therefore worthy of a special niche in the links hall of fame, was Dens~ more Shute, the modest, methodi- |cal shot-maker from Massachusetts. |Having won the 1936 P.G.A. crown in |November at Pinehurst, Denny made sure he wouldn't be the most short- {lived champion on record by sur- ving this year's renewal in May at Pittsburgh, Geedman and Guld:hl Win “G-men” knocked off the two |other, principal crowns. Johnny |Goodman and Ralph Guldahl ,both of whom had been rapping on the throne-room door for several years, finally broke it down this summer. Omana Johnny waded through a streng tield at Portland, Ore., and |staved off a game rally by Ray Bil- tlows of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in the final round to win the amateur title (he'd been trying for since 1929. Stoop-shouldered Guldahl set up a | new iole record of 281 in win- |ning the open at Birmingham, Mich. | The women's and public links |crown also were taken over by new members of golf's royal family. Mrs. | Estelle Lawson Page, pupil of 1936 open champion Tony Manero. and a hard hiiter from Chapel Hill, N. C., succeeded Britain’s undefend- ing Pam Barton at Memphis, Tenn. Bruce McCormick, Los Angeles fire- mun, came out on top of the pay- as-you-play heap at San Francisco. The awarding of the amateur and | women’s tournaments marked a new |step in US.G.A. policy. The Pa- cific Northwest and the deep south ne before had staged national | championships. | Americans Rout British Besides winning the National open, Western open, and other major tour- |naments, Guldahl also played an im- /portant role in retaining the Ryder jcup. The rout of. the British at |Southport marked the first time |either country had beeen able to win |on the other’s home rounds. no more | Americans were less fortunate in rst to show Britain's two major tourneys. The ‘;open went to Henry Cotton while —— |the amateur was won by Robert Sweeney, American-born but too |long a resident of England to be dubbed a truly American golfer. Beyond these high-spots, the year in gold produced such events as the further development of brilliant |young professionals like Slammin’ iSam Snead, West Virginia sensa- jton; the sucoessful introduction [u! the Belmont, Mass., $12,000 {match play open, won by another | youngster, Slim Byron Nelson of | Texas and Reading, Pa., who also |won the Augusta Masters’; Harry | Cooper’s usual reign as top money jwinner; the fine showings of such !young amateurs as Billows and |Wilford Wehrle, western amateur | winner, and the development of & prize crop of girl golfers, headed by | Virginia Guildfoil, of Syracuse, N. X, 1937 [ And Fate m picture year like 1937. KEven| i EDWARD STANLEY tense moments in four of the year's |top news stories. The fifth is a dra- |matic sports picture from a year filled with drama in sport | Herc they are Perha | VIKING MEMBERS | ELECT ANDERSEN NEW PRESIDENT Henry Andersen was elected President of the Viking Club at the meeting of the organization held Saturday evening in the I. O. O. F. Hall. Assisting officers named at the meeting were Bernt Mork, Vice- ,President; Mrs. Sigurd Olson, Sec- [retary; Mrs. Marie Oswald, Treas- |urer; Trygve Hagerup and Louis ' ’Dyrdahl. Trustees. Bama chks fifi] | At the next meeting of the group on January 22, a card party and |general entertainment will be held ‘cekbraung the fourth anniversary of the V|k1ng Club here. ¢ 'MARTHA SOCIETY TO TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Jan. 10— made good nearly two- thirds of its attempted conversions after touchdown during the 1937 season. The Crimsons /kicked 21 How sm JA"‘ zz extra points and made 33 u)uch-i AN e downs. | maritime strike o | which prevents planning a suitable | picture, the Martha Society has de- CARD OF THANKS ACldEd not to sponsor a motion pie- We wish to thank all our friends|ture film here this month. for the kindness and 5ympamyw Instead, the society will hold a shown during the illness and death|food sale on January 22, according of our beloved Fred. Thurman. to announcement today. On the MR. and MRS. C. H. DONAHUE [committee are Mrs. Katherine MR. and MRS. ALLEN FORTNEY Hooker, Mrs. Erling Bugge, and adv. Mrs. Sydney Thompson.,