Summing Up Years Big News. PICTURED on this page are the big news stories which captured your interest in 1933. Summarized briefly, they are: ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL In United States the most outstanding news of 1933 came in with President Roosevelt. His promised new deal consisted of a vast recovery program embracing banking reforms, a new monetary policy, the NRA, construction work, the Civilian Conservation Corps, relief for farmers and home owners, and a variety of other measures. COOLIDGES DEATH The year scarcely had begun when ex President Calvin Coolidge died suddenly at Northampton, Mass. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF ROOSEVELT Returning from a sea voyage, Franklin D. Roosevelt, then president elect, was fired on by Giuseppe Zangara at Miami, Fla. Mayor Anton Cermak was fatally wounded, and Zangara later was executed for the crime. AKRON DISASTER While on a training cruise off the New Jersey coast, the navys great airship, the Akron, fell into the sea during a storm, carrying 74 men to their death. CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE Among the major disasters in the United States in 1933 was the devastating earthquake in southern California, which took approximately 120 lives. THE WAR ON KIDNAPERS Kidnappings suddenly became less popular when federal officers and public opinion mobilized against them. As a climax to the federal drive, during which several notorious criminals were imprisoned for life, citizens of San Jose, Cal., rose against the confessed kidnap slayers of a young department store executive, tore them from their jail cells and lynched them. NEWS FROM FOREIGN LANDS The biggest foreign news came from Germany when Adolf Hitler ascended to power as the countrys dictator. The sweeping changes of the new regime furnished topics for discussion around the world. From Soviet Russia to Washington came genial Maxim Litvinoff, whose conversations with President Roosevelt led to the recognition of Russia, thereby ending a diplomatic breach of 16 years. Cuba experienced a period of strife and bloodshed that brought the unseating of President Gerardo Machado and his successor, Dr. C. M. Cespedes. REPEAL The eighteenth amendment after 13 years of life was erased from the constitution when the states were given the opportunity to vote on the controversial question. HISTORY MAKING FEATS OF AVIATION Big things were accomplished by aviators in 1933. Probably the most spectacular was the single handed effort of Wiley Post, Oklahoma pilot, who whirled around the world in seven days and 18 hours in his veteran monoplane, the Winnie Mae. In the greatest mass flight in history, a squadron of Italian seaplanes commanded by Italo Balbo made a round trip flight from Italy to Chicago. The Lindberghs took the air for a survey of the northern air routes and extended it into a five-month trip through Europe and back across the south Atlantic to South America before they returned home.