High Spots in the 1932 News Parade

Article taken from The Portsmouth Times, Monday, January 2, 1933

January 7 - Ghandi arrested by British authorities on eve civil disobeidence campaign.

January 15 - U.S. House passed reconstruction finance measure providing for emergency financing amounting to 2 Billion Dollars.

January 23 - 400 Japanese Marines land in Shanghai, starting four months of combat.

February 2 - First world conference on disarmament opened at Geneva.

February 11 - Mussolini visits Pop Pius XIth.

March 1 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jr. 19 months old, born in Englewood, NJ June 22, was kidnapped from the new Lindbergh home near Hopewell, NJ.

March 12 - Ivar Kreuger, 52, head of Kreuger and Toll, inc. killed himself in Paris.

April 2 - Dr. John G. Condon (Jafsie of the Lindbergh case) handed kidnappers $50,000 ransom.

April 4 - At Honolulu, Mrs. Granville R. Fortesque and Lieut. Thomas M. Massie, and two enlisted men put on trial for murder of Joseph Kahahawai.  After the four defendants were convicted of manslaughter, Governor L. M. Judd of Hawaii commuted their sentences to one hour each.

April 10 - Paul Von Hindenburg, 84, re-elected president of Germany.

April 21 - Governor Rolph of California refused to grant pardon sought by Thomnas Mooney, former labor leader.

May 2 - U.S. Supreme Court rejected Al Capone's petition for review of his conviction for evading the income tax laws.

May 5 - Gaston B. Means, ex-Department of Justice agent, arrested for accepting $100,000 from Mrs. Evelyn McLean, under promise to recover the Lindbergh baby.