Coach Knute Rockne, had been caused by a time-bomb placed in the plane. According to the story, the intent was to kill the Reverend John Reynolds, to keep him from testifying in the Jake Lingle murder trial. Father Reynolds had given up his seat on the airplane in favor of Rockne, but had already testified at the trial of Leo Brothers four days earlier. The investigation of the crash, however, concluded that it was an accident caused by either turbulence or the buildup of ice on the wings. The drama film The Bitter Tea of General Yen, directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck, became the first film to play at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Born: Oleg G. Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut on five Soyuz missions between 1973 and 1980, in Udomlya, RSFSR (d. 2003) Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian, director, and writer, in Lucerne. Died: Vladimir de Pachmann, 84, renowned Russian pianist. January 7, 1933 (Saturday) Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin addressed the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party on the results of his first Five-Year Plan, reporting that Soviet industrial output had tripled (219% increase) while production in other countries dropped, as proof that the Soviet system was superior to capitalism. The radio show WWVA Jamboree, the second-oldest country music radio show in the United States (after Grand Ole Opry) made its initial broadcast from the WWVA radio station in Wheeling, West Virginia. An opera based on The Emperor Jones, Eugene O'Neill's 1920 play and composed by Louis Gruenberg, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, with baritone Lawrence Tibbett in the title role of a black escaped convict turned ruler. Tibbett, who was white, appeared in blackface, but several other cast members were African-Americans. Born: Anthony A. Martino, American entrepreneur who founded AAMCO Transmissions and the MAACO painting and collision repair franchises; in Philadelphia (d. 2008). Died: Bert Hinkler, 40, Australian aviator, after taking off from Hanworth, London, in an attempt to fly around the world. Hinkler's body and the wreckage of his airplane would be found on April 27 in the Apennine Mountains in Italy. January 8, 1933 (Sunday) U.S. Representative Samuel A. Kendall of Pennsylvania committed suicide in his office at the U.S. Capitol. Anarchists mounted an uprising in Catalonia and other regions of Spain, with attacks against police and military installations in Barcelona, Valencia, and Lerida, where 21