Show I 1938 IN PICTURES ii or of the Austrian nation was consummated on March 14 The entrance of or my native land Into the German Reich was one of or Adolf Hitler's greatest triumphs Symbolically the Father Fatherland land Fronts Front's crutch cross Is destroyed before a cheering crowd to be replaced by the Swastika of or Ger Ger- Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys many's ambitious t i c A PERSECUTION Grynszpan pan 17 year German-born German Polish emigre of Jewish extraction extra tion whose assassination of Ernest von Rath Reich diplomatic in Paris gave Nazi Germany an excuse for the greatest campaign of or Jewish terrorism In modern history n. n AVIATION Douglas AVIATION Douglas Non Stop Corrigan flew a crate from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York to Dublin taking the edge oil oft glory achieved ved a few rew days earlier by Howard Hughes and his bis round round- world the flight I j P b J i AGGRESSION Japan AGGRESSION Japan captured on ott October 27 only 10 months and 14 l days after flanking fell Following the capture Japanese military police fore fore- foreground foreground foreground ground are arc shown In a ceremony on OD the Bund und at which they hey took over from a British naval landing party the policing duties in the former British con con- concession concession concession cession in Ai PLUNGE PLUNGE PLUNGE-On On July 26 John W. W W Warde deranged deran ed youth routh held thou thousands sands of spectators in agonizing sus sus- suspense suspense pense for 11 II hours before he lie leaped leap d to his death from a seventeenth seventeenth- floor ledge of New Yorks York's Hotel Gotham Rescue efforts were in vain 4 f I w t J I 14 2 r k v.- v. 1 J I r t j- j i 4 N n h N 9 v. v The APPEASEMENT The first of or three momentous meetings between Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler took place at Berchtesgaden der fuehrer's Bavarian mountain mount ln re re- re treat Later Chamberlain joined with Frances France's Premier Edouard Da Da- ladler in capitulating to Germany on the historic Czechoslovakian Issue at the treaty of Munich r I te l v t tW br k t 4 it L i a y v m t. t h C cath r ruin o. o r de d W n n tia tha mat e Long n nIsland Island and s Ne NeEy Ey a Tn J Ute V lost their lives and property properly damage ran hito tuto fib the he millions Vivid h mony of the storms storm's fury rury Is the above air view showing wreckage or or homes strewn and piled over a highway It was the worst storm tragedy to strike the eastern seaboard In many years ears necessitating widespread relief activities by the government and Red Cross Earlier floods hit bit California f 0 f. f 44 I M. M j J. J l I i 1 l. l j 4 PURGE PURGE PURGE-Maryland's Maryland's Sen Millard E. E Tydings was among Intended vic vie victims victims tims tirns of President Roosevelt's purge a movement which made political history during a heated primary primary mary election season In most cases the purge failed railed to accomplish pUsh the desired result RAILROADS The RAILROADS The worst tragedy tra edy on an American railroad In a I dec dee decade decade ade came the night of June 19 when the Olympian crack Chicago to Coast flyer of the Milwaukee l rail rail- railroad rail raIl- railroad raIlroad road dropped into swollen Custer creek near Miles City Mont 1 when a weakened flood-weakened bridge gave way Approximately 40 persons were killed and several score others were injured This air view of the wreck wreck- wreckage wreckage age shows sho s how coaches were tossed like matchsticks as the huge engine buckled and leaped into the air I I b w k HOPEFUL A P. P L A rising star t r in Re- Re t an political was bi 1 1 young i w dis j tr ci jey who entered d h lini r tight through his bis racket busting racket bus t i campaign later losing the New NewYork N NewYork w York state gubernatorial election by bya 1 a narrow margin m I 0 d L tA t 1 J x I |