| Show 1938 IN PICTURES I s of the Austrian nation 11 was consummated on March 14 The entrance of 01 my native land Into the German Reich was one of Adolf AdoU Hitler's greatest triumphs Symbolically the Fatherland Father ather land tand Fronts Front's crutch cross is destroyed before belore a cheering crowd to be replaced by the Swastika of 0 Germany Germany Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many many's ambitious ambitions r e sm s- s r m a a I IE E G Grynszpan r pan year old ld German born relish Polish emigre of 01 Jewish extraction whose a assassination of ot Ernest von Rath Reich diplomatic In taris gave cave Nazi Nat Germany an excuse for or the greatest campaign of Jewish t terrorism In to modern history t sRa f N Y r v e s a t A AVIATION Douglas AVIATION Douglas Stop Non Corrigan flew a crate from rom NewYork New NewYork NewYork York to Dublin taking the edge edre off ott glory lory achieved a few ell days earlier by Howard Hughes and his round round- th world the world flight u u a i I It t a t K s p pa a 1 a AGGRESSION Japan AGGRESSION Japan captured on October 27 ZT only 10 months and 14 It days after aUer tell fell Following the capture Japanese military police pollee foreground foreground fore for ground round I are shown In a ceremony on the Bund BUDd at which they took over from rom a British naval landing party the policing duties In the former British concession concession concession con con- cession In a s 4 u PLUNGE PLUNGE PLUNGE-On On July 26 John W. W Warde deranged youth held thousands thou sands of spectators In agonizing suspense suspense sus sus- pense pease for lor II 11 hours bours before belore he leaped to his death from a seventeenth seventeenth- floor Door ledge of New Yorks York's Hotel Gotham Rescue efforts were in tn vain a X a R ds i s yAK ors I Ii i 0 t I I I PURGE PURGE PURGE-Maryland's Maryland's Sen Srn Millard l E. E Tydings was among Intended vic via victims elms tims of ot President Roosevelt's VIC purge a movement which made political history during a heated healed primary mar mary election season In most cases the purge failed tailed to accomplish accomplish push the desired result RAILROADS The RAILROADS The worst tragedy I on ou an American railroad la tn a decade decade dec dec- ade came the night of Jane 19 when the Olympian crack Chicago to Coast flyer Oyer of 01 the Milwaukee railroad railroad rail rail- road road dropped Into swollen Custer creek near Miles MUes City Mont when a weakened flood bridge gave way Approximately 40 to persons were killed and several score others were Injured This air view of 0 the wreckage wreckage wreckage wreck wreck- age shows how coaches were tossed like matchsticks as the huge engine I buckled kled and leaped Into the air e e ry ryr I r 3 a r 6 d f 1 The APPEASEMENT The first ol of three momentous meetings between Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Adolf AdoU Littler Hitler took place at der fuehrer's nav Bavarian mountain re re- re- re treat Later Chamberlain joined with Frances France's Premier Edonard Edouard Da Da- ladler ladier In capitulating to Germany on the historic Czechoslovakian Czechoslovakia issue at the treaty of Munich l I w r i m r rt t t y m HURRICANE HURRICANE Death Death and sad ruin rode on a storm that battered Long Island and swept wept through New England In to late September Hundreds lost their lives and pr property rt damage damate ran Into the millions Vivid testimony test test- mony mODY of ot the storms storm's fury l Is the above air view showing wreckage kage qI I homes strewn and piled plied over a highway It w. w was the worst wont storm tra tragedy y to strike th the eastern seaboard in man many years necessitating widespread relief activities by the government and Red Cro Crone Earlier floods Boods hit bit Texas and California t r I Li HOPEFUL A A rising star In R Republican Re Republican publican political ambitions was Tom rom Dewey young New York district dis dis- dis- dis islet attorney who entered the limelight limo lime tight light through his rackel campaign later losing the New Nework fork Vork state slate gubernatorial election by bl bya a narrow margin |
