Flood Damage Runs Into Millions
Raging flood waters caused by torrential rains which swept Los Angeles and other southern ( alilornia
communities wrought damage running Into many millions of dollars and cost the lives of scores. Photograph
shows automobiles washed off the road by flood waters on V'ictory boulevard in Hollywood.
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“Mid-West,” a promising young porker piloted by Miss Dorothy Ehr
hardt of Chicago, is shown winning by a snout against “East,” a rival
pig piloted by Miss Frances Bright of Princeton, N. J., in a novel “Ham
Sweepstakes” held recently at Pinehurst, N. C.
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Alexander Kerensky, who was
premier of the Russian provisional
government after the fall of the
Czarist regime, shown soon after
his arrival in the United States re
cently. Kerensky, who has been liv
ing in Paris and is in this eountry
for a lecture tour, prophesied that
the Stalin regime will crumble in
“maybe one, two years.”
Air Defenses Interest King George
King George VI, making a surprise visit to the Woolwich arsenal on the outskirts of London, inspects a new
317 anti-aircraft gun. It was the first visit of his majesty to an arsenal since he ascended the throne last year.
Ihe monarch was pleased with the progress of the empire’s rearmament program as it was revealed in his
tour of the arsenal. As Britain begins its conferences with Italy designed to appease Europe, Prime Minis
ter Chamberlain announced that the rearmament program will be expanded rather than curtailed.
VISION RESTORED
Fr. Antonio Santandrau, eighty
four, pastor of a church in San
Francisco, Calif., whose sight was
restored by an unusual feat of sur
gery. Blind in one eye and threat
ened with loss of sight in the other,
the cleric underwent an operation
in which a disc one-sixth of a milli
meter in diameter was removed
from his eye and replaced by a
disc of the exact size from the cor
nea of a dead man. '
Zog’s Sisters Visit U. S.
The Princesses Ruhie, Myzejen and Maxhide, left to right, sisters of
King Zog of Albania, who are intent on becoming acquainted with Ameri
can manners and customs in anticipation of the wedding early in May
of the Albanian king with Countess Geraldine Apponyi, whose mother
was Gladys Virginia Stewart of New York.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
1—Bernard M. Baruch, New York financier and friend of President Roosevelt, who threw the responsi
bility for the present recession on the administration in testifying before the senate committee on unemploy
ment and relief. 2—Refugees fleeing their flooded homes as the Red river of Arkansas inundated the country
side. 3—George Z. Medalie, left, and John I). M. Hamilton, chairman of the Republican national committee,
discuss strategy at the recent meeting of the party’s program committee in Chicago.
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Latest in Life Preservers
Georgia Coleman, former national and Olympic diving champion,
pictured demonstrating the latest in life preservers. A small rubber
envelope easily attached to bathing suit or trunks is instantly inflated
by squeezing a valve. Miss Coleman is shown on left fastening the rub
ber envelope to her bathing suit and on the right floating with the
envelope inflated.
FUEHRER’S KEY MAN
Or. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, protege
of Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who was
recently named to the key position
of minister of the interior in the
Austrian cabinet, following the
agreement between Austria and
Germany which brings the two na
tions into closer relations.
INTENDED VICTIM
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Col. H. W. T. Eglin, U. S. A., com
mander of Fort Totten and the Six
ty-second coast artillery at New
York, who, according to federal
agents, was to be the intended vie- j
tim of a spy plot.
Ishbel MacDonald and Husband
Ishbcl MacDonald, eldest daughter of the late prime minister of Eng
land, shown with her husband, Norman Ridgley, builder’s decorator and
handyman at Leeds, England. Mr. Ridgley, who Is tliirty-flve years old,
has been living in the tiny Buckinghamshire hamlet of Spcen, where
Miss MacDonald manages the picturesque Open Plow inn.
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Thousands Homeless in California Flood
Swept by raging flood waters and southern California’s worst storm in 64 years, thousands of people were
made homeless. One of the many homes left In ruins is shown hanging precariously on a hillside as survivor*
search wreckage for bodies nearby.
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