The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 31, 1938, Page 5

~ COU RT CALLER Trial of Tammany cki i J. Hines (center) on poli gonspiracy charges, ended in N. Y. when Justice Pecora d. mistrial, ruling “prejudicial” & question put by Thomas Dewey. RECORD FLIGHT [t cimersy et s anky frame down on N. Y. soil July 14 after he and four companions flew 14,824 miles, encircling the globe in a record 3 days 19 hrs. 14 mins. CIO CHRISTENING PART i ATLANTlC TASTES HURRICAN the EAST IS EAST Japan was closing C foreshadowing exclusion of western W tes give Japanese a virtual trade monopoly. In nsurgents reached an autumn deadlock trying en government Catalonia and Madrid Chinese puppet stal Europe’s war, Spanish i to widen the wedge betwe it ERROR “I thought I was heading for Cali- fornia,” insisted Douglas Corrigan after unsanctioned flight from Y. to Ireland in a wheezy S9 plane. Trip took 28 hrs. 13 mins. Labor history repeated itself in November wien at Pittsburgh, where Gompers launched the A. F. of L., the 3-year-old Committee for Industrial Organization became Congress of Indust ganizations, named as president John L. Lewis, shaking hands with Vice President Phil Mura 2l Or- (left)- From the Caribbean sea—mother of storms — roared a September hurri- cane whose 100-mile wind and rains took 500 lives s nd damaged property worth many millions in seven states. This was once Pleasant View House at Misquamicut in hard-hit Rhode Year in Pictures Confession of CRIME Franklin McCall solved kidnap-death of James Cash, Jr. (above), 5, at Princeton, Fla. Equally brutal was murder of kidnaped Peter Levine. 12, of N. Y. The western world, especially U. S. and Britain, tered Canton (as above), South China’s war supplies gatew hina’s “open door” in an Asia for Asiat| Jearned soon after Japan en- that policy powers from Chinese trade r His biggest battle was \JAIN won by Gen. John J. Pershing, 78, who almost died in February, toured France in Au- gust, saluted dead war comrades Nov. 11. Another World War fig- ., Kamal Ataturk, 58, dictator of modern Turkey, died Nov. 10, NAZI STOR Paris assassination of German diplo- mat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Gryn- szpan, 17, Polish Jew, turned the full wrath of Nazis—who launched their anti-Semitic campaign in 1933—down on 700,000 Reich Jews. Their property was damaged (above), they were fined $400,000,000. U. S. recalled her envoy for a report, amid mounting refugee problems. 97 PACIFIC COAST DELUGE {5, sueccmive dass of torrenial rains had flooded rivers in the Los Angeles area, threatening palatial {ilm colony homes, washing out bridges T such as this railroad span in Los Angeles, and doing damage estimated at close to $60,000,000. ssociated Press Highlights ' [ N = b To U NION I N VIENN Past countless upraised arms such as these “heiling the * hero” along the Danube, Adolf Hitler drove to Vienna last spring and on Mar. 13 proclaimed the union of Austria and Germany and defied the world to part them. Almost overnight the Austrian peasant’s son who'd once pored over an atlas saying, “I'm making , German boundaries larger, larger,” had added 32,369 square miles and 6,760,000 people to the Third Reich. He'd given Germany a geographical gateway to the grain-raising, oil-bearing Balkans. "THE FRUITS OF MUNIC Mixed were the blessings of Munich when, on p.* war-jittery Sept. 29, Europe's “Big Four” meli and decided that Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, which Hitler coveted, was noi too big a price to pay for? peace. Left to right: Goering, Hitler, a German interpreter, Italy’s Count Ciano, Mussolini, France’s | Daladier, England’s Chamberlain, and French sAmbassador Francois-Poncet. Germany won 3'¢ mil- lion Sudetens and 10,885 square miles for her “drive to the east”; France lost European dovhinance.; [ 0 BOH EMIAN BAST'ON FALLS Whether his “made in Munich” conquest of Sudetenland started Hitler toward-a clash with Russia or set him on a Berlin-to-Baghdad route that's been a German dream since Bismarck, .« statesmen do not know. Hitler (front) is inspecting a former Czech pilibox near the “bastion”—thosg mountains that had been a natural guardian for the Czechs' western boundary. More than any one tor, Hitler’s 1938 gains through threat of military force, directed attention o . to her defens VOTERS VERDICT ettt ¥ (above), who hunted - in celebration, went Republiean governorship of Pennsylvania | election that saw defeat of Michigan's Roosevelt-endorsed Murphy, repudiation of LaFollette’s third party, victory for ‘" and G.OF. gain of 12 governors, § senators, $1