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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THE DRAMATIC STORY OF 1934 IN PICTURES DROUGHT 1. - 'I RECOVERY ADMINtSTRATIONgiSf jM? . V$ - .J5VM, SJJfrt-g-Sfy Jalt! REVAMPED NRA .tf.:,--' j OFP-VEAII VICTORV ! -fX I THE RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION, with President Roosevelt at the helm, still emlllng and carefree, weathered a year of turmoil li which the San Francisco and other widespread strikes, the mldwestern drought, and the on y.iar Democrats landslide played an Important part In the news. The exit of General Hugh Johnson from the scene In the revamping of the HRA and the rising star of Donald Rlehberg also captured the headlines. (Associated Press Photos) uiY I!. 1 U , V..AiiNAZI PURfiEljy ALEXANDER'S SSElCoVl!' ij . I I,. . ...: . a , pjTiTii i "VNol ASSASSINATION Ig" V-j'V A CHAIN OF TRAGIC events cast threatening war clouds over Europe In a year during which foreign events figured more In the newa A chain F '."i:-- ","!. .u. Si.-u Th. ..HH.nlnn death of Klna Albert of Belalum and the ascension of his son. LfhTJSan,W:biioi purge"; assassination .f Premier Dollfu. of Austria and King Al.x.nd.r of YMflo,l.vla studded. the year with dramatic events, (Associated Press Photoai I wfdding rll'fi' aL? VAh xlvietm. r -v' - ftj -Jn 1 5TOL1-l ,t,,f.Vl I i . 'ifflar- Dlli 1 TWO SOCIAL EVENTS, both weddings, found their way Into the big news of 1934. The wedding of the Duke of Kent to Princess Marina of Greece assumed the proportions of a world-heralded romance. The marriage of John Jacob Astor to Ellen Tuck French was the highlight of the Newport season, (Associated Press Photos) PROBABLY NO OTHER single story claimed the place In the public eye that was given to the arrest of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, itinerant German carpenter, on charges of the murder of Charlee Llnd bergh, Jr., a tragedy that Inspired the sympathies of the entire world. The finding of the Lindbergh ran som money and the chain of evidence disclosed leading up to Hauptmann'a trial captured an unceasing hold upon the headlines. (Associated Press Photoai THE KIDNAPING of Mrs. Berry Stoll of Louisville, Ky., and the man hunt instigated by federal author ities for her abduetor, Thomas Rob Inson, Jr covered the front pages of the nation's newspapers, as did the kidnaping of Juna Robles. (As sociated Press Photos) personautyV ' lfCl'.r i '-"rL'-r- quintu-i-et5 x.-- -"yg t ' OF UNIVERSAL APPEAL was the birth of five girl babies to an obscure couple, the Dlonnes, In the Ontario north woods. The quintuplet became the most widely dlscusssd babies in the world and tho mild mannered, gray-haired country doctor who kept them alive, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, shared the spotlight with them. (Associated Presa Photos) U KY'lS' ri ' r On ' - ZLZ'i CRIME T't l "j- X ;-4k1v - Av-i FAIL a ' $'JV. fir - " vs. - - -J-- 1 "THE KILLING OF PUBLIC ENEMIES '-eeupled the. spotlight throughout 1934 as the federal law enforcement agents, with J. Edgsr Hoover (right), head of th bureau of Investigation of the depsrtment of justice, and Melvln Purvlt (left), his Chicago chief, playing the leading roles, stagfd the greatest drive f.n crime In modern American history. The yter saw John Dilifng;r, Bad Man No. 1, ft. retched out on a morg-.ie ainb (m shjwn a-iovel wi'h "P.eitv Piy" Floyd, George "Baby Face" Nelson and a host of ojher notorious gu'.laws brought down by government guns. (Associated Press PhotosJ. . FIRE AND A TREACHEROUS SEA combined forces to enact prlneloal rotas In one of the greatest disasters In history, the burning of thi 6-S. Morro Castle off the cess of New Jersey, with a death toll of approximately 124 persons. Ths above photo of the burning vessel serves to recsll ths stark tragedy, ths flames of which have not entirely died down as Investigators seek to determine the responslblity for the blsis. Fire struck late In the year at Lansing, M!ch., snuffing out soma 30 lives aa a hotel filled with oeoplt was burned to ths ground. (Associated Prsis Photos)
