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DRAMATIC EVENTS OF. 1935 PASS IN RE VI
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Still pulsing with dramatic events that held the world, the year 1935
marches past in picture review.
Flashes from the year's news happenings are made vivid in this As
sociated Press presentation of momentous events death in Alaska of
Rogers and Post . . . storms . . . assassination . . . tragedy at sea.
Germany rearms . . . Premier Mussolini hurls his fascist columns into
an undeclared war with Ethiopia.
New Jersey justice asks the life of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for
the murder of the Lindbergh baby. . . kidnapers hold for ransom the
young son of a wealthy Tacoma lumberman.
The supreme court declares NRA unconstitutional and the blue
eagle ceases to beat his wings.
Progress is written as a great flying boat sweeps across the Pacific
on a new route to the far east via the air.
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DISASTER RODE WITH THE WINDS Dust itorms over wide area atrip the western plains of top
oil: a September hurricane roara out of the Caribbean sea to kill and destroy In Florida. These pictures
how a dust cloud about to engulf a farm in' Oklahoma and a funeral pyre of hurricane victims In the
Florida keya. (Associated Press Photoal
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TRAGEDY AT SEA In the murk of a January night the liner Mohawk
collides with a freighter, sinking off the New Jersey coast with a loss
of 45 lives. The scene of the disaster la marked by a mast of the
Ill-fated vessel. Below, bodies of victims. (Associated Press Photos)
POST AND ROGERS KILLED IN AIR CRASH Death strikes In the north Alaskan wilderness to snatch
the vacation plane of Wiley Post 'and Will Rogers from the sky. These pictures show the wreckage In
which they died and the scenes In Gh:-:'-le (left) and Oklahoma City as thousands mourned the beloved
humorist and n"''"ti'. '. c-. nd ihe world pilot. (Associated Press Photos)
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HAUPTMANN CONVICTED Bruno Richard Hauptmann Is cenvleted
of the kldnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby and sentenced to die In the
electrlo chair. He Is shown entering the state penitentiary at Trenton,
N. J. (Associated Press Photo)
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ITALIANS INVADE ETHIOPIA Premier Mussolini's dream of an emplra In Africa, with repercussions threatening another European war,
held the foreign news spotlight In 1935. Pictures at left portray the Italian side of the conflict: Fascist troops marching deep Into Ethiopian
territory; the death-dealing planes of the "Desperate" squadron, and natives who surrendered to the Roman legions saluting a huge portrait
of the Italian dictator. At right are Emperor Halle Selassie and his regular and Irregular defenders, (Associated Press Photos)
BULLETS END CAREER OP LONG Senator Huey Long, "dictator"
of Louisiana, Is mortally wounded by Dr. C. A. Weiss In the Louisiana
capltol. Pictured here are the gun of the assassin, and the scene at the
state house as thousands attended the aenator'a funaral. (Associated
Press Photos)
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GERMANY REARMS Troubled Europe turns an apprehensive eya
toward Germany as Relchsehrer Hitler openly denounced the Ver.
sallies treat and pulled, aside the eurtatn on an impressive war
, machine? (Associated Press Photo)
Eight-year-old Thelma Todd of J-awrence, Mass., cousin and narra)
sake of the screen sctress whose TIeath In Los Angeles crested a sen
sation, with a Christmas package she received from Miss Tel a few
days before the actress' bod was found. (Associated Press Photo)
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