Jewish refugees arrive in Havana, Cuba. 917 Jewish refugees from Germany aboard ship MS Saint Louis (Motorschiff St. Louis) land for a temporary stay on the Island Republic. Refugees wave from the ship. The ship sails away as it is denied access. (The ship ultimately returned to Germany.)
70,000 Fascist women parade at the Piazza Venezia in Rome, Italy. Thousands of women in military uniforms and costumes parade down the Via dei Fori Imperiali from the Colosseum to Piazza Venezia. Prime Minister and Fascist leader Benito Mussolini reviews the parade from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia (Piazza di S. Marco, 49, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). The flag of the Kingdom of Italy stands in the Altar of the Fatherland. Mussolini waves to the huge crowd gathered to watch the parade.
King George and Queen Elizabeth visit disabled soldiers in Edmonton, Alberta. The King and the Queen receive a royal welcome from ex-servicemen as they stop during their tour at the University Hospital. The Queen speaks to the soldiers. A soldier holds a United Kingdom flag in his hand.
Fred Snite Junior, infantile paralysis victim attends mass in Lourdes, France. He arrives in his mechanical respirator (also called "iron lung") to renew his faith and physical strength at the grotto shrine at Lourdes. Fred Snite Junior, suffering from polio, is taken out from an ambulance. A priest prepares for a ceremony in the church.
Area cleared for Grande Coulee dam in Washington. 2,400 workers clear entire towns, farms and forests to make way for the rising water behind the dam. A group of men work in the field. A house is burned down. The owners hug and cry looking at their burning house.
A gas explosion near a school in Barberton, Ohio. Wreckage due to the gas explosion. Crowd watches the building. A blackboard on the floor. School children slid to safety on the tilted floors of the building.
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