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A train "mistress" with her Gas Mask, supervising the entrance of passengers in Paris subway on Sept. 15, 1939. (AP Photo)

Women ticket puncher carrying her Gas Mask, at work at the gate near which is installed fire fighting apparatus in Paris Subway on Sept. 15, 1939. (AP...

Responding to the appeal which has been mate to obtain blood for transfusions in hospitals and medical centers, hundreds of call at the special servic...

These barbed-wire entanglements were erected along the border between France and Saarland late in 1934 in preparation for the plebiscite on January 13...

All the lights and shining parts of cars in Paris have now been covered with blue in accordance with regulation for night travel during the war. A lux...

Painted Gray, in order of camouflage it from the "enemy," the liner Franconia slipped out of its pier on Sept. 2, 1939, for a voyage back to its home...

Motorist fills up wine bottles with petrol just in case the petrol supply is curtailed or cut off through the crisis in Paris on August 24, 1939. (AP...

Adolph Zukor and his wife Lottie Kaufman, pose on a ship, April 24, 1939. (AP Photo)

Death Valley Scotty, the mystery prospector of the California desert, right, and his partner, Albert M. Johnson, are shown in Los Angeles on March 16,...

Winston Churchill in 1939. (AP Photo)

Former governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas, republican presidential nominee in 1936 arrived in New York on Nov. 23, 1938 en route to lime Peru, where he...

"Fiddling" and campaigning ran hand in hand for Albert Gore, 30-year-old former state labor commissioner of Carthage, Tenn., shown in an unknown locat...

Former Gov. Alf M. Landon, right, of Kansas, Republican presidential nominee in 1936, with George M. Cohan on May 25, 1938, after the performance of "...

Britain's King George VI formally declared open amid scenes of royal splendour the wonderful Empire Exhibition, which has attracted visitors from all...

Britain's King George VI formally declared open amid scenes of royal splendour the wonderful Empire Exhibition, which has attracted visitors from all...

Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth, behind, and Princess Margaret, watched as 1,200 Boy Scouts from every county in t...

Alf M. Landon, 1936 Republican presidential nominee, receives from Harry Newman, right, magazine (judge) editor, its annual "high hat" award on April...

Britain's King George VI made a tour of important shadow factories near and outside Birmingham. When he toured the Daimler Shadow factory, he rode in...

Britain's King George VI, centre, with Lord Swinton, left, look at the finished Aero cylinders, on March 10, 1938, during a visit to a factory in Birm...

Britain's King George VI drove in state to St. James Palace, London on March 3, 1938, to hold a Levee at which about 800 presentations were made. His...

Britain's King George VI, second right, and Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Kent, right, visited the British industries fair at Olympia. The Queen was...

Britain's King George VI paid a surprise visit to Woolwich Arsenal, his first visit since his accession, and made a tour of the armaments factories. T...

Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by Princess Elizabeth, and Princess Margaret, partly obscured, driving away from King's Cros...

Alf M. Landon, left, 1936 presidential nominee, Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, center, and Dr. Glenn Frank, Chairman of a national program committee, w...

This bell and clock tower is the most conspicuous feature of Death Valley Scotty's castle, California on Nov. 8, 1937. The chimes can be heard for 20...

This $75,000 organ is in a music room at Death Valley Scotty's castle, California on Nov. 8, 1937. The young woman is Linda Nelson, daughter of Scotty...

The balconied living room of Death Valley Scotty's castle, California, is 38 feet high shown on Nov. 8, 1937. The hand woven, imported rugs are an inc...

Home of Walter Scott at Scotty's castle in Death Valley, California on Nov. 8, 1937. There are numerous tunnels beneath it and there are unconfirmed r...

Linda Nelson, daughter of Walter Scott's old time associate in Buffalo Bills show, shown in corner of a room in Death Valley Scotty's castle in Death...

The desert's man Walter Scott of mystery shown, with these grim reminders of how Death Valley got its name, leaning against a rock bearing Native Amer...

The ornate music room of Death Valley Scotty's castle in Death Valley, California on Nov. 8, 1937. For his carved woodwork, Scotty brought artisans fr...

Walter Scott at the master control board in Death Valley Scotty's castle, California on Nov. 8, 1937. Elaborate electrical equipment has been installe...

A white porcelain bathtub forms a watering trough at Scotty's Castle in Death Valley, California on Nov. 8, 1937. One of hand-carved marble would bett...

The ornate music room of Death Valley Scotty's castle, California on Nov. 8, 1937. For his carved woodwork, Scotty brought artisans from Italy and pai...

Walter Scott with his fuel supply - 175,000 ties from a desert railroad that he bought and tore up shown in Death Valley, California on Nov. 8, 1937....

Alf M. Landon, 1936 republican presidential nominee, in his Topeka, Kansas office on Oct. 20, 1937 just before he addressed himself to a "radio meetin...

Alf M. Landon, left, greeting Walter A. Huxman, a Democrat, as the latter succeeded him as governor of Kansas at inauguration ceremonies in Topeka, Ka...

This frontier Asian town lies in the lee of China's historic Great Wall on the southern border of that portion of Chahar and Suiyuan provinces that is...

Gov. Landon addresses a crowd in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Nov. 22, 1936. (AP Photo)

Crowds jammed old Murray Hill in the Grand Central terminal zone of midtown Manhattan, New York, Oct. 28, 1936 to greet Gov. Alf M. Landon as he drove...

Alf M. Landon, (center, on speaker's stand) acknowledges cheers of the crowd assembled to hear his address in Duquesne Garden in Pittsburgh on Oct. 28...

Gov. Alf M. Landon, Republican presidential choice, is seen waving a greeting to cheering throngs in the Los Angeles Coliseum prior to a major campaig...

This is part of the huge throng which gathered around the "Sunflower Special" of Gov. Alf M. Landon as it arrived in Pasadena, Calif., Oct. 21, 1936....

The Japanese army is silently establishing a line of frontier defenses in Inner Mongolia to command the border facing the soviet controlled Outer Mong...

A large section of the throng estimated by a deputy sheriff at 75,000 persons, listens to Gov. Alf Landon's plead for a "return to our constitution" i...

Gov. Alf M. Landon is welcomed by a huge crowd as the GOP candidate's special train passed through , Kendallville, Indiana, Oct. 16, 1936. The governo...

The Republican presidential candidate, Gov. Alf M. Landon, waves cheerfully to the crowd as he entered an automobile to lead a parade in Toledo, Ohio,...

Gov. Alf M. Landon used both hands to shake those of Mount Vernon citizens who pressed around the rear platform of his special train during a stop in...

Governor Alf M. Landon begins his speech before a stadium crowd jammed to capacity in Chicago, Illinois, Oct. 10, 1936. He promised to balance the fed...

Sturdy daughters of Mongolia with pagoda like hats, trimmed with fur, which is national head-dress in Mongolia on Oct. 5, 1936. (AP Photo/Mills)