YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL

television highlights are the news of yesteryear Wiley Post Harold Gatty and the world it's June 24th 1931 as speedy airship Winnie May leaves runaway at Roosevelt Field Long Island an attempt to circle the globe first leap of journey carries plane over wilds of Canada with pilot posted controls and navigator get a guiding whinny May is out to take the record away from the balloon for its dirigible draft Zeppelin which holds present round the world record of 12 days 15 hours and here after first scheduled stop at Harbor grace Newfoundland post and Gaddy wing the Winnie may toward the perilous leap of the Atlantic [Music] this is only four years after Lindbergh's historic plate and it still takes brave Airmen to battle this stormy barrier but 24 hours later Hostin County or over Holland breaking speed records as their ships streaks toward Berlin now thousands of miles from home flying foreigners are given warm welcome at Tempelhof air dome at same Tempelhof 18 years later other American airmen bring life-giving supplies to a dying Germany and here's phenomena impossible in years to come an American plane over Moscow as post and gaen across all of Soviet Russia and then wing overcome chod qey toward home territory once again but not before droning over icy waters of the Bering Sea on flight second water Hoth six days out there over mountains of Alaska and few hours later Winnie May casts her shadow on Canadian soil again still closer to home port post and Gaddy fly over Cleveland Airport and with America under them once more they nose Winnie May toward New York and journey's end day is ended and darkness is gathering in tonight over Long Island's Roosevelt field and the air is heavy and thick with a murky mist as the whinny May comes in 8 days 15 hours 51 minutes and 16 thousand miles since takeoff time post and Garre have circled the globe it's new round the world record four days better than the historic plates of the German Zeppelin flying time was only four days and 10 hours fast traveling in 1931 there's real fireworks this July of 31 for this is world's most exciting flight as epoch-making winnie may is towed to safety of its hanger Flyers tell radio commentator Floyd Gibbons of weeks flight that took them to Harbor grace across the Atlantic to Chester England to Berlin Moscow across Siberia to Kamchatka over the Bering Sea to Alaska then across Canada to Cleveland and home again over mountain heights and ocean depths Wiley Post Harold Gatty and the Winnie may have winged around the world [Applause] in New York Harbor July 3rd Poston got a head for official welcome in Manhattan their wives and officials are with them and here's what they have to say to famed flyer Elinor Smith the wall I'd like to get your opinion I know you're a little bit busy from play around so fast and maybe the world is round to you from the extreme speed you acquired but what do you think of that story of Jules Verne's around the world in 80 days I rather like it that way what do you think out well I don't think it was a good host and Gaddy around the world wonders of 1931 [Music] two sheets to the wind it's 1921 and in Pasadena California chambermaid show how to make beds in a hotel and in a hurry here's the eventual winner are making bed in two minutes 29 seconds just think how exciting this contest would have been in a high wind [Music] Harbor enforcement its 1923 and academic Harvard University has gone in for army training with students winning credit for this course in warfare with World War one still fresh in most memories these Harvard boys are learning the ways of war with the promise that preparedness is the purest formula for peace Latin Greek and lab work may have been alright for the bookworm each Harvard boy of pre-war days but when these lads are Harvard grads they're going to be army cavalry men as well time turned this into wasted effort though for Along Came soldiers like General Patton and tanks and other armored mobile units made the horse 4f in World War two but they didn't know it then even at Harvard is Joseph gurney cannon in 1922 better known as Uncle Joe cannon was first elected to Congress in 1873 was Stern handed speaker of house from 19 1 to 11 Illinois's proud champion of the Republican old guard his smiling American beauty is Helen Meany in Olympic Games of 1928 miss Meany brought glory to her country with brilliant first place in fancy diving here at height of her career she not only looks like a champion but is a champion and one of greatest aquatic stars of all time heywood broom Texas Guinan and Frank Gilmore get together in early 30s on brooms proposal to have actors share profits a Broadway musical shoot the works says Texas pay with there's so many people who suck and so many extra success you're responsible but I know your show is going to be a great big hit and there's one thing that I will say about friends they never see an accent back to the big head you know why they cut it right off broum diamond and gilmore greats of an era fatal flyer its 5th of September 1926 and wallowed in shuttle waters of Arkansas River at Waco Colorado famed scenic limited his funeral train for 27 person's crushed to death in the disaster my speed is named as cause for a with engine tender and to baggage cars dropping to riverbed several passenger cars were catapulted across river crashing and crumbling on opposite bank [Music] music maestro police its 1923 the musician is henry cowell the instrument is a piano and the music is fantastic but it was anything to be different in those days this is called dempsey daya Payson and in case henry's technique is too fast for you here it is slowed down now it looks pretty doesn't it the audience should take a bow for listening [Music] fashioned by the foot in Chicago in 1922 they're looking for a Cinderella to fit this Silver Slipper no one can wear it but Ellen felid oh and the judges are ready to have a fit themselves because Helen is from Boston but the shoe fits and she wears now the shoe show gets around to showing off the most fashionable Footwear of the time if the fancy of the shoe the higher the price it'd be some feet to foot the bill for this Footwear pioneer permanent here in Boston in 1923 this local Belle is about to be crowned with a crop of curls but not without first being forced to wear this halo of horror its brand new device for producing permanent waves by hot-air and this wig of wigglers is the result after a few finishing touches the top beauties of 1923 tops their beauty thus [Music] the vaulting pro its September 1926 as 40,000 minnesotans Watts Charlie ha turned professional leading vaulter of his time off his star of the middle 1920s jackknifing over the bar at better than 13 feet and consistently he's no Cornelius warmer Dan but when ha vaulted here he got something to put in his vault at home Scandinavians on ice its March 1928 and at San Moritz Norwegians are showing the way in the Winter Olympics [Music] here's number 77 giving his fellow ski jumpers something to shoot at well that should be something to leap at and don't look before you leap or you won't do it good jump and good jumper tom's of norway Olympic champion 24 falls out of competition this time his crown goes to fellow Norwegian Anderson the winner and new champion Anderson in women's figure skating division theatrics Loughran of New York looks as if she might be a winner and she's among the winners but she isn't first figure skating crown goes to a 16 year old girl guess who it is look who it is yes you're right it's little Sonja Henie some years before she brought her silver skates to America and turned them into gold she wins here again in 1932 again in 1936 and will always be the queen of skaters everywhere [Music]