YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - HOWARD HUGHES H-1 RACER AIRPLANE RHINELAND WATCH

[Music] television highlights are the news of yesteryear Rheinland regain its 1920 and armed conflict now known as world war one is over as specified in historic Treaty of Versailles alive troops patrol banks and waters of the River Rhine in armed watch over the kaisers defeated and disgruntled Germany these are actual films of famed watch on the Rhine which show American marines policing River traffic on the wide waterway between France and Germany with guns western border of the new republic are guarded and gun crews are ready for instant revolt or uprising but the rabble rousers and riot mongers in germany lie low nine years later the watch is stopped it's june of 1929 as English troops leave kernig Stein in the British zone the pleas of democratic Germany are being answered and allied mothers want their soldiers home it's goodbye to Germans who have found friends among the occupation troops but many around watch soldier married a German girl later brought her home to his family and life in a friendly land [Music] American sector of the tedious watch was centered around Koblenz when Americans flew the last retreat Old Glory came down to be replaced by the flag of France or it was the French who most feared the rebirth of power and national pride in Germany strong please in America to send our soldiers home were heard and answered by President Harding as early as 1922 and soon America left the watch to faith to faith and to the French but then that Aran's Wrightson in June of 1930 the tricolor too comes down as last of guardians of peace prepare to leave German and French officials salute the rebirth of trust and friendship in central Germany and Marshall Jacques innocently gives the kiss of death to lasting peace for Europe and the world as French Guards Parade gaily back to Paris now both banks of the Rhine or Germany's again and June 1930 as a joyous day for whom for all the world French soldiers the last of Allied troops to leave the Rhine roll homeward in a world promised and guaranteed everlasting peace and as Germany's aging President Hindenburg rolls into the Rhineland now German soil once more there was no doubt of that promise and that guarantee in Germany or the world in June of 1930 the Nazis were but one political party in a nation run as a true democracy yet even as Hindenburg was hailed as the Rhinelands rightful ruler at all Fleur Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering were growing in power and strength in Germany and while troops of a democracy goose-step through the streets of Rhineland towns in celebration of lost territory regained the Nazis strutted among them for der Fuehrer for when they stopped the watch on the Rhine they set the clock for war [Music] so for city cutie its 1922 and London England's latest craze makes a call in Culver City California that's not a small girl out for a walk with mommy but a mere doll that walks like a human well almost anyway after a performance like that little Wilma Walker deserves to take a bow secretive stride is set up of Springs in dolls legs that let it stand up and walk [Music] Labor Day for Strings it's 1935 and girl pupil at Institute of musical education is mistress of ceremonies scene is Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles California and violin section of this Orchestra is 700 strong in fact the entire Orchestra is made up of 700 violinists largest world has ever known and this little beginner is doing all right for a girl who doesn't know much about bows [Music] [Applause] if freckles make the violinist this fellow's a regular Fritz Kreisler [Music] young Stribling and his youthful bride it's 26 of December 1925 and in Macon Georgia Billie young stripling takes a wife the former Clara Kinney is now a manager for boxes Stribling famed important and exciting fighter but never once a champion it's January 29th 1928 and here's actress Katharine Cornell posing as Cleopatra real-life queen of a more ancient era miss Cornell is here appearing and benefit to raise funds to build memorial theatre in stratford-on-avon once home of greatest of all playwrights the Bard of Avon William Shakespeare here aboard liner Suffolk in early 1920s is Otto H Khan son of immigrant who became naturalized American citizen Khan was one of most powerful financiers of his day with strong voice in affairs of banking and industry Otto H Khan financial wizard of yesterday down went the Dericks winds of near tornado velocity hit oil forests near orange beetle Texas in 1922 and here's the result this couldn't happen now well the old wooden Derrick's have been replaced by towers of Steel but back in 1922 the wind made merry amid the towers of timber and the Derrick's came up tumbling down biggest loss was from drilling holiday but what soil surely money [Music] saying HIPAA flowers its 1912 and jerseys Woodrow Wilson is just a candidate as out an Omaha Nebraska they hold the annual Aksarben festival which is Nebraska's fell backwards with World War one not even a dream for the future ladies in latest fashion and most modern of streamlined cars parade through streets of Omaha at height of floral faith launched in 1895 exurban festival is biggest thing in Nebraska a regular State Fair each October of the year few years after this votes discarded floors in favor of electric lights in 1928 parade was discarded too but here in a look at yesterday is the fun-filled Aksarben festival way back in 1912 thousand horsepower Thunderbolt its September 1935 propellers turn and pilot gets into cockpit of yet untested plane as ship is raised from runway and wings into the air crafts are coming off craft that has long been called the mystery plane and then the mystery unfolds as its owner backer builder and pilot Howard Hughes brings the plane in from its test flight for a landing at the dangerous speed of 75 miles an hour it's only 1935 yet millionaire sportsman Howard Hughes has flown over 300 miles an hour [Music] crews in 1926 and in the latest fashion of the year voyages waved fashionable farewells the seagoing male wore cap white shirt striped jacket and light colored trousers wired home for more money and each time warfare was confined to pillow fights as evidence here are a couple of tars being feathered dining at the captain's table was the highlight of the journey even back in 1926 notice the lady now smokes and the captain wears his World War One award there was a Spanish influence and attire the fancy dreadful and these onlookers watched a gathering of dancers dressed in the flowing robes and colors a peacetime Spain as vacationers of 1926 had fun on the bounding main [Music] good day for Johnny Goodman its June 10th 1933 and Omaha's Johnny Goodman leads all comers in national open one final hole ammeter Johnny is on the green a pretty short cut from the hole all he has to do is sink this and like the ball he's in he lines it up [Music] he lines it into the cup but as admirers swarm around the 23 year old Nebraska lad word comes that Ralph cool doll is getting hotter every stroke picking up strokes on Goodman with each move he makes gold all chips on the final green and needs only to sink this putt to tie the leader but this hit is a Miss and Johnny Goodman's 287 makes him fifth amateur to win golf that was most coveted crown y'all custody a championship [Music]