YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - HOWARD HUGHES & SPRUCE GOOSE FLIGHT DUNKIRK

the urban turban not gonna mid-30s when deep crowns with a big hot fraction Burrell Smith fans the tip tilted Derby one two buckle my square sailor millinery on the half-shell half hat 1/2 hair dude the great turban headliner of today and yesterday it hasn't changed so much since the 30s has it quite a feather in her cap and on her mouth too it's up to the courts to decide the national double championship a Chestnut Hill Massachusetts in 1933 with Parker and shields against Lawton Stefan franki wearing shorts is in the foreground of this picture as a spirited volley gets underway a point coming up for Lawton Stefan as shields misses tennis champ Helen Jacobs looks on as the two teams are in another furious volley you're seeing four great names in tennis my friends and incidentally so are they final game match point coming up shields backhand is good the returns better and luck and Stefan win let's go back to 1927 and the Belmont Futurity here is mrs. John D Hertz who has two entries in the race and looking on is Harry Payne Whitney and Al Smith there they go the Futurity pays off to the tune of ninety one thousand seven hundred ninety dollars to the winner forty thousand volts were understand watching as the horses raced for the wire mrs. Hertz entries are the famous ray count and a horse Anita Peabody and there go the two of them out in front [Applause] [Music] Whitney and Smith are routing them in and there's the finish second is rake out and the winner Anita Peabody [Music] finale in the fall of France its June 1940 and German tanks rolled across the flatlands of trans toward the channel and new victories shells from nearby German guns it heralded their advance blasting and burning allied equipment and so sudden and pierces the attack that wrecked allied machinery of war slows down the Nazi advance but the Huns roll on to Dunkirk i overhead hastily mustard french produts fight a losing battle german planes machine gun allied troops who are trapped hopelessly between gunfire on the sea and wait for aid or dead it's all over for this British Spitfire as German power in the air knocks out another defender of Dunkirk German cameras made these pictures of German conquest here the dock area a mass of twisted steel Germans drag anti-tank guns into position for a counter-attack which doesn't come at the waterfront battered allied evacuation ships that didn't make it and allied equipment abandoned in defeat crowd and clutter the beaches [Music] French defenders for the most part stayed so that parts of British regiments might escape and come back to fight another day concentration camps await these prisoners Nazi troops turn from devastated Dunkirk and make a move that surprises the world England just across the channel seems in easy reach but the swing is south toward Paris and the heart of France and all resistance is smashed first the Marne where the hunt was halted in World War one but now opposition is always faradic and confined to a house-to-house fighting nature's last bulwark before Paris is no obstacle as Nazi troops reach the waters of the Marne with a war in 1918 bogged down to a stalemate [Music] [Music] the steady drive of armored columns is Swift and easy buildings fired by recruiting French troops like the smoke-filled way all the French leave the invading hun is the scorched earth and ruins [Music] victory behind Paris ahead as the Nazi hordes roll on toward the capital of France and the Eiffel Tower symbol of the France of other years other Wars days before Paris was declared an open City and German soldiers mark this book to anew Schueler victories the most usual of waves Germany's flag flies over France Paris is at last in German hands there's rejoicing in Berlin as these scenes are shown for Hitler is keeping his promise to the German people that Nazi troops would march in triumph down Paris boulevards de Paris promised was no idle boast they contain your airway car where Germany admitted defeat in 1918 is the scene of German victory in 1940 it's 3:15 p.m. June 21st and Hitler and his staff enter the famous railroad car to dictate the fate of defeated France Buehring is here and von Braun shifts Raider Rudolf Hess and von Ribbentrop French representatives arrived to hear Nazi terms for plants or generals Hunsicker and their survey and Admiral de Duke the terms gave Germany all of France north and west of tour [Music] On June 21st 1940 Hitler danced to his own victory March later to go down to death and defeat [Music] 1929 s both sensational circus performer who go Cikini one of seven sons of a Peruvian Pater who introduced to America the breathtaking stunts of being shot out of a cannon a hundred and eighty feet through the air here's the active receives such tremendous acclaim from press and public the operation of which is a family secret now take a look at the human cannonball in slow motion you go as in the barrel of the cannon his brother Mario in charge of the firing device later a sister Victoria did the act but that's you go you're watching now the man in the cannon you go zucchini yesterday's news reel brings you one of the greatest soprano singers of all time I'm Aleta got a coochie shown here at a party for kindergarten children Gallacher she made her debut in Rome in 1909 our American successes began in Chicago in 1916 this is dr. Charles Mayo and light suit who with his brother will founded the famous Mayo Clinic in 1922 when these pictures were made dr. Mayo was in Washington to attend the ailing mrs. Warren Harding dr. Sawyer Boone Mayo all of whom were called in to help the president's wife and her fight for life dr. Mayo founded the world-renowned clinic in 1914 [Music] first ship ever to leave Chicago bound for Europe it's June 26 1919 and drawbridge on the Chicago River Rises to make way for the lake Grande laden with wheat and bound for Liverpool a series of locks which permitted the Lake Granby to pass through the Great Lakes and onto the Atlantic had just been opened Chicago located almost a thousand miles inland has become an international seaport [Applause] remember jackie coogan is the kid with Chauncey Depew the railroad tycoon in 1918 just after release of the picture that made him famous a Grand Central young Coogan catches the controls and becomes the envy of every boy in America at Harmon New York Jackie's out to change locomotives and caps and he'll help run a steam driven train across country take a good look at Jackie Coogan Charlie Chaplin's protege who had enough money to retire before he was old enough to go to school it's so long Jackie from these kids and also from the Department of wonderful memories of yesterday's newsreel for honor of the transatlantic clipper this is the Sikorsky amphibian plane constructed in 1931 largest sea plane ever built count Igor Sikorsky who designed the huge flying ship powered it with four 850 horsepower engine trans-atlantic claims that bottle introduction of the Sikorsky were patterned after the model you are now watching photographed on its very first flight test flights between Miami and Cuba followed shortly after these pictures were taken and plans for regularly-scheduled transoceanic flights were made [Music] but now let's take a look at the controversial a ship built after world war two by Howard Hughes this is you seaplane the Hercules constructed at a cost of what was reported to be twenty five million dollars seven million of which was said to be Hughes own money this ship was to been one of 500 cargo planes which could carry 700 passengers the idea was sold to the government by Henry Kaiser who chose Hughes as his partner but November 1st 1947 saw the one-mile flight you are watching November 23rd saw a test flight and that's all headlines for investigation of this project and the amphibian never saw the sky lines again society's winter playground Palm Beach Florida back in the twenties those were the days when beach fashions look more suitable for a soiree than a swim how to be grand on the sand with parasol and push by these pampered darlings prepared capes two coats of tan remember the dolmen coat putting on the dog to keep the Wolves away the big idea was to shun the Sun well which will you have today is covergirl or yesterday's cover-up here we go back to the Yale Bowl in 1926 to watch coach Tad Jones Eli Blues clash with Georgia yields ball on its own 30 in an off tackle smashes good with seven yards the blue again this time in a pass play that's grabbed by Yale and was brought down after grabbing off 30 yards it's another pass this one a short one over the line and there's no stopping the Yale receiver who legs it into the end zone for a score [Applause] giorgia fights hard but Yale controls that dick skin my bull spin on an eight-yard gain very deception drive through the line he lies on route for another tally blocking brought the crowd to its feet and a final Yale score brought the blue to victory over Georgia 19 to nothing [Applause] let's jump over to London now it's 1934 and an international dual track beats underway in the mile england's Jack Lovelock is favored but Bill Vaughn's runner for instance in the race so anything can happen Lovelock is in third place but watch him as he starts to make his move bond throngs in front as England's great mother sets out to take over the lead watch it Jack did it he's up front bombs run second but there's bills last bid for victory and it falls short the tape in sight and all Bundren never stops driving his Jack Lovelock of Oxford and New Zealand who snaps it across his chest for a victory in the mile - the victim along the spoils and the close-ups [Music]