YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - LINDBERGH BABY KIDNAPPING IRON LUNG STEAMSHIP ROBERT E. LEE

[music] Television highlights of the news of yestery year. [music] [music] [music] Tragic history of the Little Eagle. There's no hint of the catastrophe to come as little Charles A. Lindberg Jr. plays at window of his Hopewell, New Jersey home. But at 10 p.m. Tuesday, March 1st, 1932, the window is empty. Little Lindy has been carried down this ladder to his death. [music] 2 and 12 years later, January 2nd, 1935, Hunteran County Courthouse is strangely excited scene and prosecutor Anthony M. Hulk is handed his sentences Hmon to the electric chair. [music] Outside Trenton prison, April 3rd, 1936, reporters wait for word of execution. Loyal to the last is Hman's wife, Anna. Execution over, she drives away. Ending tragic story of Hman and [music] Charles A. Lindberg, Jr. [music] When rage was rag time. Back in 1920s, little by Quinn and partner do dance creation called the ragtime jazz. Complete with Charleston breaks. Main motion seems to be the shimmy. Costume incidentally is also Miss Quinn's creation. [music] In more formal attire, this couple does in a dance hall what would look a lot better in a gymnasium. Tambourine gives him something to do while his partner keeps busy. Dance instruction of the day. Shake well before bruising. Here's Bowie version of the Apache dance. Maybe she framed him into doing this because she's about to get a tossing around for her troubles. [music] The idea here is to look as much as you can like a rumble seat. This is called dancing the socks off your partner [music] and heading for the frame again. This is calling it quits. [music] [music] Boston Breather invented in September 1929 by Professor Philip Drinker of Harvard. Here's iron lung getting demonstration [music] in Boston hospital. Even though dangerously stricken, this boy can breathe. Its thrilling advance in war against needless loss of life. Today's version of iron lung is far cry from 700 lb boiler which pioneered development of artificial breathing. Mostly plastic modern iron lung is light in weight and used in mild [music] cases of paralysis and in transporting stricken patients to hospital where larger lung is used if necessary. Being light modern lung is easier on patient allows [music] more freedom. Stricken person cannot only sit up but can move about. Professor Drinker's iron lung is big step in progress of science. [music] [music] Gag without glasses. Believe it or not, this character is Harl Lloyd in scene from 1915 movie Just Nuts. Lloyd looks something like Charlie Chaplan here. Maybe it's because he hasn't yet put on his famous lensless horn rim glasses. You're really getting the lowdown on what was high comedy when this flicker was a hit. [music] Lloyd proves that if you can't get into a place on your looks, there are other means of [music] transportation. [music] Round and round the wheel of fortune goes, and where she stops, nobody knows. You heard this man say something like that a thousand times perhaps for this is Major Bose as famed director of radio's original amateur hour sails on 1925 vacation among radio's [music] immortals Major Bose on board ship in early 1920s. Here's actress May Marsh with Small Daughter. Famed for role in DW Griffith's Birth of a Nation. May retired from screen for 12 years. Then in 1933 returned to new successes. Here's rare film of Andrew [music] Carnegie Center when once poor immigrant had become famed millionaire philanthropist. Among his many monuments, more than 2,000 public libraries. [music] [music] Snowstorm and shallow sea. Plymouth, Massachusetts, March 9th, 1928. Saved from death in icy waters by Coast Guard ships. Here are 25 of 270 passengers and crew of stricken steam ship Robert E. Lee, which just 4 miles from shore hit submerged rocks and was then purposely sunk in shallow waters. [music] Manet Point life-saving crews head for vessel. All on board steamer have been successfully taken off. But their sphere ice and pounding seas will wreck craft beyond repair. Watchers wait anxiously as near stern of steamer, [music] Coast Guard boat capsizes, tossing crew of eight into storm surf. Six cling to overturned rescue boat, but two of crew decide they'll swim icy waters to shore. It's tough struggle, but snowbound beaches are in [music] sight. Smarter crewmen still stay with capsized boat and see two buddies fail in try for shore. It's all over as they [music] go under. Volunteers under [music] state trooper Han are too late to help two swimmers, but they successfully battle surf to rescue six coast guardsmen bobbing near their upended boat. [music] All six are hauled to safety, but one later dies of exposure. Toll of the blinding snowstorm [music] and storm tossed shallow seas. One heroic adventure and three men's lives. [music] [music] Early birds female variety. In early 1930s, airlines perk up looks of crews by adding hostesses. Here's four that are among first to fly for pay [music] and as inducement to men to take to wings for travel. [music] First airline hostesses are graduate nurses, but picked not only for brains, but for beauty as well. All must be single, too, and when they marry must give up their jobs. [music] It's good guess this quartet didn't make too many flights. [music] Pioneers in early commercial aviation. These four don't look much like pioneers. Early settlers variety, that is. But who wouldn't want to settle down with one of these? With this look at four of aviation's first flying hostesses, we know now why flying became so popular so fast. [music] [music] [music] Hairds of 1928. Beauty parlors give patrons a real clipping back in 1928. And buzzing at social gatherings is all about the boyish bob. Accent is on swirls and curls. This lovely looks proud of her lovely 1928 locks. With clips holding hair in place, this headdress grows flowers. The Hollywood version of Bob is a real production. Main feature is spit curls. For feather on your capless head, there's this upswep creation called the peacock. Hairdo called the Lindy. Even has wings. And speaking of flying, here's the Miss 1928 hairdo that looks as if it's going to take off any minute now. [music] [music] Ace of clubs. Walter Hagen, top US golfer, tease off in 1929 British Open and crowd gathers to see if three-time winner can do it again. [music] Here, Britain's Percy Alice sinks important putt, but as Hagen drives off final tee, he's out in front of field. Winner in 1922 24 and 28. He repeats [music] in 1929. Fourtime champ of British golf, America's Waler Hagen [music] sensation on skates. Here are 1930 films of Miss Marabel Vincent of Radcliffe College, ninetimes national queen of figure skaters. From 1928 through 1937, Miss Vincent missed crown only once. Here's form that won her everlasting fame, [music] demonstrating the difficult flying jump. Even going backwards, she's good. In addition to winning nine individual championships, Miss Vincent teamed with skater George EB Hill to win national pair figure skating crown three times running. [music] Before her retirement in 1937, the best on skates was Marabel Vincent. [music]