YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER MAURICE RAVEL 1939 NY RANGERS HOCKEY GAME

television highlights of the news of yesteryear [Music] one man's war here's a man destined for world's highest office about to tackle the most humanitarian work this world has ever seen it's November 1914 and President Woodrow Wilson has given heartbreaking job of Belgian relief to a man named Herbert Hoover his boyhood town is tiny West Branch Iowa his first home is this house behind the blacksmith shop one of three children young Herbert of 13 right with pioneer class he enters Stanford in 1891 to study engineering among students he fast becomes a leader among practicing engineers as standout and now in 1914 with a wife and two growing sons he must lead the fight against famine with members of Belgian relief commission he plans the flow of food to the tiny kingdom laid waste by warring Germany he tells this nation that men and the might of arms can fight but food will win the war response is quick and sure as women sign the Hoover play Belgium's war wracked millions will not starve for the pledges kept from every corner of the nation this is the answer to Hoover's rallying cry his own sacrifice is itself an inspiration to the world he draws no salary cost of his job is paid from his own pocket every dime contributed sends these cargo laden ships over hostile waters to those starving over there meal after meal for Belgians not one morsel for the kaisers crew this is another promise Herbert Hoover keeps even he the humanitarian cannot put bread into the hand of the hated hunt he is here to save the oppressed from greed of the oppressors and Hoover promises that starving children shall be far from hungry there is extra luncheon for the tots of this turbulent world in midst of war Hoover visits Belgium and King Albert to see firsthand how his fight with food is faring and watch a ragged nation clothed again he shows the way to salvation this is our cast-off clothing but it is all these women and children have against the ravages of war and winter these are a people who lost everything but life Wars end and the German occupation is over Belgium will soon feed itself again and Herbert Hoover comes home to America not to rest but his head of American Relief Association once again he sends food overseas this time it's Austria and in Vienna they get the news that help from Herbert Hoover is on its way it's here and long months of starvation are at an end [Music] work well done the chief goes home to mrs. Hoover and to rest but soon he is in Harding's cabinet and then March 1929 he leaves the White House Washington with President Calvin Coolidge under skies that threaten rain this is the climax of a life devoted to all mankind as his nation honors him even these youngsters gawking from treetops know it is the whole world which applauds Herbert Clark Hoover 30th president of these United States it rains as he takes office but rain is nothing to a man who has known storms of suffering for war and famine strode the highway that brought Herbert Hoover from West Branch Iowa to the White House Washington [Music] string of pearls it's 1924 caught here's New York City the fabulous fier pearls have seen for the first time in America here's how the collection of 145 pearls is matched for stringing a necklace worth more than a million dollars must be tired with expressing special nuts it takes permission of French parliament to on our sale by Louvre Museum barn walls child and auto car among bidders but necklace comes to caught years here's the string complete with diamond clip and here's a glut lock at the historic tiara [Music] [Applause] here's rabbi Stephen s wives of New York back from trip to Europe pioneer Zionist proud defender of the brotherhood of man Steven wise voice of comfort in a troubled world this man killed Stanford White yes his Harry K thaw and here in 1915 he's released from marijuana hospital but Ducks cameramen Harry four central figure in most notorious crime of nineteen hundred and six shooting is over Evelyn Nesbit public sympathy is at first for victim white but during trial sympathy shifts to evidence protector Harry thaw in rare pictures here's famed composer of bolero on concert stage in January 1928 he startled music world with strange new harmonies but now among the classics are works of maurice ravel's [Music] the kidnap craves may 1934 little June Robles is home in Tucson Arizona after 19 days just six she's faced threats of death at hands of parties unknown where chains bound her tiny ankles scars still show the chains of the tin closet in which she was kept prisoner by her abductor and nonnamous letter sends June's uncle 9 miles into the desert to find the tiny victim half buried in the sand she's sick from heat of the broiling Sun but safe home at last she fast returns to health and happiness again May 1934 William F Kendall wearing glasses his Los Angeles victim of kidnap craves for five days this house is his prison then wiretapping crime fighters nab clues and these two women and after questioning Dedalus found and released his kidnappers caught here they are the trio who demanded $60,000 for their crime within 24 hours after the sanctities police found the kidnapped kettle his abductors are on their way to prison but first they must print their San Quentin calling card Valen kings of crime Roy Williams Larry Kerrigan and Jimi Kirk now just numbers for life [Music] pioneers from Paris September 2nd 1930 cars are jammed that Curtis filled Long Island and thousands wait anxiously for word of Costa and Blanc last seen over Newfoundland but now feared lost in fog but here's their tiny plane first flight from Paris to New York is finished with but a hundred gallons of gasoline despair among spectators is Charles de Lindbergh to Crete French Flyers first to make his main flight in Reverse plane is called the question mark a successful leap of the Atlantic is the answer [Music] not Paris friends but Brooklyn USA back in the early 20s at the department store showing the formal gowns and reps it must have been for alarm sensations at the firemen's ball short skirts misplaced waist lines and floating panels with the fashions of the day did you ever see a potato sack walking then is now mink was a symbol of prosperity here's a little everyday wraparound worth $5,000 but for big evening Brooklyn beauties prefer Airmen with mink rim at a mere twenty five thousand dollars fashion was in bad shape according to present-day standards these studies looked much better on the ostrich no glass now the smart fashions you're wearing today will look just as funny in 20 years it's this constant fashion fluctuation that have kept the apparel industry booming and the American husband broke [Music] Battle of New Yorkers January 1939 to Manhattan hockey teams clash in medicine square garden Rangers in dark shirts want this win from star-spangled New York Americans Julie Smith Americans heads goal word but Ranger defenses tight and keeps out puck but not players Ranger star Dutch Hiller zooms through Americans opposition to take puck to first Ranger Tali Gallagher of Rangers had same idea but Chapman foam arrogance takes puck other way but not all the way along side boards fight for puck is about to turn to fists goals where they checks coder number two and referee has to stop flare-up as Rangers stop Americans 5-2 to Mars the magnificent son of the masterful man award Travers handicap Saratoga 1926 carries his father's proud banner to the starting post in polkadot silks is favored Pompey among celebrities in the stands is Chauncey elcott and here is Mrs W K Vanderbilt with Larry Waterbury here to see how well the Son of Man O'War can do then they're off those who thrill to the beating hooves of big red pounding home to victory have their eyes on Mars his son those who cheered the king of racing royalty are cheering Mars the prince those who wept the one time Man O'War was beaten now watching and waiting for the big drive at the homestretch that would spell sweet victory with Errol send me of Mars passes Pompeii and the mighty Mars finishes fast and first [Music]