YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT in SOUTH AMERICA USS INDIANAPOLIS TRAIN WRECK

[Music] television highlights are the news of yesteryear [Music] it's 1936 as USS Indianapolis steams into Harbor of Rio de Janeiro with President Franklin Roosevelt aboard as chief executive of United States Roosevelt is greeted by playing of Brazil's national anthem and cheers greet him as he's welcomed to South America's biggest republic by President getúlio Vargas is something missing here yes its famed cigarette holders so evident in Roosevelt's later years war threatens mankind as FDR appears before Brazilian legislature this is no time to hesitate we must be guided by a serene and generous view of our comedy we cannot countenance aggression from wheresoever it make the people of each and every one of the American Republic and I'm confident to the people of the Dominion of Canada wish to leave their own lives free from desire for conquest and free from fear conquest [Applause] touring ever southward Roosevelt makes historic stop at Montevideo to become subject of year for org Lian cameraman president gabrielle tara of org y greets FDR as warmly as did Brazil's Vargas and thousands cheer as the chief executive from North America is paraded through streets of this great South American capital familiar face in United States is rare and exciting site to these Oregon's on way home Roosevelt stops off at Trinidad with son James standing by he reviews Trinidad troops then heads for home for Washington and work in step of March 1926 and future generals of United States Army look more like wooden soldiers as they rehearse routines for coming musical at academy wax of World War two were great improvements over these army girls but then maybe the real difference is in what they were wearing in those days don't you know the shoe doesn't fit but this K that were where it baris what's this oh the leading ready can you imagine some top top sergeant taking orders from any of these lovely looking second lieutenants seriously though after months of hard work at West Point cadets deserve the relaxation of manoeuvres such as this and just look at their maneuver it's April 1928 and a New Haven Connecticut state highway commissioner McDonald throws switch that puts automatic traffic cop in operation at one of city's busiest intersections now light will be changed by flow of traffic mayor tower congratulate signals and better hop on protection of device that will be boomed to motorists and men in blue after successful New Haven test device soon spread across entire nation [Music] here's Tom Marshall in December 1919 as Woodrow Wilson's vice president tells Senate pageboys that he's going to give them big Christmas dinner as Wilson's running bait into elections Marshall was vice president from 1912 to 1920 arriving in Pasadena in 1922 here's pioneer movie actress Pola Negri greeting one of top stars of silent films is Jesse L Lasky and yesterday's newsreel gets good look at Hollywood royalty of era that is gone arriving at White House for interview with President Warren Harding here's famed king of the hobos he's Jeff Davis friend of the poor jobless wanderer who lives the beautiful life but Davis they say was worth $200,000 [Music] [Music] it's 1939 and luxury flyer city of San Francisco clicks across tracks with smoothness of wind as it races westward out of Chicago across the plains toward California's Golden Gate for two years train has made 2200 mile journey at high speed without mishap and this there's horror and human suffering in this habit disaster rot at the Humboldt River trestle as flyer tumbles into the Brassica Canyon 24-hour dead and scores injured as all but three of train 17 cars plunge from the roadbed into the shallow water below this bridge of tragedy then something even more terrible than the wreck itself is uncovered even as rescue workers search crushed cars for dead and injured investigators find rail that was apparently loosened from ties by some depraved person actual sabotage was never proved so culprit was never caught but death of 24 persons an injury to more than 100 others was not charged to engineer or railroad but this was sad day for fliers passengers and America's railroads for city of San Francisco was last word in rail travel last word in comfort and safety but at humble trestle the last word belonged to death [Applause] it's March 1930 and in Berlin Germany here's mr. Coulomb man of iron and nerves of steel but he's his mild-mannered and well trained as an Fifi's pet poodle doing everything his bastard and better tells him to operated and controlled by sound of his inventors voice mr. golem can do anything do anything but breathe thank goodness it's 2nd of March 1929 and here at Reedley California airfield Dale Drake climbs into his glider at start of record-breaking trip towed by monoplane pilot and pal lloyd O'Donnell Drake is out to set new distance record for gliders and right now he's plenty up in the air about it it might look easy but that airs rough and a glider pilot isn't window over los angeles drake and glider near end of 200 mile hop ahead lies Long Beach and happy landings we hope cut loose from toplane drake brings his gladder to good old terra firma at long beach and flyers o'donnell and Drake get good welcome from their proud relieved and happy wives [Music] southernxposure its 1926 and in the latest fashion of the time these well-dressed vacationers to sailing happily toward sunny climes must be getting warmer already for squirrel coats are shed for sleeveless dresses well anyway sleeveless packs for good times in 1926 you kept your head in a tan maybe she's trying to look ahead to see what fashion designers are planning next year here's the most popular number of the year the King Tut ensemble that fine young Pharaoh was buried in it three thousand years ago so the well-dressed women of 1926 think it's good enough for them to be buried in did she find her outfit in King Tut's tomb just recently or did king tut give it to her personally figure it out for yourself but we can't figure out is why she's so shy about being seen in that lovely bathing suit [Music] the robe is silk the Seabreeze is salty and stiff and they both blue lustily way back in 1946 [Music] Touche it's 5th of March 1926 and at Northwestern coeds go in for the unfair art of self defense with a dangerous weapon and the girls aren't fooling with those foils here's the instructor in northwestern's newest addition to the curriculum [Music] after getting a few pointers these pupils practice pointing it's not polite but no offenses men because this is fencing and these coeds of 1926 are taking more than a stab at it undrained swept Altoona racetrack speed demons of early 30s roar down straightaways and around slippery turns at average speed of better than 100 miles an hour early in race all eyes are on 23 year old Billy Arnold where he's pushing car number four around Speedway an average speed of 120 miles an hour and it's beat like that on track as wet as this there's bound to be a crack up for young Billy at any turn [Music] Arnel taking lead toward finish line and here he is holding lead against pot Racing rivals until he's won his race [Music] [Applause] it's all over now but the shouting and congratulations as victorious Billy Arnold wins altoona speed race Billy Arnold winner of race in the rain [Music]