YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - S 1937 GM AUTO STRIKE R101 AIRSHIP CRASH PICCADILLY STREET LONDON

[Music] television highlights of the news of yesteryear [Music] [Applause] spread of the sit-down strike it's january 1937 and idol Flint Michigan Auto Workers have occupied this struck plant for six days sitting doesn't pay friends and relatives are allowed to visit at specified times but in the main their outside looking in employers can go hang and some do but just in effigy strikers occupy eight factories now and a Genesee County deputy sheriff reads court order for evacuation but the workers sit the strike drags on days pass tension grows a break of violence is imminent workers prepare to oppose National Guard guns with this ammunition of their own pickets 20,000 strong join the locked-in workers cause threats of violence are forgotten as strikers cheer their sympathizers and word comes that negotiations for settlement are underway but peace talk lasts a scant five minutes nothing accomplished as sympathizers March Michigan's governor Frank Murphy goes to Washington but days of conferences met the same result failure strike by sit-down spreads in Detroit hotels are hit again threats of violence again the law stands by in readiness again neither side accepts compromise all's well with the sitting workers though inside they don't have a thing to worry about but getting paid but who wants pay for this the hotel is all theirs lock stock and kitchen while arbitrators hotel owners and guests are anis to striking Busboys and bellhops help themselves to a turkey dinner [Music] hotel guests explorer OSA Johnson gets a lift in the arms of the law as sitting strikers brings service to a standstill songstress Ethel shoot a gets no we're trying to enter strike bound hotel turned away she retaliates by going on a sit-down strike of her own strike by sit-down spreads to packing plants but this time police take over court orders demand the plant be evacuated and the law goes into force truck workers out their siege of sitting over workers under arrest are escorted from shut down plants and hauled away in one of the longest lines of black Mariah's man has ever seen in the heart of Detroit the 17th day of the strike workers and sympathizers masked to demand action or arbitration the sit-down is costing employers and employees a million dollars a day then strike leader Homer Martin appears the cheers are for his promise of Shore victory for its that or nothing workers will sit down till employers give up a sit-down both sides are glad to see John eldest and Walter P Chrysler meet with Governor Murthy and that handshake means the strike that shocked our nation is over it's now February 11 to sit down strike of over 40 days is at an end after six weeks of stoppage workers will again turn the wheels of Industry after six long weeks of idleness it's home today and back to work tomorrow [Music] the champion fades his chicks it's the middle 1920s and Jim Jeffries king of flies fighters from 1899 to 19-6 is a prize farmer on his birthday and California ranch Jeffries keeps active Jim Corbett first champion to fight with gloves raises pal Jeffries a friend we call the talkers of all times and fights gentleman Jim Corbett topped all heavyweights from 1892 to 97 lost to Bob Fitzsimmons Jeffries ran out of opponents abandoned the title yesterday's newsreel presents the two pugilists who even to this day are considered among the greatest prize fighters of all time Jim Jeffries works while pal Jim Corbett walks [Music] we're in London in the early 1900's and there are as many officers as Henry's on good old picket away but horse-drawn vehicles are on the way out and in 1916 the last one made its final trip its few steeds among many motors now as London bids farewell to horse-drawn vehicles for now and forever Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1930 then oldest member of the US Supreme Court closes on his way to see President Herbert Hoover at the White House areas with Chief Justice Hughes almost 90 the barrister from Boston was still making American history the American ways the mistress of sophisticated slapstick be Lily in 1928 he proves you can eat your Apple in heaven too see what I mean Bravo be rich man Sun drops money for music son of banker Otto Kahn Roger wolf Khan leads his own Orchestra it's the early 1930s and this young disciple of George Gershwin is big with a baton this beats banking he says and launcher not only made music but music made Roger $30,000 a year [Music] Death dooms a dirigible the crew of the British r101 gets set for a first and final flight destination disaster among the doomed is British Air Minister Thompson Center in carding tuning Glyn 1930 most of these men have a date with death but in the elevator up the mooring mast there's no hint of the Holocaust to come from mastership the crossing spans into another world the r101 is off on its mating journey first stop of the schedule Italy but fate is flying too Bobe France next morning this was the pride of Britain's air force the world's mightiest aircraft now a charred mass of metal and motors in the torn and twisted wreckage 47 dead stunned British officers who inspect the remains search for the cause of disaster that flooded the Queen of Britain's air force from the skies and sent nearly half a hundred of her crew on the long last void [Music] there's not a Dodger on base but the scene is Brooklyn the event a shoe fashion show in 1920 dem bums never put on a show like this flats appointed little toes and her elegant brocade evening slippers it food Clementine or Cinderella in these long Babs walking shoes even Grable couldn't be so abled in heavy black stockings any relationship to the actual shape of the human foot was strictly coincidental back in 1920 Brooklyn produced 15 million pairs of high fashion Footwear like this combination spat dial waste lines were even longer than towline definitely 1920 fashions were not true to form square toes an instep straps are not too different from recent Footwear fashion Brooklyn leaves footprints on the sands of time [Music] the twice told tale of Tempelhof berlin germany 1925 Tempelhof airdrome is the world's finest the world's most lavish airport - by far the busiest enough with nine thousand arrivals and departures shown to zone 2 20 times that number a mile wide 2 miles long it was world's biggest and Aviation's best the hub of daily flights to Paris Prague London Luxembourg Madrid Moscow Constantinople Copenhagen and thence to the far corners of the earth this was Tempelhof Titan of airdromes in 1925 [Music] 19:49 traffic at Tempelhof is different german seaplanes of the US air force bringing food to the starving population of berlin clothing against the cold of winter coal for empty and idle stoves and furnaces giant Tempelhof has to be enlarged for the heavily laden giants of the airlift in five months ninety-three million tons of food and fuel is unloaded on Tempelhof air strips for a grateful people in 1925 a lavish airdrome in 1949 a greater Tempelhof is the lifeline between a world and a nation [Music] September 1928 Vincent Richards right that Forest Hills New York is about to hand check champ Karl Casa Lou first defeat in nine years Casa Lu serving in first national tournament for pros Richards flawless back em checks the sharped smashes of the check fourth and final set match point Casa Liu returns the American smash Richards forecourt starts the cross-court fire and then Richards forehand sends the ball out of Casa lose reach the winner Vincent Richards top throw of the professionals there off run away in the 1934 running of the Hamiltonian Goshen New York it's the fourth and final heat with victories already gathered by princes Pat Lord Jim and muscle tone trotting highest-stakes go to the winner of this classic the far turn into the homestretch leading his Lord Jim second muscle tone driving hard but hopelessly to close the gap but driver hm partial won't be caught ninth winner of the Hamiltonian is Lord Jim 35,000 cheers the champ of Chartres walks to the winner's circle wearing a wreath of roses Lord Jim is in clover from now on [Music]