YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - S PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT REVIEWS FLEET COLORADO RAILROAD LAST SPIKE

so television highlights of the news of yesteryear [Music] all out the fleet's in it's june 1st 1934 as franklin roosevelt reviews history's largest assembly of u.s fighting ships fleet swarms into new york harbor as president and his party watch from captain's bridge of cruiser indianapolis with the chief executive or mrs roosevelt his daughter mrs dahl his son james and the president's mother leading the flotilla of battleships the california fires salvo in salute to the commander-in-chief of america's armed forces breathtaking concentration of ships comprises 81 vessels with crews totaling 35 000 officers and men its first review in new york water since 1918 and this time planes are added to the display of america's mastery of the seas [Music] it takes fleet two and one half hours to glide past review ship indianapolis and for two and one half hours former undersecretary of navy roosevelt casts an appreciative eye over armada of battle vessels second to none here's famous aircraft carrier lexington destined to play an important part in the pacific battles of world war ii come to an heroic but tragic end reviewing ship is anchored just two miles off ambrose light as parade of ships 12 miles long passes by and noses into the harbor of new york now new yorkers are due for same site that thrilled the president as nations multi-million dollar men of war maneuver through harbor waters and head for anchor in the hudson river the light held aloft by miss liberty still shines brightly part thanks to these ships and sailing men there's high time in the harbor but there's going to be a higher time in manhattan tonight and nearly 35 000 navy men do manhattan as it's never been done before there was a big time in the big town when the fleet came in in 1934 and less than 10 years later an even bigger navy sailed out to fight and win a war higher education and higher pants it's spring of 1930 and at hannover new hampshire students of dartmouth but who else shamelessly reveal what the well-dressed student wears there's not a miss america in the crowd or for that matter no mr america either while these bookish boys put their noses to the grindstone they leave their knees to the breeze yes they're all dressed up some of them except they look as if they've forgotten their trousers oh well boys will be boys and at dartmouth in 1930 they did what they could to look like them too colorado cut it's 26th of february 1928 and at mouth of moffitt tunnel colorado's governor adams and ex-governor shoop drive last spike in railroad tracks that will go under rocky mountains and crowd of 25 000 hears speech by salt lake city's mayor bowman as denver and salt lake railroad gets ready for initial run through big boar cut straight through towering rockies at continental divide moffett tunnel is six miles long [Music] these are pictures of first passenger run at completion of one of greatest engineering feats in railroad history from here on train snakes for six miles under countless tons of mountain rock yes the denver and salt lake railroad now crosses the rockies by going under them [Music] leading star from lead city led city south dakota that is and actor john milgan this is on legitimate stage starting in 1908 milgen made his first motion picture in 1922 a fox film entitled love letters this is how he looked in 1928 [Music] here's lou field's charming daughter dorothy in the late 1920s a well-known librettist and lyric writer she rocketed to fame writing words for i can't give you anything but love baby won a hollywood oscar for writing the way you look tonight here are the brothers musil in 1923 though needing no introduction to baseball's fans and pitchers they're emil of the giants and bob of the new york yankees while brothers under the uniform they were rivals in world series games of 1921 2 and 3. six miles outside of camden new jersey atlantic city player nellie bly has suffered the effects of too much speed it's april 8 1926 and three persons are dead in the wreckage here's front car where one passenger was killed some authorities say nelly bly was tossed to destruction by split rail but passengers claim that train was going too fast to make turns true cause of accident will never be known because in half buried engine of fire both engineer and firemen were scalded to death by escaping steam it's bad accident all right but with nine car pressure train jammed with passengers it could have been worse a gish girl dances last week east lynn this week the wiggles for believe it or not here's one of the famous acting gish girls stomping at the footlights whether it's dorothy or lillian nobody knows so take your pick and take a look at a gish who dishes out a dilly of a dance it's 1920 and if you think this performance deserves cat calls you're wrong it's curtain calls for the dramatic actress turned dancer you think that's the last one well guess again or maybe that should be gish again or maybe miss gish is caught on the curtain no she doesn't rise and fall with a curtain every time as an actress the darling of the footlights never had so many ups and downs as this well that's all now here we go again sorry folks but no more the curtain is worn out british honor blerio it's 21st of july 1929 and here's plane in which louis blerio crossed english channel way back in 1909. now at dover england 20 years later blairio and wife are guests of honor at a ceremony to pay homage to the famed french flyer and pioneer of the air blario's daring flight in 1990 thrilled a world amazed by flying machine dover's lord mayor keynotes the occasion and recalls flight which made front page news around the world here's louis blerio and here he is at spot where his trailblazing flight was ended pity the suffering woman before the glorious days of woman suffrage it's 1919 and here's what the well-dressed woman of the day was forced to wear she must have been forced to wear it because she certainly didn't look this way and like it there's slight influence of late czarist russia in this high-collared fur called a coat note that it buttons up the side and here's a 1919 nifty with a flurry that isn't furry now take a look at all of them and be glad that this isn't 1918 and that you'll have this to look forward to next year [Music] two wheeling it's 1921 and among spectators at french bike race is famed boxer george carpenter same year he lost to jack dempsey race is between 200 french flyers of world war one and watching contest with carponte as mamzelle mustang get another big name of the time race is over historic grand prix course at longchamps and how's this fella doing well he'll see the race from the rear marvelous marvin nelson it's 30th of august 1933 and among those favored to win canadian national marathon swim are george young twice a world champion george blagdon last year's winner and marvin nelson of fort dodge iowa [Music] and they're off on a 15-mile grind through warm waters of lake ontario with five thousand dollars in cold cash waiting for the winner early in race it's clear that swim will be contest between george young and marvin nelson and here's how athletes refuel along the watery course not in the lead but still not out of the swim here's defending champion george blackman moving along but far ahead of his 99 rivals is marvin nelson and here he is crossing the finishing line once a victim of polio nelson's a picture of help and not even too winded to climb out of water by himself to put on crown of victory for canadian swim of 1933 and collect his five thousand dollars you