This Spanish language newsreel clip highlights Alex Carrasquel -- the first baseball player from Venezuela to play in the U.S. major leagues. He played in New York on July 4, 1939, the day before Venezuela's Independence Day. Title cards read: "Especially for Venezuela. The great pitcher Alejandro Carrasquel plays in New York on the eve of the Venezuelan patriotic day." Shot of Simon Bolivar statue in New York's Central Park with 'Simon Bolivar El Libertador' written under it. Huge crowd at Yankee Stadium in New York to watch July 4 doubleheader between New York Yankees and Carrasquel's team, the Washington Senators. (NOTE: This crowd was mainly there to see the Yankees honor Lou Gehrig, their Hall of Fame first baseman, who had just been diagnosed with ALS.) Carrasquel (#14) pitches to Yankees in second game, gives up run-scoring triple, tags out another runner trying to reach first base. Carrasquel speaks to crowd through microphones in ceremony at home plate. Shot of Venezuelan flag on pole outside a building (Venezuelan embassy?). Men and women gathered at a cafeteria. Sign in large white letters reads 'Venezuela.'
North American bomber B-25 Mitchell sprays DDT (Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane) in Rockford, Illinois. Military officials fill 500 gallons of DDT in the aircraft. Bomber B-25 Mitchell in flight sprays DDT over the city to eradicate polio.
The Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, Illinois. Man feeds milk to baby rhino with a bottle. The baby rhino and lion cubs play in a cage. Children play with a baby orangutan.
Fishing resort in Seattle. Children at a dockyard fishing. They angle for anything they can hook during the fishing competition. One silver dollar for each of the first four hundred fish caught. Boy shows a small fish that he caught. Baby sleeping on boys lap. Boy and girl holding starfish and crab stand next to man with trophies in hand.
The 13th Annual Elk's Rodeo show in Santa Maria, California. Horsemen mounted on wild horses. They fall on ground after a short struggle. Crowd cheers for the participants. Men put up a show riding the bulls.
Fire at Wanamaker's Department Store building in New York City. Fire fighters spray water to extinguish fire in the building. People sitting outside the building. Water gushes in the subway. Sandbag wall in the subways.
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