The National Tournament marble game held in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Spectators watch boys playing the game. 14 year old Robert Rerzlaff of Alabama wins the game and is crowned.
A posthumous award ceremony for U.S. Sergeant Raymond Taylor in New York, United States. Commander of the First United States Army Withers A. Burress awards posthumous Silver Star Medal to the mother of Sergeant Raymond Taylor for his gallantry and action in the Korean War.
An elephant water skis up the Hudson River in New York, United States. The elephant is driven out of a truck and is made to walk along a pier. The elephant walks up on a water ski. Spectators watch the elephant. A girl and the elephant on the ski being pulled behind a motorboat on the Hudson River.
Sword Dancer, horse of the year, wins Grey Leg Handicap horse race in a photo finish at Aqueduct race track in New York, United States.
Opening scene shows deck of the Swedish ocean liner M.S. Gripsholm, as it is departing Jersey City, New Jersey, with Japanese Nationals and Issei (First generation Japanese) aboard, who are being repatriated from the United States to Japan, during World War 2. The Swedish First Mate is seen on deck speaking with two Red Cross women dressed in white. The Swedish flag is seen in the background. A very small Japanese boy squats on the deck and watches several Lehigh Valley Railroad barges passing nearby, including one containing a house. Glimpse of the Gripsholm's Captain and a sailor on deck. Japanese women walk about on the deck and join other passengers and some crew who are looking across the Hudson River at the Manhattan, New York City skyline.
Film starts showing the Swedish ocean liner M.S. Gripsholm, docked at Jersey City, New Jersey, in World War 2. Some Ship's officers and crew are on deck and two armed Sailors stand on either side where the ramp meets the ship's deck. Two uniformed policeman come up the boarding ramp carrying a person on a littter. Ship's officer directs them where to take that person. Next, Japanese Nationals and Issei with their families begin boarding. Ship's officer and a sailor direct them where to go. Many boarding have small children. A ship's officer and a sailor carry another person aboard on a litter. A woman alone breezes past the guards. More families with small children board. An ambulatory, disabled , young Japanese woman is helped aboard by a man and a nurse. Two nurses help another woman board. Scene shifts to the pier where U.S. customs officials check baggage being brought aboard the ship and check identifications of passengers who will board. Next, a ship's doctor is seen attending a young girl in the ship's infirmary. He checks her vital signs. Then a Red Cross nurse enters and takes the patient's temperature and pulse rate.
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