A film titled 'Farmers use corn for fuel' shows a farmer W.H. Wood as he attaches horses to his car at a farm in Courtney in Missouri. He has no money to buy gasoline for his car. Horses pull the car. After going further, the car stops Wood gets down and feed corn to the horses and moves to the bushel.
Crowd gathered in front of the Jailhouse in San Jose, California, where a mob of thousands had broken in and seized prisoners Thomas Thurmond and John Holmes, who had reportedly confessed to the kidnapping and murder of Brooke Hart, son of Alexander Hart, the owner of Leopold Hart and Son Department Store. The mob had taken the two and lynched them, in St. James Park, across the street. Under-sheriff Hamilton, is interviewed and states that they held the mob off until they ran out of tear gas, and then didn't shoot, because of women and children. View of many people and cars outside, as seen through cell windows inside the prison. One of the prison inmates, testifies about seeing the mob break into the prison and make their way to the third floor. View of the St. James Park, where many people are seen gathered beneath its palm trees. Camera focuses on trees where the prisoners were hanged. California Governor,James Rolph, Jr., makes a statement tantamount to condoning the lynchings. The film shifts to a new location, in Missouri, where, On November 28, 1933, a crowd of 7-thousand broke into the Buchanan County Jail, St. Joseph, Missouri, to seize and lynch an African American man, Lloyd Warner, who had been charged with criminal assault. The mob overpowered defending police officers and members of the 35th Tank Company, Missouri National Guard. One of tank company's six ton M1917 light tanks parked in front of the prison. View of broken steel prison door and battering ram used by the mob. Wrecked interior of the prison quarters. People posing near a broken prison steel door.
Nearly 500 unemployed men line up outside 'Unemployed gateway loan and sporting co.' to receive overcoats in Kansas City ,Missouri. Louis A. Cumonow,a local merchant, distributes the overcoats free of cost to needy during the great depression.
A gesture of charity during the Great Depression in United States. A Kansas City, Missouri, businessman gives away 500 overcoats to unemployed men. Men line up to collect coats. Men wear the overcoats given by the businessman.
Young American Boy Scouts camp for the first outdoor convention in North Kansas City, Missouri. Scouts march with flags on a field. A closeup view of a scoutmaster or scout leader is shown. The scouts demonstre various outdoor skills. A scout starts a fire using a bow drill. Two boys peel potatoes for a meal. They cut vegetables and cook food over a fire. Scouts pitch tents and two scouts are seen sleeping in a tent.
United States General Courtney Hughes speaks during a radio talk in United States. General Courtney H. Hodges speaks into a microphone as he talks to radio audiences soon after the end of World War II in Europe. He says that he is happy to be home and will soon visit his home town in Georgia. He says that after that he will visit Washington and then leave for the South Pacific where the United States 1st Army has been ordered to go. He poses with other officers.
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