Opening slate reads: "New Anti-Aircraft Record Achieved by Coast Defense Aces, Ft Monroe, VA." A Curtiss O-1B two place bi-wing airplane is seen in flight. Aerial view of the Fort Monroe, Virginia, waterfront. Gun emplacements are seen. Air- to-air view of the Army airplane in flight over Fort Monroe. But this time, a target can be seen towed behind the aircraft. View of U.S. Secretary of War, Patrick J. Hurley, looking skyward, in the company of three Army officers, including Major General John W. Gulick, chief of the Coast Artillery and commander of Fort Monroe, who is standing next to the Secretary, to his right. View of gunners in a battery of 6-inch anti-aircraft guns. Batteries firing and puffs of white smoke seen aloft. Tracer bullets seen all around a towed target. Soldiers looking through an artillery range finder. A towed target floating in the air with black clouds from exploding anti-aircraft rounds nearby. Gunners firing at high rates of speed.
Famous airplane pilot Amelia Earhart is seen with a crowd, as British people hails her ocean victory, in Hanworth, England, after she landed there on a transatlantic crossing. Amelia Earhart seen walking with American banker, steel industry executive, and Ambassador to England, Andrew Mellon. Earhart walks on the grounds of the Ambassador's residence in London. She comes out of number 14 Prince's Gate, London, the residence of the American Ambassador. She sits in a car surrounded by the people, and is also seen exiting another building in London, later, and entering a waiting car again.
"Lone Star" plane flown by Nathan Browne, runs down a slope in Seattle, Washington. Crowd stands. Plane takes off. Nathan Browne wears parachute, jumps out of the plane and drops into the water body. A boat comes and takes Browne out of the water.
A train arrives at a station in Changchun, Manchukuo. Japanese Ambassador Nobuyoshi Muto arrives to sign the treaty protocol between Japan and Manchukuo in Changchun (Hsingking). Ambassador Nobuyoshi Muto, Commander in Chief of the Kwantung Army, steps down from the train. A Japanese school children welcome the Ambassador. He proceeds in a Motorcade toward the palace where the signing will occur. Police march on the road. Car arrives at the Palace. Henry Puyi, Chief Executive of the new Manchukuo government, receives Ambassador Nobuyoshi Muto. Mikado's Generals and other high ranking officers pose for a photo.
Mine workers on the rail coaches with machine guns in their hands at Fulton County mines in Canton, Illinois. Men patrol. National Guard companies march on a road.
Man pushes a steam car with no gear shifts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. George Mershon works on the car, his new invention, which is powered by coal. Smokestack on the hood of the car. Mershon drives away the car on the road.
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