Actor Adolph Menjou is sworn in to give testimony before the House Committee on UnAmerican activities (HUAC) in Washington DC, United States. A person involved in the hearings comes out and photographers take his picture. He reads out some information from a file and reporters note it down.
View from above of the U.S. Navy Gato class submarine Redfin, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where it is being converted to a radar picket boat. Workers stand above the hull, which has been cut in half. Next, the two halves of the hull are seen being moved apart to facilitate addition of a 34 foot extension in the hull between the control room and the forward batteries. View of derricks and cranes around the Redfin and of Workers standing atop the boat's hull. Camera pans to closeup of one half of the boat as it is being winched away from the other, along a steel rail. View from below the bow. View from floor showing the two halves of the hull separated. Workers sketch diagram in chalk on floor of drydock. Scaffolding shown in place around the opening between the hull halves. Worker cutting steel plate with acetylene torch. A steel plate affixed to the hull, showing the name, USS Redfin (SSR-272) and the schedule for the project. The only item completed is the start date of May 1st. Workers engaged in fabricating the new section of hull.
Former Ambassador William Christiam Bullitt speaks against Soviet Imperialism and criticizes Stalin's communism. He states,"Communists are Red Fascists." He calls Soviet Imperialism a threat to world peace as people listen to him.
American baseball star Joe DiMaggio and wife Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe board a Pan American Airways Boeing Strato cruiser “Strato Clipper America” aircraft as photographers take their pictures in United States. The couple waves to the people and get inside the plane. Plane takes off.
A dwarf couple walks down a busy sidewalk in Austin Texas with their baby in a carriage. Police control the scene for photographers and a local politician, possibly Mayor Tom Miller, greets the dwarf couple. He picks up their baby while family and spectators look on. Signs seen on store fronts include 'Dacy's Florsheim shoes' , 'Leons Shoes' , and 'Queen' A bus in the street displays 'Barton Springs' as its destination.
The baby girls of dwarf parents undergoes routine medical checkup in Austin Texas. A doctor and nurse weigh and examine the babies, as their parents watch. The dwarf family seen with extended family. A police man holds one of the baby girls outside the doctor's office.
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