The 5th Annual Westport Salmon Derby in Westport, Washington. Men aboard fishing vessels underway at sea. They compete to catch a King Salmon. Eugene Kinsman of Seattle wins the award. Fishes at a dock. The winner holding a fish.
American actor and soldier Audie Murphy in Yakima, Washington. He arrives for the shooting of his film 'To Hell and Back'. Scenes of firing and bombardment. Smoke arising in a battlefield. Murphy talking to a man. He joins the jeep jockeys annual cross country jeep-a-thon. Murphy seated in a jeep with a man. Jeeps passing across a field.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressing the nation from Washington DC, United States. The President seated at a desk. He urges people to support a relief fund drive. He talks about the aid from people in order to remove some of the relief burden from the government, during the 1935 Mobilization for Human Needs
An early mishap in the history of flight: An unusual triphibian aircraft attempting takeoff in Washington DC. U.S. Government building along the side of a street. The airplane, not an ornithopter like some early designs, instead looks like a car with a flying saucer on top. It is seen moving on the street during its test run. The U.S. Capitol in the background. The airplane quickly catches fire and burns. The pilot is taken out of the airplane before the fire has fully erupted. People stand near the wounded man. The wounded man lying in a hospital bed. Bandaged face of the man. A woman nursing his burns is sitting nearby.
President Roosevelt signs the Cullen-Harrison Act, an amendment to the Volstead Act late in Prohibition, allowing the sale of beer and wine with an alcohol limit of 3.2% by weight. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt seated at a desk in his office. He signs the bill. Men in a beer bar. A man drinking beer.
An ice storm in Chicago, Illinois. A building in the far background. A statue of a soldier on the ground covered with snow. Bent trees due to the snow in the area. A sign board reads: 'No South bound traffic under penalty of arrest'. A jeep driving across the area.
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