Firemen fight pier blaze for nine hours and save the steamers at Alameda in California. Smoke rises up from the flames. Vessels in the water. The firemen turn the water from the hoses on the flames.
Police uses tear gas and clubs when strikers try to prevent reopening of a cannery in Stockton in California. A pitched battle takes place between the strikers and the police. The cannery workers carry banners. A banner reads 'Cannery Workers on Strike'. The workers run.
Dynamite truck blast shatters wide territory in Sacramento, California. The dynamite explosion causes a twenty foot crater. People stand around to view the rubble in the crater. Shattered glasses on doors and windows. Damaged window curtains. A painting knocked out of place due to the blast. A toppled lamp shade. Food cans on a kitchen floor. People crowd at the blast site. A damaged truck tire lies nearby. People hold the damaged truck pieces hurled half a mile away.
Hollywood Derby at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. Horses race on the racetrack in Inglewood. Spectators look on from behind the fences and stand. Shining One wins the Hollywood Derby and Wedding Call comes second.
Obsolete trolley cars piled in a huge bonfire in Oakland, California. Seventy-two trolley cars parked in an open area in Oakland. Men marking on trolley cars. Men set trolleys on fire. Burning trolleys.
Howard Hughes speaks to a group of men at the Burbank airport in California, where a TWA Lockheed Constellation aircraft is preparing to take off on a public demonstration flight. A large group including members of the press board and the aircraft takes off. Interior scenes of the aircraft cabin during flight with passengers onboard.
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