Smith County Court in Texas for hearing on the case of Billie Sol Estes. The convict Sol Esters charged for fraud arrives with his lawyers in the court. The court during the trial session. The judge listens to the lawyers of Sol Esters and rules that cameramen mat be present as he postpones the hearing until witnesses avail. Press photographers take photos.
A tornado hits southeast Michigan killing 12 persons and injuring 50 others. Destroyed houses and cars among the ruins of a town some 20 miles north of Detroit. Two men and a child walk among the ruins. Cars destroyed by falling trees. Destroyed houses and the few that escaped damage. Debris and scattered remains of houses.
Establishment of an agricultural colony under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, in the United States during the Great Depression. In Arkansas Colony No 1 homes for farmers under construction. A woman outside her home with her young children. Dynamite explosion to make roads and bridges. Horses drag leveling equipment and road graders. Workers selected for relief roles, work for construction. A river bridge under construction. A dirt road is constructed. Large pieces of wooden logs cut by workers at a sawmill. Wooden plates stacked and ready for use in construction of houses and infrastructure. Planing mill and other machinery under operation. After work hours, workers gather around a boxing ring to watch a match. Workers cut a tree with hack saws. Land cleared to build houses. Workers lay wooden plates and raise the house structure on scaffolds. A house constructed up to completion. Men and children walk in a farmland.
Relocation of Japanese ancestry people, in United States due to security reasons, during World War II. Nisei, the Japanese of second generation in United States, in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team of the U.S. Army. Troops march, undergo physical training. Troops trained for a combat operation. Soldiers practice firing with artillery and mortar launcher. Soldiers run through an obstacle course at Camp Shelby in Mississippi Troops of armed Nisei soldiers pass by the U.S. national flag.
Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain War Relocation Center (internment camp), Wyoming, during World War II. A Japanese American doctor shakes hands with and talks to the patients at a clinic. A trial at the center. Japanese Americans stand in line for voting in the elections of the councilmen. A man walks out of a curtained area and places his paper ballot, in a ballot box. A young woman voter then steps behind the curtain to fill out her paper ballot. A Caucasian teacher plays piano for Japanese American students. Small children in a library study books.
Nisei, the Japanese Americans of second generation, at relocation centers (internment) during World War II. A Japanese-American grows guayule plant generally grown in Mexico and Texas, experimentally at Manzanar Relocation Center in California. Japanese-American scientist at a laboratory in the relocation center invents methods to extract more rubber from guayule plant. Dried and ground plant at the laboratory. He makes production equipment from old automobile parts. A man paints old parts and modifies them for use. Rubber extracted from guayule plant rises to the surface as the container gets filled with the chemical. The scientist stretches the rubbers so made to check its quality.
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