Activities of the United States secret service agents in Washington D.C., United States. Instructor and secret service agent at the dispersing office. United States issues checks every working day to soldiers,retired persons,farmer and American civilians. Checks printed by machine. Woman presents a check for encashing her check. Social security card is not meant as a personal identification for cashing checks. A fraud customer approaches a grocer and presents his check for his purchase. The grocer doubts him and asks him questions. He is unable to answer him. Grocer calls up policemen. Policemen inquire fraud and ask questions. His answers are recorded on a lie detection machine. Chief tells him about the forgery business. They open drawer and look at cases the secret service agency has. Chief tells that a primary job of the secret service is the protection of the President. They arrive at the White House to get the details. Uniformed White House police stand at entrance. Their job is protection of the executive mansion and ground. Portraits of the various Presidents of the United States. Local police help the secret service agents. Police make a security plan about the President tour. They keep a record about the routes of travel and timings. Buildings are inspected and preparation of food is supervised before the Presidents visit.
Soviet Ambassador addresses nation in Washington D.C., United States, the day after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa in World War II. View of the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics building. Soviet Union Ambassador Constantine Oumansky seated at office. He addresses nation and presents his views on Hitler's German invasion of the Soviet Union. He states that Hitler has miscalculated, and that Hitler's invasion will be smashed. Under Secretary of State, Benjamin Sumner Welles, addresses a press conference stating the administration's immediate aim is to stop Hitlerism (Nazism) and Fascism. Reporters note down the points. Photographers take pictures.
The last flying days of 58 year old Master Sergeant George Holmes at Brookley Air Force Base in Alabama, United States. A U.S. Air Force C-47D Skytrain aircraft in flight. The airplane is piloted by Holmes. The airplane lands and taxis on a runway. Crew chief waves it into parking area. Master Sergeant Holmes and the co pilot in the cockpit of the airplane.
On shore at Tunis harbor, a British Navy officer gives a sword salute to a senior Naval officer in World War II. U.S. Navy and British Royal Navy sailors lined up on either side of dock for a salute. General Dwight D. Eisenhower accompanied by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham and other British and American Navy officers walk past the sailors in review. Cunningham has a walking cane hooked over his left forearm but does not use it. The Union Jack and the British Royal Navy flag are visible. Ship at dock in the background. Eisenhower and Cunningham and the other officers pause and greet in front of a waiting Royal Navy car, RN ME 4096, parked on shore. Eisenhower, Cunningham, and another British officer enter the waiting car and it leaves, passing by a Allied landing ship with number 5 seen on its bow, anchored at the port. Closeup view of U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly and another U.S. Navy officer watching after the car drives away. Honor guard sailors march with rifles, departing the dock after the officers leave. (Eisehhower visited Tunis for meetings with British and U.S. Navy officers May 11-13, 1943. This footage is likely during those 3 days.)
Major A. D. Smith giving final instructions for his trip from Los Angeles to San Diego at De Mille Field in Hollywood, California on Air Memorial Day. An officer looking into sky. Major Smith giving instructions.
Blind Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota fires a revolver at a target in Berwyn Heights, Maryland. He is guided by the sound of a wand tapped on the bulls-eye by his youngest son Richard. (Note: This newsreel was released December 23, 1935. Senator Schall was killed by a hit and run driver on December 19, 1935 while he was walking across the Baltimore-Washington Parkway within days of this footage being shot, earlier in December 1935 ).
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