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.
The Steamship, SS Marine Flasher, arriving in the port of New York after voyage from Bremen, Germany . She is assisted by several tugboats. Her passengers, include many refugees,including former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. A number have benefited from President Truman's December 22, 1945 Directive giving preference to Displaced Persons in obtaining visas. Passengers crowd the deck and wave enthusiastically. Brief glimpse of a ferry boat passing behind the Marine Flasher. The ship has nautical flags and flags of various nations displayed aloft. (World War II period).
The steamship, "SS Marine Flasher," arrives in the port of New York, after steaming from Bremen, Germany. In addition to U.S. citizens, her passengers include many refugees, and former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, who benefited from President Truman's directive of December 22, 1945, giving preference to Displaced Persons in obtaining visas. Views among the crowds gathered at the dock to welcome loved ones. People waving and smiling. One woman angrily shouting at a guard. Men, women, and children aboard the ship, many wearing identification ribbons. Passengers enter the dock area. Their relatives and friends greet them warmly. A man kisses a woman and weeps. Two men embrace. (World War II period).
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.
Several car stunts are performed at a fair. A man drives a car with a partially rounded, open roof. He brakes the car quickly and it rolls back over front on the rounded roof rails. Next scene shows a stunt man being dragged behind a moving car at high speed, then letting go and getting up to walk away. Final stunt shows involves operator of speed cars, and one is injured in an accident during a show in Albion, New York. The referee signals and drivers race their speed cars toward each other at high speed in a game of "chicken", except that both drivers leap from their cars at the last moment and the card have a head on collision. The car drivers are Mike Felber, of Syracuse, with Ernie Fosnaugh of Chicago. Fosnaugh is injured, seemingly having tripped during his leap from the car. It leaves him badly injured after the leap out of his car. Rescue workers arrive and escort the stunt racer off the race track, in an ambulance.
German flying boat Dornier Do-X arrives in New York at the end of its journey. Plane glides in the sky over the Hudson River and the George Washington Bridge. Several small planes accompany it during the flight. It circles the Statue of Liberty and lands in the bay. Spectators on several boats observe it. Several large and small boats surround the flying boat in the sea. Skyscrapers of New York near the sea shore.
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