Soldiers from the U.S. Army arrive in a American Bantam BRC-40, 1941 model jeep. They mount the jeep onot a wooden raft in a stream or river. Motor and a steering gear is attached to a paddle wheel. The raft is propelled across the stream. Soldiers fire a 37mm gun and an anti-aircraft gun in response to enemy attack during a mock battle training exercise. Soldiers reach the shore in the Bantam jeep powered raft. (World War II period).
Visiting Latin American military officers seated around a dinner table. They all wear dress uniforms. One of them proposes a toast and they all join in. They all applaud as one of them receives a liquor set from a senior officer.
Buckeye Sandstone Quarry in South Amherst Ohio. A worker seated on a cart run on tracks. Workers drill into the sandstone with a drilling machine. Workers hammer large nails into the sandstone to break a small block. The broken block is chained and hooked to be lifted with derricks. The blocks are loaded onto a tram and transferred to the mills. Long tramway in the mills with piles of sandstone lying around. Electric cranes are used to move the stones. Interiors of the saw mills shows driving mechanism.
Toledo Naval Armory, training center for naval services in Toledo Ohio. The Armory building constructed with salvage material and federal funds through the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression. 'OHIO' can be seen carved on the top center of the building. Marines and Navy reserve sailors lined up for inspection by senior officers. A naval officer provides gunnery instructions to Marines and Navy reservists.
Republican leaders Colonel Philip Francis Harvey, Charles E Hughes and President Herbert Hoover visit Senator Warren G Harding at his home in Marion,Ohio. Charles E Hughes and Senator Harding walk across a path. Colonel Harvey takes a stroll with Herbert Hoover. All the four Republicans confer on policies. Senator Harding holds a pipe as he has a discussion with President Hoover. The visitors climb into a car as they get ready to depart after the discussion.
U.S. President Warren G Harding visits the homestead of former President Rutherford B Hayes in Fremont, Ohio. Colonel Webb Hayes (James Webb Cook Hayes), son of former President Hayes, greets them at Spiegel Grove house. Dignitaries proceed for the unveiling ceremony of Sandusky County war memorial on the portico of the Rutherford B Hayes Museum Library. They approach the ceremony area followed by a military band. Colonel Hayes in Army uniform and his wife, Mrs. Hayes (Mary Otis Miller Brinkerhoff Hayes), in YWCA uniform, standing near President Harding. Mrs Hayes does the honor of unveiling the Sandusky County Honor Roll that lists war dead from the region, including those lost in the recently ended World War 1.
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