India's Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru being welcomed by U.S. President Harry S. Truman in Washington DC. President Truman, Prime Minister Nehru and other dignitaries stand at attention at George Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon. They review Marines, Air Corps and Navy Units. They walk together with Army and Navy Units in the background. Presidential Party with Prime Minister Nehru leave the National Airport in open touring car.
U.S. Army radar equipment used to contact the moon. Steel structure of a radar. Men work at controls. Moon in the background of the radar. Animation shows distance of moon and earth being 238000 miles. Radar beam reaches to the earth in 2.4 seconds. Radar rays go to moon and comes back to earth after reflecting. Readings of radar shows signals. Picture of the surface of the moon. Narrator says, "no longer beyond men's dreaming is the possibility of reusable airplane-like space ships to commute between the two planets (the earth and the moon)" as animation shows an aircraft space ship flying from the earth to the moon (foreshadowing the NASA Space Shuttle program).
Sports in United States. Men's final 220 yard ice skate race and Women's 230 yard final race in Minnesota, United States. Men's final 880 yard race. Girls race in snow shoes at Lewiston, Maine. Women with ice shoes, a girl falls at the beginning of the race. Men's race and pole vault at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Opening slate reads: "Justice Black back in the U.S. Mum on K.K.K." Camera pans across the bow of the anchored mail steamer "City of Norfolk," on which Justice and Mrs.Black had just returned from a trip to Europe. Men board the ship from a small boat at her side. View from overhead as men form a "bucket brigade" to move luggage along the deck of the smaller boat. American Supreme Court Associate Justice Hugo Black is seen walking along the deck of the mail steamer, surrounded by reporters taking notes and other persons meeting and greeting him. Half a dozen news cinematographers take pictures. Closeup of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette star reporter Ray Sprigle, who broke the story of Hugo Black's past membership in the KKK (Ku Klux Klan). More views of the group mingling on the ship's deck. Closeup of Justice Black, now wearing his hat, surrounded by reporters. He heads down the gangplank, leaving the ship, as others watch from the ship's deck. Mrs. Black follows, walking alone, and waving. On the Norfolk pier, Justice Black prepares to enter a car. View on the pier of the car surrounded by reporters and others. Gangway overhead from the ship to the pier reads, in part: "Baltimore Mail" (probably Baltimore Mail Steamship Company).
John Byron Nelson wins over Henry Picard in a Open Golf Tourney in Belmont, Massachusetts. Byron hits the ball with a club. People stand with umbrellas. It rains. Byron putts the ball in the hole. Byron and Picard shake hands. Byron being presented an award. He poses after winning the tournament.
Funeral of Chinatown's Mayor Frank Moy in Chicago, Illinois. Solemn service for the dead leader in Chinese Christian Union Church. The coffin of the mayor covered with flowers being brought out of the church. A car with the coffin moves as people walk along. The funeral passes down South Wentworth Avenue. Photograph of mayor carried during the funeral procession. People walk with wreaths. People lined up along the road.
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