Jacques Piccard sets a new height record in Dubendorf, Switzerland. Piccard and Max Cosyns set off for a balloon trip to study the effects of cosmic rays. Jacques Piccard looks out from an all metal globular gondola. The balloon with the gondola sets off for its flight in the upper stratosphere. Piccard speaks with an officer before the flight. Photographers take pictures.
Thousands of workers get back to work in the United States. A group of workers works on equipment inside a machine manufacturing plant in New Jersey. The workers welding inside the factory. Workers collect onions from fields in Kenton, Ohio. Workers increase the production of washing machine in Chicago.
National Air Race in Cleveland, Ohio. Open Stadium is packed with spectators. Al Wilson dons his flying helmet and flies a Curtiss Pusher replica, performing aerobatics, including an inside loop. Glider pilot Jack O'Meara performs for the crowd, landing in the grass and smiling for the camera. (Note: Flier Al Wilson was killed later during these same Cleveland aviation events, when his 1910 Curtiss plane collided with an autogyro during landing.)
National Air Race in Cleveland, Ohio. American Aerial Aces perform various stunts in air with their airplanes. One of the aircraft lands on ground. Buildings in the background. Ben Howard and Harold Neumann swooning in closed course events. Al Wilson in his biplane. John Runger wing-walks on a looping and spinning plane. Spectators watch the show seated on bleachers. Squadrons of service ships from Selfridge Field and Quantico in Virginia display various stunts.
People march in the Great Beer Parade, also known as the 'We Want Beer' parade in New York City MS of Mayor Jimmy Walker leading the beer parade. Business leaders, international figures, and society matrons parade down the Fifth Avenue advocating repeal of prohibition. Signs held by demonstrators include, 'Beer For Taxation' and 'Beer for Prosperity' written on the side of a large beer barrel. Mayor Jimmy Walker viewing the beer parade demonstration. A sad tramp clown, possibly the famous Emmett Kelly, rides a bike while wearing a sign that reads, "Repeal 18 Amendment".
Original footage and supplemental reenactment of event that took place about a week earlier when the U.S. Navy Zeppelin, USS Akron (ZRS-4) attempted to dock for refueling at Camp Kearny, San Diego, California. In clips from that actual event, spectators watch as a hundred Navy ground crew sailors attempt to hold down the dirigible. But one of the Akron cable rings breaks and the sailors are unable to hold her. All let go of the lines except for three sailors, two of whom fell to their deaths. Scenes are shown of the remaining sailor, Bud Cowart of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, as he hangs on for more than an hour until the USS Akron crew pulls him through a port hole to safety aboard the air ship. Views shot about a week later show officers inside the Akron and Sailor Cowart aboard the airship.