A wrecked forty two car coal train after it met with an accident in south Byron,New York. Smoke rises from the wrecked train as overhead cranes pulls the wreckage away. Rescue operations being carried on to look for survivors,if any.
A film titled ' World's biggest bathing beauty visits noted spa' shows an elephant sitting at a beach and being washed away by waves in Atlantic City,New Jersey. Few people splash sea water onto the elephant and make him bathe. Elephant rides a tricycle on the boardwalk as people watch closely.
Annual meeting of the Directors at Will Rogers Memorial Hospital in Saranac Lake in New York. A meeting of the people of the Motion Picture Industry. Family members of the entertainment industry get treatment in the hospital. The Directors visit the patients and the laboratory during inspection. A Doctor shows X-Rays of lungs. Researches for Tuberculosis cure being done in the hospital laboratory. A statue of Will Rogers.
During a break at a ceremony honoring wing commander Colonel Peyton Gibson, a morale building session for the436th Reserve Troop Carrier Wing is held at Floyd Bennett Field in New York City. The 436th Reserve Troop Carrier Wing selects it's beauty queen who will compete nationwide for the Miss Air Force title. Planes in the background. 'U.S. Air Force Reserve' written on the building at the air field. The dog mascot of the Wing is seen. Female beauty queen contest participants model for the competition, dressed in bathing suits.
A huge Soviet Russian aircraft in flight above Valley Stream in New York. It is a unarmed Tupolev TB-1 (ANT-4) bomber, with lettering on side: "URSS-300", and was known as "Land of the Soviets" or "Soviet Country". The plane lands at Curtiss Field (also called Roosevelt Field that year) after completing a 13,000 mile journey from Moscow. A huge crowd tries to break the security lines to meet the airmen. Several cars parked on the airfield. Police try to control the crowds. The crowd rushes towards the plane. A police man riding a motorcycle. near the crowd, with the airplane parked behind.
French Line Pier 10 at Staten Island in New York. French ship 'Ile De Re' at dock. Name and flags on side of ship on France. French flag on the stern. Freighter 'Leopold' chartered by the Red Cross to carry food to war-torn France during World War II. French flag on stern. Captain Lewis Thepaut going aboard Leopold. Leopold leaving dock. Coast Guard Escort near the ship. French ship 'Ile De Re' leaving dock. Leopold underway.
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