Scenes from a night time parade and anti-communist demonstration held by supporters of Mayor Frank Hague in Jersey City, New Jersey. The crowd of people march on a street and jam Journal Square. They carry American flags and banners in the nighttime parade. The supporters set off fireworks during the demonstration. A large lit banner reads, "Reds Stay Out of USA" as spinning fireworks and aerial fireworks are launched behind it.
U.S. heavyweight boxing champion Joseph Louis Barrow (Joe Louis) nicknamed the Brown Bomber in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. He holds a gun and shoots at a target. Spectators stand in the background. Brown aiming at the target. Joe Louis smiles. Boxer Joe Louis in a bout and spectators watch the boxing match. Joe Louis wears a helmet and fights.
A private twin engine airplane hits a television tower in North Bergen New Jersey and then crashes into a nearby apartment building. View of the television tower. A man looks through a set of fixed binoculars. A section of the wing seen jammed into the tower. Scene of the damaged apartment building six blocks away, where rescue workers remove the injured from the building. Debris of the building and wrecked parts of the airplane on the street near Broadway and 77th Street. The wrecked wheel portion of the airplane lying on the street. A view of the area of the accident . People crowd on the street. Men carry a wounded victim on a stretcher. Workers cut the top portion of the tower that had been dangling unsafely after the accident.
A wedding held at the foot of famous cataract in the Niagara Falls in New York. A couple aboard a steamer during the Maid of the Mist. A minister solemnizes the marriage. The Niagara Falls in the background. A close up of the minister. The groom places a ring on the bride's finger. They kiss each other. Their relatives stand near them. The couple and the relatives climb up a ladder on the steamer. A close up of the married couple.
The history of famous airplanes. A Curtiss airplane in Long Island, New York. The aircraft is parked on an airfield. Hangars in the background. Men stand near the airplane.
A rocket airplane fails in the 1st mail test in Greenwood Lake, New York. A rocket designed to carry mail at a tremendous speed, is prepared for a launching. 'Gloria' written on the rocket. Men work with fueling tanks. The rocket on a ramp for launch. German-American rocket scientist, Willy Ley, wearing protecting gear, ignites the rocket. The rocket starts and flops on snow covered ground.
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