Civilians and farmers of England, Arkansas work together to prepare food for the unemployed and drought affected people of Henryeta, Oklahoma during the Great Depression. A man pulls corn from a farm with raised bumper crops. Men carry food and ration supplies and load them to trucks to feed the people of Henryeta. Convoy of motor trucks drives on the roads. Banner on a truck reads 'Food for the unemployed'.
Firemen and civilians gather around and try to extinguish fire on a building in Chicago, Illinois. A priest Reverent Matthew Canning, who also conducted a personnel fight drive against gangsters in his parish, near the building talks with fireman. Firemen accompanied by priest, search for dead bodies and survivors in the fuming rubble of the building.
A rare bird Shoebill comes to the National Zoo in Washington DC. The only one of its kind in America costs $ 5000. The bird in its cage at the zoo walks and looks outside the cage. It is fed by a man and drinks water.
Worn out paper money worth U.S. $1,500,000 is destroyed by treasury officers in Washington DC. Treasury officers untie bundles of currency notes that are in pile on the floor. They shovel bundles of cash into an incinerator.
Fisherman and boats at the banks of river on the mouth of Columbia to catch the 'silver horde' salmon fish in Illwaco, Washington. Fishermen employ horse drawn carts submerged up to the neck level in the seawater to pull the fishing nets. Fishermen pull the nets and haul. A heavy harvest of salmon fish trapped in the net appears. Each man carries two fishes and loads them into the carts. Two men use spears to kill the fishes in the cart. Another man kills them in the storage yard.
Flood in St. Francis River inundates 150 square miles area affecting thousands of civilians homeless and causing destruction of property in Monette, Arkansas. Flood water on the road. People wait for rescue boats on the roof of houses. A house destroyed by the flood and poultry bird on its roof seeks protection from water. A car submerged in water. People in a house near by seek aid from the rescuers. Volunteers in a rescue boat rescues people standing on the roof of a submerged house.
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