The Second Sino-Japanese War begins in China. Aerial shots of the Great Wall of China, near Beijing. Scenes of war between Japanese and Chinese troops in Beijing (Peiping), China. Gunners fire artillery on the field. Explosion and smoke from artillery shell explosion. Chinese civilians evacuate and leave Beijing. Japanese troops marching and hold Japanese flag. Japanese soldiers ride donkeys and horses. Chinese troops and cavalry on the streets and in fields. Chinese General reviews new troops. The General gives green signal to squadron of fighter planes at an airfield. A Chinese general (likely Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek) watch Chinese fighter planes take off. The fighter planes take off from the airfield.
Shows Senator Joseph T Robinson of Arkansas making a speech. American flag lowered to half mast in Washington DC on the death of Senator Robinson. The Capitol Building can be seen in the background.
Perry O. Stoughton sets on a 1000-mile voyage to San Diego on his sailing raft from Crescent City in California. Canned food and a barrel of drinking water is aboard the raft. Large crowd gathers at the peer to bid him farewell.
Horatio Casterbuilt of Coyote Canyon, Oregon displays a hat in which he fitted an electric fan to ward off the heat. Casterbuilt poses for the camera wearing his battery powered hat.
Shows an American aircraft carrier amidst the waters of South Pacific, sent to search the missing aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam and navigator Fred Noonan. Several aircraft aboard the deck of the carrier.
Shows U.S. aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam surrounded by a large crowd at an airfield in Hanworth,England. Amelia walks off the airfield accompanied by the crowd. She poses with some officers and then enters a car.
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