Kennel club dog show at Alameda, California. A white shepherd, Huskies, Cairn, Saint Bernard, Pekes and Chows with their masters. Wire hair Terrier dogs brushed up for the Blue Ribbon honors.
Pilgrims flock to the shrine of 'Virgin of Guadalupe' in Mexico City, Mexico. More than 2000 native worshippers crowd into the privileged Guadalupana Church to atone for their sins and pay homage to their beloved patron saint. A huge crowd of the pilgrims on the streets around the Church. The dome of the Church. People enter the Church gates. A man holds a sign that reads 'Ixtapalapa'. Many pilgrims climb the 'Tepeyac' mountain, using the huge and steep set of stairs to the site. People buy toys from toy sellers en route. Women buy beads and necklaces. A crowd moving to and from the site.
General Hugh L. Scott seated on a chair demonstrates Indian sign language. General Scott demonstrates a sign for Saint Mary's Lake.
Hamburg-American ocean liner, SS New York visits the port of Fort-de-France, in the French Caribbean island of Martinique. Three Women passengers,in swimwear, lean against the ship's railing as other passengers sun themselves lying on deck chairs on the ship's deck. The Island of Martinique can be seen in the background. Another scene shows buildings in the town of Fort-de-France. Crew members lower a tender from the ship to carry passengers to the town. View from the tender underway with crew and passengers aboard, and the SS New York seen at anchor in the background. They pass a two-masted sail boat. View of local people carrying baskets of goods on the town pier. Fish and lobster in a basket. A woman carrying a keg and package on her head. Children walking along the pier with their mother. Local women buying and selling goods. Local people conversing in what the slate calls "a peculiar French patois." Two women and two girls (one holding a doll) conversing. The Fort-de-France Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Fort-de-France) built of wood except for its steel steeple. The park of La Savane, with statue of Josephine, Empress of France, wife of Napoleon,who was born in Martinique. Passengers returning to the SS New York,climb a gangway from their tender, as local boys in small boats wait nearby for the chance to dive for coins from the passengers aboard the ship.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi visits a village Darwen in England to see the effects of the boycott of cotton goods by India. The British cotton mill workers greet Mahatma Gandhi.
Successful test of the first German Post office mail rocket at Dummersee, Germany, on April 15,1931. It carries 180 pieces of mail (postcards). Reinhold Tiling is seen with his mechanic, Friedrich Kuhr, who holds the rocket, as Tiling inserts a cylinder containing compressed powder fuel. They then invert the rocket and Tiling affixes its nose cone. A post office official hands pieces of mail to Tiling, who places them into the rocket. They position the rocket on its launch stand and fire it. Uniformed Postal officials (and some military officers) watch the rocket as it rises smoothly after launch. Larger, better, and lighter metal (aluminum) are developed in 1931-32. Friedrich Kuhr standing next to a huge rocket with a wing span of 4 meters.
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