Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, along with district officials, participate at the opening of the Police Club for African American boys. African American young men wearing uniforms parade. Young African American children look on.
Two high school girls, amateur champs, compete in log rolling in Longview. One of the girls looses balance and falls into water.
Early flight airshow dare devil Clem Sohn in his wingsuit at Vincennes in France. He was known as 'Batman'. Planes in the background. He demonstrates flying with his ornithopter like wing suit. Clem Sohn then jumps in front of 55,000 spectators from 650 feet high in the sky. He plunges to death as his parachute fails to open.
National Guardsmen and police patrol the snow swept streets of Auburn in Maine. Cars parked on the streets. C.I.O. Organizers (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are arrested in a strike testing the Wagner Act. Crowd on the streets.
Police smash their way through picket line of Newspaper guild workers on strike at Jamaica in New York. A wounded man with bandages on his head. The protesting labor workers carry banners in their hands. Women strikers come back protected by football helmets and baseball catcher's masks.
Police uses tear gas and clubs when strikers try to prevent reopening of a cannery in Stockton in California. A pitched battle takes place between the strikers and the police. The cannery workers carry banners. A banner reads 'Cannery Workers on Strike'. The workers run.
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