Blind Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota fires a revolver at a target in Berwyn Heights, Maryland. He is guided by the sound of a wand tapped on the bulls-eye by his youngest son Richard. (Note: This newsreel was released December 23, 1935. Senator Schall was killed by a hit and run driver on December 19, 1935 while he was walking across the Baltimore-Washington Parkway within days of this footage being shot, earlier in December 1935 ).
Scene opens showing an American soldier at a sandbagged position in a field in the U.S.A. during World War 1. He is sighting a 1903 Springfield rifle equipped with a sniper scope. He fires the rifle and cycles the bolt (firing single shots, manually). He repeats this several times.
"Takes" for a film. Man receives phone call in Massachusetts. Caller is from Washington, DC and tells him "the tariff is OK. Receiver of call remarks "get word to the trawlers at once!"Man talks over a phone. Pictures of fish adorn the office. A man writes in a journal at a desk. He turns back and smiles. Behind him are magazines in a rack, including "Fishing Gazette" and "Canadian Fisherman."
Fishermen's Memorial Monument in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States. Ships anchored at the coast. Buildings along the coast line. Inscription on a stone reads 'They That Go Down To The Sea In Ships', 1623 –1923. Atop the monument is a sculpture of a Gloucester fisherman in foul weather gear with his hands on the wheel.
Boston harbor, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. A commercial fishing trawler is seen departing Boston harbor headed out to sea. It is followed by a smaller fishing boat, also leaving the harbor.
Auctioning catches of fish at the Boston Fish Pier in Boston, Massachusetts. A man records names of boats and their catches on a blackboard. Men watch the board. Buyers call out their bids. An auctioneer handles the bidding. He declares the winning bids.
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