Overflowing Tallahatchie River floods the streets of Glendora, Mississippi. Submerged farms are deserted and prisoners are brought to the stricken region to stem the tide of the rising river. African American prisoners in striped prison uniforms shovel earth while a white guard watches the prisoner work gang. Sand sacks are used as barriers. Prisoners wade through water carrying sand bags to block rising water. Sack stacks to block the water from entering streets. Houses half merged in water. Man rows boat.
Fu Tan University students gather and select a group representing them for journey to Nanking and lay their objective before President Chiang. Crowd gathered outside a railroad station. Police guards keep a watch. The selected people move ahead to board a train for the capitol without paying fares followed by police guards. Train leaves the station.
USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight over Lakehurst, Naval Air Station, New Jersey. An N2Y bi-plane about to hook onto the aircraft trapeze of the ship during flight operations. Bi-plane approaches, hooks on to trapeze of USS Akron and is pulled up into the airship.
View of Christ Episcopal Church (now Christ and Saint Luke's Episcopal Church, 560 W Olney Rd, Norfolk, VA 23507, United States) at 560 West Olney Road, Norfolk, Virginia. (The church is notable because, the Very Reverend Harold Dobson-Peacock, Dean of this church was an innocent participant in a hoax perpetrated by Norfolk boat builder, John Hughes Curtis, during the search for Charles Lindbergh's kidnapped son. Curtis fabricated a story about being contacted by kidnappers who held the child on a yacht. His hoax put officials and Lindbergh, himself, in a fruitless search for the phantom boat.)
Scenes from a snow skiing ski jump Pre-Olympics Tournament in Cary, Illinois. Norwegian stars perform ski jumps. A large area of a steep hill with a jump is covered with snow. Spectators stand and watch the tournament. Kaare Walberg breaks the hill record in the ski jump. Sigmund Ruud and Birger Ruud perform dual jumps in ski jumping. Several men fall while landing their ski jumps.
Wigmaker and hair dresser Louis Parme displays latest creations from Paris in New York City, United States. Models display various arrangements of hair. The head dresser fits the models. The models dress fashionably. The models sit in front of a mirror as the hair dresser arranges the hair.