People express their opinion that Mount Saint Helens in Washington will not erupt. A rescue worker refuses to leave the area despite threat to his life. Harry Truman, owner of the Mt. St. Helens lodge, refuses to evacuate. He listens to a player piano at his lodge, accompanied by his cats.
Mafia crime figures, including Frank Costello, arrive at the New York County Court at Foley Square. Photographers take pictures of them. A number of people stand across the road as a policeman is also seen.
Mafia crime figures leave New York City courthouse in hancuffs and are escorted to waiting U.S. Marshal van. Photographers take photographs.
An early helicopter being tested at facility of the P-V Engineering Forum (later the Piasecki Co.) in Roxborough, Pennsylvania. Pilot attempting tethered flight in a one-place stripped prototype of the P-V2 helicopter Men stand by side of the helicopter as the pilot sits in the framework cockpit. They maintain hold on the landing gear of the helicopter as the pilot experiments with the controls and familiarizes himself with the helicopter's response. A long tethering rope snakes out along the ground near the helicopter. The pilot succeeds in hovering the craft a foot or two above the ground.
Platt-LePage Aircraft Company of Eddystone, Pennsylvania. A boy poses by a cockpit mockup of the XR-1 helicopter. Pilot Lou Leavitt sits in the mockup with his arm around the boy. The boy poses with four employees of the Platt-LePage Aircraft Company. Scene shifts to flight testing of the U.S. Army Air Corps XR-1 helicopter, which moves about in a variety of maneuvers, demonstrating considerable stability and control, although confined to a relatively low altitude of approximately fifty feet.
Begum Aga Khan,wife of Aga Khan III, arrives in New York to be a guest of honor at the Imperial Ball . She visits patients at Veteran's hospital.
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