Telenews Digest : Oct ‘48 #4 : Whale Roundup - Smog Kills 20 - Cornell Beats Columbia

Duration: 600 ft.

Year Published: 1948

Creator: Telenews Digest

Complete Record: Strange Smog Kills 20 in Pennsylvania - smog blanketed factories, smokestacks, industrial scenes, people with wet rags over their mouths, emergency trucks, “oxygen tent” in hospital, crowd mills outside hospital. First DP’s Arrive In US - fire boat hoses blasting in front of Statue of Liberty, people waving from ship, ship arriving New York harbor, refugees deboard ship, Russian family tours New York; getting in taxi, buying newspaper, visits butcher shop, mother inspects kitchen utensils, family at Rockefeller plaza. US News Briefs - picketers protest trial of twelve communist party leaders outside New York Federal courthouse, signs read “free the 12” “you will be the 13th”, the accused exit courthouse. Washington - preparations for presidential inauguration, construction men examine blueprints in front of the capitol building, construction on capitol. Chicago - Illinois politicians honor deceased gov. Henry Horner, unveiling of monument. Connecticut - inventor shows off new device for automatically lowering convertible top. France: All Quiet In The Mines - St. Etienne City Limit sign, French miner strike, police in truck, discarded mining equip. Panama: Unrest Near The Canal - white clad political leaders, military parade, flowers thrown from above, riots in Bogota, street car on fire, riot aftermath. England: New Recruits For RAF - trainer tends to falcon used to ward off birds from airfields, falcon flying, trainer spinning meat on line for bird to return. Overseas Bulletin: Germany - sign reads “Dachau Detachment - War Crimes Group”, trial of “witch of Buchenwald” Ilse Koch, grisly evidence exhibits - shrunken human head, human skin artwork, court reporter typing on steno graph, Ilse points on a map of Buchenwald. England - pomp and circumstance at the opening of English Parliament, Royal Guard in uniform, Phillip Duke of Edinborough. Norway - “roundup” of killer whales, whale herded on shore, shooting at whales. Science And Industry - Texas : Automatic Lumberjack - “land sweep” demonstrated, trees and brush being cleared by giant machine, blade on a chain cuts through trees. Football Highlights - Cornell vs Columbia, SMU vs Texas.