YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - MAGINOT LINE CIRCUS FIRE 1925 PENN RELAY 1931 TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP

[Music] television highlights are the news of the year [Music] it's summer 1939 and French troops in training do double-time through woods surrounding their fabulous and impregnable Maginot Line shades of First World War seem flimsy as troops approach concrete fortifications of Maginot Line itself here on surface structure looks formidable enough to withstand violent attack but there's more to this massive battler than meets the eye this is 325 feet below the war weary soil of France this is fenced that invaders cannot cross or burrow under equipped with complete subway system all its own line can transport troops for scores of miles safely quickly surely completely air-conditioned generating its own light and heat the line can be comfortable home for its troops indefinitely across the rhine Adolphe Hitler is spoiling for war but here at central fire control our men who will spoil Nazi hopes of fighting on the soil of France these will wreck tanks of the German Panzer divisions these will keep war out of peaceful France these deadly cannon will lob destruction onto any enemy within gun range and gun crews will work in the safety of their underground castle of sturdy concrete yes this is the summer of 1939 all the world was proud of the defection and preparedness of French defense but the world will never forget what happened the line was not strong enough Nazi invaders skirted it France fell the Maginot Line fell without firing an official shot [Music] it's 1923 and Breitbart Europe's newest and most highly touted strongman shows that iron bars don't always make a cage with a little help for few grunts from Breitbart they make a pretty pretzel a chain is as strong as its weakest link the saying goes but breitbart teeth get into the act and even the strongest links in the chain can be broken the house that Breitbart bills doesn't need the aid of a carpenter or even the Carpenters hammer with his bare hands this strong man drives nails into three thicknesses of wood well this is one way of being sure you'll miss your thumb strongman Breitbart becomes the sole support of a motor Drome without putting a penny into the venture - all he puts into it is his massive strength round and round those motorcycles golf and just how long Breitbart can stand it only Breitbart knows but where would those two cyclists be if Breitbart decided this was something he wanted to get off his chest anybody can lie down on a bed of nails anybody who happens to be that much in need of rest that is but this man who bends iron bars chews chains and drives nails with his bare hands falls asleep by counting the men and horses who walk over him ah but those horses aren't as heavy as they look and come to think of it this is only a baby elephant but believe me this is no little bull but after a few minutes of this right Bart tells the ball where to get off here's William O Douglas its 1939 and at 40 years of age Douglas is youngest man ever to be appointed to bench of United States Supreme Court he's justice Douglas now as he poses with mrs. Douglas daughter Mildred and son William jr. yes at 40 this Minnesotan has a high honor and job that will last a lifetime yes Colonel Billy Mitchell in the middle 1920s with mrs. Mitchell and their infant Billy jr. Billy's just about to appear before court-martial for his statement that air power is imperative for future Wars Billy was proved guilty and kicked out of army but future Wars prove that Billy was right you it's 11th of July 1928 and here's John J Raskob as he's made chairman of National Committee of Democrats when these films were made Raskob still had 22 years of philanthropy business and public service ahead of him John Raskin interesting and important American [Music] it's 1922 and maybe you'll remember the circus didn't get to your town on schedule that year well here's the reason why big blaze in winter home of circus is Bridgeport Connecticut Spig aspiring years lives of hundreds of animals are endangered and almost all of circus equipment is either destroyed or badly damaged by fire smoke and millions of gallons of water poured on the flames in vain effort to quell the conflagration day after disaster circus wagons are charred an interior of Big Show's winter home is filled of rubble [Music] in campaign to free themselves from women these Norristown Pennsylvania school boys learned how to handle the whole of that SOT darn it this lad looks a lot better than so-so with needle and thread and this fellow can really make his singer sing this lad is his mother's helper did this torn youth sits down on the job here's hoping this male seamstress doesn't leave his needle where he should it's 1942 and appearing at Washington Naval Base with President and mrs. Franklin Roosevelt Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands sees sub chaser named in her honor and given to her nation in its brave but almost lost battle against the Nazis ruler in exile Queen Wilhelmina is guiding the destiny of the war ravaged homeland as best she can and things such as this mean new hope of eventual freedom for Hollanders caught under the Nazi heel ship this outright gift of the United States to the proud Queens government in exile and was quickly put to use by Navy of the Netherlands who fought Germany till victory was won it's the middle 1920s and the then governor of Connecticut John H Trumbull sits in glider at New Jersey's Newark Airport for trial flight of engineless aircraft but there's near tragedy ahead the gliders often up but come zooming down from height of 25 feet nearly nosing over as governor Trumbull sticks coolly to the controls shaken badly he's only slightly hurt [Music] an original Miss America at Glacier National Park in the early 1920s his lovely princess Jessie Jim of the Blackfeet tribe chosen by her people as most beautiful Indian girl in America and she'll go from here to Atlantic City to compete for the title of Miss America along with more recent beauties to inhabit her land kin of the princess made big medicine to aid her in her adventure by big waters of the Atlantic maybe Columbus discovered princess Jessie Jim's happy hunting ground but it took a real eye for beauty to discover the likes and look some princess Jessie Jim it's 1925 and at Penn Relays in Philadelphia who's taking early lead in two mile race but Paavo Nurmi of finland one of greatest distance runners world has ever seen rounding a turn near finish of race there's nobody near nor me as the flying Finn comes to the wire a lonely runner but our winning one is time 9 minutes 15 seconds is a new American record here's the ever popular and ever fast hundred yard dash on right you'll see the hard driving style of the eventual winner he's George Simpson of Ohio his nine six ties worlds record doing push-ups ala Paul Bunyan here our nation's best collegiate pole vaulters here's Yale's entry in this high soaring event and he sails over with perfect ease sturdy of Yale pole vault king at Penn Relays and sturdy but unsteady because of a badly strained back here's mrs. Helen Wills moody wearing familiar white visor it's 1931 and with six national tennis crowns to her credit mrs. moody is after number seven as she plays mrs. bartosh woman doctor from California back on the Forest Hills courts after two year retirement mrs. Moody has additionally handicapped by injured back but there's nothing wrong with her tennis point four Helen now this for Helen to as match sneers n doctor bartosh is hitting them hard but mrs. moody volleys them back just as hard not able to try for the hard shots helen makes the doctor hit them where it's easy and helen walks off a winner seven times [Music]