YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - WILEY POST SOLO FLIGHT U.S. TROOPS IN SIBERIA RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR

[Music] television highlight the news doc yesteryear and it's July 1933 and an early dawn that's Floyd Bennett Field New York Wiley Post not just the heavily laden Winnie Mae skyward and noses his plane toward Europe well this pilot doesn't work but post still takes plane non-stop to Berlin for new long-range record for one hop flight and he's just twenty five hours and few minutes from New York quick to recognize posts heroic and mark smashing lead Germans almost crushed the win he may as they plowed in the cheer and get a close look at America's famous one-eyed flyer but this is just why Lee's first stop on intended round-the-world tour hosts momentous be twins even the admiration of some of that old Hitler's costume Tony here post takes a well-deserved rest as his plane takes on fuel for next long lead this time Moscow is the winning A's destination for visibility forces wiley back for 12 hour delay but next day post is off again on round-the-world journey of long leaps to Moscow Moscow to Siberia Siberia to Canada and then Canada in a last long length deployed Benefield again close to midnight clouds jam the field and searchlights pierce the moonless sky and anxious mrs. post says that looks like his ship now I hope it is and the prayers of mrs. post are answered it's wily plane all right the same days has flown around the world in one week the winning May is a wonder plane and while still in cockpit post radios to his parents I'm very tired that all you can say to your father a mother giving away a week a long weekend the flights over but the shouting isn't nor are the honors that our view this dauntless pioneer of the air day after end of epic journey around the world post begins brief but less lonesome trip up New York's Broadway and the visibility is poor it's because of ticker tape and confetti the showers down on America's Airmen hero of 1933 [Music] session ended steps of historic City Hall and in place of recently resigned Jimmy Walker New York's mayor O'Brien honors post who modestly whispers his thing everywhere I appreciate very much the job for the city of New York [Music] thank you very much [Music] in nation's capital another famous American acknowledges posts achievement by saying that you people would like to have a chance at least to say how to do to a man who has just flown around the world and I have Wiley Pope right here beside me with Kelly Post had flown in historic flight two years before with Will Rogers two years hence Wiley Post and tragedy would fly another it's 1917 and from San Francisco American troops set sail for Siberia to reinforce Sarris troops by him steadily losing civil war with Russia vest insurgents even in 1917 Red Menace took armed Americans across the Pacific to fight a war with seasoned troops goes large shipment of arms for internal struggle in Russia and Siberia looked like long affair in 1917 though one was betting on the Bolsheviks to win with mother doughboys busy for the fight in France these fellows went off to war in the frozen wastes of Siberia several years later same troops come home on transport Mazak oscar with not much war behind them instead they returned with their russian war brides and half Russian children the Reds won Russia and Siberia from Azhar but these Russians won happiness and the hearts of American men happy birthday her Hindenburg its 1933 and in Berlin Germany grandchildren a former Field Marshal von Hindenburg say happy birthday number 86 the Germany's first president the aging head of the kaisers defeated army spends the great day on his estate at Nordic and here is giving remembrances to each of the employees of his modern barony walking sticks with silver monogram he marks the celebration further by joining his servants in their dining hall years later he was dead and that all Hitler rule here in 1921 is actress hope Hampton with her pet Mexican Chihuahua now there are two pets caught and Marrone by name and by looks of things they're jealous of each other well that's what comes of falling in love for the toast of the American screen free soup and free show it's 1920 and in free soup kitchen and boss guide comedian Ben Turpin of a silent screen dishes about two ways he warms the non paying customers with hot soup then warms their hearts with a little comedy suits on and so is the entertaining Ben [Music] it's 1921 and in New York City hundreds are overcome by smoke and fumes from fire and subway train from out of tube to safety and fresh air of streets those not in need of immediate hospitalization are seated in long lines and sidewalks until they're able to go home two persons never got home from this subway accident trains running over elevated lines in Long Island are shrouded in fog and a telescope by crash old wooden cars are nothing but matchwood now and many are injured by the splintering effect of the accident but lines must be cleared at once if New York's usually reliable Rapid Transit is to move at all it's 10th of September 1930 and here's Jim Sainsbury London's most Leonard got unsurpassed hardness we should have said foreskins but baskets of baskets stains very sure had a lot on his mind but before he carries us any farther let's assure you that the baskets are just empty ones is Jim making with more baskets when you get right down to it the question really is how many baskets and Sainsbury drop [Music] Oh it's 3rd of March 1930 and here's 82 year old father John pagan only American among 500 citizens of Pontifical state father Hagin is here shown in his 24th year as director of Vatican City Observatory it's rare honor for man from across the Atlantic to be highly regarded member of the papal staff and father Hagen has spent nearly quarter of a century in service of the church all at the temporal heart of the far-flung Catholic faith shopping in style is 1920 and here's the sort of thing you'd have to look at if you were a department store dummy and one of the better shops can you if you're disgusted with what you're looking at go home and let your mirror show you what you look like to me interest in what the shops are showing the next year is understandable here stylist couldn't get out a more [ __ ] podgy get up the myth the head itself isn't big enough he's got bows in her bonnet and the dress is Velveteen oh go away if you were that dummy wouldn't you have left your head at home a long time ago too smart dummy here in the early 1930s the Sonja Henie of North America shows her winning ways in New York City's Madison Square Garden she's Miss Constance Samuel of Canada and she's here winning her third straight North American fancy skating championship while Sonja wins even greater glory in Europe North America's best miss Samuel cuts a pretty fancy figure you never a world-champion Constance from Canada was nevertheless a constant winner in this Hemisphere and that takes in a lot of fancy skating territory it's 31st of May 1929 and rake each is among 32 starters an annual Indianapolis Speedway classic for racing cars it's dry day track is fast so it's cues are dust as 32 speed demons do everything but straighten out the turns as they blaze around brick oval at better than 90 miles an hour nice going for 1929 there are 160,000 next training customers in the stands and final burst of breakneck speed chutes rake each across the finish line the winner [Music] coming back to risk it teaches forty thousand dollars richer button right back where he started five hundred miles ago [Music]