Motion pictures, 1940-1949 - Library of Congress. Copyright Office

2. Aug. 25, 1949. Congress probes five-percenters. Council of Europe meets in Strasbourg. Bridges pickets in Hawaii dock strike. Barton sets depth record 4,500 feet down. Bradley becomes head of joint staff chiefs. Collins sworn in as Army Chief of Staff. Navy, Marines in mass helicopter maneuver. Washington: airmen fly donkeys in weird baseball game. Los Angeles sheriff's championship rodeo.

3. Aug. 29, 1949. Bernarr Macfadden marks 81st birthday with parachute jump. British jet refuels in mid-air. Double-hulled ship can't rock or roll. Style prediction: fur flurry in California. Baseball hails Connie Mack. Cuban forced back in English Channel swim. Horse-jumping record set in Netherlands. Japanese set world marks in AAU swim.

4. Sept. 1, 1949. Rescue Ecuador 'quake victims. "Father of Zionism" reburied in Israel. Miami: Navy's "hurricane hunters" in action. Vast forest fires raging in France. Wedding bells; couple married under water. National AAU women's swimming meet. Reno, Nev.: ancient autos in mountain race thriller. Miami: cops on parade; motorcycle miracles.

5. Sept. 5, 1949. Hurricane lashes Florida. Philadelphia: American Legion meets; hears Truman. Austrian POW's back from Russia. Roughest rodeo, the Pendleton round-up. Westwood Village, Calif.: girls' rifle team practices—underwater. Davis Cup: Aussies win doubles thriller. Williamsport, Pa.: "Little League" baseball world series.

6. Sept. 8, 1949. General Vaughan takes the stand in five-percent hearings. American Legion on parade in Philadelphia. Multimillion-dollar fire in San Francisco. Aid rushed to polio victim in mid-ocean. Atlantic City: curtain going up; Ice Capades of 1950. Westbury, N. Y.: outsider wins $50,000 trotting classic.