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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1931 (UE31101)
3 SLAIN, 4 CAPTURED AS 7 CONVICTS MAKE DASH FOR FREEDOM
LEAVENWORTH, KAN. – Kidnapping Warden Thomas B. White and other officers, the desperadoes force their way from the Federal Prison, and using the captives as shields, terrorize the country with fire-arms, which were obtained in some unaccountable manner. A posse of 500 set out on the trail and rescue E.C. Salisbury, a farmer near here, imprisoned in his own home by the desperadoes, who sought refuge there. A stirring battle resulted in the retaking of 3 of the felons, the death of 3 others and the subsequent capture of the seventh.
SUCCESSFUL TRAIL OF “SYNTHETIC WAITER” AMAZES HOTEL MEN
WORCESTER, MASS. – Noiseless, fool-proof service, minus the indignant scowl of a scornful tray-bearer, is assured with the perfect demonstration of John F. Daschner’s unique device. After working 25 years to develop the invention, he puts his handiwork to a rigid test. Folks sit down, press a button, and presto – without warning, salt and pepper and bread and butter appear on the table. And so it goes through a whole meal. Things pop right out of the bottom of the table, with a dispatch that would make Thurston wonder. And there’s no magic to it, the designer claims.
NEWS PARAGRAPHS
SANTA CLAUS, IND. – Holiday mail floods St. Nick’ home town! Extra help added to affix magic post-mark on Christmas correspondence.
LEXINGTON, KY. – Irate growers halt tobacco sales! Warehouse glutted, awaiting important price decision.
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Paris decrees jeweled hats! Mme. Nicole designed a few – only 7 of ‘em, but they’re worth $575,000.
LIFE GUARDS IN BLIMP AID THRILLING RESCUE OF DRONING BATHER
MIAMI BEACH, FLA. – Adding the tiny dirigibles to their equipment, the alert corp spy a swimmer about to be engulfed in a heavy sea. Signaling to shore and guiding intrepid guards in a boat to the endangered man, the airship dives to the scene and stands by during the rescue. The exhausted bather is brought safely to shore and revived, a stirring episode in one of the most modern incidents in marine activity.
CADETS SINK NAVY IN HARD-FOUGHT PIGSKIN BATTLE BY 17-7 SCORE
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The gridiron’s most colorful spectacle returns $400,000 for charity, and victory to the West Point cohorts in the 32nd meeting of the service elevens. Brilliant play by Ray Stecker, soldier backfield ace, and thrilling passes by Bulet Kirn, of the Midshipmen, mark the contest. Struggling against a high-powered combination, possessed of speed and power, the Annapolis team loses, but only after a bitter struggle to the very end of the game. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1931 (UE31102)
RUIN AND DESOLATION FOLLOW IN WAKE OF MIDNIGHT TORNADO
CAMDEN, ARK. – At least one dead, scores injured, and property damage of $750,000 is the estimated toll of this tragic storm. Sweeping from the south, skirting northern Louisiana, the wind dips over this city cutting from it path the entire business section. The $75,000 Ouachita Court House is left a total wreck. Rescuers dig into the tangled mass, formerly two and three story buildings, seeking missing persons. Trees are uprooted, church steeples toppled, and homes torn to bits by the terrible blast.
MONSTER RED ARMY IN MIGHTY ARRAY ON SOVIET ANNIVERSARY
MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. – In the greatest display of military strength in Soviet history, 40,000 armed men and women, and a million workers parade past the tomb of Nikolai Lenin. The ceremony, in honor of the 14th birthday of the Bolshevik revolt, is climaxed by the procession, led across Red Square by Klementi E. Voroshilov, War Commissar, and reviewed by Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the government.
NEWS PARAGRAPHS
NEWHALL, CAL. – Violent snow-storm blankets West Coast! Unprecedented fall startles natives – “very unusual”.
NEW YORK, N.Y. – New $586,000 fire-boat accepted by city! Most powerful craft of its kind in the world passes difficult tests.
CHARLESTOWN, MASS. – Rescued aviators brought to port! Rico fliers saved after 9 hours in open sea.
KING PRESIDES AT NAVAL ACADEMY GOLDEN JUMILEE
LEGHOREN, ITALY – King Victor Emmanuel, Crown Prince Humbert, and the seven sons of the House of Savoy review the nation’s future admirals on the 50th birthday of the country’s sea school. The young salts, who will some day command the battleships of Italy, perform for the royal gathering in impressive style. The celebration is climaxed by launching of the Pola, the last of ten cruisers the country can build under the terms of the Washington navy pact.
200 ENTRIES FEATURE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF TWINS
SAN DIEGO, CAL. – Competing for honors in this unusual and unique contest are young and old from every section of the globe. Alike as peas in a hundred pods, they roam from Balboa Park and parade before the judges of the gathering. Joan and June Barber, just 10 weeks old, win the honors as the youngest present, and to Elizabeth and Phylis Hofflund go the laurels for the most beautiful. Confounded by the abundance of resemblance, the spectators are to upset to question the awards.
DEVOUT THOUSANDS STRUGGLE TO PRAY ON NATIONL SAINT DAY
GUADALUPE, MEXICO – More than 500,000 persons make the pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin of Tepeyac, in one of the most impressive religious demonstrations in the country’s history. People from all parts of the nation and many from the United States, trudge along the tiresome way to the basilica, erected on the site where, tradition says, the patron saint appeared to Juan Diego four hundred years ago. Police line the road, carefully watching for anti-clerical forces, but the feast is celebrated without mishap, except for the hundreds treated for bruises in the terrific crush. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1931 (UE31103)
HOLIDAY GIFT TIDE ENGULFS TIRELESS POSTAL WORKERS
CHICAGO, ILL. – Christmas greeting cards and gift packages jam the Van Betiren Street station to capacity. All mechanical devices, carriers and sorters run at full tilt, to meet the heavy demands of Yuletide business. Employees pushed to overtime duties, dispose of 70,000 sacks a day, an average of a million individual parcels. The joh is attacked with vigor and the task completed without error, but how they work!
IMPERIAL ARTILLERY HONORS ANNIVERSARY OF OATH TO REPUBLIC
STOCKERAUT, AUSTRIA – The office track royalist until, now a vital part of the new government’s army, observes the birthday of its new-sworn allegiance, and wins the admiration of officialom by it skillful and spectacular maneuvers. Minister of War Vaugoin, impressed by the display, presents the brigade with new trumpet, an ancient custom equivalent to a decoration for gallantry. The battery accepts the gift with a colorful ceremony that climaxes the vivid.
NEWS PARAGRAPHS
HOLLYWOOD, CAL. – Tom Mix wins battle for life! Thousands of fan letters help famous screen star conquer dangerous illness.
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Novels for nickel! New invention by Admiral Fiske startles book publishing world.
CHICAGO, ILL. – Fashion decrees finger-waves for men! Male models display latest in masculine hair-styles – whoops!
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. – Autogiro “Mercury” delivers 1932 greetings! Novel plane parks itself in heart of metropolis.
CO-OPERATIVE HOBO COMMUNITY RISES IN HEART OF GREAT CITY
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Near the very center of the nation’s metropolis, the richest city in the world, a unique settlement develops. Reminiscent of squatter days on the old frontiers, a ramshackle town of discarded packing cases, and other odds and ends, grows up. Weary “world-travelers” find it to their advantage to merge in a common cause for their mutual welfare. A huge commissary dishes out a real “mulligan stew,” and the Charlton Street dump becomes the headquarters of the “jungle” fraternity.
IL DUCE PRESENT AT CATHEDRAL WEDDING OF AIDE’S DAUGHTER
VATICAN CITY – On his second visit to St. Peter’s, and his third to the Papacy Province, Premier Benito Mussolini acts as a witness to the marriage of Maria Ciano, daughter of Count Ciano, Minister of Communications. The recent rift between the Italian government head and Pope Pius XI is forgotten during the brilliant rites at the ancient Basilica.
HOMES DESERTED AS CITIZENS FLEE PERILS OF FLOODED STREAMS
KENOVA, ARK. – Heavy rains that swell the Ouachita River, Smackover Creek and other tributaries of the Mississippi, beyond the flood banks, cause the entire lowland regions of this state to become inundated. Breasting the rising waters, residents of the valley regions climb to higher places for safety, and drive their endangered cattle through the flooded trails ahead of them. Highways are under 40 inches of water; and, railroads undermined and threatened with derailment as the mounting danger increases. Rescuers brave the swift-moving tide to aid their helpless neighbors. An epic of the great Southland. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1931 (UE31104)
GANDHI’S SCANT GARB BARS PAPAL AUDIENCE; HONORED BY CADETS
ROME, ITALY – Vatican authorities refuse the Indian holy man a chance to confer with Pope Pius because of the Mahatma’s steadfast determination to discard his loin-cloth and shawl for conventional dress. Denied the privilege of meeting the head of the Catholic Church, the great Eastern Leader devotes his time to a minute study of the Young Fascisti interests. During his visit to the city he reviews a detachment of youthful sailors, who perform maneuvers for his especial benefit.
UNIVERSITY INSTALLS MONSTER TELESCOPE FOR USE OF STUDENTS
DELAWARE, OHIO – The first instrument of its kind ever erected exclusively for pupils goes into operation at Ohio Wesleyan, and brings to a reality the life-long dreams of Hiram Mills Perkins, late faculty member, who invested his whole savings of $250,000 in the project. Equipped with a 4,000 pound, 69 inch mirror, the telescope rivals any on the North American continent. Operated by Dr. Harlan Stetson it reveals the mysteries of the heavens to an extent undreamed of by the tyro astronomer.
NEWS PARAGRAPHS
PORTLAND, ORE. – Carpenter makes hats of wood! Latest Paris creations built in 3 minutes at cost of 11 cents.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Hoover children play Santa Claus! Peggy Ann and Herbert III send toys to miners’ children.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. – Mr. and Mrs. Fremont G. Leslie still happy, though married! He’s 6 ft. 2 – she’s 3 ft. 6 – and what a grand baby!
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Night club revives “Beef Trust”! Corpulent chorines assay nearly a ton – on the hoof.
SOLDIERS ORIGINATE HORSEBACK THRILLER; “RIDING BASKETBALL”
FT. MYER, VA. – The sensational sports innovation leaves a gallery of spectators groggy with excitement at the finish of a breath-taking game. Showing a brand of daring horsemanship, the Wildcats gallop to a well-earned victory over the Terrors. The teams are composed of equestrian rivals from the 3rd Cavalry and 16th Field Artillery. The contest is a nerve-wracking combination of the court game, football, ice-hockey, polo, and what have you.
UNDERWORLD SHUNS DIAMOND FUNERAL AS CHURCH BANS RITES
MASPETH, N.Y. – Murdered in a squalid rooming house, the one time gangster overlord, who escaped the law 23 times and gunmen’s bullets on 16 occasions, is buried. The hoodlums who once hearkened to his bidding desert the bier, and pomp and gaudiness are completely missing. A plain wooden box, instead of the customary bronze or silver affair, encases the body of the man who always out-guessed society, but who could not deny the guns of his enemies. Attended only by the widow and a few sight-seers, the obsequies are performed without benefit of clergy. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1931 (UE31105)
FRIGHTENED NATIVES FLEE IN PANIC BEFORE JAPANESE ADVANCE
TIENTSIN, CHINA – Military occupation of this salient point in Japan’s offensive against China is marked in the frantic community by scenes of disorder as invading soldiers compel refugees to submit to search and seizure within the Japanese concession. Ignorant natives jam all roads leaving the city in an effort to escape the invading troops but watchful sentries break up the mobs and search everyone for arms. Meanwhile remnants of the Chinese army mobilize nearby to defend the nation against an offensive on the Mukden-Pieping railroad which links this section with Manchuria, the scene of the greatest fighting.
PRES. RUBIO SPONSORS GIFT DISTRIBUTION TO CAPITAL’S ORPHANS
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – With Mrs. Rubio supervising the work, the Protection Association contributes hundreds of toys and “dolces” to the poor children of the city. Impoverished Aztec youngsters gather in an impressive array and salute the Chief Executive of the nation with a colorful entertainment and pageant as he lays aside his official duties to aid in the relief of the community’s poor.
LEGAL HORSE RACING DRAWS THOUSANDS TO NEW “TROPICAL PARK”
CORAL GABLES, FLA. – Seven weeks after laws permitting meetings within the state are passed over the governor’s veto, this new course is constructed in record time and opened to the public. Under the protection of the law, gamblers flock to the track and reap a harvest at the Pari-Mutuel machines, installed as an added attraction in the betting rings. A thrilling 6-furlong canter opens the first meeting, and Brown Supinet with Jockey Stout up romps home to the initial victory on the course in a stirring claiming race.
HIGHLIGHTS IN 1931’S NEWS
The parade of events during the past year dealt disastrous blows throughout the world. The major catastrophe of the period was the floods at Hankow, China where upwards of 500,000 persons died in one of the most terrible tragedies that ever visited the Orient.
The most terrifying earthquake disaster the Western Hemisphere has known nearly wiped Managua, Nicaragua, off the face of the globe.
The Bourbon dynasty, successors to the throne of Spain, fell before revolutionary forces, and a monarchical government that had endured since 3,000 B.C. retired from existence as Alfonso XIII abdicated and the nation became a Republic.
Aviation history continued to be made in 1931, with Harold Gatty and Wiley Post setting their plane Betty Mae down on Long Island after circling the globe in a little over 8 days.
Daredevil flying contributed the greatest thrill in the thrilling history of the newsreel screen, with the crash of Lowell Bayles. Screaming through the air at 300 miles an hour, Bayles’ plane, twisting and turning, plunged to earth and catapulted the intrepid pilot to his death.
This symposium of the great events of the year would be incomplete without 1931’s best laughs – and a couple of ‘em are included that have shaken rafters throughout the civilized world – and uncivilized, too. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1931 (UE31106)
WINNER WRECKED AT FINISH OF THRILING MOTORBIKE CLASSIC
CULVER CITY, CAL. – Driving his machine at a terrific speed around he 1/5-mile track, Ray Grant crosses the last marker at such a tremendous pace that his wheel rides out from under him. Catapulted from his seat, Grant lands in an unconscious heap as the judges award him first money for his daredevil riding. The inaugural program of 12 races is featured by frequent spill, with crack pilots risking their lives to earn the coveted prizes.
DEVOUT NATIVES PRAY AT SACRED RIVER FOR GANDHI’S SAFE RETURN
ALLAHABAD, INDIA – Hundreds of his Hindu followers implore the “Mother Ganges” to afford protection to the little Mahatma on his trip home from the conferences at the “Round Table” session at London with the British powers. The natives prostrate themselves as they approach the banks of the “holy waters,” in a picturesque ritual, exhorting the gods to bring the great leader home without harm.
BICENTENNIAL BOARD O.K.’S TABLEAUX FOR WASHINGTON FIESTA
NEW YORK, N.Y. – In preparation for the celebration to mark the 200th anniversary of the First President’s birthday, Messmore & Damon Studios show plastic works of art, picturing great events in the life of the Father of his country. His marriage to Martha Curtis; the young surveyor; the Winter at Valley Forge; crossing the Delaware; and the Surrender of Cornwallis, are among the dramatized scenes. The words are being rushed to completion for the opening of the nationwide observance of the event, February 22, 1932, to be held under the direction of the Federal Government.
NEWS PARAGRAPHS
CHICAGO, ILL. – “Death Ray” invented by German scientist! Navy to test new device designed to end war.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Government builds gigantic housefly model! Monster insect portrays menace of common pest – swat ‘em.
ST. LOUIS, MO. – Norse scrubwoman on 2,150-mile rowing trip down Mississippi! Hope of curing stiff back inspires daring adventure.
BEACH “MINERS” MAKE GOLD-STRIKE SEEKING VACATIONISTS’ LOSSES
REVERE, MASS. – Equipped with sieves, diligent searchers “pan” the sands of this resort and earn a winter of comfort through their rich harvest. Jewelry, money, and even an occasional bottle of illicit refreshment turn up along the stretch of beach where sun-scorched people sought refuge in their flight from the summer’s heat. Carelessness with their valuables has proven a boon to the Yankee Klondikers.
RIDERS RISK NECKS AS KING LAUDS DARING IN CRCK CAVALRY MEET
ROME, ITALY – Spectacular military formations are performed in a thrilling demonstration staged by the ace subalterns at the Tor di Quinto academy. Victory Emmanuel and high army officers, review the students in their breath taking stunts. With complete disregard of safety, the youthful soldiers go through reckless maneuvers to prove their stirring equestrian ability.
CHINESE RETREAT AS NIPPON TROOPS PRESS ON TO CHINCHOW LINE
CHANOCHIATUN, MANCHURIA – Loosely organized “irregulars” meet a thrust of the powerful Japanese columns, seeking to occupy this town, a strategic position along the branch line of the Mukden-Peiping railroad. Zero weather and formidable well-trained Japanese forces conspire to force the grimly determined native soldiers to relinquish their tenancy of the position. Strengthened by re-enforcements, the invading troops push on toward their objective after a short skirmish in which the local defenders are forced to evacuate the town, in one of the critical high spots of the conflict. |
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