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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32071)
FERRY BLOWN TO BITS AS BOILER EXPLOSION KILLS 41, INJURES 63
NEW YORK, NY – Filled to the rails with workmen being ferried across the East River to a construction job near the western end of Long Island Sound, the former excursion steamer Observation is shattered to splinters by an engine room blast that hurls wreckage and bodies for 200 yards, in the worst harbor holocaust since the General Slocum disaster in 1904. Only the fact that the accident occurred near shore, thus filling the water with debris from the splintered boat to which injured and drowning men can cling, prevents the death toll from mounting to unspeakable heights. Divers and grapplers work in 24 hour shifts to recover the victims, while wrecking craft salvage the fragments of the ill-fated vessel from the river’s muddy bottom. An appalling catastrophe like this, promised to cause an upheaval in local shipping circles.
ASTRONOMY SAVANTS FILM HEAVENS WITH NEW COLOSSAL LENS
SIDMOUTN, ENGLAND – Astounding pictures of celestial bodies are possible with the great camera turret just installed in the Norman Lockyer Observatory at Salcombe Regis in South Devon. It is a veritable astronomical robot, which can be set to turn with minute exactitude to follow any star for any length of time. Remarkable views of the Great Bear and of the Orion Nebula are obtained by an exposure of five hours, while the elusive Pleiades, and the moon, herself, are accurately caught on the photographic plate with a 23-hour time shot. This is an example of another marvel in man’s march along the highroad of Science.
RACKETEERS IN PANIC OVER SLOT-MACHINE CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN
BROOKLYN, NY – In a determined drive against nickel in the slot gambling machines, 10,000 of which have sprung up in drugstores and other public places and which find a large patronage among the younger generation, the police are confiscating and destroying the plague of crooked devices that have mushroomed up throughout the state. They are carted in by the truckload, as a corps of strong-armed coppers, with sledgehammers creates junk out of the shiny $125 mechanical thieves. The opening of school and the fact that so many children carry money for milk and lunch prompts the authorities to take drastic means of ridding the community of these catch-coin lotteries. This is just another marvel in man’s march along the high road of science.
FIND HIDDEN LAIR OF AIR PIONEER’S SECRET AFTER 25 YEAR SEARCH
GRASS VALLEY, CA – A real, modern-type, stream-lined cabin monoplane, designed before Prof. Langley and the Wright brothers made their epochal experiments in mechanical flight more than a quarter of a century ago, is discovered in a locked hangar high in the Sierras, where two aged inventors, Lyman and Charles Gilmore, have closely guarded their “flying machine” for almost three decades. Finally persuaded to display their invention, which the Patent Office scoffed at as absurd in 1898, the bearded brothers dust off the ancient craft and disclose its remarkable resemblance to present day airliners. They brought an amazing page out of the early history of aviation to light.
THE TIDE TURNS: Production swing pursues upward course as industry continues renewed labor turnover.
PART VII
PANAMA CITY, FL – leading manufacturer of Kraft paper products goes on a 24-hour basis with 2000 employees as better business in this country and abroad demands more material for paper cartons, furniture wrappings and paper bags.
CHICAGO, IL – Big knitting mill increases its pay-roll by 40 percent and runs day and night to meet growing orders for women’s underwear and sweaters rushed from department stores in all sections.
COLUMBUS, OH – An outstanding oil-cloth plant speeds up and hires additional workers as the call for coated fabrics for table cloths, wall coverings and sign cloth necessitates a capacity of 81 miles of finished product a day.
DETROIT, MI – A great automobile factory puts hundreds on a fulltime basis as the result of a jump of 40 percent in August sales; a striking indication that American families are finally junking their old cars and loosening the purse strings.
RECORD ATTENDANCE MARKS RE-OPENING OF NATION’S SCHOOLS
The nation’s biggest business, the education of Young America, gets off to a running start as 31,000,000 children and young people start to school for the Fall term. With vacation joys reluctantly forsaken, but with shiny shoes and shining faces, plaits and new hair ribbons or new knickers – as the case may be – the youngsters troop back as 1,500,000 teachers welcome their new charges. A falling birth-rate takes a small toll in the beginners’ classes, but the high schools get an overflow, because of the economic situation, with many post-graduate students, while the back to the farm movement swells the rolls in rural schools. You are seeing the annual pilgrimage of Youth to the fount of knowledge.
REGIME OF VON PAPEN CRUMBLING; PREMIER DEFIED BY HITLERITES
BERLIN, GERMANY – A sudden and surprising coalition of the Nazis and the Reds at the opening of the Reichstag precipitates the long expected flare-up against the Von Hindenburg government. Hectic scenes mark the latest turn of political affairs in the Reich as the Chancellor, now discredited along with other ministers of the aged war lord, is faced with possible reliance upon the machine guns and bayonets of the Reichswehr and the Steel-helmets to preserve the Vaterland’s present status. His words to the assembled statesmen are an ominous augury of coming events – a world-rocking episode and a crisis in the history of the great Teutonic nation. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32072)
HITLERITES AWED AS 180,000 “STEEL HELMETS” AVOW REICH LOYALTY
BERLIN, GERMANY – In the most striking and epochal military demonstration in this country since the Armistice, the great World War veterans’ society, in uniform and full equipment minus only rifles and bayonets, assemble at Templehof Field to serve notice to the Nazis and Reds that the Von Papen government has its sanction. The Chancellor, other ministers and high officials of the government are in evidence, marking the first public recognition of the powerful ex-soldier organization. The former Crown Prince, General von Mackensen and other high-ranking “brass hats” of the former Junker regime, make the review a veteran government royalist celebration. Prussian banners, war time military marches and the goose step show the trend of sentiment in the Vaterland.
ROOSEVELT PROMISES AGRICULTURAL RELIEF IN FARM BELT SPEECH
TOPEKA, KS – 25,000 mid-west farmers and other voters, assembled around the steps of the State capitol, hear Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presidential candidate, unfold a six point plan for alleviating the economic burdens of the food and produce growers of the nation. In the opening gun of his trans-Mississippi campaign tour, the Democratic nominee evokes enthusiasm among the dirt farmers of this Republican State, following a triumphant procession from the railroad station becomes one of the highlights of the country’s great political battle.
SKYSCRAPER LANTERN SHRINES MARK RARE HARVEST CEREMONIAL
ISHIKI, JAPAN – Bigger and better demon chasers, is the slogan of the natives of the quaint village whose ancestors started out seven or eight hundred years ago hanging up regular sized lanterns to chase the devils that ruined their rice crops, but who now celebrate the harvest time with monster lights thirty feet high, that requires 50 men with windlasses to raise them from the ground. This is a most picturesque event, so unusual that even the Japanese call the mammoth devices the “fool lanterns of Ishiki”.
ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS:
RADIO CONTROL SAILS WEE BOAT
DENVER, CO – An amazing demonstration of a young inventor’s craft, in which a five foot boat is made to turn and run at the will of its builder, Burt E. Moritz, Jr., by the operation from shore of a wireless control dial.
OLD AUTO MAKES UNIQUE BRIDGE
BARLOW, OR – stringing cables across the Pudding River and fitting his car wheels with special flanges instead of tires, C. W. West operates a flivver ferry for campers and picnickers. At a dime a head and 1760 trips to the gallon, he’s riding on velvet and the passengers get a big thrill “riding on air”.
SCIENCE PUZZLED BY “STRONG MAN” BABY
ALBANY, NY – Eugene Bencivengo is two and a half years old but he weighs 100 pounds, wears a size 12 shoe, a 7 ½ hat, has a 35 inch belt and can pick up flatirons, large chairs and even carry a tub of clothes. Because of his strength, his playmates, twice his age, usually let him have his own way. Otherwise, he is perfectly normal – but wait until he grows up.
SERIES HOPES LOOM AS RABID “CUBS” FANS BATTLE FOR DUCATS
CHICAGO, IL – Local baseball enthusiasts already have worked themselves into a frenzy over the impending Diamond War. Followers of the Windy City team promise an unprecedented attendance and an abundance of moral support. Already, the business office of the team is literally snowed under with reservations for series tickets, and a corps of 25 girls is kept busy sorting the deluge of mail and checks. It won’t be long before the cry “Play Ball” resounds throughout the land, marking the start of the classic struggle that winds up each season of the National Game.
ROYAL HOSTS GREET FESTIVE GONDOLIERS AT HISTORIC REGATTA
VENICE, ITALY – Gaily decked craft, with costumed oarsmen and occupants fill the Grand Canal for the picturesque Race Day ceremonies. Up and down the watery thoroughfares of the ancient city, across to the Church of Madonna della Salute, under the Rialto Bridge and finally to the Foscari Palace, where Crown Prince Humbert and Princess Marie Jose await, the gala procession wends its way with music, laughter and the colorful shouts of the straining men at the sweeps. The exciting two-man gondola race is the highlight of the occasion, the Princess awarding banners to the winner, ending a gala day in the Queen City of the Adriatic.
ALL TRACES LOST OF TRANS-OCEAN FLIERS; FEARED SUNK AT SEA
BROOKLYN, NY – The American Nurse, the big Bellanca monoplane that took Pangborn and Herndon around the world last year, takes the air at Floyd Bennett Field, the first flying medical laboratory, to attempt a non-stop flight to Rome. With William Ulbrich as pilot, Miss Edna Newcomer, a nurse of Williamsport, PA, as co-pilot, and Dr. Leon M. Pisculli of New York, to observe the physical reactions of the other two during the progress of the flight, the big aircraft wings its way into the rising sun, skirting the southern coast of Long Island and disappears into the Eastern haze of the new morn, to become the latest mystery of the air-lanes. Reported by ships twice on it two day voyage, the last time only a few hours from the British Isles, the plane fails to appear over Europe and now is heralded as another casualty of the deep. This is an additional tragic page in the history of man’s aerial achievements. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32073)
GOVERNMENT HONORS AMERICAN CHILDREN’S WAR MEMORIAL GIFT
MEAUX, FRANCE – On a hill top overlooking the plateau along the Marne River, where the flower of France first stemmed the enemy invasion 18 years ago, four million school children of the United States, with pennies, nickels and dimes, have caused the erection of a huge monument, 130 feet high, as a return gift for the Statue of Liberty. The great granite monolith, designed by Frederick MacMonnies, and depicting La Belle France, supporting a wounded “poilu” and gazing defiantly northeast, is dedicated in impressive ceremonies by French and American officials, as several thousand spectators stand by in reverence of an outstanding event in the history of international amity.
THE TIDE TURNS: Nation’s business continues upward trend as industry adds thousands to swelling payrolls.
PART VIII
CONNERSVILLE, IN – 1600 men and women are called back to work at a big motorcar plant following a price cut and a sudden jump in orders. 100 percent increase in auto sales are indicated, for the coming month, by advices reaching this factory.
CINCINNATI, OH – Big soap factory has 2000 men and women working at top speed as increasing orders stack up. Improved demand indicates America will soon be back on its $300,000,000 a year outlay for cleanliness.
WORCESTER, MA - One of the country’s leading corset manufacturers is running at full capacity, with 375 on the job again, as a result of the present rapid turning of feminine attention from depression to “suppression”.
DETROIT, MI – A great adding machine company hires hundreds of workers as its factory goes back on a 150,000 machines a year basis, with another department, making a new typewriter, added to meet the rapid expansion of business and growing office installations.
ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS:
QUITS FARMING FOR SQUACH SCULPTURE
CIRCLEVILLE, OH – William Kendall used to be a farmer, but he learned to carve funny faces from pumpkins and other melons and now finds it pays him more than raising them.
ONLY WALRUS IN U.S. MAKES PUBLIC DEBUT
SAN DIEGO, CA – Captured on the coast of Alaska, Marie, an amphibian baby of four months and 400 pounds, demands shower baths at frequent intervals to keep her blood pressure down, and is thriving on the bottle – six gallons of milk daily.
PHAR LAP’S EFFIGY TO LEAVE FOR AUSTRALIA
YONKERS, NY – The great Antipodean race horse, whose sudden death last Spring, after being acclaimed far and wide as the winner of the Caliente Handicap, was a sad blow to racing enthusiasts, has been reproduced in life size, the horse’s skeleton and skin being mounted in realistic pose by expert taxidermists. This replica of the second greatest money winner of all time is to be presented to the Commonwealth government as a lasting memorial to the famous animal.
FLAUNTS “SPITE” HOUSE IN ZONE LAW PROTEST
GLEN RIDGE, NJ – Angered by the city fathers, Mrs. Irene Warren “decorates” the front of her residence in garish colors, hangs weird and colorful garments on a clothes line in her front yard and takes delight in thinking up new insults to paint on crude signs before her house, in her fight to establish a business section in the home restricted area where she dwells.
TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN OPENS CONVENTION OF THINNING G.A.R. RANKS
SPRINGFIELD, IL – Two thousand or more tottering Union veterans of the Civil War assemble for their annual encampment of the Tomb of their revered War Leader. White haired and bent, but with bright eyes and the same enthusiasm with which they answered the call of Father Abraham in ’61, the aged heroes relive the days of the Wilderness, Chickamauga, Gettysburg and other battles, and heatedly deny that this is their last reunion. Seven thousand spectators see the exercises at the national shrine in Oakridge Cemetery, with Gov. L. L. Emmerson of Illinois and Samuel P. Town of Philadelphia, Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, officiating. These exercises are an impressive sight, soon to pass into glorious history.
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS DEFY TIBER’S TIDES IN CLASSIC SWIM GRIND
ROME, ITALY – The 26th annual “Across Rome” water race is staged with a score of aquatic speed experts, including several foreigners who come to beard the Roman in his muddy river. The event attracts thousands who perch on the various bridges or run along the banks of the historic stream to cheer their idols to victory. Renato Bacicalupo, outstanding Italian swimmer and one time winner of the celebrated “Across Paris” contest, comes out ahead in the grueling 5500 meter course in an exciting and colorful old world sports battle.
DAREDEVIL STUNTSTER ACHIEVES THRILLING ‘PLANE-AUTO SWITCH
MUROC, CA – Defying death at 70 miles an hour, J. D. Pate, famous speed demon, perform the amazing feat of dropping from the wing of a low flying airplane to the top of a speeding sedan. Treacherous air currents caused by heat convection currents in the vicinity of the dry lake here, make several trials necessary, with Pate weakening and hanging on by his teeth in one attempt showing a remarkable demonstration of human recklessness and pluck. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32074)
SENSATIONAL SPILLS MARK 34TH RUNNING OF HISTORIC TURF EVENT
WESTBURY, NY – One exciting tumble after another thrills the high Long Island society crowd watching the 1932 Meadow Brook Cup Chase on the estate of F. Ambrose Clark. The run, three and a half miles over stone and timber walls, finds T. W. Durant’s Fugitive, with Randolph Duffey up, far in the lead at the finish. The 400’s outstanding sporting event in which America’s finest hunters display their skill in the annual jumping exhibit.
MIRACLE CITY AWAITS VISITORS TO GREAT 1933 PROGRESS EXPOSITION
CHICAGO, IL – ahead of its construction schedule and with many of its marvelous buildings already completed, the stupendous World’s Fair grounds is the daily Mecca of thousands who come to be amazed at the bizarre structures that will throw open their doors next June as the nation’s wonderland. Modernistic and majestic, the Hall of Science, the Travel and Transportation unit with its remarkable “floating dome”, the Electrical Group, the Adler Planetarium, the Chinese Lama Temple and the neo-classic Administration
Building, form a lake front skyline that beggars description. From the air, the centennial zone is a never-to-be-forgotten sight.
ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS: SALT ARTIST
BUFFALO, NY – Capitalizing on the ancient Indian art of picturization with colored sand taught to him by his father, a full-blooded Osage, C. R. Churchill is an expert at “painting” with colored salt, which he pours on a flat surface to make the designs he seeks. The strange thing is, he does this portraiture or ‘scape’ work upside down.
MACON’S NEW HOME NEARS COMPLETION
SUNNYVALE, CA – Uncle Sam’s new Queen of the skies, the giant navy airship now getting its finishing touches will find it “bridal cottage” ready, as construction is rushed on the big $5,000,000 hangar. The last steel girder is put into place and the four 500 ton doors erected. The West Coast Zeppelin shelter is 200 feet high, 308 feet wide and 1100 feet long, a veritable marvel in modern aeronautical architecture.
SPIDER TRAPS SNAKE IN WEB
ELGIN, IL – Green-eyed with jealously because of the notoriety achieved by a small black snake in a near-by town which became ensnared in a spider-web, an 8 inch garter snake is the prisoner of two spiders in the cellar of a local banker. The insects take turns enmeshing the reptile, a victim of the underworld system of “ganging up: on an outsider trying to “muscle in”.
THE TIDE TURNS: Thousands recalled to work as industrial activity increases throughout nation
PART IX
CINCINNATI, OH – The world’s foremost electrotype company puts 285 men on a day and night basis turning out advertising mats and cuts for use in newspapers and magazines throughout the U.S. and elsewhere. A great spurt in Fall advertising is thereby indicated. This means that astute space-buyers believe the public is more willing and more able to spend money than heretofore.
PORTLAND, OR – Big furniture plant resumes full time operation as orders pile up for bedroom, dining room and living room suites. 800 employees are busy, with a goal of 200 carloads of household furnishings a month.
PITTSFIELD, MA – Outstanding manufacturer of electrical and house heating appliances takes on 350 new employees to rush the construction of oil burners as the result of a deluge of business.
LA SALLE, IL – One of the country’s largest clock factories is not running at full capacity, with 2000 employees, producing 25,000 clocks and watches every day. Business has increased 25% in the last six weeks, an indication, it is hoped, that thousands of men and women are now setting the alarm so as to be on time for their new jobs.
3000,000 THRONG STREETS TO GREET ARRIVAL OF DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE
LOS ANGELES, CA – An amazing turnout welcomes Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt in this Republican stronghold on the candidate’s visit to the West Coast. Met at the station by thousands that rush the police lines to hail him as the next President, his route to the hotel is a series of ovations and showers of flowers.
As a result of the unexpected warmth of his reception, politicians assert their belief that this State is “in the bag” for the New York Governor.
CROWDS THRILLED AS MISHAPS MAR END OF AUTO RACING SEASON
LANGHORNE, PA – A bad crash, in which Ken Douglas of New York, skids on a turn, hits a ditch and is almost thrown into a group of rail-birds on an eight foot embankment, proves the high spot of the 50 mile sweepstakes classic. The unfortunate driver is knocked out but at the hospital his injuries, are found to be mostly cuts and bruises. Wild Bill Cummings, Midwest speed demon, wins the famous race with plenty of room to spare, in 32 minutes, 45 and 4/10th seconds. 23,000 spectators were able to see the exciting contest. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32075)
HURRICANE WREAKS FRIGHTFUL TOLL OF DEATH AND DISASTER
SAN JUAN, PUERTA RICO – The equatorial storm, shipping its way across the Antilles and lashing towns and countryside with all the fury of its 120 mile speed, cuts a swath of devastation along the northern edge of the island, leaving in its wake 200 dead, more than 1000 injured, many thousands homeless, demolished buildings, ruined crops and millions of dollars’ damage. This is an appalling demonstration of man’s helplessness against the might of the elements when Nature shows us her worst.
NEW “WATER-BUG” BOAT ASTOUNDS ENGINEERS IN SURPRISING TRIALS
MILFORD, CT – An amazing “pontoon hydroplane” is demonstrated by the inventor, Thomas Alva Edison Lake, son of Simon Lake, noted submersible and underwater craft developer. Built on floats and boasting a new departure in motive power, a puller propeller, the mechanical “skipper” turns in its own length at top speed and shows unusual maneuvring qualities. A rear float instead of a rudder, and adjustable angles for the wing pontoons are two of the features which promise to make the new river “spider” an epochal innovation in aquatic circles.
ROYAL DOINGS IN TODAY’S NEWS: QUEEN WILHELMINA OPENS PARLIAMENT
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS – impressive scenes of regal pageantry mark the official visit of Holland’s sovereign to inaugurate the new session of the country’s law-making body. Accompanied by Prince Consort Hendrik and Princess Juliana, Her Majesty proceeds from the Palace in a gold encrusted coach, drawn by eight horses, with costumed out-riders and flunkeys and followed by high dignitaries of the nation, mounted and on foot. This is one of the few remaining spectacles of royalty’s traditional pomp and panoply.
KING PAYS TRIBUTE TO FAMOUS “BERSAGLIERI”
ROME, ITALY – 50,000 members and former members of the nation’s celebrated “corps d’elite” assemble for the dedication of the beautiful monument to their 32,000 World War dead. The Sovereign, Crown Prince Humbert and Premier Mussolini, himself a veteran of the picturesque branch of the country’s fighting forces, recount the glory of the “plumed hated” infantrymen in a remarkable demonstration to honor Italia’s favorite military body.
GOVERNMENT HONORS SULTAN OF MOROCCO
PARIS, FRANCE – A series of brilliant fetes and ceremonies feature the arrival of His Majesty Sidi Mahonned and his native entourage. As luncheon guests of President and Madame Lebrun at the Chateau de Rambouillet, and at the Mosque, the party is surrounded by leading figures of the Republic. Crown Prince Moulay el Hassan, three-year-old son of the African monarch, proves to be a great favorite with the crowds. They witnessed unique scenes of an important event in Franco-Moroccan amity.
BLAST WRECKS HOME OF SACCO-VANZETTI JUDGE – SUSPECT REDS
WORCESTER, MA – A bomb, thought to have been planted by anarchist or Communist sympathizers of the two men put to death for the notorious Braintree payroll murder, demolishes the residence of Judge Webster Thayer in the early morning hours, injuring his wife and maid and hurling the eminent jurist from his bed. Six near-by houses are damaged by the explosion and windows are broken for blocks. The force of the detonation rips the rear half of the Thayer domicile apart and buries Mr. Thayer in an avalanche of plaster and falling woodwork. Police with riot guns, gas bombs and bullet proof vests, guard all roads as the search for the culprits spreads. A shocking aftermath of the bitterness of the world-celebrated murder trial is said to have been agitated into international importance by Soviet propaganda.
50,000 RABID FANS SEE YANKEES SUBMERGE CUBS’ PENNANT HOPES
NEW YORK, NY – The Battle of the Harlem River, 1932’s baseball classic, provides thrill after thrill as the American League champs blast the National League favorites out of their trenches with a barrage of runs, to win two straight. When a base hit means a tally, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth and their teammates wave the magic willow wand that changes goose eggs into gold. Chicago rooters, inspired by the two-baggers of Herman and Stephenson, also have their moments of ecstacy, as their team fights desperately to stave off defeat. A World’s Series to write home about with play-by-play, blood-stirring action every second. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32076)
SAILOR ADMITS GUILT IN MOONEY BOMBING; POLICE CHECK STORY
PORTLAND, OR – In a belated but amazing confession, a north-west mountain guide, formerly a sailor, “confesses” to have borne the loaded suitcase which exploded during the Preparedness Parade in San Francisco in 1916, killing 10 persons and injuring 42 others. Paul M. Callicotte, now thirty-two and the father of a small child, volunteers the information to the police that he was paid $5 to transport the death-package from Oakland, and describes, by diagrams and by re-enacting his movements, just how the blast was planted. His story, if true, may have a bearing on the fate of Tom Mooney, now a life prisoner for the crime.
WORLD’S JEWRY HAIL NEW YEAR, 5693, WITH PRAYER AND RITUAL
NEW YORK, NY – American Jews unite with their brethren throughout the globe to observe the Rosh ha-Shanah holidays. Featured in services in the synagogues were pleas for aid for the hungry and unemployed. Following the old Hebraic custom, the devout congregate by the thousands at the nearest running water and empty their pockets in token of a purging of the sins of the dying year. Youth seeks the counsel of the aged in the mysteries of the Talmud, and the Shofar – the ram’s horn of antiquity, - sounds the call to a new season. These are impressive ceremonies that have come down through the ages unchanged.
FEDERALS DESTROY RECORD SEIZURE OF ILLEGAL BEVERAGE
NEWARDK, NJ – With sledgehammers and axes, Prohibition enforcement officers destroy 444 casks of liquor taken in a raid here almost two years ago and aged in a government warehouse pending a court decision making its destruction possible. 10,000 gallons of Rye whiskey are dumped into the sewer while on-lookers sigh and moan. The crowd saw another stomach punch at John Barleycorn in Washington’s eleventh hour battle to banish booze.
“OYSTER MONEY” ROUTS CITY’S CASH SHORTAGE AFTER BANK’S FAILURE
RAYMOND, WA – Emergency script “coined” by the Chamber of Commerce bears the picture of a succulent bi-valve on its face, and takes its name from the shell currency used by local Indians years ago. In four denominations, TwoBits, Four Bits, One Buck and Five Bucks, the temporary bills are in great vogue, $10,000 worth being printed for residents whose funds are tied up in the town’s only financial institution, now closed. Hundreds of dollars were spent to purchase by coin collectors and curio seekers in all parts of the globe. The unusual experiment in token-coinage is stimulating prosperity in this section.
THE TIDE TURN
INDUSTRY CONTINUES UPWARD TREND AS RENEWED ACTIVITY STIMULATES NATION’S BUSINESS
PART X
CINCINNATI, OH – Big overall factory puts 1250 employees on full time and speeds operation as the “back to work” movement causes an increasing call for working garments by the country’s new job holders.
MARINETTE, WI – One of the leading U.S. paper companies puts its force on a three shift, eight hour, seven days per week basis with 250 tons of finished paper goods a day as the goal.
SACRAMENTO, CA – The demand for almonds has become so great that the co-operative exchange plant handling the grading, packing and shipping for 3000 Northern California farmers, expects the biggest season in many years. 700 workers have been placed on three 6-hour shifts to take care of the booming business.
EAST CHICAGO, IN – The world’s largest manufacturer of cleansing materials is enjoying the busiest period in 27 years, with 400 employees putting in full time, turning 316,000 cans of cleanser a day.
LEAGUE COMMISSION FINDS AGAINST JAPAN IN FAR EAST CONFLICT
HARBIN, MANCHURIA – Ultimate Chinese sovereignty over the Land of the Manchus is the answer, of the Inquiry Committee headed by the Earl of Lytton, to the Oriental question which has rocked the world for several months. The commissioners, representing Great Britain, America, France, Germany and Italy, spend many days here and elsewhere in Manchukuo, investigating the situation at first hand, before deciding up a report and dispersing to their homes. The trips to the major points of controversy in the war- torn country, are carefully supervised by officers of the Japanese expeditionary forces. This is a momentous event in the world’s history.
YANKEES SLAUGHTER CUBS, 4 STRAIGHT, TO WIN WORLD SERIES
CHICAGO, IL – The great pennant contest turns into a rout as the American League sluggers whale the pill all over the back yard of the National League hopefuls. With a grand total of 19 hits in nine short innings, tallying 13 runs, the base running of the redoubtable New York ball players becomes a parade. Five hometown hurlers go down, one after another, as Lazzeri, with two screaming wallops into the bleachers, and Combs, with one, as well as doubles by Gehrig, Sewell, Crosetti and Chapman ring up tallies and ring down the 1932 curtain for the Windy City fans. After a first inning flourish netting four runs, the North side team fails to hold the pace. What a great round-house finish to the mighty championship struggle.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32077)
THOUSANDS ACCLAIM HOOVER; 2500 MARCH IN FARM RELIEF DEMAND
DES MOINES, IA – The President, in his first public speech for re-election, cheers the horde of Republicans jammed in the Coliseum with a 12-point program for agricultural relief, on the heels of an anti-Hoover demonstration through the streets by Farmers Holiday picketers and their sympathizers. More than 100,000 line the pavements to welcome the nation’s Chief Executive on his arrival. President Hoover and his Party, are greeted by flag-waving crowd and the noisy din of partisan cheers. Anti-administration banners and slogans are flaunted through the same thoroughfares earlier in the day by embittered produce raisers. This is a remarkable example of the strange contrasts in the present American scene.
AMAZING ENGINEERING FEAT RAISES GIGANTIC MUSSOLINI MONOLITH
ROME, ITALY – After three years of effort, Carrara marble quarry workers have carved out a monster block, almost three meters square and 18 meters long, which is erected with great difficulty in the new athletic stadium as a tribute to II Duce. Sliding it from a spot 800 meters up in the Apuan Mountains, into a boat and by way of the Tiber to the capital, is only the beginning of the job. Especially constructed ramps and hydraulic jacks are necessary to elevate the huge obelisk to its final resting place. What a remarkable example of human ingenuity, unparalleled in the history of physical science.
“SEA-TRAINS”, BUILT BY FEDERAL LOAN, UNDER QUIZ BY GOVERNMENT
HOBOKEN, NJ – An innovation in Eastern seaboard maritime facilities, a ship that transports a fully loaded 100-car freight train, is ready for operation between this port and Havana, Cuba. By means of specially constructed “elevator cranes” box cars are lifted from their tracks and let down into the hold of the craft, where they are fun off the elevator onto special rails and clamped securely into place for the ocean voyage. At Havana, they are to similarly lifted out and placed right on dock sidings, thus eliminating trucking, and other handling. Opposition lines are out to prevent the boats from making coast-wise stops and the Interstate Commerce Commission has ordered an investigation. It’s the latest thing in salt-water transportation, destined, perhaps, to mark a new era in shipping. In case of war, the odd vessels can be used for carrying railway artillery or airplanes.
ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS: ERIE GRAPE CROP SETS NEW RECORD
MIDDLE BASS, OH – Delawares, Concords and Catawbas by the ton are filling the vats of Lake Island and shore vineyard growers as a bumper yield raises vintners’ hopes of the possible legalizing of light wines in the near future.
NATIVES HOLD RARE BATTLE-GOD RITES
Katsura, Japan – Enthusiastic natives bear an ornate palanquin in impressive ceremonies to thank their God of War for the success of the Nipponese armies in the Chinese engagements. This act gives startling evidence of the martial spirit of the man-on-the-street in the Flowery Kingdom.
STATE WAGES STARFISH WAR
WAREHAM, MA – A bounty of 35 cents a bushel on the marine pests which have almost put the scallop fishing industry out of business results in the elimination of 11,000 bushels, or about 5 million of the destructive sea-stars from local waters – and queerly enough, the fishermen find there is more money in this work than in regular bi-valve digging.
NAVY BALLOON VICTOR OVER WORLD’S BEST IN INTERNATIONAL RACES
BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Sixteen gasbags from eight different countries compete in the 20th James Gordon Bennett Cup contest, as thousands cheer the late afternoon take-off. Lieut. Commander T.G.W. Settle and Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell in the U.S. Navy entrant, last year’s winner, rise into the blue to float 921 miles over several frontiers for a landing more than 36 hours later near the Polish-Latvian border, almost one hundred miles farther than their nearest competitor. Another American aeronaut, Goodyear No. 8, carrying the veteran balloonist W. T. Van Orman, and R. J. Blair, is second, covering 830 miles, and outdistancing contestants from France, Poland, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Thrilling scenes of the oldest and most picturesque aviation classic have been released.
POLICE ARMY CALLED AS BARGAIN HUNTERS RIOT AT DOLLAR SALE
BROOKLYN, NY – Thousands of girls and women, drawn by an unusually low cut-rate sale of coats and dresses, jam the main thoroughfare in front of a large department store, stopping traffic, crushing against the plate glass windows until they are shattered, and precipitating a mob rush that necessitates a hurry call for fifty mounted and dismounted patrolmen to quell the disorder. The flood of eager purchasers presses into the store in a column six wide, defying all attempts by the officers of the law to regulate their movements. An amazing scene of feminine determination and shopping frenzy, as the housewives and others, some with babes in arms, battle the blue-coats in a rough and tumble struggle. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32078)
JAPAN DEFIES LEAGUE; DISPATCHES ENVOY TO NEW FAR EAST STATE
CHANGCHUN, MANCHURIA – Epochal scenes accompany the signing of the treaty protocol between Nippon and Manchukuo. The arrival of Ambassador N. Muto, commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, is the signal for demonstrations by thousands of Japanese school children and other émigrés from the Flowery Kingdom. Henry Ru Yi, Regent of the new Manchu government, receives the foreign plenipotentiary with ceremony at the Palace. A score of the Mikado’s Major Generals and other high officers lend a significant military tone to the occasion. The Orient’s challenge to world opinion is a far- reaching step in the dawning drama in the Pacific.
10,000 HOMING PIGEONS COMPETE IN CLASSIC LONG DISTANCE DERBY
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Bicentennial Racing Pigeon Futurity, the biggest event of its kind ever held in the United States, has its start at the foot of the Washington Monument, with a veritable cloud of birds fluttering upward to begin their arrow-like homeward flights over distances up to 400 miles. Prized carriers from Canada, Cuba and from every leading pigeon-loft in the U.S. take part, including the hopeful fledglings of famous war heroes who earned their citations bearing messages from beleaguered American battalions in the Argonne and elsewhere.
NEW YORK, NY – The first pigeon to reach here from Washington in the cross-country trophy race is “Jimmy Walker”, a 4-months youngster who makes the distance in 4 hours, 29 minutes and `8 seconds, at a rate of 1338.46 yards a minute or more than 45 miles an hour.
ARMED FORCES HALT STRIKE PICKETERS IN COAL MINE UPRISING
CANTON, OH – Machine-guns stick their menacing noses up and down the roads leading to Fulton County mines and bayonets glisten as blood-shed precipitates a tense situation in the struggle between old and new miners’ unions. National Guard companies from Peoria are rushed to the scene to prevent picketing as small mine owners and workers are hard pressed by the alleged rough-shod tactics of the dissenting pick-men. Soldier escorts offer the only safety for willing employees. This is a strange state of affairs, with two labor unions as the contending parties.
ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS AUTOMOBILE RUNS BY COAL
PHILADELPHIA, PA – A pleasure car run by steam, with a few pounds of anthracite good for 100 miles, no gear shifts, a speed of 75 miles an hour, and no battery trouble, awakens the natives here as George Mershon, a furnace-grate maker, demonstrates his new invention. It resembles a regulation limousine, except for a smokestack rising from the hood.
TAMMANY HAILS WALKER’S RETURN
NEW YORK, NY – 5000 vociferous admirers jam the North German Lloyd pier to welcome the city’s former Mayor upon his arrival from France aboard the S.S. Europa. Two tugs loaded with chieftains and braves from the Wigwam of the famous Democratic organization, escort the liner up the bay. “Jimmy’s” belated homecoming is noisy and enthusiastic.
PROPOSE HOMES OF GLASS BRICKS
COLUMBUS, OH – Startling changes in domestic arrangements are due if a new transparent building block, being demonstrated by a local factory, becomes popular in house construction. Although the tile keeps out noise, heat and cold and admits light, it lets light out, too, and doesn’t promise much privacy, especially for honeymoon bungalows, for instance.
RUIN AND DESOLATION FOLLOW WORST FIRES IN WESTERN HISTORY
COCHRAN, OR- Thousands of families are made homeless, numerous towns, logging camps and isolated farm dwellings are burned to ashes, and 300,000,000 feet of standing timber are wiped out in a terrific forest conflagration that sweeps over the northwestern corner of this State and southwestern Washington. Hundreds of men and women fight desperately but in vain, powerless to keep their houses from being consumed by the vicious flames. Scores save their lives by leaping into the heated streams as the waves of smoke and red-hot embers, driven by a 50-mile wind, swoop over them. The destruction is a staggering blow to the lumber country.
WOLVERINES DEFEAT WILDCATS IN SEASON’S FIRST BIG GRID TILT
ANN ARBOR, MI – The brilliant football battle between Michigan and Northwestern, ushering in the Big Ten schedule, is filled with thrills for the 60,000 spectators, as the Evanston eleven gets the short end of a 15-6 score, due to fumbles at critical moments and the remarkable running and passing of Newman, a new pigskin star. In the first game between the two schools in seven years, Rentnor, vaunted “power-house” halfback from the Illinois University, is smothered by the strong Michigan defense. A spectacular collegiate struggle and the opening big league match of the year. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32079)
HOOVER DEDICATES NEW EDIFICE BUILT FOR SUPREME COURT
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the presence of a distinguished assemblage of the judiciary and members of the American Bar Association, the President officiates at the laying of the corner stone of the building which is to house the nation’s highest tribunal. The structure, which will cost $10,000,000 when completed, is on a 7-acre plot selected by the late William Howard Taft, just north of the Library of Congress. Chief Justice Hughes and other members of the august body headed by him take part in the impressive ceremonies. An historic event, marking the rapid construction of the first real home for America’s leading law-defining jurists.
40,000 VETERANS MASS IN ANTI-RED PLEDGE TO GOVERNMENT’S CHIEF
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY – “Front Fighter’s Day” is celebrated by an amazing turnout of veterans of the World War, and attended by visiting delegations of former soldiers from all the Central Powers. In perfect military formation, the men proceed to the Palace and are reviewed by Regent Von Horthy and Field Marshal, the Archduke Joseph. Prime Minister Von Gombos, Count Talvay, chief commander of the legionnaires, and other officials take part in the impressive exercises, in which the pledge of loyalty to the monarchy and a defiance of radicalism on the outstanding keynotes.
U.S. TAKES ACTION IN $2,000,000,000 COLLAPSE OF GIANT INSULL EMPIRE
CHICAGO, IL – While the fugitive head of the great mid-west utility empire plays cat and mouse with American diplomatic officials in Greece, and his brother and associate is a prisoner in Canada, governmental authorities are tightening the net around the two principals in the most stupendous industrial debacle in financial history. Threatened with the loss of his passport, Samuel Insull is about to become a man without a country. Meanwhile, the Senate starts a far-reaching investigation into the operation of the pyramided gas and power syndicate. The public service magnate at the height of his influence offers a strange contrast to the hunted old man of today.
THE TIDE TURNS – Business continues upward climb as thousands return to payrolls of nation’s industries.
PART XI
DETROIT, MI – 4,500 men are putting in full time in one of the country’s largest automobile plants, turning out hundreds of cars daily to fill the increasing orders for pleasure cars.
CINCINNATI, OH – Business is more than four times better than it was a year ago for the factory making a well-known brand of women’s shoes. 1,000 employees are working over-time, with months of top-speed activity ahead, to take care of sales already on the books. 5,000 pairs of footwear are completed daily.
CINCINNATI, OH – The biggest greeting card establishment in the world has 1,165 employees on full time with a goal of 50 million cards by New Year’s Day. Easter and next season’s business, piling up already, promises a continuation of the company’s fat payroll..
FRESNO, CA – Market calls for the coming year face the 1,026 employees now on full time at the State’s leading raisin packing- house. Thirty-five carloads are being shipped every day to supply the unusual demand. This is the first time that day and night operation has been necessary at this institution in several years.
CONSTRUCTS “ARK” TO PREPARE FOR WORLD’S COMING TO END IN 1932
OLYMPIA, WA – preaching the early approach of a second Deluge, Captain William L. Greenwood, self-admitted “prophet”, emulates Noah and patches up an old fishing boat to house himself and his followers during his predicted flood. Weird costumes, including a suit of tin-can armor, for the purpose of frightening away the Devil, various wheezy musical instruments and queer and grotesque paintings of the Judgment Day adorn the religious fanatic’s odd craft, now stuck on the mud flats not far from the State capitol. This is an amazing example of human idiosyncrasies gone to seed.
DARING FIRE-FIGHTERS EXCEED THRILL LIMIT IN ANNUAL EXHIBITION
CORVALLIS, OR – Sliding at express elevator speed down a rope from the top of a ten story building, the local Fire Department’s champion rescue team stages an exciting and spine-chilling life saving demonstration. In a feat that sometimes is fatal, the sure-footed “vamps” risk their lives and amaze spectators by their breath-taking descents with supposed smoke “victims”. Hair-raising practice leaps by the country’s greatest rope-sliders is exciting for all to watch.
RECURRENT ‘QUAKE IN REBUILT METROPOLIS WREAKS HAVOC ANEW
WAIROA, NEW ZEALAND – A terrific, early morning earth tremor, rocking inhabitants from their beds and toppling their homes about their ears, demolishes office building, houses, bridges and streets. Worse than the disaster of 1931, from which the city has just completely recovered, the new cataclysm completes the destruction of the countryside, leaving gaping fissures in roads and fields, and piles of debris in place of newly erected structures. With a roar like an artillery bombardment, the ‘quake’ was 90 seconds of violent shocks, and followed by continuous but lighter quivers for hours. Dressing stations and food kitchens give relief to the victims in Nature’s latest curse on the Antipodes. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32080)
FATAL MINE SHOOTING INCREASES TENSION IN COAL “WAR” SITUATION
TYLORVILLE, IL – Conditions are at fever heat in the Southern Illinois “strike” belt as a result of the death of Andy Ganes, a picketer, at the hands of a National Guardsman. Seven companies of the 130th Infantry are patrolling the villages and the roads leading to the various shafts now trying to operate with $5-a-day miners. The battle is between adherents of the United Mine Workers, the old-line union, willing to work at a cut wage, and the newly formed union, the Progressive Miners’ Association, holding out for a $6.10 daily scale, and trying to prevent any work done at the lower pay rate. The soldiers have been called in to guarantee the safety of those who want to work. The entire populace is lined up on one side or the other. It is the worst state of affairs on record in trouble torn Christian Country.
FARMERS STRIVE FOR PLOUGHING HONORS IN INTERNATIONSL MEET
OTTAWA, ONT., CANADA – The annual matches to determine the world’s champion man-behind-the-plough, staged at the Experimental Farm under the supervision of the Hon. Robert Weir, Federal Minister of Agriculture, attracts competing farmers from many lands. Carefully but with speed, the contestants have to turn up a score or more of furrows, which are judged for their depth, alignment and the elapsed time. The test is to encourage painstaking and efficient farming. Careless farm work is costing the Dominion $118,000,000 a year because of weeds, the government experts state. This year’s prizewinner is Algie Wallace, of North Gower, Ont. As a prize, the stalwart son of the northern soil gets – a tea-set!
BUSINESS BOOMS AS CITIZENS RETURN TO OLDTIME SWAP BASIS
SUFFERN, NY – Amazing results in primitive exchange methods of merchandising are obtained at the Art Center here in a “bring and take” trading day arranged by local economists. During the day furniture, clothing, groceries, vegetables, fruits, fowl, wood, coal, household goods, and works of art are brought and bartered by residents from miles around. A turkey goes in exchange for a stained glass plaque, a goat for a bucket of paint, a trousseau for a baby carriage and various unemployed men stake their services and time against food and provisions. This proves to be an amusing and enlightening demonstration of human ingenuity in the tight money era.
EUROPE’S RULERS IN TODAY’S NEWS – HINDENBURG’S FORMER TROOPS VOW LOYALTY
BERLIN, GERMANY – Famous regiments which participated under him in the brilliant World War operations in the Mazurian Lakes region that brought him everlasting fame, do honor to the 85 year old Field Marshal in stirring martial exercises in commemoration of the outstanding feat of the armies of the Vaterland. The 147th Von Hindenburg Regiment, the 3rd Footguard Regiment and the 91st Oldenburg Regiment bear their banners proudly past their former battle chief, while the President, back in uniform for the day, paternally salutes his beloved units.
DE VALERA IN PARLEY WITH CABINET CHIEFS
LONDON, ENGLAND – Tension is high in Downing Street as the President of the Irish Free State visits the Dominion office on his way back from Geneva, to argue over the British-Celtic embroglio. His threat to abolish the Oath of Allegiance is causing great concern. Irish residents of London throng the streets, while foot and mounted police guard the government offices.
SON OF PRES. LEBRUN WEDS TENNIS STAR
RAMBOUILLET, FRANCE – With a simple ceremony at the Mayor’s office, followed by a colorful wedding at the Church of Saint Lubin, Jean Lebrun young engineer at the public electric works in Vitry-sur-Seine, becomes the husband of Bernadette Marin, law student, sports woman and daughter of a former French army officer. High officials of the government attend the picturesque nuptials.
GORY FINISH MARKS ANNUAL FROSH-SOPH INTERCLASS RUCKUS
BROOKLYN, NY – The “pants rush” of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, held in Ebbets Field, is strictly a “stag” affair, as the embattled freshmen, assailed by rank after rank of blood thirsty sophomores, lose their shirts, then their galluses, and finally their trousers, knickers and what-d’ye-callums. However, the youngsters manage to save a few stitches in time from the clutching, tearing hands of the older classmen, and retreat to safety and to less exposed quarters, leaving the victors to execute a snake-dance in celebration of their hard fought battle. They are just a couple of hundred college boys on a “tear”. |
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