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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32051)

DIXIE MARBLE CHAMP SWEEPS FIELD TO WIN ALL-AMERICAN CROWN
OCEAN CITY, NJ – Brushing aside all competition, 13year-old Harley Corum, the pride of Louisville, KY batters his way to the U.S. “miggies” title. The Blue Grass stalwart repeats his flashing victory of 1931 by disposing of a formidable list of opponents and in the final stanza defeats Earl Weisgerber of New Jersey, 5 to 1. His feat gains for him the U.S. laurels and, as an extra prize, the world’s largest lollipop.

CO-EDS BAKE WORLD’S LARGEST SHORTCAKE
LEBANON, OR – The Strawberry City of the Northwest makes its bow in an unusual manner to celebrate a bumper crop of the succulent fruit-let. The domestic science class of the high school turns out a mammoth dessert, comprising 135,000 berries, among other ingredients, measuring 12 by 14 feet. The ton and a half product feeds 6,048 sweet-toothed citizens and marks a new high in sizeable confections.

SHEEP ACT AS LAWN MOWERS
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV – The famous Greenbrier Airport solves a perplexing problem. The fast growing grass proved a vexatious hindrance to the safety of arriving and departing planes, until someone was struck by a bright idea. Accordingly, a herd of sheep is imported and the woolly animals are repaid for their services by a guaranteed diet of their favorite herbage - an idea that kills two birds with one stone, so to speak – and which, incidentally, is being copied by the Tempelhof Airdrome, in Berlin, according to latest dispatches.

ROOSEVELT AND GARNER
CHICAGO, IL – Scenes of unparalleled frenzy feature the 24th Democratic Convention as it gallops down the home stretch.

After 3 ballots, in an all-night session, William G. McAdoo announces for CA and TX that the two states have decided to swing their votes to Roosevelt, starting a stampeded for the New Yorker’s band-wagon that finds all aboard but a few die-hards, irreconcilables for the cause of Al Smith.

The convention is further aroused to heights of enthusiasm by the unanimous nomination of John N. Garner for the Vice-Presidency.

And to cap the climax, feverish excitement prevails when the delegates receive the startling news that Roosevelt is flying to Chicago, breaking all precedent by accepting the nomination at the convention itself.
The arrival of the Nominee arouses a storm of emotion among the great throng that had awaited his appearance for hours. Resting on the arm of his son, Roosevelt receives the acclamation of the Democracy and the announcement of his nomination by Senator Walsh, of Montana, Chairman of the Convention.
The acceptance speech sets forth the Candidate’s stand on the platform in no uncertain terms and promises a fulfillment of Party pledges, made in the Convention.

The historic pictorial document – a faithful recording of one of the most important episodes in the history of the Democratic Party.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32052)

ANXIETY STIRS WORLD AS AIR HEROES STRAY IN SOVIET WASTELAND
Bennett Griffin and James Mattern, fearless air pioneers, take every precaution to insure the mechanical perfection and air-worthiness of their powerful plane, Century of Progress, before their hop-off from North America to establish a new globe circling record. Their remarkable “hop” from Harbor grace, N.F., to Berlin, the first non-stop flight from America to the German capital, and a new record time of 10 hours and 50 minutes from Newfoundland to Ireland, proves their right to challenge the present round-the-world champions, Post and Gatty. The start of the Griffin-Mattern flight is thrilling and portentous, but in this new Odyssey of the air, the intrepid fliers reckoned not with fate and fog. Darkest Russia hugs many secrets. Long hours of fear and uncertainty are the destiny of the fliers’ wives and well wishers, praying for the successful termination of an epic adventure.

200,000 DEVOUT PILGRIMS HERALD CLOSE OF 31ST EUCHARIST CONGRESS
DUBLIN, IRELAND – Impressive scenes stamp themselves indelibly on beholders as pious hordes, assembled in Phoenix Park, Dublin, from all parts of the world, receive the blessing from the Papal Legate, Cardinal Lauri. The ‘procession to the altar’, the Church’s most colorful and inspiring pageant, is viewed by more than a million spectators. Cardinals in scarlet, more than 200 bishops in their royal purple, and a thousand other Church dignitaries, as well as smartly-clad troopers of the Free State Forces, make the last hours of the stupendous religious gathering a never to be forgotten event.

NOSE INSTALLATION ENDS STEEL WORK ON NEW NAVY AIR QUEEN
AKRON, OH – The new dreadnaught of the air, the U.S.S. Macon, which is to be the largest dirigible in the world, already has had its face “lifted”. In a unique ceremony known as “nose raising” the craft’s 75- foot cup-shaped bow was lifted into place amid the cheers of a delegation of citizens from Macon, GA., for whose hometown the huge aircraft is named.

FARM WOES LIFT AS HOG PRICES CONTINUE ON SENSATIONAL RISE
FONTANA, CA – The price of hogs has a lot to do with prosperity prospects these days, especially at the world’s largest hog farm, where 56,000 porkers are being fattened to a no uncertain end, and where it takes almost 1000 tons of food-stuff, distributed by three large railway cranes and 150 men, to keep them happy at meal time. These hogs are fed a special food made from orange pump and rind, a by-product from the orange juice business. With the price of hogs up 57% in the last month and its accompanying upward influence on grain and allied farm products, as reflected in increased activity in American produce exchanges, agrarian leaders are a rapid approach of the sentiment expressed in “Happy Days Are Here Again”.

UPSHAW, OF GEORGIA NOMINATED BY DRYS, FOR PRESIDENT OF U.S.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – The Drys, the real “bone-drys” otherwise known as the National Prohibition Party, have just had a convention, too. William D. Upshaw, once a Congressman and formerly known as the Georgia Cyclone, agreed to become the party’s candidate in case Senator Borah or some other outstanding “dry” could not be induced to run – they couldn’t. Whereupon, Candidate Upshaw, Keynoter Howard, National Chairman D. Leigh Colvin, Canon Chase and other serious minded “Drys” get down to the real business of the convention, consisting of a barrage of invectives, adjectives, oratory and fireworks hurled at the Democratic and Republican platforms and parties, at “likker”, at light wines and beer, and at anyone with a suspicion of a parched throat. It was a field day for anti-thirst eloquence – and to cap the climax, Miss George Nye, “The Quaker Evangelist”, does her bit to flay King Alcohol and his corps of wet- thinking minions among the major political parties.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32053)

HOMES AND BUSINESS IN RUINS AS CYCLONE HITS HISTORIC TOWN
VERNON, IN – Twisting its way out of the northwest while residents were seeking a noonday respite for the sultry summer weather, the relentless storm tore its way through the center of the town, leaving a good portion of the business section demolished and almost two score families homeless. Today, many of the homes in Vernon look like those dollhouses you see with the fronts missing. Other dwellings are mere piles of kindling, with their former habitants rooting around in the ruins for the Sunday clothes. An unusual number of freak occurrences and narrow escapes marked this twister, and was the second to hit Vernon in a decade.

CITIZEN TROOPS DEFY GOVERNMENT EDICT IN ANTI-POLITICAL RALLY
KALKSBURG, AUSTRIA – Aroused by the militant methods and military demonstrations of their political opponents, the National-Socialists, the Austrian Social Democratic Party has organized its own militia, known as the Republican Protection Guard. It decides to show its strength and, barred by law from parades or demonstrations in the city of Vienna, stages its mobilization in Kalksburg, a small town near the capital. A day and night of military maneuvers is followed by a parade and massed assembly in which twenty thousand stalwart young Austrians, well uniformed and equipped, take part, while thousands of sympathizers cheer. Politics is a serious business in Europe. Imaging the Republicans and Democrats each with a well-equipped army “for protection” – there would be no voters left by November.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
PORT JEFFERSON, NY – Roosevelt off on vacation! – Democratic nominee to spend a week on the ocean wave.

SAME, JAPAN – Spectacular seagull invasion ousts natives! – Inhabitants flee as millions of birds seize fishing-island.

LAKE FOREST, IL – Fifteen-year-old mechanical genius builds locomotive! – 80 miles an hour claimed for odd vehicle.

MOTOR BANK SOLVES MONEY PROBLEMS OF INLAND COMMUNITIES
WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, OH – “The Greenbacks are coming”! is the cry that rings through four Ohio counties since the inauguration of the novel rolling bank which now is giving banking service in a number of towns and villages where the regular banks have gone under. Twice a week, the bank on wheels circulates to Springfield, cashing checks, taking deposits, and allowing withdrawals. The bank, an armored car, with cashier’s cage, guards and other bank machinery, stops once in small villages and twice in larger towns. The countryside is enthusiastic over the new service. Farmers, their wives, small merchants, tradesmen and workmen with pay checks crowd around the pay-off truck at each stop. The bank has solid rubber tires to keep the checks from bouncing. Their motto was “Any checks, and drafts, any dollars today”!

J. D. ROCKEFELLER, ON 93RD BIRTHDAY, SEES TRADE TIDE TURNING
POCANTICO HILLS, NY – When a man’s age gets higher than his golf score, he is ripe with experience and his observations carry the weight of wisdom. The aged oil millionaire, now only seven years short of the century mark, looks back over the past and makes the sage statement that in his life he has seen many depressions come and go. Prosperity has always returned and will return again, he predicts. The acute mind that built the first great utility corporation and the first personal business fortune of modern-day magnitude, is still keen despite the physical infirmities that limit him to a few holes of golf and short walks among his flowers daily. Faith in God, in ourselves and in humanity will help us to go forward courageously in building a better world, is his encouraging birthday message.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32054)

$2,000,000 MYSTERY FIRE WREAKS DISASTER AT FAMED BEACH RESORT
CONEY ISLAND, NY – The worst and most spectacular amusement park fire in twenty years wipes out a large section of this national sea-side playground, leaving 2000 Summer cottagers homeless, and thousands of bathers stranded without clothes or car-fare home. The mid-afternoon conflagration, on the summer’s hottest day, sweeps five square blocks along the famous boardwalk. Thousands, at the water’s edge, watch as the bathhouses where they left their clothes go up like kindling. Fire apparatus from all sections of New York respond to save the entire island from ruin. Five hundred firemen, police and volunteer helpers are on the casualty list with minor burns or overcome by smoke. Two hundred thousand spectators jam the beaches and island thoroughfares to watch Coney Island’s biggest “show”.

KAYE DON EXCEEDS WORLD SPEED MARK IN THRILLING TRIALS
LOSH LOMAND, SCOTLAND – Kaye Don, death-defying British speedboat king, wrests the world’s record from America with terrific speed of more than 114 miles per hour in Miss England III, the new 5000- horsepower racer built for Lord Wakefield. In the picturesque setting, famed in song and story, Don drives his new speedster until the craft literally leaps from the water. Gar Wood’s American record of 111.7 miles per hour, made off the Florida coast earlier this year, falls unofficially as the $200,00 boat porpoises in its trial spin.

FUGITIVE FOR 19 YEARS CAUGHT AND FREED AS REWARD FOR HONESTY
NEW YORK, NY – William H. Collins, who escaped from San Quentin prison, California, in 1913 was recently apprehended in this city and identifies as the result of a scuffle with several men annoying his wife and daughters, wins his release because of his exemplary life since he fled from durance vile. The Governor of California, hearing of the captured fugitive’s excellent reputation as a truck-man and as the head of a devoted family, refuses to ask for extradition, so New York courts allow Collins to go free – a real example of justice tempered with mercy.

RAGING RIVER FLOODS COUNTRYSIDE; 12 DEAD, HUNDREDS HOMELESS
GALLAGHER, WV – Sudden and terrible floods descend upon thriving hamlets, trapping hundreds, tossing houses about like matches and laying waste to the pleasant valleys and humble habitations, with the loss of twelve lives, countless head of cattle and leaving 300 families homeless. The scenes of debris and desolation are appalling. Soup kitchens and special provisions rushed in over dangerous roads by the Red Cross and other charitable organizations keep the victims from starvation.

THOUSANDS GATHER IN ANCIENT CAPITAL FOR HISTORIC “PALIO” FIESTA
SIENA, ITALY – The oldest horse race in the world, the Palio, an old Fourteenth Century custom, has its 1932 run-off amid scenes of color and excitement. Thirty thousand people jam the great city piazza around which the race is run, following an elaborate pageant in medieval costume with much fanfare and expert waving of banners and guidons. The dangerous turns of the improvised track, so sharp that mattresses are hung on the rail to save the necks of unseated contestants, provide several big thrills and spills. The winner received a special Palio or banner, the time-honored award that gives this race its name.

WILD ACCLAIM HAILS AMAZING CALISTHENIC CENTENNIAL TOURNEY
PRAGUE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA – 17,000 girl athletes, in graceful exercises, executed in perfect unison, inspire 250,000 spectators to cheers and applause during the greatest outdoor gymnastic demonstration of all time – the 100-year celebration of the “Sokol” Congress. As far as the eye can see, in lines as clean-cut as West Pointers on parade, white arms gleam and twine, heads and bodies sway in undulating movement, all as one. Without doubt this was the most impressive and awesome sight ever witnessed in the great President Wilson Athletic Stadium.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32055)

WOMEN STARS SHINE IN OLYMPIC TRY-OUTS
EVANSTON, IL – Mildred (Babe) Didrikson, hailing from Dallas, Texas, almost qualifies as a one-girl Olympic team in the try-outs here, by taking first in the 80-meter hurdles, in the javelin throw and in the high-jump, as well as placing in the discus throw and taking three other firsts in A.A.U.

EVENTS.
Ethel Harrington if the Illinois Women’s A.C. is first in the 100-meter dash.

JONES BEACH, NY – Uncle Sam’s water witches, too, will give good account of themselves in the Olympics. Helene Madison, of Seattle, sets a new record in the try-outs for the 400-meter free style race, while Eleanor Holm of New York, proves her complete mastery in the 100-meter backstroke race, and does her share to celebrate the winning of a place on the U.S. Olympic by smashing the record to smithereens.

HEROIC FIREFIGHTERS RISK THEIR LIVES IN BATTLE WITH BLAZING TANKER
GOODHOPE, LA – A series of terrific early morning explosions startles the inhabitants for miles along the lower Mississippi River near here when the oil tanker Rawleigh Warner bursts into flames at her mooring. Four of the crew are injured as fire boats and fire companies rush to the scene from New Orleans, twenty miles away. Casing-head gasoline, pouring from the buckling plates of the tanker, makes the river about her an inferno. Spectators are cleared from the levees, lest there be other explosions, but the fearless smoke eaters wade into the blazing hell and finally conquer the flames.

U.S.-MEXICAN BORDER BRIDGE PACT – DOOMS GAY PEON WEEKENDS
FORT HANCOCK, TX – Another old Latin custom, the weekly opening of the Rio Grande ford between this place and Porvenir, Mexico, is doomed with promise of a bridge to span the border river here. Every Saturday morning U.S. customs men travel fifty miles from El Paso to open the ford for legal passage, for one day only. Hundreds of Mexicans await the signal to ride, drive or wade across and make whoopee for one day on U.S. soil – another picturesque bit of the old West soon to pass into history.

GAR WOOD LAUNCHES NEW SPEED DEMON IN TRY FOR DON’S CROWN
ALGONAC, MI – Spurred by Kaye Don’s sensational seizure of the speed boat title for Great Britain this week, Gar Wood, veteran American racer, takes the first trial spin in the newly completed Miss America X, a mystery boat which will bring back the speed record to the U.S., American sportsmen hope. In its debut, the racer is impressive, with none of the original bouncing defects of the speedy British craft. It will have to go more than two miles a minute to beat Don’s boat, Miss England III, however, and the eyes of race fans already are turned toward the Harmsworth contest next September, when the two water monsters meet in personal combat – and what a battle THAT’LL be!

NATIVES FACE FAMINE AS LOCUST SCOURGE RAVISHES FARMLANDS
TAMAGRUT, MOROCCO – The feared plague of the ancients – locusts – millions of the ravenous insects, sweep a wide swathe through Central Morrocco, devouring every leaf, every blade of grass and growing thing in their path. This is the annual movement of locusts toward the Atlas Mountains, and a period of dread for the hapless native farmers. Nothing, not even fire, can turn them back. Faced with starvation because of the devastating hordes, the entire male population of the district fights desperately with fire and with death traps to head off the relentless invaders.

ROCKER-GLIDER PILOT DROPS FROM BLIMP IN SENSATIONAL FLIGHT
AURORA, IL – William G. Swan of Atlantic City, whose pastime is soaring aloft in gliders shot into the air by rockets, tries a new death defying stunt, of having his glider borne several thousand feet up by a huge hot-air balloon, then cutting loose and sky-rocketing in immense circles. He finally reaches the ground safely but almost comes to grief when the deflated balloon nearly hits his glider in mid-air. This flight, says Swan, is a big step toward cross-ocean rocket-plane travel, which he sees as an actuality before many more years have passed.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32056)

PENNY MEALS SERVED IN EX-SPEAKEASY BY RICH PHILANTHROPIST
NEW YORK, NY – A novel One Cent Restaurant is opened to provide food at copper-bottom prices for the unemployed and others of small funds. Nine thousand persons crowd its doors daily. The average check for a meal is five-cents, with soup, coffee or vegetable stew at one cent each, and a wide variety of others dishes at equally low prices. Chorus girls, truck drivers, aged thespians, shop girls and others, all testify at lunch hour to the practical philanthropy of the new eating place, where a man can subsist reasonably on thirty five cents a week.

BRITISH AIR MINISTRY HAILS FORMAL DEBUT OF NEW SKY MONSTER
ROCHESTER, ENGLAND – Britain’s new aerial battleship, twice the size of any other flying craft produced in that country, takes the air in a spectacular trial spin. Ninety feet long, with a wing spread of 120 feet, weighing more than 33 tons and fitted with six Rolls-Royce engines totaling 5580 horsepower, the great air-craft will be used for scouting, long-range, bombing and torpedo carrying. It has a crew of ten, but, as a passenger ship, could carry 115 persons – a stirring picture of a real fortress of the clouds.

4-TON BLAST HITS NEW RECORD IN HISTORY OF BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION
BARKER’S LANDING, DE – A half-pound stick of dynamite can make lots of noise and do plenty of damage, but to see 16,000 of them go off at once is awe-inspiring. Huge stones, mud and dirt, rising hundreds of feet in the air, form a veritable curtain across the sky. Houses are shaken as if by an earthquake for many miles around and debris is scattered over twenty-five acres, in the greatest explosives achievement in construction history.

WORLD’S BIGGEST KITE LAUNCHED AS PRAYER FOR MALE OFFSPRING
HOSHUBANA, JAPAN – It’s a great day for youngsters in this town when the grown-ups make a monster kite fifty feet high and thirty-six feet wide to fly as a good-luck omen for the boys of the village. It takes scores to make this kite and at least a hundred to run with it. There’s a great thrill when the huge toy rises majestically into the clouds. It means prosperity for the sons of every family and plenitude of male children to bless the declining years of aging parents – one of the world’s most picturesque customs.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPES FEATURE TRAIN CRASH AT 70 MILES AN HOUR
HAMLET, IN – Chicago bound, at seventy miles an hour, an early morning Pennsy express train, rushing mail, milk and express, as well as passengers to the Windy City, left the rails here and piled up in one of the most disastrous appearing wrecks ever seen – yet only one man was injured! How anyone could live through this mass of twisted steel and splintered railway rolling stock is one of the marvels of railroad history.

HUGE DEMONSTRATION CONCLUDES 1932 WORLD CONGRESS OF “SOKOLS”
PRAGUE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA – More than 120,000 Czechoslovakian men and women, many in picturesque peasant costumes and all members of various Sokol calisthenic organizations, march in thrilling array as the climax of the great 9th Sokol Congress. Three-quarters of a million spectators line the streets to watch and cheer. The display in the biggest event of the year in Czechoslovakia and is reviewed by President Masaryk, his cabinet and all legation heads – nearly a million people, massed to do honor th their ideals of clean, healthy living.

LOVERS HIE TO COURT FOR FREE WEDDINGS AND COOKBOOK BONUS
CHICAGO, IL – With marriages performed free of charge and a cookbook thrown in as a bonus, Judge Edward B. (Cupid) Casey of the Municipal Court here inaugurates a new era in Chicago’s vital statistics – and what a rush on the part of not-too-bashful young couples to take advantage of this offer! The Judge is out to correct last month’s record of more divorces than marriages in this city and that he’s succeeding is evidenced by the way the hopeful swains step up for a free pass to the home plate.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32057)

IMPERIAL CONGRESS FAVORS ALL-BRITISH COMMERCE ALLIANCE
OTTAWA, ONT. CANADA – Pomp and pageantry mark the assembling of delegates from all parts of the British Empire to the Economic Conference in the majestic Parliament Building here. Before the most august gathering of Britons ever held outside of England, Lord Bessborough, Governor-General of Canada opens the congress by reading the King’s message, while delegates from the earth’s four corners stand in reverence. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, former British Premier and leader of the English delegates, is introduced by Premier Bennett of Canada, and voices England’s new economic policy in dealing with the far-flung components of the British Empire - one of the most impressive and important events of the day, and one that will undoubtedly result in important international consequences.

LUMBERJACK STARS VIE FOR WORLD TITLE IN FAR WEST “ROLLEO”
LONGVIEW, WA – The championship contest for master woodsmen of the United States and Canada is just as thrilling and exciting as a “rodeo”. Climbing a 150-foot spar-tree, sawing off the top of it single- handed, and climbing back to the ground in seven minutes and forty-five seconds, a new world’s record, had to be seen to be believed. A boxing match on a floating log is another thrill to watch but not to attempt – the Big Tree Country holds its own Olympiad.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
LAWRENCE, KS – Trick plane defies modern aviation! Odd “Potato Bug” proves professor’s flight theory. It’s a pusher, with tandem wings, but it certainly goes up!

BOSTON, MA – Youthful engineers perfect odd craft! Q.: When is an auto not an auto? A.: When it’s a boat. Ingenious boys rig old auto on oil drum pontoons and with propeller instead of wheels, make merry on the Charles River Basin.

AMAZING SUBMARINE DEVICE TO ELIMINATE UNDERSEA DISASTERS
POINT LOMA, CA – Demonstrating with remarkable ease the rescue of sailors trapped in a submarine in 60 feet of water, the new diving bell perfected by the U.S. Navy makes its debut. The new device, known as the Submarine Rescue Chamber, is a huge pear-shaped gadget, weighing 17,000 pounds. With a crew of several officers and men, it descends to the submerged submarine S-4, attaches itself to the exit hatch and takes aboard four sailors at a time, bobbing up to the surface with them, safe and sound. A real sea-thrill, and a fore-runner of future protection, denied the heroes of the past who gave their lives in such disasters as the sinking of the Promethee with 61 aboard in France recently, the British Poseidon, with 20, the American S-51, with 37, and the S-4 itself, off Provincetown, MA, with 40.

POLICE SEEK CLUES IN DAM-SITE LABOR WAR
MARSEILLES, IL – Tension is high in LaSalle County as the Sheriff and his aides quiz the wounded and others after a pitched battle between local organized labor and imported workers on the big waterway dam near here that cost one life and a score of wounded. Pistols, rifles, shot-guns, bricks, barbed entanglements and electrically charged wire figured in the fight between 350 union men on one side and 150 dam-site laborers on the other. State highway troopers and special deputies guard against a flare-up, while national guardsmen are in readiness for mobilization.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32058)

BOARD OF TRADE TO FIGHT GOVERNMENT’S SUSPENSION ORDER
CHICAGO, IL – Bitter war looms in the train market as the Chicago Board of Trade defies the 60-day closing order by the Federal Grain Futures Commission, when President Peter B Carey, in a strong interview, avers that such closing would precipitate a world-wide panic. He characterizes the commission’s restrictions as having been instigated by “agricultural racketeers”.

C. E. Huff, president of the Farmer’s National Grain Corporation, defends the federal ruling, and vividly outlines the battle-lines between the grain pit and the farmers’ co-operatives. Both sides of a vital economic struggle are presented by the field marshals of the opposing factions – one of the important national news stories of the day.

REVOLUTIONISTS FLEE SILENT CITY BOWS TO MILITARY OCCUPATION

BELEM, BRAZIL – Nerve-wracking, indeed, is the existence of the natives in Brazil’s revolution zone. Towns change hands over night and rebels and loyalists experience difficulty in knowing when to cheer or to keep mum. A “viva” at the wrong time may mean the firing squad. Even the troops swap allegiance without warning. No man can trust his neighbor. Scenes in Brazil’s new war zone add a new meaning to the “bitterness” of civil strife.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
HAMPTON, VA – This Virginia town wrests the laurels from Winsted, CT, the fabled home of freaks of nature, by producing a litter of pigs that receive their nourishment from two Jersey cows. The little porkers, left motherless by a cruel fate, seem to thrive mightily on Grade-A milk, from contented bovines. Farmers of the vicinity predict a typical Burbank outcome, with roast Virginia veal-ham as a new table delicacy - it’s no fake, pigs is calves.

TOKIO, JAPAN – Nippon’s most impressive military ceremony is the Celebration of the Colors of the 4th Japanese Regiment of the Imperial Guard. The Mikado’s crack soldiers annually re-enact the review inaugurated in 1887 when it received its battle flag from the hands of the revered Emperor Jeiji himself. The colors have passed through two bloody conflicts, the Sin-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War and now hang in cherished ribbons as a result of bullets and shell-fire – the flower of the Rising Sun in inspiring martial galaxy!

40 CARS LEAP RAILS IN DISASTROUS SMASHUP CAUSED BY SUN’S RAYS
BELLEFONTAINE, OH – The worst freight wreck in the history of Ohio railroading! Car load after car load of “rush” merchandise piles up at 50 miles an hour, scattering debris for 400 feet along the tracks and heaping themselves into mountains of splintered box-cars and packing cases. Hats, shoes, handbags, medicines, sugar, salt, canned goods, safety pins, razor blades and paper cups are flung high and wide. The derailment was caused by “sun-buckle” or “sun-kinks” in the rails due to the unprecedented heat that has recently visited this locality.

1 KILLED, SCORES HURT IN BONUS RIOTS; ARMY MOBILIZES IN CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Hoover calls out infantry, cavalry, tanks and other troops to rout the Bonus Expeditionary Force, after a fatal clash between “vets” and police results in casualties. Foot by foot, at bayonet’s point, the intruders are forced from their shack and tent camp in the heart of the nation’s capital during the most critical situation in the Federal District since the Civil War. Bombs are hurled, emitting clouds of blinding tear-gas that makes weeping, cursing groups of the once determined compensation crusaders. Stumbling towards fresh air, the unwelcome visitors see their former abodes put to the torch. Urged, shoved, dragged and occasionally encouraged by the broad side of a cavalry sabre, the one-time soldiers are helpless as incendiary grenades send their shacks up in smoke. A thousand flames ascend, spreading a pall of smoke that shrouds the brilliant white dome of the Capitol close-by. Hundreds of thousands of spectators crowd the streets, taxing police and military safety zones, to view the most cataclysmic domestic event of the decade.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32059)

“BONUSEERS” MOBILIZE FOR HIKE TO PRIVATE HAVEN AT LAUREL, MD
JOHNSTOWN, PA – five thousand stragglers from the rout of the Bonus Army in Washington are re-forming their battalions at Ideal Park before advancing again to the vicinity of the nation’s capital. Trekking over the mountain roads leading to the city, hundreds more are on the way to the concentration point, where “khaki shirts”, the new idea in organized governmental opposition, are being donned as a distinctive uniform. Hundreds of tents and campfires bring reminiscences of old-time army bivouacs as the Vets gather at the invitation of Mayor McCluskey and despite the opposition of prominent Johnstownians.

WORLD’S PARACHUTE LEAP RECORD BROKEN BY DARING AERONAUT
DAYTON, OH – Fourteen jumps in one day is the remarkable feat of Whitey Rauner of Cincinnati, besting by two the former title-holder. It takes Rauner from 7:30 A.M. until 6:30 P.M. to go up in a plane, shove off, come down, bundle up his ‘chute, go up again, hop out, float down and so on until he passes the previous mark of twelve consecutive leaps - one of the country’s most fearless air-devils in his latest thrilling achievements.

WAR TANK HURDLES 12-FOOT TRENCH AT 50 MILES PER HOUR
LINDEN, NJ – The newest war machine, an armored tractor that speeds on roads at 112 miles an hour, across rough fields at 60 miles an hour, and can leap across streams and ditches, astounds Army heads in an amazing trial run. It is the newest invention of J. W. Christie, who is fairly on his way to revolutionizing modern warfare. The tank is made to be transported from battlefield to battlefield by airplane and among its armament is a real cannon – a vivid demonstration of what the next world conflict will have to cope with.

NATION’S SPEED ACES THRILL THOUSANDS IN MIDGET BOAT CLASSIC
CHICAGO, IL – Arrell Reinking, Butler University student, wins the Commander Eugene F. McDonald Trophy in one of the most spirited outboard motor races ever held in these waters. The event is known as the Century of Progress Regatta, held in the South Lagoon at the World’s Fair Grounds. More than a hundred record skipjacks drive their small craft over the hotly contested course, marked by breath-taking spills and narrow escapes.

THE TIDE TURNS
Industrial confidence returning! Hundreds go back to work as commerce takes definite upward trend.

PART I
GLOUCESTER, MA – The opening of a new cannery puts many on the payroll and heralds a long awaited improvement in the New England food fish trade.

PERTH AMBOY, NJ – Enthusiastic craftsmen hail the end of a lay-off – important hat factory re-opens with orders for six months.

WARREN, OH – One of the country’s leading steel plants calls employees back to work as business pours in, indicating a marked construction revival.

PASSAIC, NJ – A big worsted mill here speeds up to a 24-hour basis, with 3800 workers now on three shifts.

INSPIRING RITES MARK COLORFUL OPENING OF 10TH OLYMPIC GAMES
LOST ANGELES, CA – The glory that was Greece comes to full blossom in the vast stadium, built at a cost of close to $2,000,000. Two thousand stalwarts, representing the cream of thirty nine nations, take the oath of pure sportsmanship as Vice-President Curtis open the Tenth Olympiad. 105,000 thrilled and cheering spectators from all over the globe view the inspiring “march of nations” and hear Lt. George C. Calnan, U.S.N., representative athlete, take the oath for the glory of sport on behalf of the host of world-picked competitors. The inspiring ceremony starts the greatest and most spectacular gathering in the 27 centuries of organized athletics.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32060)

VON GRONAU SAFE AT FINISH OF DARING HOP OVER NORTH ATLANTIC
CHICAGO, IL – The veteran German birdman and his intrepid crew set their huge craft, the Greenland Whale, gently into the waters of Lake Michigan after flying over the top of the world, thus proving the excellence of the “Northeast Passage” as a short-cut between Europe and the Middle West. Thousands crowd the shorefront to welcome the overseas fliers and hundreds of thousands cheer their triumphal progress to City Hall. Captain Wolfgang von Gronau’s third trans-oceanic flight marks an important mile- post in the development of practical continent-to-continent air traffic.

ANCIENT CITY SHAKEN BY GREATEST QUARRY EXPLOSION IN HISTORY
CARRARA, ITALY – An entire mountainside of marble is dislodged by a ten-ton blast that took six months to prepare. 300,000 cubic meters of world-famed marble are made available for statuary, monuments and building purposes as a result of the concentrated dynamite charge. Villages for miles around feel the force of the record detonation, startling even in a land of earthquakes. Clouds of marble dust blot out the sun as an aftermath of this spectacular community effort in the Apuan Alps, caused by an influx of sudden orders for the famous stone, indicating renewed activity in the construction industry.

ENDURANCE RECORDS BROKEN BY YOUTHFUL WAGON-PUSHING ACES
HACKENSACK, NJ – Not to be outdone by tree-sitters, dance marathoners and other long distance experts, a group of Italian schoolboys, in the midst of a push-mobile contest, already have hung up a new world’s title of more than 200 hours. A beer-case nailed on a plank and set on baby buggy wheels is the vehicle in which they are riding to somewhat questionable fame. An hour at a time, day and night, while neighbors cheer, the boys take turn about. Training headquarters and regular rub-downs give the venture a professional cast, although the young athletes vigorously deny any deviation from a strictly amateur status quo.

INTERNED PEASANTS FLEE SIBERIAN REDS FOR PARAGUAY HAVEN
SHANGHAI, CHINA – Thousands of German Mennonite farms and their families wait here for boats to Paraguay, on the last leg of an 18-year migration from the Volga River to a new land of promise. Fleeing from Soviet oppressors across the ice-bound Amur River in the dead of winter, they trekked across Manchuria to the coast. A religious sect opposed to war, they have been embroiled in the World War, the Russian revolution, and in the recent Manchurian and Chinese conflicts. And now, Paraguay, the long hoped-for resting place, is at odds and Bolivia - a queer succession of martial incidents in the lives of a peaceful people.

U.S. MAINTAINS LEAD IN 10TH OLYMPIAD AS WORLD MARKS FALL
LOS ANGELES, CA – The great International games provide one thrill after another. Cupped in the lap of the colorful and majestic amphitheatre, the giants of modern sport surprise themselves and the entire globe as record after record goes overboard in new bursts of speed and unheard of efforts of heart and muscle.
Eddie Tolan, a veritable lunar eclipse, casts a dark shadow over a dozen or more countries as he breasts the tape, American title-holder par excellence, in the 100-meter dash.

Ireland brings the huge stadium to its feet as Robert Tisdall triumphs in the 400-meter hurdles and Dr. Patrick O’Callaghan winds himself up and tosses the hammer 176 feet 11 and a fraction inches.
Poland’s representatives astound the vast crowd when Janusz Kusocinski lopes in a winner in the grueling 10,000-meter run, and Stella Walsh speeds to glory in the break-neck finish of the women’s 100-meter dash.

Mildred “Babe” Didrikson, America’s woman ace in the field events, walks away with high honors in the woman’s javelin throw, and apologizes because her hand slipped.

Leo Sexton rings up another ten-spot for the United States by heaving the shot to a new Olympic footage, and again the Stars and Stripes wave at the top of the staff as Ed Gordon leaps 25 feet plus in the broad jump.

Canada’s prize athlete brings resounding cheers from the spectators as Duncan McNaughton soars to new Olympic heights in the high jump – 6 feet 5 5/8 inches, and Great Britain has her hour of grandeur when Tom Hampson, the English university star, shows his iron nerve by winning the heart-breaking 800-meter run, even though he collapses at the finish.

America’s fast mounting lead in the great skill contest takes another ten-point jump as Lillian Copeland hurls the discus 133 feet and 2 inches, besting the toss of her teammate, Ruth Osborne, a one minute heroine, by almost two feet.

The greatest athletes in history, in their breath-taking moments of triumph, create a spectacle never before equaled in the realm of sport.
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