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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32061)
SOUTH SIDE IN PERIL AS RAGING FIRE TAKES $6,000,000 DAMAGE TOLL
CHICAGO, IL – A grain dust explosion in the five-story Quincy elevator starts the Windy City’s worst conflagration in a decade. Leaping to the Omaha Packing plant and to the Crane Lumber Yard, the flames turn the Chicago River front into a seething furnace. Half the city’s fire apparatus, including several fireboats, seek to stem the blaze. Thousands of spectators risk danger to watch the billowing flame-clouds and falling walls. More than a thousand hogs, sheep and cattle are burned to ashes and a million bushels of grain go up in smoke. This is the most spectacular holocaust seen here since the Great Fire of ’71.
8 COUPLES REMAIN IN GRUELLING 3 MONTH DANCING MARATHON
CONEY ISLAND, NY – 2185 consecutive hours of one-stepping, fox-trotting and waltzing, is the amazing achievement to date, of the long-distance “hoofers” who are “stepping out” the Summer in a special arena at the nation’s playground. There were 66 couples at first, but the 91st day of the contest sees only a few left, and they have to be dragged out on the floor and set on their feet following their brief rest periods. The men and women take turns about, sleeping on each other’s shoulders and moving their slumber – a remarkable spectacle of human endurance – or something!
LAVISH ARRAY MARKS ANNIVERSARY FETE OF ANCIENT METROPOLIS
KYOTO, JAPAN – A score of huge floats, elaborately decorated and embellished, are drawn through the streets of this wealthy city in the Flowery Kingdom’s most colorful celebration. Built 1200 years ago and costing a half million dollars a year to repair and maintain, the great juggernauts awe thousands, gazing rapturously at their golden and bejeweled splendor. Hundreds of gaily-dressed school children, aided by strong men, drag the beautifully carved vehicles through Shijo-Dori, the local Main Street, in Nippon’s most gorgeous festival.
THE TIDE TURNS: Business optimism rises as revival of industry puts thousands back on nation’s payrolls.
PART II
CLIFTON HEIGHTS, PA – State’s leading woolen mill re-opens at capacity as overjoyed workers again take their places at machines.
MILWAUKEE, WI – Big shoe factory, swamped with orders, re-hires 600 former employees and now runs full blast.
SACRAMENTO, CA – Huge fruit-packing plant puts 2200 to work canning this year’s peach crop. Happy factory girls storm the doors as the whistle blows for “start work”.
NEW YORK, NY – Business upturn and slump “relief” reflected by crowds dining and dancing at hotel roof gardens and other pleasure palaces.
U.S.
INCREASES LEAD IN OLYMPICS AS MORE WORLD RECORDS FALL
LOS ANGELES, CA – Cheered by 85,000 speed-mad spectators, track and field aces from the four corners of the globe outdo all previous efforts in strength and stamina and new world heroes rise to unheard of heights of prowess.
Bill Miller of Stanford upholds the supremacy of America by a hair’ breadth in the pole vault against a dark horse from Japan.
George Saling, the Iowa flash, outraces his teammates to make the 110-meter hurdles a one, two, three sweep for the U. S.
Eddie Tolan, the Michigan marvel, does it again, showing his heels to the pack in the 200-meter dash. Another 1, 2, 3 for Uncle Sam, the colored boy emerging as a twenty year record breaker with both the 100- and 200-meter scalps in his belt.
Finland takes 1, 2, 3 in the javelin throw with powerful Matti Jarvinen hurling the spear 20 feet further than the former Olympic mark.
“Babe” Didrikson, the Dallas whiz, noses out her teammate, Evelyn Hall, by two inches in the 80-meter hurdles for women.
Japan’s sun rises for the first time in the 1932 games when Chuhei Nambu sets a new world and Olympic record 51 feet 7 inches in the Hop, Skip and Jump.
Italy provides an upset as Luigi Beccali runs the field off its feet in the 1500-meter race.
Bill Carr, the Arkansas Traveller again outruns his West Coast Rival, Ben Eastman of Stanford, to win top honors for the U.S. in the 400-meter run.
Finland jumps into second place with Iso Hollo’s walk away in the 3000-meter steeplechase, resulting in a 70-yard margin for the young Scandinavian typesetter.
And again, Finland is awarded top laurels as Louri Lehtinen, in a sensational finish, gets first place in the 5000-meter run, with Ralph Hill, Oregon college star, a surprising second by three inches.
The greatest, most breath-taking series of Athletic spectacles ever seen in this country. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32062)
WORKMEN FLOCK TO “IDLE TOWN” AWAITING REVIVAL OF BUSINESS
NEW YORK, NY – Two hundred laborers have established a model “shack city” almost in the heart of the metropolis, to be on hand when employment starts. Headed by an iron-jawed Texas sailor, as Mayor, the denizens keep their shacks and their streets clean, operate community kitchens, a laundry and barber shop and zealously prevent “bums” from joining their colony. The Mayor’s bungalow, three rooms and sleeping porch, is City Hall and there the “councilmen” devise ways and means to keep their constituents orderly and comfortable until they find jobs again.
BRITAIN’S HEIR HONORS HERO DEAD AT SITE OF GREAT WAR CENOTAPH
THIEPVAL, FRANCE – On a shell-scarred ridge overlooking the hallowed terrain of the great Battle of the Somme, the Prince of Wales dedicates the elaborate memorial built in memory of 73,767 British soldiers “missing in action” in the three months’ carnage near here in 1916. Before a great throng of English, Scotch, Irish, Belgians and French, including President Lebrun of France and his suite of high civil and military officials, the Prince, himself a veteran of the world conflict, makes a strong appeal for international peace. A salute by French troops, Scotch bag-pipers and the ritual of the colors are picturesque highlights in the ceremonies at the base of the 200-foot arch.
ROYAL PILOT GUIDES YACHT TO VICTORY IN FAMED RACE CLASSIC
COEWS, ENGLAND – While his eldest son speaks on behalf of international amity, King George V proves he is a good sailor by hauling the main sheet and taking the wheel of his cutter Britannia in the race climax of Royal Regatta Week. Under the expert hand and direction of the British sovereign, long noted as “the sailor King”, the black-hulled craft slices the water with amazing speed, winning over a field of the aristocrats of yacht-dom and annexing first prize of 70 pounds and the Challenge Cup. Thousands from the British Isles, the Continent and America congregate at the noted Royal Yacht Squadron club house to witness England’s most colorful water spectacle.
COINLESS CUSTOMERS DONATE LABOR AS PAY FOR PAST-DUE DEBTS
JOLIET, IL – Faced with removal because of an expiring lease, the Grohar brothers, grocers, induce 100 of their debtors, carpenters, brick-layers, plasterers, plumbers and other artisans among them, to work out their grocery bills by building a new store. With a score or more working every day, the structure rises rapidly. The two tradesmen supply lunch and tobacco to their willing helpers. More than $5000 in food bills is being “paid” in this manner, and the new grocery will be known as “The Store That Friendship Built”.
U.S.
ATHLETES ADD TO OVERWHELMING LEAD IN Xth OLYMPIC GAMES
LOS ANGELES, CA – In the great west coast amphitheatre, built as the setting for the globe’s supreme tests of might and main, Uncle Sam’s prize sons and daughters win again and again to make the 1932 Olympiad a runaway for the U.S.A.
The speedy American quartette in the men’s 400-meter relay race sets a new world mark and wins by fifteen yards, with Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan and Great Britain trailing in the order named.
Jean Shiley and Mildred “Babe” Didrikson fight it out in the women’s high jump, with Miss Shiley establishing a new world and Olympic record of 6 feet 5 ¼ inches. “Babe” hits the same mark but loses on form.
And again, in the women’s 400-meter relay, the Stars and Stripes predominate, with Mary Carew, Evelyn Furtsch, Annette Rogers and Wilhelminna von Bremen out-running teams from Canada, Great Britain, Holland, Japan and Germany.
American contestants win one, two, three in the springboard diving contest that ends with Mickey Riley Galitzen as the world’s champion, Harold Smith, second and Richard Degener, third.
Helene Madison, Seattle waterwitch, comes through with an amazing finish to beat the world in the 100-meter swim for women. Her strongest rival is Willemijntje Den Ouden of Holland.
Japan sees the dawn of a new day, with Yasuji Miyazaki in first place in the 100-meter free-style swimming race. Tatsugo Kawaishi takes second place for the Flowery Kingdom.
In one of the biggest upsets of the international meet, Juan Zabala, young Argentine, wins the grueling Marathon race in the new Olympic time of 2 hours 31 minutes and 36 seconds. His nearest rival, Sam Ferris, of Great Britain, finishes 19 seconds later.
Blood-stirring feats of speed and endurance by the pick of the world’s athletes made heroes of the arena in their moments of triumph. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32063)
GRAIN PIT STAYS OPEN DESPITE SUSPENSION EDICT BY FARM BOARD
CHICAGO, IL – Defying the Federal dictum of a 60 day penalty suspension of activities, the Chicago Board of Trade celebrates the first day of the supposed closure by staging a record trading day, in which thousands of operators crowd the floor and indulge in a hurricane of sales and purchases that drive the price of wheat up ten cents a bushel and other grain prices in proportion. Peter B. Carey, Board of Trade president, says his fellow members believe the Farm Board has just about liquidated its wheat futures. This belief is spurring the market to frenzied buying and is putting new hope in the hearts of producers, he asserts.
FALSE ALARMS TO BE ELIMINATED BY NEW FIRE-BOX “HANDCUFFS”
TOLEDO, OH – Practical jokers and other persons who turn in false fire calls just to see the engines tearing up the street, get a rough set-back as a new alarm-box hand-trap makes its debut. With this new invention, iron forceps seize the wrist of anyone jerking the hook of a fire department alarm station, and hold him tightly until the police and fire officials unlock it. Small boys on mischief bent and cranks with fire-buff tendencies no longer are able to drag firemen out at all hours of the day and night, without paying the penalty. This device is unusual with a “gripping” denouement.
18 YEAR OLD TURKISH LASS WINS LAURELS AS 1932 MISS UNIVERSE
SPA, BELGIUM – Fatima comes into her own. The legendary beauty of Ottoman femininity receives the seal of approval of modern Europe, as Miss Keriman Ahalis, petite daughter of a former chamberlain of the Sultan, is crowned as the most beautiful girl in the world. With two ravishing blondes, Miss America and Miss Germany as close contenders, the brunette Miss Turkey walks away with first honors in a field of twenty-seven contestants – a real Turkish trophy.
THE TIDE TURNS: Industry continues upward march as renewed activity calls thousands back to work
PART III
ABERDEEN, WA – Lumber mills near Gray’s Harbor re-employ 1000 men and women. Reawakened milling industry insures employment in many lumber camps within 30 days, as steamers load up with timber for China and other foreign countries.
GRASS VALLEY, CA – Shut down gold mines reopen and idling plants resume operations as gold strengthens in the world’s marts. Hundreds of miners start again as the demand for the precious metal rises.
JERSEY CITY, NJ – One of the nation’s leading cheese manufacturers speeds up to capacity as the country calls for its product in increasingly large amounts. 100,000 packages of cream cheese and 20,000 jars of pimento cheese, now being turned out daily, require a full complement of dairy craftsmen.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – 4,000 stevedores go back to work as inter-coastal and foreign shipping takes a spurt. Matson and American Hawaii lines report a growing export trade, California fruit and Western beef finding a ready market abroad.
WORLD ATHLETES HIT WHIRLWIND PACE AS OLYMPICS NEAR END
LOS ANGELES, CA – International kings and queens of water sports rise to a glorious climax in the breath-taking events that mark the closing days of the Tenth Olympiad.
United States mermaids win 1-2-3 in the 3-meter Springboard Diving, with Georgia Coleman leading the field in an amazing exhibition of aqua-acrobatics.
American girls also take 1-2-3 honors in the High Diving contest. Dorothy Poynton, Blonde Californian, astounds on-lookers with her graceful swan dives and other natatorial gymnastics, despite injured back that would have daunted the average girl.
Eleanor Holm, 19-year-old New York entry, scores again for Uncle Sam, by conquering the standard bearers of three continents in the 100-meter backstroke swim, to the everlasting joy of Brooklyn, her hometown.
In the most nerve-wracking finish in rowing history, the Golden Bears of California nose out the Italian eight by a scant foot in the 2000-meter race and re-establish the world supremacy of American oarsmen as 80.000 spectators go into hysterics.
There were thrilling scenes of America’s shell and swimming aces in their great moments of world-famed victory. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32064)
REICH IN MOURNING AS DIVERS FIND HULK OF ILL-FATED CADET SHIP
KIEL, GERMANY – Sixty-nine young German naval students are carried to death when their training ship, the Niobe, founders in a squall on the Baltic Sea. At great risk, under-sea workers descend and prepare the wreck for towing to port. Dynamite and acetylene torches help to clear the once proud vessel of its masts and canvas, while grief-stricken parents line the quay, awaiting the arrival of the hull with its tragic burden. The first major disaster in Germany’s post-war navel history is chronicled.
BRITISH HOP-WORKERS EYE AMERICA IN HOPE OF EARLY BEER LAWS
PADDOCK WOOD, ENGLAND – British hop-growers are a couple of hops and several long strides ahead of the prohibition situation in the United States. Anticipating the legalizing of old-time brew across the Atlantic, they are working overtime to have an abundant crop ready, should their dream come true. The vines, which grow to a height of fifteen feet or more, have to be tended by workers on tall stilts and the spectacle of a group of men stalking along nursing the tender tops of the plants, is an amusing commentary on the refusal of an ancient custom to give way before the onslaught of modern industrial invention.
IN TODAY’S HEADLINES
U.S. ARMY DISCLOSES AERIAL WAR SECRETS
NEW YORK, NY – More than 3 billion candlepower in monster searchlights dazzle theatre crowds as the Coast Artillery’s latest anti-craft invention is tried out in public. A new multiple reflector, the development of Col. A. M. Jackson of the 62nd C.A.C. of Fort Totten, breaks up the beams of a battery of four lights into forty eight shafts that pierce the sky to a height of two miles. “Enemy” airplanes from Mitchel Field, the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building are limned as if by daylight, to the wonderment of on-lookers.
IN TODAY’S HEADLINES GRID TRAINING BEGINS WITH BRAWN TRYOUTS
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Football candidates for the Army’s West Coast Team at Crissy Field, get their preliminary training “bucking” an airplane. In regular formation they line up against the front edge of the craft and the pilot gives her the gas. When they get tired of this, they tie a rope on the tail and dare the pilot to go places. What a tug of war and the latest idea in football training!
“BLUE SHIRTS” NAME FATHER COX TO HEAD NEW JOBLESS PARTY
CREVE COEUR, MO – Hundreds of men and quite a few women pass in solemn array before their leader, a Pittsburgh priest, as the opening gesture of a presidential convention for the new political group organized by the unemployed. With an exchange of Fascist-like salutes, the dominie reviews his followers, whose “uniform” is characterized by a blue shirt and a blue overseas cap for the men and a blue sash for the women. This is an interesting demonstration of one of the many facets of the current American scene.
COURT BATTLE STAYS DECISION IN WALKER OUSTER PROCEEDINGS
ALBANY, NY – Mayor James J. Walker of New York City hurls a monkey wrench into the machinery of the removal hearings before Governor Roosevelt, by a surprise court order restraining the State Executive from pronouncing sentence on him before the question of jurisdiction has been settled by law. This is a sensational turn in the investigation that has rocked the nation. The battle lines between the Seabury and Walker forces draw tighter as “Jimmie” seeks to tie the hands of his official “judge”.
FINAL CURTAIN FALLS IN BLAZE OF GLORY ON OLYMPIC GAMES OF 1932
LOS ANGELES, CA – Breath-taking thrills and spills feature the Prix des Nations, the heart-breaking obstacle course for mounted officers that winds up the international contests of the Tenth Olympiad – twenty jumps over eighteen almost impossible hurdles set up in the vast stadium – so difficult that not a single team comes through. Only five officers finish, two of them Americans with Lt. Baron Nishi of Japan carrying off individual honors.
The closing ceremonies of the tournament are picturesque and inspiring. Booming cannons, fan-fares of trumpets, trooping of colors, and the extinguishing of the Olympic torch grip the hearts of 95,000 spectators as the great athletic meet goes down into history. With a clarion call to the youth of the world to set their eyes and their hearts on Berlin in 1936, the international sports committee hails the end of the greatest athletic festival of modern times. The sinking sun marks the finish, as the strains of Aloha, from a score of bugles, float through the great amphitheatre.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32065)
MILK STRIKERS JOIN TO BLOCKADE ROADS IN FARM-DAIRY WAR
SIOUX CITY, IA – Two thousand determined farmers throw a cordon around this city and prevent farm products and milk being hauled in. The “Farmer’s Holiday” movement gains impetus with the decision on the part of the dairymen to give their milk away rather than sell it at current prices. Local residents rejoice as hundreds of gallons are passed out to all comers. Fists fly and armed force threatens as produce houses call upon the law to break the ever tightening ring of enraged grangers.
FULL SEA MENEUVRES FOLLOW PEACE MEET BID TO LIMIT
TARANTO, ITALY – The mailed fist of Mussolini stretches over the Gulf of Taranto in potent gesture as the Italian navy holds its most impressive war game since the World War. Dreadnaughts, cruisers, destroyers and other craft dart through smoke screens as the country’s naval experts demonstrate the high state of efficiency of Fascism afloat. As a result of the battle tests, the Duce plans to scrap a number of out-dated ships and build new ones up to full treaty strength. An exceptional display of naval power which shows that the Italian fleet is to be reckoned with.
POISON LIQUOR FLOOD PROMPTS CITY’S FREE BEVERAGE ANALYSIS
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Director of Public Health inaugurates a popular service as the bad booze toll grows. 2200 tests show only 15% fit to drink. The new Health Department activity follows the success of the “souse-o-meter” and drunken driver tests. Dr. J. C. Geiger, Chief Health Officer, shows how the laboratory determines the presence of “wood” in alcohol. Residents rush to get the city’s okay on “just-off-the-boat” bottled goods.
CANADIAN INDIANS WIN INTERNATIONAL TITLE IN WAR-CANOE BATTLE
COUPEVILLE, WA – Redskins of the Northwest stage a regatta as colorful and as exciting as the famous Poughkeepsie rowing classic, to determine the international eleven-oared title. Thirteen crews of braves, 143 powerful paddles in all, compete in a grueling three-mile race, with the Nez Perces from Burrard Inlet easy victors. Ten American crews, from reservations in Washington and near-by States, trail the three Dominion entries.
THE TIDE TURNS: Industry continues upward march as nation’s commerce calls thousands back to work
PART IV
MARCUS HOOK, PA – The opening up of new plants at the great oil fields calls 1800 men back on the job. Manual labor is used wherever possible to cut down the number of unemployed.
DETROIT, MI – Hundreds of former employees return to the leading tire plant as the demand for truck and passenger car rubber grows with increasing trade and pleasure driving. The big factory soon is to go on three shifts, is the welcome news from this Mid-western front.
JOLIET, IL – The biggest wallpaper mills now are running on full time as building trades pick up. New employees are added every day. 576 miles of wallpaper per day are being turned out.
DAYTON, OH – 3600 employees are rehired at the great National Cash Register plant as the growing retail trade increases the call for the money receiving machines. Sales reports of these devices are regarded by experts as one of the truest business indices in the entire chart of commerce.
REPUBLIC ACCLAIMS AGED HINDENBURG ON REICH ANNICERSARY
BERLIN, GERMANY – Solemn-faced crowds throng the square in front of the Reichstag to take part in celebrating the Thirteenth Birthday of the Constitution. With Hitlerism on one side and Communism on the other, the Reich is passing through its most critical period and the assembled citizens cheer their leader as he appears before them, with Chancellor Von Papen – looking to von Hindenburg to pilot the Ship of State safely through the shoals of internal unrest. The Reichswehr troops, who may be called upon any day to lay down their lives for their country, this time in internescine war, render to their idol and chief the same military salute as of yore.
WHOLE WORLD HAILS MOLLISON’S GALLANT TRANS-OCEAN FLIGHT
MINEOLA, NY – The intrepid British birdman successfully completes the first westbound solo hop across the Atlantic in 30 hours and 10 minutes, arriving at Roosevelt Field, where he is greeted by thousands of cheering New Yorkers. In Heart’s Content, his specially built, long-range Puss Moth machine, Mollison drops out of the sky to a safe landing after being missed by a squadron of escort planes. The aviator, who also holds records for Australia-London and London-Capetown flights, immediately plans a return hop to Great Britain, to become the first intercontinental commuter, and by way of passing, after negotiating several thousand miles of air lanes, day and night, between Ireland and the U. S., he loses his way motoring from the flying field into Manhattan. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32066)
EMPIRE PARLEY ENDS IN TRADE AGREEMENT WITH GREAT BRITAIN
OTTAWA, ONT. CANADA – Impressive scenes mark the closing of the British Trade Conference in the great Chamber of the Dominion Parliament Building. The signing of reciprocal pacts between England and her far-flung commonwealths is held to be the most significant step in recent commercial history. Tariff and quota preferences decided upon during the month’s pow-wow of representatives from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and other United Kingdom possessions, may be sorely felt by the United States and other nations shows highlights in the year’s events!
REFUSED WAGE RAISE, MOTORIZED STRIKERS FORCE MINE CLOSING
TAYLORSVILLE, IL – Assembling in automobiles from all parts of the State, 25,000 striking miners protest in this town and prevent the operation of the Peabody mines.
BENTON, IL – Moving into the Southern Illinois mine fields in a column five miles long, the strikers are routed at the Franklin County line by a small force of armed citizens who wreck many cars and cause the invaders to scatter over three counties. A startling development of mass tactics by the strikers and a surprise defense by the embattled residents and the victors await the next move of the vanquished, who strive to reassemble their hosts at nearby rallying points. The tense situation is loaded with dynamite.
FLYING FAMILY LEAVE ON ROUND WORLD HOP IN AERIAL BUNGALOW
BROOKLYN, NY – The world’s first sky-high house party takes off on the first leg of its trans-oceanic flight, with Colonel George Hutchinson, the pilot, his wife and two children, Kathryn, 8, and Janet Lee, 6, in their big 10-passenger Sikorsky amphibian cabin plane. This unique trip, planned as a leisurely journey via St. John, Labrador, Greenland, Iceland and the British Isles, is hailed as epochal in the history of continent-to-continent air transport, being the first Atlantic air voyage featuring children as passengers.
ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS: HORSE GROWS MUSTACHE
DOVER, DE – May, a 7-year-old mare belonging to Harvey Farrow, boasts as fine a pair of mustachios as any swashbuckler. Know as the “bearded lady”, she’s the pride of the countryside and the barber’s delight.
FIREPROOF CIGARETTES
NEW YORK, NY – Andor Novak, an artist, has evolved a cigarette you can drop on the bedclothes, in your pocket or handbag or on the carpet without fear of fire or scattered ashes. Should it become popular, 75 percent of the fires may be eliminated.
SAILS FOR U.S. IN 30-FOOT BOAT
OSLO, NORWAY – Alfon Moller Hansen, intrepid seaman, accompanied by dog and cat, shoves off for Miami, FL, in his diminutive craft, hoping to reach his destination by Christmas. This is a reckless adventure by a true son of the Vikings.
ANCIENT METROPOLIS HAILS BUSINESS BOOM WITH CITY WIDE FETE
VIAREGGIO, ITALY – In a colorful and exotic festival, the city fathers of the famous watering place hope to encourage prosperity and put residents and tourists in a golden frame of mind. Huge floats, grotesque in appearance, paper-mache griffons, dragons and other weird creatures in heroic proportions, and gigantic walking statues with comic mien, move along the drive in hilarious procession to make this carnival, reminiscent of the great pre-Lenten fiestas, one of the most unusual of its kind.
WAR FLIER ACHIEVES DAREDEVIL TAKE-OFF FROM SPEEDING AUTO
LOS ANGELES, CA – Captain Oliver “Boots” Le Boutillier, Royal Flying Corps star, and member of the gallant squadron that downed the famous Richthofen, thrills spectators at Mines Field, the municipal airport, and hangs up a new record in death-defying aeronautics, by taxiing to a hop-off on top of a sedan. As the car approaches forty miles an hour, the bird man speeds his motor, and lifts his small monoplane clear, but only by a hair’s breadth. Plane and machine almost crash as the aviator struggles to get lifting headway, a breath-taker, if there ever was one.
NATIONALIST ARMIES RALLY ON EVE OF NEW CRISIS IN MANCHURIA
HANKOW, CHINA – The famous 19th Route Army, China’s pride in the battle of Shanghai, is again filling its ranks and loading its ammunition pouches for another major action. With the Chinese Red Army becoming increasingly manacing on one side and the Japanese Expeditionary Force on the other making threatening moves towards Jehol Province, China’s last stand in Manchuria, General Tsai Ting Kai, youthful commander of the valiant forces, stirs his men to greater deeds of heroism for the Republic of China. These are striking views of China’s crack troops in all their pre-battle élan.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32067)
MOLLISON LEAVES ON WORLD’S FIRST 2-WAY TRANSATLANTIC HOP
MINEOLA, NY – With the same informality and care-free attitude with which he landed here last week after the first successful one-man air passage from east to west over the Atlantic, Captain James A. Mollison motors out to his small Puss Moth plane and casually hops off for the return trip. With his toothbrush, a borrowed shirt and the same ten-shilling note he brought over with him, the daring Scot heads for home and his bride of a few weeks, as the first “aerial transoceanic commuter”.
AMERICAN MERMAID VICTOR IN MARATHON SWIM CHAMPIONSHIPS
TORONTO, ONT. CANADA – Again Margeret Ravior of Philadelphia shows her remarkable water prowess and wins the world’s 10-mile title in the swimming classic held by the Canadian National Exposition. Showing her heels to the field in the grueling distance contest, she finishes more than a quarter of a mile ahead, while 50,000 spectators cheer her third consecutive “first” in this event. Mrs. Evelyn Armstrong of Detroit is second, May Looney of Warren, OH, third, and Dorothy Nalevaiko of Glen Cove, Long Island, fourth, with two Toronto girls in the remaining money places. The leading aquatic sports battle of the year in the land of the Maple Leaf.
PICCARD ASCENDS TO NEW HEIGHT MARK IN UPPER STRATOSPHERE
DUBENDORF, SWITZERLAND – The amazing balloon trip of the Brussels professor and Max Cosyns, his young assistant, in their daring voyage into the blue to study the effects of the cosmic rays, is one of the scientific high lights of the decade. Imprisoned in an all metal globular nacelle or gondala, they cast off just before sum up and ten minutes later are out of sight in the other.
DESENZANO, ITALY – After a twelve hour trip 16,500 meters (more than ten miles) above the earth, they narrowly escape drifting out to sea, and finally land here near Lake Garda, with a new record in aerostatics to astound the world, and science waits, with bated breath, for the final results of the momentous ascent, now being laboriously and painstakingly calculated.
THE TIDE TURNS: National Industry continues its steady upward climb as thousands of employees go back to work.
PART V
ELIZABETH, NJ – A million pounds of metal in new machinery orders for the Hoover Dam and for Uncle Sam’s new cruisers and Army dredges causes a speed-up in operations at one of the big Jersey machine manufacturing plants, and the addition of 100 employees to the payroll.
DETROIT, MI – 8,000 men are put back to work by one of the leading automobile factories, turning out 2,000 cars a day as a result of the increasing demand. One of the encouraging signs in the new wave of business optimism.
KENTON, OH – A bumper onion crop in the Scioto Valley marshes makes work for 2,500 unemployed men, women and children at the peak of the harvesting season. 15,000 bushels (25 car loads) a day are taken from the largest independently owned marsh in the world, 17,000 acres in extent.
CHICAGO, IL – The largest washing machine company gets back to a pre-war basis, increasing its personnel by 50 percent, and turning out a washing machine every 28 minutes, as the result of steadily increasing orders.
RECORD CROWD HAILS DARING SKY FEATS AT NATIONAL AIR RACES
CLEVELAND, OH – America’s aerial aces put on their most spectacular show at the annual speed contest. Daredevil John Runger amazes the multitude by wing walking on a looping, spinning plane. Ben Howard and Harold Neumann thrill the 25,000 spectators by dizzy pylon swooping in closed course events. Zooming squadrons of service ships from Selfridge Field and Quantico, VA, provide additional breath-taking moments. Foreign birdmen add their quota of spine chilling acrobatics, to say nothing of Al Wilson and his crazy pusher biplane. The cream of the aeronautical fraternity participated in the world’s greatest aerial tournament.
HEAD-ON LOCOMOTIVE SMASHUP THRILLS 30,000 AT STATE FAIR SHOW
DES MOINES, IA – two 112 ton passenger engines crash at 50 miles an hour to make a Roman holiday for the huge throng of excited spectators. Set with open throttles from the opposite ends of a 3,000-foot stretch of track, the two moguls tear into each other with all the fury of ancient gladiators. A breath-taking crunching of metal, a roar of escaping steam, a shower of white-hot sparks, and the two machines are reduced to complete wreckage. This is one of the most spectacular demonstrations ever staged in the mid-west. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32068)
WALKER RESIGNS
NEW YORK, NY – On the eve of the most critical session of the removal hearings before Gov. Roosevelt in Albany, Mayor James J. Walker pens his resignation to take effect immediately, ending, for the time being, the year long battle against him by the Hofstadter Committee and former Justice Samuel Seabury. Indications are strong that he will run for re-election.
AMERICAN SWIM STAR WINS WOULD TITLE IN GRUELLING MARATHON
TORONTO, ONT., CANADA – 50,000 aquatic fans see Ol’ Man River’s favorite offspring, George Samuel Blagden, a young lawyer of Memphis, TN, win the 15 mile swimming championship race at the 7th National Canadian Exhibition in the most spectacular contest to date of the annual series. When George Young, 1931 champ and the favorite, burns out mid-way and is hauled up, the final battle develops between the Southerner and Gianni Gambi of Ravenna, Italy, who is only 200 yards behind at the end of the 7 ½ hour struggle. The frequent sprint duels and continual drop-outs among the 193 starters make this the greatest flutter kick endurance test ever seen in the Dominion.
FINANCIAL PROBLEMS SOLVED BY ISSUE OF LOCAL PAPER MONEY
MERCED, CA - $25,000 in town script is issued by the Merchants Association as a depression cure. Sold to storekeepers at 10% discount, they pay half their employees’ salaries in the new issue and trade booms as the workers rush to spend it. Every time a dollar bill passes over the counter, the tradesman puts a 4-cent association tax stamp on its back. And, of particular interest right now, the system has been recommended to the U. S. Government as a way to pay the bonus and stimulate prosperity.
EXCITEMENT RIFE AS DUSKY MAIDS VIE FOR TITLE – “MISS BRONZE”
CHICAGO, IL – William H. “Bill” Thompson, former Mayor, awards the crown of victory to the prize colored bathing beauty at the Savoy Ballroom, after a score of “midnight blondes” in trick bathing suits and elaborate coiffeurs have strutted before the judges to the strains of a double jointed jazz band. “Peaches” Perchez, slim and svelte, wins the contest and $100 in cash, as the crowded house stamps and yells its approval. This was called a study in sepia shebas with a syncopated background – Yeah, man!
DOOLITTLE’S RECORD DASH THRILLS 25,000 AT AVIATION SPECTACLE
CLEVELAND, OH – Major James H. Doolittle, America’s ace speedster, sets an unofficial land-plane mark of 293 miles an hour in trials for the Thompson contest at the National Air Races. In his 800 horsepower snub-nosed bob-tail Gee-Bee super-sportster, the Major zips across the landscape at almost five miles a minute! Bud Manning, Hollywood parachute jumper, amazes the crowd by a delayed jump, tumbling from 13,000 feet to 1,000 before pulling his rip cord. Johnnie Miller of Poughkeepsie wins cheers as he loops-the-loop in an autogiro for the first time in history. Precision ‘chute jumpers and other air feats help make the annual meet outstanding in the annals of aviation.
REICH INAUGURATES SELF GOVERNMENT CHILD COMMUNITY
DRESDEN, GERMANY – Madame Dr. Haidersbach, famous pedagogue and child expert, opens the amazing children’s center where new principles of individualism are given full sway. Parents and youth welfare authorities all over the world watch the experiment with keen interest, seeking to determine what it has to add to the acknowledged status of child dependence. Remarkable results are attained as the youngsters dictate and carry out their own activities, unhampered by admonitory “Don’ts” and “Do’s”
THE ECLIPSE
America stands in awe as the solar system puts on its most spectacular show. In the 100 mile strip of Northern New England where the moon’s shadow completely blots out the orb of day, scientific expeditions from every corner of the globe set up intricate and mysterious apparatus to synthesize, spectro-analyze and record the illusive corona, the shadow bands, Bailey’s Beads and other celestial wonders of the infrequent lunar transit. Thousands rush to the area of totality by plane, boat, train and auto, while millions, denied the sight of a life-time, content themselves with partial eclipse views from street corners, roof-tops and office windows. Telescopic photography brings the moon to within less than the earth’s diameter and “Old Sol” to within six million miles of the earth. The close-up of the Sun’s corona during the total eclipse is a sight to inspire awe, even to the non-astronomer. Scenes in this amazing story filmed at Conway, NH, Fryeburg, ME, Ossipee, NH, Island Pond, VT, New York and Chicago. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32069)
THRONG SADDENED BY FATAL SMASH-UP AT NATIONAL AIR RACES
CLEVELAND, OH – Al Wilson, veteran airman and screen star and one of the most popular men in aviation circles, meet death in a unique accident as his aged pusher-type bi-plane of 1910 vintage is clipped by a vane of one of the newest types of autogiros. The crash, directly in front of the grandstand at the big fly meet, shocks thousands and marks the only casualty of the great flight classic. Johnny miller, noted trick flier, in the autogiro with a passenger, is shaken up but not badly injured.
VIKING OARSMEN WIN GRUELLING LIFE-BOAT MARATHON CLASSIC
NEW YORK, NY – In the spirited world championship race viewed by thousands of cheering spectators lining the shore, the boat’s crew of the S. S. Bergensfjord pulls to glorious victory over a field of ten other entries, winning the third leg and permanent possession of the trophy for the Norwegian-American line. Over a course two nautical miles long, the eight sturdies, under the inspiration of an alert coxswain, fight off the challenge of their most menacing rival, a boatload from the S. S. Von Steuben of the North German Lloyd, to come in six lengths ahead. This was a novel rowing match with a highly practical application.
ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS
COLLEGIANS WAGE VEGETABLE WAR
SAN FRNACISCO, CA – Sophomores at the University of San Francisco put down a barrage of tomatoes, ripe melons, over-ripe eggs, bananas and other fruit when the freshmen storm their “fort” in the annual flag rush. The Frosh can take it, however, and win – but are their faces red? Stirring action at the Battle of Garbage Hill.
WOOD BATHING SUITS
PORTLAND, OR – Far being anything like a wooden kimono, the new spruce veneer swimming garments demonstrated before the National Inventors Congress are colorful, classy and help to keep the wearer alive and kicking and is the next thing to Eve’s leaves.
DUCK BUILDS NEST IN TREE
SYRACUSE, NY – Eight goslings, born and bred in the crotch of a shade tree, refute the adage that ducks can’t climb. Whether the low cast of egg induced this mother to raise her offspring thus, doesn’t matter. But a duck’s a duck for all that, so they hop down and waddle off in search of the nearest pond. The freak barnyard tales rivals Winsted, CT
DON’S BOAT DISABLED; WOOD VICTOR IN MILD HARMSWORTH EVENT
DETROIT, MI – Before a crowd of 200,000, the largest ever assembled to see a sports contest, Gar Wood drives his speedboat, Miss America X, to an easy victory over the English challenger, Miss England III, with Kaye Don at the helm. As in the first race of the title series, the Britisher again develops engine trouble and falls by the wayside. A bow to bow brush by the two craft on the first laps augurs a sensational finish but Kay’s ill-luck robs the crowd and Gar of an exciting finale. No time records are threatened in this year’s clash, as a result of which the famous trophy remains in the U. S., although both boats made upwards of 100 miles an hour in trial spins.
THE TIDE TURNS: Renewed manufacturing activity throughout the nation recalls thousands of worker as industry forges steadily onward.
PART VI
BLOOMINGTON, IL – Forecasts of a cold winter have resulted in great increases in orders for oil heaters, with a consequent jump in employment of 410 workers at one of the country’s outstanding factories making these newly appreciated conveniences.
MIDDLETON, OH – 2400 men are on the job at one of the big rolling mill companies, running at capacity due to large orders for processed steel now coming in “like old times”.
SANTA MONICA, CA – Leading aircraft plant puts 632 men and women to work on a ten-a-week production schedule for the new type Army torpedo and bombing planes.
CHICAGO IL – Good times are brewing again at a monster bottling works where production has been speeded up to 30,000 bottles of almost beer and hour, with everything set for redoubling the if, and when beer returns to legal status.
SMASH! CRASH! HASH!
AUTOS DESTROYED IN SENSATIONAL TESTS
SOUTH BEND, IN – Brand new automobiles are demolished in spectacular head on collisions as part of the proving process of modern motorcar manufacture. Tires are “blown” at 70 miles an hour to see what will happen, and all kinds of skidding is indulged in from 30 miles and hour and up. As a final proof, the machines are rolled sidewise down a 45-degree hill, righted and then driven off. They HAVE to be good. These remarkable series of experiments should take the fear of automobiling out of timid souls. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32070)
PRES. RUBIO RESIGNS; RODRIGUEZ SELECTED AS REPUBLIC’S RULER
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – Impressive scenes mark the changing of the nation’s Chief Executive. Surrounded by his loyal Cabinet and admirers, Pascual Ortiz Rubio relinquishes the reins of office at the Chapultapec Castle. The opening session of the 35th Congress then chooses the Minister of War, General Abelardo L. Rodriguez to succeed him, and, after the solemn oath of office, the new President appears in front of the building where he is hailed by the crowds and saluted by the cadets of the Mexican West Point, his official escort and guard of honor. A stirring event and one of great importance in Latin-American history, in view of Senor Rodriguez’ first State message, along with his assurance of continued close friendship between Mexico and the United States.
FANS HAIL BASEBALL STARS SELECTED FOR 1932 ALL AMERICA NINE
First and exclusive pictures of Babe Ruth’s annual choice of the elite of the national game, the prime honor that can befall a big league player. The highlight of the baseball season, particularly timely right now as ‘fandom’ looks forward to the World’s Series. The “perfect” team for 1932:
Catcher “Bill” Dickey (Yankees)
Shortstop “Joe” Cronin (Senators)
Pitcher “Lon” Warneke (Cubs)
Center F. Earl Averill (Tigers)
Pitcher “Lefty” Grove (Athletics)
Right F. “Chuck” Klein (Phillies)
Left F. “Lefty” O’Doul (Dodgers)
2nd Base “Tony” Lazzeri (Yankees)
3rd Base “Pie” Traynor (Pirates)
1st Base “Jimmy” Foxx (Athletics)
ENTIRE POPULACE OF ANCIENT CITY HONORS 12TH CENTURY MARTYR
AQUILA, ITALY – With a pomp and pageantry that shames modern ceremonials, the coronation of Pope Celestino V, which transpired in 1294 A.D. at the Church of Collemaggio, is re-enacted in complete detail by local nobles and commoners. Magnificent medieval costumes, “Kings” and “Queens” with their retinues and the majesty of the “Papal delegation” make this scene a never to be forgotten reminder of a colorful and glorious period of history.
SALOON ELIMINATED BY “TIP-LESS WAITER” INVENTOR PHOPHESIES
WORCESTER, MA – In preparation for the day when, and if, beer may be legalized, an astute hotel manager invents and demonstrates a novel serving device by which foaming glasses of beverage are lifted by a concealed elevator, from cool cellars right up to the middle of the table in front of thirsty patrons. The new apparatus is supposed to do away with the brass rail and the importunities of the old time bartender. But no provision is made for the patron who wants to discuss the weather, the latest political rumor and the “old lady’s” latest eccentricities.
SHULTZ SMASHES ALL RECORDS TO CAPTURE FAMOUS HILL CLASSIC
PIKES PEAK, CO – At break neck speed, up the twists and hairpin turns of the famous mountain road, Glen Shultz of Colorado Springs forces his special hill-climbing car over the twelve mile course in 16 minutes and 37 seconds to win the Penrose Trophy in the fourteenth annual running of this race. Thousands of spectators dot the mountainside to witness the racers skid on the brink of eternity at the sharp bends in the route. Shultz is six times winner in this most spectacular American auto event.
ROYAL INFANT MAKES PICTURESQUE DEBUT IN BAPTISMAL RITES
MODLING, AUSTRIA – Ex-King Alphonso of Spain acts as godfather at the colorful christening of the Archduke Stephan, the newborn son of Archduke Anton of Hapsburg and Princess Ileana of Roumania, while 10,000 Austrians, loyal to the Hapsburg dynasty, cheer in the streets before the quaint old Church of St. Othmar. The Queen Mother Marie of Roumanis, Archduchess Margaretta, the baby’s aunt who acted as godmother, ex-Queen Elizabeth of Greece, Archduke Theodore and Prince Edward of Parma also take part in the ceremony that shows an interesting and intimate view of the youngest Hapsburg and his royal relatives.
CHAMPION BUCKAROOS VIE FOR WORLD TITLE IN COWBOY THRILLER
LOS ANGELES, CA – The vast stadium which lately rang with plaudits to the heroes of the Tenth Olympiad, now is filled to the echo with the “Yip-yip-yee-e-e” of the old West as America’s expert cow-punchers exhibit their skill and ability in the Second Annual Congress of Rough Riders. The pick of the range and the roundup engage in astounding feats of bronco busting, steer wrestling and trick riding showing a super spectacle of equestrian prowess. |
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