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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32081)
NAVY DAY
Uncle Sam’s mighty sea forces stage a realistic “war”, with broadsides from the big guns, daring dives, dog-fights, and bomb-dropping by the flying branch of the service, and other martial activities and thrills. In celebration of the day on which the entire nation pays tribute to its first line of defense, the big battle-wagons and the fighting eagles go through their most dangerous and stirring paces.
TRAINED “SCHNOZZLES” JUSGE CHEESE AROMA AT 1932 DAIRY EXHIBIT
DETROIT, MI – Agriculture students from 18 different colleges meet to determine the keenest nose and taste in the U.S., a feature of the seventh annual milk products exposition. Singly and in teams of three, the undergraduate dairymen spend the day sniffing, tasting and smacking their lips. D. M. Smith of Mississippi State College wins the national crown for having the most discriminating beak in this country or Canada. The team from the same institution also wins by a nose. The latest thing in competitions would be an olfactory Olympics.
SKATING ACES BATTLE IN GRUELLING 50-MILE HIGHWAY MARATHON
GREELEY, CO – An exciting long distance roller skating race, with Denver as the goal – 56 miles over paved roads, attracts 87 contestants, including six young women. State police and motorcycle cops escort the skaters all the way and thousands line the roads or follow in autos to cheer them on. Elbert Reagan, 21 years old, of Fort Lupton, CO, speeds to victory in 6 hours and 2 minutes, winning $75 in gold. E. L. Manogue, 42 years old, holds the lead for many miles but finally collapses, unable to stand the gaff. The girls, too, can’t take it, retiring one by one. A new kind of endurance test, and another hazard for automobile tourists is born.
HEAVY TURKEY CROP ASSURES BIG MARKET FOR HOLIDAY BIRDS
ROSEVILLE, CA – The Thanksgiving axe is being sharpened at the great gobbler ranches in this section. The best crop of “turks” in several years is in evidence, with 20-pounders the average size. The fowls rapidly are being prepared for the Eastern market, following a last month fattening process. R. F. Fiddymant, 83 year old turkey raiser, boasts 5,000 of them on one farm, and promises that his shipments will provide 100,000 dinners on November 24th. This is a sad story for Old Man Gobble-Gobble but a cheerful and appetizing prospect for the rest of us, and a wishbone on every plate.
VINTNERS SPEED RICH WINE OUTPUT IN HOPE OF EARLY U.S. REPEAL
CHAMPAGNE, FRANCE – it seems a far cry from the Chicago conventions to the sunny hillsides under the Tricolor, but the grape growers are feverishly harvesting a bountiful crop and rushing the pressings, confident that the sparkling drink for which this district is famous, soon will be legally admitted into the United States again. The first picking of the season is done on the slopes of I’Hery Clos Bourin Hill, where Dom Perignon, bottling expert of the Abbery of Hautvillers, years ago made his celebrated discovery – the method of producing effervescent beverages. What a promising sight for American connoisseurs of high-grade spirits.
(SPECIAL) MUSIC WORLD AGOG OVER DEBUT OF NEW “BRAIN-PICTURE” ART
Universal Newsreel takes great pride in presenting the most unusual and fascinating subject ever recorded on the screen.
BERLIN, GERMANY – Dr. Oskar Fischinger, noted scientist and savant, has created a development absolutely novel in the realm of sound – music you can SEE as well as hear. Brahms’ stirring Ninth Symphony rendered by a 150 piece orchestra is reproduced with a picturized fidelity that even a deaf person can recognize and enjoy. An amazing achievement, following two years of experimentation, by which mental images of melodic compositions are translated into terms of definite “solid” visual impressions. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32082)
SENSATIONAL ATTACK MARKS RAID ON $200,000 BOOTLEGGING PLANT
DOWNEY, CA – Sheriff’s deputies take possession of the largest group of moonshine “stills” on the West Coast in a spectacular assault and running battle in which many shots are fired. Three prisoners are captured after a fusillade from shot-guns, rifles and sub-machine guns brings them to bay following a spirited chase through the swamps along the San Gabriel River. With a capacity of 3000 gallons a day, the find yields 500 gallons of alcohol in cans and 320,000 gallons of “uncooked” spirits. Elaborate preparations and plans precede the seizure, based on information supplied by two officers of the law who pose as “tramps” and live in a shack near the “alki” factory, which masqueraded as a tar insulator works. This was a vivid skirmish in the war against strong drink and illegal moonshine stills.
NATIVES IN PANIC AS FLAMES RAZE CITY’S TREASURY BUILDING
SHANGHAI, CHINA – Traffic is paralyzed and thousands jam the streets in alarm as a spectacular fire on Nanking Road, the “Broadway” of the Orient, destroys the internationally known gold and silversmith establishment of Pao Zung. Two big department stores and the entire business section are threatened as the frightened crowds hamper the firemen and municipal police. The departure of a British garrison is delayed while the conflagration rages. Staggering losses in bullion are estimated in the treaty port’s most disastrous blaze since the “war” with Japan.
COIFFURES TO MATCH BALLOTS, IS NEWEST POLITICAL TENDENCY
NEW YORK, NY – Now is the time for all good women to come to the aid of their party. An enterprising hair-dresser has created special styles among which are the Hoover and Roosevelt Bobs, by which feminine voters can display their loyalty and boost for their favorite candidate. The Republican hair-cut curls over the top like an elephant’s trunk. The Democratic one is more of a “budget” cut, showing the ears. Trust the girls to bring something new into politics. Better than the post-election wager of lock-shearing.
CADET STEAMROLLER RIDES HEAVILY OVER GRID HOPES, 20-0
NEW HAVEN, CT – The West Point football team stages a sensational come-back and administers a sound drubbing to the Yale eleven before a colorful crowd of 40,000 in the famous Blue Bowl. The blood-stirring feat of “Pick” Vidal, a substitute, in running back a punt seventy-five yards for a touchdown, is the spark that sets off the Army’s heavy artillery. Tank-like charges and open warfare skirmishing, grenade-throwing with the pigskin as a missile, and other forms of infantry battle tactics bewilder the home team and make “Boola, Boola” the wail of a lost soul. Bob Parker’s amazing punts are the only set-backs to the soldier juggernaut. A thrilling sports classic, with all the attendant color for which the game is noted.
HENRY FORD, IN RADIO TALK, TAKES STAND FOR PRES. HOOVER
DETROIT, MI – America’s “antiquated” money system must be rejuvenated and public-service method set up, as opposed to the present private profit arrangement, is the pronouncement of the automobile manufacturer in his broadcast supporting the re-election of the Republican Presidential candidate. Congress should regain control of monetary affairs and conduct them as the river and harbors, the postal service or the weather bureau are managed, he believes, and urges that the present incumbent in the White House be allowed to stay and complete his efforts towards the restoration of prosperity.
AL SMITH DISCHARGES ORATORICAL GUNS FOR GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT
NEWARDK NJ – record crowds turn out to greet and cheer the Happy Warrior on his first public platform appearance on behalf of the Democratic Presidential candidate. Although this State is labeled as “doubtful”, the 8-mile route taken by the former New York governor from the Holland Tunnel to the Armory here resembles “old-home” week, with flares and frenzied thousands lining the streets. Fifty-five loud speakers outside the building carry his rousing talk to 200,000 massed on all sides. This was a remarkable demonstration of the great leader’s popularity and one of the outstanding highlights of the entire campaign. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32083)
PURSES OPEN WIDE AS INTERNATIONAL FAIR HAILS WORLD BUYERS
VIENNA, AUSTRIA – New appliances to ease the burdens of housewives, such as electric washing machines, refrigerators and similar devices, create a sensation at the big exhibition held in the former Imperial Horse Stables. The new wing of the Royal Castle and the immense rotunda built in the Prater in 1873 also house exhibits, including winter sports wear and materials, as well as the latest thing in furs. A record-breaking products show, that attracts ready purchasers from all over Europe and might be construed as a note of optimism on the Continent.
COLLEGIANS BATTLE IN ROUGH-HOUSE WAR FOR PUSHBALL CROWN
CHICAGO, IL – Freshmen and Sophomores of Loyola University vent their traditional animosity for each other in a hectic shoving contest in which everything goes. Cheered on by wild-eyed classmates on the sideline, matched teams struggle furiously to move the big ball over the goal stripe. The winning class president is taken for a wheel-barrow ride by the losing “proxy”, as the Frosh glory in a 3-0 victory. A “family” squabble that resembles a Donnybrook Fair.
EARLY SNOWS FORCE VAST FLOCKS TO FLEE MOUNTAIN GRASSLAND
YAKIMA, WA – Forced to abandon their Rattlesnake Hills feeding ground because of the sudden onslaught of a premature winter, 60,000 sheep are herded from the foothills to lowland pasturage in the winter food-hegira of the West Coast ranch denizens. Ten to fifteen miles a day, in 3000-head lots, the animals are driven over hill and dale for a week or more, during their picturesque trek. Herders and shepherd dogs guide the wooly avalanche, which resembles an animated painting with an old-world flavor seldom seen in this country.
ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS: FIREMEN ATTACK CAPITOL GRIME
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The dirt and smoke which has settled on the noted building housing the nation’s law-makers – some of it from the burning last summer of the Bonus Army camp near-by – is washed down with streams of water from fire hoses, in preparation for the new Congress, which will convene in December. A “wet” augury for the coming session?
COWGIRL, 82, HOLDS WORLD RIFLE TITLE
TIFFIN, OH – Mrs. Mary C. Hettinger, a great-grandmother, who vied, in her early days in Texas with Calamity Jane and Annie Oakley, as a two-gun woman, displays her prowess by sniping electric light bulbs from the hands of her great-grandchildren at fifty feet, shooting from the hip. She performs other feats of marksmanship to clinch her claim as the globe’s outstanding octogenarian pistol shot.
MILADY’S HATS TO BE SMALLER FOR WINTER, IS NEW MODE DECREE
PARIS, FRANCE – In an exclusive visit to the famous salon of Mlle. Marthe, the newest in feminine head-gear proves to be nothing much to speak of in size, but in price – that’s something else again. The forthcoming designs are chic but they promise very little protection for bobbed heads against Boreas and his blizzards. A complete array of Dame Fashion’s most recent creations, worn by the French capital’s smartest models and designed by the world’s queen of millinery art.
BRIDGE ENTHUSIASTS HAIL NEW AUTOMATIC PLAYING-CARD DEALER
CHICAGO, IL – An electrical device built into a folding table, which shuffles and distributes complete “hands”, brings the millennium one step nearer for auction and contract “fans”. The deck is placed in a little drawer, and presto! – the pasteboards are whirled around under the table-top and dropped off one by one in slots in front of each player. No “miss-deal” is possible. A remarkable invention just perfected by Laurens Hammond, noted clock manufacturer. The machine “makes” and passes out one pack while the other is being played, thus reducing to zero, the between-hands time for family arguments.
JOBLESS HORDES END WEARY “DOLE” MARCH AT PARLIAMENT GATE
LONDON, ENGLAND – Tension is high in the British capital as thousands of unemployed men and women from Scotland, Wales, the Midlands and the South, converge on the metropolis in a “hunger hike”, with 100,000 non-workers resident in the city expected to swell their ranks and follow their lead in demonstrations for relief. 5000 “bobbies” guard government buildings and personalities, ready for a flare-up. Communist agitators are blamed for the well-organized mass movement, which has brought about the worst situation in the history of English labor troubles.
And in Belfast, Ireland, the end of a night of terror finds the famous city resembling a section of war-torn France. Torn streets and barricades – destruction and fear, follow the wild rioting between 2,500 police and an army of strikers, unemployed and reds, resulting in 54 injured and 1 dead. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32084)
SPECTACULAR THRONG ACCLAIMS DECENNIAL OF FASCIST FOUNDING
ROME, ITALY – A veritable sea of “black shirts” greets Mussolini in the immense Piazza Venezia upon the occasion of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the March to Rome. From three directions, long columns of hierarchs, militiamen and veterans of the “insurrection” file into the square until 25,000 men are massed before the speaker’s tribune. 20,000 banners and war flags wave a welcome to II Duce. Hardly does Italy’s Iron Man start his panegyric of Fascism when the rain comes down in torrents, driving all to cover and putting a sudden end to the Premier’s long awaited “report” of the accomplishments of his party during the first decade of its existence.
U.S. CAVALRY ADOPTS MODERN VERSION OF ANCIENT RUSS SPORT
CINCINNATI, OH – Kav-Kas, an old Cossack game resembling basketball but played on horse-back, is being revived by mounted units of the Army Reserve and promises to be the outstanding thrill in riding circles during the coming winter. It is considered the roughest of all pastimes, so dangerous in fact, that married men usually are barred. In a whirlwind demonstration tilt, the Yellow Jackets (officers) of the 107th Cavalry Regiment, take the Blue Jackets (enlisted men) into camp by a score of 6-5, and with almost as many casualties as scores. The principal rules of the contest are “ride – hold – pass – and don’t get your neck broken”.
THRILLING REALISM MARKS ANALYSIS OF GRAIN BLAST PERILS
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Amazing demonstrations of the terrific force of dust explosions are made by the chemical engineering experts of the United States Department of Agriculture at the Arlington Experimental Station, in an attempt to study the causes of the frequent catastrophes of a similar nature in industrial establishments. Powdered wheat, starch and cork are used as “charges”, detonated by an electric spark. Impounded in a structure representing a grain elevator or a factory, the “discharge” blows out windows and doors and gives vivid evidence of the danger lurking in pulverized vegetable matter. There are 28,000 plants in this country employing more than a million persons, where this hazard exists. The spectacular government tests seek to eliminate this menace.
PEAT BED DISCOVERY IN VACANT CITY LOT PROVES BOON TO IDLE
CHICAGO, IL – A “rush” to dig winter fuel, almost as hectic as a gold rush, takes thousands of unemployed men and their families to the low-lying marshy sections of the city where the turf, when cut and dried, has been found to be worth twice its weight in coal for heat-giving qualities. The lucky “find” means warm hearths in countless homes otherwise doomed to a season of suffering. By bucket-loads, and by the bagful, the jobless are laying in bountiful supplies of the combustible bog-earth.
THREE NATIONS JOIN IN RITES ATTENDING WAR MEMORIAL GIFT
LILLE, FRANCE – An elaborate belfry is dedicated here in commemoration of the city’s deliverance from alien hands, after its long occupation by the enemy in the World War. Detachments, including the band, of the Royal British Guards, imposing in the immense bearskin hats, the French Republican Guard and a regiment d’elite from Brussels, take part in the impressive ceremonies, which include the placing of wreaths by the English warriors, as a tribute to their comrades who fell in the great struggles for the possession of this industrial center.
G.O.P. SEES HOOVER RE-ELECTION AFTER MANHATTAN SPEECH
NEW YORK, NY – As the climax of his campaign, the President carries the fight into enemy territory and uses his heaviest ammunition on his political opponents before a crowd of 20,000 that jams the vast Madison Square Garden to the eaves. Loud speakers take his words to over-flow meetings and a national hook-up makes it country-wide. A monster gathering in Newark in the afternoon and an elaborate and wildly demonstrative parade from the Pennsylvania Station to the great sports arena in the evening, precede his Gotham platform appearance. The high-light of the Republican candidate’s pre-election activities – a clarion call to his supporters that is expected to turn the tide in his favor.
DEMOCRATS PREDICT ROOSEVELT VICTORY AS CAMPAIGN CLOSES
BOSTON, MA – Following upon the heels of “Al” Smith, the idol of New England Democracy who prepared the way for his former rival, the Governor of New York Franklin Roosevelt makes his greatest pre-election speech before a giant mass meeting that fills the Boston Arena until it bulges. As the high-light of a two-day swing through the Northeastern States, the major stronghold of Republicanism, the Democratic candidate drives the crowd into a frenzy by his withering fire against the opposition’s doctrines and deeds. Radio carries his assault to every fire-side in the nation and his party’s seers, judging the strength of his logical and impassioned appeal, say his success is assured. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32085)
WAR HEROES HONORED BY EUROPEAN LEADERS AT NATIONAL SHRINES
LONDON, ENGLAND – With solemn tread, King George V leads his subjects in impressive Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Cenotaph beneath which lies Britain’s Unknown Soldier. Uniformed forces of the Empire, many of them veterans of Albion’s 1500 days of sacrifice and carnage in the World Conflict, thousands of ex-servicemen, as well as fathers, mothers, widows and others, each confident that the dust immortalized under the marble slap belongs to them, stand in silence as His Majesty places a wreath at the Tomb and salutes his Glorious Dead.
PARIS, FRANCE – In glittering array, the French legions march in massed ranks to the Arc de Triomphe, where the President of the Republic and the leaders in civil and military life render stirring tribute to the sacred bones of the nation’s “inconnu”, who represents the millions of boys and men in horizon blue who fell at the Marne, along the Aisne, at Verdun and elsewhere.
HIGH COURT TO ACT IN GANGSTER CHIEFTAIN’S APPEAL FOR FREEDOM
ATLANTA, GA – Al Capone, the Government’s most celebrated prisoner, emerges from the gray and numbered obscurity of the U.S. penitentiary to hear attorneys argue before Federal Judge E. M. Underwood on a habeas corpus motion seeking his release. Whisked from his cell to the tribunal, where he sits for three or more hours, and then rushed back to prison, Chicago’s former “public enemy No. 1” gets a fleeting taste of liberty. He bases his claim to freedom on the allegation he was convicted after statute of limitations had lapsed.
ELI SWAMPS CRIMSON 19-0 IN 51ST GAME OF ANNUAL GRID CLASSIC
NEW HAVEN, CT – In a pouring rain that drenches the 50,000 spectators but does not dampen their spirits, the Yale football team rises to heights of glory over its ancient rival, Harvard. Ploughing through mud and gumbo and with a slippery field unequalled since the days of “Ducky” Pond, the Blue Warriors, led by Walter Levering, roll up three touchdowns. A 25-yard pass from Bob Lassiter to Parker in the first period paves the way for the first score by Levering. The same battering ram crashes through for another tally in the third period, and another long pass by Lassiter in the fourth sails into the arms of Marting, who romps to the goal posts unhindered. It’s the Bulldog’s greatest victory over the Cantabrigians since 1902.
ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS
GIANT MODELS TEACH LORE OF VEGETABLES
HAWTHORNE, CA – Ears of corn and cucumbers six feet tall, squash and pumpkins bigger than a barrel, and other farm products in proportion, are used by Mrs. Dorothy B. Frazer to teach the youngsters of this thriving town the appearance and uses of garden edibles. Not, it’s not the climate this time. They’re made of papier mache.
SPEED DEVILS OF GAY 90’S “SCORCH” AGAIN
NEW YORK, NY – The original “bicycle built for two”, and its ancestors, the big-wheel “bikes” of the Mauve Decade, as well as other odd foot-propelled fin-de-siecle vehicles come out of barns and attics to be shown off, ridden and raced at the fifty-first annual reunion of the Harlem Wheelmen’s Association in Central Park.
FLOUR AND FISTS FLY IN COLLEGIATE BRAWL
BROOKLYN, NY – The Freshmen lick the Sophs in the annual battle with paper-bag “grenades” and over-ripe tomatoes at Long Island University. Shirt tearing and pants snatching become a major strategy in the fray, making the struggle an approximation of a Greek museum gone haywire.
PASSIVE RESISTANCE
GREETS POLICE RAID ON HOBO SETTLEMENT
SHANGHAI, CHINA – Hundreds of Chinese families, many driven from their Chapei homes by the Sino-Japanese “war” of last Winter, are made homeless again as their squatter’s huts, built in unauthorized sections of the municipality, are town down by official edict. Stunned and helpless, they stand by as public works crews, under the supervision of law enforcement officers, move their pitiful belongings into the open and make matchwood of their humble dwellings. It’s just another bad turn of the wheel of fate for these unfortunates.
MEMORIAL TO WRIGHT BROTHERS REARED ON SITE OF FIRST FLIGHT
KITTY HAWK, NC – Impressive ceremonies mark the unveiling of a granite pylon, 150 feet high, commemorating the feat of the two air pioneers in giving wings to man by their initial power-driven plane hop from Kill Devil Hill, December 17, 1903. In a heavy gale, with Army and Coast Guard airplanes roaring overhead, the shaft is dedicated by Ruth Nichols, noted flier, and Patrick Hurley, Secretary of War. Orville Wright, surviving member of the famous pair, is present, and receives a congratulatory message from President Hoover. The monument, erected by the Quartermaster Corps, by Act of Congress, cost $275,000 and bears an air-ways beacon light as its pinnacle. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32086)
20,000 UNEMPLOYED LED BY REDS IN MONSTER RELIEF CUT PROTEST
CHICAGO, IL – Singing Communist songs, shouting slogans and flaunting banners calling for gratuities to the jobless as well as various radical “demands”, a determined horde of men, women and children stages a “hunger march” through the Loop, tying up traffic for an hour and giving the city its first taste of organized and exploited discontent. Converging from three directions, despite a steady rain, the marchers push the police aside and carry their pleas to Mayor Cermak at City Hall, thereafter assembling in Grant Park for a mass meeting. Instigated as a demonstration against the impending reduction in municipal support of the needy, the movement falls into the hands of anti-government agitators and winds up with ominous threats and a call for recruits for the proposed hike of a new Idle Army to Washington in December.
ROYAL SWEETHEARTS WED AMID SCENES OF POMP AND SPLENDOR
COBURG, GERMANY – With all the elaborate ceremonials that featured the old Hohenzollern regime, the first regal marriage held in the Vaterland since the beginning of the Republic, unites Prince Gustaf Adolf Oscar, eldest son of the Crown Prince of Sweden, and Princess Sibyll of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, daughter of Duke Karl Eduard and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Glucksburg. Simple civil rites in the 300-year-old Hunting Room in her father’s Castle are followed by impressive nuptials at St. Moritz Church before the most brilliant throng of royalty and nobility assembled this side of the Rhine since the World War.
ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS
56-MILE GALE RAZES RESORD DWELLINGS
BROAD CHANNEL, NY – The worst wind and rain storm in this section in more than 40 years demolishes bungalows, garages and other buildings, washing some of them into Jamaica Bay and leaving the popular summer colony a mass of wreckage. Described as a regular “Kansas twister”, the cyclonic disturbance would have cost scores of lives but for the fact that many houses were closed for the season. Several families, their homes lifted from pilings and dumped into the water, are rescued as they float out with the tide.
BOY GENIUS PERFECTS AMAZING MINIATURES
HOLLYWOOD, CA – remarkable models of steam locomotives, on a scale of 1/48, but which are complete in every detail and can haul a 2000 pound load, the equal of 15 man-power, are sold by Denneth Dewar, 20 years old. He draws the plans, makes his own patterns and castings and does the assembling and testing. He started at the age of 14, and has marketed 15 in the last three years, at about $1,200 each. Big business from a little hobby.
SEEK PROSPERITY WITH FIREWORKS
AMECAMECA, MEXICO – The surest way to frighten off the evils of depression and insure the return of happy days, according to local tradition, is to tie a lot of real firecrackers to a lot of artificial bulls and then dance for all you’re worth. Inasmuch as today is San Lucas Day and the buss is the saint’s favorite animal, they decided to combine the two and ask for Old Man Prosperity to come back in the ceremony known as “burning the bull”. They might do it. THROWING the bull won’t, that’s a cinch.
RECLAIMS FORTUNE FROM OLD FLOORING
BOSTON, MA – The very dirt under your feet is valuable when you walk around in a jewelry shop. So much gold dust and small bits of the precious metal fall and are trampled into the floor that it pays, every now and then, to tear up the boards and recover the wastage. Maurice G. Alperin, a sweep smelter, gets as high as $5,000 worth of bullion from a single store. The wood is burned in a special stove and the ashes and floor sweepings are reduced in a crucible. What’s left is gold alloy or pure gold. At $20.50 a troy ounce, it’s a business. It looks simple, too, to see Maurice do it.
WOOD-PAVED STREET RIPPED UP BY NEEDY AS FUEL FOR WINTER
CHICAGO, IL – It’s a great thing when poor people get a break. The municipal authorities, deciding to put modern paving on Blue Island Avenue, notify the unemployed and hard-pressed resident of the neighborhood that the old oil-soaked blocks with which the thoroughfare’s been covered for years, are to be had for the taking. With picks, crowbars, chisels and other tools, men, women and children rush to gather burning material for the cold weather. Regardless of traffic, they dig, pry and gather in tons of first-rate firewood. The city gets the old roadway taken out gratis and those in need get a supply of “coal” for the coming months. An odd turn of affairs that helps everyone concerned.
ARMY AIRMEN ENGAGE IN THRILLING BOMBING COMBAT FOR CHARITY
LONG BEACH, CA – Squadrons of bombers swooping down and raining explosives on defenseless “villages”, swarms of pursuit planes darting in winged assault on the ships of the bombarding force, “dog-fights”, aerobatics, and other exciting activities of warfare in the skies are demonstrated, before a huge crowd at the municipal airport by pilots from March Field, for the benefit of the needy. Power dives at 250 miles an hour and similar feats are among the breath-takers performed by the nation’s crack bird-men. A remarkable “show” of military flying progress. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32087)
REAL “WAR” FEATURES 1750TH ANNIVERSARY OF VICTORY OVER KOREA
HIROSHIMA, JAPAN – Cracked heads, black eyes and other injuries are the outcome of one of the nation’s most celebrated religious festivals, the “battle of the palanquins” at the famous Shirahama Temple near Kobe, held once every five years. This shrine was founded in 182 A.D. to commemorate the severe defeat administered by the Nipponese forces to their continental neighbors. This year the ceremony is bigger than ever before and is witnessed by 150,000 spectators. Squads of young men march with Mikoshi, or floats, each group trying to upset the sacred vehicles carried by rival bands. Fierce combats ensue, transforming the route to the temple into a melee of flying fists and waving sticks.
SPORTSMEN FLOCK TO HUNTERS’ PARADISE AS GAME SEASON STARTS
TULE LAKE, CA – Ducks and wild geese of almost every species, from Alaska, Canada and the Northwest make this body of water a principal stopping point on their annual southward migration. By hundreds of thousands they circle around, almost blotting out the sky, as the roar of guns marks the Zero Hour for huntsmen from all parts of the country. Some with blinds, others with dogs, many just with fire-arms, the bird-shot army reaps a rich harvest of speckle-breasts, Canadian honkers, widgeons, canvas-backs and other feathered game, until the flocks become wary and wing their way out of range.
ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS
NEW “LUNG” DEBARS SUBMARINE PERILS
NEW YORK, NY – Menotti Nanni, non-sinkable device engineer and inventor, kisses his wife and children good-bye at the Battery, crawls into a bullet-like metal compartment and is pushed off into the deep water of the Bay. He comes up smiling after a time and extols his newest development, the Life Safety Cabin, as a guarantee against undersea-boat catastrophes.
PARENTS ACCLAIM COLLEGE FOR BABIES
BOSTON, MA – Entrance requirements for youngsters at the Habit Training School on North Bennet Street include stubbornness, temper, tantrums, thumb-sucking, destructiveness and general juvenile cussedness. The course of study, which is for 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds with twisted ideas and attitudes as the result of unhappy homes, consists of letting the youngsters do whatever they desire, except to harm one another. As a result, they rapidly become normal and are “graduated” as likeable, peaceable, every-day kids. A remarkable experiment in child raising.
FILM STAR SPANS U.S. BY AIR-MAIL
GLENDALE, CA – Pretty Gloria Stuart, unable to secure regular plane reservations and in a hurry to fulfill a pressing New York engagement, “air-mails” herself to Gotham. After weighing in, she buys $264.11 worth of stamps, which are affixed to a tag fastened to her coat. Rides on postal handcarts and in regular mail trucks form a part of her novel experiences, in addition to her swift mail-plane transit of the continent, the first time, it is believed, this feat has been accomplished.
EXHAUSTED COUPLES DRAG FATIGUED FEET IN ENDURANCE WALK
CHICAGO, IL – More than a month ago, forty pairs started in the Marathon at the Coliseum. Today, only sixteen are left – thirty-two sleep-walkers shuffling about unconscious of the ballyhoo that surrounds them. Fifteen minutes rest after every hour on the floor, seven meals a day, and a compulsory shower bath once every night are some of the highlights of the “walkathon”. To speed up the contest, “sprints” of 2½ hours without stop are frequent. This rushes the weak sisters and the even weaker brothers off their pins and is expected to shorten the competition by at least two weeks. A doctor, dentist, barber, beautician and three registered nurses are on duty at the hall. The prizes include the title of the world’s most upstanding walkers. All contestants receive a set of hand-carved bunions.
HUNGER MOBILIZATION CLIMAXING BY SERIOUS RIOTING AT HYDE PARK
LONDON, ENGLAND – Goaded by Communist agitators and inflamed by Red speakers at a monster mass meeting near the Canadian War Memorial, thousands of unemployed, denouncing the “Means Test” as a determinant for the British dole, resort to disorder and mob violence, battling the police, disrupting traffic in all streets in the vicinity of the Marble Arch, and terrorizing merchants and women shoppers in the fashionable Oxford Street retail district. With coal, bricks and stones as ammunition, the rioters withstand charge after charge of mounted “bobbies” and foot squads. Rushing up re-enforcements in commandeered lorries, the trouble-makers vent their anger on automobile owners, over-turning cars, smashing windows and wind-shields and wrecking plate-glass store fronts. After two hours of continuous struggle in which hundreds are injured, the blue-coats out-maneuver the law breakers, divide their forces, and drive them in all directions, arresting scores.
SPECIAL: ROOSEVELT WINS
The Democratic candidate for President is elected in the greatest political upset in this country in twelve years, millions of depression-embittered farmers and other erstwhile Republicans throwing their votes in protest to the Governor of New York. The wild scenes of enthusiasm at the national convention of the Jeffersonian party and the unprecedented fervor and warmth of the reception accorded the party’s nominee in all sections of the country during the campaign were indicative of the nation’s determination to put different hand at the helm of the Ship of State. Election night crowds set a new high record for noisy celebrations and exuberant festivities. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32088)
OPENING OF HISTORIC HIGHWAY LINK HAILED BY FASCIST LEGIONS
ROME, ITALY – As the grand culmination of a week-long celebration throughout Italy on the tenth anniversary of the famous march of the Black Shirts on the nation’s capital, Premier Benito Mussolini dedicates the new Imperial Avenue of the Hills, connecting the Piazza Venezia with the Colisseum. Accompanied by his staff and foreign attaches, II Duce rides the length of the broad street and then reviews 15,000 war-wounded supporters of Fascism as they pass in mass formation with their regimental colors. The thoroughfare symbolizes two millennia of Roman power and stands as a symbol of the progress achieved under the present regime.
RIOTOUS REDS ROUTED AS HIGH COURT SETS SCOTTSBORO RE-TRIAL
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the most audacious racial social unrest demonstration ever attempted in this country, Communist agitators stage a hectic disturbance on Capitol Plaza in an effort to coerce the Supreme tribunal of the United States in the case of the seven young Blacks sentenced to death in Alabama for alleged criminal assault. Police and detectives, by a vigorous counter-offensive with clubs and tear gas, scatter the mob, tear their provocative banners to shreds and arrest the ring leaders. Unperturbed by the disturbance outside, the Justices reverse the conviction, ordering a new hearing ruling that criminal defendants are entitled to effective assistance of counsel and that people may not be de facto excluded from juries due to their race. The capital disorder is the latest gesture of Soviet Sympathizers in America, spurred on by Moscow, which seeks to make another Sacco-Vanzetti issue of the affair.
MINE BARONS INSTALL MECHANICAL GOLIATH TO AID COAL INDUSTRY
PITTSBURG, KS – A giant power shovel that can take a 27-ton bite of earth and deposit it on the top of a 7-story building 200 feet away, is set up to strip dirt, shale and rock from bituminous veins near the surface of the ground in this vicinity. As large as an apartment house, its towering maze of steel and cable, is operated by electricity and can be controlled by one man. It cost $300,000 and was shipped here in parts, filling 35 freight cars. Mounted on eight sets of huge caterpillar tracks, it can move about, digging gouges 70 feet deep, and filling a maximum of 7500 trucks in a 24-hour day. Hundreds of thousands of tons of fuel, otherwise impossible to get at economically, can be reached with this new juggernaut of industry.
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DANGLES IN AIR TO PROVE MERITS OF SELF-FLYING PLANE
INGLEWOOD, CA – An amazing invention by Dr. C. H. Vance of Pomona, which causes an airplane to fly a true course without stalling, side-slipping, spinning or skidding, is demonstrated by Fred Munro, who leaves the controls and climbs all over the ship as it wings its way high over Mines Field. Hanging from the struts, working his way backward along the tail or seated astride the nose, the dare-devil pilot shows the machine’s complete independence of human guidance. Four small fins or stabilizers do the trick, two for lateral and two for fore-and-aft balance, making the craft absolutely fool-proof. The device promises to take the science of aviation a long way towards safety.
LEADING SCIENTISTS BAFFLED BY AMAZING INFANT PHENOMENON
CHICAGO, IL – The medical world is agape at the strange case of Clarence Kehr, an 8-year-old boy whose blood-pressure is that of a man of 40, whose arteries denote the same age, whose physical strength otherwise is that of 25 to 30, but whose stature is normal. The youngster handles 15-pound dumbbells with ease and can lift a 200-pound grown-up. He is fond of cigars. Exhaustive tests and X-Ray examinations indicate that a pituitary gland overactive from birth until the age of 3½, may be the cause. His growth at the present time is as it should be, but if the gland should suddenly start working over-time again, the child will be 105 years old at the age of 12, and will feel his 175 years before he can vote.
COLLEGIATE HORDES RAID COUNTRYSIDE TO FUEL MONSTER BLAZE
CORVALLIS, OR – Freshmen of Oregon State College build the biggest bonfire on record as the feature of a football rally on the eve of the annual game with the University of Oregon. After tearing down three 6-room dwellings for timber, scouring the vicinity for miles around for wooden boxes and other combustibles, the undergraduates, with the aid of block and tackle, erect a pyre 79 feet high, which blazes 200 feet in the air and necessitates the attention of the local fire department to save the college halls and dormitories from destruction. A hot send-off for a grid-iron team. Result: Oregon, 12 – O.S.C., 6.
FLOOD OF OPTIMISM FILLS NATION AFTER DEMOCRATIC TRIUMPH
Never have the American people been so determined to exercise their right of suffrage, as long lines at almost every polling place testify, and the general satisfaction of the majority, following the success of their chosen candidate, results in a country-wide attitude of cheerfulness and hope not seen abroad in the land since the crash of 1929. Election night crowds are the first to usher in the new spirit of “Happy Days Are Here Again” with a jubilation and whoopee that even the bad weather in some sections cannot dampen. Both candidates show the strain of the battle for votes, but President Hoover is a game loser, and smiles, even in defeat. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32089)
FRENZIED GRID FANS CHEER IRISH VICTORY OVER WILDCATS, 21 TO 0
SOUTH BEND, IN – Notre Dame football machine, in “high” again, rides roughshod over Northwestern, its historic rival. Ramblers ring up a touchdown in the first minute of play by that infrequent marvel of the game – a run-back to the goal from kick-off, with Melinkovich electrifying the 42,000 rooters by 98-yard dash.
BULLDOG AND TIGER BATTLE TO 7-7 TIE
PRINCETON, N.J. – Ancient gridiron foes fight to a draw before 45,000 noisy rooters. For three periods, battle is on even terms, then Bob Lassiter of Yale uncorks a 37-yard heave that sends the Blue stands crazy and paves the way for a score. Princeton, halted time and time again almost at the goal line after terrific drives, takes the air in final minutes of play. Three thrilling throws – the last a bullet pass from Kadlic to Ken Fairman – do the trick and Old Nassau deadlocks the struggle.
CHILD ARMY INVOKES DEITY’S AID TO ABATE INFANT DEATH RATE
SHIMADA, JAPAN – In a picturesque plea to their gods to bestow good health on babies of Nippon, youngsters take part in nation’s greatest religious ceremony, the Obi festival.. Under guidance to Shinto Priests, thousands of boys and girls, garbed in colorful costumes, enact age-old pilgrimage to nearest shrine. Rites form one of the finest tributes to motherhood known in any country.
ODD BIT IS TODAY’S NEWS
INSULL, JR., RETURN; MUM ON DAD’S PLIGHT
CHICAGO, IL – Samuel Insull, Jr., arriving here from Paris, runs a gauntlet of reporters seeking comment as to the predicament of his father, now awaiting extradition from Greece to answer charges in Cook County of wrecking the giant public utilities combine bearing his name.
WEDDING RUMORS FLY AS INGRID GOES HOME
CROYDON, ENGLAND – Sweden’s Princess takes off for Brussels in a big transport plane on her way back to Stockholm after a short visit with her grandfather, the Duke of Connaught, who sees her off. All Britain is agog over her stay here, linking it with the matrimonial outlook of the Prince of Wales.
FAMED ELEPHANT ILL HAS GOLDEN JUBILEE
MARGATE CITY, NJ – Fifty years is not an advanced age for the average pachyderm, but for a tin one that has been buffeted by South Jersey shore front gales, it’s quite a long time. Constructed in 1882 as a beach resort novelty, it still attracts tourists by land and by sea. “Jumbo” is 65 feet high, 38 feet long and 80 feet around the middle. It can be seen for eight miles. A six-room apartment is included in the mammoth body and the howdah is large enough for a dance floor.
DUPED HUNGER ARMY DISBANDS ON PLEDGE OF GOVERNMENT AID
LONDON, ENGLAND – Spurred on by Communist organizers, idle Britishers congregated here make one more attempt at mass demonstrations this time at the base of Nelson’s statue in Trafalgar Square. Despite the assembling of several thousand unemployed and fiery speeches by Red agitators, the “Bobbies” kept the situation well in hand and quickly frustrate any attempt to march on Parliament. A few minor bushes between the blue-coats and the Communists result in a score of injured and a number of arrests, but the rest break ranks and leave for their homes assured of help from the public assistance at an early date, thereby ending Britain’s worst labor threat.
NEW WORLD’S RECORD CREATED IN THRILLING CORN-HUSKING FINALS
GALVA, IL – Carl Seiler, Knox County south-paw and State Champion, wins the 9th annual mid-west farm Olympics, before a gallery estimated at 50,000, by shucking 36.89 bushels of corn in eighty minutes. Nine States are represented in the contest, which has become a national event. Stalking down the rows, the competitors achieve the remarkable speed of from 40 to 50 ears a minute. Held on the rich Peterson farm in Henry County, the Corn-belt Derby is the outstanding title battle of agrarian America.
VILAGES DESERTED AS VICIOUS STORMS HIT ATLANTIC COAST
CHARLESTON, RI – Worst gale in 20 years lashes North-eastern seaboard of United States, sixty-mile wind whipping seas and toppling shore=front homes into waters. Thousands of dwellers were driven inland. Many left shelterless, damage runs into millions. New York City streets, Long Island and Staten Island resorts inundated, Midland Beach, S.I., families marooned in middle of watery waste, forced to flee their abodes in rowboats. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32090)
MACHADO MOBILIZES HURRICANE-STRICKEN ISLE’S RELIEF FORCE
SANTIAGO DE LAS VEGAS, CUBA – After a tour of the storm-devastated area by the President and his staff, the nation’s full resources are organized to succor the 3500 injured and homeless survivors of the greatest disaster that ever struck the Queen of the Antilles. Soldiers, police and volunteer workers are rushed to the waste that was Santa Cruz del Sur before a 100-mile wind and a tidal wave 25 feet high wiped it off the map, along with 2500 of its inhabitants. Scenes in the Province of Camaguey are appalling. Wrecked buildings, ruined crops and orchards, and the loss of personal belongings run the damage toll into millions of dollars.
BIG NEEDLE AND ROPE CREWS RUSH TO FINISH AIR QUEEN’S OVERALLS
AKRON, OH – The biggest dress-making job in history is now taking place as the huge Navy dirigible Macon gets her fabric envelope. Scores of men are engaged in covering the bare spots on the airship’s frame, a task which is taking more than 30,000 square yards of specially treated cloth. The new sky-fighter is a sister-ship of the Akron, with a capacity of 6,500,000 cubic feet of helium (almost twice that of the Graf Zeppelin), a useful load of 91 tons, and a speed of 84 miles an hour. She is rapidly nearing completion and will make her debut next Spring.
ODD BIT IN TODAY’S NEWS
OLD GOLDFISH BOWLS CAGE SKY’S PLANETS
HOBOKEN, NJ – School children get a great thrill out of astronomy with the Astrophane, a new device invented by Otto J. Russert. It is a miniature planetarium, made from a 16-inch glass globe. The constellations are painted on the surface and a small replica of the solar system is arranged to revolve inside. Simple but effective adjustments permit “setting” the mechanism to show the exact position of the Earth’s neighbors and the distant star formations at any hour of any day for hundreds of years in the past and future.
TWICE BEATS DEATH RIDING AT 65-MILE CLIP
LOS ANGELES, CA – Sensational spills mark the National Motorcycle Races at the Ascot Speedway. A score of speed “champs” make the dizzy whirl. Lou Balenski astounds the crowd by getting back into the grind after a breath-taking smash, only to suffer a second disaster which puts him out of the running, although he is not seriously injured. John Seymour, 137 Miles-an-hour title holder, also comes to grief in a startling upset on the track’s sharp turn.
FATHERS OF FUTURE TAUGHT INFANT CARE
EDMONTON, ENG. – Bathing, drying, dressing and feeding babies is the major part of the curriculum for young men in the Fathercraft School. The youthful students must put in long hours of training work with large dolls, however, before real children are entrusted to them. Bed making and other nursery pastimes also are included in the course of instruction, which augurs happy days for many British brides-to-be.
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LOYALISTS MEET TO PLEDGE STRENGTH AGAINST RED THREAT
VIENNA, AUSTRIA – Hundreds of thousands line the side-walks and cheer in a frenzy of thankfulness as members of the Home Protection Guard, a semi-military political party, formed as a bulwark against Bolshevism and Marxism, show their might in a monster mobilization and serve notice on Communist agitators of their militant purpose. Furst Starhemberg, organizer and national leader, and Major Tey, newly appointed Secretary of State for Safety, officiate in solemn exercises at the Heroes Place, and then review the uniformed ranks of their followers as they pass for hours along Ringstrasse. A striking demonstration of the country’s determination to combat Soviet infiltration.
FREAK FAME CHASER INTERS SELF FOR NEW “BURIED ALIVE” RECORD
ANNAPOLIS, MD – R. L. (Slim) Jones of Richmond, VA, gains a world title by remaining six feet under ground in a specially constructed “grave” in the local baseball park for 38 days, but the feat may yet cost his life. Exhumed after being “down” one day and 48 minutes over the previous mark, he is 20 pounds lighter and so weak he has to be rushed to an emergency hospital, on the verge of pneumonia. Fed by soup lowered daily through a small chimney during his long incarceration, Slim emerges with a tummy ache and a long beard, but without much pep.
GIANT BLAST SHIFTS COLORADO RIVER BED FOR HOOVER DAM SITE
BOULDER CITY, NV – 3000 charges of dynamite are set off in a mammoth engineering feat which diverts the raging torrent from the Black Canyon through special by-pass tunnels bored through the 1000-foot walls on the Arizona side. Hundreds of trucks and steam shovels rush to throw up a coffer-dam to hold back the flood until the great $165,000,000 barrage can be built. Five and a half million barrels of cement will go into the huge structure, which will impound water forming a lake 227 square miles in extent and will develop almost 2 million horse-power, as well as provide for extensive irrigation projects, city water-supply over a vast region and flood regulation for the lower reaches of the now turbulent stream; A critical and spectacular step in the outstanding construction undertaking of modern times. |
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