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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32091)

HOOVER-ROOSEVELT AGREE EUROPE MUST MAKE DEBT PAYMENT
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At the most momentous meeting in recent times, the President-elect pays an unprecedented visit to the National Capital at the invitation of the President, to talk over government policies concerning the critical situation arising from the threatened defaulting by various foreign countries of their war and post-war obligations to the United States. The New York Governor and his advisors are enthusiastically received by thousands assembled at the railroad station, while his appearance as they motor up Pennsylvania Avenue brings a continuous ovation. With the Capital Dome looming behind him, the next Chief Executive hears himself hailed by a wildly cheering populace, and is cordially welcomed to the White House by his recent campaign opponent.

CHAMPIONS COMPETE FOR WALKING PRIZE IN 10-MILE BUNION DERBY
CONEY ISLAND, NY – Eighty six heel-and-toe experts of the metropolitan area take part in the 22nd annual Thanksgiving Day race of the Walker’s Club of America, covering the distance from City Hall, Manhattan, to the southernmost tip of New York City, via the Brooklyn Bridge, through the business streets of that borough and down Ocean Parkway to the beach. F. Butter of the German American A.C. is the winner, making the route in 1 hour, 34 minutes and 46¾ seconds, with the aid of a 24-minute handicap against such famous hip=swings as John Knackstedt, his team-mate, and William Carlson of the N.Y.A.C. both scratch-men. Butter finishes strong, with plenty of grip, and gets the James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy. This is one of the country’s most striking athletic contests.

BOY DETECTIVE FINDS MISSING DRY LEADER HUNTED OVER NATION
WHITTIER, NC – The mysterious disappearance, September 3rd, of Col. Raymond Robins, outstanding prohibitionist and close friend of President Hoover, is solved by Carl Fisher, 12 year old school-boy, who “spots” a visiting “mining engineer” as the long-sought anti-liquor crusader. Bearded and in over-alls, the Colonel has been living in a small mountain boarding-house and taking daily hikes in the Great Smokies. Rushed to Norburn Hospital in Ashville as an amnesia case after he is “found”, the strange wanderer later is moved to his Florida estate.

ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS
VEST-POCKET PLANE HITS 90 MI. AN HOUR
CINCINNATI, OH – Successful tests are make at Lunken Airport of a new midget monoplane the inventor of which, E. H. Lanier, predicts will become as popular and as common as the automobile. It is 13 feet wide and can be folded to 7 feet to fit an ordinary garage. It weighs 300 pounds and can go 180 miles on 5 gallons of gasoline.

DEFIES LION HORDES TO THRILL AUDIENCES
HAMBURG, GERMANY – Captain Schneider, noted animal trainer, proves his remarkable courage and risks his life by entering a cage containing 70 hungry beasts just before feeding time. The ferocious jungle “cats” leap at and around him in a breath-taking melee, but he emerges with only a few minor scratches. A sensational feat that chills the spine.

SPECTACULAR SPORTS DEMONSTRATION MARKS REVOLT ANNIVERSARY
MEXICO CITY, MEX. – In celebration of the 22nd birthday of the agrarian revolution which gave the country its present popular form of government, men and women from every state in the Republic assemble here to stage the biggest athletic gathering ever held in the Western Hemisphere. 30,000 runners, jumpers, gymnasts, roller-skaters, riders and other devotees of physical skill move in majestic procession through the streets of the city to the National Palace where they are reviewed by President Rodriguez. As a feature of the pageant, many of the groups perform en route from time to time for the edification of the hundreds of thousands lining the side-walks. An impressive spectacle which indicates that a new spirit of peaceful progress imbues the former strife-torn land.

BEER PREPAREDNESS SPEEDED UP AS WETS PRESS LAW’S REPEAL
LOS ANGELES, CA – With outstanding national figures predicting the legalizing of real “suds” by January 1st, and with Congress expected to consider Volstead Act changes early in December, big breweries are “dusting off” their machinery, their mash tubs and their bottling equipment in readiness for a resumption of operation. Trial runs prove that brew masters have not lost their knack. City authorities everywhere are swamped by requests for selling permits and State bureaus are flooded with applications for exclusive names for new wines and malt drinks. Even the sturdy truck horses are beginning to feel their oats, or maybe it’s their barley and hops. Well, here’s how – soon?

CHILDREN JOYOUSLY SURRENDER TO SANTA AND HIS GOBLIN CREW
NEW YORK, NY – Gigantic, grotesque figures, made of rubber and filled with helium gas, are paraded along the street of the metropolis and released to soar towards the stratosphere in the annual Christmas holiday parades of a big department store, attracting hundreds of thousands of youngsters and provided the most bizarre event of the year. Leading a 168-foot alligator, a 50-foot dachshund, a 100-foot “whiffenpouf”, 60-foot pig, a score of lesser Brobdingnagian monsters, floats, clowns and other toyland attractions, St. Nick makes his initial 1932 bow in Gotham while thousands of police are needed to handle the crowds and hold eager-eyed boys and girls in check.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32092)

HOTEL GUESTS FLEE WHILE FLAMES RAZE $100,000 STRUCTURE
PANAMA CITY, FL – Winter tourists make their escape in the nick of time, as The Pines, one of the oldest and most celebrated stopping places in the state, is completely destroyed by a fire which starts near the roof and rapidly eats its way to the ground. Firemen from several nearby towns rush apparatus to aid the local Vamps, but in vain. The building is cleared shortly before it collapses, becoming an inferno of heat and blazing timber. The conflagration marks the passing of an old landmark, known to thousands in all parts of the country.

NEW MOSAIC STUDIOS RUSHING TO PRESERVE PAPAL ART TREASURE
VATICAN CITY – The Pontifical School of Mosaics, founded in the 16th Century, is accomplishing marvels in the reproduction of famous paintings, to assure their beauty and artistry for the edification of future generations, long after the original canvas and pigments have rotted away. Skilled artisans are constantly at work, duplicating the old masters with bits of colored glass, and turning out inlaid portraits or scenes of remarkable fidelity and permanency. 30,000 different shades of stone or variegated vitreous composition are kept on hand in the great church atelier and so painstaking is the job that it takes from three to five years to complete a picture 24 by 36 inches in size.

WORLD’S CHAMPIONS CONTEST AT GREATEST OF LIVESTOCK SHOWS
CHICAGO, IL – The finest cattle and draught horses on earth are on display in the Amphitheatre of the Union Stock Yards for judging in the annual equine alive, is a feature of the Fair, along with remarkable beef animals – prize Herefords, Angus-Aberdeens, Shorthorns and others, which are drawing breeders and experts from every part of the United States and Canada. It’s the leading competition of its kind, with exhibits valued at more than $5,000,000.

ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS

BUSINESS HALTS FOR DIRT-CHASING FIESTA
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN – Fall clean-up day in the Flowery Kingdom, officially designated in each community presents an amazing sight, as furniture, business fixtures and everything not nailed down is moved into the streets all over town, while mops, brooms and dust-rags are wielded by high and low, young and old. OLD

SPANISH TORTURE MACHINES UNEARTHED
NEW YORK, NY – An awesome collection of devices used by the Inquisition to force confessions or mete out punishment in Spain and the low countries centuries ago, has been brought to the United States for display by Joseph Lewis, president of the Freethinkers of America. An efficient mouth-opener for taciturn and a gag-mask for over-talkative women are included among the weird instruments. WORKERS

CELEBRATE MONARCHY DOWNFALL
VIENNA, AUSTRIA – 100,000 members of the Social Democratic Party, most of them workmen representing various trade groups, commemorate the passing of the Hapsburg regime by a mighty demonstration, in which they call for pure Socialism in government. For almost 3 hours, in ranks 10 and 12 wide, they move along Ringstrasse with their red banners and pass the Town Hall, where Mayor Karl Seitz and their leaders review them. A million people line the sidewalks to cheer. CANAL DAM TORRENT RAGES IN FIRST FULL

TEST OF FLOOD GATES
GATUN, PANAMA – Its retaining walls re-enforced by concrete bastions, the hydro-electric station on the Chagres River sturdily resists the force of tumbling water from the great mid-isthmian lake, as 9 spillways are opened simultaneously, relieving the rapidly mounting pressure on the main barrage of the inter-oceanic waterway. Residents of Colon and Cristobal breathe easier as the overflow, impounded perilously close to the danger point, is allowed to race freely to the sea.

IRISH FORWARD PASS BOMBARDMENT ROUTS ARMY IN GRID BATTLE
NEW YORK, NY – The Notre Dame football team runs riot on the Yankee Stadium battle-front, overpowering, outplaying and devastating a West Point eleven rated among the best. Upsetting all calculations, the Ramblers amaze a record crowd of 80,000 by the versatility of their playing, uncorking passes, spinners, power-plays and shifts with bewildering rapidity. An aerial, from Koken to Melinkovich, late in the first half, brings about the first score for the green-jersied boys. Another, 45 yards through the air, from Banas to DeVore, runs up another tally, early in the third quarter. A third results from a Cadet fumble behind the goal line a few minutes later. Only lots of luck and desperate playing by the harassed Warriors prevents several more touchdowns by the South Bend juggernaut. Score 21-0, and what a game!
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32093)

TYPHOON AND FLAME SWEEP NIPPON CITIES; 300 REPORTED DEAD
HARA, JAPAN – An oriental hurricane, howling across the Kwanto district at 78 miles an hour, followed by fires in the twisted wreckage of houses and barns in the path of the all-night windstorm, turns the rich farm village section, along the Tokaido Highway into a land of desolation. Food and medical aid are rushed to the bewildered survivors found picking around in the ashes of their homes, and the work of reconstruction begins while the ruins are still smouldering.

SENATE G.O.P. HEADS CONFER ON PROGRAM OF LAME DUCK MEET
WASHINGTON. D.C. – “To beer, or not to beer” is the hectic question as Senators and Representatives assemble for the December session of Congress. There is a strange feeling in the air, not present in more than a decade, because of the great number of old-timers and outstanding Republican figures doomed to private life by the recent election. The losers, here for their final law-making, take it on the chin standing up, however, and say with a wink, “Wait until 1936”.

VILLAGE BLACKSMITH MOUNTS SHOP IN AUTO TO GO HORSE-SHOEING
ALLIANCE, OH – The smith, a mighty progressive man is he, packing his forge and other tools into a 5-ton truck, forsaking his spreading chestnut tree and chugging right up to the farmer’s back gate with a portable repair unit, after finding that business did not make a beaten path to his door. J. E. Rennard doesn’t believe that old rat-trap story, anyway. His motto, and it’s bringing him success, is “a rolling anvil gathers no cobwebs”.

EXILE TROTZKY SEES EUROPE AS PAROLED HOSTAGE OF SOVIET
NAPLES, ITALY – For the first time since his enforced domicile outside of Russia, the noted revolutionary leaves the Turkish Isle of Prinkipo. On his way to Denmark to lecture on Bolshevism, he stops over to view the glory and grandeur that flourished in Pompeii centuries before modern civilization arose to compromise the rights of man. Accompanied by his wife and several husky body guards, the former associate of Lenin stumbles about in the ancient ruins like any ordinary tourist.

‘HUNGER MARCHERS’ JOYRIDE TO CAPITAL FOR POLITICAL SIEGE
NEW YORK, NY – Hungry for notoriety and newspaper attention, twenty van loads of “starving” Reds, accompanied by 5 trucks of food and bedding, leave Union Square for Washington, following a Communist demonstration with martial music, a fur-coated cheering section, and banners demanding everything from dollars to doughnuts. The New England-N.Y. contingent gets a vociferous send-off on its way to throw a scare into Congress.

BRITISH RULERS OPEN PARLIAMENT SESSION BESET BY DEBT CRISIS
LONDON, ENGLAND – In the hour of the country’s greatest travail since the war, Britons turn out by thousands to see their King and Queen in the age-old pageant of royalty, riding in the famed golden coach from Buckingham Palace to Westminster. The celebrated “Beef-eaters”, the Life Guards and the Grenadier Guards and martial color add pomp to the ceremony. Peeresses in gem-studded tiaras and ambassadors in gorgeous robes take a prominent part in the function – the outstanding event in the European calendar of regal display.

MOTHERHOOD SCHOOL IN WORLD’S LARGEST HOSPITAL FOR BABIES
JERSEY CITY, NJ – The Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital, the biggest of its kind in the country, conducts an undergraduate and postgraduate course of instruction for mothers, with an overflow attendance at all classes. Baby-lore of all kinds, from the bathing of infants to the critical complications of the teething period, is taught, both with dolls as subjects and with real live squawkers. 400 babes under one roof force the nurses to conduct a great wet-dry poll daily.

BIKE THRONGS THRILL AS DESPERATE RIDING BRINGS 6-DAY SPILLS
NEW YORK, NY – Furious sprints, exciting lap-stealing battles and sensational crashes keep the crowds on the edge in Madison Square Garden as the world’s picked cyclists whirl in dizzy succession around the giant saucer, hour after hour. The lure of the pedal marathon is greater than ever this year and the contestants are outdoing themselves in spirited competition and breath-taking sports.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32094)

CAPITAL POLICE MEET RED RIOTING THREATS WITH TEAR GAS GUNS
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After a whoopee procession down Route No. 1 from Baltimore, escorted by Maryland State troopers on motorcycles, the Hunger March truck train from New York and points East, is stopped short of its goal, the Capitol, by determined squads of District of Columbia blue-coats, armed with various kids of fire-arms and chemical warfare implements. The Communist visitors are herded into a bleak camp on the outskirts of the city, while a chain guard is thrown around the area. The Federal Government’s swift and decisive answer to the trouble-making challenge of Soviet-inspired agitators.

ANIMAL FOES CAGED TOGETHER FOR FEUD TEST BY SCIENTISTS
MILWAUKEE, WI – Amazing experiments being made in the Municipal Zoo, prove that wild creatures of mixed species that are natural enemies, can be kept together in captivity without harm. In an unprecedented tryout of the idea, it is found that iron-bars level instinctive beast hatreds and bring about a form of mutual respect between fellow prisoners. Far reaching results in the methods of handling and training hitherto difficult breeds are forecast.

SPEED FIRST 500,000 CHRISTMAS TREES TO INAUGURATE HOLIDAY
SHELTON, WA – 20,000 men in the Pacific Northwest are busy cutting, bundling and shipping young firs to all parts of the country, to assure the proper celebration of the Yuletide. After careful selection and Government inspection, the 6-year old evergreens are moving southward and eastward by the trainload, with more to come, promising a Merry Xmas in millions of American homes.

CLOUDBURST FLOODS 10,000 ORIENT HOMES IN HURRICANE’S WAKE
TOKYO, JAPAN – The severest storm ever recorded in the Island Empire, with wind recorded as high as 165 miles an hour, is followed by a downpour that inundates entire districts and turns many cities into veritable Venices. With streets, basements and lower floors under water, Metropolitan residents carry on by wading to work. Bicycles and autos navigate the river-like streets and piggy-back shopping trips are the order of the day.

PIGMY TRAIN HAULS DOZEN PASSENGERS SAFELY AT FAST CLIP
WALTHAM, MA – Local youngsters get a big kick out of riding on the miniature railroad built by W. H. Nichols. The little locomotive, named Ella Cinders, is 3 feet long and 18 inches high, runs on 60 pounds of steam pressure, develops 2 horse power and does 10 miles an hour around its 220 yard track, replete with tunnels, bridges and stations. Charles Purinton, 10 years old, is the engineer, and he’s kept busy pulling the small observation coach filled with town boys and girls around and around. Every day is Christmas in the Nichols back-yard.

SKIDDING CARS BRING RACERS NEAR DEATH AT 90 MILES AN HOUR
LOS ANGELES, CA – One thrill after another features the 100-lap auto speed contest at the Legion-Ascot Speedway. Such well-known racing daredevils as Russell Delditto, Art Boyce, Thomas Cosman and Frank Suess startle the crowds by their desperate driving and spine-chilling spins on the turns. Lester Spangler is the winner, making the 62½ miles in 47 minutes, 42 seconds. An outstanding sports event, filled with narrow and breath-taking escapes.

FREE 5,000 PIGEONS IN ANNUAL ‘CHUCK-UP’ FOR BIG TRADE GAME
JACKSON HEIGHTS, L.I. – Fanciers from all parts of New York City and its environs release their homing birds at the Holmes Airport in one of the strangest competitions in America. As the carriers circle around in their first taste of freedom, before sensing the direction of their own cotes, many are lured to strange lofts. The person whose charges bring home the most strangers wins not only the extra doves but also the ency of other breeders of the “fancy”. 1000 men and women gamble with their flying pets in this year’s contest. Some entered as many as 100. An unusual “doubles or nothing” game, started by James J. Paretti of Astoria, L. I., one of the country’s breeding experts.

79,000 WATCH ARMY GRIDIRON BATTALION SCUTTLE NACY, 20-0
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Football’s supreme and most glittering pageant, the West Point-Annapolis game, provides alternate thrills and color for frenzied spectators at Franklin Field as the Cadets bombard the Middies by land and by air and roll up a one=sided score. Superb team-work, tight playing and a relentless policy of attack by the Generals smothers the admirals after one fleeting moment of brilliance by the ocean-going eleven in the first quarter. A desperate and sturdy defense by the sea fighters keeps the heavy tanks from the U.S.M.A. from running wild, however, and leaves the “Service afloat” the satisfaction of and “honorable defeat”.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32095)

ALL-AMERICAN TEAM FOR 1932 HAS STARS FROM EVERY SECTION
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The All America Board of Football, made up of five of the country’s leading gridiron mentors, exclusively announces in the Universal Newsreel, its “ace” eleven of collegians for the current season. Each of the selected players gets a diploma signed by the Committee of Award, consisting of Glenn “Pop” Warner, long-time Stanford coach, Chairman; W.A. Alexander of Georgia Tech, Jesse Harper of Notre Dame, Christy Walsh, and Edward L. Casey of Harvard. Here’s the Big Team:
ENDS – Paul Moss, Purdue; Ted Petoskey, Michigan
TACKLES – Joe Kurth, Notre Dame; Ernie Smith, S. California
GUARDS – Bob “Kewpie” Smith, Colgate; Bill Corbus, Stanford
CENTER – Arthur Krueger, Marquette
QUARTERBACK – Harry Newman, Michigan
HALFBACKS – Jim Hitchcock, Auburn; Warren Heller, Pittsburgh
FULLBACK – Roy Horstmann, Purdue

RIGID POLICE ESCORT FOILS RED PLANS FOR CONGRESS OUTBREAK
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Down stately Pennsylvania Avenue, long accustomed to the pomp and pageantry of military parades, 2500 members of the “hunger army” are allowed to march with their shouts, their banners and their band in Russian uniforms. Eight straggling blocks of Communist leaders and their followers, singing the battle song of Bolshevism and yelling demands for governmental largess, while in front, along each side of the column and bringing up the rear, bue-coats by the hundreds hem the demonstrators and prevent threatened rioting. A pip-squeak finale to the long-heralded “December drive” on the Capitol by Soviet sympathizers.

UNITE AUTO-AIRCRAFT IN BULLET-SHAPE CAR TO RIVAL RAILROADS
BATTLE CREEK, MI – Commuting service and short hauling of passengers on railways may be revolutionized by a new Auto-train now being designed here. A torpedo-shaped coach, which fits standard gauge track, and train is stream-lined to reduce wind resistance, is operated by a 16-cylinder motor. It has a capacity of 42 passengers and can make 70 miles per hour. It is calculated to provide faster, more frequent and cheaper transportation on main rail lines and is to be tried out right away by two large companies.

WHISKEY PLANTS RUSH PRODUCTION PENDING PROHIBITION REPEAL
LOUISVILLE, KY – With only two weeks’ supply of whiskey in the United States, should the 19th Amendment be repealed, distillers, under government supervision, lose no time in grinding grain and preparing mash for fermentation so as to be ready to meet the challenge of British, Canadian and Continental strong drink manufacturers. Particular pains are being taken to get the finest water possible, as, strangely enough, the quality of bourbon and other brands depends to an unusual extent upon the water used in the initial stages of distillation.

FOREIGN INVENTORS TEST NOVEL PLANES FOR NEW AIR HONORS
LONGON, ENGLAND – The Flying Flea, a new baby airplane developed by Lowe Wylde, makes a successful appearance at Hansworth Aerodrome. It costs $300 and does up to 45 miles an hour with a 6 horse-power motor.

MILAN, ITALY – Engineer Stipa of the Caproni aircraft factory proves the worth of his new “winged barrel”, a flying machine with a tubular fuselage which try-outs indicate is exceptionally stable and easily controlled.

NEWEST OCEAN GIANT SAFE IN PORT AFTER PERILOUS FIRST TRIP
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Conte Di Savoia, second Italian super-liner to be launched this year, arrives here on her maiden voyage after a serious mishap which might have become another great marine disaster but for quick action by the engineering crew and the dangerous descent by rope 70 feet down the ship’s side in a heavy sea by Gennaro Amatrudo, a sailor, to plug a broken valve-port in the vessel’s “skin”. With her dynamo compartment flooded, the steamer lost nine hours, but her delayed welcome as she noses up the North River saw a record for noise and tooting by harbor-craft.

AQUA-BATICS THRILL WINTER SOCIETY SET AT SEASON’S OPENING
CORAL GABLES, FL. – Sensational high diving from a 115-foot platform features the water carnival which inaugurates beach sports for the members of the “400” now passing the cold-weather months on the sun-warmed strands of the Southland. New York and Newport blue-bloods vie in hilarious greasy-pole contests and other marine high-jinks. Far from ice and snow, Fortune’s favorites make whoopee on the American Riviera.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32096)

COLD CARGOS ARRIVE AMID WRANGLE OVER EUROPE’S WAR DEBT
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Headed by the S. S. Majestic, almost every ship reaching this side of the Atlantic bears a quota of bullion for transfer to America’s strong-boxes. Millions in the yellow metal are put ashore in wooden crates and rushed by armored cars from the steamship piers to government and Wall Street vaults. British and French officials deny the sudden big-scale movement has anything to do with payments of war loans, but much mystery is made of the precious bars, generally believed to be “across the counter” money due to the U. S. from foreign countries.

JUVENILE SPEEDERS COMPETE IN ANNUAL SCOOTER STAKE RACE
PARIS, FRANCE – The development of a new winter sport for youngsters of the boulevards, races with mechanical coasters, pumped by hand, affords great amusement to strollers on the avenues of the national capital. The new kiddie-car is called a “rolling ski” over here. The Place de la Concorde is a popular race-course for the young speedsters, many of whom have attained remarkable stamina in this new form of locomotion. It certainly makes for strong arm muscles and there’s a new crop of Carpentiers growing up along the banks of the Seine.

SANTA TURNS PRISON PLANT INTO TOYSHOP FOR BENEFIT OF POOR
CHICAGO, IL – Thousands of children of destitute homes will be overjoyed by Christmas gifts and playthings as a result of the handicraft of several hundred young men incarcerated in the Cook County House of Correction. Broken toys, collected by the police, are repaired and repainted, and many new ones are made by the willing prisoners, pleased that their efforts mean the spreading of Yule-tide happiness.

INDIAN MAIDENS RACE CANOES WITH SAINT’S FAVOR AS MAIN PRIZE
XOCHIMILCO, MEXICO – An exciting paddling contest in chalupas is staged by the town’s young women in honor the Guadalupe Virgin. With special garlands in their hair and with one girl to each boat, they battle over a long course down the narrow stream. There are thrilling spills and a rescue party of men follows closely to fish out the unfortunates who upset.

SWIM QUEEN PLANS HER 4-CHAMPIONSHIP DEFENSIVE CAMPAIGN
MIAMI BEACH, FL. – Katherine Rawls, 17-year-old aquatic ace, is all set for a stiff season of competition, defending her national titles for springboard diving, breast-stroke, medley and 880-yards free style races. She is the only star holding four senior American tank honors. The pretty water nymph is better than ever as she demonstrates back-dives, one-half twists and forward-1½ somersaults at the Roman Pools, her training headquarters. Incidentally, she’s teaching her sister, Peggy, 3 years old, to become a “champ”, too.

ENDS WILDCAT PERIAL THROUGH BARE-HAND WAR AGAINST BEASTS
NEWHALL, CA. – Charles “Trapper” Ullom catches wild animals for a living and, incidentally, is ridding a large section of country where cattle, horses and other stock are in deadly peril. By means of a special noose at the end of an iron pipe, he snares them alive. A demonstration of his dangerous work of bringing them back kicking, biting and scratching is as thrilling as any jungle picture. Also, he goes right in the cage with a dozen of the snarling, ferocious beasts and at feeding time.

RUSSIA CELEBRATES OPENING OF WORLD’S LARGEST POWER DAM
DNIEPROSTROY, U.S.S.R. – The greatest hydro-electric plant on earth – the pinnacle of the Soviet Five-Year-Plan – is set in motion with epic ceremonies as the impounded waters of the Dnieper River are turned through turbine flumes and spillways at the mammoth barrage just completed near Hichkas, developing 810,000 horse-power. M. Kalinin, chairman of the Central Committee of the Red Republic, confers high honors on Col. Hugh L. Cooper and other Americans whose technical knowledge made the project possible. 2½ billion kilowatt hours of electricity generated here will serve 16 million people over a territory of 70,000 square miles, including the Donetz coal basin and wide-spread metal factories.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32097)

HERRIOT LOSES FIGHT TO PREVENT COUNTRY DEFAULTING ON DEBT
PARIS, FRANCE – After an epochal conference with Ramsay MacDonald, Premier of Great Britain, the French Premier battles desperately all night long in the Chamber of Deputies to save “the good name” of his native land in the loan payment controversy, but goes down to defeat with his cabinet, in a no-confidence vote that rocks the financial structure of the world.

MILLIONAIRE IS HOST TO 10,000 WILD DUCKS SEEKING CITY REFUGE
SEATTLE, WA. – Wealthy citizen supplies tons of food for winged hordes that darken the sky over Lake Washington.

ENTIRE TOWN STAGES REVIVAL OF ANCIENT BRIDAL CEREMONIAL
KYOTO, JAPAN – Old-time Shoguns ride again, with cropped hair and wicked looking swords, in exotic nuptial pageant. Town beauties, as maids of honor, follow on over-stuffed pillions.

ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS

LOOPING RIDER DARES FATE IN LOCKED CAGE
MIAMI BEACH, FL. – Grady Nix, noted thrill expert, rides motorcycle upside down in dizzy whirls as Mrs. Nix sits calmly in “globe of death.”

SPIDER STOPS CLOCK, CLOCK STOPS SPIDER
AKRON, OHIO – University professors and industrial experts watch as determined insect struggles for 20 days to halt the march of time. Dying from exhaustion, its body finally scotches time-piece’s works.

WEIRD AIR-POWER CAR SAFE AT 80-MI. SPEED
MARYSVILLE, MI. – Amazing demonstration of an auto pulled by an airplane propeller. Fast as the wind, the new style motor does 30 miles per gallon and has no clutch, gear or cooling trouble.

GIRL BARBER TEST NERVE IN LION CAGE
INZERSDORF, AUSTRIA – An astounding feat performed to prove relative courage of men and women. Man gets a close shave, all right. Who’s next?

FLIER GAMBLES LIFE AIDING RELIEF DRIVE
MONTGOMERY, AL. – Smith Blaine, dare-devil bird-man, nose dives to ground in amazing crash. Grins when pulled from wreck. Death defying feat performed as a charity benefit thrill.

CHRISTMAS VILLAGE SHADOWED BY DEATH OF 14 IN MINE BLAST
MADRID, N.M. – An appalling underground disaster leaves scores fatherless. Yuletide fete interrupted by tragedy. Joint burial for coal dust explosion victims.

METROPOLIS PAGEANT OF MID-WINTER NIGHT LIGHTS GIVES THRILL
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Gotham displays its jewels for Yuletide visitors as dusk turns its gray canyons into strings of opalescent gems and its huge buildings into golden honeycombs. Electricity transforms the city into a veritable fairy-land, hailed as the most magnificent sight on earth.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1932 (UE32098)

STORM KING LASHES NATION; CAPITAL HIT HARDEST IN 10 YEARS
WASHINGTON, D.C. – An army of men and machines battle to clear streets and highways in the greatest traffic tie-up of several years. Record snow-fall catches law-makers unawares! Street-cars halted by drifts.
 
GIANT ARM BOMBER PROVES DURABILITY IN SEVERE WINTER TEST
SEATTLE, WA. – Huge American air fighter gets stiff workout over snow-capped mountain peaks – Carries a ton of explosives, four machine guns and a crew of four.
 
SOUTHLAND MENACED AS RAMPAGING RIVERS DRIVE OUT RESIDENTS
ROME, GA. – Heavy rains and swollen streams put vast areas under water. 500 families routed from homes – U.S. Army called in to succor refugees. Influenza takes many victims.
 
ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS

FRENCH WINE MARTS SET TO DELUGE U.S.
PARIS, FRANCH – Quais along the Seine waterfront clogged with liquor stores ordered for shipment to America as soon as Prohibition bars are let down. Thousands of barrels await the big day and more are constantly piling up.
 
STRUGGLES 2 YEARS MAKING GLASS ENGINE
VENICE, CA. – A walking-beam machine that runs by steam and is entirely transparent is the achievement of John Backman, a glass-blower. You can see the wheels go around in this one, all right.
 
DOG HEIR TO $20,000 LIVES AMID SPLENDOR
CHICAGO, IL. – “Red”, half shepherd and half Irish setter, has the run of a big residence all his own and is living on the fat of the land, with silk and satin trimmings, as the result of a trust fund left by his mistress, Mrs. Alice Hunter.
 
FASCIST NAVY CADETS SHOW AMAZING SKILL IN SHIP DRILL AT SEA
PALERMO, ITALY – Roman midshipmen undergo rigorous training on square-rigged school craft as Il Douce plans a “super” sea fighting force.
 
BOYS’ CHOIR – FEATURE OF HOLIDAY SERVICES AT GREAT CHATHEDRAL
CHICAGO, IL. – Country’s most famous band of singers, Cardinal Mundelein’s Holy Name Choristers, renders inspiring Christmas music amid impressive settings.
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