Scores Die as Gales Lash Channel Ships (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1929)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. BIG SHIPS BUCK ICE-CHOKED RIVERS: ST. MARY’S RIVER, MI - Freezing weather in North keeps government tugs busy clearing channels. Giant “breakers” continually split the menacing floes. 2. DIEGEL KEEPS CROWN AS NATIONAL GOLF KING: LOS ANGELES, CA - Defeats Farrell and wins professional championship for second year. Diegel finishes 6 and 4 gets the cup. 3. NEWS PARAGRAPHS: VALENCIA, SPAIN - Government holds “Old Age Day” — 90 to 105-year-olds feature first holiday honoring elderly folk. 4. MORROW BACK IN U.S.: ENGLEWOOD, NJ - Ambassador to Mexico here to plan NJ fight for Senatorship. 5. KING OPENS BRIDGE: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - Gustaf V, ruler of Sweden, dedicates country’s biggest railroad span. With the King are the Crown Prince and Princess, Prince Eugen and Princes Ingrid. 6. VARE WON’T GIVE UP: PHILADELPHIA, PA - Republican Leader, rejected by Senate, seeks re-nomination in May primaries. 7. OUR NEW SECRETEARY OF WAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Patrick J. Hurley, of Oklahoma, succeeds the late James W. Good. 8. HOW GOOD IS YOUR NEWS MEMORY?: NORFOLK, VA - What great dirigible crashed, killing 34 U.S. airmen, about 7 years ago? The “Roma,” on Feb. 2, 1922, after her arrival from Italy. 9. SCORES DIE AS GALES LASH CHANNEL SHIPS: FOLKESTONE, ENGLAND - Hurricane’s fury and giant seas sweep English coast. Victims of the storm’s rage. 10. FELINE “ARISTO-CATS” MEOW FOR BLUE RIBBONS: NEW YORK CITY - Champions in all classes purr at judges in annual National Show. “I’m no dude,” says this kitty, “but I can high hat all of them.” 11. HOOVER RUSHES MARINES TO QUELL HAITI RIOTS: NORFOLK, VA - 500 “Leathernecks” leave U.S. for Jacmel to guard Americans against attacks. Another contingent, from Cuba, arrives on the cruiser “Galveston.” President Borno, whose rule the agitators would overthrow. Always “first to fight.” (LOCAL - SAN ANTONIO) CITY BOASTS FINEST NEWSPAPER PLANT. (SPECIAL) GRAHAM MCNAMEE SIGNS. (LOCAL - CANADA) STAFFORDSHIRE WINS ’CYCLE GRAND NATIONAL.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library