Universal Newsreel Volume 3, Release 20 Part TITLE ONLY

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. DESOLATION AND RUIN FOLLOW IN PATH OF EARTHQUAKE HORROR: NAPIER, NEW ZEALAND - Stirring pictures of this destroyed city show public buildings, hospitals, homes and business houses shattered by temblors which cost hundreds of lives and left thousands of families homeless. British bluejackets take over task of succoring victims. 2. HOOVER AND CABINET IN FAREWELL VISIT AS 71st CONGRESS PASSES WASHINGTON, D.C. - President, with full quorum of his official family, calls at capitol for double purpose of bidding adieu to Vice-President Curtis and signing last-minute legislation, passed amid scenes of wild disorder after ten-billion-dollar session. 3. WILD-EYED ACCLAIM WELCOMES RETURN OF TRANS-OCEAN FLIERS: GENOA, ITALY - General Balbo and his 43 companions on historic hop from Rome to Brazil, debarks in city gay with bunting and jammed with enthusiastic admirers gathered to render them the homage accorded heroes. Greeting, as aviators pass between lines of Black Shirt militia, is one of the most vociferous on record. 4. GOVERNMENT SCRAPS SUBMARINES UNDER NAVAL TREATY TERMS: PHILADELPHIA, PA - More than a score of undersea fighting craft, corralled in Navy Yard, are cut apart by powerful acetylene torches, first stage of their journey to scrap heap. Salvaging of Diesel engines, weighing many tons, is part of program. NEWS PARAGRAPHS: 5. NEW YORK, NY - Professor Einstein sails! — Noted scientist, homeward bound, leaves message of peace and good-will. 6. JERSEY CITY, NJ- Fire first gun in anti-gambling war! — City destroys $50,000 worth of confiscated slot machines. 7. AKRON, OH - “Wobble-meter” determines fatigue! — Experiments prove masculine endurance inferior to that of fair sex. 8. THRILL FINISH MARKS 5th ANNUAL WOMEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY RUN: EPSOM, ENGLAND - Topping a field of 150 girl harriers, Miss G.A. Lunn, world’s champion half-mile sprinter, covers the three-mile course in a little more than 21 minutes. Even draws great crowd and holiday rivals in color and interest the great Derby Day at this historic track. 9. RAGING SEA RAVAGE COAST AND DESTROYS HUNDREDS OF HOMES: WINTHROP, MA - Mountainous waves, fleeing before a northeast wind, sweep over land, wrecking more than 500 residences here and in Revere, Beachmont and other seashore towns. Record tidal rush pounds across seawall with unprecedented fury, leveling buildings and causing damages mounting into the millions.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library