Sailors Joyous as Navy Chief Banishes Holystone Scouring (Universal Newsreel, Jun 1931)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. SAILORS JOYOUS AS NAVY CHIEF BANISHES HOLYSTONE SCOURING: BROOKLYN, NY - Traditional curse of the gob is tossed into discard because it is antiquated and wears out wooden decks — thus making its elimination an economy measure. Method of polishing older than American branch of the service goes to the plank route to the bottom of the sea. Tars find little to weep over at prospects of days free from pushing stubborn stones around ships shining decks to the nth degree. 2. SOVIET STARTS NEW AERO-SLEIGH LINES TO COMBAT ICE PERIL: LENINGRAD, USSR - Queer machines designed to surmount obstacles of frozen country negotiate distance to Moscow. Impassable snow drifts cast aside with bored ease by vehicle planned to bear technical knowledge and cultural opportunities to remote and isolated sections of vast nation. 3. ZOO DENIZENS AND MANNEQUINS SHOW AUTUMN FUR MODES: NEW YORK, NY - Models display styles milady will wear next fall at exclusive exhibition of fashions. Original owners of skins approve of girls selected to demonstrate the best qualities of sleeve and collar reforms that mark new designs. NEWS PARAGRAPHS: 4. ROXBURY, MA - Negro wins fortune on Derby! — Cameronia’s victory brings $150,000 to 32-year-old odd-job man. 5. NEW YORK, NY - Menagerie folk welcome odd arrival! — Hail first armadillo born in captivity — mother and son doing well. 6. CHICAGO, IL - 3½ years old and weighs 102 pounds! — SOME baby is Jules Tewlow — 35-inch waistline and Number 11 shoe. 7. “BRAIN TEST” DECIDES REFORM POSSIBILITY OF PRISON INMATES: TRENTON, NJ - Dr. James Q. Holsopple, famed psychologist, puts convicts through unusual examination to determine habitual criminal from offender with chance to “go straight.” Thinking processes graphically pictured by employment of “mirror quiz” which reveals the pitfalls subjects fall into. Control, of lack of it, in their own hand-writing tells odds favoring or opposing reform. 8. MIDDIES ON PARADE HONOR TRADITIONAL COLOR PRESENTATION: ANNAPOLIS, MD - Historic Naval Academy oscillatory custom frowned on by the Commandant and Miss Eloise Hanford goes kiss-less when flag is accepted by Midshipman Lieutenant D.B. Beary. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke confers degrees and commissions on 441 future admirals who receive honors in Dahlgren Hall.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library