1 Killed, Scores Hurt in Bonus Riots; Army Mobilizes in Capital (Universal Newsreel, Jul 1932)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. BOARD OF TRADE TO FIGHT GOVERNMENT’S SUSPENSION ORDER: CHICAGO, IL - Bitter war looms in the grain market as the Chicago Board of Trade defies the 60-day closing order by the Federal Grain Futures Commission, when President Peter B. Carey, in a strong interview, avers that such closing would precipitate a world-wide panic. He characterizes the commission’s restrictions as having been instigated by “agricultural racketeers.” C.E. Huff, president of the Farmer’s National Grain Corporation, defends the federal ruling, and vividly outlines the battle-lines between the grain pit and the farmers’ co-operatives. Both sides of a vital economic struggle are presented by the field marshals of the opposing factions. One of the important national news stories of the day. 2. REVOLUTIONISTS FLEE; SILENT CITY BOWS TO MILITARY OCCUPATION: BELEM, BRAZIL - Nerve-wracking, indeed, is the existence of the natives in Brazil’s revolution zone. Town change hands over night and rebels and loyalist experience difficulty in knowing when to cheer or to keep mum. A “viva” at the wrong time may mean the firing squad. Even the troops swap allegiance without warning. No man can trust his neighbor. Scenes in Brazil’s new war zone add a new meaning to the “bitterness” of civil strife. NEWS PARAGRAPHS: 3. HAMPTON, VA - This Virginia town wrests the laurels from Winsted, CT, the fabled home of freaks of nature, by producing a litter of pigs that receive their nourishment from two Jersey cows. The little porkers, left motherless by a cruel fate, seem to thrive mightily on Grade-A milk, from contented bovines. Farmers of the vicinity predict a typical Burbank outcome, with roast Virginia veal-ham as a new table delicacy. It’s no fake, pigs is calves. 4. TOKIO, JAPAN - Nippon’s most impressive military ceremony is the Celebration of the Colors of the 4th Japanese Regiment of the Imperial Guard. The Mikado’s crack soldiers annual re-enact the review inaugurated in 1887 when it received its battle flag from the hands of the revered Emperor Meiji himself. The colors have passed through two bloody conflicts, the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War and now hang its cherished ribbons as a result of bullets and shell-fire. The flower of the Rising Sun in inspiring martial galaxy! 5. 40 CARS LEAP RAILS IN DISASTROUS SMASHUP CAUSED BY SUN’S RAYS: BELLEFONTAINE, OH - The worst freight wreck in the history of Ohio railroading! Car-load after car-load of “rush” merchandise piles up at 50 miles an hour, scattering debris for 400 feet along the tracks and heaping themselves into mountains of splintered box-cars and packing cases. Hats, shoes, hand-bags, medicines, sugar, salt, canned goods, safety pins, razor blades and paper cups are flung high and wide. The derailment was caused by “sun-buckle” or “sun-kinks” in the rails due to the unprecedented heat that has recently visited this locality. 6. 1 KILLED, SCORES HURT IN BONUS RIOTS; ARMY MOBILIZES IN CAPITAL: WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Hoover calls out infantry, cavalry, tanks and other troops to rout the Bonus Expeditionary Force, after a fatal clash between “vets” and police results in casualties. Foot by foot, at bayonet’s point, the intruders are forced from their shack and tent camp in the heart of the nation’s capital during the most critical situation in the Federal District since the Civil War. Bombs are hurled, emitting clouds of blinding tear-gas that makes weeping, cursing groups of the once determined compensation crusaders. Stumbling towards fresh air, the unwelcome visitors see their former abodes put to the torch. Urged, shoved, dragged and occasionally encouraged by the broad side of a cavalry saber, the one-time soldiers are helpless as incendiary grenades send their shack up in smoke. A thousand flames ascend, spreading a pall of smoke that shrouds the brilliant white dome of the Capitol close-by. Hundreds of thousands of spectators crowd the streets, taxing police and military safety zones, to view the most cataclysmic domestic event of the decade.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library