Court Battle Stays Decision in Walker Ouster Proceedings (Universal Newsreel, Aug 1932)

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The original release sheet reads: 1. REICH IN MOURNING AS DIVERS FIND HULK OF ILL-FATED CADET SHIP: KIEL, GERMANY - Sixty-nine young German naval students are carried to death when their training ship, the Niobe, founders in a squall on the Baltic Sea. At great risk, under-sea workers descend and prepare the wreck for towing to port. Dynamite and acetylene torches help to clear the once-proud vessel of its mast and canvas, while grief-stricken parents line the quay, awaiting the arrival of the hull with its tragic burden. The first major disaster in German’s post-war naval history. 2. BRITISH HOP-WORKERS EYE AMERICA IN HOPE OF EARLY BEER LAWS: PADDOCK WOOD, ENGLAND - British hop-growers are a couple of hops and several long strides ahead of the prohibition situation in the United States. Anticipating the legalizing of old-time brew across the Atlantic, they are working overtime to have an abundant crop ready, should their dream come true. The vines, which grow to a height of fifteen feet or more, have to be tended by workers on tall stilts and the spectacle of a group of men stalking along nursing tender tops of the plants is an amusing commentary on the refusal of an ancient custom to give way before the onslaught of modern industrial invention. IN TODAY’S HEADLINES: 3. U.S. ARMY DISCLOSES AERIAL WAR SECRETS/NEW YORK, NY - More than 3 billion candle-power in monster search-lights dazzle theater crowds as the Coast Artillery’s latest anti-craft invention is tried out in public. A new multiple reflector, the development of Col. A.M. Jackson of the 62nd C.A.C. of Fort Totten, breaks up the beams of a battery of four lights into forty-eight shafts that pierce the sky to a height of two miles. “Enemy” airplanes from Mitchel Field, the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building are limned as if by daylight, to the wonderment of on-lookers. 4. GRID TRAINING BEGINS WITH BRAWN TRYOUTS/SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Football candidates for the Army’s West Coast Team at Crissy Field, get their preliminary training “bucking” an aeroplane. In regular formation they line up against the front edge of the craft and the pilot gives her the gas. When they get tired of this, they tie a rope on the tail and dare the pilot to go places. What a tug of war! The latest idea in football training! 5. “BLUE SHIRTS” NAME FATHER COX TO HEAD NEW JOBLESS PARTY/CREVE COEUR, MO - Hundreds of men and quite a few women pass in solemn array before their leader, a Pittsburgh priest, as the opening gesture of a presidential convention for the new political group organized by the unemployed. With an exchange of Fascist-like salutes, the dominie reviews his followers, whose “uniform” is characterized by a blue shirt and a blue overseas cap for the men and a blue sash for the women. An interesting demonstration of one of the many facets of the current American scene. 6. COURT BATTLE STAYS DECISION IN WALKER OUSTER PROCEEDINGS: ALBANY, NY - Mayor James J. Walker of New York City hurls a monkey wrench into the machinery of the removal hearings before Governor Roosevelt, by a surprise court order restraining the State Executive from pronouncing sentence on him before the question of jurisdiction has been settled by law. A sensational turn in the investigation that has rocked the nation. The battle-lines between the Seabury and Walker forces draw tighter as “Jimmie” seeks to tie the hands of his official “judge.” 7. FINAL CURTAIN FALLS IN BLAZE OF GLORY ON OLYMPIC GAMES OF 1932: LOS ANGELES, CA - Breath-taking thrills and spills feature the Prix des Nations, the heart-breaking obstacle course for mounted officers that winds up the international contests of the Tenth Olympiad — twenty jumps over eighteen almost impossible hurdles set up in the vast stadium — so difficult that not a single team comes through. Only five officers finish, two of them Americans, with Lieut. Baron Nishi of Japan carrying off individual honors. The closing ceremonies of the tournament are picturesque and inspiring. Booming cannons, fan-fares of trumpets, trooping of colors, and the extinguishing of the Olympic torch grip the hearts of 95,000 spectators as the great athletic meet goes down into history. With a clarion call to the youth of the world to set their eyes and their hearts on Berlin in 1936, the international sports committee hails the end of the greatest athletic festival of modern times. The sinking sun marks the finish, as the strains of Aloha, from a score of bugles, float through the great amphitheater.

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MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library