Universal Newsreel Volume 4, Release 6 Part LA LOCAL

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The original release sheet reads: 1. CLEVER SLEUTHS GET BISCHOFF CONFESSION IN GIRL MURDER CASE: CINCINNATI, OH - Employing a dramatic ruse, Captain Lynn Black and Sheriff Asa V. Butterfield wring the admission from Charles Bischoff, 45, that he was responsible for the kidnapping and brutal slaying of six-year-old Marian McLean. Using real thriller methods, Black gains the suspect’s confidence and solves one of the most gruesome crimes of recent years. Prosecutor Gorman swings into immediate action to bring the fat, heavy-jowled prisoner to quick justice. 2. JOYOUS PEONS SHARE $150,000 GRAND PRIZE IN NATIONAL LOTTERY: HAVANA, CUBA - The happiness of the lucky natives is unrestrained as Rodolfo Mazorra y Montoro announces the winners of the annual country-wide drawing. Many of the top awards are won by needy contestants, and prizes ranging from $100 to $150,000 are distributed to fortunate players. The sudden riches bring a windfall to the More Choice Oasis, as the lucky ones help paint the town. Operated with the sanction of the authorities, 70 percent of the money invested is returned to the people, the balance being deposited in the national treasury. 3. HUNDREDS HOMELESS AS SUDDEN TORNADO SWEEPS COUNTRYSIDE: MT. ZION, MS - A 125-mile-an-hour gale cuts a path of destruction a quarter of a mile wide across Simpson and Smith Counties, taking a toll of 5 lives, and injuring 25. Homes are razed; roofs torn from their moorings and flung hundreds of yards away; trees are uprooted; and livestock hurled through space, causing damage estimated at $150,000. Rescuers press through the devastated country, searching for victims and quieting the rising fears of the survivors. NEWS PARAGRAPHS: 4. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Age forces retirement of famed jurist! — Nation voices regrets as Oliver Wendell Holmes quits at 91. 5. SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Ocean storms drive sea-gull army to port! — Seeking food, hungry birds follow ships in countless droves. 6. NEW YORK, NY - Metropolis swelters in record heat! — Weather man agog at warmest January in history. 7. STREETS FLOW WITH BEER RIVER AS POLICE RAID GARAGE HANGOUT: CHICAGO, IL - Halsted Street is swamped with a strange fluid in these days of the Prohibition era. A surprise raid nets agents under Administrator A.E. Aman, 537 barrels of banned brew. The cache discovered, the dry sleuths waste little time in putting an end to the illicit liquid. Armed with mallets and pegs the Federal men jam in the bungs and flood the highway and gutters with $30,000 worth of amber brew, as the Windy City’s parched gullets moan and wail. 8. TREACHEROUS WINDS CAUSE NEAR-FATALITY AT BOYS’ GLIDER MEET: PALOS VERDE, CA - Caught in a dangerous eddy, Guy Rowell, 13-year-old pilot, loses control of his ship and is tossed into the Pacific Ocean. Tragedy is averted by the alert action of a rescue crew that sets out from shore, saving the endangered youth who is clinging to the wing of his crippled plane. Young Rowell had managed to stay in the air one hour and 15 minutes before the tricky cross wind sucks him out to sea. Twenty boys were entered in the contest in preparation for the international meet. (LOCAL – LOS ANGELES) TOM MIX AND “TONY” MEET FOR FIRST.

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MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library