Walker Resigns (Universal Newsreel, Sep 1932)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. WALKER RESIGNS: NEW YORK, NY - On the eve of the most critical session of the removal hearings before Gov. Roosevelt in Albany, Mayor James J. Walker pens his resignation to take effect immediately, ending, for the time being, the year-long battle against him by the Hofstadter Committee and former Justice Samuel Seabury. Indications are strong that he will run for re-election. 2. AMERICAN SWIM STAR WINS WORLD TITLE IN GRUELING MARATHON: TORONTO, ONT., CANADA - 50,000 aquatic fans see Ol’ Man River’s favorite offspring, George Samuel Blagden, a young lawyer of Memphis, TN win the 15-mile swimming championship race at the 7th National Canadian Exhibition in the most spectacular contest to date of the annual series. When George Young, 1931 champ and the favorite, burns out mid-way and is hauled up, the final battle develops between the Southerner and Gianni Gambi of Ravenna, Italy, who is only 200 yards behind at the end of the 7 ½ hour struggle. The frequent sprint duels and continual drop-outs among the 193 starters make this the greatest flutter-kick endurance test ever seen in the Dominion. 3. FINANCIAL PROBLEMS SOLVED BY ISSUE OF LOCAL PAPER MONEY: MERCED, CA - $25,000 in town script is issued by the Merchants Association as a depression cure. Sold to store-keepers at 10% discount, they pay half their employees’ salaries in the new issue and trade booms as the workers rush to spend it. Every time a dollar bill passes over the counter, the tradesman puts a 4-cent association tax stamp on its back. After twenty-five “trips” the script pays for itself and is redeemed in cash. And, of particular interest right now, the system has been recommended to the U.S. Government as a way to pay the bonus and stimulate prosperity. 4. EXCITEMENT RIFE AS DUSKY MAIDS VIE FOR TITLE — “MISS BRONZE”: CHICAGO, IL - William H. “Bill” Thompson, former Mayor, awards the crown of victory to the prize colored bathing beauty at the Savoy Ballroom, after a score of “midnight blondes” in trick bathing suits and elaborate coiffeurs have strutted before the judges to the strains of a double-jointed jazz band. “Peaches” Perchez, slim and svelte, wins the contest and $100 in cash, as the crowded house whistles, stamps and yells its approval. A study in sepia shebas with a syncopated background. Yeah, man! 5. DOOLITTLE’S RECORD DASH THRILLS 25,000 AT AVIATION SPECTACLE: CLEVELAND, OH - Major James H. Doolittle, America’s ace speedster, sets an unofficial land-plane mark of 293 miles an hour in trials for the Thompson contest at the National Air Races. In his 800 horsepower snub-nosed bob-tail Gee-Bee super-sportster, the Major zips across the landscape at almost five miles a minute! Bud Manning, Hollywood parachute jumper, amazes the crowd by a delayed jump, tumbling from 13,000 feet to 1,000 before pulling his rip cord. Johnny Miller of Poughkeepsie wins cheers as he loops-the-loop in an autogiro for the first time in history. Precision ’chute jumpers and other air feats help make the annual meet outstanding in the annals of aviation. 6. REICH INAUGURATES SELF-GOVERNMENT CHILD COMMUNITY: DRESDEN, GERMANY - Madame Dr. Haidersbach, famous pedagogue and child expert, opens the amazing children’s center where new principles of individualism are given full sway. Parents and youth-welfare authorities all over the world watch the experiment with keen interest, seeing to determine what it has to add to the acknowledged status of child dependence. Remarkable results are attained as the youngsters dictate and carry out their own activities, unhampered by admonitory “Don’ts” and “Do’s.” 7. THE ECLIPSE: CONWAY, NH; FRYEBURG, ME; OSSIPEE, NH; ISLAND POND, VT; NEW YORK, NY; CHICAGO, IL - America stands in awe as the Solar System puts on its most spectacular show. In the 100-mile strip of Northern New England where the moon’s shadow completely blots out the orb of day, scientific expeditions from every corner of the globe set up intricate and mysterious apparatus to synthesize, spectro-analyze and record the illusive corona, and shadow bands, Bailey’s Beads and other celestial wonders of the infrequent lunar transit. Thousands rush to the area of totality by plane, boat, train and auto, while millions, denied the sight of a life-time, content themselves with partial eclipse views from street-corners, roof-tops and office windows. Telescopic photography brings the moon to within less than the earth’s diameter and “Old Sol” to within six million miles of the earth. The close-up of the Sun’s corona during the total eclipse is a sight to inspire awe, even to the non-astronomer.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library