Hitlerites Awed as 180,000 “Steel Helmets” Avow Reich Loyalty (Universal Newsreel, Sep 1932)

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The original release sheet reads: 1. HITLERITES AWED AS 180,000 “STEEL HELMETS” AVOW REICH LOYALTY: BERLIN, GERMANY - In the most striking and epochal military demonstration in this country since the Armistice, the great World war veterans’ society, in uniform and full equipment minus only rifles and bayonets, assemble at Templehof Field to serve notice to the Nazis and Reds that the Von Papen government has its sanction. The Chancellor, other ministers and high officials of the government are in evidence, marking the first public recognition of the powerful ex-soldier organization. The former Crown Prince, General von Mackensen and other high ranking “brass hats” of the former Junker regime, make the review a veteran-government-royalist celebration. Prussian banners, war-time military marches and the goose-step show the trend of sentiment in the Vaterland. 2. ROOSEVELT PROMISES AGRICULTURAL RELIEF IN FARM BELT SPEECH: TOPEKA, KS - 25,000 mid-west farmers and other voters, assembled around the steps of the State capitol, hear Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presidential candidate, unfold a six-point plan for alleviating the economic burdens of the food and produce growers of the nation. In the opening gun of his trans-Mississippi campaign tour, the Democratic nominee evokes enthusiasm among the dirt-farmers of this Republican State, following a triumphant procession for the railroad station. One of the highlights of the country’s great political battle. 3. SKYSCRAPER LANTERN SHRINES MARK RARE HARVEST CEREMONIAL: ISHIKI, JAPAN - Bigger and better demon-chasers, is the slogan of the natives of the quaint village whose ancestors started out seven or eight hundred years ago hanging up regular sized lanterns to chase the devils that ruined their rice crops, but who now celebrate the harvest time with monster lights thirty feet high, that requires 50 men with windlasses to raise them from the ground. A most picturesque event, so unusual that even the Japanese call the mammoth devices the “fool lanterns of Ishiki.” ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS: 4. RADIO CONTROL SAILS WEE BOAT/DENVER, CO - An amazing demonstration of a young inventor’s craft, in which a five-foot boat is made to turn and run at the will of its builder, Burt E. Moritz, Jr., by the operation from shore of a wireless control dial. 5. OLD AUTO MAKES UNIQUE BRIDGE/BARLOW, OR - Stringing cables across the Pudding River and fitting his car wheels with special flanges instead of tires, C.W. West operates a Flivver ferry for campers and picnickers. At a dime a head and 1760 trips to the gallon, he’s riding on velvet and the passengers get a big thrill “riding on air.” 6. SCIENCE PUZZLED BY “STRONG MAN” BABY/ALBANY, NY - Eugene Bencivengo is two-and-a-half years old but he weighs 100 pounds, wears a No. 12 shoe, a 7½ hat, has a 35-inch belt and can pick up flat-irons, large chairs and even carry a tub of clothes. Because of his strength, his playmates, twice his age, usually let him have his own way. Otherwise he is perfectly normal – but wait until he grows up. 7. SERIES HOPES LOOM AS RABID “CUBS” FANS BATTLE FOR DUCATS: CHICAGO, IL - Local baseball enthusiasts already have worked themselves into a frenzy over the impending Diamond War. Followers of the Windy City team promise an unprecedented attendance and an abundance of moral support. Already, the business office of the team is literally snowed under with reservations for series tickets, and a corps of 25 girls is kept busy sorting the deluge of mail and checks. And it won’t be long before the cry “Play Ball!” resounds throughout the land, marking the start of the classic struggle that winds up each season of the National Game. 8. ROYAL HOSTS GREET FESTIVE GONDOLIERS AT HISTORIC REGATTA: VENICE, ITALY - Gaily decked craft, with costumed oarsmen and occupants fill the Grand Canal for the picturesque Race Day ceremonies. Up and down the watery thoroughfares of the ancient city, across to the Church of Madonna della Salute, under the Rialto Bridge and finally to the Foscari Palace, where Crown Prince Humbert and Princess Marie Jose await, the gala procession wends its way with music, laughter and the colorful shouts of the straining men at the sweeps. The exciting two-man gondola race is the high-light of the occasion, the Princess awarding banners to the winners. A gala day in the queen City of the Adriatic. 9. ALL TRACES LOST OF TRANS-OCEAN FLIERS; FEARED SUNK AT SEA: BROOKLYN, NY - The American Nurse, the big Bellanca monoplane which took Pangborn and Herndon around the world last year, takes the air at Floyd Bennett Field, the first flying medical laboratory, to attempt a non-stop flight to Rome. With William Ulbrich as pilot, Miss Edna Newcomer, a nurse of Williamsport, PA, as co-pilot, and Dr. Leon M. Pisculli of New York, to observe the physical reactions of the other two during the progress of the flight, the big aircraft wings its way into the rising sun, skirting the southern coast of Long Island and disappears in the Eastern haze of the new morn, to become the latest mystery of the air-lanes. Reported by ships twice on its two-day voyage, the last time only a few hours from the British Isles, the plane fails to appear over Europe and now is heralded as another casualty of the deep. An additional tragic page in the history of man’s aerial achievements.

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MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library