Government Honors American Children’s War Memorial Gift (Universal Newsreel, Sep 1932)

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The original release sheet reads: 1. GOVERNMENT HONORS AMERICAN CHILDREN’S WAR MEMORIAL GIFT: MEAUX, FRANCE - On a hill-top overlooking the plateau along the Marne River where the flower of France first stemmed the enemy invasion 18 years ago, four million school children of the United States, with pennies, nickels and dimes, have caused the erection of a huge monument, 130 feet high, as a return gift for the Statue of Liberty. The great granite monolith, designed by Frederick MacMonnies, and depicting La Belle France, supporting a wounded “poilu” and gazing defiantly north-eastward, is dedicated in impressive ceremonies by French and American officials, as several thousand spectators stand by in reverence. An outstanding event in the history of international amity. 2. THE TIDE TURNS, PART VIII - Nation’s business continues upward trend as industry adds thousands to swelling payrolls. CONNERSVILLE, IN - 1600 men and women are called back to work at a big motor car plant following a price cut and a sudden jump in orders. 100 percent increase in auto sales are indicated, for the coming month, by advices reaching this factory. CINCINNATI, OH - Big soap factory has 2000 men and women working at top speed as increasing orders tack up. Improved demand indicates America will soon be back on its $300,000,000-a-year outlay for cleanliness. WORCESTER, MA - One of the country’s leading corset manufacturers is running at full capacity, with 375 on the job again, as a result of the present rapid turning of feminine attention from depression to “suppression.” DETROIT, MI - A great adding machine company hires hundreds of workers as its factory goes back on the 150,000-machines-a-year basis, with another department, making a new typewriter, added to meet the rapid expansion of business and growing office installations. ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS: 3. QUITS FARMING FOR SQUASH SCULPTURE/CIRCLEVILLE, OH - William Kendall used to be a farmer, but he learned to carve funny faces from pumpkins and other melons and now finds it pays him more than raising them. 4. ONLY WALRUS IN U.S. MAKES PUBLIC DEBUT/SAN DIEGO, CA - Captured on the coast of Alaska, Marie, an amphibian baby of four months and 400 pounds, demands shower baths at frequent intervals to keep her blood pressure down, and is thriving on the bottle – six gallons of milk daily. 5. PHAR LAP’S EFFIGY TO LEAVE FOR AUSTRALIA/YONKERS, NY - The great Antipodean race-horse, whose sudden death last Spring, after being acclaimed far and wide as the winner of the Caliente Handicap, was a sad blow to racing enthusiasts, has been reproduced in life-size, the horse’s skeleton and skin being mounted in realistic pose by expert taxidermists. This replica of the second greatest money winner of all time is to be presented to the Commonwealth government as a lasting memorial to the famous animal. 6. FLAUNTS “SPITE” HOUSE IN ZONE LAW PROTESTS/GLEN RIDGE, NJ - Angered by the city fathers, Mrs. Irene Warren “decorates” the front of her residence in garish colors, hangs weird an colorful garments on a clothes-line in her front yard and takes delight in thinking up new insults to paint on crude signs before her house, in her fight to establish a business section in the home-restricted area where she dwells. 7. TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN OPENS CONVENTION OF THINNING G.A.R. RANKS: SPRINGFIELD, IL - Two thousand or more tottering Union veterans of the Civil War assemble for their annual encampment at the Tomb of the revered War Leader. White-haired and bent, but with bright eyes and the same enthusiasm with which they answered the call of Father Abraham in ‘61, the aged heroes re-live the days of the Wilderness, Chickamauga, Gettysburg and other battles, and heatedly deny that this is their last reunion. Seven thousand spectators see the exercises at the national shrine in Oakridge Cemetery, with Gov. L.L. Emmerson of Illinois and Samuel P. Town of Philadelphia, Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, officiating. An impressive sight, soon to pass into glorious history. 8. EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS DEFY TIBER’S TIDES IN CLASSIC SWIM GRIND: ROME, ITALY - The 26th annual “Across Rome” water race is staged with a score of aquatic speed experts, including several foreigners who come to beard the Roman in his muddy river. The event attracts thousands who perch on the various bridges or run along the banks of the historic stream to cheer their idols to victory. Renato Bacicalupo, outstanding Italian swimmer and one-time winner of the celebrated “Across Paris” contest, comes out ahead in the grueling 5500 meter course. An exciting and colorful old-world sports battle. 9. DAREDEVIL STUNTSTER ACHIEVES THRILLING ’PLANE-AUTO SWITCH: MUROC, CA - Defying death at 70 miles an hour, J.D. Pate, famous speed demon, performs the amazing feat of dropping from the wing of a low-flying airplane to the top of a speeding sedan. Treacherous air currents caused by heat convection currents in the vicinity of the dry lake here, make several trials necessary with Pate weakening and hanging on by his teeth in one attempt. A remarkable demonstration of human recklessness and pluck.

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MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library