Thousands Acclaim Hoover; 2500 March in Farm Relief Demand (Universal Newsreel, Oct 1932)

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The original release sheet reads: 1. THOUSANDS ACCLAIM HOOVER; 2500 MARCH IN FARM RELIEF DEMAND: DES MOINES, IA - The President, in his first public speech for re-election, cheers the horde of Republicans jammed in the Coliseum with a 12-point program for agricultural relief, on the heels of an anti-Hoover demonstration through the streets by Farmers Holiday picketeers and their sympathizers. More than 100,000 line the pavements to welcome the nation’s Chief Executive on his arrival. The presidential party, in a triumphant auto procession, is greeted by flag-waving and din of partisan cheering. Anti-administration banners and slogans are flaunted through the same thoroughfares earlier in the day by embittered produce raisers. A remarkable example of the strange contrasts in the present American scene. 2. AMAZING ENGINEERING FEAT RAISES GIGANTIC MUSSOLINI MONOLITH: ROME, ITALY - After three years of effort, Carrara marble quarry workers have carved out a monster block, almost three meters square and 18 meters long, which is erected with great difficulty in the new athletic stadium as a tribute to Il Duce. Sliding it from a spot 800 meters up in the Apuan Mountains, into a boat and by way of the Tiber to the capital, is only the beginning of the job. Specially constructed ramps and hydraulic jacks are necessary to elevate the huge obelisk to its final resting place. A remarkable example of human ingenuity, unparalleled in the history of physical science. 3. “SEA-TRAINS,” BUILT BY FEDERAL LOAN, UNDER QUIZ BY GOVERNMENT: HOBOKEN, NJ - An innovation in Eastern seaboard maritime facilities, a ship that transports a fully loaded 100-car freight train, is ready for operation between this port and Havana, Cuba. By means of specially constructed “elevator cranes” box cars are lifted from their tracks and let down into the hold of the craft, where they are run off the elevator onto special rails and clamped securely into place for the ocean voyage. At Havana, they are to be similarly lifted out and placed right on dock sidings, thus eliminating trucking, lighterage and other handling. Opposition lines are out to prevent the bloats from making coast-wise stops and the Interstate Commerce Commission has ordered an investigation. It’s the latest thing in salt-water transportation, destined, perhaps, to mark a new era in shipping. In case of war the odd vessels can be used for carrying railway artillery or airplanes. ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS: 4. ERIE GRAPE CROP SETS NEW RECORD/MIDDLE BASS, OH - Delaware’s, Concord’s and Catawba’s by the ton are filling the vats of Lake Island and shore vineyard growers as a bumper yield raises vintners’ hopes of the possible legalizing of light wines in the near future. 5. NATIVES HOLD RARE BATTLE-GOD RITES/KATSURA, JAPAN - Enthusiastic natives bear an ornate palanquin in impressive ceremonies to thank their God of War for the success of the Nipponese armies in their Chinese engagements. A startling evidence of the martial spirit of the man-on-the-street in the Flowery Kingdom. 6. STATE WAGES STARFISH WAR/WAREHAM, MA - A bounty of 35 cents a bushel on the marine pests which have almost put the scallop fishing industry out of business results in the elimination of 11,000 bushels, or about 5 million of the destructive sea stars from local waters – and queerly enough, the fishermen find there is more money in this work than in regular bi-valve digging. 7. NAVY BALLOON VICTOR OVER WORLD’S BEST IN INTERNATIONAL RACES: BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Sixteen gas-bags from eight different countries compete in the 20th James Gordon Bennett Cup contest, as thousands cheer the late afternoon take-off. Lieut. Commander T.G.W. Settle and Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell in the U.S. Navy entrant, last year’s winner, rise into the blue to float 921 miles over several frontiers for a landing more than 36 hours later near the Polish-Latvian border, almost a hundred miles farther than their nearest competitor. Another American aeronaut, Goodyear No. 8, carrying the veteran balloonist W.T. Van Orman, and R.J. Blair, is second, covering 830 miles, and outdistancing contestants from France, Poland, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Trilling scenes of the oldest and most picturesque aviation classic. 8. POLICE ARMY CALLED AS BARGAIN HUNTERS RIOT AT DOLLAR $ALE: BROOKLYN, NY - Thousands of girls and women, drawn by an unusually low cut-rate sale of coats and dresses, jam the main thoroughfare in front of a large department store, stopping traffic, crushing against the plate glass windows until they are shattered, and precipitating a mob rush that necessitates a hurry call for fifty mounted and dismounted patrolmen to quell the disorder. The flood of eager purchasers presses into the store in a column six wide, defying all attempts by the officers of the law to regulate their movements. An amazing scene of feminine determination and shopping frenzy, as the house-wives and others, some with babes in arms, battle the blue-coats in a rough and tumble struggle.

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MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library