Japan Defies League; Dispatches Envoy to New Far East State (Universal Newsreel, Oct 1932)

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The original release sheet reads: 1. JAPAN DEFIES LEAGUE; DISPATCHES ENVOY TO NEW FAR EAST STATE: CHANGCHUN, MANCHURIA - Epochal scenes accompany the signing of the treaty protocol between Nippon and Manchukuo. The arrival of Ambassador N. Muto, commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, is the signal for demonstrations by thousands of Japanese school-children and other émigrés from the Flowery Kingdom. Henry Ru Yi, Regent of the new Manchu government, receives the foreign plenipotentiary with ceremony at the Palace. A score of the Mikado’s Major Generals and other high officers lend a significant military tone to the occasion. The Orient’s challenge to world opinion. A far-reaching step in the dawning drama of the Pacific. 2. 10,000 HOMING PIGEONS COMPETE IN CLASSIC LONG-DISTANCE DERBY: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bicentennial Racing Pigeon Futurity, the biggest event of its kind ever held in the United States, has its start at the foot of the Washington Monument, with a veritable cloud of birds fluttering upward to begin their arrow-like home-ward flights over distances up to 400 miles. Prized carriers from Canada, Cuba and from every leading pigeon-loft in the U.S. take part, including the hopeful fledglings of famous war heroes who earned their citations bearing messages from beleaguered American battalions in the Argonne and elsewhere. NEW YORK, NY - The first pigeon to reach here from Washington in the cross-country trophy race is “Jimmy Walker,” a 4-months youngster who makes the distance in 4 hours, 28 minutes and 18 seconds, at a rate of 1338.46 yards a minute or more than 45 miles an hour. 3. ARMED FORCES HALT STRIKE PICKETERS IN COAL MINE UPRISING: CANTON, IL - Machine-guns stick their menacing noses up and down the roads leading to Fulton County mines and bayonets glisten as blood-shed precipitates a tense situation in the struggle between old and new miners’ unions. National Guard companies from Peoria are rushed to the scene to prevent picketing as small mine-owners and workers are hard pressed by the alleged rough-shod tactics of the dissenting pick-men. Soldier escorts offer the only safety for willing employees. A strange state of affairs, with two labor unions as the contending parties. ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS: 4. AUTOMOBILE RUNS BY COAL/PHILADELPHIA, PA - A pleasure car run by steam, with a few pounds of anthracite good for 100 miles, no gear shifts, a speed of 75 miles an hour, and no battery trouble, awakens the natives here as George Mershon, a furnace-grate maker, demonstrates his new invention. It resembles a regulation limousine, except for the smokestack rising from the hood. 5. TAMMANY HAILS WALKER’S RETURN/NEW YORK, NY - 5,000 vociferous admirers jam the north German Lloyd pier to welcome the city’s former Mayor upon his arrival from France aboard the SS Europa. Two tugs loaded with chieftains and braves from the Wigwam of the famous Democratic organization, escort the liner up the bay. “Jimmy’s” belated home-coming is noisy and enthusiastic. 6. PROPOSE HOMES OF GLASS BRICKS/COLUMBUS, OH - Startling changes in domestic arrangements are due if a new transparent building block, being demonstrated by a local factory, becomes popular in house construction. Although the tile keeps out noise, heat and cold and admits light, it lets light out, too, and doesn’t promise much privacy, especially for honeymoon bungalows, for instance. 7. RUIN AND DESOLATION FOLLOW WORST FIRES IN WESTERN HISTORY: COCHRAN, OR - Thousands of families are made homeless, numerous towns, logging camps and isolated farm dwellings are burned to ashes, and 300,000,000 feet of standing timber are wiped out in a terrific forest conflagration that sweeps over the northwestern corner of this State and southwestern Washington. Hundreds of men and women fight desperately but in vain, powerless to keep their houses from being consumed by the vicious flames. Scores save their lives by leaping into the heated streams as the waves of smoke and red-hot embers, driven by a 50-mile wind, swoop over them. A staggering blow to the lumber country. 8. WOLVERINES DEFEAT WILDCATS IN SEASON’S FIRST BIG GRID TILT: ANN ARBOR, MI - The brilliant football battle between Michigan and Northwestern, ushering in the Big Ten schedule, is filled with thrills for the 60,000 spectators, as the Evanston eleven gets the short end of a 15-6 score, due to fumbles at critical moments and the remarkable running and passing of Newman, a new pig-skin star. In the first game between the two schools in seven years, Rentnor, vaunted “power-house” half-back from the Illinois University, is smothered by the strong Michigan defense. A spectacular collegiate struggle – the opening big-league match of the year. (LOCAL – CANADA) GOV. GENERAL OPENS 4th SESSION OF 17th PARLIAMENT.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library