Machado Mobilizes Hurricane-Stricken Isle’s Relief Force (Universal Newsreel, Nov 1932)

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The original release sheet reads: 1. MACHADO MOBILIZES HURRICANE-STRICKEN ISLE’S RELIEF FORCE: SANTIAGO DE LAS VEGAS, CUBA - After a tour of the storm-devastated area by the President and his staff, the nation’s full resources are organized to succor the 3500 injured and homeless survivors of the greatest disaster that ever struck the Queen of the Antilles. Soldiers, police and volunteer workers are rushed to the waste that was Santa Cruz del Sur before a 100-mile wind and a tidal wave 25 feet high wiped it off the map, along with 2500 of its inhabitants. Scenes in the Province of Camaguey are appalling. Wrecked buildings, ruined crops and orchards and the loss of personal belongings run the damage toll into millions of dollars. 2. BIG NEEDLE AND ROPE CREWS RUSH TO FINISH AIR QUEEN’S OVERALLS: AKRON, OH - The biggest dress-making job in history is now taking place as the huge Navy dirigible Macon gets her fabric envelope. Scores of men are engaged in covering the bare spots on the airship’s frame, a task which is taking more than 30,000 square yards of specially treated cloth. The new sky-fighter is a sister-ship of the Akron, with a capacity of 6,500,000 cubic feet of helium (almost twice that of the Graf Zeppelin), a useful load of 91 tons, and a speed of 84 miles an hour. She is rapidly nearing completion and will make her debut next spring. ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS: 3. OLD GOLDFISH BOWLS CAGE SKY’S PLANETS/HOBOKEN, NJ - School children get a great thrill out of astronomy with the Astrophane, a new device invented by Otto J. Russert. It is a miniature planetarium, made from a 16-inch glass globe. The constellations are painted on the surface and a small replica of the solar system is arranged to revolve inside. Simple but effective adjustments permit “setting” the mechanism to show the exact position of the Earth’s neighbors and the distant star formations at any hour of any day for hundreds of years in the past and future. 4. TWICE BEATS DEATH RIDING AT 65-MILE CLIP/LOS ANGELES, CA - Sensational spills mark the National Motorcycle Races at the Ascot Speedway. A score of speed “champs” make the dizzy whirl. Lou Balenski astounds the crowd by getting back into the grind after a breath-taking smash, only to suffer a second disaster which puts him out of the running, although he is not seriously injured. John Seymour, 137 miles-an-hour title holder, also comes to grief in a starling upset on the tracks’ sharp turn. 5. FATHERS OF FUTURE TAUGHT INFANT CARE/EDMONTON, ENGLAND - Bathing, drying, dressing and feeding babies is the major part of the curriculum for young men in the Fathercraft School. The youthful students must put in long hours of training work with large dolls, however, before real children are entrusted to them. Bed making and other nursery pastimes also are included in the course of instruction, which augurs happy days for many British brides-to-be. 6. 12,000 LOYALISTS MEET TO PLEDGE STRENGTH AGAINST RED THREAT: VIENNA, AUSTRIA - Hundreds of thousands line the side-walks and cheer in a frenzy of thankfulness as members of the Home Protection Guard, a semi-military political party, formed as a bulwark against Bolshevism and Marxism, show their might in a monster mobilization and serve notice on Communist agitators of their militant purpose. Furst Starhemberg, organizer and national leader, and Major Tey, newly appointed Secretary of State for Safety, officiate in solemn exercises at the Heroes Place, and then review the uniformed ranks of their followers as they pass for hours along Ringstrasse. A striking demonstration of the country’s determination to combat Soviet infiltration. 7. FREAK FAME CHASER INTERS SELF FOR NEW “BURIED ALIVE” RECORD: ANNAPOLIS, MD - R.L. (Slim) Jones of Richmond, VA, gains a world title by remaining six feet under ground in a specially constructed “grave” in the local baseball park for 38 days, but the feat may yet cost his life. Exhumed after being “down” one day and 48 minutes over the previous mark, he is 20 pounds lighter and so weak he has to be rushed to an emergency hospital, on the verge of pneumonia. Fed by soup lowered daily through a small chimney during his long incarceration, Slim emerges with a tummy ache and a long beard, but without much pep. 8. GIANT BLAST SHIFTS COLORADO RIVER BED FOR HOOVER DAM SITE: BOULDER CITY, NV - 3000 charges of dynamite are set off in a mammoth engineering feat which diverts the raging torrent from the Black Canyon through special by-pass tunnels bored through the 1000-foot walls on the Arizona side. Hundreds of trucks and steam shovels rush to throw up a coffer-dam to hold back the flood until the great $165,000,000 barrage can be built. Five and a half million barrels of cement will go into the huge structure, which will impound water forming a lake 227 square miles in extent and will develop almost 2 million horsepower, as well as provide for extensive irrigation projects, city water-supply over a vast region and flood regulation for the lower reaches of the now turbulent stream. A critical and spectacular step in the outstanding construction undertaking of modern times.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library