Champions Compete for Walking Prize in 10-Mile Bunion Derby (Universal Newsreel, Nov 1932)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. HOOVER-ROOSEVELT AGREE EUROPE MUST MAKE DEBT PAYMENT: WASHINGTON, D.C. - At the most momentous meeting in recent times, the President-elect pays an unprecedented visit to the National Capital at the invitation of the President, to talk over government policies concerning the critical situation arising from the threatened defaulting by various foreign countries of their war and post-war obligations to the United States. The New York Governor and his advisors are enthusiastically received by thousands assembled at the railroad station, while his appearance as they motor up Pennsylvania Avenue brings a continuous ovation. With the Capitol Dome looming behind him, the next Chief Executive hears himself hailed by a wildly cheering populace, and is cordially welcomed to the White House by his recent campaign opponent. 2. CHAMPIONS COMPETE FOR WALKING PRIZE IN 10-MILE BUNION DERBY: CONEY ISLAND, NY - Eighty-six heel-and-toe experts of the metropolitan area take part in the 22nd annual Thanksgiving Day race of the Walker’s Club of America, covering the distance from City Hall, Manhattan, to the southernmost tip of New York City, via the Brooklyn Bridge, through the business streets of that borough and down Ocean parkway to the beach. F. Butter of the German American A.C. is the winner, making the route in 1 hour, 34 minutes and 46 3/5 seconds, with the aid of a 24-minute handicap against such famous hi-swingers as John Knackstedt, his teammate, and William Carlson of the N.Y.A.C., both scratch-men. Butter finishes strong, with plenty of grit, and gets the James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy. This is one of the country’s most striking athletic contests. 3. BOY DETECTIVE FINDS MISSING DRY LEADER HUNTED OVER NATION: WHITTIER, NC - The mysterious disappearance, September 3rd, of Col. Raymond Robins, outstanding prohibitionist and close friend of President Hoover, is solved by Carl Fisher, 12-year-old school-boy, who “spots” a visiting “mining engineer” as the long-sought anti-liquor crusader. Bearded and in over-alls, the Colonel has been living in a small mountain boarding-house and taking daily hikes in the Great Smokies. Rushed to Norburn Hospital in Asheville as an amnesia case after he is “found,” the strange wanderer later is moved to his Florida estate. ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS: 4. VEST-POCKET PLANE HITS 90 MI. AN HOUR/CINCINNATI, OH - Successful tests are made at Lunken Airport of a new midget monoplane the inventor of which, E.H. Lanier, predicts will become as popular and as common as the automobile. It is 13 feet wide and can be folded to 7 feet to fit an ordinary garage. It weighs 300 pounds and can go 180 miles on 5 gallons of gasoline. 5. DEFIES LION HORDES TO THRILL AUDIENCES/HAMBURG, GERMANY - Captain Schneider, noted animal trainer, proves his remarkable courage and risks his life by entering a cage containing 70 hungry beasts just before feeding time. The ferocious jungle “cats” leap at and around him in a breath-taking melee, but he emerges with only a few minor scratches. A sensation feat that chills the spine. 6. SPECTACULAR SPORTS DEMONSTRATION MARKS REVOLT ANNIVERSARY: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - In celebration of the 22nd birthday of the agrarian revolution which gave the country its present popular form of government, men and women from every state in the Republic assemble here to stage the biggest athletic gathering ever held in the Western Hemisphere. 30,000 runners, jumpers, gymnasts, roller-skaters, riders and other devotees of physical skill move in majestic procession through the streets of the city to the National Palace where they are reviewed by President Rodriguez. As a feature of the pageant, many of the groups perform en route from time to time for the edification of the hundreds of thousands lining the side-walks. An impressive spectacle which indicates that a new spirit of peaceful progress imbues the former strife-torn land. 7. BEER PREPAREDNESS SPEEDED UP AS WETS PRESS LAW’S REPEAL LOS ANGLES, CA - With outstanding national figures predicting the legalizing of real “suds” by January 1st, and with Congress expected to consider Volstead Act changes early in December, big breweries are “dusting off” their machinery, their mash tubs and their bottling equipment in readiness for the resumption of operation. Trial runs prove that brew masters have not lost their knack. City authorities everywhere are swamped by requests for selling permits and State bureaus are flooded with applications for exclusive names for new wines and malt drinks. Even the sturdy truck horses are beginning to feel their oats, or maybe it’s their barley and hops. Well, here’s how – soon? 8. CHILDREN JOYOUSLY SURRENDER TO SANTA AND HIS GOBLIN CREW: NEW YORK, NY - Gigantic, grotesque figures, made of rubber and filled with helium gas, are paraded along the streets of the metropolis and released to soar towards the stratosphere in the annual Christmas holiday parade of a big department store, attracting hundreds of thousands of youngsters and provided the most bizarre event of the year. Leading a 168-foot alligator, a 50-foot dachshund, a 100-foot “whiffenpouf,” 60-foot pig, a score of lesser Brobdingnagian monsters, floats, clowns and other Toyland attractions, St. Nick makes his initial 1932 bow in Gotham while thousands of police are needed to handle the crowds and hold eager-eyed boys and girls in check.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library