Typhoon and Flame Sweep Nippon Cities; 300 Reported Dead (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1932)

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The original release sheet reads: 1. TYPHOON AND FLAME SWEEP NIPPON CITIES; 300 REPORTED DEAD: HARA, JAPAN - An oriental hurricane, howling across the Kwanto district at 78 miles an hour, followed by fires in the twisted wreckage of houses and barns in the path of the all-night windstorm, turns the rich farm village section along the Tokaido Highway into a land of desolation. Food and medical aid are rushed to the bewildered survivors found picking around in the ashes of their homes, and the work of reconstruction begins while the ruins are still smoldering. 2. SENATE G.O.P. HEADS CONFER ON PROGRAM OF LAME DUCK MEET: WASHINGTON, D.C. - “To beer or not to beer” is the hectic question as Senators and Representatives assemble for the December session of Congress. There is a strange feeling in the air, not present in more than a decade, because of the great number of old-timers and outstanding Republican figures doomed to private life by the recent election. The losers, here for their final law-making, take it on the chin standing up, however, and say with a wink, “Wait until 1936.” 3. VILLAGE BLACKSMITH MOUNTS SHOP IN AUTO TO GO HORSE-SHOEING: ALLIANCE, OH - The smith, a mighty progressive man is he, packing his forge and other tools into a 5-ton truck, forsaking his spreading chestnut tree and chugging right up to the farmer’s back gate with a portable repair unit, after finding that business did not make a beaten path to his door. J.E. Rennard doesn’t believe that old rat-trap story, anyway. His motto, and it’s bringing him success, is “a rolling anvil gathers no cobwebs.” 4. EXILE TROTZKY SEES EUROPE AS PAROLED HOSTAGE OF SOVIET: NAPLES, ITALY - For the first time since his enforced domicile outside of Russia, the noted revolutionary leaves the Turkish Isle of Prinkipo. On his way to Denmark to lecture on Bolshevism, he stops over to view the glory and grandeur that flourished in Pompeii centuries before modern civilization arose to compromise the rights of man. Accompanied by his wife and several husky body guards, the former associate of Lenin stumbles about in the ancient ruins like any ordinary tourist. 5. ‘HUNGER MARCHERS’ JOYRIDE TO CAPITAL FOR POLITICAL SIEGE: NEW YORK, NY - Hungry for notoriety and newspaper attention, twenty van loads of “starving” Reds, accompanied by 5 trucks of food and bedding, leave Union Square for Washington, following a Communist demonstration with martial music, a fur-coated cheering section, and banners demanding everything from dollars to doughnuts. The New England-N.Y. contingent gets a vociferous send-off on its way to throw a scare into Congress. 6. BRITISH RULERS OPEN PARLIAMENT SESSION BESET BY DEBT CRISIS: LONDON, ENGLAND - In the hour of the country’s greatest travail since the war, Britons turn out by the thousands to see their King and Queen in the age-old pageant of royalty, riding in the famed golden coach from Buckingham Palace to Westminster. The celebrated “Beef-eaters,” the Life Guards and the Grenadier Guards add martial color and pomp to the ceremony. Peeresses in gem-studded tiaras and ambassadors in gorgeous robes take a prominent part in the function – the outstanding event in the European calendar of regal display. 7. MOTHERHOOD SCHOOL IN WORLD’S LARGEST HOSPITAL FOR BABIES: JERSEY CITY, NJ - The Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital, the biggest of its kind in the country, conducts an undergraduate and postgraduate course of instruction for mothers, with an overflow attendance at all classes. Baby-lore of all kinds, from the bathing of infants to the critical complications of the teething period, is taught, both with dolls as subjects and with real live squawkers. 400 babies under one roof force the nurses to conduct a great wet-dry poll daily. 8. BIKE THRONGS THRILL AS DESPERATE RIDING BRINGS 6-DAY SPILLS: NEW YORK, NY - Furious sprints, exciting lap-stealing battles and sensational crashes keep the crowds on the edge in Madison Square Garden as the world’s picked cyclists whirl in dizzy succession around the giant saucer, hour after hour. The lure of the pedal marathon is greater than ever this year and the contestants are outdoing themselves in spirited competition and breath-taking spurts. (LOCAL – CANADA) HAMILTON TIGERS WIN RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library