Commander Describes Akron Tragedy While Navy Search Goes on (Universal Newsreel, Apr 1933)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. COMMANDER DESCRIBES AKRON TRAGEDY WHILE NAVY SEARCH GOES ON: WASHINGTON, D.C. - An impressive description, in his first official screen interview, by Lieut. Commander H.V. Wiley, one of the survivors of the ill-fated Akron, in which he tells in vivid words, how the appalling disaster occurred. 2. $25,000 HANDICAP RACE WON BY GALLANT SIR SETTING NEW RECORD: AGUA CALIENTE, MEXICO - Ten thousand racing fans see the “Gallop Grande,” one of the outstanding contests of the season, with a thrilling finish that breaks the mile-and-a-quarter time set last year by the famous “Phar Lap.” 3. EX-PRESIDENT RIDES HISTORIC TRAIN FOR TRIP TO NOTED MINE: RENO, NV - Herbert Hoover, on his first outing after leaving the Presidency, visits the famous Comstock mining properties, and takes a trip on the same train that carried President U.S. Grant from here to Virginia City 60 years ago. 4. SOCIETY “BUDS” DISPLAY NEW SPRING FINERY AT EASTER FASHION SHOW: MIAMI, FL - Attractive new designs in lingerie, beach pajamas and street suits are “modeled” by pretty debutantes wintering at Coral Gables, in an elaborate style parade. 5. FAMOUS CHURCH GIVEN SPRING CLEANING FOR HOLY YEAR PILGRIMS: ROME, ITALY - Climbing like flies on the huge statues surmounting the basilica of St. John’s Lateran, workers risk their lives and dare death at the Pope’s order to clean the famous edifice. 6. BIGGER AND BETTER BEARS SEEN IN NEW SPRING FARM CROP: TINLEY PARK, IL - Unusual scenes of a striking experiment in raising bear cubs, with a small boy as the nurse-maid for the roly-poly family, born in captivity three months ago. 7. AERIAL BOMBS DRIVE CHINESE DEFENDERS FROM KEY POSITION: KUPEIKOW, CHINA - Amazing pictures taken during the Japanese air bombardment of this important place and the evacuation of the wounded as Chiang Kai-shek’s crack 25th Division, hurries to the front to meet the Nipponese infantry attack. 8. BEER FLOWS: BARMEN TRAIN; AMERICA BUYS — DEALERS GET LICENSES: U.S.A. - Hectic scenes mark the official let-down of Prohibition bars. Hordes of applicants for liquor selling privileges storm the city bureaus the day before, and brewery trucks roll on the stroke of midnight, heaped with barrels of golden suds.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library