1940
| SORT DATE |
CONTENTS |
| 1/25/40 |
WAR STORIES FRANCE. Stories - Women messengers - propaganda center of women decorated with Legion of Honor Cross has organized a section of women messengers - volunteer cyclists and drivers - New French Cabinet - Reynaud, Chautemps, Rucart, Delbos, Mandel, de Monzie, Champetier de Ribes, Pernot, Dautrey, Besse, Daladier - Cattle for the army. (Unreleased) |
| 3/13/40 |
Complete Newsreel. FIGHTING ENDS IN FINLAND! -- Complete and dramatic film review of 105 heroic days - culminating in Red Munich! Stirring chapter of an epic resistance against insuperable odds, with eloquent plea by former President Hoover for Finnish relief after crushing peace. FIRST FILMS FROM BYRD EXPEDITION! -- Exciting scenes of Antarctic saga! Ships braving berg-filled seas - landing in Little America - unloading of giant snow cruiser - men and dogs battling way across icy wastes. LATEST NEWS SNAPSHOTS! WINGED SALUTE TO NATIONAL DEFENSE! -- Army's huge flying fortresses soar above California - a streamlined study in the skypower that safeguards America's coasts. UNEARTH KING TUT'S RIVAL IN EGYPT! -- Exciting find in Land of Pharaohs - discovery of Tomb of King Psousennes - treasure trove of antiquity. THE WOMAN'S PAGE. Edited by Adelaide Hawley. BLOSSOMS BLOOM ON EASTER BONNETS! -- Saucy spring hats feature all kinds of garden flowers - creations displayed in New York by Lily Dache are heady bouquets. THE SPORTING PAGE. NEWEST IMPORTED WRESTLERS GIVE FANS A HOWL! -- Bone-benders go to town in dizzy slugging contests. "Swedish Angel" makes New York debut and at 235 pounds he's certainly no glamour boy. BOSTON'S BASEBALL TEAMS TRAIN IN SOUTH! -- Casey Stengel's Bees get ready for 1940 pennant race at Bradenton, Florida. Tom Yawkey's million dollar Red Sox warm up in Sarasota as top-flight stars report for practice. (HNR Vol.11-No.252) |
| 4/20/40 |
WAR'S ECHO IN ASIA ALARMS SINGAPORE! Britain's Far East Gibraltar, increases its vigilance as Japan eyes neighboring Netherland Indies - torpedo planes launch deadly cargoes - anti-aircraft artillery opens up - tanks charge in drill. (HNR Vol.11-No.263) |
| 4/26/40 |
NANKING OBSERVES CAPITAL'S FOUNDING. (Unreleased) |
| 5/6/40 |
NEW CHINA'S BIG THREE MEET AT TSINGTAO. Wang Ching-wei, who will be head of the unified government for China when it is established, Wang Ke-min, the head of the Peking government, and Liang Hung-chin, the head of the Nanking government, New China's big three, met at the Yinginkuan, Tsingtao, and reached a complete accord regarding the basic principles of the central government for reborn China. (Unreleased) |
| 5/29/40 |
SOONG SISTERS RALLY FORGOTTEN CHINA! Trio of feminine patriots, headed by Madame Chiang Kai-shek, help country carry on struggle now overshadowed by Europe's conflict - Chungking rebuilds after bombing raids. (HNR Vol.11-No.274) |
| 7/17/40 |
WAR NEWS FROM THE FAR EAST! Timely pictures of Burma Road - China's lifeline of supply - now closed by British under Japanese pressure. At Chungking, dauntless Chiang Kai-shek builds new army and air force to carry on conflict. (HNR Vol.11-No.288) |
| 8/2/40 |
Complete Newsreel. FIRST LONDON RAID FILMS! R.A.F. BEATS OFF ATTACK! -- Havoc in London suburbs after initial bombing! Scores of homes and stores are wrecked but John Bull announces "Business as Usual!" Survivors aren't a bit discouraged. Over Channel, R.A.F. planes tackle oncoming waves of Nazi raiders. With aid of Dover anti-aircraft batteries, they break up mass attack - Enemy downs barrage balloons by pays heavy price - German wreckage litters shore after battle. BRITISH BLOW LIBYAN FORT TO BITS! -- Gunners bombard evacuated Fort Maddelena, destroying frontier outpost after Italians are driven out. DEFENSE HEADLINES! PROGRESS OF WINGED PREPAREDNESS! -- Production Administrator Knudsen and General Arnold, Air Corps Chief, inspect new Lockheed P-38, world's fastest sky fighter on tour of Southern California plants. Also under construction is Douglas B-19, mammoth bomber. LATEST NEWS SNAPSHOTS! FIRE IMPERILS GOLDEN GATE FAIR! -- Flames sweep California Building - San Francisco's smoke-eaters get five-alarm blaze under control after it does $500,000 damage. PINK HIPPOS HIT OF SAN DIEGO ZOO! --Newest arrivals from darkest Africa - a rare pair from the Blue Nile - treat spectators to two tons of fun as they romp. THE SPORTING PAGE. NATIONAL TENNIS DOUBLES TOPPLE MANY RECORDS! -- Alice Marble and Sarah Palfrey win 4th straight U.S. doubles title - 19-year-old Jack Kramer and Ted Schroeder take men's tournament from Prusoff and Mulloy to become youngest champs in 59 year history of famous Longwood Cricket Club classic. PREPAREDNESS SPIRIT HITS FOOTBALL TRAINING FIELDS! -- New York Giants unlimber at Pearl River, New York, for 1940 professional season using guns instead of pigskins and hit the line "blitzkrieg style." (HNR Vol.11-No.299) |
| 8/18/40 |
THE KU KLUX KLAN AND GERMAN AMERICAN BUND GET TOGETHER at Camp Norland, New Jersey. (Unreleased) |
| 9/30/40 |
THE NEWS PARADE OF 1940! THE FATEFUL YEAR: SEPTEMBER 1939 - SEPTEMBER 1940. War with Germany - John Kennedy - Paris - cannons - German planes bomb - German troops - Hitler - Maginot Line - Siegfried Line - British battleships - U-boats - torpedo - British troops - Blind man - Cross - Sunset - Parachuting scenes - Prisoners (Allied) - refugees - Dunkirk - canons and anti-aircraft guns. (HNR Vol.12-No.230) |
| 10/16/40 |
16 MILLION SIGN WITH THE UNCLE SAM. Drama of democracy in the first peacetime registration of military might in the nation's history - Pershing, Roosevelt and Rockefeller enroll with fellow citizens of all colors and creeds. New York's Chinatown shows the (same?) spirit as Native Americans of the oldest stock. From Washington D.C. the President addresses those answering the call. (HNR Vol.12-No.210) |
