Chapter MI: RUMBA. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1941. 1 reel, (16)

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61. Churchill, Byrnes in significant speeches [in New York]. General
Marshall home from China. Peron wins crucial Argentine election.
Meet Mrs. Attlee of 10 Downing Street. [Scientists] record
tremendous sun upheavals. GI show at Ernie Pyle theater [in Tokyo].

62. Churchill poses for portrait, leaves U. S. Show electronic
blanket. Pathe News report: United Nations. Destroy U. S. planes,
gunpowder [in Germany and Alabama]. Smith named Russia Ambassador.
Iran dispute submitted to UNO. UNRRA meets in Atlantic City.

63. UNO meets in New York. Hoover surveys food crisis in France.
"Bluebeard" Petiot at scene of his crimes. Army embarks on Jap
anti-typhus drive. Carrier Midway on Arctic cruise. Princess
[Elizabeth] christens H. M. S. Eagle.

64. Russia walks out. The Iran-USSR dispute before UNO Security
Council: the Iran question; Russia leaves; Iran is heard.

65. Insane pianist fights way back through music. President Truman
awards two medals of honor [to Commander O'Kane and Sergeant
McGaha]. Two million dollar fire ruins pulpwood, big bridge [in
Canada]. Pre-war gaiety in Paris festival. Thirteen-hundred-pound
rocket is U. S. biggest. [Crewmen] resume Oxford, Cambridge classic.
Mine phosphates for Europe's farms.

66. Tidal wave hits Hawaii. UN Council agrees on Iran dispute.
Goering takes stand at Nuremberg trial. First films of Warsaw as
Hoover tours city. Meager rations for the beaten Germans.

67. President Truman in Army Day speech [in Chicago]. One thousand
Japs, Formosans jammed on "hell ship" [at Sydney, Australia].
Yugoslavia's Tito is hailed by Czechs. A village of France [Dortan]
rises from war ruins. Russian fashions at Moscow show. War planes in
mammoth junk heap.

68. League of Nations ends for all time. Jap undersea fleet sent to
the bottom. French [troops] come back to Indo-China. Florida cypress
cut for lumber. First Lady [Mrs. Truman] at Children's Hospital. [U.
S. motion picture] exhibitors' team to serve U. S.

69. F. D. R.—a nation remembers. Physician reports President
[Truman] well after first year. DDT cleans up an entire county
[Muscogee, in Georgia]. Open UNRRA University in Munich. Land mines
in gigantic blow-up [in Texas].

70. General MacArthur asks nations to ban war. 1946 baseball season
begins. Auto industry marks its golden jubilee. Dreams come true for
a dying boy. Hirohito and family—first portrait. Army wives, kids
sail for Europe. "Missouri" carries [Turkish] Envoy's body [to
Istanbul].

71. Japs at polls in first free election. U. S. must conserve, or
Europe starves. Cadets at Annapolis—Middies at West Point [on a
three-day visit]. Million New Yorkers in biggest Easter parade.

72. The occupation job [in Germany]—one year after victory. Truman
reviews 8th Fleet's maneuvers. Byrnes off to Big Four Paris talks.
Royalty [of Sweden and Holland] meet amid old splendor. Khaki
University [in England] for vets only. Airborne lifeboat drops from
sky.

73. Big Four [Byrnes, Molotov, Bevin and Bidault] in Paris
Conference. Forty-five dead, one hundred hurt in [Naperville]
Illinois train wreck. La Guardia seeks aid of Midwest farmers. Army
reveals Flying Wing bomber. President Truman on vacation cruise.
Mrs. MacArthur at Jap tea party. Famed auto race resumed at Nice
[France].

74. Seized films of Nazi V–2 launchings. Roxas is elected new
Philippines President. Jap silver hoard taken from sea. Plastic lung
aids polio victims. Deliveries from sky by parachute. Lightning rods
for Eiffel Tower.

75. Alcatraz riot. Kentucky Derby. Name [Mrs. Emma Clement, of
Louisville] American Mother of 1946. May Day celebrated in Paris.

76. Army wives and children join dads in Berlin. France votes down
new constitution. May Day in Tokyo, Prague and Berlin. President
Truman aids famine relief. Operation Musk-ox is completed.
Policewomen are "Tokyo's finest." Marshal Montgomery home [in
England] to stay.

77. Jap war lords on trial. Army tests Nazis' deadly V–2 rocket [in
the New Mexico desert]. President-elect Roxas [of the Philippines]
in U. S. meets Truman. Yank raiders combat China's black market.
Assault wins the Preakness.

78. Pearl Harbor—a Jap's-eye view. Hoover home from world food tour.
Disabled vets train for a normal life. President [Truman] honors
movies for $4,279,000 [Red Cross] drive.

79. Plane crashes into New York skyscraper. Byrnes reports on Big
Four Paris meeting. First "new Americans" since war land in New
York. UNRRA clothing, food saves lives in Europe. Berlin and Paris
mark VE-Day. Memphis holds Cotton Carnival.

80. Rail strike paralyzes nation. Work goes ahead on atom bomb test.
General Eisenhower on Far East tour. Variety Club award to
Evangeline Booth.

81. Railroad strike ends. Truman entertains 1200 wounded vets [in
Washington]. Louis, Conn train for championship battle.

82. Coal strike settled. One billion, four hundred million-dollar
loan to France. Hold national spelling bee finals. Target-animals
for atomic test. Bust [added to New York University's Hall of Fame]
honors Booker Washington. Repair U. S.-Britain cable link. Henry
Ford, shows first flivver.

83. Destroyer of Lidice hanged. Robson wins 500 mile Indianapolis
[auto racing] classic. Assault takes Belmont—wears triple crown.
Eisenhower speaks [in Washington, D. C.] on anniversary of D-day.
First films—Panama's wild Choco Indians.

84. Fifty-eight killed in Chicago hotel [La Salle] fire. Report on
Hiroshima atomic bomb damage. Elections in France, Czechoslovakia,
Italy. Industry celebrates fifty years of autos.

85. Britons parade on Victory Day. Allied dead honored on D-day
anniversary [in France]. China national government back in old
capital [of Nanking]. G. I. families settle in Berlin. England holds
its Derby classic [at Epsom Downs].

86. London erupts in mammoth celebration [on the eve of Victory
Day]. Gandhi leads Hindus in public prayers. News cameramen get
ready for atom test. U. S. Ambassador Smith in Moscow. Big oil blaze
rages in [Whiting] Indiana. Jap pearl growers back at work.
Australia sees richest foot race.

87. Baruch on atom control. Big Four [Byrnes, Bevin, Molotov and
Bidault] meet again in Paris. Peron inaugurated as Argentine
President. [Howard Hughes'] largest flying-boat moved to launching.
Mangrum wins National Open championship.

88. Japan today. Christen baby prince [Carl Gustaf of Sweden] amid
royal pageantry. Italians hail their new republican government.
General de Gaulle takes the limelight again. Train future Filipino
envoys at State Department [in Washington].

89. Vinson sworn in as U. S. Chief Justice. Campaign for Mexico's
presidency [led by Miguel Aleman]. Open New York to Prague air
service. Select [nation's] best barber shop quartet. Paris fashions
are in news again. Illinois takes national [collegiate] track crown.
Cornell wins international regatta.

90. Famine in China. [Staten Island] ferry station burns in
$2,000,000 fire. Army's [XB–35] Flying Wing in maiden flight. New
posts for Steelman, Snyder. Jap Crown Prince [Akihito] enters
school. Berlin carnival aids destitute. Grand Steeplechase run in
Paris.

91. Operation Crossroads [at Bikini]. Truman on prices. Hirohito
attends 90th Jap Diet. Helicopter aids war on insects [in Yakima,
Washington].

92. Allies on guard in Trieste. UNRRA fights famine in Hunan
Province. British women rebel at bread rationing. GI families take
up new homes in Japan. Nisei war heroes return to U. S. Britons bid
for war surplus cars.

93. Bikini atom explosion—Operation Crossroads. Able Day [in the
Pacific]. The atom explosion. Aftermath [59 ships destroyed or
damaged].

94. [Ted] Williams stars in All-Star game [Boston]. Aleman wins
quiet Mexican election. Philippines Army now under own flag. Truman
visits Gettysburg shrine. Benes is Czech President again. Japanese
in Corpus Christi rites. Clark honors Italian partisans.

95. Philippines gain independence. New boundaries set in Big Four
agreements. Byrnes returns home—hopeful for Big Four. Hamburg mob
protests Allied eviction order. Britain begins move out of Egypt.
Princesses [Elizabeth and Margaret] attend Henley Regatta.

96. King's death is Siam mystery. France marks Bastille Day. British
bombers begin U. S. tour. San Francisco trolleys make news. GI's
enjoy Pyle roof garden [in Tokyo].

97. Exclusive films of George Bernard Shaw. Hindus in weird
Juggernaut rites. Last German prisoners leave United States.
Two-section bus is Kaiser's latest. Anything goes in Siamese boxing.
France seizes German horsepower. Ship kept from Nazis is launched
[in Holland].

98. Shriners parade in San Francisco. Chinese Ambassador [Wellington
Koo] answers press. Paris hears choir boys' congress. McNarney opens
the Patton bridge [across the Rhine]. Germans make old rags into
cloth. Rubber boats ride Australia surf. Britain thanks U. S. for
loan.

99. Byrnes flies to Paris Peace Conference. Sister Kenny in U. S. to
fight epidemics [of infantile paralysis]. Eisenhower honors Army
Medical Corps. UNRRA chief La Guardia on tour in Italy. New York
welcomes Europe's homeless. Water ski champs in national meet [in]
Holland, Michigan.

100. Paris Peace Conference opens. De Gaulle calls for
France-Britain pact. Russia's might in Red Square parade.

101. Underwater atom blast. Operation Crossroads—blast number 2.
Test Baker. Zero hour. Results of the blast.

102. Inside Oak Ridge [Tennessee]. Voting causes Peace Conference
conflict [at Paris]. Truman, in Missouri, votes in primary.

103. Palestine violence breaks out anew. UNRRA conference hears La
Guardia [at Geneva, Switzerland]. Rio De Janeiro roars welcome to
General Eisenhower. Send gas-laden ship to bottom of [North] Sea.
[Jehovah's Witnesses] hold mass baptism in Lake Erie. Mash 2 million
pounds of potatoes [in Washington].

104. Biggest bomber [Army's new XB–36] in first air test. President
Truman on famed 6:30 a. m. walk. Trieste mob protests. Big Four
decision to place zone under international control. Monks rebuild
Cassino monastery. Big show staged for General "Ike" [in Brazil].
Huge French dam near completion.

Volume 18. 1946/47.

1. Palestine: terrorists on trial; refugees shut out.
Fourteen-year-old takes Soap-box Derby. Russia rebuilds Dnieper
[hydro-electric] dam. Churchill gets ancient honors. Truman begins
an ocean vacation. National sweepstakes regatta [between American
and Canadian speed demons].

2. New riots flare in Trieste zone. Price Decontrol Board sets new
rules. LaGuardia hailed by Czechs. New airplane [the Lockheed
Constitution] is Navy's biggest. Admiral Blandy asks atom control.
Women's champ swimming meet.

3. Sum up case against Nazi war criminals [at Nuremberg]. College
All-Stars crush Rams, 16–0 [in Chicago's Soldier Field]. Truman in
Bermuda on vacation cruise. Parachute supplies to Mt. Blanc. Rome
seeks relief from the heat.

4. Palestine-bound Jews riot at Cyprus camp. Talbert and Mulloy win
national tennis doubles. President Truman goes fishing. Revive wild
Italian horse race. Hawaii welcomes Nisei fighters. Chileans bag
undersea monsters.

5. Yugoslavs deliver bodies of U. S. fliers. National air races
flown in Cleveland. Safety device hurls pilot from his plane. Louis,
Mauriello train for bout. Italy burns 25 billion lire. New [Liberty]
highway follows Patton route [across France]. Entire Mexican city of
Guanajuato holds picnic.

6. General Eisenhower speaks at VFW encampment. King [George II] of
Greece regains throne. Camps care for Italy's children. LaGuardia
interviewed in London [as UNRRA director]. De Gaule honors heroic
island [Ile de Sein]. New thrills in famed Ice-capades.

7. Byrnes speaks in Stuttgart. Betz, Kramer win national tennis
finals. Meet Marilyn Buferd "Miss America, '46." First native [Jesus
A. Pinero] is named Puerto Rico Governor. Record wheat harvest eases
world's famine.

8. U. S. Fleet's goodwill visit to Greece. France gives peace
delegates a party. Monty [Field Marshal Montgomery] visits West
Point and Washington. Former Nazi captives give thanks at Lourdes.
General Mark Clark home to discuss Austria. Howard Hughes flies
continent in a B–23.

9. Camera catches crack-up of C–54. La Guardia gives views on
Europe. Ted Bishop wins the national amateur crown. Tests [at U. S.
Bureau of Mines] show causes of mine explosions. Queen Wilhelmina,
sixty-six, feted by her people. "Land yacht" is hotel on wheels.
Amphibian takes family on picnic.

10. Wallace sees Truman—cancels all speeches. [Army's new XP–84] jet
plane shatters U. S. speed record. First big apartments are opened
for vets [in Washington, D. C.] Jews in Austria camp seek Palestine
home. Repair radioactive atom-bombed ship [USS Laffey, back from
Bikini]. Czechs honor fallen U. S. airmen. Korea observes year of
freedom.

11. Rescue [Newfoundland] plane-crash survivors. Wallace resigns [as
Secretary of Commerce] at President's request. General Clark honored
[in Salerno, Italy] at site of invasion. Illini and Bears win as '46
grid season opens.

12. Inflation, crowds plague Shanghai. Start flood control on vital
Yellow River [in China]. A British mother on a pilgrimage to Arnhem.
Truman and 50,000 see President's Cup regatta [in Washington, D.
C.]. Five thousand [Italian] Boy Scouts are honored by Pope Pius.
Flying post office on first mail run.

13. Football: Army-Oklahoma; Notre Dame-Illinois. Funeral of Kalinin
former Russian President. Riots give way to floods in Bombay.
British designs make bid for world trade. U. S. freighter is split
off Britain.

14. Navy's "Turtle" sets non-stop air record. Greeks hail return of
King George II. American Legion in San Francisco parade. Truman asks
aid for community Chest, USO. Five hundred thousand pounds of TNT in
great test blast. Missionaries set sail for war-torn China.

15. Nuremberg: 19 Nazi leaders found guilty. St. Louis: World Series
opens.

16. Byrnes asks war talk end. Open Alcan highway to civilian
traffic. Red Cross clothing for China's children. Cotton pickers vie
for national title. British Stage their biggest fashion show. Jack
L. Warner is honored by Mexico.

17. Truman lifts meat price controls. Actors urge end of movie
strike. Columbia and Texas win grid thrillers.

18. Paris parley ends; Byrnes reports to U. S. Cardinals win World
Series.

19. "Queen Elizabeth" arrives [in New York]—brings Molotov. Nazis'
families pay their final visits. Tiny republic [of San Marino]
claims $10,000,000 war damage. Czech mine is named for President
Truman. U.C.L.A. tops California; Army routs Columbia.

20. United Nations meet in New York. Celebrate festival of Buddha's
tooth [in Ceylon]. Push-button parking for tomorrow's cars [in Los
Angeles].

21. Football: Penn smothers Navy; Oregon State tops Washington
State. Navy tests world's largest helicopter [XHJD–1]. "Queen"
leaves New York, bound for London. Gala audience as Paris opera
opens. Slowest entry wins strange motor race.

22. Molotov, Austin debate disarmament. Atomic Commission created by
Truman. "Winnie" [Winston Churchill] and "Monty" [Field Marshall
Montgomery] mark El Alamein. Motorcycle racers thrill 10,000
Germans.

23. Big Four meet in New York. United Nation delegates visit
Roosevelt grave. Lord Mountbatten's daughter is married. Acrobats
defy death in high wire stunts. Football: Ohio State vs.
Northwestern; Georgia vs. Alabama.

24. Landslide sweeps G. O. P. to power. Movie stars meet the King
and Queen [London]. Canada stages its biggest log drive. Skiers
tackle Mount Rainier.

25. Army vs. Notre Dame, game of the year. V–2 goes 104 miles up,
another crashes. Molotov calls on President Truman. Big names arrive
on Queen Elizabeth. Demonstrate unique automobile-airplane.

26. Truman, Martin pledge cooperation. Hunt U. S. flyers in distant
"Lolo Land" [in China]. Navy's constitution is biggest transport.
Take 1,250 refugees off listing ship [in Palestine]. Hindus, Moslems
form government for self rule. One hundred and ten thousand turn out
for Melbourne cup race.

27. Army beats Penn. G. O. P. committees plan new program. Bombs
thrown in Hollywood strike. Sink captured Nazi sub off Cape Cod.
Hirohito at Diet, cheered by mobs.

28. Coal strike threatens U. S. Amazing films taken of earth from a
V–2. Zionist leaders are freed by the British. Last Germans shipped
from Czechoslovakia. Aviation groups join in fight against fog.
Germans rebuild blasted cities. GI's rest in "Japanese Alps."

29. Football! U.C.L.A. tops Southern California. Yale beats Harvard.
Gonzales Videla is inaugurated in Chile. British people plan
memorial to F. D. R. War correspondents are honored by Army.
Supplies by plane to Alps weather station.

30. Strikers riot at Allis-Chalmers. Nazis on trial for war murder
of 335. Auto phone brings calls to motorists. Salvaged tanker aids
west coast lumber mills. U. S. books exhibited in Czechoslovakia.
Paris sees wheelbarrow wedding. School kids tour Banff by bike.

31. Army-Navy game one of the most thrilling battles in gridiron
history. Alpine plane crash rescue.

32. Strike news! Biggest expedition sails [from Norfolk] for
Antarctic. Court rules Cyprus deportations legal. Mexico inaugurates
its new president [Miguel Aleman]. Dunkirk, New York aids Dunkerque,
France. Search for parents of 30,000 children [in Germany].

33. One hundred and nineteen die in Atlanta hotel fire; Lewis calls
off the coal strike. Bombed Eder Dam [in Germany] operates again.
UNRRA supplies aid Formosa rice crop. Giants whip Redskins, enter
League final.

34. Forty-six dead, missing in tenement blast [in New York].
LaGuardia in final report to UNRRA. China holds first National
Assembly. Crippled B–25 makes crash landing. Horse racing is resumed
in Japan.

35. United Nations, a Pathe News report. Storms and high water sweep
U. S. Northwest. Bears beat Giants for National League title.

36. Rocket plane has 1,700 m.p.h. speed. Danube is opened to free
shipping. Leon Blum heads new French government. Delegates meet on
India Constitution. Stalin sees big Soviet air show. Army fires huge
V–2 at night. Fur breeders [in Alberta] get record crop.

37. Browns win AAC football title. UNRRA goes to work on China's
roads. Parisian crowds demand more meat. Ex-Navy ship now hauls
locomotives. Montparnasse [in Paris] sees gay student parade. Boys
learn cooking in Swedish schools.

38. Truman sees hope for secure peace. Veterans draw for 86 farms in
West. Television included in new 5–year plan. British chief visits
troops in Austria. Doll house museum recalls Paris' past.

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