UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL COVERS WORLD-WIDE EVENTS
HUNDREDS DIE IN BOMBAY HARBOR FIRE
A minor fire on a small freighter in Bombay Harbor is the start of a major catastrophe.
The flames were almost under control when they suddenly spread,
licking at nearby ammunition dumps.
Natives flee from their homes.
(explosion)
The explosion spreads the fire through the entire harbor district.
Night and day the flames roar through congested residential areas
driving twelve thousand from their homes.
Signal Corp pictures show a large section of the city devastated.
The waterfront a shambles.
(dramatic orchestral music)
Large ships were blasted ashore.
Only a bombing raid could have caused as much damage.
Wrecked buildings, rubble-filled streets, and far from the waterfront,
parts of ships that were tossed inland.
Then the grim search for bodies.
Nearly 400 lost their lives and 1800 were seriously injured.
A shocking disaster that took a terrible toll.
MERCY SHIP GOES TO U.S. PRISONERS
The Mangalore Red Cross ship is loaded with food, clothing, medical supplies, and mail
for American service men and civilians now prisoners of war in Germany.
Pleased are Red Cross Chairman Norman Davis and Joseph Bernhard,
Chairman of the motion picture industry's Red Cross Week.
Seven million dollars were contributed by the industry and movie goers.
These are Signal Corp pictures.
Hardships of Nazi prison life made more endurable by missions of mercy.
CHIEF JUSTICE HONORED BY YESHIVA
Alumni of Yeshiva College, New York attend inaugural ceremonies
for its incoming president.
Representatives of forty educational institutions attend as honors are bestowed
on leading educators and statesmen.
Among them, Harlan Fiske Stone Chief Justice of the Unites States Supreme Court
receives an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Doctor Samuel Belkin,
new president of Yeshiva.
CANADA HAS MEAT SURPLUS
In Canada ration points are a thing of the past as a bumper beef crop, 10,600,000 head,
all over the dominion are being rounded up for market.
He's only two days old but but he knows when he's well off,
however ma's got other ideas.
Who said animals are dumb?
Junior is in a jamb again sort of in the middle of a stream
and can't change cowboy.
New world production goes over the top.
TELEGRAPH IS 100 YEARS OLD
In Washington, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Ms. Lila Livingston Morse
the inventor's granddaughter, unveil a plaque in his honor.
Marking its 100th anniversary, the first message is repeated
over the the original route, Washington to Baltimore.
The first message was "What hath God wrought?"
PAGEANT OF AMERICA DAY
Pasadena's Rose Bowl overflows with goodwill as representatives
of 35 united nations celebrate "I Am An American Day".
*Everybody is here, the dames from Greece,
from bonny Scotland,
from Hungary,
Le Belle France oui?,
Holland is here,
the Philippines,
from Poland,
Mexico south of the border
original Americans,
from Korea,
oriental beauties from China,
an exotic daughter of India who goes our jitterbugs one better.
SOVIET SENDS CUTE 'ENVOY'
This little guy in the overcoat has just arrived in Washington
with a whale of a first with flying 7,000 miles from Persia.
Russia's armies gave him to the American armies
as a goodwill gesture.
Don't be forgetting that, junior.
CAMERAMEN READY FOR INVASION
A few of the many cameramen ready to cover D-Day.
These Navy men will bring you pictures of this historical invasion.
Of these war cameramen we can only show you a few
but these are some of the men who will risk their lives
to shoot this gigantic military venture.
Here is Frank Parnell of Universal, he was wounded nine times
taking pictures under fire.
Working with he newsreel men will be the army combat photographer.
There's Neil Sullivan, a newsreeler as is Johnny Bobkurst,
Bob Blair, an another old timer, aerial combat cameraman Lieutenant Phil Browning,
and another formal newsreeler Major Sam Greenwald.
There primed for the job along with a guy from Brooklyn
Captain Jessie Saben just itching to photograph the fall of them toilen bums.
INVADERS OF THE SKY
An airborne army striking from the skies.
That's the glider and carrier troops demonstrating their training
at Laurinburg Maxton Base, North Carolina.
These nylon toll ropes, (honest, girls), are roped onto the tow plane
then to the gliders.
Now the carriers are emptied.
Split second timing is demanded when these troops of the first carrier command
hit the ground.
The ticklish business of bringing in the gliders
on rough terrain and in close formation.
(engines roaring)
The daring of these glider men is unequaled.
And here's what's known as landing on a dime.
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