1945 US TREASURY DEPARTMENT

under the spawn tip of the Treasury Department with mrs. Roosevelt and mrs. Morgenthau as chairman a comprehensive exhibition of paintings from our war fronts starts on a tour of the country titled the arming at war these works were executed both by soldiers and by artists sent to the front by the War Department the paintings will be shown throughout the country in motion picture theaters the artists brush Joe's America at the front no news for New York City as deliberate vote to continue the newspaper strike that began June 30th the distribution of almost all major New York dailies is halted thousands of news hungry New Yorkers account for a flourishing business that newspaper offices as copies are sold directly over the counter newspapers affected have a combined daily circulation of 5 million but during the strike only a small number of copies are being printed to take care of over the counter sale and with no funny papers children steal a newspaper famine acutely over the radio New York Mayor LaGuardia makes news himself by reading the Sunday comics frenzy let's see what take place a good are you remember and we hear wet wash listen baby I know you're a maid at Van Houten's I saw you there last week and I know there's something phony about that though now when we get it it's going to be 5050 okay then maybe you'd like some more of your laundry a little delicate piece of lingerie now get this picture give us wet water so ours of them I'm going back in a rope with me he's leaning with his back toward thee the old wagon and he's counting his money two three four thousand and the picture shows kind of breathless stretching out she's got hold of that iron pump remember the iron part she took from the van Dusen's gardeners flat to put the money in not out and say children what does it all mean it means that dirty money never brings any luck no dirty money always brings sorrow and sadness and misery and disgrace down New York's this Avenue to wave regiments parades as the city jumps the gun in the six war lone drive they're all in steps for victory further west on Times Square the Statue of Liberty in miniature hops a giant bond-buying booth sponsored by the motion picture war Activities Committee in a cold wind cameras rhymes and all traffic stops as movie showmen take the pledge they owe backs a new campaign to the fullest in path drives over 75 million bonds were sold in theaters across the nation Americans are buying war bonds backing up our great new drives on Berlin and Tokyo but here and there are lags in individual Evon sale America full of the goodness of Thanksgiving and looking ahead to Christmas must not forget those others must not forget these 1,800 wounded veterans in Atlanta's Lawson General Hospital and the thousands more in many such hospitals for them whole so Thanksgiving brought turkey and all the trimmings but this year many had to eat Thanksgiving dinner with artificial hands of harm and did it cheerfully these are the men who bought for you great European and Pacific victory they gave in flesh and blood for you a price that cannot be repaid in their name by bonds for Christmas isn't your sacrifice easier at the Coliseum in Los Angeles the Trojans trounced UCLA scoring in every period Southern Cal shows great strength on the ground and in the air Hardy completes a foreword to garland that takes them heaped into the Bruins territory [Applause] on the next play Morris carries the ball right to the UCLA goal line the biggest football foul of the year watched the Trojans smother the Bruins held scoreless until the last quarter UCLA launches an aerial attack with Dean with passing brilliantly but it comes too late the Trojans had already clinched their Rose Bowl bid scoring early and often they roll up a 40 the 13 victory the king of victory remember the 6th war lone played taps for the Jets by war by the gridiron classic of the year the Army Navy game played before 66,000 639 bond-buying spectators at Baltimore Maryland army chief of staff general Marshall is among the dignitaries on hand for the nation's number-one game the visiting to debts have taken their places in the stands and here the Midshipmen cheer the Corps and the Army respond in colorful service tradition the midis give their Navy cheer after that mr. let's go let's make way for the Navy goat and the army mule and here's the Annapolis serenade to the West Point move on [Music] [Music] over 58 million in war bonds that speaks for itself here's the kickoff for the 40th meeting the to service team doc Blanchard boots for the army and that's taken by Clyde Scott as he starts up the side Reinhold snack over is moving fast but they finally smack him right out about [Applause] here's the play that sends Navy's a spa Jenkins to the sidelines for most of the afternoon hit hard by army he has to be helped from the field Army's ball and that's Glenn Davis sweeping the end for a 20-yard game army speed is terrific and on his line opens the way for Dale Hall to score the first cadet TD [Applause] the third quarter and Navy is on the March now Hamburg competes a forward to Scott sparking the drive will he'll care ease the ball to the army four yard line before they finally pull him down by it's got plunges over from the Lowell Navy carrier fourth period and doc Blanchard runs wild the last cadet went over Navy was 1938 but this is Army's day like 200 pounds of TNT Blanchard blasts his way over the Navy goal line [Applause] here's a glorious climax for a brilliant football season when Davis takes the ball from the and there's nothing more to say watch him go 23 to 7 the final for a perfect army year [Music] that helicopter was bought with money raised in a bond drive by pages of Congress and now at the Capitol in Washington as the seventh war loan begins the flying machine is christened by a page of the Senate and likewise by a page of the House of Representatives ready for war service by helicopter congressional page to hospital planes dedicated at Washington mrs. Truman is the sponsor the army plane first and an astonishing bottle for a christening [Music] [Music] [Applause] let's try the Navy plane and watch the hammer at lower left of screen now altogether for the mighty seventh Warlow in New York ceremonies for the unveiling of the Iwo Jima statue a tribute to the Marines from the motion picture industry the flag that flew in victory over Mount Suribachi goes up once more now America prepares to back the drive for final victory 14 billion dollars to finish the war [Music] your infantry is coming this way your infantry fights the enemy man-to-man seizes ground uh nya ladies army smashes dream of world conquest [Music] your infantry your sons and brothers and fathers in the man next door who fight with the whole army in back of them nothing in front but the forces who want to kill him you'll have a chance to see these men in person in the thrilling battle spectacle here is your infantry coming soon to this city that your infantryman goes so goes the tide of battle he gets forward far enough or you win if he's forced back we lose in the long run he is our glorious victory or our bitter defeat sometimes we call him foot soldier because he fights hard on his own two feet when he gets in there by any means by truck tank fuse he comes from the sky by glider airplane parachute and from the Seas by shift and landing craft war has made him the world's best shot with the right measure and his master of a score of other weapons machine guns grenades mortars bazookas flamethrowers bought with your bombs this is a moment in the life of your infantry as a storm a [ __ ] fortification in Manila these men are not giving dollars they're giving everything this man's pockets are empty now forever turned the inside out [Applause] now you can see the infantry in action veteran combat troops in the fighting flesh bringing you the fury of battle in the spectacular demonstration here is your infantry [Applause] [Music] the mighty seventh war alone is underway and the three survivors of the historic flag racing on Iwo Jima are here at the Capitol to fly that same flag with an honor guard at attention that tattered banner goes aloft once more this flag and the unforgettable picture of the men who raised it on Mount Suribachi hard to be the symbols of this new war long drive what better reminder could we have to buy more buns secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau tells us the reason we should and much today eat everyone to dedicate himself anew the past of doing all in his power to bring this war to complete and final victory there is no more important way in which Americans can express concretely this determination and by buying more extra bonds in the seventh Warlow here's your grand opportunity to experience one of the greatest thrills of modern warfare invasion from the air a live-action war show featuring personnel of a troop carrier command and airborne troops of the army ground forces in a stirring real-life demonstration of airborne attack as executed by our intrepid Yank invasion forces at Corregidor the Rhine and in major combat areas throughout this war-torn world you'll get the thrill of your lifetime as you witness this flesh-and-blood exhibition of daring you will see and our mother planes and gliders roaring overhead paratroopers leaping into space a sky filled with parachutes carrying courageous fighting men to their target mammoth gliders racing from the heavens to land and disgorge their lethal cargo of well-trained troops and death-dealing munitions war in all its shock fills Puri airborne attack the in person war show that brings veterans of foreign airborne invasions to your local airport President Truman receives a model of photographer Joe Rosenthal famed picture flag-raising on Iwo Jima his report to the nation as a warning to Japan there can be no peace in the world until the military power of Japan is destroyed with the same completeness as was the power of the European dictators we have no desire or intention to destroy or enslave the Japanese people but only surrender can prevent the kind of ruin which they have seen come to Germany as a result of continued useless resistance we are resolute in our determination we will see the fight through to a complete and victorious finish to that end with the help of God we shall use every ounce of our energy and strength [Music] [Applause] we've got another bomb we've got another bomb you buy the bonds we bought before about the bonds won the war now we've got another law you may think the war is won but we can't leave the job half-done the boys have seen it true now the rest is up to you yes we've got another bomb one way but you know where bombs away and someday you'll get so many happy returns no with every bond you buy you've done your part for some right guys we got to play it square with the boys we shut out there so we've got another bomb [Music] harm's way and someday you'll have so many happy returns with everyone so and Jimin Jack and we gotta breathe bird by a bomb [Music] [Applause] [Music] Washington secretary Vince themselves to President Truman the first Roosevelt Memorial bonds launching the victory loan of world war two toward its 11 billion dollar goal and Hyde Park ex-secretary Morgenthau mrs. Roosevelt and actress merle oberon see the second bar go to Lieutenant Colonel Devereux marine hero of Wake Island [Music] then miss Oberon and the colonel turn salesmen these bonds bring our boys home provide mustering out pay money for GI loan medical care for the injured at home they fight inflation build national security at mrs. Roosevelt says I'm dead but it does not have to be subscribed for as a world but we can say we are dying the bomb [Music] let's finish the job by your victory bond now right here in this theater remember them [Music] [Applause] [Music] somebody's gonna have a lot of sweeping up to do well now that the war is over the big job of cleaning up begins and our bill for cleaning up has got to be pretty big because millions of our sons are still in uniform and some of them now occupying Germany must stick around until the last German is educated in the ways of peace more of our men will have the same job to do in Japan others will be brought home to get our gratitude in the benefits of the GI Bill of Rights these men have rights to the right to the best medical care and equipment money will buy think of the mustering out pay hundreds of dollars per man so he can get a new staff and an education figure to the cost of providing the maximum number of jobs for both the veterans in the production line soldier they've done their job now let's finish ours they want to walk now we got to pay for it I'm sure that every good American will be glad to help foots the bill we've never fallen down during any war Lord and now we're asked to buy victory bonds to bring our men back home for the termination of war contracts to prevent inflation and to provide for our own future men and women of the homefront army this victory long drive is our last chance to buy extra bomb [Applause] before 63,000 at Philadelphia's Franklin field 10 battles Columbia Jean row CDs of Columbia's undefeated Lions throws his fourth successful pass casserole takes it to the 6 yard line here in the first quarter the team of Rossini's to custer road does it again Columbia takes a seven nothing lead over favorite pen Columbia in possession but not for long Len will fumbles savitsky recovers for Penn on the Lions 37 yard line now the Quakers swing into action Bob Evans wingzza pastors for Naugle who gets within five yards of the Columbia goal another heavens pass this time to Jenkins and Penn has 6 to Columbia 7 Columbia's hole knack tries to punch but it's blocked by Jenkins of Penn if the Quakers ball on the Lions 25 Evans veteran of 33 plumbing missions over Europe passes to Jenkins and 10 goes ahead 13 to 7 Evans takes the ball for Penn it's the old Statue of Liberty play and it's good Snyder ticks off 21 yards here in the second quarter Evans again takes to the air Falcone pulls it down 10 20 Columbia 7 Evans hands the ball to du Bois who's off on a 55 yard run to a touchdown Columbia Falls from the ranks of the undefeated as 10 wins 32 to 7 mommy meets Notre Dame at New York's Yankee Stadium the US military Academy's Corps of Cadets marches in these 2,400 American boys are typical of the 13 million who left their homes their school's their jobs to go into World War two their typical of the many who gave their lives to achieve victory for us the death we all these young men of America is one we can never repay when it is our obligation to hold on to the victory they won they made their permanent investment we can make ours my victory Barnes today and keep on by the 75,000 fans see the great undefeated army team kickoff for another battle in their 32 year old robbery with undefeated Notre Dame the Irish returned the ball to their own 25-yard line [Music] tankmen carries for Notre Dame and it's a fumble zero matter of the cadets recovers the pigskin with a game just two minutes old arm is Glenn Davis is off on a 26 yard run to score standing up mommy 7 Notre Dame nothing in the second quarter West Point's doc Blanchard smashes through arm is team one of the mightiest in football history can't be stopped Tucker passes to Glenn Davis v Denham attack Lazar between Davis and the loaded aim goal line but watch this 175 pound back move to that goal line he's over for army touchdown number two [Applause] third quarter Notre Dame's radarman passes to McGuirk the Irish place to score at least once against the cadets Magan Randleman passes but this time West Point's duck Blanchett intercepts and he's off Tommy makes it 16 straight by Thompson Notre Dame 48 to nothing as the Washington Navy Yard to special victory lone trains are ready to set out on a tour which will cover 17 states christening the Navy special is mrs. Ted gamble wife of the national war finance director interesting exhibits draw a crowd before the train gets the green light not to be opted on the army 2 schedules a series of public exhibition trains to boost victory bond purchases return heroes will accompany the trains demonstrating the latest fighting equipment much of it never before shown publicly the original Japanese and German surrender documents and Marshall Goering jewel-studded baton of part of the show in Philadelphia a group of veteran Leathernecks will man the Marine victory loan special the men who struggled ashore are the Pacific Beach heads under a murderous hail of enemy bullets in order to ensure the victory carry an important message for you on their trade [Music] maneuvers on the Potomac for the Bantam battlewagons of the Pacific PT boat show for the victory loan campaign eating the squadron commander John Bulkeley who won the medal of honor and everlasting Fame in actions immortalized in they were expendable a sky salute from a Navy blimp to the men who made history in the smallest fastest fighting ship afloat are hitting peachy America can be proud of their record frontline battlers of the US Navy [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] the atomic bomb the weapon that clinched victory these pictures do not could not show the first instant of blinding light observers report a massive multicolored palm boiled up to eight miles now a second camera shows another thing knocking observers down six miles away this single bomb like a portent from the almighty thunders it's warning against future war now the third camera catches the utter annihilation of what is apparently a steel tower that's the right side of the screen [Music] thus is the new era born the Atomic Age for good or evil for light or death civilization must choose [Music] [Applause] at new york's waldorf astoria the motion picture industry honors a distinguished associate Ted gamble leader of America's eight Great Bond drives heading the biggest selling job in history through his drives he sold a hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of funds to 85 million Americans to gamble warrick tivities Committee Chairman Shafer presents a silver chest a motion picture exhibitor gambled speaks of his industry as I review the wartime role of motion pictures I stand at all at the power pulsing in this great meeting powerful war powerful piece the more powerful agency for influencing women content has ever been devised motion pictures are our most numerous and effective ambassadors the artistry and genius that has made celluloid a weapon a weapon of war must turn its power to the creation of weapons of peace this is not a choice for us this is a spark injunction to follow the only course to infinity we will have one world or we will have no work this industry with its drive and courage must take on the greatest sales job ever conceived this industry must channel the greatest of all forms of expression to bring the practical realization great ideals of brotherhood tolerance freedom one of the most [Applause] [Music]