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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH . Nazis Smile at Capture l All - : , Ms-- : W, 1 These two Nazi soldiers, captured from the lines near Carroccto, Italy, were also caught by the camera of an alert signal corps photogra-pher. Completely unconcerned at being taken prisoners, the pair smile broadly for the cameraman. Or perhaps at their pleasure at having been captured. Latest Movies Shown in Front Line Camps Help Keep Fighters in Touch With Home Picture Industry Donates Films to Army and Navy Combat-wear- y Yanks, re-lieved from front-lin- e duty by replacements and sent to the rear to rest, turn to movies as a means of escape from the mad business of battle, ac-cording to letters received in towns throughout the country by relatives and friends of boys now in foreign service. These letters complained at first that the pictures were old, but recent correspondence ends complaints and indicates that con-ditions are improved. New Hollywood productions fresh from the studios are shipped to all thentera of war bv the Armv Over- - navy, marine corps, the coast guard when their own films are not avail-able in active areas; also members of Allied armed forces operating in these zones. Both the Red Cross and USO are authorized as agents to show these 16-m- pictures. Movies in Training Camps. The motion picture industry's 18-m-gift films should not be con-fused, however, with the 35-m-showings of the Army Motion Pic-ture service, and a similar system maintained by the navy. Through a commercial arrange-ment with motion picture distribu-tors made 20 years ago, both the army and the navy rent for their own use prints of motion pic-tures which play the commercial movie houses. These films, obtained at low rental, are now shown on a nonprofit basis' by the army in all training camp theaters in this coun-try, and at established army post theaters in all territorial posses- - 30.000-mll- e tour of the Pacific thea-ter- , MaJ. Gen. Frederick H. Osborn, U. S. army, director of the morale services division, army service forces, said that motion pictures have proved an effective antidote to the tension and physical strain of battle, and that they are particular-ly welcome to men Just returned from the front. His tour, which included "the larg-est motion picture circuit in his-tory" maintained by the overseas motion picture service of army service forces in the Pacific, proved to him, he said, that "the Pacific soldier is the most avid movie-goe- r in the world." The distribution of first-ru- n films to the various fronts by air is on a par with any similar commercial operation, the general pointed out. and came about "because combat of-ficers want their men to relax after they come out of the lines. The movie hns proved to be the solution. sLJUikAn..S.faa.Jk.....j..rinJw1 ftfin vinnn irwin iTinhMsiMsMsM siiiiiiiiiiiiim i seas Motion Picture service and are shown somewhere every night In every combat zone occupied by American troops. Protected by top priorities, these film programs, printed in the 18-m-size and known as "Films for Fight-ing Men" are a gift from the motion picture Industry which began In Feb-ruary, 1942, with the presentation of 80 prints from four different pic-tures. Since then these free films have gradually increased until now a total of 189 pictures are Issued each week, divided into 63 prints each of three different programs. Each program Includes a full-leng- th feature and at least one short sub-ject To date the grand total of 11,782 programs has been sent over-seas. These programs of new films are shown only to uniformed members ti the armed forces in combat zones, and t sick and wounded In over-tea- s hospitals, and to men on Iso-lated outposts where other film en-tertainment cannot be had. When troops are en route to battle-fron- ts on transports, they are shown specially selected 18-m- film ver-sions of "Hits of the Past" This avoids duplicate showings of new films, so servicemen do not see the tame pictures twice. Musical Show Favorites. Every feature-lengt- h picture and every short subject made by the ma- - Army men In the SoutH Faclfio watch a movie In an open air theater. Their facet reflect varied reactions. Soldiera often tee three or more pictures a week. sions. The average admission it 14 cents, and any profit derived there-from goes toward expanding the service. Ever since the declaration of war, as a special favor to servicemen, pictures playing the army circuit have, as a rule, preceded showings In commercial theaters except where these showings conflicted with exhibition contracts of movie thea-ters near the camps. Servicemen A screen against a jungle backdrop brings the soldier close to home again." The army service forces has ar-ranged to distribute films in rotation to the combat areas of the Pacific, after which they are routed to sup-porting units farther to the rear. In this way, troops in actual combat are the first to be shown the latest of Hollywood's screen offerings. Also given high priority for early show- - Jor studios In Hollywood is included In this service, offered to our armed forces through a selection board in New York city composed of army and civilian personnel. This board is guided In its choice by expressions from soldier audiences in the various theaters of war. Opinions polled to date show that servicemen's tastes lean toward musicals, comedies and light drama. War pictures are last on their list, while features and shorts which bring views of the good old U. S. A. are always welcome. Upon reaching the various war theaters, these 16-m- films lest than half the size of those seen in your local theater are tent to the various combat zonet through 19 film exchangea maintained by the Army Overseas Motion Picture serv-ice. Handled In this reduced size, they are easy to ship and can be exhibited on portable equipment readily transpbrted in active re-gions. The showing of these pictures is always subject, of course, to the haz-ards of war. Usually they are dis-played to battle-wear- y troops in rest areas behind the front. The ob-ject, however, is to get them as near the fighting line as possible. In tome instances they have been shown so close to the line of battle that prisoners subsequently captured taid they heard the sound track. Although planned originally for the army only, recent arrangements made through the war department have thrown these showings open to all combat troops, regardless of their branch of service. This includes the unfamiliar with required trade prac-tices, complain at times because they tee pictures in these commer-cial theaters before the camp movie houses show them. The navy does not experience this difficulty because, generally speak-ing, Its pictures are shown free on shipboard or, in some instances, for a small admission at naval stations, the profits going toward improving and expanding the service. Old Films Shown at First. When the conflict broke suddenly after Pearl Harbor, we were just as unprepared for maintaining a worldwide entertainment program as we were for global combat. The first expeditionary forces that left for the South Pacific took along 1,000 old 16-m- pictures purchased in the open market which were the only films of that size available at the time. Later, when the African ex-pedition sailed, a similar war de-partment purchase was made. And further complications were added through the indiscriminate buying of old films and portable equipment by embarking troop units as large as battalions, all striving to meet an entertainment emergency. Although the army has been able to recall all but 300 of these old films, those still in circulation de-spite of efforts to recover them, combined with the unauthorized 16-m-films remaining overseas, add up to a sizeable headache. Service-men who still sit through these old programs complain loudly. Another source of complaint lies in the wartime dislocation abroad of the commercial motion picture in-dustry. In such battle-blaste- d areas as Sicily, films as ancient as in are often featured in local ings are the wounded in hospitals. Movies Take Him Home. "The soldier wants to see pictorial views of streets that remind him oi his home town, of people he mighl meet on those streets; of women tc remind him of his mother, his wife; his sweetheart; of ordinary happen ings in which he will again partici-pate. "This tremendous movie chain'i value as a good will factor is beyond computation. In New Guinea, foi example, where Australian and American soldiers fight side by side, they sit down to see an American film side by side. Our troops visit Australian camps where the screen fare is predominantly American." Newsreels, comedies, and musical pictures are high on the G.I. hit list "Soldiers dislike war picturei with glorified heroes," General Os-born said. "They like to see informational films, those that explain war strat-egy and show real battle scenes. Tht soldier is anxious to see what hit weapons can do. The army's 'Why We Fight' series has immeasurablj bettered his understanding of issues at stake. 'Snafu,' the cinema comic of the Army-Nav- y Screen Magazine, is a Pacific favorite." General Osborn included Austra-lia, New Guinea, New Zealand, New Caledonia. Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, New Georgia, Bougain-ville, and Fiji in his 30,000-mil- e itin-erary of the Pacific theater. "I have seen tropical theateri seating 3,000 soldiers on woodet benches, and 1,000 sitting on crates and logs and oil tins in an outdooi excavation," he said. "Soldiers frequently sit in tropica downpours for one and two houn f tCSrfY'' TZ theaters for outrageous admission prices. But this is not strange, con-sidering that Mussolini barred American films in Italy in 1938. No new pictures have been shipped into Italian territory since, excepting those supplied through the motion picture industry's gift service. The gift films, however, are now going overseas at the rate of 159 prints of three new programs each week. New combat zone circuits are being added rapidly and projection facilities are improving and increas-ing. This means that film shows in all theaters of war, barring the in-evitable disruptions and annoyances occasioned by battle action, are bound to achieve a state of diminish-ing complaints and rising perfection. In a report to Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somervell, commanding general of the army service forces, covering a before showtime to enjoy a run-o- f the-mi- ll film made 'silent' when th sound track breaks down, and ther return the next night to see it again "During alarms the men quietlj leave the theater and as quietly re sume their seats afterward to see the rest of the movie. While excava-tions were under way on a New Guinea base, a bulldozer was as signed the priority detail of hollow ing out the ground for an open-ai- i amphitheater. "I have seen men watch a picture from such a distance that the screer was the size of a postage stamp and I have heard men gripe at a poor show but sit through it to th end. With several pictures playing on various bases on an island, met were known to walk nightly manj miles around the entire island unti' they had seen all the pictures." Members of the army service forces set up their motion picture equipment wherever there is a con-venient spot for a show. Here they have erected the screen en a rocky field on some south sea island. The projector and sound equipment are being hooked up in the foreground. ioses stencil som with roses tf rocker of no parucuf painted blue and tw ' the Boston rocker WINDOW , s '?"X. SHADE V""? 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Rubbur and processing sent about 40 per ceit Cost of manufacturinj vtar size automobile f The first rubber-tire- d mofcr operated in Brook!yn,HY,l It was used for sightseeing p RFGoodrij RELIEVE ToeflseirritsW, rated coat of F BED twecaskinsnf SORES &2l When KIDNEYS needi' TThen oTerstrslo or o csose sw fuoaion, the bick tnf r Nsrurally, Hntrj flow frequent but sctory-onw- 'Lj ting up nighu" my To reliere inch ffft ttin this, try Gold M', casy-to-tak- e diuretic ass over 30 yer for M'JLp Take care w use onlrM ge. Only 3W lru'.flfr substitute. Get the VSu Capsules fixUj. Thcr Things I Never Knew 'Til Now (About Canada War Effort) Canada is the only one of Amer-icans Allies which has not used Lend-Leas- e help . . . Most of her money payments to the Allies have been outright gifts because Canada Is op-posed to piling up war debts . . . The United States is Canada's best customer; and Canada is at the top of the list of our best customers . . . Canada is the world's largest pro-ducer of aluminum. Last year she produced more than the whole world did in 1939 . . . Canada is the world's largest producer of nickel and is practically the only source of supply available to the United Nations . . . Canada is the world's largest producer of asbestos, terrifi-cally important on aircraft carriers and battleships ... She is a heavy producer of lead, zinc and mercury, and the most important discovery of tungsten ore yet found on this conti-nent is now being developed by the Canadian government direct . . It's the backbone of battle armor. Without Canadian radium the field services and hospitals of the United Nations' armies would be almost helpless . . . Canada is producing five times as much armor plate, guns and tools as she did In 1939 ... She is producing 16 types of gun carriages and mountings, al-though before she entered the war she had never manufactured a big gun . . . She has delivered 100,000 units to date . . . Canada has the largest small arms factory In the British Empire. She has produced more than a million rifles and enough ammunition to fire 300 shots at every soldier in the German army . . . Canada is second only to us in building ships, although she had not built a seagoing cargo ship In 20 years when Hitler marched on Poland . . . Canada supplies all of the signal corps of the United Na-tions with a large amount of their equipment, including nearly 100 types of signaling sets . . . Canada has developed a new secret explo-sive for the invasion the most pow-erful in the world. Canada has mobilized the mighti-est of all her resources, her fighting peoole . . . Fortv thousand women are in the Canadian armed forces. Over 5,000 are in the Canadian Navy S.e.r.vices, and 16,000 are in the RCAF On Canada's mighty munitions assembly line, one out of every four persons is a Canadian woman. They handle the technical signaling de-vices and secret naval codes and, believe it or not, they plot the con-voy routes . . . The Canadian Gov't has found them so proficient at Pva-d-and Asdic that women are used as instructors. Nor is their work confined to intricate mechanical de-vices. They overhaul aircraft en-gines, operate power machines and actually operate the new instrument which determines errors in cannon fire. The newspaper you are reading probably is printed on Canadian newsprint. Canada is by far the largest producer of newsprint in the world ... In spite of her terrific war effort Canada is sending more newsprint to the U. S. than she did at the start of the war. A large part of it goes in direct support of our own war effort, because Ameri-can production has declined 24 per cent and our other markets have al-most disappeared ... In our cru-cial year of 1941 Canadian produc-tion of newsprint was more than three times that of the U. S. and everybody knows how much paper a bureaucrat can use. In Canada price ceilings mean something ... The cost of living has gone up only 2 per cent in two years, while in the United States and Australia it went up almost 14 per cent on the same scale of meas-urement ... The Canadian people are shelling out taxes at a rate which would equal more than 30 bil-lion dollars in this country Last year the Government of Mackenzie King threw 4 billion dollars into the k.tty to beat Hitler . . . Production and national income in Canada have doubled since the start of the war . After the war Canada will ex-pand like we did in 1900 . The Shipshaw power development in northern Canada has an installed capac.ty equal to the total capacity "'Niagara Falls plants on both sides of the river. It has a continuous SSn"th2 6 CCtrical energy ereat" of our own great Boulder Dam plant . . . Canada, with less than a fifth of its water power re- sources developed, has the second largest amount of -c- apacity of any country8 in 200 000 men manning its planes There are 3g Rc seas ... The Royal Air Force lf depends for one-fourt- h of it strength on RCAF crews British Commonwealth Air Plan is based in Canada . p"g bcaU, every man in the service His Majesty, who has t anything i0hlth,aKP,ane' ,earned how to ha Canada . NineWn out of 20 of the boys who a know-ho- in Canada. 2,500 Tons of Yank Bombs Destroy Cassino I I (TYRRHENIAN , In the most devastating aerial assault in history Yank bombers de-stroyed Cassino, dropping more than 2,500 tons of bombs on the town. This record weight of explosives was concentrated in about one square mile. Heavy guns finished the job. Then ground troops moved in. While this was taking place, RAF planes attacked the Nazis at Aprilia. Trio Downs Sixty Jap Planes hr - o 4r !' ' is v - lVe J$ -V; te r v. v ..a..., &A, j? TV; I Sixty Jap planes have gone down under the blazing guns of this trio of marine corps pilots in the South Pacific. They are members of the "Flying Corsairs," top marine squadron with total of 135!i planes shot down and 27 planes destroyed on the ground. Left to right, Lieut. Robert Hanson of Newtonville, Mass., 25 planes; Capt. Donald N. Aldrich, Chi-cago, 20 planes; and Capt. Harold L. Spears, Ironton, Ohio, 15 planes. Earth Shrlnkiuf The earth is shrink rate of 5 inches every v Army's MS Car Makes Debut ttmimTOfw.w.-v.:,:.v,- .v,,.i.iiw..v ......... x 4 W $ v fA A ft- - This is the armored car, M8, latest combat vehicle addition to the army's mechanized equipment. Designed by ordnance department to combine speed of the auto and punch and protection of the tank, debut dis-closes M8 as d, weighing eight tons. It mounts cannon and er machrne gun and is manned by a crew of four. Soldiers on Pacific Islands See More Pictures Per Week Than They Did as Civilians in U. S. Entertainment reels from 19 army overseas film exchanges are trans-ported by plane, boat, jeep, or hand carried to the camp sites. Mobil special services companies witt portable equipment and earners crews tour remote areas playinj one-nig- stands. "Today some soldier in a water logged foxhole, sitting atop a gaso-line drum to keep his feet dry, ii seeing a picture perhaps just pre-miered by you in the plush seats a Radio City, New York." General Os born commented. An average of more than 40 prints of three first-ru- n productions, more than a soldier saw in an average civilian week, are turned over to the army every week, in addition to "G.I. Movies," "Screen Magazine." "Fighting Men," and other informa-tional and educational features pro-duced and distributed by army serv-ice forces. "Changes in station, con-stant shifting of the tides of battle, make it impossible for all soldiers to see every picture at the same time, but they will eventually see them," Maj. Gen. Frederick Osborn, director of morale services, states. On Guadalcanal, for instance, 104 shows were In progress one night. When the general was making a tour on Finschhafen, New Guinea, a jeep conveyed the general's party to a unit headquarters where three films were being shown to several thousand soldiers. |