 cruiser the Biloxi goes down the ways the third ship of her class to be launched from this one shipyard within the year months ahead of schedule to typical of the job American shipyards are doing on both the Atlantic and Pacific Coast and another shipyard the sponsors party stands in pouring rain for the second christening the cruiser Astoria goes to join the ever-growing United States fleet named for the old Astoria which dealt death to the Japs in battles off the Solomon Islands the new Astoria is one of the most powerfully armored cruisers afloat American sea power striking never-ending blows at the axis harnessing the rushing waters of the Saginae River Canada is completing a mammoth war project capable of producing more power than America's mighty Boulder Dam despite the icy cold Canadian winter workmen are winning a gigantic battle against time and the elements already they're a year and a half ahead of schedule here goes 41 tons of TNT the development will be generating more than a million horsepower for the Dominion's great aluminum industry for when these power lines begin to hum Canada will lead the world in the production of aluminum three quarters of a billion pounds a year for the United Nations war effort Red Cross volunteers are busy packing boxes of food and medicines for allied prisoners of war boxes containing vitamins canned meat coffee cigarettes matches so this form-asted Portuguese bark manned by a neutral crew is one of several ships especially charted for the voyage it's safe passage guaranteed by all belligerent nations a cargo of mercy for allied soldiers and civilians wherever they are once a year Hollywood honors its brightest stars tonight they also salute the 27,000 men of the cinema industry now serving in the armed forces now Gary Cooper voted the best actor for 1941 awards the prize for 1942 the winner Jimmy Cagney for his Yankee Doodle Dandy from lovely Joan Fontaine Irish born Greer Garson wins the award for her unforgettable Mrs. Miniver the new king and queen of movie land ten years ago a disastrous forest fires swept through 400 square miles of this vast Western American Timberland thousands of great fir trees remain standing stripped and blackened by the flames today lumbermen are reclaiming these fire blasted trunks cutting them and getting them to market and skilled lumberjacks turn the wasted and once forgotten land into a beehive of activity giants of the forest reclaimed from the dead now on their way to serve the war needs of the nation young ground crews of the Royal Australian Air Force on parade the same young men dashing through the forest swinging on ropes over obstacles and across ravines learning to fight like commandos all the rough and tumble of primitive jungle warfare just in case they need it plated attack Jap style and the Australian airmen show the enemy they're as tough in hand-to-hand combat on the ground as they are in the sky African port wives and children of Italians captured in Ethiopia are sent home by the British Italian ships which brought out the colonists to found Mussolini's colonial empire now take them back under the protection of the international Red Cross for many of the youngsters it will be their first view of the mother country the United Nations have no war with women and children danger to American universities is madam Chiang Kai-shek 26 years ago as mailing song she was graduated from this same Wellesley campus with highest honors today as the wife of China's great leader she returns to meet undergraduates American girls just like those with whom she attended school Wellesley is proud and honored to welcome home its most distinguished graduate United States and Australian troops under General MacArthur advancing through the almost impenetrable jungle for the attack that ended all organized Japanese resistance on the Papua Peninsula of New Guinea guns commanding a narrow beach the Yankees move into position to cut off the Japs from the sea carefully prepared positions 15,000 Japs were killed in this one campaign a Red Cross field hospital cares for the lied wounded fortified with modern sulfur drugs to prevent infection most casualties will recover the first American offensive to be transported and supplied entirely by air power moves on to new theaters of operation army surgeons sterilizing their precious equipment under the most primitive of conditions have won a battle to their brave efforts have saved many lives relieved much suffering on the trail a Papuan hut run by friendly natives specializing in steaming tea a welcome spot for battle weary men these Australian and American jungle fighters of General MacArthur have won a real victory and what's more they've proved they can beat the Jap in any kind of warfare