President Truman at Work (Universal Newsreel, Apr 1945)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. PRESIDENT TRUMAN AT WORK: Early in the A.M. President Harry S. Truman leaves Blair House, his new temporary home, and briskly walks to the White House.—Mathew J. Connelly, his confidential secretary, and Leonard Reinsch, his press and radio relations man, are busy at their tasks. The President nominates John W. Snyder, St. Louis banker, to become Federal Loan Administrator. Mr. Truman confers with the U.S. delegates to the forthcoming Golden Gate conference, then later, in the presence of Congressional leaders, he signs a bill extending Lend Lease.—348 members of the press, a record number, crowd into his office to attend his first press conference. In the evening, the President goes on the air, to talk to U.S. service men all over the world. He explains he is an ex-serviceman, and that he is carrying on, as the entire country expects them to do. 2. MOTIVE POWER . . . COOLIES: Labor teams of coolies in their human harnesses, pull junks through torturous rapids in Chinese rivers. Other coolies bring in hundreds of heavy U.S. gas drums for re-fueling. 3. ERNIE PYLE KILLED: Ernie Pyle, the G.I.'s favorite writer and comrade, is killed on Ie, Jap island off Okinawa. Our record shows him very recently, modestly living with the doughboys on Okinawa. 4. QUEEN COMES HOME: Queen Wilhelmina returns to Holland where thousands of her liberated subjects greet her and await her aid. 5. EISENHOWER'S ARMIES ADVANCE: Supreme Commander Eisenhower personally observes the attacks of his armies. He sees terrific artillery bombardments. U.S. infantrymen advance into towns, and blast out Nazi snipers. White flags are everywhere.—The German military road system of super-highways, the Autobahns, are utilized to race Yank infantry into advanced attacks, and as improvised air fields for light observation planes. Miles of wrecked and burning Nazi equipment are passed. Rail lines are torn and twisted, munition factories are utterly destroyed. And the flood of Nazi prisoners continues to mount to staggering proportions. (LOCAL – NEW YORK) ARCHBISHOP SPELLMAN OPENS DRIVE. (LOCAL – CANADA) AIRBORNE LIFE BOAT. (LOCAL – CANADA) THE QUEEN VISITS WOUNDED.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library