[Photo Fun and other news shorts]

with the bathing Girl season going strong Venice  California is the candid cameraman's Delight nobody seems to mind anything here  and that's always a swell State of Affairs when you're looking  for something to photograph for instance this girl's boyfriend is in the palm  of her hand until she gets tired of holding him disembodied heads are quite common at Venice  without the usual distress of having them cut off first and you can get fine double jointed  shots if you click the shutter fast enough remember that guy taking a nap well she'll have a tough time laughing off the stencil  record of a man who has made his mark at Santa Monica California the world's largest  bombing plane awaits its Maiden flight compared to a Pursuit plane the big Douglas b19 looks and is  tremendous the giant has never been flown before and everyone is tense as she starts on a takeoff  whose first minute costs an 83 000 Insurance fee she's off safely and easily major Armstead brings  the b19 into the Army's marks field near Riverside he tests the controls coming in and  the great plane responds instantly then he lowers the landing  flaps and sets the wheels down once more the great Wheels bounce and the  largest and most powerful airplane ever built by man comes smoothly to Earth  a symphony of engineering genius and a flying laboratory to prepare for  other great bombers to come [Music] after setting their ship of fire a  German crew pulls toward the British Destroyer which stopped them this is a grim  reminder of the ceaseless Battle of the Atlantic with the crew safe a torpedo  speeds toward the burning German ship foreign [Music] ship is inspected by British officers they leave it then small death bombs  are hurled at it from the Destroyer [Music] the German prisoners see their  ship Bound for Davy Jones Locker Hitler strikes at Russia and these  first pictures show Russia fighting back with every able-bodied citizen enlisted for  defense windows are taped to resist concussion of aerial bombs and the mobilization  of women goes on throughout the Union thank you in moscow's ancient Kremlin Britain's  attempts to reach an agreement with Russia finally succeed when Hitler's Legions Drive  Eastward foreign commissar molitov signs a pact of Allegiance with Great Britain Joseph  Stalin Russia's leader looks on Stafford Crips British Ambassador signs and now Britain and the  Soviet Union are pledged to fight together and to make no truce with Germany except by Mutual  consent Former Defense commissar Marshall Clementi vorishilov is at the front in command  of the Leningrad sector in the North the present commander-in-chief Marshall Simeon timoshenko  heads the armies before Moscow while the defense of the Ukraine rests with Marshall boudini but  Russia has more than uniform troops for years training in guerrilla warfare has been a must for  every able-bodied citizen of the Soviet Union and reports indicate that these semi-military forces  have raised Havoc behind the German line I over Detachment of Nazi parachutists spots a distant  Village watch her sound the alarm [Music] foreign tactics yet moving fast watching the  planes as they ride before the parachute troops have time to get organized armed detachments from  all over the countryside are off to intercept them before Russia knows that the war has started  swarms of German planes attacked Soviet airfields diving messerschmitt's candidate  grounded Russian aircraft [Music] foreign foreign on the panzers iron heels comes infantry inching  its way through the burning towns [Music] propaganda troops rolled out speakers forward and officers shout orders to the  villagers in their own languages Nazi prisoners mostly captured Airmen  ride back to Army Headquarters on their way to far distant prison camps with  conflicting reports from both sides no one can predict this new War's  outcome the world looks on Reckless as its two largest armies are locked  in history's most gigantic struggles