The White Falcon - 02.10.1943, Blaðsíða 3

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Averaging two shows a day, the latest USO troupers to hit
Iceland have been getting rousing receptions everywhere. Re-
ceiving his full share of applause, Bob Karl (above) is shown
with his pals, Wilbur and Logan. Center, dancer Mary Eller
is shown about to go into a back somersault, while, right, Mary
and singer Patti Cranford were caught by the camera getting
ready for another performance.
Icelanders Have A Word
For It Too, Journalist Says
The complete lack of dialects in
contemporary Icelandic, and the
fact that the Icelandic language
has not changed appreciably in
more than a thousand years were
stressed as. outstanding features
of this nation’s tongue in a recent
OWI-sponsored interview by
Bjarni GuSmundsson, local news-
paper man.
“For the ordinary English-
speaking person,” Mr. GuSmunds-
son said, “plays written by Shake-
speare in the 17th Century are
difficult, and material written by
Chaucer in the 14th Century is
almost impossible to translate
without training; but the words
and grammar of the Icelandic
language have changed so little
since early times, that any Ice-
landic child can read the Eddas
and Sagas written during the
12th and 13th Centuries.”
Mr. GuSmundsson, at one time
employed by B.B.C., pointed out
that Icelandic is one of the Ger-
manic languages, having its ori-
gin in Sanskrit. The advantage
Icelandic has over the other root
Germanic languages is that there
exists in it a tremendous body
of literature, as has been indi-
cated before, the greatest litera-
ture of Europe between Rome
and the Renaissance. “No nation
has lived in such close contact
with its national literature as has
Iceland. The written language has
actually served as a control over
the spoken language,” Mr. GuS-
mundsson asserted.
The richness of the Icelandic
language was noted by Mr. Gu'S-
mundsson, who stated it had well
over 200,000 words. The variety
of the language — the shades of
meaning of which it is capable
— was illustrated by the fact
that Icelandic has eight different
words for “tail”; the ancient
poets knew 180 words for sword,
85 for a horse and 30 for the sea.
“New words are formed by ad-
ding endings to a root worcr'or
by combining several words to
express an idea,” Mr. GuSmunds-
son said. A solicitor is in one
word a “man who pleads at
court,” and the description of a
solicitor to the supreme court is
expressed in one word of ten
syllables, perhaps the longest
word in the Icelandic language.
“It is notable that those foreign-
ers who learn the Icelandic
language, despite its difficulty,
almost invariably become friends
of the Icelandic people,” Mr.
GuSmundsson concluded.
Newsmen
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seemed to prefer to talk of sports
and his college days at Oxford,
where he was' an All-England
soccer player. “If you are look-
ing for a story,” he said finally,
“I would like to have you meet
Mr. James Jarche, one of the
richest characters in Britain.”
Mr. Jarche, a roundish, very
witty Britisher is his country’s
No. 1 cameraman. Except for a
period during the first world
war when he saw action as a
soldier, his life has been wrap-
ped up in photography. He has
been in the business 37 years,
has “shot” kings, queens, Pfc’s
and murderers. Although work-
ing for the London Illustrated
Magazine primarily, much of his
work has appeared in Life maga-
zine. He covered the Libya cam-
paign for that magazine and
made a photographic record of
the home life of Winston Church-
ill.
In Iceland with Col. Jacot to
get a picture story for British
and American magazines on how
American troops live, he has
been amazed at the cooperation
received. “The American photo-
grapher has made the American
picture conscious,” he said. “It
seems strange to me, because all
my life I have had to fight to
get pictures.”
During those days of fighting
he has clicked far too many “ex-
clusives” to be mentioned in one
issue of an Army paper. A resi-
dent of Baker street in London,
habitat of the most famous de-
tective of them all, Sherlock
Holmes, Mr. Jarche broke into
the business by helping his fath-
er photograph murder victims.
He photographed King George
when his majesty was' a little
boy. He has covered every Roy-
al wedding of note during the
past three decades. He got ex-
clusive pictures of the war in
the Middle East. He was the first
man to click a picture of Wallis
Warfield Simpson with the
Prince of Wales.
Mr. Jarche would make no
prediction about the war, but
Col. Jacot, who covered the re-
cent conference between Roose-
velt and Churchill at Quebec,
spoke highly of Russian fighters
and added, “If the British and
Americans fight like the Rus-
sians when their time comes the
war will be over in two or three
months.”
Number Unknown,
Fire Fighter Says
Seeing flames in the direction
of their home, Mr. and Mrs. Sa-
muel C. Horner of Seattle, din-
ing in a downtown restaurant,
became worried. Finally Mrs.
Horner decided to call their
home to see that everything was
all right. A strange man answer-
ed. “Lady,” he said, “I don’t
know what number this is.
There’s a fire here and I’m too
busy to talk.” Their house suf-
fered $1,500 damage.
Vina Marler of St. Louis, Mo.,
is happy. She is 12 years old
and won’t have to go to school
anymore. She just became the
bride of 16-year-old Billy Nash.
“Billy shore was a fast work-
er,” explained Mrs. Marler, Vi-
na’s mother. The young Mr. and
Mrs. Nash intend to live with
her parents.
Walter Tuchsen had an argu-
Allies Building
New Burma Road
A new Burma Road through
the jungles to provide a route
to carry supplies to China is be-
ing cut by U.S. Army Engineers,
according to a report from North-
eastern India this week.
Added work, done under guard
of Chinese troops which have
been trained under U.S. Army
Engineers in India, was begun
in December of ’41, four months
before the Japs succeeded in clos-
ing the old Burma road.
White and Negro Americans,
and Chinese and Indian laborers,
have been inching the new road
forward, using tools ranging from
picks to huge bulldozers.
German “Foresight”
Leads To Shooting
Of Russian Children
A dispatch from the Russian
city of Poltava this week told
how Germans, retreating from
the city, led a systematic man-
hunt with dogs and guns to rout
out Russians trying to avoid
transport to Germany. Many who
were found were shot through
the back on sight, the dispatch
said, and 34 corpses of men, boys
and girls were found heaped up
in the entrance to the local bath-
house.
The Russians report that one
German executioner told the
people: “We shoot the men be-
cause they might fight against
us. We shoot the women because
they might inspire the men to
fight against us. And we shoot
the children because they will
grow up and become our enem-
ies.”
ment with a group of men on
a street in Phoenix, Ariz. The
subject was, “how easy it is to
pick pockets.” Tuchsen was giv-
ing the lecture. After the friend-
ly debate was over, Tuchsen
reached in his pocket for his
wallet; it was gone.
•
In Knoxville, Tenn., surpris-
ed shoppers looked through the
glass in a revolving door and
saw a pretty girl removing her
“unmentionables” from around
her ankles She then calmly
placed the pink scanties in her
pocketbook and walked away
with her head held high. Specu-
lating onlookers guessed that the
panties had dropped because of
a weak elastic,
A San Francisco, Calif., police-
man stopped a pedestrian and
asked him why he was walking
backward. “I like to read the
expressions on the faces of the
people following me,” replied the
to-the-rear-marcher. The back-
ward hiker was taken in for ob-
servation.
•
Mr. and Mrs. Safety First of
Oklahoma City, Okla., to date,
have lived up to their name.
The State Highway Patrol has
rated their driving records 100
percent safe.
Arrested for driving with his
headlights on in violation of
dim out rules William Chain
of Santa Monica, Calif., ex-
plained to the judge that he
lost his false teeth and was us-
ing his headlights in an effort
to find them. “A personal cris-
is,” the judge ruled and suspend-
ed the fine.
•
A camp-wide celebration is
planned in Camp Stewart, Ga.,
on Pvt. Kenneth Armistice Mar-
riott’s birthday. Marriott is con-
sidered a “good omen” in his
battery because be was born on
November 11,1919, and was nam-
ed Armistice in commemoration
of the ending of the first Won-
War.