The White Falcon - 25.03.1944, Qupperneq 1

Vol. VI.
Dewey Favored
Over Willkie
In Gallup Poll
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
oi k i& a substantial Republican
favorite over Wendell Willkie for
e Presidential nomination to
t‘ held this June, according to
le latest Gallup Poll on the
matter.
^ixty-four percent of Republi-
can voters, asked to state their
preference if candidates were
limited to Dewey and Willkie,
Preferred the New York gover-
nor, while 27 percent favored
, iHkie. Nine percent were un-
decided.
Voters supporting Dewey said
ey preferred him because of
ls administrative record and
ecause “he has shown himself
° ^earless and energetic.”
Willkie was praised by his fol-
owers for speaking his mind on
important problems, for his
road grasp of issues, and for
ms liberalism.
Republican voters who would
snpport Gen. Douglas MacArthur
as a candidate said they valued
is familiarity with war pro-
blems.
Sailor Asks
More Wives
Per Husband
The following sentence in a
etter from her sailor husband
m the Pacific won Mrs. Walter
• • Kaiser of Pittsburg, Pa., a di-
'orce this week:
«t
1 sort of wish,” wrote sailor
vaise,r, “that we lived in a
country where more than one
Wife was permitted because if
a man ever loved two women
its me.”
Mrs. Kaiser told Judge John
• Egan that Kaiser fell in love
"ith another woman and mar-
cied the latter in Breckenridge,
Minn.
Ernie Pyle
Escapes Death
At Beachhead
Columnist Ernie Pyle escaped
With only minor scratches re-*
ccntly when enemy bombs crash-
ed down on a public relations
eadquarters on the Anzio beach-
iead. Others injured in the bomb-
mg were Sgt. George Aarons,
correspondent for Yank; Wil-
iam Strand of the Chicago Tri-
mne; Dick Fowder of the Dallas
ews; and George Tucker of the
Associated Press,
ICELAND, Saturday, March 25, 19U.
No. 1.
Announcer, engineer and program director for the “Armed
Forces Radio Service” here, S/Sgt. Kenneth Landry of the
Signal Corps is pictured above as he gets set to air another GI
transcription to his widespread soldier audience. The 500-watt
station which broadcasts nightly to the troops here was built by
Landry in three months. Construction of the transmitter was
greatly facilitated by the use of an oscillator found in a German
airplane shot down over Iceland.
GI Radio Station Hits
All Parts Of Iceland
When his commanding officer
suggested he build a radio sta-
tion, S/Sgt. Kenneth Landry, 25,
of the Signal Corps, thought it
was just a joke until he was
handed the tools and told to go
to work.
That was three months ago.
Today Landry’s work, now com-
pleted, represents over $2000 in
equipment and the 5’00-watt
transmitter is powerful enough
to reach every part of the island.
Both studio and sending appa-
ratus are housed together in half
a Nissen hut, crowded with box-
es of radio equipment and piles
of GI transcriptions. Instruments
which Landry did not make him-
self came from British and Ame-
rican sources on the island.
His “oscillator” was rebuilt by
him from one which was found
in a German airplane shot down
over Iceland some months ago.
Although the “Armed Forces
Radio Service,” the name design-
ating the station, has been on
the air since January, it was not
until early this month that Lan-
dry adopted the use of a micro-
phone. At Ihe present time he
uses it only for routine announ-
cements. The station is on the
air with transcriptions and re-
broadcasts of British and Ame-
rican Forces radio shows every
night on a wave band of 1390
kilocycles. Programs are broad-
cast Monday through Thursday
from 1715 to 2400 hours, Friday
and Saturday from 1715 to 2200
hours, and each Sunday from
1300 to 2200 hours.
From New Orleans, La., Lan-
dry used to make a living as
paymaster for a pipe construc-
tion line. He has been in the
Army for two years.
Tommy Harmon
To Wed Actress
Blonde actress' Elyse Knox has
announced that she will be mar-
ried this summer to Lt. Tommy
Harmon, former Michigan foot-
ball star. She declared that she
would be married in a wedding
dress made from the parachute
that saved Harmon’s life when
his plane was shot down over
China. Harmon bailed out during
an American raid last October
on the Yangtze River port of
Kuikiang. The marriage will be
Miss Knox’s second, Harmon’s
first.
Next — Spam VS Steak
A recent survey conducted by
the Quartermaster Corps among
more than three million soldiers
in the Slates reveals that Ame-
rican soldiers prefer Army
bread to that made in commer-
cial bakeries. When GI bread
Was served each man ate an ave-
rage of .313 pounds a day. When
the bread was purchased from
commercial bakeries the men ate
only ,280 pounds a day,
IBC Mitt Team Makes
Sweep Of London Bouts
Members of the IBC boxing team now in England may have
been thrown back on their heels a little at first by the big
city of London, but the boys recovered their composure in
plenty of time for their first evening of ring action at the Rain-
bow Corner Arena and gave a soldier audience plenty to yell
about as they made a clean sweep of six bouts.
Cartoonists Join
Staff of Falcon
The work of two IBC cartoon-
ists appears in the Falcon today
for the first time, and plans are
to present more of it in future
issues. Both artists—Sgt. Charles
“Wes” Dotey of the AAA—AW
and Pvt. Mel Warenback of the
Signal Corps—plan to base most
of their humor around soldier
life in Iceland.
Dotey, a graduate of Columbia
Tech, in his home town of Wash-
ington, D.C., worked for the
Washington Post before joining
up, while Warenback, a gradu-
ate of the art school at Brown
University in his native Provi-
dence, R.I., has had his inky
brainstorms in the Providence
Journal.
Honesty Gives Pvt.
Furlough Extension
Pvt. Sidney Bletter of Mil-
waukee this week wired his com-
manding officer at Camp Kearns,
Utah: “No death. No emergency.
Request extension of furlough.
Having wonderful time.”
Maj. George A. Lloyd wired
back: “Reward for honesty. Ex-
tension of five days on presenf
furlough granted.”
Pvt. Andy Riccardi, S/Sgt.
Frankie Albano, Sgt. Bill Roach,
Pvt. Jimmy Karjanis, PfC. Billy
Romano and Cpl. Billy MacDon-
ald, well known to IBC soldiers
who have attended mitt cards at
the Andrews Fieldhouse, all came
out on the winning side of the
ledger.
Perhaps the most stirprising
showing was turned in by Pvt.
Andy Riccardi. The courageous
Chester, Pa., heavy, who was
beaten in his last start here, gain-
ed the nod over “Laughing Boy”
Roy Hanna, a former Golden Glov-
es champ from Tulsa, Okla. It
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‘Battle Bottle With
Bible’ Say Ladies
Printed tracts entitled “Use
Your Bible to Battle the Bottle”
were distributed by temperance
leaders at a Congressional com-
mittee meeting held recently in
Washington where a new Prohi-
bition law was: under discussion.
Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, 72-
year-old president of the WCTU,
said that her organization stood
for “organized mother love batt-
ling against the entrenched li-
quor czars.”
Other drys claimed that “bouts
with the rum pot” were causing
the sugar shortage, plane crash-
es' and war-plant absenteeism.
Have you put in
for a furlough,
comrade? An Air
Corps lieutenant
here did a while
back and the gal
here is the rea-
son he never did
get around to vi-
siting the Tower
of London or
W estm inster
Abbey. Her
name is Scarlett
Meyer and she
hails from Sur-
rey. The pose is
a bit demure for
a pinup girl, but
we thought you
would like a
look at the likes
of what GI’s re-
turning from
furloughs have
been bending
your ears about.
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