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THE WHITE FALCON
OUR FORCES — ALWAYS ALERT
Furnished by and for the American Forces in Iceland, under
the supervision of Special Service Section, Iceland Base Com-
mand. All photographs are by the U.S. Army Signal Corps un-
less otherwise credited. THE WHITE FALCON receives material
supplied by Camp Newspaper Service, War Dept.
This paper has been passed by the censor and may be mailed
home for one cent.
THE WHITE FALCON is written and edited by enlisted-man
personnel.
IBC Special Service Officer..Lt. Col. Lee F. Gilstrap.
Supervising Officer ..........Lt. David Zinkoff.
Managing Editor .............S/Sgt. John G. Wentworth.
Associate Editors ...........T/4 Joseph T. Koren
T/5 John Moran
Circulation Manager .........Pvt. Robert Hill
From The Heart
The press back home recently carried the story of
a beribboned Leatherneck waiting his turn in line at
tiie Blood Donor Headquarters in New York City. Im-
pressed by this obviously voluntary and humane ges-
ture, a bystander engaged the Marine in small talk.
Had he seen action? Yes, he had been in on the Guadal-
canal show....yes, he had been wounded there....
spent seven months in a convalescent hospital. .. .got a
little furlough before returning to his unit.
“What in hell,” the civilian wanted to know, “are
you doing in this line? Haven’t you given enough blood
for one man in this war, and given it the hard way?
Aren’t there enough of us who don’t have to face the
bullets to keep the blood bank supplied?”
“Maybe there is, and maybe there isn’t,” answered
the Marine quietly. “I wouldn’t know about that. I only
know that a bottle of plasma made the. difference be-
tween life and death to me.....I’m going back into
battle, and I wouldn’t like to see ’em run short.”
We wonder if the President had something like this
in mind when he launched the current Red Cross War
Fund Drive.
It has been made clear there is to be no soli
citation or pressure brought to bear to obtain con-
tributions from overseas military personnel.
Almost all the men of this Command, at one time
or another, have benefited directly or indirectly from
the generous and varied efforts of the American Red
Cross. Its welfare, entertainment and morale-building
activities, in garrison existence, cannot be overestim-
ated. And like the Leatherneck and the plasma, we’d
hesitate to see them curtailed because of lack of funds.
In brief, “we wouldn’t like to see ’em run short.”
The high regard in which the Red Cross is held is
evident in the generous voluntary support given it by
members of this Command in the past. We know this
regard has not diminished, but grown.
Think about it this pay day, will you, soldier?
“I BEG your pardon! I presume you meant THAT
kick for your wife!” ________

jQsqeVids 'frjiom.
The movie version of the stage
hit, “Doughgirls,” has gotten und-
er way on the Warner Brothers’
lot with a topflight cast, headed
by Ann Sheridan and supported
by Alexis Smith, Jane Wyman,
Irene Manning, Jack Carson and
Charles Rugg'les... Florence Lake
came out of retirement as wife
of frustrated comic Edgar Ken-
nedy for a feature part in Gary
Cooper’s next flicker, “Casanova
Brown.”... .That Robert Young-
Susan Peters love story, “Out-
ward Room,” got a title renova-
tion. It’s now “Secrets in the
Dark.” Susan played the disap-
pointed bride opposite Ronald
Colmari in “Random Harvest”
and scored as a star with Robert
Taylor in “Song of Russia.”
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Wally Beery is slated for some
more big-bad-man roles like the
type he did with Jackie Cooper
way back when. But the child
will be a youngster named Mar-
garet O’Brien. First on the list
is “Bad Bascomb,” with Beery
playing a Wyoming bandit who
reforms for the little girl....As
soon as Randolph Scott gets his
final decree he’ll sniff orange
blossoms again with lovely Pat
Stillman, a comer in movies....
Nick and Charlie Kenny, writers
of tear-jerker tunes like “Gold
Mine in the Skies,” are bidding
for the jackpot with a new ditty
titled, “The Green Hills of
Home.”
Bert Roach, comedian of the
silents, has joined Edgar Bergen
and Charlie McCarthy in the film,
“Song of the Open Road.”....
Bing Crosby is slated to return
to pictures next summer in “Fi-
esta” for RKO on a loan from
Paramount... .Patrick Hamilton,
scribe of the stage thriller, “An-
gel Street,” has sold a new novel,
“Hangover House,” to 20th Cen-
tury-Fox for 75 G’s as another
horror movie on “The Lodger”
type for Laird Gregar and Merle
Oberon. The dough caught up
with Hamilton while he was
working on the high seas for the
British Navy.
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The coming flickers about
Army dogs are “Rip Goes to
War” and “Sergeant Mike,” the
canines coming from the kennels
of Carl Spitz, who makes a liv-
ing training pups for movies....
Lester Cowan was in New York
putting the bee on Tin Pan Alley
for an Infantry theme song for
the Ernie Pyle movie, “Here Is
Your War.’ Cowan doesn’t think
“What Do We Do in the In-
fantry?” quite fits the bill ....
Shirley Temple entertained a
group of WAVES in Hollywood
and a second later the word was
spread around that the gal en-
listed. But is wasn’t so....Ann
Harding is treking down the
comeback trail in a new play
with music, scripted by her hus-
band soldier, Werner Janssen,
former symphony conductor.
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Qapoht&i
THIS BEING LEAP YEAR-
HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY
PROPOSALS?
“Well, I haven’t
but of course the
mail’s been kind
of slow lately,”
answered Cpl.
Leland S. Reyn-
olds, Air Corps,
from (Brecksvil-
le, Ohio. But
leap year or not,
I expect to do
some asking myself pretty soon-
Leap year is a darn good idea,
though—it gives the girls a
chance to get even with us.
D. Peterson, Air
Corps, from Mu-
skegon, Michi-
gan, answered.
“Not yet — and
the truth is I nl
not expecting
any. When there
is any asking to
be done I’ll be
the one to do it.
Yes—I’m planning to take that
step any day now.”
Pvt. Michael F. Marrone of the
Medics, a former
clerk from Jer-
sey City, N. J.,
declared —“Why
I’ve been get-
ting them right
along, all from
the same girl
though! Heck
yes, I’m going to
do something about it—just as
soon as Uncle Sam will let me
go home again.”
“No—but I’m hoping,’ said ACl
James Roberts
of the RAF. A
former taxi dri-
ver *in Colches-
ter, England
Roberts added,
“I have expecta-
tions of some-
thing in that
connection hap-
pening around Christmas time.
This leap year custom is really
quite a good idea I think, and
when the time comes I shall
certainly accept!”
“No—but I’m
Sgt. William
gotten any yeh
Bedroom Burglar
Trailed By Police
Detective Captain F"rank 0"
Neill in Newark, N. J., has °r"
ganized a squad of eight men
whose sole job is to track down
the specialty burglar who has
robbed 167 pairs of trousers in
Newark bedrooms during the
last two and one half years. The
Squad is aided by a volunteer.
Detective Lt Louis Sklarey °*
the Prosecutor’s office who own-
ed one of the 167 pairs of trou-
sers.