The White Falcon - 06.05.1944, Blaðsíða 1

OUR FORCES —
ALWAYS ALERT
Vol. VI.
ICELAND, Saturday, May 6, 19U.
No. 7.
IBC Corporal
Outdoes Looies
At Pay Table
A broad grin always crosses
^ face of the lieutenant behind
the pay table when Cpl. Irvin
-Martin of the IBC steps up to
got his monthly stipend.
The reason? Martin’s pay en-
'elope is fatter than that of the
*st Lt. paying him!
This is why. Martin is the dad-
(|y of eight children and also has
^ght year’s service which brings
him 10% “Old Fogey” pay. Con
ScQUently, his family allowances,
toupled with longevity and over-
seas pay, bring Irv’s income to
pight around $300. Not bad for a
corporal.
Cpl. Martin hails from Hou-
st°n, Tex., and has had quite a
colorful military career. He ser-
Ved a hitch in the U.S. Army
back in 1931. then served two
years with the Civil Technical
Corps of the Canadian Army, re-
turning to the khaki of Uncle Sam
*n 1942.
He is in the Air Corps.
Gen. Patton
In Great Britain
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, who
bas commanded the U.S. Seventh
Ari«y in the Mediterranean, is
Reported to be in Britain for duty,
11 was disclosed .this week.
The grim-Iooking, 52-year-old
general commanded troops in the
“'orth African and Sicilian cam-
paigns, led the successful attack
Gafsa, beat off the Nazi Tenth
anzer Division at El Guettar and
to°k part in the final drive in
Tunisia. Whether or not Patton
"uil be or has been given com-
,r>and of an invasion force was
n°t revealed.
Long known for his emotional
outbreaks and fiery declarations,
Old Blood and Guts” Patton told
Army after the conquest of
Sicily: “Born at sea, baptized in
Plood and crowned with victory,
y°u have destroyed the prestige
the enemy. Your fame shall
never die.”
Nation's Top Earner
Louis B. Mayer, one of Amer-
,ca’s leading film producers, earn-
$1,138,992 in 1943, retaining
the tenth consecutive year
b*s "title" as the biggest-paid U.S.
executive. Mayer is managing flip-
of Loews Inn;
Looking up
from a page of
the New York
Daily News fea-
turing • reprints
of his illustrated
envelopes is Pfc.
E. A. Terhune,
barber and spare
time cartoonist
in an Ordnance
unit here. Ter-
hune has excited
much comment
among folks
back home to
whom he has
been sending
letters enlivened
with scenes from
GI life in Ice-
land.
Envelope Cartoons Bring
Fame To IBC Soldier
Judging from the path that
is being beaten to his doorstep
these days, Pfc. Edward “Terry”
Terhune of an Ordnance outfit
here might almost be the man
who has constructed the perfect
mousetrap. Up until three weeks
ago he was just another GI in
Iceland — company barber
plodding his weary way to vic-
tory via comb and shears. Then
he started getting letters — doz-
ens of them — from people all
over the United States, people he
neither knew nor had ever heard
of before.
They had seen a story about
him in the New York Daily News
and they asked if he wouldn’t
please send a letter to them in
one of his hand-decorated enve-
Jepes from Iceland. The article
in the News had suddenly spread
Terhune’s name — and hobby —
Hollywood Canteen
Sued As Result
Of ‘Jive Madness’
Radio actress Florida Edwards
this week won a damage award
of $8,170 in Los Angeles for in-
juries sustained when she was
sent into a spin during a dance
with a “jive mad” Marine in the
Hollywood Canteen.
Defining the term “jitterbug”
as meaning “nervous” and “cra-
zy,” Judge Henry M. Willis ruled
that the dance constitutes a “real
danger for anyone not skilled in
its gyrations.”
Willis then concluded that
since Miss Edwards, as a junior
hostess, was a bonafide employee
of the Canteen, judgment would
be levied. Mains); the Canteen,
all over the western world.
This unusual hobby of his, on
which he spends most of his lei-
sure time, is the illustrating of
air mail envelopes with scenes
from Army life here in Iceland.
They represent ideas which occur
to him while cutting hair, loung-
ing around in the hut, and even
while eating his chow in the
company mess hall.
Terhune’s illustrated envelopes
were first done only for his wife,
Doreen, now living in Boston,
Mass., but he now has so many
“customers” that he’s inclined to
think there’ll soon be need of
a secretary. ‘On one occasion he
thought he’d make the postman
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‘Six Jerks On The Jump’
Opens Command Tour
Bombers Barely
Missed Hitler
Adolf Hitler was almost kill-
ed recently when he found him-
self in Stuttgart, Germany, at the
same time with Allied bombers
who were also there — on busi-
ness.
According to reliable reports
from Ankara, Turkey, Hitler was
aboard a train traveling to Stutt-
gart. At the wail of the siren,
sounding an air raid warniug,
Adolf got off the train and head
ed for a shelter. The train con-
tinued to the city and was blown
to bits in a series of direct hits
on the station and all the other
passengers were killed.
The story of Adolf’s narrow
escape was told by a woman,
Nele Kapp, who was a confiden-
tial clerk to the Gestapo chief
at the German embassy in Ankara
before her disappearance two
weeks ago, but made public only
this week. Fraulein Kapp sought
the aid of the U.S. embassy and
is now out of Turkey.
Lady Looks Ahead
A far-sighted letter was receiv-
ed by a New York hotel this
week from a Mrs. J. T. Russell
of Newton, Kan. She requested
that a room in the hotel be re-
served for her on Armistice Day,
whenever it occurs. The letter
is being kept on file.
Well received with plenty of
laughs and applause was the new
IBC show, “Six Jerks on the
Jump,” which played to its first
audience of 200 officers and men
Thursday night at the Camp Her-
skola Theater. Written and en-
acted entirely by enlisted men
of this Command, it is the first
all-soldier show designed to tour
every U.S. Army camp on the
island.
In a brief pre-curtain talk,
Capt. Paul Baker, IBC officer in
charge of production, declared
the opening performance to be
“a sort of trial balloon” to sense
audience reaction before taking
the show to smaller outlying
camps. Last night the troupe play-
ed to an audience of 14 enlisted
men at one of the outposts here.
Composed of 16 skits and spec-
ialty acts, the show overcomes
a rather slow beginning and pro-
gresses towards its riotious fin-
ale, a number called “The Mop-
up Sisters,” with clever satire
and comedy.
A particularly humorous speci-
alty is a skit entitled “Eleanor’s
Last Ride,” a take-off on Mrs.
Roosevelt’s global wanderings
written and played by Pvt. Tom
Cavanaugh, outstanding young
star of “The Drunkard.” Cavan-
augh is dressed for the number
in what would appear to be a
cross between a Girl Scout uni-
form, a barracks bag and a Har-
ry Lauder get-up. Sgt. Meyer K.
Levy, another “Drunkard” star,
brought down the house with his
aptly delivered burlesque of a
German propaganda broadcast.
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Costumes were almost as effective as the actors in bringing laughs when “Six Jerks on the
Jump” had Its Command Performance at the Herskdla theater Thursday night. Left “The
Mop-Up Sisters” are shown going to work. Left to right, Cpl. Bill Krause, Pvt. Bill Gilmer, Pvt.
Leon Lawson, Sgt. Meyer Levy, Pvt. Tom Cavanaugh and Cpl. Terry O’Malley, Right, Pvt. Cay?
anaugh, in girl scoflf uniform, flues a cpityjnclng takeoff oq ‘‘Eleanor,"