The White Falcon - 12.08.1944, Side 2

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Mrs. Louis G.
Dreyfus, wife of
the recently-ap-
pointed U.S. min-
ister to Iceland,
is shown above at
the information
desk in the ARC
Club in Reykja-
vik where she
acts as hostess
to Allied servicei
men.
—Contest
(Continued from Page 1)
from each contestant.
3. Verses and drawings
must be original.
4. Any member of the U.S.
armed forces may par-
ticipate.
5. All entries should be
turned in on comple-
tion.
6. Drawings may be made
up in four colors or
less, and should be of
paper stock suitable
for reproduction. Size
doesn’t matter.
7. All entries must be ap-
proved by the Base Cen-
sor.
8. All entries should be
turned in to Sgt. Rich-
ard A. McAnnailly at the
Reykjavik Post Ex-
change and Restaurant.
Pretty Expensive!
World War II is costing the
U.S. $2,837 a second!
T wenty StatesMakeFederal
Ballot AvailableTo Soldiers
THE CANDIDATES—
Democratic:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(New York)
Harry S. Truman
(Missouri)
Republican:
Servicemen from any of the
following 20 states may use the
Federal ballot in the November
election (provided, of course,
that they are eligible to vote in
the first place) — California,
Connecticut, Florida, Georgia,
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Nebraska, New Hamps-
hire, New Jersey, New Mexico,
North Carolina, Oklahoma, Ore-
gon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah,
Vermont, and Washington.
States not authorizing use of
the Federal ballot, but authoriz-
ing use of the state absentee bal-
lot only are — Alabama, Arizona,
Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware,
Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri,
Montana, Nevada, New York,
North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania, South, Carolina, South Da-
kota, Tennessee, Virginia, West
Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyo-
ming.
In order to vote you must be
21 years of age by the day of
election (Nov. 7) unless you come
from Georgia — in which case
you may vote if you’re 18. If you
live in one of the states which
recognizes only the state absentee
ballot, you must wait until you
receive this ballot before you can
vote.
In some instances men who use
the Federal ballot may later get
the state ballots for which they
upplied. Those who do, should
fill out the ballots and mail them
anyway. If they get back to the
voters’ home states in time, they
will be counted instead of the
Federal ballot.
Servicemen who are on their
way back to the U.S. from over-
seas stations, but "who won’t ar-
rive until after Qct t, will also
be able to vote.
Wife Of U.S.
Minister Helps
At ARC Club
Many servicemen dropping in
at the Red Cross Center in
Reykjavik recently have noticed
a charming new member of the
Red Cross group there, but few
know that she is Mrs. Louis G.
Dreyfus, wife of the U.S. Min-
ister to Iceland.
Devoting two afternoons a
week to Red Cross work, she
also find time to visit the sick
wards of many enlisted men in
the various Base hospitals be-
sides entertaining GIs in her
home each week. Not a pseudo-
morale-builder, Mrs. Dreyfus
speaks a soldier’s language, und-
erstandingly — enjoys a GI joke
— likes to “josh” her boys wher-
ever she meets them.
‘AWOL’ Spends
Honeymoon In
Police'Squad Car
A private stationed at Camp
Carson, Colo., was jailed last
week in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on
the charge of being absent with
out leave from his post. Civilian
police, however, didn’t allow t e
situation to interfere with the
soldier’s preparations for marri
age. They took the AWOL an
his bride to the justice of the
peace in a squad car and then
rode them around for a feW
blocks’ “honeymoon” before re
turning him to jail.
• • • "
Ernest Hemingway
Dodges Artillery
Shells In Normany
Mrs. Dreyfus has long been
known for her welfare work in
other parts of the world. In Te-
heran, where she was Chairman
of the Red Cross, she was per-
sonally decorated by Shah Pahl-
evi of Iran, being awarded the
highly coveted Order of Elmi, the
top award of the country, for her
establishment of a medical clinic
and school for impoverished chil-
dren. Founding the clinic in the
early part of 1942, she was in-
strumental in the saving of many
lives while the typhus epidemic
raged there in 1942 and 1943.
She finds “real beauty” in Ice-
land, comparing many parts of it
to Valencia, Spain, and the lakes
of Killarney in Ireland.
Author Ernest Hemingway ant
Life photographer Robert Capa
narrowly escaped injury in ^ °r
mandy this week when a German
antitank shell hit three 3-arts
in front of them. Machine Sun
bullets clipped the bushes a fe^
inches above Hemingway’s he£*
as he feigned dead in a ditc ■
The famed author and Capa la el
made a dash for safety.
“Parachute Battalion”
On Fieldhouse Screen
Robert Preston in “Parachute
Battalion” will be on the Field-
house screen tomorrow evening
at 2009 hours. ____
Sgt. Zangkowski of the MPs
was mighty happy and proud the
other day for he at last had a
chance to run off a roll of 8mm.
film from home showing his wife
and baby. Carrying the film
around in his pocket for about
six weeks, he finally located an
8 mm. projector .... If you guys
think you have been in Iceland
a long time, look up Miss Gunn-
laug Solvang, a Norwegian nurse
who sometimes drops in at Club
14. She has been in Iceland ex-
actly four years .... Many GI’s
were casting nostalgic glances at
some gen-u-ine American Zoot-
Suiters at the Reykjavik Center
last night. Merchant seamen in
port are not required to wear
their uniforms unless they choose
to, and these two did not.
You GI’s who have longed for
an American girl to take to din-
bay boasts of one of Icelan s
few millionaires, Haraldur B®
varsson, active in the fish free2
ing plants, fishing trawlers an
other ventures.
What do you think of a gl,y
saying “Iceland is wondevfu •
The weather isn’t half bad, an(
it is nice to be able to go hd°
a town onfce in awhile. There
is plenty to do there.” Well,
I, too, started backing away aP
prehensively but after catching
me, Cpl. Harold Kilpatric, °
an Air Corps unit here, proceed
ed to explain that compared to
Alaska, Iceland does look wont
erful. He still remembers his stay
in the Yukon territories in 1942-
While there he shot wolves (bn
no Japs) and nearly froze to
death with temperatures at 7
degrees below zero, just to give
you an idea ....
ner in town will at last have
your desires satisfied for the Red
Cross girls at Club 14 plan to
have a “Dutch Treat” dinner in
town one night a week at the
“Blue Room” (the Hull Restaur-
ant.) Look up Elsie Celli at the
Center for further particulars ...
Reykjavik was quiet Monday, the
Icelanders celebrating “The Bank
holiday” .... Akranes across the
European Refugees
Arrive In U. S.
Close to one thousand refugees
from 19 occupied nations arrived
in New Jersey this week from
Italy. They are being sent to an
emergency refugee shelter at
Fort Ontario, N.Y., where they B
remain until the war is over.