The White Falcon - 23.09.1944, Side 1

Vol. VII.
ICELAND, Saturday, September 23, 194k.
No. 1.
ANNIVERSARY —
Paying her respects to the White Falcon staff as the paper
celebrates its third anniversary is screen star Marlene Dietrich.
To her right are — 1st Lt. David Zinkoff, supervising officer;
Sgt. John Moran, managing''editor; Sgt. Gordon Farrell, associ-
ate editor; and Cpl. Robert Hill, troop news editor. Missing
from the picture is staff reporter Pvt. E. C. Gray.
U.S. May Cut War Production
By 40°/0 After Fall Of Germany
Concert Tonight At Fieldhouse
Werner Gebauer, violin virtuoso; John Grant, out-
standing baritone; CWO John D. Corley and the Army
Band; Cpl. Millard S. Thompson, pianist, and Cpl. Alfred
Cerunda, narrator, appear in a concert tonight at the
Andrews Fieldhouse at 2000 hours. No tickets are nec-
essary for military personnel and their Icelandic guests.
Each soldier will be permitted no more than two guests.
Willkie Chides Both Parties
On Foreign Policy Platforms
Damaged Tanks Go
To Battle Again
Thousands of damaged Amer-
ican tanks will soon be roaring
back into battle as a result of
a new large-scale rebuilding pro-
ject developed by the Army Ser-
vice Forces. Before Jan. 1 the
Ordnance Dept, expects to re-
build 3,000 M4 General Sherman
medium tanks and 550 M5 light
tanks.
Rebuilding operations will be
carried out at reclamation cent-
ers located in all sections of the
U.S.
Wendell Willkie, for whose
support the Democratic and Re-
publican parties reportedly are
contesting, temporarily has reject-
ed both suitors. Writing in Col-
lier’s Magazine, the 1940 GOP
presidential candidate said plat-
forms of both major parties' pre-
sented an “irreconcilable para-
dox” by promising lasting peace
for the world without stating
that the components of such a
peaceful world must voluntarily
relinquish some of their national
sovereignty to gain that postwar
goal.
Willkie called upon rival can-
didates' orally to augment their
party’s respective platform by
statements that would end pop-
ular confusion as to what the
peace planks mean and how
they will work.
“It must be said,“ wrote Wil-
lkie, “that on the general ques-
tion of foreign policy the Demo-
cratic plank is in many ways
Nazis Seen Behind
‘Surrender* Rumors
A warning against Nazi pro-
paganda tricks — in the guise
of false rumors of German sur-
render — has been issued by
military authorities and the
OWI.
“False rumors of German sur-
render or of negotiations look-
ing toward surrender have al-
, ready appeared and may be ex-
pected to be more frequent from
now on,” stated authorities.
Austria Told To Rise
Against ‘Protectors’
' U.S. Sec. of State Cordell Hull
has warned the people of Aust-
ria that the time for them to rise
against the Germans “is almost
here.” Similar announcements
have been made to the Austri-
ans by Russia,
better than the Republican plank,
but both parties' reveal a tend-
ency of practical politicians to
try to conciliate and win all ele-
ments of the population without
offending others.”
He charged that such tactics
failed squarely to face the prob-
lem “and so prepared soil for
the sowing of World War II.”
Der Fuehrer Said
To Have Girl
Friend In Munich
According to a German pris-
oner who claims to have been
Hitler’s valet for three years, Der
Fuehrer’s girl friend is a Munich
stenographer.
“The Fuehrer is a very diffi-
cult man to know,” said the pris-
oner. “He is different every day.
One day he is all fondness and
next day he is all brutish harsh-
ness.”
An indication of the extent of
industrial conversion in the U.S.
after the defeat of Germany was
noted recently in a report rend-
ered to Pres. Roosevelt by War
Mobilization Director James F.
Byrnes.
Recommending a 40 percent
cutback in war productiofi after
the capitulation of the Nazis and
the employment of former war
workers in the output of civili-
an goods, Byrnes said, “It is nec-
essary that the government plan
now to spread work. We will
speedily return to civilian pro-
duction, and the pent-up demand
for goods will come from people
who have the money with which
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Nazis Make Bombs
Like Bowling Balls
A new not-so-secret weapon
of the hard-pressed Nazis is re-
ported to be a “bowling-ball-
bomb.” The bomb consists of
a teller-mine with time fuse, all
of which is placed in a round
oversize wooden casing. Battle
reports do not speak w’eil of its
effectiveness.
Occupation To Demand
Armed Forces Level
Of 3,000,000 Men
A report by the House Econ-
omic Planning Committee recom-
mends that U.S. armed forces
be maintained at a level of at
least 3,000,000 men until the need
of occupation abroad has ended.
CONGRATS —
HEADQUARTERS ICELAND BASE CCWUNL
APO 660, o/o Postmaster
Kew York, fa’. Y.
14 September 1944
SUBJECTi THE WHITE FALCON Anniversary.
TO* / THE ; in 11A FaIECII Staff.
1. As your outstanding newspaper -begins its fourth year of publi-
cation in Iceland, I take this opportunity of expressing fty congratulat5*
and appreciation for a job •well done.
2. The first AEF nev/spaper of World War II, THE WHITE FALCON has
maintained a uniformly excellent quality and has been one of the greatest
factors contributing to the high morale of this command.
3. Despite difficulties which included censorship, lack of modem
printing equipment, paucity of news-gathering facilities and the problem
of serving scattered units of a widely dispersed command, the official
Iceland base Command newspaper has accomplished its mission in an exem-
plary manner.
4. The pre-eminence of THE WHJIE FALCON among Service newspapers
is attested by its winning of Third Prize in the Camp.News paper Service
Contest of 1044—in competition with more than 200 Service papers. This
ie a tribute to the resourcefulness end ability of THE WHITS FAIEGN Stoif.
CIGARETTE GIRL—
In the guise of a cigarette girl, Miss Margaret Nash of the
ARC helps entertain soldiers and their girl friends during fest-
ivities last Sunday which marked the opening of the “Palm
Court" at ARC Club 14. Tea dancing • cabaret style — feat-
ured the occasion.