The White Falcon - 28.10.1944, Síða 1
OUR FORCES —
ALWAYS ALERT
Vol. VII.
ICELAND, Saturday. October 28. 1944.
No. 6.
Chances "Remote" For End Of
Nazi War This Year
The chances of knock-
ing out Germany before
the end of the year are
now considered by offi-
New USO Unit Offers
Songs, Dances, Mirth
And Music-With Gals
Bringing a breath of
home with them, members
of Unit 349 of the USO-
Camp Shows arrived here
this week.
Hie unit consists of
Terry and Balph Bio, Jo
Andrews, Thelma Gardner
and Bay Strickland and
offers a variety of ma-
sic, comedy, songs and
dancing.
cial and semi-official
sources in the U.S. as
"remote."
This changed outlook,
which only a few weeks
ago had foreseen a Ger-
man defeat by Oct.l,
1944, has been occasio-
ned principally by the
failure of the recent
break-through attempt
at Arnhem.
Meanwhile, an OWI re-
port forecast the pro-
bability that 5,000,000
workers would change
jobs after V-day in Eu-
rope and that German
collapse would bring
widespread dislocations
in civilian life.
Local Armed Forces Station
To Air New Broadcast Series
Featuring Mid-Day News,Music
In answer to a long-felt need for a noon-time radio schedule of Ameri-
can programs, the local Armed Foroea Radio Station goes on the air at
lunoheon music and re-
15 minute break at noon
1100 hours Tuesday, Oot. 31 with two hours of
broadcasts of popular American programs - with a
for the latest news direct from the States,
New Icelandic Cabinet Formed--
Will Work With United Nations
A new Icelandic Cabi-
net was formed last Sa-
turday ty members of
the Althing, which has
net with the full app-
roval of President
BJemsson. It is a th-
ree-party cabinet com-
posed of six members;
Prime Minister Olafur
Thors and Fetter Magnus-
son, Minister of Finan-
ce belonging te the In-
dependence Party; Bryn-
jolfur Bj arnason, Mini-
ster of Education and
Ali Jakobs son, Minister
•f Fisheries, belonging
to the Popular Front
Party and Emil Jonsson,
Below, are the members of the newly-e.'(. cted
Icelandic Cabinet which was ohosen by the Alth-
ing with the approval of the President of Ioe-
land. The members are, 1 to r, Brynjolfur
Bjarnasom, Minister of Eduoation; Emil Jonsson,
Minister of Communications, Industry and Chur-
ches; Petur Magnusson, Minister of Finance,
Commerce and Agrioulture; Olafur Thors, Prime
Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairsi Finn-
ur Jonsson, Minister of Justioe, Health and So-
cial Security; and Aid Jakobsson, Minister of
Ft sheries.
Minister of Communica-
tions and Finnur Jons-
son, Minister of Just-
ice, of the Labor
Party.
According to Bj ami
Qudmunsaon, Icelandic
liaison officer, the
new cabinet has set up
a strong international
program, the main' po-
ints being the contin-
ued independence of Ic-
eland by participation
in international aff-
airs and taking an act-
ive part in United Na-
|ti«n activities, as we-
tLl as the promotion and
protection of exports
end imports. Domesti-
cally, they also back
an ambitious program to
expand lecal industries
and agricultural mar-
kets.
While the new Cabinet
Ministers have mot made
a definite statement on
Inflationary curbs, it
is understood that a
proposal is under con-
sideration.
FOUND: Gold wedding
band, Saturday, Oct. 21
in vicinity of And-
rews Fieldhouse. Inqui-
re at White Falcon.
MOVIE STUDIO WILL
AWARD $1,500 PRIZES
TO SOLDIER WRITERS
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. has announced
its annual fellowships for servicemen and servi-
cewomen who have a desire to do creative writ-
ing.
The fellowships, wor-
th 41,500, are open to
personnel on active
service and to honor-
ably discharged veter-
ans.
Here's how to qualify
for the awards»
Submit a book or play
in either full draft,
part of a draft or ia
outline form together
with at least one com-
pleted ohapter to Bert-
ram Blooh, eastern sto-
ry editor for 20th Cen-
tury, 30 Rockefeller
Plaza, New York City.
If the judges oonsider
the oontribution of
Buffioieat merit, a fe-
llowship award will be
made for one year to
allow oompletion of a
full-lenght book or
play.
At present, the Corp.
contemplates award of
approximately 25 fell-
owships but the number
is subjeot to change
due to the quality of
submissions. The awards
will be made on the ba-
sis of individual merit
and not in competition
with other entries.
Cl Bill of Rights
Sends 5000 to School
More than 5,000 vet-
erans of World Vfar II
are already attending
schools and colleges
under provisions of the
GI Bill of Rights.
Signing off the air
at 1300 hours, the sta-
tion returns at 1630
hours with a full sche-
dule of shows which
will run until 2400
hours.
Sunday sohedules will
run continuously from
1100 te 2400 hours.
This expanded radio
service by the local GI
station has been occas-
ioned by the terminat-
ion of the "Voice of
America" series over
Radio Reykjavik.
Cpl. Alfred Cerunda
of Base Special Servioe
is in charge of' the
programming and he pro-
mises a varied sohedule
of oomedy, music, drama
and sport 8 to suit
every GI's taste.
Among the many new
programs being planned
are the Johnny Mercer
"Song Shop," the Cleve-
land and Boston Sympho-
ny Orchestras and "Mus-
io For Sunday."
In addition to the
rebroadoasts of popular
American air shows, the
well-known Army shows
such as "Command Per-
formance, USA* and "GI
Jive" will continue to
reoeive ohoioe time.
Atmospheric condit-
ions allowing, station
operators Pvt. Kenneth
J. Landry and Cpl. J.J.
Adabody will rebroad-
oast the news direct
from the U.S. at 1200,
1700 and 1900 hours.
The regular nightly
sports broadcast will
be heard at 2000 hours
and it is planned, when
possible, to rebroad-
cast one of the out-
standing collegiate or
pro football games each
Saturday evening.
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