The White Falcon - 06.01.1945, Side 1

OUR FORCES —
ALWAYS ALERT
ICELAND, Saturday, January 6, 194A.
No. 16.
Alaska Vet, Now In
Iceland Compares Gl
Life In Two Outposts
Mosquitoes “as big as hors-
es” and temperatures as low
as 72 degrees below zero are
two of the features of his
stay in Alaska that IBC Sgt.
Dale Klone would like most
to forget.
After having spent the
winter of 1942 and ’43 in Al-
aska with a QM. trucking
outfit, “Sourdough” Klone
was indeed a most-surpris-
ed GI when he landed in Ice-
land over a year ago. You
could have blown him down
Sgt. Dale Klone, above,
leads the Kodiak Bear, GI
publication in Alaska, with
interest as he spent a year
with the Army there before
coming to Iceland. The White
Falcon, incidentally, “out-
ranks” the Kodiak Bear by
three months—although both
papers started publication in
1941.
U.S. COLLEGES
PREPARING FOR
HUGE POSTWAR
ENROLMENT
Discharged soldiers, 10,000
of whom enrolled in Amer-
ican colleges and universiti-
es last fall, have set in mo-
tion among U.S. educators
what may be the most ex-
tensive program of higher
education ever instituted.
A few schpols which have
already formulated definite
plans for returning service-
men are:
Tufts College, which is of-
fering refresher courses in
certain key professions and
industries.
Chicago University, which
is planning to admit veter-
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with a cold Kodiak wind,
too, when he found that he
was again assigned to a
trucking company.
Making his weekly 370
mile run from the supply
port to his camp in the in-
terior was as tough as a
month of driving over the
Icelandic roads, Klone main-
tains. In both countries, how-
ever, the. winds, changing
climatic conditions, ice and
snow banks require that a
driver be on his toes.
Like Iceland, Alaska’s cli-
mate changes from one
mountain valley to the next.
Even with the warming
trade winds blowing up from
Japan, Dale reports that Al-
aska is much colder than
Iceland.
With outposts and camps
scattered for miles across the
bleak, wind-swept tundra
and snowed down in the val-
leys. troops 1 ave to rely more
on Mother Yuture for their
sports. Fishing and hunting
are favorite pastimes with
the men on our North Pacif-
ic base. Bear, caribou and
trout-fish are plentiful.
As for the simple GI com-
forts, huts and parkas are
as necessary at the top of
the Pacific as they are at the
top of the Atlantic. The good
old-fashioned space heater
in his hut in Iceland, Sgt.
Klone finds,has proved more
dependable than the oil stove
he used way over on the oth-
er side of the world. When
the temperature dropped,
the fuel oil would thicken
and have to be scraped from
its container “like so much
apple butter,” he states.
Sporting both Asiatic-Pac-
ific and ETO service ribbons
in addition to his five over-
seas stripes, Sgt. Klone feels
that it will take him some
time to thaw .out when he
returns to his home at York,
Nebr., when the war is over.
NEW WESTERN AT
FIELDHOUSE SUNDAY
Rated as one of the better
westerns of 1944, TALL IN
THE SADDLE comes gallop-
ing onto the Fieldhouse
screen tomorrow evening at
2000 hours with John Wayne
and Ella Raines in the lead
roles.
BIRTHDAY CAKE
Brig. Gen. Early E. W.
Duncan, Commanding- Ge-
neral of the IBC, cuts into
the 75-pound birthday
cake presented to him by
Donald B. Brandon, WO
JG, on behalf of the Tri-
poli Officers Club. The
General’s birthday (his
51st) fell on Monday, Jan.
1. The culinary master-
piece which was created
for him by Pfc. Clayton
Kamm, Hq., IBC, was later
distributed by the General
to two U.S. Army hospi-
tals here. Attending Gen.
Duncan’s birthday party
were: the Prime Minister
of Iceland, U.S. Army and
Navy officials, and offici-
als of the American, Sov-
iet, French', Danish and
British legations.
Ford Motor Co,
Will Grant Vets
Top Job Priority
A plan to grant veterans
top priority on all available
work has been announced
by the Ford Motor Company.
Under proposals submit-
ted to the United Automobile
Workers Union, Ford would
also bepermitted to liirehon-
orably discharged veterans
“at any time — even when
other employes of the com-
pany are out of work.”
The company also an-
nounced War Labor Board
approval of $80,000 worth of
vacation and bonus money
to the 2,500 honorably dis-
charged servicemen already
re-employed at the plant.
General Motors and Chrys-
ler Corporations have also
submitted proposals to the
Union on preference rights
for veterans.
Selective Service Order Increases
Draft Quota To 80,006 New Recruits
Per Month—Asks Re-Examination
Of All Men Previously Turned Down
Special Kodachrome
Show At Fieldhouse
January 21
A special showing of nat-
ural-color (kodachrome)
slides will he presented at
the Fieldhouse, 2000 hours,
Jan. 21. All of the slides show
pictures of Iceland and GI
scenes here. They are the
work of Tec 5 Luther Chov-
an, Signal Corps photo-
grapher, and represent re-
cent additions to the collec-
tion of kodachrome slides
which he presented at the
Fieldhouse some four
months ago. The slides will
precede the "regular Sunday
night movie.
War Prisoners In U.S.
Now Number 359,247
Office of the Provost Mars-
hal General in Washington,
D.C., has revealed that on
Dec. 1, 1944, there were
359,247 prisoners of war held
within the continental limits
of the U.S. They included:
305,648 Germans, 51,156
Italians and 2,443 Japanese.
Selective Service has been
ordered by the War Dept, to
boost its January and Febru-
ary draft calls from 60,000
to 80,000 men each month.
At the same time, Selective
Service announces that all
men under 30 who have been
rejected for military service
since Feb. 1, 1944 — except
those with obvious physical
defects — will be re-examin-
ed as soon as possible.
The War Dept, explains
that this new increase in
draft quotas is necessary be-
cause the Army’s policy of
combing surplus men out of
organizations no longer
needed has now produced all
the men that can he releas-
ed at this time. Under this
policy, the Army Air Forces
have already transferred
55,000 men to the Ground
Forces, while the Army Ser-
vice Forces have turned over
25,000.
Whether oy not the 80,000
per month draft rate will
continue after February will
he determined later, the Ar-
my reveals.
'MARCH OF DIMES' RESPONSE
SAID HIGHLY GRATIFYING'
According to Lt. Col. Lee
F. Gilstrap, Base Special
Service Officer, the initial re-
sponse of personnel in this
Command to the “March of
Dimes” campaign has been
“most gratifying.” Funds
collected will be used to com-
bat infantile paralysis.
Last year when the U.S.
experienced the second
worst epidemic of infantile
paralysis in its history, many
of those stricken were the
wives, sons and daughters of
American servicemen.
In August a seaman on his
way to join his ship was call-
ed to Moline, Ill., where his
12-year-old daughter lay
stricken with the disease.
About the same time, anoth-
er Navy man arrived home
in Jacksonville on emergen-
cy furlough, when both his
wife and six-year-old son
were added to the list of vic-
tims. These cases had their
counterparts all over the
country.
In the forefront of the bat-
tle against this disease, for
which doctors have as yet no
cure, has been the National
Foundation for Infantile
Paralj'sis. It is this organiza-
tion which will receive the
money now being contribut-
ed to the “March of Dimes’*
campaign by Americans all
over the world.
NAZI NIT-WITS BUCKING
FOR BUZZBOMB TICKETS
According to a German an-
nouncement relayed through
Stockholm and reported by
the United Press, “several
hundred” incurable war in-
valids of Naziland are buck-
ing for a chance to take a
one-way suicide trip to Lon-
don in a German V-4 —- ap-
parently a piloted variation
of the flying bomb.