The White Falcon - 03.03.1945, Blaðsíða 3

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Copyright 1945 by Ltonjrd Sint one. distributed by Camp Newspaper Service

"This isn't quita what I expected!"
YALTA WAS LIKE HOLLYWOOD, NEWPORT AND
eSi
Describing Yalta as New-
port, Hollywood and the
deep South all rolled into
one, but with lasting scen-
es of wartime desolation in
the background, Pres. Roose-
velt this week told a press and fruit,
conference (the first since
his return to theU.S.) that the
jess
gave to top personnel. Prem- (which was to carry him to
ier Stalin, he said, served Alexandria to meet Mr.
Vodka, five wines, caviar, Roosevelt) with a herd of
bread and butler, consom- 100 sheep. When told that,
me, sturgeon beef and mac- the ship’s stores had all the
aroni, sweet cake, tea, coffee food necessary for the trip,
| the King compromised and
• One of the most colorful. brought only eight sheep
events of the trip occurred I aboard which were tether-
only social affairs at the Rig on the return trip when the ted to stanchions.
Three meeting were dinners | King of Saudie Arabia wanl-
whieh each of the principals! ed to
list Leave
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one of us or not. Then when
lie came a little closer I saw
Shat he was a German sMT-
er. Refore lie could spot me
I hid behind a wrecked Ger-
man tank and waited for
lum. When he had gotten
eal close 1 lumped out and
he got off thct hike and rais-
ed his hand without offer-
ing any resistance a I all: lie
si rriied kind of surprised,
but what he may have been
thinking I don’t know be-
cause he couldn’t speak any.
English and I don’t under-
FLANE
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called the office of the Svslu-
maSur in Borgarnes. With-
in less than an hour, through
excellent cooperation by
telephone operators and
farmers in the area, the
plane’s flight had been trac-
ed to the scene of its forced
landing.
One farmer after another
reported having seen the
plane going over his place.
The last one contacted, just
before noon,said he had seen
the plane land on the sandy
beach at Alftanes. Although
stand German. I guess he] the landing was a relatively
had been sent out to repair j difficult one, the plane was
that tank I hid behind, for. only slightly damaged and
he was carrving a pile of i the pilot — who was takenbuiU t() assemblej store
PARIS’ CAT POPULATION DWINDLES
FAST AS HUNGRY INHABITANTS
PAY $5 APIECE FOR CARCASSES
Although Paris is a popular gathering place for -off-,
duty GIs, the city’s cat population is finding it a good
place to stay away from. Since the city was liberated.
30,000 of the feline friends have been butchered and eaten,
With the cats bringing $5 each on the open market—
$2.50 for the meat and $2.50 for the fur—cat “disappear-
ances” are estimated at between 200 and 309 every day.
Some enterprising Parisians, otherwise unemployed, were
said to be dangling fishiines from upper story windows
—with “good results.”
GERMANS HAD BUILT LAUNCHING RAMPS AT
CHERBOURG FOR HURLING ROCKETS ON U.S.
Germans
The Germans had built
huge launching ramps .at
Cherbourg which werg
intended as platforms for
rockets aimed at the U.S.,
according to a statement
made recently by Joseph D.
Keenan, vice-chairman of
the WPR. Keenan said that
Gen. Eisenhower had told
him the installations were
First USSR Soldier In
Berlin To Collect $1,000
A New York City business-
man, David Kay, has posted
The King refused lire use
of the- Captain’s quarters, so
his nine miscellaneous slav-
es and cooks pitched striped
desert tents on deck. Be-
autiful Arabian and Persian
rugs were •oread over most
of the available deck space,
liis Majesty’s food was cook-
ed on a small charcoal braz-
ier as Ihe destroyer travell-
ed at reduced speed lest the
wind blast Ihe tents over-
hoard.
tools with him. He seemed ■ at once to
to he verv voum; — all of Borgarnes
the hospital m fiVc rockets at the U.S.
- proved to have
them do.”
Another of the men, Pvt.
Leon Tsagaris o f Lowell,
suffered only minor injuries
incurred while landing.
Wednesday’s incident of
'gv K—h Proposed
For Soldiers Overseas
A proposal that members
of the armed forces be grant-
ed a five percent increase
in.pay for each year of over-
seas duty (after completion
of the first year) has been
made h)7 Rep. John J. Spark-
man (D.-Ala.). The increase
would be in addition to the
flat 20 percent increase for
a $1,000 award to be given enlisted men and ten per-
il) the first Russian soldier, cent for officers.
or unit, to enter Berlin. Kay ___________
had previously made a sim- _ .
ilar offer to the first Amer- ^Army Trains
ican soldier to reach Paris German Police Force
after ihe invasion.
Mass., is assigned to an AAA| cooperation is similar to
unit stationed in Holland, many which have pre-
Captured German police-
men are being trained by
the American 1st Army. Pur-
pose of the special school
lliey are attending “some-
near ihe German
Tsagaris also bagged a live
German. “He was a talkative
one and spoke English very
well. He said he was glad to
be taken by us.
“In France, Belgium and
Holland all the people I’ve
met have been very friendly.
Some of them even offered
to wash clothes for us -— for
nothing.”
“By the way,” he said,
“have you heard how the
girls over there camouflag-
ceded it, officers of the gar-!
rison here say. One of the)
most recent examples of ex-
cellent cooperation on the
part of Icelandic local auth-
orities was in ihe Sclfoss
area.
Two farmers on the south
coast saw a plane diving
into the sea. Tliev called the

THE Japanese soldier is taughi blind
obedience. Before the war, a group of
Jap soldiers on summer maneuvers
were ordered not to drink from their
canteens except upon the order of the
, CO. Although 20 men .fell from thirst
Syslumaour at Self OSS, and I .1nd exhaustion,-and 5 died, examina-
liomefront Wolves Given
Brashoff By FLY. Girls
1 A CNS report states that
some girls in New York City where
who • have husbands and border” is to fit them for
l
sweethearts in the armed taking over the administra-
forces are appearing in the lion of occupied German1
streets of the big town wear- districts. A Liberty Maga-
ing a lapel decoration de- zine article, about the recon-
signed to let homefront structed German stales that
wolves know they are out of out of 200 candidates for al-
circulation. On llio button is tendance at the school only
onC word: “Taken.” 89 were selected, however.
within T5 minutes the infor-
mation had been communi-
cated to ihe military aulli-
ed themselves? They’d put oriliesinReykjavik.Reeon-
blackcning on their teeth, cut j naIssance Planes already in
their hair and do just about Eight were at the scene in
time to be of help — had it
been possible to give any.
Military, authorities say
that the friendly helpfulness
of Icelanders in instances
such as these is always off-
ered unhesitatingly.
tion of their canteens revealed they had
not been touched.
everything they could think
of to make themselves look
ugly. They did this to keep
the Germans from bothering
them—and they say the trick
worked too.”
Tec 5 William Bauer of
Brooklyn, N.Y., who has
been knocking around re-
placement centers in the
ETO waiting for permanent
assignment, said that it’s a
tough life anyway you look
at it — even when you’re not
up at i;)e front tangling wiili
1 ells
Germans.
EourJi man in the group
was 1st Sgt. Edmund Rond-
eau of Brockton, Mass., who-
was formerly with a port
unit here.
judge In Savannah
Wives To Get Along With
Husbands Or Go To Work
Warning ‘childless wives
either to get along with their j
husbands or go to work, Sup-
erior Court Judge David S. j
Atkinson of Savannah, Ga., j
has said that lie will no long-
er grant alimony in divorce
cases where (here are no:
children requiring support, j
“In my opinion,” Judge At-
kinson says, “every ablebod-
ied woman, provided she lias;
no children to care for,-ought
to work like a man.”
Amid snow and ice, a soldier of the 5th Armored Di-
vVon >v ! machine-gun which guards a road in
Belgium. Things tool, pretty well frozen over.