The White Falcon - 07.04.1945, Síða 1

Vol. VIII.
ICELAND, Saturday, April 7, 1945.
No. 3.
(Sig. Corps Photos.)
American and British servicemen attended Easter and
Passover services here in large numbers last week in
celebration of the great Christian and Jewish holy days.
Photos from top to bottom show a Protestant service,
a Catholic service and a Jewish service, respectively.
Many men attended church in improvised Nissen huts.
AGF BAND TO PRESENT FIELDHOUSE
CONCERT TOMORROW, 2009 HOURS
King Says Flans Are
Completed For Mavy
Presenting the first con-
cert at the Fieldhouse since
January, CWO John D. Cor-
ley and the Army Band will
feature Dee Jungers, sopr-
ano from the ARC, and
S/Sgt. Bernard Morel, viol-
inist, as soloists tomorrow
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evening at 2000 hours.
Miss Jungers served as
Graduate Assistant in the
Music Department of the
University of Oregon before
joining the Red Cross. She
has appeared in productions
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a
Commander in chief of the
U.d. Fleet, Ernest J. King,
stated recently that tenta-
tive plans for demobilization
of Xavy men have already
been completed. He emphas-
ized, however, that demob-
ilization will not begin un-
til the defeat of Japan is at
band.
Revealing that the Pacific
war is ahead of schedule,
Adm. King, in his annual re-
port to the Secretary of the
Xavy, announced that the
Xavy is considering a priori-
ty system for the release of
men.
"When the news comes,”
Adm. King says the Navy
will give first consideration
to a man’s length of naval
service, service outside the
continental limits, combat
service, and parenthood.
This indicates that the Navy
will follow the same method
as the Army which has al-
ready announced a priority,
system for discharge.
According to King, the end
of the European war will not-
cause a reduction in naval
strength; it will merely call
for a redistribution.
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Biggest USO Troupe
Starts Tour Of SBC
Besides being the longest-running and largest USO.
show to play the IBC, GOOD MORNING JUDGE ■—.
which opened at the Tripoli Theater Tuesday night —*
ranks among the best variety shows ever seen here.
King
SURiBACHI PHOTO TO
BECOME SYMBOL FOR
SEVENTH BOND DRIVE
The famous photograph
(published two weeks ago
in The White Falcon) of U.S.
Marines raising the Stars
and Stripes on Mount Suri-
bachi at Iwo Jima will soon
become the symbol of.the
Seventh War Loan Drive
and, according to Postmast-
er General Frank Walker,
may even by honored by re-
production on a postage
stamp. •
In announcing the use of
the picture in the War Bond
Drive, Treasury officials say
that the dramatic photo will
be presented in various
forms before millions of Am-
ericans in every community.
(A few requests for this
photo have been made of
The White Falcon. We’re
sorry, but we have no such
prints on hand. The picture
is owned by the Associated
Press, New York. — Ed.).
EPRESENTATIVE OF OMPS ON TOUR
!E TELLS WHY SOME NEW MOVIES
ARE SLOW TO HIT NISSEN CIRCUIT
Staling that he was “ex-
tremely impressed” with the
motion picture service in Ice-
land, 1st Lt. Morton Allen of
the Distribution Div., Signal
Photgraphic Center, Astoria,
Long Island, this week ex-
plained the overseas moflon
picture set-up to a White
Falcon reporter during a
“break” in bis inspection
tour here.
All films shown to the GIs,
the Lt. said, are chosen by
a committee of civilian and
military experts who give
their selections to the War
Activities Committee -— a
liaison group between the
War Dept, and the motion
picture industry •— which
procures the negatives of the
movies desired. The nega-
tives are then submitted to
civilian laboratories where
they are reduced from 35mm
to 16mm — with special re-
cording jobs done to preser-
ve the quality of the sound.
Lt. Allen stated that these
prints are an outright gift
of the movie industry for
overseas use only.
Every effort is made to
bring only the finest movies
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Chubby and tubby Stub-
by Kaye, MC, wowed the
audience with his dynamic
singing of the sensational
“Rum and Coca Cola” —•
making his routine just ab-
out the top spot in the one-
hour-and-one-talf show.
Close on Kaye’s heels front
the standpoint of applause
came Tung Pin Soo with his
Chinese magical act which
had Cpl. Curtis Shoemaker
confused when a dove was
pulled front beneath his
blouse.
Formerly a Powers model,
Dana Gibson presented a
pretty picture on stage for
her vocals of “Confessin”’
and “Trolley Song.”
The petite and vivacious
“tap-happy” Cole Sisters —<
Penny and Peggtr — went
over big with their impres-
sion of two WACs in ai
haunted house,
Lucille Johnson’s gypsy
medley brought a bit of var-
iety to tbe show’s music.
Jim and Gail — known as
the “Martingales” — threw*
themselves around the stage
with reckless but graceful
abandon in their hand-bal-
ancing act. d
All musical backgrounds
were furnished by the Three
Red Jackets — Duane and
Arthur Hogle and Blaine W«
Johnson.
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Japs Must Be Burned Up!]
The fire bomb used in B29j
raids on Jap cities burns for;
eight to ten minutes at tem-
peratures above 6,000 deg-
rees centigrade, (
GERMAN PROPAGANDISTS TELL WEST
FRONT GIs "WAR'S NEARLY OVER/'
URGE THEM TO FAKE ILLNESS
According to an article in Stars and Stripes, the Ger-
mans are dropping propaganda leaflets over American
positions on the Western Front informing U.S. soldiers
that the war is “nearly over-,” and urging them not to
“take any chances at this late date.”
“Are you going to be one of the war’s last victims?”
ask the leaflets which then go on to explain a “simple
way” of getting into the hospital with fake ailments
which doctors cannot detect as phony. Another leaflet
describes an easy way to produce a “heart attack” to
bring about hospitalization.
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