The White Falcon - 07.04.1945, Síða 2

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Icelandic workers rivet bulkheads onto a prospective addition to the country’**
Merchant Marine. (Sig. Corps Photo).
Shipbuilding
welders, machinists, riv-
eters, etc. A regular 4 year
apprenticeship is offered
to young men interested
in making ship-building
a career.
Due to wartime condit-
ions and shortages, there
is very little ship-build-
ing in Iceland at present.
However, the ship-repair
business is going full blast
>— with the various trawl-
ers and vessels brought
for repairs and im-
25 Although there are no
fir ~
25 definite records on hand,
52 it is believed that the first
5$ ship constructed here was
52 built hundreds of years
p ago with timber brought
2? from Norway.
h At present there are
52 approximately ten ship
52 yards scattered about the
52 island, employing about
« 300 to 400 people. No
2; women are engaged in
;? this type of work.
25 These people are em-
5j ployed in every kind of
52 job connected with ship-
f2 building and repair:
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to the man overseas, Lt. Al-
len said, adding that some
“Class B” pictures are sent
across because movies are
made on a budget basis and
there are not enough “A”
pictures produced to allow
a theater to operate full-time
throughout the year.
In almost every instance,
the pictures are flown to the
theaters of operation by the
ATC. Iceland, Lt. Allen
pointed out, is a “first-run
theater’’ and enjoys, a num-
ber two air priority. Four
new pictures are sent out
each week by the Overseas
Motion Picture Service. The
number of prints of eEfch
film are, of course, depend-
ent upon the troop strength
of the theater of operations.
The Lt., who worked for
Columbia Pictures Corp. in
civilian life, explained why
some technicolor films —-
such as MEET ME IN ST.
LOUIS — have not yet been
received in Iceland. A lim-
ited number of 16mm prints
are made of these films be-
cause of the amount of time
needed to make them and
the limited quantity of tech,
nicolor rawslock available.
from the U.S. and Canada 25
for the repair of these 25
ships. Many supplies 52
came from Norway
Sweden before the war.
Modern slips
men to bring the ships 25
into dry-dock for over- 25
hauling.
Postwar plans for one 52
firm include building 52
ships’ ways' apd slips that J?
can he used in the con- 2;
struclion of 500 to 600-ton 25
and 52
2?
a
enable 2?
in
provements. Oak and otli-
woods are imported
er
The finished
prints are sent first to the
men in active combat theat-
ers and then forwarded to
outposts such as Iceland and
Greenland.
Besides handling enter-
tainment films, Lt. Allen’s
organization also is respons-
ible for the distribution of
GI Movies, Combat Bullet-
ins, training films and mis-
cellaneous films used; by the
ASF and AGF. Projectors
and repair parts for the
maintenance of equipment
are also furnished by the
Signal Corps.
Films, after they have
completed their tour of IBC
circuits, are sent hack to
OMPS, Signal Photographic
Center, where they are dist-
ributed to hospital ships;
troop carriers; War Ship-
ping Administration vessels
which carry American
troops; and other theaters.
One of Lt. Allen’s colleag-
ues, who has just returned
from an inspection tour of
the southwest Pacific areas,
visited the “Sweat Box
Theater” — a large foxhole
(covered with canvas) where
Jap bullets and shells whiz-
zed overhead.
Recently on the western
front, the Lt. reports, there
fishing trawlers.— and ev- g
entuallv of a modern fleet 52
of sea-going vessels. 5;
2?
«
technicolor was a lull in the fighting in
a building which was occupi-
ed partly by Germans and
partly by Americans. Dur-
ing the lull a movie was
shown to the Yanks, in their
part of the building.
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confined his estimate of the
postwar size of the Navy to
the statement that “It is as-
sumed in all the plans now
'under consideration that
many more officers and men
will he needed than can be
provided hv personnel now
in the regular Navy.”
JAP junior officers are not permitted to
ask for reinforcements if they are
caught in a tight spot with their men.
All they are permitted to do is make
a report to the commander of the battle-
front, who decides whether reinforce-
ments shall be sent.
(During the temporary absence of Pvt. Jack Gray, this
column is being written by Sgt. Bob Hill.)
In spite of the cool weather, citizens of Reykjavik were
out enjoying the sunshine Sunday—making Easter on
Laugavegur much like Easter on Fifth Avenue, Michigan
Boulevard or Main Street back home. Women were dress-
ed in their finest. Many of them wore tailored suiis.
The youngsters, especially, were attired in gay clothing.
Coffee shops and restaurants were closed for the day-
much to the disappointment of “snack-happy” GIs....
Services for the military at the Cathedral and State
Church were ■well attended. Army, Navy, Marine, Red
Ci’oss and RAF personnel were all represented in the
congregations. Both churches were decorated with flow-
ers and plants appropriate to the day.-
USO SIDEGLANCES: Stubby Kaye made his first ap-
pearance-before troops at Indian town Gap, Pa., in June,
1941. At that time he was introduced by Lt. David Zin-
koff (then a Pvt.) who also introduced him to the Tri-
poli Theater audience Tuesday evening. Stubby estimates
lie’s toured the U.S. two-and-one-half times entertaining
servicemen. He’s been overseas to Newfoundland, Britain,
Bermuda, Sicily, North Africa, Greenland, Labrador, and
Iceland. He hopes to conclude this present tour at the
“RKO Palace” in Berlin. . . .Art Wheatley (Tung Pin Soo)
was hospitalized for months after being injured in a ro-
bot bomb attack on London last year.... Peggy and
Penny Cole are still in their teens—hut veterans of USO
work and show business. . . .The Martingales are the only
married couple in the present group. . . .Lucille Johnson
appeared in RED, HOT AND BLUE with Bob Hope and
Jimmy Durante. .. .Dana Gibson was once adjudged a
pulchritudinous combination of Lana Turner, Ida Lupino
and Joan Fontaine... .Art Hogle (veteran of 32 years
in show business) introduced his son Duane to the same
career 13 years ago. Blaine Johnson, the third Red Jacket,
recently MC’d a bond drive in Arizona where a wealthy
man bought a $1,000 bond for every girl who went out
on the floor and kissed Johnson. Blaine says, “I loved
that work!”
Up Club 23 way last week, we saw for ourselves just
how popular the “Coffee Hour” is with the fellows sta-
tioned at nearby camps. Camilla Newerf Mary Gardner,
Susan Broaddus, Margaret Nash and Annabelle Mitchell
were running around “like mad” serving coffee and sand-
wiches. Somehow a snack served by a Red Cross girl
seems to hit the spot at mid-afternoon, so it’s no wonder
fellows gather there,in droves. . . .Harold Nemechek told
us that the fellows in his outfit are putting the pressure
on Lt. Robert S. Blake to get him to take-paid in a jam ses-
sion. Back home, Lt. Blake was a drummer in Ben Bernie’s
and Charlie Spivak’s dance bands. . . .A short chat with
John McCabe brought out the fact that the fellows in the
outfit are kind of “sent” with the “Ordanotes” foursome
which plays after shows in the camp theater. Mac swings
out on a portable organ; Tec. 5 Boh Brucker makes with
the drums; Pfc. “Artist” Fredericks blows a mean sax;
and Tec 5 “Strings” Harpster plucks the guitar strings.
The quartet feels it’s going to make history of some sort
or other in Iceland!
JUNIOR FOOTNOTES: Ethel Loltus of PHYL’S FIVE
ENSA group requests that we correct a statement made
here several weeks ago about her father being producer
of Gertrude Lawrence’s latest Broadway show. He’s not
the producer. He has a featured act in the show. . . .Betty
McCabe, USO actress here last year for THE DOUGH-
GIRLS, THE DRUNKARD and BLITHE SPIRIT, is now
touring southern France. Earlier this year, she appeared
before front-line troops in Belgium.... A teletype mach-
ine installed at SIGI will assure the latest news for the
station’s listeners. . . .Popular cry among the fellows
around the camps these days: “I’m 1-1-1-1-l-l-X!”
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