The White Falcon - 28.07.1945, Blaðsíða 2

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THE WHITE FALCON is published weekly by and for the
American Forces in Iceland, under supervision of Special Ser-
vice Section, Iceland Base' Command. Some material is supplied
by Camp Newspaper Service, New York City, republication
of which is prohibited without C!NS approval. THE WHITE
FALCON has been passed by the censor and may be mailed
home for one-and-one-half cents.
IBC Special Service Officer .Maj. Sidney E. Cockrell Jr.
Supervising Officer ........Capt. David Z.inkoff
Managing Editor ............S/Sgt. J. Gordon Farrell
Associate Editor ...........Sgt. Robert C. Hill
Feature Editor ............Cpl. E. C. Gray
Staff Reporter .............Pfc. John M. Szemer
Circulation Manager ........S/Sgt. Rosario J. Tessier.
Contributing Cartoonist . .. .Tec 5 Pete Ranilovich.
Survey Shows Troops
Eliminated Marriage
As Discharge Factor
Marriage as a discharge
factor in demobilization was
eliminated by a vote of the
Army’s single men, who out-
number married men in ser-
vice, when the War Depart-
ment conducted a survey
last summer, according to a
STARS AND STRIPES’ ar-
ticle.
Similarly, the age question
as a discharge factor was
voted down by the younger
men in the survey. The maj-
ority of older men, how-
ever, agreed that young fath-
ers should he released from
the Army before the older
single men.
The report on the survey
was issued hv the Army’s In-
formation and .Education
Division in reply to a re-
quest by The Stars and Strip-
es for full information on
the manner in which the dis-
charge survey was conduct-
ed.
— Honorary Pfc.
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learned English forwards
and backwards while living
in Winnipeg, Canada.
In the printing business
in his native land for the
past 15 years, Jon has work-
ed on the FALCON”s prede-
cessors, THE ARMY BUGLE
(“parent” of the present IBC
rag) and the ARCTIC MAR-
INE. He has also helped put
the former British publica-
tion, THE MIDNIGHT SUN,
to bed.
Thorlacius says there has
always* (been “full coopera-
tion” between the FALCON
staffs and the printers —
which is a tribute to his
quiet, hut firm, diplomacy
in the face of determined —
and sometimes emphatic —
opposition.
Scooter
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parts from wrecked bomb-
ers. The headlight is from
a wrecked jeep. The wheels
from a wheelbarrow. '
Cpl. Seroka made liis
scooter in only one and a
half weeks. Using a discard-
ed Briggs and Stratten en-
gine from a disbanded air
compressor, odd pieces of
angle iron and other scrap
metal, he fitted, welded and
painted it all together skil-
fully.
Both scooters have the ad-
vantage of making approxi-
mately 40 miles per gallon
of gas, that being their tank
capacity. Both GIs think they
may come in handy in their
gas scarce home towns when
they return.
FALCON Takes Bust
In the face of the Army’s
ever-inexofahle T/O & E,
THE, WHITE FALCON, old-
est AEF paper of World
War II, is currently being
reactivated. As of today the
publication will stand for-
mations in four pages in-
stead of eight as in the past.
The reduced FALCON
may now he mailed Air Mail
for six cents, first class for
three, and second class for
a cent and a half.
CHICAGO — Clara Wagn-
er climbed into the back of
an ambulance to assist a
sick friend. Enroute to the
hospital, the machine made
a sharp turn, hurled good
neighbor Clara through the
doors and into the street.
She and her sick friend now
occupy adjoining hospital
beds.
*
HATTIESBURG, MISS. —
'when Dorothy Hutzler, 23,
complained that her malted
milk wasn’t sweet enough,
the drug clerk first deluged
her'with the drink, then slug-
ged her with the glass. Dor-
thy went to the hospital
xyhere 6 . stitches were put
into her scalp and the clerk
went to jail, charged with
assault.
IPSWICH, MASS. — Una-
ware that his truck was af-
ire, driver Joe Blake gaily
waved hack at the people
who flagged their arms at
him as he sped through
town. He thought they were
being friendly. Blake was
halted by a cop just before
the flames reached his cab.
— Birthday
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lion over courts-martial.
Less well known hut no
less important are the other
duties of the Judge Advocate
General who is the:'legal ad-
visor to the War Depart-
ment and entire military est-
ablishment.
* Legal phases of business,
property /and financial op-
erations and the legal ques-
tions growing out of the ad-
ministration and control of
personnel also come under
the Department’s jurisdic-
tion.
In the headquarters of this
Command the Staff Judge
Advocate’s office advises
and assists the men and of-
ficers on their personal, civ-
ilian legal problems.
Sailor and soldier find a common interest (or inter-
ests) as Seaman Wally Roberts and Pvt. Larry Marks,
both of New York, admire the stems of Gloria Vicario,
West New York, N.J. Her legs won her the title “beauti-
ful Legs” Queen at Palisades Park recently. Contestants
wore masks and had to parade a run-way of air-holes
where their skirts were blown over their heads.
RE-POPTS
ME FIR
Palm Beach, Fla. - One of America’s number one
draftees, Harry R. Bell, came home this week after four
years and nine months in the Army. He is a veteran
of Africa, Sicily, Italy,*Southern France and Austria,
having received No. 158 in the draft lottery on Octo-
ber 29, 1940.
Lansing, Mich. — Jackson State Prison inmates have
converted the world’s largest penitentiary into a virtu-
al club for the lovelorn, with dope, liquor and special
privileges for those who could pay, Attorney General
John. R. Dethmers charged recently.
Dethmers’ report said some inmates were permitted
the solace of wives and sweethearts in screened hospital
beds; others were transported by prison employees to
houses of prostitution upon payment to attendants.
Undated — While parts of New York, Massascliusetts
and New Jersey were undergoing some of the most
disastrous floods since 1903 this week, after cloud-
bursts caused rivers to spill, most of the nation swelt-
ered in record heat waves.
Miami, Fla. — Sailor William Parker of Toledo was
acquitted of manslaughter in the death of Mrs. Ella
Mae Eariies, estranged wife of a former New England
preacher.
After the youthful defendant acknowledged hurling
a beer bottle at the woman and several hours later
dumping her body from a hotel fire escape, the judge
dismissed the proceedings, declaring: “The State has
failed to make a case.”
Los Angeles — Boston Harbor historian, Snow, caught
a common goose fish instead of a rare sea monster,
Zoology Doctor Howard R. Hill, Los Angeles County
Museum curator, said. Startled, Snow had called it
the “most horrible thing I have ever seen,” believing
it a prehistoric throwback.
Providence, R.I. — The Journal said (3 of 50 overage
destroyers given to Britain in 1940 have been sold by
the Canadian government to a scrap dealer.
Washington —House members are taking their long-
est vaction since 1938, after a final session in which
they boosted the pay of legislative employees and disc-
ussed the palatability of horse meat.
The Senate has been detained for several weeks by
the necessity of acting on the United Nations Charter.
Prisoner Exchange
\
May Free Wainwright
\ .
Return of Lt. Gen. Jonath-
an Wainwright, a prisoner
of war since he surrendered
what was left of the U.S.
forces on Corregidor in ’42,
may lake place in a prisoner
exchange now being discus-
sed, it has been revealed.
Wainwright may he ex-
changed for some of the 132
Jap diplomats and consular
officers captured in Ger-
anv. These will he held in
the t Bedford Spring Hotel,
Bedford, Pa.- until the ex-
change can he worked out.
Samples of GI ingenuity are shown above as Cpl. Leo
Seroka, Kenosha, Wis., (left) and Sgt. Foy E. Pierce,
Fort Worth, Tex., prepare to take a ride on their hand-
made motor scooters, the envy of OD colleagues through-
out the Camp Massey area. (Sig. Coi'ps Photo).