The White Falcon - 13.10.1945, Side 1

Vol. IX.
ICELAND, Saturday, October IS, 19b5.
No. 4.
Met find Uct-UcuAeA Jiyure J/h Scelanfa PvAttear plan*
On the left, “blowing its top,” is one of the numerous
geysers at Hveragerdi. The region has many subterranean
hot springs which heat hot-houses, like the one above,
making it possible for Icelanders to raise many fruits
and vegetables now grown in the United States and at*on °lymPic
Europe. ation coronet”
Volcanoes WHS Warm Iceland
Claims U.S. College Professor
According to Professor Karl Ver Steeg, of the geology
department of Wooster College, Mass., the post-war
plans of Iceland include a serious proposal to heat the
entire Island with its subterranean, volcanic warmth.
er
Professor Ver Steeg said es and public buildings \4ere
that the ancient Norse mar- J warmed by natural hot wat-
iners first found Iceland and
named it well, because glaci-
ers cover one-eighth of its
entire surface. He went on
to say that this surface frig-
idity is superficial and just
beneath Iceland’s outward
that comes from the
ground at a temperature of
over 170 deg. F., and is pip-
ed many miles to the city.
At Husavik on the north
coast of the island hot water
flows from a spring a hund-
crust is a mass of highly heat-j red yards away into a large
ed lava which is a constant swimming pool. The water
source of heat for hot J heats the entire building and
springs, geysers and fumar- then enters the pool. Bath-
oles — holes from which vol- jng is perfect there even in
canic vapors issue. The gov- an Arctic blizzard,
eminent of Iceland is now j So abundant is the water
planning to use this heat to: from the nearby hot springs
warm the Island.
For years Iceland has been
making use of this under-
ground heat. Eric the Red,
and other famous Norsemen
of early years discovered the
hot springs and frolicked in
them amid snow and ice.
The post-war plans, ac-
cording to the professor, in-
clude a great chain of hot-
houses that will make it poss-
ible to raisfe many fruits and
vegetables now grown in
Europe and the; United Stat-
es — all under glass. In this
project the Icelandic govern-
ment is not branching out
into the unknown, but is
merely extending small-scale
projects which have been er-
ected already.
Hot-houses are not the
only project. Engineering
plans to heat the entire city
of Reykjavik are already on
drafting boards. Up to the
end of 1944 some 2,700 hom-
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Congress Says Army
And Navy Doing Poor
Demobilization lob
*
This week members of
Congress again blasted the
Army and Navy for their
poor handling of the demob-
ilization program. In the
House, Representative J.
Harry McGregor (Rep.,
Ohio) even suggested that
Congress should take over
the job.
In the Senate, Chairman
David I. Walsh, (Dem.,
Mass.), of the Naval Affairs
Committee charged that
slow demobilization had
driven morale so low as to
endanger the voluntary en-
listment program.
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Vet 'Jet Sanawa £plitA
These bananas, growing in a hot-house that is heated
from a hot spring, are too expensive and too scarce to
be used on such a luxury as a banana split. This is just
one of the fruits Iceland can grow under glass.
CAMP TURNER HAS
A NEW SNACK BAR
Why not drop into the
new snack bar that just op-
ened at Camp Turner? It’s
located right across from
the “Windbreak” ARC
Club. The bar features
coffee, donuts and fruit
juice in the morning and
beer in the evening. Milk
shakes, sundaes, ham-
burgers and hot dogs are
also served. The hours are
0900—1100, 1330 to 1630
and 1900 to 2300.
Japan Saved From
Invasion Nov. 1st
By Surrendering
The biennial report of Ge-
neral George C. Marshall pu-
| blislied recently, discloses
j that the unneeded invasion
' plan for the Japanese liome-
jland called for an All-Am-
erican effort, with one force,
going ashore on Kyushu
about November 1 and an-
other landing in the door-
yard of Tokyo about four
months later.
The plans — coded; “oper-
and “oper-
- called for
attacks with numerically in-
ferior forces. Reliance would
be placed on superior fire-
power by land forces and
support from naval gunfire
and aviation.
Marshall said thal the Jap-
anese had husbanded an ar-
my of 2,000,000 men to de-
fend the homeland. The to-
tal force of Americans to at-
tack would have been slight-
ly over 1,000,000 men, not in-
cluding the naval personnel
or air force support.
“These were the plans for
invasion Marshall said but
we had other plans which
we anticipated might bring
a speedier end to the war —
the atomic bomb. The results
are well known.”
SBC Loses Foot Expert
As Ship Sails For Home
The Iceland Base Com-
mand lost a very important
man this week when the
his shop in New York City
where the cheapest shoe was
priced at $65.00 and some
Xenia sailed for the U.S. with went as high as $225.00. In
approximately 250 GIs on
board. Among them was Sgt.
Edgar A. Galvanis, orthoped-
ic expert, formerly^at Camp
Davis.
It was his job to get the feet
of local GIs back into con-
dition when the}r had foot
trouble. Soldiers who have
had trouble, know that the
hospital made a plaster cast
of their feet. The cast was
used by Sgt. Galvanis to de-
sign a corrective measure.
The picture shows him com-
pleting a special shoe for a
soldier who .has aching feet.
Producing shoes of this
type was nothing new to Sgt.
Galvanis, who numbered
John D. Rockefeller and An-
drew Mellon among his cust-
omers in civilian life. The
nation’s wealthiest came to
the Army you got these shoes
issued at no extra cost.
According to Sgt. Galvau-
is, 80% of the male popu-
lation have weak feet caus-
ed by buying a pair of shoes
designed to fit an average
foot. Ibis gives all t.'ie vari-
ations from the average in
your foot a rough time.