Daily Post - 02.10.1941, Blaðsíða 3

DAILYPOST
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AS I SEE IT: By FRED WilSI
SHE COULDN'T HAVE.SLENUS.BILL
smmnfi
O.C. Competes
in Gala
Bews of Icelanfl
New D. S. Ambassador
The Regent yiesterday reoewed
first Amerlcan ambassador
to Iceland, Mr. Linooln Mac
veagh. The nepeption took plaoe
tn the Parliament House. The
Floreign Minister iwas aiso pnesent.
Mr» Mac Veagh pnesented his
^fiödmntials fnom Pnesident Roose-
amd made a sho-rt addness,
to whish the Régent neplied.
Gamla Bió
Thvo separate pictunes per day
wiU be showm in futune at the
Gamia Bíó and the pnogramme
^IU be altened oornespondingly.
The first pictune wiU be shOFwm
°ntinuously fnom 3,30—6,30 p.m.
^nd dnemagœns wiU be able to
glo iin iwhenever they wish. The
soats wiU be not be numbened
amd tickets iwdll oost 150 Kr.
dbwnstairs and 2,00 Kr. upstairs.
The seoond pictuhe iwiU be
shiown ais usual — at 7,00 p. m.
atod 9,00 p. m., but the price of
t*c&»a wi'B be changed to Kr» ÍJB
a^d Kn. 2,25 dotwnstairs, 2,50 Kr.
kpstairs and 3 XX) Kr. in the box-
es. i
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munerations may be collected
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Austurstræti 12 (2nd floor).
Dust storms have temporari-
ly put an end to land operations
at Tobruk, but Tripolis and
Benghazi have again been
raided.
Reykjavik Event
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Officers and men of an A. W.
Ooy., K. E.*were keen rivals in
a swámming gala organised by
the Unit at the SundhoUin baths
on Thuesday night. The O. C.
of the Company was one af the
competitors.
It is believed to be the first
organised event of its kind arr-
anged by a imit of H. M. Foroes
serving in Iceland, and the keen-
ness and enthusiasn of onlookers
and participants left no doubt as
to the popularity of the occasion.
The honours of the evening
wennt to Spr. C. H. Kent, form-
Kent Junion Champion, who won
three of ten events, setting up
th® fastest times of the evening.
He oovered one length in 22 secs.,
and thnee lengths in 1 min. 20
secs.
Other excellent times were re-
orded.
The performance were gener-
ally af a high standard, and it
is hoped that further similar gal-
as iwiill be arranged.
Forty two competitors took
part.
The judges wene Capt. Horton,
Lieuts- Aisher ,Davis and 2/Lt.
Shepherd. Capt. Lambert was
timekeeper.
FOUND
A Fountain Pen. For in-
formation phoné 4061.
Vu has Breiiht leses
t« ðnr ChiMren’s Gheehs
THEY HAVE GAINED IN
HEIGHT AND WEIGHT
SINCE THEY WENT INTO
THE COUNTRY
Half a dozen youngsters grin
appnovai fnom the aover of „The
Schools in Wantime,” an attrao-
tive booklet just isstued by the
Ministny of information on behalf
of the Board of íducat'on.
In the absence of the usiual
annual neport by the Board, the
twto MMstries have cooperated
to pnoduce a delightfully wnitten
and illustrated souvenir of the
stnangest period in Britain’s edu-
cationai history. The story is told
as a human doconment. At the
same time it is the Board’s of-
ficial reoord of the litffi and work
of schools under the stress and
strain of war.
The booklet costs sixpenoe and
is published by the Stationery
Office. Mr. Henwald Ramsbotham
President of the Board of Edu-
cation during the period under
review, says it descriibes “the
oourage and discipline oftehildnen
and teachers alike.“
SuccesM MlgnaíSon
It relates how, with mone than
020500 children oomfortably
\ settled in the Reception aneas,
the great mignation scheme oan-
ried out in tbe outbreak of w'ar
may be negarded as an emphatic
success.
In the iwtords of the Chief
Inspector for Elementary Schools
pf the Board of Education: “...
Thene can be no doubt that many
children’s lives have been gneatly
enriched by their nemoval from
large towtns a'nd, in tbe case
of children jfnom the worst
homes, the oonditions that make
for sound education have been
substantíally improved....”
Pra-ctioaily all the tíhildnen
have improved in physique,
general health, poise and bear-
ing during thein stay in tbe
country. Increases in weight
and height, rosier cheeks,
greater physical strength have
been oorrwnonplaoe.
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NEW ZEALAND FUND’S
£5,000 GIFT
A cheque for £5,000 has
been received by the R.A.F.
Benevolent Fund from the
High Commissioner of New
Zealand. The sum represents a
grant from the National Pa-
triotic Fund of New Zealand.
I stand ton guard all day, all day,
AIl day I stand on guand;
And when on guand all day I stand
AIl day on guand I stand.
Wfcajl has gone befox«: Read
yesterday’s issue. The ha:ppy,
carefnee soldier ahnost trips over
the near lamp (Noises off) From
the car thene leans a wfoman.
Hold everything. It can’t be. It ie.
Who? Etta the Taxi Tenror. She
leans fuTther (More noisies off)
She beckons. The happy, mx&-
free soldier rushes fohwond
(jSquare 5) She smiles. Ett®
smiles. The happy, qanefnee
soldier goes alil queer like (Still
mone noises off) He’s dithersng
now'. “Will you please tell
General C. V. O. Hoggsbody I’m
neady for him?“ That’s all.folks.
*
Leading S*aman (Yo-Hd) B«n-
bqw is pleased to hear of the
Reykjavik Bridge Club. He once
drew ninteen spades by leading
four aces of tnumps, but he haá
no thne to qolteot his wdctmings.
Luckily the ship was mooned at
the quay side.
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A new complaint that hae
sfrock the army is biddimg fair
to devastate the fioifoe.
This is chnonic arthritis
due to botinding to attention
fwhenever an offiqer cnesses the
horizon. The symptoms are slo-
sely akin to water on the wírtsts
due to saluting with only oue
hand. M. Os are suggesting speo-
iai leg supponts wíthln thetnoOs-
nes fior the fiqrmen tnouble and,
fior the latter, ane requesting the
wan Office to permit other nanks
to use the left hand on the ne-
arest fioot.
It wias Boris our tame Fffth
Oolumnist wbo grew- bananas sn
Iceland im onder to delude the
Geuenal Staff into thinking this
island a tropic paTadise and de-
spatching plth helmets andgHass
skrits as fwalklng-cyat dress. Gen-
eral Staff! Beware of Fifth Col-
umn Bananas.
58 Czechs have been exe-
cuted on the orders of a Ger-
man military court in Prague.
There are rumours about a
general strike amongst all
Czech workers.