Daily Post - 28.01.1943, Blaðsíða 3

DAILY POST
REYKJAVÍK LETTER
Tragedy In The
Coranfry
The body of the Parish priest
at Þingeyri on the North-West
peninsular, who disappeared on
New Year’s Eve, has been dis-
covered. He had set out to walk
to church to take the New
Year’s Eve service, but did not
arrive and in spite of repeated
search, no trace of him had
hitherto been found. It is be-
lieved that in taking a short cut
through a narrow gulley, iie
slipped and fell down into a
deep snow drift. The tragedy
has illustrated very strongly
the dangers and hardships to
which country-dwellers are ex-
posed in Iceland during the
winter.
Britain^s War
Frotínetion
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EXPORT OF WAR
MATERIALS
In August 1942 it was stated
that for months past 80 per
cent. of all the munitions made
in Britain had been sent over-
seas, and more than half the
ships which used to bring food
had been diverted to supplying
and maintaining armies through
out the world.
Over the whole of 1941 t’ne
number of aircraft sent out of
the United Kingdom was 9,781
against 2,134 brought in. About
3,000 tanks were sent overseas,
and only 200 imported.
In the first halí of 1942 Brií-
ain exported to Russia, the
Middle East and elsewhere well
over three times as many air-
craft as were imported.
By the end of May 1942 the
United Kingdom had shipped to
Russia 11 per cent. more air-
craft than had been promised
up to the end of June, and by
the end of June 2,000 tanks had
been sent to Russia.
During the two years up to
June 1942, apart from rein-
forcements to other theatres of
war, there had gone to the
Middle East from this country,
from the Empire overseas, and
to a lesser extent from the
United States, 4,500 tanks, 6,000
aircraft. nearly 5,000 pieces of
artillery, 50,000 machine-guns,
and cver 100,000 mechanical
vehicles.
\ Subsidies To Farming
It is reported that the Ice-
landic state has paid subsidies
to farmers to the amount of 20
million krónur during 1942.
These are not direct subsidies,
but enable exported wool, yarn
and meat to be sold on foreign
markets. Smaller subsidies are
also paid to defray some of the
cost of purchases of manure
and fish meal by farmers, and
the state is also to pay a subsidy
so that the recent reduction in
the price of meat in Iceland
will not fall on the farmers.
Mew Film
The fiím “Gone with the
Wind” which was shown in the
Gamla Bíó for the first time on
Sunday, wás seen by the Re-
gent, the members of the gov-
ernment and members of the
Alþing. The film lasts 4 hours,
and the demand for tickets has
been so great that no advance
bookings are being accepted.
Also, in order, it is stated, to
prevent children from buying a
number of tickets and selling
them at higher prices after-
Todaj’s B. B G.
Progranme
HOME SERVICE
(Icelandic TimeJ.
1600 News, 1645 Farming To-
day, 1710 Fighters for France
and Freedom, 1730 Varietý,
1800 Play: “The Green Para-
chute”, 1830 B.B.C. Northern
Orchestra, 1900 News, 1940
“Marching On”, 2010 “The An-
vil” Christians answer listen-
ers’ questions, 2040 Révue:
“Stars Come Out AT Night”.
FORCES’ PROGRAMME
(Icelandic Time)..
1440 Jack Payne and his Or-
chestra, 1515 Royal Navy Blue
Maririers Seþtette, 1600 News,
1630 Radio Rhythm Club, 1700
American Sports Bulletin, 1705
Uncle Sam’s Boys Entertain,
1745 Mantovani’s Orchestra,
1815 Sandy’s Half-Hour, 1845
“Close-up”, 1900 News, 1925
“Mail Call” American Variety,
1955 B.B.C. Midland Light Or-
chestra, 2030 B.B.C. Revue Or-
chestra.
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wards, no-one will be allowed
to buy more than 2 tickets for
the 8 o’clock performance.
Sports Revlew
“Onlooker”
Where there are Englishmen,
cricket stumps or football posts
are not very far away. The click
of the bat against the ball ....
white clad íigures gracefully
and languidly disporting them-
selves on the green turf .... old
men with panamas tilted over
their eyes, half asleep .... the
warm sleepy air resounding
with decorous hand claps every
now and then as the ball speeds
to the boundary .... we do not
find them here naturally.
But many of the boys are not
ccntent to be deprived entirely
of their sport. Weather condi-
tions are not considered if there
is a football around.
R.A.F. v Mavy
RAF ACH here have an en-
thusiastic team. Last week on
the Stadium Ground, a Royal
Navy XI attempted to revenge
the defeat ACH inflicted upon
them a few days previously. At
one stage, it appeared the RAF
would bc defeated but once
again they staged a grand rally
in the last few minutes and not
only equalised but came very
near to snatching ancther win.
The Navy led at the interval by
1—0, Finnigan being the scorer,
and they deserved a bigger
lead, Davison being unfortunate
not to spore when Kennedy
made a brilliant save. After the
interval, Setchfield increased
their lead but 20 minutes from
time ACH ‘snapped out of it’
and Brace reduced the deficit.
WTalton subsequently equalised.
Defences were on top through-
out. Moore and Burnage were
conspicuous in the Navy de-
fence and Hicks and Windsor
did excellent work for the RAF.
Arfanshofdi^ Visit
On Saturday ACH entertain-
ed Ártúnshöfði, Walton gave
the home team an early lead
and Moore deserved to put
them further ahead after a fine
individual effort. Walkett. equa-
lised for Ártúnshöfði just be-
In Reykjavík
Today ...
CINEMAS
NÝJA BÍÓ: “Arizona” with
Jean Arthur, Willíam Holden
and Warren William.
GAMLA BÍÓ: “Gone with tlie
Wind” with Vivien Leigh,
Clark Gable, Leslie Howard
and, Olivia de Havilland.
TJARNARBÍÓ: “Meet John
Doe” with Gary Cooper and
Barbara stanwyck.
REYKJABÍÓ: “Grapes of
Wrath”, after • Steinbeck’s'.
novel, with Hénrý Fonda,
Jane Darwell árid John
Carradine.
POLAR BEAR THEATRE:.
“Icecapades” with Dorothy*'
Lewis and James Ellison.
NÝJA BÍÓ: — 2 p. m. for For-
ces. Bing Crosby in “Holiday
Inn”. Admission 50 aura.
Y.M.C.A.
THURSDAY 7.30 p.m. Gramo-
phone Recital in the Reeding;
Room.
RED CROSS
3.30— 4.30 Coffee Hour.
6.00— 8.00 Movie “Ball of
Fire”.
fore the interval with a brilliant
header. The second half was
strenuously contested despite
the adverse conditions Walkett
gave Ártúnshöfði the lead after
20 minutes but aíter this ACH
took the iniative and after
Moore had equalised they press-
ed continuously to the final
whistle.
Tenrais Hec*oes
In one of their recent purges
of France, the Nazis arrested
Jean Borotra. After the fall of
Hrance, Borotra, an ardent Fas-
cist, was appointed Sports Dic-
tator of France. Mystery sur-
rounds his arrest.
But mysteries concerning
tennis stars during the past
few years have been, innumer-
able.
Before the war, tennis was--
the international sport. When
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