Daily Post - 17.02.1943, Blaðsíða 3

America
Says . . . .
Henry J. Kaiser proposes to
make prefabricated houses
when the war is over. They will
be three-room jobs and will sell
for $1,500, complete with radio,
heater, and cigar-lighter.
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People who used to complain
that coffee gave them insomnia
still find themselves sleepless.
They lie awake worrying about
how they can buy some coffee.
* *
Mayor La Guardia observed
his sixtieth birthday by giving
the Red Cross a pint of his
blood. Any wounded soldier
who gets that will prove a
tough customer to handle.
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There is no need to wo.rry
about totalitarianism getting a
hold on this country until we
hear that the capital has been
renamed Franklingrad.
Nordic Blood
At Last
New York, Febr. 14th.
Investigations by the British
Blood Transfusion Service pro-
mise new information on the
relátions between and perhaps
the origins of the races of
Northern Europe, a New York
Times dispatch from London r^-
ported today.
The studies are based on
blood “antigens” which damage
the red corpuscles in other
blood groups. The Blood Ser-
vice has accumulated enough
data to demonstrate a change in
the proportionate frequency of
Antigens A and O when passing
from southern to northern Brit-
ain. The proportion in southern
England is similar to that of the
neighboring continental coun-
tries of Holland, Belgium and
Northern France. Scottish
groups can not be matched any-
where in continental Europe,
including Scandinavia where
the proportion of Antigen A is
much higher than in southern
England and the countries ad-
jacent to England.
Iceland is the only country
whose blood groups closely re-
semble the Scottish. The coloni-
zation of Iceland by the Nor-
wegians in the lOth century is
perhaps the best documented
history because of the informa-
tive sagas. Iceland’s blood
DAILY POST
Soviet U. S.
Cooperation
Miami, Florida, Febr. 14th.
Meteorologists of the Russian
Army and Navy arrived here by
plane Febr. 10 to visit Ameri-
can meteorological and hydro-
logical installations at the in-
vitation of the United States.
The Party included Soviet
Navy Captain K. F. Speranski
and Army Majors M. I. Lvovich
and S. T. Pagava. They will re-
main about 30 days. Speranski
said he hoped closer relations
between the scientists of the
íwo countries would strengthen
relations between the United
States and Russia.
The visitors described the
confidence of the Russian
people in the outcome of the
war. “Concrete proof of the fact
that victory is taken for grant-
ed in our country is the recent
completion of the Moscow sub-
way,” Speranski pointed out.
He said the subway work con-
tinued even while the Germans
were attacking Stalingrad and
added: “Reconstruction of the
towns recaptured from the Ger-
mans is progressing at an in-
credible rate without any idea
that the Germans will ever re-
take them.”
More Babies
New York, Febr. 14th.
The Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Company reported today
that more than two million 800
thousand babies were born in
the United States in 1942, ex-
ceeding the record of any pre-
vious year in American history.
Thousands of these babies
were born under the Blue
Cross Hospital plan now avail-
able to 90 per cent of the popu-
lation of the United States. It
requires a dollar monthly pay-
ment and guarantes 21 days free
hospitalization a year, including
board, room, general nursing.
care and Xrrays.
groups give evidence of the
stock of the Norse settlers of
the saga period and are also in
accord with the Scottish blood
groups. Hence, the Times re-
port concludes, it is a justifi-
able inference that the Scan-
dinavian Peninsula was largely
repeopled, presumably from the
eastern and southern Baltic
regions, since Iceland and Brit-
ain were settled.
BEV
Strange Diner
The other evening, I was sit-
tin in the dining-room of Ice-
land’s most select hotel, wait-
ing for the waiter to notice my
insignificant presence, and sur-
rounded by the cream of Ice-
land’s elite. A light tapping
sound attracted my attention
and, looking around, I saw a
well-groomed sheep entering
the room, the door being held
open by an obsequious door-
man. The sheep paused and
surveyed the diners disdain-
fully, finally fastening his gaze
on the vacant chair at my table.
Noticing me, he sadly shook his
head, sighed audibly, and walk-
ed daintily towards me.
“Pardon me,” he said, “is this
chair engaged?” I assured him
that it wasn’t and he sat down,
lighting a cigarette. A waiter
silently approached and at-
tempted to remove the sheep’s
coat. The sheep shook his head,
smiled gently, and said “No,
thank you, waiter, I’ll wear it.
These heavy coats rather grow
on one, you know.”
By this time the other diners
had resumed eating. Surveying
them, the sheep addressed me,
“Deuced uninteresting crowd
here tonight. The blonde over
in that corner is rather snappy,
though. Can’t understand her
being seen around with, that
fellow. Bit of a black sheep, by
all accounts.”
He had a rather pleasing
voice, even-töned and not too
deep. His coat was meticulously
brushed and his hooves well-
polished. He continued to look
at the blonde, and I reaiized the
meaning of the term “making
sheep’s eyes”.
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We sat for about an hour en-
gaged in small-talk. Finally, the
sheep rose, stifled a yawn and
said “Well, olci boy, awfully
pleased to have met you, but I
must be trotting off now. Never
dine hqre, you know, the ser-
vice is terrible. Just drop in
occasionally.”
* * *
Leaving the table, he walked
sedately towards the door, paus-
ed, butted the head-waiter into
a tureen of soup, looked around
In Reykjavík
Today ...
CINEMAS
NÝJA BÍÓ: “Hudson Bay” with
Paul Muni, Gene Tierney and
John Sutton.
GAMLA BÍÓ: “Gone with the
Wind” with Vivien Leigh,
Clark Gable, Leslie Howard
and Olivia de Havilland.
REYKJABÍÓ: Bitter Sweet
- with Jeanette Mac Donald
and Nelson Eddy.
TJARNARBÍÓ: “The Corsican
Brothers” after the novel of
Alexandre Dumas, with
Douglas Fairbanks and Ruth
Warwick.
POLAR BEAR THEATRE:
“The Mark of Zorro“, with
Tyrone Power and Linda
Darnell.
RED CROSS
Wednesday 3:30 Coffee
Hour.
February 17: 6:30—8:30 Mo-
vie.
8:30—10:00 Amateur Hour.
10:00 Coffee Hour.
Lectures At
Lakeside Church
Mr. R. Biering Prip will have
a series of meetings on the
“Lakeside Church” Í6’, 19’, 23’
and 26’ of Febr. Mr. Biering
Prip has the last 20 years prea-
cted in different countries and
came here from Canada and
U.S.A. The subjects, he will
deal with these coming evenings
are: (1) The world, christianity
—you. (2) The weakness of God
is stronger than men. (3) The
gift of God. (4) He gave Himself
that . .. . ” All' are given a cor-
dial invitation.
and smiled sheepishly at me,
and passed on into the night.
The odd thing about it is, he
didn’t tell me his name, and the
waiter couldn’t recall having
seen him there before.