Daily Post - 09.04.1943, Page 2

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DAILY POST
DAILY POST
ia published by
Blaðahringurinn.
Editors: S. Benediktsson.
A. L. Merson.
Offlce: 12, Austurstrœti. Tel.
3715. Reykjavík. Printed by
Alþýðuprentsmiðj an Ltd.
Friday, April 9, 1943
News In Brief
Private Sherlock Holmes has
been assigned to a military
police battalion at Fort Lewis,
Washington.
* * *
The South African Govern-
ment has decided that no furt-
her black-out is necessary in
land towns.
* * *
A number of Poles have
been sentenced to four years in
concentration camps for giv-
ing scraps of food to prisoners
of war.
* * *
A factory to treat green lu-
cerne (grass) for *human con-
sumption is being opened in
New South Wales. '
* * *
An Australian has invented
a machine for cleaning ships’
hulls without docking.
* * *
First consignment of 2,000
tons of copper sulphate ur-
gently needed by the Portugu-
ese wine industry has arrived
from Britain.
* * *
A message from Constance,
near the German-Swiss fronti-
er, says that special trains
carrying thousands of children
are arriving there.
They come from Westphalia
and other parts of western
Germany threatened by air
raids.
Alexander’s Beots
General Alexander is prob-
ably wearing in Tunisia a pair
of boots made for him by an
old Greek cobbler and given a
victory blessing by a Greek
priest.
When in Cyprus last Decem-
ber, says Reuter, General Al-
exander ordered a pair of
boots similar to some worn by
soldiers in the islands.
Hagi Cavril, a back-street
cobbler, made them after mea-
suring the general’s feet by
drawing their outline on a
piece of paper.
REYKJAVÍK LETTER
During the past two years,
the spring school term in
Reykjavík children’s schools
has been ended on May lst
instead of the legally fixed
date of June 15th. The rea-
son for this was the fear of
air attack or military operati-
ons. Recently, however, school
committees in Reykjavík have
met and decided to continue
the school term this summer
until the removal of the
children to the country for the
summer is arranged.
MONEY LOST
The police are asking to
see people who travelled in a
bus to Hafnarfjörður last Sa-
turday, when a girl left behind
her a purse, containing a con-
siderable sum of money.
SPRITS STOLEN
Burglars broke into the
state wine-store last Sunday
evening, breaking open an ir-
on-barred window. They stole
some alcohol.
NEW MINISTER
Thd press reports that the
new British Minister to Ice-
land, Mr. E. H. G. Shepherd,
is expected to arrive here with
in the next week, Mr. Shep-
herd, who was appointed after
the death of Mr. Howard
Big Fire Near
Reykjavík
Smith last year, was formerly
Consul-General in Danzig and
Amsterdam, and, since July
1940, has been in the United
States directing the settlement
of evacuated British children
there.
CHIEF OF POLICE
There has been much dis-
cussion in the press of a pro-
posal introduced in the Alþing
to make a new regulation —
that the Reykjavík Chief of
Police must be a lawyer. This
would presumabjy cause the
resignation of the present
Chief of Police, who is not a
lawyér.
Four out of five members of
the General Purposes Com-
mittee of the Lower Hcuse of
the Alþing — all of them law-
yers, — are said to support the
proposal, and a letter has been
published from the Head of the
Faculty of Law at the Utiiversi-
ty, also approving the sugges-
tion.
UNION POLITICS
There has been a lively
Trade Union incident at Akur-
eyri. There had for some time
been two rival urhons there,
and two represeniatives of Al-
þýðusamband (Iceland’s T.U.C.)
were sent to try and effect a
union. Failing in this, they se-
cured the explosion of the re-
fractory body from Alþýðusam
band and founded a new union
there, to represent the Federa-
tion.
From The British Press
Portible Road
Road army engineers have
invented portable roads to de-
feat the spring mud, said Wil-
liam Downes, Columbia Broad
casting Company’s correspond-
ent, over Moscow radio.
Heavy planking attached to
wide strips is assembled in
12ft lengths, suitable for carry-
ing on lorries. The lengths are
nailed together end to end,
making a good allweather sur-
face.
Bedside Friends
Twelve British Red Cross
women workers are to go to
North-Africa to work with A-
merican Red Cross welfare
workers as librarians, letter
writers, and “bedside friends”"
of men in hospital.
Liqnid Stoekinas
The demand for “paint-on
stocking” was so great last
summer in Britain that in
three weeks one firm alone
sold 864,000 packets of a pow-
der from which women made a
thin paste to paint their legs.
This statement was made by
a representative of the manu-
facturer, but he pointed out .
that the demand cannot be met
this year. The Board of Trade
has refused to grant a special
quota of materials to make the •
leg paint.
One of the greatest fires seen
in Iceland for many years
broke out near Reykjavík at
about 8 p.m. on Wednesday.
The old Laugarnes-hospital
took fire and burned to the
ground wiljhin an hour. The
hospital was a large timber
building, erected in 1898 and
long used as a leprosy hospital.
The building became one sing-
le sea of flame, which could be
seen clearly across the water
from the town. The Reykjavík
firebrigade rushed to the
scene but was only able to save
the surroúnding houses, the
press reports. Of the hospital
itself, only 4 chimney stacks
remained. No one was hurt, all
patients being evacuated within
a few minutes.
Paratroop Rald
Damage at the Norsk hydro
chemical plant at Rjukan,
Norway, reported to have been
sabotaged by British and Nor-
wegian parachutists last
month, is -so extensive that the
works will be out of action for
many months, according to re
ports reaching Svenska Dag-
bladet.
80.000.000 FOR L.C.C. HOUSES
The LCC intend, as soon as
possible after the war, to build
100,000 houses io replace bom-
bed home and slums and to end
over-crowding, stated Mr. F.
C. R. Douglas, presenting the
Finance Committee estimates.
He put the cost at £80 million.
Reconstruction, he said,
would embrace schools, hospi-
tals, and other public build-
ings.
Medieal Aid to Russia
Remitted to Mrs. Churchill . 10,000.000 krónur
Further Contributions:
Already Acknowledged ........ 1,218.93 krónur