Daily Post - 22.04.1943, Blaðsíða 2

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REYKJAVlK LETTER
DAILY POST
i3 publlshed by
Blaðahringurinn.
Bditors: S. Benediktsson.
A. L. Merson.
Offlce: 12, Aushirsiræti. Tel.
3715. Reykjavík. Printed by
Alþýöuprentsmlðjan Ltd.
Thursday, April 22nd, 1943.
East Of The
Atlantic
S/Ldr. Keith Truscotl, D.F.C.
and Bar, one of the' leading
fighter pilot, crashed into the
sea off the Australian coast
during a mock battle.
He was 26 and had 15 “kills”.
The late Paddy Finucane once
described Truscott as his “per-
fect friend”. Truscotl once
saved Finucane’s life, warning
him that a German fighter was
about to attack. Finucane twice
saved Truscott.
k, * * * *
There were 511 deaths as
the result of road accidents in
Britain during February. Of
these 93 were children.
* * *
Thiíty year old stretcher
bearer Vera Badina of New
York has won posthumous fame
as a Soviet heroine. After de-
fending a trench to the last on
the Southern front she was cap-
tured by the Germans and shot
herself.
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“My wife has the superiority
complex. She likes Ihe public
liouse becouse she is always ad-
dressed there as ‘Sir’.”
* *
“I knew my husband and
truth were strangers but I
didn’t think he would tell me
such a lie as that the paint I
found on his cheek came from
a door and not another wo-
man’s lips.”
A Year Ago Today
Huge Soviet reserves being
thrown into battle from Mur-
mansk to Sevastopol. Mos-
cow announces 900 German
planes destroyed to 296 Rus-
sian in past four weeks.
British commando raid at
Boulogne. No losses.
R.A.F. heavily raids Ro-
stock.
FELL 50 FEET
A fatal accident occurred on
Monday in a Reykjavík Steel
Works, when a 15 year old boy,
who was working there, fell off
a roof 50 feet on to a stone
floor and was killed.
FILM OF ICELAND
The press reports that a Nor-
wegian photographer in the
service of the Norwegian gov-
ernment has recently arrived in
Iceland, and is to make a film
illustrating Icelandic life and
culture. He is Fredo Lind, and
was formerly photographer for
the Oslo paper “Aftenposten”,
Norway’s biggest paper. He is
to film scenes from the streets,
the well-known buildings in
Reykjavík, and the sports life
of the country, as well as show-
ing other features of Icelandic
life.
America
Says....
The Nazi marriage code per-
mits bachelors to become hus-
bands after death, if their
fiancées so wish it. That may
deíeat the primary purpose of
marriage—but at least ensures
faithful husbands.
* * *
It has been found that Air
Cadets can be taught to over-
come airsickness by fixing
their eyes on ope point of re-
ference on the ground or in the
sky. All they have to do is
watch the birdie, if they can
find one.
# * *
A Delroit chilcl-specialist says
that city children are healthier
than rural ones because of
better medical care and better-
informed parents. And. nowa-
days, less noise and smoke from
war factories.
j! * *
Britain is shipping butter to
the U.S.—as Lend-Lease in re-
verse. Something certainly
seems to be in reyerse.
* * *
A 102-year-old toolmaker in
a Michigan war plant is turn-
ing out weapons which his
great-grandchildren are using
against the Axis. “We’ll beat
those rebels yet,” we can hear
him cackle gleefully.
CHEAPER FRUIT
The Government has intro-
duced in the Alþing its budget
proposals for 1944. The Gov-
ernment has also asked for
authority from the Alþing to
lower the import duties on the
following articles: apples, pears,
raisins, prunes, maise, rice and
other cereals, and dried or
boiled fruits, fruit juice, cal-
culating machines, typewriters,
duplicating and other office
machinery and spare parts. The
preamble states that these re-
ductions are necessary for the
government to be able to ful-
fill a trade agreement with the
U.S.A., which is expected to be
concluded soon.
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A man has been arresíed for
illegal sale of spirits.
NEW EDITOR
The weekly newspaper
„Þjóðólfur”, which failed to
appear last week, because of
reported differences of opinion
between the editor and the
directing board, appeared again
on Monday, with a different
editor.
Ronnd The Press
Two smartly dressed women
and a soldier were in an eleva-
tor in Chicago. “My dear,” —
said the one woman to the oth-
er, “travel conditions are ter-
rific. You make reservations on
a train and at the last minute
they’re cancelled because the
train is being used for troops.”
“Yes,” complained the oth-
er, “and planes! The army uses
all the space.”
“Lidies,” the elevator opera
tor stared at the two women,
“you’ll have to get off here.
We’re taking on a load of sol-
diers on the next floor.”
When the door had closed he
turned to the soldier. “Let ’em
know we’re in a war, too,” he
commented briefly.
Jack Payne in June Pro-
vince’s Column, Chicago
Sun.
Chicken Gun
In their efforts to make
man’s life more comfortable,
scientists have used animals in
many curious ways. They have
driven rats crazy, given pigs
nervous breakdowns and made
ants dizzy in mazes.
Some weeks ago, engineers
in a Westinghouse Electric
plant in East Pittsburgh used
birds in a new way, when they
stuffed some electrocuted
chickens into a big gun and
shot them at airplane wind-
shields at a speed of 200 m.p.h.
The chicken cannonade was
a test of new shatter-proof air-
plane windshields being deve-
loped by the Civil Aeronáutics
Administration. Flying head on
into speeding airplanes, birds
have crashed right into the
cockpit and sent glass flying.
into pilots’ faces.
No fatal accidents have been
reported from bird collision but
there have been plenty of near
accidents. The new windshield
will stand up under the 200
m.p.h. impact of a 15-lb. bird.
Built of heavy píastic and glassr
it is made by the Libby-Owens-
•Ford and Pittsburgh Plate Glass
companies, using Du Pont and
other plastics.
(From “Life”.)
News lu Brief
New York. The Swedish
Hoerby radio, heard here from
Stockholm, reported that the
Nazi press directorate in Nor-
way ordered the Oslo news-
papers Morgenbladet and Dag-
* * *
She whines him around her'
little finger. . . Does she gos-
sip! She’s a regular prattle-
snake.
* <= *
Stockholm. — Reports in
Stockholm claim that German
tecnician troops have been cva—
cuated from Tunisia. The re-
ports added that Rommel’s sup-
plies from Sicily have been re—
duced greatly.
Medieal Aid to Russia
Remitted to Mrs. Churchill .. 10,000.00 krónur
Further Contributions:
Already Acknowledged ......... 1,733.93 krónur
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