Daily Post - 30.04.1943, Page 2

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DAILiY POST
Ground Crews In North Africa
NORTH AFRICA: R. A. F. GROUND CREWS “GO TO IT.”
Attack, attack, and then attack again is the order of the day for the RAF in North-Africa.
Air activity is incessant, Allied aircraft keeping up a constant offensive against enemy
troop concentrations, — ports and supply bases. Life at these RAF battlefront air bases is
tough; as everyone is constantly on the move, food is eaten from containers brought stra-
ight from mess tent to airfield. Everyone lives under canvas. The Commanding officer
lives on the spot in a trailer van which serves him as some and office; — he is thus in close
touch with the squadrons under his command.
Heard From Hollywood
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Friday, April 30th, 1943
Reykjavik
Letter
UNUSUAL FIRE
An unusual accident happen-
ed in Reykjavík at Easter
week-end. Fire broke out at a
tailor’s workshop at Laugaveg
3 and burnt for two days with-
out anyone noticing it. The fire
was caused by an electric heater
having burnt a table and part of
the floor. The fire had evidently
smouldered for two days and
had almost burnt itself out
when people entered the work-
shop on Monday, but the room
was full of smoke and consid-
erable damage had been caused.
ICELANDER LOST AT SEA
News has been received that
a 25-year old Icelander has gone
down with an American ship,
of which he was a member of
the crew. He had been in Am-
erica for five years and had
applied for American citizen-
ship.
ART EXHIBITION
The Exhibition of Icelandic
art, which ended last Monday,
was visited by 9,000 people
during the 24 days it was open.
ICELAND AND FOOD
CONFEREN CE
One of the Reykjavík papers
reports that Iceland has ac-
cepted an invitation to send re-
presentatives to the United
Nations Conference on post-war
food problems, which is to
open at Hot Springs, Virginia
on May'l8th next.
MAY ÍST DEMONSTRATION
The press reports that the
May Ist Labour demonstration
tomorrow is expected t o be
larger than ever before. For the
first time, the Association of
State and Municipal Employees
is participating officially. It is
also stated that Norwegian sea-
men now in Iceland are to take
part in the demonstration under
the banner “Free Norway”.
Icelandic Girl
Joins ff. A. A. F’s
An Icelandic girl has joined
the WAAF. She is Droplaug
Jóhannsdóttir of Reykjavík.
At least that is her Icelandic
name. In Britain she is Mrs. L.
R. Cooney, wife of Captain
Cooney, an officer in the Brit-
ish Army, whom she met and
married in Iceland.
Droplaug is one of a family
of 11, seven of whom are boys
and she has one sister living in
Denmark.
Both she and her husband
have had an adventurous time.
They met when Capt. Cooney
landed in Iceland after escaping
from Norway, where he had
been in service with the British
Army. Later they married.
Captain Cooney left Iceland
to rejoin his unit, and his wife
determined to follow him.
She took passage on board a
cargo ship where she was the
only woman, and after a voy-
age not without incident, land-
ed at a fort, where she was
promptly put under detention.
“I didn’t like it a bit,” she
told me, speaking perfect Eng-
lish with a faint hint of Ameri-
can accent which she acquired,
she said, because her brother
had learned English from a
Canadian.
She had practically no Eng-
lish when she landed here eight
W. C. Fields, the ever popu-
lar comedian and imbiber, testi-
fies in his recent plagiarism suit
that he went to school only 3
years and still finished the 8th
grade. He explains his ex-
ceedingly speedy education by
merely saying “I skipped”.
months ago, but now speaks' it
fluently.
One of the embarkation offi-
cers at the port recognised her
English married name. In fact,
he turned out to be her hus-
band’s uncle!
Droplaug’s release was soon
obtained, and she joined her
husband, who was stationed
somewhere in the West.
For a little time she worked
as a sorting clerk at Taunton
and then transferred to the
Bristol Post Office.
Recently she decided to join
one of the women’s services
and chose the W.A.A.F., where
she hopes to continue as a
postal clerk.
(From a British Paper).
Shed a tear, Men . . Ann
Corio dons clothes in new fibn
called “Sarong Girl”, but the
title is even a come-on, for she
wears Adrian gowns, which are
supposedly tops, throughout
most of the flicker. Corio is
earnestly trying to make her
fans forget her burlesque days,
but anyway you look at it the
gal’s getting rich, as her movies
have packed them in. Parting
Note—Those gowns by Adrian
are so tight she can’t sit down,
so perhaps Baldheaded Row
will get its money’s worth any-
way!!!
♦ ♦
Comedian Joe E. Brown went
over great with his entertain-
ment tour of the South Pacific
area for servicemen stationed
there. He was among the first
to undertake such a long jaunt,
and was rewarded by terrific
applause for his mugging. It
will be remembered that Joe’s
son was killed in an Army
plane crash last autumn so his
willing spirit is all the more
remarkable.
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