REYKJAVIK ROMANCES
BRING. WEDDINGS HERE

Tbe Navy Pilots Marry Girls
They Met on Daty in Iceland

Capping romances that blos-
somed despite the Icelandic climate
and the rigors of war, two Navy
pilots married this week two
blonde and pretty members of
prominent families of Reykjavik,
in the chaplain’s office at the
Third Naval District headquarters,
90 Church Street. The ceremonies
were performed by Capt. Maurice
|M. Witherspoon, USN, newly ap-
pointed district chaplain.

Lieut. (j. g.) E. T. Allen, a grad-
uate of Oklahoma A. and M. Col-
lege, whose home is in Longdale,
Okla., was married to Anna Gud-
munds and his fellow-pilot in the
dual ceremony was Lieut. (j. g-.)
J..B. Stewart of Wilburton, Kan.,
[® graduate of Kansas State Uni-
versity, who married Gurdun Gud-
mundsdotter. :
| Both couples are staying at the
Hotel New Yorker, wnere they re-,
vealed yesterday that the brides,|
unknown to each other in Iceland,

|became acquainted with the two
'pilots while the latter were on duty
‘at the northern base during the
last year.

Lieutenant Allen met 20-year-old
Miss Gudmunds at a party at the/
Hotel Borg in Reykjavik and/|
asked her or a dance. Lieutenant’
Stewart managed to meet Miss
Gudmundsdotter about the same
time and the twof couples teamed
up on dates thereafter.

The “brides, who are of Nor-,
wegian descent, speak English flu-|
ently, but with a slight accent.