Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-03
Barbara TO Get
$1,000 Bond as
Contest Winner
Six SemifinaIists, Also
on Program, 10 Be
Given SIS Awards
BY y. JEROME PETIT
Contest Editor


MISS VICTORY OF MICHI-
GAN will be presented 10 her pub
lie for the first time officially at
9 30 tonight, on the stage OF the
Fox Theater, when she steps into
the glare of spotlights to receive
a 81 900 war bond---one of her re-
wards as this states outstanding
woman war worker.
On the stage with MISS VIC
TORY -21-year-old Barbara Ann
Clark of Flint-will be the six
other semifinalists of this area
who make up the group from
whom MISS VICTORY of MICH
IGAN was chosen.
Each of the six other Semifinal-
lists will be awarded a S25 war
bond. prizes decided upon at the
last moment by the Judging COM
-MIttre EnfIthe- outstanding
war work records of all seven con-
'testants.
WIFE OF NAVY SAILOR
Mrs. Clark-she is the wife Of a
navy Sailor-is an employe in the
Flint machine gun plant of the AC
Spark Plug division of General
Motors.
Here are the other six patriotic
women war workers who will
share honors with Mrs. Clark at
| the Fox tonight:
Mrs. Marian Savage, Ford High
land Park plant.
Miss Eugenia Mikolaiuk. Cadil-
lac Motor Car division of General
Motors.
Mrs. Marine Mccain, Briggs
Manufacturing Company.
Miss Bernice SkrZypek. Graham
|, Paige Motor Corporation.
Mrs. Mary Maskwa, George R
I Carter Company.
/ Mrs. Irene 3. Well Detroit Del
sci Engine division of General Mo-
tors.
SELECTED ON RECORD
I These women all we're selected
on basis of their. unselfish war
7 records, including the quality OF
their war plant work. their inter.
est in outside patriotic activities,
and the sacrifices they made in
taking up war production work.
All the war bond awarded made
tonight will be gifts of The De-
troit Times, sponsor of the MISS
VICTORY contest in this area.
'IOther Hearst newspapers through
out the nation have sponsored SIM
liar contests in the search for
MISS VICTORY in II other war
production areas of the nation.
The bonds will be presented at
the Fox Theater by 1t. Col. Will
liam H. Kite Jr. of Fort WAYNE.
one Of the eight judges who studied
the qualifications of all entrants
and selected Mrs. Clark as MISS
VICTORY of MICHIGAN.
OTHER SEVEN JUDGES
The other seven judges were:
Mrs. Edward J. Jeffries Jr., wife
OF Detrolt'S mayor, Mrs. Fred T.
Murphy of the national committee
on camps and hospitals. American
Red Cross; Mrs. Henry T. Ewald,
chairman Of the volunteer COM
mittee of blood donors, American
Red Cross; John Coppin, artist;
X. }. Thomas, president, UAW-
Go; Capt. r. Thornton Brodhead.
commandant. second area Of Ninth
Naval District, and 1t. Col. George
r. Strong, head of plant protec-
ton OF the central procurement
district. army air forces.
As MISS VICTORY of MICH
lGAN. Mrs Clark will leave here
by plane early Saturday morning
for Chicago. where the national
final judging will take place to de-
Itermine which of the u regional
winners will be crowned MISS
VICTORY of the UNITED
STATES.
This Judging will occur next
Monday night. December THE
anniversary of Pearl Harbor-dur-
ing a gala party at the Chicago
Stadium. Other social events will
center around the IL national
tinalists on Saturday. Sunday and
Tuesday nights.
The name of MISS VICTORY
iof the UNITED STATES will be
published in The Detroit Times on
Tuesday. December 3. along with
photographs Of the woman selected
/ as Americas typical woman war
worker