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Detroit evening times., 1945-10-26

Drake University mosquito
back.
Cockayne is one Of those shifty,
speedy little fellows who probably
owes his life and limb 10 the fact
that when IL comes 10 football he
is usually where his big pursuers
amt.
TOP SCORER
Since Cockayne usually runs in
the direction OF his opponents
goal. he is one of the most sue
cessful backs in football Last
season he averaged an 1l-yard
gain every time ne took the ball.
Little Del made 200 yards a game
and wound up as one Of the coun-
try'S leading scorers.
Cockayne can take all the beat
ing that comes his way when ne
is tackled. He was a Commute
performer in almost all of Drake S
football battles. a remarkable
achievement for lightweight
who was marked man.
GETS HELP NOW
This year Cockayne gets bril-
liant assistance from right half
back Perry Harris, who is help
ing 20 take the heat off him.
Drake has a scrappy team"
says Eddie Barbour, who secuted
the Des MONIES team for L. OF y
last week.
The visitors. coached for Is
years by Wee Green. former Hi
nois guard. are 10 arrive tonigh
and will make headquarters a
Hotel Fort Shelby.
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DZakMn;H,r

UGRUFFLED. At a Navy alrf'eio III
New Guinea the buzz of enemy planes
was picked up; the squadron ~e'l.
zooming to meet the attack. Attet
the fight was over. fhe squadron
leader reported back to his Com
manding Officer. I
,::sS's "%s::o: ::ss you me n:'cs,' co the
Who, me3 Nav Il was co0f ~
cucumber"
.. That's fine. l thought you might
have been nervous when you radioed
that twenty-seven thousand bombers
were coming in at eight feet
THOUGHT for Feb. 18th: ''When
I'm getting ready to reason with
q man. 1 spend one-third OF the
time thinking about myself ana
what l am going to say, and
two thirds of the time thinking
about him and what he is going
to say." Abraham Lincoln.
EXPE1SIVE JOB. For those OF us
who are already starting to beware
the Ides of March celebrated in this
country as Federal Income Tax Day.
the following may afford some con-
ISOLATION: Beatrice Lille, star Of
Broadway's biggest musical hit,
The Seven Lively Arts" whose
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weekly pay envelope bulges with
4,5OO dollar bills. is practically going
hungry. The great English comedi-
enne, according to the theatrical
paper Variety" is 50 encumbered
by combined British and U. S. taxes,
that she cannot pay her hotel bills
without digging down into the
stocking or wherever else she does
her banking"
SPu1STERS: We're probably let
ting ourselves in for plenty of letters.
caustic and otherwise. by printing the
article on this page But it's in good
cause. Author Jonathan Daniels
should know what he's talking about
- though we wonder if he submitted
the article to his four charming land
as yet unmarried) daughters.
Next week the fur will really fly.
In The Coming War on Women"
Willard Waller, Associate Professor
of Sociology at Barnard College, will
state the case against the single ladies.
TW-2-ll-AS
Evening star., 1945-02-11

She has given up tatting for tipping. In
America today she is at work and at war
According to definition, old maids now
include Capt Mildred H. McAfee, chief of
all the Waves, and Capt Sue S. Dauser,
chief of Navy nurses; Mabel Boardman,
who served 50 long as Secretary of the
American National Red Cross; and Col.
Florence Blanchfeld, chief of the Army
Nurse Corps.
Since 1910, seven million more women
have gone to work for wages in essential jobs
in the United States Plenty of them are pre-
pared to stand their ground against any
rising back-to-t the-home movement for
women when men come back from war.
In THE past in the United States being an
old maid was a matter of ladys luck or
lady's choice in country in which there
were plenty of men to 60 around. Now. as
Amram Scheinfeld, author of Women and
Men," has shown, there is steadily in
creasing surplus of women 81 years or over
even when all the women are counted who
are absent at war. BY the time they come
home there will be even more women who
must be labeled as excess.
Under such circumstances old maids not
only deserve but need day. Already there
are signs of rising anti-feminist feeling.
Women in jobs are sternly contemplated
by postwar planners in terms of men out of
jobs. Friends of the American home, who
are not necessarily the possessors of the
American facts, speak of return to that home
as if it certainly and always existed
Undoubtedly there will be plenty of ladies'
returning to their homes - and joyously
As surely as the swordsman returns to the
plowshare, the blowtorch will be deserted
for the bassinet Babies will be gladly given
as careful attention as bombers get now
Hands will grow as skilled in the use of
safety pins as they are today with rivets
The simple fact is, however, that indus
try, government, the arts and the sciences
can no longer get along without women and
the sad fact is that there will not be enough
husbands and enough homes to 60 around
The answer, as women have already
proved it, is not despair. Miss Elsa Maxwell
is not only having fun but making pro-
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fession of helping other people have 1t.
Though Ilka Chase has had two husoanos'
Mary Ellen Chase has written books which
are certainly as good as Ilka's without any.
Villa Gather lists herself as unmarried
but she won the Pulitzer Prize for novel
shaped in wholeness Of feeling about men
and women in American life. Miss Anne
Morgan is Commander of the French
Legion of Honor. Miss Harriet Elliott was
one of those chosen to begin the big job
of American production for war. Long ago
Jane Addams won the Nobel Prize and
Charlotte Carr, who filled her place at Hull
House. has succeeded in public service and
social work without the aid of matrimony.
Apparently it is easier for married wom-
an to get to be Congresswoman even if
she doesn't succeed. on his death, to her
husbands job. But unmarried ladies are
important in government nevertheless. In
deed, the head of the Children's Bureau
during the last decade has been unmarried
Katherine F. Lenroot.
HE ladies have accomplishment to cele-
brate Also they have accomplishment that
deserves celebration. No sensible person
would disturb the organized tribute to
mothers on Mothers Day. especially at
time when its meaning is emphasized by the
service and sacrifice of sons and daughters
and the mothers themselves in uniforms
and overalls beside the old maids But it is
time also for celebration of the significance
of new patterns of spinsterhood as we'll as
statistics which promise more and more of
it.
Our old maids are not shifting in the cor
ners. They are stirring in the nation. No
body is going to push them back into
status somewhere between that of a slavey
and a squatter in somebody else's home.
They are doing work and earning wages and
carrying the keys to their own quarters.
There never was better time in which to
be an old maid and, in America, never time
in which girl had greater chance to be
one The calendar of such time should not
lack an Old Maids Day. And there is just
bare possibility that such celebration
might hasten the day when some of these
old maids get their men.
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A tribute to the unmarried
ladies - and they deserve
applause, says this writer

As REGULARLY as roses carefully reared
IA for a dated blooming, Mothers Day
is going to come around this year on the
second Sunday in May. This filial festival
is as welcome as St. Valentines Day but, as
a sort of valentine greeting to ladies who no
longer expect valentines, it is time somebody
suggested an Old Maids Day, too.
The old maids in America have done an
amazing job in this war - and before it.
They deserve day. If l were picking it.
with no fears of close comparison with
mothers, would name May IL. That hap
pened to be the birthday of Florence Night
ineale and 90 would help to indicate that the
occasion would be one not for pity but for
pride. The girls could wear their roses them
selves - proudly, and with the possibility
that the floral notation of availability
might come to the notice of man.
Make no mistake, the old maids are doing
all right. 1t may not be that everyone will
admit that the progression from Susan B.
Anthony to Elsa Maxwell is pure progress.
Nevertheless, as spinsterhood has become
increasingly inevitable for many of our
ladies. the spinster as such seems to have
disappeared from the American scene.
HERE was time when being an old maid
was vocation in itself Females, who made
a career of being peculiar or being pitied,
occupied a position in the American family
somewhere between drudge and saint
The old maids age was at least as closely
guarded as her chastity. Outside the family
her movements appeared to be limited to
the church, sweet charity and the crazy
house Poor Aunt Louella lived and died
in the extremes of sourness or saccharinity
in society which provided gentle con-
tempt as the only poultice for her despair.
Aunt Louella is as dead as pattern as
she is as person. If the old maid wears
uniform now it is as Wac or Wave.
Nowadays she is more often seen with a
blowtorch than prayer book in her hands
Evening star., 1945-02-11
This Week Magazine
FOR A BETTER MERICA
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Every Able Soldier
To Be Sent Abroad

By the Associated Press.
Every able-bodied man in the
Army is ticketed for overseas serv-
ice, according to Secretary of War
StlmSon.
He reported in letter to Repre-
sentative Mahon, Democrat. of
Texas, that of 100000 men on duty
IN this country in February some
l 100000 already have been selected
for duty overseas ana are being
trained for that purpose.
An additional 10000 are in Army
hospitals, but of the remainder
now doing essential administrative
and service jobs:
Every one of these soldiers, ex-
cept those who have already seen
overseas service or who are physi-
cally disqualified, is earmarked for
foreign service as soon as he can
be replaced by an overseas re-
turnee or limited service man"
Mr. Mahon had written Mr..
Stimson suggesting that the bot
tom of the barrel" be scraped of
soldiers still in the United States
before sending combat troops from
Europe to the Pacific.
According to February figures.
there were approximately 8,050000
men in the Army, 5,150,O0O of them
overseas, Mr. Stimson said
Evening star., 1945-04-11

Vicksburg, Miss, where the Missis-
sippi is nearly feet above flood
stage, said 5000 acres, or nearly
one third. of Warren County was
inundated by backwaters.
A congressional delegation was in
Monroe today to inspect the flooded
area by plane. The group plans to
continue through the Mississippi
Valley to New Orleans.
representative Mckenzie, Demo-
crat, of louisiana a member of the
delegation, said he would urge Army
engineers to blast open the big Nor
ganza floodway at Morganza, La,
to divert the Mississippi's burden to
the Gulf of Mexico.
Brig. Gen. Max c. Tyler, president
of the Mississippi River Commis-
sion, said Sunday the predicted
river stages. comparable to the 1887
flood, would not require use of the
flOOdWay,
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Central Louisiana
Flood Nears Crest
As Levees Crumb|e

By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, April 1.-THE
overlapping and crumbling of levees
worsened the flood situation in spots
today as the rampaging Red River
neared crest in Central Louisiana
Residents of the thickly populated
farm area between the Cane and
Red Rivers near Natchitoches were
prepared to leave their homes at
once.
Already, the Red Cross estimates,
$4,000 persons have been evacuated
in Central and Western Louisiana.
So far seven deaths have been re-
ported. three in Arkansas and four
in Louisiana.
New levee breaks were reported
near Natchitoches and at Boyle,
near Colfax The Red reached a
stage of 44.8 feet at Alexandria,
where flood stage is 80 feet.
The Ouachita River at Monroe is
expected to rise another foot or two
before leveling off. It reached 49.87
feet yesterday, IT Of foot higher
than the previous high mark.
w. r. Lominick, county agent at
Evening star., 1945-04-11
ActressGIoria Dickson
Dies as Fire Sweeps
Her Hollywood Home

Ry the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD. April 11.-Blond
Gloria Dickson of the films was dead
today, suffocation victim of fire
which swept her hillside home over
looking the film capital.
The scared. half clad body of the
27-year-old actress was found in
second-foor bathroom in a position
which Fire Capt. Joe Schenk said
indicated she had tried to reach
window. Near her body lay that of
her dog
The fire apparently started in
first-hoor rumpus room yesterday
afternoon while Miss Dickson was
taking nap, Capt. Schenk theorized
Her husband, William Fitzgerald,
former middleweight boxer who said
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he and the actress we're married q
year ago in Acapulco. Mex, arrived
at the scene as flames engulfed the
house.
Damage was estimated at $40, 500
by Actor Sidney Toler. who said he
leased the home to Miss Dickson last
April.
The actress. born That's Dickerson
in Pocatello. Idaho. August 13, 1917,
had been in pictures since 1887, when
she made her first appearance in
They Won't Forget
Considerably in demand for
while, she never fulfilled the promise
of her early roles. Her most recent
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pictures were Lady of Burlesque"
and "Rationing."
Once featured in II Want a d.
vorce," Miss Dickson was twice di-
vorced Her first two marriages, to
Perc Westmore, makeup artist, and
Ralph Murphy, director, each lasted
three years.
She was to have appeared yester-
day at studio with her agent, Leon
Lance, for a part in forthcoming
film.
Miss Dickson was discovered by a
talent scout in Federal theater prof.
ect productions in Los Angeles Short
ly after her graduation from Long
Beach Polytechnic High School.
Evening star., 1945-04-11
Bio Concentration Camp
Reported Near Weimor

By the Associated Press.
WITH THE UNITED STATES Sd
ARMY EN- ROUTE TO WEIMAR,
April 11.-Reports of a super-con-
centration camp situated near Wei
mar. birthplace of the 1919 German
republic, reached American military
government authorities today as 1t.
Gen. George S. Patton's tanks drove
toward the city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21
Supreme Court To Review Judgment Given Injured Boy
CHINESE OFFICERS
 VISITING PLANES
Inspecting Process of Manufacturing Incendi-
 ary Bombs

Six Chinese technical officers oi the Chinese Army today visited three International Silver Com- pany war plants, Factory I'll" in Meriden. and Factory ''P" and Fac tory Il" in Wallingford. The Army officials are studying production methods and manufacturing opera tions and are paying tribute to the local workers.
 In terested in all techniques ot chemical warfare, specifically in- cendiary bombs and gas protective equipment, the Chinese Army men are visiting Chemical Warfare Service arsenals s'ld installations throughout the country. These men have just completed an advance course at the Chemical Warfare School at Edgewood Arsenal, Mary land.
 Following aa1 itinerary planned by Colonel Lester w. Hurd, Command ing Officer of the Boston Chemical Warfare Procurement District, these officers toured the International Silver plants to learn at first hand the methods of incendiary bomb production. Fire bombs produced at these plants have been instru- mental in the vast incendiary dam age suffered by Japan's principal in- dustrial cities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21
FARMERS RENT ARMY LAND

Camp Ellis, Ill. (UP)-Twenty- five pieces of land, totaltng 2,57s acres of the Camp Ellis military reservation, have been rented tc farmers and will be put under the blow this spring. The land was rented to the highest bidder at an auction. The one-year rental for the 2,579 acres was $16,044. Q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21
&,ee4MSzy4~H$ ia ESTABLISHED 1885
ESTABLISHED 1883

If The Going Gets A Bit Rough = Whot Of It-If You re Built Of The Right Sort Of Stuff You'll Take It And Love It.
 Rainy day wear for men, as AIIiso- tor knows this damp subject has c dry oppeoranee for many men who have learned from their own experience that it pays to keep an Alligator on their back when the mist is doing its best to make the going tough. x.L
 Alligator roinweor from sIickers, to slick shower and sunshine coats of gobordine tailored as smart as a ewhip $10 to $35.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21
Local Construction
 Company Appealing
 Verdict Of $3,838.69
in Painful Injuries to Plaintiff; Judgment Given City
 Also Scheduled for Hearing

A hearing is expected to be assigned in the State Supreme Court for next month in the appeal the M. Shapiro Company Inc, from the judgment of $3 83869 returned for James Lewis in common pleas court last October 31 The listed in the May docket released today and will be called when assignments made in Hartford April 25.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21

Lieutenant Joseph Stein, now confined to an American hospital in Germany, writes that the enormity of the Nazi crime is hard to grasp"
 i've seen refuge slave laborers, Poles, Russians, Dutch, French, etc. '' he writes, pour back through the liberated area by the thousands. It's one of the most pathetic sights history has ever produced con- parable to the exodus of the Jews from Egypt"
 Some of them are sick and stop at our hospitals for treatment had three Russians lying next to me in the field hospital; one was almost starved-all bones. He wouldn't eat the steak - just looked at it and cried"
 Serving IT months in North Af- rica before taking part in the in vaSion of Southern France last Aug uSt, Lieutenant Stein survived after ship he was on was sunk in the Atlantic in the summer of 1922 Be- sides France, he served in Holland and Belgium.
 Lieutenant Stein crossed the Rhine a few weeks ago and is now hoSpitalized for illness but express ed hope he will be with his outfit when it enters Berlin.
 He is the son of MT. and Mrs. David Stein, 40 Stephana Lane.
 Gnf Avoh of numerous Pacific campaigns, in cluding the Philippines, is now be- ing treated at the Army hospital at Bradley Field, Windsor Locks. The soldier serving with medical detachment was stricken with dengue fever in the war theater and returned to this country on April 5.
 Sgt. Arab, member of the Ma tional Guard when it was federal ized in 1940, served in the invasion of New Guinea, Hollandia, Minda- mao, Leyte and Luzon after ship ping for overseas duty in 1943. He also served on Christmas Island, Honolulu, Caledonia, and Australia.
 Pfc. Felix w. Bosco, 19, serving with the 63rd infantry division of the 7th army, is reported missing in action since April in Germany, ac- cording to a War Department tele- gram received Thursday by his par ents, MT. and Mrs. Sebastian BoSco, 96 Ardmore avenue.
 The infantry soldier, who is former employe of Engelmans. South Main street, entered the armed forces in February, 1944, and went overseas November g, 1944. he had worked at the He attended Leavenworth High Benrus Watch Co. on Cherry avenue. School.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21
NEWS OF MEN IN THE SERVICE

With the Fifth Army, 1taly-For a dangerous job well done in no mans land on the Fifth Army front in Italy, Sergeant Armand J. Kupre of Waterbury, Conn.,, recently re- ceived pass to Rome.
 Members of the 361st Infantry Regiment of the 91st Powder River" Division, Kupre and two comrades were assigned to obtain information on enemy positions. Making their way under cover of darkness to the rubble of 8 build ing near German lines, the trio found positions and waited for day. light, not knowing whether ferries were in the house for the same purpose.
 At dawn they found their posi- tions secure. Throughout the day, from their vantage point they ob- served enemy movements, and pos stble approaches and hideouts.
 When darkness came, the three Tanks crept back to their lines.
 For their excellent work, their company commander presented each with q pass to the Eternal City.
 Kupre's home Is at 443 Pearl Lake road, Waterbury.
 Pfc. Edward J. Hurlbut, son o Mrs. Helen H. Hurlbut, 40 Young street, was slightly wounded il Germany on April 3, according to { War Department notification. Pre-. viouS to leaving for service il March. 1943, Pfc. Hurlbut served with an infantry division.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21

Relatives of two Waterbury AAF officers who were reported yester- day to have been freed from Stag Luft 3, prisoner-of-war camp near Nuremberg stated that the airmen had been evacuated toward central Germany some time ago. Two offic- CTS are believed to have been trans ferred to another camp at Moosburg on the Isar river, about 72 miles south of Nuremberg.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21

The Lewis boy, who brought the suit through his father, Alexander Lewis, claimed he sustained severe injuries April 8, 1940 when a wall on South Leonard street toppled on him. The wall was on the prem ises of the Brookside Daries, Inc, and was being demolished by the Shapiro concern when the accident occurred.
 Judge Thomas J. Wall, who pre- sided at the trial, awarded total damages of $4,218.69, but pointed out the sum of $38O had already been paid by the dairy company to the boy.
 Also listed on the May docket is the appeal taken from the decision returned for the City of Waterbury in the Litchfield superior court in the Watertown Thomaston bridge action. The evidence has not been printed, however, and & hearing is not expected until the fall term of the high court.
 effort to compel the city to repair and maintain the bridge which crosses the West Branch river on the dividing line between Water town mad T'homaston. Judge John H. King on Jan. 9 found the issues ia favor of the city.
 One other case of local interest listed on the new docket is the ap- peal taken by the Town of Torring- ton from a judgment returned in the New Haven superior court in favor of the City of New Haven. The litigation involved an alleged debt by the Torrington municipality for expenses of Torrington children who had attended school in New Haven.
 Similar situations have arisen in other cities and towns of the state, and wide interest Is reported in the outcome of the case. The City of Waterbury made a settlement out of court with New Haven over a similar claim.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21
Veterans Attention!

The new Veterans Advisory Center has been opened. It is located at the site on the corner of Central avenue, and Grove street City and federal agen- cies now installed there are ready to assist you and your families in all problems. The functioning agencies are: Vet eran's Advisory Office, Miss Nancy Delaney, director; Vet eran's Administration Office, Edward Kelley, director; the four local draft boards, Miss Mary Dwyer, coordinator, and the Home Services branch of the Waterbury Chapter of Red Cross. The services of these agencies are offered without any charge. The Gen. ter has been established pri- mariIy for the veteran. Make use of 1t and expedite your problems. Its primary function is to cut red tape!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21

eawmills in the Bahamas are to speed up lumber production for postwar builders.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21
DEDICATE MONDAY LITHUANIAN DAY"
AlI=Out Effort for Clothes Drive; Variety Program
 Tomorrow Evening
Brooklyn News

Collection of clothing for the National Clothing drive is expected to be boosted by Lithuanian resi- dents of the city Monday, which has been designated as Lithuanian Day" by the national organization. Special efforts to increase donations will be made by Lithuanian groups on that day.
 Notification of the special Lith- Tanian Day observance has been received from the national head quarters by Professor Alexander J. Aleksis, chairman of branch two of the United Lithuanian Relief Fund.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21

promised throughout the play, espe- cially when the ackward uncle teams up with the wealthy and sophisti- cated aunt. This will be presented by the Waterbury students under the direction of Rev. Edward Rad zievich and Rev. Dr. Joseph Bogusas. The members of the cast are Nellie E. Wisackas and Walter Makeuskas. as the newly-wed couple, and Agnes zickuS and Paul Prill as the aunt and uncle.
 The New Britain students will present an operetta under the di- rection of Father Matutis. It in- wolves 8 story of a mad musical professor and his love for muisc. Marlyn McGrath will take the part of the professor.
 Following the operetta and play there will be dancing.
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