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BROOKLYN EAGLE, SUNDAY, 1. Glassware Buyer Finds Recruiting For Air Wacs Her Best Job Yet By BEATRICE JONES Changing one's job from a buyer of glassware and women's clothing to a recruiting officer in the Wacs seems pretty far fetched that is the true "before and after" story of Lt. Lucille Edelson of 2312 Avenue since she took to wearing khaki. Enrolling as a private in January, 1943, Lieutenant Edelson was sent to Des Moines for basic training and later was assigned as chief clerk in the classification department at Camp Polk, La. Appointment to officer's candidate school followed and she was commissioned a second lieutenant in May.

After her graduation, Lieutenant Edelson was sent to Fort Devens, as a training officer to new recruits and then on to Daytona Beach in the same capacity, While she was stationed the camp honored with a visit by Mary Churchill, daughter of England's Prime Minister and a second lieutenant in the British Auxiliary territorial service. Lieutenant Edelson treasures the pictures she took of the noted visitor and of which she sent copies to Miss Churchill. Grateful for the invaluable training she has received while in service, Lieutenant Edelson is only too anxious to tell her audiences of the opportunity which awaits them. Her temporary assignment at this time is addressing meetings, clubs and Lieutenant Edelson gatherings while on a tour of the Second Service Command to recruit members for the Wacs assigned to airforces and bases. "I enrolled because I thought it my responsibility and because I would not be breaking up a home by joining.

Girls who can and will join now may enable the father of a family to stay at home." said Catholic Council Names New Officers for Year Mrs. Daniel A. Doyle, one of the best known Catholic women in Brooklyn, is the new president of the Kings County Council of Catholic Women. She was elected at a meeting held in the Columbus Club, presided over by Miss Maria Sefton. The new slate of officers, presented by Mrs.

Robert Sewell, was as follows: Mrs. Doyle, president; Mrs. Michael Walsh, vice president; Mrs. Joseph Black, recording secretary; Miss Margaret Crowley, treasurer; Mrs. William R.

Bradley, corresponding secretary, and members at large, Mrs. Frank Conefrey, Mrs. James Cahill, Miss Mary M. Gill, Mrs. Frank Lanzi, Miss Mary Cox, Mrs.

George W. Kuhn, Miss Mildred Daly and Miss Katherine Hines. Mrs. Doyle is a past president of the Alumnae Association of the College of New Rochelle, a member of the American Association of University Women, International Federation of Catholic Alumnae, and is a trustee of the College of New Rochelle. She is well known in civic and philanthropic affairs in Brooklyn, is a member of the National Conference of Catholics and Jews, has served on the USO campaign, the war drives, National Hospital Fund drive and was dinner chairman last year of Catholic Day for Blind.

Presenting the new members of the board, Mrs. Doyle asked for the continued loyalty of the Catholic women in Kings County. Monsignor William Dillon, dean of St. Joseph's College, addressed the meeting. Serving on the nominating committee with Mrs.

Sewell were: Miss Muriel Farley, Mrs. Joseph Black, Mrs. Robert Hubbard and Mrs. S. J.

Phillips. Rockville Centre News Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Rockville Centre, Dec. 25 Lt. Austin K. Bennett, son Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph Bennett of Vernon has returned to camp at Robinsfield. after a furlough spent mostly with his parents. Mrs. Austin K.

Bennett and twin infant children were also guests at the senior Bennetts' home. During his stay away from camp Lieuthe twins back to Kngswood. tenant Bennett took his wife, and where they are staying with Mrs. Bennett's mother. Mrs.

Ralph Bennett was the guest of another son and her daughterin-law, Capt. and Mrs. Edwin F. Bennett of Havre de Grace. Christmas.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Atwood Hebberd of Walnut Ave. had as their Christmas guests Mrs. Arthur Collins of Woodhaven, Miss Ollie Havens of White Plains and Sgt.

Norman Pedersen of Mitchel Field. Members of Mrs. Frank Veillard's bridge club will be her guests at a dessert-card party at her home on Windsor Ave. on Wednesday. First Lt.

Leonard Calvert and Mrs. Calvert returned this week to Port Arthur, Texas, following a stay with Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Calvert of Argyle Road. Dr.

and Mrs. Alan A. Jaques of Hempstead Ave. announce the birth of their child, a daughter, Dec. South Nassau Comfourths munities Hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Vlymen, their daughter, Miss Jane Vlymen, and their son, Peter Vlymen, of Laurence were guests of Mrs. Rosinda Morton of Brooklyn today.

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Schendel of Berkshire Road will entertain at a New Year's Eve party. Robert Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Horace O. Jones of Wachusetts returned to Cornell University this week after a short stay his parents. Mr. Jones is with the U. S.

Army, studying under the Army Specialty Training program. Miss Polly Benedict of Washington. D. spent today with her parents. Mr.

and Mrs. A. C. Benedict of N. Forest Ave.

A Ave. Miss the Grace guest of Brower her of sister, Windsor Mrs. Ellsworth Voight of Toledo, Ohio. On New Year's Eve Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph Hardie will entertain the members of their bridge club at their Pine St. home. Mr. and Mrs. John W.

Desmond of Dartmouth St. announce the birth of a daughter, their third child. on Dec. 21 at South Nassau Communities Hospital, Temple Israel, Freeport, is to be the scene of a dance to be held on Wednesday night, Dec. 29 by the Councilettes of Nassau County.

Serving on the dance committee are the Misses Isabelle Leah Schlesinger. Joan Rockmore, Evelyn Zaharia and June Shagoloff. Jazz at the Met To Help Navy League On Tuesday evening, Jan. 18, the National Women's Council of the Navy League, will sponsor the first jazz concert ever presented at the Metropolitan Opera House. This is the first time the greats of jazz will have been brought together from all over the United States to play in one band.

Mrs. Robert Weeks Kelley is honorary chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements for the Navy LeagueWomen's Council. Co-chairmen are Mrs. Bradford Norman Mrs. Byron Foy and Mrs.

Richard Barthelmes. The committee includes Mrs. Clifford Carver, Mrs. Reginald Gillmor, Mrs. John Charles Fremont, Mrs.

James Lenox Banks Mrs. William A. Barstow and Miss Juliana Cutting. CAN KEEP SECRETS As confidential typist for General Eisenhower, Sgt. Nana Rae, Wac, was entrusted to pound out the hush-hush plans for the Mediterranean operations.

For this she won her "Millie," achievement award of Mademoiselle. DECEMBER 26, 1943 13 If One Job Doesn't Fit, Another Will Auto Industry Tries Not to Reject Any Applicants Lieutenant Edelson as she told of her recruiting activities. Apparently the Jobs pertaining to aviation hold just as much fascination for the women soldiers as for their brothers and boy friends. Those assigned to this group proudly wear the regulation wing in- signia. Can Learn to Fly MORE VITAMIN C--Miss Edith Shapcott, nutrition consultant of the Visiting Nurse Association, shows Mrs.

lago Galdston, CDVO nutrition chairman, how soy beans sprout SOY BEAN ENTHUSIASTS Mrs. Joseph O'Dea (left) of the CDVO nutrition division, shows loaf of bread made with soy flour to Miss Emma Feeney, nutrition professor at in a jar of water. Pratt, who has her baked soy beans well in hand. Soy Bean Is Miracle Food of the Year Tested and Tried Recipes at CDVO Are Pleasing and Help Rationing Now that soy beans and, more particularly, soy flour are generally available in the local groceries and chain stores, the nutrition division of the CDVO has released for distribution through the offices and various nutritionists War Nutrition Bulletin No. 17, which contains recipes tested out by the nutrition division or several months past.

The bulletin, prepared by Mrs. Iago Galdston, chairman of the nutrition division, and Miss Edith Shapcott, nutritionist of the Visiting Nurse Association of lyn, contains the newest general directions for the use of soy beans and flour. Preparations for the bulletin were begun last Spring, when the nutrition division and branch ofnutrition committees began testing soy recipes under the direction of Mrs. Galdston and Mrs. Joseph O'Dea, assistant Juniors Entertain For Chiropean at Christmas Party Chiropean Juniors' Christmas party for the seniors was held in the Hotel Towers, with the dais decorated with small Christmas trees and greens and in the center of the table was a small church with chimes.

Miss Melvina Schulz, a junior, was the president's page and led in pledge to the American flag. Mrs. George Riopell led in the pledge to the Christian flag. Mrs. William H.

Lawrence, presldent, gave a Christmas greeting and presented the official family and guests of honor, who were the Rev. Kermit Castellanos, rector of St. Bartholomew's Church; Mrs. Frederick Sanborn, president of the Brooklyn Junior League; Mrs. C.

Edmonds, president Brooklyn Woman's Club Juniors; Miss Jessie B. Chamberlin, president Morning Choral Juniors; Mrs. John C. Sheridan, president Children's Welfare League, and Mrs. James A.

McDonald, hostess at the birthday table. Miss Winifred Sheridan, president of the Chiropean Juniors, extended greetings and told how all the juniors are engaged in some war work and taking care of their babies too, as no nursemaids or even grandmothers are available. "They're all in war work too." Mrs. Amelia Gray-Clarke presented Ann Martin, who sang. Mrs.

Karen Foss Zimmerer, a homemaker with a hobby, had as her topic "Around the Year with a Color Camera" and showed pictures with special emphasis on the Christmas season. Mrs. Howard Smith, chairman of education and child welfare, will distribute the children's presents brought. to the Navy Relief and Center. Books and magazines will go to wounded soldiers and sailors.

chairman of the nutrition division. In November, a questionwas circulated through branch offices to ascertain the extent of Brooklyn housewive's interest soy products and of their availability the stores. Widespread Interest "We found widespread interest, but not widespread availability," Mrs. Galdston said. "Now, however, that neighborhood stores are supplied we are ready with up-tothe-minute inormation and help so that we can promote the use of this 'miracle food'." The BCDVO is urging the use of soy products because of their high food value, their availability, and their economy.

The bean, like all beans, is a perfect cold weather dish, either baked or in a Yankee bean soup; and it has the advantage of possessing a higher fat content than other beans. Because of its high protein content, it provides a good substitute for rationed meats. Cheap Meat Substitute When meat is high, it provides a cheap substitute. Its iron content supplements the use of eggs, when eggs are high; it contains the minerals that are found in milk and cheese and it is rich in vitamins and G. In the form of flour, it can be introduced into familiar recipes without necessitating the change of a family's food habits; it can give hidden food value and richer taste and better texture to old and tried dishes.

The recipes given in Bulletin No. 17 have been tested by Mrs. Galdston and Mrs. O'Dea in their own kitchens and have received the meetings at BCDVO headquarters at 131 Livingston St. The nutrition division there, is ready to give whatever help it can to further the use of soy beans in American diets.

Christmas at the Cloisters Creche From the Metropolitan Museum On Exhibition-Special Show Reopened This is a real Christmas at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park. In the Cuxa Cloister the well-loved from the Metropolitan Museum goes on view in a setting of Christmas greens. The figures in this group--the Christ Child, the Virgin Mary, Joseph and the OX the ass are from the workshop of Antonio Rossellino, fifteenth century Italian sculptor. The small interior Sainthem Cloister, which from a Benedictine abbey in southern France, is decorated with an arrangement of cedars, junipers, heather and other flowers, through a fund given for the purpose by Mrs. John R.

Thomas of New York City in memory of her mother, Mrs. Ella S. White. Orange trees, evergreens, pomegranates, swags of pinecone-laden branches, decorate other rooms, and works of art of Christmas subjects are part of the display. Candles will be lit in the Romanesque during the programs of Christmas music.

Every afternoon at 3:30 through Tuesday, Dec. 28, and from New Year's Eve through Sunday, Jan. 2, recordings of medieval music will be played at the Cloisters. The exhibition, "Saints for Soldiers," depicting medieval warrior saints and patrons of soldiers and sailors, has reopened at Cloisto continue through the Winter. The Cloisters is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Explain Refresher Courses Retired Nurses Told No Examination Of Skill Is -Just Aids Return With two brief refresher courses opening for retired nurses in Brooklyn and Queens on Jan. 4 and 5, respectively, only four registrations have been made for the course in Brooklyn and only three in Queens, Mrs. Ethel G. Prince, executive secretary of the Nurses Association of the Counties of Long Island, has announced in expressing concern over the fact that she felt many retired nurses did not realize the purposes of the courses. Retired nurses are needed more than ever to help replace graduate registered nurses going into military service for the final big push of the war, Mrs.

Prince said. She appealed to retired nurses to do their share in winning the war in 1944. The course in no way, she added, is a checkup on skills but is designed simply to give nurses who have been out of practice for a number of ALL- DAY CANTEEN- James Christy Bell, whose son, Pilot Officer Talbot J. Taylor, has been reported missing in action over Germany, keeps her home open as a 24- hour-a-day canteen for service men. With her are Seaman Donald Williams of the Royal Navy and Flight Sgt.

Ron Bolland of the R. A. F. "We are not running a cooking school," Mrs. Galdston said, "but if anyone needs help, if she wants to know what she should do about pie crust, or about soy flour bread or waffles, we shall be glad to answer her questions over the telephone." A call to TRiangle 5-9707 will procure this service.

Real Enthusiast A real soy bean enthusiast, Mrs. O'Dea, who has been a volunteer with the Brooklyn CDVO since December, 1942, now uses soy bean flour all the time in the bread she bakes at home. She has baked her own bread since the last war. Mrs. O'Dea is a former school teacher and is the mother of five children, and is twice a grandmother.

One of her sons is a pilot in the Naval Air Service and her youngest son is still in high school. She is the wife of an engineer in the Brookyln Bureau of Highways. Carroll Club The Little Theater Group of the Carroll Club, 120 Madison Manhattan, will sponsor an informal talk on "The Chinese Theater," by Pauline Benton, director of the Shadow Players of the Chinese 1 Red Gate Theater, and a member of the East- West Association. Miss Benton will illustrate her talk with the shadow puppets she has made so famous. Mme.

Stella RichardHerlinger will introduce Miss Benton and Miss Rita Nagle, chairman of the group, will be in charge of the arrangements. Nativity," Christmas pageant based on the Townley play, produced by this same Litthe Theater group under the direction of Mme. Herlinger, will be presented at the Catholic Center for the Blind on Wednesday evening. The Carroll Glee Club will provide the incidental music. A mid -week holiday formal dance will be held at the clubhouse on Wednesday evening team and the Coast Quarwhen the Don Christy, dance tet will feature the evening's entertainment, Rounds Up 25 Leather Handbags Mildred.

V. Green of Jamaica Estates, daughter of Charles C. Green, executive director of the Advertising Club of New York ad public information chairman for the Central Queens Chapter of the American Red Cross, has turned in to the Camp and Hospital Council over 25 leather pocketbooks, which will be used in the arts and handicraft work in military hospitals. Miss Green read of the need for leather pocketbooks and placed a notice on the bulletin board in the Combusion Engineering Corporation offices in Manhattan which resulted in the donation. pocketbooks have been accepted by Mrs.

Alphonse Bargiulo, and Hospital Council chairman for the Red Cross Chapter, and will be used by the Gray Ladies of the chapter in working with convalescent patients in St. Albans Naval Hospital. -Hicks and Mrs. Gordon M. MacNeill of Smith Lynbrook, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Margaret Marion MacNeill, to Corp.

Royal Edward Hicks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Hicks of Lord Inwood. Corporal Hicks, who is with an army air force ordnance. unit, is now somewhere in England.

Combs- -Zurlinden Miss Helen Elaine Combs' engagement has been announced by, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. De Witt Combs of Park Oceanside. Miss Combs will wed Sgt. Wesley Zurlinden, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Zurlinden of Rossville, Ill. Sergeant Zurlinden, who is stationed at Providence, R. the base squadron at the Hillsgrove Airport. Adela Goldstein Chapter The Adela Goldstein Chapter of Brooklyn, a Mizrachi Women's Unit, celebrated Oneg Shabbat in honor of Chanukah yesterday at the Congregation Bnai Jacob.

This group will also hold a Chanukah festival tomorrow afternoon at the lyn Jewish Center. 667. Eastern Parkway, when Rabbi M. Magness will speak. A long list of possibilities includes mechanical repair work, meteorology, control tower work, laboratory technicians, office work; in fact, any job except cooks and bakers.

The two classifications which participate in actual flying and receive flying pay are the radio operators and aerial photographers. For those air- minded girls there is the opportunity to learn to fly in their own spare time. However, the girls do not pilot planes and this knowledge is not used in connection with their jobs. Application for this particular group at the time of enlistment will be granted although the actual job assignment depends on the applicant's qualifications. Although the enlistments in Brooklyn so far have been good, many more Wacs from 20 to 49 years of age are needed and application may be made on the fourth floor of the Federal Building, 271 Washington 8:30 to 6 or by appointment.

Telephone TRiangle 5- 2621. City Folk Raised 200,000,000 Pounds Of Vegetables An estimated 200,000.000 pounds of fresh vegetables, grown in 400.000 mately Greater Victory Gardens, totalins, approxiNew York's contribution to the country's home food supply in 1943. These figures, which effectively answer the question formerly raised as to the ability of this city's population to help feed itself, are based on the report of the Greater New York Victory Garden Council made by Carl P. Wedell, executive secretary. He added that to have brought that produce, worth at least $30,000,000,000 to the city markets would have required 3,333 freight cars--enough to make up a train reaching from Grand Central Terminal to Ossining, N.

Y. The city's Victory Gardens averaged a little more than 25 by 25 feet, and in many cases the yield from such a garden exceeded 500 pounds, depending, of course, upon the kind crops grown and the intensity of the cultivation. Many of the gardens, particularly in the outlying sections of the five boroughs, were individual home or yard plots; neighborhood the others or "com- were parts munity" gardens lent or leased for food-growing purposes to apartment dwellers and others without suitable garden space of their own. A little less than half of the Victory gardeners were members of organized groups; the others worked independently. The Greater New York Victory Garden Council, organized in ruary, 1943, comprises 42 agencies and organizations, including the Victory Garden committees of C.

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Board of Education and various civic groups. Service Personnel Feted For Christmas About 150 men and women, representing the enlisted, the civilian and the commissioned personnel of Headquarters, New York Civilian Schools Area of the Army Air Forces, Technical Training Command. stationed at 381 Sunrise Highway, Lynbrook, attended the Christmas party held at Headquarters on Thursday in the Day Room. The affair was opened the commanding officer, Col. Merle I.

Carter. Capt. James N. Easterwood, chaplain, delivered a Christmas message. Santa Claus, in the person of Maj.

Carlos Emmanuelli, distributed Christmas following the reading of poems relative to the various personalities of the recipients. The singing of Christmas carols was a feature of the affair. Party For Vets A Christmas party will be given for about 100 veterans at the Northport Hospital Wednesday by the Maj. Gen. J.

Franklin Bell Auxiliary, V. of F. Rockville Centre. Detroit, Dec. 25-4 Tests similar to the army and navy screening test today are used in selecting women workers for jobs in automotive plants.

The process is for the purpose of assigning women workers to the types of employment for which they show the greatest aptitude. As one personnel director, put it, "the variety of jobs plant is so great that it is not a question of rejecting women, but of finding out where they fit in best." For work on precision instruments such as the automatic pilot or the bombsights 'which are now being manufactured on an assembly line basis, it may be necessary to test 40 or 50 applicants in order to find the one whose dexterity and mechanical aptitude are sufficiently high to make her a good prospect. She will be trained to do work that once Was done only by skilled artisans who devoted their lives to precisions manufacture. this girl with rare potential skill, the industrial psychologist uses such simple experiments as having the applicant fit pegs in holes, or put together the parts of a jigsaw puzzle. But he uses a stopwatch to determine how long she takes, and he watches carefully the manner in which her hands and eyes co-ordinate.

The girl who cannot make the grade for precision work has no cause for regret, as there are a variety of jobs available, calling for various types of abilities. There are jobs that call for general intelligence and emotional stability, rather than for actual genius at mechanical things. The psychologist 1s particularly terested in the results of the personality tests. They indicate to some extend what sort of work the girl should do, and they sort out the girls with leadership qualities. These, once they have had training at the machines, will be able to take charge of a group of girls.

One plant, turning small parts for airplane motors, uses three shifts of 500 girls. All 1.500 workers have been tested with the Otis intelligence test, the navy's test for mechanical aptitude, and personality test devised by the plant's psychologist. The management is convinced that the data on each girl's record is what enables them to use her most effectively. Here, for instance. is a slight young woman with a leather apron standing poised and self- controlled in front of a large and complicated machine.

It forms the double operation of putting a cap on a metal tube and cutting a groove at the same time. There is absolute rhythm in the young woman's motions as she pulls the levers, adjusts oil spray, arranges the finished parts in a wire basket. as her grandmother might have prepared her gingerbread cookies. That girl has the qualities for that particular job. And so has the young woman in another plant, who does work so delicate that her hands must be sheathed in white kid gloves.

Red Cross Mrs. Robert Johnson has been appointed chairman of the camp and hospital committee of the American Red Cross, Oceanside Branch. This branch decorated with Christmas greens the quarters building at Farmingdale. Lt. Eleanor Burchards and Mrs.

J. F. Saunders are representing the Branch on the committee for the youth center project in Oceanside. years information on the newer drugs and their uses. According to Mrs.

Prince, there seems to' be a misunderstanding concerning the refresher courses which have been given and which will continue to be given under the auspices of the Nursing Council for War Service on Long Island as long as they are necessary to help meet the growing shortage in the civilian nursing field. "These courses are for the sole purpose of giving those who have been out of nursing a brief refresher so that they may better aid in the war work. There is no examination at the close of the course." It was never considered important before to announce that there is no examination, Mrs. Prince said, but so many of the 73 nurses who were in the last two courses expressed such relief that there was no examination at the end that we hope a public announcement will lessen the concern or anxiety of those nurses who have been contemplating taking the course who have not registered so far. Retired nurses may register for the courses at the headquarters of the Nursing Council for War Service on Long Island, 1 Hanson Place.

STerling 3-4433. The Brooklyn course will be held at Brooklyn Hospital and the Queens course will be held at the Mary Immaculate. Hospital in Jamaica. Both are evening courses, starting at 7:30 o'clock and continuing for one two-hour session a week for five weeks. Church Groups The Mr.

and Mrs. Club of the Community Presbyterian Church of Malverne sponsored a Christmas candle light service at the church from 11 p.m. to midnight on Friday. Mr. and Mrs.

Herbert Daisley were chairman. Percy Brook directed the music. Mrs. Richard Frampton was in charge of the processional and the recessional. A holiday party was held yesterday by the Women's Club of Congregation Beth David, Lynbrook, in the vestry rooms of the temple.

The Junior Guild of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Rockville Centre, will hold dance on Wednesday night. The committee in charge is composed of the following members: Mr. and Mrs. F. Howard Hedger, Mr.

and Mrs. J. E. Waesche Horace DeLisser and James E. Stiles, Mabon-Roberts S.

Cliffton Mabon of 180 E. 79th Manhattan and Garden City and formerly of Brooklyn, announces the engagement of his daughter, Miss Barbara Cliffton Mabon, to Corp. Malcolm Mackay Roberts, flight engineer, air transport command, stationed at Love Field, Texas. Miss Mabon attended the Brownmoor School, Santa Fe, N. and Miss Hewitt's Classes, and made her debut in 1941.

She is the daughter of the late Mrs. Mabon. Corporal Roberts is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Billings Roberts of Winchester and Harvard, Mass.

He attended Newton School, South Windham, and was graduated from the Agricultural School of Massachusetts State lege. OUR DUTCH FRIENDS- -Planning increased activities in the coming year towards deepening cultural ties between us and the Netherlands, the Netherland- -America Foundation has selected Mrs. Frances McKee Stone as national.