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Show WPMfN Dr.m-l.MaffettMi President of the National Federation of Business C . VI and Professional Wo- X men's Clubs, Inc. ' Miss Hazel McDonald, a Chicago Chi-cago newspaper staff correspondent correspon-dent in Europe, is said to be the first American woman reporter permitted to cover the Western Front. She started early this year to send cabled stories from the Maginot Line, having gained permission per-mission from the French War office of-fice to go there. She has the reputation of being be-ing able to cover all types of news and holds her own with men reporters. re-porters. She wrote her editors that the French War office decided de-cided that if she could cover gang murders in Chicago she was certainly cer-tainly able to be a war correspondent. corres-pondent. So there she is. Dr. Emily Dunning liarringer, the first women ambulance surgeon sur-geon in New York, has retired as director of gynecology of Kingston King-ston Avenue hospital, Brooklyn, New York, after twenty-one years of service there. She will become honorary consulting surgeon. She was a pioneer in a profession profes-sion that was practically closed to women. She is a graduate of Cornell and attended the Cornell Medical School, which is affiliated affiliat-ed with Bellevue Hospital. While serving the city as ambulance surgeon sur-geon she had the rank of sergeant of police. She is president of the Women's Medical Association of New York City. . Miss Helena Mroczkowska, women's wo-men's national inter-collegiate fencing champion, has put aside the foils briefly to learn to fly, and is the first girl student participating par-ticipating in the Civil Aeronautics Authority's college flight training program to earn a private pilot's license. Miss Martha Berry, founder and director of the Berry Schools in Mount Berry, Georgia, has been awarded -the second annual Humanitarian Hu-manitarian Award of the Variety Clubs of America. Miss Berry has educated 10,000 boys and girls. Louise Garnier has built up a novel business in St. Louis, promoting pro-moting the sales of products for infants. She employs six nurses in four cities who make 1,750 visits vis-its a month to the mothers of new babies. Miss .Sabina Gokcen, adopted daughter of fhe late Kemal Ata-turk, Ata-turk, who gave Turkish women equality with men, is now in charge of the Women's Air Force in Turkey. Kentucky's attorney general advised ad-vised the secretary of state not to issue a trade mark for "F. D. R. Whiskey." Perhaps he thinks his fellow citizens have already swallowed swal-lowed too many things thus branded. |