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Show BUFFALO, n7y! Capt Dalsy'M, Godfrey is the only woman in this part of the country licensed to captain cap-tain any steamship under the 600-ton 600-ton limit but she would not trade occupations for all the housewife jobs this side of the Equator. "With a family tree that is sail-ory sail-ory enough to be a marine plant, it was natural enough for me to go on the lakes," Mrs. Godfrey explained. "My father, my husband and my son have all spent their lives aboard ship and there was no reason for me to be an exception. "I took my first tug ride at the age of four months without getting seasick and after that my future was never in doubt." Mrs. Godfrey passed her master1! examinations in 1933. Before that time she worked in minor positions on various tugs in the Great Lakes but, she admitted, she has never taken time to learn to swim. Coeds Display Driving Talent for Army Work HARTFORD, CONN. Connecticut coeds soon may be driving army trucks bearing out a prediction of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Michael Mi-chael A. Connor that "properly trained women could safely and efficiently ef-ficiently operate heavy army transport trans-port trucks ranging in weights up to 2 tons." Connor's conclusion was formed after an experiment conducted at New Britain Teachers college. Woman students who had completed complet-ed a safe driving course conducted by the motor vehicles department took part in the test. "The general performance was -v. -such," said Commissioner Connor, "that we were satisfied carefully selected women, properly trained, could well substitute for men in the operation of these types of army vehicles." |