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DEMOCRAT and CHRONICLE 117TH YEAR ROCHESTER, N.Y., WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1949 [[image]] TEMPERATURE TROUBLE About WOMEN By PAT FALLON 'Early Bird' May Realize Her Wish WITH 43 mended bones and two plane crashes to her credit, Blanche Stuart Scott is thinking of "soloing" again. If she does——and she isn5t at all sure she will——per formance will be the "show-stopper" at the Cleveland Air Faces this coming Labor Day. One of the nation's first woman flyers, Mrs. Scott (or Roberta as she is known to WARC's radio listeners) hasn't set the aviation world on its ear since last Labor Day when she became the only woman ever to fly a jet pro- zipping along pelled plane, at a 600-mile-an-hour clip. It was at a much slower rate of speed that she drove an automobile across the country as a girl many years ago, making headlines and mechanical history at the same time. [[image]] [[caption]] Pat Fallon [[/caption]] This year, she is toying with the idea of thumbing back through the calendar to 1911 and the days of the old-fashioned "pusher" planes. A "pusher" plane, let it be known, is on the style of the "Kitty Hawk," the revolutionary creation of Orville and Wilbur Wright. The pilots seat, better known in flying jargon as the "undertaker's seat," is out in the open, surrounded by nothing but stray breezes which happen to be blowing through the rickety frame. It was this kind of ship which Mrs. Scott first learned to fly and this kind of ship which she may take up for a "solo" flight at "Now I didn't say I was going to do it," Mrs. Scott cautioned hastily. "In fact, I'm getting cold feet already. I only said I might, and I'm beginning to wish I hadn't said that. Down in Washington last December when they turned the "Kitty Hawk" over to the Smithsonian Institution, I had to open my big mouth and say I wished I could fly one of those ships again. "And no sooner had I said it than they told me they would have one of the "pushers" out at the next Cleveland air races——just for my stunt. But believe me, I'd rather back out of the deal than back out of the plane a few hundred feet above the ground." At any rate, Mrs. Scott will receive a royal welcome at the famous meet. She is known to nearly every pioneer flyer in the country and is one of the Board of Trustees of the "Early Birds," a national organization composed of a handful of flyers who were airborne before World War 1. The C eveland races mark their annual reunion, giving them a chance to reminisce and look ahead to the still-unbounder horizons of aviation. The Labor Day weekend will mark Mrs. Scott's first vacation from her "Roberta" role at the radio station in 24 months, and she is looking forward to it with all the enthusiasm of an air cadet on his first mission. Accompanying her as a fellow-member of the "Early Birds" will be Russell Holderman, chief pilot for the Gannett Newspapers. * * * One of the students who will show her pretty face in the University of Pennsylvania's classrooms this fall, is apt to surprise both her colleagues and her professors with her knowledge of social work. For during her years in Rochester, Miss Eleanor Messenzer has been one of the guiding ALP Designates 10 Candidates in Fall Campaign 2 Council, Prosecutor, 1 School, 5 Supervisor Choices Listed Monroe County American Labor Party announced the designation of a limited number of candidates, including two for Councilman-at-large yesterday. Mrs. Sherman Clute, 300 Alexander St., and Joseph Agnello, 2244 Clifford Ave., were the Councilman designees, while Alex J. Gossin, 1060 South Ave., was named for district attorney and Mrs. Harriet Patterson, 5 Brighton St., for school commissioner. Candidates were also designated for supervisor in five wards and for constable in one. The supervisor selections were. Third Ward, Stanley Thomas, 504 Clarissa St.; Seventh Ward, Richard Murray, 34 Leopold St.; Eighth Ward, William Velotovich, 80 Vienna St.; Seventeenth Ward, Leslie Nash, 28 Ludwig Pk.; Eighteenth ard, Marie D'Acica, 72 Harvest St. 2nd Race for Mrs. Clute Mrs. Clute, chairman of the ALP women's division, was ALP candidate for county clerk a year ago. Agnello is an enrolled Democrat who has allowed his candidacy on the ALP ticket, while Gossin is an attorney and Mrs. Patterson a retired school teacher, recently returned to Rochester from foreign travel. Thomas is ALP County chairman and Murray a porter and pastor of a church in Central Park. Velotovich is a member of the Taxi Drivers' Union and Nash of the Rochester Typographical Union. Vincent Lassowski, candidate for constable, 18th Ward, lives at 24 Meade St., and is a member of the Laborers' Union 435. According to Katherine Hull, secretary of the county ALP, emphasis will be placed on ward candidates this year. It was felt at the meeting of the executive committee a which the ticket tentatively was selected, she said, that growth and organization of the ALP would be furthered to a greater extent by such concentration than if the party centered on city or county-wide candidacies. Planks in Platform A county ALP platform was adopted at the Friday night meeting which charges that "a pattern of broken promises and betrayals of the people's interests reaches from Washington to Albany to City Hall." That pattern, the platform charges, "is a joint design of the Republican and Democratic Parties." The platform demands: Immediate setting-up of a housing authority, launching of a broad program of public works to alleviate unemployment, adequate low-rent housing without discrimination, "an end to police brutality," and a special City Rent Commission "to review all cases of irregular rent increases and court eviction orders." The platform also demands resistance to fare and utility rate increases and "an end to miserly school budgets that cause our children to face over-sized classes." GOP 'Insurgents' To Run in Gates Gates "insurgent" Republicans led by Peace Justice Herbert G. Kuhn have declared open war on the regular organization of Supervisor Elbert D. Finch. Kuhn himself will oppose Finch for the supervisor nomination in the Republican primary, it was announced yesterday, while Charles L. Lechner and Kenneth R. Kemp will bear the insurgent banner for peace justices. Mary R. Harrington, veteran town clerk who was left off the organization slate this year as was Kuhn, will bid for the town [image] [[caption]] AT LONG LAST, CITIZENSHIP ... Mrs. Elizabeth Vendel of Webster and her father, Nichola Redeker of 2226 Main St. E., who came to the United States from Amsterdam, Holland, in 1926, look over their citizenship certificates after they were sworn in as new citizens in Naturalization Term of Supreme Court yesterday. The two are the last members of their large family to receive oath. [[/caption]] [image] [[caption]] ...REGAINED AND WON Arline Van Alstyne, a native of Watertown who lost her citizenship by joining the Canadian Navy during the war, stands to receive oath of allegiance to the Constitution together with Mrs. Elfriede Dimitri, who will return to her homeland next month to join her husband, stationed with the U.S. Army in Vienna. Couple met and was married during war. [[/caption]] Vienna Bride of Soldier, 27 Others Made Citizens Elfriede Maria Dimitri became a citizen yesterday. In less than a month, however, she will be on her way back to her home city of Vienna, Austria. She was one of 28 foreign-born persons sworn into United States citizenship before Justice H. Douglass Van Duser in Naturalization Term of Supreme Court. Mrs. Dimitri will return to Austria to rejoin her husband, Walter Dimitri, formerly of Buffalo, who is stationed with the U. S. Army occupation forces in Vienna. The couple married there in 1948, while Mrs. Dimitri was employed as a military court interpreter for the Army. Last Spring, after her husband's enlistment, Mrs. Dimitri decided to come to America to become a citizen. She is living with her husband's parents at 234 Sears St. at present. Another war bride admitted to citizenship was Mrs. John Don- [[text cut off]] stances prevented the father and his daughter from taking out citizenship papers until recently. Honduran Seaman Sworn Abel Moises Cubero of Honduras, Cen tral America, decided to come to Rochester to live after hearing about the city from his shipmates i nthe Honduran and United States Merchant Marines during the war. He came here in 1939, but failed to become a legal resident until two years ago. He and his Spanish-born wife, who became a citizen in 1946, live at 243 River Meadows Dr. The citizenship pledge was especially significant to Mrs. [[text cut off]] 5 Hot Days Due Ranging in 90's, Humidity High Mere Traces of Rain Indicated in U.S. Forecast Five days of hot, humid weather with temperatures in the 90s were forecast last night for the Rochester area. The muggy weather will be similar to that experienced yesterday, when the temperature climbed to a high of 92 degrees at 5:30 p. m. During the day the humidity reading remained well above the 50 per cent mark until after 6 p. m., when the reading dropped to the day's low of 43. Temperatures through next Sunday, the Weather Bureau said, will average 6 to 9 degrees above normal. Yesterday's temperatures were 7 degrees above normal. Continued warm weather with high humidity readings can be expected through Saturday, with temperatures beginning to drop Saturday night and Sunday, the bureau said. Precipitation during this period will be about 1-10 of an inch, occurring as scattered thundershowers today and tomorrow and again late Saturday and Sunday. Today skies in Rochester will be partly overcast and the temperature is expected to reach a high of 93 degrees. There will be gentle southwest winds averaging from 10 to 20 miles per hours. Hickok Employees To See Wings Play More than 700 Hickok employees are expected to attend the corporation's "night" at Red Wing Stadium Friday evening, when the Red Wings play a single game with Syracuse. Pregame ceremonies are expected to start by 7:45, when Ray Hickok, president of the firm, will present gifts to members of both teams. The evening's program is under the direction of James M. Andrews. Each Rochester player hitting a home run during the game also will be presented with a special prize, it was announced. [[image]] [[caption]] ONLY 56 MORE [[text cut off]] "It was okay wh fan" James DiB Ave. S. food mar [[/caption]] County Monroe County [[strip of words at right margin cut off]] top- in the 1949 Savings --tunity Drive by 27 pe- announced yesterday. According to walt-- district chairman fo-- District 2, comprisin-- --ern New York counti-- the top by 25 per cent paign, which ended local district was th-- seven in New York percentage over quota-- Final figures compl-- -roe County showed sa-- E bond amounting County quota was $3,69-- district, including Monroe, Livingston, C-- --eca, Wayne and Yat-- taled $5,701,000. or $1-- a quota of $4,454,000. 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Column 1 - image of Blanche Stuart Scott by Pat Fallon
Column 3 top - image of Elizabeth Vendel and her father, Nicholas Redeker
Column 3 middle - image of Arline Van Alstyne and Mrs. Elfriede Dimitri
