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Wednesday 
June 10, 1942
NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM
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6 Women, Barred By Services Here, To Fly in Britain
Several Are Veterans Of Many Years In Aviation
By the United Press.
   MONTREAL, June 10.-Six experienced American women pilots prepared today to leave for Britain to join Jacqueline Cochrane's United States unit of the British Air Transport Auxillary.
   "They won't let us fly in the states, so we're going over to England to help," said Mary Zerbel, 21, of Los Angeles, who has been flying for two and one half years.
Ready if Called
   Mrs. Edith Foltz Stearns of Portland, Ore., a pilot for 14 years and the fifth woman in the United States to receive a transport pilot's license, said that "if Uncle Sam calls us, we'll be coming back home." Mrs. Stearns said that her husband was a pilot in the first World War and that in addition to accumulating 3000 hours in the air herself, she had taught her 17-year-old son to fly. 
   Mrs. Opal Anderson, of Chicago, "took a ride in a plane about 14 years ago, and I thought if they could do it I could too." She has 2600 flying hours. She has been an instructor in Chicago for six years.
   Una Goodwin, of Dallas, Tex., said she was anxious to rejoin Grace Stevenson, who was a flying companion of hers in Oklahoma City and who is serving with Miss Cochraine's group.
Ran Own Air Line
   Kay Van Doozer, of Los Angeles, and Bakersfield, Cal., a commercial pilot, instructor, and barnstormer said she was "just keen about flying." She was running her own air line when the army took over her air field after the outbreak of the war, she said.
   Margaret (Peggy) Lennox, of Cleveland, a pilot since 1929, said she tried to get a job teaching army beginners to fly but "they turned me down just because I am a woman."