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12 111E SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Aug. 30, 1979, Spokane, Wash. Marjorie Mc Killop, Merle Egan Anderson and Alma Hawkins receive discharges. from page 1). Pre Labor Day Sale 'Hello Girls' recognized SEATTLE (AP) A 60-year battle with the military bureaucracy ended here Tuesday when three women who served as "Hello Girls" for the U.S.

Army Signal Corps in France during World War I were given honorable discharges. Honored at ceremoney at Fort Lawton were Merle Egan Anderson. 91, of Des Moines, Marjorie McKillop, 81, of Seattle, and Alma Hawkins, 89, of Bellingham, Wash. "I'm so excited I'll never be the same again," said Ms. McKillop.

"The Army has finally admitted we are legitimate," added Ms. Anderson. There was one sad note, however, as one of Washington state's other "Hello Girls," Enid Poo ley, 80, died at her home in Enumclaw last Friday. The four were among 200 American women who worked as telephone operators for the Signal Corps in France in 1918. Gen.

John J. Pershing set up his own phone system when he discovered he couldn't fight the German Army and the French phone system, Ms. Anderson said. A search was begun for women who spoke fluent French and after they were selected they were trained as operators by various phone companies around the country. "I applied after I read Gen.

Pershing's advertisement in the Bellingham Herald," said Ms. Hawkins. Ms. Anderson recalled that the young women were outfitted at their own expense with, "Army prescribed blue uniforms with Army buttons and Signal Corps insignia, Army shoes that didn't fit, woolen underwear and black sateen bloomers, in case our ankle-length skirts were raised by the wind." She sailed to France in the spring of 1918 and spent the following months training soldiers to operate magneto switchboards in the front lines. "Fifteen of our Signal Corps women served directly behind the front lines in the Meuse Argonne battles," she said.

But when the "Hello Girls" returned home they were told they hadn't been in the Army. "Army rules specified 'men' so we couldn't qualify, they said. I then began our long battle for According to Ms. Anderson, more than SO bills were Introduced in Congress to give the "Hello Girls" of World War I and the "Wasps" of World War II the veteran status they sought. Finally, in November of 1977, a package bill was passed to recognize the women.

she said. l' 19 L2 12 it, 2 111E SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Aug. 30, 79, Spokane, as. 9 wtiello Girls recognized 4-- Ato 1,. 4 i 4 SEATTLE (AP) A 60-year battle with the military Army shoes that didn't fit, woolen underwear and black 1,,,,, 4 11-, bureaucracy ended here Tuesday when three women who sateen bloomers, in case our ankle-length skirts were I served as "Hello Girls" for the U.S.

Army Signal Corps in raised by the wind." 1-. 1 France during World War I were given honorable dis- She sailed to France in the spring of 1918 and spent the 1 1 1 D-- Honored at ceremoney at Fort Lawton were Merle Egan I' charges. .10 following months training soldiers to operate magneto switchboards in the front lines. Anderson. 91, of Des Moines, Marjorie McKillop, 81, of Seattle, and Alma Hawkins, 89, of Bellingham, Wash.

"Fifteen of our Signal Corps women served directly I "I'm so excited I'll never be the same again," said Ms. behind the front lines in the Meuse Argonne battles," she iNt A1 AP'' 1 tolt, 10 -'N-14 -4. McKillop. said. 4.....

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