GIRLS RUN CITY
LEAP YEAR DAY NOVELTY
NEW YORK, April (J. Aurora, Illinois, is the first gity in the world to be ruled entirely by women. In honour of Leap Year Day, the City Fathers of Aurora to-day gallantly abdicated in favour of. sixteen bachelor girls while one hundred men in executive positions as bank presidents, shop managers, hotel chiefs apd newspaper editors also gave up their chairs to women. For twenty-four hours every major aetitivy in the city of 50,000 was directed by women, most of them young. , Homes were deserted for offices, typists took over the roll-top desks, demure maidens wrinkled their brows over efficiency charts and pressed buzzers. Male lenders of the community who planned tliig change said they meant it as recognition of Ihe privileges o< the other sex.
It was suggested however, that this was ap artful device to keep bachelor (girls’ minds off propoals.
By ((rafting -them iaito re?.potispbe jobs on Leap Year Day they kept them too busy to track down victims!
Twenty girls assumed duties as traffic policemen, and berated errant motorists.
The police chief retired in favour ot Dorothy Ward, ami the police magistrate. gave his robes to I* lore-nee Atkins. Ruth Cole, a d* zling blonde of 20, a former beauty prize-winner, powdered her nose and took over the (ire brigade, a dozen fire girls coming on duty at breakfast time.
Aurora’s prison warden followed t’ e Mayor and Councilman in handing over their jobs to women.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1932, Page 3
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