SIX BRAVEST WOMEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23859, 9 January 1941, Page 13

SIX BRAVEST WOMEN

QUEEN HEADS THE LIST CALM SHARING OF DANGER [fkom OCR OWN* correspondent;] LONDON, Dec. 10 Asked by the editor of a New York daily news magazine to name London's six bravest women, the London correspondent of that paper cabled bis reply and the first name he gave was the Queen, whose calm sharing of danger had been an inspiration to the nation. The other live were Mrs. Scanlon, wife of the American General, Martin Scanlon, who is attached to the Embassy in London; llilde Marehant, reporter on a London newspaper; Helen Kirkpatriek, American newspaper woman; Maud Hall, chambermaid; Ivy Hicksou, cleaner of the Waldorf Hotel. Mrs. Hickson. who lives in a heavily bombed district, sheltered each night in the crypt of ;; church where five, were killed and •'■!() injured when it was bit recently. Willi her husband's aid, she helped the injured, the young, and the sick, and then went home to find her bouse levelled. Both she and her husband turned up at work at 0 a.m., and they are now living in a rest centre. The chambermaid. Miss Hall, has been bombed out twice, but has never ceased to serve tea with a steady hand. "The raids are a waste of time and will not frighten us," she said.