Word: owosso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guys have just finished reading your article (Jan. 22) concerning "The Lonely Ones" [girls who consorted with German prisoners of war in Owosso, Mich...
Strong you ng men were scarce anywhere in Owosso, Mich., and painfully so at the W. R. Roach Canning Co. plant. Buxom Kitty Marie Case, 20, and thin, swarthy, 18-year-old Shirley Jean Druce, who worked there, fretted about it almost as much as did the management. Then a labor gang of German prisoners from the nearby Owosso prison camp arrived under MP guard. The manpower shortage was met-but there were ugly complications. Last week, in the Bay City (Mich.) Federal Court, the Misses Case and Druce were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the Government by aiding...
...love of the Fatherland that had prompted Nazis Hobel and Classen to vanish into the warm evening last July MPs testified that when they caught them next morning they were bedded down with the two canning-factory girls in a heap of woodland straw. Owosso Sheriff Ray Gallety later reported that there was nothing much unusual about that-about 15 town girls were "always sneaking out to the camp and nearby fields to meet the Germans...
Sighed Miss Druce: "The Germans are a lot better gentlemen than some of the boys around Owosso...
...Dewey had learned discipline as a boy in Owosso. (Given a new tricycle, he was told that, if he fell off, he would lose the tricycle for a year. He did, and the tricycle went into the Dewey cellar for a year.) In his racket-smashing days in New York, he had learned how to drive home a point unsparingly. Now his discipline and his relentlessness combined in a new confidence...