Evening Tribune D« Moi.nf,. |QW,
WAC Making Army Prove She's Mother
NEWARK. X. J. (U.P.)-MaJ. Alb* Thompson is not going to prove her motherhood to the •nay. she has announced.
if (ho army mil to prove it Id order In discharge her. It will h>vn to find the proof that she la a mother without uy help from her. she added. But *he said she wu addressing; a new letter to Assistant Defen» Secretary Anna Rosenberg. Thti appeal, ah- Hid. will be from "one mother to another." Mandator]-. Major Thompson U a mother. beyond question. Her son, Loren Thompson. Jr, was born three months ago. Under army regulations a discharge la mandatory for all female personnel who have a child or children under 18. But the army ran'l discharge. 11a pretty WAC major until II has official proof of her motherhood.
•Tm not going to defeat my own purpose.- Major Thompson Mid. -if the army wants the baby's birth certificate, they will lave to find it on their own." Major Thompson, known on service records aa Alba C. Martlnelll. major, eorpa of "Hilary police. „«*rVf> had ««krd Mr.. Rosenberg lo ,». empt her from the regulation. It was "absolutely ridiculous" that a baby should stop her serv. Ice to the country, ahe added.
""It's a fundamental truth that, women being what they are in and out of service, wil] have chil-diM."
Husband Backs Her, I^ren B. Thompson, the major's jsband and a colonel in the. re-1 serves. slanchly backed hi. wife: Had it happened to someone in !my command I would have pro-tested the discharge lo the hlgh-! Mt government office." he sakt. , "I don't see how otherwise i an keep faith with our iho put in long years of i— | service and are entitled to A ,home lifs."
