Womans 45 Date Book As usual, women were busy making news in 1945. Those that didnt were directly affected in many instances by world shaking events marked by the end of World War II and the beginning of the atomic age. Here are some news events of the year that should particularly interest women. January...V. P. Trumans mother said when he phoned her after the inauguration, Now you behave yourself. February...Federal court rules members of the Wac are soldiers....Sixty eight nurses, survivors of Bataan and Corregidor, liberated after three years, find they have 6500 back pay awaiting them. March...Ingrid Bergman wins the Oscar, award of the Motion Picture Arts and Science Academy. April...Gloria Vanderbilt divorces Pat DeCicco...Mussolini and his mistress are killed by Italian Partisans...Sugar rations are cut 25 per cent. May . . . Germany surrenders all fronts. . . Hamburg radio announces Hitlers death . . . Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart marry. . . . Mrs. Harper Sibley of Rochester, N. Y., selected mother of the year. June...Laborite Bevin called Lady Astor an old gas bag in the house of commons...Wac Cpl. Margaret Hastings survived army plane crash in New Guinea but it took her six weeks to get out of the jungles. July . . . Barbara Hutton sues Cary Grant for divorce. . . .Twelve children and two sets of twins give corporals family 300 a month dependency. . . . Oveta Culp Hobby resigns as Wac director. August . . . Hazel Scott and Adam Clayton Powell married. . . . Clare Booth Luce appears in Shaws Candide in Stamford, Conn. . . . Japan surrenders. . . . Presidents mother says, Im glad Harry decided to end the war. . . . Twelve year old boy beats 250 girls out in needlework contest. . . .OWI abolished. . . . Rise Stevens insures her voice for 1,000,000. . . . Lisa Meitner, refugee scientist, revealed as having been working on the atom bomb. September . . . Army captive when freed learns his wife wed his uncle. . . . Tokyo, Rose arrested. . . . Shirley Temple marries. OctoberTwo sisters living within a few miles of each other reunited after 58 years DAR refuses Constitution Hall to pianist Hazel Scott. . . . Legless war veteran and nurse he rescued were married. . . . Car rationing ends. . . . Shoe rationing ends. November . . . OP A sets nylon prices at one quarter of 1942 prices. . . . U. C. L. A. announces it plans to give B.S. degrees for four year course in apparel design. . . . Meat rationing ends. . . . Pauline E. Mandigo gets American Womans Association award for eminent achievement. December . . . Forty seven year old mother of two children runs down and kills her husband with car. . . . Mrs. Charles E. Hughes, wife of exchief justice, dies Department of Labor announces that the maternal mortality has declined 61 per cent since 1933. Almira C. Rich DAY BOOK 1945