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Tends Her Knitting

Chicopee, Nov. 24 -- Miss Ida E. Keefe of 471 Chestnut St., Springfield, whose knitting needles clicked at a merry pace during World War I making caps for the men in service, has written to the "Operation Little Vittles" committee to ask if her knitted caps would be accepted as a gift to the children of Berlin for Christmas. A reply sent to her today stated that her gifts would be most welcome and someone will be glad to call and gather up those already knitted.

Postmaster Thomas P. Hallman of the Chicopee Falls Post Office has offered to pay air mail postage on all the caps she knits. Miss Keefe suggests that if any of the MATS pilots on the Berlin run would like a knitted cap, she would be glad to make more for them.

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