Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1916 — “CHICKEN” FLOTILLA BLOCKADED AT PORT [ARTICLE]

“CHICKEN” FLOTILLA BLOCKADED AT PORT

Fair Craft Armed With Powder Piiffs and Peroxide Turrets Must Take New Taek. Philadelphia, March 6.—Saucy feminine craft, decked in war paint, that bear down on the Jack Tars at the League IsJand navy yard with the avowed intention of taking the jolly mian-o’-war’s-men prisoners, will have to veer away and tack anew, for Lieutenant-Commander L. P- Davis has declared war against this type of cruiser, known as the “chicken” flotilla. ; , Not satisfied with abolishing spoon- I ing on the gundecks and other forms of love ashore for the fellow who has been afloat, this enemy of Cupid has raised an edict against other types, which went into farce recently. Craft that come to League Island stripped for action with lipsticks and vanity bags, powder puffs and peroxide turrets will be repelled at the gate. Commander Davis has issued orders to the sergeants and their corps of guards to look every girl over that tries to get in. If she shows cheeks that have been toudhed with the carmine of the rouge chamois, if her eyes show where the black pencil has supplied an aid that nature denied, out they go. “Chickens” are taiboo, and, while the naval city .is open for inspection of the fair ones, the one whose real complexion is submerged will not get a berth inside the gates.