The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-03-31

By L. Il. STEVENSON
II Is possible that when spring
comes, new Treasury department.
regulations win govern the issuing
of passes to those who wish to 60 to
the piers to welcome friends and
relatives arriving on ocean liners.
Under present rules, only one pass
for each passenger is permitted. To
enforce such q regulation would ne
cessitate checking the entire pas
senger list Of each ship. What a
task that would be can be imagined
when II is known that from 500 to TOO
applications for such passes are
made each day at the customhouse.
The procedure is simple. The ap-
plicant merely fills in a blank, which
has spaces for his name, the name
of the passenger and the ship and
his relationship to the passenger.
II the clerk handling the application
doesn't happen to remember q re-
quest involving the same passenger,
the pass is issued. Hence. few pas
sengers are welcomed by only one
pier visitor. Usually there is a
whole party waiting for the ship to
dock.
Limitations on the number of pier
passes have a practical purpose.
The pass admits the holder to the
baggage enclosure. When a liner
docks, the pier immediately be
comes a place of great activity.
Baggage must come ashore and be
inspected by customs officials az
quickly as possible. The giant lin
ers of today have huge piers. But
they also attract huge crowds. The
crowds get in the way and cause
confusion and delay. Customs men
and police at the gates are firm In
their refusal to admit any except
holders of passes. In fact, those
gates are just about the only ones
in New York that can't be crashed.
The trouble is that too many passes
are issued. A recent arrival on one
of the big liners found q friends
waiting for him on the pier.
Barring all visitors was consid-
cred at a recent conference Of Of
fcials who are wrestling with the
problem. 1t is, doubtful if that will
be done, however, because of pro-
tests by travellers and shipping in
terests. But if they can be worked
out, new and more effective meas
ures of limitation will be put into
effect before the rush season next
summer.
When frankie Burke, Jimmy
Cagney's double, came here for the
opening of Angels With Dirty
Faces" he stopped at the Warwick
hotel. Burke, whose real name is
Vasselle and whose family comes
from southern Italy while Cagney's
comes from southern Ireland despite
their similarity in features, was dis
covered hopping bells in a hotel
down in Las Vegas, N. M. His home
is in Brooklyn and when he reached
his seventeenth birthday, he started
out looking for job and didn't find
it until he reached Las Vegas. One
of the places in New York where he
applied in vain was the Warwick
hotel.
Youngsters of this modern age
seem to get their thrills in reverse.
David and Armand, 11-year-old
twins; Renee, aged 10, and Heidi
Ann, 6 children of Armand Denis
and Leila Roosevelt Denis, explor-
ers, recently returned from an
11,000-mile flying trip with nothing
exciting to report except a short
train ride. They flew with their par
ents on a goodwill trip to so cities
with the picture Dark Rapture"
which Mr.. and Mrs. Denis filmed
in the Belgian Congo. To keep from
getting bored on the long fight, the
children took along their pets, white
mice, flying squirrels and q pair of
pink snakes, also a movie camera.
The incident that saved the trip
from being a total loss TO them &C.
Cured at Omaha, There the plane
was forced down by weather condi-
tions, so the family made the short
jump to Des Moines by railroad.
Wildly excited by what they looked
on as . novel form Of Transports
ton, the Denis kids wanted to ride
with the engineer, blow the whistle
and shovel coal and though denied
such q privilege came to their home
near Putnam, Conn.,, real railroad
fans. Now they are looking forward
to q horse and buggy ride promised
them by the village doctor.
. Ben Syndic sfs.-wNU Services.