Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-14

ABOUT the Old World Marker
at the Y. w. c. A. Internationa
Center says that some real Czecho'
Slovakian refugees will have Z
booth there.
Kitty says that the price OF
eggs has gone up again. The
magazine ads brag about the
quality of storage batteries for
tanks. Ride downtown on q bus
and count the uniforms. Sneak
q look Mt the address on the
letter that woman In clutching
Camp Claiborne. An acquant-
ance drops In: I'm working
here for two weeks. It takes
time TO have your application
accepted In the Canadian Air
Force"
For a little while you get away
from il. Bernie Frant talks about
amateur hockey, which is coming
back He spies a penny on the
floor beside your foot. Heads,
he says. Its good luck to pick
up a penny If it's heads" / never
heard of that superstition before.
I 90 downstairs still holding the
penny. and drop it on the landing.
And I look TO see which way 1t
lands. Heads. Who says we're
not superstitious. all of us?
Count the women qceighing
Themselves on the penny scales
they neUer believe ,okat the
scales say, bat they keep on
tceighing themselves. Think
about anything, or nothing. An
empty heads better than a head
full Of todr thoughts.
Up 80 floors in the Guardian
Building. The elevator boy says
that after couple of hours on
the job. he got rid of that feel
ing in his ears. Does everybody
have that urge to run an elevator
and see how fast you can make II
goy Muriel Woodbridge. at the
reception desk. sits playing patty
cake or something with her hands.
I'm bored" she says.
Larry Gentle. back on the Dawn
Patrol. is still on a diet. but he's
had TO quit smoking and he gains
weight. I drank matted milk every
night for two months, and quit
smoking for six, but / still couldn't
gain any weight. Maybe il. I quit
thinking about the war. that would
help.
That's IL. Quit thinking about
the war. Talk TO Jim Van
Kuren. He remembers when he
was In school In Brantford. He
used to hang around with Pete
Valachos and Lorne Bowerman,
and drink pop In the Olympia,
and Kid the high school girls.
Pete's father and mother
brought Pete over from Sparta,
and started the restaurant.
Jim hasn't seen Pete for years.
Pete used TO be nuts about air.
r'anes. but he didn't like school
He used to fly the jennies around
Brantford Airport. All his father
wanted was TO run his restaurant,
but Pete wanted to fly.
What's happened TO Pete? Well,
Jim knows now. Just the other
dey Lorne Bowerman called him
up. I'm back in Windsor" Lorne
said. He's L. A. c. BowerInar
now-Leading Air Craftsman. And
he knew where Pete was.
Pete wanted TO be an airline
pilot, but he had to have more
technical training, 10 he went to
England long ago and Joined the
Royal Air Force. You never see
n pilots name, but everybody
knew who IL was when the
Toronto papers said that "the
son Of a BrantfOrd restaurant
man. now had ID. r. G. after
his name. Distinguished Flying
Cross. Riding Wellington
bomber. he shot II out with Ave
Germans. And knocked down
three.
The war spread south. Flyine
Officer Valachos spoke Greek. TC
Malta. To Greece. To the one.
sided war in the air. And one
day he didn't come back.
But" says Jim. shes alive.
Lorne gave me his address.
Flying Officer Valachos, ID. r.
G., II +. o. 4I225. at 24S9 Camp,
Dulag-Luft, Deutschland. That's
the way you address letters TO
a Flying Officer In a German
prison camp.
81 talked 90 Pete's mother
Lorne told Jim. "She was cry
ing 80 hard. She said, Write
90 him. Get all his friends TO
write 10 him. Write on rice
paper. with n typew ritter. Single
space. Write on both sides.
Say all you can. The Red Cross
will deliver 10 through Sweden"
Forget about the war. did