Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18
Jack Pickering
Here
and
Now
THIS DAY AND AGE;


-sfrhe-sAaE+sEe -nl tires is nut
ting a crimp in the habits Of
newspaper reporters w hile
John Duval Dodge lay in the
hospital with his skull fractured,
Vera Brown was sent out 10 in
terview Mrs. Dodge.
Vera went out 20 the Dodge
home with all possible speed in
a cab. but when il was time 10
come back 10 the Office she was
instructed 10 save tires and ride
a street car.
So. Ike a good soldier, Vera
climbed into a street car and
dropped a nickel in the fare box.
The conductor gave her a
hshey eye and told her coldly:
Lady, the fare IL cents"
AS an afterthought he added
witheringly, And what's more,
-. BEEN 6 cents for the last %
years"
Vera witheFed him right back
again:
How would know" she
said. At haven't ridden en- eBe
of these damn contraptions for
20 years"
THE VARIOUS consequences
Of living in this day and age also
have changed the fashions in
elopements,
The couple involved begged
that their names be omitted. but
she's waitress In a bar and
he's n customer. What with the
lack of automobiles and OF spare
time. they had to do their elop-
ing overnight
They packed a basket lunch
(hsrd-boiled eggs and ham sand
wiches) and took n bus 20 Bowl
ing Green. They took the next
bus back, and the bride arrived
Just In time to 20 back to work
at the bar.
Her husband went out 10 reg
lister at a hotel. But he forgot
10 tell the bride which hotel, and
didn't remember the oversight
until IL was time for her to get
home.
He went TO get her. but she
had left work hunting for him.
IL was three days before they
found each other.
THE WEEKEND roundup of
men without draft registration
cards also brought its tribula-
tons TO Rex White, who writes
for one of the rival papers. He
was one of the newspaper men
who accompanied the police on
the raids.
II didn't bother him especially
when a denizen of one raided
place insisted on greeting him as
a long-lost pal that I've known
ever since you was patrolman."
But White was quite a bit upset
later on when a photographer
from a Negro paper photo
graphed him. He isn't quite sure
whether they took him for a
policeman or draft-dodger. and
is anxiously waiting to see if
they publish his picture.
NOTES AROUND TOWN:
Answering "A Reader: The
salvage committee says they
have no use for discarded silk
and nylon stockings except 10 be
sold as rags. You better save
yours while longer, though, be-
cause there are reports from
Washington that n process for
reclaiming silk Is being developed
right now.
Hal Mcintyre, youthful leader
of the band now headlined at
Eastwood Gardens, plays for 500
sailors at the Naval Armory to-
night, and goes TO Selfridge
Field for another free show to-
morrow. Mcintyre expects 20
be called 10 service himself soon.
Richard Arlen of the films
was in Detroit briefly the other
night. Was recognized by a few
passers-by, but not many. De-
troit apparently IL not very
celebrity conscious unless the
visitors are preceded by brass
band.
NJ. r. S. returns from Pitts
burgh saying that friend
there, a physician, has named
his new house Bedside Manor"
Some readers seem 10 assume
that this department IL an auXil-
larry post office. don't mind,
but refuse 10 deliver mail. Mail
for Dorothy Dase has been for
warded. Now 1 have some for
Freddie SchadeF, and will wait
for him To come and get IL.
The people who know Bette
Flannery will be glad 20 know
that she has just landed an i'm
pOrtant Job In Buffalo, and the
better they know her, the more
glad they will be. Bette Is one
OF those people who are born
with two strikes on them. and
get a hit with the third strike
because they know they don't
dare miss.
Knowing Bette, know she'd
blush 10 her shoetops II wrote
anything about what good
trooper she is. But anyway, She
Is leaving a. advertising head at