Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-25
Jack Pickering
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WEEK END rowing

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WEEK END ROVING
FIRST STOP: a lot of socks
and other knitted goods in the
window Of the Western Union
office on Congress street finally
eot me curious enough 10 ask
what II was all about
Mrs. q, r. Schwanke and
Marjorie Kidd. il turns out, or
Canized the girls in the Office
INTO 2 Red Cross unit the week
before Pearl Harbor.
The girls" said Mrs.
Schwanke. generally get to-
rether from shout To 9 Monday
and Tuesday evenings in the
AGA american Communication
ASsoclstiou) office and work,
hut they don't have too much
: spsre time because they're work
ing siN and even seven days a
week"
Eleven girls have given blood
"a the plasms hank; every week
they pick out two soldiers or
sailors 70 send cookies or ciga-
rets: and they've got some of the
men interested in helping the
Red Cross, One has started a
square for an afghan, and Jim
Gellp the bicycle repair man, has
fixed M a couple of old sewing
machines.
Speaking Of bikes Bob Karr
and 7. l.. Swartout confided that
the girl messengers are doing all
right. So far. they've been used
only IN hig office buildings and
some have gotten pretty good
lohs as secretaries As a result.
THEY'VE even decided 10 hire
girls 10 make deliveries on bikes.
too. II they can find any who
want such jobs. They won't con-
slider them unless they're at least
Is. though.
At CkLW: Jim Van keuren.
the announcer, used Ia COM
pIain because IL took half an
hour 70 get the girls at the
lunch counter 20 deliver a sand
wich. No trouble, he says, since
he's started calling the girls
"Hedy" and LANA"
AT WAYNE UNIVERSITY:
Capt. Don Leonard of the OCD,
speaking at the Wayne Spring
Offensive, summed up prepared
ness in this fashion:
"In England. even after the
war had begun. this notice was
published: Under no circum-
stances IL IL to be presumed that
Nazi filters can arrive over Eng
land In sufficient numbers To do
any appreciabIe damage In the
United States we say: 1T cant
happen here"
IN A TAXICAB: Luther b.
Pratt, the driver, Is another
plain American. His brother,
Robert. was with the Polar Bears
In Russia I'm the last war. and
saved his detachment Of men by
sticking tn his machine gun even
though he had n bullet through
his chest that missed the spine
nv . quarter inch. Now he works
for q pop company In Detroit.
Comes from y hardy family. His
father, Alonzo Pratt Of Ashton,
Mich, was Michigan's oldest deer
hunter last year, and expects to
20 hunting again this year. He'll
he IS this month.
AT POLICE HEADQUAR-
TIERS: Joe Umek observed this
incident. which is either poetic
justice or poetic injustice. The
man arrived splitting mad at all
policemen. They'd towed his car
10 the pound.
II have TO take a halliday off
from work. that's SIS, and SO for
the ticket-that's So" he Splut-
tered.
Taking shortcut through the
police garage he kicked a
crumpled roll of green paper,
picked il up and found a s. bill
and four ones-S9 evidently
dropped by some high police Of
fetal. He smiled happily and OBJ
served:
It's Just - though II hap
pened just to keep me happy"
The man is a former gambler,
now going straight Make up
your own moral. il any. II just
happened. that's all.
NOTES; It's just like living
In the country when Steve
Maher and the gang start talk
ing about their spring planting.
Victory gardens.
Americas oldest draftee In
town for = short Thoroughbred
Blay. who was 36 the day after
he registered.
Benson Ford. Hcnry's grand
son, pointing AZ Charles r.
sorensen and telling Fred Col
lins and other reporters; ~ can't
talk. He's the boss"
ITEM: Michigan soldiers al
Fort Sill, Okla, are having a
Michigan Night party this Fri
day. II you'dlike 10 send them
cookies. candy. or even money
for ice cream. send them to Pvt
Louis Orlow at Fort Sill.
Andy Bishop reports the CIC
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