Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-06

7 m z VI INflN
say that the
Times Square
stop for the MR. PICKERING
Lawton buses
i dangerous. but a lot Of people
have To- cot on there.
shuflinc man >louchlne
down CasS avenue. and tho
brisk army quitting work at the
telephone building. Girls with
snow in their hair
The sky is dark too soon.
People jostle. Drivers snarl.
Empty shadows. and the city
wears its hleakest face. And
still ? rugged city, isn't il, on a
February night?
AROUND TOWN: Did il grip
you. too-what tho mother Of
Lieut.. George Cannon. who was
killed on Midway Island. said
on that Mutual broadcast"
MY son didn't lose his life
al Midway. He gave il"
Horrors of modern civiliLa-
ton. They're selling NitaminS.
door to door. in Detroit. Or will
be shortly.
Gentle chuckie going the
rounds in city roOms-a para
graph used by one Detroit col
umnist turned out Ia have been
written originally by an oppOsi-
ton columnist in town. Wrote
II a. n publicity blurb for some
entertainers. Up. s. II wasn't
bad item. thought
Some notes on Arthur Men
ken. the motion-picture news
man. al and after the Fisher
Town Hall:
He arranged last May 10 APP
pear here. but nobody knew
whether he'd have time 10 cover
the Orient and get back
He didn't know himself how
close he was running his films
were on the last steamer TO
leave Japan for the United
States.
Menken doesn't waste words.
Asked whether Japs were near
sighted and couldn't drop bombs
straight, he said:
THE Germans can't see to
bomb at night because they
don't eat carrots, too.
His most hideous pictures and
his most telling description: a
bombing of ChungkinG:
There's hardly enough that's
burnable left In Chungking to
start a fire"
Comment.
"They have food enough at
Corregidor to last four years; l
hope they have ammunition to
last that long"
Menken persuaded the JapS
70 lei him take photographs IN
Japan. The reason. he said, goes
back four years.
In the early hoStilitieS at
Shanghai. a Jap officer asked TO
see some films Menken had
taken behind the Chinese lines
~ told him" said Menken "to
20 10 the devil"
So later they trusted him
81 the same meeting. Mrs.
Sterling Sanford announced that
Town Hall members would be
eligible TO join the American
Women's Voluntary Services
classes.
They won't he air raid ward
ems: It's course to show Ordi-
nary citizens what Ia do In case
of fire. gas or bombing. and
enrolment already II In scores.
Detroit's Mrs. Sanford u n
sister 81 Ernest Hemingway
there are siN brothers and sis
tiers In the family. all talented,
and they all refuse 10 ride on
each Others coattails.
Hemingway, Mrs. Sanford
said, went 10 the Far Fast n
wear ago with the expectation
~ being there when the excite
ment started. hut he got there
ton early.
The family doesn't know just
where he IL now. although his
home with Mrs. Hemingway
Martha GeIlhornD II in Havana
OPPORTUNITY: The Good.
will Industries. which has a
talent for making use Of alnos'
anything that people don't want
has come through again.
A. Us Country Fair today
and tomorrow. Goodwill has a
white elephant booth which viii
sell anything that people don
dare use themselves. like Christ.
mas neckties or the vase YOU
think is pretty but your wife
says is horrible
Give EN- 10 The Goodwill
Proceeds 20 the Red Gross
But YOU cant have my papa