Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20

ing the garbage situation first
hand. See what we mean?
Guess wen get along.
HERE are some of the things
H of passing interest in the
old town:
The housing shortage, as
we've told you before, is pretty
tough. So this week one land
lord challenged the constitu-
tionality of the rent-freezing
law.
He's only getting a 20 per
cent return on his property
and the strikes life magazine
please copy have fallen tre-
mendously. Jack Crellin, our
labor editor. says there have
been only three disturbances
each lasting one day-since the
first of the month.
wood Rowe, the old
"Schoolboy," is pitching for the
Montreal team these days. Won
a game for them the other day
by holding the Chiefs 10 seven
hits and Dizzy Trout is
back on the mound for the
Tigers this week after a five
day suspension for thumbing his
nose at the fans at Briggs
Stadium.
And Frank Cody, who was
school superintendent when you
went TO school here. just was
nominated for a seat in the
common council.
WE HAD a letter from one
of Detroit S Socialites, Ruth
Mead. saying she has made her
debut into KIP at the WAAC's
camp at Des Moines ;. and we
lost our society editor TO the
draft - Jack Oliver - who's at
Custer now.
Our Coldwater reporter says
a farmer there came into town
with a melon that weighed 16
pounds and measured SO inches
around.
But he can't top Highland
Parks police commissioner, Ire
mon McDermott, who recently
came back from the South with
several watermelons he says
weighed from 40 TO so pounds
each.
People are still the same.
Last week Joe Kreske thought
il would be fun to swing from
his third-fioor back porch TO
tree and climb down. The limb
broke and so did his wrist and
leg.
Wayne ". started registering
this week, too-mostiy women,
though.
THE CAP, those volunteer
Il fiers for Uncle Sam. needed
an airport and it would have
cost over 100000, so they all
pitched in and they're building
it with their own hands-out
near Utica.
You can imagine the spot
Owen jackson was in when his
wife found cigaret butts with
lipstick on them in the cars
ash-tray. But Owen had a good
out-none better-because they
were left there by one of the
women his company assigned TO
ride TO and from work with
him.
Forty-five bowlers from the
DAG bought seats at the pre-
miere of Wake Island" at the
Michigan - for S225 900. The
house was sold out for a million
dollars-for one night-all in
bonds.
Police arrested a gent this
week who gave up counterfeit
ing because the government got
too tough" Police say they're
Dltlll tOuEii, iOO, anu Vial &c
him with turning to stealing
tires for a living and the
Jehovah's Witnesses are getting
ready for another convention in
Detroit at the Moose Temple
over protests of the Moose, who
claim they didn't know 10 whom
they we're renting their audi
forum.
THE boys in the war plants
Il can be depended on to come
through in the matchmaking
war tools and otherwise--be-
cause this week a Wyandotte
woman. whose husband is in the
army. lost SAC she'd saved to pay
for her baby, coming soon.
So five men from the Packard
plant walked into The Detroit
Times city room next day with
S10660 they'd collected for her.
Nice. Oh?
How's the mail coming these
days? We like 10 hear from
you as much as you like letters
from us. SO drop the folks at
home a line now and then. And
If there's anything in particu-
lar Vou'd like TO know, tell us