Detroit evening times., 1942-08-19
Jack Pickering
Here
and
Now

sters-and factory workers, too
getting a breath OF air at
Clark Park. How many remem-
ber that that was where the
Browe child disappeared, leaving
Detroit with the most battling
kidnapping on record?
The name ProulX on a busi-
ness sign. How do you pro-
nounce il, and what nationality
is il?
Abbott and Costello throwing
the Statler Hotel staff into hys-
terics. A. e. C., il seems, man
aged to lose their laundry
somewhere between Lansing and
Detroit and had TO borrow some
clean shirts for their bond show.
Bill Hendricks. plugging the
moonlight party tonight at
which the motion picture indus
try will raise funds for the
Variety Club charities. The
party leaves on the Put-in-Bay
at ll:30, because movie workers
can't get away until late. It's a
charity affair and anybody can
attend.
SOCKS: Our paragraph about
discarded silk stockings brings
from Virginia Olson and Morris
Greer of the salvage committee
some further data.
They refer all such sock-own-
ers 10 the Junior Red Cross, at
FItzroy 5000. The stockings are
sent TO veterans hospitals and
the patients braid them into
mats.
Miss Olsen, poor woman, han
dies the barrage of telephone
calls al the salvage headquarters
IRA. S2S2) and has encountered
these questions among others.
Twill you send out a truck
and some men TO help US clean
out the attic9 Tor basement. or
garage). A lot of people whose
cellars were flooded recently
tried this dodge 10 get their
cleaning job done free. The
answer, of course, is me. T"
2-Can / contribute some
medicine TO the salvage drive
In one instance. a man said he
had saved his medicine bottles
for years, and finally had thrown
away all the liquids but wanted
TO donate his leftover pills for
the soldiers. (They told him 10
throw the pills away, too.t
81 have a lovely copper tea
kettle. and will give II 10 you If
n Will help catch Hitler. tThe
committee will send a truck II
you have $50 pounds or more OF
stuff. Otherwise leave il at a
Shell gas station. or at any bev-
erage dealers store If il has a
Victory Barrel The stuff Is sold
and the money given 10 the Red
Cross and kindred agencieS)
4-Whcre can l get sand FOR
air raid protection? (The COM
mittee has referred these calls
10 the city's Department OF
Public Works. The d. p. w.
hasn't objected, so they assume
that that's the right answer)
5-One woman said that she
had the funny papers for the
last IS years saved. from all
three Detroit papers. She
thought the soldiers might like
10 read them. Miss Olson re-
ferred her 10 the Army and
Navy Recreation League, but
was so flabbergasted she forgot
TO ask the woman why she had
saved funny papers for Is years.
GUNS: That bond exhibit in
the window Of the old Tuttle
and Clark store on Woodward
always has a crowd in front of II.
Several people, though, have
wondered about the collection ot
rifles with one labeled as a Span
ish-American War Springfield.
Lou Eppinger furnished the
rifles. but Lou said he didn't
know about il and referred me
TO Eddie Eppinger, his nephew.
Eddie says the rifle in ques-
ton is a 30-40 Krag, a five-shot
bolt action repeater which was
used in the Spanish War, and
was made at the Springfield
ATmory.
The long-barreled single-shot
rifle that l had in mind, and
always thought was the prin-
cipal Spanish American War
weapon, is the 45-70 Springfield,
Eddie says, and was designed in
1878. He said he didn't Know
whether II was used in Cuba, but
1t might have been.
DANCER: A girl who heads a
line of dancing girls at the Casa
nova turns out 10 be a member
of quite a prominent family, once
YOU discover her real name. She
dances as Ann Grace, but her
name actually is Ann Weaver,
cousin of two members of Con-
greSs.
She's from Weaverville, ~, c.
Her great great grandfather
founded Weaver College, which
later merged with Trinity and
became the present Duke Uni
versity.
One OF her cousins, Zedlum
Weaver, is in the House of Rep
resentatives, and another, Rob-