Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-10

" points.
\ We wouldn't
for the world
2%.s.c interfere with
- . his way OF
~ life, but il
would save us
- a lot of worry
at our house
il he would
just let us
- - know how
Mn. PICKERING come. Here
are our theories:
He's a rugged, resource
full gent who shells fresh peas
and doesn't care whether he gets
any canned vegetables.
2-He eats IN restaurants.
Or
3-He's going 10 mix his
orange juice with gin and try
10 forget the whole business.
Which is il, mister?
Reports that Clark Gable j.
stationed at Wayne County Air
port are still current, but we
haven't been able to substznti-
ate them. Officially, he's at
tached TO an airfield out West.
UP e. DOWN THE STREET:
Bill Scholl leaves April TO be
a lieutenant j.g1 in the navy.
His predecessor. Harry Reming-
ton. has gone TO Carl Byoir e.
nhSsociateS Jay Mccormick.
ne youthful Detroit novelist.
has quit factory work and is
now police reporter.
Barry klinger. the Detroit g.
year-old who has gone 10 Cali
fornia to try to crack Holly
wood, IL living In an apartment
In the house built by Houdini.
-. Walter Liberace. the pianist
at the Statier Terrace Room,
gives you shiver with his story
Of Buck Jones' last broadcast I'm
Pittsburgh q day or two before
he went TO Boston and died In
the Cocoanut Grove fire. His
last words on the air waves
were: I'm living on borrowed
time"
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hill
dreth write regularly 10 between
40 and 80 men in service
UnSung lifesavers d. the traffic
samety bureau OF the Detroit po-
lice, which Commissioner With
erspoon calls the best of its kind
in America. 1t William c.
Raines and II picked men re-
duce death IN the streets by
safety lectures and movies in
the public schools Another
serviceman tells us that sou
venir hunters stole his hat It's
n dirty trick on the S50-a-month
men.
The legal brethren got a
snort in Judge Callender's court
IN one of those routine accident
suits Both sides had agreed
10 a S400 settlement for injuries
10 a teenage girl. The girls
father said $3.50 was for doctor
bills and $50 10 90 into a
guardianship account
To make n all official. tho
girl herself was put on the
.and.
"You understand" the at
torney asked, what II 10 be
done with the money!"
Evidently the girl hadn't been
listening. She shook her head.
Come now" the lawyer
prompted. Don't you remem-
her when we talked about how
the money was 10 he divided
up:"
A great light dawned
"Oh. yes" the girl beamed.
you're going TO get a third OF
whatever we get."
ASIDES 10 various people:
r. c. and others: Yup. Pay
able on death" is what il should
have said. Could l have been
preoccupied with some other
idea? Mrs. B. c.: Some others
have cited people like your hus-
band who seem 10 thrive on
working seven days a week.
But I'm still doubtful of il as a
general practice. To be on the
safe side. though, l will now
come out as opposed TO the
eight-day week -. AS TO Kit.
he smiles when Kitty sings TO
him. Kitten talks 10 him. or l
change his pants for him. On
second thought, maybe he isn't
smiling. Maybe he's laughing.
Edith Ewald: Your aunt's re-
mark that "any one who can't
slice bread nicely will he rich
some day" came just in time for
me 10 stop slicing u straight.
And now you can get sliced
bread again sydney VI. Miner:
No plant that know of includes
illness a. "absenteeism"
Mrs. X. D.: Your letter should
have been printed, but TO save
space let's just say that the
thousands on thousands Of war
iorkers who get only SIS, $50
Il SIS n week deserve at least
vote of thanks. For what ut
tie mine Ia worth--let II be re-
corded, e.>...