Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-26

DIR. PICKERING toeine that she
got her feet tangled up and
tripped herself Mamma Kitty.
downstairs. heard her; II sounded
like couple of wooden Indians
wrestling.
So Mamma Kitty waS ready 10
deliver stirring rebuke about
making noise. -.
But Kitten explained herself
out of il. It's all right" she
stage-whlspered Hell know it's
Just me falling down stairs. y
And sure enough, he didn't
wake up,
NAVY CLUB. We stopped in
10 see Chief George Beauregard
Al the Navy Club. the new one.
The chief formerly had quarters
in the Bsrlum Hotel but when II
was sold he was shunted down 10
the old White Star Line Building.
dilapidated brick structure Al
the edge of the river at the foot
OF Griswold
In the last couple ri years
his two Navy Clubs have shell
tered and befriended around
20, 600 nsy-reertffts- who. uthpr-
wise, would have had to kill
time hanging around the streets
or Federal Building corridors
while waiting TO he sent TO boot
camp.
When the boys get their first
Burroughs, they frequently stop
In at the club. and that's a sign
~ Its value. They remember
and appreciate II. The other
day the first Of the furloughing
WAVES. Dorothy Newton. yeo-
man &C, hack from training at
saltwater. Okla. stopped In To
pay her respects, too.
However. at the present mo-
ment the city has removed the
Navy Club from the budget,
effective July !. and unless some
change IL made. the club will
have To disappear Al that time,
The amount involved IL $4,000 a
year.
Nv dint 81 inventing. adapting
and applying elbow grease, Chief
Beaurrgard has turned a ram
shAckle wreck Of building into
n useful place and II would he
q shame To lose IL.
The recruits. who play games,
rest. read and eat sandwiches
there, also scrub. paint and
patch. One lad converted a dis
carded radio into an electric
photograph. The Navy Mothers,
busy there every day. make
sandwiches and coffee. For lack
Of chairs the chief uses donated
furniture and even couple Of
school benches.
It's remarkable ion Of making
something out Of nothing II Is
our understanding that some Of
the city fathers already are Of
the opinion that the club ought -
be kept in operation That's our
opinion, too.
LITTLE BLACK DOG: This
film Of the Battle Of Africa CDes-
ert Victory" Fox Is an amazing
thing when YOU come 10 think Of
what a. really means.
It's celluloid history Of the
Eighth ArmyS drive that chased
Rommel from FL Alamein "a
Tripoli. photographed by the Brit
ish army.
When YOU know what II cost in
mems lives YOU understand how
- tal ~
get those films. -Four camcramen
were killed. seven were wounded
and six were captured It's pic
ture of modern war taken right
there while the fighting Is going
on
II makes YOU wonder, too
whether II Is worth mans life
Just TO get photographs But the
films weren't taken just for the
entertainment value. They have
other uses.
Anyway. the film IL one that
will make your blood run colder
than any picture Of a Franken-
stein monster. because you know
that monsters are Pigments and
YOU know that this IL real.
IL shows men In training,
taking naked bayonets away
from each other. II shows them
falling In gunfire and II shows
them gathering up the wounded.
Films were made OF Austria
lians In bayonet charges against
the Germans hut these-and IL
IL Just as welfare not shown.
And yet. for all the hypnotic
terror that exists In photographs
Of men killing and dying. what
clings In your mind afterward:
It's a brief scrap Of scene taken
OF Raj pilots running To get
into their planes for an attack.
You remember trifling de-
tail In that scenc-a little black
ragamuffin of a dog, running NJ
his masters heels, staying with
him until he climbs into his