Detroit evening times., 1943-08-27

/X|</& We I1ust Va
X cate before
# |} school opens.
- He can't
"i"' nv """ und e rstand
that with our playground equip
ment and supervision the lot is
better than standing idle. After
We do vacate il will be nee
esSary for him 10 do his own
policing, and IL will be 100 chill
dren and not 40 as IL Is now.
do YOU know any one want
ing some playground equip
ment?
At almost the same time,
Meta Eckel, of the Detroit rec
reation department sent the
following memorandum about
another neighborhood play
ground II concerns a man
named KutChlS. and here's the
memorandum
SAMUEL KUTCHIS, Apt. :,
675 willis West.
Greek. Came 10 this country
in 1910.
This gentleman donated
flag for the new plaNlot on
Willis between Second and
Third where the parks and rec
-rcatlon commission has provided
safe place for the neighbOr-
YoOd youngsters 10 play.
when I commented on his
generosity he said. NO, no. il is
"A privilege that l COULD give
this flag. Every time j 20 by
and see these children playing
so safely and happily ! think
of the poor starving children Of
Greece. Nv own mother and
father died of starvation in
Greece.
HE didn't want 10 take part
In the dedication ceremony last
night because he was afraid the
public might think he wanted
the advertising He runs bar
in the ncighborhood.
The workers insisted that he
come up 10 the platform, and
before he handed the flag In the
scout who WAS 10 raise il, he
bent his head and reVerently
kissed the folded flag"
RANDOM NOTES WHILE
ROWING: Alice Gorham, The
movie press agent, on vacation,
and insisting that She must be
a suppress agent Sammy
Dlbert. who could have been
another Dorsey on Goodman,
bat refused alI such opporrunI-
ties
Fame isn't worth the head
aches. he insisted . Marian
Francis. tho singer. trying 10
decide what her name is. often
n headache for show people.
She was born Marian Frances
Charlesworth, and now thinks
she prefers 10 be Marian
CharleSworth again She viii lCt
p numcrologiSt recommended 10y
Vincent LOPEZ decide h for her.
Chinatown note, h placard
ln a store urging the stranger 10
Ime inside for Chinese services
~ an evangelist Moppets
riding n toy automobile on tho
sidewalk while their fathers m
Chinese slippers. stand IN The
EplaCid evening outside the Mcr-
chants Building, the center Of
Chinese activity &C.. The waiter
who rInSeS tables with a cloth
dipped in tea Rice cookies
folded and baked with a slip Of
papek inside with a Joke printed
on y The famous place
where they some times play Chi
neSes music on a phonograph
... Business proSpeTS more and
more. out OF Americas respect
for ChIna'S endless courage
and Chinatown turns lts profits
from this var-born prosperity
back into war relief funds.
The average Detroiter doeSn' 3
know u exists. but the fellows
who arc down ON their luck
know where ii Is, on p side
street of Skid Row
II goes under the name of
The 3 and ;" a name that was
descriptive once because man
could get coffee for 3 cents,
and something 10 eat for 3
IN the depression days they
ecryed complete dinner IN
Guiding a modest dessert, for
s cents.
But fusher days have changed
all that. and a full meal costs
now quarter The menu offers
iff-bone steak is most cNtraN-
aEant Item. az % cents.
The place was not started in
the depression. but \ few years
before. IN 1925. by the late
David Bril-. Since his death II
has been handled aS an estate,
--AI,-llIllaaa-Pa4t@.-s4ad-aei--aa..s-
serves food but has similarly
~riced hotel attached and bar.
But there. too. the boom has
eWelled prices 1t was, / suspect.
one Of the last places 10 serve
whisky for a nickel The price
IS now 20 cents.
Sausage Firm Fined
The HN-GrAde Sausare @ gsl.