The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-11-13

! looks like crowbsr) | lay one OF
m two only arms on the table and
sc; ready for the kill CAN'T ! a
sissy? Don't answer thsO She turns
around. takes one look al my arm
and remarks II said your arm. not
your finger" Before can think OF
a comeback she takes hammer and
drives the needle into my arm up
10 the shoulder. then says. 10 the
world al large. You haven't got
enough blood 20 give a ASKING worm
TRANSMISSION" BY now ! am ready
10 give her piece Of my mind but
remember there is only one piece
left. and besides there are about
a dozen great big guys right behind
me glazing rs IL they had already
caught up with Hitler. so I decide
Heaven can wait and | forget the
whole thing Gar be il from me
TO hold up the army.
X X X
AFTER SHE HAS taken my two
drops Of blood and get trans
fusion from fishing worm I put on
my coat and star; out and who do
! run into but Holland again, He is
still talking up breeze, in fact
think he is still going on from
where ! left him Is minutes be-
fore. He and a dozen others com
plain that the room scold. so pull
out picture OF LENA HORNE and
they all peel off their coats and
begin 10 wipe the Precipitation from
their sad faces. II is when Holland
takes Off his coat that I understand
better why the army won't take
him, for he is a worse excuse for
masculinity than ! am. In fact
think a stomachache and a back.
ache hit him in the same place and
because one or the other may hit
him soon. beat It out into the
other room.
X X X
THREE MEN ARE bent over a
big guy who has tainted away like
female Frank Sinatra fan and Just
as one man is about to pour a drink
into his mouth nurse walks by and
he is instantly brought back to life.
all OF which leads me TO believe
there was nothing wrong with the
big dope in the first place. With my
aIIauad nvarcnat hn4tO,aI ~ arn,,nJ
my neck ! start for the street and
who do run into but JITTERBUG
JOE, boogie-woogieing through the
door ] hold out my hand for the
inevitable shake and Joe slips me
some gloved skin, and before I can
get word in edgewise, straight
through the middle or over the top
he cracks, Greetings Gates, and dig
this 1--WE. I'm bringing Adolph back
alive; and IL the play Is righteous
here at home, TIL make FDR
present Of Rome; then I'm cuttin'
out for Toxic. to keep a date with
old TOTO: we'll lay the play like a
checkerboard move. when Jitterbug
Joe gets in the groove" Then the
Bard Of Beaubien Street sticks one
finger strai ght down towards the
floor and boogie-woogies out OF
sight
IN r X X
Z TOWN TALK: Reverend and Mrs.
[wILLIAM H. PECK Mill leave for
eFlorida about Jan.-1 ...... EBE-
MEIER AM.E. church will begin
its new years program with a
youth worker who has been es-
pecislly trained for his job 500.
Atty. HAROLD BLEDSOE and
JOHN DANCY say "phooey" to
Earl Browns article in Harpers
mag $40. WILLIS WARD and
JESSE OWENS who spent the sum-
mer months feuding' over golf are
continuing the fight on the bowling
alleys ...... Uncle Sam, who has
CHARLIE DUCKWORTH lodging
the postman also has his eye on
CLAUDE COOPER OF the YMCA
$50. Mrs. Margerat Mccall. OF our
competing sheet. is up and around
after several weeks illness ......
And little Muriel Harvey. whom
doctors had given up. is doing nice
ly thank you ..... The BENNY
WILLIAMS image is expected
about Dec. ...... HERMAN
JACKSON, who moved from an in
structor's job at Wilberforce TO a
defense plant in his own garage. is
back in Xenia. Ohio, in still an
other defense plant ...... MONDAY
] crowds at YWCA are beginning TO
MCHT EAE ANn IL