Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-17

SOn&s
From the new Slanguage:
Hes a bubble" The young fry
explain that bubble is "a
puffed-up drip"
Fred Schader and others in
qulre whether, with Tommy
Long not on hand, the ST. Pat
rick's Day custom Of serving
bright green beer il surviving.
Yes. Benny Young, and perhaps
others, are keeping the custom
alive. They use vegetable dye
to color the beer emerald green.
The navy men being trained by
ene nnney are doing all right.
Yaveral are from Detroit, and at
least one of them earned consider
able fame. But they're not too
keen on the nickname being APP
piled 10 them--Tunney-fish.
Next step in war shortages
may be In cleaning. Dry-cleaners
may soon start insisting that
customers remove ornate but
tons and decorations themselves.
The cleaners can't get enough
employees to do II.
John Murray Anderson picked
q tall blond dancer as IMPLYING
the traditional Ziegfeld girl in the
revived "FollieS. and the girl
winds up with a two-page spread
in the current issue of Pic. The
GIRL il Christine AyreS. who is. az
we reported few days ago, a
Detroiter who quit both burleSque
and her old name OF Charmalne,
And how did tho income tax Af-
feet the sale ~ war stamps: Well.
on the deadllne, Monday, the
downtown war savings office sold
20 bonds plus $3.50 worth OF
stamps, described as about the
same as the best Monday sales
we've ever had-and better than
most"
THE INFORMAL REPORTER:
Let me preface this with the state
ment that there is no more valu-
able writing than the stories
produced by a good reporter.
But life Is getting so complicated
that you can't keep track OF every
thing that happens. That's why
I'm trying this-a short. informal
piece about a big subject II you
like it. l might Try II on some
ching else. Here goes
With all the talk about black
.prkets. | went over 10 the OPA
~ asked A. y Ruegsegger how
much we had Of that sort OF
racketeeTing in Detroit
Not much. ne said. Nothing like
the number OF black markets that
sprang up in New York. although
the Detroit office recently got IL
indictments against black market
meat dealers around Detroit.
There probably will be a couple
more. he said. but he thinks it's
pretty well under control.
Right now they're getting COM
plants regarding poultry. mostly
that dealers are going South and
offering higher-than-ceiling prices
But Mr.. Ruegscgger said he didn I
think poultry would be rationed.
AS TO the amount of meat. he
said. that Maynard T.. Beukema
had worked out figures for Detroit
and, by leaning over backward in
the consumers favor. would up
with 3205 pounds a week per
person for the Detroit area, which
looks pretty good.
All in all, his opinion is that
Detroit is very well off. compare
lively speaking. LANSING, for
example, is much worried about
being cleaned out of meat before
the present ration period ends,
the lend of this month";
Nm fact. he said. he thinks De-
troiterS are cooperating extremely
well.
Even when ! came out. not too
politely. and asked him whether
he really meant il or was saying
il for its political or publicity
value. he said he meant il.
He's a rather blunt, curt indi-
vidual. and it's my guess that he
does mean it--thai DetroiterS are,
in the bulk. following rationing
pretty Clearly