Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
Jack Pickering
Here
and
Now

major in his Red army uniform Il
the Cafe Rouge -. A girl in ban
danna, wool jacket and Stacks
puzzling over an income tax blanl
on a street car at 2 a. m.
Sophie Tucker ready to go out L
Wayne County Airport Sunday 4
sing for the ferry command outfit
Winnie Sheehan, the Twentieth
Century-Fox director, is due her
10 work up background materia
for The Life of Eddie Ricken
hacker" The endless buz,
about "Who do you think is back
ing Gerald L. X. Smith," 81
things are getting expensive
Canada has boosted cigarets to 8
cents a pack Melva Block
the Romulus Mich girl. is booked
at the Bowery for whenever he
first movie. Private Miss Jones,
is released by M-G-M. To Holly
wood and back on roller skates!
"Pick: A Detroit girl told mo
this happened when she was on
a diner of n Chicago-to-Detroit
luxury train.
"a dowager was raising 80
much hell because she couldn't
get a second cup of coffee that
a marine (evacuated homo with
battle shock from GuadaIcanaD
handed her his, saying: Some
thing else can do for my
country
Thanks. she replied. You
know we civilians are being
- stripped of everything TO PAM
per the soldiers
And she drank IL. - Tom
Munce."
We hit the coast guard base on
the river front the other day in
our rankings. Among my notes:
A sailor. In the midst of one OF
our sudden freezing spells, walking
along a deck stripped 10 the waist
and apparently unconcerned at the
weather that had turned every
thing TO ice A landing barge,
zsueh=as= used Guadalcanal,
Dieppe and Casablanca, propped
up on saw horses, but not a word
Of explanation as to why ii was
there, An ice breaker. with
steam up, and coal piled u feet
high on the decks. ready 10 go to
work any time. and stay as long
as necessary An officers COM
ment: Naturally we can't tell you
such things as where the machine
guns are posted" You can't see
them, but they're there.
The coast guard doesn't just
operate lighthouses. Stationed
here in Detroit is a man who was
aboard the last Allied ship TO
leave Singapore. in a hailstorm OF
bombs; some who were here aren't
here any more. but in Africa and
New Guinea; others have seen
Murmansk and Iceland on convoy
duty. Who says the coast guard
tends lighthouses? They're fight
ing men.
From top 10 bottom it's like
that. c. A. Oesderreich. nick
named Ace. the cook. used 10 be
in the navy. The commanding
officer, 1t. Comdr. Henry A.
Meyer. has been 10 Pago-Pago,
Samoa, and Europe seven times
with. the coast guard.
He still has copies Of the ward
.pm news reports for August,
- Among the items: Detroit beat
Philadelphia. 9 TO 4; Henry Arm
strong and Lou Ambers weighed
in: Moscow said that a Russian
peace pact with Germany consti-
tuted no threat 10 the peace Of
the world; John Cobb drove a car
500 miles an hour; some ominouS
rumblings came from Danzig.
1t. Comdr. Meyers cutter was
in Bergen the day German troops
marched into Poland
Vera Dunn and Grace Martin
were lunching at Stouffer's, All
sales of canned goods were pro-
hibited that day, so when a lady
dropped a package that thumped
solidly, everybody looked.
II was wrapped in drug store
paper-obviously. The paper split.
Out rolled two cans of tomato
juice.
The woman's face. they report,
turned exactly the same color as
tomato Juice as she picked up the
cans and left.
They used 10 call this the land
OF opportunity because anybody
could make money.
In the Bolsheyik revolution a
young man left Russia on an oil
barge. He didn't crave money as
much as he wanted education.
He's known in Detroit as Mike
Freeman, mechanical engineer;
bachelor OF arts (U. of M, bache-
Tor of laws (Wayne) and, now. a
doctor Of medicine. Still learning,
he got his medical degree yester-
day.