Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-15

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n Gates, so IN q
=. .,-v,,. OF them don't
know w n D
their parents are, or where.
"Why, you'd be surprised at
some of the things they tell me
when they come In and ask
about enlisting. Some Of them
work in bowling alleys, and
sleep there because that's the
only place they have.
"Some of them Just sleep
anywhere they can get under
cover. and last summer. some Of
them used To climb mp and sleep
on the deck NJ this ship"
Bill Pau. running the Sports
mems Show az Olympia, must
be one of the original hard luck
guys. He couldn't start setting
up his show until the Red Wings
won the Stanley Cup. because
they had 10 keep the arena
ready IN case another game was
necessary.
Aside from all tho other
troubles, transportation short
age labor shortage and every
thing else. the canoe fitting
tank sprang a leak the morning
etthe opening day and flooded
him out
BY nightfall he had every
thing under control and, 10
make up for il. he finally gets
a streak Of good luck. So did
the Red Wings
The Red Wings although
champions Of the hockey world,
get no public greeting from De-
troiteTS. not because this old
town doesn't know how 10 greet
a championship team, but be-
cause. of gasoline shortages and
so on.
Aside from small dinner to-
night, the Red Wings won't have
any public welcome. But Pau
has figured ont a way Ia do II.
Tomorrow night. ne j. going 10
let the Red Wings give an "a
hibition Of canoe fitting at the
SpOrtsmen's show
He tried u the Nother night,
hut nobody knew he was going
To. so that was merely1s> pre-
view. Les Douglas won, With
Joe Carveth and Carl LiScombe
a. runnsrSup.
The hockey champions are
about as good al canoe fitting
as the average canoe litter Is
at ice skating. which IL terrible.
Tough Johnny Mowers is jast
about the worst.
They are dressing up In Hal
loween-type costumes. and the
whole business II about the
coolest welcome any champion
ship team ever got. But it's all
right. although 10 takes As goofy
town as This one 10 make
success Of things like that.
4 transient thought on a
street car while looking az a
woman with a package addressed
% soldier, APO No. Some.
thing
The course Of army induction
runs from living IN hope Of
what the OPA viii give YOU, 70
hoping for what the APO VIII
bring.
The Optimist Club brought
Charles Francis Coe here 10 tell
why the motion picture industry
il important in war.
Our own opinion II that this
Is obvious, and doesn't need Ia
he explained, hut YOU never
know. Maybe, Hollywood IL
right in defending itself for
doing a very good job.
Afterward, In the Variety
Club rooms. Coe talked with a
group of exhibitors and distribu-
tors, and a question from one
of them was:
"Some people complain that
too many propaganda pictures
are being shown. What about
it,"
Goes answer was:
when we make too many
war pictures. people will stop
going To them, and YOU Will
notice IL az the box office. The
public is the final Judge"
What more il there 10 say
about il?
PASSING SCENES: The
soldiers kissing their girls
goodby Al the Windsor tunnel
entrance =. a youthful father
reading Gen Hershey's an
nouncements and wondering out
loud whether 10 buy a new suit
The tired walk OF hospital
nurses who have much too much
work 10 do
a waiter rcmarking.
Nobody asks for extra butter
any more. And they've even
quit asking for meat II II isn't
on the menu"
The kids out our way, fixing
UP a makeshift baseball dia-
mond because the old one is a
Victory Garden now Teen
age girls who fall asleep on the
owl cars. knowing that some
body will wake them up when
the. car gets 10 The factory gates
And hOVS i'm uniform who