Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Jack Pickering
Here
and
Now

"a year and a half ago her
son was indicted into the army.
He did well, studied hard. The
neighbOrs were interested, came
To listen to mother read his let
ters aloud.
"Then the letters became less
and less communicative. They
were gay, gallant letters, but
they said nothing, told no news
OF the lad himself.
HE came home on leave-in
civies. The n e & o h d
started to gossip +. that he had
been busted out of the army
that he was AWOL. Somebody
reported him TO the FBI. Some
body else, to the army induction
center.
when mother goes to her
bridge club each week, there's a
furried change In the converse
ton as she comes In the door.
And she knows what her friends
are talking about.
but mother carries on with
smile. That Is her part of
this war job. Her son il work
ing for army intelligence, In
civilian attire.
"Only now and then, when the
gossip Is particularly bad, she
say, I'm just waiting for the
day this war Is over. IL will be
my pleasure 10 tell them So
she waits In silence, and by her
silence serves. T."
NOTES AND PEOPLE: The
manpower shortage is hitting
Wayne University. DR.. Paul X.
Butterfeld is teaching two classes,
HISTORY and government, in the
class room at the same time.
Talks first TO one group, then the
other. tterfiel says it's
tougher than clearing the road
for Red Grange" He was a block
ing back at Illinois when the Gal
loping Ghost was playing.
Leo Kirchner. home on furlough
from the South. arrived in Chicago
without an overcoat, and the mer-
curry was 2 below. Home in Detroit,
he saw his son, now months old,
for the first time.
Ethel Shepherd is another De-
troit girl doing all right away from
Detroit. Very popular in New
Orleans for her singing.
Africa isn't the only place pro-
ducing mutterings about the
WAACs. Those panied yelps you
hear are from the non-coms at
Fort Custer. Since the recent
WAAC promotions. WAC SER
geants are being commanded by
army corporals, and WAC cor
porals by army privates.
The Black Legion may have been
dissolved after the night-rider muir
ders of several years ago. but the
aftermath Of the unsavory bust
ness is what's stirring up the
political rumblings in Highland
Park.
Aside to Leonard Keller; Those
two men you met in the Cafe
Cadillac were Dick Bergen and
Oscar Davis, the impressarios who
are setting out 10 establish hill
!. billy music at the Masonic Temple
Cab Galloway packs more Gus
toners into old Orchestra Hall
than the symphony did: and we
might as well have barn dances at
the Masonic Auditorium as long as
Detroit can't support the SYM
phony any more.
Here on furlough: Capt Albert
Shapiro. former detective sergeant
in the Detroit police. He and 1t.
Harry Reeves were members of
the Detroit police pistol team,
holders of the worlds champion
ship. Now both are in the Marine
Corps, teaching instructors how 10
teach marines how TO shoot at
Quantico Va.
POETIC justice. military style,
put a sergeant in his place the
other night at place you could
hit with a baseball from here--if
you could curve 1t around corner
or two.
A corporal and lieutenant
were celebrating congenially, and
AS the evening drew on the mat
ter of respective rank was for
gotten-for two reasons.
First. both had orders 10 go
overseas. Second, in private life
they both had been important ex-
ecutives. So it didn't matter to
them which wore the bars and
which the stripes.
They were engaged in animated
talk and neither noticed the APP
prQach of another soldier. The
newcomer was young, short, APP
parently new in the army, and
very much conscious of his SER
geant's stripes.
The huge bulk of the corporal
happened TO block his way.
Corporal" snapped the SER
geant. The corporal looked up.
"StaHd aside and let me pass"
ordered the little sergeant inn