The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-04-29

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By
RUSS COWANs

ways brings back fond memories OF
the late Daddy Pierre a solid
character whose rotund figure was
we'll known on Detroit's st. Antoine
street. Daddy wss born here
in New Orleans and during
wistful moments of retrospect was
not averse TO relating tales OF those
early days before the turn OF the
century when he was a roistering
young blade and the fieshpots
of the Crescent City were notorious
throughout the world. II was
from the lips of Daddy that ! nrst
heard of the legendary feats Of
Anne Christman the infamous
bully Of many, many years ago.
Daddy went 10 Detroit in the
early years Of the century and made
a small fortune In the gambling es-
Enlistment he maintained and OPP
Grated on st. Antoine but his
nest egg was dissipated after no
married luscious Blanche Thompson
back I'm 1920. Blanche, then .
cashier at the old vaudette theatre,
was rs years the junior Of Daddy.
After his money had been
wasted on finery for Blanche
Daddy sold apples for . number Of
years until the nostalgia for
the gumbO o: New Orleans COM
PEELED him to return TO his native
city where he died four or
five years ago.
Shortly after Ernest White Jr..
and I had disgorged ourselves from
the train and emerged from the
Union station in search OF taxicab.
We were almost bowled over
by plump little baggage who was
ready 10 throw some punches at a
young competitor who was attempt
ing TO lure her man away. We
were able TO make our escape in the
cab. Grady Farley. industrial
secretary of the New Orleans
branch OF the Urban League. said
that high wages in the Crescent
City were primarily responsible for
the large migration OF workers from
the rural sections Of Louisiana 10
ANN" vi ASdiS
tons here are almost as acute as
IN Detroit. Editor c. c. Dejoie
Jr., was occupying a bed in Flint
Goodwin hospital when I stopped
in the Louisiana Weekly.
Probably the most fascinating
place 10 visit here is the area called
Vieux Care but popularity
known as the French Quarters
an area bounded by Canal. Esplan-
ado, Rampant streets and the river.
. This was the original New Or
leans as founded by Jean Baptisie
LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienvillc.
There one sees the old Spanish type
houses which were made famous by
the French and Creolcs Jack
son Square. honoring tha com. 3
mander OF the American forces at
the Battle OF New Orleans. In the
War OF 1912. st. Louis Cath.
edral, one OF the Oldest in Amer.
prison the old slave quar-
tiers and thousands OF other
places OF interest. Algiers.
across the Mississippi river
Dillard and Xavier universities F.
F!int-Goodwin hospital and
the incredtably pungent food
served.
While standing at the corner q
Rampant and Julia Sunday morn
Ing. who should come barging across
the street but Bill Donaldson
the old Detroit publicist who used
to beat the drums Of publicity for
King kOlax's orchestra. Bill In
stationed at Camp Plauche here In
New Orleans and helping to
provide entertainment for the SOL
diers. Bill had prevailed on
King kodak to bring HIS BOYS down
from Arkansas and play for the SOL
diers Sunday.
Leaving the coach after the train
arrived at the station in jackson.
Miss. home Of Bilging Bilbo. |
walked into the colored waiting
room IN search OF a paper and
not finding one there, sought TO get
one IN the waiting room for whites
8. but burly officer Distracted
my path. and in gr1ff voice asked:
what do you want in there?" Il
want TO get paper" was my reply.
=. Not in there" the burly one
said. "Niggers are rot allowed in
mere. And a stalwart arm of
inc law in Memphis was itching 10
get White TO say something SO he
could use the good hickory stick.
Ernest wanted 10 follow me
across the apron OF the coach after
IL mad been closed by the porter
:. -. but was ordered 10 20 three
cars down and board the train
although White protested that his
luggage and ticket were in the car.
Engraved on the face OF the arm
DRY in Forrest City. Ark, are the
following words: CHARITY, JUS
TlCE, BROTHERLY LOVE. FIDEL-
lTH but 10 every Negro in the
Jim Crow coach going 10 Memphis
those words were just so much ba-
loney You can't get Justice
IN that town. said a chap who
boarded the train at Little Rock.
ard they don't know what Broth
erly Love means. Evidently some
one made mistake when he had
those words engraved on the arm
Dry"
Mrs. Rosie Hicks. who main
tatnS anu OpeFates RESTAURANT on
Walnut street I'm Hot Springs. was
unanimously selected rs the best
cook In the town by those who were
fortunate enough TO stray from the
beaten path and sample some Of
her food. IL requires q long
time for her TO prepare the food
but when IL arrives II IL really
delicious. Teena Roy was one
Of the best dressed women At the
Spa and Connie Hall carried
smile that was as big as her lie
pounds. Beatrice Ganghi, who
arrived in Hot Springs q few days
prior 70 our departure Is .
nurse, and her job with the govern
ment Is to accompany sick soldiers
TO hospitals In various sections OF
the country. She just returned
from q trip 10 Cape Cod.
And who should come stepping
into the lobby OF the Pythian hotel