The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-02-03

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By RUSS !. coWANs

The newspaper publishers and
editors have come and gone and
everything is quiet on the news
paper front However, there's
one guy that every one will re-
member =. Alexander Barnes, cir
culation manager Of the Washing
ton Tribune Barnes RECALLED the
delegates with his side-splitting
stories The conference. the Sec
ond wartime meeting OF the pub
fishers in the Central Region, pro-
vided the opportunity for number
of former newspaper men and
women TO renew acquaintance
with the boys and girls OF the
Fourth Estate -. for instance. Fred
Hart Williams was there to chat
with A. Arnet Murphy.
Forty years ago Ben Shook was
the controlling power in the field OF
music .. Ben's orchestra played
for all big social events In Detroit
and Crosse Pointe 81. His band
was THE BAND Saturday Ben,
a cOngenial and affable fellow. ceie-
brated his Sixty-seventh birthday
with a party at his home and .
large number Of old Detroiters
were there to felicitate Ben
Little Arthur Caruso Is back from
a trip 10 New York the. first
time he'd seen Seventh avenue In
seventeen years and, believe IL
or not. but Little Arthur, who spent
more than 10 years rs . resident
Of New York, was unfamiliar with
the various and many changes
which had taken place since he
left.
Deputy Bert Williams will be the
new process server working out OF
Sheriff Andrew Baird's Office
The following letter comes. from
W. J. Gardiner OK &c Acorn T.
way out in the South Pacific: This
is 10 inform you that the men OF
Acorn Seven-respectively OF the
CommiSsary Department - have
chosen, after heavy debate, Miss
Martha Lundy as our Dream Girl
OF the South Pacific To our
knowledge this is the first pinup
title to be presented by any navy
unit attached 10 the South Pacific
amphl bious forces AS We do
nN know Miss Lundy's address,
we, the selecteeS, ARE asking you 70
inform her OF our decision II
possible. we are asking picture Of
her, and signed by her 10 confirm
our title o.. am the official spokes-
man for the men, and request that
the return letter OF confirmation
with the requested picture be ad-
dressed 20 me- Now, IL Miss
Lundy VIII send in the autographed
picture. well have il on the way
very soon or we'll have the
Chronicle photographer make one.
We're awaiting her answer. @
Edward 3. Swint, has been
elected chairman OF the ST Antoine
Branch YMCAs twentieth annual
dinner scheduled for March q.
b.. The Membership committee will
De host 10 the dinner Ernestine
Kemp writes from Washington.
d. c.. that the Howard campus is
ovefrun With Students from Detroit
. The talk on the Main Stroll
is that Albert tGeechie) Pakeman
VIII soon move 10 Chicago where
he ii start doing business as pro-
feSsional bondsman Fletcher
Martin, foreign correspondent for
the NNPA and Louisville Defender,
who returned home last week after
- months in the South Pacific. tells
the story Of an interview with Gen
Douglas Mae Arthur Fletcher
had prepared his questions the
night before e.. but following the
introduction. Gen Macarthur con.
timed 10 talk necessarily for an
hour about the sun. moon. and
water never giving Martin r
chance 10 squeeze IN orc OF his
questions 49,. When one OF the gen.
erals aides motioncd 10 Fletcher
mat il was time 10 leave. Mac
Arthur rose and said that ne had
enjoyed the interview very. very
much