Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27

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L ship, we would tell you all
about the weather. Anyhow you
aren't missing thing.
Well. the, Tigers wound up
their home season Tuesday play
ing to $4,000 empty seats 1,040
filed ones), and beat the White
Sox, 81. They end up in fifth
place. - =
There b one thing that can
be said about our Tigers-they
never finished last--the only
team In the league that can say
that.
Pvt George Birdie" Tebbetts.
OF the Army, Air Corps. was in
the stands behind the Sox dug
out, and from this strategic post
he harassed Jimmy Dukes.
The jumps took a long look.
Dykes squir,med as he got the
Birdie" and Private Tebbetts
had a swell Patsy O'Toole after
noon. Tebbetts Is on recruiting
duty In Detroit.
AS gas rationing gets nearer.
the DSR is preparing to handle
q terrific increass In riders.
Fred Nolan. manager, has ar
ranged to buy two trailers 10
hook onto buses to carry the
overflow.
The trailer In who'd and every
body is hoping things work out
all right.
The larger type trailer car
les Is persons and the smaller.
he. The smaller one will be
Used 10 transport workers to
war plants.
II will be hooked onto a pas
senger car OF person licensed
by the city. Both vehicles will
be tried out within 10 days.
The larger traiier Will be towed
along behind one Of the regular
21-passenger buses. II will be
manned by a street car at
tendant."
LUNNI little things continue
i TO happen. A man was in
court for burning a candle dur
ipg a practice blackout. His
excuse? He was looking for a
gas leak. Twenty dollars fine,
said Referee Courtney Fitzsim-
mons.
A 72-year-old man from st.
Joseph, Mich. James McAfee.
was sought by the police for
deserving his wife.
The runaway left note say
al ing he was going 10 join the
army. And he did. in a way.
He was found working as a
Waterman at Fort Wayne. He
squared it by offering his wife
$40 month.
There was a spectacular gun
fight between a policeman and
a safecracker at Grand River
and Brooklyn avenues. The ban
dit was killed and Patrolman
Wilfred MERCER was hit in the
thumb.
The dead bandit turned out
ia be an unexpected contributor
10 the scrap campaign.
Detectives located two garage
hideouts where he stored stolen
stuff.
The loot filled two trucks and
much of it went into the scrap
pile.
NHE breakdown is on speeders.
4 There is a new regulation--a
rubber and gas saver-cutting
speed In all parts OF the city
and county TO 30.
Traffic Judges Maher and
Murphy set new rates for vio-
lators. Speeders will pay S. if
they exceed the speed limits by
FIVE miles and $40 if they ex-
coed il by 10 miles and so on.
ANY one who wants TO take a
55-mile-an-hour ride at those
rates will pay plenty.
The first arrest under the
Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act
was a Bay City woman. who is
accused of evicting the wife and
three children of a soldier. The
FBI arrested her.
You will all be glad 10 know
that Detroiters are not forget
ting that Christmas is. just
around one OF those corners.
The first evidence in Detroit
came from the residents of
Rohns avenue.
Pledges from people in the
370O-3800 block on that street
assure the 10 service men from
those homes at least SIS for
Christmas. That's only a
starter.
Hamtramck got something 10
be proud Of this week-a service
flag with the figure $500 on II.
That represents the number
OF boys in service from Ham,
tramck. The flag will catch the
breeze from atop the city hall.
News of some OF the Detroit
boys in foreign service came
from Governor Van Wagner.
General Marshall, chief Of staff,
wired the governor that the
10TH Observation Squadron Of
the 67th Observation Group has
tination."
::ssfely reached an overseas des-
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