Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-19


over shot in Michigan. Not
knowing much about bears my
self. called -Eppingers and
asked them
"HOw blg il a big bear"
They answered cautiously:
well. SOME people say
250-pounder is big"
When said "Then 500
pounds is big" they gulped quite
audibly and said something en-
phailc that meant yes
Or Patterson shot the bear
in Altoona County lie was after
deer and armed with a .3O-cali-
Der deer rife. Monday alter
nbon. he was boiling beside
deer nun. with A FIRE 10 keep
hum warm, and was about two
thirds asleep
Then. he heard the bear COM
inc
a bear can outrun a man any
day of the week. even with four
or five bullets in the bear This
beast wrist was as big A.
mans thigh and one cuff could
easily kali q man However.
bears don't usually chase men
far Usually. they prefer 10 run
the other way.
As an antIclimaN Or. Patter-
son also got deer, bat the
bear lS all he's Interested IN.
He's going TO have Paul Young
make The hide into rug
Fl%ERS When YOU ride the
DSR nuyCy Ut CHS you prob
ably. don't think much about
hoW they manage 10 keep run
ming On maybe you do. When
YOU get on some OF The RATHER
ones. YOU wonder Why the poor,
tired hacks don't lie down in the
street and quit
The reason they keep going
is because the DSR has a main
tcnance crew. enlarged now 10
shotil tJfte men To fix them.
Thee of the men dropped IN
Yesterday John Davis, national
executive board member Of the
union John Mason. president Of
Local 3l2. and Harold Born
bsk a committeeman.
They came primarily 10 give
me a check for Si65 for the
sunshine iund. After the Labor
DAY parade, the union enter
tanned nine wounded soldiers
and took up collection "sp
the boys could do " hateVPr they
wanted to-"
The soldiers frugally didn't
spend all the money and over
800 was ipft. i5ocni Sl2 then
added enough more To make
SI65, which IL the price of three
Singer surgical stitchers which
will he presented, through the
Sunshine Fund, 10 surgeons at
the Dearborn naval station,
Kellogg Field. and the Oscoda
gunnerN Sub-haSe y
The 1000 member, az Local
81 Estate. County and NlImcf-
pa Workers. ClOI no doubt arc
most valuable IN their pSR
lonS. hat do quite few things
! beside
They subscribed $4,000 in
var bonds In the last drive,
S7.303 for the War Chest. and
do many such things, a. we'll A.
keeping the blood hank filed
for the Red Cross AT Harper
Hospital
But making the Wheeling
DSR equipment run IS vital
They get almost no neW equip
ment and rebuild motors them
selves They make ren7p aSC;e
and weld broken or worn parts
50 they can see service again.
PARTY. ON The subject OF
unions. Eva Detterer president
Of the oWomen'S auxiliary ot
Local $50 Al Continental Motors.
tells me they have a new enter
prise Saturday night. they're
giving 4 party for Servicemen
a. odd Fellows Hall
An through the war plants
there are scores of such groups
trying 10 do all they can. IN
many WAYS, 10 make life better
for the fighting men
lis tough feeding them some
times a meat packing firm *
donating ham for sandwiches,
The only limit being
"We'll give YOU - much ham
So YOU can get points for.
So they're digging for points
BUT-SANTA.: But Of all
these things. right now we're
the most interested In Santa for
ServiCemen. The Times wants
to get n Christmas box for every
soldier, wounded or otherwise.
in this area. {
We hope that all these yari-
aus organizations will help us
because We need huge number
~ boNes--eNact number a mill
tary secret.
Anyway. We think it's some
, thing that needs To he done and
ven keep talking about II until
the Jobs done.