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Show Hunger Pangs End Girls' Hitch-Hike Tour ; Start Out to See World, but Stomachs Rebel. Atlanta, Ga. Pangs of hunger brought to an abrupt end here a proposed pro-posed hitch hike tour of the .world by two pretty Michigan girls, and now they tre back at their homes at Grand Rapids, where they ran get three square meals a day. If not romance and excitement. The girls are Thelma . Benson, Ifteen, end Leone Bristol, seventeen. seven-teen. They got as far as Atlanta In fine shnpe, although the pangs of hunger hun-ger first struck them at Chattanooga, Chatta-nooga, f day's drive from here. By the time they got here their tongues were fairly hanging out. Having no money and no means of satisfying their hunger, they wandered along the streets qf Atlanta, At-lanta, looking In windows of rest a u-rtnts u-rtnts and grocery stores. At a grocery deportment display of a Urge uptown department store Leone and Th' linu became so en grossed that they went Inside and paced slowly op tnd down the aisles, looking with longing glances at the food on the counters. Tbelr action aroused the suspicions suspi-cions ol store detectives, and before they knew It they were whisked to the office of the manager. There they told their story. They had left their homes Intending to go to Florida and ship from there to South Amjiict, later going to Spain and the continent "What were you using for money?" the manager asked. "We thought we could earn our way." said Leone. "We were wrong." The manager agreed at their request re-quest to wire their ptrents. In the meantime they were taken to the police station, where they stayed only a few hours before wires came The girls ate for the first time In two days Just before they boarded a train for Grand Rapids. "Travel may broaden the mind," Leone observed, "bnt It certtlnly , flattens the stomach." |