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Show i ODDITIES IN THE NEWS By UNITED PRESS . IONIA, Mich., Sept. 5 (III!) Hundreds of housewives, recalling restrictions on eugar during the last war, started a hoarding flurry : today and quickly depleted grocer- i ie.s' sugar supplies. The situation amused store managers. man-agers. They said a plentiful sup- i ply exists and advised customers against unusually heavy buying-They buying-They said they did not expect permanent per-manent price increuscs in sugar. MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich., ; Sept. 5 ULHi For the first time in Mackinac island history an automobile auto-mobile will roll over the quaint drives of this summer resort spot tomorrow. For one day only the state park commission will permit an automobile auto-mobile company holding a distrib- i utors preview to bring a 1940 model on to this autoless island. Horses will have their moment of conquest, however, when they haul the auto into a hotel ballroom through an opening cut In the wall. NEW YORK, Sept. 5 UU! It cost patrolman Anthony Doyle 50 cents today to arrest Irving Herman, Her-man, taxi driver, for passing a red light. Doyle ordered Herman tn drive him to the police station. ; When they arrived there Herman demanded 50 cents for the trip. ; Doyle's superiors said he had no alternative hut to pay. Later Ber- j man was fined $3 in traffic court. i |