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Show ItHEED. BI T BOSS SAYS STICK; ID COMES LATEB (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON Treed by bears and ordered by telephone not to take .'flight when an avenue for escape 'opened was the plight of J. W. Hodgo. I fire guard on the Shenandoah natiopal J range. Hodge took his post as fire lookout H one morning and failed to bring his H gun. For a long time his eyes roved H In tho far-distant ranges for any In- H dlcation of fire. Then to rest his eyes H for a minute ho looked to the ground. Thore were several bears. H Without his gun. Hodges was help- H loss. Tho bears had not been attracted H bj him, and they were "attending to JH I their own business " Feeling he could J make his escape and get his gun, H Hodgs (.ailed to his chief, District H Ranger Shanklln, for permission to J his H I "Nothing doing" or words to that ! effect, was bis only reply, and Hodgo j was left to the mercy of the bears H Another lookout heard tho conver- J sation by listening in on the wire and H no I |