Part Timer

In Dallas, Rev. B. P. Brown, 30, part-time preacher and part-time baggage clerk, was found by police hanging, gagged and nude, by a rope from a chandelier over the pulpit in his church. For two days he repeated a shocking story of attempted lynching by four "enemies." Then he confessed: he had intended suicide, changed his mind.

$377

In Batanga, Cameroun, West Africa, black Pastor Eduma Musambi heard of "starving Americans," raised $3.77 among his Bulu parishioners, sent it through ;i missionary to Presbyterian mission headquarters in Manhattan.

Buckle

In New Orleans, Joe Martin of St. Tammany Parish, arraigned before U. S. Commissioners, sported a shiny belt buckle six inches wide engraved with two men drinking beer and the inscription, "Bootlegging King of Slidell."

Cure

In Manhattan Dr. Edward L. Mann appealed for a health education campaign among the foreign-born, cited his own knowledge of a case in which a mother attempted to cure her infant daughter of whooping cough by feeding her a live goldfish.

Nickel

In Washington Mrs. Rita Nickel sued a department store for $50,000 because a male employe opened the door of a closet in which she was trying on a dress.

Blind

In Memphis, Dr. Ernest Cleaves, blind osteopath, won a divorce from his blind wife on charges of misconduct with a former sweetheart, also blind. Two blind witnesses testified for Dr. Cleaves.

Transgressors

In Boston Carl Salin and Mike Yasuck, arrested for mauling one another, were sentenced each to recite the Lord's Prayer to the other three times.

Puny

In Poplar Bluff, Mo., "Uncle" Tommy Kemp, 118, complained of feeling old. Said he: "I've been puny most of the spring and couldn't do my farming. . . . About all I can do is sit around the house and be a grouch."

Confidence

In Chicago John C. Braschler, accused of operating a confidence game, failed to appear in court when his case was called. Explained his lawyer, "He's a juror in a criminal case in another court." "What kind of a case?" the court inquired. Replied the lawyer: "Operating a confidence game."

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