Luck

In Chicago. Nicholas Perisich went to his bank, withdrew $10,000. Next day the bank failed. "I was just lucky," said he. Lucky Nicholas Perisich locked his $10,000 in an old trunk from which it was soon removed by a burglar.

Argument

In Morgantown, W. Va., Jessie Jolliffe decided to commit suicide. He paid all his bills, then called on an undertaker, asked the price of a funeral. The undertaker told him. Jessie Jolliffe objected, started a fight. Police arrested him. a judge sentenced him to six months in jail.

Sisters

In Anderson, Ind., Lawyer Arthur Call well knew the Armstrong family--a mother, four sons and two daughters. Some time ago the mother died. Soon afterwards Lawyer Call received a call from Geneva and Nola Lee Armstrong, was surprised to behold them dressed as men. Agitated, they explained that they only lately learned they were men. Their mother, longing for daughters, had raised them as girls from birth. Last week, through Lawyer Call, Geneva, 33, and Nola Lee, 31, asked a court to change their names to Noel and Gene.

Bends

In Brooklyn, Thomas ("Cheerful Tom") Nestor left work early. A sandhog, digging under the East River in an atmosphere of compressed air, he was eager to get home and tidy up the apartment to greet his wife next day when she returned from the hospital with their new baby. He hurried through the decompression chambers, found himself in normal air pressure too soon. At 3 a. m. he woke up choking, writhing with "the bends." Gasping for air, he staggered to a window, threw himself against the pane, fell to the sidewalk three stories below. His wife & baby remained in one hospital and Cheerful Tom Nestor was taken to another with a broken hip, several broken ribs, to recover from his attack of "the bends."

Secondhand

In Orrtanna. Pa., Father Will Whalen saved $60 by buying a secondhand tombstone, having the inscription chiseled off, his own name cut in its place. Said Father Whalen: "I'm used to secondhand stuff."

Smiles

In Jersey City. N. J., Mrs. Fannie Yellman complained to Assistant District Attorney Morris Panger that one Sulyman, Egyptian clairvoyant, and his wife, Mme Bimbo, defrauded her of $400 she had paid for the return of her kidnapped brother, Smiles Malchinsky.

Crash

In the shadow of Stone Mountain Memorial, Bud Jaban and two companions were riding in a wagon pulled by two horses. Along came an automobile, crashed into the wagon. When the dust cleared Bud Jaban was sitting on the far horse, his companions had been thrown through the side of a house, the near horse was sitting in the wagon. A buckle struck a passerby, knocked him down a 30-ft. bank. Two others ran to help, stumbled, one breaking two ribs, the other cutting his face. The automobile driver started his car, drove away.

Glass Eater

In Valley Stream, N. Y., George Bishop tried to commit suicide by grinding up five electric light bulbs and eating them. Doctors found he had only a slight case of indigestion. Glass Eater Bishop used to eat glass in a side show.

Japanese

In Manhattan, Miss Adeline L. Leung, a Japanese, won a suspended sentence in traffic court when she explained that she had read vertically a horizontal signal made by a traffic officer.

Credit

In Ann Arbor, Mich., Ed and Manuel Smith waited in jail 107 days to be tried for simple larceny, carrying a maximum penalty of 90 days. A judge credited them with 17 days each on the next sentence they receive.

Bills

In Mountain Home, Ark., inmates of the Baxter County jail are charged $1 per day for board & lodging, billed when released, prosecuted for nonpayment.

Joe

In Dallas, Tex., Joe Hay, Joe King, Joe Ark and Joe Wah Yee sought an injunction to keep Joe Chung. Joe Kay, Joe Yick and Joe Sin from interfering with the management of their Chinese restaurant.

Determined

In Chicago, Roy McGiven fell on the street and hurt himself. Recovering, he was hit by an automobile, injured again. On his feet once more, Roy McGiven slipped beneath the wheels of a train, was killed.

Nosebleed

In Brooklyn, Thomas Prendergast, while driving his car, felt a sting on his nose. His nose began to bleed, would not stop. Thomas Prendergast drove to a hospital. While a doctor was examining him he coughed, spat out a bullet.

Love

In Kansas City, Mo., Hazel ("Bubbles") Blacketer quarreled with her lover, Milton Smith, broke his whiskey bottle. Complained Smith: "You love Snooks (her Pekingese) more than you love me. I'm going to take him for a ride." Bubbles Blacketer killed Milton Smith with a shotgun, told police: "I'm sorry I shot him. but he had no business treating Snooks that way."

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