Monday, Oct. 03, 1932
Bugs
In Fordyce, Ark., because the high-school football team is called the "Fordyce Red Bugs," every player on the squad has dyed his hair bright red.
Hand
In The Bronx, the six-fingered hand of Negro Will F. Woodard. a pickpocket with twelve fingers, got jammed in James Tewess' pocket as he slept in a subway train.
Hand
In Gavardo, Italy, having signed promissory notes for several friends. Giuseppe Mazzolini, 36. was obliged to pay them when his friends defaulted. When the last defaulted, he laid on a table the hand with which he had signed the notes, pulled out a pruning knife, hacked the hand off.
Hit
In Corcoran. Calif., when arraigned on a charge of hitting his wife with a hoe, meticulous Julio Rodriquez denied the charge, declared it was not a hoe but a shovel.
Hit
In Chicago, a southbound elevated train hit Charles Mead, lofted him over to the northbound tracks where a northbound train lofted him back to the southbound tracks where another train lofted him off the elevated structure to the ground. His worst injury: a broken leg.
Hearts
In Wilkinsburg, Pa. doctors of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. discovered that Edward Reynolds. 32, has two hearts.
Desire
In Minneapolis, an advertisement read: "Lazy, careless, shiftless man, 36, afraid of work, desires position."
Revenge
In Glen Ridge, N. J., in revenge for a town zoning ordinance preventing her from renting her house to an oil company, Mrs. Daniel A. Warren hung red flannels in the front yard, painted the front steps red with green risers, the first story bright orange-yellow, the trim of the front door bright blue, the door green, the upper story red, white, green and blue, striped and smeared. She hung two big dummies against the . wall, painted a donkey, an elephant, seven jackasses, a sign "Speak gently, shush, KISS ME," a figure of blindfolded Justice saying "Oh. my!" in an attitude of dancing, a large stein of beer labeled "Oh, boy!." and the legend. "Don't you know you're being ridiculed?" Mrs. Warren's library includes a set of "The World's Wit & Humor."
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