Winner

In Los Angeles, Parachute Jumper E. S. ("Spud") Manning challenged Jumper Harold ("Bud") Brandon to a contest to see who could drop nearer the earth before opening his chute. Plummeting from the sky, Jumper Brandon pulled his ripcord at 100 ft. altitude, won the match, was dashed to death upon the ground.

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Cutlery

In St. Paul, surgeons took an 8 1/2-in. table fork from the stomach of Margaret Santell, 19. In Los Angeles, doctors fed cotton & spinach to Raymond Wilkinson, 5, to pad a small open pocket knife working slowly down through his intestinal tract.

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Levy

In Manhattan, of 23 men picked for the February grand jury seven were named Levy.

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Dreamer

In San Angelo, Tex., A. W. Billingsley, deputy U. S. marshal, searched for a fugitive all day. That night he dreamed he found him. Waking, he dressed, went to the place of his dream, found his man crouching in a closet.

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Falls

In the Niagara River, famed Niagara Falls, frozen, had almost entirely stopped falling.

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Curtain

In Prague, a fireman on duty at the Pardubitz municipal theatre was knocked to the floor by the descending iron safety curtain which kept on coming as he lay on the floor, hit his neck, decapitated him, rolled his head into the orchestra pit.

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