Goddess

In Greensboro, N. C. Robinson R. Stabler, glowing with international goodwill, proposed that New York Harbor's Goddess of Liberty be equipped with loudspeaker and polylingual set of records, thunder appropriate greetings and farewells at passing ships.

Trippers

In Chicago to attend the Fair arrived Professional Footballer Cecil ("Red Hot") Burns who had set out on foot from Dallas, Tex. last spring with a bale of cotton on his back (TIME, June 12). Also in Chicago last week arrived Dr. John R. Carter, 52, and his daughters Lois Jean, 13, and Rovena, 9. They had rollerskated from Detroit in seven days, averaging 45 mi. per day.

Father

In Chicago, Mrs. Marjorie McKennon sued her husband Paul for divorce, charged that last Christmas he gave their three children gifts of money, filched it while they were asleep, told them next morning that "for some unknown reason" Santa Claus had come back for his presents.

Satan

In Reno, John Edwards Sievers filed a claim to the $100,000 willed by the late Horace Elliott Wadsworth as a reward for the apprehension of his murderer. Said John Edwards Sievers: "The coroner said Wadsworth died of 'acute alcoholism.' This is evidence that Satan, or the devil, killed him by an indirect method."

71

Near Troy, Ohio when a train crashed into her horse & buggy, killing the horse, Mrs. Anna Idemiller, 71, seized an iron ring on the front of the locomotive, held on until the train stopped, escaped with scalp injuries and a broken leg.

Tow

Off Manhasset, L. I., Joseph Smithanna, marine patrolman, putt-putted out to rescue 250-lb. Vera Nielson, struggled manfully to pull her into his boat, failed. Nothing daunted, small Patrolman Smithanna slung a rope around large, patient Vera Nielson, towed her to safety.

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