Duels

In Indio, Calif., when F. A. Purcell and E. J. Grace decided to duel, their seconds selected overripe tomatoes for three minutes at 30 ft.

In Verona, Italy, Domenico Pinterle and Luigi Martini decided to duel, respectively selected a spade, a pickax.

Robberies

In Compton, Calif., Mrs. Sylvia M. Schwartz was unable to identify a thief who snatched her purse. Explanation: "He didn't wear a stitch of clothing, so I didn't get a good look at his features."

In Montreal, gunmen robbed Canada Bread Co. of $2,700, sped away in an automobile. When a motorcycle policeman started after them, the panicky gunmen threw a bag containing $2,300 of the money into a lane, outdistanced the motorcycle, vanished. The policeman only wanted to give them a ticket for driving through a "stop" sign.

Horse

In Colorado Springs, Colo., when Frank M. Gilbert gives his horse a drink, spectators gather. Animalover Gilbert's procedure is to take his steed to the nearest drug store, give him a soda through a straw.

Goats

In Memphis, Tenn., Farmer Paul Schenk went into his barnyard and found his herd of goats playing shoot-the-chutes down the back of his new streamlined auto. Follow-the-leader fashion they leaped to the hood, then to the roof, slid down the back; had evidently been playing the game all night.

Sturgeon

In Hot Coffee, Miss., R. J. Knight exhibited a 7-ft., 198-lb. sturgeon, produced six witnesses who swore that after the fish had broken several trotlines, Fisherman Knight had hooked it, two of his companions had ridden it to shore, a third had shot it dead with a rifle.

Birthday

In Boscombe, Dorsetshire, England, Ann Sarah Cowley hoped to live to be 100. She celebrated her 100th birthday, died next day.

Half Hour

In Washington awaiting President Roosevelt's signature last week was a claims bill passed by Congress paying $5,000 damages to Mrs. Allie Rankin of Wheelersburg, Ohio, for injuries suffered at her brother-in-law's Scioto County home when the floor of a WPA-built privy collapsed, putting her in such a predicament that it took her a half hour to get out.

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