Patriot

In Mobile, Ala. the Colonial Dames offered a gold medal for the best patriotic essay written by a University Military School undergraduate The winner: Cade Lieutenant Robert Wallace Chin, son of Chinese Laundryman Tom Chin.

Schedule

In Chicago a suit for separate maintenance disclosed a share-the-husband scheme which had worked temporarily. Introduced as evidence was a letter from Wife Mary Petersen to the other woman, Mrs. Caroline Bertram: "My husband is going to be home on his birthday. . . . If you want to come for coffee and cake it is all right with me. But remember, you are not playing fair with me when you keep him the nights he is supposed to be home. . . . Last night was my night and I was supposed to go with him to cash his check and shop. You took my place. Is that fair? . . . He is coming home Monday or I will know why. I am getting hardboiled, (signed) Your Pal."

Freezer

In Brooklyn, N. Y. police found Driver Louis Bolter frozen to death inside his own ice cream truck.

Bankrupt

In Croydon, England, Mrs. Julia Baxter appeared in Bankruptcy Court. Her reasons: on a -L-500 loan she recovered only -L-175; crooked employes ruined her two business ventures; she lost -L-22 gambling; burglars stole her jewelry. Asked why she had not sought her husband's financial advice, she replied: I found I had married a man with no brains."

Oath

In San Juan, P. R., Judge Robert Cooper asked an eight-year-old witness: "Do you know what an oath is? What will happen to you if you tell a lie?" The boy: "I'll get warts." The Judge: "I think he is qualified."

Falls

In Chicago, Richard Bogash, whose plump, middle-aged mate, Josephine ("Ma") Bogash, is a roller-skating champion brought a $200,000 suit against the Transcontinental Roller Derby Association and Promoter-Manager Leo Seltzer. Grounds: "In the course of the races there are numerous falls in which the limbs of the plaintiff's wife and other parts of her body are exposed to the gaze of a crowd of spectators."

Down

In Manhattan, Miss Frances Thorpe parked her car at the door of her apartment building, told the doorman, "I'll be right down," went up to her tenth-floor apartment. Few minutes later she plunged to her death in the courtyard.

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