Alibi

In Tulsa, Okla., two Negro youths contested police testimony that they had been swimming nude in a park. Their argument: it was nine-thirty of a moonless night, and besides they wore black trunks.

Law

In Trenton, N. J., Emil Law was arrested for fighting with his employer, tried to get his brother to bail him out. At the same time Rufus Law, also arrested for fighting with his employer, was trying to get his brother Emil to bail him out.

Drunk

Protesting a 30-day sentence for drunkenness in a San Francisco, Calif, court, Frank Owen waved a blueprint, shouted: "Look, judge, I've invented a submarine that will control the world. I've got a date at the Federal building. . . . Thousands of lives will be lost." Said the judge: "All right, get out and save the world."

Drunk

First Chinese drunk convicted in Manhattan courts for a century, Chang Kong thriftily preferred two days in jail to a $5 fine.

Hitler!

In Bloomington, Ind., Mary Weaver,11, playing hide-and-seek, counted to a hundred by fives, then shouted "Hitler!" This, she explained, meant "Ready or not, here I come!"

Trick

In a Brooklyn saloon, Patrolman William Deichler did his favorite trick. Removing five bullets from his six-shooter, he said: "I'll pull the trigger and stop the bullet before it gets in my mouth." Patrolman Deichler lost count, pulled the trigger six times, fell dead.

Fire

In Minneapolis, a policeman nabbed one Marcia Schneider for speeding. "Where do you think you're going, to a fire?" said he. "No, I've got one with me," said she, pointing to a blaze in the back of her car.

Beans

From Wichita, Kans. to Kansas City, Mo. police, airline Hostess Dorothy Meagher wired: "I left electric cooker going in my room. Please have some one turn off electricity under beans. Police can have beans."

Gum

In Manhattan, police arrested gum-chewing Steve Lakos as a collector in the numbers game. The evidence: a piece of chewing gum on which the numbers were recorded.

Gum

From Chicago's Navy Pier reliefers scraped 1,170,000 gobs of gum.

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