Monday, Nov. 03, 1947
Rut. In Lynn, Mass., 14-year-old Stephen Joseph Connolly, who had fractured his right arm during a Columbus Day football scrimmage last year, engaged in a Columbus Day football scrimmage, again fractured his right arm.
No Cigar. In Geneva, N.Y., a ten-year-old lad who stopped a New York Central freight train by shooting the fireman with a BB gun admitted to police that he had been in error--he was aiming at the engineer.
The Law. In Tulle, France, a shocked judge fined Albert Fayet 800 francs for throwing his wife out into the street naked --and fined Mme. Fayet 1,000 francs for appearing naked in public.
Stop-Music. In Los Angeles, Virginia Ferstead, whose neighbors had been complaining, complained to the police on her own account: somebody had glued down all her piano keys.
Goetterdaemmerung. In Durban, South Africa, one A. Hitler was arrested and charged with assaulting his friend, Eva Braun.
Double Take. In Guttenberg, Iowa, Fisherman Eldon Saeuging disappointedly found an old 4O-qt. cream can on the end of his line, happily discovered inside it a 34-lb. catfish.
Sneak Attack. In Memphis, Railroad Worker Earskin Johnson sued for divorce, charged that his wife had asked a voodoo doctor to hex him into giving her his whole paycheck.
The Light-Fingered. In Gooding, Idaho, someone stole off with a 20-ton steel bridge. In Del Mar, Calif., somebody made away with J. E. Moreno's brick wall. In Charleston, W.Va., Mrs. E. C. Leonard lost her handbag to an autoist who grabbed it as he tore past. In Uniontown, Pa., a strange dog snatched Dora Bookchin's purse.
Penny Wise. In Detroit, Theater Cashier Doris Trask dropped a penny, stooped to pick it up, straightened to discover that somebody had reached in her cage, snatched $200.
Commentator. In Brooklyn, Dominick Cassano got 60 days in jail after Claude Farmer complained that Cassano not only stared into Mrs. Farmer's window, but whistled.
Oops! In Astoria, Ore., Donald Riswick received his prefabricated house, started setting it up, took another look at it, pulled it down and sent it back to the factory (in five trucks) ; it was not the model he had ordered.
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