50,000,000th

In Manhattan, off for the weekend in their sedan, Louis Kuntzman & family could not have been more surprised when a policeman stopped them at the entrance to Holland Tunnel and news photographers came crowding around. The Kuntzman's car, explained the policeman reassuringly, was the 50 millionth to enter the westbound tube since it opened Nov. 17, 1927.

$1.12

In Frederick, Md., at a sheriff's sale to satisfy a rent judgment against her, Mrs. Thomas Hargrave bid 5-c- for each lot of her household possessions and her automobile. For her carpet she bid 2-c-. Neighbors refrained from bidding. The sheriff realized $1.12.

Clapsaddle

In Mohawk, N. Y., so riled was Village Clerk Stephen Clapsaddle when his automobile balked as he was setting off on a fishing trip, that he had it towed to a garage, draped it in black funeral streamers, said "It's dead."

Shy

In Chicago, just before a large reception for Highland Park's School Superintendent Jesse Lowe Smith, his shy sister, Kittie G. Smith, 67, drowned herself because she had an aversion to meeting people.

Shower

In Haverhill, Mass., after a friend's merry bridal shower at Lithuanian Hall. Mrs. Francis Orbich was led to the home of Mrs. George Karpich where she went to sleep on the floor. In the morning she was found dead. In her sleep she had bitten two of her fingers so deeply that she bled to death.

Lamb

In Muskegon, Mich., John Kuzon, 41, confessed to striking his wife with a hammer after she had accused him of killing her pet lamb. "Later I went to the basement to sleep," he said, "and she crawled over to me and put her head on my chest and said, 'O. daddy, love me.' I told her to get away." John Kuzon then went out and dug a five foot grave in his hen coop. "I went back to the house and got my wife. She wanted to know where I was taking her. I told her I was going to carry her to an ambulance and she replied: 'I know what you are going to do.' ... I carried her out and put her in the hole. I placed some quilts, a blanket and her coat in the hole and put a dish pan over her head. Then I filled up the hole with dirt and the next day I put a concrete floor in the hen coop."

Mother

In Langhorne, Pa., to make room for a speakeasy in his home, James Kile, 35, made his 75-year-old mother live in a hen coop.

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