Help

In Olympia, Wash., when the police got a telephoned call for help from the house of N. J. Hays, they investigated, received the complaint of the Hays's small son whose mother had just spanked him.

Feet

In St. Peter, Minn., a patient at the State Hospital for the Insane incased in a strait-jacket from his waist up, killed his cell mate with his bare feet.

Moment

In Lynn, Mass., when Florist Alexander Kowera fell asleep for a moment while driving his car, the car ran into a hydrant and knocked down a telegraph pole carrying high tension wires. Water from the broken hydrant flooded the street, street lights in the manufacturing district went out, a drawbridge operated electrically was disabled, Kowera's automobile caught on fire. Alexander Kowera. burned, was fined $25 for reckless driving.

Father

In Wardensville, W. Va., Wilbur H. Long said to his children: "Now I'll show you how to skin the cat." He climbed a tree, "skinned the cat," lost his grip, fell on his head, died.

Stockings

In St. Louis the Citizens' Committee Clothing Bureau was given many an old pair of knickers for the poor but no golf stockings. The Bureau appealed for golf stockings.

Rumanians

In Skulany, Rumania, while their father & mother were away at a wedding two boys, 12 and 15, quarreled. As the elder killed his brother with a hammer, their sister rushed in, went insane. When the parents came home, the mother committed suicide, the boy drowned himself in a lake.

Company

In White Plains. N. Y. Supreme Court. George H. Diehl claimed that after he had invited Mr. & Mrs. Carl Batty to live with him to keep him company and had shown his good faith by deeding the house to Mrs. Batty, he went away for a trip, came home to find all the locks changed, the Battys refusing to let him in.

Balm

In Norfolk. Va., Mrs. Grace I. Brown sued her divorced husband Paul W. Brown for $10,000 heart balm because he refused to marry her again.

Swap

In Pelham Manor, N. Y., Carl Percy advertised in the magazine Stamps that he would swap a nine-room colonial house for a satisfactory stamp collection. The house originally cost about $28,000, has a $16,000 mortgage.

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