103rd

In Manhattan the Empire State Building had its official baptism-by-suicide when Frederick Eckert, 33, with a German prayerbook and two religious medals in his pocket jumped from the tower (103rd floor), landed on the 87th floor setback. (In 193, before the building was done, a discharged workman leaped down an elevator shaft from the 102nd floor, landed on the 80th.)

Topepo

In Manhattan, the American Museum of Natural History horticultural exhibition showed a new vegetable, the topepo, cross between a tomato and a pepper, four inches in diameter, light yellow, uncookable, tasting like a mild pepper.

Worried

In Okolona, Miss., Negro David Lawrence,* on trial charged with murdering Ligon Grisby. got worried when the jury stayed out an hour, pleaded guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced to 7 1/2 yr. before the jury returned with a verdict of not guilty, which the judge ignored.

Alarm

In Brooklyn, arrested for turning in false fire alarms, Julia Callahan, 27, housemaid, said she would keep on until the City of New York indemnified her for live teeth knocked out by a fireman in 1929 when she playfully turned in a false alarm.

Prize

In Howard Beach, Queens, N. Y., George Hoffman, 3, prize baby in Rockaway baby parades, pulled the trigger of a shotgun, instantly killing his uncle, Frank 0. Hoffman.

Well

In Sheldon, Mo., Mrs. Marvin Garrett drew 1,000 gal. of gasoline from her water well, found that it had leaked from a filling station tank down the street.

Hunter

In Benson, N. Y., Walter D. Canfield, 80, saw a deer, intently aimed, fired, fell dead as his bullet sped neatly into and killed the deer.

Routine

In Ionia, Mich., Robert Patterson, sentenced to eight months in the Detroit House of Correction for serving liquor in his restaurant, left a sign on the front door, ''Gone to Winter Quarters.''

Wait

In Burwell, Neb., Clarence Wilson, 40, bachelor farmer, fell off a windmill, broke both legs, inched back to his house, lay without food or water for eight days, on the ninth day crawled into the yard, yelled for help until neighbors came.

*Not to be confused with white Publisher David Lawrence of the United States Daily.

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