Rumba

In Manhattan, a Mrs. Frances E. Spence filed suit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. for $50,000 for damaging her reputation, sought an injunction against further showing of the film, Cuba, the Land of the Rumba, because one shot reveals her at the bar of "Sloppy Joe's," Havana saloon, seemingly unescorted and queasy with booze.

Leader

In Brooklyn, Edward E. Stone, 33, one-time Negro Republican leader of Brooklyn, was found guilty of polygamy. He had married six girls in three years, was about to marry a seventh.

Fright

In High Point, N. C., Griffith Welch, 15, gave Robert Sechrest, 5, a ride on the handlebars of his bicycle, accidentally dumped him off so that he cracked his skull. Afraid to report the accident, Griffith Welch dragged the injured child for a mile and a half, threw him down the manhole of a sewer main, drowned him.

Siege

In Jackson, Mich., Mr. & Mrs. Ernest A. Moross, objecting to Michigan's new automobile license fee ($21.45), drove their sedan without 1933 plates, refused to surrender when State police attempted to arrest them, chained down the hood so police could not tamper with the motor, provisioned the sedan's interior with canned goods, blankets, extra clothing and a stove, moved in, locked the doors. When police towed the sedan to a garage, chained it to a post, the Morosses took a nap, retained command for twelve hours. When police smashed in the windows, the Morosses woke up, hurled a barrage of canned goods, surrendered.

Reforestation

In Chicago, 50 tons of rock, a mass of tree stumps, rotted logs, dead trees, dried leaves, a section of an old corduroy road, great numbers of trout, pickerel, bass, seven carloads of huge forest trees, and one entire Sphagnum swamp arrived from the Adirondacks for the World's Fair (see p. 14).

Medicine

In Zuni, N. Mex., when the wife of one Ondo, an Indian graduate of Haskell University, was unable to deliver her baby, local medicine men interrogated the woman, found she had recently been running a washing machine at the Indian agency, ordered Ondo to gallop to the agency, loosen all the bolts on the washing machine. Ondo galloped, loosened the bolts, returned to find his baby delivered, doing well. Few weeks later, when the baby developed chronic constipation, medicine men deliberated, ordered Ondo to examine the washing machine again, loosen it up if anyone had tightened it. Ondo found the bolts tight, loosened them, returned, found his baby relieved.

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