Slapper

In Osmanje, Turkey, Hassan Agha slapped an oldtime enemy, was ordered by the village council to pay him $5. He paid it, slapped the man nine times more, paid him $45 more.

Bale

In Dallas, William Cecil ("Red Hot") Burns, chubby fullback of the Providence, R. I. "Steamrollers" (professional football team), to keep in training and excite publicity, harnessed himself beneath a bale of cotton, set out to walk with it from Dallas to Chicago.

Hippo

In Great Neck, L. I., Wayno Hippo, 23, a 250-lb. six-footer, was arrested by Patrolman Alfred Angus for disturbing the peace. When Angus tried vainly to manacle him with handcuffs that were too small, Hippo seized the patrolman's night stick, beat him on the head. At that moment Policeman Theodore Smithianna drove up. He launched the fender of his car against Hippo's massive back, knocked the breath out of him. Angus and Smithianna then sat on their victim until more police came.

Casket

In Cincinnati, Negro William Chappel went to the grave of his wife with a rake handle, poked it into the soil to see whether the guaranteed all-steel casket was still there. He had been doing that every Memorial Day for three years. The undertaker had promised him in 1929 that if the casket did not endure for 50 years he would give him $100. When Sexton Brown tried to stop him, Widower Chappel got Deputy Sheriff Parrot, had the grave opened, found the casket disintegrated, collected the $100.

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