Sparrows

In Chicago, Grocer John Baguilais forbade neighborhood urchins to enter his store on roller skates. His wife thwacked them with a broom. Minus roller skates, two boys returned to the store with a covered basket, set it down well inside the door, removed the cover, fled. Out of the basket flew approximately 100 dirty English sparrows. Sparrows filled the store, spotted cracker barrel, cookie counter, sugar and prune bins and pecked holes in the breakfast food boxes. For two days Grocer Baguilais, his wife and police swung brooms in the air and booed, knocked out two sparrows.

Cowboy

In Brockton. Mass., a gang of small boys elected Edward Smith, 9, and Robert Dobryzinski, 8, to play the cowboys in a game of "Cowboys and Indians." The Indians captured the cowboys, lashed them to a tree, heaped paper and dry grass around them and lit the execution fire. The cowboys watched the fire nervously while the Indians went dancing, shouting and screaming in a victory dance. Suddenly they heard a higher screaming, stopped. Robert Dobryzinski had wiggled free but Edward Smith's clothing was on fire. The boy died in the hospital.

Mates

In White Plains, accused of incinerating a five-year-old girl in a furnace, Lawrence Clinton Stone, 24, snubbed his cell mate. Albert Fish, 65, accused of carving a ten-year-old girl to pieces. "Disgusting!" said Prisoner Stone of Prisoner Fish.

Jiu-jitsu

In Tokyo, pink with pride over his new certificate of merit in the art of jiujitsu, Chuyu Ota, 19, set out to throw chance passers-by met by night in the street near his home, boasted that he would make the number 1,000. Ota's score reached 15. Rolling up his sleeves, he accosted his sixteenth, crouched, took hold and suddenly spun into the air. Artist Ota crashed, dazed, to the ground, was picked up and taken to jail by the sixteenth, a Tokyo police department jiu-jitsu expert.

Fiance

In Cincinnati, Albert Malenfant met his maidservant's fiance for the first time when the man came to the door with the announcement that the girl, Helen Milner, had fainted in his car. Employer and fiance carried the girl upstairs to bed. The fiance left "to get a doctor." Mrs. Malenfant bathed the girl's forehead, discovered a bullet hole behind Miss Milner's ear. The girl had been dead for an hour. The fiance had vanished.

Perfect

In Manhattan, the annual convention of International Beauty Shop Owners "decreed" that the perfect U. S. girl for 1936 will be a small, flat-chested girl with naturally blonde hair.

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