Eyes

In Blue Eye, Mo., there was an epidemic of pinkeye.

Marathon

In New York City's Harlem, white Promoter-Preacher-Spiritualist Don Platt used an old candy store for a church and got three Negroes robed in white cotton over their street clothes to go into a doze on three cots set up before an improvised altar. He called it a "trance marathon." invited newshawks to ask the subjects what they saw in the spirit world. Subject John Epps reported that "George Washington says the New Deal is all right except for so much taxin' of the people. He's in favor of changin' the Constitution in favor of the people. He hasn't got nothing against the Supreme Court, he says." Subjects Anita Wilson and Anne Coleman sang in their sleep.

"Sure they eat," said Promoter Platt.

"And when they want to go to the bathroom somebody takes them. Their eyes stay shut. Their spirits remain in the astral plane. But that doesn't prevent their bodies from getting off the cots or their stomachs from digesting as usual."

Amen

In Wichita, Kans., before he took the stand in his suit for $1,491 overtime wages he claimed from Wichita Transportation Co., Christian E. Klag folded his hands and intoned: "Dear Jesus, help me this morning to be truthful and honest and to show my cause is just and that I have been unfairly dealt with. Help the jurors to see the light, we ask in Thy name. Amen." Judge Roby Nesmith promptly declared a mistrial, dismissed the jury.

Catch

In Tottenham, England, Mayor E. A. Jay published the letter of an unnamed British soldier stationed on the lonely island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, asking for a wife who is "blonde, lively, a non-smoker about five feet three, not too plump." Of himself he mentioned only his hazel eyes. Mayor Jay got applications from 250 British women, forwarded them without comment to Mauritius.

Drunk

In the Ohio River off Huntington, W. Va., Wharf master George McClaskey's wharfboat was jammed in drift ice so dangerous that rivermen refused to work on it to free the boat. A drunkard reeled and staggered safely across it, knocked on McClaskey's cabin to ask him to call a cab. McClaskey rowed him back to shore.

Anniversary

In Linton, Ind., John ("Old John") Eddy, 77, celebrated the 41st anniversary of his emigration from England, since when he has drunk no water, because U. S. water made him "violently ill." His substitutes: tea, coffee, beer, "a moderate amount of stronger drink."

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