Apicide

In Ponce, Puerto Rico, last week Domingo Torres faced three years in jail. His crime: poisoning 1,000,000 bees (125 hives) with sugar-&-arsenic.

Streamlined

In Miami, at a Negro baseball park, was held the sixth annual bathing beauty contest for Miami's Negro girls. Came 3,800 Negroes and whites to ogle ten young ladies in bathing suits who strutted before six white judges. Their selection: Tap Dancer Eloise Curry, 5 ft. 6 in., 115 lbs. Crowed Negro Promoter Duke Slater: "She's plenty streamlined--if you know what I mean." Prize: a silver cup, $25.

Slip

In Manhattan, John Sobeshuk, 47, stepped out of a bathtub, reached for a towel, slipped on a cake of soap, skidded through the kitchen, crashed through a window, plunged five floors to his death.

Set

In Manhattan, the Specialty Salesman Magazine published a picture of Salesman Irving W. Streuli on its cover, an article on him called "I'm Set for Life." In Milwaukee Salesman Streuli's divorced wife Helen, trying to find him, saw a copy of the magazine, had a warrant issued citing Salesman Irving W. Streuli for non-support of their child.

Warning

In Coral Gables, Fla., C. D. Williams, secretary of the U. S. Brewers' Association, warned the State liquor administrators' convention that with the current rate of increase the U. S. will again have prohibition by 2247 A.D.

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