Signal. In Opelika, Ala., all the townspeople turned out their lights for a test blackout when the wardens signaled with their whistles. Then a train tore through town, whistled, and all the lights went on again.

Trend. In Manhattan, George L. Degener Jr. left for Reno in place of his wife, because she was too busy and he was not. She is an ambulance-corps volunteer, he a Wall Street broker.

Numbers. In Columbia, S.C., Glenn Sigmon, who dreaded the number 13 so much that he had his street number changed from 1313 to 1315, got his draft number: 1313. In Baltimore, Elmer L. Brown, whose World War I identification tag was No. 5584, drew draft number 5584.

Habit. In San Francisco, a streetcar collided with a delivery truck; out of the truck bounced four trained seals, who performed in the street for half an hour.

Super-Tiff. In a Newark divorce court, Stanley Wagner testified that, though his parents lived in the same house, he had never heard them speak to each other. His age: 20.

Sniff. In Manhattan, for war relief, an imported Roquefort cheese was made available to gourmets for sniffing purposes, at 50-c- a sniff.

Inspector. In Louisville, Gordon Jones was sent to the penitentiary for posing as a Federal agent, taking $590 from a bank. He did it by walking in, telling the bank cashier that he wanted to take the money away to see if it was counterfeit.

Valuables. In Atlanta, a society matron bought a spare girdle, hustled it to the bank and filed it away in a safety deposit vault for future reference. In Van Nuys, Calif., somebody made off with a stagecoach.

Raid. In darkest Harlem, 36 air-raid wardens were caught in a raid by police, fined for shooting craps.

Hesitation. In Haverhill, Mass., Mrs. Ralph C. Simonds Jr. gave birth to twins--one on Monday and one on Thursday.

Parker. In North Tonawanda, N.Y., Conductor Maurice J. Mahoney was fined $10 for parking overtime. He left a freight train on a crossing for half an hour.

Free Wheeling. In Portland, Ore., an automobile wheel with a brand-new tire came rolling into the yard of George Hibbard. He was much pleased, especially when he could not find the owner--until he learned that the tire would not fit his car.

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