Monday, Sep. 14, 1942
Green Pasture. In Little Rock, Irving Paul Adams and Shannon Lowell Doss ended six-month careers as clerks in the Army recruiting office by enlisting in the Marines.
Oops. In Kansas City, Kans., firemen pulled up at a packing plant, rushed into a building shrouded in smoke, found it was the smokehouse.
Flash. In Cleveland, the Ohio Agricultural Experimental Station unblushingly announced that insects stop for red lights.
Bad Dream. In Manhattan, Vincent Newman perched on a fence, a rope around his neck, told police he hoped to fall asleep and hang himself.
Hot Money. In Russellville, Ark., R. H. Barnett, who had hidden $102.66 in the kitchen stove, forgot. He got 66-c- change.
Five Freedoms. In Corte Madera, Calif.. Justice of the Peace Herbert De La Monanya scolded police for arresting five backyard nudists, agreed with the defense attorney that nudism at home was one of the liberties the U.S. was fighting for.
Adviser. In Centerburg, Ohio, George Bloomgren, adviser to a tire-rationing board, pleaded guilty to speeding en route to a meeting on tire conservation.
Ah, Wilderness! In Enterprise, Ore., three of a crew of four farmhands left a harvesting machine to look for apples, met a bear in the orchard, sped back to find the fourth man beating off a rattlesnake.
Desperadoes. In Sebring, Fla., five women prisoners belabored the county jailer with a broom, made a clean getaway.
Charmer. In Chicago, Fred L. Marx, job hunting, wrote to 100 executives, tried to win their hearts by enclosing little packets of sugar.
Witnesses. In Hollywood, girl employes at Ollie Hammond's cafe described to police an escaped holdup man: brown sports coat, blue slacks, white shirt, lovely wavy brown hair, soulful brown eyes.
Vigor. In Stockton, Calif., Mrs. Columbo Fanucchi, cycling, thrust out her hand for a left turn, thrust it through the window of a passing car, broke her arm.
Contribution. In Kansas City, boisterous children in the street broke the sleep of Lawrence Olson, night worker in a war plant, till Irving Philgreen, 8, took up picketing with a sign: "Quiet! V defense worker sleeping!"
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